Please make more quest like "Plucking the Crow"

Fhritz

I would love to see the same sort of "group boss" for the next event ! Maybe add some rewards or achievements, but this is really cool ! Plus it allows people to fight together rather than farm the event alone, and I LOVE this kind of activities

Toxic_Hemlock

Fhritz wrote: »

I would love to see the same sort of "group boss" for the next event ! Maybe add some rewards or achievements, but this is really cool ! Plus it allows people to fight together rather than farm the event alone, and I LOVE this kind of activities

I solo 99.9% of the content due to many reasons, hence I bought the latest DLC for the companion. This boss event for me is a skip, due to not being able to complete it even with said companion. I am glad you enjoy it but I'll just do my regular routine and pretend it don't exist. Honestly, I would have preferred an open world boss to this.

On the bright side though I may actually be able to complete some map WB sites now.

Grega

Fhritz wrote: »

I would love to see the same sort of "group boss" for the next event ! Maybe add some rewards or achievements, but this is really cool ! Plus it allows people to fight together rather than farm the event alone, and I LOVE this kind of activities

They shouldn’t make it instanced tho because they way it’s designed it points to solo play

Astiron

Grega wrote: »

They shouldn’t make it instanced tho because they way it’s designed it points to solo play

Agreed. Would have been much better if it was like a public dungeon. It was a nice change, but between the grouping and the lack of any real rewards I feel like once was enough for me.

AcadianPaladin

I'm perfectly happy with most aspects of most events, but I found this one to be an epic fail. This one should have been a public instance or soloable but NOT an unsoloable private instance.

KalyanLazair

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

I'm perfectly happy with most aspects of most events, but I found this one to be an epic fail. This one should have been a public instance or soloable but NOT an unsoloable private instance.

It's not unsoloable, but I agree that it is a tough fight and you don't really get many indications that you're supposed to group up before you jump into the instance. I figured it out once I was already inside, and I was too lazy to go back out and find someone to fight the boss with me.

Arunei

The idea is nice, the implementation is shoddy. I went into this fight excited but was disappointed that the boss apparently doesn't drop ANYTHING and the only thing you get for doing the quest is 3 Plunder Skulls.

TequilaFire

Going to skip as well because I keep getting the stamina bug and weapon bars not swapping problems.
Hard is one thing buggy and hard is another.
Finally grouped up and the pug took 3 tries to get it. lmao

Delfelnias

Astiron wrote: »

Grega wrote: »

They shouldn’t make it instanced tho because they way it’s designed it points to solo play

Agreed. Would have been much better if it was like a public dungeon. It was a nice change, but between the grouping and the lack of any real rewards I feel like once was enough for me.

If it was a public dungeon, then it would die in 5 seconds, there would be no challenge, which is missing from ESO outside of vet dungeons. Either make it a private solo instance (lower health, lower damage), or scale with the number of players there are (both health and damage).

CyberOnEso

I love the idea behind this, I would have absolutely loved it if it had a hard mode banner next to the portal to make the fight into more of an event or challenge. But adding these kinds of special bosses is a great idea.

I don't think it necessarily needs to drop anything to be an enjoyable experience but just add a hard-mode banner to make the fight an interesting new bit of content. There has been thought put into this, clearly, with the spiders and snakes coming from the cauldrons and the tombstones summoning zombies. But just make it a challenge for each player by letting them set the difficulty for them, making it a more memorable experience for more players.

AcadianPaladin

After thinking about it, the answer seems as follows:

A choice at the portal of public or private instance. If public instance, scale the boss to the number of players.

Hurbster

So it's the ESO version of the Headless Horseman boss in WoW?

Azphel

Soloed it on a magblade. I wouldn't say it's hard, but you have to focus on tombstones and stay on the move. Adding a line of dialogue about "gathering allies" or a confirmation pop-up to enter the instanced zone alone would solve the problem of people being unpleasantly surprised by the difficulty.

