Anyone else preferred the witches festival to the new life festival?

Voxicity

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort that the devs went to in creating these quests, but my god do I find them mind numbingly boring. When I logged in the first day I was like ''I'm gonna do all these achievements and get that title on all 4 of my main characters!''

But after completing them on one character for 1 day I just found them incredibly tedious and a waste of my time. I'd much rather be running dungeons or something and have the chance of something dropping (like the skull plunders) while I'm actually doing something productive.

Then again you can't please everyone, I'm sure there are many who preferred the new life fesitval, but it just wasn't my cup of tea

susmitds

The stupid thing is to make you do it every day. Seriously, why did ZoS want every thing to be a grind?

OlafdieWaldfee

I would like New Life better than Witches Festival, if the golden recipe would drop at all. It´s the only thing I still need for the title but even after doing the dailies everyday on one to three characters I haven´t got it yet.
RNG is not a very good idea for this thing.

Dracindo

As a guy that hasn't explored all of Tamriel yet, I find it discouraging to just rush through everything I haven't seen yet, only for a small chance of something I really want. Especially if you can't ignore the pleads of a random questgiver. From what I've read, there's no reward that's really worth going through all the trouble. I just did 2 of those quests, and the only thing I'll be happy for, is the change I can get for those mats for that motif.

Vanthras79

I wish we did not have to travel to Eastmarch to get the XP bonus. That is my one and only gripe. I mean the cauldron was summoned by a whistle.

EvilCroc

Maybe. I was involved in Witches Festival for all it's time. Just because I was getting plunder skulls and used xpleton.
I am not doing anything from new life event (except keg) cuz I have gotten all achievements, motif pages, recipes and hats.
Only motivation left are theese wolfsbane style materials. But I'm too lazy doing challenges for them.
So yes, maybe, witches festival was better. Or not.

pattyLtd

I prefer this event although i agree that the quests are far from exciting.
Xp buff without having to look like everybody else in skeleton form or in a crappy disguise wins ot for me.

I still need gloves motif to get the title though. No luck so far haha funny how the last item never drops sometimes.

Voxicity

EvilCroc wrote: »

Maybe. I was involved in Witches Festival for all it's time. Just because I was getting plunder skulls and used xpleton.
I am not doing anything from new life event (except keg) cuz I have gotten all achievements, motif pages, recipes and hats.
Only motivation left are theese wolfsbane style materials. But I'm too lazy doing challenges for them.
So yes, maybe, witches festival was better. Or not.

I don't think it's a matter of better or worse, just preference

I just hope down the line we'll see more events that encourage actually playing the content of the game, and not just repeating the same mundane quests over and over

Loves_guars

Nope, I love New Life's quests. Witches was somehow lackluster.

Adenoma

I really preferred not having to go to Eastmarch to get the buff like in the Halloween event. I also liked how the Halloween event just integrated itself into what would otherwise be normal gameplay (although, it made me do a lot more PvE than I do normally). I don't like having to do repetitive quests.

That said, I like the "feel" of this event more and I really enjoy the Skinchanger motif and the +max stam +stam recovery recipe.

Astanphaeus

Witches Festival you could do while going about your normal activities, which helped keep it from adding to the redundancy of the game. I did enjoy some of the quests, but I got tired of repeating them quickly.

Having to keep returning to the overcrowded Eastmarch definitely didn't help; I would have like if you had to travel to each races capital in order to start each quest. This would have spread out some of the population. That said,however it was handled, Rawl'kha ended up even more of a *** show than normal (side note: they should just reduce the player cap for each instnce of a zone).

The one good thing was that I didn't have to change my appearance to get the exp boot, but again, you had to return to Eastmarch every time to get it.

SolarCat02

They put a lot of effort into the event. The quests were fun the first time.

I find them boring now, though, simply because of all the loading screens involved. I spend about 2 minutes per loading screen, so I basically travel somewhere for 2 minutes of loading time, spend two minutes on the quest, and wait 2 more minutes to be able to turn it in. The loading screens take more time than the quests.

This is also assuming that I already have the Wayshrines available. It's a giant pain trying to get there if I decide to level an alt using the quests. I stopped trying, and just figure out how to get to Eastmarch to get the Wayshrine so I can drink the mead and then go back to doing quests with them.

