I actually was looking forward to this event.

Getting 26 characters to Grand Master Crafter involves learning 50 motifs with each one of them. Events like these make the zone motifs very accessible - both by farming and by buying cheap.

With a bit of effort and a bit of gold I should be up to 45 full motifs on the 22 that have not yet reached this 'milestone'.

Other than double xp, is it worth doing anything in events?
If it comes to outfits, I'm very particular about it, I'd rather have greek/roman looking armors and NORMAL mounts (AKA: Real mounts, not glowing blobs of rocks and galaxies), what about recipes, anything worth it?
Otherwise, I really don't bother with events.

I normally do the events on just 2 characters-- 1 per server-- rather than grinding for extra coffers with multiple alts.

The exception to that is the Anniversary Event, where we get coffers for completing daily crafting writs, but that's because I do writs on all 15 of my characters-- 7 on one server, and 8 on the other server.

Anyway, I decided to go farming for raw materials on one of my alts, in order to stock up on materials that I don't normally get except through daily crafting rewards. What I noticed is that I hardly found any event coffers with my alt, as compared to how many I've been finding with my main characters. I don't know if that's because I haven't distributed any CP on that alt yet (he is currently a L41 character), or because I haven't spent Skill Points on all of the crafting passives.

I agree that the quickest Morrowind dailies for the tickets are going to be either of the Ashlander dailies-- although the relics daily might be quicker than the hunting daily, especially if you dig up relics from piles of dirt rather than having to kill enemies and loot their corpses.

There doesn't seem to be any benefit to farming event coffers on multiple alts, since it's usually a lot easier and quicker to get event coffers by farming mats.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Massive_Stain wrote: »

. Good luck. I mean, between respawn timers, server congestion, other priorities such as writs etc.. it's unfortunate they set this event up like this.

The last event took all of 10 minutes maximum to get all three for the day, so I'm not sure why you are rationalizing this behavior.

Deciding to do writs is not part of the event. Doing the last event also took a long time if you had no wayshrines, and thr Vvardenfell dailies are better about that thanks to the Silt Strider can take you to wayshrines you don't have yet.

The new event is not much different in time than the old one. You can't really expect them all to be exactly the same.

That is a fair point concerning the silt striders, as Vardenfell is ridiculously large in scope. However, writs are essential to a new player - I technically am new to the platform I am playing on currently. That being said, my normal routine already takes a mountain of time and I only really log in during the early morning hours before work and occasionally at night or on weekends.

This event could have been put together better. Even just making the double nodes in those three DLC zones and allowing you to collect 3 tickets for completing a daily in one of the three would have still had people going to the zones, and would have given a bit more choice to the event too.

Am not a fan either. As a matter of fact, I don't take part at all. I did abandon the very first quest as I got straight bored while waiting at a dolmen for a boss to respawn with tons of other players doing same aside me... Naaaahhhh... Have - to my taste - funnier things to do. Off me, back to normal business...

Massive_Stain wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Massive_Stain wrote: »

. Good luck. I mean, between respawn timers, server congestion, other priorities such as writs etc.. it's unfortunate they set this event up like this.

The last event took all of 10 minutes maximum to get all three for the day, so I'm not sure why you are rationalizing this behavior.

Deciding to do writs is not part of the event. Doing the last event also took a long time if you had no wayshrines, and thr Vvardenfell dailies are better about that thanks to the Silt Strider can take you to wayshrines you don't have yet.

The new event is not much different in time than the old one. You can't really expect them all to be exactly the same.

That is a fair point concerning the silt striders, as Vardenfell is ridiculously large in scope. However, writs are essential to a new player - I technically am new to the platform I am playing on currently. That being said, my normal routine already takes a mountain of time and I only really log in during the early morning hours before work and occasionally at night or on weekends.

This event could have been put together better. Even just making the double nodes in those three DLC zones and allowing you to collect 3 tickets for completing a daily in one of the three would have still had people going to the zones, and would have given a bit more choice to the event too.

Writs may be important but it's not really fair to consider them as impediment for one event and not the other, especially since they don't add an additional loading screen to this one but do to Breda.

