Explore Elsweyr's Warm Sands During The Season Of The Dragon Event

ZOS_Kevin · January 2023

This is the official discussion thread for, "Explore Elsweyr's Warm Sands During The Season Of The Dragon Event"

"Defend the home of the Khajiit from the Dragon threat and earn bonus rewards during this new in-game event!"

thejadefalcon · January 2023

No double loot?

Froil · January 2023

thejadefalcon wrote: »

No double loot?

That's what I was about to ask; I didn't see anything about double drops, even went CTRL+F "double" and nothing. I was hoping to go farm dungeons for double motifs.

WrathOfInnos · January 2023

Yes, we should get 2 Sunspire Senche mounts for a trifecta during the event. Or better yet, a multi-rider version

Tabatha · January 2023

Double Drops?

ZOS_Kevin · January 2023

Hi all. Just wanted to note that I see your questions about double drops. I'll be checking on this now and hopefully get an answer soon.

jaws343 · January 2023

Froil wrote: »

thejadefalcon wrote: »

No double loot?

That's what I was about to ask; I didn't see anything about double drops, even went CTRL+F "double" and nothing. I was hoping to go farm dungeons for double motifs.

"Throughout the event, you can collect special Reward Boxes and benefit from increased drops to Daily Quests, Dungeons, and Trials throughout the regions of Northern and Southern Elsweyr."

VaranisArano · January 2023

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

Yes, we should get 2 Sunspire Senche mounts for a trifecta during the event. Or better yet, a multi-rider version

GlassHalfFull · January 2023

Do any of the champion point system green tree slotables up the colored rewards to a higher color?

Araneae6537 · January 2023

I’m excited to finally get the Dawnwood Indrik!

I started ESO mid 2019 and this never had the opportunity.

Also, love Elsweyr, as it has a unique look and feel in Tamriel, and also was my introduction to ESO.

yadibroz · January 2023

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all. Just wanted to note that I see your questions about double drops. I'll be checking on this now and hopefully get an answer soon.

Will there be a new class.

Orakel_von_Tamriel · January 2023

Will "Jade-Crown Dragonslayer Helmet" and "Jade-Crown Dragonslayer Schoulder" be available again? In my overview they are greyed out so i can never reach 100%. If not, please feel free to remove it from the overview.

karthrag_inak · January 2023

What is "Dragon document recipe"?

Araneae6537 · January 2023

yadibroz wrote: »

Will there be a new class.

For an event? 🤔 No.

Bjoerdr · January 2023

Hi,
can you please make the "Dragon's Treasure Trove" from the Orginal Dargon Event "getable" ?

I mean this really nice house item :
https://eso-hub.com/en/collectibles/dragons-treasure-trove

vsrs_au · January 2023

Will this event have any extra XP buff, e.g. from a drink like with the New Life Festival ?

joergino · January 2023

It's a chapter promotion, so there won't be an XP bonus. That's for the real events.

Balibe · January 2023

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all. Just wanted to note that I see your questions about double drops. I'll be checking on this now and hopefully get an answer soon.

@ZOS_Kevin ..... Any Update on the clarification of "Double Drops" ?

SpacemanSpiff1 · January 2023

yadibroz wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all. Just wanted to note that I see your questions about double drops. I'll be checking on this now and hopefully get an answer soon.

Will there be a new class.

yes. just during the event, though.

SpiritKitten · January 2023

karthrag_inak wrote: »

What is "Dragon document recipe"?

probably the document bag that drops from dragons...it can contain a recipe

SpiritKitten · January 2023

GlassHalfFull wrote: »

Do any of the champion point system green tree slotables up the colored rewards to a higher color?

the treasure hunter does that for treasure chests

tomofhyrule · January 2023

I'm 90% sure we're getting double drops. I think the copywriter may have just missed that.

We get double drops for every celebration event, and they also had them on the PTS testing version of this event:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Event Testing – Season of the Dragon Celebration
Those Dragons keep returning to your homeland! You know what to do. This event includes all of the year's content for the Season of the Dragon, including both the Elsweyr Chapter and the Dragonhold DLC as well as all four dungeons released as part of the year's story: Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok.
Pick up the introductory quest, “Bane of Dragons,” either for free in the Crown Store or from Captain Samara at the Impresario’s tent outside of Rimmen.

