virtus753 wrote: »

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Eurymachos wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Writhing Wall update. ... we are going to make an adjustment to speed up contributions across all realms so that players can experience the Writhing Fortress and Eastern Solstice as soon as possible. ...

How will this affect our ability to collect Shards of Writhing Bone for the Caltrops skill style? With fewer quests needed to end the event, we have fewer reward coffers that might have these fragments in them.

Ngā mihi,
Eurymachos

All rewards except the title have been explicitly stated to be available after the event ends. Probably more time consuming to get, but not impossible.

Even the style pages?

The exact wording is: "Note that the collectibles and items awarded through the Battle for the Writhing Wall event will remain in game even after your server has completed the event. These rewards, apart from the “Wall Breaker” title (below), will be sometimes awarded through the Siege Camp daily quests in addition to the possible rewards for Siege Camps already listed above."

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/68785

If they meant to say "all collectibles and items except the style pages," they would have erred so significantly that this statement would rightfully be called an untruth. I would hesitate to suggest they got this so wrong until after we have the opportunity to test it on live.

Kind of too late to test after the event that ends in a week.

And, its not the first time this event that the announcement page has been incorrect.

So getting some clarification, from official sources is valid imo.

So, do we know when Writhing Fortress will be available to platforms other than PS?

UrQuan wrote: »

bobsontpm wrote: »

So, do we know when Writhing Fortress will be available to platforms other than PS?

As of about 10-15 minutes ago or so, it's not only available on all platforms, it's been successfully breached on all platforms.

Yeah, didn't seem to take long at all. I saw the announcement pop about phase 3 starting, and next thing I know there's an announcement that the spire was down. About 2 hours tops?

I have to say, it was a very good time to be running delves for skyshards - very quiet!

I usually not too much into PvE, but as Cyrodiil is at the moment not in the best state xD, I decided to try out the writhing fortress tonight and I have to say it was really fun. Compared to the first two phases who really weren't too much fun, the Fortress was really great.

We sadly had the bug the first try where we couldn't finish the final boss. But after we went in again, the next instance was going well, no bug.

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

bobsontpm wrote: »

So, do we know when Writhing Fortress will be available to platforms other than PS?

As of about 10-15 minutes ago or so, it's not only available on all platforms, it's been successfully breached on all platforms.

Yeah, didn't seem to take long at all. I saw the announcement pop about phase 3 starting, and next thing I know there's an announcement that the spire was down. About 2 hours tops?

I have to say, it was a very good time to be running delves for skyshards - very quiet!

On PC/NA it took maybe half an hour from the writhing fortress opening until we brought the spire down.

I have destroyed the tower's core 3 times for the writhing wall event, yet each time at the final end to complete the quest when it tells the player to return to the camp and talk to Skordo the Knife. He is not there by the Meridian lens to actually complete the quest.

I really loved all of the action packed moments within the fortress itself and having to work together to solve the different challenges within. However, glitches like this really put a damper on the game.

Can I please have help or can we look into fixing this situation please so we can play the game?

Thank you.

I'm sure this has already been reported, but it wasn't in the list of known issues so I'm posting here.

After logging on this morning, the two wall related quests changed. I advanced the Skordo quest, and that seems to take me to the writhing fortress. Prince Azah's quest sort of indicates that someone already completed the writhing fortress.
Already that makes me feel like I'm no longer part of the event. I'm holding off on advancing the princes's quest as it suggests that advancing that quest will lock me out of the fortress.

I followed Skordo's quest, and it took me to the point in the wall that the lens was pointing at. The quest marker is at the larger point in the wall, but there's no portal to activate. However, when I went to try and activate it, I just ran through the wall.

I then went through the portal. Walks-with-ash (or maybe it was Keshu) said that someone had already done part of the fortress, and that I should go through the west portal.
Even the quest tip is broken, it keeps saying "Optional Steps: Talk to keshu. Talking to Keshu removed the optional objective, but it came back again."

When I go thorugh the portal, there's this inferium thing that's not moving and a bunch of balistas. It's not obvious how to lead the infernium to the gate. Lots of other players running around saying it's broken.

Sorry Zos, I don't want to rub salt in the wound, but you guys really messed this one up. I'll come back later and try this again. I think you guys need to explain to us how the game got to this point, and what you are going to do to get it back on track.

I really want to keep playing (and paying), but I'm not convinced now.

In terms of my expecation of the Writhing fortress: I expect that I can follow the story through the writhing fortress from start to finish. I don't want to come in a partly done instance and get a "story so far" dialog. I want to be thrown at the start of the instance with a set number of people, a bit like an dungeon or trial. We all work through the instance to complete it.

