Which world event is the most annoying ?

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Mirrormoor Mosaics

Full disclosure: I have yet to do a Nymic.

But the bosses in the Mosaics constantly turning indestructible is really annoying. Too many steps! And if it’s bad now, how will it be a year from now when there aren’t big groups running them? Just let me jump in to the fight when I see the sky beam!

Harrowstorms are up there too, as they basically punish you for not starting with a coordinated group instead of ramping up the difficulty as people notice the event and trickle in. Geysers are just slower, harder Dolmens. Dragons are tough but straightforward. I hadn’t realty considered Blackwood’s Oblivion portals to be a world event, more of a Public Dungeon with limited access points, so I guess my biggest complaint there is that I have to hunt down the portals because they aren’t marked on the map when they open. Volcanic Vents always seem to turn into a mess of red AoEs at the boss stage, and the ones in Galen don’t seem to count towards the quest in High Isle (unlike the Harrowstorm dailies) but I guess I don’t really have a lot of complaints about those otherwise.

Tenthirty2

Bastion Nymic

Nymic sadly.
I really like the dungeon, vibe and the bosses are cool, but it feels like such a drudgery to try and solo and takes too long imo.

Also, having done quiet a few of them I STILL do not have the last bloody Herald I need for the achievement
Can't recall the name of the third one I need but it may as well be The Absent Herald.

XSTRONG

Harrowstorms

Harrowstorms are completly dead, dragons there almost always someone killing dragons and bastion if you write in guild chat *portal open* you get 10 people want to join

Araneae6537

Volcanic Vents

I enjoy Bastion Nymic but wish the rewards were better for its requiring comparatively more time and coordination if not doing solo.

Oblivion portals were a cool idea, but problematic when people join at different times and it’s not like you join in where everyone else is.

I don’t like Harrowstorms because it seems to me that they don’t scale well and require a greater number of people to succeed. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to not be a guaranteed success (like dolmens or abyssal geysers — they just take longer solo), but it’s difficult to know when it’s worthwhile to participate, which I think discourages participation.

Worst is vents because I don’t like the theme, the voice lines — I just don’t like them, don’t do them after getting the lead for whichever mythic it was.

Rkindaleft

Harrowstorms

Harrowstorms should just get updated to scale with the number of players, or at least buff the rewards to make them worthwhile. I mean Dragon Rheum got added to dragons when Southern Elsweyr released, and it's a big reason why a lot of people still kill them today.

The Reach and Western Skyrim haven't been current zones for 3 years and outside of events there really isn't many people doing them anymore. Both zones don't have many players doing dailies nor general passersby who join in on these kind of things and from my observations they're pretty dead zones generally when people do callouts for help. I can solo them but why would I want to do that when it takes 15 minutes to do for 3 piles of Ash and some overland gear that's not worth anything?

Jaimeh

Nymics and Mirrormoors because you have to clear prerequisites in order to start the event (which after the chapter hype dies down makes it so much more tedious for solo players since the zones aren't as populated), followed by dragons in NE because some of the map locations are annoying to get to and fight takes a long time.

Hapexamendios

Any of these that can't be easily soloed. My main play time on the NA server is in the middle of the night US time. Not a lot of people then. Good luck trying to find people to do those with. The mosaics will doubtlessly be among them once the newness wears off.

Aelorin

Bastion Nymic

Bastion Nymic: Haven't even completed one so far.

Second the Oblivion portals.

I think the fact that you zone to another instance is the worst part. It makes the zone less occupied with players.

Tommy_The_Gun

Since I mostly ignore Bastion Nymic, then the most "annoying" would be Abyssal Geysers / Harrowstorms / Oblivion Portals / Volcanic Vents since they do not work like Dark Anchors. Dark Anchors are on a timer, so u can wait 10 minutes near one and eventually it will start. The other events like that are not on a timer, but when one is finished, the other random one starts (sometimes even the same one). So even when u camp one, it may not start for like 2 or 5 hours, so u need to run & hope that the one that is active will be still active once you reach it.

Elsonso

Bastion Nymic

Bastion Nymic is the the only world event in this game that I have never bothered to do.

Any event where I can't just walk up and join a battle in progress isn't even going to make it onto my bucket list.

Oblivion portals are the next most annoying. A lot of times, I will just go in, clear the lesser bosses and skip the final boss. I am usually alone, and the final boss there is not worth the effort.

All of the world bosses and world events/incursions are basically pointless unless there is a larger reason to do them, like a quest of some sort. Once done, I tend to ignore them if I don't have a new reason to do them. This game has pretty bad rewards, so the main reward for taking down a boss, or completing a world event, is actually just completing the task. Outside of a quest, and even sometimes with a quest, the drops are seldom worth the effort. If enough people are there to make it quick, at least I don't waste a lot of time.

