The Psijic Quest Line

Rikumaru

I'm not too sure why people are defending a key storyline of quests being just fetch quests (which takes like 5 hours to do) with a 3 second final boss fight at the end. I personally prefer doing the mages guild skill line though this isn't much better either. At least there's some lore books which some players could be interested in though.

idk

OMG, lol. Talk about being a little slow to respond. It has been almost a year since we first saw those quests on the PTS. I suggest providing feedback like this a little earlier in the process if you want Zos to consider it. At this point and time it is, well, pointless.

Edit: the point of the quests are not the quests themselves as much as the dialogue with the skull. Granted, some people just do not get it, but that is ok. Their loss.

John_Falstaff

@idk , idk. :P First time around, those dialogues are funny, but they stop being funny really soon, and then what remains is that awkward feeling of some chattering skull breaking fourth wall and turning Psijics story into a farce.

eso_lags

Cancer? Undaunted grind is cancer. Mages guild grind is cancer, at least if you are a disregarded player on console who is forced to play without a lorebook add on since the devs dont care about us. But psijic order? Its pretty boring but easy and it doesnt take very long. A couple hours if you put your mind to it.

Undaunted is bad.

haelene

alexj4596b14_ESO wrote: »

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

ChunkyCat wrote: »

Gimme Gimme Gimme Now Now Now

not sure if that comment is fair - it's not like people don't want to do the questline, they just don't want to do it 10 times in a row for every character...and as said i am 100% convinved that making a game more alt friendly will increase monetization

Even beyond that, At least in the mages guild, you get to go learn things from shaldor, and get into the mages guild pocket realm. With the psyijics you learn nothing about why they disappeared what they had been doing, a whole bunch of nothing...

Apples and oranges. The part with Shalidor is the mages guild quest, not the grind. You still had to grind lore books out the ass to level the actual skill line itself. I can see why you might be disappointed if you assume you only get to see the psijic guild during the level up, but the truth is they play a big part in the main Summerset quest line. You do definitely get to learn a lot about them it's just not in the level up quest that you do.

SantieClaws

Perhaps it is an itchy claw, a spot on the end of the nose, a bad fur day, frizzy whiskers or the tail caught in a cupboard door.

It is not cancer though traveller.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

idk

John_Falstaff wrote: »

@idk , idk. :P First time around, those dialogues are funny, but they stop being funny really soon, and then what remains is that awkward feeling of some chattering skull breaking fourth wall and turning Psijics story into a farce.

@John_Falstaff Pretty much the case with most every quest in most every MMORPG. Besides stating something that is so obvious across the board not sure what your point is about what I said.

John_Falstaff

eso_lags wrote: »

Cancer? Undaunted grind is cancer. Mages guild grind is cancer, at least if you are a disregarded player on console who is forced to play without a lorebook add on since the devs dont care about us. But psijic order? Its pretty boring but easy and it doesnt take very long. A couple hours if you put your mind to it.

Undaunted is bad.

Being a devil's advocate... Undaunted can be different. I've fully leveled it in two or three days just by enjoying the game, mostly on evenings. If you're confident, put together a team of guildies and run for achievements - even with only non-DLCs, a handful of HMs, speedruns and nodeaths will make Undaunted levels come blazing fast, and I think minor achievements pile up on that too (like crawling through vICP without being noticed by vigilant watchers).

John_Falstaff

@idk , the point was as this: you said that whole point of Psijic quest was the skull dialogue. So I replied that skull dialogue isn't much to pay for (and this quest is a part of a paid chapter), it's not telling anything about Psijics per se, it breaks fourth wall, and the jokes are a giggle only at first. And I would also say that not all quests (and in not all MMORPGs) are comedy show of a skull that makes references to RL setting. Some are quite immersive.

AbysmalGhul

When I make a new character, pursing the psijic skill line is the perfect way to get sky shards, lore books, and resources. It's kills 3 birds with one stone

mairwen85

How does a tedious but easy set of find and retrieve quests compare to a life threatening, debilitating, incurable disease?

Do you mean that the quest line is a malignant, growing tumour that is slowly poisoning and siphoning the life out of the game?

Or: an evil or destructive practice or phenomenon that is hard to contain or eradicate

Or do you mean you just don't like it?

Word choice, register, syntax and context are important in this world -- use them wisely...

Commancho

All achievement based skill lines should be optionaly account wide and be unlocked once we hit rank 50.

DLM

Not sure why people need add-ons to do this. It's not like the NPC gives you a map with Xs that are pretty damn accurate.

myskyrim26

It took me 4 days to complete this quest line. I did it lazily, on a new char, the mount was slow. I used Alcast's quide and map. It is really an easly skill line.

gepe87

Mage guild is.much better. More spread items to find (more wayshrines discovered) plus nice quests with Uncle Sheo.

srfrogg23

alexj4596b14_ESO wrote: »

Players Read This: Read the Title.


