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

ZOS_Icy · October 18

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shadyjane62 · October 18

Did my two quests to get golden boxes, but I decided not to do them again as the stuff sucks.

I know people have said we should be getting three but the last one is behind the paywall.

Elvenheart · October 18

I personally think it’s appalling that not a single merchant in Solstice is willing to lend their support at the rampart base in defense of the island after all we are doing for them. Today I had to quit fighting the worm cult to go to town to get my armor and weapons repaired. Fortunately there was another defender able to take my place but what if there hadn’t been?

DenverRalphy · October 18

Elvenheart wrote: »

I personally think it’s appalling that not a single merchant in Solstice is willing to lend their support at the rampart base in defense of the island after all we are doing for them. Today I had to quit fighting the worm cult to go to town to get my armor and weapons repaired. Fortunately there was another defender able to take my place but what if there hadn’t been?

Whut.. you can't bring repair kits and soul gems with you into the field to repair and recharge your gear as needed?

Elvenheart · October 18

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Elvenheart wrote: »

I personally think it’s appalling that not a single merchant in Solstice is willing to lend their support at the rampart base in defense of the island after all we are doing for them. Today I had to quit fighting the worm cult to go to town to get my armor and weapons repaired. Fortunately there was another defender able to take my place but what if there hadn’t been?

Whut.. you can't bring repair kits and soul gems with you into the field to repair and recharge your gear as needed?

Oh, I have plenty of soul jams, but I don’t like to bother with using Repair kits when I merchant can take care of everything at once. 🙂

Edited to add: It’s funny though, I do collect those free green little repair kits in my bank for some reason, I don’t know why!

wolfie1.0. · October 20

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Elvenheart wrote: »

I personally think it’s appalling that not a single merchant in Solstice is willing to lend their support at the rampart base in defense of the island after all we are doing for them. Today I had to quit fighting the worm cult to go to town to get my armor and weapons repaired. Fortunately there was another defender able to take my place but what if there hadn’t been?

Whut.. you can't bring repair kits and soul gems with you into the field to repair and recharge your gear as needed?

Its just another layer of porting around that you have to do.making it more annoying. Have to have somewhere to sell or drop the junk off at.

Stirk island should at least have a banker and 1 merchant. Or double the armor dude as one. But both should have them.

Edit: especially since the wayshrine is broken.

SnizzStalker · October 21

I gave up on this event literally on the second day it was active. It is by far the most boring and repetitive thing I have ever been asked to do in this game.

Apollosipod · October 21

SnizzStalker wrote: »

I gave up on this event literally on the second day it was active. It is by far the most boring and repetitive thing I have ever been asked to do in this game.

It has inspired me to try other games for awhile. This whole "event" has just put a bad taste in my mouth

DrGIggles80 · October 21

over a 1000 boxes framed no house... hardly any loot drops at all... this event is trash and I am rather upset to be wasting the little time I have to play farming for zero rewards.

ginkys · October 27

I am not sure what is happening but on PCNA I have essentially given up on doing the events for this event. How is the event so busy and so crowded during the first week or so before witches fest that I am getting lag and crashes doing the siege camps as well as people on the stream team crashing regularly and yet PC NA is last. I know ZOS has been tweaking the ratio but since PC NA is last I see no point in engaging with this event. I paid for the DLC pack so give it to me whenever you want ZOS but I hope this type of event never comes back. I have seen on the first day of this event you nerfed PCNAS percentage so I don't care about getting there first but now i doubt we will get there in any decent time at all and I'll be having to dodge spoilers from other servers getting through weeks in advance.

DenverRalphy · October 27

ginkys wrote: »

<snip> I don't care about getting there first but now i doubt we will get there in any decent time at all and I'll be having to dodge spoilers from other servers getting through weeks in advance.

<<<---- Console Player

ArchMikem · October 28

So not only is Xbox EU 4% into phase 2, Xbox NA hasn't even gotten to 90% of phase 1 yet.

Either somethings funky or Americans just dont like to grind as much as the cross the ponders.

DenverRalphy · October 28

ArchMikem wrote: »

So not only is Xbox EU 4% into phase 2, Xbox NA hasn't even gotten to 90% of phase 1 yet.

Either somethings funky or Americans just dont like to grind as much as the cross the ponders.

Speaking anecdotally, but from my observations PSNA participation dropped off rather sharply today compared to the same day last week. And general in-game conversations on the subject tend to lean more toward criticizing and complaining than knuckling down and powering through.

Syldras · October 28

ArchMikem wrote: »

So not only is Xbox EU 4% into phase 2, Xbox NA hasn't even gotten to 90% of phase 1 yet.
Either somethings funky or Americans just dont like to grind as much as the cross the ponders.

I've seen the X-Box-EU counter moving from 97% of phase 1 to 2% of phase 2 rather fastly last night my time (and now, it's already at 5%) - PC-EU, in comparison, didn't even get 1% more in that timespan, which made it looks like the Xbox people are either grinding like crazy or the manually set goal for their percentage bar seems to be rather low so even just a few people playing the event rushes them through it.

In the end it doesn't matter. And I do think PC-NA is smart for not grinding, since the wall will fall anyway.

