Wildberryjack wrote: »

The boxes we get for turning in the district side quests are not worth it. One piece of gear we don't want, that's it. Only 40 favor against the 10k we need total. Hardly worth it again. And the achievement for doing all those side quests is, well, nothing. Not even some little trophy to stick in our houses. Ugh. I don't expect some earth shattering reward for all this but at least make it worth our time. I guess my biggest problem is the various rewards don't equal the time involved in earning them. I really want the monster set so I'm trying to plow through as best I can but at this point I'm not having fun, it feels like a chore.

Certainly, I did the side dailies until reaching 10k since that's about 600 rep in addition to killing bosses, but after that the district dailies lose their value unless you want your faction to "win", but it kind of halts the game-play loop since there's not a whole lot to be gained by "winning."

On the one hand, this will allow me more time to focus on the next step, the dungeons. They won't mean much else though if the only reward is overland gear that is far more easily farmed in its original location.

I've been having a lot of fun with the Night Market. I'm temporarily obsessed with this new shiny thing. For context, I've never done trials nor many DLC dungeons, as I'm not usually interested in instanced group PvE.

Likes

• Limited time has everyone focused on the event so it's easy to find groups for all aspects of the content.
• Low pressure grouping, no big time commitment. You can join for a bit and then take a break, since the group finder will fill slots easily.
• No indeterminate queues holding your time hostage, and no long waits for groups to fill (so far, at least - 1 week in).
• No quest NPCs with endless dialogue you can't listen to because you're... in the middle of doing group content, with a group. Dialogue is relegated to the lobby where it belongs.
• Housing stuff being one of the main rewards is a big lure for me.
• The Dunegorger eating half your group and absconding with them will never not be funny.
• Like I said... it's new and shiny (I'm attracted to novelty).

It improves a lot of the things that make me hesitant to spend time with dungeons and trials, except that the fights will still always be static and grow stale compared to PvP. But as a short term thing it's very fun.


Dislikes

• I don't know if quest sharing is working as intended, but it's certainly not working as expected. Sharing faction quests rarely works.
• Relics letting you take shortcuts in districts is not conducive to group play, since some players get left behind. Leave the relics for accessing dungeons and discovering cool secrets, etc.
• While I do like that the new housing rewards and leads are front loaded and accessible to unlock, once you unlock all that, it's a long road to 10k favour without much to sweeten the grind; I can't look forward to new furnishing plans, or new style pages, etc. Even a rare chance at something new dropping from bosses or coffers would be more exciting to look forward to than endless 10 year old gear sets.
• I hate everything about these "friendly competitions" in PvE, thanks. (Happy for all the players who made millions selling fragments I was locked out of ever acquiring, though. Honest.)

Anyway, overall I like it, as an event. A lot of what makes it fun for me is the nature of it being an event and concentrating players in this content. Also the novelty - a lot of the bosses being new to me, it's been fun to learn the mechanics. I'm not sure I have much reason to keep playing after I hit 10k, though. And I probably wouldn't grind to 10k with the other factions in future events unless the bosses or maps are different in some way, or the rewards are better.

Syldras wrote: »

because factions and destricts are connected - narratively, the whole zone is huge nonsense, sorry).

It's crazy to me how so many people report liking the NM while this is true, on top of the fact that almost every single boss experience, other than Opulent Ordeal, is reused from dungeons or trials, even down to the names on most of them.

Probably mentioned somewhere in the previous 29+ pages, but the system for getting Relics to unlock rooms in the Night's Den is, shall we say, "less than intuitive"? Consume fragments to proc the achievement, open mail which contains the furnishings crate, open the crate to add the relic to Collectibles, then place the relic on the appropriate pedestal. Once the achievement procs, the relic works fine for getting past district obstacles as soon as the achievement procs, so why the hoop-jumping to get it into Collections first?

As a roleplayer I like using skills that I think the characters I play would know of or what makes sense in my mind of them– which includes skills that are scribed or sub-classed so I don’t usually group with ones I don’t know. The skills I use for now on certain ones are okay to go through an easier dungeon solo but not nearly good enough for maybe a trial…or to get through the IA all the way when I do go there on my own to practice these different skills and to see how they are together. I have found that when I used to group with others not known and stayed in character then sometimes how I responded to things made them laugh other times I was judged on why I should use other skills – that I don’t contribute enough or something like this.. and sometimes I would actually be kicked from the group, so travelling into the Night Market knowing it was mainly group content I was a little apprehensive though found when joining groups sometimes there has not been too much judgement on skills used and even when I stay within character mode it does still at times make ones laugh, in a good way, but what I have found to be most fun in groups is when others begin to play as their character as well – responding as such - like playing maybe the part of the faction chosen. The Night Market for sure was a learning curve to me, but one I enjoyed learning of – I just wish the RPG of the MMO part, when grouping was seen more of..for I love the MMO part of this game as well – I love being around so many others, or the energy of this that everyone is a Player character moreso I believe than if I were to play in a singular game – even when I think maybe it is just these NPCès that stay within their character - I just wish more would roleplay characters created when grouping or understand that there are roleplayers who play in character that do like to group as well ..or even with overland grouping- a balance in a way of what ESO is described as – a MMORPG set within the Elder Scrolls universe..another edit: I guess what I would love to see more of - because the group finder was made more aware of through this Night Market - are groups that say roleplayers welcomed -