ZOS Read This: ZOS Please make this an interesting quests thanks.

What is with this trend of comparing video games to tragic and fatal diseases?

Do kids these days not actually know what cancer is?

mairwen85

srfrogg23 wrote: »

alexj4596b14_ESO wrote: »

Players Read This: Read the Title.


ZOS Read This: ZOS Please make this an interesting quests thanks.

What is with this trend of comparing video games to tragic and fatal diseases?

Do kids these days not actually know what cancer is?

I ask myself the same thing every time I see it. It's a shameful, discraceful thing to be using so casually... Omg, I sound like my mum.

Ozby

I've done 5 or 6 times now and it is way to grindy as is mages guild.

theskymoves

alexj4596b14_ESO wrote: »

and you learn nothing about the Psyijis.

Including how to spell the name of the order.

whitecrow

I actually enjoyed the portal hunts, though I can see how it could be a grind on multiple characters.

FlopsyPrince

myskyrim26 wrote: »

It took me 4 days to complete this quest line. I did it lazily, on a new char, the mount was slow. I used Alcast's quide and map. It is really an easly skill line.

Not possible on the PS4.

Many things those of you take for granted on the PC are a pain in the rear on the PS4, unfortunately.

mairwen85

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

myskyrim26 wrote: »

It took me 4 days to complete this quest line. I did it lazily, on a new char, the mount was slow. I used Alcast's quide and map. It is really an easly skill line.

Not possible on the PS4.

Many things those of you take for granted on the PC are a pain in the rear on the PS4, unfortunately.

I had the guide open on my phone while I played the game on my Xbox... run through it with 3 characters, a quest intermittently thrown between other activities -- what isn't possible?

kaligold

When Summerset was on PTR I provided feedback about the rift closing quests, calling it some of the worst gaming I have ever had to do in my life. It's very lazy game development.

mairwen85

kaligold wrote: »

When Summerset was on PTR I provided feedback about the rift closing quests, calling it some of the worst gaming I have ever had to do in my life. It's very lazy game development.

Indeed tedious, monotonous, repetitive, unimaginative, uninspiring, mind-numbing, but -- you only need to endure it long enough to get the skills you need from the skill line. Want that ultimate -- that's the ultimate sacrifice

FlopsyPrince

mairwen85 wrote: »

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

myskyrim26 wrote: »

It took me 4 days to complete this quest line. I did it lazily, on a new char, the mount was slow. I used Alcast's quide and map. It is really an easly skill line.

Not possible on the PS4.

Many things those of you take for granted on the PC are a pain in the rear on the PS4, unfortunately.

I had the guide open on my phone while I played the game on my Xbox... run through it with 3 characters, a quest intermittently thrown between other activities -- what isn't possible?

You can't have an addon guide you to the place. Sure, you can look at a map on another device, but that is not the same thing.

My PS4 TV is right next to my computer, so I do use both together a lot, but finding some things is much more challenging than if it was integrated into the system.

luen79rwb17_ESO

It can be done relatively fast so it's much better than mages and fighters guild if you ask me.

mairwen85

@FlopsyPrince it is indeed, much more challenging.

idk

John_Falstaff wrote: »

@idk , the point was as this: you said that whole point of Psijic quest was the skull dialogue. So I replied that skull dialogue isn't much to pay for (and this quest is a part of a paid chapter), it's not telling anything about Psijics per se, it breaks fourth wall, and the jokes are a giggle only at first. And I would also say that not all quests (and in not all MMORPGs) are comedy show of a skull that makes references to RL setting. Some are quite immersive.

I merely made an observation that the quests were about the dialogue with the skull, and you agreed with it in both posts you tagged me in by distinctly saying the dialogue was funny each time.

Glad you agree, the rest seems kind of odd. The fact that quests in MMORPGs differ and that the enjoyment of quests diminish each time you repeat it is rather irrelevant. Heck, most quests in most games I just speed through after doing it once or twice. It just seems silly and pointless to argue about that as it is rather expected and normal.

Regardless, it is a plus and seems to be a success if you got enjoyment out of it the first time, as you have said you did.

Brrrofski

I don't mind it. Just queue up 3 new albums to listen to and ride around on your mount a bit. Nice change of pace to be honest.

The worst part of the whole thing is the stupid voice. It's not even close to being funny. At all.

thedude33

mayasunrising wrote: »

The quest-line is a bit tedious for sure, but I think the skill line is well worth the effort - especially the meditate, mend wounds, and time-stop.

Plus...the Augur keeps you company.

I like the Augur!