tbh we all knew it will be like this. but the most fun part of it:

console players complains that there're almost no people to play with -> PCEU 24%/PSEU 28%

what a joke, whole event is a joke.

I did 3 siege camps in a row and got 0 souls, it's a joke.

karthrag_inak wrote: »

Marto wrote: »

For a "Once in a lifetime" event - why are the rewards so anemic?

Because it's a really long event. We have barely received 3% of the rewards we're going to get.

You may say that it's disappointing that you only get 1 or 2 Haj-Mota scales per day. Until you consider that this event is so long, you might end up with 10-30 unused Haj-Mota scales in your inventory.

The event reward drop rate isn't low. The event is just really long, so rewards are spaced out.

Add to this the cultural problem of the ESO community becoming used to grinding and rushing events to get all the rewards as fast as possible.

Khajiit thinks that perhaps you missed his point, which is not "give more of the same loot being dropped"", the point is "give more kinds of loot, at greater frequency - dazzle us with loots for this once-in-a-lifetime, tamriel-changing event."

You say perhaps the haj-mota drops will get finished too quickly and then there will be many useless pieces left over. To this Khajiit says "why are there not 10 different haj-motas, perhaps only varying by skin, that we can get their various pieces for?" Why are we not getting vast numbers of different reskinnings of various common assets? Why are we not getting unique variants of otherwise relatively common furnishing item, or, better yet, the recipes for such? Why are we not getting combinations of such things in every box? Why are they not even having absurd rewards at very very low rates, such as -gasp- trial gear, or -clutches pearls in horror- arena weapons?


Imagine how delightful it would have been if they -squeal- opened up every loot table in the game to the reward boxes. And, why not - why shouldn't they? It's not like this kind of event is going to ever come around again - when it's done, very soon, then it is done. After all, wasn't that the selling point, the marketing hook to get folks to purchase the season pass?

This is supposed to be a pivotal event in the history of this game. Opening a reward box for this event and getting a single piece of blue overland gear is absurd and shameful, and the only way it will be memorable is due to its absurdity.

If I could give you 10 awesomes for this I would, but it only let me give you one.

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

There are some very vocal complaints about the event in these forums.

And yet, when I'm in the game, I'm seeing a lot of players hunting animals for event quests, hunting cultists and Daedra in the modified delves and public dungeons for event quests, and burning down siege camp invasions en masse for event quests.

Which makes me wonder just how representative the complainers in these forums really are. And I'm not saying there haven't been issues, and I'm not saying that some ESO streamers are vocal in dissing the event.

But other streamers seem like they're enjoying the event, and their viewers (who generally seem to be higher in numbers than the viewers for some of the other ESO streamers) sound like they're enjoying the event as far as the chats going on.

Not only that, but the servers seem to have been making pretty good progress in Phase 1. I'm sure some people in the forums will say that this is because ZOS is manipulating the numbers, but anyone who's actually participating in the event activities can plainly see that there are a lot of players coming and going at Stirk, as well as a lot of players coming and going at the main siege camp on Solstice.

So I'm kind of confused as to who to believe about just how popular or unpopular this event is. /scratches_head

I've certainly been seeing a LOT of complaints about how this event is outside of the forums - both in game and in discords. I was doing the Sap quest in Reaper's March yesterday, people were yelling at each other in zone chat for "stealing" kills, angry about killing mobs and getting no drops, my partner who is primarily a solo quester and isn't on the forums gave up on the event outside of the crafting daily after one day of trying it out because he found the rewards basically pointless and the quests boring to play.

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Anyway. I really hope they took the responses from the PTS survey seriously. As someone who has played since the console release and pretty much has every veteran achievement except the trifecta achievement for 2 trials I'm getting dangerously close to giving up, too. People have, frankly, gotten over repeating the same exact things 100x over on the PTS and having nothing happen. People talked in this event's feedback thread about how the drop locations would fill up and fighting over mobs would be a horrible experience, they had *ample* time to make adjustments to this but they didn't, or make adjustments to 1000 other things that people complained vehemently about and didn't, like the random change to jabs, the 2 years it took to do something about the perma glow, bug reports get ignored 99% of the time, the U35 QnA that never happened, the tone-deaf comment from Wheeler about sets, unfinished or even abandoned features like Scribing, hybridization or IA.

At this point we absolutely need clarification on what the purpose of the PTS even is. Are we just meant to get a sneak peak at the upcoming content? Do you want or listen to suggestions for solutions? Do you just want an outline of the problem? Because the way it's set up now, people type paragraphs of feedback, nothing happens, and then people get annoyed that their feedback went unacknowledged, and then eventually stop providing anything because they feel like giving any feedback is redundant.

Noice! It's a great response to feedback, actually

I feel like most of the events with percentages have been like this. Everyone could stop playing entirely, and we'd magically reach each goal.

I am worried about this event.

It was advertised as the crown piece of the whole year, the new thing that never has been done in ESO before.
But Phase 1 so far is just more of the same old with a smal exception.
The Siegecamp Quest is the same as every Chapter, we got a new crafting Quest but this one is way worse than the existing daily ones, because we dont get any loot from this and we got the new Quest, where we have to farm for fat or souls in an overcrowded area for monsters that die way to fast und take way to long to respawn.

Phase 2 seems to be a new Boss, which makes a total of 4 Bosses for Solstice, thats still 2 less than West Weald.

The "race" between the Servers looks to be as expected. Meaningless. Everyone knows the playerbase of the platforms are imbalanced. Trying to balance the playingfield by devaluating the contribiution of PC players feels frustrating. In combination with the overall adjustments and the inexplicable Website that only shows a meaningless percentage number instead of actual total numbers of Quests done.

There is nothing new so far in this chapter and compeared to previous it feels really empty, all my hopes lie on one week of Phase 3 for the chapter to redeem itself, lets hope for the best.

There is one thing I'm not sure if anyone has come across or has even paid attention to. On the main page it states that we can go into any delve or public dungeon that has been taken over by the worm cult and they will get an item from that zone as well as a furniture plan.

Me and some other guilds have been grinding those areas trying to even get one furniture plan to drop. However we haven't been able to get anything at all. Has anyone ever gotten a furnishing plan from fighting these field Marshals?

I don't think trial and arena rewards should ever be decoupled from those activities but I agree with everything else stated here. This should have been something that felt like you can't miss. This should have felt as big as the pan-Tamriel celebration at the very least. It didn't even have to be all for us. A lot of people loved saving cats during Dragon Rise. Many Overwatch players still smile about how they helped to contribute to the single largest donation in BCRF history by getting Pink Mercy. ESO could have done something along those lines with Writhing Wall too..

Just something, anything, to make it feel less like doing chores.