Trial 5: Halls of Fabrication - Is your body ready?

Asardes

Nifty2g wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

Joining trial progression guilds is quite easy.

My eulogy

Well, some of them make you run a test, either a pure DPS test on a know target like Bloodspawn, or run DLC vet dungeons HM reasonably well, which was the case in the last guild I was in. The former wouldn't have been relevant for me since I main a tank. Those are quite low entry requirements. There are others that have no such requirements and are free to join but usually those are more casual, and stick to pledge dungeons and normal trials. They could be an intermediate step towards a true progression guild for less experienced players - get familiar with group roles, mechanics, farm some gear etc. And if you can't find online announcements - the chat in Craglorn and alliance capitals is full of such announcements on EU-PC - there's always the offline alternative. Even here on the forum there's still plenty of recruitment going on. Sometimes I'm tempted to join myself, but I stick to my trade guilds now, as I don't really have time for a regular pledge an trial schedule ATM due to RL obligations.

mb10

"DPS tests and knowing certain people or you're not allowed to play."

Elitists are licking their dry lips

Cinbri

The name of Trial along with old datamining leading to conclusion that beside ordinary dwemer automatons enemeis we will also fight Fabricants. Seems like dro-m'athra lore was expanded in MoL, fabricants lore maybe expanded too and we will see more types of those creatures.

Faulgor

Vaoh wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

I haven't even done MoL. Or any vet trial really.
It's just too demanding for my lackluster builds.

Too bad I'll probably be missing out on this one, I really like the Dwemer and Sotha Sil.

You could still just run it on Normal.

Same story+trial but the actual fighting is dramatically easier and most battle mechanics ignorable.

Oh, if it's the same otherwise I might give that a try, thanks!

Contraptions wrote: »

If Halls of Fabrication is part of the Clockwork City, I'm sure Sotha Sil won't like us just randomly smashing the place up. We'll have to see what the story is this time though.

According to a German preview I read, Daedra are trying to infiltrate Tamriel through the Clockwork City. Possibly Sotha Sil welcomes our help in that matter. It also means there will be other enemies besides automatons.

OrphanHelgen

mb10 wrote: »

"DPS tests and knowing certain people or you're not allowed to play."

Elitists are licking their dry lips

U mad because good players doesnt want to carry bad players with no interest of getting dps? If its so easy to bring everyone to hardest content in the game without some testing, then create a guild yourself and see how it goes. I give you one month of whiping before you understand.

NewBlacksmurf

I'm ready for normal

But can we all agree that this trial needs to drop a crap ton of dwermer style items

Just saying even tho new motif will be in there. The trash loot

SolarCat02

I am really looking forward to this! I remember my interest when Maw of Lorkhaj was first released, and finishing it on Normal scaled to VR16 felt so far out of reach.

Now with this one, I should be able to get a good group together to try it out shortly after release, where we can all experience it for the first time together.

Faulgor wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

I haven't even done MoL. Or any vet trial really.
It's just too demanding for my lackluster builds.

Too bad I'll probably be missing out on this one, I really like the Dwemer and Sotha Sil.

You could still just run it on Normal.

Same story+trial but the actual fighting is dramatically easier and most battle mechanics ignorable.

Oh, if it's the same otherwise I might give that a try, thanks!

Contraptions wrote: »

If Halls of Fabrication is part of the Clockwork City, I'm sure Sotha Sil won't like us just randomly smashing the place up. We'll have to see what the story is this time though.

According to a German preview I read, Daedra are trying to infiltrate Tamriel through the Clockwork City. Possibly Sotha Sil welcomes our help in that matter. It also means there will be other enemies besides automatons.

@Faulgor
Normal has the same mobs and bosses, same story line and dialog, same quest and quest rewards (coffer once a week, gold afterwards until a week later). You can also only do Hardmode or get a score on the veteran version.

The difference is similar to that between normal and veteran dungeons. Veteran hits harder, with higher health. The difference between the scaling up of Trials, though, is that new mechanics are added. For example on veteran Sanctum Ophidia for the first boss holes also open up in the floor for four people to fight a miniboss; this does not happen in the normal version.

Finishing on Normal for any Trial released so far will also give you the basic achievement with the dye color for that Trial. If you want the title for that Trial or the achievements and dyes linked to speed runs and weeklies, though, you need to do Veteran.

