How are you enjoying the witch festival?

Turelus · October 2018

Really good. I think they've got it right with how to earn the new motif.

It doesn't feel like a horrible grind like the Wormcult one did, but it still has some items which are harder to get as they require group content of twelve players.

wolfie1.0. · October 2018

Tasear wrote: »

Are you having fun? What do you like or dislike about it?

Please tell the Devs that the Event would have been WAAAAYYY better if they didn't introduce an experience breaking game update right in the middle of it. Quite honestly, while i don't like the class changes i can adapt to those. its hard to adapt to broken housing furniture and crafting stations, mobs that wont die, broken addons. several maintenance's that interrupt said event.

So please let them know that next time they have an event that requires us to log in every day to get an item NOT to do something that historically will be rocky. they should have either released Murkmire before the witches festival or after. I am down 4 indrik feathers because it took me 2 days to fix my game and I am down 2 more because hot fixes took the servers down during the time that i had to play and most of the bugs are still around.

Do i want an extended event? no. What i DO want is for ZOS to get their act together and not pull this stunt again. All of these bugs should have been worked through on the PTS BEFORE the update went live. I know that the ones I reported are still broken...So from my perspective the PTS is a waste of resources.

TheKingofSass · October 2018

I'm actually having a blast. Got the chance to run more trials when its prime time for me, leveld few toons, learned new furniture recipes, earned gold, helped folks with stuff.

Good times

albesca · October 2018

Acrolas wrote: »

It's great.
Except that one time that it got a little too real and I couldn't help but juxtapose it to Chaplain Jorden's quote on the Skull Ponder emote for an additional bit of mind ***.

This skull looks like it belonged to an argonian slave of the nord variety.

About the OP question, I'm quite enjoying this event: I used it as an excuse to explore all the delves and the public dungeon in Auridon and to beat all the world bosses (I've now started to work on the Grahtwood ones), and to try the arenas and trials.

The rewards, dremora motif aside, are a bit disappointing as I mostly find fishing baits, alchemy mats and branches, lots of branches. I also found a couple of recipes and furnishing plans and some interesting furniture, but most of the rewards are honestly junk.

I'm still working through the activities to get the 100 plunder skulls achievement to enable buying the cottage with gold (not sure I'll buy it, though) and of course for the event tickets.

EvilCroc · October 2018

Playing Forza Horizon 4. LOL.

Rak_am · October 2018

enjoy ? no... on ps4 pro each event is a lag event

pdblake · October 2018

Well I've started to solo dolmens and some of the easier world bosses. PetSorc too

It started off novel. I like some of the recipes (got the double bloody mara which I wanted) and odd furniture, though I'm not really into housing and such. I've killed an awful lot of bosses. I've levelled up a hell of a lot.

It is getting a bit repetitive after more than a week though and some areas are just so jam packed with players that there's lag where there usually isn't lag. In Auridon you can't get a look in at the dolmens and in a lot of delves there are players just sat there waiting for the same boss to spawn over and over again. When there's enough of them lower DPS players don't get a look in either.

I've also collected pretty much all the motifs I'm going to get and have duplicates too. I won't get the ones from trials, arenas and group dungeons, because they're not my thing (though I'm half way through nMA and may just finish it this weekend and will perhaps give that dungeon finder thingy a go).

TBH, I've not really done anything I wouldn't normally do. If anything the crowds have pushed me to quieter areas of the map and I'm actively avoiding the busy areas, so I'm putting off the main AD quest line for the moment.

Just doing it for the tickets now and will pick up more skulls during normal play. Though I do have a lot of weird furniture in my otherwise shiny new villa

I have had fun though (albeit with a few frustrating "let me get a hit in" moments), and that's what's important.

Danikat · October 2018

I've not been playing much. Logging into 1 character parked at a world boss, killing the boss, checking I got my event ticket and logging out again. I've had too much other stuff to do (including other games with events more interesting than 1 extra drop from old content) and I'm only interested in the indrik mount so I've just been doing what I need for that.

From what I've read on the forum I'm glad that's all I've been doing because it sounds like getting more than 1 dremora skull a day makes the whole thing very confusing and possibly prone to bugs which lead to people missing out on drops they should have got.

Biro123 · October 2018

I'm completely ignoring it.

Done it once before, got the recipe's I was interested in..

I hate doing any repetitive content. I hate doing content that is not challenging (ie just 'running from A to B, and just 'going through the motions' for combat )- which is how all overland content is now, and I hate trying to do that in overcrowded, laggy areas.

I don't even try to find out what the rewards are for events now - since its mostly stuff I have no interest in - cosmetics, achievements etc.. The kind of stuff which for me is nice to have, but not worth going out of my way for.

Not saying its a bad event, or that they should stop doing them since plenty of people seem to enjoy it. Just saying that these events are not for me.

