Another perspective: I hunt dragons every weekend and more rarely during the week with my brother (who plays from Australia) and a friend. It can be a little tough to find help in Northern Elsweyr on the lower two spots if it's a weekday night, but inevitably if you start the fight someone comes along.

During the event of course things are insane. Just pick a spot and camp it and the dragons will inevitably come to you.

The rewards are awesome - Dragon's Blood & Rheum sells for a mint. And I enjoy going for three - you see variety in the type and in the severity (feels like they've made them tougher lately).

I have never tired of stabbing three dragons in the rear while blocking wing and tail slaps and occasionally dying to the 'CROISSANT!'. %)

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

The dailies in the Reach and Western Skyrim were lowered from three mobs required to one a while back, it is time to do the same with these two zones. Seriously, I doubt many people have tried the dragon dailies since zone release or during non-events and it's just tedious. During events it's even worse.

I do the dragon dailies often, and they are great, even before the event. There are usually people there (especially at S. Elsweyr) unless it's during a quiet time, say 5am on a Monday or something. If they reduced it to just one kill needed, it would reduce the population doing them. They're some of the busiest world events in ESO, it would be folly to change them.

At the very least they need to either drastically reduce spawn timers on Dragons or give them more health. Heck maybe even do both. It's frustrating to not be able to reach a Dragon before it's nuked and it's a huge waste of time to wait at one spawn area.

I don't really bother with the Dragon dailies during the event, only killing a dragon for a specific quest or Endeavor. If I do, I'll go with Southern Elsweyr as it's much easier to move and get onto the dragons compared to Northern. The other dailies give the tickets and I tend to choose the WB dailies as there's always enough people and you don't have to wait long.

It's fine. You've just gotta be quick. Open your treat boxes and then immediately rush to the next dragon.

@DirtyDeeds765

I would like to add the following observations:

Apart from the fact that the spawn time is a lot longer in Northern Elsweyr than in Southern Elsweyr, there is the issue of convenience: TWO of the Dragonscour spawning grounds are quite a considerable distance from wayshrines.

The northern one is right by the Star Haven wayshrine.

The southwestern one... A couple of the landing grounds are just about within striking distance of the SW wayshrine. Others, well, aren't, and getting there from The Stitches is really not very practical thanks to the fact of there being just so many chasms, bridges and forced detours.

And as for the southeastern one... Don't even think about getting there in time. Neither the Hakoshae nor Tenmar Temple wayshrines offer a good way up to it, proximity on the map doesn't mean a thing when there's no way up the cliff. If there's an event on, either you're there and camping it, or you miss it. You might JUST be able to get from one of its landing sites to the other, if it lands at a different one to the one you're at.

(Of course, things are slightly different if you own Moon-Sugar Meadow house and can use it as a teleport, right on the southern edge - and right by a pair of convenient routes up to *both* the southwestern and southeastern plateaus.)

Alternatively, when there *isn't* an event on, almost nobody bothers going to either of the southern dragons in Northern Elsweyr, only the northern one sees much action (I've seen it get killed, spawn and respawn three or four times while the southern ones were sitting on their plateaus untouched.) Which means that if the southern dragons HAVE spawned, and you go there, chances are you'll definitely get there in time to fight it, but you'll be alone when you do, and die horribly because for most players it takes a zerg to kill a dragon.

Whereas... in Southern Elsweyr, both dragons have reasonably convenient nearby wayshrines, and they spawn considerably more frequently.

To be honest? I think there just aren't enough wayshrines in Northern Elsweyr, and with all the chasms and cliffs, the place is an absolute nightmare to navigate around. There could do with being at least one other wayshrine on the southern edge near Merryvale Farms and Moon-Sugar Meadow house.

jle30303 wrote: »

I would like to add the following observations:

Apart from the fact that the spawn time is a lot longer in Northern Elsweyr than in Southern Elsweyr, there is the issue of convenience: TWO of the Dragonscour spawning grounds are quite a considerable distance from wayshrines.

The northern one is right by the Star Haven wayshrine.

The southwestern one... A couple of the landing grounds are just about within striking distance of the SW wayshrine. Others, well, aren't, and getting there from The Stitches is really not very practical thanks to the fact of there being just so many chasms, bridges and forced detours.

And as for the southeastern one... Don't even think about getting there in time. Neither the Hakoshae nor Tenmar Temple wayshrines offer a good way up to it, proximity on the map doesn't mean a thing when there's no way up the cliff. If there's an event on, either you're there and camping it, or you miss it. You might JUST be able to get from one of its landing sites to the other, if it lands at a different one to the one you're at.

