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Truly wretched set of Daily Endeavors for August 4

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The Daily Endeavors for Monday, August 4 are brutal. For the first time in a long time, I will not be completing the allotment of three.
  • Collect 5 waters or alchemy plants
  • Complete 1 Black Sacrament
  • Complete 1 Trial
  • Obtain 2 Visions in the Infinite Archive
  • Deal 200K damage in PVP

Fortunately the Weekly Endeavors is much easier to complete this week than a set of three of these Daily Endeavors.
  • Hapexamendios
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    Plants and archive I do almost daily so no problem there. Probably do a quick sacrament for the third.
  • Calastir
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    And on a maintenance day as well.
    Chaszmyr Do'Benrae (Dunmer Magsorc Vampire Infinity) ~ Dusk Doublespeak (Breton Magplar Werewolf) ~ Stan of Rimari (Nord Dragonknight Tank) ~ Bunto Kim Alhambra (Redguard Magplar Paladin) ~ Alicyankali (Argonian Magicka Necromancer Draugr Kin) ~ Gruuman Odinfan (Orsimer Magplar) ~ Boymans van Beuningen (Khajiit Stam Warden Bowzerker) ~ Flannelflail (Imperial Stamina Nightblade Brawler PVP) ~ Calastir (Altmer Stamina Dragonknight) ~ Sallystir (Bosmer Stam Warden Frostbite PVP) ~ Zalastir (Altmer Magicka Warden Ice Storm) ~ Capt Peach (Nord Stamcanist Crux Cannon) ~ PC EU ~ Flynt Westwood (Bosmer Magicka Dragonknight) ~ Chandu the Conjurer (Redguard Magcanist Rune Walker) ~ PC NA ~ since May 26th, 2021.
  • spartaxoxo
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    How is this brutal? Collect plants is very easy. They're all over the place in Cold harbor city. You don't even need combat. That's base game too.

    Two visions only requires the first two cycles. It does not require being able to finish an arc. That's like the difficulty of a public dungeon or delve. It's also base game. The first couple of cycles are designed to be completed by everyone. If the boss you get is too hard just reset.

    It just says complete a Black Sacrament. It's not asking for a perfect score. You could literally just pull the place if you wanted. I guess it's dlc but like come on.

    You can't expect to get all the endeavors every time if you're excluding massive amounts of content.
    Edited by spartaxoxo on August 4, 2025 6:38AM
  • colossalvoids
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    That's what I've imagined them to be the second month of the "feature" live, meaning hamsters gonna hamster for the "free" stuff, but it surprisingly taking them years.
    Edited by colossalvoids on August 4, 2025 6:44AM
  • Maitsukas
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    Complete 1 Trial

    Just look for a listing in the Group Finder. Or make one like this: "nAA Endeavor run"
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    Posting the Infinite Archive and Imperial City Weekly Vendor updates.

    Also trying out new Main Quests, Companions, ToT decks, Events and Styles on PTS.
  • MidniteOwl1913
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    spartaxoxo wrote: »
    How is this brutal? Collect plants is very easy. They're all over the place in Cold harbor city. You don't even need combat. That's base game too.

    Two visions only requires the first two cycles. It does not require being able to finish an arc. That's like the difficulty of a public dungeon or delve. It's also base game. The first couple of cycles are designed to be completed by everyone. If the boss you get is too hard just reset.

    It just says complete a Black Sacrament. It's not asking for a perfect score. You could literally just pull the place if you wanted. I guess it's dlc but like come on.

    You can't expect to get all the endeavors every time if you're excluding massive amounts of content.

    All but the plant one are time consuming and at least for me nothing I actually do. I hate Black Sacraments and IA, don't PVP and don't do trials. I will one have one achivement today. It's a first for me.
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  • MidniteOwl1913
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    Maitsukas wrote: »
    Complete 1 Trial

    Just look for a listing in the Group Finder. Or make one like this: "nAA Endeavor run"

    On a day witgh maintenance I don't have time for a trial even if I wanted to do one. Never mind a trial and sacrment and IA.

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  • MreeBiPolar
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    Black Sacrament requires the DLC and being far enough through the Dark Brotherhood questline to unlock, the trial is time consuming, but the rest are kinda piece of cake.

    5 water/alchemy is ~2 min tops, 2 first Archive bosses is maybe 5 min, and firing s few shots from a siege weapon at a bridge/milegate in some of the many empty Cyr campaigns if you want to avoid any actual combat (even with mobs) in Cyr/IC is... Also maybe 5 minutes.
    Edited by MreeBiPolar on August 4, 2025 7:36AM
  • Asikoo
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    I think they’re too easy. Even these missions are simple and not much fun, please make them harder! This is a game where players should be challenged; easy tasks just to win rewards aren’t enjoyable. We need to earn everything we get, and effortless rewards aren’t satisfying. So please ramp up the difficulty.
  • Tandor
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    Don't forget that the alchemy one includes water skins. It's also part of the weekly endeavour so if you go for that the daily one will get completed anyway.

