Daily Quest "Notes of the Void" bugged?

Jaraal

Jinxxy85 wrote: »

I have no idea how this was handled when it released on pc last week, but for us on PS4 EU this is absolutely abysmal. There is literally a group of people killing the boss purely for the purpose of stopping others from being able to complete their daily.

Been a nightmare for us as well.... only longer.

I've tried to figure out what they were thinking with this, but still drawing a blank.

IWinWithPewPew

The person responsible for programming this should be fired. Biggest troll in the company for sure.

What kind of mechanic is : dont kill the boss ? Its rediculous.

jaws343

IWinWithPewPew wrote: »

The person responsible for programming this should be fired. Biggest troll in the company for sure.

What kind of mechanic is : dont kill the boss ? Its rediculous.

It's the opposite mechanic of the world boss in Southern Elsweyr where targeting the adds deals damage to you. The difference is targeting the adds kills you there and targeting the boss here has no negative impact other than the failed completion.

PizzaCat82

Any world boss that requires 100% cooperation from every single person present is going to fail miserably.

Whoever thought this mechanic up should apologize for it.

ob1ken0bi

I don’t understand why this has to wait until next patch. Obviously it disrupting the game and a lot of name calling is being caused by this. I am sure there have been complaints already about user abuse. It’s kind stop all day. Do they want this anger activity to continue until a patch is released? Makes no sense.
And to have this mechanic when you all know everyone is going there to play as soon as it’s released. You have 2 WB with 30 people waiting for it to respawn lol. Voidmother is extremely weak. The pets kill her by themselves lol

tomofhyrule

It's not a 'don't attack the boss' mechanic. It's a bug.

Fortunately, there's a fix: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/551642/voidmother-elgroalif-four-skull-lookout-fix-how-to-guide

Someone needs to taunt her and drag her out of range. Once she resets, then it should be good to kill her and get the achievement and quest completion. PC's been able to clear is several times with this trick.

Jinxxy85

tomofhyrule wrote: »

It's not a 'don't attack the boss' mechanic. It's a bug.

Fortunately, there's a fix: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/551642/voidmother-elgroalif-four-skull-lookout-fix-how-to-guide

Someone needs to taunt her and drag her out of range. Once she resets, then it should be good to kill her and get the achievement and quest completion. PC's been able to clear is several times with this trick.

One or two people were actively attempting this last night, but the boss is literally melted quicker than it could be taunted away. The more wound up the people needing it for the daily got in zone chat, the more people came over to try and wind them up more. It was an absolute shambles and everyone was at each others throats for hours.

Pauwer

This boss mech is a 100% dumb idea.

anitajoneb17_ESO

My experience with this boss is that people yell at others to not damage her, then damage her themselves to collect the loot. Whether there's really a "trick" or a "bug" or whatever, or not, this thing is abused by many players who just want to farm the boss, don't care about quest objective or completion, and therefore want to be able to loot every time.
It's not that people don't read instructions. It's more that they don't trust said instructions, and apparently, rightfully so.

Jaraal

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

Whoever thought this mechanic up should apologize for it.

There seems to be a recent trend of making things confusing and frustrating for the players.

Take the world events for instance. They wisely made the geysers scale to the number of people involved, and they introduced helpful interactive map icons with the dragons. Then suddenly, we are treated to a 180 with a game of find the harrowstorm, and prepare to be slaughtered over and over again if you don't bring enough players or the players don't follow the mechanics.

I shudder to think of what the next world events will be like.

SerraKBella

I just spent 20 tries in a row trying to complete this WB daily (Xbox NA). People were trying to explain to the new people what to do, but there is no way to make a mass of people who are used to just killing the world boss stop and try to see that this one is different.

I thought I had done it the first time myself and went to go turn it in and realized I had missed something. There really is so much confusion around this that the area just became too toxic. People are really frustrated about this.

ZOS could you please tell us if this is a bug or intended mechanic that we all just have to learn how to achieve. I still don't know exactly how to "stop the ritual", I thought I had, we killed 7-8 waves of adds, but then the world boss dies and the daily is not completed. How many waves to we need to get through or is there something else?

Killing the world boss seems like it should end the ritual, but alas it does not. So bug or mechanic?

Gamergirl1973

Hello all,
I too have been struggling with completing the daily associated with this world boss. The work around is no longer working. Perhaps ZOS could work on getting this one fixed sooner rather than later. Thank you all!

Gamergirl1973

Good news! They just posted a hotfix that should fix the problem! I will give it a try later today. Thanks ZOS!