BlackEar

Nope. Witches festival was bland and boring and didn't add anything new. Skulls dropped from bosses and the exp buff was a memento, boring mechanic as well. All in all it didn't make an impact at all. It was a forgettable event at best. New Life had me traveling and do actual quests and had far more event items than witches festival. I like this event far better.

Prof_Bawbag

cecibergesnrb18_ESO wrote: »

Nope, I love New Life's quests. Witches was somehow lackluster.

Seriously, you actually love doing all those repeatable quests day in, day out? Rushing off to the exact same 9 locations on a daily basis is something you love? The quests aren't even interesting nor are they even funny after the first time (most weren't even fun the first time). I'm not saying the Witch festival was superior, because it wasn't, I just thought the Witch festival was better because you weren't shoehorned into doing the same 9 inane quests everyday. You just farmed bosses or dolmens when you felt like it and got a bonus reward for doing so.

kevlarto_ESO

I like the New Life a bit more just was more fun to me running around and doing different things, I have friends that liked the Halloween one better, its a mix in guild.

BlackEar

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

cecibergesnrb18_ESO wrote: »

Nope, I love New Life's quests. Witches was somehow lackluster.

Seriously, you actually love doing all those repeatable quests day in, day out? Rushing off to the exact same 9 locations on a daily basis is something you love? The quests aren't even interesting nor are they even funny after the first time (most weren't even fun the first time). I'm not saying the Witch festival was superior, because it wasn't, I just thought the Witch festival was better because you weren't shoehorned into doing the same 9 inane quests everyday. You just farmed bosses or dolmens when you felt like it and got a bonus reward for doing so.

There was no gameplay with witches festival which made it boring, to me at least. There was zero difference from normal gameplay and the witches festival, and if you didn't like grinding well tough luck you had to if you wanted the rewards.

Karkian

I prefer the new life festival simply because I had better luck with it.

I had really bad luck with the witches festival. I didn't get the gold recipe or either of the Halloween masks. I got everything from the new life festival in 3 days, including 2 extra fish eye recipes, which I traded for the Halloween masks.

Voxicity

BlackEar wrote: »

the exp buff was a memento

Surely this is a positive? Like, you get a free memento after the event is over? As opposed to nothing from the new life fesitval and the added annoyance of having to travel to eastmarch every 2 hours during the event?

I don't understand how you listed this as a negative thing

AuldWolf

Can't stand the New Life Festival. It's traditional MMO grindfest quests that have no place in ESO. They couldn't feel more WoW-like if they tried. Terrible, horrible, awful. I mean, not a lot of effort was put into either, but... At least the Halloween event could be done while you were doing other things, so it didn't feel like this horrible, god awful grind.

My partner and I just gave up on it after a couple of days. It wasn't worth our time. And the patch has made the client so unstable (more crashes than either of us have ever had) that we've sworn off ESO for now. We'll try it again after the new year.

Edit: Grammatical error.

Voxicity

AuldWolf wrote: »

Can't stand the New Life Festival. It's traditional MMO grindfest quests that have no place in ESO. They couldn't feel more WoW-like if they tried. Terrible, horrible, awful. I mean, not a lot of effort was put into either, but... At least the Halloween event could be done while you were doing other things, so it didn't feel like this horrible, god awful grind.

My partner just gave up on it after a couple of days. It wasn't worth our time. And the patch has made the client so unstable (more crashes than either of us have ever had) that we've sworn off ESO for now. We'll try it again after the new year.

Yeah I've been crashing quite a bit more too recently. Hope it fixes itself for you both some time soon

Prof_Bawbag

BlackEar wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

cecibergesnrb18_ESO wrote: »

Nope, I love New Life's quests. Witches was somehow lackluster.

Seriously, you actually love doing all those repeatable quests day in, day out? Rushing off to the exact same 9 locations on a daily basis is something you love? The quests aren't even interesting nor are they even funny after the first time (most weren't even fun the first time). I'm not saying the Witch festival was superior, because it wasn't, I just thought the Witch festival was better because you weren't shoehorned into doing the same 9 inane quests everyday. You just farmed bosses or dolmens when you felt like it and got a bonus reward for doing so.

There was no gameplay with witches festival which made it boring, to me at least. There was zero difference from normal gameplay and the witches festival, and if you didn't like grinding well tough luck you had to if you wanted the rewards.

