Events with crafting a pet and a mount [mechanics of how this works]

twigbot11k · September 28

Currently ZOS has us farm 15 tickets, to buy 3 pet pieces and combine into a cool pet. Okay, nice.

Then we farm 30 tickets, for 3 pieces toward a mount, that we combine into a sweet mount. Solid!

Oh wait! SNAP! ZOS has us throw away that cool pet we just crafted for the privilege to craft the event mount.

Now we have that sweet event mount and.. NO COOL PET. Sigh.

This way of making a pet into a sort-of currency, is awkward & just feels bad, to toss away a pet we just spent effort upon to craft, and the only way to get it back? Repeat all the effort AGAIN to make it once more.

Can't we just buy the 3 mount pieces and craft the mount? Without removing a cool pet from our in-game pet list?

It is _frustrating_ having to do math each event to make certain I can score enough tickets do run through this painful arrangement, and end it with BOTH a nice mount and my favored pet! Worse if I cannot, and have to make notes and plans to fix this for when the next event lands.

AlnilamE · September 28

This has been the case for the last 3 years.

So you are saying you would rather pay 15 tickets per mount piece rather than 10 and lose the pet you put together for 15?

There are always way more than enough tickets to get the pet/mount/house/other by the time the year ends.

Dagoth_Rac · September 28

The New Life Festival at end of year always gives away a lot more tickets than needed (typically 3 easily obtained tickets per day and event runs about twice as long as other events). You can use it to buy pet pieces so you can unlock pet at very end of year when you no longer need it as "currency" for other collectibles. I have done this every year as pretty much the last thing I spend tickets on and have all the event pets permanently unlocked and available.

Do I think the way ZOS does this with multi-tiered fragments and consumables that consume other consumable is awkward and confusing? Yes. But you don't actually lose access to pet. You can buy pet pieces after you have unlocked everything else, if you want the pet, too.

joergino · September 29

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

The New Life Festival at end of year always gives away a lot more tickets than needed (typically 3 easily obtained tickets per day and event runs about twice as long as other events).

To be honest, I wouldn't rely on that. Last year they had intended to let the event run as long as all other events. This would have meant that New Life would have ended after the "standard" twelve days instead of the almost three weeks the New Life festival used to run in previous years. The event was only extended to its usual special length because there was some problem.

They might still intend to cut New Life down to the short duration of all other events. After all, this would fit their plan or intention of bringing everything in line and of "standardizing" all possible aspects of the game.

twigbot11k · September 30

When you trade away [consume] the pet for the privilege of crafting the event mount, your pet access vanishes, until that time you re-gain the pieces and re-craft it. Kind of sucks going without a cool pet you worked toward, for a long time, until the next event pops with bonus tickets so you can regain access to it. Granted, not a big issue if two events are back to back.

TaSheen · September 30

They have it set up this way to keep you logging in to get the pieces-parts. I doubt it will change....

Ilumia · September 30

I don't have a strong opinion on this system, but it is a way to obscure the true ticket cost of an item. It's also a way of dividing earning stuff into smaller chunks and maybe choose what you prioritize if you're short on tickets.