How far did you already get into EA?

ArchMikem

Arc 2

After experiencing the difficulty increase from Arc 1 to Arc 2, I cannot understand how people are making it to 5, solo.

Carcamongus

Arc 4

EdjeSwift wrote: »

Carcamongus wrote: »

Sorry if this a bit off topic, but I have to say I'm quite shocked by the huge amount of new leads that drop from EA. I've gotten perhaps over 10 and not a single repeat. It feels a bit excessive, but at the same time it's a big reason why I've been spending considerable time in the Archive, thus making my way to arc 4 and now we're back on topic.

The belief is that they're curated drops until you get them all. And with 25 total from there, it's a long journey.

25?? For better effect: TWENTY-FIVE???

EdjeSwift

Arc 5+

Carcamongus wrote: »

25?? For better effect: TWENTY-FIVE???

13 Gold Leads
5 For the Clothing Station
3 for the book
3 for the Vision of Mora
A Currency Pouch
A light

7 Purple
4 Lights
A book
A Statue
A currency pouch

5 Blue
4 Fossils
A Currency Pouch

wolfie1.0.

Arc 1

Kendaric wrote: »

grewkshd wrote: »

Kendaric wrote: »

I won't be doing EA anymore as I'm obviously not the intended audience. Tried arc 1 a couple of times, got to the third boss (I was lucky with the first 2 bosses).

But I can safely say that if EA is any indication of what we can expect in future content, ESO is no longer a game for me. Losing a quest DLC for this was not worth it for me.

Do you not think you're being a bit harsh/selfish, considering every other piece of new content for a long time has been geared towards a story type player, such as yourself?

You've already had a story DLC earlier this year, what have non story players had? Let alone PvP players etc.

In a story/quest based game like ESO it's not even slightly selfish.
EA is an arena which has up to this point always been a part of story DLC if one was included, e.g. Orsinium, Craglorn, Markarth and whichever DLC included the prison stuff.

Now we suddenly get arena content instead of story content. How do you expect story players to react?

At least it's not a dlc...

ArchMikem

Arc 2

So I'm online now and decided to look at the leader boards for Xbox NA, and.....sigh..

For Solo, someone got to Arc 8 on their Arcanist, and Duos? Arc 12.

My Arc 2 run with my companion isn't even ranked.

metheglyn

Arc 1

I finally decided to try it today and wasn't able to kill the last boss of the first arc.

I was pretty sure it wasn't content for me or my playstyle, and now I'm positive it isn't. I won't be going back.

rpa

Arc 1

I've had no problems this far finishing Arc 1 every time but I need a break after. Needs save.

boi_anachronism_

Arc 3

Treeshka wrote: »

Managed to get Arc nine with two classes. Run decider was the visions.

Yeah visions are the big one here. If you get the pen one in the beginning it makes life so much easier. My first blind run was about midway through 3 but i lost 2 threads to glitches, one where I just got a message saying I lost a thread after i had beaten a trash pack which then proceeded to magically respawn and the second where a mob got stuck in the floor and i had to basically die for the adds to respawn. The third was to a marauder that unfortunately i got while in possibly the most confined arena, so terrible rng. Ive been able to solo all marauders without too much issue but that one area always ends with you being backed into a corner. I plan to duo it with a buddy of mine this weekend. Based on our skill level id guess that we will make it to arc 5-6. I havent had the time to go further then arc 3 solo so i usually dip right after arc 2 final boss just for the sake of time.

boi_anachronism_

Arc 3

grewkshd wrote: »

Kendaric wrote: »

I won't be doing EA anymore as I'm obviously not the intended audience. Tried arc 1 a couple of times, got to the third boss (I was lucky with the first 2 bosses).

But I can safely say that if EA is any indication of what we can expect in future content, ESO is no longer a game for me. Losing a quest DLC for this was not worth it for me.

Do you not think you're being a bit harsh/selfish, considering every other piece of new content for a long time has been geared towards a story type player, such as yourself?

You've already had a story DLC earlier this year, what have non story players had? Let alone PvP players etc.

I mean if you flip that around you could easily say that im not the target audience for a fat 75% of content during the full year seeing as I get 1 trial a year and a couple dungeons... honestly i have never been upset at the amount of story content but when they do finally throw us a bone so many people on the story side get flustered about it. It feels kinda awful, like people are begrudging us getting something totally new when it happens so rarely and usually very small scale. Ima be honest- even when i played skyrim and i have thousands of hours in it, the story was basically the last thing i did. I played on legendary and went off to fight all the biggest meanest things i could find. I remember fighting a dragon priest for the first time and being like holy macaroni this guy can one tap me. It was full of dungeons with things that could kill you, baddies, traps and bosses at the end. Apocrypha was actually quite treacherous if it was played on a harder difficulty. 😆 challange and testing your limits is still part of the elder scolls experience. It alway has been.

Dont worry you will get plenty of story content in the new year. The last time they gave us anything out of the ordinary was what... blackrose?

