What's blackwood's world event?

Starlight_Whisper

Like there's gysers, harrowstorms, dolmens, Dragons, but what's blackwoods?

Marillea

Oblivion Portals. They are fairly small, but are orange and emit a beam of the same color.
They teleport you into an instance looking like a public dungeon, kinda. You practically run through, ignore all mobs, do this 4 or so times till you enter the last boss arena. You can then camp it and kill it in a loop.
A bit disappoiting, but that is how most of them are being done on PC EU. If you arrive too late, you can just afk for a few minutes till it's up again.

cnyanes

The Oblivion ripoff style gates that show up randomly.

Red_Feather

I hope the deadland meta event gets some tweaks. I'd love for a couple of things.

Bigger light column that can be seen from farther. I rarely notice portals and most times when someone in chat asks about it they get shot down by people calling them lazy. That's not how I thought this would play out. I have called out the two or three I found since release, but I sometimes just run by a portal not caring to let zone chat know because of the next part...

It feels like the exact same path every time and it gets stale so fast. Even if random clutter and structures plopped down to make the path feel different than the last time you went through a portal would help alleviate that feeling of apathy towards it. If one time you enter the portal and the path has a wooden gate with deadric archers on top raining arrows down that'll feel like fresh challenge to get through than just the same thing every portal. But I'm sure that'll get boring too if it's just the same thing over and over still.

SydneyGrey

cnyanes wrote: »

The Oblivion ripoff style gates that show up randomly.

Well Oblivion was set in the same world as ESO, so ....

ShawnLaRock

I really wish the Oblivion Gates were larger and much more OMINOUS! As small as they look ATM, they don’t inherently indicate any real danger.

S.

MasterWarrior

I think if you complete all the small obivion portals a bigger one should open up.

Starlight_Whisper

babykubrow wrote: »

Oblivion Portals. They are fairly small, but are orange and emit a beam of the same color.
They teleport you into an instance looking like a public dungeon, kinda. You practically run through, ignore all mobs, do this 4 or so times till you enter the last boss arena. You can then camp it and kill it in a loop.
A bit disappoiting, but that is how most of them are being done on PC EU. If you arrive too late, you can just afk for a few minutes till it's up again.

Are they marked with a symbol in map?

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

Starlight_Whisper wrote: »

babykubrow wrote: »

Oblivion Portals. They are fairly small, but are orange and emit a beam of the same color.
They teleport you into an instance looking like a public dungeon, kinda. You practically run through, ignore all mobs, do this 4 or so times till you enter the last boss arena. You can then camp it and kill it in a loop.
A bit disappoiting, but that is how most of them are being done on PC EU. If you arrive too late, you can just afk for a few minutes till it's up again.

Are they marked with a symbol in map?

No. The whole intention is that they should be somewhat difficult to find - although if you patrol the main roads, it's not that hard to find a portal.

SeaGtGruff

No, they don't show up on the map at all, but they only spawn at certain locations, so they'll probably eventually get added to the map by some add-on apps if they haven't already been.

DaiKahn

MasterWarrior wrote: »

I think if you complete all the small obivion portals a bigger one should open up.

To add to your idea: I think if you complete all the small Obivion portals a bigger one should open up, releasing monsters out into the wild that invade all parts of the surrounding area, just like in the trailer

Starlight_Whisper

Thanks

prof-dracko

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

I really wish the Oblivion Gates were larger and much more OMINOUS! As small as they look ATM, they don’t inherently indicate any real danger.

S.

It's honestly bizarre. In this chapter they also made the assets for smaller portal archways, as well as the animations for them opening and vanishing. You encounter dozens in the main bloody quest of this zone, but they decided on generic red 2D gifs for their big selling point?

Alurria

When I find one I camp it for two or three bosses, because I can. I feel like I'm on rails when I enter one. You can't get too far off the road without being stopped. Above ground dungeon's.

Czeri

The rewards for doing them need to be better. Currently it's just wasted effort. Maybe if they had guaranteed companion gear drops from the last chest or something...

Fennwitty

There's no need to run around and have people call out where they are because once inside you can stay and camp the boss every 5 minutes. Completely kills any excitement of trying to track down the portals and shut them ASAP.

Starlight_Whisper

Czeri wrote: »

The rewards for doing them need to be better. Currently it's just wasted effort. Maybe if they had guaranteed companion gear drops from the last chest or something...

Is it just generic rewards like gold and trash?

BlueRaven

Starlight_Whisper wrote: »

Czeri wrote: »

The rewards for doing them need to be better. Currently it's just wasted effort. Maybe if they had guaranteed companion gear drops from the last chest or something...

Is it just generic rewards like gold and trash?

Think harrowstorms or dragons but blander.

The nicest thing I got from one was a purple vendor item worth 1500, but that is a rare drop I think.

SammyKhajit

They should open the oblivion portals in towns and villages. That way you get more of a sense of urgency in closing them.