High Isle surveys

ApoAlaia

I just got two surveys for High Isle today, just approached the first one (blacksmithing) and... well, is like the blacksmithing survey in Blackwood before it was changed because the original layout was asinine.

I... am lost for words.

So far it would seem that nothing was taken onboard from the feedback provided regarding surveys in the previous chapter.

heinousmoz

Wait, you're telling me that after taking on board feedback on how bad the surveys were to gather in Blackwood then changing them they've done exactly the same thing again?

Next you'll be telling me there's a lead that doesn't drop on release...

Mr_Stach

FluffWit

I swear whoever lays them out has never actually played the game and thinks the surveys are supposed to be some fun find the treasure mini game.

I'm not even trying to hate on them. Blackwood I'd imagine someone else came along and fixed it but they didnt bother telling the person who'd initially laid them out and then got that same person to do it all again.

ApoAlaia

Just checked the Alchemy one... same.

To avoid any confusion, spreading the nodes over a wide area, terrible.

Is not fun, is not engaging, you cannot turn a daily chore (made daily by the fact that if one lets the surveys accumulate they will never get harvested due to the absolutely infuriating 'mechanism' to reset them) into an 'engaging scavenge hunt' by spreading the nodes all over the place.

All it achieves is increasing frustration and blood pressure.

If you won't even entertain the idea to give this whole mechanic a QoL pass at the very least pack the nodes tightly like the in the base game surveys, thank you.

ApoAlaia

@ZOS_GinaBruno I would much appreciate if you could, as you kindly did with the same situation in the Blackwood chapter, relay the feedback to the developers.

I hope that they will once more alter the nodes and give them a more sensible arrangement.

heinousmoz

It's just a shame I can only upvote a comment once. It's funny the number of posts recently from players about the QoL change that stacking surveys would make and the response is? To ignore everything that has gone before and make them more and not less annoying to collect..

TaSheen

heinousmoz wrote: »

Wait, you're telling me that after taking on board feedback on how bad the surveys were to gather in Blackwood then changing them they've done exactly the same thing again?

Next you'll be telling me there's a lead that doesn't drop on release...

I got a lead for the Oakensoul Ring in Glenumbra today - for the Stone Shank Frame. I can't remember now if it was out of a rubedite node or a runestone.

Tevalaur

Sounds like they should consider a QoL that surveys become ONE giant node instead of six lush/rich nodes. Then they can never be spread out again! We still may have to run out to collect them but not find each node scattered to the high isle winds...

Jaimeh

@ZOS_Kevin Could we please get a dev comment why surveys reverted to being spread out, after this had been fixed?

barney2525

ok, I got blackwood and high isle, just never set foot in it.

Are you saying the survey nodes are not centrally located to the map X ?

You arrive and all 6 nodes are not reasonably close together?

TaSheen

Blackwood's are now, after they fixed them. I don't have a survey in High Isle yet, but that's what it sounds like - that the devs did the same as original Blackwood setup.

zaria

FluffWit wrote: »

I swear whoever lays them out has never actually played the game and thinks the surveys are supposed to be some fun find the treasure mini game.

I'm not even trying to hate on them. Blackwood I'd imagine someone else came along and fixed it but they didnt bother telling the person who'd initially laid them out and then got that same person to do it all again.

Thanks for the notice will just bank them, lucky the zone is much smaller than southern Elsweir.

TrellyTB

I haven't tried them myself because the server is down, but this was a major sticking point with Blackwood. We bought High Isle under the assumption that they learned from Blackwood, but I guess that was expecting too much.

From now on, we won't purchase the expansions until we get confirmation that things like this don't happen.

ApoAlaia

I'm just baffled by this behaviour.

This was flagged in the previous chapter and subsequently changed, why would one just go ahead and do it again in the following chapter?

Nothing has changed, no QoL features have been added to surveys, what would lead one to surmise that what was not OK last chapter is somehow going to be OK this chapter?

RichestGuyinEso

Instead of making multiple surveys lootable at once they even spread the nodes even larger so it takes even longer to do them. Thats very far of from QoL improvement for players

redlink1979

Again?!

#LessonsNotLearned