For me, the New Life event was perfect because I got the Indriks that I wanted, including the pet.

BUT, I would like to see a larger selection of things you can buy with the event tickets. Not just the same rotation of berries and stuff we've already seen before.

We all love new things and I think it's time they added something new for the event tickets.

After participating in this event every year, it's a little stale for me. Coupled with the seemingly nonstop parade of events, I'm glad it's over.

I did send my new characters out to do all the events once and get the associated achievements and completed enough Deep Winter writs to complete the collection (I'm still one short but have a couple I could trade for it, if I can find someone with the right page). After that, it was one New Life quest, usually Rawl'ka, and one boss for the tickets and that was it.

I'd like events to be limited to Anniversary, Jester, Midyear Mayhem, Witches', and New Life. Maybe Undaunted though I participated in this year's for the short time it was up and much preferred the previous iteration (better rewards, imo). Then, DLC/chapter anniversary celebrations could be something else, with double drops in the zone for mats and rewards, but no tickets or additional fluff from the Impressario.

Too many events this year, I feel burnt out from the experience.

The first time I did the New Life I chose my outfits and coloured them and made my alts "festive".
This year I did enough to finish the year long grind to get the Indrix and buy a few of the outfit motifs then enough was enough.

This was my third New Life event and this is what I noticed.

Day 1 was crowded at the various venues, but by New Years Eve afternoon, I was the only fishing in Shadowfen.
This is probably because experienced players know you can get through all eight quests in one sitting. You can take care of any new characters you have created in the first couple of days and then you are done.

Unlike other events, the rune boxes drop way too frequently. I ended up destroying 15 boxes. Only two of the boxes, the hood and the towel are of any value after the event. The other three unfortunately are just about worthless. On the other hand I only got one Hissmer Rye drop after playing 14 days. That seems to be a bit of an imbalance.

The Deep Winter Writs were too expensive for what you got. Unless you are an avid farmer, you would not have enough heartwood etc to do all of the writs to get the motif. Those who were savvy, sold the heartwood at a mark up, which is what happens in an economy to a scarce commodity and is a valid part of the game. But new players are at a disadvantage because they neither have the inventory or the money to really be part of the Deep Winter Writ experience. Also the market value of the Deep Winter Writs is considerably lower than that of the regular Charity writs, which underscores the excessive cost for the Deep Winter Writs.


After a number of years, the recipes and skinchanger motif have flooded the market so that you can complete the quests and regardless of the drops, just go and buy the recipes and motifs you need at a cheap price. This is probably another reason why there were not the same number of people on quests throughout the event.

Suggestions for next year's New Life event would be to rotate a couple events in and out each year to keep the quests fresh. In terms of the skinchanger motif, it is probably time to replace it with another motif. Have a rotation so that at least every other year there is a different motif, possibly skinchanger one year and then a different motif the next year. Look at the writ system and bring it in line with writs for other events. Instead of having to create 12 boxes that require 24 heartwood for one writ, stick to going with one item, like the platter for both the Charity and Deep Winter writs. That brings the writ system within the reach of new players.

Personally, I like the event, but since almost all of my characters have gotten the Magnus achievement, I doubt I will do much with the event next year, except for using Breda's mug, unless the event is refreshed. I do appreciate the tweaks on the Betnikh quest and the War Orphan quest to have them take less time and either I am getting better at the Bergama race and not burning through my stamina like in past years, or I appreciate the tweak there as well.

I enjoy the New Life festival, but I also don't overdo it.

I had one character that didn't have the acheivements, so I got him done in the first couple of days, after that, my plan was to do just one quest per day for the tickets, but Breda can be very convincing and some days I found myself doing all 9 quests before I knew it.

There are a lot of fun little bits that I enjoy that reveal facets of each race's personality/culture.

I didn't worry about the Skaal pages until I had my next set of feathers, then I started buying the ones I still needed with my tickets and just bought the remaining ones from guild traders/traded with guildies yesterday. No stress there.

My second character is almost done with the New Life Writ achievement, so I hope she can get that next year.

Jaraal wrote: »

I'm glad they reduced the Betnikh requirements (less killing, no belching on players unless you really want to). It would be nice if you didn't have to dance and perform so many times, maybe reduce the random mudball requirements to five. Maybe add more cash options, like the War Orphan's Sojurn. And add an Imperial task, as has already been mentioned.

