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this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
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Faltasë✭✭✭✭✭I'd say it's not really a waste of time because at least the matches go by faster since they're 3 team(at least they go faster in my opinion).
Alot of my matches in a bg weekend like this(especially since it's deathmatch) end in less than 10 minutes. The only time it doesn't is if all three teams have good tankey moments with long minutes of attrition.Edited by Faltasë on 20 August 2026 02:00
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PC-NA 2019-2022, 2025-present
Please keep fixing the combat. It's good to fix the combat.
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AllenaNightWood✭✭✭✭I'd say it's not really a waste of time because at least the matches go by faster since they're 3 team(at least they go faster in my opinion).
Alot of my matches in a bg weekend like this(especially since it's deathmatch) end in less than 10 minutes. The only time it doesn't is if all three teams have good tankey moments with long minutes of attrition.
well unless you place first or seconded you get nothing1 -
Faltasë✭✭✭✭✭AllenaNightWood wrote: »I'd say it's not really a waste of time because at least the matches go by faster since they're 3 team(at least they go faster in my opinion).
Alot of my matches in a bg weekend like this(especially since it's deathmatch) end in less than 10 minutes. The only time it doesn't is if all three teams have good tankey moments with long minutes of attrition.
well unless you place first or seconded you get nothing
You still get about 8k ap per match... Which still ends up being faster than high pop campaigns sometimes in the amount of time you're spending. It's also more guaranteed ap per 10 minutes on low activity cyrodiil campaigns as well. So that's clearly not nothing...
Edited by Faltasë on 20 August 2026 02:05
XBOX 2015-2019
PC-NA 2019-2022, 2025-present
Please keep fixing the combat. It's good to fix the combat.
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Zyaneth_Bal✭✭✭✭✭AllenaNightWood wrote: »this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
It’s not a waste of time, at least you get an opportunity to actually play unlike in 2 teams bg where the absolute majority of the matches are completely one sides.
You only get the daily reward in 2 teams bg if you win so isn’t 3 teams better in that regard too? Not to mention you still get the usual rewards for 3rd place as well.
Honestly, 2 teams bgs is such a huge failure, whoever even thought of something so atrocious. It was a supposed “pvp update” that killed bgs like nothing else ever could. Not to mention this outcome was totally predictable.
Get rid of 2 teams matches and bring back 3 teams as the base mode.Edited by Zyaneth_Bal on 20 August 2026 03:037 -
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✭Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »AllenaNightWood wrote: »this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
It’s not a waste of time, at least you get an opportunity to actually play unlike in 2 teams bg where the absolute majority of the matches are completely one sides.
You only get the daily reward in 2 teams bg if you win so isn’t 3 teams better in that regard too? Not to mention you still get the usual rewards for 3rd place as well.
Honestly, 2 teams bgs is such a huge failure, whoever even thought of something so atrocious. It was a supposed “pvp update” that killed bgs like nothing else ever could. Not to mention this outcome was totally predictable.
Get rid of 2 teams matches and bring back 3 teams as the base mode.
They do bring it back. Will be 6v6v6 though not 4v4v4 with Update 51.Edited by L_Nici on 20 August 2026 08:28PC|EU0 -
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✭✭Okay, the average player would have a 66% rate of being in 1st or 2nd place in 3-team BGs, and so if you're getting a much, much lower 1st and 2nd place rate in there, well, let's say that there's a common denominator in all of your matches.Edited by HatchetHaro on 22 August 2026 04:53Best Argonian NA and I will fight anyone for it
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Oceanchanter✭✭✭✭Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »AllenaNightWood wrote: »this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
It’s not a waste of time, at least you get an opportunity to actually play unlike in 2 teams bg where the absolute majority of the matches are completely one sides.
You only get the daily reward in 2 teams bg if you win so isn’t 3 teams better in that regard too? Not to mention you still get the usual rewards for 3rd place as well.
Honestly, 2 teams bgs is such a huge failure, whoever even thought of something so atrocious. It was a supposed “pvp update” that killed bgs like nothing else ever could. Not to mention this outcome was totally predictable.
Get rid of 2 teams matches and bring back 3 teams as the base mode.
I disagree after one 3-member group absolutely dominating all 4v4v4 Deathmatches on the EU server over the past 24h.
They queue constantly, and there must be a really low traffic for this event cause I literally cannot escape them.
