Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is a compilation of me attempting to do Writhing Fortress for the first time. Hints on attempting. This place bugs like no other and I don't think I've found a single clean instance that just works. For an ESO event it's kinda cool but man can we get 1 update where stuff just works. Its amazing to me that we are so far into this game and we continue to release overly buggy stuff.
For people who make it that far in the video lmk if you wanna see the rant video. Its been uploaded for a while but I have no real reason to upload it as its very stupid but needed to vent about something incredibly dumb.
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I didn't add any background music to this video to just try some stuff.
This is a compilation of me attempting to do Writhing Fortress for the first time. Hints on attempting. This place bugs like no other and I don't think I've found a single clean instance that just works. For an ESO event it's kinda cool but man can we get 1 update where stuff just works. Its amazing to me that we are so far into this game and we continue to release overly buggy stuff.
For people who make it that far in the video lmk if you wanna see the rant video. Its been uploaded for a while but I have no real reason to upload it as its very stupid but needed to vent about something incredibly dumb.
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I didn't add any background music to this video to just try some stuff.

![Relentless Raider | Frostvault Trifecta | Arcanist Tank
The final one done the actual hard part is rat race but other than that it very very easy. Going to be doing 2 things now... Doing this all over again for some reason but as a DPS. Then we are doing Blackrose Prison so that going to be a little while.
Most of this is just burning stuff but some times the 3rd boss would just not let us which is always funnnnnn...................
As for the DPS versions of these theres going to be new people :D. Hopefully they go pretty well. Im interested to see what kind of burns we do but ye overall its going to be fun.
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Song: Giraffe Squad - Wait For Me [NCS Release]
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Track: NIVIRO - Orphic Night (feat. Diandra Faye) [NCS Release]
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0:00 - Ice Stalker
0:14 - Warlord Tzogvin
0:57 - Vault Protector
1:10 - Rizzuk Bonechill
1:30 - The Stonekeeper Relentless Raider | Frostvault Trifecta | Arcanist Tank](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tvwBDRmsEwM/mqdefault.jpg)
![20 Second Vykosa Nuke
Vykosa Nuke :D...
Wanted to get revenge on this boss when we were attempting the trifecta we tried this nuke but couldnt do it consistently came back and its easy.
Oh so DB happened didnt record it because we 1 shot it after starting resets.
Discord Boop
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Track: Lost Sky - Dreams [NCS Release]
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0:00 - Jailer Melitus
0:13 - Hedge Maze Guardian
0:28 - Mylenne Moon-Caller
0:48 - Archivist Ernarde
1:13 - Vykosa 20 Second Vykosa Nuke](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u1jbHocZRuc/mqdefault.jpg)

![Feast of Shadows Early impressions | Elder Scrolls Online
I try to be more positive when content is released... I typically look at it from the perspective of I expect ZoS to utterly destroy and nerf anything that was strong the prior patch so for me nothing really change. I also just look at it as new content to explore and problem solve against. Which my group did a very good job on on the PTS this time around.
Overall though Feast of Shadows Dungeons are fun at the very least and actually have good repeatability vs some of the newer older stuff. This sentence doesnt make sense to me either. I personally enjoy Naj far more as one thing not brought up in this video is something a good friend of mine and myself have in common. This is a hatred towards the art direction ZoS had been taking recently and just the color pallets they have been choosing to use over the past 2 - 3 years. While yes Black Gem is mostly shades of blue there is lava there is Greens in the final and its just more interesting to look at. Naj is doing it even better because Naj is just Argonian place number 2000 however it looks distinctly different and uses colors very well.
Its weird how for me something as small as making the place look more interesting can make me want to actually go walk back in and actually engage with the content. But yeah mechanics wise these dungeons arent out of the ordinary in terms of how difficult they can get. They seem to hit the difficulty ZoS is seemingly going for with newer dungeon content.
If you want to know where it stands for me, ZoS peaked in difficulty for dungeons around Greymoor Chapter all the way through to Coral Aeries DLC these dungeons in this time slot are generally far harder than most recently made content for that matter. I would say Feast of Shadows is harder than whatever the other dungeon DLC is called but not by much. These dungeons ask a little bit more out of the player than something like Exiled Redoubt but really thats not saying much.
I do plan on making guides and they will probably be on the longer side this time because of instead of just explaining what the mechanics do I want to have sections for newer players where info is easier to digest and one for people going for the tri but want help with strats and other things that can make certain things easier. Now how well it works out the first time I tri :) it who knows but god that was a bad joke but I dont want to delete it. Im going to stop typing now
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Track: Beave - Talk [NCS Release]
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Free Download / Stream: https://ncs.io/Talk Feast of Shadows Early impressions | Elder Scrolls Online](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wAtcwkfglVY/mqdefault.jpg)


