Indrik impossible?

twilightwarrick · March 2019

Hi so I've only just got back into the game after while a long break. thought ill partake in the jesters festival, cause I liked the indrik mount,

umm well I see I need 40 that's 40 event tickets to get it plus I guess more for the upgrade. now so far I have completed all the quests to get the crown , I have 6

plus 2 a day for logging in is that right, although I didn't seem to get these?, so what there's 10 days left, so maybe if I get them I've have 26, is that why their on sale in the crown store

something doesn't add up here to me, is this just yet another ambush into buying more crowns again, why cant they actually give you something decent without any strings attached sigh

Rygonix · March 2019

The Indrik event isn't over until the end of this year and there are 3 more sets of berries to be released. While the Dawnwood one might be out of your reach by this point as the dawnwood berries will be removed to make way for Luminous, you will still have plenty of opportunities to get any of the other 3 evolutions before the Indrik event is over.

anitajoneb17_ESO · March 2019

It's more complicated than that, but the good news is, it's not too late for your indrik.

You get a varying maximum amount of tickets per festival. In this case - The jester's festival - you can get 2 tickets a day (not for logging in, but for doing one of any of the three jesters' quests).
You won't get all the tickets you need this time, but you can start buying the different feathers already.
You will get the remaining tickets with the next event (the anniversary event, I think). And then you can start buying berries to evolve your indrik. You will miss the currently available evolution (the dawnwood indrik) but you'll have access to the next one. It's one evolution per quarter (every 3 months).

Good luck ! :-)

Lykanus · March 2019

The indrik event runs already longer you had enough chances to collect Event tickets to gain all for the Indrik plus a decent extra amount so you could have missed a lot of events too.

With only one Event you wont be able to get an Indrik however, but the good news is there are more Events coming up in the future and you will be able to get an Indrik.

Just one thing you will miss for 100%: The Dawnwood Indrik Evolution, as this will end with the Jesters Festival and on the followup events the Dawnwood Berries wont be available anymore, Instead there will be Berries for the Golden Indrik and in 3rd and 4th Quarter of this year there will be a Dark and White Indrik available then during the events.

Tasear · March 2019

Still time unless you really wanted green one this year.

twilightwarrick · March 2019

oh ok thanks guess I didn't understand it takes a whole year to get one, thats great.
anyway thanks for the heads up been a way for over a year so a bit out of touch,

Rygonix · March 2019

Yeah it takes way less time to get an unevolved indrik since the feathers are all available now instead of being released one at a time, like the berries currently are.

Enemoriana · March 2019

twilightwarrick wrote: »

something doesn't add up here to me, is this just yet another ambush into buying more crowns again, why cant they actually give you something decent without any strings attached sigh

You simply missed too much events.
For example, I participated in all events, missing some days. I have morphed indrik, base indrik and two more feathers now; and will buy pet and one more feather during this event (and cadwell weapon style pages can be traded, so no reason to buy for tickets).

So, you missed this morph, but there will be three other later (and, maybe, this will return next year). Don't buy berries that are there now. Buy feathers - they will be there during next events too, all year. You need four different feathers.
So this event do at least one (better 3, for pages) jester quest, and buy two feathers. Or, if you want pet, feather + pet. No need to spend crowns, you'll just get indrik later.

twilightwarrick · March 2019

Rygonix wrote: »

Yeah it takes way less time to get an unevolved indrik since the feathers are all available now instead of being released one at a time, like the berries currently are.

but let me guess I could have one now if I paid for tickets, , 40 for even the basic one is rather a lot.
I thought you could earn it in one event , like most games , oh well never mind maybe ill get it one day

Tasear · March 2019

twilightwarrick wrote: »

oh ok thanks guess I didn't understand it takes a whole year to get one, thats great.
anyway thanks for the heads up been a way for over a year so a bit out of touch,

4 verision, can aquire 1 per quarter. Need 80 berries per mount and 10 per pet. Each event offers little over 20 event tickets. There's are 4 events per quarter we assume. You can buy tickets if you miss or don't want to take part in event.

Danikat · March 2019

There are 5 different indriks - the basic grey one and 4 'evolved' forms (green, gold, black and white). The only one you'd need to pay for is the green one and only because you missed most of the events building up to it and therefore most the opportunities to get tickets so far. (Not a criticism of you BTW, I totally understand other things take precedence over a game, just explaining that there was a way to get it for free.)

Tickets are obtained from participating in festivals and other special events. The event announcement always explains what to do to get them, which is usually completing a daily quest. They're never available simply for logging in, but they are time-gated. For example during the Jester's festival you can get 2 tickets per day for your first jesters quest.

10 tickets will buy you either a feather or a berry. You need 4 different feathers (Emerald, Gilded, Onyx and Opaline) to create a nascent indrik - at a total cost of 40 tickets.

