Bah Humbug! What's Your Least Favorite New Life Festival Quest?

VaranisArano

Bah Humbug! Tamriel may be filled with the holiday spirit as thousands of drunk-on-exp-mead adventurers show up to town, complete a quest, and then race off to rip open their shiny presents, but let's face it, some of the things Breda and her friends ask us to do are sometimes just strange, annoying, and sometimes even downright frustrating.

So what's your least favorite New Life Festival Quest and Why?

VaranisArano

Lava Foot Stomp - dance for the patrons' amusement at four different taverns

I dislike all quests involving player competition, but the Lava Foot Stomp annoys me in a different way.

Run to tavern - click E to dance
Run to tavern - click E to dance
Run to Wayshrine - Run to tavern - click E to dance
Run to Wayshrine - Run to tavern - click E to dance

IMO, its just boring.

Left4Daud

Where is the “All of the above” option?

jainiadral

The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile - Rajhin the trickster god wants you to get good at ESO's lockpicking minigame

I'm usually pretty decent with chests, but adding an extra timer on top of the standard chest timers makes the old digits fumble. OTOH, it's good XP for little effort.

myskyrim26

Snow Bear Plunge - Nords don't care about the cold, and neither should you as you leap off waterfalls into freezing water, before warming yourself at the fire

Voted for Snow Bear Plunge. Yet I enjoy almost all of them! War Orphan's Sojourn seems a bit boring to me. All other are fun. This is my 3rd New Life Festival. I skipped this event last year - I didn't want to do anything daily. But this time I really enjoy the event, just as I enjoyed it the very first time.

Edit. Damn, I mixed all things up... Snow Bear Plunge is my favourite...

molecule

Left4Daud wrote: »

Where is the “All of the above” option?

Agree.

Was pretty boring last year, it's mind numbing this year.

sharquez

Lava Foot Stomp - dance for the patrons' amusement at four different taverns

Yeah Lava Foot Stomp can eat a fat smelly one.

Elsonso

The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile - Rajhin the trickster god wants you to get good at ESO's lockpicking minigame

The lock picking achievement was annoying. The time it takes to autoloot, move to the next chest, and start on the next lock seemed to take forever, and there was just no speeding it up.

SydneyGrey

The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile - Rajhin the trickster god wants you to get good at ESO's lockpicking minigame

I'm good at picking locks in ESO, but it's still annoying, so it's my least favorite.
I remember last year there was someone who absolutely couldn't pick the advanced lock, and had run out of lockpicks. (New player.) I ended up giving her 100 lockpicks just so she could do the quest. LOL.

My favorite quest is the mudball one. That one's awesome.

Reverb

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

Too many steps, too few resources to complete the steps. It brings out the worst in people. I watched someone Dawnbreaker and Steel Tornado a wasp as soon as it spawned, and no one else could land a hit. All over the map, people are unloading their full rotations on wasps and wolves. It's just stupid.

Enemoriana

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

I don't like Stonetooth bash, and even not because of wasps. Because of "appreciation". Disgusting. Second is sprint - so boring!
But I like dances, mud balls and lockpicking.

Hallothiel

The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile - Rajhin the trickster god wants you to get good at ESO's lockpicking minigame

The lock-picking one is the most annoying as to get the actual achievement you need to do it in under 35 seconds and if you haven’t got a decent % auto loot it can take too long - especially when npcs get in the way between chests!

The Bergama one is also annoying.

Tryxus

Fish Boon Feast - go fishing for 3 different fish and donate your catch to the hungry

Fishing.

It's boring

AlnilamE

War Orphan's Sojourn - donate gold, then optionally compete with players to kill wildlife encroaching on the temple

jainiadral wrote: »

I'm usually pretty decent with chests, but adding an extra timer on top of the standard chest timers makes the old digits fumble. OTOH, it's good XP for little effort.

That one is best done in a group for the additional achievement. You can have one group member at each chest and it will count for everyone.

Tatanko

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

Regardless of my choice, I enjoy the idea behind all of them. They're fun.

That being said, I voted for Stonetooth Bash. Competing against your fellow players for limited resources during a busy event like this is not enjoyable.

Michae

Fish Boon Feast - go fishing for 3 different fish and donate your catch to the hungry

Fish Boon Feast - it's just total mayhem at the fishing holes, there's a ton of people there running between the holes because they disappear after a few catches and you spend a lot of time running around trying your luck to catch anything and to add insult to injury the drops are random, most of the time you get used bait or duplicates..

Edit: Spelling errors.

Minyassa

Mud Ball Merriment - throw mudball at citizens, your fellow players, and one of three ambassadors

I feel like mudballs exist because of this quest and I hate mudballs and people who use them during the rest of the year. Annoying af to be interrupted on my way to someplace repeatedly by some bored griefer or hit E on a door and get yanked back inside because some arsehat inside decided it wasn't time for me to go about my business yet. Eff those people sideways with a chain saw.

ayu_fever

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

all the new life quests are fine.
BUT... this one it just takes too long to do because everyone is fighting over the enemies to get the material and having to wait on respawns.

bearbelly

Fish Boon Feast - go fishing for 3 different fish and donate your catch to the hungry

It started as Stonetooth, yesterday, because I almost had a rage stroke my first time doing the quest. I'm finding that competitive quests in small areas really enhance my dislike of the human race.

