idk wrote: »

XxCaLxX wrote: »

I don’t like it either. But I don’t see the big deal.

I do not recall the time I did different events yesterday and should not have to track it like this.

If Zos wants to have this absurd timer they can at least have a means for us to know when that timer is up.

There is your big deal. Poor planning. Poor implementation.

It’s up 20 hours after you do it..

Edit: I understand no one wrote down what time they did anything yesterday but surely you can do them again today and base off that for the rest of event. Or just rant about it here and don’t do event at all.

Iselin wrote: »

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.

Understood.

I used to do daily writs before work, they moved the timer 1hr. I then couldn't, annoying.

But my point stands, the timing only matters if you want the max amount, play daily and want to hit them all. If you wait a day the reset time doesn't matter.

I appreciate to those that want 100% chance at max skulls that's not an answer.

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.

As other people have said it's not about wanting to "max things out to absolute capacity", it's about the difficult of keeping track of what you've done and what is now available to do.

The only thing I want from the event is event tickets. I couldn't care less about getting everything and I'm certainly not going to be grinding it. Last night I killed 1 boss 3 times (because for some reason it took 3 attempts to get the ticket) and then logged off.

The problem for me is that because it didn't occur to me to write down when exactly I killed that boss I only have a very rough idea of when I can do it today and so my options are to risk wasting a lot of time trying to get a ticket which cannot drop yet or leave it until very late when I'd rather be doing other things. And then tomorrow when it's Saturday and the most convenient time for me to do it is in the morning I can't because it won't have reset, I'll have to wait until the evening (and potentially miss a day because I'm not sure I'll be home in the evening).

All of which could be avoided if they put it on a fixed reset times like most of the daily stuff.

XxCaLxX wrote: »

I don’t like it either. But I don’t see the big deal. If you start today doing them at 5 then you can start anytime tomorrow after 1 doing them again. I started doing mine in order yesterday as soon as event started(10am EDT). Finished one account then did my other two. Logged in this morning then after 6am I did the same thing on each account and ended up getting at least one of each page for my main account. When you start go to obsidian gorge wayshrine in Deshaan, do the delve there, come out do the dolmen there, take two steps northwest and so the public dungeon, come out and trot west And kill boss, run through normal fungal grotto or something, run through normal maelstrom and then jump in a trial when you can. Do that then the next day do the same thing.

That's fine but in my case if I do them at say 2100 to 2230 tonight.. tomorrow I can't do them until 1700 then I have to remember which one I did first. Well tomorrow at 1700 I will be away from the computer. This is fine for those who can do the exact same thing at the exact same time every single, for those that need flexibility its a *** up. Not even flexiblity.. just add them to the list of things that reset at the prescribed time, i.e - like writs, daily quests, etc.

NolaArch wrote: »

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.

Small tip by my side, get alteast 1 Skull, so you can earn the eventticket for this day....motives are cheap af already so they shouldnt be a problem, neither the achievments.

wavingblue wrote: »

XxCaLxX wrote: »

I don’t like it either. But I don’t see the big deal. If you start today doing them at 5 then you can start anytime tomorrow after 1 doing them again. I started doing mine in order yesterday as soon as event started(10am EDT). Finished one account then did my other two. Logged in this morning then after 6am I did the same thing on each account and ended up getting at least one of each page for my main account. When you start go to obsidian gorge wayshrine in Deshaan, do the delve there, come out do the dolmen there, take two steps northwest and so the public dungeon, come out and trot west And kill boss, run through normal fungal grotto or something, run through normal maelstrom and then jump in a trial when you can. Do that then the next day do the same thing.

That's fine but in my case if I do them at say 2100 to 2230 tonight.. tomorrow I can't do them until 1700 then I have to remember which one I did first. Well tomorrow at 1700 I will be away from the computer. This is fine for those who can do the exact same thing at the exact same time every single, for those that need flexibility its a *** up. Not even flexiblity.. just add them to the list of things that reset at the prescribed time, i.e - like writs, daily quests, etc.

I don’t disagree but do we have any other choice other than to make best with what we have? Hopefully they fix it Monday to reset with others and maybe add 3 days onto the event to make up for the confusion.

I believe EVERYTHING should reset with the 2 AM EST/EDT timer. We can do a /dailyreset to check the time until the next reset. It is just simpler, especially for players with varied schedules. It really sucks to do something not realizing your personal timer isn't up yet and then not get the reward. The daily random dungeons also use this timer (unless they've changed that) and it was very frustrating during the event last year that gave rewards per character for clearing a random dungeon!

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Is there a /command to check the timer for the event ticket and each of the dremora plunder skulls?

GET YOUR EVENT TICKETS!
The Witches Festival is also your first opportunity to acquire Event Tickets! As detailed in our announcement article, you can acquire one Event Ticket per day when you acquire your first Dremora Plunder Skull.

Nice way to grief players... how exactly do we know when the day starts for this buggy game?

atm I have the addon and do the calculations myself.
It's not ideal.

it would be nice to have a dev reaction, but sadly so far it hasn't been here.

But if you guys keep posting at least we'll make our stance clear.

BackAndAngry wrote: »

Several friends are not getting their feathers. One of them plays daily and on day 3 of this travesti he has 0 feathers.

Well, duh, because it takes 10 tickets to buy a feather. Day 3 = 3 tickets = mathematically impossible to get a feather yet.

Hoping this was a joke, because my spare sarcasm detector is in the shop for recalibration and the forums broke my regular one.

This explains it, did some event stuff yesterday afternoon and some new this morning and did not get demora skull.
No big deal but a bit annoying then they could just used daily reset especially for stuff like trials.

Dear ZOS, why do you make this so difficult for us players?
If for some reason you dont want it to be the solution that you use for crafting dailies etc (reset once a day - please do it for us!)... you should at least mention it in your news post for the event, so people could at least prepare their daily times a bit.

Dear ZOS,

I'm one of the unfortunate few who are plagued with connectivity issues - on YOUR end, not mine, as I can have 4k Netflix open and streaming for 3 days straight. And whenever I ask about these connectivity options, the answer is always "disable addons".

Yet addons are REQUIRED for tracking all of these ludicrous timers. One for tracking hireling mails. One for tracking research. One for tracking riding skills. One for tracking plunder skulls.

Even with trackers I have to skip many of my 12h hireling timers just to be able to get things once per day ... because of time creep.

It's absurd. Please make all timers 20h timers, or reset at the same time each day.