Harrowstorm Participation Since Patch

BlueRaven

Is it me, or does it seem a lot LESS people are doing the storms now.

I am guessing most people are just one and done now, if they do them at all.

Mindcr0w

It is a dead horse that has been thoroughly beaten, but the Harrowstorms really aren't rewarding enough for the effort involved.

Edaphon

I've already gotten everything I needed from them, no reason to do any more until the Greymoor motif (or something else) gets added to the daily.

tmbrinks

Midyear Mayhem, people in Cryodiil instead...

Anotherone773

Needs better rewards. To much work for trinkets. If i want to work for trinkets id do dolmens.

Fischblut

I did these only 3 times total, before the "improvements" (wanted to complete one daily, was disappointed). I do not like how these Harrowstorms are designed (many enemies, bosses + pillars with health pools of typical World Boss), so it's not fun to fight them

When I go to new zone, I do mundane things and just ignore Harrowstorms.

FierceSam

Like dragons, Harrowstorms had their moment. Greymoor has been out for over a month and the verdict from players appears to be they are dull, badly placed, don’t spawn regularly enough, and provide few rewards worth chasing... hell even the dire dragons of Northern Elsweyr flag which one is live so players know where to go.

ZOS might have initially hoped they could lorebreak their way out of the issues, but have recognised that bad game design trumps lore righteousness every time for most players. Adding weyshrines and reducing the number of storms necessary should mean that more players will be able to do them faster, although this might create a false sense that they are less popular as you won’t see large crowds waiting for ages for a particular storm to pop. But it feels a bit like too little, too late.

Truth is, they are still dull and poorly implemented and provide almost nothing of any value either in loot or quest rewards... unlike dolmens, which I will happily do if I come across one, I can’t say I’ll be interested in these once I’ve done my 30.

Red_Feather

They are nothing unique.

ArzyeL

The distance from wayshrines is the biggest issue with Harrowstorms

caperb

Like anyone has time to do the Skyrim dailies when you can farm double AP

AgaTheGreat

tbh, I don't do them because I don't know which one's active and I don't have the time to wait or search for an active one.

redlink1979

tmbrinks wrote: »

Midyear Mayhem, people in Cryodiil instead...

This ^

redlink1979

AgaTheGreat wrote: »

tbh, I don't do them because I don't know which one's active and I don't have the time to wait or search for an active one.

Blackreach harrowstorm's respawn faster. Keep an eye on zone chat, usually ppl write on zone chat which one is about to go active or which one is active atm.

Gythral

MYM and the patch is a month too late...

runa_gate

Flying robots powered by some sort of vine in the storms made not by maomer this time but the werewolves who are hanging out with vampire necromancers for some reason?

What?

I think I got a ring from one or something like that

Gythral

and the patch didnt remove 100% of all tha adds and slow the flying ewverywhere at 2E6 kph down

Shantu

While the visuals are nicely designed, like so much else in this game, the paltry RGN based rewards just are not worth the investment of time. More and more the primary reward in ESO is huge dose of annoyance.

jaws343

For me it comes down to the lackluster rewards and the difficulty solo. While these can be painstakingly soloed, the reward is not worth the effort. And the problem is, at least on console now, some of these are so far from wayshrines that you may start one and not get anyone else to show up, so you either solo it or ignore it. As of now, I do the 1 required for the daily and move on to other things. And once I complete the 30 Harrowstorm Dailies for the achievement, I probably won't do them again outside of an event or if I just happen to be next to one.

Inaya

I've never gotten anything worth a darn from them. Just green items an alchemy mat and a cheap blue non Greymoor recipe. Also NEVER gotten anything of value from the daily reward pack either.

Kagukan

On PC/NA underground is far more popular than above ground. The underground storms drop crazy fast.
I finished the achievements and really feel no need to ever go back. Wasn't much that great as far as rewards go.

Jaraal

AgaTheGreat wrote: »

tbh, I don't do them because I don't know which one's active and I don't have the time to wait or search for an active one.

Pretty much this. They spoiled us with the dragon locator/ health level map icons, not including them with the newest version of Dolmens 4.0 seems like an insult and quite a step backwards.

FlopsyPrince

I have not done much in Greymoor, but I have yet to get one of the pattern drops and that is about all the major pull. Why bother with all this hassle if nothing comes out of it?

Dagoth_Rac

Jaraal wrote: »

AgaTheGreat wrote: »

tbh, I don't do them because I don't know which one's active and I don't have the time to wait or search for an active one.

Pretty much this. They spoiled us with the dragon locator/ health level map icons, not including them with the newest version of Dolmens 4.0 seems like an insult and quite a step backwards.

How do you tell health of dragon from map marker? I see a moving icon on map and crossed swords if players are actively engaged with dragon, but not sure where this health indicator is.

SpacemanSpiff1

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Jaraal wrote: »

AgaTheGreat wrote: »

tbh, I don't do them because I don't know which one's active and I don't have the time to wait or search for an active one.

Pretty much this. They spoiled us with the dragon locator/ health level map icons, not including them with the newest version of Dolmens 4.0 seems like an insult and quite a step backwards.

How do you tell health of dragon from map marker? I see a moving icon on map and crossed swords if players are actively engaged with dragon, but not sure where this health indicator is.

at 50% health, the dragon icon gets cracks on it

Ryath_Waylander

The Harrowstorms can be beaten by 2 CP810 players with self heals. It's fairly hectic though. Also as mentioned above, they're unpredictable and even if you can see one ten sea miles away, you don't know when it's going to end and make your cross-country steeplechase worthless. I'll be honest though, the rewards are not worth the effort. Hell, at least Dolmens can drop stuff worth having. Spoiled food-0 gold was the last straw for me, wtf. They can keep them.

Lady_Sleepless

The Harrowstorms should be as rewarding as Dragons, with furnishings, maps, and decent items to sell. Otherwise people will not go through the bother to do them.
Also a lot of people are probably doing PvP at the moment.

Wing

patch is a month too late.

the only reason to do them was for a form of completionism anyway, either just marking them off, doing the daily till you get the achievement, whatever.

they remain and un fun pain, with no reason to complete them, and so people are not doing them, as expected.

Tatanko

I finished the Harrowstorm daily before the patch, and likely won't go out of my way to do one ever again except for an event. They should have patched in these fixes weeks ago, but PC is effectively a console now thanks to the handicap of Stadia.

Soulshine

I have a couple days left to complete the full deed... doing them in Blackreach is faster and easier to get done each day. People seem to be way more helpful calling them out. That said, noticed decline in participation last few days, which makes them a bit more challenging to finish, especially when there are like only 5 peeps there all in healer builds - me included, lol

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

I'm not a masochistic achievement hunter so I won't being too many of these. I've cleared both my maps so I won't be doing anymore of these unless I stumble upon an active one. Rewards are lacking, so I find no reason to waste my time on them. The only time I really had fun doing one was when I cleared one with just two other players.

CelticStones

typically, me and the wife finished the 30 daily harrowstorm quests one day before the nerf... wont be doing them again.