Would you like an Imperial City Arena?

Scorpio_Alik'ri

If so, why?

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_City,_Arena_District

Scorpio_Alik'ri

Yes

Correction: PvP instead of PvE. My bad.

Kuroinu

No

Wouldn't this make little sense in terms of the situation in the Imperial City? Molag Bal's army running rampant and all 3 Alliances battling in that mix also. But we'd be having "fun" battling each other in the arena?

Scorpio_Alik'ri

Yes

@Riko_Futatabi, I don't mean somewhere official where huge crowds would turn out because as you said, there is a war going on. What I'm implying is a neutral zone where players can duel, place bets, or practice 1v1, 2v2 etc. Taking keeps and riding through a largely empty Cyrodiil gets boring after a while.

Kuroinu

No

Scorpio_Alik'ri wrote: »

@Riko_Futatabi, I don't mean somewhere official where huge crowds would turn out because as you said, there is a war going on. What I'm implying is a neutral zone where players can duel, place bets, or practice 1v1, 2v2 etc. Taking keeps and riding through a largely empty Cyrodiil gets boring after a while.

Yeah an arena or tournament situation would be fun. Your title was a tad misleading, lol.

Paradox

Yes

Riko_Futatabi wrote: »

Wouldn't this make little sense in terms of the situation in the Imperial City? Molag Bal's army running rampant and all 3 Alliances battling in that mix also. But we'd be having "fun" battling each other in the arena?

You're fighting for your right to live, because you've been kidnapped by Bal's minions.

Fixed your issue, there guy. Sure would suck if people got what they've asked for, for ages.

BabeestorGor

No

Not in the IC or Cyrodil, they are a war zone.
An arena in each faction's capital for duels and small-scale PvP I'd like.

SlayerTheDragon

No

I say no because I completely and utterly don't give a sh!t about IC. Its like Craglorn - never been there - never plan to go there.....

JD2013

Given the fact that Molag Bal and his forces control Imperial City, then no.

Another area? Yeah, sure. Why not.

KiraTsukasa

Only if I walk in and see this waiting for me:



Otherwise, it's no different than grinding regular mobs.

Lucio

No

Absolutely no!
PvP and PvE are to be two separate things , it's already frustrating when you're in Cyrodiil and people kill you while deliver a quest or when you're doin anchor a nightblade attack you in the shadow from behind also pvp is unbalanced and servers load slowly there would be only lag

Enodoc

No

Imperial City already has an Arena, and that's a PvE event with open PvP. A PvP arena would have to go somewhere else.

newtinmpls

No

Cause I pretty much hate arenas

NewBlacksmurf

No

An arena in a PcP zone doesn't make sense after playing PTS to me

Forestd16b14_ESO

Yes

A arena has been asked for since beta. There have been 1000s of threads and post for a arena. A petition was made for a arena. ZoS had a chance to add arena with the IC grand arena. ZoS turned the once wonderful Imperial City arena into a basterized PvE gauntlet. ZoS needs to fix that before next monday and turn it into a pvp arena were players can place live bets on live matches between live players.

And before players start saying "Molag controls the city" or " Arena already in use" and bla bla bla players have been asking for a arena since early beta days and lots of players my self included do believe this would be a giant step in the right direction of fixing pvp. ESO needs a arena and the IC has one and ZoS needs to make it into a PvP arena.

Arreyanne

No

Games got enough balancing issues without adding the arena crowds screaming OP fix it

Forestd16b14_ESO

Yes

Arreyanne wrote: »

Games got enough balancing issues without adding the arena crowds screaming OP fix it

Well thing is alot of players said ZoS could use the arena as a lab or testing ground to truly balance skills and re-create stuff players are claiming.

UrQuan

No

I remember about a year ago there was a thread about adding a PVP arena and I thought "Hey, why not? I doubt I'd ever use it, but what's the harm?" Then someone posted in that thread with some very good reasons why a PVP arena would be detrimental to the game. That post changed my mind. Now I don't remember what the argument was that convinced me, though, so I've actually come full circle back to my "Hey, why not?" attitude.

