Farm Tel Var just to be ganked.

No thanks

I participated during the first days of the event but each day ended the same way: I lost all my telvars to some NB bombers. Not gonna come to IC during the event anymore as it's the NBfest and the waste of time for all players killed by these kamikaze. As a result, at the end of the day you get nothing.

When I saw the event my logic went like this "woo, double rewards....but that would mean more people there, which would mean more dying as well as harder farming resulting in less stones being gained overall....eh, I'll wait for it to blow over"

I tried farming the skin/pet last year for hours and got nada. It would help if everyone involved got a chance at the drop, but when there are dozens of people farming Molag your chances of getting anything are pretty slim. Now you can buy the runeboxes that drop, I can understand people not wanting to bother. You've got to get down to him as well without getting ganked on the way. Agree also with losing so many tel-vars, it becomes a chore, especially when you lose them to NPCs, I mean what are they gonna spend them on?

I love the sewers, and enjoyed the quests (when I managed to avoid the gankers to do them), even enjoyed the risk as a squishy solo PvEr trying to get around the place. But farming gets old very quickly, gather stones, lose stones, rinse and repeat. I never get the big multipliers because I panic whenever I get a few thousand and run back to the bank. I've managed to get the things I wanted like the polymorphs, over time and just don't have any enthusiasm for going back.

I have to agree with OP that turnout seems to be lower than last Year.

starkerealm wrote: »

This activity does kinda work against the gankers. Because of the large groups operating in the City during the event, it's inefficient for a ganker to scamper back through the sewers every time they end up flush with stones. Under normal circumstances, you're not completely wrong.

They do not need to scamper back through the sewers, just buy a return to base port or find one in a chest. I forget the name of it, as I only been in IC a few times.

I love to PvP. But I avoid PvP events thanks to the bad performance and instability. I will join PvP after the event.

BNOC wrote: »

I remember making ~12k an hour back at release, running loops and fighting the flag bosses.
Now you can make ~15k in 2 minutes.

Can you film yourself while doing such a run (is that solo?)? I'd love to learn the technique, as I'm stuck with 6k an hour at most.

For me it's not about the incentive or anything. It feels like there's an event all the time and I was just in IC a month and a half ago... Just a bit overloaded with events, don't feel like it's important to show up anymore. Also, after spending hours for that useless scamp achievement last time I got tired of the way Zenimax is doing events & achievements...

MaxJrFTW wrote: »

I went to IC for the 1st time ever. Saw a handful of people, no PvP whatsoever, left and have not gone back there yet. I see no reason to do it. A skin with a very low drop rate isn't enough incentive. The skin is actually nice and i want it, but there's a good chance i'm not gonna get it anyways. Why waste my time?

I agree with this, the first time I went to IC was the second day of the event, helped kill Molag at least 10 times while hitting him- and every time I got nothing!

But yeah, I’d like the skin too but it’s hard with the terrible drop rate and now people can sell them on the guild store. Haven’t seen any yet but I doubt I even have enough to but one, let alone the pet.
Wish that it was set up like if you already have the pet/skin, then you shouldn’t get a double or have them in a crown crate to buy with gems but that would probably be a bad idea.

@Reistr_the_Unbroken the pet is super cheap atm, I got one for 16k yesterday. The skin has dropped from 1m+ to 450k now and may drop a little more. If you can afford them, I'd buy them now. After the event they'll go right back up.

main reason to enter C was to get Assault up to 6 and enable Caltrops for my stamblade. Got some tels as well. Farming tels is easy early morning (6ish BST) in IC Sewers when there seems to be a dearth of gankers. Its easy to get 5-6k in 20-30 mins and drop back to base to bank. I agree with OP that unless I'm in a group or zerg my toon can't cut it in PVP, either city or cyro. I could set up a build for PVP but I probs won't go back much. That said I built a mix for my healer for the previous Cyrodil event and ended up keeping it for PVE, just for the survivability against vet bosses. Hmm, mebs I will build PVP into my stamblade ;o))

-Battlegrounds scratches my itch for small-scale PvP in varied environments.
-As others have said, increased player presence in IC means farming builds will get me killed more often, better to do larger-scale stuff with groups, etc. (Why not just do overland Cyro then? I got the scamp, and I'm not interested in RNG drops for the Skin)
-There's really only one interesting objective now (Molag Ball) since the district bosses get wiped fast, or you're absolutely going to get ganked when fighting one. Kill Ball and pick up your loot that can't be taken away. (But surprise surprise, with that 12-man limit on getting loot it's a pain in the arse for anyone that doesn't build max damage, and god help noobs).
-Key Fragments (IMO) are generally worthless now. The chests don't even give you Tel Var. Or anything interesting anymore. The Xivkin motifs themselves are a dated model and generally easily obtained. So just going around and killing mobs isn't that good, asides from a minor power fantasy until a player comes in and nukes you.
-There is no interaction whatsoever between IC and IC Sewers. The flags do jack-*** below, so it creates a kind of barrier. If you want to farm Ball, you don't ever have to worry about trying to take flags up above. You only Farm Ball with a large group, no need to send anyone up above to clear objectives.

But that's just my reasoning.

Almakor wrote: »

I remember the last IC event had the servers bursting. But for some reason very few seem to be participating I don't PVP so without a big group I'm easy pickings for all the hardcore PVP players. Since the event starting I've only been in 3 groups. Why is the event not as popular as it was last time?

because the DPS meta is so bad it really sucks for the majority of people interested in trying to earn the skin.

Judas Helviaryn wrote: »

Jameliel wrote: »

Too much of a loss when you die. Unless you have a specific solo build or are with a small dedicated group, it's not worth it. Loss needs to he greatly reduced to 5-10%. The flags are also silly, especially as slow as they flip.

I disagree. What makes the IC unique and fun is the potential loss of progress, the magnitude of which has already been heavily cut once before.

The IC was in its prime back before it had the district flags and near-lossless gameplay that has so incentivized the current myriad zergs gobbling up all of the immediate resources.

There is obviously an easy proof for that, just make IC full gear drop and see if more or less people show up.