Whitestrake's Mayhem when?

Call_of_Red_Mountain

I hoped pvp event will be in January. But I checked crown store and see that next event will be pve again. Pvp community needs more love, zos. Also Cyrodiil was very unstable lately. Please, fix it.

aleksandr_ESO

Call_of_Red_Mountain wrote: »

But I checked crown store and see that next event will be pve again. Pvp community needs more love, zos.

two pvp events every year, no matter what is there in January

Call_of_Red_Mountain

aleksandr_ESO wrote: »

Call_of_Red_Mountain wrote: »

But I checked crown store and see that next event will be pve again. Pvp community needs more love, zos.

two pvp events every year, no matter what is there in January

I'm asking why it's not in January this time. Check January crown store showcase. No Mayhem items there. Means no Mayhem in January.

The_Saint

January: Deadric War ( PVE Summerset, CWC, Morrowind)
February: Whitestrike Mayhem
March: Jesterfestival
April: 8th Birthday

In 2021 Whitestrike was 28.01.2021 - 09.02.2021

Call_of_Red_Mountain

The_Saint wrote: »

January: Deadric War ( PVE Summerset, CWC, Morrowind)
February: Whitestrike Mayhem
March: Jesterfestival
April: 8th Birthday

In 2021 Whitestrike was 28.01.2021 - 09.02.2021

OK. Ty. Early February I guess.

Jeirno

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Call_of_Red_Mountain

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Midyear Mayhem started in 2017. This is part of ESO for long time now. So I don't know what u mean. Cyrodiil unstable tho. Yes. But they'll add more campaigns as always.

Scallan

Now that it's February I would also like to know.

Arunei

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

Xandreia_

Arunei wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

It's to make the pve'ers think we over exaggerate 😂

Dagoth_Rac

Arunei wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

Two possibilities:

1). ZOS add more server resources (processors, memory, bandwidth, whatever) during Mayhem,
or,
2). Lots of casuals come into PVP during Mayhem looking for event tickets or to unlock Vigor or whatever. They spend forever riding to fights because they go in a straight line and hit a river or mountain or something, not understanding mile gates or bridges or how choke points work in PVP. Then when they arrive, they do bow light attacks in random green light armor. They die in 30 seconds and spend another 5 minutes riding back. So, Cyrodiil is pop-locked during Mayhem, but there is actually less PVP going on. And when PVP does happen, it is "low APM" players who are not doing coordinated wombo combos.

Maybe a little of both? I doubt ZOS will ever share the exact details.

Stamicka

Arunei wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

I don’t think they “boost server performance” during the event. Last year, Grey Host and Blackreach were as unplayable as ever. Maybe people are experiencing less lag in the added campaigns and they are assuming that the performance is good everywhere. I doubt they secretly have the ability to make PvP work well, it’s probably something related to adding fresh campaigns.

zaria

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Arunei wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

Two possibilities:

1). ZOS add more server resources (processors, memory, bandwidth, whatever) during Mayhem,
or,
2). Lots of casuals come into PVP during Mayhem looking for event tickets or to unlock Vigor or whatever. They spend forever riding to fights because they go in a straight line and hit a river or mountain or something, not understanding mile gates or bridges or how choke points work in PVP. Then when they arrive, they do bow light attacks in random green light armor. They die in 30 seconds and spend another 5 minutes riding back. So, Cyrodiil is pop-locked during Mayhem, but there is actually less PVP going on. And when PVP does happen, it is "low APM" players who are not doing coordinated wombo combos.

Maybe a little of both? I doubt ZOS will ever share the exact details.

Its 2) had they simply could pay to get better performance they would do it rather than spend all the time trying to improve it.
But its more than just very bad players, its also that so many more players now do pvp that pvp guilds are unable to get groups in the primary campaigns because queue times and spread out on the overflow servers so fewer huge and long fights.

joerginger

Stamicka wrote: »

Arunei wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

I don’t think they “boost server performance” during the event. Last year, Grey Host and Blackreach were as unplayable as ever. Maybe people are experiencing less lag in the added campaigns and they are assuming that the performance is good everywhere. I doubt they secretly have the ability to make PvP work well, it’s probably something related to adding fresh campaigns.

I believe the miracle of improved performance happened exacltly once during the event, and that was two years ago or so. Last year it was as bad during the event as it always is. Both times.

belial5221_ESO

I'm guessing MYM is from 10th til possibly 22nd or 24th.Seeing imperial stuff is in the showcase for those times,and would give the 2 weekends for necks and rings in the golden.

PeacefulAnarchy

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

2). Lots of casuals come into PVP during Mayhem looking for event tickets or to unlock Vigor or whatever. They spend forever riding to fights because they go in a straight line and hit a river or mountain or something, not understanding mile gates or bridges or how choke points work in PVP. Then when they arrive, they do bow light attacks in random green light armor. They die in 30 seconds and spend another 5 minutes riding back. So, Cyrodiil is pop-locked during Mayhem, but there is actually less PVP going on. And when PVP does happen, it is "low APM" players who are not doing coordinated wombo combos.