ZOS, please leave the Writhing Fortress up for more than 7 days. Players are struggling to find an instance that allows them to finish it. I think some players would appreciate having more calendar days to play this one time content.

Separately, before you remove the Writhing Fortress forever, please consider posting a link on your website to a video walk through. Maybe an ESO Stream Team member would be willing to do this if you asked them? I read online in various places where players have said they have gotten to places in the Writhing Fortress and couldn't figure out what to do next.

I'd like to keep the Fortress but I'd like it to be a normal dungeon version that has a quest associated with it that tells the story of the wall that once stood here and how the citizens of Tamriel came together to bring it down.

Ingenon wrote: »

ZOS, please leave the Writhing Fortress up for more than 7 days. Players are struggling to find an instance that allows them to finish it. I think some players would appreciate having more calendar days to play this one time content.

Separately, before you remove the Writhing Fortress forever, please consider posting a link on your website to a video walk through. Maybe an ESO Stream Team member would be willing to do this if you asked them? I read online in various places where players have said they have gotten to places in the Writhing Fortress and couldn't figure out what to do next.

There are PTS youtube players like Ninja pulls that have done just this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdyPNnfuy1k&t=1523s

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Did Reistaff (or Reistalf, depending on where you look) stop offerring the Phase 1 quests in phase 3?

I have always precrafted the stuff, but now every time I kept rerolling him, he would never ask for anything but cuirasses, jacks, and shields, which are the three standard craft ones added in Phase 2. He never asked for any of the things we crafted in phase 1.

Not a problem since could just make those, but I wasn't expecting those to stop being offerred at this point.

i haven't checked to see if he has, but zos said that this would happen. phase one had a set of quests, phase 2 would add more, and then phase 3 would be just the anew phase 2 quests. i don't remember which were which, i just know that i have to keep telling him goodbye to get alch/enchanting/cooking

For me the Wall is over. Good riddance.

Now I can get back to normal, and put my graphics settings back on high

Xbox NA last night was a hot mess. I log on, tells me to talk to both Skordo and Azah. Azah tells me the Fortress was destroyed (I never set foot in it yet) and to activate the Lens. I back out and talk to Skordo, tells me its time to attack the Fortress. Follow him to the wall and steps into a portal that isnt there (its off to the side). Here I can actually just walk thru the wall to East Solstice already.

Found and took the portal to the Fortress, Keshu says the first two Spires are already down and I should help the last. Ran thru a completely barren fortress save for all the other players running around, Chat filled with "What do we do?" messages. Got to the last area with all those broken Balistas and everyone standing at the edge of the platform staring across at the shade of a grapple post not spawning. Some tried to shoot the Spire with the Balistas but they hit an invisible wall. Spent some time doing Grapple Parkour then left. Talked to Azah, used the Lens, big lightshow and now the wall is gone and I got rewarded for nothing.

NerirocF wrote: »

Possible bug? In Xul-Katima, my wifes main fell off a bridge and died due to environmental damage. Cannot recall to a wayshrine (getting location not found message). Can't resurrect here. Can't "get me unstuck" getting same "location destination not found" message. Can't try "get me unstuck" again because it's on cooldown. Anyone else having this. I didn't find it in the bug section.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/685156/u48-seasons-of-the-worm-cult-part-2-console-launch-known-issues-list

The above link says to reach out to Customer Service for help.

My final thoughts on the Writhing Wall event is that I hope to see something like this again. I do hope it is done a lot better than this one. I recognize that this is the first time you were trying anything on this level and so trying to get it right will be hard. The moment we got to finally break into the Writhing Fortress, was awesome. I loved that feel. I do wish there was a better build up towards that moment. The work of Phases 1 and 2 did not really feel like a war.
For my suggestions for improving something like this in the future would be the following.
For the Siege camps, instead of just having one or two active at a time, have a random number between 1 and 5 inclusive active. Give the Worm Cult 10 minutes of a siege camp being under assault before they start taking it over, and making it there own, and from there instead of defending the siege camp, the players have to take it over, and root out the worm cult from their newly conquered camp. Maybe even include the need to take out siege weapons that the cult might have set up. That would give the feel of a real war in my opinion.
I think I would have also liked to see a repeatable quest relating to the invaded delves and public dungeons. A possible implementation of that might be the following:
When a quest is given to go clear out that delve or public dungeon, seriously amp up the difficulty of it to the point where it would be fit for a group of 12 players (or more) to go through and clear out.
I don't know how much of that would have been possible given the available resources, but that would be my suggestion. I hope this gives you ideas for things you can do in the future.