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[Acadian]

Isn't there something we are supposed to be able to eat for extra XP? ...

Yes, look in your momentos from last year. Alphabetically, it is The Pie of Missrule and using it will give you 2 hour xp bonus (I think 50%).

[mALX]

There should be a pie in your collections that gives you the EXP boost.

Oh, I am sure I have that! Thank you both so much, I couldn't remember it!








This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 22 2019, 02:48 AM

[ghastley]

Well, what a surprise! I got some Jester's banners!

One positive was a Cadwell's sword page. That might get used.

[mALX]

Well, what a surprise! I got some Jester's banners!

One positive was a Cadwell's sword page. That might get used.

BOLD:


I did buy the stick horse last night, lol.

[monkeyemoness]

So how 'bout that Jester's Festival

I am NOT doing all 3 quests daily anymore holy hell

Turns out that you only get the special boxes from EACH QUEST, regardless of what character you do it with. I've already stated my opinion on the Daggerfal quest lmao

[Acadian]

Here's Buffy's impressions of the three Jester quests:

Aldmeri Dominion - easy and simple, no real downside.

Ebonheart Pack - quickest of the three but she finds it too. . . dumb/nonsensical to enjoy.

Daggerfall Covenant - By far the longest of the three but, nevertheless, Buffy's fave for the following reasons:
- Two delve clears and not even crowded since the quest seems to be unpopular due to quest length and amount of running around.
- A convenient WB right outside one of the delves.
- Setting off sparklies into the sky!
So, basically, getting to kill stuff trumps speed/ease in Buffy's book.

That said, after doing each quest one time on day one, she has settled into just doing the DC quest once each day.

[mALX]

So how 'bout that Jester's Festival

I am NOT doing all 3 quests daily anymore holy hell

Turns out that you only get the special boxes from EACH QUEST, regardless of what character you do it with. I've already stated my opinion on the Daggerfal quest lmao

SPEW !!! I LOVE the drawing!!! Urgh, I didn't see the new Achievement. Looks like I'll have to get a bounty, urgh.

[monkeyemoness]

The good news is that you don't get a bounty from throwing pies at guards. Even if there's a rock in em

You WILL still get a bounty from beaning the Alliance leaders in the face with em. (They're gonna fix it soon so hitting them with a pie won't be as annoying, too)

[haute ecole rider]

Mac got into the spirit of the Jesters Festival and pelted 10 Altmer guards, the two Kings and the Queen, and then went off to Cyrodiil and killed a few guildies covered in pie (from other alliances) and was in turn killed a few times herself - we helped each other to what was potentially the most difficult achievement for Maz (since she doesn't PVP). One of the guildies was also a Grand Overlord, so she got that alliance achievement as well.

[ghastley]

I've been using the XP pie mostly, and taking advantage of everyone else's concentration on the festival sites. So Blossom got her bow skill up to 50 at last, and several of the others raised crafting ranks by collecting skyshards while their related quests count double. Nearly everyone has the Master achievements for L50, but their ranks are were way down. I'm no longer sure what is the best strategy for material use. I was keeping some low-rank to avoid competition for the ruby mats, but now the writs return some, it's all changed.

Ayrenn got pied just as I was turning in one of the alliance quests, and she turned purple instead of the usual pie red. Is that specific to the target, or do some pies have a different filling? I may throw a few mudballs, just to confuse folks, if it's the latter.

Of course, doing quests while gathering skyshards has advanced a few skills that now need more skill points to morph them, and I don't think we're any closer to having all we need. But everyone feels stronger now.

Bo was trying to raise her FG a bit more, so we went off to Forgotten Crypts to kill skellies. On the way she found the dolmen open, and ploughed in before noticing she was alone. First solo dolmen for her! On the flip side, Minx got into the same situation in Reaper's March, except that the dolmen had been abandoned with a full complement of daedra. She was overwhelmed quickly, and after a couple of resurrections, others turned up.

ETA: I noticed when tidying up the loot that Bo collected from Forgotten Crypts, that she'd collected two Plague Doctor shields, just because Cat Man Dhou already has the one he wanted. We've never provoked Lady Llarel to drop hers, in countless attempts. She only has shoes, still.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Mar 27 2019, 03:01 PM

[Acadian]

Buffy'a happy to report that she has a Dawnwood indrik mount, little Dawnwood indrik pet and is back up to 12/12 on her tix counter with nothing else she wants to spend tix on at this point. The mount and pet are nice but certainly will never replace Superian and Kitsune.

She also completed the Elsweyr prequel and is enjoying the short/fun little daily quests available after doing the prequel.

[Grits]

It should not come as a shock that Jerric loves the Jester quests. Pie throwing is also right in his wheelhouse. He was disappointed to find that the guards did not chase him after being pied. His sense of justice demands that he experience a consequence from sassing authority.

