Has the Anniversary Event burnt you out?

WhoSlappedThePie

Yeah definitely have done, yesterday was awful, did a couple of characters quests but usually I do 3/4... got to my 3rd character and just could NOT be bothered with it... ugh... too many quests. Good event but jesus it's hard to keep on top of.

Runefang

No

No, I did ~150 cyrodiil dailies every day for a few days and then I slowed down. I do 10 dailies a day now at most, sometimes I don't do any at all.

Edit: I also have the whole Worm Cult style so I don't have to grind for more.

Mitrenga

Yes

Honestly, yes. I feel less and less inclined to log in. It felt like I am playing those grind fest Korean MMOs.

phileunderx2

Yes and no. I'm kinda using this grind to prepare for the next grind that is coming up when Summerset drops. I have to unlock the ashlander dailies on all of my characters to farm jewelry next patch and I might as well do it now .

Linaleah

Yes

I have completely ran out of space. on one hand, i want to keep going, just a few more days, think of all the stuff i'll have to sell for the rest of the year, but on the other hand just.... can't. no more. so I'm switching back to my normal crafting writ rotation for the last few days of the anniversary. at least i did get my wormcult collection completed so there is no longer any sense of urgency left.

edited to add. I tend to play more then one game at once regardless. during this event, it was pretty much ESO and only ESO. i miss playing other games, and that kinda cleared my mind enough to stop this crafting madness :P

Princess_Ciri

Yes

i am gonna be so happy when the event is over and i no longer feel compelled to do writs on 10 characters. I don't even do cyro dailies anymore.

Though I think if the PTS wasn't up atm I would have more free time on live so it wouldn't be so bad.

Kihamai

No

Nah. Maybe just burnt out on crafting writs, but they've actually inspired me to improve all of my character's crafting professions. Got five of my character's clothing/blacksmithing/woodworking up to 50 with all 10 skill points in the top passive. Maximize my chances of more master writs while I'm actively doing these crafting writs daily.

Takes some time to get the skill points, but I need to collect those anyway.

Gythral

No

Probably not going to do all the crafting writs for a bit after the event ends, and there are several dailies I'll retire, but I have been trying to mix up what I do after the writs to stop burn-out

Bonzodog01

No

With two XP events back to back, there is going to be a LOT of burnt out people. As it is, to prevent this, I stuck to doing just 16 daily crafting writs over my 4 chars on my account.

I suspect the game is going to be considerably quieter next week as people take a breather from it all and some will probably not log back in until summerset goes live.

dan958

No

I don't really do enough dailies to get burnt out. Probably about 15 a day (including all crafting writs).

Vaoh

Yes

Yup, but that’s not to say I didn’t like the event or the time extension. I think this event was awesome.

It’s just that I’ve been doing writs on 9 chars for almost every day of the event. Will be glad when it’s over, because atm I feel it’s be a huge waste not to keep doing writs.

CelestialSlayer

No

I must have done less than 20 dailies and got two worm cult motifs so I am not stressing out. The way i figured it the more you do in a day the less your chances are so i havent gone out of my way to do them. If i am in the crafting zone i do my writs, i i am in Hews bane I will do a couple of dailies there, but i am not running around trying to max them out like a crazy person

swirve

Its trashed the economy with oversupply and those who made the most were the resellers.

It was a massive boost to stock for the resellers, especially where noobs were selling things like corn flower for 50 pp and worm motifs for 2 to 10k

Titansteele

Yes

I replied yes but this is a true example of people never being happy

There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing" and I am bored of the free stuff as where I could just stop doing dailies I just can`t!

Armatesz

Yes

I've been doing 120+ dailies everyday except yesterday. Only gotten 4 wormcult from normal drops but the rest I got from trading various people here and there. I completed wormcult that way. The grind for the wormcult imo forces an unhealthy habit. Now I have 100+ extra motifs of various natures and I dunno how many blueprints and recipes. This event is also trying on my inventory managing skills.

DieAlteHexe

No

Made a conscious decision from the start to only do crafting dailies. It's been brilliant. Made some money, stocked up on materials and advanced my crafters.

So, no burn-out for me.

zaria

No

The only have to do quests is crafting on 8 alts and 3 crow dailies.

WhoSlappedThePie

@Armatesz I agree with the testing of inventory management, ha. I’ve now become sad enough to create a spreadsheet with my mule characters gear, spent a while moving stuff around, upgrade bank space to cater for it and tried to organise as best I could. I guess in a way, it was a well needed clean-out.

I will still farm though because that’s what I do but it has forced an almost unhealthy habit where I don’t have enough time what with my job/family so I’ve had to go to bed later and wake up early to try to stay on top of it. Suffice to say my work has dropped... hm. But... motifs.

mikejezz

DieAlteHexe wrote: »

Made a conscious decision from the start to only do crafting dailies. It's been brilliant. Made some money, stocked up on materials and advanced my crafters.

So, no burn-out for me.

