Some people do dungeons, some... farm emp (Haderus EU)

Lilarna

Some people do dungeons every night, some people earn an acheivement in Cyrodiil every night : it's "Emperor". Hey, you know what ? It's faster and easier to get emperor passives on Haderus EU than to get Undaunted passives.

Around midnight, blue raid starts taking the ring. 2 hours later max :

This was on Friday evening. No ressources taken, no outposts either : straight to the point ! Since you need to be efficient, the first blue keep is already under attack at the moment the last yellow keep turns blue.

Then, the raid is deserted, the blue "emperor" either leaves, or "fights" naked with a lute against the yellows who cap back the ring.

As a result :


All hail the new (and different of course) Aldmeri emperor !
(By the way that brings us eventually in the line of succession to this emperor : forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/141746/even-emperors-rely-solely-on-snipe/p1)
Needless to mention there are many half-repaired walls all over the ring of course, it's so much more convenient.

Several weeks ago, Haderus EU was still ok, because people were actually there for "real" and fighting hard to take or defend keeps. It was "normal" strategies, taking outposts and capping ressources to cut off enemy lines, and so on. And there are small teams of players who play this campaign "for real", but what's happening is overwhelming.

I know this is nothing new under the horizon, right. But still, it feels awfully wrong and we all know Zeni has officially been trying to fight this kind of farming. So if the game mechanics can't stop the problem, maybe that players can stop it ? Either with more DC or EP actually playing the campaign, coming to it for good (less lag is nice) or just maybe more people greeding on the emperor passive will bring a collision that will stop the process, I don't know. But, hopefully it can (and should) change.

By the way, is emp farming also still happening in NA ?

Juraigr

Want us to come back and wreck havoc ;D
Jurra

Sanct16

Haderus is buffcampaign. There is no "fot real" at Haderus.

Lilarna

Sure, Jurra you'ld be welcome

Chillrend is a buff campaign for now. There is no emperor farming there.
And that's the subject, not if Haderus EU is "for real" or not.

Besides, it could become a "for real" campaign if the right people decided to come play in it.

Lava_Croft

Most of the players who consider themselves among the better players have earned their (Former) Emperor buffs this way. It's a completely meaningless mechanic by now.

Maulkin

Since the other buffs (spell crit, health etc.) are no longer transferable between campaigns, the Former Emperor buff is the only one that is worth farming low-pop campaigns for.

My humble opinion, it should go the same way as the other buffs, i.e. removed. Or....it should only be accessible to the campaign cycle that you managed to get Emp in. On different campaigns or different cycles it should be disabled.

That said, I think we could do with closing another campaign. One of Haderus or Chillrend needs to shut down I think.

ToRelax

On Chillrend people try to "farm" emp with nightcapping, yet there it is fighting the other faction. Haderus is emp trading now. Most of them are really bad players of course, though few I saw are doing quite well even. Sad, that they don't seem to be interested in fair PvP.
Murdering emp traders is the only thing that is more satisfying then killing snipers these days .

Lilarna

ToRelax wrote: »

Murdering emp traders is the only thing that is more satisfying then killing snipers these days .

You actually get two for the price of one more than often these days

JamilaRaj

Again...That guest campaign and travel to player features need to go. I am sick of the campaign being raided by guests to make their pathetic friends former emps.

Merlight

Lilarna wrote: »

Around midnight, blue raid starts taking the ring. 2 hours later max :

Well at least they're improving. The first night Master Kain pulled his bunch of door fighters nobody has seen on Haderus for several cycles, it took them 3 hours to crown him. That was the night I left for Azura.

Back in the day, everyone knew Celarus was an emp farming fiasco. Yet they introduced an even shorter campaign. Sometimes I hate when I'm right...

Gyudan

Let's hope this gets addressed with update 6.