Bugged or undocumented nerf to veteran dungeon achievements in patch v2.08?

Attorneyatlawl · May 2015

Up until today, when completing a veteran dungeon achievement such as a "Death" or "Speed run", you would receive 150,000 experience towards veteran and champion levels for the first time doing them on a character. This was true as recently as Sunday night when I brought my then-V7 dark elf dragon knight through a dungeon set and got three gains of that amount for finishing a pledge including the achievements. This evening, after patch version 2.08 went live, I brought the same now-v8 character through the Elden Hollow veteran pledge and finished three achievements, as well as the skill point quest for the dungeon and the pledge gold key quest. I got a grand total of only ~24,000 base xp on the quest turn-ins + mob kill xp while under enlightenment rather than what I should have seen as a gain of over 500,000 XP between those quests and three gains of 150,000 per and with one always having given 600k champ when enlightened (total champ XP gain should have been a bit over 1,000,000 in all)

. The quests each provided around 48k when turned in towards champ levels and and ~10k towards my veteran leveling, while the achievements gave nothing.

Is this an intended change missed in the patch notes, and if so, why was it instituted, particularly when many are complaining about leveling experience currently

? If it's bugged, can it be looked into for a status?

EDIT: Fixed numbers and a handful of typo's since I wrote this while doing the same pledge on a main character afterwards

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SickDuck · May 2015

Afaik the bonus xp only applies on the mob grinding veteran dungeon achievements, not the completion or speed run etc.

pppontus · May 2015

SickDuck wrote: »

Afaik the bonus xp only applies on the mob grinding veteran dungeon achievements, not the completion or speed run etc.

Exactly. Death & Speed Challenges do not award any XP.

daemonios · May 2015

SickDuck wrote: »

Afaik the bonus xp only applies on the mob grinding veteran dungeon achievements, not the completion or speed run etc.

This. Only the veteran slayer achievements gave 150k exp.

Attorneyatlawl · May 2015

Thanks for the clarification, all. Way back near launch, the other ones gave a good chunk of XP towards veteran ranks, but it's been awhile since I watched the XP granted by those achievements, so like other poi/miscellaneous XP it sounds like it's changed

. It looks to definitely be giving the enlightenment bonus to the achievement XP in its entirety for the slayer ones then, even though 150k x 4 is more than one day's worth of enlightenment by quite a bit. That would line up with what I had seen in having gained around two full levels the other night of champ XP from that one dungeon run.

AlnilamE · May 2015

Enlightenment bonus applies to any and all XP.

That said, I have never heard of an achievement giving such a huge amount of XP before. That's way above anything you can get from a quest.

SickDuck · May 2015

There's two for each veteran dungeon, so 16 altogether. They require decent amount of runs each. It's a bit above 160k with ESO Plus. Given the awful amount of xp dungeon mobs give it's more like a compensation than a reward for your time

My theory is that these achievements are there to fill the gap between v12 and v14 in PVE where no quests are left, for those who don't want to grind or do daily repetables.