#And stable gold on tank and dps

[madi-main]

Getting out of silver and into higher ranked gold is inpossible in Marvel Rivals. Dps teammates with 0/9 stats should have auto-uninstalled game after loosing.

[bakubabes-and-ramble]

Personality and Brawling style mini-analysis: Team V

I thought, it would be an interesting touch to have a look on, how the personalities of the players affect their brawling styles and have some words on attributes and roles. So I made some free-lance analysis / short description based on mostly their canon depiction - filled in with some headcanon elements.

Let's see, what we've got on Team Vexos:

Volt, the 'Loyal and undecivable'

Lync, the 'Mischievous kiter’

Mylene, the 'Smart and sly'

Shadow, the 'Goofy but dangerous'

Gus, the 'Stable database'

(This is part of the BakuBabes AU.)

This analysis has a rather serious tone, concentrating on the personality-brawling style - attribute - role correspondence, just as the Vexos members don't consider each other friends ('Our relationship is strictly professional.').

Volt

After playing with Brontes for some time, Volt's brawling strength revolves around tricks and illusions. He is an expert at bluffing and playing along with Brontes's jester-tricks. Volt is also the best at detecting and seeing through enemy foolery due to understanding how common illusions work. It's generally hard to deceive him, plays clean and tries to think with a cool head ( He is not all muscle-brain. )

Volt's played attribute is Haos, which reflects his inner character: To the outside he seems tough and intimidating, but inside he has a heart of gold. The light embodies his correct morals. This makes him refusing (or at least despising if he has) to cheat or using methods going against the rules. (Tricking opponents and using illusions are just deceiving, but not prohibited.)

The Vexos can be actually thankful to have Volt playing as their main Support. He is the least careless about the other members and he is willing to work together with the others.

Lync

Lync's style consist of waiting out and 'swooping in for the kill'. No coincidence he plays Ventus attribute: The given agility helps evading enemy attacks, the air-advantage allows his monsters to kite and tire out enemies for an easier takedown (mastering this tactic is what made him the best Ventus player of Vestal/New Vestroia) Despite his big mouth and mischievous attitude, he actually tries concealing his insecurities (stemming from a mild inferiority complex). In a team, Lync tends to do things just to show off or fall into overconfidence, misjudging his control over the situation. Lync's play - in a teamfight scenario - requires set up and support from his teammates, and it doesn't have a consistent output.

Lync plays as a Damage dealer mainly because he refuses to play any other supportive role. Putting out damage and getting takedowns is flashier and more satisfying in his opinion.

From a personality and brawling style perspective, putting Volt and Lync into a duo makes sense:

Volt is the solid ground for Lync's fluctuating performance to have a safe grip on. Just to live with a metaphor: Volt is the ‘anchor’ and Lync is the ‘kite’. Volt's battle presence creates a surface for Lync to shut down opponents and carry the game forward. Occasionally Volt is the one, who pulls Lync back down to the ground, if he was about to overestimate his capabilities.

Shadow

His mild insane behaviour makes Shadow unpredictable and this is, where his strenght lies: Using out the intimidation rooting in the opponent 'fear of the unknown'. (This is something, which he doesn't even do 100 % consciously, making him even more terrifying to play against.) He is dramatic, bickery, and likes to have fun through both intimidating and annihilating enemies.

Generally whiny and goofy, but when it comes down to brawling, he hits hard. Shadow is the most likely to pull insane moves or letting his monster dangerously overextend. Similarly to Lync, he is keen on showing off (mainly to prove Mylene, he is not all that useless), but this might backfire at his team - for his bad luck.

Just like darkness itself, unpredictable and mysterious, his played main attribute is Darkus (he, thinks it’s ‘edgy and cool and dangerous’). Plays offensive Dps for fun.

Mylene

Mylene is the master tactician of the team. She is smart and sly, her mentality is all about being 'practical' : Don't waste time, eliminate fast and smooth, be effective, finish quick. No place for emotions or mercy. She is hard-edged and resourceful.

Although her main focus is to capitalize on opportunities mainly for herself, she realised, that using the effort and force of a group of people instead of 'going solo' helps her reaching her own selfish goals faster and easier. Mylene plays baseline well enough to not have to rely on others, but she is willing to work with them, if she has to.

Mylene's thinking is as versatile as the Aquos attribute. Like water, flexible, she always pulls to the direction which is the most beneficial for her and her goals. She might even sacrifice her own teammates for the victory. Mylene plays the 'dead accurate, cold blooded assassin' type Damage dealer and she is hella' good at it.

Gus

As Mylene is the tactical strategist, Gus is the game expert of the Vexos: He has a broad and extensive knowledge of the overall game, monsters, abilities, and all that. Like a database, he is informed and the one to turn to for information. (He embodies the same role as Alice on the Resistance's side.) He certainly knows, what he’s doing and has a rather serious play-tone on the battleground.

Subterra is a generally stable attribute, just like Gus: Playing tough, like the ground and outsmarting enemies using his knowledge not only enables him to hold out on his own, but makes him the second best brawler on the whole Vexos (Spectra being the number one). He plays frontline Tank due to Vulcan being his default battle partner.

