I ran only one dungeon during the entire event. I simply do not have the time to run a dungeon with pugs and receive garbage due to the absurdly low drop rates. These special events should encourage people to participate and enjoy the game. Instead, it angered plenty of people and sent others running away from the event. I don’t know how this event could be considered anything but disappointing.

More often than not, I used every character on my main account and some on my second account if a filler was needed. I lost count how many randoms I did, and in the end, I only got the Blacksmith costume. Otherwise, the majority of it was useless dye stamps, mimic stones, and tripots.

If the drop rate is going to be this poor in future events, I'm most likely not going to participate. This wound up feeling like a massive waste of time to me and was nothing but frustrating.

I have gotten Imperial Horse from the penultimate box before event's end. Cruel joke, RNG, cruel.
But I'm happy.

I got a bunch of mimic stones, repair kits, treasure maps - and a couple undaunted plunder

nothing fun

Tasear wrote: »

What if they allowed after such events ablity to purchase items from crown store?

Weren't some of these items originally from the crown store, thus what crates were supposed to offer? Now we know with the upcoming schedule we're not getting them anytime soon and even if so it would seem based on the returning crates we couldn't use gems to purchase them...so, if they brought them back it better be to be able to straight up purchase them as they were originally offered in the store for. I'd like the smith outfit but im not gonna crate for it.

<flicks lighter and holds it up>

Seven characters + 4 days = No mount, no costume, no pet. Got one green clockwork recipe that isn't worth anything now.

I went into this with very low expectations, I figured I'd get mostly crown store versions of "junk" - i.e. repair kits, crown meals, potions. I assumed the "good stuff" would be very rare and that would have been fine. This was based on the original, unedited version of the announcement.

What I didn't expect was getting a ton of stuff I can get in game on any random day. I don't spend a few hours in dungeons to get treasure maps I can buy in one minute at any guild trader for next to nothing, a white pattern available at the npc merchants, or for crying out loud a lockpick! As for the "it's free, you got something for doing nothing" argument - we didn't have to "do nothing". To do nothing would have been to log in every day and get a mystery box in our mail.

My positive take on this event was that I managed to talk a few good guildies into coming back to the game to do it and had several really fun nights running with them again.

3 characters, 7 runs each, got the blacksmith outfit, and the imperial dog. A couple of dye stamps, undaunted treasures, and a few keys. Not much else of note.

I was not super impressed with the event, mostly because I got stuck running the same dungeons over and over and over.
5 characters, 4 days.
Got a skin, 3 costumes, too many dye stamps, a few green recipes, and too many crown repair kits. Like seriously, I am kinda salty about those.... The crow tri-pots I will at least use, and cost more than a a hundred gold to craft...

I just wanted the blacksmith, and having done 9 toons each day of the event, i think I freaking earned one.

Didn't actually count the number of boxes I'd received, but in total it was somewhere between 10 and 15. Part of the issue with maintaining an accurate count is that I was using one character at the start of the event, two in the middle, and three towards the very end. So let's say something on the order of a dozen boxes.

The rewards were five (!) dye stamps, all with different names but looking like roughly equivalent shades of brown (at least in the inventory screen); a couple of maps; one purple recipe page (used on my main crafter); a couple of Undaunted keys; and two Mimic stones (or whatever the name is). There might have been more, but those are the rewards I remember.

Positive - no lock picks! Also, a few skill points here and there from new dungeons, though at one point I was doing something like five consecutive runs of Banished Cells I (random dungeons my foot...).

Not so positive - at least based on my experience, someone didn't think the event through well enough.

Clarification. It takes an average of, say, 20-30 minutes to get a single box (depending on the dungeon, the group, etc.), which means that a "casual" or "casual+" player spending 30-60 minutes a night on average (with some nights off but perhaps a bit more time on the weekend) should pick up somewhere on the order of 15 boxes. By definition, you, the event organizer, either a) structure the rewards to all but ensure at least one "good" prize out of 10-15 drops, and there are many ways to do that either with or besides the RNG; or b) essentially concede that the event is for hardcore players and not casuals, with all the attendant consequences (including not a few disappointed casuals). Instead, ZOS appeared to have done the worst of both worlds, promoted the event to everyone but dropped in a "standard" loot table ensuring that only a portion of the player base got a "real" reward for participating.

Elsewhere I've also commented on how the timing seemed just so very off, between major holidays and school closings in the US.

So on the whole, I wouldn't complain about the event as being bad. I just know precisely the kind of face I'd be making - when no-one was looking, naturally - were I to have sat in on the internal meetings greenlighting this event in the form we ultimately experienced.

mirta000b16_ESO wrote: »

And there's no way to purchase them either. Great event guys

That being said, I did get the pet. Out of my company of 3, I was the only one to get a single more meaningful item. I really wished for any costume though. In the end the event felt dissappointing, as filler items were worse than the Halloween sticks even. Welcome to the world of white lockpicks!

Am I the only one who liked the Halloween sticks ...?

Strayvamp wrote: »

An event such as this should not leave players feeling this way. They call it a celebration but all I have seen is message after message of upset players low drop rates garbage items and disappointment amongst the player group. You would think the people at the Zen would realize this is going to translate into lower player purchases and lower player participation in future events. The drop rate was garbage the loot pool was garbage. The promises were high but they did not deliver. All hype to boost their sales to increase their stock for the shareholders just before Christmas. Wonderful scam they pulled. You would think they would look at the forums and realize how unhappy they have made their player base.

This, and that was the downside of event, you put up items who is in high demand and impossible to get elsethere. Now give them low drop chance and be non trade able so lots got plenty of items but not that they want.
Some else say the drop rate should be swapped, make the costumes pretty easy to get, 8-15% drop chance, the purple and blue CWC blueprints should be the rare reward to keep players grinding.
And not selling them in store for limited time for inflated prices afterward, that would resolved most of the issue and earned zos some money on top.

I honestly wonder that the strategy for ESO monetarisation is?
First you have stuff people would want to buy but they can not because of some reason.
Extra furniture slots, extra character slots yes its about changing an setting.
Then you have old retired items like from this event, and no they don't show up in crown crates in good enough numbers.

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(me being silent)