Anyone get anything good from a Harrowstorm?

Nerdrage9000

Like the title says. I used to get all types of cool valuable stuff from the Dragons. Harrowstorms - not so much. Am I missing something here?

MagicalLija

Nope harrowstorms are really cool, and difficult...and laggy. But I'm literally getting 40 gold worth of treasure and green jewellery.

Czeri

Well, every once in a while you get a new furnishing recipe. Also, new alchemy ingredients. Oh, and the occasional treasure map, and those gained some value due to the antiquities system...

RogueShark

I've gotten three purple patterns from Harrowstorms.

Praxis: Vampiric Lightpost, Amber Single
Pattern: Vampiric Bed, Canopy
Pattern: Vampiric Rug, Triangular Sigil

For only doing about 3 a day just for the daily, they've been incredibly lucrative.

Nerdrage9000

RogueShark wrote: »

I've gotten three purple patterns from Harrowstorms.

Praxis: Vampiric Lightpost, Amber Single
Pattern: Vampiric Bed, Canopy
Pattern: Vampiric Rug, Triangular Sigil

For only doing about 3 a day just for the daily, they've been incredibly lucrative.

Ok thanks! This was what I was looking for. Must be my luck I guess...:)

Nestor

Not the Harrowstorms, but the Reward Coffers for the Daily Quests.

Make sure you have the Quest Active before doing these things.

EDIT It appears that you get the Daily quest once a day. Now I wonder if it can be shared?

Cireous

I'm actually glad Harrowstorms do not give as many furnishing recipe drops as dragons do. It was a little too easy and too fast to get everything you needed from doing dragons alone. That, and a lot of delves and dungeons in N. Elsweyr were riddled with lootless urns. With all the unlootable urns and locked doors, the rest of Northern Elsweyr just wasn't interesting or rewarding enough to explore. It was essentially just a dragon racetrack. The rest of it felt like scenery--that's it.

Taleof2Cities

Cireous wrote: »

I'm actually glad Harrowstorms do not give as many furnishing recipe drops as dragons do. It was a little too easy and too fast to get everything you needed from doing dragons alone. That, and a lot of delves and dungeons in N. Elsweyr were riddled with lootless urns. With all the unlootable urns and locked doors, the rest of Northern Elsweyr just wasn't interesting or rewarding enough to explore. It was essentially just a dragon racetrack. The rest of it felt like scenery--that's it.

Not all players play the game strictly for loot, @Cireous.

There are some of us who enjoy the storyline, achievements, side questing, lore, and new discoveries.

In other words, very few players share the same opinion that Elsweyr is a "dragon racetrack".

Cireous

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Cireous wrote: »

I'm actually glad Harrowstorms do not give as many furnishing recipe drops as dragons do. It was a little too easy and too fast to get everything you needed from doing dragons alone. That, and a lot of delves and dungeons in N. Elsweyr were riddled with lootless urns. With all the unlootable urns and locked doors, the rest of Northern Elsweyr just wasn't interesting or rewarding enough to explore. It was essentially just a dragon racetrack. The rest of it felt like scenery--that's it.

Not all players play the game strictly for loot, @Cireous.

There are some of us who enjoy the storyline, achievements, side questing, lore, and new discoveries.

In other words, very few players share the same opinion that Elsweyr is a "dragon racetrack".

I'm really just referring to the design of the zone. Everything leads you to ... dragons (which I actually love, by the way--the dragons that is) and away from what should be very interesting content (and, who knows, maybe it is, but the game didn't motivate me to do much of it). For me, specifically, I lose interest in side quests very quickly when the scenery surrounding the quests appears very shallow and unfinished, consisting mostly of locked doors (on homes and in the towns) and unlootable urns (in the delves and dungeons), not to mention world bosses which didn't require enough people to defeat them to keep much interest in them past the first month or so (unlike Summerset which stayed lively for a very long time because of so much interest in these massive world bosses that essentially needed to be raided to be defeated). All these things just soured the Chapter for me, and, in the end, it did become just a "dragon racetrack" (completely abandoned by a better dragon non-racetrack when S. Elsweyr launched).

This is only my experience, though, and mainly just my experience in that specific zone. I found it heartbreaking, actually, because it was so beautiful, and, god knows, I am all about the cat people.

Ozby

I've got absolutely nothing worth a damn, no furnishing plans or anything cool like that just gold and alchemy rubbish. I've done them all my my main toon and have repeated them for daily's as well. I find the reward from them to be extremely underwhelming.

Glurin

The only thing I've gotten from harrowstorms that's actually worth keeping at all is the alchemy mat, which I don't even know what it's used for because I haven't bothered to unlock the traits on it yet. As things stand right now, I'm hoping that either the loot gets better after completing the main quest or that I can at least get the associated achievements done before everybody goes back to dragons for better rewards. Those things are going to be a serious pain in the ass to complete when that happens.

KMarble

Glurin wrote: »

As things stand right now, I'm hoping that either the loot gets better after completing the main quest ...

In my experience, it doesn't. I've only started doing HS after completing the main quest and got nothing of value from the storms so far.