    That's the only one I'll do today, but that's fine, I don't expect to do 3 every day. I'll also do the weekly one, which I don't often bother with.
  • ApoAlaia
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    They surely are inconvenient for a day where the servers are going to be offline for an extended period of time and there is an event that grants tickets active.

    Is almost like they are set so people definitely have to spend time in the game regardless of how inconvenient their maintenance may make it for players.
  • C_Inside
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    Bruh, a normal trial can take as little as 10 minutes if you do one of the quicker ones like nAA, nCR, or nAS. Normal trials are super easy too and you'll get a bunch of goodies from finishing the weekly quest for that trial. You get 5 transmutes, a curated non-perfected gear piece, and up to 3 Slaughterstones, which sell for around 1.8K gold each on PCEU. Not a bad haul for 10 minutes of gameplay if you ask me.

    You can even further optimize your time by signing up for a normal trial and then looking for the alchemy ingredients while you wait for the group to fill up.

    Honestly, though, what's this aversion to trials anyway? Normal ones are about as braindead as the random normal dungeons I know you do every day, except the gear in most trials is actually good.
    Edited by C_Inside on August 4, 2025 8:11AM
  • Dagoth_Rac
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    Black Sacrament - Run to primary objective, nuke them, run back. Quest giver will probably be disappointed you Rambo'd it instead of ninja'd it, but complete is complete. Probably 2 minutes.

    Infinite Archive - 2 cycles in IA probably take 5 minutes.

    The Trial is annoying because of needing to get together a group of 12 and even normal can take a while if not optimized.

    Does the PVP require 200K damage to other players? Because you can fire a ballista at NPC resource guards in Cyrodiil and do 200K damage just about instantly.
  • spartaxoxo
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    spartaxoxo wrote: »
    How is this brutal? Collect plants is very easy. They're all over the place in Cold harbor city. You don't even need combat. That's base game too.

    Two visions only requires the first two cycles. It does not require being able to finish an arc. That's like the difficulty of a public dungeon or delve. It's also base game. The first couple of cycles are designed to be completed by everyone. If the boss you get is too hard just reset.

    It just says complete a Black Sacrament. It's not asking for a perfect score. You could literally just pull the place if you wanted. I guess it's dlc but like come on.

    You can't expect to get all the endeavors every time if you're excluding massive amounts of content.

    All but the plant one are time consuming and at least for me nothing I actually do. I hate Black Sacraments and IA, don't PVP and don't do trials. I will one have one achivement today. It's a first for me.

    Two cycles is not time consuming. Neither is Black Sacrament. Again, if you want to do the Sacrament perfect then maybe it will take some time. But if you want to just get it over with you can run through and barely take anytime at all. Depending on spawn time, Sacrament can be done faster than Kill Delve Boss in X Zone because the objective is always ready.
    Edited by spartaxoxo on August 4, 2025 9:40AM
  • Renato90085
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    total 8-12 min can finished...
  • LouisaB75
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    Plant collecting, IA and then a toss up between the PvP one and the Black Sacrament one for me. Will depend on what Cyrodill looks like when I go for my tickets. If it is busy popping down a siege weapon for a few minutes should sort out that one.

    Thankfully I have two toons who can go do a Black Sacrament quests. Not sure I have unlocked the Dark Brotherhood on the rest of them. So, if the OP has not unlocked the Dark Brotherhood layout yet, I can appreciate that it may be a lot more time consuming for them to do that particular endeavour.
  • Liukke
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    ApoAlaia wrote: »
    They surely are inconvenient for a day where the servers are going to be offline for an extended period of time and there is an event that grants tickets active.

    Is almost like they are set so people definitely have to spend time in the game regardless of how inconvenient their maintenance may make it for players.

    Isn't the "event that grants ticket" a PvP event?
    Like...wouldn't you automatically do one endeavour while grabbing your tickets?

    There's literally no "waste" of time here, 2 visions can be taken in 5 minutes if you're slow, plants are everywhere, the trial can be the longest thing here but we talk about 15 minutes tops.

    Seriously if you open the vocabulary and look for endeavour you read "A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt."
    You don't even wanna waste half an hour on it, then don't play I guess? O_o
  • Versalium
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    What's Black Sacrament? Is it from some dlc?
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  • Grizzbeorn
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    Versalium wrote: »
    What's Black Sacrament? Is it from some dlc?

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    • ApoAlaia
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      Liukke wrote: »
      ApoAlaia wrote: »
      They surely are inconvenient for a day where the servers are going to be offline for an extended period of time and there is an event that grants tickets active.

      Is almost like they are set so people definitely have to spend time in the game regardless of how inconvenient their maintenance may make it for players.

      Isn't the "event that grants ticket" a PvP event?
      Like...wouldn't you automatically do one endeavour while grabbing your tickets?

      There's literally no "waste" of time here, 2 visions can be taken in 5 minutes if you're slow, plants are everywhere, the trial can be the longest thing here but we talk about 15 minutes tops.

