I'm not sure where to put this so I'm putting it here-- why did you make us do the writhing wall quest to test the 2nd half of the story? Is the version on the PTS the version that players would experience after the writhing wall event has concluded or is it a part of the event? It was conceptually interesting but painful and confusing given that there were 3-5 of us doing a 20+ person job on suboptimal builds. I had to subclass mid event just to lessen the pain.

Additional comments on writhing wall:

• Repeatedly confusing. NPCs continue to yell directions even when the objective is complete (ex. break the crystal but the crystal is already broken and the bridge is up). The quests were also not updating correctly (ex. "clear a path to the colossus" but the path is already cleared, had me confused on what to do even though the path was right there).
• In the final boss fight, the grapples were hard to target. You have to blindly move your cursor around underneath the platform and ones I had clear line of sight on were not letting me use them.
• Because the final fight took so long (and we wiped 2x), the prince's constant directions were getting really frustrating. I knew what to do at that point.
• I'm not sure the lightning stacks will do anything when there's the total amount of people. Having to hide to cleanse the stacks was hardly a concern even with so few people.

Despite my frustrations, I hope that the attack on the writhing wall can be a part of future "celebrate Solstice" events. I can tell a lot of effort went into it and most people probably won't see the effort as I imagine on live everything will just be obliterated unless its heavily buffed. I think this kind of event is a step in the right direction (sans confusing quest directions and constantly repeating dialogue, it would be nice to have an event of this scale for each of the in-game holiday events instead of more fetch/fight this one thing quests) and reminds me of the turnout of GW2's world events, so it's a shame to only happen one time.

On a template alt, CP3600, having picked up 'The Worm Turns' from Azah:

We meet Skordo in the Grand Juncture Pass and he relays a dead Argonian's final words to us, before saying he'll head back to update Prince Azah.
But he then runs further east to the barricade at the top of the rise with the other soldiers, rather than heading back towards the Rampart Camp, and will repeat the same dialogue about taking Azah the news:

Standing too close to the altar (behind it) during the explosion in the "destroy the ritual altar" phase of Crossing the Wall can cause you to get stuck in the collision of the platform Mannimarco is on.



Now Mannimarco can properly catch these hands

Margravigne wrote: »

It's great that Mannimarco's note to Necromancer Hezsatari in the Tarnur Mine shrine location can now be read, but the 3 cultists
and their bone colossus still respawn far too fast - after only 15 seconds - so there's too little time to read it before they're back and interrupting you:
https://youtu.be/r0H8BRlvPhA

Whereas the cultists at the end of the Seacave have glitchy or nonexistent shields, with the only one visible sitting much higher than the ones at the other site:

+1 both of these. I couldn’t figure out why the first trio of cultists could only be interacted with one at a time until I ran into the second set and saw they were supposed to have shields.

I also ran into an issue in the Tenmur Mine where Darien said we were supposed to be following the chains and we were. 😕 I’m assuming that’s supposed to trigger if I go down the wrong branch.

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

Is there a way to progress the Eastern Solstice Main Quest line without being present at the completion of the Writhing Fortress?

I've been trying everyday since the PTS started but have never got near to completing the fortress quests.

I'm using a cp3600 template with as strong a build as I can make it.

Sorry, not currently - it will be possible after a later patch, but it won't be done on Monday's one from what we've been told so far.
At the moment, the only way any alt is getting past is by killing Zysax the titan/final boss.
You don't need to be part of the earlier sections, but you do need to be there to beat him if you want to achieve it.

Running a copied alt who's completed:
- Camlorn & Cath Bedraud / Rivenspire / MQ only to completion of Sancre Tor
- Fighters Guild Quest / Thieves Guild / Dark Brotherhood
- Summerset
But has not completed Alik'r / Bangkorai (both partials) or begun Coldharbour.
(Completed part2 questline in full without interference from the bug affecting alts who have completed Coldharbour.)
This is feedback from reviewing footage I recorded prior to the first patch, so please disregard anything that has already been resolved - once the Coldharbour bug is completely fixed I'll recheck everything while running the copy of my main through.

Feedback on The Worm Turns:
In the Junction Pass, after Skordo says he'll go update Prince Azah, he runs to a location in the opposite direction instead of back towards the Rampart Camp.

I love the little yelp of protest from Raz when Darien mentions his idea to us, as well as their comments about Darien's lack of stealthiness (I'm also relieved Raz doesn't appear to have mentioned my Vestige's connection to the Dark Brotherhood or what happened in Anvil to Darien... yet?).

The 'Monthly Report from Dark Adept Bruhlz' found in the Wormcult camp whilst 'rummaging' has a spelling error:


(very excited by the reference to the ballista back in the Crystal Tower showing up in one of Darien's lines on the Eastern Overlook!)

