Yeah, especially with the heists the only reason to stay on script is extra swag. My significant other's racked up a significant number of perfect heists/sacrements though. It's impressive given how much she hates that content in ESO.

It's always cool, and somewhat alarming, when our fairer half lays out the verbal smackdown on an NPC or Mob.

Oh, and tell your wife to look at the Springs, not the Pins. Springs vibrate before the pins do.

Just run through them. There is a ton of loot available in the DB quest if you want to take the time. As far as locks go just hit R for the auto unlock. You can add a few skill points in that to increase your chances.

I end up doing just that after the umpteenth failure at a perfect run. I do DB quests perfectly but the Heists are just too hard! Glad to know I'm not the only one!

I make an effort for a perfect heist as you get purple coffers and guaranteed motifs. After two perfect sacraments, I got blue coffers, blue sithis equipment and NO motifs. Bugger that for a lark! DB daily, run in, stab primary target, run out, kill anything in the way. Same crummy reward but over in a minute.

As a mildly useful bit of info, if you can kill the Laturn Guards within 3 seconds or so during Sacrement, you won't get an alert marker against you. Doesn't work in Heists sadly but still, it makes sacraments so much easier to progress thru without those guys around.

I'm doing the heists/sacraments on my main, a Dunmer DK. She has NM Embrace and Night Terror, plus MA passives, so she sneaks pretty well (and I force all the locks). But, some of the locations for the objectives just aren't as felicitous as others.

I hadn't done any heists or sacraments before the event, as I had no interest. I've mildly enjoyed them. Only once have I managed a perfect heist, but the regular reward of one purple coffer is still pretty good. I managed a hidden heist before getting perfect.

As for the sacraments, I've always managed at least one secondary objective and even got the hidden sacrament achievement before getting a perfect sacrament. Usually, the part I'd miss is getting to the exit before the Overseer arrives, often only missing it by a second. I, too, was disappointed to find that getting a perfect sacrament only nets you 2 blue boxes. And, it just so happened that both only contained a blue piece of Sithis gear. I have gotten DB pages from the green boxes, so it's not really worth it to me to strive for a perfect heist if all I'm interested in is the event tickets (esp. since I bought all the TG and DB pages when they were really cheap).

So, it's been a decent event for me, and I've enjoyed it more than I thought I would. But, I don't plan to do them once the event ends. I'd rather just stick to the tip board for TG, as you get a lot more gold that way, and the repeatable DB quests (don't recall the name off-hand).

Someone already mentioned this, but I find it interesting that the heists don't give you an opportunity to steal items for extra gold. You can loot containers for normal delve loot, but there's nothing to steal. You also don't incur any bounty for being seen. On the other hand, the sacraments do offer stolen loot to fence, but you also get a bounty when seen.