Desiato wrote: »

Why would a pvp enthusiast play eso in the first place? Why would they stay?

The bigger question is why any pvp main stays.

To be clear, I am talking gameplay. I know a lot of alliance loyalists who just enjoy the zone chat culture and hanging out with familiar faces.

Other players enjoy grouping with their friends in different kind of groups.

But at technical and gameplay levels, it's objectively bad. I think there are players who are seduced by the power fantasy derived from pugstomping pve casuals who are there to grind end of campaign transmutes on all of their alts without pvp builds. I don't consider them real pvp players though, because in my experience playing online pvp games for almost 30 years, true pvp players get bored by that kind of thing and will quit because of it.

And then on top of the technical and gameplay issues, there's the fact it's gated behind one of the most casual pve mmos ever made. Why would a pvp enthusiast bother?

How do I leave Cyrodiil though?

One of the things to note is that getting the email might depend on your email provider. I know with other games there have been times I have heard people complaining they never got the email, even though the developer (usually a petsite type game where there are only one or two developers) knows they sent the email to the person, and the person checked all the places, but for some reason, it just never reached the recipient.

Some places will tell you if you use certain email providers, then you might have a harder time getting emails from the site.

There have also been some times I have sent email to people, and they never got it, or they sent email to me and wanted to know why I never replied, but I never got that email. Sometimes email just likes to wander around.

So it could very well be something like this happened, that your email provider flagged the email as spam or it just never arrived due to *something* going wrong.

I think that @Desiato has it right. ESO PvP does not appeal to the actual demographic that it needs to appeal to in order to thrive. That demographic is actual competitive PvPers. There’s a lot of reasons for this that would take forever to get into, but I’ve written about it in the past:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/658954/the-real-reason-pvp-and-end-game-pve-are-so-niche/p1


Anyway, ESO lost the trust and attention of the more competitive PvP crowd many years ago. The people who still regularly sweat ESO PvP are usually sweating against people who aren’t even very interested in PvP. They also seem to love and defend ESO’s horribly uneven playing field.

I’m not sure what kind of competitive player is content with constantly fighting people who aren’t competitive themselves or even on the same playing field. It’s kind of like a “pro” basketball player who only shows up the their local park to dunk on people playing casually for fun.

It’s actually pretty anti-competitive to support an environment that allows such massive power gaps and to only fight those who are way less experienced.

I run companion tanks as well. Companions do look at the order of their skills first, but if the conditions are not met, they look at the next skill.

I typically slot (in order): Heal if below 75%, gap closer if within 22 m, provoke, shield.

If I tell her to charge from 30 m, she will skip the first three skills due to health/range considerations, start running to the enemy and cast her shield until within 22 m then use her gap closer followed by provoke.

If I didn't have the gap closer, she'd cast her shield and run all the way up to provoke range.

So. . . if you want her to get in to the action as soon as possible, consider slotting a gap closer to speed things up.

Good luck!

The BG queue was always broken and the "ELO" system too. There is just way to few players for it to create a fair, balanced BG.

Raanbury wrote: »

xencthlu wrote: »

This is horrible. It looks on the face of it plain bigoted bullying. It might not be relevant, but I've noticed that CS seems to have difficulties with LGBTQ+ issues overall. I reported someone in zone chat for calling a Pacrooti's Hirelings recruiter mentally ill for being gay, and I was told by CS this didn't violate any policies. It gave me pause at the time, but I left it alone. Now, with this, I wonder if there's a larger cultural problem in the CS department.

That's actually very concerning.

It's hardly specific to LGBT+ issues, though. In my experience, "not a violation" is the usual response until you appeal.

I went through 4 months of back-and-forth with Support over whether the c-word used as an insult violates the ToS/CoC. (They said it did, finally.) Two months with them over a character name that blatantly ridiculed handicapped players.

A friend of mine said Support declared that someone calling her a b-word was "not a violation." She hates the word and would never consent to being called it, which she explained in her report. Still "not a violation."

It's also not a violation to tell someone to "Alt F4" when they ask for help in chat. "Not a violation" to threaten someone in DMs or verbally abuse zone chat for months on end.

When I asked that a post referring to a player's body part (out of the blue, simply for puerile humor) be moderated, I was the one accused of abuse by support. I still haven't had a follow-up on that, and it's been months.

There is a systemic issue, but it's not limited to a particular group. Lots of demographics are covered here.

I checked Princely Dawn and couldn't find anything even vaguely similar, so I checked Sword-Singer's Redoubt, nothing there either BUT if only the door only had one section of trellis instead of two because it fits the archways at Sword-Singer's really nicely, unfortunately the door section ends up underground!



Edit:- Still hate the black bits though.

Islyn wrote: »

Raanbury wrote: »

My issue is the lack of transparency. What is being done to resolve this? We've been made aware of what is causing it - but nobody is telling us how longterm this is going to be rectified? Is connection issues the new norm now? I for one do not feel like playing a game where connection is available at the flip of a coin.

I have done some searching - but not seen where we have been told the cause? thank you!

ZOS_GinaBruno said it's an issue between two data centres and that they were working with their provider to resolve stability.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just to give a bit more insight into the recent issues, there is a stability problem with the connection between DFW (North American datacenter) and FRA (European datacenter). FRA relies on that connection heavily to remain up and we're working with our provider to investigate and resolve the stability issues.

I think Kevin advised that's the issue we were having again today.