Lexalious

Arc 5+

ArchMikem wrote: »

After experiencing the difficulty increase from Arc 1 to Arc 2, I cannot understand how people are making it to 5, solo.

you come up with a build that suits your needs in the archive. you min max to your best, adjust resource pools, sustain. you adjust your cps accordingly. slot heals shields.

go in for a run, do your best, practice. Reset and try again to beat your personal best. learn from previous runs, judge your build everytime, do you need more recoveries or do you have too much, do you need more resistances or do you need that many points in that attribute or is that cp slottable worth it. Try new ideas.

it maybe different content than you are used to, but it can be fun. good luck o/

LouisaB75

Arc 3

IsharaMeradin wrote: »

Solo - The 4th or 3rd stage of Arc 2.
With Companion - The 4th or 3rd stage of Arc 3.
Duo - haven't had the pleasure yet.

Can I borrow your companion please?

Mine are all pretty useless from part way through arc 2. They die constantly (except that one time Isabel inconveniently stayed alive killing the last mob I wanted to keep alive while dealing with a marauder. Triggering the next round of mobs appearing and overwhelming me so I died instead!)

notyuu

Arc 5+

Would have gone further but I ran outta time and had to do IRL stuff like make food, wash the dishes, walk the dog....all the more reason that we need a "save progress" button

pklemming

Arc 5+

ArchMikem wrote: »

After experiencing the difficulty increase from Arc 1 to Arc 2, I cannot understand how people are making it to 5, solo.

The reason why a lot of people struggle here, is that they use their conventional dps build. In EA, you need a degree more sturdiness. You could probably get arc 3 in a normal setup, but beyond that you are going to struggle unless you up your resists and health.

My wife plays a DD there, by ARC 5 she is in sets that give her both 30k health and resists, whilst I am sitting at 33k resists and 40k health. Visions and verses are your damage. Arc 6 and 7 she is still getting one shot by things on occasion, but it is manageable.

pklemming

Arc 5+

notyuu wrote: »

Would have gone further but I ran outta time and had to do IRL stuff like make food, wash the dishes, walk the dog....all the more reason that we need a "save progress" button

This is pretty much my problem. 5-6 hours in and I am just fatigued. I don't die to the content, I just need a break.

BloodyStigmata

Arc 1

Finished Arc 1. Got my skill point and a class set piece for doing so. Immediately got attacked in the next Arc by a large group of enemies that were wildly, disproportionately more difficult and died, and suddenly realized I'm okay with just leaving after Arc 1 and doing it again.

IsharaMeradin

LouisaB75 wrote: »

IsharaMeradin wrote: »

Solo - The 4th or 3rd stage of Arc 2.
With Companion - The 4th or 3rd stage of Arc 3.
Duo - haven't had the pleasure yet.

Can I borrow your companion please?

Mine are all pretty useless from part way through arc 2. They die constantly (except that one time Isabel inconveniently stayed alive killing the last mob I wanted to keep alive while dealing with a marauder. Triggering the next round of mobs appearing and overwhelming me so I died instead!)

Bastian as a healer. I backbar a resto staff for increased resource recovery heavy attacks. As long as he stays alive due to my HA for resource recovery, he'll help keep my HP up. Tho often times I have already self-healed before then. My biggest issue right now are marauders and bosses. There are a lot of DLC dungeons and trials that I have not been in and so there are a lot of potential bosses that I know nothing about.

He does die when dealing with Tho'at, every time. E.V.E.R.Y. S.I.N.G.L.E. T.I.M.E!!!

EdjeSwift

Arc 5+

Leaving this here.



You don't have to get super far to get this done, just be patient and embrace the grind.

ssewallb14_ESO

Arc 5+

Soon,.

EdjeSwift wrote: »

Leaving this here.



You don't have to get super far to get this done, just be patient and embrace the grind.

Sooon..

Gray_howling_parrot

Arc 5+

Getting to arc 6 consistently solo and then past that on duo obviously, but usually it's whatever we have time for!

If we could save progress (wink wink), who knows!

AllegedParadigm

Didn't enter EA (yet)

Looks fun but waiting on my friend of choice to do it with, but their pc is broken atm.

AcadianPaladin

Arc 1

Have not actually completed Arc I. Has not held my interest long enough. I don't enjoy Arenas and Endless Archive feels rather the same to me - pointless and tedious. Oh well, there's plenty in the game I do enjoy.

ArchMikem

Arc 2

Lexalious wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

After experiencing the difficulty increase from Arc 1 to Arc 2, I cannot understand how people are making it to 5, solo.

you come up with a build that suits your needs in the archive. you min max to your best, adjust resource pools, sustain. you adjust your cps accordingly. slot heals shields.

go in for a run, do your best, practice. Reset and try again to beat your personal best. learn from previous runs, judge your build everytime, do you need more recoveries or do you have too much, do you need more resistances or do you need that many points in that attribute or is that cp slottable worth it. Try new ideas.

it maybe different content than you are used to, but it can be fun. good luck o/

Yeeeaaaaaah that's slipping into "turning the Game into Work" territory for me. I spent my effort making and refining a one for everything Build for my Characters and if it falls short somewhere I just deal with it.

