PizzaCat82 wrote: »

For someone who hasn't done anything during the event (not me, but new players), trying to do all the achievements in 10 days seems impossible.

1. Learning all hollowjack,
2. Learning all Dremora style
3. Kill 100 skeles
4. Get a unique plunderskull for each type (requires arena, trial, delve, dungeon, world boss, etc)
5. Consume 10 Marionette parts
6. Complete wichmother's quest
7. Earn 100 Plunderskulls (farm for at least a day)
8. Eat (and learn recipes) for each food during wiches festva (8 recipes)
9. Complete 28 Withes festival writs
10. Eat 3 more foods (more recipes)

Plus all the quests and "Use cauldron 10 times" but those are easier.

Didn't we used to get more time to do these? I feel rushed, even with only the new ones. God forbid I want to try getting an alt through some of these.

To much is locked behind RNG, wich will cause issues. Like the recipes, the prices will skyrocket. As will the motif prices.

redlink1979 wrote: »

As in everything in this game, and other games, it depends of the effort and commitment you put into it.

FYI. some of those achievements related to the Witches Fest can be accomplished outside the event's period.

Unfortunately they seem to have changed that. I tried feeding my Necro with the festival foods just to get that out of the way and it did not count. I'm fairly sure it used to.

Almost all of those things you listed are older than my grandma. And 3 days is more than enough to do all the new stuff in Witches Festival, let alone 10.

Huyen wrote: »

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

For someone who hasn't done anything during the event (not me, but new players), trying to do all the achievements in 10 days seems impossible.

1. Learning all hollowjack,
2. Learning all Dremora style
3. Kill 100 skeles
4. Get a unique plunderskull for each type (requires arena, trial, delve, dungeon, world boss, etc)
5. Consume 10 Marionette parts
6. Complete wichmother's quest
7. Earn 100 Plunderskulls (farm for at least a day)
8. Eat (and learn recipes) for each food during wiches festva (8 recipes)
9. Complete 28 Withes festival writs
10. Eat 3 more foods (more recipes)

Plus all the quests and "Use cauldron 10 times" but those are easier.

Didn't we used to get more time to do these? I feel rushed, even with only the new ones. God forbid I want to try getting an alt through some of these.

To much is locked behind RNG, wich will cause issues. Like the recipes, the prices will skyrocket. As will the motif prices.

Depends. It looks like one or two of the recipes will be really good, but most events see a huge spike in prices at the beginning and then a glut on the market. If you wait til day 7 or 8 of the event, its a lot easier to pick up affordable rewards from the guild store. (Exceptions for BIS recipes like Dubious Camoran Throne obviously happen.)

Whatever you do, don't rush out and buy stuff on day 1 or 2 unless you want to pay a premium.

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

Sounds like another mind-numbing grind event. I just want my tickets.
And there's always next year to complete the achievements? Except maybe the festival writs. If the writ drop rate is like New Life last year, getting 28 in 10 days (versus 20 days of New Life last year) is gonna be a huge grind.

The first year was the only good witches festival. Since then it has become a mindnumbing chore. My guess is that they don't want the average player to complete everything so they have a reason to come back the next year and chase all the new additions ontop of the missed out ones.

I just don't have it in me anymore to bother with it. I just want to get back to playing the game.

Question.

What about events makes people think they should acquire every single item available? That might happen if you’re lucky or play enough but it also exhausts the events and waters down the market for the motifs and unique items. Imo I don’t like these types of exhaustive farming events. Tbh I don’t care at all about this festival given the general state of ESO, but many MMOs do this and people always assume that they deserve to be able to acquire 100% of available rewards and I disagree with that sentiment.

Not with the work schedule I've got coming up, which is why I really wish they'd stop adding things to the festivals. So it goes.

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Anyone know what berries are dropping during this event? Is it still the black intrik, or have we moved onto the white one?

We'll be moving on to the first type of berries for the white indrik. As far as we know, the black indrik is now a done deal, as are the first two, unless the berries for the first three indriks get added to the Crown Store or reappear during future events.

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

For someone who hasn't done anything during the event (not me, but new players), trying to do all the achievements in 10 days seems impossible.

1. Learning all hollowjack,
2. Learning all Dremora style
3. Kill 100 skeles
4. Get a unique plunderskull for each type (requires arena, trial, delve, dungeon, world boss, etc)
5. Consume 10 Marionette parts
6. Complete wichmother's quest
7. Earn 100 Plunderskulls (farm for at least a day)
8. Eat (and learn recipes) for each food during wiches festva (8 recipes)
9. Complete 28 Withes festival writs
10. Eat 3 more foods (more recipes)

Plus all the quests and "Use cauldron 10 times" but those are easier.

Didn't we used to get more time to do these? I feel rushed, even with only the new ones. God forbid I want to try getting an alt through some of these.

If you have no problem with buying your way to some of the achievements (some players are, it's the only reason I bring it up) then you shouldn't have much issue. You'll be able to achieve the things that you can control, such as killing the skeletons, getting 100 skulls, etc. A number of the other things will depend on RNG. For some of them, the drops will occur in all skulls and the more skulls you get, the more you complete the achievements. Some of the drops are rarer than others however, such as the writs and the less common recipes. Since the marionette parts are new, the RNG remains to be seen, but it'll prolly be at least partially uncommon. OTOH, the Dremora styles drop from only the Dremora skulls, so you're limited on how many you can get per day. If you play one toon, that's gonna be 7 total, one of each kind, so not so good on the RNG scale. However, if you play multiple toons, you'll still be able to earn skulls of all kinds, but you'll also be able to get more Dremora skulls per day, as the 1 per type per day is Character based and not Account based. So more chances at the Dremora styles, and you can bank them and funnel them to a single toon, but then your skeleton kills and progress toward 100 skulls are spread out over various toons. My general approach (over several years, that is) has been to start the day by rotating through my toons onto the various types of bosses to get as many of the Dremoras as I can. Then when I've done that for the day, I then return to my first toon, and stay on that one, to progress on the skeletons & skulls, til getting the achieve, then moving onto the next toon, etc. I'll also bank any of the hollowjacks, recipes, writs so that I can funnel them to one toon at a time for the achieves. Just a couple cents worth...

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

Goregrinder wrote: »

That's 240 total hours. A 3rd of that time will be you sleeping, so remove 80 hours. That leaves 160 hours, which we can remove about 40 hours for your day job, which leaves 120 hours. Let's remove another 20 hours for good measure (shower time, bathroom break, eating, checking your twitter feed, petting your cat, etc.).

Is 100 hours not enough time?

Not for 18 characters, no.

why on earth would you put yourself through that? Get the achievements on your main and go do something fun.

Is there anything else other than that goofy looking deer mount? I love collecting as much as the next person, but that thing is just... belagh.