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.

rihannsu528 wrote: »

To be fair ZOS has no control over Twitch timers. Only if the drop doesn't appear in game after you have claimed it on twitch. So you need to put in a support ticket with Twitch because it is their timers that are broken.

If a great number of people are having issues (and it does appear to be effecting a lot of users), ZOS could reach out to Twitch staff to make sure the issue is being addressed in a timely manner. They could even extend the drop window if possible. "LOL Not our problem! 🤷" is not the message you want to send to players who spent 8 HOURS of their life to participate in this event. If they want us to make that amount of effort they need to ensure it goes smoothly.

Text Guide in case you hate video's.

Hello everyone, this is for any returning players. Curious players looking to upgrade. Those who might be looking into buying the game for the first time etc.

I have seen and heard of so many people buying the wrong content for their needs, and its not fully their fault. It's arguably Zos's fault entirely. Seasoned ESO players know what they are reading and what they are getting when buying ESO content, but if you try to view the store like a new player with no background in it. It genuinely would make very little sense and is counter intuitive to what most other online server games have setup.

Ideally this video, or the text breakdown will save some of you from making a $20-100 purchase and being like "WTH I didn't get the thing I wanted most?!?"

The short text version is:

Standard Edition is the base game, the original zones which has tons of content for $5 on sale, or even $20 full price. This is a very valid purchase for any new player and can yield a lot of joy.

The 2025 Content Game Pass, will NOT get you access to ALL content. It will get you access to the most recent releases in 2025, which is essentially just Solstice. Its just a new, more confusing term for buying the expansion for "reasons". But you WILL need this to fully participate in Writhing Wall, do all the quests, the dungeon when it comes out, any exclusive unlocks etc. I have a video for that as well if you want to investigate further and see if its worth it for you.

The 2025 Premium Edition, will give you access to all of these past DLC's:

Morrowind: Adds the island of Vvardenfell.

Summerset: Adds the isle of Summerset and Jewelry Crafting.

Elsweyr: Adds the northern region of Elsweyr.

Greymoor: Adds Western Skyrim and the Antiquities system.

Blackwood: Adds the Blackwood zone and Companions.

High Isle: Adds the High Isle and Amenos zones and more Companions.

Necrom: Adds the Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha zones.

Gold Road: Adds the West Weald zone.

While this sounds great, it is entirely pointless if you plan to play with ESO+. As ESO+ will give you access to all of that content as well, with the exception of some minor collectible/cosmetics. BUT guess what? The 2025 content pass gives you those same collectibles anyway. LUL.

ESO+

This option + Standard Edition get you access to almost the entire game for a very affordable price month to month.

Full access to all DLC game packs available in the Crown Store — new zones, quests, and dungeons!¹

1650 crowns per month to spend in the in-game Crown Store.³

Access to exclusive Crown Store offers and deals.

Unlimited storage for crafting materials with the Craft Bag.²

Double Bank space for your account.

10% increase to Experience, Gold, Alliance Points (Currency, PvP Skill Lines, and Alliance rank only), Tel Var Stones (monster kills only), Archival Fortunes acquisition, Crafting Inspiration, and Trait Research speed.¹

Double Furnishings and Collectibles space in your homes.

Double currency cap for Transmutation Crystals.

Exclusive ability to dye costumes.

My best advice, imo. Is to buy Standard, ESO+ and the Content Pass ONLY if you wish to partake in the current limited time event and get the goodies which come with it. Otherwise, if its less important to you. The actual game is absolutely massive and has thousands of hours of gameplay/collecting/story etc without the content pass.

I hope this helped, and let me know if you have any questions in the comments or things ive missed. I will try my best to help per usual.

-ESO Feanor

I hope this isn’t the treasure you get if you already own Coldharbour Surreal Estate… 😅