Mylene and Gus would make a strong duo otherwise, for they are the main brains of their team. The reason Mylene and Shadow was eventually put together, is because a. Gus insists on partnering with Spectra (and doesn’t like Mylene, as a person that much anyway) and b. Mylene's and Shadow's brawling-dynamic actually works out on a similar basis the Volt-Lync duo does: Mylene's sharp edges give a frame for Shadow's unforetellable behaviour and her straightforward harshness turns and 'shepherds' Shadow's randomness into one direction.

Important note, that the Vexos are generally stronger in 1v1 scenarios: They may be the best brawlers of their given attribute in New Vestroia / Vestal, but their inner conflicts and incompatible personalities create a hard time for them, when it comes down to teamwork. (If they have an opportunity to make their enemies scattered, they will certainly live with it...)

Mylene, Gus and Volt are the ones, who insist on or willing to show sings of team effort spite of the contrary between the members of the Vexos. Lync and Shadow are less likely to play in a team, they rather follow an 'every man for himself' attitude.

Finally, Mylene and Gus are the main game-shotcallers of the team and Mylene is dominant enough to shift into the leader role (given Spectra's absence in this situation. Normally he is in charge to be the main leader of the Vexos).

[haila-wetyios]

Raiding

Since it became a pretty long post, Imma just throw this under a Read More. It’s not about current tumblr drama fashion. So no popcorn scene for you peeps. Just my experience as a whole and to finally let go of a few feelings that kept weighting on me for a good while until my current team took me in.

The first time I ever advertised on a PF that I was seeking a raid team, was during the final months of ARR. I was a complete scaredy cat, anxious of whether I'd be good enough to work on a team that required more coordination than pugs to get things such as extreme primals or savage raids done. Off I go as a SMN main, panicked as my raid leader of that team joined my party for a brief interview. Afterwards though, during our first joint team efforts for HW content (Ravanna and Bismark extreme at that time) I discovered that I wasn't as bad as I thought. On the contrary, I was too perceptive of everything to the point I would rush to do mechanics assigned to our newbie healer who after several explanations would still not do the thing. Despite my huge insecurities of probably not doing the relevant rotations down to the last skill, my ego started to rise a bit when parsers started to take more and more of conversations between static members. And although I would never ask about my numbers directly, I would celebrate in silence when reading the overall party dps the moment I realized mine had been at the top even with a ninja and a dragoon in the party. That should have been a flag to me now that I look back for being a caster that was doing more damage than the melee. But I didn't know any better, and stayed with my group regardless throughout the entirety of gordias savage. Every week would be the same pummeling against the horrifying Faust dps check, then the first turn's boss, then the second turn until we finally hit the wall of jigglyman and disbanded. I didn't have much complains, despite how tiring it was, I had long since given up on those clears and instead turned each night into 'training to see how long I can last the moment shit hits the fan in any given fight'. And boy did I get a ton of experience down that lane.

The next times I started looking into content once more, I could only play the part of a sub for any group of people I trusted due to life and time issues. But I still took pride in being that one stable sub that could support any group on any extreme primal through HW. I still lament that I was never able to go through Midas and Alexander savage when they were relevant and merely watched from the sidelines.

Then SB came up, and I merely stood aside once more for the first Tier with Exdeath. Except this time, the frustrations of not having been there while I watched all my friends start doing EX's and savage content had finally gotten to me. And lo' and behold, suddenly I was back on square 1, trembling in fear while waiting on my PF announcement that I was looking for a group for Sigma (Kefka times). Nearly died the moment I had two people with interesting names join in my party and just grab me on the spot. I had no idea what I was getting into, they mentioned they just needed a caster slot for the new rag tag group they had built, but at least I had a team! Then the first day of raid came up, and right off the bat I was terrified at the fact that our raid leader was missing, being replaced just for that moment with the FC leader instead. Turns out my entire group save for the ninja, were a raiding FC with multiple groups going in through the week. And what was the first comment of the night pray tell? Well "No one should be here with X ilvl gear." Who was it aimed at? Well, to the only potato that for the first time was slightly outdated in 2 pieces of gear for not being active before the patch dropped. That was the moment that marked my spiraling down a rabbit hole that I wish I could let go of easily but still has a tight grip on me to this day.

I felt like crap, I fought my best and did research on how to be a better caster. Other than the FC leader's comment, no one berated me or spoke about me on a negative light. But it still left a mark in which I kept trying to prove myself and be useful. Suddenly I would find myself cursing at my skills. Hating how no matter how hard I tried with everything, I would never be able to even pass the goddamned Stone, Sky and Sea for savage raids. But we were still getting things done. Two new savage turns down in a single week of release? That felt incredible and also bittersweet. Because any time that my party members celebrated their purples and golds in fflogs, I would be in a corner, self destructing with greys. I kept trying and trying, until my coping mechanism ended up being "I'm just a fill in. But if I'm just this, I'm damn going to do a job stable enough to have a place here." Then things started turning out easier to deal with. I had noticed the goofiness of a lot of the members despite the numbers that dictated their runs, I gave up on my grey numbers and focused on getting their asses up if someone made a mistake. To support the healers as much as possible with mana shift and such. I started putting my experience of keeping the party alive to more use while I slowly tried to recover the confidence I had lost when starting the tier. Granted, they didn't care for the group as much as I did. No amount of hanging out after raid times or helping was enough for the few in charge to announce when we were done raiding after months of being together. They just stopped one day until their FC leader asked me if I was aware of the 'disbanding'.