Lake · October 2018

I play multiple MMOs simultaneously and ESO consistently has the most boring events.

ESO just tacks on boxes, EXP boosts and drops to existing game systems and calls it a day.

Gargath · October 2018

It's okay. But I'm not doing stuff for this indrik mount. Too many players will be riding them and the feeling of unique look is no more. Like when you have bought a special horse with Vvardenfell or Summerset special edition and saw it everywhere.

Also I usually enjoy myself reminding people in chat that buying now Dremora motif books for 20k is stupid, if you can buy them for less than 500 gold in guild stores

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Grimm13 · October 2018

So many things hitting ESO at once right now. Makes the time there seem harried and lessened the Festival.

Also the odd stacking of timers, hate that. I want timers to renew at the same time for an Event. To me it makes sense that it be the start time and ending time, so the Store refresh time that kicks it off and it ends by.

Having too many "special" events I think can be a determent to a game. They lose their uniqueness. Players can feel that they are being driven and not just playing to have fun.

Carbonised · October 2018

The cooldown on the Dremora skulls is a huge fiasco. They should have made them have a fixed reset time along with the daily quests, and a lot of headache would have been spared.

That said, this year's Witches festival was the best one so far.

The addition of Dremora skulls was great. One skull per type per day per account. No mor grinding dozens and dozens of daily quests for people with 14 alts. More rewards need to be account based, it's a fair system to everyone.
The fact that you have to do trials, arena, dungeons etc is great. No more stacking on the same Anchor for half a day and just farm skulls (well you can, but not Dremora skulls anyway).
Some great new items were added with this year's skulls. All the unique fungus were greatly appreciated, I love my stinkhorns and my Bloodtooth toadstools. The scythe and the wheat were also great, as well as all the Halloween and Witches themed furnishings.
The cottage and the unique furniture packs were fun to use and decorate. It made me get into the seasonal spirit.

Improvements for next year? Maybe it's time to bring the Witches festival out in the other zones and to the rest of Tamriel. Right now, all the overland zones look the same, you don't see much of a festival. I would love the idea of some of the major cities, perhaps only the 3 Alliance capitols, to decorate their cities according to the seasonal festival. See NPCs in the holiday spirit. This goes for both Witches festival, New Life, Jester's and Midyear's.
But at least some decorations and NPCs and such so that it's visible that this is a server wide and world wide event, and so that you can enjoy a bit of variation from the usual, dull look that you have gotten used to.

Maybe some in-game functionality that enables people to visit each other's holiday home more easily than now? Maybe some reward for people to engage in each other's homes and participate in some minigames in a player home? There are so many great witches cottage homes, but they don't really have any functionality or tie-ins with this year's witches festival. Would be nice to have more excuses to visit each others homes in the holiday season and participate in some minigames for achievements or rewards.

Biro123 · October 2018

Gargath wrote: »

It's okay. But I'm not doing stuff for this indrik mount. Too many players will be riding them and the feeling of unique look is no more. Like when you have bought a special horse with Vvardenfell or Summerset special edition and saw it everywhere.

Also I usually enjoy myself reminding people in chat that buying now Dremora motif books for 20k is stupid, if you can buy them for less than 500 gold in guild stores .

I sometimes just use a basic, starter horse for that unique look!

myskyrim26 · October 2018

I love Witch Festival this year. It has become much more interesting - terrific rewards, a new motif, a bunch of fun crown crate items. Yet Murkmire made me abandon the Festival, I only run a dolmen or delve to get am event ticket. Exploration of a new land is more tempting for me.

randomkeyhits · October 2018

I like the fact that most of it can be completed just by well, playing the game normally.

Pick up undaunted, mages guild and summerset dailies, complete those and I'm at 5/7 for the day.

Most evenings I don't have time for more than that but I'm gotten both arena styles, just need to sort out the trials ones.

Plus I really like the lighting furniture that has been dropping

Lumenn · October 2018

It's ok so far. Done some new things. Very casual player and actually ran maelstrom for the first time. Don't see myself getting the trial motifs though. Not sure what "raids are like here(used to EQ years ago) but bought a dummy and found out my dps is averaging 10k on my stam sorc. So I need more cp and lots of practice) If a 12 man run is anywhere as long as EQ raids were, no time, and have read enough forums to know 10k means halfway through you have a good chance at getting kicked. Still gonna try this weekend(actually have TWO off days in a row). Other than the trials(and lots and lots of branches) it's been fun.

swirve · October 2018

Its boring... i prefered midsummer madness.

The plunder skulls are an annoyance and cheap trick to sell eso plus bag or buy bank and bag space.

Neoealth · October 2018

Yeah I've been enjoying it. Love all the Halloween themed furniture that drops in the plunder boxes. Enjoyed doing all the achievements as well.

