New life festival quest mechanics

dwayne.ramsey_ESO · December 2017

I did the New Life festival quest where you throw mudballs at other NPC and players. I was following the prompts that told me to throw a mudball, and one of the NPC's happened to be a guard. The odd thing was that he did not attack me, but when I got close to another guard, my character was immediately attacked and killed. I talked to support about it since I feel it is a faulty game mechanic, and they are basically telling me it's my fault. Why tell me to throw a mudball at a guard if there is going to be a penalty for doing so? Granted, I understand that if I attack a guard purposely, then I expect to be attacked, but in this case I just assumed it was part of the quest. Am I wrong?

kargen27 · December 2017

Chalk it up to lesson learned. Not really worth worrying about.

newtinmpls · December 2017

Apparently you don't have "don't attack innocents" enabled. I literally can't throw at a guard.

emilyhyoyeon · December 2017

newtinmpls wrote: »

Apparently you don't have "don't attack innocents" enabled. I literally can't throw at a guard.

that also makes it so that you can't throw at citizen NPCs. at least it didn't let me

Taleof2Cities · December 2017

SisterGoat · December 2017

Weird, when I mud balled a guard, I merely got a bounty for it.

SydneyGrey · December 2017

Got a bounty doing that once. He didn't attack me, though.
Then after that, I made a game out of seeing if I could tag other players who were near guards, without actually hitting the guards. LOL.

Guards have no sense of humor.

phairdon · December 2017

I've thrown mud balls at guards. Got a bounty of 46 gold for CP160 chars, 23 gold for under level 50 chars. Of course we also get bounties for throwing mud balls at the queen & 2 kings. Not once did a guard attack me for having a bounty from the new life festival.
There are other bugs with the new life festival. One char today was sent to do the same quests twice, while missing out on others.
Not getting the achievements for completing the lock picking & signal fire run within the time limit.
Using the napkin & belching at another player. Having to do it twice, even though when completed for the first time, a message comes up on screen telling you to return to Breda.
Not getting the achievement for dancing with other players while do lava foot stomp.

Slick_007 · December 2017

SisterGoat wrote: »

Weird, when I mud balled a guard, I merely got a bounty for it.

this is all i got for mudballing a guard too. they will not kill you on sight for it. hell, even mudballing the queen gets you a higher bounty, but still no kill on sight order

altemriel · December 2017

dwayne.ramsey_ESO wrote: »

I did the New Life festival quest where you throw mudballs at other NPC and players. I was following the prompts that told me to throw a mudball, and one of the NPC's happened to be a guard. The odd thing was that he did not attack me, but when I got close to another guard, my character was immediately attacked and killed. I talked to support about it since I feel it is a faulty game mechanic, and they are basically telling me it's my fault. Why tell me to throw a mudball at a guard if there is going to be a penalty for doing so? Granted, I understand that if I attack a guard purposely, then I expect to be attacked, but in this case I just assumed it was part of the quest. Am I wrong?

yes, it is probably a bug

Minyassa · December 2017

I am guessing that you splattered one guard with the mudball you hit the other with and got a double bounty, hence the insta-attack? Or maybe you accidentally hit something when you got stopped that made them think you were fleeing. But yeah, it is sucky that guards have no sense of humor. If you only hit other NPCs you don't get a bounty, it's *just* guards.