Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• [COMPLETE] ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – April 8, 9:00AM EDT (13:00 UTC) - 6:00PM EDT (22:00 UTC)

Thieves Guild/Dark Brotherhood event returns July 2 - 15th

  • Lord_Eomer
    Lord_Eomer
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    Seriously. Not even joking.

    https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/56503

    Exact same rewards. No double drops for Maw of Lorkhaj (excluding whiskers). First Onyx Indrik berry will be available.

    Edit: No Midyear Mayhem this year, that is why we are getting a repeat event.
    In light of our ongoing work to improve game performance and the Activity Finder, we are holding the Midyear Mayhem event until next year to ensure that the player experience is a good one. In its place, we are moving forward the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event, which will run from July 2 to July 15, and will give players the chance to earn the Event Tickets needed to start the Onyx Indrik mount evolution.

    Crap event, nothing much to plunder!

    AP farming and those golden rings during event were awesome!
  • Lord_Eomer
    Lord_Eomer
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    Nicalas wrote: »
    @ZOS_GinaBruno

    This event announcement is an error I presume. We already had this event in March.

    The correct event is Midyear Mayhem and Orsinium.

    Please give us the correct event. This event is garbage. You have an entire portion of the player base waiting for their event. Delaying it for a year is a big F U to that player base. Nobody wants this RP event that we had 3 months ago.

    Yea This repeated event is a jolk,

    We need Mid Year Mayhem Event back.
  • VaranisArano
    VaranisArano
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    midyear event with faction lock would not make sense anyway, so it is fine that they promote PVE events instead.

    Focus on PVE instead PVP hopefully will result in quicker PVE bugfixes and improvements. Am impatient already to play southern Elsweyr :)

    Only the 30 day campaigns are locked. ZOS usually opens several 7 day campaigns for everyone, which are unlocked.

    I like the faction lock fine, but I usually play in the 7 day campaign during Midyear Mayhem because I can't handle the 30 day lag.
  • TequilaFire
    TequilaFire
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Having or not having an event doesn't fix anything only time and actually working on problems gets them solved.
    Just prevents the symptoms from showing.
  • Banana
    Banana
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Booooooooooooooooooooooo
  • markulrich1966
    markulrich1966
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only the 30 day campaigns are locked. ZOS usually opens several 7 day campaigns for everyone, which are unlocked.

    well that is fine unless the map does not look like on the screenshot. This is how the 7 days campaigns usually look like on xbox EU. Difficult to do dailies there, and no zergs around that could help you to gain access to a quest giving region.

    On the 30 day standard campaigns you usually have at least 1 place like Bruma that is occupied by your own alliance.

    Of course several questers now could start PVP battles to reconquer keep by keep, but I guess this tedious way is not what the average event-ticket quester expected...

    https://imgur.com/aR3BFnB
    Edited by markulrich1966 on June 28, 2019 12:34PM
  • VaranisArano
    VaranisArano
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only the 30 day campaigns are locked. ZOS usually opens several 7 day campaigns for everyone, which are unlocked.

    well that is fine unless the map does not look like on the screenshot. This is how the 7 days campaigns usually look like on xbox EU. Difficult to do dailies there, and no zergs around that could help you to gain access to a quest giving region.

    On the 30 day standard campaigns you usually have at least 1 place like Bruma that is occupied by your own alliance.

    Of course several questers now could start PVP battles to reconquer keep by keep, but I guess this tedious way is not what the average event-ticket quester expected...

    https://imgur.com/aR3BFnB

    I play on PC/NA on the CP campaigns, so my experience is going to be different, I'm sure!

    How Midyear Mayhem usually shakes out is that the 30 day CP campaign is a competitive lagfest laggier than usual, so I swap over to the main 7-day campaign (faction unlocked) which is also a competitive lagfest but the performance is about the same as the 30 day campaign usually is. The other 7 day campaigns that ZOS boots up usually work out that one alliance controls most of the territory, but there are enough campaigns that each alliance sets up shop in one.

    In other words, the main 7 day becomes competitive (like the 30 day usually is), and usually one of the newer 7 day campaigns hits the level of the regular 7 day campaigns. The rest are pretty dead like in your screenshot.

