Congrats on the smooth Undaunted event!

VerboseQuips · January 13

I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the Undaunted event was. I had many fears the EU server would collapse under itself as it happened the last two times, and I have been quite harshly criticizing here in the forums, so it feels only right to praise the team too when they achieve genuine improvement ! You did a great job! Thanks for all your efforts, it looks like it's fruitful! 2020 is starting on a very nice note.

And now I also wish you a great reveal on Thursday.

oddbasket · January 13

I've had no issues at all getting a dungeon done daily for the event using the activity finder.
Though compared to other events, this had much more rewards available than the duration allowed to earn them all, which is a downside.

TheFM · January 13

Thats because no one wants to do them because of the abysmal drop rates.

Also, the lag has been extra bad as well, but hey, the queue worked, Ill give them that, could queue for battlegrounds all weekend.

redgreensunset · January 13

Apart from a couple of minor annoyances with the Activity Finder (like having to requeue a couple of time with a full group for it to take) this went very well. It felt like the loading screens were a little longer overall, but that might just have been me being impatient, I didn't actually try to time it. But the server held up, the Activity Finder worked on the whole and I didn't see any lag.
So yeah, this went lot better than I expected.

SeaGtGruff · January 13

I felt pretty confident going into the event that ZOS wasn't likely to turn it off like they did last time. Aside from the fact that it would have been very embarrassing and awkward, the announcement for the event definitely made it sound like the events was very much a live test of the changes to the Activity Finder, and that any problems which surfaced would be dealt with as they arose. ZOS must have felt pretty confident about the Activity Finder to have even announced the event at all, and with the thing coming up on Thursday they would certainly want to have a successful "live stress test" of the Activity Finder under their belts going into Thursday's big thing.

EDIT/Addendum: So yes, congratulations are definitely in order. You could tell by the posts in the forum (from ZOS support) that everyone was working hard behind the scenes to ensure that problems were fixed as they were run into, and that the event could be a positive and fun experience for the players. Thank you, everyone at ZOS! This was a great way to start 2020.

regime211 · January 13

VerboseQuips wrote: »

I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the Undaunted event was. I had many fears the EU server would collapse under itself as it happened the last two times, and I have been quite harshly criticizing here in the forums, so it feels only right to praise the team too when they achieve genuine improvement ! You did a great job! Thanks for all your efforts, it looks like it's fruitful! 2020 is starting on a very nice note.

And now I also wish you a great reveal on Thursday.

I didn't even bother with the event.

Huyen · January 13

VerboseQuips wrote: »

I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the Undaunted event was. I had many fears the EU server would collapse under itself as it happened the last two times, and I have been quite harshly criticizing here in the forums, so it feels only right to praise the team too when they achieve genuine improvement ! You did a great job! Thanks for all your efforts, it looks like it's fruitful! 2020 is starting on a very nice note.

And now I also wish you a great reveal on Thursday.

It wasnt that smooth. Yesterday and Saturday there were many hiccups in the system. Couldn't queue, couldn't leave the queue. Took ages to get into a dungeon. And so on. Praise where is praise due, but we are not there yet. Should have been fixed a long time ago!

Valykc · January 13

Agreed with OP, well done ZOS. You’re moving a step closer! Now please don’t nerf us to oblivion next patch 😅

Odovacar · January 13

They did a good job this go around! Smooth and fun!

furiouslog · January 13

Ditto on this. Nice job, ZOS.

FWIW, I was able to earn all of the opal style pages during the event, through trades, purchases/sales from guild traders (5 bought, 2 sold), and two event ticket purchases. It was probably about 20-24 hours of dungeon play over the 5 days (mostly 4 DPS normal FG1 speed runs - opal page drop rates were about 1 in 20, at about 3:30-4 minutes per run). I'd also been farming keys going into the event (so I had over 200 to spend), and had gotten the prerequisite shoulder pages over the past year by farming or purchasing.

So for people who thought it was impossible, it was not, it was just challenging and a bit of a grind. Well within the realm of possibility for anyone who had prepared for the event.

ForzaRammer · January 13

Well done zos

JadonSky · January 13

Smoother then before but still issues. Ran into multiple times where it got stuck in ready check and you could not unqueue and requeue. After about 10 minutes it would finally time out or have to log out and back in.

Also for how long we have waited I feel like the drop rate is crap there should be chance to get a weapon for every chest for the small amount of time they gave for this event. Its kind of a slap to the face to make the event so short and the drop rate so crappy and still have issues with the queue. One day ZOS will get it right but it was not this day.

