Massive new world events: Dragon Attacks

Seraphayel

Did I miss it or did they announce this during the stream? It's weird because they have it in their announcement post but I'm pretty sure they didn't mention it during their last two hours of streaming.

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THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE: ELSWEYR
The Dragons have returned to Tamriel. Unleashed upon the world by the unwitting Abnur Tharn and the Imperial usurper queen Euraxia, the great Kaalgrontiid and his followers hunt from the skies and threaten to burn down the ancestral home of the Khajiit.

Elsweyr is packed with new stories, adventures, and challenges, including:

A whole new zone to explore: Elsweyr
An epic main story quest line that ties into the Season of the Dragon
A powerful new Class: Necromancer
A challenging new 12-player Trial: Sunspire
Massive new world events: Dragon Attacks
A huge amount of unique delves, public dungeons, and stand-alone quests
A host of updates and quality-of-life improvements

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https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/55539

JJBoomer

i don't recall them saying anything about this in the stream. may have been one of the things they couldn't talk about? or just didn't get to?

Remember, they are saving a lot of details for their E3

KingKobra

They mentioned it briefly, however, they did not expand on it too much. As I interrupt it, it seems like there are going to be new events.

Seraphayel

JJBoomer wrote: »

i don't recall them saying anything about this in the stream. may have been one of the things they couldn't talk about? or just didn't get to?

Remember, they are saving a lot of details for their E3

If they couldn't say anything about it why do they put it into their written announcement 30min later?

Hurbster

Deathwing again ?

Wildberryjack

Sounds similar to the world events that pop up in GW2 and I love those. One pops, you see the announcement and location on your map, and everyone in the zone hauls butt to get there because they are fun and the reward makes them worth doing.

Lake

I sure hope they're not just re-branded Dolmens and Geysers.

Quantum_Knight

Lake wrote: »

I sure hope they're not just re-branded Dolmens and Geysers.

I'll bet they are just re-branded Dolmens and Geysers, maybe with a sprinkling of World Boss added for taste.

Ertosi

Lake wrote: »

I sure hope they're not just re-branded Dolmens and Geysers.

Honestly, what else would it be?

This year's theme seems to be spinning old ideas into "new" ones without actually bringing anything new of real substance.

Libonotus

Seraphayel wrote: »

Did I miss it or did they announce this during the stream? It's weird because they have it in their announcement post but I'm pretty sure they didn't mention it during their last two hours of streaming.

_____________

THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE: ELSWEYR
The Dragons have returned to Tamriel. Unleashed upon the world by the unwitting Abnur Tharn and the Imperial usurper queen Euraxia, the great Kaalgrontiid and his followers hunt from the skies and threaten to burn down the ancestral home of the Khajiit.

Elsweyr is packed with new stories, adventures, and challenges, including:

A whole new zone to explore: Elsweyr
An epic main story quest line that ties into the Season of the Dragon
A powerful new Class: Necromancer
A challenging new 12-player Trial: Sunspire
Massive new world events: Dragon Attacks
A huge amount of unique delves, public dungeons, and stand-alone quests
A host of updates and quality-of-life improvements

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https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/55539

Called it a few days ago.

FinneganFroth

Awesome. Didn't catch that. Thanks for the heads up!

kirgeo

If it's not a Dolmen reskin hope they update the base game zones with these. The old content needs a breath of fresh air.

Alaztor91

They got me excited with Geysers last year. They turned out to be dolmens with a World Boss at the end.

Not really expecting much from these but hopefully they aren't just Dolmens 3.0

MLGProPlayer

They'll probably just be re-skinned dolmens, like geysers were in Summerset.

Feric51

There are already “Dragon Mounds” in place across many maps. Wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to make those spawn dragons in a de facto dolmen knockoff.

Matthros

Lake wrote: »

I sure hope they're not just re-branded Dolmens and Geysers.

Perhaps they are but maybe they will spawn in random spots on the map instead.

Thevampirenight

Well they could add in spawn points they could maybe appear anywhere I'm guessing they won't be like domians, but maybe have a chance to appear in cities, of course there won't be as many but maybe like ten to 15 dragons who have come out of hiding. Or five or six of them but given the whole year will involved dragons, and dragon bosses so I'm guessing around over 10 to 15 as a estimate. I suspect we will see a the dragonguard for sure or the proto Blades having a big role along with Necromancers and imperial plots we have to foil.

Mr_Walker

Wildberryjack wrote: »

Sounds similar to the world events that pop up in GW2 and I love those. One pops, you see the announcement and location on your map, and everyone in the zone hauls butt to get there because they are fun and the reward makes them worth doing.

Yeah, that'll surely happen.










For the 1st month.

Cardthief

Feric51 wrote: »

There are already “Dragon Mounds” in place across many maps. Wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to make those spawn dragons in a de facto dolmen knockoff.

Unless they are spawned by very powerful Necromancers, the dragons that reside in those mounds are very much dead, and only Alduin has the ability to resurrect them (which he is not around because he was sent forward in time during the Dragon War).