Meeting Azah at the bridge, he and the soldier beside him were sunk into it, but he popped out when we drew close enough to trigger his greeting, leaving the soldier behind:


Already noted in bugs, but there are duplicate NPCs at the ballista positions if we run back into the camp after lighting the signal fire - no sign of Walks-In-Ash or Azah, though:




Once up the ladder and into the Hold's midden vault, Darien spawns in near the base of the stairs and runs back towards us. He'll then stop at the base of the stairs when we reach that point, and face the far wall to deliver his ambient line, regardless of where we stand:


At the Gate, if we approach too quickly, Darien will miss his mark and not deliver his line about there being two winches, even if we're not yet in position, let alone having pulled on it.
After we open the gate into Gristmung Hold for our allies to enter the Fortress, once we move from our winch Darien will sprint to our location then follow us back to where the others are standing (or wherever we go), can he be slowed to a more natural pace, or sent to a spot to deliver his line facing Skordo before then rejoining us?

Darien practically clipping to us:
https://youtu.be/4NDF875M6u0
If I run straight over to Skordo, his dialogue almost overlaps with Darien's during their banter.

Inside the Keep, in the soul flayer workshop Chamber, if we get within range of the table with the note on it too quickly, Darien's ambient line about 'anything important' will interrupt his one about the 'large monstrosity', cutting it off mid-line:


I also had an incident when entering that room at too sharp and angle where Darien became stuck at the edge of the doorway and his dialogue couldn't be triggered, until I ran far enough away for him to reset to my positition and resume following me.

Speaking to Jeetra through the closed gate, her dialogue has a discrepancy between the audio/on-screen text:


(When he can't get the Light to respond, being called 'Champion' by Darien hurt, but if I thought that was painful, I hadn't seen anything yet... although having Walks call us 'friend' a moment later, when she usually says 'champion' was a nice touch)

Margravigne wrote: »

Feedback on The Worm Turns:

Running my zero-shared-history-prior-to-Solstice template-alt though to recheck a few points and catch the differences, and a couple of things jumped out:

When breaking the portal anchors, the quest markers over the two we're able to smash are set rather high. Depending on the players' POV, they might not realise only two are meant for us, and Darien gets his pick between the others. Could these be lowered a bit to make this more obvious?
Also, Darien doesn't always complete his animation to smash a portal anchor, and won't at all if he's interrupted by combat.

If Darien is spoken to after smashing the last portal anchor but before the second note is found, he will still have this dialogue:


I didn't find anything else new (except the response options for Darien, which had replaced the 'flirty' choices with a 'grim' one in both interactions, due to not meeting the requirements on this alt for his romance to unlock).

After completing 'The Worm Turns' but before picking up 'Hunt For The Great Mage'; while speaking with Walks-In-Ash there is a spelling error in the on-screen text of her dialogue:

Feedback on The Deep Tombs of Xul-Haj
Running on my CP3600 zero-shared-history Template:

If Darien is spoken to immediately upon exiting Jeetra's house, this is his dialogue screen if you haven't moved away first:


And his 'Out-of-Bounds' line triggered between there and the village's gateway leading to the road, while heading towards the quest marker:

(it also triggers if we run the other way around her house to reach the road)

Once at Xul-Haj, speaking with Deetra before entering will give a repeat of her dialogue from:

all the way to this, despite the change in location making her last line sound misplaced:


A few dialogue discrepancies between the audio and on-screen text once we're inside:




With the trap-door, Darien disappears through before it opens, and the player can run out over the empty air without falling:
https://youtu.be/lJy__r36uKM
Could a temporary, invisible snare be placed to 'trip' the player if they attempt to follow while the trapdoor is open?

After positioning the second of the stones in the first cistern chamber, this ambient line from Jeetra cut off (may have been interrupted by combat?) and she then resumed speaking with an earlier line as though the task was still incomplete:
https://youtu.be/7wV1gURaMZo

With the second set of stones, after positioning the first stone (and opening the first gate blocking the second stone), Jeetra has no dialogue for this. Pushing the second stone through the gate (both gates), its animation was missing, causing it to clip forward with each hit while in close proximity to the gate:
https://youtu.be/B4uFl4z9ams
Once the first stone is repositioned to unlock the second gate, Jeetra will deliver an appropriate line:


After finding Darien, he doesn't follow us but remains standing in place whilst we continue on with Jeetra to find Vanus. He will eventually appear and resume following us once we go through the door into the Xul-Haj Funerary Temple.
Also, Jeetra will randomly use a 'tread water' swimming animation instead of a standing idle through this section. It seems to resolve itself after going through the same door/loading screen:
https://youtu.be/OWCGpYoIuq8

I may have paused to listen to Mannimarco's gloating a little too close to where the mobs began to spawn in, because as soon as they did Darien ran past me and entered combat. His ambient diaglogue then overlapped with Mannimarco's lines. I'll retry this from a hopefully safer distance on my next run.
https://youtu.be/2hty_I3J9BA

At the new base camp, there's a discrepancy in Azah's dialogue between the audio and on-screen text:

For some reason even though it is my active quest in my Journal, the marker in my compass for 'Crossing the Wall' is dark:

And the commentary for it when 'centered' in my compass is trying to point me back to speak with Azah, which was several quest stages ago. (copied alt on v11.2.2)
There is also still a marker for his position below the Rampart Camp visible on my compass, despite him no longer being there:

Still there even after completing the Fissure Ruins Delve and being told to speak with Skordo about his plans for once the Wall is breached.