![Subclassing For Tanks | Winters Embrace | Elder Scrolls Online
This is something Ive been wanting to start since the PTS cycle started. Also Im not 100% set on how information is displayed there is probably a better way but this is what I came up with. The space requirement for some of this stuff is quite a lot but the next one might be significantly different from this one.
Back to the topic at hand... Winters Embrace is probably one of the easiest skill trees to force on a tank. Frost Cloak is basically required and offers selfish skills that are very very strong.
I do want to start streaming some of my runs but well see. But I hope people enjoy these videos. ALSO yes I know I said Major Evasion I recorded this at 4am :P whoops.
Re uploaded it due to audio issues I think I fixed that going forward.
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Thank you to @avaddonica for the audio issue stuff, I appreciate it a lot :D
Track: Beave - Talk [NCS Release]
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Free Download / Stream: https://ncs.io/Talk Subclassing For Tanks | Winters Embrace | Elder Scrolls Online](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wz3KFI062rQ/mqdefault.jpg)

![Fatelines Knell | Night Market | Dungeon | Elder Scrolls Online
I hate this, this is so stupid, this entire event I hate it. The actual content fun... the grind behind it just not thought out in the slightest. I am a no life and this took forever with RNG drop on top of RNG drop. Then a loot lockout... like really why this is dumb.
This is being fixed but Im currently working on unlocking the next dungeon almost done and then im done... you cant do the third and unlock the trial or I would just do it to show it to people but no instead its bugged and may be impossible to do :) so hurray...
But no the content is cool, its a bit difficult for the average group but they kinda said thats what they wanted. But this grind is like if they took psijic but you had to do the quest with no wayshrines and a 90% snare... ok maybe not hat bad but I hate it so much.
Also week 4 for balance changes is insane...
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Track: JVNA - Taking It Slow [NCS Release]
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Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/TakingItSlow Fatelines Knell | Night Market | Dungeon | Elder Scrolls Online](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y5LB_TLFrMs/mqdefault.jpg)
![Endless Archive | Thoat Burn
This is from Arc like 5 we had this run go to Arc 10. Probably not going to post about score pushing Endless as after about Arc 9 it just gets annoying. The mobs have like 1.3 million health while they dont actually take that long to kill they can just be annoying to kill.
Overall Endless is pretty cool, Ive seen a lot of people say Endless is to hard if people would want I could make some short form guides on how to push certain aspects of the archive. I may also make a quick guide on all of the secrets as a lot of people dont seem to actually explain them that well.
Oh so about why this is being posted the original Thoat video I posted was like a 11 minute kill where now we can consistently kill tier 4 Thoat in less than 2 minutes this just happens to be the best one we got. The thing about burning Thoat is that it pretty heavy RNG on how fast its going to be as if you get crap verses before hand your screwed.
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Track: Clarx & Laney - Forever Finally Ends [NCS Release]
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Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/foreverfinallyends Endless Archive | Thoat Burn](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z-HlMAYSSDI/mqdefault.jpg)