    So at least on PC/NA, there is room for multifaction players to run around and play their other faction toons in a decently competitive environment.
  • Michae
    Michae
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    At least I'll complete my Assassin's League and Order of The Hour books. Sadly I did buy three DB pages and one TG page I was missing for achevements recently.
    "I bear the cruel weight of certainty. Total, absolute, relentless certainty. People rarely comprehend the luxury of doubt... the freedom that comes with indecision. I envy you."
    Sotha Sil

    @Michae PC/EU
  • Jamdarius
    Jamdarius
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jamdarius wrote: »
    Seriously. Not even joking.

    https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/56503

    Exact same rewards. No double drops for Maw of Lorkhaj (excluding whiskers). First Onyx Indrik berry will be available.

    Edit: No Midyear Mayhem this year, that is why we are getting a repeat event.
    In light of our ongoing work to improve game performance and the Activity Finder, we are holding the Midyear Mayhem event until next year to ensure that the player experience is a good one. In its place, we are moving forward the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event, which will run from July 2 to July 15, and will give players the chance to earn the Event Tickets needed to start the Onyx Indrik mount evolution.

    Fyi

    Midyear Mayhem was at the beginning of the year.

    They said it was a bonus one, implying it would be at usual actual mid year.

    And you still believe anything they say at this point? xD
  • Zatox
    Zatox
    ✭✭✭✭
    Very boring event
  • FrancisCrawford
    FrancisCrawford
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭
    Time to de-mothball my character Grumpy Ex Wood Elf.
  • golfgirl89
    Why not have a Summerset anniversary event instead of a repeat of thieves/darkbrotherhood.
  • randomkeyhits
    randomkeyhits
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I read that quote as its going to take them a damned long time to get a fix to the queue finder in.

    I'll be generous and assume they actually did know about the state of it say six months before this event started ( is a /sarcasm tag needed here? ).

    So...... knowing the state of it, knowing the event deadline and hopefully knowing their own code, they can't resolve this within six months?

    I don't believe their actual coders are that bad so can management please release some $$$ to the dev team to actually fix it please. I mean as its code its not like it impacts the delivery of crown store items.
    EU PS4
  • Jamdarius
    Jamdarius
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jamdarius wrote: »
    Seriously. Not even joking.

    https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/56503

    Exact same rewards. No double drops for Maw of Lorkhaj (excluding whiskers). First Onyx Indrik berry will be available.

    Edit: No Midyear Mayhem this year, that is why we are getting a repeat event.
    In light of our ongoing work to improve game performance and the Activity Finder, we are holding the Midyear Mayhem event until next year to ensure that the player experience is a good one. In its place, we are moving forward the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event, which will run from July 2 to July 15, and will give players the chance to earn the Event Tickets needed to start the Onyx Indrik mount evolution.

    Fyi

    Midyear Mayhem was at the beginning of the year.

    I dont understand, why call it midyear if it's beginning of year iDont understand

    ZOS and their lazy naming ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they could change the name of the event to New Year Mayhem but they didn't even think about it.
  • Jaraal
    Jaraal
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't believe their actual coders are that bad so can management please release some $$$ to the dev team to actually fix it please. I mean as its code its not like it impacts the delivery of crown store items.

    It's becoming more and more clear that they are shifting ESO into maintenance mode while they redirect resources to their upcoming games. I mean, they're talking about rescheduling events many months down the road with no concrete dates, which essentially means out of sight, out of mind. Some of these bugs and code failures they have been promising to fix for years..... and yet, not only are they not fixed, but now they are modifying the game to accommodate the problems (reducing Cyrodiil population caps, cancelling events due to recurring and chronic issues, adding log-in queues, etc) rather than fixing the game to reasonable expectations. They make vague promises to make things better, but reality indicates that things are only getting worse.

    Unfortunately, there is little competition in the MMORPG / PvP genre, so they are not pressured to improve the product. They are well aware that people will put up with a lot more when they have the only game in town. So it doesn't do much to protest, as there will always be people who can't wait to log into the game..... no matter how bad things get.

