The xp bonus is welcome.

The egregious collision between events is a mess, though. The effective loss of sweepers from clumsy and unimaginative design that replaced functional extant content for something that, for me at least, is broken for quick event tickets is a sufficient participation deterrent given the limited time I have available to play.

Unimpressed.

Or, once 3600cp is reached, all characters are locked into a perpetual Stuga loop, endlessly repeating "Do you know how long I've been looking for you?"

/s

Rkindaleft wrote: »

So, even though all of the console servers except for Xbox NA have reached it, we can't even access part of Phase 2 (the boss) for another nearly 2 weeks, so what's even the point of Phase 2 for console exactly? Nothing's different compared to Phase 1 except a couple crafting quests nobody cares about.

This event is a huge flop.

No Rkinda, you got it wrong. Now you can do alchemy writs. Spend that columbine and Mountain flower bud. Then in the reward box you'll get 10 rough maple. And you'll be happy to do it!

Currently, the only useful locations for Void Creatures are found in pay gated regions, unlike a majority of "defeat/destroy X enemy" endeavors who tend to have base game options.
As it stands, the only base game option for Void Creatures is Voidmother Elgroalif through Infinite Archive. She appears in one of the Cycles, in a pool of dozens of bosses. Good luck relying on that, you could be there for hours. Also fun fact, voidmothers that spawn due to the Writhing Wall invasions in Delves/Public Dungeons don't count.

Thus, my request to you, Zenimax, is to tweak Dro-m'Athra type enemies so that they count as Void Creatures. It makes sense, lore wise, as both Voidmothers/Shades and Dro-m'Athra are related to Namira/Namiira. There is also a voice line spoken by random Dro-m'Athra enemies in the Maw of Lorkhaj:

"Behold, the power of the void!"
Rakkhat, the fang of Lorkhaj, also has many lines referencing the void and Namiira.

This also opens up some extra options for base game players and DLC players alike, as Dro-m'Athra can be found in the Sathram Plantation in Stonefalls or in the Infinite Archive through Zhaj'hassa, Rakkhat or through stages where Dro-m'Athra are one of the regular enemy types that can spawn. This also opens up the use of the Maw of Lorkhaj itself from the Thieves Guild DLC as a possible option for this endeavor.

ESO will end the same way.
There are no roles anymore. There are no real classes anymore. There’s no challenge at all in normal or story content, and there’s no lore left. This game is a complete mess!

Players gatekeep others in Group Finder. On Discord, you need 170k DPS just to do HM content.
New players have no time to learn anything, because we — the old players — don’t give them time.
Casual players are kicked because they don’t have enough DPS, because they don’t have the right sets, because they don’t know the mechanics.

Maintenance happens every few days, and just this weekend the servers were down for almost 16 hours.
This game is completely, 100% f*****d! It’s a damn mess. It seems like ZOS has completely given up on it, and the only thing keeping it online is money.

I’ve said this a hundred times, and I’ll say it again:
This game will close because of logs and DPS sharing. There’s only one thing keeping this server alive, money. There’s no more love, no more fun, no more Elder Scrolls here.

It’s over. And yes, ESO will end just like New World.

Right now the biggest complaint I have about Phase 2 is that it is just not DIFFERENT enough.

One mini quest. "Go to place, talk to person, read 1 document, come back, talk to 1 person".

Minor changes to the dailies we were already doing... but they're the same ones, over and over.

Lightweight Furs replaced by Heavyweight Furs, for example, or Undead Essence by Undead Ichor... BUT, dropped from the same monsters in the same places. Maybe the drop rate is a little kinder, after all the complaints about previously, or maybe I was just lucky, BUT, they are exactly the same thing, namely "Renamed Quest Coupons".

Gather 15 Vitrified Souls hasn't even changed.

Nor has Beat 1 Siege Camp - though it is said these have been made a bit harder (they had better scale back down again when the event is over, because the bosses there are just too difficult for the level of population that's likely to be there *next* year when it isn't the newest thing.)

