Rip <3

Why oh why did they scrap content that they had already finished developing? I know there's the people who constantly complain about 'useless content' and demand that they focus their development time on other 'more important' things, but who cares! Those people will always exist and will never be happy. If you already took the time to develop the activity at least release it for the small population of players who will actually enjoy it, I see no downside to that.

Mountain as a grind zone isn't all that bad, the problem exist when u know the efficiency of the other zones and sadly lifeskilling is pretty dead there (the paper trees looking same like snowfield cedar, and overall its hard to look out for those things). Yes, there was a snowboarding idea, even CarbotAnimations showed it as his trailer which PA paid for. The only thing relevant from that trailer now is just the Winter Gurdian and Wintertree Fossil. 

I still do like the zone and vibes of it, i do recommend it to my friends if they want some more interesting and various caphras source since (it seems) thats what Eternal Winter grind was secondary about, after the flame of frost. Each grind zone has a caphras daily and all of them do drop caphras + witch token which is a very rare treat but fun! All in all its not horrible, but it simply could much better with those little things we mentioned and few bug fixes. I still encourage you to visit the Mountain, but sadly not as a long term stay but a daily shorter visit to clean the dailies, enjoy the music (which is really well composed there) and surroundings, which sadly could look better, if they fix distant texture details bug that is going on right now. 

Overall, zone isn't that bad, but put into comparison with others, it could use slightly higher trash value OR higher caphras drop in exchange for that weak trash. It could use better drop of witch token since quest related to it IS A DAILY. I dropped one token in 2 weeks of daily grind there which isn't okay and is also mentioned on list. Caphras dropped with dailies are okay-ish and sure a nice alternative if u don't like Gyffins or value your crystals since zones aren't that dangerous but it is still falling a little behind imo, looking how AP needed there is at least 280 minimum, to feel comfortable.

And ye, the trailer, to remind the devs what they promised and what was delivered - Ice fishing scraped, snowboard scraped, drops are weak and zone is empty after people got their flame. With few exceptions of people like me who still visit it for the dailies and because i simply like the Fossils and Murrowaks despite not the very best drops. Not even Afuaru is there.....●﹏● I was really looking forward to that expansion and i'm just still dissapointed yet still having my last threads of hope that PA will wake up and polish what they delivered already, instead of pushing new classes with new unfinished zones out.

RIP EW, It was 9 months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxrcYN0T9qQ&ab_channel=CarbotAnimations

Uff! I remember how hyped I was by everything they presented before MoEW launched. And then... the bare bones zone, with plastic trees, unrewarding grinding zones, pointless weather system... Added a reminder on the OP.

open close On: Nov 8, 2022, 21:21 (UTC), Written by Harth

Solution: Add more variety and better options for the exchange:
- A Caphras Stones Bundle for 10 Crystals instead of 1 for 6 (because it takes a lot less time to gather Ancient Spirit Dust in zones that don't abound of plastic trees)

- An Ouk Pill of Time and Tide for 15 Crystals instead of 1 for 6 (because crafting anything requiring them is extremely prohibitive - even more so for dedicated lifeskiller)
- A Witch's Forgotten Token for 150 Crystals (because the "easy mode" version of Erethea's Limbo is pointless when the only means to get to it is being incredibly lucky and dropping 1 token from the only zone that allows newbies in)

- An Ember of Frost for 300 Crystals (because, again, there's very little variety for 250AP players when it comes to what is basically an alternate starting zone and not just that, an area whose entire cuisine is centered on lifeskilling... but with no place for lifeskillers that spend their resources on the tools of their trade to scrape by with, say seasonal gear)

Ahhh these! I almost forgot about them because they felt so rewarding with how boring the dailies are! :)

But i agree. Rewards ratio vs tasks type vs amount = NOPE. Those need an improvement, bigly. How to improve it best and also solve loot problem at the same time? Just add them as a rare drop from grinding and lifeskilling only in the Eternal Winter zone. It would greatly improve feeling of getting something extra despite trash not being the best and tokens/ember being way too rare drop than it should.

It would also give us more reasons to re-visit the zone after finishing Flame of Frost as source of extra caphras if token would be added there as well. Even give grinding dailies along with caphras those very crystals, because the current quests in town and villages around are extremely boring. (yes im looking at u, fishing dailies). Variety is always great in game, and satysfaing both sides, grinders and lifeskiller won't hurt anybody. 

So shortly:

-Improve exchange items of Oxiterr Crystals (listed in first post above)

-Add them to grinding dailies around the zone as well

-Add bigger variety of quests, not just afk fishing (maybe add them to hunting dailies as well)

-Add them to the loot table as smth slighly more rare but not too rare. Maybe rare bundles of those crystals having from 10-25 as example

Hmm... I dunno what to say... There's a serious risk of making the zone more fun... People might like it and get used to that.

*Last Bump* Because so far i think along with Harth (who i thank a lot for creating and putting the post together) we presented all possible ideas that wouldn't be hard to implement, yet change the playability aspect of Eternal Winter zone by a lot on plus and making at as attractive choice as regular zones, especially for players above 270 AP. 

U hyped us for an extremely beautiful dlc zone, we all waited for something fresh to visit on our daily gameplay, sadly its just an empty husk with only a flame of frost keeping it barely alive. I don't think amount of upvotes has any impact at this moment, looking how anything from few upvotes gets on Adventurer Board because its a small easy change, but on few hundred ones there is not a single word from any Dev.

Since TWO things out of OP post got implemented i do kindly ask, please review the rest of our ideas. We don't bring anything balance breaking, we simply want the zone to be fun and have fair alternative grind to higher geared adventurers and also curious lifeskillers. 

It may seem pointless and desperate hope but all of this is because of YOUR HYPE u created and then let the ideas sink for some reason but i still care about this zone and maybe i get surprised one day, positively tho. Thats how much i like it yet i know its not at its best. So please, PA, review it and consider.

I won't bump this anymore because i think we covered all that could be possibly changed at this moment without making it complicated  and easy to implement. Cheers and RIP to once great idea of a zone, abandonded now. ;-;

Aww! Don't worry, though! The long awaited continent across the Margoria Sea will be unveiled soon! With all the bells and whistles too, I'm sure! Also, pretty sure, half-baked and soon to be abandoned as soon as the hype dies down. :<

Need more than one vote to give to this!!  Such a lovely place with unique mechanics, just not worth it in this BDO time.

Another easy fix to bring it up to snuff, just add a rare drop that isnt a Flame of Frost.  Once you have the flame there is no need to stay and enjoy all the hard work that was put into the area.  Add any accessory of value to the table or increase loot sell price and BOOM!! fully used again.