Apollosipod · October 28

Wait a minute, wasn't the premise of this event to be the servers competing against each other to see who could knock down the wall first? Yet, despite the artificially tracked progress bar, the PC side is still getting the update two weeks prior to console just as they normally would?

So PC automatically wins with s two week headstart no matter the status of the bar? Is ZOS serious with this? Why even try and make that an aspect of this "banging our heads against a wall" event? Er...sorry..."fighting a wall" event

tomofhyrule · October 28

Apollosipod wrote: »

Wait a minute, wasn't the premise of this event to be the servers competing against each other to see who could knock down the wall first? Yet, despite the artificially tracked progress bar, the PC side is still getting the update two weeks prior to console just as they normally would?

So PC automatically wins with s two week headstart no matter the status of the bar? Is ZOS serious with this? Why even try and make that an aspect of this "banging our heads against a wall" event? Er...sorry..."fighting a wall" event

It's not like the PC servers will clear the wall first though. PC just gets to sit there with the other half inaccessible until they decide to fudge the numbers enough to let us get over there. That means we also get to deal with a month of half of the Solstice dailies and antiquities being inaccessible.

PCNA will be the last server to even get to phase 2.

(Now if this were legit, they would have given us solid numbers to work towards and not fiddled with the bars after the fact, but let’s just pretend this is real in the first place)

Apollosipod · October 28

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Apollosipod wrote: »

Wait a minute, wasn't the premise of this event to be the servers competing against each other to see who could knock down the wall first? Yet, despite the artificially tracked progress bar, the PC side is still getting the update two weeks prior to console just as they normally would?

So PC automatically wins with s two week headstart no matter the status of the bar? Is ZOS serious with this? Why even try and make that an aspect of this "banging our heads against a wall" event? Er...sorry..."fighting a wall" event

It's not like the PC servers will clear the wall first though. PC just gets to sit there with the other half inaccessible until they decide to fudge the numbers enough to let us get over there. That means we also get to deal with a month of half of the Solstice dailies and antiquities being inaccessible.

PCNA will be the last server to even get to phase 2.

(Now if this were legit, they would have given us solid numbers to work towards and not fiddled with the bars after the fact, but let’s just pretend this is real in the first place)

Ok this makes more sense to me. I was under the mistaken impression that PC was already out there on the Eastern side due to the update. Ok, thank you for correcting me! And I'm sorry that means you guys now have to wait

wolfie1.0. · October 28

Feedback for next event like this.

ZOS dont give us bars with %'s give us the actual target data. If the goal is 100 million quest completions thats what I want to see. Not 100%. Im decent enough at math that I can figure out % completion myself.

ArchMikem · October 29

Xbox EU: 11% Phase 2

Xbox NA: 92% Phase 1

That's a 19% difference now, what is even going on? Did North American players just get fed up with the dailies?

Radiate77 · October 29

ArchMikem wrote: »

Xbox EU: 11% Phase 2

Xbox NA: 92% Phase 1

That's a 19% difference now, what is even going on? Did North American players just get fed up with the dailies?

No, because our population is much higher they decided to make us worth less.

shadyjane62 · October 29

ArchMikem wrote: »

Xbox EU: 11% Phase 2

Xbox NA: 92% Phase 1

That's a 19% difference now, what is even going on? Did North American players just get fed up with the dailies?

Yes, we did.

Syldras · October 29

Percentages feel skewed. I've seen PC-EU only gaining about 4% on one day and XBox-EU 12% within the same time. Despite the main camp having been busy on PC-EU. If everything was balanced appropriately, there should not be such huge differences.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · October 29

Now there is a 24% difference.

At this rate by the time PC/NA gets to phase 2, Xbox EU will be halfway to Phase 3

wolfie1.0. · October 29

ArchMikem wrote: »

Xbox EU: 11% Phase 2

Xbox NA: 92% Phase 1

That's a 19% difference now, what is even going on? Did North American players just get fed up with the dailies?

I bet its a combination of high expectations for the high player base, and dissatisfaction of the return. There is also the possibility of internal bias.

As others have pointed out, there is good marketing value in the Xbox servers completing the event before the others. Both internally and otherwise. Which is funny imo since most pc players use windows...

DenverRalphy · October 29

Syldras wrote: »

Percentages feel skewed. I've seen PC-EU only gaining about 4% on one day and XBox-EU 12% within the same time. Despite the main camp having been busy on PC-EU. If everything was balanced appropriately, there should not be such huge differences.

Depends on how many instances there are with busy camps.

Syldras · October 29

What's a "confict", by the way?

Does is stem from Latin "confingere" = "to make things up"?

OccultNerd · 1:35PM

I took a break from the game for a month or so, came back a few days ago to join in this event and the Witches Festival.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the map opening up, but the writhing wall event is really repetitive and boring, the rewards aren't anything exciting....crafting/collecting and defeating "dolmens". Honestly quite disappointed :-(
Still love the game as a whole but likely wont be putting a lot of effort into the Writhing wall event as I could be doing something else in game thats actually fun.
Hats off to those who are pushing us through the phases.