Also I need to change my choice, got with another player today and we made it into Arc 3.

Stanx

Arc 4

Just got to Arc 4 solo (Xbox EU) with a score of 120,000 which I'm happy with for now!

Lexalious

Arc 5+

ArchMikem wrote: »

Lexalious wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

After experiencing the difficulty increase from Arc 1 to Arc 2, I cannot understand how people are making it to 5, solo.

you come up with a build that suits your needs in the archive. you min max to your best, adjust resource pools, sustain. you adjust your cps accordingly. slot heals shields.

go in for a run, do your best, practice. Reset and try again to beat your personal best. learn from previous runs, judge your build everytime, do you need more recoveries or do you have too much, do you need more resistances or do you need that many points in that attribute or is that cp slottable worth it. Try new ideas.

it maybe different content than you are used to, but it can be fun. good luck o/

Yeeeaaaaaah that's slipping into "turning the Game into Work" territory for me. I spent my effort making and refining a one for everything Build for my Characters and if it falls short somewhere I just deal with it.

Also I need to change my choice, got with another player today and we made it into Arc 3.

Props to ZoS then for releasing a content to challenge your one for everything build. its a game with hundreds of different sets and skills and other optimization options. Its good that we get to play around without builds even its for a niche content like EA.
gj on your progress btw o/

IZZEFlameLash

Arc 5+

Furthest was reaching Arc 5 with a dedicated tank. Anything Arc 4 Thoat and beyond is for time rich people that never tire from this game.

Otherwise, solo, Arc 2 Thoat is my max I am willing to go to. Because beyond that, what verses/visions you have gotten previous matters more, especially if you run tanky build. If you have gotten useless visions (2-5% damage boost/mitigation, block cost, break free cost and etc) previously, good luck trying to get through slogfest without spending too long. And I am one of those people that consistently get bad rolls on visions. So, arc 2 max it is. I am not that time rich.

darvaria

Arc 5+

I got to Tho’at Replicanum, last boss in cycle 5 solo. Didn't fare too well. I was solo bashplar, deadlands and crimson. Sadly I forgot and left on my Snow Treaders. Might have done better with another mythic or monster set. Other bosses, I just shielded and bashed a lot. Sword and Boards and resto. I fully equipped a 1 bar oakensoul build Necro but only made to Stage 4 and wiped several times. Only wiped on bosses though. That trash is a complete waste of time. I did a lot better on my Bashplar (100% pvp build though). Never died until last boss, but I didn't make it too far on him because I hadn't read. I was only doing it for weekly endeavor tbh. I probably won't go back.

However, one funny thing happened. During one of the trash cycles, I got a message "You have 2 threads of life remaining" and I hadn't died. I got a phone call and was going pretty slow. Is there a timing factor?

EdjeSwift

Arc 5+

darvaria wrote: »

However, one funny thing happened. During one of the trash cycles, I got a message "You have 2 threads of life remaining" and I hadn't died. I got a phone call and was going pretty slow. Is there a timing factor?

No timing per se, I'm guessing it was one of the greenish ones with stairs, if you don't run to the mobs at the bottom of the stairs they'll run under the world and the thread will be cut.

SeaGtGruff

Arc 1

I've made it to the final boss (Tho'at?) at least once, but haven't been able to beat it yet. Most of the times I've gotten killed by the third boss (cycle 3). I'm not worried about it. I'm enjoying the early stages and cycles, and some of the bosses are fun, but I'm not into what I consider to be "BS mechanics"-- the ones where you seem to be doing fairly well as far as managing to stay alive while doing some damage, then suddenly you get one-shot with almost no warning because you weren't doing enough damage quickly enough ("DPS check"). I'm perfectly okay with walking away from those kinds of bosses and never looking back. I know a lot of players are really into boss mechanics, so to each their own.

Uvi_AUT

Didn't enter EA (yet)

You dont have an option for "Wont enter EA ever"

MidniteOwl1913

Arc 2

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I've made it to the final boss (Tho'at?) at least once, but haven't been able to beat it yet. Most of the times I've gotten killed by the third boss (cycle 3). I'm not worried about it. I'm enjoying the early stages and cycles, and some of the bosses are fun, but I'm not into what I consider to be "BS mechanics"-- the ones where you seem to be doing fairly well as far as managing to stay alive while doing some damage, then suddenly you get one-shot with almost no warning because you weren't doing enough damage quickly enough ("DPS check"). I'm perfectly okay with walking away from those kinds of bosses and never looking back. I know a lot of players are really into boss mechanics, so to each their own.

Yeah in arc 2 the mechanics are even more fiddily. Even when I can remember them I have trouble with the timing.