  • heaven13
    heaven13
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭
    Jamdarius wrote: »
    Jamdarius wrote: »
    Seriously. Not even joking.

    https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/56503

    Exact same rewards. No double drops for Maw of Lorkhaj (excluding whiskers). First Onyx Indrik berry will be available.

    Edit: No Midyear Mayhem this year, that is why we are getting a repeat event.
    In light of our ongoing work to improve game performance and the Activity Finder, we are holding the Midyear Mayhem event until next year to ensure that the player experience is a good one. In its place, we are moving forward the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event, which will run from July 2 to July 15, and will give players the chance to earn the Event Tickets needed to start the Onyx Indrik mount evolution.

    Fyi

    Midyear Mayhem was at the beginning of the year.

    I dont understand, why call it midyear if it's beginning of year iDont understand

    ZOS and their lazy naming ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they could change the name of the event to New Year Mayhem but they didn't even think about it.

    Technically, it was called the Midyear Mayhem encore event. There was even a disclaimer at the bottom of the announcement:
    The Midyear Mayhem encore event begins on Thursday, January 10 at 10:00AM EST and will end on Monday, January 21 at 10:00AM EST. If your taste for battle is not sated after this event, don’t worry, we plan to bring Midyear Mayhem back again later in the year!
    PC/NA
    Mountain God | Leave No Bone Unbroken | Apex Predator | Pure Lunacy | Depths Defier | No Rest for the Wicked | In Defiance of Death
    Defanged the Devourer | Nature's Wrath | Relentless Raider | True Genius | Bane of Thorns | Subterranean Smasher | Ardent Bibliophile

    vAA HM | vHRC HM | vSO HM | vDSA | vMoL HM | vHoF HM | vAS+2 | vCR+2 | vBRP | vSS HM | vKA | vRG
    Meet my characters :
    IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL THE SAME NOW, THANKS ZOS
  • DreadDaedroth
    DreadDaedroth
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gee,
    How boring to have to do each daily to get the event tickets...
  • The_Lex
    The_Lex
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    I'm looking forward to the dueling event.
  • Sevn
    Sevn
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guess folks will have to wait another year to farm noobs. Sad face.
    There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self
    -Hemingway
  • kmcaj
    kmcaj
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    disappointing...
  • Jaraal
    Jaraal
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gee,
    How boring to have to do each daily to get the event tickets...

    You can always buy them in the Crown Store if you don't want to do heists/sacraments on your non-Khajiit.
  • Ourorboros
    Ourorboros
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    @ZOS__GinaBruno

    per ZOS, we can earn 28 event tickets for this event. It takes 4 berries/40 tickets to convert a plain indrik. How are we supposed to get the onyx berries? Buying tickets with crowns is not an option for me. Either more tickets need to awarded for this event, another Q3 event be held, or berry price lowered.
    PC/NA/DC
    Breton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
    TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
    Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
    All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
    ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)
  • SweepsAllClowns
    SweepsAllClowns
    ✭✭✭✭
    Ourorboros wrote: »
    @ZOS__GinaBruno

    per ZOS, we can earn 28 event tickets for this event. It takes 4 berries/40 tickets to convert a plain indrik. How are we supposed to get the onyx berries? Buying tickets with crowns is not an option for me. Either more tickets need to awarded for this event, another Q3 event be held, or berry price lowered.

    I won't earn any tickets with my stuck account again and I cannot even buy them from the crown store either, which I wouldn't obviously do anyways. This will be my 4th missed event since Wrathstone arrived, I wonder how many easy tickets I've missed by now. The responsibility and interest to refund any for me is absolutely zero for Zenimax.
  • kinguardian
    kinguardian
    ✭✭✭✭
    Would be nice if I am able to log in and when I am in I don't get thrown out again.

    And that my blade of woe works.

    I have been emailing back and forth with the helpdesk and it drives me crazy why can't they have 1 person help you instead of all different ones because not all of them read through the messages and then they give an answer that doesn't help me at all plus they don't answer the question I asked in response of the answer of the person before that.

    I am so pissed off. I am a active player with subscription and I spent a lot of money on this game. I buy a lot of crowns and crownstore stuff. So this is really not on.

