Elsweyr Anniversary?

Faiza

I tried searching for information on when an Elsweyr Anniversary event may happen but didn't see anything. There wasn't one in 2020, could there be one in 2021? Has there been one already and I just missed it?

Taleof2Cities

For zone events, Morrowind-Clockwork City will be coming soon on the calendar ... no firm dates yet but it should be this quarter.

Definitely after Midyear Mayhem, which is the next event this month (January).

No word on the Elsweyr Event or whether ZOS is even doing it this year.

tomofhyrule

We usually get previews of the events coming up with each PTS patch, so we might know more soon.

So far, the PTS did events for Midyear Mayhem and the Tribunal one, which we know are both coming up. After that though, we don't know.

Once the Q1 DLC goes live on PTS, which is likely to happen around the end of the month, we'll get ideas of what events they'll be bringing in for March-June timeframe.

Anotherone773

This event page from UESP won't answer your question but will tell you the general event order and dates of past events so you can get an idea of when they might try to slot it in. They typically wait at least a couple of weeks between events otherwise players get burn out.

Edit: From UESP..

"Dragon Rise
October 3 — October 14, 2019
Find Pathfinder locations for rewards

Dragon Rise was an Elsweyr-based event available to players who own the Elsweyr Chapter. The event ran from October 3 until October 14 and various rewards could be earned by adventuring in Northern Elsweyr and completing certain activities."

Tharonil

I would love to see an Elsweyr event too. Maybe they sell jodes embrace in this time.

Iccotak

Events for Previous Zones should definitely happen every year.

ZOS would benefit from keeping older content relevant, especially during the dungeon dlc quarters as not everyone plays the dungeons.

Don’t let zones go dead. Give them reasons to keep going back. Give players a reason to try it out if they haven’t.

tomofhyrule

Anotherone773 wrote: »

This event page from UESP won't answer your question but will tell you the general event order and dates of past events so you can get an idea of when they might try to slot it in. They typically wait at least a couple of weeks between events otherwise players get burn out.

Edit: From UESP..

"Dragon Rise
October 3 — October 14, 2019
Find Pathfinder locations for rewards

Dragon Rise was an Elsweyr-based event available to players who own the Elsweyr Chapter. The event ran from October 3 until October 14 and various rewards could be earned by adventuring in Northern Elsweyr and completing certain activities."

It's probably not accurate to match with Dragon Rise, since that was the 'mid year-long-story' event, similar to the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event we had right around the same time. They have a tendency to promote things every other year in celebration events, so I'd expect an Elsweyr one coming up this year.

The best comparison for Chapter-zone-which-will-be-two-years-old is the Summerset event, which was held in July. I'd guess if they're planning an Elsweyr celebration, it'd be about the same form as that one.

As to the early October celebration, we'll probably have that on whichever zone they're adding in the chapter, and it'll be the three tiers of rewards kind of thing again.

Faiza

Tharonil wrote: »

I would love to see an Elsweyr event too. Maybe they sell jodes embrace in this time.

And maybe the impressario will sell furnishings like she did for Summerset 🥺

tomofhyrule wrote: »

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Anotherone773 wrote: »

This event page from UESP won't answer your question but will tell you the general event order and dates of past events so you can get an idea of when they might try to slot it in. They typically wait at least a couple of weeks between events otherwise players get burn out.

Edit: From UESP..

"Dragon Rise
October 3 — October 14, 2019
Find Pathfinder locations for rewards

Dragon Rise was an Elsweyr-based event available to players who own the Elsweyr Chapter. The event ran from October 3 until October 14 and various rewards could be earned by adventuring in Northern Elsweyr and completing certain activities."

It's probably not accurate to match with Dragon Rise, since that was the 'mid year-long-story' event, similar to the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event we had right around the same time. They have a tendency to promote things every other year in celebration events, so I'd expect an Elsweyr one coming up this year.

The best comparison for Chapter-zone-which-will-be-two-years-old is the Summerset event, which was held in July. I'd guess if they're planning an Elsweyr celebration, it'd be about the same form as that one.

As to the early October celebration, we'll probably have that on whichever zone they're adding in the chapter, and it'll be the three tiers of rewards kind of thing again.

Edit: Sorry its Orsinium, not Dark Brotherhood, that I saw hadn't occurred in the past 2 years

Araneae6537

Faiza wrote: »

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Tharonil wrote: »

I would love to see an Elsweyr event too. Maybe they sell jodes embrace in this time.