So tired of Skinchanger motifs and the same old recipes, how about something different? The free lights are nice, but how about adding a rarer chance at the whole furnishing plan? And why in the name of Sithis do they insist on making runeboxes and style pages unstackable and unbankable? Makes absolutely no sense. And don't even get me started on requiring hundreds and hundreds of heartwoods!

Overall, a fun event. I get that people claim to be suffering from event burnout, but I'd rather have too many than not enough. It may be hard to restrain yourself from partaking, but it's still a choice.

No, no, no! The mudballs are my favourite part!

Yeah, they should fix containers that have set contents to be bankable (containers are not bankable because of an exploit early in the game where people would bank containers from low level alts and open them on their max level characters for highest rewards).

oregonrob wrote: »

This was my third New Life event and this is what I noticed.

Day 1 was crowded at the various venues, but by New Years Eve afternoon, I was the only fishing in Shadowfen.
This is probably because experienced players know you can get through all eight quests in one sitting. You can take care of any new characters you have created in the first couple of days and then you are done.

I kept my fish from last year, so once my newest character got the achievement for fishing 5 of each, I just went straight to Gentle-Heart with last year's fish. She did not seem to mind the smell.

SantieClaws wrote: »

Neoealth wrote: »

I think zos should re name Breda to Brenda Now. Because Santie has basically re programmed my brain to say Brenda as well now. lol

Khajiit would like to see her somewhere else during the rest of the year - or see her wandering like M'aiq.

If you talked to her yes she could say lots of things about it not being Fishmas yet and gathering ingredients for her magic mead etc.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

She says she runs a lumber mill when she's not doing NLF. They should give us a reason to visit her lumber mill when it isn't New Life Festival. Save her from the dragon priests or have a dragon trying to burn the lumber mill down. This year is Skyrim chapter so a Bre(n)da quest would be great. I was trying to think of things from the Skyrim game for her ESO quest but it's been so long since I played. Come on devs! Let us see where Bre(n)da lives!

AlnilamE wrote: »

I enjoy the New Life festival, but I also don't overdo it.

I had one character that didn't have the acheivements, so I got him done in the first couple of days, after that, my plan was to do just one quest per day for the tickets, but Breda can be very convincing and some days I found myself doing all 9 quests before I knew it.

There are a lot of fun little bits that I enjoy that reveal facets of each race's personality/culture.

I didn't worry about the Skaal pages until I had my next set of feathers, then I started buying the ones I still needed with my tickets and just bought the remaining ones from guild traders/traded with guildies yesterday. No stress there.

My second character is almost done with the New Life Writ achievement, so I hope she can get that next year.

Jaraal wrote: »

I'm glad they reduced the Betnikh requirements (less killing, no belching on players unless you really want to). It would be nice if you didn't have to dance and perform so many times, maybe reduce the random mudball requirements to five. Maybe add more cash options, like the War Orphan's Sojurn. And add an Imperial task, as has already been mentioned.

So tired of Skinchanger motifs and the same old recipes, how about something different? The free lights are nice, but how about adding a rarer chance at the whole furnishing plan? And why in the name of Sithis do they insist on making runeboxes and style pages unstackable and unbankable? Makes absolutely no sense. And don't even get me started on requiring hundreds and hundreds of heartwoods!

Overall, a fun event. I get that people claim to be suffering from event burnout, but I'd rather have too many than not enough. It may be hard to restrain yourself from partaking, but it's still a choice.

No, no, no! The mudballs are my favourite part!

Yeah, they should fix containers that have set contents to be bankable (containers are not bankable because of an exploit early in the game where people would bank containers from low level alts and open them on their max level characters for highest rewards).

oregonrob wrote: »

This was my third New Life event and this is what I noticed.

Day 1 was crowded at the various venues, but by New Years Eve afternoon, I was the only fishing in Shadowfen.
This is probably because experienced players know you can get through all eight quests in one sitting. You can take care of any new characters you have created in the first couple of days and then you are done.

I kept my fish from last year, so once my newest character got the achievement for fishing 5 of each, I just went straight to Gentle-Heart with last year's fish. She did not seem to mind the smell.

