Writhing Wall Event Date

ZOS_Kevin · August 27

The Writhing Wall Event comes to Tamriel on October 13, 2025. Get ready for a once-in-history event that will change Tamriel forever.

festegios · August 27

Could you post it on other platforms?

X is just giving me errors.

festegios · August 27

TonyH196 · August 27

festegios wrote: »

All it shows is a moving graphic with the date of October 13th

SilverIce58 · August 27

Did we really need to post it on that site? There couldnt be a forum post with the exact same graphic?

balthasars_darksideb16_ESO · August 27

Is that the next event coming? Or is there another event before that?
There is no Q3 event schedule postet in Events & Contests section.
Last years Q3 event schedule was postet on july 18

ShawnF · August 27

festegios wrote: »

Could you post it on other platforms?

There's no actual info in the post, but they do post on other sites if you want to avoid that one:

https://bsky.app/profile/elderscrollsonline.com/post/3lxf6uijlsj2d

ZOS_Kevin · August 27

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Did we really need to post it on that site? There couldn't be a forum post with the exact same graphic?

It's a video asset uploaded on social platforms. The forum doesn't support video unfortunately. However, we have updated the thread to just have the graphic.

ZOS_Kevin · August 27

balthasars_darksideb16_ESO wrote: »

Is that the next event coming? Or is there another event before that?
There is no Q3 event schedule postet in Events & Contests section.
Last years Q3 event schedule was postet on july 18

I thought I had updated the Q3 graphic. I'll take a look and update if I missed it.

The Writhing Wall Event technically takes place in Q4. So we will have a graphic for Q4 and the event will be included. I am working on building that out now.

ZOS_Kevin · August 27

balthasars_darksideb16_ESO wrote: »

Is that the next event coming? Or is there another event before that?
There is no Q3 event schedule postet in Events & Contests section.
Last years Q3 event schedule was postet on july 18

Here is the Q3 event schedule: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/682458
Thanks for flagging.

balthasars_darksideb16_ESO · August 27

Thanks a lot o7

LunaFlora · August 27

awesome to know the start date

Enemy-of-Coldharbour · August 27

Thank you for the start date! What will be the end date? I need to plan vacation.

SeaGtGruff · August 27

Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »

Thank you for the start date! What will be the end date? I need to plan vacation.

I think it's going to be a competitive race to see which server unlocks the other side of Solstice first, so maybe the end date will be... whenever the server(s) you play on unlocks the other side of Solstice? That is, maybe the overall end date for the event is difficult to give in advance?

tomofhyrule · August 27

I would be interested to see how this event will work logistically.

We know that the event goes in three phases, but the third and final phase (culminating in the wall coming down) will not be available until U48. This means that the U48 patch will need to drop in the middle of the event, which also implies that the U48 PTS should start soon. The Q4 patch tends to land during the Witches’ Fest event, so will there be conflict there?

If the timing of the phase 3 beginning is related to each server’s performance in phases 1 and 2, then we’d need the U48 patch to land before that point on any server, and that does imply that if it happens during the event that PC and console will need to patch simultaneously, which would mean that PTS needs to start even earlier. If PTS is a 6-week cycle, and then there’s another 2-week loadtime for console, that means PTS would already need to have started if the patch were for all servers before the event.

Also, Witches’ Fest can’t exactly move much as it overlaps Halloween, so if the wall is long enough, would those two events overlap? The Wall doesn’t seem to be a ticketed event from PTS testing, so it could theoretically overlap.

All that saying: please everyone be aware we will have a patch (and its associated downtime!) in the middle of the Wall event, and we likely will also have Witches either overlapping or immediately following the Wall.

twisttop138 · August 27

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I would be interested to see how this event will work logistically.

We know that the event goes in three phases, but the third and final phase (culminating in the wall coming down) will not be available until U48. This means that the U48 patch will need to drop in the middle of the event, which also implies that the U48 PTS should start soon. The Q4 patch tends to land during the Witches’ Fest event, so will there be conflict there?