But now that I know that finding wasps isn't actually restricted to the blue "search" circle, the Fish Boon Feast is the one I like the least.
Partially because I haven't spent any time in Shadowfen with any of my characters so I have to ping a bunch of wayshrines with all of them before I can even start the quest the first time, and then the RNG on the three different types of fish feels like it's going to be a headache. I've only done the quest once on one character so far, and it took me forever to get the third fish yesterday (I got the first two on my first two casts. After I was able to start fishing, anyway).

***Also, is it required to buy bait from that one merchant before you can fish? Because I already had a lot of 'simple bait' in my bag before the event started. (I did buy more from her, but only because there was a white quest marker on her hut, so I didn't want to take the chance that I wouldn't be able to fish once I got to the fishing spots).

Enemoriana

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

Michae wrote: »

Fish Boon Feast - it's just total mayhem at the fishing holes, there's a ton of people there running between the holes because they disappear after a few catches and you spend a lot of time running around trying your luck to catch anything and to add insult to injury the drops are random, most of the time you get used bait or duplicates..

Edit: Spelling errors.

Find place where two spots are near, so you don't need to run from one to another (I use place where it's enough to rotate and do few steps). If there's a lot of people, use each hole one time, then go to second hole - be first on hole, not last. If not so much, catch two times (if little - as much as you can). They respawns very quickly. No need to fish until hole will disappear, no need to use many holes.

Jaimeh

The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile - Rajhin the trickster god wants you to get good at ESO's lockpicking minigame

Strangely, I don't mind the 'grindier' quests so much; aside for the mobs spawning part, the Betnikh quest is quite fun-- I like the 'show your appreciation' objective in particular, I remember getting a kick out of it the first year of the event Similarly, I don't mind the fishing quest, because I like the 'Weee' sounds that characters make when a fish node disappears, and I also like looking at other characters while I fish, there are so many fun looks and holiday styles I think the ones I find most boring are the Grahtwood temple quest, and opening the chests in Reaper's March, I don't like doing the latter on characters without the lockpick passives. My favourite one is the cold water plunge, I think the dive and freezing animations are really cute. I also like the Skywatch one, I don't remember if throwing them on players counted in the past, but it was funny standing around the shrine and seeing players having mudballs fights with each other, from what I read in the the chat it seemed like new players were having a blast as well.

Reverb

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

bearbelly wrote: »

***Also, is it required to buy bait from that one merchant before you can fish? Because I already had a lot of 'simple bait' in my bag before the event started. (I did buy more from her, but only because there was a white quest marker on her hut, so I didn't want to take the chance that I wouldn't be able to fish once I got to the fishing spots).

No, you can use literally any bait.

EvilAutoTech

Mud Ball Merriment - throw mudball at citizens, your fellow players, and one of three ambassadors

This is supposed to be a game for adults and they put in this craptastic quest that would be fun for a 9 year old.

Hoolielulu

Fish Boon Feast - go fishing for 3 different fish and donate your catch to the hungry

I feel that fishing is taking a lot longer than last year. I spent 20 minutes out there with my second character and I was getting angry.

Although I have just backed off of chocolate so it may have been sugar rage.

RaddlemanNumber7

Signal Fire Sprint - sprint around the city, lighting signal fires

Just not getting any feeling of fun out of that one. And such a miserable story.

Some of the others may be a bit grindy, but I have found ways of making them fun. Breathing fire at the drunk, so drunk he can't even feel when his head gets engulfed in flames. Trying to jump on the tables to dance just as I'm going through the inn doors, and mud-balling those horrid dunmer, especially the one with the goblin slaves. Stuff like that.

Hoolielulu

Fish Boon Feast - go fishing for 3 different fish and donate your catch to the hungry

myskyrim26 wrote: »

Snow Bear Plunge is my favourite...

I sometimes die on that last jump. Can't always seem to position myself right. But yeah it's my favorite one.

Michae

Fish Boon Feast - go fishing for 3 different fish and donate your catch to the hungry

@Enemoriana
It wasn't that bad to be honest. I just listed the one that was least fun and most random. But thanks for the advice.

Edit: I just can't write properly today.

Banana

All of the above. Once each last year was enough for me

Luthid

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

EvilAutoTech wrote: »

This is supposed to be a game for adults and they put in this craptastic quest that would be fun for a 9 year old.

I’m an adult, and I find it fun. Many other adult players do too. Maybe even most of them.

ezio45

Stonetooth Bash - compete with other players for the season's hot commodity: wolf meat and honeycomb, then belch in their face to show your "appreciation"

the orphan one is pretty lame too

would prefer something that explored an aspect of highelf seasonal lore

Tandor

The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile - Rajhin the trickster god wants you to get good at ESO's lockpicking minigame

Despite easily picking locks wherever I go, and especially in a couple of places where chests spawn in significant numbers, I find this particular quest particularly irksome and I shall just abandon it if offered this year and take the next one as I'm only doing one per day per account in order to get the event tickets.