Less forced inventory clutter, please.

Beyond what's been said about keys, which I greatly agree with, I wound up with a stolen group repair kit, which cannot be laundered!!!

Would like to see it again. It was fun. Though maybe more events with other divines

I enjoyed the event a lot! Basically everything around this event I liked, finally some love for trading aspects of the game. Having it in Belkarth was a great idea.

I’m not a big fan of events that force you to group up for rewards except for undaunted. As there’s a queue for that! The world boss quests are super buggy (unable to pick up all quest items if someone started without everyone being close enough) so grouping up for them can be a terrible experience of redos and confusion.

I've given feedback already, however as I've thought more about it, I'd like to add some additional thoughts.

I appreciate that the event wasn't all consuming. Realistically, there was one quest to do to get all your tickets. And said quest "required" doing things most people will do every day during their normal game play. I can see that as a positive and a negative. I did appreciate that I didn't have to jump through hoops to get my 3 tickets.

I appreciate the gold discount on purchasable items and shrines. As a housing enthusiast, being able to save a couple million gold buying up houses was a nice perk. Especially with how expensive decorating is due to rarity of drops like heartwood or mundane runes. Having the discount apply to the golden and luxury vendors was very nice as well.

I strongly DISLIKE that the event seemed to focus on inventory bloat. Keys not stacking if they are from different colored boxes (ie. a gold box as opposed to a purple box) is awful. Keys being character bound and not bankable is also in poor form. Having items that cannot be laundered seems like its an oversight, however there has been no comment from ZoS regarding the issue is disturbing (but not unexpected). The fact that research scrolls that come from stolen Zenithar boxes cannot be laundered, thereby making it so you can't even use them on a toon that may need them is absolutely maddening. No one likes the feeling of having to delete a gold reward.

I appreciate that the ESO+ free trial happened in the middle of the event AND extended after the event. I already had ESO+ running, however several of my friends had been lamenting the inventory struggle due to the keys, repair kids, and scrolls not stacking.

All in all, I would say the event is fine, though it could definitely use some work for the future.

Cons:
1. Trash rewards even from gold crates. Not much motivation to do.
2. One questgiver, location is a fesival of freezes, loadscreens, black characters etc. I cannot come and take quest. I have to come and then wait for everything around to load, npc to load, and only then take quest. And then repeat to finish quest.
3. Now I have to clean guild bank from rubbish... sorry, from event revards

Pros:
1. No bad feeling about missing half of the event - revards are trash anyway...

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Now that Zeal of Zenithar has wrapped up, we wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to provide feedback.

Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback so far.

Loved pretty much everything about the event.

Off-topic but I'm just gonna post it everywhere until patch is out:
- LA nerf coming up = no problem
- - Massive overall DPS nerf is really bad

I wasn't a fan of all the group requirements. Yes I Know it's an MMO, but it often takes coordination to group up with people consistently and doing it every day for farming is a bit much - but I appreciate that there were other ways to earn boxes at least.

The keys not being bankable was a bad move. It's mostly just an annoyance to have to go back and forth , queue in, with various characters just to unlock a mediocre chest. And none of the fact that its IC bothers me personally, which I know makes it another pain point for some. (Some of the same keys didn't even stack for me).

Keys should been account bound (so we can bank or move to alts) instead of character bound.
Event post said surveys would drop... surveys never dropped! Making sure that it's not bugged, or the original post has accurate information!

I really liked the new festival area in Craglorn and the new indrik vendor. I wasn't very lucky with the rewards, though. I got a lot of blue provisioning recipes, but all of them were low level so I don't have much use for them. I think it would've been better if we could get random motifs instead.
Oh, and please make other old event rewards available for newer players! The old Jubilee cakes are lovely, it's a shame you can't get them if you don't have the memento version.

[*] Are you enjoying the event so far?

I'd rather have had a rerun of the Mirkmire event or a High Isle Explorer event.

[*] What have you liked so far about Zeal of Zenithar?

That in theory it was an event about crafting.
The discount on houses.

[*] Has anything been confusing?

That some rewards can't be laundered.
That for an event about crafting many ofthe rewards require the charachter that opened the box (and due to the master wits dropping reward boxes, not likely to be a PvP character) going into PvP zones.

That there was an unannounced cooldown on receiving Style Pages, that wasn't accompanied by a lock out of already received pages.

That theft was a way of completing the daily quest but doing daily crafting writs (i.e. Zenithar like toil) wasn't.

It seemed more a Fighters Guild event by the way the boxes were rewarded than a Zenithar event.

[*] Anything you wish was different?

Copies of the Imperial City Vault chests in Craglorn, so crafter charachters don't have to go and die/pump up the metrics for PvP

Having the various furnishing items that have been available for tickets available rather than Companion Guild rank upgrades.
Or having Companion leveling upgrades instead. Companion skills are now easy enough to upgrade compared with the slog that is the higher companion levels.

Purple boxes for all daily crafting writs rather than just the first.
The Daily Quest working like others, i.e. you can hand in and then start the same daily quest each day.

[*] Any additional thoughts?

There is too much concentration on PvP in the events. Mirkmire hasn't been rerun and there has been no way to complete the Gravestake fragments that were near impossible to do the first time.

Rather than yet more Midyear/Whitestrake's mayhem, could we have something that does not burn my spoons by forcing entry into PvP areas.

I enjoyed the event itself overall. It was low stress and low commitment and felt very casual and with other games I play also doing events, it was nice from a time management standpoint to just relax. I do wish the world events were easier to get, since I didn't see many of them compared to other friends (I don't know if I was unlucky or just not exploring the right areas).

The gold discount was nice. I bought my final in game houses via gold with this event. I also got some of the telvar styles at a nice discount. These kind of rewards/perks for the event were nice to see-some reward we haven't seen before that also has lore relevance to Zenithar.

I disliked the inventory bloat/bugs. As much as I liked the keys, them not stacking has pinched my main character's inventory since I want to save them for when I need something new out of one of those treasure vaults (new ic styles or monster helms), but that means I am now -10 inventory slots since several of the keys did not stack correclty if from alternative sources (please fix this in the code if you can, this is a longstanding bug with other items like even potions from separate players in the same inventory and it's always been annoying). Treasure chests requiring you to have one unique version of them is another old pain point made worse during the event. We've asked for years to have treasure chests stack and behave like surveys.

The rewards also sometimes felt lackluster and not worth. The article for the event said you could get a rare chance to have a pouch that contained 100,000 gold or telvar, but I nor anyone of my friends or guildies reported getting this. I did 800 writs and also got boxes from other sources and none of them had this reward, so it either wasn't dropping correctly or the droprate was way too low. While the keys and recipes for alts were nice, I have had research on my account capped for two years and so research scrolls are definitely inventory bloat again if I can't use or sell them (would be more exciting if I had a new character that could use them or if they were easier to turn a profit with). I think the main thing is there are rewards that crafters might enjoy more that were not in the boxes, and rewards in the boxes that are useless to very established crafters. I know that not everyone has an 18/18 maxed crafters account, and those are probably happy with the research scrolls, but more variety for people at different stages of their eso journey would be nice.

Overall I liked the event and would love to see it again, but I think that some things need changed beforehand, especially in regards to rewards for the event.

I wish the event had double XP and was more solo-friendly.