Having said that, I don't like the idea of an arena in contested territory. At all. Other people have already given reasons why, and I agree with them. If an arena was added to the game, what I would like to see is a new small instance for it. It would be in neutral territory - maybe an island somewhere that isn't claimed by any of the 3 alliances. Anyone of any alliance can go there and mingle (without being able to PVP) and there's a mechanism in place to arrange arena matches - against members of different alliances or against members of your own alliance.

Kuroinu

No

UrQuan wrote: »

I remember about a year ago there was a thread about adding a PVP arena and I thought "Hey, why not? I doubt I'd ever use it, but what's the harm?" Then someone posted in that thread with some very good reasons why a PVP arena would be detrimental to the game. That post changed my mind. Now I don't remember what the argument was that convinced me, though, so I've actually come full circle back to my "Hey, why not?" attitude.

Having said that, I don't like the idea of an arena in contested territory. At all. Other people have already given reasons why, and I agree with them. If an arena was added to the game, what I would like to see is a new small instance for it. It would be in neutral territory - maybe an island somewhere that isn't claimed by any of the 3 alliances. Anyone of any alliance can go there and mingle (without being able to PVP) and there's a mechanism in place to arrange arena matches - against members of different alliances or against members of your own alliance.

I agree with the reason as to why a PvP Arena shouldn't take place. I recently made a thread in the PvP section of the forums detailing an alternative that wouldn't hurt the Alliance War areas. Can check it here if you like.

Gilvoth

Yes

let me tell you somethings here,
i HATE duels and stupid challanges like this and i would probably never even once enter into the arena to fight (altho i will definately enter there to gamble and bid on oponents and champions) if it was built into IC.

BUT

the origonal single player game oblivion had in the imperial city "the arena", and not only that, but, the poster on the walls to that arena in the imperial city was a picture from one of the earlier elderscrolls single player games signaling that an arena has allways been at and in the very heart and mind of ederscrolls.
an arena not only belongs in imperial city but, it is also a deep integral part of the history and depth of culture of elderscrolls series, and a necessary part of what we know to be the imperial city!

theroyalestpythonnub18_ESO

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

let me tell you somethings here,
i HATE duels and stupid challanges like this and i would probably never even once enter into the arena to fight (altho i will definately enter there to gamble and bid on oponents and champions) if it was built into IC.

BUT

the origonal single player game oblivion had in the imperial city "the arena", and not only that, but, the poster on the walls to that arena in the imperial city was a picture from one of the earlier elderscrolls single player games signaling that an arena has allways been at and in the very heart and mind of ederscrolls.
an arena not only belongs in imperial city but, it is also a deep integral part of the history and depth of culture of elderscrolls series, and a necessary part of what we know to be the imperial city!

The Arena's still there. It's jus PvE/Open PvP.

Rioht

Yes

I want a solo arena. There's enough group content, solo players need some.options.

UrQuan

No

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

let me tell you somethings here,
i HATE duels and stupid challanges like this and i would probably never even once enter into the arena to fight (altho i will definately enter there to gamble and bid on oponents and champions) if it was built into IC.

BUT

the origonal single player game oblivion had in the imperial city "the arena", and not only that, but, the poster on the walls to that arena in the imperial city was a picture from one of the earlier elderscrolls single player games signaling that an arena has allways been at and in the very heart and mind of ederscrolls.
an arena not only belongs in imperial city but, it is also a deep integral part of the history and depth of culture of elderscrolls series, and a necessary part of what we know to be the imperial city!

The first Elder Scrolls game was called Arena, and it was originally going to be based around teams of arena warriors from all of the different cities of Tamriel. The game that ended up being published was vastly different from the original concept (the original concept didn't even really have any RPG elements - it was pretty much just supposed to be arena fighting).

Scorpio_Alik'ri

Yes

Paradox wrote: »

Riko_Futatabi wrote: »

Wouldn't this make little sense in terms of the situation in the Imperial City? Molag Bal's army running rampant and all 3 Alliances battling in that mix also. But we'd be having "fun" battling each other in the arena?

You're fighting for your right to live, because you've been kidnapped by Bal's minions.

Fixed your issue, there guy. Sure would suck if people got what they've asked for, for ages.

Being captured and fighting other players for Molag Bal's entertainment, to get your soul back or just to survive would be ideal.

Tolmos

Yes

I would like it, but only if everyone who competes is set to static stats/levels in the arena.