Swim for a scroll?

Vahlyance

Would you like to take a dip to retrieve the s c r o l l?

Mayhaps some casual fishing next to the s c r o l l?

Be completely depressed because you cannot reach the S C R O L L?

Some guy nicked the scroll, ran it straight in to the lake surrounding the Imperial city...
What great, great times...

ArchMikem

Despicable.

Vevvev

I remember this.... I tried organizing an all healer party to see if we could outheal the slaughterfish. We failed....

Rukia541

classic troll xd

Bekkael

That's a whole special level of evil. Yikes.

notyuu

I am quite honestly surprised that they didn't implement a stupid simple system which makes any scroll that is outside of a keep/temple have a "no player currently touch" reset timer, which puts it back into the last keep/whatever it was stored in...I mean it would be so simple to implement and yet it would stop problems like this...and to clear up what I mean if you don't understand me.

Scroll in keep/whatever > no timer
Scroll being carried by a player > no timer
Scroll not in keep/being player carried > timer ticks
Timer hits 0 > Scroll teleports back to keep/whatever it was stored at last.

fred4

I think if you could fish for the scroll, with a proc chance to retrieve it, that would be neat. Can you imagine different alliances doing that while trying to protect their fisherfolk? Would probably need some mechanic for damage reduction while fishing.

virtus753

notyuu wrote: »

I am quite honestly surprised that they didn't implement a stupid simple system which makes any scroll that is outside of a keep/temple have a "no player currently touch" reset timer, which puts it back into the last keep/whatever it was stored in...I mean it would be so simple to implement and yet it would stop problems like this...and to clear up what I mean if you don't understand me.

Scroll in keep/whatever > no timer
Scroll being carried by a player > no timer
Scroll not in keep/being player carried > timer ticks
Timer hits 0 > Scroll teleports back to keep/whatever it was stored at last.

Removing the timer when a player is carrying it would only encourage ball groups to hold it indefinitely farming enemy players in some cave or other. The timer for scroll carries is necessary to limit that.

But they could shorten the timer a bit when no one has touched it during a carry (say to 10-15 minutes) to help these situations in which the scroll is dumped or lost irretrievably.

BoraxFlux

Tried it when the skin of my PvP argonian was still wet from his hatched shell, scroll carrier had tried to swim across the water flowing under the Alessia bridge because alliances were clashing on top of it, he barely got in and died.

So the scroll invitingly floated just above the water, almost near grasping distance. The effort that had gone into it, was radiating from it like an endless scream, it vexed the young cold-blooded brains.
Never even asked myself if I could grab the scroll while in the water, thinking argonians could swim fast as lighting.
With the help of a healer at the shore, the newbie lizard tried to reach the artefact, it was a beautiful sight from underneath, short lived when the screen turned blue.

I would never swim for the scroll again. Failure has an image, it is that image.

If feel your pain.

Vahlyance

UPDATE:
SCROLL WAS RETRIEVED, TWICE.

I'm not 100% sure how, but this seems to be what you need to do.
Desperately swim yourself to the scroll with some sort of healing effect,
[Take] The scroll once it's an option, you will be slaughtered by slaughterfish.
In some bizarre effect, you will take it, and respawn all the way back at base with it, but it's invisible/glitched,
but then, you will need to DIE again, for it to truly come back, and you have the scroll.