And maybe the impressario will sell furnishings like she did for Summerset 🥺

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tomofhyrule wrote: »

Anotherone773 wrote: »

This event page from UESP won't answer your question but will tell you the general event order and dates of past events so you can get an idea of when they might try to slot it in. They typically wait at least a couple of weeks between events otherwise players get burn out.

Edit: From UESP..

"Dragon Rise
October 3 — October 14, 2019
Find Pathfinder locations for rewards

Dragon Rise was an Elsweyr-based event available to players who own the Elsweyr Chapter. The event ran from October 3 until October 14 and various rewards could be earned by adventuring in Northern Elsweyr and completing certain activities."

It's probably not accurate to match with Dragon Rise, since that was the 'mid year-long-story' event, similar to the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event we had right around the same time. They have a tendency to promote things every other year in celebration events, so I'd expect an Elsweyr one coming up this year.

The best comparison for Chapter-zone-which-will-be-two-years-old is the Summerset event, which was held in July. I'd guess if they're planning an Elsweyr celebration, it'd be about the same form as that one.

As to the early October celebration, we'll probably have that on whichever zone they're adding in the chapter, and it'll be the three tiers of rewards kind of thing again.

Edit: Sorry its Orsinium, not Dark Brotherhood, that I saw hadn't occurred in the past 2 years

There was an Orsinium event around July / August 2019, give or take a month. I remember as it was the first ESO event I took part in.

zaria

Iccotak wrote: »

Events for Previous Zones should definitely happen every year.

ZOS would benefit from keeping older content relevant, especially during the dungeon dlc quarters as not everyone plays the dungeons.

Don’t let zones go dead. Give them reasons to keep going back. Give players a reason to try it out if they haven’t.

The problem here is that the number of zones goes up.
We have 5 chapters and 5 smaller zones and counting. Perhaps have an event with multiple zones, either together or rotating.

RedMuse

Iccotak wrote: »

Events for Previous Zones should definitely happen every year.

ZOS would benefit from keeping older content relevant, especially during the dungeon dlc quarters as not everyone plays the dungeons.

Don’t let zones go dead. Give them reasons to keep going back. Give players a reason to try it out if they haven’t.

The problem with this is that even now there's far too many zones for this to be viable considering that they also need to have time in the calendar for the regular events such as MYM, Jester's and Anniversary.
I mean we have:
Thieves Guild.
Dark Brotherhood.
Murkmire.
CWC.
Morrowind.
Summerset.
Orsinium.
Elsweyr.
Skyrim/Greymoor.
Event for this year's new chapter.

On top of these the regular ones:
Jester.
Anniversary.
MYM.
IC. (Yes I know this is technically a dlc, but it's a free dlc and the only one fo two pvp events so I can't see them skipping it.)
Witches.
New Life.
Undaunted.

Even if we smush some of the DLC ones together like they're doing with CWC/Morrowind and did with DB/TG we'll end up with something like 14-15 events, which is more than one per month. Given that events tend to run a couple of weeks doing an event for every DLC each year is already untenable as it would mean non stop event and given a year or two they'd run out of space in the year.

Pixiepumpkin

RedMuse wrote: »

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Iccotak wrote: »

Events for Previous Zones should definitely happen every year.

ZOS would benefit from keeping older content relevant, especially during the dungeon dlc quarters as not everyone plays the dungeons.

Don’t let zones go dead. Give them reasons to keep going back. Give players a reason to try it out if they haven’t.

The problem with this is that even now there's far too many zones for this to be viable considering that they also need to have time in the calendar for the regular events such as MYM, Jester's and Anniversary.
I mean we have:
Thieves Guild.
Dark Brotherhood.
Murkmire.
CWC.
Morrowind.
Summerset.
Orsinium.
Elsweyr.
Skyrim/Greymoor.
Event for this year's new chapter.

On top of these the regular ones:
Jester.
Anniversary.
MYM.
IC. (Yes I know this is technically a dlc, but it's a free dlc and the only one fo two pvp events so I can't see them skipping it.)
Witches.
New Life.
Undaunted.

