Volendrung and emp

Yasha

It was 3am in the morning so I may have just been hallucinating, but ep had Volendrung while their faction also had emp today/last night/this morning (time zones ...).
Is it true? Can the faction that has emperor (and might also own all or most of the map) also wield Volendrung?

If so that must be one of the most ridiculous things that has ever been implemented into Cyrodiil. It should be a mechanic that helps equalize unbalanced games, not something that makes any imbalance even worse.

Drdeath20

It was a good intention but yeah when its that imbalanced theres nothing that can be done to help

Siohwenoeht

The emperor can't wield it, but oddly his/her faction can

Mr_Walker

Don't worry, we've all been assured that this will sort itself out because:

a) It's a conspiracy that EP has more people because people did that to make faction locks look like a bad idea.
b) AD and DC are all levelling up their necros (but EP don't have any necros apparently).

See, no problem!

Kr3do

Siohwenoeht wrote: »

The emperor can't wield it, but oddly his/her faction can

The emperor actually can wield Volendrung if he already carries it while getting crowned.

kpittsniperb14_ESO

Yasha wrote: »

It was 3am in the morning so I may have just been hallucinating, but ep had Volendrung while their faction also had emp today/last night/this morning (time zones ...).
Is it true? Can the faction that has emperor (and might also own all or most of the map) also wield Volendrung?

If so that must be one of the most ridiculous things that has ever been implemented into Cyrodiil. It should be a mechanic that helps equalize unbalanced games, not something that makes any imbalance even worse.

Relax homeslice, faction locks will correct this issue.

bulbousb16_ESO

Yasha wrote: »

Is it true? Can the faction that has emperor (and might also own all or most of the map) also wield Volendrung?

If so that must be one of the most ridiculous things that has ever been implemented into Cyrodiil. It should be a mechanic that helps equalize unbalanced games, not something that makes any imbalance even worse.

Precisely. The idea of the Daedric artifact is obviously something introduced to balance imbalanced campaigns. It was reported early on that the Emperor's faction would not be able to wield this weapon. Not sure if that has turned out to be the case or not.

I proposed in another thread that the spawns should be proportional to the campaign standings. It should mostly spawn for the faction that occupies last place.

JamilaRaj

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

Yasha wrote: »

Is it true? Can the faction that has emperor (and might also own all or most of the map) also wield Volendrung?

If so that must be one of the most ridiculous things that has ever been implemented into Cyrodiil. It should be a mechanic that helps equalize unbalanced games, not something that makes any imbalance even worse.

Precisely. The idea of the Daedric artifact is obviously something introduced to balance imbalanced campaigns.

Hardly. Their reasoning was obviously more like this:
1) we can not do anything about The Lag for several reasons; we suck and do not really give a !@#$% to name a few
2) neither can we do something about design issues like imbalanced campaigns or nightcapping for several reasons; we suck and do not really give a !@#$% to name a few
3) however we need to conceal the above two facts and divert attention from them, at least for a while
4) above all, we need some PvP-related talking point for the next expansion, because that is how we always have been; very good at talking about how cool the game will be, not as much at how cool it is

And so they threw in a daedric artifact.

TBois

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

Yasha wrote: »

Is it true? Can the faction that has emperor (and might also own all or most of the map) also wield Volendrung?

If so that must be one of the most ridiculous things that has ever been implemented into Cyrodiil. It should be a mechanic that helps equalize unbalanced games, not something that makes any imbalance even worse.

Precisely. The idea of the Daedric artifact is obviously something introduced to balance imbalanced campaigns. It was reported early on that the Emperor's faction would not be able to wield this weapon. Not sure if that has turned out to be the case or not.

I proposed in another thread that the spawns should be proportional to the campaign standings. It should mostly spawn for the faction that occupies last place.

No the emp faction can wield it, but it will not spawn near them. They can easily kill the first wielder and have the emp and a player with the artifact. The emp him/her self cannot wield it.

bulbousb16_ESO

TBois wrote: »

No the emp faction can wield it, but it will not spawn near them. They can easily kill the first wielder and have the emp and a player with the artifact. The emp him/her self cannot wield it.

I have to thank you again for providing facts.

TBois

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

TBois wrote: »

No the emp faction can wield it, but it will not spawn near them. They can easily kill the first wielder and have the emp and a player with the artifact. The emp him/her self cannot wield it.

I have to thank you again for providing facts.

I'm not sure if it takes into account score. Someone in another thread showed it spawning near the winning side, and then that side getting emp with it. So there's that.

Morgul667

That is poor design

Make it so only non emp faction can wield it

CatchMeTrolling

Morgul667 wrote: »

That is poor design

Make it so only non emp faction can wield it

That still wouldn’t solve anything to be honest because the non emp faction could be the ones already winning. The ones with emp could be the ones in last place too.

ShenaniganSquad

its absolute bs that the Emp group can get the hammer .... good one ESO .... this is an epic fail of cosmic proportions