Izaki

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE

I bet we'll see a few engine guardians and toilet mode centurions.

RazorCaltrops

I made half of our core group to pre-order for this.

Hype level is immeasurable.

Wifeaggro13

mb10 wrote: »

"DPS tests and knowing certain people or you're not allowed to play."

Elitists are licking their dry lips

Truthfully Elitists kind of laugh at the DPS meta of eso. honestly they wish there was more to the dynamics of group content in this game. Many of them came from true MMO's where roles andteam cordination made fights far more fun and dynamic.

Vaoh

RazorCaltrops wrote: »

I made half of our core group to pre-order for this.

Hype level is immeasurable.

^^^

Abeille

Vaoh wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't have any friends to do trials with me anymore, they left the game last November

ouch..... guess you'll have to solo them but for real sorry to hear that. If you were on PS4 I'd totally help you out.

Look for some nice guilds that run trials. If you want to run vHoF (gonna see that abbreviation a lot starting June 6th!) then it's probably going to be really tough to find a group. nHoF should not be too hard to group for though. Gl!

I'll solo it with my MURDER BEAR

IcyDeadPeople

Will we find Yagrum Bagarn in here?

Abeille

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

Will we find Yagrum Bagarn in here?

That would make me a happy mer.

Vaoh

Abeille wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't have any friends to do trials with me anymore, they left the game last November

ouch..... guess you'll have to solo them but for real sorry to hear that. If you were on PS4 I'd totally help you out.

Look for some nice guilds that run trials. If you want to run vHoF (gonna see that abbreviation a lot starting June 6th!) then it's probably going to be really tough to find a group. nHoF should not be too hard to group for though. Gl!

I'll solo it with my MURDER BEAR

10/10 cannot unsee. Will never view the Warden's War Bear the same

lonewolf26

My body is ready.

Asardes

Abeille wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't have any friends to do trials with me anymore, they left the game last November

ouch..... guess you'll have to solo them but for real sorry to hear that. If you were on PS4 I'd totally help you out.

Look for some nice guilds that run trials. If you want to run vHoF (gonna see that abbreviation a lot starting June 6th!) then it's probably going to be really tough to find a group. nHoF should not be too hard to group for though. Gl!

I'll solo it with my MURDER BEAR

That spoiler totally ruins it. It's the lunar phases again, isn't it?

Egonieser

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Wollust

Finally a reason to do some PvE again

Silver_Strider

I'll wait to see if the gear is worth anything before getting hyped up.

I don't really care about progression much, ESO is too easy to make such things worth much and unique Skin/Pet/etc doesn't matter to me as it has no practical utility as a purely cosmetic item. I care for practicality and functionality (Fashionable is a plus) over some shallow sense of superiority for completing a piece of content.

Miss_Morphine

So. Much. Hype.

Will be pretty cool to see young Divayth Fyr too.

Ahzek

Vaoh wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

Morrowind also introduces a new Trial and PvP mode for you to check out. Enter the Telvanni tower of Tel Fyr with your strongest allies to battle your way through the Halls of Fabrication, and explore a part of the Clockwork City in a challenging new 12-player Trial. Or, you can head to the Ashlands to take on fellow players in exciting 4v4v4 battles in arena-like environments. These highly competitive fast-paced matches will feature your choice in a variety of game types across three different maps.

Link

Together, Naryu and the Warden put an end to the treacherous Grandmaster, fulfilling her contract. But their battle is far from over – as we leave Naryu and the Warden, they prepare to face-off against an entirely different kind of foe: a Dwarven Colossus. You'll have your chance to battle one of these hulking constructs in the Halls of Fabrication, a new Trial coming with ESO: Morrowind.

Link

Actually the wording of the first quote a bit confusing. It seems that they are talking about 2 pieces of content actually. Lore wise, Tel Fyr is far away from Clockwork City, which is supposed to be more or less under Mournhold. Is it possible that Tel Fyr is in fact a separate, 4 man dungeon?

