Official Discussion Thread for "Battle For The Writhing Wall Event Info"

Erissime · October 13

Romo wrote: »

Well again I'm really questioning the money I spent on this stuff, and becoming more happy I did not buy at the first for $50pls dollars.

Took the starting quest from Skordo and he did-int give me a Qwest! So I did not know where to find him. Searched back at palace, but not there. Searched all over the areas on map..still no Skordo.

Then asked the zone for his location... no one replied.. helpful bunch.. not...

Sigh...

waste of money, and time.

Another glitch. The quest givers npc phase out of the map for me too. Smashing really.

colossalvoids · October 13

Well one thing that could be done better is that introduction to every quest giver should unlock it's daily and not just spawn all of them ready to give daily quest right away confusing some players and giving too much to chew immediately instead of gradually.

Overall not a fan so far.

Camp would be better in off time and when players would spread out more on later days, currently it's incredibly bad with just a blob of players mowing everything down before it can even be seen on some clients, let alone do any mechanics.

Crafting one is alright.

Deadra remnants/furs/fat could be done better by making creatures drop those not with %chance but 1-2 piece each period.

Kinda pointless piece as the event will go away eventually soon but hopefully Devs can learn a thing or two this time.

Erissime · October 13

colossalvoids wrote: »

Well one thing that could be done better is that introduction to every quest giver should unlock it's daily and not just spawn all of them ready to give daily quest right away confusing some players and giving too much to chew immediately instead of gradually.

Overall not a fan so far.

Camp would be better in off time and when players would spread out more on later days, currently it's incredibly bad with just a blob of players mowing everything down before it can even be seen on some clients, let alone do any mechanics.

Crafting one is alright.

Deadra remnants/furs/fat could be done better by making creatures drop those not with %chance but 1-2 piece each period.

Kinda pointless piece as the event will go away eventually soon but hopefully Devs can learn a thing or two this time.

If ten years later of deving around this is what we get, I doubt there's much of a lesson to be learned after this. I take it more as what awaits players in the future. And frankly? I have no intention to be part of that future anymore. Not after this. I said it before, and will say it again: this level of glitches and malfunctions is for pts, not live! And is not even some new chapter!

fizl101 · October 13

ZOS_CouchTato wrote: »

fizl101 wrote: »

Not sure what is happening but on ps eu we were at 2.6% then dropped to 0.9%

Kevin commented on this in this thread.

Thankyou

tomofhyrule · October 13

I'm not seeing any hits on TTC yet for Crafting Motif 132: Stirk Fellowship.

The event page says that's supposed to drop, but that means I'd expect that anyone has seen one by now. Are they not dropping?

(I thought it was too good to be true that the Coldharbour Dominator did turn on as intended, I guess it's the other one that didn't turn on)

joshisanonymous · October 13

Extremely disappointed that, while playing in French, all of the NPCs for the event speak English.

Apollosipod · October 13

Erissime wrote: »

colossalvoids wrote: »

Well one thing that could be done better is that introduction to every quest giver should unlock it's daily and not just spawn all of them ready to give daily quest right away confusing some players and giving too much to chew immediately instead of gradually.

Overall not a fan so far.

Camp would be better in off time and when players would spread out more on later days, currently it's incredibly bad with just a blob of players mowing everything down before it can even be seen on some clients, let alone do any mechanics.

Crafting one is alright.

Deadra remnants/furs/fat could be done better by making creatures drop those not with %chance but 1-2 piece each period.

Kinda pointless piece as the event will go away eventually soon but hopefully Devs can learn a thing or two this time.

If ten years later of deving around this is what we get, I doubt there's much of a lesson to be learned after this. I take it more as what awaits players in the future. And frankly? I have no intention to be part of that future anymore. Not after this. I said it before, and will say it again: this level of glitches and malfunctions is for pts, not live! And is not even some new chapter!

I've never been one to doom and gloom the game over the years. And I'm even willing to forgive glitches as these kinds of things do happen. But this years lack of content (poor quality content at that), and now this huge "one in a lifetime event" of glitches, fetch quests, and tedious chores has me pretty empty. It's just awful. I cancelled my sub an hour ago. This is just a trainwreck, ZOS.

colossalvoids · October 13

Erissime wrote: »

colossalvoids wrote: »

Well one thing that could be done better is that introduction to every quest giver should unlock it's daily and not just spawn all of them ready to give daily quest right away confusing some players and giving too much to chew immediately instead of gradually.

