My Orsinium Event Experience In a Nutshell

Rawkan · November 2017

It's almost like everyone on the server balling up will cause server lag. Who would've thought?

Irfind · November 2017

Hm i had the loadscreen of death 2 times beside that no problems in Wrothgar (WB, Zone no vMSA)

zaria · November 2017

LiquidPony wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Well then. I’m happy to hear you all are having such a good time during the event. I suppose I’ll leave VMA be, and just focus on harvesting nodes as I originally said. As much as I want the easy purple improvements, I don’t want to end-up hating ESO again due to VMA. So, it’s only logical for me to just distance myself from it.

lol

The moment I hit a snag in Maelstrom that appears to be server related (enemies doing weird things, unable to interrupt, can't bar swap, heavy attacks not firing, etc.), I port out of that hell hole and go back to node farming. Just not worth the frustration.

Only reason I'm in there is because ~40 minutes for 8 transmutation crystals is a pretty good return, so if it ain't gonna happen in a fairly smooth 40 minute run, I'm out.

Its weird as maelstrom is instanced like group dungeons, its no reason to run it on the same server as orsinium zone run on.

Arcticreconwolf · November 2017

Lol mine in a nutshell is MY NODE GET AWAY FROM MY NODE and racing people to a ore deposit

sudaki_eso · November 2017

No issue here. Probably a console thing.

Had no problems on the ps4 at all...

Skwor wrote: »

I have been grinding all the WBosses and solo dailies in WG everyday with zero issues, zero crashes and no lag what-so-ever. Sure seems like some of these issues are just peoples machines or isp.

Same here, did the typical WB run The Accursed Nursery <--> Poacher's Encampment for hours with no problems, spent a couple of hours in old orsinium, again no problems. When i had to got back to deshaan to sell my stuff then i had the lsod, in wrothgar everything was fine on my end.

nnargun · November 2017

I'm not having any problems with performance in vMA. PC EU on this Sunday morning and afternoon.

rhapsodious · November 2017

Trying to go for flawless this event and so far I've had:

Something short of a bluescreen on round 7 (the game display went black but the cursor was still there, sound played for a few seconds then stopped, OBS crashed, my computer did the disconnect-reconnect peripheral noise... not 100% sure that was ESO, but I had to force quit).

Round 5 ping spike that, of course, culminated in death by Quick Shot

Round 9 dying to Burning Embers that never rendered

And then the usual flavor of "enemies conspire to all hit you with their light attacks within 50 ms of each other, so all you can do is accept death".

I'll get it... eventually... but god that's frustrating.

When it works, though, it's nice!

Ch4mpTW · November 2017

rhapsodious wrote: »

Trying to go for flawless this event and so far I've had:

Something short of a bluescreen on round 7 (the game display went black but the cursor was still there, sound played for a few seconds then stopped, OBS crashed, my computer did the disconnect-reconnect peripheral noise... not 100% sure that was ESO, but I had to force quit).

Round 5 ping spike that, of course, culminated in death by Quick Shot

Round 9 dying to Burning Embers that never rendered

And then the usual flavor of "enemies conspire to all hit you with their light attacks within 50 ms of each other, so all you can do is accept death".

I'll get it... eventually... but god that's frustrating.

When it works, though, it's nice!

That’s how VMA is. When things are working as they are supposed to, the instance is quite enjoyable. It’s actually less stressful than a 12-man trial, and can be quite the insightful experience (if using the content to test new adjustments and builds). But, when the content is: Buggy, laggy, and just overall a glitch-feat? It’s possible the worst experience in a game imaginable. It can truly make you end-up hating ESO was a whole, even though the content is DLC-based and a solo instance. The Maelstrom Arena is truly a very strange thing indeed.

Drummerx04 · November 2017

The last time this event came along it was also not very smooth. Disconnects and bad performance in vMA was at an all time high, so I just stayed clear this time around.

bottleofsyrup · November 2017

@ZOS_Finn Fix your arena, man.

kylewwefan · November 2017

There’s a maintenance scheduled for tomorrow. Cross fingers things get fixed for the long weekend!

Narvuntien · November 2017

My Orisinium experience was actually pretty great.

I went around finding all the quests and achievements, relics and skyshards I had missed. Found some of the quests with the real feels :'(.

I filled up my bank with resources from nodes.. I mean argh what do I do with with these resources!... my biggest issue with the event is that I am now playing inventory management online in veteran mode.

Ch4mpTW · November 2017

Since avoiding VMA, my experience has been much better. Though again, it saddens me to not be able to farm quick elegant lining and grain solvents. Hopefully the maintenance tomorrow will fix a lot of bugs occurring as another use has said, as it is somewhat annoying having to race from node to node. Then again, I suppose it’s much better than the node competition when Hew’s Bane had its event.

BrightOblivion · November 2017

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

I don't know what pisses me off more. Doing vMA and having to deal with the lag and dying randomly as showed in the videos or doing vMA and still unable to get a dagger at all since its release.

@FLuFFyxMuFFiN Hey, I don’t know how else to say this... But, umm... Daggers now for whatever the reason only go with the 1H+Shield set. It no longer drops for the Cruel Flurry set. Yes, very awkward indeed. On the bright side, a mace now can be duel-wielded for added physical resistance penetration. Thus allowing you to go with 2 maces for the Cruel Flurry set.

I don’t know if it is a bug, or if it is intentional. But, unless you’ve had daggers drop for you pre-CWC? They won’t be dropping for the Cruel Flurry 2pcs. set. And this is on PS4-NA, by the way.

That's not entirely true, at least on PC. The only dual-wield set I've gotten was double daggers (within the last 5 days). And my shield came with an axe.

If you're only getting daggers attached to shield sets, that's crap RNG, but it's not a bug.

Tan9oSuccka · November 2017

I went to Orsinium briefly the other night. Nodes were picked clean. Epeen on chat was obsurd as well.

Pass.

Danksta · November 2017

Everyone keeps saying how vMA is so laggy, but I'm just not seeing it. Is it laggy? Sure, but just as much as usual. I've done three total runs since the event on three different toons and have gotten new high scores with all three. Shockingly, I haven't had one eternal load screen there but anywhere else it seems to happen half of the time.

Feanor · November 2017

“I was clearly out of it” must be the most uttered expression of frustration in there, not counting heavy swearing.

I know I had my fair share of poison plants ruining flawless runs when I was...well...clearly out of it.