Official Discussion Thread for "Golden Pursuits—Unlock Frosty Fun This Holiday Season"

Giraffon · December 4

I think it's interesting that they've spent years destroying any reason to have alts and now all of the sudden they are giving rewards for starting a new character. I'm still mad about AWA. I rage deleted all of my alts over it and now years later here we are. Whatever.

RomanRex · December 4

Completed 20 without having to level a character. Played all over Tamriel today including PvP, trials, dungeons and IA.

I really enjoyed this. Perfect level of challenge. Grinders like me can do it in a (LONG) day while others have time to stretch it out if needed or desired.

method__01 · December 4

got 20 maxed out toons ,so i cant complete the 5 pursuits leveling part and this is unfair
not because i cant do the others but i started with 5 less no matter what i do
again some ppl are being punished for just play the game more than others......

SpiritKitten · December 4

I want to ask about the 'pins'. I click on the pin and nothing happens except the pin icon is highlighted. Isn't it supposed to pin the task to my HUD? It doesn't. It's frustrating because I have to keep opening the page to find the pursuit and check my progress.

SpiritKitten · December 4

I've already completed 10/20. Having a lot of fun, but I am the type of person that loves checking completed items off a list. I love this new feature. I did encounter the alchemy crafting bug. When I chose clothing instead I was able to craft the amount of items needed in one go. I also killed 2 delve bosses and got completion for 5.

XSTRONG · December 4

RomanRex wrote: »

Completed 20 without having to level a character. Played all over Tamriel today including PvP, trials, dungeons and IA.

I really enjoyed this. Perfect level of challenge. Grinders like me can do it in a (LONG) day while others have time to stretch it out if needed or desired.

Yeah same for me I got 20 in about 4-5 hours nice evning with some game grind for cool rewards!

code65536 · December 4

fall0athboy wrote: »

I am confused. The tooltip says "Earn levels by gaining experience through combat, crafting, and much more."

I have gained levels on crafting on a level 3 character. This is not progressing the Pursuit for me.

It says "by ... crafting", not "in". It's talking about character levels (from turning in a crafting-related quest), not crafting skill line levels. I suppose one could say that it is slightly misleading since crafting itself will never directly produce character levels; crafting can level you only indirectly, via quests.

davidtk · December 4

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin
I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but can you please fix the UI after Golden Pursuit tells you to collect your bounty? When you collect rewards: "F" claim -> "T" claim all available, the UI gets stuck and you can't click anything and you have to use /reloadui to get it to work again. I thought this was supposed to be fixed the first time you dropped it (Nord Hero), but apparently no one fixed it. And most importantly, please fix the "collect your reward" text to actually disappear after you collect it, instead of having to use /reloadui or re-zone elsewhere.

Reverb · December 4

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

tincanman wrote: »

^ This, specifically, for example - there does not seem to be a way to ignore or dismiss this prompt without actually interacting with the golden pursuits.

Why has a means to disable/ignore/dismiss this (GUI design 101...) not been implemented?

Thanks for the feedback, @tincanman! If you could choose, what specific functionality would you like to see? Is it specifically the ability to toggle on/off in-game pop-up notifications?

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom the problem is that the notification does t go away. It still sits there at the bottom of the screen even after you claimed the reward. There is nothing left to claim and you still have big text on the bottom of your screen telling you to claim rewards.

The functionality we want is to not have text on our screen telling us to do something we’ve already done. The notifications should clear when the action has been taken.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · December 4

kargen27 wrote: »

"That said, we do welcome feedback for future Golden Pursuits!"

In the future don't have pursuits that are impossible for some players to even attempt let alone complete.

Second this. This is effectively punishing me for playing my newbie Arcanist regularly instead of shoving him in a corner for use as a bank vault, and by extension playing the game less. Are you sure that this is behavior you want to encourage in your player base? Because that’s what you’re doing.

RaddlemanNumber7 · December 4

The only loot I'm interested in is the Crown Crates. Get a few gems to help me buy something I'll actually use.

More currency in the rewards would be very welcome.