Even if we smush some of the DLC ones together like they're doing with CWC/Morrowind and did with DB/TG we'll end up with something like 14-15 events, which is more than one per month. Given that events tend to run a couple of weeks doing an event for every DLC each year is already untenable as it would mean non stop event and given a year or two they'd run out of space in the year.

they can do each event for 2 weeks wich is only 32 weeks based on ur list. there is 52weeks in a year. so lots of time

the game will be gone before zos runs out of weeks to do events if they add 1 event per year

RedMuse

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

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RedMuse wrote: »

Iccotak wrote: »

Events for Previous Zones should definitely happen every year.

ZOS would benefit from keeping older content relevant, especially during the dungeon dlc quarters as not everyone plays the dungeons.

Don’t let zones go dead. Give them reasons to keep going back. Give players a reason to try it out if they haven’t.

The problem with this is that even now there's far too many zones for this to be viable considering that they also need to have time in the calendar for the regular events such as MYM, Jester's and Anniversary.
I mean we have:
Thieves Guild.
Dark Brotherhood.
Murkmire.
CWC.
Morrowind.
Summerset.
Orsinium.
Elsweyr.
Skyrim/Greymoor.
Event for this year's new chapter.

On top of these the regular ones:
Jester.
Anniversary.
MYM.
IC. (Yes I know this is technically a dlc, but it's a free dlc and the only one fo two pvp events so I can't see them skipping it.)
Witches.
New Life.
Undaunted.

Even if we smush some of the DLC ones together like they're doing with CWC/Morrowind and did with DB/TG we'll end up with something like 14-15 events, which is more than one per month. Given that events tend to run a couple of weeks doing an event for every DLC each year is already untenable as it would mean non stop event and given a year or two they'd run out of space in the year.

they can do each event for 2 weeks wich is only 32 weeks based on ur list. there is 52weeks in a year. so lots of time

the game will be gone before zos runs out of weeks to do events if they add 1 event per year

52-32=20. Which means less than half the year without events. Let me tell you this, constant events is not good for a game, it leads to player burnout and is generally a sign of a declining player base (or it soon will be because players get too much and give up).

I've played a lot of MMOs over the years and generally, constant running of events is really not good for the health of a game. If you don't give breaks and let players "catch up", they tend to leave. A good rule of thumb is no more than half the year filled with events to let players do other stuff.

Plus you'd really need to deduct time here also for launch of expansions of which there four per year which need their own in-game attention, even barring an event surrounding it. So really there's a lot less time than you assume. And I repeat, year round events are not a good idea.

Faiza

RedMuse wrote: »

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Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

RedMuse wrote: »

Iccotak wrote: »

Events for Previous Zones should definitely happen every year.

ZOS would benefit from keeping older content relevant, especially during the dungeon dlc quarters as not everyone plays the dungeons.

Don’t let zones go dead. Give them reasons to keep going back. Give players a reason to try it out if they haven’t.

The problem with this is that even now there's far too many zones for this to be viable considering that they also need to have time in the calendar for the regular events such as MYM, Jester's and Anniversary.
I mean we have:
Thieves Guild.
Dark Brotherhood.
Murkmire.
CWC.
Morrowind.
Summerset.
Orsinium.
Elsweyr.
Skyrim/Greymoor.
Event for this year's new chapter.

On top of these the regular ones:
Jester.
Anniversary.
MYM.
IC. (Yes I know this is technically a dlc, but it's a free dlc and the only one fo two pvp events so I can't see them skipping it.)
Witches.
New Life.
Undaunted.

Even if we smush some of the DLC ones together like they're doing with CWC/Morrowind and did with DB/TG we'll end up with something like 14-15 events, which is more than one per month. Given that events tend to run a couple of weeks doing an event for every DLC each year is already untenable as it would mean non stop event and given a year or two they'd run out of space in the year.

they can do each event for 2 weeks wich is only 32 weeks based on ur list. there is 52weeks in a year. so lots of time

the game will be gone before zos runs out of weeks to do events if they add 1 event per year

52-32=20. Which means less than half the year without events. Let me tell you this, constant events is not good for a game, it leads to player burnout and is generally a sign of a declining player base (or it soon will be because players get too much and give up).

I've played a lot of MMOs over the years and generally, constant running of events is really not good for the health of a game. If you don't give breaks and let players "catch up", they tend to leave. A good rule of thumb is no more than half the year filled with events to let players do other stuff.

