Wait Times

Don_Lambano

I have been waiting 75 minutes (1 hour, 15 minutes) for Captain Ithala, the boss in Shipwreck Shoals, to spawn. This isn’t a bug; it is a design flaw that permeates the game. We have to wait (and wait, and wait) idle for excruciatingly long periods for dolmans and bosses to spawn. Waiting certainly makes ESO engaging. It also encourages people to snatch a moment from their overscheduled lives to jump into Tamriel.

C’mon! You can do better than this. Adjust timers so dolmens spawn every 10 minutes max. Create triggers so that 3 players in a zone trigger the event. This is doable. This is friendly. Remember, people logon to ESO to PLAY, not to stand around waiting.

Eric_Prince

Never understood this. Why even make this timer? If you don't want people to farm bosses, tinker with drop rates (something like '-75% chance to get good loot from this particular boss for 20 minutes after the kill'). But making everyone wait for a very-very long time isn't cool. It's tedious to wait even 10 minutes. And how about 30? 45? 60?

Dragons were the best. The time you kill one, more appear. And I don't see how they broke the game with that.

TheGreatBlackBear

Don_Lambano wrote: »

I have been waiting 75 minutes (1 hour, 15 minutes) for Captain Ithala, the boss in Shipwreck Shoals, to spawn. This isn’t a bug; it is a design flaw that permeates the game. We have to wait (and wait, and wait) idle for excruciatingly long periods for dolmans and bosses to spawn. Waiting certainly makes ESO engaging. It also encourages people to snatch a moment from their overscheduled lives to jump into Tamriel.

C’mon! You can do better than this. Adjust timers so dolmens spawn every 10 minutes max. Create triggers so that 3 players in a zone trigger the event. This is doable. This is friendly. Remember, people logon to ESO to PLAY, not to stand around waiting.

Agreed. Even if you want to slow down farmers add a (small) CD on getting loot or something so you don't screw over people on a quest

Spiral__Architect

All I can offer is switch to a different instance of the zone by traveling to another player (ie. guildmate) if a boss does not respawn within 7 minutes.

RealLoveBVB

World events, such as dolmens, don't have a respawn timer. There is always a dolmen active, so as soon as this one is closed, another will immediately open.
It's pointless to wait on inactive dolmen.
World Bosses and delve bosses have a fixed respawn timer of 5 minutes. If you need to wait longer, then it's most likely bugged and you should change the instance with porting to someone in the same zone.

Mik195

Does Serpent Bog even spawn on on Xbox? I have spent a ton of time waiting and have never seen a spawn. Something is wrong with the High Isle world bosses.

AzuraFan

Yeah, it's the High Isle WBs that are bugged. Not sure how it is after today's patch for PC, but before then, sometimes WBs were taking WAY too long to spawn or weren't spawning at all.

Hapexamendios

Spawn times should be no longer than 5 minutes imo.

MidniteOwl1913

Mik195 wrote: »

Does Serpent Bog even spawn on on Xbox? I have spent a ton of time waiting and have never seen a spawn. Something is wrong with the High Isle world bosses.

Last night on the console my daughter was at Serpent Bog for half an hour with no spawn. I went to look and it. I didn't see her, but the boss spawned immediately. We grouped and she then ported to me. We farmed the boss until both of us got the lead we were after. So if it's not spawning try logging out and then logging back in for a server that's not having an issue...

But yeah this is a bug.

FluffWit

Complaints all over the place about this.

It's definitely a glitch and is only effecting the new zone from what I've seen.

Thing is guys you're better of ignoring dailies in the new zone rn. They're going to drip feed another motif, then they're going to drip feed more furniture blueprints tied to these dailies. Then theres going to be a double drops event in High Isle.

So you may as well wait until Sept/ Oct to play this content.