Please Re-Evaluate Cyrodiil Delve Bosses

Conquistador

Seriously guys, whiskey tango foxtrot? Whomever coded the way these bosses spawn and respawn should be FIRED. As a form of torture, please make all your employees do Cyrodiil delves for completion. They will RIP. THEIR. HAIR. OUT. I just scalped myself. I hate this. It won't ever get fixed.


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tinythinker

They work fine. I've gotten all of them on five different characters. Only so many are active at a time, and if the one you need isn't up, go kill any others that are. They work that way because they are part of a PvP zone, but if you know how they work and either use directions available online or an add-on like Destinations it doesn't take too long to get most of them. Only a few tend to be a pain but even they obey the same rules, they just have a lower chance to spawn.

Ourorboros

tinythinker wrote: »

They work fine. I've gotten all of them on five different characters. Only so many are active at a time, and if the one you need isn't up, go kill any others that are. They work that way because they are part of a PvP zone, but if you know how they work and either use directions available online or an add-on like Destinations it doesn't take too long to get most of them. Only a few tend to be a pain but even they obey the same rules, they just have a lower chance to spawn.

Spot on. I've also done them all more than once.

Conquistador

Ourorboros wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

They work fine. I've gotten all of them on five different characters. Only so many are active at a time, and if the one you need isn't up, go kill any others that are. They work that way because they are part of a PvP zone, but if you know how they work and either use directions available online or an add-on like Destinations it doesn't take too long to get most of them. Only a few tend to be a pain but even they obey the same rules, they just have a lower chance to spawn.

Spot on. I've also done them all more than once.

Well, it ain't working for me because I spent a *** day trying to complete a 2 boss delve.

TheShadowScout

They are annoying, true.

They make you come back another day to clear the dwelve... which I suspect was the intention, to keep luriong people into the cyrodil dwelves (to their gankage).

But its quite doable with time, patience, and strong nerves...

Preyfar

TheShadowScout wrote: »

They make you come back another day to clear the dwelve... which I suspect was the intention, to keep luriong people into the cyrodil dwelves (to their gankage).

But its quite doable with time, patience, and strong nerves...

That said, it's hard to go back to previous delves when the icons no longer show on the map. And a 2 boss delve can have the same boss spawn 10 times in a row. That said, they are do-able, but very frustrating. The only change they would need to make is to have the bosses spawn in order.

Katahdin

They suck. I spent 10 hours in one delve across 3 days to get one 3 boss delve done. The 3rd boss wouldn't spawn.

I also have them done on 3 characters

Joy_Division

Without a doubt, was once by far the most frustrating and needless anti-bot/anti-farm/anti-grind/anti-whatever mechanic in the game. When getting this to "work," that is getting the Cyrodiil Delve achievement, involved a lot of:



But now ... nuking the fast spawning Cyrodiil mobs is one of the best ways to accumulate Vet ranks and CPs quickly and efficiently. So in going for this achievement, it is actually probably advantageous to anyone less than VR16 and not at the CP cap to have to spend many more hours hunting Cyrodiil bosses than they otherwise would. Which is rather ironic given the probable original intent of long random spawns.

MarcoPolo

It aint working for me either as I spent way over 2 hours in a delve waiting on a boss to spawn only to give up, the rate is ridiculously slow for themto spawn, some spawn in really fast and then your waiting hours for the last one only to quit waiting

Zyle

From my understanding:

Each delve has a Max # of Bosses, a Max # of Bosses spawned at once, and a 10min timer to respawn bosses to meet that max #.

It gets bad when you have a delve with a max of 3 bosses but a max of 1 bosses spawned at once. You're gonna be in there for a little while.

It needs to be standard across the delves, I can think of many that are fine but I can also think of a few where it's stupid how long you have to wait for something to spawn. In fact it works against them if they're trying to prevent grinding because I end up grinding in between boss kills hoping the next spawn is the one I need.

Got it on 2 characters, not planning on ever finishing it on the rest until I have absolutely nothing left to do pretty much.

Inarre

Conquistador wrote: »

Ourorboros wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

They work fine. I've gotten all of them on five different characters. Only so many are active at a time, and if the one you need isn't up, go kill any others that are. They work that way because they are part of a PvP zone, but if you know how they work and either use directions available online or an add-on like Destinations it doesn't take too long to get most of them. Only a few tend to be a pain but even they obey the same rules, they just have a lower chance to spawn.

Spot on. I've also done them all more than once.

Well, it ain't working for me because I spent a *** day trying to complete a 2 boss delve.

Try your guest campaign too. Sometimes if you are having bad luck in one campaign you can go in another and itll be sitting there waiting

olsborg

the regular kinda pve, apart from IC is waaay too easy..

ADarklore

Of course the reason they do this is to keep players stuck in the delves to give other players someone to attack from stealth while you're standing around waiting for bosses to respawn. PvE Public dungeons can be a pain, but they're no where near as bad as Cyrodiil delves... but again... I think ZOS has a clear 'PvP' incentive for wanting to keep players stuck in those delves for so long.

Xerosus

Joy_Division wrote: »

Without a doubt, was once by far the most frustrating and needless anti-bot/anti-farm/anti-grind/anti-whatever mechanic in the game. When getting this to "work," that is getting the Cyrodiil Delve achievement, involved a lot of:



But now ... nuking the fast spawning Cyrodiil mobs is one of the best ways to accumulate Vet ranks and CPs quickly and efficiently. So in going for this achievement, it is actually probably advantageous to anyone less than VR16 and not at the CP cap to have to spend many more hours hunting Cyrodiil bosses than they otherwise would. Which is rather ironic given the probable original intent of long random spawns.

LOL
I liked Lipsand Tarn in Oblivion, damn that ruin and the boss that never spawned. I kept killing the other one over and over and over.

Runs

There are 2 delves, in particular, that I had to stay and farm the area for over 1 hour at a time SEVERAL times just to get all the bosses.

It should not take 5-6 hours of grinding one delve before you get the last boss you need.

IwakuraLain42

Preyfar wrote: »

That said, it's hard to go back to previous delves when the icons no longer show on the map.

There are actually two different maps of Cyrodiil in the game. The one you get when opening the map is the one from the Transitus network which doesn't show delves or dolmens. When you go to a wayshrine you get a normal map showing these icons. Rather counterintuitive if you ask me ...

Duiwel

blame the bots and farmers OP, look at TG the delve bosses spawned quick ( like all delve bosses did back in early 2014 ) what happened ? farmers were camping, bots ect.

So they changed it to be slow AF...

Not really ZoS fault is it?

I know it sucks but in a way it makes sense sadly...

I recommend doin

Silver_Strider

I only need 2 more delves for the achievement on my Magblade
Sadly, they're both balls deep in AD territory and the bosses have stupid long spawn timers.
I've been to both caves on several occasions but the bosses I'm missing just outright refuse to spawn.
DAMN YOU ACATHNIA. CHOSEN OF P***ING ME OFF

Septimus_Magna

The respawn times were a lot longer back in the days, I think these got adjusted when update 1.6 went live.

I think there can only be 1 boss active at the same time so you need to go around killing each boss until the boss spawns that you need.

The upside is that you can search for chests in the meantime now, these have a chance to drop Alliance Motif pages which can be sold for a decent price.