LOL, this was my first cyro experience perfectly described.

Sluggy

I don't know what servers these others that claim are running smoothly are on but I think the rest of us would like to know. As for those of us in reality, we've been stuck with some of the very worst lag imaginable during these events. Last summer was some of the worst lag I've ever seen in the game period and it never really seemed to recover even after the event ended. (and for the record I 100% agree with the post above that it is very likely that the illusion of "better servers" is simply due to less hardcore ballgroups playing at certain times).

I've since stopped playing so I don't have any skin in the game one way or the other but at this time I think if they are going to follow through on their promise of not doing anything to make game performance worse then they need to just forego this event until they can find a way to fix the game. If that means permanently then so be it. It's not going to make anyone happy. PvPers or otherwise.

Lumsdenml

Can't wait for this event. Dusting off my bowblade gank build to camp quest givers!!!

AcadianPaladin

We know the event is planned for Feb. It is Feb now and we are rapidly approaching the middle of the month. . . . More than a couple days advance notice would be helpful.

Jaraal

Stamicka wrote: »

Arunei wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

I don’t think they “boost server performance” during the event. Last year, Grey Host and Blackreach were as unplayable as ever. Maybe people are experiencing less lag in the added campaigns and they are assuming that the performance is good everywhere. I doubt they secretly have the ability to make PvP work well, it’s probably something related to adding fresh campaigns.

Yes, in previous years they boosted performance during the event. But since the Microsoft acquisition, performance has remained the same or worse during the event. The details as to why are kept hidden from us.

SeaGtGruff

In previous years, they generally added more campaigns to Cyrodiil and Imperial City for the event, which is presumably why players said that performance improved. I don't know whether the additional campaigns were added by adding more servers or just by reallocating resources among the existing servers, but the widespread assumption is that ZOS added more servers. If that's correct, it might be that shortages and delivery problems caused by the pandemic interfered with adding more servers for the event during the last year or two.

jaws343

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Arunei wrote: »

Jeirno wrote: »

wow pog, lets have a event that just makes cyro lag even more pogchamps

Actually, MYM is the time of the year when Cryo tends to run the smoothest. They always add more campaigns and somehow boost server performance. It's what makes people so mad over the state of PvP during the rest of the year.

Two possibilities:

1). ZOS add more server resources (processors, memory, bandwidth, whatever) during Mayhem,
or,
2). Lots of casuals come into PVP during Mayhem looking for event tickets or to unlock Vigor or whatever. They spend forever riding to fights because they go in a straight line and hit a river or mountain or something, not understanding mile gates or bridges or how choke points work in PVP. Then when they arrive, they do bow light attacks in random green light armor. They die in 30 seconds and spend another 5 minutes riding back. So, Cyrodiil is pop-locked during Mayhem, but there is actually less PVP going on. And when PVP does happen, it is "low APM" players who are not doing coordinated wombo combos.

Maybe a little of both? I doubt ZOS will ever share the exact details.

I think it is actually slightly 2, but for a different reason.

The majority of casual players will join the zerg in a campaign that is rotating keeps. So you barely end up running against enemy players where lag is going to cause a problem. You just ride with the zerg from keep to keep for AP. So it seems like better server performance. But really it is just players barely casting skills. Tons of players on screen, but less need for constant skill usage.

But, in those same campaigns, the moment you end up in a real siege, performance craters and you are more likely to crash and miss out on AP than you are to gain any. Because players are spamming skills and effects on screen constantly.

And MYM heavily promotes AP farming while avoiding major fights, so the zerg train is immensely popular. You could ride that train for 8+ hours and barely actually end up in intensive fights.

FluffWit

Another month of the community having no clue what events start when. No surprise here.

Anyones in all likelyhood it will be starting around Feb 27th or 28th. That's based on the monthly crown store showcase featuring a lot things that arent related to this event that will be for sale up until Feb 27th.

PeacefulAnarchy

FluffWit wrote: »

Another month of the community having no clue what events start when. No surprise here.

Anyones in all likelyhood it will be starting around Feb 27th or 28th. That's based on the monthly crown store showcase featuring a lot things that arent related to this event that will be for sale up until Feb 27th.

It's more likely going to be the 17th, because nothing in the store is starting the 17th, and events start on Thursdays. It would end on the 1st, in that case.

Call_of_Red_Mountain

FluffWit

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

FluffWit wrote: »

Another month of the community having no clue what events start when. No surprise here.

Anyones in all likelyhood it will be starting around Feb 27th or 28th. That's based on the monthly crown store showcase featuring a lot things that arent related to this event that will be for sale up until Feb 27th.

It's more likely going to be the 17th, because nothing in the store is starting the 17th, and events start on Thursdays. It would end on the 1st, in that case.

Interesting, hope you're right!