Zachary_Shadow

Bastion Nymic

As a solo completionist, Bastion Nymics have become the bane of my existence. I'm closer to getting the Savior of West Weald achievement than Necrom's all due to that stupid quest achievement of completing 30 Bastion Nymic quests because they are so tedious. I either need to spend time grouping with others or do it solo and either way, I'm looking at 30 minutes+ (that's me being generous) dedicated to one single quest.

Aside from that, I find Harrowstorms to be quite annoying as there needs to be quite a few people for it to go successfully compared to many of the others. I'm often able to do most of the other world events solo/with a few people, but Harrowstorms seem to always need several for it to go successfully.

Destai

Harrowstorms

Definitely Harrowstorms. They've always been way too difficult and spread out for me. They're the one event I won't help out on. Nymics and the other similar events are ok - I'll at least go if a guildie asks me.

Poss

Bastion Nymic

Bastion Nymics. Hands down

When Necrom first came out, I thought these little 4 man events were interesting, fun and something new. A year later and I’ve stupidly forgotten to do the “complete 30 nymic dailies” and trying to find a group is near on impossible.

ghastley

Bastion Nymic

Elsonso wrote: »

Any event where I can't just walk up and join a battle in progress isn't even going to make it onto my bucket list.

The Oblivion Portals are similar, but Nymic wins (loses?) the coin toss.

opaj

Harrowstorms

It was close between Harrowstorm and Bastion Nymic for me.

Harrowstorms can spiral out of control. There's no reason they should if you know what you're doing, but still...

Bastion Nymic is too complicated for a daily activity.

That said, I actually enjoy playing through Basion Nymic, so Harrowstorms get my vote.

onyxorb

Harrowstorms

Crap I was so fast to hit Harrowstorm that I didn't see the Nymics in there....

The friggin ever spawning mini bosses and that crow of death are no fun when you're doing the storms with only a few people.

cyclonus11

Harrowstorms

Harrowstorms for the reasons already mentioned, plus the huge aggro radius they have. Think you're far enough away to avoid aggro? HAHAHAHA think again!

Firstmep

Bastion Nymic

Nymic, no contest. Takes way too long to complete.
I'm glad we went back to the fully open world, zergable world event with mirrormoor.
It's not about difficulty it's just more.epic to have 30 players battling the evil invaders.

Rkindaleft

Harrowstorms

opaj wrote: »

Harrowstorms can spiral out of control. There's no reason they should if you know what you're doing, but still...

That's pretty much exactly why I said they should just get updated. Both of the zones are mostly dead with very few players regularly joining in on these or doing the dailies - since they also technically have inverse scaling because the longer you go with less players the harder it gets as you get more and more mini bosses.

Harrowstorms main problem is two-fold. They're not balanced to solo and even though you technically can solo them it isn't something that 95% of players would be able to do, but at the same time nobody is incentivised to do harrowstorms because the rewards are absolute trash. If they buffed the drops how like they added Dragon Rheum to dragons post release it would bring players back, because right now If I do a harrowstorm the gear repair costs are almost as high as the reward.

licenturion

Bastion Nymic

Bastion, because it is horrendous game design for a world event.

FlopsyPrince

Harrowstorms

Rkindaleft wrote: »

opaj wrote: »

Harrowstorms can spiral out of control. There's no reason they should if you know what you're doing, but still...

That's pretty much exactly why I said they should just get updated. Both of the zones are mostly dead with very few players regularly joining in on these or doing the dailies - since they also technically have inverse scaling because the longer you go with less players the harder it gets as you get more and more mini bosses.

Harrowstorms main problem is two-fold. They're not balanced to solo and even though you technically can solo them it isn't something that 95% of players would be able to do, but at the same time nobody is incentivised to do harrowstorms because the rewards are absolute trash. If they buffed the drops how like they added Dragon Rheum to dragons post release it would bring players back, because right now If I do a harrowstorm the gear repair costs are almost as high as the reward.

I made a thread on that exact issue, but it got closed and pointed to the Overland thread, which is not the point.

I don't bother unless a bunch of people are there when I happen to be close since it is almost impossible with 2-4 people in most cases since the addons/healing spawn just as fast as when 20+ people are there. At least that is what it seems to me.

Juomuuri

Harrowstorms

Harrowstorms are the bane of my existence, haha. All the other world events are fine, tho Dragons take the second most annoying ranking, and Oblivion portals the third.

Mirrormoor mosaics are actually fun to me, despite the stupid invulnerability phases. I'd just wish the random mobs there would award xp... Oh well.

agelonestar

Oblivion Portals

It's a tough call.

I'd love the team at ESO to remember that after the razzmatazz dies down, these long-winded and difficult events hardly get touched. It's just too hard to find people who want to participate.

Try finding a group to go after a dragon in Northern Elsweyr off-peak or when there's no event on. Or on peak for that matter. Try running an Oblivion Portal now.