Anecdotal event grind statistics thread

Elrond87

im just doing 5 goes a day no more or every other day, would focus it more if it was something id actually use

Kartalin

The geysers one seems like it's the worst by far based on anecdotal evidence. I got one of the vvardenfell ones relatively fast (8ish attempts), haven't gotten the other one yet. About 22 casts for Truflame, haven't gotten the rest even though I've spent 2+ hours on geysers.

AnduinTryggva

Fishing: < 30min
Geysirs: < 1h
WB Bardas: ~1.5h
WB Sunna: ~8h and nothing yet
Dolmen: 60 dolmens right now and nothing

Gray_howling_parrot

Fished for about an hour and got the style page.

Did about 15 dolmens, didn’t get it, remembered that there’s no achievement tied to it and that I like the class style pages anyways and decided to have fun instead of a brain rotting grind from what it looks/sounds like 🤣

MyNameIsElias

staff of worm king: 150+ dolmens
Ulvor staff: 30+ geysers
Fishing: 4 casts
Sunnarah: 20 world boss kills
Barbas helm: going on 50+ world boss kills atm

My event feedback in short: Zos this is hurting my wrists, please make it easier on us

TKo_ROUSE

Dolmens: 3 hours or so of grinding not sure how many that is.

Geyser: Roughly 20 give or take a few. Was pretty fast overall.

Haven't tried the others yet but I feel I'm having above average luck based on the time guild mates have spent.

NoxiousBlight

3 hours on dolmens and I got it.

1 hour fishing and I got it.

2 hours so far in Vvardenfell and no drops.

4+ hours so far on geysers and no drop.

This is beyond miserable. Making me question my sanity in playing ESO if this is how ZOS is going to add "content" to the events.

Luke_Flamesword

Fishing: 15-20 minutes
Geysers - 3rd try (I was lucky, worst activity to grind for me)
Vvardenfell Boss - 5-6h of camping in one place, manage to do this only because I watch youtube
Dolmens - 2-3h - only grind which was worth it, because I looted a lot of reward boxes (just go to Auridon instead of Alik'r - its also quick rotation but much less people).

Me feedback - it was boring, unpleasant grind. I did it in first 2 days only to have space for normal playing and enjoying game for rest of the event.

SkaiFaith

200+ Geysers and no luck yet on that Staff.

It's the only one I care for... Would be really bad if I miss it by the end of the event.

Someone said it took him 300 Geysers... My humble opinion is that I would feel bad for anyone that could do, let's say, 290 Geysers and not find it. It would even feel outrageous dare I say...

Shagreth

Fishing: 1 hour
Geysers: Haven't started
WB: 14 hours in total camping until I got the staff, now for the helmet...
Dolmens: Haven't started

LanteanPegasus

Trueflame: 18 casts (2nd fishing hole, The Rift)

Didn't try for the rest so far.
Did about 6 Dolmens I happened across since the event started, no staff from those.

meekmiko

• Trueflame: 4-5 hours
• Barbas: 1 hour
• Ul'vor: 22 hours
• Worms: 4 hours
• Sunna'rah: Just under 2 hours

So happy to be finished. Good luck to everyone else.

jle30303

Staff of Ulvor...15 geysers, got.
Trueflame... 2 fishing holes (17 fish total), got.
Staff of Worms... 100+ dolmens and counting, not got.
Barbas Mask: 50+ WBs and counting, not got.
Sunna-rah: 50 WBs and counting, not got

BetweenMidgets

Only wanted the Geyser staff - took about 7 hours over 2 days.

spartaxoxo

So far...

104 fishing pulls (complete)
113 dolmens (complete)
24 geysers (complete)
39 Vvardenfell boss kills

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56 boss kills, still nothing

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lol 57 boss kills and Barbas helmet!

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77 boss kills

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100 boss kills

ESO_player123

Trueflame - got it on the 5th hole
Staff of Worms - got it in about 1 hour I think (did not count, I was there for the boxes)
Staff of Ulvor - 3+ hours - nothing got it in 4 hours(this is the one I'm actually interested in, so very frustrating).
Vvardenfell items - not planning to do it (not interested)

JimmyTortellini

Ul’vor Staff: 75 Geysers
Staff of Worms: 3 Dolmens
Trueflame: ~50 Casts
Sunna'rah: First 15 World Bosses
Barbas' Helm: Latter 500 World Bosses

Ishtarknows

Fishing: about 1.5 hours to get drop with food, Sharp and CP
Dolmens: >500, no page
World Bosses: about 12 hours, no page
Geysers: about 50, no page

This is not fun anymore. I'm on Xbox so there's fewer people at each of the bosses etc and I've been getting to loot every time, so this is how many times I rolled and failed.

