ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Please note that players may still obtain only one Stirk Fellowship motif page per day from any source.

I have to say, this mentality is the problem. There should never be a hard cap stopping you from getting a drop. If you did the content to earn it, you should have an equal chance to get it. Does zos not remember how great the anniversary event used to be back when it was generous? People actually participated because there was a reasonable chance at getting something good. Now with these events I get my tickets and gold box then get out without bothering to earn any junk boxes. How about instead of trying to force people to log in every day, you make them want to log in because they're having fun?

Hi everyone. We wanted to hop in and answer more of your questions, especially related to any additional changes we will be making to the Writhing Wall event and learnings for future new in-game events.

• We hear you that that the 12-player monster credit list cap is frustrating during events like this, where there is a higher than usual concentration of players going after event quest mobs. For future events, we are investigating if this is something we can raise.
• In regard to the event quest item drops, while we did push a hotfix last week to make Vitrified Souls more easily available by adding them to Dark Anchors, we are making some adjustments to the other event quest item drop rates for Phases 2 and 3, so your time spent doing the event quests feels better. This hotfix is going out this afternoon (Oct. 21.)
  • We have also identified a technical bug resulting in some inconsistencies with quest item drops from monsters. While we are working on a fix, it will require more time and testing to fix than we can accomplish during this event.
• We've also heard from you that the event rewards in Phase 1 don't feel as rewarding as you would like. We are increasing the drop rates for the Writhing Wall Furnishings in a hotfix this afternoon (Oct. 21). The change will be immediate once the hotfix is live. As a reminder, Wormwrithe weapon outfit Style pages and Caltrops, Bone Skill Style fragments become available as drops in Phase 2 as well.
  • In regard to the feedback about the blue reward coffers, we are unable to make changes to the contents or drop rates of items within them, but we will keep all your feedback in mind as we design rewards for future events. For a little added context, while drop rates are something we can generally adjust via hotfixes, there are a limited number of hotfixes we can push between incremental patches and updates, and each in-game adjustment counts towards that limit.
• Related to rewards feedback, we are also making some beneficial adjustments to Writhing Fortress boss rewards and drop rates in Phase 3 based on your Phase 1 and PTS feedback. Specifically, the Writhing Fortress bosses will award the equivalent of a Glorious Writhing Reward Coffer (gold.) Please note that players may still obtain only one Stirk Fellowship motif page per day from any source.
• Your feedback on the general fun factor of this event and the daily quests and event quest item drops is also heard loud and clear, and is valuable as we plan out future events.

Lastly, we've seen some questions about what activities you can expect to see during Phases 1, 2, and 3, and if all event phases will be the same as Phase 1. Here's a breakdown:

Phase 1: Supply & Defense

• Daily Quests: Vitrified Souls, Supplies, Siege Camp Defense, and Crafting (6)
• Skirmishes at the Siege Camps
• Delves and Public Dungeons across Tamriel are taken over by the Worm Cult forces
• The latest installment of the Seasons of the Worm Cult story becomes available in Solstice

**Spoilers ahead! Don’t read beyond this point if you want to be surprised about Phases 2 and 3.**

Phase 2: The Assault Begins

• Daily Quests: Vitrified Souls, Supplies, Siege Camp Defense, and Crafting (12 – 6 new ones added that include Alchemy, Provisioning, and Enchanting)
• Siege Camp attacks will be more frequent and deadly as the forces from the Writhing Wall launch multiple attacks at once.
• Continue battling the Worm Cult forces in Delves and Public Dungeons across Tamriel

*The Daedra Ghishzor, a powerful Maldrith, appears as a world boss on Solstice when the servers are patched up with Update 48 content.

Phase 3: Fall of the Writhing Wall

• Daily Quests: Vitrified Souls, Supplies, Siege Camp Defense, and Crafting (6 – the new ones added in Phase 2)
• Siege Camp attacks continue with the same frequency and force as in Phase 2
• Continue battling the Worm Cult forces in Delves and Public Dungeons across Tamriel
• The Writhing Fortress opens for players

*After Phase 3 concludes, the Eastern Solstice zone opens and the final installment of the Seasons of the Worm Cult story is available.

The blue boxes are fairly worthless. I would imagine 90% of the blue boxes I open only contain crafting materials. . . less than I used to get the blue box in the first place. I am getting style pages and motif pages from the gold boxes at least, so what exactly is my incentive to do more quests for worthless blue boxes? The furnishing plans appear to be the same exact three plans dropping over and over. I have more spyglass recipes than I could ever need, even if an attractive Wood Elf moves next door.

Microsoft recently stated they are still commited to Xbox as a platform and not just game pass, so I assume ZOS are under orders to make sure a Xbox server wins to help show it's still an active platform. (I'd have picked NA personally because I think Xboxes always sell better in America than Europe, but maybe EU has more ESO players.)

I assume they want PS servers close behind so both get the update around the same time, and put PCEU ahead of NA because it's said to be more active so it seems more believable.

Alternatively maybe it's all really real and the servers expected to do the worst and so given lower targets were so inspired by the competitive nature of the competition and ZOS enforced "Server Pride"(tm) that they've been going all out, with guilds ensuring everyone does all the dailies every day and players messaging their friends to come back to the game just for the event so they can have the honour of saying "I was there" and the glory of being first to claim the great prize of content pass owners finally getting the rest of the zone they've already paid for. That will be the official version anyway.

Hello thumb, meet scale.

nude normal trial is fun

The thresholds are different by server. They also can and have moved the goalposts as necessary

It does seem strange that they are setting it so that all EU is further than all NA. I understand the desire to have a console “win” because that means for once a console will get the zone before PC, but the fact that the regions are spaced that way makes it look contrived.

And for every “but but but EU always has maintenance extend into primetime,” there’s a “NA hasn’t gotten an ESO specific in-person event since before the pandemic, NA only gets 4h for the last set of event tickets every round, and NA doesn’t get much time on PTS and it’s only the most unpolished of the patches.” Every server gets screwed in different ways, and we all are really only good at seeing how we have it worse and not how we have it better.

We don’t have numbers, but it has been said that PC EU is slightly more populated, but not overly so. However, the EU server is much more concentrated around CET primetime, while NA is a lot more spread out over all timezones.

I don’t like the idea of making this a competition though. It seems like a hollow way to force engagement, when the other community events have been about working together instead.

But really, all this means is that the ‘slower’ servers (aka the ones they chose to lose) get more gold boxes since they have the event go longer. It’s not like any server is not going to get the content they paid for.
(Unless you play in French, in which case you don’t get the content you paid for because they can’t be bothered to hire French VAs or even give updates on that missing voiceover)

I couldn't disagree more: the planemeld between the PC-NA server and the PTS was a legendary event.
I'll be laughing at this for years after the current event has been forgotten.

Is it though? At least when you pulled one of those it was a trip…