My problem is that my main is only cp 130 and gains levels so fast that the mats won’t drop for a long time. First world problem I know

Stewart1874

Yes

Yeah i'm broken now

Armatesz

Yes

WhoSlappedThePie wrote: »

@Armatesz I agree with the testing of inventory management, ha. I’ve now become sad enough to create a spreadsheet with my mule characters gear, spent a while moving stuff around, upgrade bank space to cater for it and tried to organise as best I could. I guess in a way, it was a well needed clean-out.

I will still farm though because that’s what I do but it has forced an almost unhealthy habit where I don’t have enough time what with my job/family so I’ve had to go to bed later and wake up early to try to stay on top of it. Suffice to say my work has dropped... hm. But... motifs.

Honestly I think they messed up the event. Like yeah it is cool for crafters and all that but the worm cult being set as rare as it is now? That is forcing others to do 300 dailies a day. I've done some days where I almost hit 300 dailies with crafting writs. I kept having to have to upgrade bank space over and over and stop occasionally to do mass motif trades with people. Next following days I will likely be mass trading wherever I can find people willing to. I won't lie that I am also hoping during this event to find someone that has chicken dinner display or chicken meal display blueprints.

DieAlteHexe

No

mikejezz wrote: »

DieAlteHexe wrote: »

Made a conscious decision from the start to only do crafting dailies. It's been brilliant. Made some money, stocked up on materials and advanced my crafters.

So, no burn-out for me.

My problem is that my main is only cp 130 and gains levels so fast that the mats won’t drop for a long time. First world problem I know

Understand that totally. I spent a bit of money because of it, too.

Strykerous

Yes

Crafting takes up so many skill points it’s not even funny, then to top it off, you as a crafter have to keep up with the latest styles and motif crazes. I have most of the worm cult motifs, just need the gloves boots staves and there was a forth one. I will update this reply with the forth one soon. Point is I’m so burnt out that I am done crafting and motif hunting for quite a while. It doesn’t change the fact that I love this even though.

NoTimeToWait

Yes

Kind of burnt out. Just leveled StamSorc to 50th lvl after playing wardens for some time... And seeing how good magika chars will be in the upcoming new Chapter I feel like all the gold I made, all motifs I farmed and all tannins I got during event are meaningless, because I really don't want to lvl any magika chars at the moment, and... well... kind of tired of being mediocre in the lategame PVE.

And the inventory management is a small hell... 15 chars with inventory ranging from 100 to 190, all 8 storage chests, ESO+ and I still have to transfer and sort stuff everyday.

Probably next year would be better, because I ll prepare beforehand. Was caught completely off guard with this event, since I haven't been around last year and never knew what kind of issues will appear

Aesthier

Wait... there was an anniversary event?

Aebaradath

No

I'm not even doing the event anymore. Got boring in the first week already.

feyii

Yes

Doing crafting dailies on 18 characters is not really fun, especially as it takes over 2 hours. After that I had no interest in playing anymore for the day

It wouldn't have felt compelled to do so many writs if there wasn't an exclusive motif in the boxes. For me that really took the fun out of the event.

Yesterday I gave up and decided to just buy the pages I was missing and now I'm done with the event and can finally do other things again, which are more fun.

zaria

No

Strykerous wrote: »

Crafting takes up so many skill points it’s not even funny, then to top it off, you as a crafter have to keep up with the latest styles and motif crazes. I have most of the worm cult motifs, just need the gloves boots staves and there was a forth one. I will update this reply with the forth one soon. Point is I’m so burnt out that I am done crafting and motif hunting for quite a while. It doesn’t change the fact that I love this even though.

You can do writs with no skills into crafting at all. Same chance for event boxes.
Benefit is that its 6 very fast boxes

fierackas

No

Its encouraged me to do stuff I haven't done before so that can't be bad

Merlin13KAGL

Dapper Dinosaur wrote: »

I have had to buy literally half the damn book, which I may or may not be able to recoup my money on with the other motifs I have. This is with my for about half the event being able to spend literally all day farming on 5 characters. Yes, I am burnt out, and am looking forward to when I can actually play the damn game again and not these cyrodiil dailies.

This, right here.

If they don't intend for people to be able to complete the set (of anything) in the event timeframe, with a reasonable playtime, then it should be that way across the board.

I completed one set, barely, with about 4 of those via trade. I have done well more than the average number of dailies to do so.

The free stuff is nice, but when you cross RNG with people trying to sell for absurd amounts (those will only go up after the event, as 100k listings will get pulled and doubled, as they know they'll eventually get it), it leads to situations like these.

If the intent it to finish over several iterations of the event, then they could implement that part a bit better. Per account drops, vs per character would actually alleviate some of this.

And while what @Beardimus is saying is spot on regarding why people should play, I think events like this lure people into the believe that if they don't complete it now, they may not get the chance to complete it at all. After all, who knows what the next iteration would bring, WC might not even drop then.

This is another area where a token system would be ideal. Earn so many, cash them in for what you need in order to finish things off. I won't even start on the inventory (Catch 22) aspect of things (definitely geared to get people to require ESO+, in half a dozen ways.)