3 minute timer on plunder skulls

Enslaved

Why is this even a thing? It makes life of ppl who have multiple alts miserable. I think this should be changed to either less than 3 minutes or removed completely.

Cpt_Teemo

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

Just remove the timers completely supposed to be a fun event not a waiting boring crap timer event

Cyn_v84

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

If they wanted people to get the achievement a little slower, they should've altered the requirements.
Not put in a timer. It's annoying.

ThePrinceOfBargains

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

It kept me doing something in the game the whole day yesterday and the rng for the hollowjack chapters isn’t ridiculously bad. I think it’s fine as is. Stop doing Dolmens or farming if that’s what you’re doing. I was about ready to bash my head over a wall doing that crap after 50 skulls (which was approximately 100-150 dolmens). Use it as incentive to gather skyshards from delves or complete other activities. Personally, I don’t bother doing achievements for multiple alts. It’s going to get tedious no matter what.

Hanzus

I don't care that much for this feature

A guy and myself in a group last night timed the drops for a couple hours, they ended up being just passed five minutes each time, NOT three .

EDIT: CRAP, should have picked this option: "just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill"

Enslaved

2 minutes would be better option for all

TheMaster wrote: »

It kept me doing something in the game the whole day yesterday and the rng for the hollowjack chapters isn’t ridiculously bad. I think it’s fine as is. Stop doing Dolmens or farming if that’s what you’re doing. I was about ready to bash my head over a wall doing that crap after 50 skulls (which was approximately 100-150 dolmens). Use it as incentive to gather skyshards from delves or complete other activities. Personally, I don’t bother doing achievements for multiple alts. It’s going to get tedious no matter what.

My main issue is not the place I grind for skulls, but the timer that is way too long. 3 minutes makes me lose too much time because once u get to next boss/dolmen/world boss there is already a group that starts the fight at once, resulting in no plunder skull for me. If timer was 2 minutes, I would be half finished on second alt already.

Grabmoore

I don't participate in festival at all this year

Farmed it last year. 10 maxed chars and CP 900++, so no need for exp either.

Whoever wants the skulls faster, just needs to farm nDSA or nMSA. No cooldown there.

generalmyrick

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

Just remove the timers completely supposed to be a fun event not a waiting boring crap timer event

i've been getting this feeling...hard to place...

who tells you not to shame, indulge, respect others, lets the bad (babies) of the family get away with everything? :-)

Elsonso

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

The timer is to mitigate abuse.

BrightOblivion

Hanzus wrote: »

A guy and myself in a group last night timed the drops for a couple hours, they ended up being just passed five minutes each time, NOT three .

EDIT: CRAP, should have picked this option: "just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill"

Delves, dolmens, public dungeons, and world bosses are 5 minutes. Regular 4 man dungeons and trials (and ostensibly MA and DSA) are 3 minutes.

Pledge boss, miniboss, final boss, it doesn't matter. 3 minutes = skull. Less than 3 minutes = no skull.

danno8

You guys should be happy there is no RNG involved for once.

Maybe ZoS will listen to your suggestion but introduce a 25% drop rate to compensate.

Careful what you wish for.

danno8

Enslaved wrote: »

TheMaster wrote: »

It kept me doing something in the game the whole day yesterday and the rng for the hollowjack chapters isn’t ridiculously bad. I think it’s fine as is. Stop doing Dolmens or farming if that’s what you’re doing. I was about ready to bash my head over a wall doing that crap after 50 skulls (which was approximately 100-150 dolmens). Use it as incentive to gather skyshards from delves or complete other activities. Personally, I don’t bother doing achievements for multiple alts. It’s going to get tedious no matter what.

My main issue is not the place I grind for skulls, but the timer that is way too long. 3 minutes makes me lose too much time because once u get to next boss/dolmen/world boss there is already a group that starts the fight at once, resulting in no plunder skull for me. If timer was 2 minutes, I would be half finished on second alt already.

Go use an instance instead. nVMSa, or any normal dungeon will present a nice private boss every 3 minutes with no competition or other players to mess you up.

Beardimus

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

Stop zerging like sheep and go to Maelstorm. It's like 30-50k XP per round, and a skull per boss. 9 in 30mins and productive on a few levels.

Linaleah

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

even in a lower dps group, normal dungeons often result in boss being pulled long before the timer runs out. better dps and you either miss out, or end up waiting. I ran couple of pledges with guildies yesterday and we literally had to stand in front of half the bosses and wait for timer to run out. do it in vet! you say. sure.. except... it takes substantially longer on vet, is not as relaxing and I wouldn't have been able to bring in my lvl 48 alt.

maelstrom arena is all nice and good, but people assume that everyone or most everyone can just do a round in 5 minutes. reality is... most cannot. yes, even on normal. so it ends up taking longer than even waiting for a delve boss to respawn.

at a minimum, I honestly think that timer should be removed from instanced content and skulls should be put inside the dolmen chest loot table rather then drop off the boss, since for a lot of people dolmen boss loot = no loot

Linaleah

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

danno8 wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

TheMaster wrote: »

It kept me doing something in the game the whole day yesterday and the rng for the hollowjack chapters isn’t ridiculously bad. I think it’s fine as is. Stop doing Dolmens or farming if that’s what you’re doing. I was about ready to bash my head over a wall doing that crap after 50 skulls (which was approximately 100-150 dolmens). Use it as incentive to gather skyshards from delves or complete other activities. Personally, I don’t bother doing achievements for multiple alts. It’s going to get tedious no matter what.