Numerikuu

I highly doubt it's gonna be anything other than reskinned dolmens/geysers. I hope I'm wrong, but they bigged up geysers the same way and those turned out to be slightly more difficult dolmens, only they looked more lame.

Seraphayel

These "massive events" better be massive. I really don't wanna fight Dragons solo like you can do with Dolmens or Geysirs...

Kagukan

A mega world boss that takes many to take down could be fun if done right.

Spearpoint

I already feel the nostalgia creeping, only to the thought of dragons roaming Tamriel.
*cough* Riverwood *cough*

Played ESO since beta untill the death of Arctic Blast, and I honestly thought "real" dragons never was going to enter Elder Scrolls Online, as I heard or read something about this years ago.

This got me really hyped! Definitely gonna return to Tamriel if Dragon Attacks are done right.


Now, this has the potential to be a really great add-on for spicing up the whole map, making the overland content even more dynamic and lively, if done and implemented well.
I can imagine dragons flying above major and minor cities and settlements, invoking bloodthirst fear in the hearts of the present. Sometimes attacking buildings and structures; stables and watchtowers etc., and sometimes just continuing on their path along to the next area to devastate, maybe swooping down for a horse or goat. Their own version of fast food. Oh well..

Hopefully the possible spawn points for the dragons would be more random and less fixed than the current. Their fixed positions and almost-constant-uptime makes for good farms, and thus less of a prestige to complete. Would love to see dragons sometimes dwelling at existing, and potential new, dragon mounds across the wilderness too, as mentioned by @Feric51 .

I know this might be a lot to implement, but "real" dragons are a pretty darn big element of The Elder Scrolls. So if they won't appear untill the end of the The Season of the Dragon, that wouldn't be too bad.

In short, if the current World Bosses, Dolmens and Geyser would compare to 4-player dungeons, Dragon Attacks should compare to 12-player trails. Make them rare, and a real challange!
I really don't hope to see "+dragon" in every zonechat in the future, only to join a huge dragon farmtrain running across the same three locations for their loot


It would be interesting if the attacks:
- Occurred rather seldom (sometimes 2-3 attacks at the same time - in different places, and sometimes with larger periods of time without any attack - up to several ingame days)
- Occurred in random places (near cities, in/above cities, at sea, out in the wilderness, and maybe increased chance of provoking a Dragon Attack near their lairs and atop mountains etc)
- Occurred in random amounts of Dov (1-3 dragons, maybe even more, depending on the size of area they attack. And as the dragons should be strong, and might appear in packs, the players attacking the dragons may not be strong enough to kill every dragon before some of them withdraws - only letting the participants equally loot the fallen one(s). ...Of course before Pirharri and/or associates surface to gently "remove" the carcass for sanitational purposes)
- Were broadcastet and shown on the map (equal to world events from GW2, as mentioned by @Wildberryjack ) at least zone-wide, and maybe to the bordering zones after a short period of time to justify the delay-of-information of more primitive eras.
- Simply rallies all the guards etc. in the area to defend their settlement. This would also make for an interesting opportunity for would-be-thieves




Seems I got carried a bit away, but the thought of Dragon Attacks made me really hyped
Sorry for that, and the links. Guess I had a TESV moment...


Could any of this actually be realistic, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom or @ZOS_GinaBruno ?

Or am I way above my head on this?

Jayman1000

Propably "reskinned" dolmens. Fixed locations that respawn "massive dragon attack", three locations in the zone on a rotation, either clockwise or counter clockwise, depending which order players take them down.

Grandma

you people are all rather bold to assume dragons are going to exist outside of Elsweyr. that's not how new content goes, for better or for worse.

mxxo

ESO has a lot of different zones. All interesting. But there is one problem: nothing new. It doesnt matter if you are in Wrothgar, Cold Harbour or Summerset... you always do the same stuff. The Game needs more than Dragons.

Red_Feather

Yeah I too think it will be only in elsweyr. And that it will be a dolmen thing that is made to look a little different.

Seraphayel

Jayman1000 wrote: »

Propably "reskinned" dolmens. Fixed locations that respawn "massive dragon attack", three locations in the zone on a rotation, either clockwise or counter clockwise, depending which order players take them down.

This is my fear. I don't want the third version of Dolmens just with a different color.

I want something fresh and dynamic.

Itzmichi

Wildberryjack wrote: »

Sounds similar to the world events that pop up in GW2 and I love those. One pops, you see the announcement and location on your map, and everyone in the zone hauls butt to get there because they are fun and the reward makes them worth doing.

Agree, just check GW2 few days ago to understand its myth a bit better and i must say the event system is really great in this game! I would welcome something like that in ESO!

Gythral

Once a Dolmen, always a Dolmen, just chapter versions have the one shot disease that invaded dungeons too...

tinythinker

Lake wrote: »

I sure hope they're not just re-branded Dolmens and Geysers.

Geysers as reskinned dolmens was a let-down for me