Slayer of Death itself achievement- how?

Dragonnord

@ZOS_Kevin Could you please clarify or provide any info on what's happening here?

Is this working as intended or broken/bugged?

Thank you.

Hapexamendios

I'm not going to bother with this until it's properly fixed in game.

ESO_player123

I got one today on PC NA in one spot, but after that I got the old one in another spot. So, it would be great to have someone from ZoS answer the following questions:

1. Were the new ones supposed to completely replace the old ones for the players that completed the prologue, or is it RNG on top of RNG (a chance to spawn something and, if something spawned, it has a chance to be the new one)?
2. How do they behave when two players approach the spawning spot: one who completed the prologue and one that did not.

Djennku

2. How do they behave when two players approach the spawning spot: one who completed the prologue and one that did not.

I can answer this. Had a friend run into one before completing the prologue on PS, so I can confirm the spawns aren't affected by that. ^^

ESO_player123

Djennku wrote: »

2. How do they behave when two players approach the spawning spot: one who completed the prologue and one that did not.

I can answer this. Had a friend run into one before completing the prologue on PS, so I can confirm the spawns aren't affected by that. ^^

Thanks a lot. At least that is a relief.

Gabriel_H

I'm well past 100 dark fissures, over 4 hours of my life, and zero reaper spawns. gg @ZOS

Edit: One thing I have noticed is that previously Dark Fissures re-spawned about every 5 minutes, now only some of them do. The others seem permanently inactive.

Psychopote

We've been trying to get an official response on this issue for almost two weeks now : this silence is really disrespectful. I had the feeling their communication had improved lately, but apparently not.
It's worth noting that the bug that occurred around the same time — which prevented the mages guild recall customized action (sold with the season preorder) from displaying properly — did catch their attention, led to a response from them, and even got patched...

RealLoveBVB

Gabriel_H wrote: »

I'm well past 100 dark fissures, over 4 hours of my life, and zero reaper spawns. gg @ZOS

Edit: One thing I have noticed is that previously Dark Fissures re-spawned about every 5 minutes, now only some of them do. The others seem permanently inactive.

My guess is, that they act like fishing holes. If you emptied a hole, another hole will randomly spawn in the next 5 mins somewhere on the map.

Could be the same with dark fissues too.

erdbeerheld

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

I'm well past 100 dark fissures, over 4 hours of my life, and zero reaper spawns. gg @ZOS

Edit: One thing I have noticed is that previously Dark Fissures re-spawned about every 5 minutes, now only some of them do. The others seem permanently inactive.

My guess is, that they act like fishing holes. If you emptied a hole, another hole will randomly spawn in the next 5 mins somewhere on the map.

Could be the same with dark fissues too.

I have the same observation as @Gabriel_H , the ones that are active, are respawning every 5 minutes like clockwork. The ones that are inactive, dont spawn at all. So it is different than the Fishing Holes.

xNeros

About 50+ spawns in, zero reapers.

Please - for the love of the RNG-goddess - bless us with some kind of information on how this and the associated achievement works!

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

lonewolf26

Found some consistently on PC-NA in Eastmarch near Amol for a good 2 hours after which they dried up and reverted back to Dark Fissure spawns. The spawns seemed to come up every 6 minutes or so checking multiple sites around Amol. During that time the other Dark fissure sites in the zone only spawned the Fissure events.

Call it a theory for now but I wonder if maybe a hotspot crops up somewhere and then moves on.

valenwood_vegan

This doesn't sound like something fun and worth spending time on, lol. Totally getting me excited for the story and making me wanna buy the new not a chapter chapter!

Gabriel_H

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

I'm well past 100 dark fissures, over 4 hours of my life, and zero reaper spawns. gg @ZOS

Edit: One thing I have noticed is that previously Dark Fissures re-spawned about every 5 minutes, now only some of them do. The others seem permanently inactive.

My guess is, that they act like fishing holes. If you emptied a hole, another hole will randomly spawn in the next 5 mins somewhere on the map.

Could be the same with dark fissues too.

That wasn't how they behaved a week or so ago. There is a row of them in Stonefalls for example. The one nearest the wayshrine spawns every 5 minutes, so does the next one in the line - so you do the first, move to the second and it spawns straight away, but the others in the chain have stopped spawning period.

Gabriel_H

lonewolf26 wrote: »

Call it a theory for now but I wonder if maybe a hotspot crops up somewhere and then moves on.

I spent a straight two hours on the Stonefalls chain with no luck. If it is hotspots it is very poorly thought out. If players cannot predict when content will spawn, it makes doing content near impossible for the vast majority of the player base.

lonewolf26

Gabriel_H wrote: »

I spent a straight two hours on the Stonefalls chain with no luck. If it is hotspots it is very poorly thought out. If players cannot predict when content will spawn, it makes doing content near impossible for the vast majority of the player base.

I can't speak to the intentionality of having hotspots vs random event replacements but either way you slice it this would be a difficult thing to achieve without being spectacularly lucky or having cooperation on a large guild-wide scale.

