I was trying to do an HS last night during prime time and it took forever to find enough players interested in doing it.

IMHO, its gonna be like Elsweyr

You can't solo a dragon ( as far as I know ), so if there is nothing special to entice the players After the event ends, it will naturally become a ghost town.

I liked the way Dolmens and Abyssal Pearls worked, where they scale difficulty by the number of players.

They made a good move with dragons and harrowstorms being different in gameplay style from the dolmens / pearls, but not with the difficulty. They are fine during events (With harrowstorms i'm not going to go as far as to say they are fun...), but impossible when the zone is empty.

They should nerf harrowstorms (IMO, they should reduce the health/attack of the minibosses, but make them spawn more frequently as more players arrive, and additionally give the witch pikes lower health, but add a healing effect (maybe via the spirits) and they should make the reward from killing dragons much larger- to draw more people to Elsweyr. (I would think that dragon farming should be one of the best PvE gold farms in the game, and maybe a good source of crafting/furnishing materials as well).

A bit of a let down (my feeling on Greymoor)

At last, I can enjoy Solitude

Reminds me of the old Cadwell zones.

The more time passes the more boring the game becomes, and yet ZOS has the courage to talk about TamrielTogether - ESO's Group which should be updated, a massive update!

Problem 1 - City layout
It doesn't have good crafting spot like Rimmen or Alinor
It doesn't have guild traders near everything you need (including shrine) like Mournhold

Problem 2. Wayshrines are still annoying, you literally have to run around they're always horse riding distance from anything important. Not like Deshaan where there's wayshrines near literally everything.

Problem 3. there's no harrowstorm map marking like for dragons and when you finally spot a harrowstorm, you have to spam chat because they're not really soloable.

Skryim is just really inconveniant. and when it's competing with a lot of other zones it's no wonder people abandon it.

CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »

Morwaenna wrote: »

It's boring waiting ages for a Harrowstorm for such awful rewards. RIP Skyrim.

So, how many people still don't know that Harrowstorm spawns are random and the fastest way to do them is to ask in zone where the active one is and go there?

How exactly are players supposed to find out that there's always one active?
Lots of people asking in zone "is there a storm up?"
Not once someone asking "which storm is up?"
Not once did someone answer with "there's always one up".

Another option would be to make enemy bodies lootable. For dolmens and geysers we get two opportunities for decent loot: the final boss and the chest/shell. And you can get a little loot from some of the lesser adds. The only thing you can get loot from at storms are the blobs and they disappear quickly. At least put some stuff on the final boss!

Grandchamp1989 wrote: »

Problem 1 - City layout
It doesn't have good crafting spot like Rimmen or Alinor
It doesn't have guild traders near everything you need (including shrine) like Mournhold

I don't understand why everyone thinks Rimmen and Alinor have such great crafting areas.

Rimmen's crafting station layout is okay, although it's easy for me to get turned around and head in the wrong direction when I pull away from certain crafting stations-- in particular, the Clothing, Blacksmithing, and Woodworking stations, but sometimes also the Enchanting station. Still, it's usually possible to complete all seven writs pretty quickly. But then the turn-in spot isn't as close as I'd prefer, and if you need to fence or launder anything you stole from the containers around the turn-in crates then you've got to go out of your way to visit the Outlaw's Refuge.

As for Alinor, you have to weave in and out of the nooks where the various crafting stations are placed-- which isn't so bad, but then you have to navigate around the crazy Altmer architectural style that puts those square or rectangular structures inside of passageways, such that you have to circle around to the left or right. And if you're crafting on a low-level character who's still taking riding lessons, you have two ways to go from the turn-in crates to the stable, one which involves yet another crazy passageway with a structure in the middle, and the other which requires going out of your way as though you're going to the bank-- which is also a bit distant from the crafting area and turn-in crates-- and neither of which could possibly be called "a short distance away."

As long as you don't need to worry about riding lessons, have your own banking and merchant assistants, and aren't in the habit of pilfering everything, then Rimmen and Alinor aren't that bad. But in my opinion Vivec City easily beats both of them.

Solitude's crafting setup isn't that horrible-- not nearly as bad as, say, Wayrest. I usually let each of my characters craft in whatever city they're currently based out of-- Daggerfall, Vulkhel Guard, Solitude, Rimmen, Alinor, Wayrest, Vivec City, etc.-- mostly because I want to experience for myself how convenient or inconvenient each city's layout is. Even the inconvenient layouts aren't so bad once you get used to them and develop whatever route and routine works best for you.

The worst thing about Solitude, in my opinion, is the Outlaw's Refuge. You've got to go down, turn, go down, turn, go down, turn, go down, turn, etc. And then when you're done, you've got to do it all over again in reverse.

barney2525 wrote: »

Rather than thinking in terms of specific items and/or gear, maybe the better option is Currency. Farm Dragons/Storms for telvar or AP or some new currency to be able to buy stuff from a vendor. Maybe the PvE player would have more interest in joining in PvP IF they could get access to PvP gear First - just to be competitive.

IMHO

Oooh... what if they dropped transmute crystals? That could attract some more players.

It is always that way. Event on crowded. Event ends dead.