Ahh this makes more sense now! I'd say that we begin our trial at Tel Fyr, and probably get transported to Clockwork City similar to how we did it in TESIII: Morrowind. Explains how we experience a small part of Clockwork City in this trial and how it is not solely based there. (mentioned on ESO Live by Rich)

I would assume that Tel Fyr probably acts as the starting hub for the trial similary to the first rooms of AA, SO and HRC or the tent area outside of the actual temple in MoL.
Speculating further that means Divyath will probably be the one teleporting us to CWC (cracked wood cave Kappa ).

The reason i dont think we will do actual fighting in Tel Fyr is because the tower actually is awfully small, at least in morrowind. However we might have to fight something in the caves below Tel Fyr, considering we have no idea what would be down there at htis time, since the corpus disease doesnt ravage Vvardenfell yet.

Miss_Morphine

Ahzek wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

Morrowind also introduces a new Trial and PvP mode for you to check out. Enter the Telvanni tower of Tel Fyr with your strongest allies to battle your way through the Halls of Fabrication, and explore a part of the Clockwork City in a challenging new 12-player Trial. Or, you can head to the Ashlands to take on fellow players in exciting 4v4v4 battles in arena-like environments. These highly competitive fast-paced matches will feature your choice in a variety of game types across three different maps.

Link

Together, Naryu and the Warden put an end to the treacherous Grandmaster, fulfilling her contract. But their battle is far from over – as we leave Naryu and the Warden, they prepare to face-off against an entirely different kind of foe: a Dwarven Colossus. You'll have your chance to battle one of these hulking constructs in the Halls of Fabrication, a new Trial coming with ESO: Morrowind.

Link

Actually the wording of the first quote a bit confusing. It seems that they are talking about 2 pieces of content actually. Lore wise, Tel Fyr is far away from Clockwork City, which is supposed to be more or less under Mournhold. Is it possible that Tel Fyr is in fact a separate, 4 man dungeon?

Ahh this makes more sense now! I'd say that we begin our trial at Tel Fyr, and probably get transported to Clockwork City similar to how we did it in TESIII: Morrowind. Explains how we experience a small part of Clockwork City in this trial and how it is not solely based there. (mentioned on ESO Live by Rich)

I would assume that Tel Fyr probably acts as the starting hub for the trial similary to the first rooms of AA, SO and HRC or the tent area outside of the actual temple in MoL.
Speculating further that means Divyath will probably be the one teleporting us to CWC (cracked wood cave Kappa ).

The reason i dont think we will do actual fighting in Tel Fyr is because the tower actually is awfully small, at least in morrowind. However we might have to fight something in the caves below Tel Fyr, considering we have no idea what would be down there at htis time, since the corpus disease doesnt ravage Vvardenfell yet.

Most likely. This is from a German article:

This is a whole city full of clockworks and steam lines, in which there are nasty machines on our lives. In spite of all the dangers, we have to go into the clockwork hell, because the Daedra demons are planning to invade the world of Tamriel over Clockwork City . We must close this path before it is too late. Cool detail: Our client is a mage called Divayth Fyr, who was not as powerful as later in The Elder Scrolls 3. According to the developers, the new raid in the clockwork city is the so far the most severe instance of this kind in ESO.

Edit: link for reference
http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/the-elder-scrolls-online-one-tamriel/artikel/the_elder_scrolls_online_morrowind,44578,3308597.html

Peekachu99

I would like to see them add NORMAL trials back to the activity finder. Participation in large scale PVE is historically low in the genre and say what you will about "raid finders" and their like but they DO increase participation and interest in skillful PVE encounters (WoW/ FFXIV).

I say add a normal trials and a pledge with loot different than standard pledges that can be completed weekly.

P.S. Trials were in the original activity finder before the removal of vet ranks--for those who don't remember.

Vaoh

Miss_Morphine wrote: »

Ahzek wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

Morrowind also introduces a new Trial and PvP mode for you to check out. Enter the Telvanni tower of Tel Fyr with your strongest allies to battle your way through the Halls of Fabrication, and explore a part of the Clockwork City in a challenging new 12-player Trial. Or, you can head to the Ashlands to take on fellow players in exciting 4v4v4 battles in arena-like environments. These highly competitive fast-paced matches will feature your choice in a variety of game types across three different maps.

Link

Together, Naryu and the Warden put an end to the treacherous Grandmaster, fulfilling her contract. But their battle is far from over – as we leave Naryu and the Warden, they prepare to face-off against an entirely different kind of foe: a Dwarven Colossus. You'll have your chance to battle one of these hulking constructs in the Halls of Fabrication, a new Trial coming with ESO: Morrowind.