The first daily quest you complete in Northern Elsweyr or Southern Elsweyr rewards a Glorious Elsweyr Box. Subsequent dailies, as well as activities in the zones or linked dungeons, will award slightly lower quality Elsweyr Boxes.

These boxes can contain valuable treasures, style items or motif pages from the year-of storyline, Elsweyr-specific crafting materials (such as Dragon's Blood, Dragon's Rheum, or Dragon's Bile), treaure maps, furnishing recipes, or a tradeable style page for the new Claw Dancer armor style.

The first daily you complete in Northern Elsweyr will award you one Event Ticket. You can get a second Event Ticket for the first daily you complete in Southern Elsweyr as well, for a maximum of two Event Tickets per day per account.

These include dailies such as the Dragon-hunting quests.

Bosses and Dragons in both Elsweyrs, as well as bosses in Sunspire, Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok drop additional loot during this event.

As with other celebrations, resource nodes, daily quests, and other activities in the zones are more bountiful during the Season of the Dragon. Don't let the shadow of a Dragon's wings keep you indoors!

The Impresario will carry bound style pages of the Claw Dancer armor style for 5 tickets each. She will also have three fragments of the new Passion Dancer Blossom pet, the new base item for 2023's morphing collectibles themed around Dibella!

The Impresario will also carry the first fragment of the first morph, the Passion's Muse personality

jaws343 · January 2023

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I'm 90% sure we're getting double drops. I think the copywriter may have just missed that.

We get double drops for every celebration event, and they also had them on the PTS testing version of this event:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Event Testing – Season of the Dragon Celebration
Those Dragons keep returning to your homeland! You know what to do. This event includes all of the year's content for the Season of the Dragon, including both the Elsweyr Chapter and the Dragonhold DLC as well as all four dungeons released as part of the year's story: Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok.
Pick up the introductory quest, “Bane of Dragons,” either for free in the Crown Store or from Captain Samara at the Impresario’s tent outside of Rimmen.

The first daily quest you complete in Northern Elsweyr or Southern Elsweyr rewards a Glorious Elsweyr Box. Subsequent dailies, as well as activities in the zones or linked dungeons, will award slightly lower quality Elsweyr Boxes.

These boxes can contain valuable treasures, style items or motif pages from the year-of storyline, Elsweyr-specific crafting materials (such as Dragon's Blood, Dragon's Rheum, or Dragon's Bile), treaure maps, furnishing recipes, or a tradeable style page for the new Claw Dancer armor style.

The first daily you complete in Northern Elsweyr will award you one Event Ticket. You can get a second Event Ticket for the first daily you complete in Southern Elsweyr as well, for a maximum of two Event Tickets per day per account.

These include dailies such as the Dragon-hunting quests.

Bosses and Dragons in both Elsweyrs, as well as bosses in Sunspire, Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok drop additional loot during this event.

As with other celebrations, resource nodes, daily quests, and other activities in the zones are more bountiful during the Season of the Dragon. Don't let the shadow of a Dragon's wings keep you indoors!

The Impresario will carry bound style pages of the Claw Dancer armor style for 5 tickets each. She will also have three fragments of the new Passion Dancer Blossom pet, the new base item for 2023's morphing collectibles themed around Dibella!

The Impresario will also carry the first fragment of the first morph, the Passion's Muse personality

I already quoted it earlier in this post but the article for the event does mention this:

"Throughout the event, you can collect special Reward Boxes and benefit from increased drops to Daily Quests, Dungeons, and Trials throughout the regions of Northern and Southern Elsweyr."

tomofhyrule · January 2023

jaws343 wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I'm 90% sure we're getting double drops. I think the copywriter may have just missed that.

