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https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/697204

-How did fighting Clackgrack, The Covetous Claw, feel? Any notes?

Felt very straightforward. Didn't notice any unique mechanics. Just a stronger variant of a Hadolid.

-How did fighting the Reefwardens, Lucky Gretch and Bright Bazzle, feel? Any notes?
-How did fighting Krelzimar feel? Any notes?

I enjoyed both of these boss fights and was able to do it solo. The mechanics were engaging, but I'd have preferred if the game didn't give me hints on what to do while playing on Master/Vestige difficulties.

-What did you like about this new event?

My favorite part are the underwater sections. I loved exploring and finding treasure. The increased jump height from the bubble is also a lot of fun to play around with.

How did fighting Clackgrack, The Covetous Claw, feel? Any notes?
Honestly didn't even notice him.

Did you have any blockers or issues with completing the quest?
No

How did you enjoy fighting the Lousewhisperer Sea Elves? Did the mechanics of the battle make sense? Did you sink the enemy vessel or drive her off?
Took a couple of tries to get a hang of it, although that was probably due to playing on a template character with no build to speak of. I sunk the vessel, unsure what I would need to do to drive it off instead (maybe just keep killing boarders/repping your ship until it gives up?)
Fishing up the treasure after the battle felt strange - your character just gestures for a little while and then a chest appears behind you. Because it takes a little moment for this action to complete, I was initially unsure whether anything was actually happening.

How did fighting the Reefwardens, Lucky Gretch and Bright Bazzle, feel? Any notes?
A fun enough fight, nothing too challenging but enjoyed it being a little different than usual.

How did fighting Krelzimar feel? Any notes?
Same as above really.

Do you have any feedback on the puzzles and exprience of navigating the sea floor?
I found navigating the sea floor a bit frustrating at times. ESO isnt really built for platforming which coupled with the unfamiliar floaty movement meant some of the jumps took a couple of tries.
I also found it a little confusing to work out which areas were meant to be scalable or not, especially given that the increased jump height meant that we were able and expected to climb areas that we traditional wouldn't have been able to.

Did you have any blockers or issues with completing the quest?
No. I imagine as I redo the quest I will become familiar with how to navigate the sea floor and which spots to check for treasure.

What did you like about this new event?
Overall, quite enjoyed it. I like when ESO tries to deliver something different.

What didn't you like about this new event?
Not a fan of how much of your loot is just antiquity leads for sellable treasures. Would have preferred to cut out the middleman and just give us the treasure upfront, and only give leads for non-sellables. Finding the smaller treasure chests along the way felt more rewarding in the moment than finding the bigger treasure hoard at the end, which felt odd (but obviously, the reward for finding the treasure hoard is being able to complete the quest and get your coffer).

Thank you for this fun event. I really felt like I was taking part in a real adventure!

I did not have trouble with any fight, enemy, or hazard. I played with a template character.

I think the daily quest should open up for all characters after one has done the intro quest. Right now you have to do the intro quest with every character you want to do the daily quest with. (The hedge maze was killer! )

The sea battle was fun. The first time, I concentrated on fighting off attackers, repairing the ship, and driving the enemy ship away. The second time, I decided to sink the enemy ship with the catapult and let the crew handle most of the attackers. It's great that you can take different approaches to the fight. For this kind of event, the battle length was fine, but if it were part of the real game system, I would enjoy a longer and more difficult battle!

The undersea part was beautiful! It was fun to search for all the treasures and explore the shipwreck and the whole area! I loved how you hid all kinds of visual Easter eggs everywhere! The underwater soundscape was amazing as well!

However, even though the bubble could burst, I did not feel any real danger or punishment for dying underwater. But I think it would be too punishing to have, say, only 5 lives underwater before it's over.

I felt like there was too much hand-holding in the boss battles. Too many hints about what to do. But I guess that's okay and necessary for this kind of event, so that everyone is able to complete them. I think some people might struggle with the boss fights.

I loved this adventure! I took my time exploring the sea bottom. Some people might think the undersea part takes too long, even without exploring. I did the event twice with different characters and still feel good about it. But I don't know how I'll feel after doing it every day for 2 weeks. It might be a bit too long for this event.

I'm going to throw this out there for developer consideration, but please think deeply on some lessons from recent new content and Golden Pursuits.

First, assume that everyone, their cousins, and their cousins' pets are going to show up as soon as something goes live. Remember the queue at the Yvierry estate gate? Is there a navigational a bottleneck which is going to get overwhelmed by multiple players all trying to get at the same thing at the same time? I'm thinking the center of the hedgemaze will be one. Hope I'm wrong, but plan for the worst and most surprises will be pleasant.

Are players going to have to try to find something through the visual clutter of dozens of glowy outfits, companions, noncombat pets, summonses, and whatnot? Both of the NPCs in Kvatch maybe? Neither the hedgemaze nor the tavern are huge spaces, each has one necessary NPC in that cramped location, and everyone wants to talk to them at the same time. Saw the same effect with some of the new New Life stuff last year (quest-related NPCs buried in a sea of visual clutter) and definitely at the three Dynamic Events where players shoot blindly in the hope of hitting something they can't see.

Are you going to have a pursuit which requires doing X thing Y times? Does that thing depend on a respawn timer? Remember the daedrats and plunderers for the Sheogorath pursuits? You garner little goodwill with "you can do other stuff to complete the pursuit," especially when the pursuit tracker is telling the player "do X thing Y times." Yes, they absolutely can select something else for the tracker to track, but the vast majority are going to try to do what the UI is telling them needs to be done and the default tracker behavior is to proceed down the list from top to bottom. There is also the problem of the daedrats no longer spawning after the big deaedrat got killed (that oops is on you). And we saw similar with the World Bosses and delve bosses for some of the Freerunner stuff where there are only six of each in the associated zone. Players mostly chose whichever was closest to a fast-travel point and/or had the smallest health bar in the case of World Bosses. Go where you're supposed to go and then cool your heels for a few minutes because the player(s) in front of you killed whatever it was. And if it takes multiple spawns to reach that Y, then probably cool your heels again at the next spawn point, and repeat until Y equals whatever is required.

Are players going to be trying to collect something which depends on RNG to drop? Nowhere Keys and the Gem of Agility come to mind very quickly as examples of major pain points for that type of system. Personally, I agree that the grumbling about the gem and keys is much ado about nothing since they cannot be used until the Vault gets here. But you did put that seasonal challenge for the keys out out there, perhaps prematurely, and that's another of those "do X thing Y times" problems. Side note that I either got very lucky with a dynamic event on PTS (mostly just for stopping by and I had to solo the DE, but still...), or the drop rate is being improved, or perhaps both.

There are others, but the big idea here is "are you designing problems which will come back to bite when everyone is trying to do the same thing at the same time?" Yes, those problems mostly go away when the novelty of new stuff wears off (well, except for the bad RNG; that's a persistent issue), but it's what players experience when it's new that sets the tone for what the Johnny-come-latelys will expect.

KattyJaxx wrote: »

Was the event test only for last week? Cannot find the quest starter in the store or the quest giver in Anvil.

High Seas will be back on PTS in 2 weeks.