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Midyear Mayhem Review : The Good, The Bad, and The Screenshots
The Good
- Double AP is always correct
- Reward boxes for quests and from reward mail was an extra, unexpected, but delightful bonus
- All that gold jewelry
- Encouraged, at least to an extent, participation in all types of PvP except dueling
- Trouble like logon issues and server crashes were fixed relatively promptly
- New servers were apparently already prepped to launch in case the pop was too high?? Excellent move, though highly unexpected. Said servers were also launched in a timely manner
- The laurels from the achievement are GORGEOUS (except apparently on Argonians I hear, oops)
- Great little bits of lore for the event, and it's nice to have my own collection of The Song of Pelinal!
- No annoyingly-protracted followup to get the rewards for the event. Perfect delivery.
- THE SCROLL BUFF. Absolutely flawless implementation on that one. Can be used at any time, even while mounted, even in PvP, even while you already have the buff active, and it just tops off the timer without any more hassle and without being removed from your inventory. It could not have been done better.
The Bad
- Lag and disconnects are always incorrect
- No event extension despite broken achievements and the aforementioned disconnects and long queues
- Mayhem crowns were so radically different on Khajiit compared to human and elf offerings that they straight up weren't worth getting
- Can't dye laurels despite them being hats
- The event brought out the worst in people and also brought out the worst people. Problem behavior, unsportly conduct, intentional trolling, etc. were all at peak levels I truly haven't seen in years. Probably nothing you can do about it, but it's still a bad element of the event.
- There didn't seem to be any available communication regarding which PvP servers would be best for which people. Poor little nubmunsters were filing into the more competitive campaigns, getting slaughtered in droves and clogging the queues. At least at first.
- The commitment to offering nearly-useless dye stamps and to not communicating anything about it despite frequent criticism is honestly a more breathtaking display of endurance than anything I could muster for the event itself.
- Not much in the way of optional followup lore and vignettes for the event. I heard some lady in a dress (that I wore better) giving a speech about spilling the blood of elves, there were some extra NPCs I could talk to, but nothing seemed to change day to day like with the Jester festival. What was there was great, but it seemed like the thinnest pretense.
Also lots of great screenshot opportunities.
EDIT : upon further review and going through my 10-million AP's worth of Rewards For The Worthy, I've also decided that another serious The Bad is how many gosh darn forward camps I got and how they now clog up my inventory. You know those can't be put into guild banks, right??
Edited by Recremen on August 1, 2017 3:47AM Men'Do PC NA AD Khajiit
Grand High Illustrious Mid-Tier PvP/PvE Bussmunster