Djennku

Trueflame: 8 casts
Staff of worms: about 4 hours
Ulvor staff: about 4-5 hours
Sunnah rah staff: 10 WBs
Barbas helm: under 50 WBs kills after sunnah rah

(Wasn't really keeping track, mostly estimating numbers here except trueflame)

AnduinTryggva

I wonder if the ZOS developers are silently reading this thread and laughing their heads off.

SeaGtGruff

Trueflame: 3rd fishing hole (both PC NA and PC EU)

others: haven't found yet, but have not been grinding many WBs or geysers, and only doing maybe 12 or so dolmens per day.

Shara_Wynn

Staff of Worms: after 5 or 6 dolmens.
Trueflame: after 8 or 9 fishing nodes.
Sunna'rah: after 35 world bosses.
Barbas: after 41 world bosses (only 6 bosses after Sunna'rah).
Ul'Vor: after 90 geysers.

YAY!

I think the RNG gods have been kind to me. I wish everyone else the best of luck in getting their pages!!!

huntgod_ESO

This is truly the most frustrating thing I've come up on in 10 years of playing this game, including the Vet levels.

4 days, burned at least 4-5 hours each day, 20+ hours so far, rotating characters hoping one might have better luck.

Have the Sunna'rah staff and that is it...hundreds of dolmen, hundreds of geysers, hundreds of WB's and nothing to really show for it.

So frustrating and aggravating...also not the first time they've done this, but is the first time they did this AND made it BoP. In the past I could at least just buy it from trader if I got too frustrated.

Just so furious they did this...

Major_Toughness

Major_Toughness wrote: »

Dolmens: ~140 - Around 4 hours
Fishing: 13 catches - Like 2 minutes
World Bosses: Around 5 hours, not sure on number of bosses
Geysers: In progress, up to 10 hours, ~200

Update: Geysers finished at 243

You can do around 20 Geysers and hour, and 30 Dolmens an hour.
World Boss varies, if you wait at one boss you can do 11 almost 12 an hour. 5 minutes respawn plus time to kill.

My friends managed to get a 3 boss rotation and when I was farming it had a 2 boss rotation so would have been getting 22-24 and hour.

Fishing would be the fastest by far as you can be several a minute.

AnduinTryggva

A short question: does the motif from geysirs, dolmens etc drop from boss or from chest/shell?

Major_Toughness

AnduinTryggva wrote: »

A short question: does the motif from geysirs, dolmens etc drop from boss or from chest/shell?

Geysers and Dolmens drop from the Shell Trove/Chest.

You get anniversary boxes from the bosses but not required to get the Shell Trove/Chest or the style pages.

dreidman

Trueflame: 10 min
Staff of worms: 7 hours
Sunnah rah staff: +120 WBs (12b/h = 10h)
Barbas helm: no drop
Ulvor staff: 5-6 hours no drop

Wolfkeks

Barbas Helm - 35 WBs
Sunnah Rah Staff - 55 WBs
Ulvor Staff - around 100 geyers
Staff of Worms - around 200 dolmens
Trueflame Sword - more than 1000 fish - stopped counting

Kartalin

huntgod_ESO wrote: »

This is truly the most frustrating thing I've come up on in 10 years of playing this game, including the Vet levels.

Grinding additional characters to vet 16 was pretty horrendous. Farming correct traits on equipment for the first 6 or 7 years however long that was has to be near the top of frustrating things we had to do as well.

But here's the number one difference: those weren't time limited scenarios. That's what ultimately makes this the most frustrating.

On the plus side, since PVP is completely borked I got Sunna'rah last night after another hour and a half of world bosses. Three down, two to go...

AJTC5000

I'll copy mine over from the other thread:

Finally finished all five styles on Sunday. My drops were as follows:

Staff of Worms - 89 Dolmens
Ul'vor Staff - 76 Abyssal Geysers
Trueflame - 1 fish (yes, one singular)
Barbas Helmet - 96 Vvardenfell boss kills
Sunna'rah - 184 Vvardenfell boss kills AFTER looting Barbas, so a total of 280 kills.

Minimum waiting time between Vvardenfell bosses came to 23.3 hours. At least with the dolmens and the geysers, I could let the zerg do the majority of the heavy lifting and just get the chest at the end. And of course the extremely fortunate Trueflame drop - heard stories of this one peaking at ~250 fishes.