Integral1900

They look amazing but the loot is pointless, could easily get much more just killing trash mobs in the same time

The alchemy ingredients are interesting but given the small quantity and sheer effort to acquire means that no matter how good they are they will be irrelevant

Not to mention whatever bizarre pattern they open with. My experience has been either to wait at one in which case half the time it simply never opens or to race to one in which case it will be closed before you get there

Now I just do one if I happen to be on its doorstep at the time it appears

Once the bulk of players get bored playing whack a mole and go back to farming dragons in southern kitty land these things will be dam near impossible, the odds of four randoms with the combined power to clear one just turning up in the middle of nowhere is astronomical

Jaraal

Integral1900 wrote: »

Once the bulk of players get bored playing whack a mole and go back to farming dragons in southern kitty land these things will be dam near impossible, the odds of four randoms with the combined power to clear one just turning up in the middle of nowhere is astronomical

They definitely shot themselves in the foot with the randomness of the storms combined with the most inefficiently placed wayshrines possible, as well as the lack of active location / health level indicators that are so helpful with the dragons.

Mysanne

Nothing good to me. I always have 1 treasure map and I already have a lot of them. :'(

ApostateHobo

Yikes. Sounds like they really need to improve the rewards for these, otherwise nobody is going to bother doing them.

Hurbster

Couple of treasure maps is all. Nothing worth the hassle. I still get better from the daily Dragonguard chest.

Cireous

Alright, so, three harrowstorms in a row, I picked up one of those bags that should have a recipe in it, usually a furnishing one, but instead I got one single counterfeit pardon edict (removes 500 gold bounty) in all 3 bags. This has to be a bug. We are used to seeing furnishing recipies in these and this is what I am getting instead?

These are supposed to be the exciting bags

PizzaCat82

I've spent 5 hours in Greymor and I've yet to see one. I guess I should just sit and wait and do nothing for 30+ minutes.

Hapexamendios

I have yet to see one.

Zenzuki

Had just loaded into zone for first time last night, was looking around and caught a bit of red in the sky over a rise.

I ran towards it....

Arrived to find the fight was well on.

I'd not done one and didn't even know what was happening, but jumped in!

Tanking the "boss"? or whatever it was, little crosses and dead folks everywhere, fire, baddies, its all on!

Lovin' it...

The group prevails, the event drops, we all attack the... pile of dirt thingy.

Got some goodies, one of which was a purple lead!!!! Woot.

Don't even have the skill line yet and can't do nothin' with it but... nice! lol

Was definitely a fun first five minute introduction to the zone.

Ready for more!

Katahdin

Ive gotten a few vampiric furniture recipes from the sachels

Ryath_Waylander

The equivalent to the Elsweyr Dragon document pouch is underwhelming. The drop rate is reasonable, about 1:4 Harrowstorms to get on. It's really sad that one counterfeit edict can be considered loot. I can use it, as a thief but not everyone can.

Out of the document pouches I picked up 3 were edicts, 1 was a green non-greymoor furnishing pattern, 1 was a gold coast treasure map and 1 was a blue greymoor furnishing pattern. 24 Harrowstorms took most of the day to do because they are so random and far from the wayshrines. (Camping one blackreach harrowstorm is too boring to contemplate)

I'm not saying they must shower us in loot but 2 random documents in the pouch would be more worth the effort. I will have a look at the dailies and see if that is more rewarding than pure randoms. I just wish there was some sort of notification when they're up. You can really do nothing else, seeing as you are constantly watching the sky and having to run over the ridge up North and keep your eyes peeled on zone chat.

Thank goodness they are not as hard as Dragons, 3 reasonably high cp following mechanics can close one, otherwise I'd be giving up on them entirely when the zone quietens down.

Gythral

Broken out of the habbit of doing the current zone 3 dailies...

Nyteshade

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

I've spent 5 hours in Greymor and I've yet to see one. I guess I should just sit and wait and do nothing for 30+ minutes.

I've seen two, with the red stuff spinning around. I stood there for 5 minutes waiting to see what happens, if anything. No players showed up, and nothing happened other than it looked really neat. No NPC's or enemies or anything.

I have yet to actually even do one, and I've already given up on it.

ValueDrift

I have 23 storms completed, so far only overland gear and the occasional alchemy ingredient. Drop chances for anything meaningful must be very low.

For people not seeing storms, be aware it's possible for one storm to bug out after which no storms will spawn in that instance until next server reset. This is going on on the main instance of Blackreach on PC/EU, no storms there for 48 hours or more. But in peak hours there might be more than one instance of the zone, and you can get storms in other instances.

ValueDrift

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asuitandtyb14_ESO

I've lost any interest in chasing them. It's more stress than fun.

notyuu

They really need to hurry up with the patch to fix the "pain points" of the storms before people loose intrest entirely and they are rendered undoable

Tan9oSuccka

Rewards are really crappy. I got a 500 gold bounty edict in my last satchel and that has been probably the “best” reward so far.

I hope they make some adjustments.

SpacemanSpiff1

nope. rewards suck for an awful fight that you have to wait around forever just to take part in. usually i try to do the quest and exploration achievements for a new chapter or dlc, but I'm gonna pass on harrowstorms.