Celebration events for newer DLCs

dcrush · April 20

I’d like to see celebration events for newer DLCs come back to at least make those zones a bit more populated for a while. Trying to get leads from world bosses or things like Bastion Nymics, or even getting achievements such as doing 30 Bastion Nymic quests can take forever if you did not do the content right after release because not a lot of players still do them. While Nymics can be solo’d on the right build they can take 3-5 business days to complete.

As far as I can find, these are the last times that zones after Summerset had an event (outside of the pan-Tamriel event in 2025)

Elsweyr - 2023
Greymoor - 2022 (perhaps a rerun when Greymoor becomes base game?)
Blackwood - 2023
High Isle - 2024
Necrom - 2023 (release year)
West Weald - 2024 (release year)

LunaFlora · April 20

i imagine Necrom, infinite Archive, and West Weald will have an event later in 2026

BretonMage · April 20

dcrush wrote: »

I’d like to see celebration events for newer DLCs come back to at least make those zones a bit more populated for a while. Trying to get leads from world bosses or things like Bastion Nymics, or even getting achievements such as doing 30 Bastion Nymic quests can take forever if you did not do the content right after release because not a lot of players still do them. While Nymics can be solo’d on the right build they can take 3-5 business days to complete.

It's such a pity Bastion Nymics are instanced. They should have active combat indicators on them (the crossed swords icon), and let other players enter your instance. I don't really mind soloing them, but it takes ages and it would be nice to have help without having to formally group up. Dragons, harrowstorms and mirrormoors are rather fun when there's a bunch of people participating, I wish Bastion Nymics were similar.

PeacefulAnarchy · April 20

LunaFlora wrote: »

i imagine Necrom, infinite Archive, and West Weald will have an event later in 2026

I feel like zone based events, the way they worked in the past, will no longer be a thing. But if they were replaced by 2 or 3 weeks of a golden pursuit and double drops without the tickets or event boxes that would be good.

LunaFlora · April 20

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

i imagine Necrom, infinite Archive, and West Weald will have an event later in 2026

I feel like zone based events, the way they worked in the past, will no longer be a thing. But if they were replaced by 2 or 3 weeks of a golden pursuit and double drops without the tickets or event boxes that would be good.

why not?
we had Daedric War celebration in November

Orbital78 · April 20

It was disappointing to not get an official double drop event for Solstice's vOC. That trial is already such a slog to get through, and is rather tough for many groups.

I'd like to see more mini events that draw players out to older incursions and world bosses though. I'm not sure how they would incentivize it, but it could be nice. I don't feel that many players do the older zone content due to difficulty/time once the year is over. A few like dragons because of heroism potions may.

DenverRalphy · April 20

Orbital78 wrote: »

It was disappointing to not get an official double drop event for Solstice's vOC. That trial is already so a slog to get through, and is rather tough for many groups.

I'd like to see more mini events that draw players out to older incursions and world bosses though. I'm not sure how they would incentivize it, but it could be nice. I don't feel that many players do the older zone content due to difficulty/time once the year is over. A few like dragons because of heroism potions may.

If there was ever a Solstice event in mind, it likely got tabled after the WW event. Most players had had their fill of anything Solstice by that point.

Orbital78 · April 20

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Orbital78 wrote: »

It was disappointing to not get an official double drop event for Solstice's vOC. That trial is already so a slog to get through, and is rather tough for many groups.

I'd like to see more mini events that draw players out to older incursions and world bosses though. I'm not sure how they would incentivize it, but it could be nice. I don't feel that many players do the older zone content due to difficulty/time once the year is over. A few like dragons because of heroism potions may.

If there was ever a Solstice event in mind, it likely got tabled after the WW event. Most players had had their fill of anything Solstice by that point.

Yep, I was kind of surprised vOC wasn't included during the WW event for extra drops. Some of my guild leaders had kind of assumed we'd be farming it more for the event.

PeacefulAnarchy · April 20

LunaFlora wrote: »

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

i imagine Necrom, infinite Archive, and West Weald will have an event later in 2026

I feel like zone based events, the way they worked in the past, will no longer be a thing. But if they were replaced by 2 or 3 weeks of a golden pursuit and double drops without the tickets or event boxes that would be good.

why not?
we had Daedric War celebration in November

Right, we had Daedric War, a catchall rerun event for a few old zones, but we had no event for Necrom which would have fit the previous pattern of revisiting a zone from 2 years prior. This year we had no zone event, instead we had hearts week, a shortened transitional event.
We have no events coming after Zenithar until Witches and they've made several comments implying a different approach to events.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We are trying to find a right balance for events, since we have heard feedback around having too many.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8376062/#Comment_8376062

ZOS_Kevin wrote:

Event: Whitestrakes Mayhem
Future iterations of this event will receive some foundational changes, so stay tuned!

