You may try and experience the performance by yourself, but please consider before subscribing for now. Wait until server performance and bugs are improved. I cancelled ESO plus auto renewal and will renew only if there's noticeable improvement.

The current performance in PvP is unacceptable. Skills not firing or delaying, unable to break free, desync and got killed by 5 hits in the blink of an eye, crash and disconnection, etc.

Here is how the game is performing: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/553251/how-playable-is-game-for-you/p1

ZOS has yet to comment about these crashes 2 weeks into the patch.

For PVP it depends what you like I guess. To simplify server calculations most of the RNG has been taken out of proc sets which means you can use them reliably in a burst combo or just stack 3 of them + Malacath. Since procs don't scale with stats or crit you don't lose anything by investing in health and sustain instead and you can slap 2-5 DOTs on a player from 28 meters away as long as you have LOS on them for 1 GCD. 25k health is as squishy as people go in pvp with 40k being closer to the norm.

Personally this has driven me from BGs completely because procs are especially oppressive in no-CP. It doesn't help that you can no longer queue for the mode you want. I can't say how common it is for people to crash in BGs but if that link above is any indication it's practically guaranteed that one or two of the 12 players will not be able to play the whole game.

ZOS just finished 8 weeks of testing in Cyrodiil where they added various combinations of ramping costs, cooldowns on individual AOE skills, a global cooldown on AOEs, and limiting ally effects to group members. Cyro performance deteriorated enough because of lag and position desyncs that they wanted to see if any of that was helping and make decisions from there.

Their conclusion was that it made a difference on paper, but not enough to really make a dent in performance issues for the perspective of the end user. However they limited group sizes to 12 and ally-targeted effects to group members, meaning if you find a friendly at a keep fight and you're fighting two grouped players you can't cross heal each other but they can. ZOS says they did this because they liked the "behavioural changes" that resulted when that test was applied but they didn't elaborate on what those changes were and why they were good. If you were a solo healer in Cyro prior to leaving you can't do that anymore.

Someone tell him

I don't have the heart to express the feelings I get when I get to Cyrodiil...

Short answer - read the general forums titles...
Long Answer - read the forum or just look at the number of Z's & how few contain info...

The performace like always is just below what it should be. They are working on it, but we have been hearing that for years. Also they changed the grp sizes and cannot heal outside of your grp/ randoms anymore......Not a good move in my opinon.

LightYagami wrote: »

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

The game is barely functioning in any content right now. Go in with low expectations, if you do decide to try it.

I would have to strongly disagree here.. not sure what you are experiencing, but I can do anything in the game with very few interruptions

Come to Cyrodiil. Many of us are experiencing bugs. My game just crashed again 2 minutes ago.

Edit:
I don't know how the guy can do anything under this performance, not sure if he played PvP and trying to be the top 2% on leaderboard...

My game crashed at least 5 or 6 times recently when capturing keeps. Can't get the capturing scores because I was kicked from the game.

Bugged out a few times in Battleground: cannot swap bar, cannot right click, lost sound effects, etc.

PCNA, clean game without any add-on.

The software quality of updates is poor and rash changes are being made to game mechanics without any consultation with the player base, which indicates a lack of investment behind the scenes.

You may be able to scrape a bit of fun out of it while it lasts but the game is reaching end of life and it's hard to say whether it is worth returning at this point.

You literally can't activate skills 50% of the time. Its at an all time low. BGs work sometimes.

badmojo wrote: »

I took some time off and came back a few months ago.

I enjoy PVP and housing.

I resubbed and played daily since coming back, endured two months of horrible cyrodiil tests, but I waited for them to end so I could get back to enjoying cyrodiil. A week later they announced removal of ally healing and cut group size in half. I unsubbed and played my butt off in cyrodiil enjoying my last days of solo healing, then stopped playing about a week ago.

I now remember why I took the time off after playing for 4 years straight. The game I enjoy was finished in 2014, every change to gameplay since then has made eso worse, the additional stuff might be good(outfit system, provisioning overhaul,stickerbook, housing), and the content they added is also of good quality, but the mechanics of ESO in my opinion have only gotten worse since beta.

From my perapective, it feels like the game was created by some quality developers, [snip] I have no basis for this, its just yhe impression of a customer who preordered and played daily for years and years.

There is so much that is good about ESO. But I can not justify playing it, there is no assurance that my time will not be wasted when they decide my behavior is not desired. There is only so many times I can cross my fingers and hope things turn around.

Is it worth coming back? It was fun decorating my psijic villa. But the rest was just depressing.

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"Solo healing"



Wow

Lord_Eomer wrote: »

I have not been playing ESO from past 1.5 Years, how is PVP (3 VS 3 VS 3) and Cyrodiil, is it worth comming back?

If you are looking for new and exciting features to the game play, then you will not find it here.

If you are looking for more of the same, but with buffs and nerfs that change itemization and skill sets, then you are in the right place.

Otherwise, not much has changed. Still the same game it has been for years.