Once you've got that you need 4 different berries from the same set to evolve it. For example for the Dawnwood Indrik you need the Dawnwood berries of Bloom, Budding, Growth and Ripeness, which are the ones currently being sold. These also cost 10 tickets each for a total cost of 40 tickets. (So 80 tickets total to make and evolve an indrik.)

From the start of Q2 2019 and the next event (which I think is the anniversary festival) the Dawnwood berries will be removed and be replaced with the berries for the gold indrik. In Q3 it will be the black one and in Q4 it will be the white one.

So if you want an indrik you can participate in those events (note: this will almost certainly be the same system - so you'll need to log in daily during the event to do a quest or kill a boss or something to get them) and use the tickets to buy feathers and berries for a different one. You'd only need to pay for tickets if you don't want to wait or if you specifically want the green one.

You can see all the different indriks, and a summary of the process here: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Nascent_Indrik

Cpt_Teemo · March 2019

Way to much time to make these multi colored ones, guess its fun for some but wow really complicated and long for many others I just got the basic ones i'll be happy with lol

Never had any events in any mmo that lasted this long and also not as time consuming as well

Cernow · March 2019

twilightwarrick wrote: »

Rygonix wrote: »

Yeah it takes way less time to get an unevolved indrik since the feathers are all available now instead of being released one at a time, like the berries currently are.

but let me guess I could have one now if I paid for tickets, , 40 for even the basic one is rather a lot.
I thought you could earn it in one event , like most games , oh well never mind maybe ill get it one day

You guessed right.

I'm in the same boat as you, have played the game on and off since launch but only recently started playing and subscribing to ESO+ again. I'm disappointed I can't even get the basic Indrik from this event. I get that the evolutions should reward players who participate in all events, but the basic Indrik should be more easily obtained, so that players don't miss out on the current evolution of the event they are participating in.

I also get that developers want to reward players who make a long term commitment to logging in and participating. That's fine. But then they blow that flimsy veneer by making it possible to bypass this with a large amount of crowns, which is sheer greed.

This all makes me view the game I've just returned to very poorly. For me, locking something behind such an obviously convoluted wall of participation (that can be bypassed by a large amount of crowns) does not encourage me to play more, rather it encourages me to play less, or indeed not at all.

woe · March 2019

If you aren't interested in the other indriks just go for the one you like the best.

Enemoriana · March 2019

Cernow wrote: »

I get that the evolutions should reward players who participate in all events, but the basic Indrik should be more easily obtained, so that players don't miss out on the current evolution of the event they are participating in.

What is difficult about them? If you want only basic indrik, that's just two events. Or one anniversary, it will be long. If you want morph and started when it begins, you still can get it - each event gives enough tickets for feather + berry. If you started later - well, start with next morph.

Cernow · March 2019

Enemoriana wrote: »

What is difficult about them? If you want only basic indrik, that's just two events. Or one anniversary, it will be long. If you want morph and started when it begins, you still can get it - each event gives enough tickets for feather + berry. If you started later - well, start with next morph.

Yes, basic Indrik is two events. But a morph is also at least two events to get the four berries you need. So, for someone without the base mount it's impossible to get a full evolution if you miss an event, or even part of an event and don't do every single daily.

Requiring such a constant, essentially unbroken completion of dailies is a pretty excessive expectation of a player's available game time. It seems deliberately designed to cause players to fall behind and then pay at the Crown Store to catch up.

I appreciate for anyone who already has the base Indrik it becomes easier to purchase the morphs. But the point here is that for anyone trying to jump into the process, it's pretty prohibitive unless you're happy to just accept the vanilla version. Personally I find this makes me want to participate less, not more, which I assume is not the developer's goal.

Enemoriana · March 2019

Cernow wrote: »

Enemoriana wrote: »

What is difficult about them? If you want only basic indrik, that's just two events. Or one anniversary, it will be long. If you want morph and started when it begins, you still can get it - each event gives enough tickets for feather + berry. If you started later - well, start with next morph.

Yes, basic Indrik is two events. But a morph is also at least two events to get the four berries you need. So, for someone without the base mount it's impossible to get a full evolution if you miss an event, or even part of an event and don't do every single daily.

Requiring such a constant, essentially unbroken completion of dailies is a pretty excessive expectation of a player's available game time. It seems deliberately designed to cause players to fall behind and then pay at the Crown Store to catch up.

I appreciate for anyone who already has the base Indrik it becomes easier to purchase the morphs. But the point here is that for anyone trying to jump into the process, it's pretty prohibitive unless you're happy to just accept the vanilla version. Personally I find this makes me want to participate less, not more, which I assume is not the developer's goal.

If somebody starts in the middle of season - yes, it's hard to get current morph. But that's not developer's fault that somebody missed something. That person can just wait for next morph. Or, if he want exactly that one, buy berries first.

Indriks are reward for participating in events during long time. With pets and styles there are now "short-time" rewards. Want something for just this event? Take them. Want indrik? That is easy, but needs some time.