These events die pretty quick so regardless of if you're in the right place at the right time or camping on the spot you're in for a long haul.

ApoAlaia

I camped a dark fissure spawn yesterday, didn't get any after 12 of them, gave up for now.

Said that I haven't gotten any of the three leads (2nd time, I've already completed the antiquity once) for the well in TP after 300+ treasure maps and according to Kevin's comment on behalf of the Devs during the event that rolled treasure maps twice this is 'working as intended' so it doesn't necessarily mean that is broken.

Maybe I just needed to wait out 300+ more respawns?

BergisMacBride

Did about 30 dark fissures today and only saw one reaper pop.

Definitely not working like they were after maintenance yesterday and likely bugged. Yesterday I had about a dozen reapers and today just the one. There’s something in the spawning mechanism/trigger that works just fine after a server reboot but makes them very rare to nonexistent as time passes after maintenance.

I’ll get the achievement and skill style eventually but will have to focus on doing them right after maintenance since it looks like this isn’t going to be fixed or addressed anytime soon.

@ZOS_Kevin, can we at least get an acknowledgment of this issue?

o_Primate_o

There is an update today. Must have fixed soul reaper because my first fissure spawned a soul reaper. No fragment though.

Grendalism

Todays patch seems to fixed it (PS-EU)

First fissure was Worm, and got a soul fragment!

BergisMacBride

o_Primate_o wrote: »

There is an update today. Must have fixed soul reaper because my first fissure spawned a soul reaper. No fragment though.

Don't think it's fixed, it just reset because of the server reboot. It will gradually break the further you get away from the maintenance. This has been a repeatable pattern. Patch on Monday for PC, good the first day. Today I have found none on PC|NA.

Grega

Grendalism wrote: »

Todays patch seems to fixed it (PS-EU)

First fissure was Worm, and got a soul fragment!

Not fixed. Just reboot temporarily fixed it, but it’s already breaking. Hours and none are spawning now already, so it’s same as before.

Also still silence from ZOS, really unacceptable @ZOS_Kevin

Morvan

Funny how a bug related to a paid item is quickly addressed while this isn't even aknowledged after weeks.

Grega

Morvan wrote: »

Funny how a bug related to a paid item is quickly addressed while this isn't even aknowledged after weeks.

It’s really confusing as it is an overland content, the first and currently only overland content promoting new season pass option.

One would assume they would want to have that functional for, if not anything else, properly promoting season pass for people to purchase. Really mind boggling.

valenwood_vegan

It's just crazy that we can't have an answer. Anyone who's considering buying the new content should take a long look at how this has been handled lol.

BergisMacBride

Since ZOS are willfully ignoring this problem and not responding at all, my advice is for anyone who wants to get the achievement and skill style to go hard right after their server reboots to farm these as fast as possible before it breaks again. Might take several cycles to complete them but that’s the only option we have left in the face of deafening silence.

ESO_player123

I have a theory. Just hear me out. May be (just may be) the cultist are not able to build the devices quickly enough since so many heroes are dutifully destroying them. So, when the servers are rebooting, the cultists finally get a break and have time to build more.

MörKi

Yesterday, after the patch on PS-EU, Soul Reapers spawned regularly. My group and I found about 30 within about two hours, in various areas.

What was noticeable was that far fewer spawned with a boss at the end that drops a fragment. Only about 6 of the 30, or about 20%.

Of the 8 Soul Reapers I found before the patch, 6 out of 8 spawned with a boss.

What I noticed is that there's a connection between the NPCs that are attacked by the Worm Cultists at the beginning and the boss spawn.

If there are only two NPCs, no boss appears.

If there are three NPCs, a boss appears at the end that drops a fragment. This was the case with all 6 boss spawns. A boss never appeared when there were only two NPCs.

So you can predict in advance whether a boss will appear.

Grega

MörKi wrote: »

Yesterday, after the patch on PS-EU, Soul Reapers spawned regularly. My group and I found about 30 within about two hours, in various areas.

What was noticeable was that far fewer spawned with a boss at the end that drops a fragment. Only about 6 of the 30, or about 20%.

Of the 8 Soul Reapers I found before the patch, 6 out of 8 spawned with a boss.

What I noticed is that there's a connection between the NPCs that are attacked by the Worm Cultists at the beginning and the boss spawn.

If there are only two NPCs, no boss appears.

If there are three NPCs, a boss appears at the end that drops a fragment. This was the case with all 6 boss spawns. A boss never appeared when there were only two NPCs.

So you can predict in advance whether a boss will appear.

Can you predict when any will spawn? Cause now, 0 are spawning everywhere.

MörKi

No, it was purely random. Sometimes Dark Fissures appeared, sometimes Soul Reapers appeared, sometimes none at all. However, I know a lot of spawn points.

ApoAlaia

I did another 20 odd yesterday in PC EU, didn't get any Soul Reapers.

I'm just going to give this one a miss for now, I was getting '2024 anniversary grind for bound style pages' vibes by the end of my abject failure.