I love how we seem to be helping each other.

Buffy is also enjoying the Festival - since she doesn't have to dress up like a black bag full of bones like the last one. Lol. She did a couple of the quests - her goal is a Nordic Bather's Towel costume but no luck yet. For Buffy's third quest, dear Misa (mALX's highest character) was kind enough to give Buffy a lift to a wayshrine in Stormhaven. If you have a friend who is on line, you can travel to them and appear at the wayshrine that is closest to them - even if you've never been there. Misa simply wayshrined to the right place, had Buffy join her, then wayshrined right back to what she was doing. Very handy for getting to unknown areas easily.

I'm certainly happy to help folks get to places Buffy has been. Just whisper in game and we'll see if she knows a useful wayshrine.

Khajiit needs to start paying attention to his friends list to see if any of you folks are on!

Thanks for the help and kind offers, folks! Jerric has now been to all of the party sites on PC, so even he can give Wayshrine rides if we're on. He got so lost and distracted in Shadowfen, it was awesome.

Jerric was given the Colovian filigreed hood for his last festival quest tonight. After partying on the ice-beaches with some fellow Nords, he decided that the Nordic bath towels look much better on the ladies. He does not have a bath towel. Next time he strips down for an ice swim, he might just wear that hood!

Achievement hounds, there are two quests that have a timed achievement associated with them. I am not sure how quest sharing works with these, but if you get one and I am on I will gladly help out.

That does it! The next time Khajiit is on, Mira is starting the Festival quests!

I got the towel dress!!!! WOO HOO !!!!! Also got a very pretty hat and a pouch for carrying mudballs, but haven't figured out how it works. 5 of my characters have the Skinweaver Mace motif; 3 have the axe. I also got one each of sword, belt, chest, and I think dagger. Plus - got at least 5 recipes.

The mud flinging is my favorite, I think. I love it! Even Puffy (Misa's horse) got pelted by some players in Skywatch! What a blast !!!

Calia is doing it now (in the towel outfit). (Misa and Bubba both finished all the quests).







Yes, I can't see me being able to pick those three chest locks in 35 seconds; those NPC's keep blocking my characters from getting from one chest to the other.

On the 35 seconds to light those braziers - not sure how that can be done either; since the animation to light the braziers takes almost a full 15 seconds each. I even tried using the "Rapid Maneuvers" from the Alliance skill lines for running between braziers; still couldn't make it. And galloping on a horse didn't work either, for some reason.

I don't really care about any of the other characters getting it, but Misa - hate to see her miss an achievement. She is most def jumping into the water nude for that achievement. I made her jewelry that blocks frost by 3000+, lol.

Haa-Rei and Cirinwe haven't done any festival quests yet, I'm downloading something big so I can't go on any games that require an internet connection for the next few days

As soon as the download is done, we are going to get FESTIVE.

So glad everyone is enjoying the Festival. I know that Misa can help folks get about anywhere, but it is nice to know that the broad shoulders of Jerric can also carry small elves to Festival sites!

No towel dress yet (Buffy's only Festival objective) but she's only done two of the quests. It took her three tries to do the lockpick one. She's very good at picking locks but ignored the admonishment about having to do it fast - since almost every TES quest falsely claims that it must be done RIGHT NOW. Lol. Then (I suspect due to so many players around) one of the chests failed to open after being picked. It was never a problem for her to quickly pick the locks though and the third time got it.

There was a gap in time from being picked to opening where you could grab the coin for me too; enough of one that someone would have to have the skill points in Ledgerdomain and force every lock in order to pass the 35 seconds goal. (I think, but could be wrong).

And yes, Misa is glad to escort anyone to these places if they aren't on your map! Calia had not been to many of them; I had to use my guild rosters to "Move to Player" - since everyone out there was doing the New Life, it brought me right where I needed to go every time, lol.

Jerric (PS4) made the Signal Fire Run under time and also made the Khajiit lady proud at the thieving-cat celebration. Woo!

For the run he teamed up with another guy. Jerric turned around to ask which way to go, and other guy had already run off in an undetermined direction. So Jerric took off as if shot from Slayer in what he hoped was the other way. It was. They didn't even need to share the quest, I guess because they both already had it. I was too excited to note their time. It was fast!

I planned for him to team up with someone for the chest unlocking, but Jerric just went for it. He had auto-loot turned on, so once he opened a chest he didn't have to wait to click-loot it. He started at the hardest one because no matter how fast the easy ones go, if he blows the hard one he can't make the 35 seconds. So he simply started with the hard one. It went well. He was stoked and nailed the last two. I was amazed.

