Jester's Festival is Boring!

Ep1kMalware

Chrysa1is wrote: »

Started doing this to see what the crack was. And all I'm doing is running around making fireworks happen. Just checked out the ''Seriously Silly' rewards from the boxes and well, at least they wasn't lying about them being silly.

This holiday event isn't worth the time. I've tried it, and unfortunately, I find it very boring.

The jester personality is good though Not going to buy it though. Z0$ and all that.

Meh. It's just an ingame activity to spice things up and let people get excited over. Personally I'm going to largely spend the time doing vma/writs because 1writs are so ploxy, it's like xmas morning. 2I get so bored if I'm not raiding anything. But to each their own. XD

I'll probably check it out during the weekend when things get laggy.

Glass

What to do with the banners is the problem

Acrolas

Oakmontowls_ESO wrote: »

Acrolas wrote: »

Dubious Camoran Throne is the stamina equivalent of Witchmother's Potent Brew.

If anyone cares five months later...

But it's not a drink so I doubt they care. (people were wanting to use it with the bone pirates tatters set)

Care to re-evaluate?

Thestephenmcraeub17_ESO

Just don't participate then, no one is making you do Jester's Festival quests

Taleof2Cities

Molydeus wrote: »

The double XP bonus is the only thing worth it. The rest is boring. The jokes are stale, the dailies lame.

Chrysa1is wrote: »

That's why it is free, because it is a crap event lol. If it wasn't crap they'd make you pay.

Annalyse wrote: »

I tried it on PTS, was annoyed by the quests and unimpressed by the rewards, so I'm not even bothering now. New Life's quests got pretty annoying also but at least the rewards felt worth it for awhile.

LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE'S SPARKLING DAZZLERS FIZZLED OUT ...

ZiRM

I get free stuff... I don't care how boring it is.

Lake

It's my first event on ESO and I agree. It's kind of stale. But it's on par with other pointless filler events on other MMOs.

djdc1234

What where your expectations for it ?

IronCrystal

You guys who just say "it's free why are you complaining."

They have been putting on events for the last few months and this is by far the worst of them all.

They have not been putting out any new content for us to run at all.

People are just grasping for new things to do and this event is a pretty big letdown.

In addition, the rewards for this are absolutely terrible. The only runebox is the flower thrower, which in my opinion is way worse than a fireworks memento would have been. There are no costumes (not runebox costumes that is, we get crown ones though of course). There is no new motif with pages to collect, which is a major letdown for me.

In addition, there is a furniture piece this banner, which I thought was cool at first, but guess what. There is an insanely high drop rate on them, and the best part is they are f**** bind on pickup, which means we can't even give them away, and since my inventory is so full of them I just have to destroy them.

There are way fewer things to do in terms of questing. Pretty much most of my guild did the quests the first hour or two it came out and realized there is nothing more in this event.

Rohamad_Ali

You're boring . Someone needs a flower halo ..

Liofa

Well , to be honest , I don't care about events other than the achievement points they give . BUT whoever did the Jester personality , I am talking to you . Thank you so much , I love your work . This is one of the best things in the game for me . When I first bought it , I couldn't stop laughing for hours . Literally , my throat started to hurt from laughing . Drunk personality was my favourite but this is just something else . After buying it , I activated and saw the idle . I was like ''not bad'' . Then I started running ... I would say you made my day but I will use this personality for so long and I am sure it will make me laugh each time I take a step . Again , thank you so much .

Note : Do not toggle walk with this personality . You may hurt yourself while laughing . Personally , I hit my little toe to my desk while getting back from kitchen because I was laughing and lost my balance ^^

GreenhaloX

Yes, yes. If it was more exciting and very immersing, it wouldn't have been free. Ha ha. Double XP for fast leveling new or lower level toon. That is what a festival is really for!

Loc2262

Evergnar wrote: »

It's by far the weakest of the events so far but wouldn't say it's bad. Just not much to it. At least it's another week of double XP.

I tend to agree here.

It's nice and funny, but I'm a bit disappointed that the three quests you get seems to be all there is. I was hoping that it'd be three randomly chosen from a larger pool, each day. Like the 9 different things we had for New Life.

Uriel_Nocturne

I'm not even doing anything that has to do with "Festival Activities".

I'm using the double XP pie, but other than that I'm just running around dungeon delving, Dolmen farming, and going through my normal motions.

And I really feel no need to grind out for the title of "Royal Jester"...

There's just nothing exciting about this festival.

olsborg

I was thinking "ooo new consumables" but unfortunately they made them all food, like the last festival, so drinkbuilds dont get any love (with bone pirate) just as I tought, so I didnt bother too much with the event.

DeadlyRecluse

1. New housing item, when comparable items are pretty pricy (okay, it isn't a great item but whatever)
2. 1, maybe 2 good recipes
3. A zero-RNG hat (as opposed to a runebox reward) you can get in about 15 minutes.
4. No motif to grind out

Eh, I'm pretty happy with this event. Sure, it feels like you get it wrapped up pretty quick, but to be honest I like a quick little holiday event more than killing delve bosses over and over again for hours while dressed as a skeleton.

Nahtal

Love the festival, Good job ZOS!

Remag_Div

Nestor wrote: »

I am just in it for the Double XP. Give me some pie and I am happy.

That's pretty much all these "events" are good for.

nexxus_ESO

The Jester personality... omg... whoever is responsible for this deserves a big hug and a plate of cookies. I bust up laughing anytime someone runs past me with this. It's clear that a lot of work and thought went into this. I didn't think anything was ever going to top the hilarity of the drunk personality.