We get double drops for every celebration event, and they also had them on the PTS testing version of this event:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Event Testing – Season of the Dragon Celebration
Those Dragons keep returning to your homeland! You know what to do. This event includes all of the year's content for the Season of the Dragon, including both the Elsweyr Chapter and the Dragonhold DLC as well as all four dungeons released as part of the year's story: Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok.
Pick up the introductory quest, “Bane of Dragons,” either for free in the Crown Store or from Captain Samara at the Impresario’s tent outside of Rimmen.

The first daily quest you complete in Northern Elsweyr or Southern Elsweyr rewards a Glorious Elsweyr Box. Subsequent dailies, as well as activities in the zones or linked dungeons, will award slightly lower quality Elsweyr Boxes.

These boxes can contain valuable treasures, style items or motif pages from the year-of storyline, Elsweyr-specific crafting materials (such as Dragon's Blood, Dragon's Rheum, or Dragon's Bile), treaure maps, furnishing recipes, or a tradeable style page for the new Claw Dancer armor style.

The first daily you complete in Northern Elsweyr will award you one Event Ticket. You can get a second Event Ticket for the first daily you complete in Southern Elsweyr as well, for a maximum of two Event Tickets per day per account.

These include dailies such as the Dragon-hunting quests.

Bosses and Dragons in both Elsweyrs, as well as bosses in Sunspire, Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok drop additional loot during this event.

As with other celebrations, resource nodes, daily quests, and other activities in the zones are more bountiful during the Season of the Dragon. Don't let the shadow of a Dragon's wings keep you indoors!

The Impresario will carry bound style pages of the Claw Dancer armor style for 5 tickets each. She will also have three fragments of the new Passion Dancer Blossom pet, the new base item for 2023's morphing collectibles themed around Dibella!

The Impresario will also carry the first fragment of the first morph, the Passion's Muse personality

I already quoted it earlier in this post but the article for the event does mention this:

"Throughout the event, you can collect special Reward Boxes and benefit from increased drops to Daily Quests, Dungeons, and Trials throughout the regions of Northern and Southern Elsweyr."

Yeah, it's just that a lot of people are latching on to the fact that it doesn't explicitly say "resource nodes" as one of the things that gives double drops. Despite that every Celebration event so far has included that.

As an example, the Skyrim event had a whole list of:

In addition to all these reward box treasures, you’ll benefit from bonus loot dropped during the following activities:
Western Skyrim and the Reach daily quest rewards

Kyne's Aegis weekly quest

Harrowstorm world events

Harrowstorm and Stonethorn DLC dungeons: Icereach, Unhallowed Grave, Castle Thorn, and Stone Garden

World and delve bosses in Western Skyrim and the Reach

Kyne's Aegis trial

Vateshran Hollows arena

Crafting resource nodes

But we didn't get something like this for the Elsweyr event.

ZOS_Kevin · January 2023

Hi all, I wanted to clarify the drops here. After checking with the dev team, there will be the following:

Resource nodes in Northern and Southern Elsweyr have a higher yield than normal
Bosses, dragons, and dungeon/trial bosses in the Wrathstone and Scalebreaker dungeons/trial drop extra loot

RevJJ · January 2023

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, I wanted to clarify the drops here. After checking with the dev team, there will be the following:
Resource nodes in Northern and Southern Elsweyr have a higher yield than normal

Bosses, dragons, and dungeon/trial bosses in the Wrathstone and Scalebreaker dungeons/trial drop extra loot

But is it double drops on bosses, dragons and the specified dungeon and trial bosses? I mean, I assume so since that’s always been the case but it would be nice to have confirmation because this vague wording could mean we get an extra white treasure.

tomofhyrule · January 2023

RevJJ wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, I wanted to clarify the drops here. After checking with the dev team, there will be the following:
Resource nodes in Northern and Southern Elsweyr have a higher yield than normal

Bosses, dragons, and dungeon/trial bosses in the Wrathstone and Scalebreaker dungeons/trial drop extra loot

But is it double drops on bosses, dragons and the specified dungeon and trial bosses? I mean, I assume so since that’s always been the case but it would be nice to have confirmation because this vague wording could mean we get an extra white treasure.