The only bad thing about it in my opinion are the timers on each dremora boxes.

Also I am sure I didn't get a event ticket for one of the days.

But overall I would say great event. My alt characters enjoyed the xp boost also.

Neoealth · October 2018

Lake wrote: »

I play multiple MMOs simultaneously and ESO consistently has the most boring events.

ESO just tacks on boxes, EXP boosts and drops to existing game systems and calls it a day.

What do you expect them to do? Come over to your house and throw a Halloween party with games and puzzles in your garden?

As far as mmo events go, i think they do a pretty good job. More quests might be a good theme though, as the little quest you do to get the whistle is short.

znrk · October 2018

Turelus wrote: »

Really good. I think they've got it right with how to earn the new motif.

I agree with that.

On one hand it is guaranteed daily drop, so I know I will get it 100% after doing certain activities. I'd love to have that for many other stuff I am grinding for

On the other hand ZoS significantly lowered the possible grind and drudgery feeling thanks to splitting the chapters between certain activities. This is not only step into right direction droprate-wise. This is also good because it kind of pushes people to do and try various content. There is oh-so-many players I stumbled upon that said "ooooh, so these are trials, why didn't I bother to try them before". Good stuff.

The one thing I would complain about is the very bad and completely illogical individual cooldown for dremora skull type drop. It should reset in exactly the same way as daily quests do.

swirve · October 2018

Turelus wrote: »

Really good. I think they've got it right with how to earn the new motif.

It doesn't feel like a horrible grind like the Wormcult one did, but it still has some items which are harder to get as they require group content of twelve players.

Did you get the apple reward? Perhaps you could give it to ZoS?

Carbonised · October 2018

Neoealth wrote: »

Lake wrote: »

I play multiple MMOs simultaneously and ESO consistently has the most boring events.

ESO just tacks on boxes, EXP boosts and drops to existing game systems and calls it a day.

What do you expect them to do? Come over to your house and throw a Halloween party with games and puzzles in your garden?

As far as mmo events go, i think they do a pretty good job. More quests might be a good theme though, as the little quest you do to get the whistle is short.

Like I write in my post, it wouldn't hurt to bring the seasonal festivals out into the world of Tamriel. Throw some decorations around, make NPCs and building look like there's an event going on. Make the world feel more dynamic and immersed.

And like I also wrote, several players already have made some awesome seasonal homes at the cottage, and we have been asking for more dynamic events and things to do in housing for years now. They could tie it in with the seasonal festivals, as an excuse for people to visit each other's homes.

This year's witches festival was a real improvement, but essentialy ZOS' events are indeed little more than tacking some RNG boxes to dailies that already exist, or make a few repeatable dailies that you grind endlessly for said RNG boxes and call it a day.

Neoealth · October 2018

Carbonised wrote: »

Neoealth wrote: »

Lake wrote: »

I play multiple MMOs simultaneously and ESO consistently has the most boring events.

ESO just tacks on boxes, EXP boosts and drops to existing game systems and calls it a day.

What do you expect them to do? Come over to your house and throw a Halloween party with games and puzzles in your garden?

As far as mmo events go, i think they do a pretty good job. More quests might be a good theme though, as the little quest you do to get the whistle is short.

Like I write in my post, it wouldn't hurt to bring the seasonal festivals out into the world of Tamriel. Throw some decorations around, make NPCs and building look like there's an event going on. Make the world feel more dynamic and immersed.

And like I also wrote, several players alreayd have made some awesome seasonal homes at the cottage, and we have been asking for more dynamic events and things to do in housing for years now. They could tie it in with the seasonal festivals, as an excuse for people to visit each other's homes.

This year's witches festival was a real improvement, but essentialy ZOS' events are indeed little more than adding some RNG boxes to certain events or make a few repeatable dailies that you grind endlessly for said RNG boxes and call it a day.

I take your point. Yes I suppose making the world more Halloween themed would be nice. But that might present a problem for the lore heads, you would have to ask yourself why are the people of Tamriel celebrating some strange event that no one knows about?

TES games are very serious about their lore, and as far as I know Halloween earth customs don't really fit in.

Kadoin · October 2018

EXP grinding. That's all I want from any event.

Carbonised · October 2018

Neoealth wrote: »

Carbonised wrote: »

Neoealth wrote: »

Lake wrote: »

I play multiple MMOs simultaneously and ESO consistently has the most boring events.

ESO just tacks on boxes, EXP boosts and drops to existing game systems and calls it a day.

What do you expect them to do? Come over to your house and throw a Halloween party with games and puzzles in your garden?

As far as mmo events go, i think they do a pretty good job. More quests might be a good theme though, as the little quest you do to get the whistle is short.