Octarinewolf · December 4

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Another great question, thank you! In talking with the dev team, they said, "The Golden Pursuit Activities that reward individual weapon style pages, can only be earned by completing the associated activity. That said, players can still complete those activities, even after they complete the capstone. They won't be locked out of it. For example, the Earn 10 Event Tickets activity will be completable (alongside the Earn 15 New Life Festival Boxes), when New Life starts up on December 19. We designed these to be completable with wiggle room for the event."

The'll just be forced to complete all the NonPVP achievements including the grindtastic 5 Infinite Archive cycle bosses and 5 Trials and crafting/Harvesting.

Or they have to do PVP. And people just showing up to tick off complete a battleground match because they just have to be there aren't going to put in any effort.

Which is a step more onerous than Normal Endevours which generally offer sufficient possibilities that aren't PVP or the Infinite Archive

There's a complete lack of things like place furniture (ESO's true end game), Black Sacraments and Heists (i.e. Stealth Play), Antiquities or Killing foes with Weapon Abilities to name things that often show up

These sort of things need to be compatible without doing any of Trials, the Infinite Archive, Stealth, PVP, Tales of Tribute, House Building, Crafting and level gaining,. At most it needs to be set up so that the players need do their choice of those options.

It is not like we don't all know that those are the least popular or difficult endeavours. I suppose the developers might not since they don't seem to actually play the game.

I do note having companions gain levels doesn't count for Earn Levels despite the massively lower rate they gain XP. Are those not levels?

Katheriah · December 4

For the people that complain about being max level; you're not missing out on anything. Low level/newer players will have more issues with defeating 200 foes with class abilities, completing 3 trials or defeating 5 cycle bosses. Those will be easy peasy for you.

Would it be chill if CP counted towards the level pursuits as well? Sure. But besides that, this really is the wrong hill to die on. You have over a month to complete 20 of them. You'll be fine.

Erissime · December 4

I mean I have an account full of cp toons, none of which can thus level anymore and I just finished all the pursuits for the rewards. If there are some styles connected to the leveling up to 50 I would assume they will be rewarded once the full 20 bar is accomplished. Mount is fun. Bit too colourful, but if a Christmas tree was the idea behind it, it totally delivers lol.

And I just checked - none of the outfit rewards are associated with the leveling bits of the whole affair. Why so much fuss for nothing ?

Also I like how only old /capped players complain. New ones which actually can level , but probably (as mentioned above) would have more problems with other things, aren't. I am starting to believe when people get too much they become spoiled and try to find fault with everything, no matter how good intented it is or fun or uplifting. Cheer up people, it's Christmas season! You'll get your fluff, might as well say thank you. You know, for a change.

Blacknight841 · December 4

code65536 wrote: »

Hotdog_23 wrote: »

So I am penalized for already having reach 3600 and 20 characters and having stuck with ESO so long with time and money invested.

I am quite certain that someone with max CP and max characters would have no difficulty completing the other options available to you. Meanwhile, those leveling pursuits that are unavailable to you are accessible to the kinds of new players who would have difficulty accessing content like trials.

Accommodating a broad range of players means some pursuits will make no sense to you, just as there are pursuits that I'm sure you can easily do that would be quite inaccessible to a new player.

It isn’t about the ability to complete the other tasks.

Any player that doesn’t have 20 max level accounts has the ability to complete 20/30 pursuits. In other words they can choose to discard 10 of them. While a player with 20 characters maxed can only choose to disregard 5 of them. They must attain 80% completion from available tasks versus the 66%. Difficult for a new player to obtain is still obtainable, while for us these are physically impossible to obtain without a character reset.

Doesn’t matter how “accessible” the content and the ease of completing the other tasks may be,… veteran players with 20 character maxed out are in fact being penalized for having all their characters leveled. I don’t see any pursuits requiring a player to compete a dlc dungeon on hard mode with no deaths, while being at cp 1800+. I don’t see any pursuits requiring a player to complete the 4th arc in the infinite archive. None of the pursuits are locked behind ability to obtain … except those requiring an open character slot to complete.