ZomZom wrote: »

If I play on Steam can I use my character that I had played on PC?

Yes, the Steam storefront just uses the standard PC servers. It's just a matter of where the launcher is coming from.

My intuition was pinging me hard reading the top post, so I checked out the poster's history, and sure enough...empty account.

A while back, another social site I hung out on did something that disappointed/enraged the community. They fired a bunch of their human staff (who were largely popular with the community) to cut costs, while denying they'd fired anyone. But the now-ex employees held and showed the receipts to reveal the lie. So people made a ton of angry posts calling out the site owner, who'd recently purchased the site, already made a bunch of terrible decisions that rendered the site more buggy and less user-friendly, and was behind the firings.

It didn't take long for an account that had never posted anything before to show up and start making posts that were condescending and insulting to the userbase, while overly praising the site owner and remaining staff, sometimes for doing nothing more than the bare minimum of their jobs.

Sound familiar?

The poster tipped their hand one time too many, so people figured out very quickly that it was either the site owner or someone connected to upper management who was smooching backside for personal gain. (They did figure out exactly who it was; I just can't recall myself at the moment, but I do know the site owner was somehow involved.) Of course, the account's posts were all "mysteriously" deleted, and the account itself "mysteriously" went inactive after that.

I'm not interested in dipping into conspiracy theories, so I'm not saying this thread was started by someone with something to gain personally from ZOS. I AM saying that if you don't want people to think you're a sockpuppet doing exactly that, you're going about it in entirely the wrong way.

Soarora wrote: »

I am curious— what seems to be causing pugs to wipe? Is it in the realm of not knowing mechanics (ignoring totems, standing in tethers, not standing in the yellow AoEs), too low of damage output (add overwhelm), or too much damage taken (healers underprepared, dps standing in AoEs)?

I'd say it depends on the group. Personally, I think DPS doesn't matter as much. If you know the mechanics, you'll still win most of the time. The problem for me, and perhaps for others, is that I often don't know the mechanics. And neither does anyone else in the group. I don't mind asking, if we're having problems, "Does anyone know the mechanics?" If someone does, then that's great and I know for next time (or when we try again, depending). But often, nobody knows. And because you're in a pug, people aren't willing to try again and work them out. Or you just can't work them out. This game is really annoying in that when you're in the middle of combat, you have some NPC shouting things at you, and you're supposed to just magically know what they want you to do. Sometimes it's clear. Other times it's not.

Or there isn't really a clue about what you're supposed to do, and there's no time to figure it out. When you're pugging, you get one chance. Now sure, after I do a dungeon and we fail, I could go to a site and read the mechanics, but to me, a game that makes you go outside to read mechanics has already failed. I've played some really hard games in my time (been gaming for 40+ years) and I've never had to "do homework" to figure it out. I was playing games when there was no internet to check, so you had to figure stuff out yourself, but the games either taught you, or the mechanics made sense and you could figure them out. Not here most of the time, IMO, which is why they have NPCs yelling at you while you're in the middle of dodging all the AoEs and trying not to die. It's stupid, frankly. By mechanics, I don't mean the basics like stay out of stupid. I mean each boss's unique mechanics.

For some dungeons, I do them enough times and I pick up on the mechanics by watching what others are doing. But again, in pugs, it's hit and miss. Sometimes the only time I learn the mechanics is if we're having problems, because other times the bosses just get burned down too quickly to see anything, and it's worse now with the almighty beam. Bosses sometimes barely have time to go through their phases (which I don't mind. Some of the boss fights in this game are tedious and artificially drawn out). Just last week I was doing a dungeon that I've done at least 10x before. We were having problems, and I asked for the mechanics because I had no clue. The other 10x, that particular boss had been burned down so quickly that they didn't matter. So in that sense, perhaps low DPS can contribute, but it's not the root problem, if you know what I mean.

And for one of the later dungeons, perhaps Naj, not sure, there's so much AoE going on that someone died once and I couldn't find them to rez them. It was ridiculous. I'm running around trying to figure out where they are, but the entire freaking floor was covered in AoEs. It does sometimes feel like the designer(s) have no clue, so they just have the bosses throwing out AoEs everywhere.

