Apparently- there is some way to get to Eastern Solstice, I saw people porting to each other and wandering around over there (PCNA). I was WAY TOO SCARED to try (I do NOT want to be banned, I've put far too much time and MONEY into my account)... but apparently you can go over there. I've also seen blueprints that they should not have access to, already for sale (NOT antiquity/fishing, new new ones)- so apparently there is some magical secret out there that some people know.

As for me, I'll be farming plunder skulls in inner sea armature


I'd be ok if they did just let us over there though, I'd love to check it out!

Leighlaa wrote: »

Apparently- there is some way to get to Eastern Solstice, I saw people porting to each other and wandering around over there (PCNA). I was WAY TOO SCARED to try (I do NOT want to be banned, I've put far too much time and MONEY into my account)... but apparently you can go over there. I've also seen blueprints that they should not have access to, already for sale (NOT antiquity/fishing, new new ones)- so apparently there is some magical secret out there that some people know.
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There were a fair number on PCEU doing the same and bragging about it in zone.

The Vestige being "Forced" to have to breach the wall to get through it is not lore friendly anyway, one of the Vestige's powers is reforming themselves at the nearest wayshrine, there are wayshrines in East Solstice so denying the use of our powers is totally immersion breaking.

It is like PvP and the Vestige forgetting they can revive on the spot.

I don't mind saying I'm so casual I'm horizontal, and even I have been bored by this event.

I only started "seriously" playing in March this year (though I did beta test way back when, and have had a couple of incursions since that time, but was always pulled into other games), so I've not had the fatigue a long term player might with most aspects of the game. This event, however, was the first where I was like "oh no, this is not fun. This is boring!"

I did some more of it again last night, just to see if I was the problem, but no, on this occasion it's not the case. Oh well.

At this point, I would just like to go through the wall and have done with it.

Yes get it over with already. Just want to explore the map, do a few quests, experience the story end and move on.
No interest in them silly dailies sitting at camps or what ever this long. For sure make it shorter or skip.

Ursadoom wrote: »

I think that it's just annoying to have the carrot dangled in front of me for over a month.

That's maybe the worst part. When they first announced that there would be an event with a flexible ending date giving access to East Solstice, I thought they might need that to make sure that all bugs were fixed and then, when the zone is ready, they'd just let us pass. Now by what people who were on the other side were reporting, it all seems to be playable already - so why do we need to wait another 2 or even 3 weeks?! It's completely demotivating.

Absolutely I had fun exploring the new area while we had access, but we might as well wait.

But I still resent not getting any rewards for finishing each stage like we usually do with a community event. Our reward is something we have already paid for and we have to go through all three stages to get it, they make us suffer through all these buggy repeating quests, with nothing to really make us enthusiastic to even get to the next stage.

When ONE server gets to the next phase, ALL servers should be advanced to the next phase. Give the members of that one server a small reward to account for their having "won the race", but put EVERYBODY through.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

The Vestige being "Forced" to have to breach the wall to get through it is not lore friendly anyway, one of the Vestige's powers is reforming themselves at the nearest wayshrine, there are wayshrines in East Solstice so denying the use of our powers is totally immersion breaking.

It is like PvP and the Vestige forgetting they can revive on the spot.

I would like to remind you that some wayshrines, even in the base game, are quest-locked, and you can't port to them without having reached a certain stage of the quest.

Coldharbour "The Chasm" and "Reaver Citadel" spring to mind (and The Great Shackle, and The Endless Stair) - although, for antiquity hunting purposes, it is possible to port into North Coldharbour via the "Manor of Revelry" Wayshrine, the only one north of the Chasm that isn't quest-locked.

Tideholm wayshrine, in Dragonhold. You can't port there until you've done the first two Dragonhold quests.

I suspect Skuldafn, Mistwatch (Eastmarch) and Trolhetta Summit (The Rift) are similar - if not, they should be. So should Shrouded Pass (Rivenspire) - though I think all these are actually open for teleport.