I'm not disputing most of what you said, I'm just surprised someone would love doing those 9 quests on a daily basis.

The fishing one is a chore until you get duplicates which means you don't even need to do the full quest every day
You'd think you'd only be able to garner so much fun from opening 3 chests
Killing 3 wolves and a bee gets old fast
Giving an npc 69 gold and waiting on bugs to spawn is not fun in the slightest
Mud ball, yeah, was fun at first
Racing to the same 4 shrines gets old fast too
The dancing one becomes a ballache due to the inns you have to visit
The performance one I didn't mind as it was quick and all located in close proximity
Water diving was good the first time and got boring thereafter

Now, had they given us 3 or 4 sets of 9 on a rotational basis, then it would have been a lot more bearable.

Elsonso

KaiVox22 wrote: »

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort that the devs went to in creating these quests, but my god do I find them mind numbingly boring. When I logged in the first day I was like ''I'm gonna do all these achievements and get that title on all 4 of my main characters!''

But after completing them on one character for 1 day I just found them incredibly tedious and a waste of my time. I'd much rather be running dungeons or something and have the chance of something dropping (like the skull plunders) while I'm actually doing something productive.

Then again you can't please everyone, I'm sure there are many who preferred the new life fesitval, but it just wasn't my cup of tea

Nothing is more boring than standing at a boss spawn point, or running between boss spawn points, trying to get plunder skulls.

That right there makes New Life Festival better that Witches Festival.

Astanphaeus

BlackEar wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

cecibergesnrb18_ESO wrote: »

Nope, I love New Life's quests. Witches was somehow lackluster.

Seriously, you actually love doing all those repeatable quests day in, day out? Rushing off to the exact same 9 locations on a daily basis is something you love? The quests aren't even interesting nor are they even funny after the first time (most weren't even fun the first time). I'm not saying the Witch festival was superior, because it wasn't, I just thought the Witch festival was better because you weren't shoehorned into doing the same 9 inane quests everyday. You just farmed bosses or dolmens when you felt like it and got a bonus reward for doing so.

There was no gameplay with witches festival which made it boring, to me at least. There was zero difference from normal gameplay and the witches festival, and if you didn't like grinding well tough luck you had to if you wanted the rewards.

I would consider doing the same quests over and over again grinding. At least with the Witches Festival, it was grinding I already had to do; not adding even more grinding to my daily routine.

Prof_Bawbag

I think most of us can agree both festival have been a bit meh. Good for 5mins and then things got dull. Saying that, I wouldn't have been without them as the double xp more than makes up for any shortcomings. Just a pity we can't drink the grog out in the field.

Voxicity

lordrichter wrote: »

KaiVox22 wrote: »

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort that the devs went to in creating these quests, but my god do I find them mind numbingly boring. When I logged in the first day I was like ''I'm gonna do all these achievements and get that title on all 4 of my main characters!''

But after completing them on one character for 1 day I just found them incredibly tedious and a waste of my time. I'd much rather be running dungeons or something and have the chance of something dropping (like the skull plunders) while I'm actually doing something productive.

Then again you can't please everyone, I'm sure there are many who preferred the new life fesitval, but it just wasn't my cup of tea

Nothing is more boring than standing at a boss spawn point, or running between boss spawn points, trying to get plunder skulls.

That right there makes New Life Festival better that Witches Festival.

Okay?

But you didn't HAVE to camp bosses or run between their spawn points to get plunder skulls. You could just run pledges, level your undaunted, level some skills on an alt by doing dungeons and get plunder skulls passively in the process.

The New Life festival forces you to complete grindy quests with no other alternative. Witches festival gave players the option to run dungeons, play casually and explore delves, or camp bosses.

Elsonso

KaiVox22 wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

KaiVox22 wrote: »

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort that the devs went to in creating these quests, but my god do I find them mind numbingly boring. When I logged in the first day I was like ''I'm gonna do all these achievements and get that title on all 4 of my main characters!''

But after completing them on one character for 1 day I just found them incredibly tedious and a waste of my time. I'd much rather be running dungeons or something and have the chance of something dropping (like the skull plunders) while I'm actually doing something productive.

Then again you can't please everyone, I'm sure there are many who preferred the new life fesitval, but it just wasn't my cup of tea

Nothing is more boring than standing at a boss spawn point, or running between boss spawn points, trying to get plunder skulls.

