Official Discussion Thread for "The Imperial City Guide: The Basics"

ZOS_JasonLeavey

This is the official discussion thread for the web article "The Imperial City Guide: The Basic."

Prepare yourself for the Imperial City with our helpful guide, which provides the basics you'll want to know before entering the zone!

nimander99

Hype-train starts here guys

HeroOfNone

Sounds like a ganker and zergers paradise with no siege weapons. For those not rolling a nightblade, might I suggest looking at Seeker build to help you and your group survive in the open PVP areas.

MartinXKid

I'm expecting ganking groups waiting just outside of the entrance in cyrodiil...

Shunravi

HeroOfNone wrote: »

Sounds like a ganker and zergers paradise with no siege weapons. For those not rolling a nightblade, might I suggest looking at Seeker build to help you and your group survive in the open PVP areas.

*malicious nightblade laughter from the shadows*

nimander99

MartinXKid wrote: »

I'm expecting ganking groups waiting just outside of the entrance in cyrodiil...

That is the one thing I'm worried about.

Rosveen

"Earn new collectibles by completing achievements, slaying Molag Bal's elite forces in the Imperial Sewers, and by trading in Tel Var Stones."

I like this. Finally something we can work for instead of lazily buying it in the crown store.

Mysticman

nimander99 wrote: »

MartinXKid wrote: »

I'm expecting ganking groups waiting just outside of the entrance in cyrodiil...

That is the one thing I'm worried about.

No need to worry you can bypass that stuff
("If you leave the Imperial City by way of exiting the Imperial City Prison or White-Gold Tower dungeons, you will return to your alliance's capital city")

Atricios

You know Imperial City is going to be great when you can smell the fear before you even see the sewers.

Elebeth

Mysticman wrote: »

nimander99 wrote: »

MartinXKid wrote: »

I'm expecting ganking groups waiting just outside of the entrance in cyrodiil...

That is the one thing I'm worried about.

No need to worry you can bypass that stuff
("If you leave the Imperial City by way of exiting the Imperial City Prison or White-Gold Tower dungeons, you will return to your alliance's capital city")

Also:
"To leave the Imperial City, you go through your alliance's home base in the Imperial Sewers, the same way you came in. This will return you to your home base in Cyrodiil (the same campaign you entered through.)"

I have mixed feelings about this...

MartinXKid

Mysticman wrote: »

nimander99 wrote: »

MartinXKid wrote: »

I'm expecting ganking groups waiting just outside of the entrance in cyrodiil...

That is the one thing I'm worried about.

No need to worry you can bypass that stuff
("If you leave the Imperial City by way of exiting the Imperial City Prison or White-Gold Tower dungeons, you will return to your alliance's capital city")

I mean getting in the Imperial City.

I'm hoping they put a wayshrine in the Imperial city faction base

katnip

I just realized how hard it's going to be to get into a campaign at first. Wait time will be atrocious. With this being the first zone added in a long time, everyone will want a piece of IC, I know I do. loving how they are designing it. At least the campaigns will all be full lol.

Attorneyatlawl

"•Activities in the Imperial City do not impact or contribute to your campaign."

Does this mean AP doesn't count towards leaderboards?

Also, is player kill XP being buffed to be more competitive ?

ckbud

In the ESO trailer at E3, you can see siege weapons being used inside Imperial City. How come we won't be able to use siege weapons inside Imperial City now?

Saturn

ckbud wrote: »

In the ESO trailer at E3, you can see siege weapons being used inside Imperial City. How come we won't be able to use siege weapons inside Imperial City now?

To be assumed that this is siege belonging to NPCs, if you look closely in the video it is imperial soldiers operating these machines.

Korozenn

The hype is real!

MissBizz

•Get powerful new Veteran Rank 16 weapons and armor by completing the White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison dungeons (and the Undaunted Pledges for them), and Veteran Rank 16 armor sets by trading in your Tel Var Stones.

Does this mean you can EARN Tel Var stones in the dungeons?

Cuyler

MissBizz wrote: »

•Get powerful new Veteran Rank 16 weapons and armor by completing the White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison dungeons (and the Undaunted Pledges for them), and Veteran Rank 16 armor sets by trading in your Tel Var Stones.

Does this mean you can EARN Tel Var stones in the dungeons?

I hope so!

wraith808

MissBizz wrote: »

•Get powerful new Veteran Rank 16 weapons and armor by completing the White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison dungeons (and the Undaunted Pledges for them), and Veteran Rank 16 armor sets by trading in your Tel Var Stones.

Does this mean you can EARN Tel Var stones in the dungeons?

Collect Tel Var Stones by defeating Molag Bal's minions and enemy alliance players—and try to keep yours from being taken!

From that statement, I'd think that you could since enemy players are definitely not Molog Bal's minions.

