The trouble with Craglorn.....

agegarton · February 2017

I recently decided to "do" Craglorn. I've done bits and pieces since it first appeared on the map (back when it was actually quite tough to solo anything), but rarely bothered with the quests. I'm only trying to complete everything now so that I have access to the associated achievement furnishings.

But chasing around after furnishings and blueprints highlights the problem with Craglorn. To be blunt, the loot sucks! Delves have very few pots, containers, chests, etc. Some have none! Boss fights reward utter garbage. Significant quests still reward green non-set items. Even Craglorn's assigned drop sets are largely worthless. I did Skyreach the other night..... OK, I got a motif at the end.... but Skyreach is long, arduous. Along the way there's nothing to loot, drops are terrible. It's just awful. Anywhere else in Tamriel, it'd be chock-full of goodies, and if nothing else, the boss fights would reward something decent.

So, come on ZoS. Sort it out. You might have made Craglorn easier, but you haven't made it BETTER.

Taylor_MB · February 2017

I got this beauty from a forgotten Craglorn boss the other day. Wrong set and wrong CP level.

kyle.wilson · February 2017

agegarton wrote: »

I recently decided to "do" Craglorn. I've done bits and pieces since it first appeared on the map (back when it was actually quite tough to solo anything), but rarely bothered with the quests. I'm only trying to complete everything now so that I have access to the associated achievement furnishings.

But chasing around after furnishings and blueprints highlights the problem with Craglorn. To be blunt, the loot sucks! Delves have very few pots, containers, chests, etc. Some have none! Boss fights reward utter garbage. Significant quests still reward green non-set items. Even Craglorn's assigned drop sets are largely worthless. I did Skyreach the other night..... OK, I got a motif at the end.... but Skyreach is long, arduous. Along the way there's nothing to loot, drops are terrible. It's just awful. Anywhere else in Tamriel, it'd be chock-full of goodies, and if nothing else, the boss fights would reward something decent.

So, come on ZoS. Sort it out. You might have made Craglorn easier, but you haven't made it BETTER.

In the last few days I did all of the main quests solo, I found a lot of mats and designs. Some of the locations the quests send you have a lot of lootable bags.

agegarton · February 2017

You see, I just don't agree with that. A "lot" is what you find in Old Orsinium, or Razaks Wheel, or Morkuldin. A "little" or "none" is what you find in Craglorn.

kyle.wilson · February 2017

agegarton wrote: »

You see, I just don't agree with that. A "lot" is what you find in Old Orsinium, or Razaks Wheel, or Morkuldin. A "little" or "none" is what you find in Craglorn.

I've never been a farmer, and if a day comes that I realize i'm spending any real time farming i'll delete the game.
Farming isn't fun. All the stuff I've gotten lately has been done while striving for other goals.

Zinaroth · February 2017

kyle.wilson wrote: »

agegarton wrote: »

You see, I just don't agree with that. A "lot" is what you find in Old Orsinium, or Razaks Wheel, or Morkuldin. A "little" or "none" is what you find in Craglorn.

I've never been a farmer, and if a day comes that I realize i'm spending any real time farming i'll delete the game.
Farming isn't fun. All the stuff I've gotten lately has been done while striving for other goals.

Out of curiousity; what activities and goals were those?

kyle.wilson · February 2017

Zinaroth wrote: »

kyle.wilson wrote: »

agegarton wrote: »

You see, I just don't agree with that. A "lot" is what you find in Old Orsinium, or Razaks Wheel, or Morkuldin. A "little" or "none" is what you find in Craglorn.

I've never been a farmer, and if a day comes that I realize i'm spending any real time farming i'll delete the game.
Farming isn't fun. All the stuff I've gotten lately has been done while striving for other goals.

Out of curiousity; what activities and goals were those?

I've been questing on my MagDK since pvp has become so f'd lately. I got tired of the lag and invisible players. The char was leveled in pvp, and saw limited gameplay while I was using my mag sorc.

Integral1900 · February 2017

I have to agree that Craglorn is a mess, they stripped the main guest so hard that you could finish it in less than two hours. If you do the Mage which should still be regarded as main quest given what npcs say to you then most of that is group content. The warrior is a total cockup, half solo and half group, other dungeons are group or solo seemingly at random.

The bosses outside of group ones are a total turkey shoot. A friend went into one delve with their little level 15 dk and dam near one shotted the delve boss while using no sets, no cp and no buffs

they killed one so fast they didn't realise it until the game showed the achievement logo on screen.

Loot wise there is a huge amount of containers, good news with housing costs being utterly insane at the moment, a group of four guild mates ran round skyreach and it's catacombs on Wednesday and got so much low grade housing loot that once it started going through the guild trader in wayrest they were making nearly a million gold an hour

weirdly though it's still an absolute pig to get a group together for

Majic · February 2017

In other words, the trouble with Craglorn is that it's a hot mess.