My main issue is not the place I grind for skulls, but the timer that is way too long. 3 minutes makes me lose too much time because once u get to next boss/dolmen/world boss there is already a group that starts the fight at once, resulting in no plunder skull for me. If timer was 2 minutes, I would be half finished on second alt already.

Go use an instance instead. nVMSa, or any normal dungeon will present a nice private boss every 3 minutes with no competition or other players to mess you up.

in my experience a lot if not all the normal dungeons present bosses more often then every 3 minutes, EVEN when you are on a quest.

Chelo

I don't care that much for this feature

I dont care, already did this last year... Thx god because I dont like events at all. The best one was the PvP week, they should do that one once a month.

Loc2262

1 minute sounds perfect

Best would be removing the cooldown, but if there has to be one, make it 1-2 minutes, at least in instanced dungeons. Three minutes is too long. When doing a non-DLC vet pledge, you get from boss to boss faster than three minutes, thus "wasting" every other one.

RizaHawkeye

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

I could be wrong, but I believe the timer was put on to discourage camping at bosses. Because a player has to inflict a certain amount of damage to get a skull (think about people who don't get drops with the huge dolmen groups), if you have a group camping at a boss, then they could prevent others from playing the game. Three minutes is just not that long. (Not that it stops camping at all.)

I played about four hours yesterday and I think I got around 30 plunder skulls just by - get this - playing the game. I mean, they drop almost everywhere. I was riding to another zone, saw a dolmen drop, ran over, got a plunder skull. Just another day in Tamriel.

Last night, a friend and I ran a group dungeon. We got 11 skulls just doing that for an hour. I have two of the masks. And it's just the first day.

IMO, there's no problem with the time.

Kiralyn2000

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

Beardimus wrote: »

Stop zerging like sheep and go to Maelstorm. It's like 30-50k XP per round, and a skull per boss. 9 in 30mins and productive on a few levels.

Only for the people who can clear Maelstrom (either "easily" or "at all")

generalmyrick

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

i LITERALLY just sat on a dolmen waiting for my timer to run out before i helped! :-)

kinda fun not doing work, leeching off others! ahaahahahaaa

thanks ZOS!!!!

redspecter23

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

The timer needs to be in place or else you could just go to Forgotten Crypts and get a skull every minute or less. There needs to be a cap on how many you can get per minute for balance reasons.

starkerealm

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

lordrichter wrote: »

The timer is to mitigate abuse.

Specifically, with an acomplice, there are a few places in the game where you can average a boss kill every 45 -60 seconds. Not much point to do this normally because the XP isn't that good, and the drops certainly aren't. But, with skulls for the taking? Yeah, that'd be an issue.

Linaleah

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

starkerealm wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

The timer is to mitigate abuse.

Specifically, with an acomplice, there are a few places in the game where you can average a boss kill every 45 -60 seconds. Not much point to do this normally because the XP isn't that good, and the drops certainly aren't. But, with skulls for the taking? Yeah, that'd be an issue.

why is this an issue exactly? and just to clarify, more then half the game is these places. most of the normal dungeons are like that, unless you are soloing them and maybe even then. just about every public dungeon is like that and you don't have to have an accomplice for that either. sitting there, waiting to pull the boss, becasue timer hasn't run out yet is NOT fun.

Deheart

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

This feels like a sort of no win situation for ZOS.

Honestly why are op and others having problems with cool down timers? Don't all bosses have cool down timers and isn't the plunder cool down exactly the same as standard boss drop cool down? I know that there have been times when I was farming an armor set and the bosses didn't drop anything because they respawned too fast.

Juju_beans

I'd rather wait 3 minutes for a guaranteed skull then a rng chance at getting a skull immediately.

It's really not so bad; like hanging out at dolmens. Play with your collections, play with emotes, RP to the group (someone did that yesterday as folks were hanging out in a delve).

Or surf the internet while waiting.

Huyen

just remove timers completely and let us get plunder skull for each boss kill

Its another attempt to counter bots and gold-sellers, wich is sadly affecting the normal players the most.

SirAndy

TheMaster wrote: »

Use it as incentive to gather skyshards from delves or complete other activities.

If you are leveling an alt, now is the time to hit up all the dungeons in all the zones, especially the ones with Skyshards in them. And it won't hurt to jump into any dolmens you come across in your travels.

DarcyMardin

It feels more like a 5 minute timer to me. But I haven’t tried a stop-watch.

sevomd69

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

I'm doing the daily guild quests and finishing all the bosses in the public dungeons I happen to be in... i just camp out at one dolmen for the fighters guild quest... I have 14 toons so once I'm done with all of them I had over 200 plunder skulls yesterday...

Saucy_Jack

I'm trying to figure this out. Presumably, the only reason to get all the witches festival achieves is to be able to buy the house. Said house ownership carries over between toons; even the runebox costumes carry over between toons; so what's the point of finishing all the witches achieves on multiple alts?

iiYuki

3 minutes is just fine, just play the game

3 minutes is fine if your farming dungeons or dark anchors.