TheBull

Looks awesome ZOS

IggyStarDust

Thats all folks! dueling and small group pvp will never come in eso... zergs trains and other similar stuff are gonna rule the world plz tell me if u get a different vibe from the stuff you have heard...

MissBizz

wraith808 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

•Get powerful new Veteran Rank 16 weapons and armor by completing the White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison dungeons (and the Undaunted Pledges for them), and Veteran Rank 16 armor sets by trading in your Tel Var Stones.

Does this mean you can EARN Tel Var stones in the dungeons?

Collect Tel Var Stones by defeating Molag Bal's minions and enemy alliance players—and try to keep yours from being taken!

From that statement, I'd think that you could since enemy players are definitely not Molog Bal's minions.

My theory is being able to run dungeons to get stones and not have to go into the PvP section and have the risk of them being stolen.. but that sounds too easy...

Tyrusaran

MissBizz wrote: »

wraith808 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

•Get powerful new Veteran Rank 16 weapons and armor by completing the White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison dungeons (and the Undaunted Pledges for them), and Veteran Rank 16 armor sets by trading in your Tel Var Stones.

Does this mean you can EARN Tel Var stones in the dungeons?

Collect Tel Var Stones by defeating Molag Bal's minions and enemy alliance players—and try to keep yours from being taken!

From that statement, I'd think that you could since enemy players are definitely not Molog Bal's minions.

My theory is being able to run dungeons to get stones and not have to go into the PvP section and have the risk of them being stolen.. but that sounds too easy...

all wrong, they have allready stated that you have to go through the main pvp area to get to the IC pvp area where you have to go through pvp gank area to go to a pve area, where you have to spend hours for a few stones, only to lose em just as you exit the pve area.

Rosveen

MissBizz wrote: »

wraith808 wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

•Get powerful new Veteran Rank 16 weapons and armor by completing the White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison dungeons (and the Undaunted Pledges for them), and Veteran Rank 16 armor sets by trading in your Tel Var Stones.

Does this mean you can EARN Tel Var stones in the dungeons?

Collect Tel Var Stones by defeating Molag Bal's minions and enemy alliance players—and try to keep yours from being taken!

From that statement, I'd think that you could since enemy players are definitely not Molog Bal's minions.

My theory is being able to run dungeons to get stones and not have to go into the PvP section and have the risk of them being stolen.. but that sounds too easy...

Confirmed to be impossible. They want to keep the risk/reward system for TV stones. The only exception are boxes for daily quests, which can't be looted off you, so you can run back and open them in the safe zone.

Equinox

The guy on the far right, he looks like he's wearing the female chest armor but the facial structure is male? o.o"

Dem eyebrows

Recremen

Equinox wrote: »

The guy on the far right, he looks like he's wearing the female chest armor but the facial structure is male? o.o"

Dem eyebrows

Now now, this is Tamriel. They can be any gender, sex, or combination that they want. All that matters is how much blood they can spill in a night, same as it ever was.

ZOS_BrianWheeler

The Siege weapons in the trailer (and in game obviously) are weapons operated by the Imperial betrayers working to knock down the wall between the Elven Garden's and Noble's District.

Enodoc

Saturn wrote: »

ckbud wrote: »

In the ESO trailer at E3, you can see siege weapons being used inside Imperial City. How come we won't be able to use siege weapons inside Imperial City now?

To be assumed that this is siege belonging to NPCs, if you look closely in the video it is imperial soldiers operating these machines.

Hmm, you're probably right, but I was assuming there would be some sieging in the city too... not sure where I got that idea from now

Equinox wrote: »

The guy on the far right, he looks like he's wearing the female chest armor but the facial structure is male? o.o"

Dem eyebrows

Female character with the draugr polymorph?

Enodoc

Also @ZOS_BrianWheeler @ZOS_JasonLeavey please get your map artists to fix the angle of Imperial City. Both the city in the middle of the Cyrodiil map and the map of the city itself are out by 30 degrees. (ie, the city needs to be rotated 30 degrees clockwise, as the solid wall line runs north/south, not east/west.)


Edit: The top map below is what they have shown on the guide, the bottom map is what it should be. The walls inside the city are supposed to "line up" with the extended walls outside the city. There is no "northern district", but there is a "western district".

Thejtprb18_ESO

Did I miss the bit in the notes which says there is a bank in the IC safe zone and that you cant mail the stones?

BoloBoffin

Thejtprb18_ESO wrote: »

Did I miss the bit in the notes which says there is a bank in the IC safe zone and that you cant mail the stones?

It may not be in the notes, but it was stated as such in today's ESO Live. Banks in the alliance bases. No mailing stones.

PLUS: there's currently a 50-stone minimum to deposit any at all - because there's a 50-stone Akiviri Teller Mugging fee to deposit at all.