Then it was time to switch gears, for the first time I thought my work had bore fruit when I was recruited into the FC leader's group instead, and all was well.... Until it wasn't, we kept having to replace members left and right, specially healers and tanks. Progress was slow, sometimes we’d clear Chaos and Midgarsormr, and others it would be a mess depending on the random team comp we had for the week. Things should have been better by the time we made it to Omega, half the party had cleared with their mains after all. Except that it was the point where everything went south in the background.

We had gained a good White Mage, who would complain about random jibber jabber every now and then, but that was fine, no biggie. Then they brought in their former co-healer from their previous static, a Scholar, and all was supposed to be fine. But then something happened that slowly started to wear us all out. For some reason, we suddenly were struggling some more with Midgarsormr, and then Omega.... Boy, even if we had previously cleared, suddenly the three days with 3 hours of raid time each went on on that goddamned turn, and then the final 15 min would go for Omega Male and Female and the reason was hard to tell at first, we were doing the same old after all. It wasn’t until nearly a month of wiping that probably the group had started to realize what was wrong. Our Scholar wasn’t exactly pulling his full weight.

This is what caused probably something that I should have seen coming and that stuck with me for a long while until now that I found this draft I worked on when the wound became fresh again from just thinking about it. It’s just frustrating, sad to a degree and I brought part of it on myself for trying so hard to be useful to no one. What happened? Well, the leader didn’t want to get involved into any drama by only kicking the Scholar because they were friends with the White Mage, so a disbanding was supposed to be the better way to end things. Except the leader decided to do it in a different and up to date still a very shitty fashion. 

Right after we’d finished the last raiding night for the week, he posted an announcement about how people, aka his FC members were tired of constantly bashing their heads against Omega with little success and so they were gonna reform. By kicking the only outsiders of the static team. The White Mage, the Scholar, and me. There was no further explanation, no messages to me, nothing. I was just tossed like that after +6 months of knowing this FC and having raided and hung out with a good chunk of their members. I’d sacrificed so much for them. My time, my confidence to a degree, I had been a slave to their parsers more than a few occasions each time I heard them celebrating or complaining about their numbers. All because I wanted to feel like I could stand on the same levels as them. And I did to a good degree. I reached a point where I knew that my abilities weren’t as bad as the greys on my numbers showed me. But it meant nothing to any of them in the end. No message from the leader that up to that point had kept communication with me for raid times and other stuff. No reaction from the peeps I’d raided the most with. 

The most ironic part that I still respect? The only person to apologize, the only one that actually took the time to send me a message after the whole group ‘disbanded’ was the dragoon that I had only ever heard speak about their golden parses and nothing else on discord. We hadn’t even talked up until then. But he still cared more than the people that had known me for longer in that group. Granted, I did get to throw at least a cent in the raid channel about what I thought before getting kicked, so he probably wanted to come out clean on that. 

I am glad to no avail that I will never have to see them again, because the server splits sent them to a different data center. But it still left a deep mark on me when it came to XIV. I stopped logging in to do any content for a while, focused more on screenshots, on shady flower lady times until I could learn to love the game again. It probably took longer than I would have liked because all of this happened at the exact time that my friends from my crew had dived into raiding at a deeper level. I got to see them celebrate clearing the final omega. Then server transferring to be with their static before the great split or quitting. And then with Shadowbringers hearing “We’re not looking for a dps caster slot.” Each time anyone needed a fill in for their group. 

All this left me at an odd spot, being the veteran that keeps up groups or dungeons on normal modes, but having a hard time trying to get back into my niches in the game. My way of getting through raid had been to think of myself as being replaceable or worthless, but still trying to keep my hope that I’m actually valuable. Getting through all of it alone is not the solution now that I can let go of that bitterness of not being appreciated even as a person. I just happened to get a random chance to try out filling in for a group for a friend. But it wasn’t that what helped me the most both to be back on raids and to have finally built back my confidence. They probably didn’t think that I would check, but I’m the curious kind. Specially when you join a discord that has brief mentions of you on the recent chat. And seeing them mention me, and then vouching over my skills as a player, and how I was their first friend in the server? Well, despite having trouble expressing any feelings myself most of the time, when I get to think of it, you have no idea how much it meant to me. 

I managed to get back on what I like and enjoy most of what I do after deciding to take another leap of faith and join this group despite my stigma. Granted, mentions of parses and all will always be there. But not letting them define you, and believing in what you can and can’t do in content, I think is the best choice you can make to have a healthy experience and enjoy yourself as much as possible. 

[legionofthedawn]

The Legion of the Dawn’s Fourth Anniversary!

The time has come! For four long years, the Legion of the Dawn has been fighting evil throughout the world, from Stormwind to Strom, from the Broken Isles to the Swamps of Kalimdor, and even to the very gates of Hell. For four years we have grown, from a small and devout order to a large and capable force that can take the fight anywhere it needs going! For four years, we’ve grown to make lifelong friends and allies. Four long years of a history I wouldn’t trade for anything. On April the 20th, we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Legion of the Dawn!

