With Update 19, we’ve also made a major change to Cyrodiil’s Keeps and their surrounding Resources. Now, both Keeps and Resources have two levels, and Keeps will suffer degradation should they lose their Resources prior to an attack.
“This means that if you capture its Resources first, a Keep will be easier to take,” explains Wheeler. “This makes it more important than ever to defend your outer objectives, and it is designed to give additional incentives for players to fight over the Resources.”
Bloodporting basically does exactly that but by being near a keep rather than away from it, so it's not really something new. But I'd be interested to know if the intention behind introducing these is the start of a plan to remove bloodporting - I always found it a bit odd that dying enabled more transit options than were available by being alive (i.e. Bloodporting gives more options than using the Transitus Network). What would make the most sense when dying is that you would need to be within a certain radius of a friendly keep to respawn there (like Forward Camps, but a much bigger radius), otherwise you would only be able to respawn at a friendly keep if it was connected by the Transitus Network.“With Keep Recall Stones, we want to give players a means to get across Cyrodiil quicker that is not dependent on the Keep transit network,” explains Wheeler. “It opens up a style of play that our players don’t have right now, allowing transit to some Keeps that might not otherwise be possible. You can go deep into enemy territory, take a Keep, and then have your people instantly recall to that location.”
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So this update is yet another small nerf to solo players and gankers.
Adding recall stones allows players to circumvent the paths a lot of solo players use to ambush their prey. Whether it be the player at the back of the Zerg with the slow mount or just someone alone, this change will now lower these type of interactions.
All you are doing is making it easier to Zerg and make even more areas of Cyrodiil empty spaces (player-less).
Star_Wanderer wrote: »Update 19...What a joke. Totally for PvP players and the rest of the community gets shafted ..... again. I am getting really sick of this propensity this year seeing so much crap inserted in the game and time wasted on PvP. I despair at having a real mmorpg to play from ZoS...
Bloodporting basically does exactly that but by being near a keep rather than away from it, so it's not really something new. But I'd be interested to know if the intention behind introducing these is the start of a plan to remove bloodporting - I always found it a bit odd that dying enabled more transit options than were available by being alive (i.e. Bloodporting gives more options than using the Transitus Network). What would make the most sense when dying is that you would need to be within a certain radius of a friendly keep to respawn there (like Forward Camps, but a much bigger radius), otherwise you would only be able to respawn at a friendly keep if it was connected by the Transitus Network.“With Keep Recall Stones, we want to give players a means to get across Cyrodiil quicker that is not dependent on the Keep transit network,” explains Wheeler. “It opens up a style of play that our players don’t have right now, allowing transit to some Keeps that might not otherwise be possible. You can go deep into enemy territory, take a Keep, and then have your people instantly recall to that location.”
What I ask for is campaign scoring based population to get rid of nightcapping, campaign winns. It clear that the faster underpopulation bonus is far from enough. I cant see anything of interest in this update.
Can we please get an NPC in Cyrodiil for skill respecs?
Having to leave Cyrodiil so we can change a morph is going to be really bad especially considering the prime time queues.
Some of us will be skill changing often. A lot of players will not be able to take full advantage of this change without the addition of this type of npc to Cyrodiil.
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