PTS Update 48 - Feedback Thread for Eastern Solstice

ZOS_Kevin

This is the official feedback thread for Eastern Solstice, mainly focusing on the zone, side quests, and other types of content found in the area. If you have specific feedback on the main story, please visit this thread so others can avoid spoilers. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

• Entering Eastern Solstice
  • Were you able to get through the wall okay after the Writhing Wall event concluded?
  • Were you able to find the main quest givers to continue the main quest?

• Quests
  • Did you engage with the Main Story?
  • Did you find it easy to get the Main Story quests?
  • Did you engage with any quests outside of the main story? If so, which ones?
  • Did you find any quests to be problematic from either a directional or difficulty standpoint?
• World Bosses
  • Did you fight any world bosses? If so, which ones?
  • Were any of them too easy or too hard?
  • Were mechanics clearly communicated?
• Public Dungeons
  • Did you go into the new public dungeon?
  • Public dungeons are generally balanced for two or more players of average skill and gear. Did you feel sufficiently challenged?
  • Did you go in with or without a companion?
• Zone
  • What did you think of the Eastern Solstice environment?
  • Did you encounter any new enemies you haven't seen before? What did you think of them?
  • Now that the entire Solstice zone has been unlocked, what do you think of the overall process for Seasons of the Worm Cult unlocking access to part of a zone?
  • Do you have any other general feedback?

Freelancer_ESO

Were you able to get through the wall okay after the Writhing Wall event concluded?

I was on a template char so I was able to get thru the wall.

Were you able to find the main quest givers to continue the main quest?

I was able to complete the Eastern Main Quest on the Template char. The Template char got stuck on part of the Main Quest for the West and is unable to turn in Support the Fellowship. I also had spoilers for the West Main Quest in the dialogue of other quests.

Did you engage with the Main Story?

Yeah, I completed the Eastern Section and Bonus Quest

Did you find it easy to get the Main Story quests?

For the East it was

Did you engage with any quests outside of the main story? If so, which ones?

I think I did most of them.

Did you find any quests to be problematic from either a directional or difficulty standpoint?

I didn't have any serious issues. Seaside caves lacked a visual map.

Did you fight any world bosses? If so, which ones?

I fought Zyv with a sizeable group. He wasn't too bad with a sizeable group once you knew the mechanics. I took a bit of a performance hit when the waves occurred.

I didn't bother with the others after him because he looked like he'd be horrible to fight without a larger group and I assumed the others would be similar.

Did you go into the new public dungeon?

Yeah I cleared it with a companion.

Public dungeons are generally balanced for two or more players of average skill and gear. Did you feel sufficiently challenged?

It felt like the difficulty/time to kill varied a fair bit. At one point you go from a boss with like 300k hp (which respawned rather fast) to a boss with six million. The six million wasn't exactly hard but, it was a slog.

What did you think of the Eastern Solstice environment?

I liked that the Hadolid's are continuing to learn magic.

It really felt like the Worm Cult put tons of effort into decorating and that perhaps Tamriel would have fallen if they focused a bit more on other things. Sections of the Worm Cult areas did remind me of stuff from LOTRO so it felt perhaps less new to me than it might have otherwise.

Visually, it felt like significant sections of the Overland areas felt quite similar to other existing Overland areas.

The delves definitely delivered when it came to overall visual spectacle and I liked that you didn't have quite as much of a maze to get the skyshards. However, it did feel that they were a bit less "alive"/interesting than some of the game prior delves to me.

It can kind of feel like the zone is sitting in the past after you clear the story stuff since so much of the zone is about fighting a single faction.

Do you have any other general feedback?

I really liked the choices in dialogue response. I liked the quest where the npc ended up actually dusting a few other npcs. Even some of the really short quests felt interesting enough and made the world feel a bit more alive.


Now that the entire Solstice zone has been unlocked, what do you think of the overall process for Seasons of the Worm Cult unlocking access to part of a zone?

I'm not sure it's an approach that you'd want to take regularly as it can leave players a bit unclear as to what they are buying and the quality of the experience can potentially very dramatically depending on how the work together parts actually end up going on live.