Like I write in my post, it wouldn't hurt to bring the seasonal festivals out into the world of Tamriel. Throw some decorations around, make NPCs and building look like there's an event going on. Make the world feel more dynamic and immersed.

And like I also wrote, several players alreayd have made some awesome seasonal homes at the cottage, and we have been asking for more dynamic events and things to do in housing for years now. They could tie it in with the seasonal festivals, as an excuse for people to visit each other's homes.

This year's witches festival was a real improvement, but essentialy ZOS' events are indeed little more than adding some RNG boxes to certain events or make a few repeatable dailies that you grind endlessly for said RNG boxes and call it a day.

I take your point. Yes I suppose making the world more Halloween themed would be nice. But that might present a problem for the lore heads, you would have to ask yourself why are the people of Tamriel celebrating some strange event that no one knows about?

TES games are very serious about their lore, and as far as I know Halloween earth customs don't really fit in.

Witches festival isn't halloween. Obviously it is modeled after halloween in the real world, just like halloween is a christianization of the ancient harvest festival between autum equinox and winter solstice, that is called Samhain in the celtic part of the world.

But yes, witches festival is an established part of TES lore as you can see here on this calendar. Just like Jester's Day, Mid Year celebration and Old life/New Life and others.

Witches Festival is close in time with Tales and Tallows and Harvest's End as well, so it would make sense to bunch up all of these into one, and have the NPCs and civilized cities celebrate the Harvest's End and Tales and Tallows, and perhaps host some more sinister celebrations of the Witches Festival out in the dark woods and such.

TheDarkoil · October 2018

+100% xp is awesome, added to a 150% xp scroll and the +10% subscriber bonus and enlightenment a normal random dungeon gives an insane amount of XP every day.

Vapirko · October 2018

craftycarper73 wrote: »

Heres how it works for me.

log in
collect daily reward
do dolmen
get event ticket
log out
play another game

the end

If you’re at this point just take an all out break. Come back in 2-3 months. This game has a way of sucking your life away, and consuming all your brain power. When you come back you’ll take it for what it is, a great game that’s held back by mediocre direction. You’ll log in an hour or two when you can, have some fun, and log out the minute you start feeling the old frustration setting in. At least that’s been my experience.

Neoealth · October 2018

Carbonised wrote: »

Neoealth wrote: »

Carbonised wrote: »

Neoealth wrote: »

Lake wrote: »

I play multiple MMOs simultaneously and ESO consistently has the most boring events.

ESO just tacks on boxes, EXP boosts and drops to existing game systems and calls it a day.

What do you expect them to do? Come over to your house and throw a Halloween party with games and puzzles in your garden?

As far as mmo events go, i think they do a pretty good job. More quests might be a good theme though, as the little quest you do to get the whistle is short.

Like I write in my post, it wouldn't hurt to bring the seasonal festivals out into the world of Tamriel. Throw some decorations around, make NPCs and building look like there's an event going on. Make the world feel more dynamic and immersed.

And like I also wrote, several players alreayd have made some awesome seasonal homes at the cottage, and we have been asking for more dynamic events and things to do in housing for years now. They could tie it in with the seasonal festivals, as an excuse for people to visit each other's homes.

This year's witches festival was a real improvement, but essentialy ZOS' events are indeed little more than adding some RNG boxes to certain events or make a few repeatable dailies that you grind endlessly for said RNG boxes and call it a day.

I take your point. Yes I suppose making the world more Halloween themed would be nice. But that might present a problem for the lore heads, you would have to ask yourself why are the people of Tamriel celebrating some strange event that no one knows about?

TES games are very serious about their lore, and as far as I know Halloween earth customs don't really fit in.

Witches festival isn't halloween. Obviously it is modeled after halloween in the real world, just like halloween is a christianization of the ancient harvest festival between autum equinox and winter solstice, that is called Samhain in the celtic part of the world.

But yes, witches festival is an established part of TES lore as you can see here on this calendar. Just like Jester's Day, Mid Year celebration and Old life/New Life and others.

Witches Festival is close in time with Tales and Tallows and Harvest's End as well, so it would make sense to bunch up all of these into one, and have the NPCs and civilized cities celebrate the Harvest's End and Tales and Tallows, and perhaps host some more sinister celebrations of the Witches Festival out in the dark woods and such.

Oh wow you're right. I somehow missed that the witches festival was actually in the lore. Thanks for showing I was wrong.

In that case I totally agree with your points.

Make Tamriel more Halloweeny ZOS!

Tandor · October 2018

I enjoy the event each year, but am only doing a couple of delve encounters and dolmens each day. That gets me the event tickets on both my accounts as well as the odd assorted skull. Motif pages don't really bother me, but the rest of the loot can be useful in different ways. I'm not into the whole daily routine stuff as it turns a game into a chore and that's not why I play. The rest of the time I'm questing as usual, with no issues.