I did the same thing with fish from last year! I was going to farm more for next year last night when the signs went up that the server was shutting down for maintenance. Thanks, ZOS, for taking away the last four hours of the event. Some people needed that time to get last day's tickets. You couldn't wait one lousy day for your stupid maintenance?

faeeichenlaub wrote: »

Old life Festival? This year I mixed it up a bit. There are quests I simply did not take as they are chorelike... some are quick. I turned mudball festival into it's own mini game of Stealth splattin' players . The hide and seek aspects of this in Skywatch we're a blast and I made it a point to not get balled before acheiving 10/10 of my own.

If you were on XBox NA, I might have seen you skulking about mudballing people from the shadows one day, and that might have triggered an “oooooh I’m going to get you!!” response from me. Though that could have been someone else I chased up the stairs and through the archway to mudball

I used the end of that quest to get up and get a water/beer/snack/whatever, so I’d just park my character near the wayshrine and put on the peddler beckon emote (perfect for encouraging mudballs) so people had an easy, stationary target for a few minutes.

The addition of lootable beehives in Betnikh was very much appreciated by me ! ! ! !

The lootable beehives really erased the pain of the Betnikh quest.

Thank you for that!

completely burnout and was burnout again back in 2018, this time, had to get tickets, it is too much and not able to catch up, and upset that i have to get more feathers.
decide not to repeat breda's task since already burnout from previous last year runs (2018) and 2019 was grindy and less festival.

my wish was to see random drops for motifs, writs, i only got 4 festival writs from this event, doesnt feel enough.
so burnout with Neverwinter and Star Trek, didnt participate this time.
it was fun back in old days when it was fresh. EQ2's winter festival was way lot better with story and depth of value to repeat,
Breda's version dont have "soul of festival", feel grindy and rewards feel same and so dry.

also not happy with Impressio. 12 tickets seem so low and often forget when capped and lose tickets not realized how much were lost. it should come with alerting message saying "you are currently full or near", and i felt it need to be raised for "overflow tickets" to allow players to use it ASAP, or upped to 25. having 12 is pure tedious and repetitive.

extra xp was nice.
what i want to see.
1. better random drops from any Bosses. with festival motifs, festival foods, cool random material drops
2. dungeon delves need "festival chests" in random spots. and festival harvest nodes
3. new trophies only from festival event zone.
4. new house items randomly drop from chests, world bosses, and part of limited tradable rewards from the daily writs that any players can sell, once placed in home, it become bounded.

one more to complain, i get paycheck tmw, now i am unable to buy snowglobe home, so missed it again just like i missed in 2018, by bad timing and bills. wish they extended until this weekend. man , waiting for next year "again". i dont know or expect 2020's winter festival. will i missed it again?

I wish there were new runeboxes and items to sell. I dont believe I have ever deleted so many runeboxes as I did this year, I couldnt even give them away let alone try to make a little extra gold. Writs are ok Im not into skins so I sell the writs they seemed to move ok and I am over the indrik so I used my event tickets to collect the style pages. Deep Winter writs dont move great but I made a little extra coin. My favorite thing is the XP bonus which I took full advantage of this year and finished leveling my STam sorc to 50 then created a Magsorc and leveled him all the way to 50. Overall I love events but I would like to see some of the runeboxes retired and new one introduced to actually create value from year to year and get back to how it was when the events first rolled around where it was exciting to get a runebox or gold recipe that you could either use or make some cash on.

It was ok. I'm not really a fan of the new outfit style, but that's just personal preference I guess. What really matters: we got enough opportunities to earn it from drops and more than enough tickets to buy any missing pieces. And there were enough extra tickets to stock up on things we missed before. Overall success, I'd say.

I’m extremely satisfied with the event. Possibly because I’ve done it every year so the only “worry” I had was Skaal pages. If I was new I’d be too frantic.

It felt great and everything went smoothly. I really enjoyed being spoilt with 5 tickets a day and it's a shame that probably won't happen again. I liked the rewards and ability to choose berries. The only thing I didn't like was the amount of furniture crafting resources that the deep winter charity writs burned through. It seemed quite brutal.

I'm going to add though that the event was excellent and very enjoyable. I remember doing it previous years and it flowing less well. For example the grahtwood charity event were you have to defend against encroaching wildlife took a lot longer previously as they didn't spawn as well and could be frustrating. This years seems a lot more streamlined.