Plus you'd really need to deduct time here also for launch of expansions of which there four per year which need their own in-game attention, even barring an event surrounding it. So really there's a lot less time than you assume. And I repeat, year round events are not a good idea.

Well...right now players are waiting years for limited time items from these DLCs to crawl back around and everyone is pretty unhappy about that so...Idk I just think maybe we could try more events to just see how it goes 😅

Faiza

Plus, I don't think people would feel pressured to do every event if they knew their favorite dlcs were going to get an event every year.

I hate Morrowind, Vvardenfell, Clockwork City, really just anything to do with Dark Elves to be honest. But if since we only have a few events per year, if I don't want to miss out on tickets I have no choice but to participate in an event for a dlc I don't like this year.

Whereas, if I knew, if I skipped Clockwork City I would still get to do Elsweyr, Orsinium, Thieves Guild later in the year, then I don't feel like I need to do all the other events, I can focus on and plan for the ones I do like.

Taleof2Cities

Faiza wrote: »

Well...right now players are waiting years for limited time items from these DLCs to crawl back around and everyone is pretty unhappy about that so...Idk I just think maybe we could try more events to just see how it goes 😅

That's not true across the entire playerbase, though, @Faiza.

Players that have been around for older DLC events have been able to participate and get what they've wanted for rewards.

Bringing back those events for the sole purpose of satisfying new players' unfinished collections isn't really in everyone's (nor ZOS's) interest.

Just like any other MMO, if players pick up the game late there will invariably be rewards that are missed ...

Faiza

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

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Faiza wrote: »

Well...right now players are waiting years for limited time items from these DLCs to crawl back around and everyone is pretty unhappy about that so...Idk I just think maybe we could try more events to just see how it goes 😅

That's not true across the entire playerbase, though, @Faiza.

Players that have been around for older DLC events have been able to participate and get what they've wanted for rewards.

Bringing back those events for the sole purpose of satisfying new players' unfinished collections isn't really in everyone's (nor ZOS's) interest.

Just like any other MMO, if players pick up the game late there will invariably be rewards that are missed ...

It is not just new players who are unhappy with the LTO model, you can look at any thread about it to see that.

SeaGtGruff

Regarding the number of DLC and chapter zones, it would make sense to have combined events which are either related by release year (story arc) or share the same month of release.

Combining unrelated zones based on their month of release may seem like a bad idea in that the zones might not share any common themes, but it would make sense as far as marking the anniversaries of their releases, which could work to ZOS's benefit by encouraging new players to purchase those DLCs at the same time if they were put on sale together.

And if an event were to involve multiple unrelated zones, with each zone's activities potentially rewarding the full number of tickets per day-- rather than some from zone A and some from zone B-- it might encourage players who don't care for a given zone and its event activities to participate in the event anyway, by doing the event activities in the zone(s) that they do enjoy without being forced, for the sake of tickets, to do the event activities they don't care for.

I'm not sure if that would be a workable idea, but it might make for an interesting alternative to grouping by year of release.

Red_Feather

Maybe they could have a month where each week is a different big zone. Morrowind, Summerset, Elsweyr, Skyrim.

barney2525

The last time something special was done for the Khajiit, Dragons were let loose all over there home.

They had a meeting and have decided they would like people to Not have any more special celebrations for them.

GreenhaloX

Speaking of Elsweyr.. Why don't we get the actual Sai Sahan's shoulder piece? The current two shoulder pieces that look like roaring panthers are not the same as the one Sai is actually using in Southern Elsweyr. I would like that one; Sai's actual one-piece shoulder armor.

VilniusNastavnik

I'm waiting for a murkmire event.

Just returned to the game and trying to catch up on all motifs I missed out on, but there is never anyone doing world bosses. Especially Murkmire.

eg Checks TTC.
Dead Water Chest
1. 44K 1 hour ago.
2. 110K 20 minutes ago.

Guess which one was bought and relisted by scalpers.

SDKTJ

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Speaking of Elsweyr.. Why don't we get the actual Sai Sahan's shoulder piece? The current two shoulder pieces that look like roaring panthers are not the same as the one Sai is actually using in Southern Elsweyr. I would like that one; Sai's actual one-piece shoulder armor.

All of the companion's motifs are based off their base game gear. Which is a shame since Abnur's Elsweyr armour looks nice, same with Lyris's new gear in Skyrim.