Cavedog · January 13

Yes. The apparently fixed group finder gave me a sliver of hope they might be able to fix some of the other perennial bugs in the game....and now I don't know whether to be happy about that, or pissed that I have some hope again almost surely to be let down again in short order....

valeriiya · January 13

I was really surprised at how well it worked. The queue was pretty quick for me as a DPS.
Edit: PS4 NA

MEBengalsFan2001 · January 13

I only had one issue and that was last night. Could not get into any dungeon as a healer. Sat in the que for over an hour.

zaria · January 13

Huyen wrote: »

VerboseQuips wrote: »

I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the Undaunted event was. I had many fears the EU server would collapse under itself as it happened the last two times, and I have been quite harshly criticizing here in the forums, so it feels only right to praise the team too when they achieve genuine improvement ! You did a great job! Thanks for all your efforts, it looks like it's fruitful! 2020 is starting on a very nice note.

And now I also wish you a great reveal on Thursday.

It wasnt that smooth. Yesterday and Saturday there were many hiccups in the system. Couldn't queue, couldn't leave the queue. Took ages to get into a dungeon. And so on. Praise where is praise due, but we are not there yet. Should have been fixed a long time ago!

Had issues Saturday, we was unable to get into dungeon at all with finder with an 3 man group so it only solved itself then we got the 4th and could port.
However has not played much this week because very busy.

Kingslayer513 · January 13

I only ran with premades so I can't comment on the LFG component. But queuing with a premade worked smoothly, whereas in the past it didn't. So it's a step in the right direction for sure.

vestahls · January 13

Yeah, credit where it's due. Job well done, ZOS.

DaveMoeDee · January 13

TheFM wrote: »

Thats because no one wants to do them because of the abysmal drop rates.

Also, the lag has been extra bad as well, but hey, the queue worked, Ill give them that, could queue for battlegrounds all weekend.

Queue was great, but I have to agree about lag. I was very surprised about the lag in the dungeons. Often I couldn't swap weapons to taunt in a timely manner. Didn't really matter most of the time since normal dungeons are so easy and I was leveling a lower level character (so no possibility of harder dungeons). Still, it is not something I normally experience.

BuildMan · January 13

I just did FG1 solo for the 1 box and tickets and then never did anything else. Drop rates sucked.

Vorpan · January 13

I was really glad that the queue worked. The lag has seemed to have gotten worse throughout the game. I experienced a bit in dungeons and even occasionally in my house. Hopefully they'll find a way to resolve that sooner rather than later.

Now if only they could fix those high HP DK's queuing as DPS (that can't even kill mobs), and fake tanks in vets. That'd be great.

gatekeeper13 · January 13

Congrats for what? For managing to keep the server from collapsing once more? Guess we re going to congrats ZOS for doing the obvious from now on...

Also, the drop rates sucked. In the purple boxes, I got 2 x Troll Kings Battle Axe and 2 x Engine Guardian Greatsword thanks to the wonderful RNG. Also, the loot from the blue boxes sucked even more. It wasnt even worth farming them.

snoozy · January 13

i didn't participate in the event but i'm glad to hear GF is now mostly working

certainly a step in the right direction, gg ZOS

AcadianPaladin · January 13

I only used the GF once and queued as a (real) healer for vWR1 when it was a pledge. Worked great.

khajiitNPC · January 13

Yes I was pleasantly surprised, not that I had issues with the last undaunted event — but my friends who often have issues, were able to run through them smoothly! Sweet.

akl77 · January 13

PS4 has plenty of blue screens that’s 5x more than usual without the event on.

Maxx7410 · January 14

yes in pc NA it worked most of the time that is a great advance!!!

Ingenon · January 14

On PS4 / NA I used the group finder and had no issues getting all fifteen event tickets. Had to do one trade, but ended up with five unique event motif also. Thanks, ZOS!

LadyNalcarya · January 14

I didn't use group finder, but the server wasn't any more laggy than usual. So I guess it's an improvement.

Zulera301 · January 14

I expected it to go down almost instantly, but it went smooth the whole time. It definitely helped that you could earn rewards from just porting right into the dungeon, which may have definitely removed some stress from the finder, but ultimately, I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the event went over smoothly. good job, ZOS. keep it up, please.

Kamara · January 14

Not so smooth for me and the hubby. Frequent disconnects, NPCs not responding, invisible character, stuck in instances because the door won't work, dying tragic deaths, etc.. all server lag issues. Started with the event and today seems to be gone. Phew... glad it's over!