Update on Witches Festival & Achievements for PC

Shaminar

Mysteri0n wrote: »

Anyone else. have. gotten over 1k skulls and only 1 mask

I found 12 masks! I gave most of them away (for free) though.

Elsonso

Just over 300 skulls and three masks. Working on my last 100 skulls. Do not expect to get another mask.

Tevalaur

Mysteri0n wrote: »

Anyone else. have. gotten over 1k skulls and only 1 mask

I gathered something around 300 skulls without a single mask. My girlfriend however in that same harvest period/size received 3 scarecrow and 2 pumpkin masks. RNG strikes again; it's just the way it is.

PikkonMG

Tevalaur wrote: »

Mysteri0n wrote: »

Anyone else. have. gotten over 1k skulls and only 1 mask

I gathered something around 300 skulls without a single mask. My girlfriend however in that same harvest period/size received 3 scarecrow and 2 pumpkin masks. RNG strikes again; it's just the way it is.

On PS4 I had gotten 653 skulls without a single mask so don't feel bad.

Rhyagell

I finally got a mask today! It wouldn't have been possible if ZOS didn't extend the event, so thanks. I was at my 412th skull at the Ratmaster when I got it. There were only four of us and I'm pretty certain I did the most damage, so I think that's why I got it in the end...

Elsonso

PikkonMG wrote: »

On PS4 I had gotten 653 skulls without a single mask so don't feel bad.

I suspect that ZOS quietly "hotfixed" the drop rate, at least on PC NA, after the first few days of the event because they were dropping too much. I got both of them pretty quickly, and chatter around the world suggested that this was not unheard of. People claimed they were still looking for the second mask during the chatter between players.

Rhyagell

I just got another mask on my 40th skull for a new character. I was the third person in a party of four at the Varanis Dolmen. I'm pretty sure yet again I did the most damage but I was rewarded a mask at the end. If anyone hasn't gotten anything yet, it is worth finding a dolmen or whatnot that isn't super crowded and trying to deal the most damage or at least the second most. You just might get a mask.

agegarton

Masks aren't awarded for dealing most damage - two out of the three that I have found were both times when I showed up to a boss late, with the fight near the closing stages, and I barely got a weapon or spell on it in time. I wasn't grouped either, just me on my own. So, you have a small chance to hit gold with each skull, very much like fishing and the perfect roe. It's just RNG. Nothing more complicated than that.

Elsonso

I am pretty sure that damage has nothing to do with it. It would be unfair to low level characters and new players that cannot generate steady damage due to resource issues.

However, it is good to know they are still dropping. My rate is less than 1 per 100 Skulls. I have received 3 of them in over 400 Skulls, and none in the most recent 100.

snowsong

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hi everyone,

After yesterday’s PC maintenance concluded, we ran into an issue where gathering Plunder Skulls for the Witches Festival event was not incrementing your progress toward all Plunder Skull-related achievements including Plunder Skull Enthusiast, Plunder Skull Aficionado, and Plunder Skull Fanatic. While we made an effort to hotfix this today, we found that the fix will instead need to be included in the next PC incremental patch, tentatively scheduled for Monday, October 31.

We understand this greatly impacts your ability to complete these special achievements, which are only available for the duration of the event, and are not able to grant any earned skulls retroactively. Therefore, we’ll be extending the Witches Festival for PC/Mac players by one week so you can complete these achievements, and the event will now end on Tuesday, November 8 at 9:00am ET.

Thanks for your understanding, and enjoy the extended festivities.


Edit: Changed the time from 10am to 9am ET to account for Daylight Savings.

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AWH! Thank you so much! This is great news! :-)

I was actually more distressed about the couple of days of the disappearing Impressario issue & not seeing the Indriks anymore after she briefly returned so I'm so happy to hear about the festival extension!!! Will she have the final berries and a pet of the Crimson Indrik for us to buy? :-)

I know it must be hard work when glitches appear so thank you so much for thinking of the players' experience of it too!

Much Love for ESO! Thanks Again! :-)

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EDIT: Whoops! I just realized this extension is not for the 2020 Witches Festival. !
I'll keep looking for news on it.

Mrs_Malaka

snowsong wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hi everyone,

After yesterday’s PC maintenance concluded, we ran into an issue where gathering Plunder Skulls for the Witches Festival event was not incrementing your progress toward all Plunder Skull-related achievements including Plunder Skull Enthusiast, Plunder Skull Aficionado, and Plunder Skull Fanatic. While we made an effort to hotfix this today, we found that the fix will instead need to be included in the next PC incremental patch, tentatively scheduled for Monday, October 31.

We understand this greatly impacts your ability to complete these special achievements, which are only available for the duration of the event, and are not able to grant any earned skulls retroactively. Therefore, we’ll be extending the Witches Festival for PC/Mac players by one week so you can complete these achievements, and the event will now end on Tuesday, November 8 at 9:00am ET.

Thanks for your understanding, and enjoy the extended festivities.


Edit: Changed the time from 10am to 9am ET to account for Daylight Savings.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AWH! Thank you so much! This is great news! :-)

I was actually more distressed about the couple of days of the disappearing Impressario issue & not seeing the Indriks anymore after she briefly returned so I'm so happy to hear about the festival extension!!! Will she have the final berries and a pet of the Crimson Indrik for us to buy? :-)

I know it must be hard work when glitches appear so thank you so much for thinking of the players' experience of it too!

Much Love for ESO! Thanks Again! :-)

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EDIT: Whoops! I just realized this extension is not for the 2020 Witches Festival. !
I'll keep looking for news on it.

I'm curious, do you play as necro?
xD

ZOS_Lunar

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