WasteOfTime wrote: »

only second time through and really wish the maps were accurate

Get the add on Map Pins set it to show the breach locations in the add on settings and it becomes very easy. Sadly no add on can fix how boring and mundane this quest is.

It's really boring. Drink a latte or Godfather rocks while you do it.

Suddenly, not so bad!

Overall, I dislike that quest design.
Yes, it has pretty interesting story, but omg that realization! Check 3 portals, teleport, check 3 portals, teleport, ....

Only leveling of Dark Brotherhood can be more frustrating: fly there, sneak, wait, kill, turn back and get your 5 exp. Thanks, game! Much appreciated!
Thieves guild wasn't so boring btw.
But, both of them are not mandatory, and mostly made for fun and roleplay. You can do that on 1 character and forget.
Legerdemain leveling from opening chests (any), so if you are making chest farm - you'll level it up in no time.
But Psijic line is way too useful to pass it out, so players are forced to do it.

I punished that skull once - on one of the characters left him in the archive, he was sooooo upset

Its not so bad on full mount speed with maneuvers and stam. That being said i have not finished it yet because my game time is limited and would rather do other things.

I know Rik Mayall isn't the voice actor (mainly because he died in 2014)- but I've been picturing Rik from The Young Ones every time I hear the skull's voice, and it makes it more fun (for me).

I did it twice, man that was brutal.

No more though. I don’t think any of the new skills are terribly useful. Niche and kind of gimmicky in my opinion.

While not enjoyable after the PTS, it is much less of a pain than Unduanted, Mage Guild or Alliance War

I enjoyed it first time round, visiting zones I hadn’t been to in ages and the story was good. But I don’t think I will ever do it on alts.. once was enough

Did it on only one character. It was OK once...but I honestly can’t imagine doing it all again. I’m just not a grinder type. I think I’ve only completed the Mages guild line once, maybe twice (and I have about 20 characters). The main quest twice, but Cadwell’s gold only once. I don’t grind gear traits, either (thank goodness for transmuting). And I still don’t have all the skyshards on anybody (I rarely PvP) despite being here since beta.

I’d rather start over with brand new characters than grind anything.

I thought the Psijic quest line period was pretty lame the first time. So I don't even want to imagine having to do it multiple times.

The characters were not very interesting. The story was boring. The quests were repetitive.

I haven't gotten around to doing the Summerset quest line yet - but I hope it's better. I did enjoy Morrowind's story line. Sun-in-Shadow.and that woman who went on a murder spree to avenge her brother stood out as cool characters. But the Psijic characters were generic and hollow. The talking skull was the only one that had any personality.

All the guild lines should be reduced to a third of the time after you complete them the first time... Mages guild, fighters, undaunted, psijic, etc... Just have all characters gain exp in those three times as fast once they are completed the first time... Hell do that for horse training too!!

ck37090 wrote: »

All the guild lines should be reduced to a third of the time after you complete them the first time... Mages guild, fighters, undaunted, psijic, etc... Just have all characters gain exp in those three times as fast once they are completed the first time... Hell do that for horse training too!!

This is a very happy medium between character-specific rewards and account-wide rewards. I like this

Recremen wrote: »

While I get where you're coming from, I'm fairly comfortable saying that this was about the easiest skill grind in the game. Dark Brotherhood, Thieves Guild, Legardemain, Undaunted, Mage's Guild, and Fighter's Guild all take a lot longer and are generally less engaging. It's not perfect, but it's a step towards improvement.

I haven't even been investing any time in levelling Fighter Guild and still that skill line is almost finished compared to those other. Doing Daily Dolmen, Bolgruds quest and killing Deadra (no sure if that passive for killing Deadra and Undead is needed to count for FG) increases that line without even trying.

The most annoying part is that there is no add on like there is for Lorebook and Skyshards which can be set to remove pin on map when you have done those, so I have been back tracking a couple of times Time Breaches which is really not fun. There is only custom pins that helps a bit to find where those TB are located and TreasureMap (which let you have a smaller version of that map from quest giver on top of screen).

One or two jokes can be ok, but in the long run it gets just feels forced and it isn't funny when you do the same quest over and over on other PC.

The mechanics where you have to activate skull each time to actually see Time Breaches are also I bit annoying. If you don't activate skull when it is showing on screen, then you will not see any TB even when it is there. It is not obvious how this works the first time one are doing this quest. I wish ZoS had instead made that glowing thing on PC to indicate distance or which direction one need to go to find TB, that was what I first thought the skull where meant to do.

Triggering that skull doesn't help to locate TB as you need to run up and down elevation to make sure that you find it (sometime you get a pin on compass, but then you have to be near it).

@RexyCat Map Pins does show and mostly updates if you have closed the breach

You dont need to use the Auger ever, but without it you have to get very close to the breach (and hope the server is not of a tea break) to see it but even without the addon it is not hard to find them from the maps and some prior knowledge of the zones.
Same as collecting the staff fragments is more about "is the hamster on a tea break or not" rather than anything else, as the is no addon for that path & the sever can be damn slow about lighting up the next glowpoint