So it's *perfectly* lore-friendly to say that you can't teleport to a place you haven't been. In fact, way back in Dungeons & Dragons tabletop, that was one of the important things about the "Teleport" spell - can't go to an unknown space.

And, in the case of ESO if you *have* been there "illegally", whether on purpose or by accident, it's perfectly okay for the devs to remove that access by locking the wayshrines so you can't port there until you've discovered them - and to port you out of the area if you're in it (with no further penalty, just in case it was by accident that you got there) - and, if you'd "discovered" the wayshrines in question while you were there, it's okay for them to remove the knowledge of that "discovery" from your character so you can't port there again until you get there properly.

I suspect that, in the long run, the wayshrines nearest the Wall will indeed be quest-locked in future, but some of the further ones might be okay to reach... for the benefit of, say, people who buy the player house that is beyond the Wall, and port to *it* and walk out of its front door on characters that haven't got that far in the Solstice quest line. (After all, they may want to hunt antiquities there.) For the same reason that people can get into Southern Coldharbour and the Hollow City there by porting to the player house.

AzuraFan wrote: »

Even though I'm peeved that I can't access Eastern Solstice yet, I don't think access should be opened. I'd like to see the remaining two phases of the event.

Event quests and the quest about opening a gap in the wall to pass to the other side are technically not related. It would be possible to have both running at the same time.

Syldras wrote: »

With all the problems there are now - antiquity leads and daily quests sending you to still inaccessible East Solstice, people accidentally respawning at East Solstice wayshrines or ending up there when fast-travelling to guildmates - should access to East Solstice be enabled now?

In practice that would mean opening the gap in the Wall near the main camp for everyone; and, ideally, forwarding the quest stage of "Crossing the Wall" (Solstice main quest part #6) to that point where we're told the Meridian Lens is ready and can be fired to destroy the Wall. Which is the official way to progress the main quest to the next part that takes place on the other side.

The event quests can still remain for a few weeks, of course, for people who want to do them and get the style pages and other rewards.

Opinions?

Actually they should have made phase 1 so that we are faster on phase 2.

And no I don't suggest to skip anything. Overall I like the arc of narration. It is just not so well implemented aka rate of phase 1 progression.

Syldras wrote: »

Event quests and the quest about opening a gap in the wall to pass to the other side are technically not related. It would be possible to have both running at the same time.

Perhaps, but that's not the way this event is intended to run.

AnduinTryggva wrote: »

Actually they should have made phase 1 so that we are faster on phase 2.

I agree with this. Phase 1 should have been a week max.

AzuraFan wrote: »

Perhaps, but that's not the way this event is intended to run.

Partially. The gap in the wall is supposed to open when the first people on your server have defeated the Writhing Fortress final boss for the first time. Knowing the dungeon, this will be less than one hour after the start of phase 3. The event with all its quests is still supposed to be running for 1 week then. So we'll have the situation that the event is running and the gap in the wall will already be open.

SilverBride wrote: »

jle30303 wrote: »

When ONE server gets to the next phase, ALL servers should be advanced to the next phase. Give the members of that one server a small reward to account for their having "won the race", but put EVERYBODY through.

This!

If players were actually enjoying this event and wanted to complete phase 1 themselves they would have by now. But I have seen nothing but negative feedback about this event and I don't think most of us care how we get there. We just want it over.

As long as it was done by someone else right?
Cuz someone had to do the work to get there.

Besides the story, what exactly is there to look forward to in Eastern Solstice for veteran players? Collectables? Wow.

I'm annoyed that my purchase of a previous years "chapter" is held back behind a server wide event, but realistically, I don't want to engage with anything in there anyway. No new companions, tales of tribute decks, grimoires, scripts, or a trial. The sets are laughable and were leaked 6 months ago. They couldn't even release overland difficulty to make the 30-60k HP NPC's remotely threatening so I can't care about the story or exploring.

As a replacement for our previous Q4 content that typically had a brand new zone with an arena every 2 years (this is year 2 since IA in 2023), I can't be bothered to even enter the zone when it is available.