Jerric is wearing his faceprint, crown, and a kilt. A pig accompanies him on his daily festive rounds. Tomorrow he should be able to acquire the little indrik pet for Lildereth. After that he doesn’t have a plan for tickets other than two more indrik feathers to pick up another brown one some day. There’s talk of an indrik forest at one of their Bosmer campsite homes, but since no one in the crew seems interested in decorating, that may just be talk.

I'm looking forward to the prequel quests!

[mALX]

Urgh, I had twelve Event Tickets and forgot to spend the ten of them before eating the cake today; so those two I got today were wasted.








This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 6 2019, 06:19 AM

[Acadian]

Urg is right, mALX. I know what you mean though. Buffy's been buying Prophet style pages as needed to keep her tix below 10.

[mALX]

Urg is right, mALX. I know what you mean though. Buffy's been buying Prophet style pages as needed to keep her tix below 10.

Well, I needed the berries, but forgot to get them first. I did get them afterward, too late for those two Event Tickets though.

Has anyone gotten the Dawnwood Indirik pet? I wondered what kind of animations it had.

[Acadian]

Buffy has the Dawnwood indrik pet. It is cute. It has a nice bluish animated aura around it. Buffy adventured with it this morning to check it out. Animations are not impressive. It spontaneously reared once. It does look around a little bit. That's all she saw as far as idles/animations.

[ghastley]

The Prophet style pages have been really annoying. Twice now, one of my characters has received the same page in two consecutive boxes. Can you do anything with a duplicate other than destroy it?

On the plus side, we're getting a steady stream of regular motif pages, and Laurie is passing the duplicates down to Blossom. So we're holding off from buying any for master writs until the event is over. With all the crew doing crafting every day, the master writs are also coming in well, and we've done several Alchemy and Enchanting ones for 2-5 vouchers a time. The equipment ones have all wanted Potent Nirncrux or unknown styles, so they're on hold for now.

We have enough vouchers for another attuned table, if it's going to be needed.

In other news, since the double XP thing is on, Unna decided to do the FG quests (if only to silence Bera Moorsmith), so we completed that series. Several of my other characters need to do more FG stuff, as they want the Dawnbreaker skill. I can't decide if the FG dailies are worth doing, as they often send you to the unpopular zones where you're trying to solo the dolmens, after riding across half the map to get there.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 8 2019, 01:54 PM

[mALX]

The Prophet style pages have been really annoying. Twice now, one of my characters has received the same page in two consecutive boxes. Can you do anything with a duplicate other than destroy it?

On the plus side, we're getting a steady stream of regular motif pages, and Laurie is passing the duplicates down to Blossom. So we're holding off from buying any for master writs until the event is over. With all the crew doing crafting every day, the master writs are also coming in well, and we've done several Alchemy and Enchanting ones for 2-5 vouchers a time. The equipment ones have all wanted Potent Nirncrux or unknown styles, so they're on hold for now.

We have enough vouchers for another attuned table, if it's going to be needed.

Same here, I got 5 Prophet Robe pages in one day.

[Acadian]

Buffy's had really good luck with the Prophet bits. She has bought 4 pieces only as necessary to drop her tix count down from 12. In the meantime, doing 1 - 3 writs per day has garnered her 3 more pieces and - best of all - no duplicates! The only piece to go is the hood. So she's dropping back to her normal one provisioning writ per day since she literally has nothing to spend her tix on when they get back up to 12 from eating cake each day.

She will happily let extra tix drop off into Aetherius soon and call this event both successful and complete.

Regarding duplicate Prophet motifs, can they be put in the guild bank I wonder?

Tidbit for healers: The Soul Shriven and Prophet staves are both simple sticks and rustically neat in their own way. The healing staff idle animation is to stand with the butt of the staff on the ground. The Soul Shriven staff is defectively short and its butt sits several inches above the ground when idle - looks unacceptably silly to Buffy. The Prophet's staff, on the other hand sits properly on the ground and Buffy finds it therefore a viable option to consider on her healing staff.

[ghastley]

I'll have to see if I got the staves already. My healers like the Nord style for the Resto, as it's kind of Caduceus-like, but we're open to persuasion. There's no consensus on a style for Destro staves, and an innocuous one might appeal for the "stealth" factor.

We're doing 60 crafting writs/day, for the regular motif pages. There are Summerset chapter ones included (and the style mats etc) that we can't get without buying them.

I also noticed that we have a couple of surveys in Summerset, but I suspect we got those before this event. I'll hang on to them until it downgrades to a DLC, as we have the space for small quantities. If they start flooding in, the Guild Bank will benefit.