Bananko wrote: »

I can't enjoy it because every time I use the Crow Caller to begin the festival, I'm told that I already completed the festival last year and won't let me go any further.

@Bananko

Sounds like you already completed the event before. That will not prevent you from getting Event Tickets, Dremora Skulls, and Plunder Skulls by killing bosses. If you are seeking the double XP buff and/or wanting to drink from the cauldron to be a skeleton for 2 hours, go to Collections --> Mementos. I recommend going to bottom of first section, then scrolling up because the Witches Cauldron is just a few up from the bottom. Select it and there you go. The double XP buff activates as soon as you call forth the cauldron. if you wanna be a skeleton, then drink from it, too.

It's like this for all events you've already completed - the double XP activation thingie moves to your collections, so you just select it from there (be advised that after the event ends, summoning them will NOT activate double XP anymore, for the sake of not taking advantage of the system year-round). The Crow Caller and stuff like that are just for folks who have never done the event before and need to do that initial quest to trigger it. So, for example, for the anniversary event you have the cakes in your Momentos and for New Life Festival, you have that never-ending mug or whatever it's called, if you had been around and done those in previous years.

Vapirko wrote: »

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.

I'm not the person you quoted but I made an almost identical post so I thought I'd weigh in. I'm not bored with ESO as a whole, or burned out, it's just that the festival does not interest me because there's no new activities or quests or any type of content, just new drops tacked onto the same stuff we can do all the rest of the year.

Meanwhile other games do have unique content which is only available during their Halloween period. So I'm managing my time and avoiding getting burned out by putting ESO on hold except for the one reward I want and cannot (easily) get later (I've been wanting the Dawnwood Indrik since it was first datamined and waiting for the opportunity to get it) and focusing on the limited-time content in other games - knowing that when I 'come back' to ESO all the stuff I would have done during the Witches festival will still be there for me to do and all I'll have missed is one 500g (and dropping) motif for each boss.

Think of it like real life festivals: If your town was running a "festival" where a man hands a goodie bag to everyone who visits but everything else is business as usual, and the next town over had a full fair ground with rides and games and performances which one would you go to? Or would you get the best of both by passing through your town on the way to the more interesting festival? Same idea here, but with games.

I enjoy it. It's nice that the game isn't being flooded with 1|12323123213131321 types of one motif, like with HOllowjack last year. I like that you have to *do* something for the motifs now. A simple delve or a ntrial or something.

What I don't enjoy, is that the Dremora skull reset is 20h from when you did it last. It gets tedious to pay attention when you do it, especially if you don't have time to do them all at once. I had to skip one day, because I had no idea which ones I had on cooldown when, and I got so bored of going to e.g. a World Boss and "check if cd is over".

Just let it reset same time as the daily writs etc. Much, much easier.

albesca wrote: »

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

About the only thing I might care about this year in the skulls is furniture, but after last year's pile o' branches, I can't build up enthusiasm to check if it's better.

@Kiralyn2000, for what it's worth the furniture I got in about sixty skulls so far is mostly branches (about ten), but also got a couple of pumpkins, two or three horse carcasses and a couple of mushrooms

I've been getting around 10 skulls a day including the dremora ones, and I've got one single branch. I have lots of lights and mushrooms and odd bits of charms and scythes. But only one branch, oh and some dead looking trees.

SydneyGrey wrote: »

Lumenn wrote: »

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.

Doing trials on normal-mode is actually easier than doing Maelstrom. Try the Aetherian Archive trial on normal. It's considered one of the easiest. Go to Craglorn, and look for people who are putting a group together for nAA.

I'll give it a shot this weekend, thanks. Will give me some time to YouTube any surprise mechanics.

I enjoy all the events.

Grinding cp

The experience boost, the house (with the achievement goal to buy for gold), all came at the right time for raising up a character. It's given me another reason to do the delves as each one now has a skyshard and a plunder skull. The Dremora motif is less of a draw, as this character won't be ready for most of that.

The "useless" stuff, like the polymorph, and the seasonal achievements, do add some variety to activities that have been the same all year.

I love all the events, but this one not as much.
The plunder skulls that have only worms & Ta in them really ruin the moment.
My favorite event(I forgot the name) was the one where you had the chance at any motif in the game from doing dailies.
I have 8 characters, but only play 1 majority of the time. But during that event I logged on to all of them everyday.
It made me try different classes more than I have been and it also got me pretty well caught up with a lot of the motifs out there.
This time around I still just use my main, and really only do a delve, dolmen world boss & maybe a public dungeon then go PVP for the rest of the night.

I like free things, but if I'm going to do things that are repetitive & time consuming to get said things, I get a little irritated when 90% of those drops are worms/crawlers & the equivalent to a Wet Gunny Sack

*shrug* I'm sort of taking a break from ESO, logging in only to do my daily writs.