Overall not a fan so far.

Camp would be better in off time and when players would spread out more on later days, currently it's incredibly bad with just a blob of players mowing everything down before it can even be seen on some clients, let alone do any mechanics.

Crafting one is alright.

Deadra remnants/furs/fat could be done better by making creatures drop those not with %chance but 1-2 piece each period.

Kinda pointless piece as the event will go away eventually soon but hopefully Devs can learn a thing or two this time.

If ten years later of deving around this is what we get, I doubt there's much of a lesson to be learned after this. I take it more as what awaits players in the future. And frankly? I have no intention to be part of that future anymore. Not after this. I said it before, and will say it again: this level of glitches and malfunctions is for pts, not live! And is not even some new chapter!

I agree generally, just a habit of dropping even crumbs bits of feedback despite it's not being my primary game anymore for all the reasons we all know too well at this point.

Jofish · October 13

I am confused regarding the Pan-Tamriel delve and public dungeon bosses. Are they tied to a quest giver? Are they meant to be dailies? The lady who asks for the souls doesn't give them though the web-page seems to tie her to them. A little clarification would go a long way.

Danikat · October 13

Is it possible to complete the quest Support the Fellowship?

I thought I'd screwed up by turning in the daily before speaking to Skordo, because he then told me to complete a daily, so I went back out and got another 15 souls and turned it in but the Support the Fellowship quest is still prompting me to complete dailies.

Someone in-game said each one can be done 6 times per day, but surely you don't need to do all of them for the main quest?

16BitForestCat · October 13

Stirk Wayshrine is not working as intended. You can teleport to the wayshrine, but not from the wayshrine.

"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

Why is that about every single time there's an event the past few years, something highly relevant to the event breaks catastrophically? I know, I know, lack of proper testing, but still....Y'all sure you don't have some kinda internal sabotage going on at ZOS?

shadyjane62 · October 13

Danikat wrote: »

Is it possible to complete the quest Support the Fellowship?

I thought I'd screwed up by turning in the daily before speaking to Skordo, because he then told me to complete a daily, so I went back out and got another 15 souls and turned it in but the Support the Fellowship quest is still prompting me to complete dailies.

Someone in-game said each one can be done 6 times per day, but surely you don't need to do all of them for the main quest?

I got so annoyed at this one I just abandoned all my quests for this event. The rewards are pitiful.You spend a hr trying to get the quest items to receive a worthless box of 20 ores or cloths.

aussie500 · October 13

I found the whole event lackluster and buggy. Was excited for the first go, had trouble collecting anything to do with creatures, furs, fat what ever would not drop, had trouble with the souls, hours later was very grumpy, no real goodies as a reward for a lot of running around and wasted effort. Second account started same problems. Gave up till morning. Third account that only just got the 2025 content, cannot get the souls, I got 2 gold boxes one of which was junk same as the first accounts and a lot of junk out of blue boxes, gave up for the day. The third account is unlikely to ever finish those 2 quests that need souls. It would be nice if the event worked as intended, nothing about it seemed to work as intended. The camps would start and stop real quick most of the time, or just never start, the goodies were mainly absent, the drops needed for the quests were way to hard to get for me. I will just go buy the furnishing plans and probably not bother wasting any more of my time with the event, it is way too frustrating.

Edit
Some friends grouped with me this afternoon and the third account got the souls all three accounts got them for tomorrow as well. Much easier to get them as a group.

Ilsabet · October 14

Danikat wrote: »

Is it possible to complete the quest Support the Fellowship?

I thought I'd screwed up by turning in the daily before speaking to Skordo, because he then told me to complete a daily, so I went back out and got another 15 souls and turned it in but the Support the Fellowship quest is still prompting me to complete dailies.

Someone in-game said each one can be done 6 times per day, but surely you don't need to do all of them for the main quest?

Support the Fellowship is the ongoing umbrella quest for the whole event. After you've turned in the three souls that Skordo asks for, he basically just turns you loose to do whatever you want as far as dailies. The actual quest will progress once Skordo has another objective for you, probably when Phase 2 starts.