Our first anniversary was held on the Argent Tournament grounds, but since then for our second, we’ve moved to a much brighter town- Hearthglen! We’ll be using the main courtyard for the opening ceremony, and general areas around the town for events and celebrations. There’s space galore, all of it befitting the bright history of the Dawn!

When

The Anniversary will start at 4 server, April the 20th, which falls upon a saturday this year. It will likely continue until 7 server or later, though the closing ceremony will be held after all the tournaments and contests are over!

What to look forward to!

PVP TOURNAMENT: To test steel and strength! Battle is no stranger to the Dawn, and it’s soldiers are oft used to sparring amongst themselves. Join in, and decide if you may be a true champion of the Dawn!

Rules: A duel bracket system will be used to determine the winner, decided upon by duels in the world. No tanks or healer classes will be allowed- only DPS classes! Cooldowns that are unusable in rated content are NOT permitted! Prizes will go to 1st and 2nd, as well as the winner of the losers bracket in third!

1st Place Prize: 10,000 gold, golden emblem of the wings of the Dawn, custom blade forged by the Highlord. Title “Champion of the Morning Light.”

2nd Place Prize. 5,000 gold, silver emblem of the wings of the Dawn, custom shield forged by the Highlord. Title “Knight of the Morning Light.”

3rd Place Prize: 2,000 gold, Bronze emblem of the wings of the Dawn, ring forged by the Highlord. Title “Warrior of the Morning Light.”

Supervisor for the PVP tournament:  Highlord Raseri

Jousting Tournament: The Knights of the Dawn take great pride in their skill upon horseback, and their deadliness with a lance! The Lord Cavalier of the Dawn will demonstrate such a thing by pitting the Riders against each other- can you defeat a Knight of the Dawn in a joust?

Rules: Riders will be granted a steed from the stables of the Dawn(In proxy, just use any horse model. Only horses will be accepted.) They will take up positions across a field from their challenger, and upon the call of the supervisor, will ride towards each other. In raid, each will make a /roll 20 at the other.

The Higher roll will strike a blow against the lower roll, counting up his score

First to three wins.

If a knight rolls a 1, he is dehorsed, and immediately loses.

If a knight rolls a 20, he dehorses his opponent, and immediately wins.

1st place Prize:10,000 gold, golden emblem of the Dawn, Custom forged lance from the Lord Cavalier. Title “Champion of the Golden Horse.”

2nd place Prize. 5,000 gold, silver emblem of the Dawn, custom forged helm from the Lord Cavalier. Title “Champion of the Silver Horse.”

3rd place Prize: 2,000 gold, bronze emblem of the Dawn, custom forged ring. Title “Champion of the Bronze Horse”

Supervisor for the Jousting Tournament: Lord Godwyn the Radiant.

Archery Tournament: No less important is the ability to strike at an opponent from a distance! The archers and riflemen of the Dawn are trained heavily to strike with pinpoint accuracy at those who would do evil.

Rules: Participants will be provided a contest bow or rifle, depending on their comfort with either. There will be three targets, placed an appropriate distance away from the contestant, each increasing in distance. Participants will receive points based upon their accuracy with the targets. Further away targets grant increased points.

Short Target

Above a 5: Outer hit, 1 Point

Above an 8: Middle hit, 2 points

Above a 10: Bullseye, 3 points

Middle Target

Above a 9: Outer Hit, 4 points

Above an 11: Middle hit, 5 points

Above a 13: Bullseye, 6 points

Far Target

Above a 14: Outer Hit, 7 points

Above a 16: Middle hit, 8 points

20: Bullseye, 12 points

At the end of the event, scores will be tallied up and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place archers will be announced.

1st place Prize: 10,000 gold,golden emblem of the wings of the Dawn,  Crafted Elven bow from the inquisitor Iferhi Frostwind. Title “Eyes of the Eagle.”

2nd Place Prize: 5,000 gold, silver emblem of the wings of the Dawn, crafted archery glove from the inquisitor Iferhi frostwind. Title “The Sunlight Arrow.”

3rd place prize: 2,000 gold, bronze emblem of the wings of the Dawn, crafted ring from the inquisitor Maritza Sommerfield. Title: “Archer of the Dawn.”

Supervisor for the Archery Tournament: High Inquisitor Anegorn Faroak

ADDITIONAL THINGS WE ARE LOOKING FOR.

Catering! Can’t have a celebration on an empty stomach! Anyone that is willing to provide both food and drinks can contact us.

Music! Wouldn’t be much of a celebration without musical accompaniment! Are you a band? A solo act? Message us and get to playing!

Speeches for the opening ceremony! Do you have a story about the Dawn? Interaction with a member? Or just something you want to say? Let me know and we’ll add your speech to the opening ceremony! Keep them short, please, and have them prepared. No objectionable content.

Any other ideas are welcome!

Closing Notes

This is an open event! If you’re interested, please come! No one is barred or excluded! Please, stay respectful, however.