If the timing of the phase 3 beginning is related to each server’s performance in phases 1 and 2, then we’d need the U48 patch to land before that point on any server, and that does imply that if it happens during the event that PC and console will need to patch simultaneously, which would mean that PTS needs to start even earlier. If PTS is a 6-week cycle, and then there’s another 2-week loadtime for console, that means PTS would already need to have started if the patch were for all servers before the event.

Also, Witches’ Fest can’t exactly move much as it overlaps Halloween, so if the wall is long enough, would those two events overlap? The Wall doesn’t seem to be a ticketed event from PTS testing, so it could theoretically overlap.

All that saying: please everyone be aware we will have a patch (and its associated downtime!) in the middle of the Wall event, and we likely will also have Witches either overlapping or immediately following the Wall.

Damn man that's a really good point. Does PC get 2 weeks on us if we're all trying to bring the wall down and it really is a competitive thing? We know that the patches can come simultaneously. Other MMOs do it, ESO just doesn't which always struck me as weird. I have a feeling this is a scripted thing with a predetermined outcome. The tasks shown on the pts are kinda like when we were "working" to bring the brotherhood of steel to West Virginia. We had to fill up some meters but it's not like they weren't gonna come if we didn't.

Maybe @ZOS_Kevin can share some insight on the patch question.

TheRimOfTheSky · August 27

Is it still called Battle for the Writhing Wall

ZOS_Kevin · August 27

TheRimOfTheSky wrote: »

Is it still called Battle for the Writhing Wall

I believe so. To my knowledge, that has not changed.

Elvenheart · August 27

I’m almost sure that Jessica said the Writhing Wall event will launch simultaneously on both PC and consoles in another post somewhere recently when someone else asked that question.

licenturion · August 27

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

TheRimOfTheSky wrote: »

Is it still called Battle for the Writhing Wall

I believe so. To my knowledge, that has not changed.

How exactly will the zone main quest play after the event with a new character?

Main quest and side quests are all talking about the great big wall. If this wall is not there that is a huge oversight in storytelling. Or are you going to put up the wall per player instance? (which could give issues when grouping)

Elvenheart · August 28

licenturion wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

TheRimOfTheSky wrote: »

Is it still called Battle for the Writhing Wall

I believe so. To my knowledge, that has not changed.

How exactly will the zone main quest play after the event with a new character?

Main quest and side quests are all talking about the great big wall. If this wall is not there that is a huge oversight in storytelling. Or are you going to put up the wall per player instance? (which could give issues when grouping)

I think in that other post, this was also answered a little bit vaguely, but what was said is that there are plans in place to preserve the continuity of the story after the event. We may not get to see how this works until the event is over.

Sarannah · August 28

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

The Writhing Wall Event comes to Tamriel on October 13, 2025. Get ready for a once-in-history event that will change Tamriel forever.

Looking forward to this event, luckily this event's start date also gives me enough time to complete the new zone still. Haven't been there yet.

How exactly can we expect this event to change Tamriel forever? Is this due to the new zone area being added to Tamriel? Does the event unlock some kind of new/changed gameplay? Maybe in some completely other way this event changes Tamriel?

Or am I just expecting too much here?

XSTRONG · August 28

Sarannah wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

The Writhing Wall Event comes to Tamriel on October 13, 2025. Get ready for a once-in-history event that will change Tamriel forever.

Looking forward to this event, luckily this event's start date also gives me enough time to complete the new zone still. Haven't been there yet.

How exactly can we expect this event to change Tamriel forever? Is this due to the new zone area being added to Tamriel? Does the event unlock some kind of new/changed gameplay? Maybe in some completely other way this event changes Tamriel?

Or am I just expecting too much here?

I was also wondering about " will change Tamriel forever "

Sure its a new thing with competition between servers but why would that change Tamriel forever?

If I can Dream abit lol, you unlock the zone and its a Crossplay zone 😁

tomofhyrule · August 28

XSTRONG wrote: »

Sarannah wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

The Writhing Wall Event comes to Tamriel on October 13, 2025. Get ready for a once-in-history event that will change Tamriel forever.

