My thoughts about Endless Archive

fizl101

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Carcamongus wrote: »

I didn't touch EA for a while, as I was focused on the Witches Festival. Event over, I gave it a try and have been doing it daily. I like it, but it needs improvements.

It feels a lot like a mix between public dungeons (which I love) and arenas (not so much), with the added bonus I don't have to worry about other people getting to a boss or mobs before me. I can be alone with my thoughts, something I quite like to do (yes, in an MMO). Yes, it takes a while to get plenty of fortunes, but the new furnishings and the possibility of, every now and then, buying rare treasure maps (I nabbed 7 Ancient Daedric pages from EA's Deadlands maps) makes it worth the effort. It's also a good way to test how well I can do with my old (albeit tweaked and not at all ideal) solo build.

There are many problems, though. If other leaderboard places such as arenas don't impose a limit on how many times you can die before the run's over, why should EA have it? Fine, keep the threads for those who like a scored challenge but add an option for a non-scored all-you-can-die version. There are bugged bosses, such as that big cat from MoL, Zashhsjjshsaaagaaah or something. Some of the verses work very poorly: fire orbs more often than not don't give you the synergy to activate them; you're left standing still for no apparent reason after activating the plague skeever, enough time for an AoE to kill you (it happened to me); I'm almost sure that verse that regens your HP whenever your DoT ticks isn't working. As others already mentioned, Gothmau's damage is disproportional when compared to his marauding buddies, even in arc 2. Going with a companion shouldn't be considered as duo, since you can't possibly compare a pile of pixels of limited intelligence with a flesh-and-blood player. Unfortunately, too much is left for RNGeesus and it can get tiresome to keep being offered magicka visions for my stamina character (or vice-versa). Why not make them dual-purpose, buffing whichever resource your toon has in greater amounts?

To sum it up: I like the EA, but it needs improvements. It's a bit sad to see the servers were taken offline outside of the regular maintenance day to fix the leaderboard, but we still have a broken boss after all this time.

the fire orbs when they work are great, but i agree it has problems

the orbs themselves can be damaged by enemies, so anything with a lot of aoe will usually kill the orbs (preventing you from using them, or ending the effect early)

the reason you dont see a synergy is because the synergy has a cooldown, if the orb is say killed by an enemy aoe, it terminates your beam, but your still on synergy cooldown

in an ideal scenario if the beam lasted the full duration, you only have a couple of seconds of downtime before another beam synergy, but if the beam is terminated early because the orb was killed, then you might have 15 seconds of downtime before you can use another orb synergy

The orbs are also challenging because they seem to be relatively low as a synergy priority. If I play with Isobel as my companion, it will prioritise savage implosion and her altar before it gives me the orb synergy

francesinhalover

Couldnt care less about leaderboards.

Reason i was excited for EA was to get the 50 fragments mount.

The moment i saw how hard it is to get it was GG for me.

Necrotech_Master

francesinhalover wrote: »

Couldnt care less about leaderboards.

Reason i was excited for EA was to get the 50 fragments mount.

The moment i saw how hard it is to get it was GG for me.

those arent actually that hard to get, your guaranteed 1 per day if you clear arc 1 for the daily

you can randomly get additional ones as drops in a run, though they are the rarest of the 4 collectible drops

and they also occasionally show up on the rotation merchant, though they are more expensive to buy than the other collectible drops (15k archive fortunes each)

i finished the mount on monday, but i have gotten a few ichors as drops and i also spent about 150k archive fortunes buying extras while it was on the rotation merchant last week lol

CGPsaint

The guaranteed fragment drop from completing the daily is great, so you can basically get the mount in 50 days without much effort. The rest of the fragments are pretty rare drops from my own experience, and are the only achievements that I have left to complete.

EdjeSwift

CGPsaint wrote: »

The guaranteed fragment drop from completing the daily is great, so you can basically get the mount in 50 days without much effort. The rest of the fragments are pretty rare drops from my own experience, and are the only achievements that I have left to complete.

Thankfully, it appears Ool sells them as part of their rotation, so if your luck is atrocious, you can get it there. Of course, you very well know, when you start buying them and finish, THEN they'll drop like crazy.

CGPsaint

EdjeSwift wrote: »

Thankfully, it appears Ool sells them as part of their rotation, so if your luck is atrocious, you can get it there. Of course, you very well know, when you start buying them and finish, THEN they'll drop like crazy.

I'm holding off on buying any of the fragments until I'm done farming all of my furnishing plans. No sense in wasting currency when I should get a couple of fragment drops along the way.

EdjeSwift

CGPsaint wrote: »

EdjeSwift wrote: »

Thankfully, it appears Ool sells them as part of their rotation, so if your luck is atrocious, you can get it there. Of course, you very well know, when you start buying them and finish, THEN they'll drop like crazy.

I'm holding off on buying any of the fragments until I'm done farming all of my furnishing plans. No sense in wasting currency when I should get a couple of fragment drops along the way.

This is the way. I'm personally waiting till Sunday to buy any of this week's offerings cause I was gonna buy it this morning, did a run, got 2 of them and shifted my plans.

Especially since they continue to drop and you can't do anything with them.

CGPsaint

EdjeSwift wrote: »

This is the way. I'm personally waiting till Sunday to buy any of this week's offerings cause I was gonna buy it this morning, did a run, got 2 of them and shifted my plans.

Especially since they continue to drop and you can't do anything with them.

I plan on hoarding my currency for purchasing the monster mask style pages that I couldn't be bothered to farm. My RNG is absolute trash in ESO, so I'd rather not run the same dungeon 50-100 times hoping to get a type page that I'll most likely never use anyways!

Necrotech_Master

EdjeSwift wrote: »

CGPsaint wrote: »

EdjeSwift wrote: »

Thankfully, it appears Ool sells them as part of their rotation, so if your luck is atrocious, you can get it there. Of course, you very well know, when you start buying them and finish, THEN they'll drop like crazy.

I'm holding off on buying any of the fragments until I'm done farming all of my furnishing plans. No sense in wasting currency when I should get a couple of fragment drops along the way.

This is the way. I'm personally waiting till Sunday to buy any of this week's offerings cause I was gonna buy it this morning, did a run, got 2 of them and shifted my plans.

Especially since they continue to drop and you can't do anything with them.

i havent confirmed yet if all of the collectible drops do that, since some of them were rarer than others such as the ichor

the only 2 i know that can drop after completion are disgusting spoils and erroneous archive maps

i only just finished the mount on monday so i cant say for sure about the ichor, and i dont think ive seen an unreliable archive map since i finished that one

so its possible that them dropping after being completed is actually a bug