Carbonised wrote: »

Waseem wrote: »

Keep crying for doing what is supposedly a 2 weeks quest the first couple hours, ofcourse there will be alot of players there its logic

Are you deliberately being daft or do you just comment on something without having bothered to note what you're commenting on?
These are dailies, that are supposed to be done every day, and most likely WILL be done every day for a long time now, so this has NOTHING whatsoever to do with "the first couple of hours". Clearly you were not here in the Orsinium anniversary celebration, or the ESO anniversary event, where several Orsinium world boss quests were borderline impossible to do because EVERYONE were camping the mammoth meat spots or the Riekling captives spots.

Flaminir wrote: »

150 quests? You've got to be joking!?

No, sadly not. It's 150 quests to finish the achievement and get the title and whatnot. And with the obnoxious quest design of some of these dailies, it will be a downright nightmare to do that many of them, when you have to compete with a throng of players over every mob and quest objective on the way.

This is the first day rush where everyone gets excited by the new shiny. Just watch, give it a couple weeks and most will get bored and give up. Only the real achievement hunters will keep it up and by then the crowds will disperse significantly.

Vvardenfell has daily quests but do you ever see anyone running around there anymore? Even Summerset is now a ton less populated than it was at launch. We just have to suffer the first weeks until all the "I WANT IT RIGHT NOW" players give up.

Lyserus wrote: »

wait so does finish 150 this quest required to get that pet??

And are the quests still there after official Muirkmire release?

The pet comes in 7 parts that you assemble into a runebox. The parts are RNG reward for completing one of the dailies.

Edit: Hate that you have to complete this long intro quests just to get to the daily quests. Let us decide if we want the grave marker or not.

Callous2208 wrote: »

Just a quick update. The Rift Mammoth Meat daily is currently not able to be completed on PC/NA. Might want to try and save it for off hours if you really want to do these. Not sure if you can skip one for another. Mammoths, even the first kill are no longer dropping any meats and the ground nodes are not an option. Seeing one pop up every 5 minutes in a small area with about 100 players.

I literally just finished doing that quest on PC/NA. I was finding the meat both on mammoths and on the ground near trees, although the drop rate for mammoths was insanely low. My guess is the drop rate was something like 5% or so, at least that's what it felt like. So it's not bugged. I was able to complete it. But yeah, there were a million other players snagging the ones on the ground.

thanks for the info, I will be skipping these quests then.

They sound annoying and frustrating. I will stick to doing fun things.

150 quests for nothing is really bad design. Who cares about a title and a pet? These things give you nothing worth in the game. I like Master Angler more than doing 150 quests poorly designed.

ESO is becoming more grindy but not rewarding at all. Doing 150 quests to acquire some cosmetics is awful.


Too bad ESO is becoming more GW2 in matter of cosmetics.

I prefer to play ESO not GW2 .

Thanks.

In PC EU someone just told me to shut up because the mammoth quest was fun.

The reason: is a "competitive" PVE quest so it is like PVP in a way.

I think I don't want to live in this planet anymore.

I erect the spine of excitement for these quests.

I will gather everything until the expedition is ready to visit Murkmire!
To swim in the river of achievements is my goal!

Stay moist my friends!

They should just cut the number of quest stages if they're all going to be mindless fetch quests. Like the Eastmarch one, what's the point of going to three arbitrary places, pressing E, and then going back to the NPC? Make it one place at most, especially if they want us to do this 150 TIMES.

I did the two intro quests and one of the dailies. They are such a slog to get through, so many load screens. After turning in the first daily I got a second, then decided to go PvP instead. I hope these quests aren't really representative of the rest of Murkmire.

TheCyberDruid wrote: »

The intro quest alone is a "masterpiece" of running back and fourth with two dialogue stages thrown in. Really not a good way to introduce Murkmire.

Lets hope that the quests in Murkmire arent the same.

The community love the mammoth quest !

I think I'll do them next year when no one will do these quest

Finished the intro and the dailies today so I can finally comment on the whole thing.

The intro quest is a bore. Bores. They even split it into two differemt quests possibly to give players a break halfway through.

Go talk to A, B, and C. Cross the map to get an item for A. Cross the map to get an item for B. Cross the map to get an item for C. Report in. Report to the other person, because. Go talk to ABC again. Follow a lead. Meet the same person elsewhere. Go talk to D. Got talk to E. Go talk to F. All in opposite corners of the map. Report in. Go fetch an item on spot X. Go fetch an item on spot Y. Go fetch an item on spot--oh wait, your JarJar assistant actually lifts a finger and gets the third item for you. Hooray.

Starting to see a pattern here and it's not pleasing to the eye.

By now I've lost count of the amount of loading screens I've been through but fine, let's go. What's one more yeah?

Find the transport. Which is conveniently (not) placed in the farthermost side of the map. Okay maybe things will pick up now that we're actually seeing new locations. Or not....

Kill stuff. Activate thing. Kill stuff. Activate thing. Kill stuff. Activate thing. Yell at JarJar to shut the heck up. Kill stuff. Activate thing. Kill st-- oh wait 4 times is enough.

