Will there be another event/chance to buy Icebreath Berries after Midyear Mayhem 2020?

WhyMustItBe · June 2020

Many people I know including myself have no interest in PVP, and don't have a lot of spare cash just lying around to throw at buying event tickets. Will there be another non-PVP event this year that rewards tickets and has the Icebreath Berries for sale (since you held off adding the final berries last event for some reason), and will they ALL be for sale if so?

@ZOS_GinaBruno can you let us down easy if this is the last chance for this mount?

newtinmpls · June 2020

I would like to know what events will have what berries available.

I have an Indrick, all four feathers and maybe one berry. So I kind of am forced to evolve the one I have into something.

ZOS_Volpe · June 2020

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WhyMustItBe · June 2020

I mainly wanted to know if the berries for this Indrik will be available in the next event as I already have 2 or 3 of them and wouldn't want to miss it if this is the last chance for this type. But I can't find any information about this anywhere.

newtinmpls · June 2020

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When I noticed a Dev post I was really hoping for some information on the berry situation.

tomofhyrule · June 2020

We don't know much about the plans, but last year's New Life event brought back all of the berries for all of the Indryks. No clue if they'll do the same this year.

However, I'm also one of those people who has no desire to go into PvP, but I did the last year's event and I'm planning on doing so again this time around. It really just requires you to not go nuts about getting killed, but there are plenty of ways to get the tickets with minimal danger to yourself.

See tips here:https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/534060/midyear-mayhem-for-no-pvp-pacifists-june-2020

I had good luck by jumping in at off hours and going to low-pop campaigns - it's easier to avoid seeing anyone in those cases. Even better is if you see one campaign where your alliance has a higher population and the others are low, since there's a good chance your alliance will control most of the map so you can get around easier.

The town quests are relatively simple to get the tickets and the boxes, so you can go to whichever town is firmly in your alliance's territory and pretty well avoid having problems. Bruma's great for that, since one of Grigerda's quests doesn't even require you to leave the building (The Unseen, where they're looking for Dremoras coming through portals).

The scouting quests can be easy, but you do need to go into enemy territory for that. Again, a low-pop campaign is helpful, as is staying off the roads and not being flashy.

WhyMustItBe · June 2020

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Again, a low-pop campaign is helpful, as is staying off the roads and not being flashy.

That was a lot of really helpful information, thank you for that.

I feel this last bit could be the underrated gem. Theory being: Someone riding around wearing a trial achievement or crown skin on a radiant apex mount MIGHT tend to set off more "kill on sight" alarms with the PVP crowd than say, a guy wearing Manimarco on a black horse.

Then again, the later might appear as a "noob" having not yet accumulated such virtual pixel "bling" and so just the inexperienced target they were looking to farm...

Now I am even more unsure what to wear! XD

Sylvermynx · June 2020

WhyMustItBe wrote: »

I mainly wanted to know if the berries for this Indrik will be available in the next event as I already have 2 or 3 of them and wouldn't want to miss it if this is the last chance for this type. But I can't find any information about this anywhere.

Doubtful. MYM has the other 2 berries at the Impresario. So that means this is it for the Icebreath. It's hard to say if they will have all of the berries plus the pets the end of the year - they did that last year due to some events not "firing" properly during various berry cycles.

AlnilamE · June 2020

I'm going to echo Sylvermynx here and say this is the last event of the "quarter". Last year, there would be 4 events per quarter and each event would add one more berry. This quarter, they slowed down with events and the Jubilee event gave us 2 berries and this one will give us the last two.

I'm working on pre-doing scouting quests on a few of my alts so that if things get hectic, I just have to log in and hand them in. It's pretty easy to go scout the place (with precautions to avoid the frontlines) and then just suicide at the flag *ahem* try to take the resource. *cough*

I'll try to do the same with IC. But worst case scenario, you only need 20 tickets for the berries, so that's 5 days of handing in 2 types of events or 10 days of handing in just one (out of 12-13 days, depending on your schedule).

SydneyGrey · June 2020

Last year they made all the berries available again in December during the New Life Festival. They did NOT bring back the baby (pet) indriks, though. Important to know.

Sylvermynx · June 2020

SydneyGrey wrote: »

Last year they made all the berries available again in December during the New Life Festival. They did NOT bring back the baby (pet) indriks, though. Important to know.

I thought they did, but then I'm certainly likely to be completely wrong about things!

ShawnLaRock · June 2020

@WhyMustItBe - it honestly seems like you are overthinking this too much for someone who is unfamiliar / resistant to venturing into PVP zones.

I am currently pre-stacking IC & Cyro quests on many low-level alts - with crap gear / very few skill points / actually using Soul Trap! lol - and it has been a breeze. I only really have one main PVP character, and I will use them to actually farm double AP / “properly” play the event. The rest are terribly-prepared, and... who cares? It’s still super-fun.

I have said it many times before in the forums - that my first Midyear Mayhem I understandably had no idea what I was doing - but thought, “hey - I probably need some sort of gear set with a shield.” Guess what I chose? Hatchling’s Shell. You know - the one that puts a huge, bright blue bubble / TARGET on your character? Lol. But I had an absolute blast! Learned a lot; got great rewards; and have been addicted to Cyro & IC since.

Here’s a question to put it in perspective: when you did Dolmens or Geysers or fought dragons in NE for the first bunch of times, I assume you died a lot... but did you get angry at the dragons for killing you? Of course not. You adjusted; learned their telegraphs; and adapted your playstyle. You learned you needed to dodge; wear better protection; and slot different skills. MYM is no different in this base respect.

Jump in - the water’s fine! Err... except for the slaughterfish.

S.