This is a bit of a bummer. I did mine kind of late last night as I didn’t realize the timer issue. I have a trial tonight, so I can’t do event stuff before and certainly don’t want to push it out even later. I guess I’ll skip a day this weekend to reset the timer to a decent time of day. Not the end of the world, but not the most convenient.

Agreed! This was a bad idea.

I was home yesterday so I did a couple of them during the afternoon, along with Murkmire dailies, and this morning I thought I'll just knock out the Dolmen and Delve boss ones while I have my coffee, but noooooo.... I have to wait until late this evening if I want to get those, rather than work on things that may take a bit longer like taking some friends through DSA or joining a trial.

Seriously, can this be changed to just reset at the same time as pledges? And while you are at it, can you do the same for the daily random dungeon rewards?

That would be very much appreciated.

The new stuff for this festival is great — I’m very glad it’s not exactly the same as it was last year and the year before.
But I agree that the 20 hour cooldown timer is terrible. I expected everything to restart this morning at 10 am eastern. Instead I have to remember in which order I did the different bosses yesterday? And given that I have four accounts—well, only 2 really, but I have characters on both NA and EU, which are separate for this event — this all gets needlessly complicated.

DarcyMardin wrote: »

The new stuff for this festival is great — I’m very glad it’s not exactly the same as it was last year and the year before.
But I agree that the 20 hour cooldown timer is terrible. I expected everything to restart this morning at 10 am eastern. Instead I have to remember in which order I did the different bosses yesterday? And given that I have four accounts—well, only 2 really, but I have characters on both NA and EU, which are separate for this event — this all gets needlessly complicated.

24 hrs not 20 as someone on another thread discovered today.

pema wrote: »

Iselin wrote: »

DarcyMardin wrote: »

The new stuff for this festival is great — I’m very glad it’s not exactly the same as it was last year and the year before.
But I agree that the 20 hour cooldown timer is terrible. I expected everything to restart this morning at 10 am eastern. Instead I have to remember in which order I did the different bosses yesterday? And given that I have four accounts—well, only 2 really, but I have characters on both NA and EU, which are separate for this event — this all gets needlessly complicated.

24 hrs not 20 as someone on another thread discovered today.

It must be 20 hr;'s as I did my wb one earlier then yesterday today but after the 20 hr's.

This is the other post I was referring to: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/5548235/#Comment_5548235

I don't know for sure myself since I did mine yesterday evening but that guy seemed to have timed it and it was 24 for him.

Oh, and i know it's 20 hours, because I was able to get my first dremora skull of the day just after 3 am pacific, when the event started at 7 am pacific yesterday. So, definitely 20 hours.

@Alassirana

Some people in other topics are saying the Dremora Skulls are on a 20 hour timer but the Event Tickets are on a 24 hour timer.

I don't know if that's correct - but it might be worth specifying which you're referring to when posting about how long the timer is, just so it's clear for everyone else.

I logged in shortly after 3pm yesterday got ticket and dremora skulls, same time today it kicked in. From my experience the event day starts after 3pm uk time for me. That’s the time the event started so it looks like it’s every 24 hours from event start when your event day will begin.

wavingblue wrote: »

Eso101rus wrote: »

I logged in shortly after 3pm yesterday got ticket and dremora skulls, same time today it kicked in. From my experience the event day starts after 3pm uk time for me. That’s the time the event started so it looks like it’s every 24 hours from event start when your event day will begin.

Ticket might be like that but Dremora plunder skulls is not.

It seemed to be on PS4 Eu, both ticket and dremora skulls.

My opinion will be unpopular am sure, and I can see why this annoys folks but part of the problem is player mindset perhaps, this whole max things out to absolute capacity each event concept.

The motif / daily event led to people needing a "break from game" because of "burnout and exhaustion" which I totally can't comprehend from a game.

Way I see it is Its free stuff for doing normal activities, it's all good. Sure I'll miss a bit here or there but it's all good.

I'll caveat again I do know timers are annoying when they are unclear or uncommunciated, I get that. But the max out 100% mindset seems a bit full on if it leads to upset.

Not trolling, and can sympathise, just my view.

also got the daylie ticket before the 24 hr window

Beardimus wrote: »

My opinion will be unpopular am sure, and I can see why this annoys folks but part of the problem is player mindset perhaps, this whole max things out to absolute capacity each event concept.

The motif / daily event led to people needing a "break from game" because of "burnout and exhaustion" which I totally can't comprehend from a game.