If you need further information, just contact us on our tumblr, or ingame at an officer(Raseri, Sint, Anegorn, Blazeralw)

I can also be reached on Discord at EvilSpaceEmperor#0910 or on btag at Spaceemperor#1939

Look forward to seeing you there!

[lilambrosia-blog]

🎃 A Guide to Preparing for Witches Festival 2k17

(UPDATED 2017)

by 🌺 lilambrosia (ARodianNip-slip)

ok hi this guide is a compilation of information that will mainly focus on Maximizing Returns for Witches Festival. The first part of the guide will focus on preparing your account for longevity while the second part will cover drop information and how to best get all of the festival-exclusive drops. We will first detail how to properly set up your alternate characters so you can focus on getting drops during the event while simultaneously leveling those characters. I would only recommend the first part of this guide if you already have a main account at Champion Level 160 or are very familiar with the long-run portion of ESO. This will prevent possible “grind burn-out” if you have not already experienced much of the game on a main.

🎃 The Basic Basis:

Witches Festival is a ~2 week event where you can get +100% Experience

Plunder Skulls will drop from bosses during this event from any boss. Many items can be found inside the Plunder Skulls including Runebox masks alongside exclusive motif, furniture and provisioning recipes including the BiS recipe for magicka-based users.

A full list of items and much more information on this will be provided later.

🎃 How to Get the Most:

Alts- all of the alts that u wish for.

From a Catalyst Tank, a Blossom Healer, or even an Orc the Stamsorc Gatherer- make ANY alt that you wish, but make sure you choose the correct race for the build that you will want in the end. We will be preparing these alts to use during the festival, and they will get many, many drops in the leveling process.

PLS NOTE: There is no longer an experience cap. It is possible that ZOS will bring back the +Experience% Cap for the duration of this festival. Previously this cap was +185% Experience, has since been lifted, but MAY return during this two week period. 

🎃 Preparing all of the Alts:

Choose your race wisely. Alcast and Xynode provide great info about tested up-to-date builds that you may find useful if you wish for help choosing the best race for your desired class and build.

Skip the Tutorial. Open your options and turn Auto Loot on, Profanity Filter off, turn Nameplates on (then Friendly Players: Targeted), change Resource Numbers to ‘number and percent,’ turn all Combat Text on, toggle All Buffs on (then Permanent Effects off).

Join the Undaunted, Fighters, and Mages Guilds; interact with each of the 6 crafting stations (no need to craft anything), then pick a pocket or open a locked door/chest. This will unlock all of the skill lines for your alt. Equip 5/1/1 armor with the Training trait (ex. 5 medium / 1 light / 1 heavy) to level all of the armor-based skill lines simultaneously. Your weapon(s) of choice should also have the Training Trait for now.

You may also stack with any Experience Potions or Scroll without capping. IF the +Experience% Cap of 185% returns, you will now be at +max XP% (for monsters killed). This is counting the +100% Experience from the event, +80% for full Purple Training Gear (+90% if dual-weild), and +10% if you are a subscriber to ESO+, meaning there will be no need for XP Pots during the event (not confirmed, only applicable if the +Experience% Cap is returning for the event). You may also stack with any Experience Potions or Scroll without capping

Slot 1 skill from each of the 3 Class skill lines and level up your character however you wish until you reach Level 10. This will allow you to enter Cyrodiil. Enter Cyrodiil and complete (or skip) the Cyrodiil tutorial to unlock the Assault and Support skill lines. Assault’s Rapid Maneuver (no morph) will be very useful during this event and unlocks immediately without requiring any PvP. Optional: You may wish to PvP for additional skillpoints gained from both leveling your PvP rank and leveling your character. The skills Vigor, War Horn, Revealing Flare, or Caltrops may also be of interest to your build.

Slot Rapid Maneuver. This will allow for quick travel between bosses during the event. Your alt is now ready for fast leveling and Witches Festival Farming.

This week prior to the event, it is recommended that your time is spent upgrading your stable, gathering skyshards, questing, PvP’ing, or being carried through dungeons for skillpoints- ANYTHING involving the gain of skillpoints. Do not worry about leveling your character as we’ll be able to do this quickly during the event. It is also recommended that you level all of your crafting trees to 50 during this week to allow your alt to be able to do Daily Crafting Writs. Remember, deconstructing ~275 level 10 potency glyphs will get you from 1 to 50 Enchanting provided that you are allocating skillpoints to the crafting tree.

This whole section was created to help maximize your alt and ensure you’re focusing on getting returns from the festival by minimizing the amount of time spent doing random preparation-based things. Taking these steps can wildly boost multiple characters while you farm the exclusive loots for your main. Spending this week before the event gaining skillpoints on your alts can ensure that they are ready for end-game builds and/or are able to do daily crafting writs. Easy Gold; Easy Materials.

🎃 How to Begin Witches Festival:

Go to the Crown Store and obtain the free Crow Caller whistle

Use the whistle and complete the quest The Witchmother’s Bargain.

Use the quest reward Witchmother’s Whistle  to summon a Witchmother’s Cauldron. Using the whistle will grant you and your party +100% Experience for 2 hours, while interacting with the cauldron will turn you into an undead for 2 hours. Special Boss Rewards, Plunder Skulls, can be obtained with or without use of the whistle and cauldron.