Either that, or it has something to do with the Veterancy rank.
It's the same 3 people each time, the 4th one being a random lucky enough to be blessed with a literally guaranteed victory for that match.
It reached a point I suspected cheating after them scoring 8th victory in a row (highest form of praise for a PvP player I suppose), but numbers in the death screen seem to check out.
They rarely if ever die, they always stick together.
Probably just friends sitting on Discord playing in coordinated manner and using meta builds.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter what game mode is if the players are at fault.
I PvP a lot recently to get the skins from Veterancy.
I've seen, or had, teams or games falling apart because the point wasn't taken or someone was killed within first 5 seconds of the match starting.
Or people becoming salty over someone having 18k HP instead of 20k, while they themselves die all the time as Werewolf.
Or people just straight up leaving after 2 deaths.
3 team BG gives more chances to slip on the backline unnoticed due to more chaos, but its no less balanced than 2 team BG.3 -
Zyaneth_Bal✭✭✭✭✭Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »AllenaNightWood wrote: »this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
It’s not a waste of time, at least you get an opportunity to actually play unlike in 2 teams bg where the absolute majority of the matches are completely one sides.
You only get the daily reward in 2 teams bg if you win so isn’t 3 teams better in that regard too? Not to mention you still get the usual rewards for 3rd place as well.
Honestly, 2 teams bgs is such a huge failure, whoever even thought of something so atrocious. It was a supposed “pvp update” that killed bgs like nothing else ever could. Not to mention this outcome was totally predictable.
Get rid of 2 teams matches and bring back 3 teams as the base mode.
They do bring it back. Will be 6v6v6 though not 4v4v4 with Update 51.
But 6v6v6 is totally different from 4v4v4 and it’s not even a separate queue, it shares it with 9v9
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Zyaneth_Bal✭✭✭✭✭Oceanchanter wrote: »Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »AllenaNightWood wrote: »this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
It’s not a waste of time, at least you get an opportunity to actually play unlike in 2 teams bg where the absolute majority of the matches are completely one sides.
You only get the daily reward in 2 teams bg if you win so isn’t 3 teams better in that regard too? Not to mention you still get the usual rewards for 3rd place as well.
Honestly, 2 teams bgs is such a huge failure, whoever even thought of something so atrocious. It was a supposed “pvp update” that killed bgs like nothing else ever could. Not to mention this outcome was totally predictable.
Get rid of 2 teams matches and bring back 3 teams as the base mode.
I disagree after one 3-member group absolutely dominating all 4v4v4 Deathmatches on the EU server over the past 24h.
They queue constantly, and there must be a really low traffic for this event cause I literally cannot escape them.
Either that, or it has something to do with the Veterancy rank.
It's the same 3 people each time, the 4th one being a random lucky enough to be blessed with a literally guaranteed victory for that match.
It reached a point I suspected cheating after them scoring 8th victory in a row (highest form of praise for a PvP player I suppose), but numbers in the death screen seem to check out.
They rarely if ever die, they always stick together.
Probably just friends sitting on Discord playing in coordinated manner and using meta builds.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter what game mode is if the players are at fault.
I PvP a lot recently to get the skins from Veterancy.
I've seen, or had, teams or games falling apart because the point wasn't taken or someone was killed within first 5 seconds of the match starting.
Or people becoming salty over someone having 18k HP instead of 20k, while they themselves die all the time as Werewolf.
Or people just straight up leaving after 2 deaths.
3 team BG gives more chances to slip on the backline unnoticed due to more chaos, but its no less balanced than 2 team BG.
There’s a solo queue too. There’s little to nothing pug team can do against a coordinated group
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Oceanchanter✭✭✭✭Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »Oceanchanter wrote: »Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »AllenaNightWood wrote: »this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
It’s not a waste of time, at least you get an opportunity to actually play unlike in 2 teams bg where the absolute majority of the matches are completely one sides.
You only get the daily reward in 2 teams bg if you win so isn’t 3 teams better in that regard too? Not to mention you still get the usual rewards for 3rd place as well.
Honestly, 2 teams bgs is such a huge failure, whoever even thought of something so atrocious. It was a supposed “pvp update” that killed bgs like nothing else ever could. Not to mention this outcome was totally predictable.
Get rid of 2 teams matches and bring back 3 teams as the base mode.
I disagree after one 3-member group absolutely dominating all 4v4v4 Deathmatches on the EU server over the past 24h.