Personally speaking, I'm grateful there isn't yet another motif to have to spend hours on end farming for. Don't get me wrong, I love the event motifs because the drop rate on them is drastic change of pace from literally every other item drop in game, except maybe lock picks and 0 value vendor trash, but those are better left to longer events with more substance. I don't want a new motif even single event.

The banner drop rate is stupidly high. There's no reason for the banners to be bind on pickup, either. I ran all 5 of my accounts though the event yesterday, in part because all I was getting were banners, and now I have 12 of the stupid things and can't do anything with the excess but destroy them. They're 0 value vendor trash, to add insult to injury; can't even sell them for the usual measly 10 gold. Even during short, silly, for-funnies events, we can't get a break from the game's stinginess and ridiculous RNG.

I'm very glad they listened when we complained about New Life festival and are now spreading quest givers out into each alliance. This eased a lot of the day one congestion. I'm also glad they went back to giving out XP mementos, but it still lacks any sort of visual indicator when the buff wears off. (I'm hoping that New Life this year, will see two more tents with "Brenda," and some sort of flask or mug memento that we can drink from wherever we are.)

This is a short event, it's got the appropriate amount of content and drops for the amount of time it will be running. You can zip through the dailies if you're inclined, or grab your free XP pie and be done with it. I am a little disappointed we don't have a vendor off to the side like we did with New Life, that sells extra consumables with neat effects, and that the Dazzlers aren't a memento, but I'll live. I've seen a lot of people getting dressed up for the event while running quests, which is cool and helps spread the festival vibe around to other areas.

CardboardedBox

One year at one of my old jobs, we got a Christmas bonus on our paychecks. It was an ok amount, but quite a few people complained that it was too small for them. My employer decided to take note of everyone who said that.

Next year came around. We got our Christmas bonus checks again. Well, I should say, some of us did. Every person who complained the previous year, got nothing.


There's a lesson to learn here.

Mitoice

I still miss the halloween event... that was really cool, any boss drops a box with cool stuff

jlboozer

I thought it was fun, it's not meant to be endgame. Just a break from the usual....some people will complain about anything. Do you at least appreciate the double XP?

Molydeus

CardboardedBox wrote: »

One year at one of my old jobs, we got a Christmas bonus on our paychecks. It was an ok amount, but quite a few people complained that it was too small for them. My employer decided to take note of everyone who said that.

Next year came around. We got our Christmas bonus checks again. Well, I should say, some of us did. Every person who complained the previous year, got nothing.


There's a lesson to learn here.

Sounds like your employer was petty and immature, and couldn't handle criticism.

IronCrystal

CardboardedBox wrote: »

One year at one of my old jobs, we got a Christmas bonus on our paychecks. It was an ok amount, but quite a few people complained that it was too small for them. My employer decided to take note of everyone who said that.

Next year came around. We got our Christmas bonus checks again. Well, I should say, some of us did. Every person who complained the previous year, got nothing.


There's a lesson to learn here.

This literally does not apply to a game where we are the customers, not the employers. We are paying ZOS for content, not the other way around.

CardboardedBox

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This literally does not apply to a game where we are the customers, not the employers. We are paying ZOS for content, not the other way around.[/quote]

I'm implying something's better than nothing.

FuriousStar

You're bored, I get it. But you could be pimpin'



*Edited: Not sure if it's ok to promote pimping Lusty Argonian Maids..

bloodthirstyvampire

Chrysa1is wrote: »

Started doing this to see what the crack was. And all I'm doing is running around making fireworks happen. Just checked out the ''Seriously Silly' rewards from the boxes and well, at least they wasn't lying about them being silly.

This holiday event isn't worth the time. I've tried it, and unfortunately, I find it very boring.

The jester personality is good though Not going to buy it though. Z0$ and all that.

Read the purple recipes stam regen more stam more health 2 hours big increase

bloodthirstyvampire

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Evergnar wrote: »

It's by far the weakest of the events so far but wouldn't say it's bad. Just not much to it. At least it's another week of double XP.

Pretty much this for me. The dialog is amusing but the quests themselves...they're tedious. (Also, the Butcher spotting me while I'm invisible? Really?)

I think the biggest drawback for me is that I'm not learning anything new about Tamriel. (Yes, it's not that kind of holiday. I don't care; I'm a lore warrior and that's what I feed off of.) I'll probably make use of the XP for my bank alts, but this one is already ranks below the previous Festivals as far as enjoyment in my mind.

So did you find a way to make the pig invisible

zaria

G33KPodBlue wrote: »

IronCrystal wrote: »

G33KPodBlue wrote: »

I am a new player that has recently hit a wall as far as getting smeared by everything I run into. Level 31. It may be my build or items... anyway... This week has been 3 days of getting really frustrated about how badly I am doing. Then this festival came along. I know it isn't full of great challenge or reward. But today is the first day this week I have really enjoyed playing.

I didn't die. I got to visit places I had not been yet and collect the wayshrines so I can return. Got some silly banners and laughed at some fireworks. Went up two levels today. I get what everyone is saying, and maybe I didn't know what to expect as this is my first "event". I am enjoying it. Maybe that's a newbie thing.

Since the difficulty of everything is generally the same as you level, it may be your gear is simply underleveled. I would recommend using current level gear.

Thanks for the response. Not that I should get into it here as it isn't the topic of the thread. I actually do have a pretty good handle on the armor thing. Almost everything is current level with buffs. If there is a particular place for help with that I would greatly appreciate that.

Two dvelves is all combat content in the quests, they would be easy as its lots of players around.
If you have problems ask at the player helping player section, my guess is some error in build like using wrong armor type, around level 30 an rotation also start to be required, place damage over time effects first.

GreenhaloX

Yes, yes.. much like any other festivals, but double XP and faster toon and skillset leveling (especially creating a new toon)!!