That right there makes New Life Festival better that Witches Festival.

Okay?

But you didn't HAVE to camp bosses or run between their spawn points to get plunder skulls. You could just run pledges, level your undaunted, level some skills on an alt by doing dungeons and get plunder skulls passively in the process.

The New Life festival forces you to complete grindy quests with no other alternative. Witches festival gave players the option to run dungeons, play casually and explore delves, or camp bosses.

The fact that you were doing Witches Festival stuff as an aside to normal game play was cute, but it was also part of the reason that Witches Festival wasn't really a festival. That is another point in favor of New Life Festival, since we are comparing them to each other.

BomblePants

You don't have to participate if you don't want to...you certainly don't have to do the quests everyday....and it's free stuff if you do.

I much prefer not looking like a scally

BlackEar

KaiVox22 wrote: »

BlackEar wrote: »

the exp buff was a memento

Surely this is a positive? Like, you get a free memento after the event is over? As opposed to nothing from the new life fesitval and the added annoyance of having to travel to eastmarch every 2 hours during the event?

I don't understand how you listed this as a negative thing

@KaiVox22 I can understand why people would say it is a positive thing.
Personally I didn't like it, I liked that you got to keep the memento but the buff from it was lazy design in my opinion. Since all you had to do was summon it and click there really wasn't a point introducing it as a buff in the first place. They might as well had kept it a passive throughout the entirety of the event - no significant difference.

With the new life festival we had to port to the tent and drink from the keg. Less convenient sure, but you were taking part in the event, I felt like I was experiencing the event. That feeling was never there with the witches festival.

svartorn

I hated the skeleton polymorphs, but it was nice to be able to rebuff the exp buff any time.

Skinchanger motif is better than hollowjack.

newtinmpls

BlackEar wrote: »

Personally I didn't like it, I liked that you got to keep the memento but the buff from it was lazy design in my opinion. Since all you had to do was summon it and click there really wasn't a point introducing it as a buff in the first place.

I liked the "disguise as buff" for several reasons:

it mimic-ed the "dress up and trick or treat" idea

It then became a useful memento as the costume aspect of it was well done - great tails!

For me, it added to the theological underpinnings of the event - meant to do a thread about this at the time, but never did. Basically I saw the "Witches" as recruiting people to help take advantage of the "end of the year" to connect some of the life that is Tamriel to the realm of "death" (normal death, not vestige death) In an attempt to combat Molag Bal.

I loved it.

For the New Life festival, I don't have much time lately in-game, so I'm only doing 1-2 questies a day. So that keeps it fresh for me.

I like the interaction (mud balls, dancing with others) and the cute weird little items (anyone actually try the mints? he he).

I also like the fact that if you do the various plunges naked, your screen starts to freeze over.

Well done, ZoS people!

All that being said, I am hoping for two more reoccurring events. I've had my fingers crossed for a "Spring" or Easter thing for a while.

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Voxicity

lordrichter wrote: »

KaiVox22 wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

KaiVox22 wrote: »

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort that the devs went to in creating these quests, but my god do I find them mind numbingly boring. When I logged in the first day I was like ''I'm gonna do all these achievements and get that title on all 4 of my main characters!''

But after completing them on one character for 1 day I just found them incredibly tedious and a waste of my time. I'd much rather be running dungeons or something and have the chance of something dropping (like the skull plunders) while I'm actually doing something productive.

Then again you can't please everyone, I'm sure there are many who preferred the new life fesitval, but it just wasn't my cup of tea

Nothing is more boring than standing at a boss spawn point, or running between boss spawn points, trying to get plunder skulls.

That right there makes New Life Festival better that Witches Festival.

Okay?

But you didn't HAVE to camp bosses or run between their spawn points to get plunder skulls. You could just run pledges, level your undaunted, level some skills on an alt by doing dungeons and get plunder skulls passively in the process.

The New Life festival forces you to complete grindy quests with no other alternative. Witches festival gave players the option to run dungeons, play casually and explore delves, or camp bosses.

The fact that you were doing Witches Festival stuff as an aside to normal game play was cute, but it was also part of the reason that Witches Festival wasn't really a festival. That is another point in favor of New Life Festival, since we are comparing them to each other.

So it's more of an RP thing then? I can't relate since I'm not that much into the RPing but fair enough