The jester trees have been sitting in the furnisher's inventory since homestead launched, so I'd assume they'd stick around a bit longer. Not sure though.

Haa-Rei still needs the throne recipe. Still plenty of time to get it but...I'd prefer sooner than later.

Oh wow, I never noticed them till the festival! Thanks, Hazmick !!!

IIRC one of the devs confirmed that the trees will stick around after the event.

Anyways, funny how a lot of people seemed to have gotten the Camoran Throne recipe early on and it never dropped again. I got 2 on the same day and haven't seen one since. :V

EDIT: Frick me I got it on the last box for today.

So I'm getting Eolan to start farming for materials again since he's running low on Rubedite and he still needs the achievement. Good thing too cause he's put on weight from not much to do it's bulking season.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Mar 29 2017, 08:58 PM

*mALX runs back to do the quests again after learning they are dropping again!*

oh my jesus so I got the last few Abah's Watch motifs i needed for the Squad and apparently you can't grind the Undaunted skill line past 9 with only the daily quests, so until the Anniversary event I'm done with Daily Hell.

Except the TG heists. And DB daily (though I'm tempted to quit because the Motif droprate is gross) And the Jester's Festival.

eh

Misa was adding some new things to the Chorrolite Guild Hall yesterday and was tickled to get Jerric's help setting some of them up there!

Other than that, Misa and crew have been running back and forth around the Jester Festival sites and looting their chests due to the high drop rate of furnishing plans and purple quality motifs they have!

As for the Festival itself = It was fun, but I am pretty much over playing through the quests (though still need that "Throne" recipe, so am continuing to do at least the Auridon quest with each character).

That said: Misa still enjoys tossing cherry blossoms on people and setting off the fireworks = that never gets old!

Another thing that never gets old is that hilarious Jester personality! This week I saw:

1. A "Jester" running from a guard with that particular run; and doing that hilarious laugh every time the guard hit him! I was in hysterics!

2. Someone in a skeleton morph using the Jester personality! Seeing a skeleton doing that walk and those poses = there can't be anything much funnier than that !!!!

All in all, this festival had some fun things that I really enjoyed!

The down side: The Banners. I started off excited and loving them = till I found out they were bound to the account so you can't bestow them on others; and that the game gave me well over 80 of them! Grrrr. What the LFH am I going to do with all those banners?

Still no throne recipe. I have Haa-Rei doing the petal and pig quests, and Cirinwe and Tsarakiri just doing the petals. I'd love to see the actual numbers regarding drop rates here.

Happy Jester's Day everyone.

Bonus: 1 2

"Nope"

Monkey, what a wonderful talent you have! Fabulous and clever drawings!

@monkeyemoness - those drawings are amazing!

Ervesa reached level 30 today in a truly epic way...

So our bank stash has been filled up with various surveys lately. Ervesa, tired of this, took a stack and went exploring. On the way, she's been grabbing nearby waystations, landmarks and... dolmens.

There's one dolmen off the shore of Greenshade, near one of the survey locations. Ervesa swam there just as it cleared. Oh well, tough luck, she's happy to sit around and wait for it to reactivate. Thankfully, the bunch of high-level characters who just cleared it are hanging around. Maybe they want another go?

Okay. Ervesa tries and fails to find a fishing spot (it's an island, how doesn't it have any??), explores a bit. For some reason, the high-level characters are running around as a gang attacking mudcrabs. Whatever. Maybe they're bored?

Finally, the dolmen goes active again. A bunch of worm cultists show up. Ervesa, who is not up to soloing a dolmen, waits in the background for the other players to show up. They do and...

...run past in order to attack more mudcrabs.

RIGHT THEN.

After a few minutes (and a few more appearances by our intrepid mudcrab hunters), another player shows up. They actually go for the dolmen. Ervesa, who is glad that FINALLY someone is going to DO SOMETHING about Molag Bal attempting to conquer Tamriel LOOKING AT YOU CP 200-something OVER THERE, joins in.

Which is how she beat a dolmen with only one other person! Admittedly said other person prooobably did most of the work but Ervesa is still justly proud of herself. The lowest number of companions she's ever had when dolmening was three. The fact that the XP for clearing it knocked her into level 30 is the icing on the cake.

And she still doesn't know what was up with the mudcrab hunters.

This post has been edited by Kazaera: Apr 2 2017, 12:08 AM

Kaz, how epic about you and only one other doing that dolmen. Congrats!

And how curious about the intrepid band of mudcrab hunters.