Once the event is over, you’ll be able to keep the Witchmother’s Whistle as a memento, but all of its supernatural powers will be gone.

🎃 How to Effectively Farm for Plunder Skulls:

You now have alt characters that can level hella while gathering all of the event items that you want for your main. You will be farming bosses on these alts for the Plunder Skulls.

There will be easy ways to farm bosses. Your goal is to farm Plunder Skulls, an item that drops from bosses. Overworld bosses, Dungeon bosses, Delve bosses, Dolmen Bosses- even the purple random event overworld bosses will drop Plunder Skulls. The drop rate is 100%, though there will be an invisible 3 minute cooldown timer for the drop frequency of Plunder Skulls. Meaning you will always get one as long as 3 minutes has passed since the last boss has been downed.

Here is a Plunder Skull add-on for PC users,

though any 3-minute timer set after death will suffice. As a PS4 player I consistently have timers ready.

The quickest way to farm bosses but also not give a damn about the cooldown timer is to continuously run Fungal Grotto 1 or to join normal dungeon PUG groups. Either way you’ll be killing 3 bosses every 6 minutes with no downtime, effectively farming experience and plunder skulls while ignoring the timer. This will create a more casual grind, though it’d still demand active attention from the player.

Other possibly effective locations:

Delves: (boss spawns every 5 minutes after death)

Gold Coast delve bosses have a chance to drop Assassin’s League motif pages; Hew’s Bane Delve bosses have a chance to drop Outlaws motif pages

Dolmens: (dolmen begins 5 minutes after downed)

The top 12 DPS / Tank / Healers will be rewarded with a drop from the boss

Dungeons:

Maelstrom Arena is great for solo play.

Undaunted Dailies are great for Double XP + daily keys.

Silken Ring motif pages may drop drom the final boss in Cradle of Shadows. Mazzatun motif pages may drop from the final boss in Ruins of Mazzatun.

Any Normal dungeon with 3 minute timer set between boss downs are effective for Plunder Skull farming.

Public Dungeons:

Wrothgar public dungeon bosses have a chance to drop Ancient Orc motif pages.

Vvardenfel’s Forgotten Waste has mobs that will drop pieces of the Sixth Robe Costume Runebox. Vvardenfel’s Nchuleftingth’s mobs have a chance to drop pieces of the Dwemer Theodolite Pet Runebox. 

🎃 What Items Drop from Plunder Skulls?

All items from 2016 are available in the 2017 Plunder Skulls.

Below are all of the drops, listed by year:

Witches Festival 2017′s added unique drops:

Runebox: Hollowjack Spectre Mask

Runebox: Thicketman Spectre Mask

Pattern (Purple): Witches Corpse, Wrapped (Clothing)

Praxis (Blue): Hagraven Cauldron, Rough Stone (Enchanting)

Random Loot: Alchemical Resin, Bast, Clean Pelt, Decorative Wax, Heartwood, Mundane Rune, Regulus

Furnishing Item (Blue)

Witches Bones, Offering

Witches Totem, Gnarled Vines and Skull

Witches Totem, Twisted Vines and Skull

Furnishing Item (Green):

Branch, Curved Burnt

Branch, Curved Laurel

Branch, Forked Burnt

Branch, Forked Laurel

Branch, Sturdy Burnt

Branch, Sturdy Laurel

Saplings, Burnt Cluster

Saplings, Burnt Sparse

Saplings, Burnt Tall

Shrub, Burnt Brush

Witches Festival 2016 had 26 possible unique drops:

Runebox: Scarecrow Spectre Mask

Runebox: Pumpkin Mask

Motif: Individual Hollowjack Motif Pages (1-14)

Style Crafting Ingredient: Amber Marble (Hollowjack trait stone)

Recipe (Gold): Double Bloody Mara

Recipe (Purple): Witchmother’s Potent Brew

Recipe (Purple): Witchmother’s Party Punch

Recipe (Blue): Crisp and Crunchy Pumpkin Snack Skewer

Recipe (Blue): Crunchy Spider Skewer

Recipe (Blue): Ghasty Eye-Bowl

Recipe (Blue): Bowl of “Peeled Eyeballs”

Recipe (Blue): Frosted Brains

Recipe (Green): Sweet Sanguine Apples

Random: Loot that may contain “creepy” themed crafting items such as Guts, Spider Eggs, Crawlers, etc.

🎃  Witches Festival In-Game Achievements

there are a total of 140 achievement points obtainable only by participating during the annual Witches Festival (with the exception of learning every chapter of the Hollojack Motif Style as it can be purchased year ‘round). Below are a list of the Titles, Details, and Points of each achievement.

Pumpkin Pairs Well With Guts - Drink the Witchmother's Brew during the Witches Festival. (5) Achievement Points

Plunder Skull Enthusiast - Earn your first Plunder Skull. (5) Achievement Points

Plunder Skull Aficionado -  Earn 50 Plunder Skulls. (10) Achievement Points

Plunder Skull Fanatic - Earn 100 Plunder Skulls. (15) Achievement Points

Reaper's Harvest - Complete the Witchmother's Bargain quest. (5) Achievement Points

Happy Work For Hollowjack - Collect and learn every chapter of the Hollowjack style book found during the Witches Festival. (50) Achievement Points

An Unsparing Harvest - Complete the listed achievements for the Witches Festival.  (50) Achievement Points

🎃  Conclusion

Thank you for bearing with me throughout my first guide. I will be updating this to keep up with newly released information in 2018. If you have any questions, recommendations, or would like to roast this guide, feel free to message me here.

