Harrowstorms problem

Jaraal

joerginger wrote: »

Not only those basics seem to be confusing, but the actual harrowstorm mechanics seem so, too. The quest giver clearly tells us something like "I would start with the witch pikes." Many players seem to hate this piece of advice and instead try to get everybody else killed by ignoring the witch pikes.

Yeah it blows my mind how many people are fighting trash that the pikes keep spawning. It’s like swatting at bees that keep coming out of the hive, rather than removing the hive and being done with it. And it would be nice if folks would wait for some help, rather than charging in solo and spawning a shrike army that everyone has to deal with.

An organized and efficient strike force can take a storm down in less than a minute, but I’ve seen some chaotic forays that last for ten minutes or more, and are best viewed from the safety of your death recap screen.

Donny_Vito

I'm sure it's already been brought up (a lot of pages to this thread), but those Harrowstorm Shrikes are the absolute worst in terms of damage. It's almost comic, because you'll know one got summoned when you see half the group drop all at the same time even though they are spread out. Such a crazy-powerful AOE attack they have, that is not highlighted well IMO.

Cireous

Something still wrong with Harrowstorms: We still cannot loot the ash heap left by the final boss. Why can we do this with other, similar events and not this one? This could help with the feeling of not getting enough interesting loot from these encounters.

JohnnieKBaller

Cireous wrote: »

Something still wrong with Harrowstorms: We still cannot loot the ash heap left by the final boss. Why can we do this with other, similar events and not this one? This could help with the feeling of not getting enough interesting loot from these encounters.

You're looting the center bit after the lightning and not where the final baddy dies, yeah?

Zephiran23

Cireous wrote: »

Something still wrong with Harrowstorms: We still cannot loot the ash heap left by the final boss. Why can we do this with other, similar events and not this one? This could help with the feeling of not getting enough interesting loot from these encounters.

Those are annoying. Although the interaction dialogue does pop up and it looks like your character does start looting, there is an in-built delay. Most of the time you need to wait until all the visual effects are complete and the voiceover has also finished. Sometimes the delay is less, but kill/loot/leave without a pause step doesn't seem possible.

The coagulant trash mobs, however are another problem. If you've done damage to them, you have a very short window to loot them before the corpse vanishes.

volkeswagon

Harrowstorms need a complete overhaul. The bosses that keep spawning the longer it is active is ridiculous. Before you know it a group of 3-4 at 5am are being instantly killed by 5 bosses thus making the storms impossible to complete so they give up, yet a larger group during prime time has no problem taking them down. Oh and the red circles don't go too well with a red ground. You can hardly see them. And you really should have the icon on the map for whichever harrowstorm is active blink like dragons.

Jaraal

ZOS_Finn wrote: »

Traveling to a storm and having the effects present but not the monsters sounds troubling so we will look into that.

Looks like the storm bug has come back with The Reach.

Jaraal

ZOS_Finn wrote: »

The rate at which Harrowstorms activate is pretty quick but we are looking into reports of "stuck" Harrowstorm locations though thankfully, this is a rare occurrence.

We do appreciate the feedback regarding the Harrowstorms as we want the experience to be rewarding and fun. We use this type of feedback internally for review of these features so it is appreciated.

They listened to us! Harrowstorms will now show on the map in Greymoor and Blackreach. Hopefully this functionality will be extended to The Reach as well

Thank you!


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