More importantly, what they need to do is FIX THE LAG. Make it so that players do not go from 60 fps to 3 spf. (yes, that latter "spf" is intentional, "seconds per frame" is what I get.)

Give us something DIFFERENT to do. That tiny level of quest is, frankly, an insult.

Honestly, I'd rather be watching paint dry.

Or playing my other characters in other content that they haven't all done yet, although my main has done everything. I'd rather be taking my 3rd character through Necrom, which is the bit she's just reached: or my 4th through Blackwood, which is what *he* is doing right now...

But if I do that, then by *not* doing The Same Old Boring Things Over And Over, I'm making the progress bar go more slowly.

And two weeks is already too long to have been doing The Same Old Boring Things Over And Over, and I am not looking forward to another two weeks of it.

After the disaster of the Writhing Wall, I decided to pick up New World and got to play it for two weeks. Those were some of the most fun weeks I’ve had since One Tamriel brought us all together.

A few highlights of my experience over there, that I would love to see introduced in some capacity in ESO would be…

A complete overhaul to how music is played in ESO, instead of an emote, can we make use of the Bard’s College in Solitude? In New World you collect different instruments with unique perks, and find songs that you can play on a whim, and when you do play them, it’s like playing Guitar Hero. I found that to be incredibly fun.

A complete overhaul to how factions are handled in ESO’s overland, instead of being meaningless outside of Cyrodiil or Imperial City, why not introduce a flagging PvP system and new forts in every zone that factions can war over? This did not impact my PvE experience whatsoever as I quested my way to level 70, yet gave so much depth to the experience at endgame.

A complete overhaul to how Battlegrounds work, right now it’s 4v4 or 8v8 with no definitive modes to queue into, in New World you have 3v3 matchmade Elimination with Role-Based queues (can’t have more than 1 support / can have 3 damage dealers) 20v20 Capture the Flag and 50v50 Outpost Rush… we could use the assets already available in Cyrodiil to create this experience.

ESO is a great game, and there were so many lessons that New World could have learned from the many successes ZOS have accomplished much earlier into it’s life cycle, but now that it’s reaching End-of-Service my hope is that we could take the best parts of that dying game and bring them home.

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

The problem with races is that for them to work you need clear and defined metrics, rules, objectives, and a way to measure individual performance, incentive, and a time limit.
This event lacks all of that.

And it needs to be balanced fairly, plus everyone should have the same conditions to participate. I'm actually curious whether the pc servers might catch up a bit now because they already get the world boss now - while console players still have to wait for it for 2 weeks. Which is a clear disadvantage that should not exist in a fair competition.

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

I'm more curious if it actually dyes well, or is yet another badly dyeing costumes with undyeable parts

So tired of just “wait,” great things are coming, but we can’t talk about it or the FOMO. I still love ESO but I am leaning heavily toward not buying any more crowns or expansions until I see some proof that the game is going to be expanded on positively.

Play daily, but this content year I find I am only logging on to do the endeavors and an event dailies and then off. If there's no event, really just do endeavors and then off. As the story content just seems so small this year and uninteresting to me. This year has been a big failure for me. All I hear about is the wall, which is so underwhelming for me, and vengeance, which I could care less about. BG's ruined by 2 teams. Don't even play them anymore. 

Starting to question why I even log in to do the daily endeavors. May switch to a seasonal player as I am losing interest in ESO. I blame it on the lack of good content that I care about. Really miss the “real” quarterly updates. I can tell they have cut back on content for the last several years. I know some people are turned off by the recent changes of subclassing, but honestly, I really like it. If anything, that is what has kept me even playing this year. 

They really need to bring it next year for me personally. Also, if I switch to a seasonal player, I will also drop ESO Plus that I have kept up since console launch. What would be the point of Plus if I am not playing daily? 

I really do hope they bring it, and I get excited, but I have lost faith in ESO to wow me. They revived and saved themselves once before. Hope they can find that same magic again.

Stay safe