Nope, I was wrong. Kill stuff. Again.

Grab the Unobtanium item of doom. Don't see what's so special about it but okay. Deliver item. Success!!!



No wait. Now the real grind starts. Apparently we can pick all 6 dailies each day which slightly reduces the sting of the 150 achievement at the cost of some burnout.

I'll try to recall all six quests.

Stonefalls: PERFECT. Pick two instanced items that don't vanish once activated. Kill a couple of mobs in the same area which happen to have breakneck fast respawn times. Take items to NPC. Get pranked. Good times. Report in for daily done. Simple, fast.

Eastmarch: PERFECT. Go talk to NPC. Go to spot one, do your little thing. Go to spot two, do your little thing. Repeat a third time. Best part is these areas are actually quite close to each other. Go talk to NPC. Report in. Quest done. Simple, fast.

Recruitment quest: PERFECT. Could only be better if the DC inn was closer to the wayshrine. Go to place A, interact with objective. Repeat for place B and place C. Report back. Quest done, simple, fast.

The Rift: this is where things get lousy. Really lousy. Need to gather those 10 pieces of meat. As if a single mammoth didn't yield as much. Nope. Have to go and kill a bunch of them. Good luck with dozens of people running after them as soon as they spawn. Okay fair enough, there are pieces sitting on the floor too, right? Right. Good luck picking them up when there's a cluster of 5 people camping each and every spot. Come on guys.... please. I don't want to be forced to be a prick and steal items from you but I want to complete this quest in less than an hour. This is an extremely aggravating mechanic. The mobs that drop the items are few and far inbetween. They don't even seem to drop said item all of the time, and the fact that players are forced to compete with one another for the objectives sucks big fuzzy coconuts. (If you're grouped, does your group's pickings count as well? Probably not. Might be less horrible if it did though.) Take meat to NPC. I'm stingy so I decided to have a drink. Humorous banter ensues, this part was quite funny but the mammoth part.... No. Just no. I'm dreading the moment JarJar hands me this quest again and that is not good design. Not good at all.

Alik'r: this is another bad one. Talk to NPC. The thing you're supposed to pick up has fled. So you have to go and pick venom sacks from scorpions and beetles to lure it back home. Won't snakes work? I mean there's a few right here--no? Okay. I'll search those targets. Since I don't know where the mobs in the Alik'r spawn, I'm forced to follow the quest markers to find a big, empty patch of terrain with zero mobs to kill. Odd. Maybe there's a load of players here grabbing all targets. No players. None at all. This can't be right. Oh wait there's a scorpion there. I tagged it and waited to see if someone else would come around in need of bugs. Nobody around. Just killed it and got one sack. There should be more scorpions around yeah? After all, the quest points to here. None. I went around and around. There was one scorpion corpse conveniently placed so we can harvest a sack from it. But no others I managed to find. Going back, the lone one I had killed before was back up. Third bag found. From ONE mob spawning in the area which is supposed to be ripe with pickings. Report in. But apparently that's not enough because the NPC who lost the critter you're supposed to fetch tells you to go capture said critter on the opposite side of the map. I mean.... why??? Seriously. If I'd lost a pet I would look around my house. On the streets close to where it escaped. Because that's likely where it will be hiding, right? Wrong. Have one more unnecessary loading screen because apparently the thing makes it a habit to run off for miles and miles. Okay. Fine. Have it your way. I hate you by the way. Quest done. And none too soon.

Grahtwood: or is it Greenshade? I can never tell the bosmer maps apart xD The one in the Elden Root map. This is another bad one. Go grab this item. Cool, at least it's instanced and I'm not competing with everyone else for it. Still annoyingly out of the way on the very edge of the map but hey, can never have too many loading screens. Go get more items that drop from spiders. Cool. There's a spider here. And another there. Spiders everywhere! It should be easy to collect the ingredients from them . But nope. These don't count. Somehow the spiders inside a delve all the way across the map are the only ones capable of producing venom sacks. Why??? Just..... why???? Fine. I'll go in and compete with all the other players killing spiders for the loot. At least there seem to be plenty of them about, as well as some harvestable corpses so there is that. Last items to fetch are mammoth steak--oh wait, no they're not. But they might as well be. Camp the spawn spot. And try to grab it before the other players do, at the same time you hope not to get aggro from the mobs patrolling the area. Why. Just...... why. Deliver all the items. Report in. Quest done.

I spent the whole afternoon on this today and I have to say my mood was beyond rotten when I was finally done. I love dailies. I spend all festivals doing dailies even though I already have all achievements and all drops so it's not the repetition that is bad. It is the way they are designed. Will I do the quests again? Probably once on each alt for completion's sake. But when it comes to farming all 6 in a row, I'll likely drop the lousy ones, try to get the easy ones instead, and just run those. At least until the competition thins up.

Damn that turned out to be one long-ass rant. But anyway here are my exact thoughts on these new quests. Not that ZOS cares anyway.

Edit for phone typos.