Jestir · October 14

So, siege daily and crafting daily are whatever, ya know when the siege camps don't bug out

But the other 2 are just awful, if an event daily isn't gonna offer anything "unique" I want it to be quick and painless while these are neither

Reverting the progress that has been made cause y'all don't either messed up how it is presented to us or because y'all actively don't like how fast people were pushing it is just an absolute hot steaming pile of you know what to the few people who actually care enough to sit there and grind out these nothing burger dailies

I avoided looking into the event before hand, which I normally do either from content creators or hopping into PTS myself, so that I wouldn't have an opinion going in and I am finding this might be the worst event this game has had to this point when you consider the forced hype to actual event ratio.

Since part 2 has already sneaked into the game early, I guess we gotta hope that part 3 saves the day but saying expectations are low is a huge understatement

Getsugatenso · October 14

Is an event with decent enemy troops, decent bosses that scale with player quantity and decent rewards that difficult?

SeaGtGruff · October 14

Destai wrote: »

I am deeply disappointed that the Stirk Motif pages aren't a guaranteed drop. Seeing that, I don't think I'll be participating in this event.

Well, the event is expected to take over a month to be completed, so a daily guaranteed drop would mean you'd have all of the pages after a week or so, and then what?

wolfie1.0. · October 14

Now that I have had a chance to do something....

I find the event confusing, buggy,.and a bit convoluted. There is too much to do and rewards... well rewards are lacking for paid content.

I almost feel like it would have been better if we were required to just bang on the wall with attacks until we brought it down.

Maybe it will be better once the bugs are fixed. Or phase 2 is better.

Doggyears · October 14

Is it intended for Walks-in-Ash to drop a spoiler about something that (I'm assuming) happens during Solstice questing?

Gabrielle's death

I'm doing story content in order of release, and still a little behind, so it was a bit of a shock to find out this way.

LunaFlora · October 14

Doggyears wrote: »

Is it intended for Walks-in-Ash to drop a spoiler about something that (I'm assuming) happens during Solstice questing?
Gabrielle's death

I'm doing story content in order of release, and still a little behind, so it was a bit of a shock to find out this way.

yes as this event takes place in the middle of the Solstice zone story

bobsontpm · October 14

The description on the webpage says that we are guaranteed one drop from each gold coffer in the event of the special rewards (each coffer mention this separately, so it should NOT be one account-bound per account):

- style page/fragment section: it drops only from the first coffer opened each day (the description seems to say each one of the coffers grants a prize in this section). In two coffers it mentions we have guaranteed chance (camps and vitrified/or/essence quests) and one has a "much higher chance", so I believe one in 2 or 1 in 3 should drop...

- it seems stirk style pages also does not drop (but I see that it is in the known bugs).

- the stirk fellowship style item (Brooch of the Fellowship) it is not dropping at all for me (I have opened 6 gold boxes and I have 0 Brooches in my craft bag) (I see now that it is already reported).

- A chance (not low!) for furnishing plans from crafting writs. I have done 18 quests so far, and got none of the plans. Please check if the drop rate is as intended. I do not know how low a normal "chance" is, but if this is even 10%, the chance that I have not seen any is less than 8%, and the expected number of plans in 2.4. Even if the probability is 5% then the numbers are less than 30% and 1.2 items. if the chance is less than 5%, please indicate that the chance is low or very low...

Also: the drop rate of essences / vitrified souls is bizzare. Going to glenumbra. Either you have put some curated drop rate, or the zones where they are dropping are marked wrong. All my death essences I got only if I went outside of the marked zones, e.g. the Burial Grounds.

Please fix those ASAP! Bugs like those destroys all incentive and joy from the event...

Best regards

Sarannah · October 14

Sadly I was right in my first reply here... this event is complicated, grindy, buggy, not fun, unrewarding, and a total waste of time. Have to give it a 3/10, mostly because of the crafting dailies.

However, I do like doing the camps and the crafting dailies. But the entire event in general should have been fun! Too many questions left unanswered, especially for an event with one-time only/limited time only rewards.

Personally I would be happy if this event was taken offline and given six more months to get fixed/sorted out. Right now I can say I am here for the event, but really wish I wasn't!