(Of course, things are slightly different if you own Moon-Sugar Meadow house and can use it as a teleport, right on the southern edge - and right by a pair of convenient routes up to *both* the southwestern and southeastern plateaus.)

Alternatively, when there *isn't* an event on, almost nobody bothers going to either of the southern dragons in Northern Elsweyr, only the northern one sees much action (I've seen it get killed, spawn and respawn three or four times while the southern ones were sitting on their plateaus untouched.) Which means that if the southern dragons HAVE spawned, and you go there, chances are you'll definitely get there in time to fight it, but you'll be alone when you do, and die horribly because for most players it takes a zerg to kill a dragon.

Whereas... in Southern Elsweyr, both dragons have reasonably convenient nearby wayshrines, and they spawn considerably more frequently.

To be honest? I think there just aren't enough wayshrines in Northern Elsweyr, and with all the chasms and cliffs, the place is an absolute nightmare to navigate around. There could do with being at least one other wayshrine on the southern edge near Merryvale Farms and Moon-Sugar Meadow house.

I initially had trouble with the 3 dragon grounds in N Elsweyr, but once I worked out the order in which the dragons visit them, it was easy enough, and I'm getting to each ground in time to join in killing the dragon at least 95% of the time.

jle30303 wrote: »

I would like to add the following observations:

Apart from the fact that the spawn time is a lot longer in Northern Elsweyr than in Southern Elsweyr, there is the issue of convenience: TWO of the Dragonscour spawning grounds are quite a considerable distance from wayshrines.

The northern one is right by the Star Haven wayshrine.

The southwestern one... A couple of the landing grounds are just about within striking distance of the SW wayshrine. Others, well, aren't, and getting there from The Stitches is really not very practical thanks to the fact of there being just so many chasms, bridges and forced detours.

And as for the southeastern one... Don't even think about getting there in time. Neither the Hakoshae nor Tenmar Temple wayshrines offer a good way up to it, proximity on the map doesn't mean a thing when there's no way up the cliff. If there's an event on, either you're there and camping it, or you miss it. You might JUST be able to get from one of its landing sites to the other, if it lands at a different one to the one you're at.

(Of course, things are slightly different if you own Moon-Sugar Meadow house and can use it as a teleport, right on the southern edge - and right by a pair of convenient routes up to *both* the southwestern and southeastern plateaus.)

Alternatively, when there *isn't* an event on, almost nobody bothers going to either of the southern dragons in Northern Elsweyr, only the northern one sees much action (I've seen it get killed, spawn and respawn three or four times while the southern ones were sitting on their plateaus untouched.) Which means that if the southern dragons HAVE spawned, and you go there, chances are you'll definitely get there in time to fight it, but you'll be alone when you do, and die horribly because for most players it takes a zerg to kill a dragon.

Whereas... in Southern Elsweyr, both dragons have reasonably convenient nearby wayshrines, and they spawn considerably more frequently.

To be honest? I think there just aren't enough wayshrines in Northern Elsweyr, and with all the chasms and cliffs, the place is an absolute nightmare to navigate around. There could do with being at least one other wayshrine on the southern edge near Merryvale Farms and Moon-Sugar Meadow house.

I was going to post about the wayshrine issue but you beat me to it. Yes, there should be more wayshrines in Northern Elsweyr because it's a royal pain to get around in the zone. At the very least 3 more wayshrines are needed. It's unreasonable to have us ride 5-10 minutes to get to the location we want at the center of Northern Elsweyr.

Did not read everything but back in the day when Skyrim released, Harrowstorm quest was requiring three to be finished. They lowered it to one. Same should be for Elsweyr dragon hunting quests.

On the other hand you can get both Reach and Skyrim Harrowstorm quests and complete it with only one Harrowstorm since it counts for both regions. When it comes to Elsweyr dragons hunting quests, similar approach does not work.

I find it more annoying that respwan time for boss is longer at event or not like other bosses.
At a event we should have normal spawn time!

I like questing, and always try to get all the questing achievements for zones. One guess which is still not finished after almost four years. It's just so much hassle but I'll go ahead and drag myself through it this event. 18 more to go.

Yeah, this is good feedback.

I've found myself simply not doing these dailies for the exact reasons the OP mentions. Three is too many when there's no event since the zone is so quiet, and during an event they die before I reach them. I just pick the other daily options for this event and ignore the dragons entirely, which isn't a great sign.