Anyhow, I'd say mechanics are more of a problem than DPS. You can slowly kill anything as long as you can stay alive.

(if you couldn't tell, I'm not a fan of dungeon boss design in this game.)

Gandalf_72 wrote: »

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

I haven't finished the Solstice main quest yet, so I haven't had access to the "Crossing the Wall" quest. I'd like to know if, once the event is over, I'll still be able to access the "Crossing the Wall" quest when I finish the Solstice main quest, or if it will be lost forever and I'll never be able to get the Memento. I've asked this question before in other threads, but no one has responded.
A response from a GM would be greatly appreciated.

@ZOS_Kevin

So... what's the answer to the OP's question?
It's still unclear to me based on your answers.

I'll rephrase the question:
1) Without completing the Solstice Main Quest, can you complete the event?
2) Once the event is over, can you complete all the quests?

Yes, I completed the event without touching the solstice main quest.

Yes you can complete all the quests after the event is over.

The only thing time limited is the dungeonish event itself and the Wall Breaker title you get for completing it. The title is awarded directly for completion, it is not tied to any quest or achievement.

First I'm going to start by saying that I don't think you are who you say you are.

-Fresh soul shriven forum account
-Only 18 visits to the forum overall
-No prior comments
-No real engagement with the community other than this post which clearly was built to inflame the issue/attempt to get people to argue with you.

If you are who you claim to be, then your conduct is incredibly unprofessional. Baiting and goading the audience of a popular game when they have an issue with a poorly constructed event is absolutely no way to engage with the community, and if I were ZOS, I'd block any further discussion with you regarding the matter. Your tone is an embarrassment and doesn't reflect well on the people you're trying to defend.

I don't actually believe that ZOS or their employees have ever spoken to you, or that they have anything to do with you, but they are far more professional than this.

It was excellent for the fortunate players who did the very first run; very much bugged for everyone else.

Bottom line: they over-promised and under-delivered. Everything about this event has been a buggy, poorly thought-out mess. I spent years working on software implementations (banking software, not gaming), and I'm well aware that it's impossible to catch all bugs in testing, and once things go live there will always be some things that are broken, but this has been absolutely ridiculous. Has anything about this event worked correctly? As someone who's been playing ESO regularly since launch (almost every day), I've never seen the team fail so badly.

I didn't even know about the forums when I first started playing back in 2018, it wasn't until I received the access to the PTS that I even went through the process of getting access to the forum via customer support, so that I could give feedback, this is the only forum I have ever had to jump through such hoops.

You say those whining on here are a small part of the community, then how about you give a direct way for those in game, to give their feedback on this event, a yes no prompt, did you enjoy the event yes or no.

There are tens of thousands of quiet players because they either don't know about the forums or can't be stuffed jumping through the hoops to gain access until something happens that spurs them on.

All this talk of a new historic event, it has felt no different in terms of scale of this army of players, than the Dragon rise and Lost Treasures of Skyrim events, the same kill the dolmen/dragon/world event over and over, only overly drawn out, lacking in rewards to match that length.

Any bringing the community together aspect was heavily undermined by the constant adjustment to the progress bars of phase 1 and 2.

I did the golden pursuit, did enough siege camps to unlock the achievement, the pet and bone skill style held no interest to me so didn't bother grinding for them, did a bit more in phase 2, then lost interest, event dragged on long enough for other games I was interested in to release, an event like this should make a player want to set aside their other hobbies and play ESO, for me this one didn't, it got me playing other games the exact opposite of what you should be aiming for.

All I can say as someone, who puts their money where their mouth is, that subscribes yearly, buys the chapters, bought this content pass, occasionally buys crown packs when they are on sale, is I am not feeling the same value for money as I did with earlier chapters and years content.

You can chalk it up to being a transition year, though that excuse is wearing real thin, after the year of performance year of this and that we have had one after the other the past few years.

But for me this content pass model, unless it is one hell of a showing next year, I will be holding off on buying or not even bothering until it becomes part of the ESO+ content the following year.