PS: Remove the x/25 event rewards, and make these single drops! These feel incredibly bad/de-motivating to collect.
PPS: Remove accountwide event restrictions, all you are doing is making events only rewarding for players with multiple accounts. This has been an issue for years.

Edit: If you skip the gathering quests, or get really lucky with their drops, the event itself is alright. Not sure what that does to the rewards though.

shadyjane62 · October 14

I am asking IF and WHEN everything will be fixed. This is a "Once in a Lifetime History Making Event" Really? And so unbelievably sad that it was allowed to go live in this condition.

Update: decided I would give it another try because the gold boxes are again in play. Did my fetch quest and I got one Unknown Clotheir crafting writ in my gold box. Hope it didn't break you loot table ZOS.

Aylish · October 14

Sorry but NOTHING about this event is fun or rewarding. Nothing but a few pet fragments, non raw material and Solstice set pieces is NOT worth any of the efforts (neither crafting nor farming the same mobs over and over).

There are no style pages, motifs or furnishing plans dropping, the quests are boring and frustrating. It‘s a waste of time.

Renato90085 · October 14

so,i still not buy pass,and cant understand what reward i will miss?
i only know a bad title and cant enter new zone,but next year have new pass look like about elsweyr,i still have plus so still can visit Solstice and other half ,right?

dcrush · October 14

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Edenprime wrote: »

Are there three or four glorious coffers available from the four available dailies? On PTS the Quartermaster Nurwalne's quest also gave a golden coffer, but the article only mentions the other three quest givers and their loot tables. @ZOS_Kevin

We issued a correction for this in the article. It should be four, rather than three.

So should it be three or four? Because this post says four but most people seem to be getting three.

Syldras · October 14

dcrush wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Edenprime wrote: »

Are there three or four glorious coffers available from the four available dailies? On PTS the Quartermaster Nurwalne's quest also gave a golden coffer, but the article only mentions the other three quest givers and their loot tables. @ZOS_Kevin

We issued a correction for this in the article. It should be four, rather than three.

So should it be three or four? Because this post says four but most people seem to be getting three.

It's bugged.

WolfStark1 · October 14

@ZOS_Kevin Is there any way for them to remove the Progress bar from the map? It covers the entire center of my mini map and I have to go in and out of the full map for it to disappear......Everytime I switch zones and use a wayshrine its back. I feel like i spend more time making it go away in order to see where Im going than I do on the quests LOL Its becoming extremely annoying to the point I dont want to play until this event is over. Yesterday was already alot with the event and the drop/respawn rates that took me all day on only 2 toons! Kind of glad I was off work to be able to take the time to get through day 1. Any help would be appreciated!
For Example, could it be moved to the right of the screen where our quest progress goes, possibly above the golden pursuits spot?
WolfStark1

Destai · October 14

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

I am deeply disappointed that the Stirk Motif pages aren't a guaranteed drop. Seeing that, I don't think I'll be participating in this event.

Well, the event is expected to take over a month to be completed, so a daily guaranteed drop would mean you'd have all of the pages after a week or so, and then what?

That sounds awesome, actually. I would just work on the other rewards; I'd feel incentivized to get more.

Ingenon · October 14

shadyjane62 wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

E_Lucan wrote: »

This might be a silly question, but it's happened to me three times now that an event to "defend the camp" has started in a camp I was in, only for all the enemies to despawn in like two seconds. Is this meant to happen? We are waiting around for 15+ minutes for the camp event to start and then the timer seems to reset without the battle actually starting? Am I misunderstanding something?

Known issue
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/683994/writhing-wall-event-known-issues#latest

You had all this time to make it worked right and it doesn't. I've spent a fortunes trying to get to places because no Stirk Wayshrine. I've wasted hours doing boring busywork that I can't accomplish. If I ever go into Entilias Folly again I hope its not this century.

Think I'll give the rest of this disaster a miss.

I agree there is no Stirk Wayshrine. My work around is to own an inn room near a way shrine. Sugar Bowl inn room in RImmen works for me. If you don't own Northern Elsweyr chapter, then the Mara's Kiss inn room in Vulkhel Guard is also cheap (3000 gold, or free if you haven't already done the inn room quest) and near a way shrine. Anyway, travel to the outside of one of those, and then way shrine to where you want without paying fortunes.