Link

Actually the wording of the first quote a bit confusing. It seems that they are talking about 2 pieces of content actually. Lore wise, Tel Fyr is far away from Clockwork City, which is supposed to be more or less under Mournhold. Is it possible that Tel Fyr is in fact a separate, 4 man dungeon?

Ahh this makes more sense now! I'd say that we begin our trial at Tel Fyr, and probably get transported to Clockwork City similar to how we did it in TESIII: Morrowind. Explains how we experience a small part of Clockwork City in this trial and how it is not solely based there. (mentioned on ESO Live by Rich)

I would assume that Tel Fyr probably acts as the starting hub for the trial similary to the first rooms of AA, SO and HRC or the tent area outside of the actual temple in MoL.
Speculating further that means Divyath will probably be the one teleporting us to CWC (cracked wood cave Kappa ).

The reason i dont think we will do actual fighting in Tel Fyr is because the tower actually is awfully small, at least in morrowind. However we might have to fight something in the caves below Tel Fyr, considering we have no idea what would be down there at htis time, since the corpus disease doesnt ravage Vvardenfell yet.

Most likely. This is from a German article:

This is a whole city full of clockworks and steam lines, in which there are nasty machines on our lives. In spite of all the dangers, we have to go into the clockwork hell, because the Daedra demons are planning to invade the world of Tamriel over Clockwork City . We must close this path before it is too late. Cool detail: Our client is a mage called Divayth Fyr, who was not as powerful as later in The Elder Scrolls 3. According to the developers, the new raid in the clockwork city is the so far the most severe instance of this kind in ESO.

Edit: link for reference
http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/the-elder-scrolls-online-one-tamriel/artikel/the_elder_scrolls_online_morrowind,44578,3308597.html

Wow ty for that link! I see exactly where the Devs are going with this trial now. Gonna be very cool

clocksstoppe

If they don't add trials to the group finder I'm not buying the new expansion, that's for sure.

Vaoh

Silver_Strider wrote: »

I'll wait to see if the gear is worth anything before getting hyped up.

I don't really care about progression much, ESO is too easy to make such things worth much and unique Skin/Pet/etc doesn't matter to me as it has no practical utility as a purely cosmetic item. I care for practicality and functionality (Fashionable is a plus) over some shallow sense of superiority for completing a piece of content.

Honestly if the gear all sucks (and it won't - at least 1-2 sets will be great) and the cosmetic reward isn't worth it I'll still run this trial a ton. Trials are a lot of fun! Not everyone feels they are "superior" that they can run content others cannot. Trials are fun for a lot of people.

FLuFFyxMuFFiN

Vaoh wrote: »

Silver_Strider wrote: »

I'll wait to see if the gear is worth anything before getting hyped up.

I don't really care about progression much, ESO is too easy to make such things worth much and unique Skin/Pet/etc doesn't matter to me as it has no practical utility as a purely cosmetic item. I care for practicality and functionality (Fashionable is a plus) over some shallow sense of superiority for completing a piece of content.

Honestly if the gear all sucks (and it won't - at least 1-2 sets will be great) and the cosmetic reward isn't worth it I'll still run this trial a ton. Trials are a lot of fun! Not everyone feels they are "superior" that they can run content others cannot. Trials are fun for a lot of people.

Well said. I personally am not at the point where I can compete in HM trials but I am working hard on it right now. It is not so I can feel superior to others but so I can feel a sense of accomplishment that I completed something as hard as vMoL. I have a feeling it will feel a lot similar to the sense of accomplishment I felt when I first completed vMA which was amazing.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

I hope to see a Fabricant boss of some kind.

Vaoh

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

I hope to see a Fabricant boss of some kind.

Totally agree. I can only imagine how cool ZOS will make Fabricants or Imperfects look in ESO.

For those who did not play Morrowind, these are what they looked like:


Hulking Fabricant:


Verminous Fabricant:


Imperfect:


Fabricants are practically guaranteed to be in this trial. It's called the Halls of Fabrication, after all.

Imperfects guard Sotha Sil's laboratories. Since we are in the Clockwork City, I'd be surprised if we did not encounter them as well.