My speculation is that I expect ticket events will be reduced to jesters, anniversary, zenithar, witches and new life, with the others getting some transition into different kinds of rewards. Maybe golden pursuit type events, or maybe week or weekend highlights, etc. If done right I think this would be a good thing. There's a lot of content to spotlight in the game and the previous way event worked was overwhelming with a constant barrage of make work events and still had a hard time fitting in a lot of the content (when's the last time Murkmire was in an event? over 5 years ago). A different approach that highlights and rewards without requiring a grind would be nice. I do wish they'd talk about their plans on this kind of stuff, but I get the feeling the exact direction may not be set in stone and they're trying to see what works.

DoofusMax · April 20

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

My speculation is that I expect ticket events will be reduced to jesters, anniversary, zenithar, witches and new life, with the others getting some transition into different kinds of rewards. Maybe golden pursuit type events, or maybe week or weekend highlights, etc.

I think the ticket events will likely continue, with perhaps changes to the two "flex" events in Q1 and Q4. Whitestrake's is the iffy one if all the non-Grey Host campaigns are going to get dropped in favor of Vengeance (not a fan of that, just sayin'). But Jesters, Anniversary, Zeal, Undaunted, Witches, and New Life will probably continue without much change. ZOS seems to be strongly suggesting that Hearts Week will become an annual event. If so, that only leaves the one Q4 story event unaccounted for.

allochthons · April 20

While I like the Celebration events, I am definitely on the "too many events" side. But, I agree that a lot of leads and activities are hard to impossible to do, if you didn't do them when the zone first opened.

I suggested that Tome Challenges could be tailored to them, but if they did this, they have to craft them so they're not another Wrothgar Extinction Event. And I'm not sure those two things are compatible. I've suggested many times that Endeavors (and now Challenges) be worded to be something like "complete a public dungeon event in the Aldmeri Dominion" instead of just one zone like Grahtwood. So pointing everyone to the Preserver of Galen WWB wouldn't be a good solution.

Hopefully there is a middle ground.

I like the idea of opening up Bastion Nymics. I haven't done one of those since I finished the achievements and motifs. They're too much of a bother for too little gain.

(edited to add a link)

dcrush · April 20

If not full events, perhaps weeks or even just weekends with bonus drops (or some other incentive to come back to specific zones) could work as well.

PeacefulAnarchy · April 20

dcrush wrote: »

If not full events, perhaps weeks or even just weekends with bonus drops (or some other incentive to come back to specific zones) could work as well.

I agree. Double drops is a good thing that incentivizes people to go to do particular content without feeling forced to if you aren't interested and without feeling like you're missing out if you miss it. That kind of lower stakes spotlight feels like something they could do regularly without people feeling burnt out or pressured.

PeacefulAnarchy · April 20

Speak of the devil, here are the details from PTS about how mayhem is changing, I think this is good and I expect it might be the model for undaunted and maybe zone events. Still have rewards and double drops or in this case double AP and tel var, but without the "login once a day and do a daily" pressure.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8460101/#Comment_8460101

ZOS_Kevin wrote:

Whitestrake’s Mayhem
Runs from April 20 through April 27 on PTS.
The Whitestrakes Mayhem live event has seen several changes to its length and design as an update coming this summer. August will mark the first time we are running the new "One Week Whitestrakes" and we can't wait for your feedback and notes on this venerable PvP throwdown.

What is Whitestrakes Mayhem?

At its heart, Whitestrakes remains the same. When the event is live Cyrodiil, Battlegrounds, and Imperial City combat offer a number of additional rewards. Fighting in those zones gives +100% Alliance Points and +100% Experience, as well as +100% Tel Var stones from most sources. All harvesting in Cyrodiil drops additional resources as well.
The vendor called "the Golden" will still make an appearance on the weekend of Whitestrakes Mayhem. She'll be accompanied by a brand new assistant, so you can purchase both amulets and rings from among their beautifully gilded inventories.
Completing PvP quests and engaging in PvP combat will earn you Pelinal's Boon Boxes along with your Rewards for the Worthy containers. These event-only reward boxes offer some tantalizing benefits both new and old!

What's changed?

Whitestrakes is now a one-week event. It no longer gives out Trade Bars (formerly event tickets) through any of its activities while it is live.
The Impresario will be live while Whitestrakes is up so that players that want to acquire past Whitestrakes Mayhem rewards can do so. There's an enormous number of style motifs that will become available via the Impresario and Philus Dormer in the new version of Whitestrakes Mayhem, so keep your eyes open for trade bar opportunities between now and then.
Going forward, any new Whitestrakes Mayhem rewards will be focused through the Pelinal's Boon Boxes.

Why did Whitestrakes Change?

In short, so that the Whitestrakes live event can act as a more lightweight, "drop-in" style activity, we can run several times a year.
As part of our broader Seasons-based strategy we want to try to take different approaches on events both new and old, as you'll see with High Seas of Tamriel later this year.
Our current plan is to run Whitestrakes in August and November of this year, and then roughly "once every three months" in 2027. This is our current plan in April of 2026 and - as with so many things in life - is subject to change.
As part of this change, Pelinal's Boon Boxes have received a bit of a glow-up in terms of their contents.

allochthons · April 20

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