I think it's a good addition to the event, even if the rewards are a bit lacking. 300 gold and 3 plunder skulls won't make people feel like they've missed out if they don't do it, at least.

Treeshka

It is a nice addition but that boss can be killed solo as usual.

Gythral

Please dont!

TequilaFire

I question the enhanced reward part as my 3 boxes had lower quality junk in them than the boxes I got for regular overland stuff. I used more potions fighting than what the rewards were worth.
Companions last about 20 seconds. lmao

TheGrognard

As one in the Filthy Casual camp; I did it once. Not worth the time and energy for the reward. I'll go do laps in a Public Dungeon.

trackdemon5512

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If you engage in PVE it’s impossible to not accumulate the requisite feathers.
- several skulls for public dungeons
- several skulls for a dungeon
- several skulls for a trial
- several skulls for an arena
- easy skulls for world bosses, insurgents, delve bosses
- random skulls from a myriad of enemies

There is no real barrier to entry if you do ANY PVE content

If a player is not engaging in any PVE then why should harder PVE content be designed for them?

spartaxoxo

trackdemon5512 wrote:

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If you engage in PVE it’s impossible to not accumulate the requisite feathers.
- several skulls for public dungeons
- several skulls for a dungeon
- several skulls for a trial
- several skulls for an arena
- easy skulls for world bosses, insurgents, delve bosses
- random skulls from a myriad of enemies

There is no real barrier to entry if you do ANY PVE content

If a player is not engaging in any PVE then why should harder PVE content be designed for them?

Won't get skulls while farming crafting mats, won't get skulls while pvp'ing (plenty of people transition to pvp when pve gets dull and would be enticed back by harder content), won't get skulls while decorating.

daim

Tbh i was surprised to die on the first try. On the second try after a bit of prepping up got it down with semistamvampblade on crafted purple gear and pretty random build. Shouldnt be a problem with main stamblade/magplar.

But yea I can imagine it might be a hard to solo without cp.

Raideen

Toxic_Hemlock wrote: »

Fhritz wrote: »

I would love to see the same sort of "group boss" for the next event ! Maybe add some rewards or achievements, but this is really cool ! Plus it allows people to fight together rather than farm the event alone, and I LOVE this kind of activities

I solo 99.9% of the content due to many reasons, hence I bought the latest DLC for the companion. This boss event for me is a skip, due to not being able to complete it even with said companion. I am glad you enjoy it but I'll just do my regular routine and pretend it don't exist. Honestly, I would have preferred an open world boss to this.

On the bright side though I may actually be able to complete some map WB sites now.

I solod the boss first try on a Templar and I am a pretty average player.

Fight was only hard cause I started running out of magicka and I had Nuzimeh slotted, not a potion.

Parasaurolophus

It was not too difficult and quite fun. Thanks ZoS!

coop500

I haven't done it yet but what I heard sounds great, I look forward to attempting to solo it.

trackdemon5512

spartaxoxo wrote: »

trackdemon5512 wrote: »

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If you engage in PVE it’s impossible to not accumulate the requisite feathers.
- several skulls for public dungeons
- several skulls for a dungeon
- several skulls for a trial
- several skulls for an arena
- easy skulls for world bosses, insurgents, delve bosses
- random skulls from a myriad of enemies

There is no real barrier to entry if you do ANY PVE content

If a player is not engaging in any PVE then why should harder PVE content be designed for them?

Won't get skulls while farming crafting mats, won't get skulls while pvp'ing (plenty of people transition to pvp when pve gets dull and would be enticed back by harder content), won't get skulls while decorating.

Those activities are specifically not engaging in PVE. Again, if you aren’t participating in even basic PVE then why would a developer spend time trying to entice you with content above that? Why not just tweak the regular level content.

You must not want to engage in any PVE at all in order to not get plunder skulls because even quest bosses drop them.

Magdalina

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

I'm perfectly happy with most aspects of most events, but I found this one to be an epic fail. This one should have been a public instance or soloable but NOT an unsoloable private instance.