Breda's new life events also varied in time. The longer ones like the fishing or the dancing in stonefalls take pretty close in total time to doing 2 of the easier one of these.

Like port dance dance port dance dance port is 3 loading screens. Doing a delve for both is 4. And riding around and then dancing will only take like a minute less than just grabbing loot from a delve or grabbing some relics for an Ashlander (which typically doesn't involve another port).

That's just not that big of a difference.

This event is to show off the Daedric war arc, which is the longest dlc story arc spanning 3 additions of the game. I think it makes sense that there are 2 zone dailies needed, one for each major chapter of the arc.

BomblePants wrote: »

Anyone got a picture of the skin?

There’s a picture in the fashion megathread that’s very recent where someone is showing the npc characters with that skin and also the armor they are wearing and asking what the armor is. In that picture you can see the skin though.

Dragonlord573 wrote: »

I hate zone events in general. There's too many people, the rewards feel lacking, it's just farming dailies which is boring. Seriously we need more instances, having 80 people at the geyser outside of Alinor is insane. I had my frames go down into the single digits. These events keep me away from the zones they're promoting rather than get me to come over.

I'll still get my tickets, but I'm going back to dragon hunting, that's better than waiting for a world boss to spawn for five minutes only to fight it and not get loot cause there are 30 people there.

So don't farm the dailies? Just do the two you need for tickets, assuming you want tickets, and then farm nodes or mobs for box drops. The boxes drop from everything, not just world bosses.

Elsonso wrote: »

The events are a chance to do something different and break up monotonous game play habits.

Until the events themselves became a routine. Seriously. Every two weeks is too much.

Fennwitty wrote: »

Do what folks do with Midyear Mayhem (soon to be Whitestrake's Mayhem): You complete multiple dailies on a character, but simply don't turn in more than one per day.

Summerset has 2 dailies by default with a third unlockable by the main questline there.

Clockwork has 2 by default also with a third unlockable.

Vvardenfell has 2 by default with another 2 unlockable.

You can complete 6 or more in a couple hours. And if you want you can use a different character in Summerset and do the dailies there.

With multiple characters you could pre-quest all ~11 remaining days in one play session, just turning in one a day.

Clockwork also has the Crow daily if you have unlocked it.

What I did earlier this week was get 2 characters to do 2 quests in Clockwork, 2 in Vvardenfell and 2 in Summerset, so now I'm set for 4 days on one ticket and 8 days on the other. Normally, I'm handing in one quest and picking up the other, seeing as you can now just go to the WB and it will be killed when it spawns, but if I get busy, I have backup.

Parasaurolophus wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

The events are a chance to do something different and break up monotonous game play habits.

Until the events themselves became a routine. Seriously. Every two weeks is too much.

Event fatigue is real.

I'm not a huge fan. I would be happier if it was do dailies in 2 out of the 3 zones. I find Summerset annoying - I have never done a WB there without problems of skills not firing, can't move or sinking into sand that has lost texture and that includes non-event times.

Also, I don't know what skill shoots golden beams and sounds like a generator about to explode, but please ZOS, reduce the volume of the noise.

Mik195 wrote: »

I'm not a huge fan. I would be happier if it was do dailies in 2 out of the 3 zones. I find Summerset annoying - I have never done a WB there without problems of skills not firing, can't move or sinking into sand that has lost texture and that includes non-event times.

Also, I don't know what skill shoots golden beams and sounds like a generator about to explode, but please ZOS, reduce the volume of the noise.

It is do dailies in two out of three zones. You can just not do world boss dailies in summerset and just do a delve. Those are usually just collection missions.

This event is an easy skip. Too time consuming, not enough Xp, no theme and no fun. Big swing and a miss with this one

DigiAngel wrote: »

This event...like the last one of this kind is a thinly veiled marketing event: "If you only had ESO+ or purchased the DLC YOU TOO could get in on the fun!"

Yes. On my old account I didn't even have Morrowind so I couldn't take part. Nowadays Morrowind is free when you buy the base game. I do have access on my main account though, and I spent a few days before the event started doing the dailies on several characters, but not turning them in, so now I just turn in one of each every day. But I'm enjoying it so much I keep doing the dailies again just for fun!