Bleakrock Isle has been under siege for far too long!

Nomadic_Atmoran · July 2020

For 6 years the small island of Bleakrock Isle has been subject to violence and unrest while the rest of the Ebonheart Pact has been allowed to heal following the local events of 2E 582. ZOS, I implore you. It is time for Jorunn to dispatch Pact soldiers to the island to beat back the Daggerfall Covenant troops that have made the island their play thing. Return the island to the good Nordic families that were once chased off by the invading cutthroats. It is shameful that true and loyal subjects of the Ebonheart Pact are not made whole before investing so much time and effort in helping the reclusive deniers of the west. It is time to make things right for those that have suffered so much and so long for a more unified and peaceful Ebonheart Pact.

Seriously though. Could we please have a return to normalcy for that island. Add a home and make it a bustling little fishing village. No other starting zone of the original three factions remains in such turmoil.

VoxAdActa · July 2020

Nomadic_Atmoran wrote: »

For 6 years the small island of Bleakrock Isle has been subject to violence and unrest while the rest of the Ebonheart Pact has been allowed to heal following the local events of 2E 582. ZOS, I implore you. It is time for Jorunn to dispatch Pact soldiers to the island to beat back the Daggerfall Covenant troops that have made the island their play thing. Return the island to the good Nordic families that were once chased off by the invading cutthroats. It is shameful that true and loyal subjects of the Ebonheart Pact are not made whole before investing so much time and effort in helping the reclusive deniers of the west. It is time to make things right for those that have suffered so much and so long for a more unified and peaceful Ebonheart Pact.

Seriously though. Could we please have a return to normalcy for that island. Add a home and make it a bustling little fishing village. No other starting zone of the original three factions remains in such turmoil.

100% agree. I don't have many complaints about this game (the players might be a different story), but the biggest one is how frequently my questing "solves" problems that are never actually solved. I also get annoyed at how Very Important NPCs end up just hanging out in the last random place you saw them; can Queen Arzela go back home to Evermore now? She's been standing in the hot sun on the road south of Bangkorai Garrison for ages now.

Vaoh · July 2020

Oh, I thought you would mention the Bots!

Bots are rampant all around the starter zones, as well as specific locations in other zones.

Tandor · July 2020

Vaoh wrote: »

Oh, I thought you would mention the Bots!

Bots are rampant all around the starter zones, as well as specific locations in other zones.

There's certainly a regular bunch who run a short circuit in Khenarthi's Roost after mudcrabs. This is on PC NA, I never see any on PC EU.

CMDR_Un1k0rn · July 2020

Man I would love to restore the village.

I really want to live there. It's genuinely my favourite town prior to it being destroyed. So cosy.

Chaos2088 · July 2020

Could even add a player house there

HalvarIronfist · July 2020

Nomadic_Atmoran wrote: »

For 6 years the small island of Bleakrock Isle has been subject to violence and unrest while the rest of the Ebonheart Pact has been allowed to heal following the local events of 2E 582. ZOS, I implore you. It is time for Jorunn to dispatch Pact soldiers to the island to beat back the Daggerfall Covenant troops that have made the island their play thing. Return the island to the good Nordic families that were once chased off by the invading cutthroats. It is shameful that true and loyal subjects of the Ebonheart Pact are not made whole before investing so much time and effort in helping the reclusive deniers of the west. It is time to make things right for those that have suffered so much and so long for a more unified and peaceful Ebonheart Pact.

Seriously though. Could we please have a return to normalcy for that island. Add a home and make it a bustling little fishing village. No other starting zone of the original three factions remains in such turmoil.

Literally. I can't force myself to do the final mission to burn bleakrock on any other character. It's just such a nice little place to hang out at.

This really needs to get addressed!

Vaoh · July 2020

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

Man I would love to restore the village.

I really want to live there. It's genuinely my favourite town prior to it being destroyed. So cosy.

There are some very nice towns which for some reason do not have all of the necessary features to be a “player base” so to speak.

Every town should have stables, bank, merchants, crafting writs boards, all stations (besides transmutation), and potentially an outlaws refuge. That would be enough to let people pick their favorite towns to live in and make a lot of those areas feel alive which is really cool.

Probably will make a thread on this tbh lol. I’ve always hoped they’d do something like that yet even populated towns like Hollow City in Coldharbour are not yet updated (no jewelry station).

ArchMikem · July 2020

The Covenant mobs should've just despawned after you evacuate the island and complete the Quest. You could then return to a still partially burned down, but empty Bleackrock at least.

parpin · July 2020

when i first played this game, i was amazed that you free a city from enemies and later on, the city is alive with civilians and crafting stuff and other stuff is unlocked for players, or you go to a place with aggressive ghosts and solve the problem and those ghosts become non aggressive after that.
but it is only certain cities and places with that feature, and sadly maybe because budget problem, we do not see that feature anymore in recent content like skyrim.
if they could keep that feature and even expand upon it and make your decision actually impact the world, from small to as big as freeing the city, this game would become the evolutionary mmo.

volkeswagon · August 2020

I thought this was gonna be a post about bots. Lol

MasterSpatula · August 2020

Agreed

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · August 2020

This and Stonefalls the part we just ignored they can add two new player houses and a little quest to rebuild.

