Work for Cyrodiil too (XP and AP) ?

And yes thanks a lot for this week-end event !

Yesterday I got 4-5 Potent Nirn, about double of Fortified Nirn running around Craglorn for an hour or so, and a Hakeijo from a Squidgy portal. Score!

Jusey1 wrote: »

I personally don't like it since it's impossible to get a good rate of platinum during this with all of the good spots being farmed by everyone at the same time.

If you're looking for jewelry seams, make sure you harvest all blacksmithing nodes that you see, so they have a chance to be respawned as jewelry seams. They could do that on their own after an unharvested blacksmithing node despawns, but it's a lot quicker to harvest the blacksmithing node than waiting for it to despawn.

The same goes for Psijic portals; if you aren't finding as many as you think you should be, then make sure you are harvesting all of the normal runestones that you come across.

XSTRONG wrote: »

Anifaas wrote: »

*Looks at heartwood drops after 1 hour of farming*

Double Drops?

Some conditions may apply.

It doesnt say that you get double drops in this event it say ' Increased yeild from harvest nodes '

"Double draws" is a better way to describe it than "double drops."

With the Plentiful Harvest(?) perk you have a chance to get a second draw from a node when you harvest it.

With the Explorers Event you get a guaranteed second draw from the node.

With both active, you get a guaranteed second draw due to the event, but for each of those draws you have a chance to get an extra draw due to the perk, so the end result is that you can get two, three, or four draws from a single node, although only the second draw is guaranteed, and the chance of getting a fourth draw is lower than the chance of getting a third draw.

At times it will look like you aren't getting a bonus from the event because it will look like you only got the perk's bonus, but in fact the opposite is true-- you did get the guaranteed bonus from the event, but did not get any potential bonus from the perk.

Totally unrelated to this event, but last night I found my first Recipe: Colovian War Torte in Cyrodiil. Yay! Now I know what they look like in the wild. The bad news is, it was on my alt server rather than my main server. ;D

I decided to use this event to return to Rkindaleft public dungeon in Wrothgar. I visited it a while back when my (only) character was well below level 50, and I struggled to fight even the mobs. This time, I conquered the place and defeated all the bosses. It's so satisfying to return to previously-daunting places and do that.

The nirncrux farming has also been going well, so I'm reasonably happy with the results.

Well my PC motherboard died the 2, and my new one don't arrive before the 7 so will not get much out of this event

zaria wrote: »

Well my PC motherboard died the 2, and my new one don't arrive before the 7 so will not get much out of this event

Aww, zaria, that's too bad. Sorry!

I love these spontaneous events. I've had the chance to grind 5 characters to level 50 so far. Really nice surprise

I'm slow to chase new stuff, so it was only when I was looting in Murkmire before the event that I realized, after getting the Oakensoul ring lead, that I had already accidentally acquired the three hardest-to-RNG pieces of it and only had to murder Malabal Tor mobs and raid blacksmithing nodes in Glenumbra to complete it. My BFF was in a similar position, so we grouped up to murder trash mobs in Malabal Tor and got our 4th lead.

Then the event dropped unexpectedly, so wonderful time to farm nodes in Glenumbra. LOL Got my last lead and the ring. Then a mutual friend mentioned an OakenSorc build they were running recently and having fun with. My BFF decided, given the double XP event, to make a Sorc and grind dolmens to use her ring on him.

And I remembered I had some poor Sorc I'd made years ago and never really got into playing, so he was sitting at level 13 just from crafting dailies during Anniversary Jubilees and otherwise living the life of a pack mule holding inventory for me.

He graduated to CP rank last night and doesn't have to hold my main's purse anymore. LOL He gets to have some playtime occasionally now. Wouldn't have likely done that otherwise if not for the convergence of timing, so that was pretty cool.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback and glad you're enjoying the event! We like doing these a few times a year, so it's always a fun surprise. I'll be leveling some weapon skill lines myself.

Damn, I could've bumped into @ZOS_Kevin without realizing it!

This surprise event (at least it was a surprise to me) was great. No rush to collect pages, no need to put up with repetitive quests, just the challenge of balancing the pursuit of gold, mats and XP within a (very) limited timeframe. It was relaxing to grab piles of mats, fun to make extra gold and hilarious to earn 386k XP from a random with my necro using a 50% scroll and a few minutes left of the Witches Festival boost (yes, he's "slightly" neglected). Lots of mundane runes were sent to the vaults and I got to explore Tamriel a bit. Oh, and in honor of the event, I selected "Explorer" as my main's title.

Now, sadly, comes post-event gloom. I guess I should spend time now making up some room in my storage chests for stacks of pies.