I saw them too when Julian was up there. We watched them closely for a while before we figured out they're a bot train. One character/account is controlling the other three. How could I tell? They never stopped to loot. The three followers moved in exactly the same path as the leader - pixel by pixel. And when Julian lured the Daedra toward them in hopes of getting some support, they fought until one died, then all ported away. Julian gave up waiting for REAL support and left, and saw that same group swimming toward the island from the nearest wayshrine.

Yup, bots.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I figured it was a bunch of players being silly while farming mudcrab chitin or something, but thinking back there was definitely something weird about the uniform way they were running around.

Jest fest update: still no throne recipe, even with all 3 characters doing both the AD and EP quests. The gods of misrule seem intent on depriving my garden of the jester trees. Last chance tomorrow. EDIT: Or not...they ended the festival a day early.

I do have a spare cherry blossom runebox though, if anyone wants it.

This post has been edited by hazmick: Apr 3 2017, 04:43 PM

So it seems Buffy can wake up now and change her magicks as easily as she changes her hairstyle. Indeed, she can now swap readily between Buffy Dawnchild (magplar healer) and Buffy the Small (pet magsorc).

I am amazed that things quite clicked this past week allowing us to shift from one to the other rather seamlessly and that, after some patience and study, the magsorc is both strong and fun. This is rather new ground for us, playing two characters - even though both are simply variants of the same.

The templar is more nurturing and sturdy enough to charge in to help others - able to heal through any damage she takes in the process. The sorc puts out notably more damage and can even burst heal others (twilight matriarch) but hides behind her clannfear and robust magical shielding. Her winged twilight is Drusilla and her clannfear is Spike. Superian, Acadian and Kitsune remain constant of course.

The sorc is actually our first character. She started life as a bow/bow stamsorc, then respec'ed to a semi-retired magsorc crafter and has now fully blossomed as an adventuring magsorc. So, though she's slightly behind the templar in game, she's been around longer.

Their appearance (aside from everchanging hairsyles and costumes) is identical. The sorc crafts gear and the templar crafts consumables.

These are amazing! You have an Awesome talent !!!!

So yesterday I decided to take all 7 of my active characters to do the Jester quests with the thought that it was the last chance. Turns out it was true, maybe. Too bad I mostly got banners, flower branches and dazzlers. I still needed one of each purple recipe to be "done" but wygd. I guess if I really want them I'll buy them down the line.

I can't believe I even got that replay of Eolan in on it. I'm probably going to delete him soon. I stopped halfway through Rivenspire.

Oh, right! I also got enough for an Attuneable Clothier Station! Basically I got two 50-ish voucher woodworking wrtis, one of which Hates couldn't do because Kagrenac and the other being flipping Armor Master itself. So I gave the Kag one to the Crafting Monkey, leaving Hates and Jo to continue saving up for their Ebony motif. Only a WW station to get Armor Master, though!

Anyways, thanks for the comments on the art, guys. I'm glad it gives as much joy as I have making it.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Apr 3 2017, 08:28 PM

monkey, your drawings are charming! I love that Eolan has a little smile at his petal crown while Hates frowns at the mess on the floor. The plunder skull and gift box mountains made me laugh. Thank you for sharing these! Congrats on the new crafting stations. Your Kag writ reminded me that Elke really does need to go through all of her guild questlines, and the Armor Master one...

Kazaera, did you get your blossom rune box? Congrats to Ervesa on the dolmen! What a great feeling.

hazmick, I hope you got your recipe! Jerric’s crew went the entire New Life festival without finding the Hissmir one. Sigh.

Acadian, how fun that Buffy can move between classes. She is after all just changing her focus, not her whole self. It seems a natural evolution as she continues to learn and grow.

Jerric and Elke joined our Champion ranks thanks to the festival xp bonus. The other two crafters are going to mostly Skyshard hunt for their skill points. Elke wants the motifs and set stations that come with conquering questlines, so she’s questing. Finally in Grahtwood. The pressure is on her to get through Reaper’s March so they can buy the Sleek Creek camp. Jerric wants to build a treehouse.

Congrats to Jerric and Elke! That is so nice to join the CP club! I hope Elke loves the Dominion lands as much as Buffy does. Oooh! Be careful, Jerric. . . a treehouse may just draw wood elves to it. . . .

Oh, and Jerric's screenshot of the month - cleaning up Tamriel! And. . . look at the muscles on you!

Good work Jerric and Elke, champions all around! Also, I agree with Acadian's analysis of your screenie of the month - muscular!


Most splendiferous news today, as Cirinwe found the throne recipe. Haa-Rei wasted no time in hitting the shops and buying some Jester Trees. Phew!

Once the anniversary event begins I might start doing some quests with Lagakha, put the xp boost to good use.