Katahdin · August 2020

Agreed.

Pinja · August 2020

I too say the Covenant North Eastern Fleet and Expedition has bled enough. Even despite the effort of disguised traitors, they have stood their mettle. As such the land should be annexed, and the officers thereof be awarded lordship of the domain.

Red_Feather · August 2020

It reminds me of black desert online where that one castle is always in an invasion of harpies. Never ending for years.

TwinLamps · August 2020

Would buy a DLC where several locations in each alliance can be repaired with player's help.

LuxLunae · August 2020

Back in the day, they would warp you into the city that had the location change to your progress...but then they made one tamriel to let everyone play together and removed that option. This is because newer players could not see the players who finished the quest already.and thus could hot be helped...(i think my memory fails me ^^)

idk · August 2020

Technically Bleakrock isle is still in the same timeframe it was when we first encountered it.

Ectheliontnacil · August 2020

Even though we greatly enjoy watching our enemies club each other to death over some frozen spec of land in the middle of the sea of ghosts, we see it as our moral responsibility to assume control of the island and thus prevent further spilling of mongrel blood.

Sincerely, the Dominion.

*cough* totally wouldn't build a military base there *cough cough*

Cellentel · August 2020

When frequent biting of NPCs was required to keep ones vamp level under control, Bleakrock under siege was my favorite place for easy to bite NPCs, offering a number of solitary humanoid NPCs close to a wayshrine. I would do the Bleakrock questline just to get access to those NPCs to bite. (I’m too cheap to use the drinks if I can help it)

With the recent changes to vampirism and the bite dummy in the store, there’s no longer a need for this, so I fully endorse returning Bleakrock to normalcy.

ralphylauren · August 2020

Nomadic_Atmoran wrote: »

For 6 years the small island of Bleakrock Isle has been subject to violence and unrest while the rest of the Ebonheart Pact has been allowed to heal following the local events of 2E 582. ZOS, I implore you. It is time for Jorunn to dispatch Pact soldiers to the island to beat back the Daggerfall Covenant troops that have made the island their play thing. Return the island to the good Nordic families that were once chased off by the invading cutthroats. It is shameful that true and loyal subjects of the Ebonheart Pact are not made whole before investing so much time and effort in helping the reclusive deniers of the west. It is time to make things right for those that have suffered so much and so long for a more unified and peaceful Ebonheart Pact.

Seriously though. Could we please have a return to normalcy for that island. Add a home and make it a bustling little fishing village. No other starting zone of the original three factions remains in such turmoil.

❤️

cyclonus11 · August 2020

For real. We need some old zone updates. Tamriel has been stuck on the same day for 6 years.

Nestor · August 2020

I don't do the Bleakrock Quest anymore. That way I have a peaceful village to visit.

Bleak Rock remains hostile simply because winning that quest means escaping from the invaders with as many people as possible. So, the Hostiles remain.

We need an option at the end to take the Island back.

rei91 · August 2020

It's strange how they made some places to restore after you solve problems there, and NPCs showing up in different places with updated dialog (it's a really cool feature, was amazing to see it the first time!). And at the same time other places are left hanging in turmoil.

The biggest example is
Hollow City
Forever in pre-assault state, and it's a focal point of THE main plot! And then you have a little nitpicking detail like a minor NPC moved into older zone after completion of her quest (from psijic order)
Feels strange.

Gorreck · August 2020

Nomadic_Atmoran wrote: »

Seriously though. Could we please have a return to normalcy for that island. Add a home and make it a bustling little fishing village. No other starting zone of the original three factions remains in such turmoil.

Bleakrock is a perfect example of where a zone is changable and could be changed back, giving more value to older zones (don't see why this couldn't be done in other zones or parts of zones as well).

I think most everyone would like a series of quests like in the Skyrim mod "Helgen reborn" (those that don't know have a look at it, it is an excellent mod) that allowes you to reclaim and rebuild Bleakrock (and maybe get a nice house there).

Bleakrock reborn would be great, and much better than just another Dungeon expansion.

Dark_Lord_Kuro · August 2020

Maybe they could do it as the prologue of a eventual solstheim dlc jorunn wanting a foothold near the island for some reason
Maibe they could could do a community event about it akin ff14 ishgard restoration
There would be dailies to go fetch some mats overworld, some special component could drop in dungeons/trial or even pvp to include the most players possible
The apearance of the town could change as we attain certain milestone
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/The_Ishgard_Restoration