Way I see it is Its free stuff for doing normal activities, it's all good. Sure I'll miss a bit here or there but it's all good.

I'll caveat again I do know timers are annoying when they are unclear or uncommunciated, I get that. But the max out 100% mindset seems a bit full on if it leads to upset.

Not trolling, and can sympathise, just my view.

You misunderstand. It has nothing really to do with 100% maxing events. It 's something much more general than that. There are things in our daily lives as well as in games that are so unremarkable and trivial that we just tune them out and do them on auto pilot without even thinking about them because they're just not worth our attention.

Daily event timing is one of those things in ESO. I've been here for 4 years+ and the new day starts at 11 PM my local (Pacific) time. I don't have to think about it nor do I want to think about it. It's just the way it has always been in ESO. I can focus instead on doing the fun things playing the game and just rely on that trivial new day start to carry on as it always has.

This has shaken up that triviality and forced it onto our consciousness for no discernible good reason. It's an annoyance that we didn't need and that has no upside.

Iselin wrote: »

This thread is further evidence (if any more was needed) that all they've achieved with this new timer system is confuse everyone and detract from the event with all the confusion.

yea. they went a bit too complicated. they shoulda had some interns farming for dremora skulls for a week to see how it would work out.

Beardimus wrote: »

My opinion will be unpopular am sure, and I can see why this annoys folks but part of the problem is player mindset perhaps, this whole max things out to absolute capacity each event concept.

The motif / daily event led to people needing a "break from game" because of "burnout and exhaustion" which I totally can't comprehend from a game.

Way I see it is Its free stuff for doing normal activities, it's all good. Sure I'll miss a bit here or there but it's all good.

I'll caveat again I do know timers are annoying when they are unclear or uncommunciated, I get that. But the max out 100% mindset seems a bit full on if it leads to upset.

Not trolling, and can sympathise, just my view.

It's more the difficulty in tracking it, for me.

Look, I'm not an endgame player. I don't do groupfinder dungeons, trials, or arenas. I'm poop at that.

What I do enjoy is occasional farming, my trading guild, and holiday events. I got excited with this holiday event because I didn't follow the news on it aside from the event tickets for the Indrik that I've wanted ever since I first saw one in Summerset, so the gold Dremora skull was a surprise to me, as was the new Dremora motifs. So, I looked them up and the only info online about them was each of the ways to get 7 a day and whispers that there was a 20 or 24-hour counter.

I also happen to be on vacation from work this week, so I was all excited to dive into the event. I knocked out a delve and world boss yesterday morning right after event start. Husband and I decided to go out for lunch. So, much later in the afternoon, I decided to work on more and did a public dungeon and a dolmen. That achieved all the gold skulls possible for me, so I then popped over to "Assassins Creed: Odyssey", as I had just gotten it and am quite enjoying it.

Fast-forward to today: Because my main focus with ESO right now is the holiday event and those new shiny gold skulls (since the regular purple skulls are dropping stuff I already had from last few years - Hollowjack motifs - or furnishing stuff, which is cool but I could give or take), I logged on this morning with the intent of knocking those four out again and then going and doing more real life stuff. Imagine my disappointment when the first thing I did - here on a BRAND NEW DAY, 24 hours since my first gold skull - was do a dolmen and no gold skull.

It's a new day. But because they apparently decided to put each individual gold skull on an individual timer (and doesn't seem like that was ever communicated to us?), that now means it's a crapshoot over whether or not I get a gold skull because I didn't set my life by a freaking stopwatch on yesterday's gold skulls. And I shouldn't have to in order to engage in the NEW holiday content. It should just be 20 hours or whatever after first gold skull drops, it's now a new day so you can resume getting gold skulls - whether you do a world boss or a dolmen or whatever. Instead of precisely scheduling doing dolmens on a 20-hour clock and public dungeons on a 20-hour clock, etc.

That's just dumb, IMO. And has nothing to do with 100% stuff and everything to do with wanting to get the gold shinies and now can't unless I stopwatch everything I do or just decide to not actively engage in/be excited about the holiday content and just go about my day... which would mean me NOT playing ESO because, again, I am focused on wanting to do the holiday content reward stuff. If it's that unpredictable, I may as well go back to my new game and ignore the holiday event entirely which ISN'T what I want to do.

I simply don't understand having 8 million different timers for everything in this game. It's obnoxious.