He's having a hell of a time getting his mud balls to work outside Skywatch. (The consumable ones that you can equip in a hotkey slot.) He can occasionally slap someone with one, but most of the time there's just a click sound and no mud ball gets consumed.

Mud balls are super fun!!

Grats to Jerric! Shot from Slayer -

Buffy's great at lockpicking but quite concerned about any quest involving foot speed. Even moving very fast, short elven legs don't cover ground too quickly. I asked on the official forum and, though I haven't tested it, they say you can abandon a festquest if you don't want to (or can't) do it.

Buffy loves the dancing one and has gotten it twice - easy and fun.

Now she's approaching the pier where she's supposed to apparently strip down and jump into the icy water. For the gazillionth time since she's had it, she's ever so greatful for the toe ring of resist frost that Jerric gifted to her.

Today Mira travelled to Windhelm by ship then by horse to participate in the New Life festival. The first quest took her right back to Stonefalls to dance in the various taverns at Davon's Watch and Ebonheart. While in Windhelm she found a dye station and painted her armor a pretty green, tan, and toupe color! Mira was a bit disappointed there wasn't a red color readily available. Guess she has to buckle down and get some achievements!

Khajiit, I think you'll be pleased to hear that the dyes from achievements are assigned to your account, not just one character. So if you create additional characters, they will already know any colors that Mira has unlocked.

FYI, costumes can be dyed as well - but only if you have ESO+.

Oh that is welcome news! Welcome news indeed!

All my characters passed the quests; just weren't able to get the extra achievement for it. But I did hear that grouping can net the achievement = have the group members stand at each of the signal fires, and when one lights the first one, the other three light the rest. Same with the chests, have one member open each of the chests at once? I don't know, but Misa has till January 4th to figure it out,








Are you sure the dyes are per account and not per character? Because Misa seems to have a heck of a lot more dye choices than Bubba. And some like the ones for the Fighters Guild completion - not sure how another character could access those if they haven't started the Fighters Guild yet, etc.

This may be another sign of them dummying up the game for the masses, urk. Wish they would stop doing that.




This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 16 2016, 10:21 PM

In-game rewards are all account-based rather than character based. Anything you get for completing an achievement (dyes, outfits etc.) can be used by all characters, so Cirinwe has all the dyes that Haa-Rei has unlocked even though she hasn't done all the same quests.

Not so much dummying down, just saving someone with several characters from having to go through everything several times.

Yes, I was surprised that when I created Buffy the templar, she instantly had access to every dye that her predecessor had unlocked. Having instant access to all the CP points earned by her predecessor was an equal surprise.

Khajiit thinks it is good that every character has access to dyes already unlocked because if one was truly role-playing, some characters wouldn't have access to dyes based on their choices and preferences. For example, a pure mage might have misgivings about joining the Fighter'a Guild and a warrior who distrusts magic would not join the Mage's Guild, but they will both have access to each other's colors. Honestly, it seems like an odd design choice to lock dye colors behind achievements in the first place.

Oh, ok! That makes sense.

Yes, you can abandon anyone you choose. They are randomly offered; in fact last night they tried to make Calia do the fishing quest twice when she had not completed all of them.

On the speed quest - didn't Buffy go to Cyrodiil and complete the training quests? If she did, you should have a new skill line (click on "K" and look at your skills) called something like "Alliance War." Open that up, and the first one should be "Rapid Maneuvers." Not sure if you have to put the first point into it or if it automatically gives you the first one; but it is for fast escapes.

Another thing you can try is an "Escape" or "Speed" potiion - I'll send you one. It won't work as good as the Rapid Maneuvers, but is better than nothing.

Go to the first one closest to the quest giver (same side of street as questgiver). Brazier is up the ramp & on the landing of the skywalk. After lighting it, continue on that skywalk to the house just past the skywalk entry ramp you just climbed. The brazier is on that house's rooftop patio.

Next cross over to the opposite side of the street (still on the skywalk) and turn L after crossing. There should be a brazier to light on the landing there; and the next one is at the last house's rooftop patio (same as the house across the street's).

When you leave there, run back straight across the street from that rooftop patio to the questgiver.

I am pretty sure the timer starts when you light the first one and stops when you light the last one; not when you leave or return to the questgiver.