Brenna got a somewhat cool Witch's totem. It's basically one of the spikey vine things that is growing through a ram skull. Unfortunately, we don't own a house with an outside space.




Lol, this one didn't realize that it also summons the cauldron thing and only discovered this when it was Feng's turn to do the witch's quest. He was so funny looking in his skeleton!

Have you heard the skeleton laugh or seen it dance? It is hysterical !!!

My characters have been drinking from that cauldron all day for the XP boost, lol.

You don't have to drink from the cauldron to get the xp boost, right? Brenna and Mira just blew the whistle momento and it said "Witch's Boon" under the character screen. Khajiit assumed this was the xp boost and didn't actually read the description of it.

And yes, folks were skeledancing and laughing the whole time this one was playing today! So much fun!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Oct 21 2017, 03:50 AM

Not drinking gives you a boost in (either stamina or stamina regen, I can't remember which). But drinking the potion is what gives you a boost in XP PLUS the boost in stam (or stam regen).

Awww boooo! Lol
Oh well, now I know.

Oh. lmao, I thought the little glow meant you got the EXP boost, too
gdi

Khajiit foresees his characters swimming in Hollowjack motifs by the end of this event...

Wait, Khajiit is now confused. The official site's article says that you don't have to drink from the cauldron to get the XP bonus.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Oct 21 2017, 06:36 AM

That's what I read, too, and you get the Ambrosia/Scroll EXP effect right when you summon the cauldron, though I will admit I don't think I even read the effect description. (I think it was actually pretty vague?)
That said, I did read in zone chat about having to use it twice for it to take effect?

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Oct 21 2017, 07:04 AM

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I didn't need to use it twice, just had to use the bird calling and then drink from the cauldron. And the active effects were very clear about the results; though maybe the XP is from the calling and the stam regen boost from drinking from the cauldron? All I know for sure is, last year we had to drink from the cauldron to get the effects, and it said to do it the same way as we did last year - so I just did, without reading the rest (till tonight).

Now this year (I just read) it says you have to drink to get the polymorph - so I don't know, but drinking it can't hurt you, (regardless your character screams and groans as they transform) = so if you want to try it, drink up!




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This post has been edited by mALX: Oct 21 2017, 08:27 AM

The tooltip for just summoning the cauldron says 100% EXP boost so it looks like it's working fine. Probably.

Well, it is working fine for me, one of my lower bank/crafting mules leveled up to CP 160; and another went up one level so far.

Yes, summoning the cauldron gives you the xp boost and earning plunder skulls and such. Drinking gives you nothing more than the purely cosmetic skellie polymorph. They changed it from last year when you had to be a skellie to get the goods. Buffy's been looking normal (for her - big ears and all) and getting the xp boost and plunder skulls just fine.

They must have gotten a lot of complaints from players that didn't want to morph last year, lol.

Turns out the stam regen I saw in my "Active Effects" was something I had ingested other than the cauldron; because I never got it on my second character, but Calia had it for a couple hours just like the cauldron morph, so I thought it was connected.

Well, I barely touched the festival last year exactly because of the skellie morph. Buffy pretty much refused to look like a bag of bones. And I did not like not being able to quickly tell players apart by their appearance. Loving the change!

I agree with Buffy about not having to drink from the cauldron in order to get the xp boost. My gang has decided they want the Hag’s Fen hut after all, and elected Maz to collect the requisite plunder skulls. She already has all but one of the achievements needed for the house. Of course, she wasn’t present at that meeting.

Less than 50 skulls to go, thanks to running a few bosses and delves with Bear and Gray in the am, and four dungeons with an OP Bosmer for the rest of the day.

Back to work IRL today, so no skull hunting today. Sigh.

So we are taking part in killing a WB and taking down a dolmen but Khajiit is not getting any skulls!

*Edit* Nevermind, it seems to have corrected itself

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Oct 21 2017, 05:44 PM

You can also get Skulls without calling the cauldron. Basically the skellie polymorph is entirely optional this year

Skulls without even calling the cauldron? I am not sure why, but that feels disappointing, Like they are appeasing everyone who didn't want to participate last year but still wanted the "plunder skull" rewards or something.

It was so much more fun last year, there were masses of skeletons everywhere and you couldn't go anywhere without hearing those crows or seeing remaining cauldrons dotting the landscape because they remained for 3 minutes so whole groups could drink from one cauldron.

I understand not everyone wanted to participate (like Buffy didn't want to last year) - so they just didn't; just went about their normal business. It didn't hurt them to stay away; and Acadian never complained about not getting plunder skulls last year. It is just like "Trick or Treating," if you don't participate you don't get a bag full of candy at the end of Halloween. I guess it just feels like they are diluting the experience to appease people who don't want any part of it to begin with.

Anyway, this years Witches festival seems a bit flat comparatively, and I guess that is why = because they have made participating optional, but instead are handing out the rewards for everyone whether they participate or not.

Meh...oh well.

Khajiit thinks more people are participating than not. Everywhere he goes he sees most everybody wearing their bones, so it's still good fun!