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If chocobros playing ffxiv

-Gladio: will be a highlander human, with builder body and tallest high can be posible and long grasped hair, and probably he add some scars in to avatar face, even he never showns cause wears helmet, and no mater how many time friends ask it to take it out, he always wear the full equipment, except when he is on jacouzzi with the Miko’ te girls. He will role a Gladiator tank as fist class and probably a Dark knight as second, so even is a Tank he will rolled as melee dps, cause he worth it. He named him Daddy. All both fulled equipped and high level posible, even more in pvp, cause he loves pissed the rest of gamers. He doesn’t has house, he lives permanently on Ignis house and doesn’t belong to any FC, he just play as solitary hero, or with guys, Luna or his sister, Iris who is a Miko'te with short brown hair and yellow eyes, and white cat lines in face, who is an Astrologican big level, and good healer-dps. She is full equipped cause plays with his brother but she has glamoured his team in to a pink dress kimono with high white tights, She is high level of botanic and alchemy so in change she gives him potions, she named it Rainbow, and she bought the house beside Noctis house, decorated in a Moguri furniture, she secretly dream with marry with Noctis, even he is married already. her pet is a moguri, she loves play mini games at Gold Saucer and she loves beating his brothers in to cards, she is the first in complete the seasonal events, she watched all the cut scenes and she is secretly crushed with Alphinaud, she always dispose to help low levels no is very talkative, in to chat and talk mode, even she turns shy when his brother is around, and she rides a fucshia chocobo. His friend list his full cause he is one of the best players in server and people knows it,( moustly of the friend list people are of Ignis, Noctis, Luna, Iris and Prompto FC, and even he pases all the time playing with the FC and he’s inside theyr talk chat, he deny to enter the Fc, he is a solitary man) , people always asking his help, and he gives it, even are low levels or noobs. He not chat if is not necessary, he preferred talk chat, and chocobo FC, leaves him the raid leader. All Female, and some Mascle avatars ask it to marry him, but he deny, he prefer cheating with female MiKo’ te, he don’t likes the lalafel male or female, and he has a mini woulf pet. He doesn’t bothered in to up any hand job, but he has hunts in a high level. He is highest score at cards, and moustly of the rare cards cause he spends many time earning gilds playing with cards, and with hints as well too. He is rich, and he want to buy a Mansion for turn in to the Playboy Miko'te bunny house. He has watched all the cutscenes with attention and read it all the lore of the game, cause he is so interested in it. He done all the season event, specially the moonlight cause he wants to has all the swimsuits costumes, he secretly dance Manderville, but just when the rest of guys dance with them, and yes, he reocorded. And he never use the chocobo he uses Midgarsormir mount to fly or earth.

-Ignis: he will be an elzeen very tall, thin and white hair, with pointy hair. He named him Salt Bae. He will add light hairs and a pair of specs, never wear helmet, and he glamoured all his helmets in to the specs. He will role a dps magic black mage, as first class, he has start in to a leveling an archanist cause he wants to became a scholar. He doesn’t like quite much pvp, but he has a team with Gladio and they go to do the diary quest just for him. The only handed Job he has leveling has been culinarian and it’s on high level posible. He has a pretty house in the Forrest, all decorated as big kitchen, and also a jacouzzi in the basement, but just cause Gladio bought it for him, for him (Gladio) could stay there with the females Miko’ tes. In time he buys his mansion of Play boy bunny Miko’ tes. Ignis always is disposed to make foods for all his friends, Luna and Iris and party memebers and his FC partners. Also he sells a lot of them too, cause he is loves cooking, he comes with new recipes and this makes him earn lota of Gil’s. Even he spends moustly of his time with Gladio and the guys, Iris or Luna, he always are disposed to help and raid with his FC partners, they ask it to him to design the tactics of the raid, even always is Gladio the raid leader, cause Gladio is the Daddy. He chat when has something to write, and act same in a talk chat. He helped in to FC mansion decoration. He is not married and has not interest in wedding game at all. His pet is a tomberi, and he loves cause his knife. His friend list is selected just some people he knows, and who are good players, no noobs thanks. He is good with cards but not pay many attention. He has watch all cutscenes, just cause later he has to explain it then in to Noctis. He do all the season events and earn the prices just cause he is Joining with the rest of guys, and moustly of the time, has to do it for him and Noctis, he secretly dance Mamderville, cause in his deep founds the history fun. His chocobo is white, and always good feeded in stable, even he has a double sit chocobo cause Noctis never want to drive and he must to carry him.