They queue constantly, and there must be a really low traffic for this event cause I literally cannot escape them.
Either that, or it has something to do with the Veterancy rank.
It's the same 3 people each time, the 4th one being a random lucky enough to be blessed with a literally guaranteed victory for that match.
It reached a point I suspected cheating after them scoring 8th victory in a row (highest form of praise for a PvP player I suppose), but numbers in the death screen seem to check out.
They rarely if ever die, they always stick together.
Probably just friends sitting on Discord playing in coordinated manner and using meta builds.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter what game mode is if the players are at fault.
I PvP a lot recently to get the skins from Veterancy.
I've seen, or had, teams or games falling apart because the point wasn't taken or someone was killed within first 5 seconds of the match starting.
Or people becoming salty over someone having 18k HP instead of 20k, while they themselves die all the time as Werewolf.
Or people just straight up leaving after 2 deaths.
3 team BG gives more chances to slip on the backline unnoticed due to more chaos, but its no less balanced than 2 team BG.
There’s a solo queue too. There’s little to nothing pug team can do against a coordinated group
I can't help but not notice "Group" in "Group Deathmatch PvP Spotlight" event.0 -
Ravynmagi✭✭✭I'm not a fan of it, I just hate the smaller team sizes. And if you aren't playing a WW or DK in one of these small groups, someone tells you to go back to PvE.
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Zyaneth_Bal✭✭✭✭✭Oceanchanter wrote: »Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »Oceanchanter wrote: »Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »AllenaNightWood wrote: »this mode is such a waste of time if you cant place first or second and its incredible annyoing no matter how many time i go in im always on 3rd place team
It’s not a waste of time, at least you get an opportunity to actually play unlike in 2 teams bg where the absolute majority of the matches are completely one sides.
You only get the daily reward in 2 teams bg if you win so isn’t 3 teams better in that regard too? Not to mention you still get the usual rewards for 3rd place as well.
Honestly, 2 teams bgs is such a huge failure, whoever even thought of something so atrocious. It was a supposed “pvp update” that killed bgs like nothing else ever could. Not to mention this outcome was totally predictable.
Get rid of 2 teams matches and bring back 3 teams as the base mode.
I disagree after one 3-member group absolutely dominating all 4v4v4 Deathmatches on the EU server over the past 24h.
They queue constantly, and there must be a really low traffic for this event cause I literally cannot escape them.
Either that, or it has something to do with the Veterancy rank.
It's the same 3 people each time, the 4th one being a random lucky enough to be blessed with a literally guaranteed victory for that match.
It reached a point I suspected cheating after them scoring 8th victory in a row (highest form of praise for a PvP player I suppose), but numbers in the death screen seem to check out.
They rarely if ever die, they always stick together.
Probably just friends sitting on Discord playing in coordinated manner and using meta builds.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter what game mode is if the players are at fault.
I PvP a lot recently to get the skins from Veterancy.
I've seen, or had, teams or games falling apart because the point wasn't taken or someone was killed within first 5 seconds of the match starting.
Or people becoming salty over someone having 18k HP instead of 20k, while they themselves die all the time as Werewolf.
Or people just straight up leaving after 2 deaths.
3 team BG gives more chances to slip on the backline unnoticed due to more chaos, but its no less balanced than 2 team BG.
There’s a solo queue too. There’s little to nothing pug team can do against a coordinated group
I can't help but not notice "Group" in "Group Deathmatch PvP Spotlight" event.
As I said you can select a solo queue which is separate from group.
Click on that tab in top right corner and select “Solo Deathmatch PvP Spotlight”Edited by Zyaneth_Bal on 22 August 2026 00:040 -
Zyaneth_Bal✭✭✭✭✭I'm not a fan of it, I just hate the smaller team sizes. And if you aren't playing a WW or DK in one of these small groups, someone tells you to go back to PvE.
I’m having a blast playing as sorc currently and you can play any class. Even as arc that is the only objectively bad pvp class atm you can do ok most of the time because a lot if not most players come completely unprepared. But last several games there actually was real competition that you never see in 2 teams bg.
I wish they brought 4v4v4 back permanently.0 -
Above300pinginKoreaSoul ShrivenIn 4:4:4 the battle zone is too small and the enemys always outnumbers by twice. Unless you’re a good DK or WW, you can’t survive a brawl.0