Looking forward to this event, luckily this event's start date also gives me enough time to complete the new zone still. Haven't been there yet.

How exactly can we expect this event to change Tamriel forever? Is this due to the new zone area being added to Tamriel? Does the event unlock some kind of new/changed gameplay? Maybe in some completely other way this event changes Tamriel?

Or am I just expecting too much here?

I was also wondering about " will change Tamriel forever "

Sure its a new thing with competition between servers but why would that change Tamriel forever?

If I can Dream abit lol, you unlock the zone and its a Crossplay zone 😁

… you may want to lay off the hopium there.

We already know what’s coming: the other half of Solstice. It’s not even going to be a new zone, it’ll just be the blocked half of a zone we already have. It will “change Tamriel forever” in the same way that opening upper Craglorn or completing the part of Coldharbour zone quests opened northern Coldharbour did.

Kevin and Rich have both talked about crossplay being in the works, but it’s a lot more technical than just flipping a switch. The megaserver architecture basically has to be rebuilt in order to allow it. There’s no reason that they would put in all of that work to then restrict it to (half of) one single zone.

XSTRONG · August 28

It was more of a joke that it would be a crossplay zone.

But change Tamriel forever seems like weird advertising for unlocking half a zone.

tomofhyrule · August 28

XSTRONG wrote: »

It was more of a joke that it would be a crossplay zone.

But change Tamriel forever seems like weird advertising for unlocking half a zone.

Because “come unlock the other half of a zone, featuring 100% more Coldharbour!” doesn’t sound as impressive.

I’m sure they do have some big stuff in the works, but I’m not convinced it’s connected to the wall. There’s still a lot of tentpole features that they could add down the line, and the biggest things tend to land in the summer patch.

ZOS_Kevin · August 28

XSTRONG wrote: »

Sarannah wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

The Writhing Wall Event comes to Tamriel on October 13, 2025. Get ready for a once-in-history event that will change Tamriel forever.

Looking forward to this event, luckily this event's start date also gives me enough time to complete the new zone still. Haven't been there yet.

How exactly can we expect this event to change Tamriel forever? Is this due to the new zone area being added to Tamriel? Does the event unlock some kind of new/changed gameplay? Maybe in some completely other way this event changes Tamriel?

Or am I just expecting too much here?

I was also wondering about " will change Tamriel forever "

Sure its a new thing with competition between servers but why would that change Tamriel forever?

If I can Dream abit lol, you unlock the zone and its a Crossplay zone 😁

Just to clarify, the "change Tamriel forever" is more for the story we are telling with the Writhing Wall than game function. But also, this is the first time we are running an event like this. So kinda fits theme wise there as well.

XSTRONG · August 28

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

XSTRONG wrote: »

Sarannah wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

The Writhing Wall Event comes to Tamriel on October 13, 2025. Get ready for a once-in-history event that will change Tamriel forever.

Looking forward to this event, luckily this event's start date also gives me enough time to complete the new zone still. Haven't been there yet.

How exactly can we expect this event to change Tamriel forever? Is this due to the new zone area being added to Tamriel? Does the event unlock some kind of new/changed gameplay? Maybe in some completely other way this event changes Tamriel?

Or am I just expecting too much here?

I was also wondering about " will change Tamriel forever "

Sure its a new thing with competition between servers but why would that change Tamriel forever?

If I can Dream abit lol, you unlock the zone and its a Crossplay zone 😁

Just to clarify, the "change Tamriel forever" is more for the story we are telling with the Writhing Wall than game function. But also, this is the first time we are running an event like this. So kinda fits theme wise there as well.

Ok 👍

Sarannah · August 28

Thanks for the answer!

wolfie1.0. · August 29

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Did we really need to post it on that site? There couldn't be a forum post with the exact same graphic?

It's a video asset uploaded on social platforms. The forum doesn't support video unfortunately. However, we have updated the thread to just have the graphic.

Yall should change that, atleast for announcement style posts.

Just a suggestion. If only you could post it the strain shouldn't be too much right?

silky_soft · August 29

Great but, 85aud is too much for it. Will just watch it instead.