New character issues with Coldharbour wayshrines

Enslaved · June 2017

There was a while since I leveled new chars from scratch. And all these Wardens I made need skill poins, so I tried to get as many shards as possible. Well, when I got to Coldharbour I noticed something I am 100% positive was not there before - new characters cannot travel to Chasm, Reaver's Citadel or Orchard wayshrines. I tried teleporting on guildmates, friends, random ppl I asked to help me and so on and so forth. Not a single post Morrowind character can travel there unless you go and do quests, or it seems so. Some friends tried the same, with my main as anchor point to travel to. Same results with new characters, post Morrowind made. Zos, fix this [snip] asap, I don't want to do CH main quests just to be able to get shards on new chars. At least, not before I do all quests in other zones.

[Edited title to make more constructive and removed instances of bypassing censor]

Bonzodog01 · June 2017

I actually noticed that the area north of the Hollow City (Delodiil) was locked off and could only be opened up through the quest line before Morrowind dropped. I think it might have actually been introduced with Homestead.

SirAndy · June 2017

Outsch, that's gonna hurt ...

MLGProPlayer · June 2017

This was always the case...

Enslaved · June 2017

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

This was always the case...

Not really. Logged in on mule account just to check. All mules are lvl 3-4 and made way before. All can travel to my main character without any problem, even on endless stair wayshrine. This seem to be a problem only on new characters. Zos, I implore you, please fix this.

Lylith · June 2017

i got north of it the other day by porting to a guildie who was in grunda's domain then walking out the north door into the orchard.

ymmv.

Legoless · June 2017

This isn't a bug, you're not meant to reach the northern subzone until after the Chasm quest.

Darlgon · June 2017

You mean.. you want the points without actually playing the game..

I have a gold seller website that will fix that for you.. here...

Wreuntzylla · June 2017

Legoless wrote: »

This isn't a bug, you're not meant to reach the northern subzone until after the Chasm quest.

Interesting. Then why are there crafting writ survey locations in the "Northern subzone?"

Enslaved · June 2017

Darlgon wrote: »

You mean.. you want the points without actually playing the game..

I have a gold seller website that will fix that for you.. here...

wtf m8? 14 chars, 8 did main quest and 11 have all shards from this zone, and you tell me this? I just dont want to do CH quest before doing all quests that lead you to CH in the first place, and for some reason Zos blocked part of CH compared to situation before.

Roovin · June 2017

Pretty sure this is how it's always been

Rohamad_Ali · June 2017

I was able to go to coldharbor on my new toon last patch . He did not do the prophet quests .

Darlgon · June 2017

Enslaved wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

You mean.. you want the points without actually playing the game..

I have a gold seller website that will fix that for you.. here...

wtf m8? 14 chars, 8 did main quest and 11 have all shards from this zone, and you tell me this? I just dont want to do CH quest before doing all quests that lead you to CH in the first place, and for some reason Zos blocked part of CH compared to situation before.

After 14 characters.. why are you surprised at how the game works?

Enslaved · June 2017

Darlgon wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

You mean.. you want the points without actually playing the game..

I have a gold seller website that will fix that for you.. here...

wtf m8? 14 chars, 8 did main quest and 11 have all shards from this zone, and you tell me this? I just dont want to do CH quest before doing all quests that lead you to CH in the first place, and for some reason Zos blocked part of CH compared to situation before.

After 14 characters.. why are you surprised at how the game works?

I am surprised how this was changed, yet I didnt find any info about that in any of the patch notes we were given. And trust me, I read them all.

Lylith · June 2017

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

I was able to go to coldharbor on my new toon last patch . He did not do the prophet quests .

same here.

done it on several characters. i always end up doing all of c/h, but not always in the 'proper' order.

Magıc · June 2017

Darlgon wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

You mean.. you want the points without actually playing the game..

I have a gold seller website that will fix that for you.. here...

wtf m8? 14 chars, 8 did main quest and 11 have all shards from this zone, and you tell me this? I just dont want to do CH quest before doing all quests that lead you to CH in the first place, and for some reason Zos blocked part of CH compared to situation before.

After 14 characters.. why are you surprised at how the game works?

I can't tell if you're trolling or not. It's been changed, so how can you possibly be surprised that he's surprised it's been changed?

disintegr8 · June 2017

I think there are enough skyshards elsewhere that you would not need to get these. I have characters with enough skill points who have never been to Coldharbour, Hews bane or Gold Coast.

PlagueSD · June 2017

If you haven't talked to the "Shadowy figure" yet, I don't think you can get to coldharbor. Haven't tried on my warden yet because I'm actually playing the game and exploring Morrowind.

Vipstaakki · June 2017

A bug was fixed and you are mad about that? Would you please finally decide whether you want bugs in ESO or not?

Magıc · June 2017

Vipstaakki wrote: »

A bug was fixed and you are mad about that? Would you please finally decide whether you want bugs in ESO or not?

A bug? Who said it was a bug? I'd like a source please.

starkerealm · June 2017

Enslaved wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

You mean.. you want the points without actually playing the game..