      Seriously if you open the vocabulary and look for endeavour you read "A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt."
      You don't even wanna waste half an hour on it, then don't play I guess? O_o

      There is when they have scheduled a long maintenance in what is going to effectively be the last day of the event for me (I'll be lucky if I can squeeze tickets tomorrow) and I am still 3M AR short of GO**

      If they would have scheduled the maintenance on let's say Wednesday, which they do regularly for consoles and have done for PC when it suits them then whatever, alas I may need every minute of my available play time today, providing that they don't extend the maintenance in which case neither endeavours nor anything else will get done.

      If I could play whenever then I'd see the merit of your argument alas that is not something I can do.

      As it is, providing that they don't extend the maintenance, I may complete 2/3. I doubt I will have time to get out of Cyro to do any of the other 3. Maybe if they finish the maintenance early instead.

      Edited by ApoAlaia on August 4, 2025 11:16AM
    • LadyLethalla
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      This is my prime playtime - always when maintenance happens. 6pm at this time of year. Fortunately it's a day when I work at home and I didn't need to cook, so I was able to find 45min of the last hour before maintenance to do my writs and gather 5 plants. There was not enough time to do a sacrament or run IA.
      And even if said maintenance does finish early, I have work tomorrow and so have to go to bed in about 20 min. Sucks to be me, I know.

      Now, I get that my lack of playtime is not ZOS' fault, but I do blame who- or whatever picked these five endeavours for today.
      Edited by LadyLethalla on August 4, 2025 11:39AM
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    • Elvenheart
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      Calastir wrote: »
      [snip]

      When I read the list of endeavors today, my first thought was that the ones who want rewards for doing emotes and using mementos are going to be upset that a Black Sacrament and a trial has come back around.

      [edited to remove quote]
      Edited by ZOS_Icy on August 4, 2025 3:12PM
    • ganzaeso
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      of the three I would probably do:

      Gather alchemy survey

      2 rounds of infinite archive

      and trebuchet a resource pin until 200K damage is done
      (Math before coffee, except after 3, is not for me)
    • shadyjane62
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      I'll do the plants but the others are not worth the time spent on them.
    • AzuraFan
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      I'll do the plants but the others are not worth the time spent on them.

      Yeah, endeavors are optional. Just do the ones you want to do (if any) and skip the rest.
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      Black Sacrament requires the DLC and being far enough through the Dark Brotherhood questline to unlock, the trial is time consuming, but the rest are kinda piece of cake.

      5 water/alchemy is ~2 min tops, 2 first Archive bosses is maybe 5 min, and firing s few shots from a siege weapon at a bridge/milegate in some of the many empty Cyr campaigns if you want to avoid any actual combat (even with mobs) in Cyr/IC is... Also maybe 5 minutes.

      Thanks for suggestion about few shots from a siege weapon at a bridge/milegate in some of the many empty Cyrodiil campaigns! I need to try that! Or of course I could just run through a black sacrament without sneaking on one of my alts that has those unlocked, and I will still get the seals.
    • Calastir
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      Hot tip; I did one BG and got this damage endeavour in 1 match.
      Chaszmyr Do'Benrae (Dunmer Magsorc Vampire Infinity) ~ Dusk Doublespeak (Breton Magplar Werewolf) ~ Stan of Rimari (Nord Dragonknight Tank) ~ Bunto Kim Alhambra (Redguard Magplar Paladin) ~ Alicyankali (Argonian Magicka Necromancer Draugr Kin) ~ Gruuman Odinfan (Orsimer Magplar) ~ Boymans van Beuningen (Khajiit Stam Warden Bowzerker) ~ Flannelflail (Imperial Stamina Nightblade Brawler PVP) ~ Calastir (Altmer Stamina Dragonknight) ~ Sallystir (Bosmer Stam Warden Frostbite PVP) ~ Zalastir (Altmer Magicka Warden Ice Storm) ~ Capt Peach (Nord Stamcanist Crux Cannon) ~ PC EU ~ Flynt Westwood (Bosmer Magicka Dragonknight) ~ Chandu the Conjurer (Redguard Magcanist Rune Walker) ~ PC NA ~ since May 26th, 2021.
    • BoloBoffin
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      The Alchemy mat one again? That was just yesterday, and I took the opportunity to burn all my Alchemy surveys in prep for the Unknowns coming in. Yay, bank space!

      Well, I did save the Bangkorai one since it's relatively easy to get to. So, that one is toast too. :D
      Been there, got the Molag Bal polymorph.
    • whitecrow
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      The alchemy one is easy. The PVP one is not as hard as it sounds, even if you're not into PVP.
      I don't have anyone to do trials with any more.
      Endless Archive one might be easy but I dislike it so probably won't bother.
    • theskymoves
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      5 water/alchemy is ~2 min tops, 2 first Archive bosses is maybe 5 min, and firing s few shots from a siege weapon at a bridge/milegate in some of the many empty Cyr campaigns if you want to avoid any actual combat (even with mobs) in Cyr/IC is... Also maybe 5 minutes.

      I just tried attacking a milegate with a siege weapon, and the damage didn't count toward the Endeavor.

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