It's just me, but I feel like one of the main reasons they go with the more vague wording is because if they came out and said "double drops," there would absolutely be a few people putting in complaints like "EXCUSE ME I ONLY GOT 159875 ANCESTOR SILK FROM 24184 NODES INSTEAD OF THE 193472 I SHOULD HAVE GOT SO DOUBLE DROPS AREN'T WORKING RIGHT!!1!11!!"

We all know it's double. I'm sure if someone wanted to list it all out, they may notice they only got like 93% extra instead of 100% extra, but most of us know that that's just RNG rounding errors. But you know that there will be people who will complain if they promise double and they get only 93% extra.

And again, based on every other celebration event they've ever run, the bosses will drop double loot. Sure, the bosses have chances of different loot and qualities (it's not technically 'double loot' if they drop a purple Darloc Brae belt and a green Crafty Alfiq shoes since those are different things in different qualities, but we recognize it as two things which could drop from that same boss). I'm sure it's just written vaguely because "you will get two drops from the corresponding loot table instead of one" is a lot more words than "double loot," and it also leads to the problem that we already have people who don't understand the loot tables (i.e. people who complain that curation isn't working because the first boss of Fungal I isn't dropping the weapons they still need from the stickerbook).

RevJJ · January 2023

tomofhyrule wrote: »

RevJJ wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, I wanted to clarify the drops here. After checking with the dev team, there will be the following:
Resource nodes in Northern and Southern Elsweyr have a higher yield than normal

Bosses, dragons, and dungeon/trial bosses in the Wrathstone and Scalebreaker dungeons/trial drop extra loot

But is it double drops on bosses, dragons and the specified dungeon and trial bosses? I mean, I assume so since that’s always been the case but it would be nice to have confirmation because this vague wording could mean we get an extra white treasure.

It's just me, but I feel like one of the main reasons they go with the more vague wording is because if they came out and said "double drops," there would absolutely be a few people putting in complaints like "EXCUSE ME I ONLY GOT 159875 ANCESTOR SILK FROM 24184 NODES INSTEAD OF THE 193472 I SHOULD HAVE GOT SO DOUBLE DROPS AREN'T WORKING RIGHT!!1!11!!"

We all know it's double. I'm sure if someone wanted to list it all out, they may notice they only got like 93% extra instead of 100% extra, but most of us know that that's just RNG rounding errors. But you know that there will be people who will complain if they promise double and they get only 93% extra.

And again, based on every other celebration event they've ever run, the bosses will drop double loot. Sure, the bosses have chances of different loot and qualities (it's not technically 'double loot' if they drop a purple Darloc Brae belt and a green Crafty Alfiq shoes since those are different things in different qualities, but we recognize it as two things which could drop from that same boss). I'm sure it's just written vaguely because "you will get two drops from the corresponding loot table instead of one" is a lot more words than "double loot," and it also leads to the problem that we already have people who don't understand the loot tables (i.e. people who complain that curation isn't working because the first boss of Fungal I isn't dropping the weapons they still need from the stickerbook).

You’re probably right, someone would complain if it’s not 100% double and I also understand a blanket statement is shorter to write. However, I also see how many questions are being asked. And with the past six months in mind, I don’t think it would be a bad idea for ZOS to put a little bit more effort into clear communication and transparency.

vsrs_au · January 2023

SpiritKitten wrote: »

karthrag_inak wrote: »

What is "Dragon document recipe"?

probably the document bag that drops from dragons...it can contain a recipe

What level are these normally? Is it common to get purple recipes in these bags ?

RevJJ · January 2023

This event doesn’t just have increased drops, it also has increased lag. Didn’t see that in the announcement…

Akasha_Mei · January 2023

The lag is extra gift, probably because of the "free to play time" exactly at the time of the event (was that scheduled?). Connection crashes...
At the same time extra announcements, of the (scary?) green new DLC, and pre- purchases (scary "pizza horse" btw)...
Drops can be told extra just for having 1 or 2 itens for crafting bag or a treasure of 20 cent.
I won't continue in the event...
Probably won't buy the DLC, and already thinking (since High Isle), in drop the ESO plus signature.