    Worse thing is they would not care if I quit this game because of the amount of new players they have recently.

    Yay applause for eu server :'(
  • virtus753
    virtus753
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ourorboros wrote: »
    @ZOS__GinaBruno

    per ZOS, we can earn 28 event tickets for this event. It takes 4 berries/40 tickets to convert a plain indrik. How are we supposed to get the onyx berries? Buying tickets with crowns is not an option for me. Either more tickets need to awarded for this event, another Q3 event be held, or berry price lowered.

    This almost certainly won’t be the only Q3 event offered. For Q2 they were very clear that the Anniversary Event was the only event that quarter, since it was so long, and it gave more than enough tickets to buy each of the four berries. (In fact, it gave almost enough to buy all four berries plus a whole new Nascent, and that was still substantially less than a normal quarter’s worth of tickets.)

    The total tickets available in this event are much more in line with the model of previous quarters, with one berry released per festival and four festivals spread out over the quarter. 28 tickets would be enough to cover the first Onyx berry, another feather towards a Nascent Indrik, and a few to spare in case you miss some days or want to stock up towards next event.

    It would be nice if we could get a list of the planned Q3 events like we did with Q4 last year, especially since the plan has clearly changed.
  • DLM
    DLM
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    golfgirl89 wrote: »
    Why not have a Summerset anniversary event instead of a repeat of thieves/darkbrotherhood.

    My guess is that Summerset is already planned later this summer and it was easier to just replace this current event with one that wasn't going to happen before next year than moving everything planned ahead.
  • Ourorboros
    Ourorboros
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    virtus753 wrote: »
    Ourorboros wrote: »
    @ZOS__GinaBruno

    per ZOS, we can earn 28 event tickets for this event. It takes 4 berries/40 tickets to convert a plain indrik. How are we supposed to get the onyx berries? Buying tickets with crowns is not an option for me. Either more tickets need to awarded for this event, another Q3 event be held, or berry price lowered.

    This almost certainly won’t be the only Q3 event offered. For Q2 they were very clear that the Anniversary Event was the only event that quarter, since it was so long, and it gave more than enough tickets to buy each of the four berries. (In fact, it gave almost enough to buy all four berries plus a whole new Nascent, and that was still substantially less than a normal quarter’s worth of tickets.)

    The total tickets available in this event are much more in line with the model of previous quarters, with one berry released per festival and four festivals spread out over the quarter. 28 tickets would be enough to cover the first Onyx berry, another feather towards a Nascent Indrik, and a few to spare in case you miss some days or want to stock up towards next event.

    It would be nice if we could get a list of the planned Q3 events like we did with Q4 last year, especially since the plan has clearly changed.

    It would indeed be nice to have an events schedule. I wouldn't have felt a need to post if we had a clear path to getting event tickets. Zos, please stop treating us like mushrooms.
    PC/NA/DC
    Breton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
    TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
    Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
    All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
    ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)
  • markulrich1966
    markulrich1966
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    the black indrik looks ugly imho, just had a look at the preview yesterday.
    It inherits the problem of all indriks, the very static movement. Far from the elegance of the senche leopard or a wolf (both almost "glide"), or the powerfull animation of the nightmare courser. In addition, the black skin is not beautiful, looked somehow "wet", like latex.

    And the quests are the most uninteresting I have played during the last year.
    As you solo them, you don't even have the often funny distraction of other players around, like during the newlife festival. So I will skip this event and focus on daily crafting/delve/worldboss/dragon. Don't even have enough time to finish all of those....
    Edited by markulrich1966 on July 1, 2019 12:52PM
  • aftershox
    aftershox
    ✭✭
    ZOS have lost the plot when it comes to bonus events with interesting gameplay. You wouldn't think this is a mature game considering the Disney esque toy store they're turned this whole franchise into. Re-texturing existing 3D assets and tagging them as rewards or achievements is just lazy game maintenance. Not even a feature, it's tacked on and we all know it.
    'May you walk on warm sands!'
  • rumple9
    rumple9
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is anyone actually bothering with this event?
Sign In or Register to comment.