I have a gold seller website that will fix that for you.. here...

wtf m8? 14 chars, 8 did main quest and 11 have all shards from this zone, and you tell me this? I just dont want to do CH quest before doing all quests that lead you to CH in the first place, and for some reason Zos blocked part of CH compared to situation before.

After 14 characters.. why are you surprised at how the game works?

I am surprised how this was changed, yet I didnt find any info about that in any of the patch notes we were given. And trust me, I read them all.

It wasn't changed. You've never been able to get to Cold Harbour at all without porting to a guildmate. Porting to one of the northern shrines has always requires you have someone up there to port to. Unless you're saying you had a guildmate at a northern shrine and it wouldn't let you port to them. If that's the case, then, yeah, that's new.

PocketNova · June 2017

This has been the case for months. You used to be able to port to someone up there and it worked, for a long time, but at some point in the last 6-8 months it was changed so you're now locked out of porting to someone up there.

The port to a delve and walk out, I never tried it, but it makes sense. If someone got it to work it's probably the only viable option now.

Vipstaakki · June 2017

Magıc wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

A bug was fixed and you are mad about that? Would you please finally decide whether you want bugs in ESO or not?

A bug? Who said it was a bug? I'd like a source please.

If ZOS told you it was a bug would that make you believe it was so? What kind of a source would you like? It clearly wasn't working as intended. You were not supposed to get to Coldharbour before the storyline told you to go there.

CaptainBeerDude · June 2017

PocketNova wrote: »

This has been the case for months. You used to be able to port to someone up there and it worked, for a long time, but at some point in the last 6-8 months it was changed so you're now locked out of porting to someone up there.

The port to a delve and walk out, I never tried it, but it makes sense. If someone got it to work it's probably the only viable option now.

I'm pretty sure that returns you to your previous location.

Soleya · June 2017

If you do the main quest you'll get more skill points than the ones locked behind that area in skyshards. Each quest gives a point...worth 3 skyshards.

NewBlacksmurf · June 2017

Bonzodog01 wrote: »

I actually noticed that the area north of the Hollow City (Delodiil) was locked off and could only be opened up through the quest line before Morrowind dropped. I think it might have actually been introduced with Homestead.

It's actually been that way since Imperial City to orsinium. Some time around there long ago. Shocked me too

Katahdin · June 2017

Ive ported several characters up there after Wrothgar launched to get world bosses done. None of them had completed the story line.

NewBlacksmurf · June 2017

Katahdin wrote: »

Ive ported several characters up there after Wrothgar launched to get world bosses done. None of them had completed the story line.

Do you recall what part of the story you were on or if you had spoke to the prophet at all?

Katahdin · June 2017

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Katahdin wrote: »

Ive ported several characters up there after Wrothgar launched to get world bosses done. None of them had completed the story line.

Do you recall what part of the story you were on or if you had spoke to the prophet at all?

I don't think they had done any of the story at all, but I don't remember if that is the case with all of the characters. There were several characters between a friend and I. Not sure where his characters were at.

We used characters that had completed all of cold harbor to port to though. Don't know if that makes any difference.

starkerealm · June 2017

Try porting to a northern Delve, maybe? See if that works.

Enslaved · June 2017

starkerealm wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

You mean.. you want the points without actually playing the game..

I have a gold seller website that will fix that for you.. here...

wtf m8? 14 chars, 8 did main quest and 11 have all shards from this zone, and you tell me this? I just dont want to do CH quest before doing all quests that lead you to CH in the first place, and for some reason Zos blocked part of CH compared to situation before.

After 14 characters.. why are you surprised at how the game works?

I am surprised how this was changed, yet I didnt find any info about that in any of the patch notes we were given. And trust me, I read them all.

It wasn't changed. You've never been able to get to Cold Harbour at all without porting to a guildmate. Porting to one of the northern shrines has always requires you have someone up there to port to. Unless you're saying you had a guildmate at a northern shrine and it wouldn't let you port to them. If that's the case, then, yeah, that's new.

Yeah. Im saying that I had a guildmate who was farming stygian for some reason unknown on northern world boss and I couldnt port to him. It was odd so I asked him to be exactly at wayshrine. None worked, still was unable to port to him. Then I asked a friend who was willing to help to see if result might be different. We were in group, I could see her camping on a F wayshrine. Still no luck. Then I was desperate and asked random ppl for port, even offered 5k to ones willing to help. You know what - didnt work as well. At that point I came here to QQ. Bit later tested with my mule account, as I wrote about it.

Bs like this, that noone knew about, R word changes made that weren't asked for or even needed at all is what makes me rage. If they did cutoff entire CH for chars that had not done main quest up to CH, I could understand that. I would not agree, being that ESO is advertised as "play your way, any zone at any time", but I would understand. But this, utter bs, this is something I can't understand at all. At least, they should have said something, if pulling a stunt like that. Tell us when u change something, damn it. I know it is not biggest and most important thing in ESO, but why changing it in the 1st place? Among all things that need tweaking and adjustments, overhauls or back-to-the-drawing-board fixes, someone at Zos decided OhYeahLetsCutOff3WayshrinesInColdharbourSinceThatIsTheBiggestIssueATM... Bah, I'm going to sleep.