Yamenstein wrote: »

I have no clue where the second map is even located. Makes no sense to me. I must be missing something very obvious.

Doing the quest is boring but I'm happy it's more involved.

Edit: more involved than just killing mobs that is.

Iliac Bay is in DC territory. It separates the south coast of High Rock from the north coast of Hammerfell - the map shows Glenumbra, Stormhaven & Alik'r

I do admit it is confusing if you're not familiar with ES lore.

boring and unimaginative, please add flashbacks that show us lore of the past like deshaan rifts showing nerevar and almalexia, skyrim rifts showing ysgramor and dragons.

xaraan wrote: »

I just unlocked the line last night and now started doing the first map quest today to close the time rifts and have to say it's pretty blah.

The activity itself seems boring as it's just go here (roughly b/c the maps are not great so you spend a lot of time wondering around) and click E and go to next spot.

Feels like it will take as long and be as annoying as running around to gather mage guild books, if not more so.

Has anyone gotten more of the skill line done? Do the quests change as you go on and they give yo more interesting stuff?

No, they don't. Except for the last one, which is bugged.

Sounds like a bit of an obscure way to do it to me. A more logical situation would be for there to be considerably more rifts around Tamriel, and have them all available at all times, but still only need 9 (or less) to actually gain a rank. Then you could just find them as you're exploring, like the MG books, or you could use the maps to target a specific group.

I really hope an addon is being developed for the quest.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

The long, slow, tedious questline is the easiest way to pad the gameplay hours associated with the new chapter.

The only thing that really bothers me about this is that it seems if you are doing quests that end up saving the life of the head of the order and saves the island from evil forces, it seems that should advance your line more than running around closing time disturbances.

Sweetpea704
Allergic to Grinding

xaraan wrote: »

Even crown stuff is being broken up into pieces. Soon we won't get a mount from a crate, we'll get a horse leg, or head or saddle and if you get all the pieces you'll get the mount.

Don't give them ideas, it's bad enough already.

It would be nice if the maps had more landmarks. When you have a single map covering the whole Illiac Bay, the margin of error from where the map puts the x and the actual location is huge sometimes.

Alendrin wrote: »

Boring af. Possibly the most boring thing I have ever done in the game.

In an effort to be more useful, let me add that I did enjoy finding skyshard from the achievement clues and doing treasure maps when I first started the game. Back then the zones had exploration value. Summerset still does of course. But many of us have been in these main zones a zillion times now and wandering them with vague directions just to click something is not fun. I only got to rank 2 before logging off in frustration and its hard to imagine wanting to do this on several characters unless the line ends up overpowered.

Please find a way to make it more interesting.

As a side note, I have yet to see the rifts that might drop infused jewelry after I got the line. Maybe I am missing something.

The maps are badly drawn, it wasn't until @ kip_silverwolf commented that I realized I should be looking in Alik'r for the last 3 X's. The quest grind might be ok the first time through since you're playing the story, but after that I'll wait for the add-on to run my other characters through. The Psijiic Skill Line should have worked more like the Mages guild line. You do some quests and close some random time rifts to level it up.

starlizard70ub17_ESO wrote: »

The maps are badly drawn, it wasn't until @ kip_silverwolf commented that I realized I should be looking in Alik'r for the last 3 X's. The quest grind might be ok the first time through since you're playing the story, but after that I'll wait for the add-on to run my other characters through. The Psijiic Skill Line should have worked more like the Mages guild line. You do some quests and close some random time rifts to level it up.

I don't even think it's good for the first time b/c there is nothing of interest. You are literally going to places you've been a hundred times in the middle of random spots of old zones just to click E (or X or whatever you have set up) and then go to the next spot and click and again and again.

At one point I thought things were going to get mixed up a bit when they told me to get pieces of a staff - I was like, ok, this will be delves or something, but no, just a different way of doing same thing - go to spot, click button, follow prompts to next spot to click button.

At least each quest seems to level up a level (at least so far up for 5 or 6 or whatever I'm at) b/c if you would have had to do a million of these just to level it would be even worse.

MaxwellC wrote: »

The worst way to level up a skill line like woah I'm doing it right now and man it's so boring to the point I'm actually yawning while doing it.
I get the rift theme needed to be maintained for the skill line but there must've been a better way to level it other than running around all over the place.
I feel like I'm playing Runescapes' One small favor quest all over again.

I was kind of expecting/hoping they would go the TG route:

Have someone give you something like these portals (since we heard about the portals in advance I expected something about them to be here) - only I thought the portals would be something like some monster is escaping and you have to kill it to close the portal/breech.

Then there would be a different NPC with a different questline giving you something else to do along the lines of the guild, like recovering something like artifacts. (As a proper quest line, not the version they have sprinkled in there now where its the same, go click this button at this spot thing)

Then yet another person maybe having you hunt down some little Bedlam Cult side questline thing.

So, sure, you might have a repeatable that is a little boring like the portal thing, but then it would be broken up by these other quests that also contribute to leveling the skill line.

The best thing about the TG was that you had the main TG quest, the wood elf girl's sidequest, the argonian's side quest and stealing all the gold level artifacts to all level the skill line and break up the monotony if you wanted something different than whatever you were already doing.

The worst thing about other guild lines like Mage and Dark Brotherhood was the grind. Having to find a million books we already have seen is maddening or like DB where you couldn't do a main quest piece until you were the next level so you had to run back and forth to that book a dozen times after doing a quest to send you out to kill someone and back and forth, etc. just to get the ability to do the next quest. Psijiic skill line is going to go down into that category with the design it currently has.

kip_silverwolf wrote: »

Yamenstein wrote: »

I have no clue where the second map is even located. Makes no sense to me. I must be missing something very obvious.

Doing the quest is boring but I'm happy it's more involved.

Edit: more involved than just killing mobs that is.

Iliac Bay is in DC territory. It separates the south coast of High Rock from the north coast of Hammerfell - the map shows Glenumbra, Stormhaven & Alik'r

I do admit it is confusing if you're not familiar with ES lore.

Thanks! I ended up finding all the portals, eventually. I just couldn't get my head around the map