-Noctis: he will be a black haired miko’ te with bicromatic eyes, one red one blue. He spends all the time in sit mode cause loves hows It looks Mikote’s sit position. He named him just Noct, cause don’t want to complicated so much himself in think a name. He will be a Ninja, so obsessed with being always the highest dps score on party. He not joins pvp, he spends all free time making the night score at his home dummie, or leveling the fishing, he is lazy and took him ages to level it to high, even he sais is just cause he enjoy fishing. He has a house, nearest to Ignis house, but is empty, no decorations at all except the garden dummie. He joins An FC but just cause Ignis, Iris, Prompto and Luna introduce him on it, but he is the gosht memeber who connect and disconnect without say “hi”. Everyone knows him by, Prompto, Luna, Iris, Gladio( cause Gladio is outsider but has if where’s an FC member) or Ignis friend, he never talks no one and his friend list is empty. He just plays with Gladio, Ignis, Luna, Iris or Prompto, is very unsocial. But he agreed to raid with FC, just he wants to equipped his avatars and like to raid. Randomly he plays Pvp with Ignis and Gladio, he is good pvp player, but he bored quickly of it. Not talk at all at talk chat, Ignis answer by him on raids. He has all the classes nearest to full level or close, even he just has equipped Ninja and dragoon as well. He is secretly married with Luna, who is blonde human white mage from the FC, she wears full equipped white mage costume and not change cause she likes. She names herself whitesnow, cause she likes the tale. She has a house in forest nearest to guys, decorated all in white as a little prince castle. She beat Noctis to cards and brings him to Gold Saucer, he goes just for her, and he leaves himself beating by her, she played all season events with all guys, and hate in all his deep Manderville, cause the face of the guy, scares her. She rides the white Pegasus, cause she is a princess. Her pet are white puppy. She always are disposed to help people and triying to make friendly with his brother, but she is shy in write and talk chat. Just the chocobros and Iris has going to the wedding, she sometimes brings his brother to party and raids, who as Gladio is an fre hero who sometimes helps, cause he gots some friend son FC and his sister, who is an Elzen Dark knight, dps, with white hair and bicromatic eyes purple and white, he names him the Dark Evil and has good high level-scored player, he rides the black horse of the DK and she doesn’t bothered in to buy house, help people or talk in chats, also he loves raid, he doesn’t do season events, his friend list is one people, his sister and he don’t bother en in to watch cut scenes, doesn’t has pets, he is a pain in the ass, he acts as a snob pro, and always is toying to beat Gladio or pissed Noctis. This is why they keep his weeding in secret to him. He doesn’t has money, has spent his savings in to his house, anyway he not cares, if need money he just ask to Ignis. His pet is white kitten. He skip all the cutScenes, but late ask to Ignis to explain it. His chocobo is black, he spends lots of time, convincing Ignis for he finds a perfect food for colouring his black chocobo. Even secretly he ride with Luna in the weeding chocobo just both alone to chill in the Mist beachs or Costa del Sol, or just being with her in time she’s leveling botanist. He’s pets are a cat and dark puppy, he secretly dance Mamderville with Guys, and he joins season events cause the rest forced Him and cause Luna ask it for. She leaves him be beaten by cards from Luna and introduce herself in to pvp.

-Prompto: has a Lalafell, blonde and with mustache, cause he thinks is Kawai. He named him Chibi. He will role a Machinist (gunner dps). He will be full equipped, but all his team is glamoured in to a swimsuit thong with a high boots, very weird in to a lallafell, but he thinks is funny. He only role that single class, he likes pvp, and always are ask to Gladio and Ignis to join their team, and even they agree, they try to advoid him cause he is terrible noob on it and he pissed. He are always posing in weird lalafell poses just for fun and blowing kisses in to every female avatar of the Job. He has a house nearest to Ignis and Noctis house and all the furnitures are chocobo deco, and big round valentine bed in middle, even the jacouzzi is chocobo, really freak. He is on Ignis, Luna, Iris and Noctis FC, even moustly of the time he plays with guys, as the rest, he is a very talkative member, specially with female, any class they be. He always helps to noobs and low levels cause he is kind, even he is a good dps on raid, he pissed often, and spend the time jumping and finding the bugs, who really makes noise to Ignis but Gladio, Luna, Iris and Noctis laugh as hell. when the boss is down, no matter how many times you will killed he full the chat with memes and emojis. He is talkative and friendly on talk chat, always joke and memering. His friend list is full, and he knows everyone of them, he wants to Marry with a curled blond lalafell of his guild, named Cindy who is a machinist as him, but she keeps him on a friend zone, even he gives her flowers, everyday. He spends the time in FC house just noissing and making funny, he doesn’t leveling any job, but he took screenshots of every boss down, every fight, every pose and weeding friends, every stupid dance or event, every cute female of the game, everything…. He is poor as rat cause he spend all his money in Buy weird costumes and freak pets, he collects all stuff from every season event and he dance “Mamderville dance” all time, and he poses as Manderville, he planed to dress his lalafel as Mandervile with Chocobo head, and his pet is a chocobo with a crown, even he has a big collection of them, he is good playing at cards, he has all rare cards of game, and spend many time in Gold Saucer playing mini games for winning more cards, Moustly of the time with Cindy. He has highest score at cards. He has watched all the cut scenes, more than one time, and he secretly cries in Haurchefant dead. His chocobo is yellow, and is small, cause he is a lalafel!