No, it absolutely shouldn't have (been public). It's absolutely soloable, easier than many WB even. If you need help with it, do group up, I'm seeing non-stop 'LFG for Crow' spam in zone chat, shouldn't be an issue. But finally finally FINALLY you have an option to actually go there alone and experience the fight for yourself and even die maybe, not watch something die to 50+ people before it even fully spawns. Finally something in an event for higher level players too.

That said, I wouldn't actually call it the funest fight they've ever made. Standard lots of AoEs, standard lots of ads, standard wraith-of-crows flying attacks, tombstones being one standing out mechanic but still one I could mostly ignore...they could've done something a lot more interesting but I guess it's more a test than anything. And as such, I couldn't approve more, finally something actually scary-feeling to do, finally taking a fight that's supposed to be challenging to an instance AND finally making it actually put up a fight! Yay!

I do think it should either drop something special or come with some achievement though, that'd only make sense and encourage more people to do it. But it's a great start. Please, by all means, DO bring us more stuff like this.

Colecovision

Fhritz wrote: »

I would love to see the same sort of "group boss" for the next event ! Maybe add some rewards or achievements, but this is really cool ! Plus it allows people to fight together rather than farm the event alone, and I LOVE this kind of activities

I absolutely loved it! Just right for soloing too. I was so happy to get my own instance and it wasn't just a zerg fest. I definitely want more of this.

imno007b14_ESO

I think this is the quest that just totally boinked the game for me. Didn't notice the name of it at the time, but you go through a portal and fight this big dude with wings and a bunch of adds spawn out of tombstones...? If so, I beat him, and then the next step was to go talk to Witchmother Taerma, but unfortunately I couldn't portal out, it kept porting back to the boss every time I stepped into the portal, and trying to use a waypoint did the same thing. So I quit the game to see if that might fix things, and now I can't log back in with the character I was doing the quest with. I can log in with other characters, but that one character hangs on "Requesting character load" forever.

daim

Yea it was a fun surprise. Even that theres basically no rewards doing it, it was still something refreshing. Two achievements with group and solo titles.

colossalvoids

Yeah would love those sprinkled if appropriate from time to time. And I just love the fact it's instanced so you decide if you want to actually do it or bring a buddy if unable to or just new to the game to figure.

Also it's not forced to anyone as zero achievements attached and rewards aren't anything special. Could imagine people screaming left and right if it was strictly solo, achievement attached and some actual reward present as according to forums some had issues clearing it.

Bobby's_UserID

Wait, this was a group boss? Now I understand why people where spamming +crow...

Toxic_Hemlock

Raideen wrote: »

Toxic_Hemlock wrote: »

Fhritz wrote: »

I would love to see the same sort of "group boss" for the next event ! Maybe add some rewards or achievements, but this is really cool ! Plus it allows people to fight together rather than farm the event alone, and I LOVE this kind of activities

I solo 99.9% of the content due to many reasons, hence I bought the latest DLC for the companion. This boss event for me is a skip, due to not being able to complete it even with said companion. I am glad you enjoy it but I'll just do my regular routine and pretend it don't exist. Honestly, I would have preferred an open world boss to this.

On the bright side though I may actually be able to complete some map WB sites now.

I solod the boss first try on a Templar and I am a pretty average player.

Fight was only hard cause I started running out of magicka and I had Nuzimeh slotted, not a potion.

Oh I wish I was your average player. I bought the companion DLC simply to have a tank/healer to adventure with and "HELP" when needed. If your average player can solo it then when you put in a companion it should be easy, but alas it is not. The rewards are garbage so I hear, but for me as a filthy casual that enjoys the overland I will just skip it. It won't be the first thing I skip due to being unable to finish (trials, arenas, vet content etc. etc.)

But as this was, I'm guessing, intended to be a fun event for the masses, it is a fail from this filthy casual.