EU Duel Tournament - Rules and Registration

Soulac

Yuke wrote: »

how long until final ruleset?

Lastoblyat told me that the ruleset is final.
We won´t ban any skills or sets until we notice issues in fights.

themdogesbite

In regard to some questions and concerns. 1) We have agreed to have a one build rule throughout, we agree that the ability to alter your build based on opponent will give rise to the specific use of cheesey tactics that will detract from the overall spirit of the event. As indicated earlier, the rules have been updated to reflect. 2) With regard to the use of specific sets and builds, the only thing I would be inclined to ban is shield breaker, basically because I think it's the ultimate cheese. Having said that, it's a set that exists in the game and is something that we all have to face in our day to day experience in Cyrodiil; indeed, the same applies to all other sets and skills. On that basis, we will not specifically ban any skills or sets. Nonethless, if we notice a particular issue with anything during the course of, or after a duel, we will deal with that appropriately at the time. 3) With regard to CP, Maulkin has explained things splendidly. Regardless of anything else, having people fight with 0 CP would be impossible to manage.

Having said all of that we are open to feedback and this is an event for YOU. If we feel that there is an overwhelming opinion one way or another, we will adapt according to that opinion. This is the first major EU duel event for quite some time and will therefore be a learning curve for everyone. We will learn from this, and with luck (providing people want it!) we will continue to have more, increasingly successful events.

/Lasto

Master_Fluff

I'll come and watch. It will probably be fun. But, how do we know what campaign?

Derra

After having died on a bugged cc break after leap in the last tourney and with the current state of the game being much worse in terms of bugged cc/skills/animations i´m just not able to motivate myself - in addition the need to create a build able to outheal shieldbreaker (possbly bow spam) without the use of LOS is just something that´s too arbitrairy of a situation for me to find interesting.

I wish everyone participating good luck!

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

Derra wrote: »

After having died on a bugged cc break after leap in the last tourney and with the current state of the game being much worse in terms of bugged cc/skills/animations i´m just not able to motivate myself - in addition the need to create a build able to outheal shieldbreaker (possbly bow spam) without the use of LOS is just something that´s too arbitrairy of a situation for me to find interesting.

I wish everyone participating good luck!

It's only 2.5k maybe it will be interesting to see unusual builds etc what else you gnna do on s Saturday afternoon?

Derra

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

After having died on a bugged cc break after leap in the last tourney and with the current state of the game being much worse in terms of bugged cc/skills/animations i´m just not able to motivate myself - in addition the need to create a build able to outheal shieldbreaker (possbly bow spam) without the use of LOS is just something that´s too arbitrairy of a situation for me to find interesting.

I wish everyone participating good luck!

It's only 2.5k maybe it will be interesting to see unusual builds etc what else you gnna do on s Saturday afternoon?

Watch the tournament

Soulac

Derra wrote: »

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

After having died on a bugged cc break after leap in the last tourney and with the current state of the game being much worse in terms of bugged cc/skills/animations i´m just not able to motivate myself - in addition the need to create a build able to outheal shieldbreaker (possbly bow spam) without the use of LOS is just something that´s too arbitrairy of a situation for me to find interesting.

I wish everyone participating good luck!

It's only 2.5k maybe it will be interesting to see unusual builds etc what else you gnna do on s Saturday afternoon?

Watch the tournament

My NB build is still rare! Didn´t see any with the same

themdogesbite

Tournament is over, finals standing is as follow:

1st place; Little bem (@Fluffy_Fr0zR) DC Stamina DK. 200k Gold Reward.

2nd Place; Hexys (@Hexiss) DC Magica Sorc. 30k Gold.

3rd Place; Yuke (@Yuke) DC Stamina DK / Krazzt Blackheart (@JaybeMawfaka) DC Stamina DK. 10k gold.

Thanks everyone for participating, we hope you had fun!

Sypher

Congrats!

Didn't get to watch the tourny, will it be posted anywhere? Not surprised to see plenty of Stam DK's in the top placings.

AbraXuSeXile

Nice tournament and good fun, hopefully more tournaments to come.

Bit of a shame the last bracket was all DC players and couldnt fight each other.

Proud of my boys Hexys and Krazzt!

themdogesbite

Sypher wrote: »

Congrats!

Didn't get to watch the tourny, will it be posted anywhere? Not surprised to see plenty of Stam DK's in the top placings.

I believe some said that they would make some videos, sadly it seems as the VoD from the stream is not saved.

Jaybe_Mawfaka

Aye, thank you for well organised tournament and glory to dc - Flawless Conquerors

Yuke

Thanks for setting this up, was fun to watch and play. Im pretty sad tho, that i died so flawless in my only lost duel and that Fluff and Hexys managed to make it better against that Stamina-Sorc.

Well, everyone needs a nemesis. Jo is definitely mine!

Erondil

Was very fun thanks for organizing this. Kinda sad I stupidly died agaisnt yuke and fluff, and failed to the dominion but anyway, I did better than I expected agaisnt stam DKs.

Yuke

Ah, yes, no one needs or wants duels / arenas / small scale pvp, right ZOS?

http://gph.is/21lRMSx

Soulac

Yuke wrote: »

Ah, yes, no one needs or wants duels / arenas / small scale pvp, right ZOS?

http://gph.is/21lRMSx

Housing is more important, please understand that.

Erondil

A short clip recorded during the tournament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RicI65PVY[MEDIA]
Sadly I couldn't record myself due to FPS drops :S

Wollust

Was very fun to watch. Thanks for organizing this and I'm looking forward to the next.
Next time picture in the beginning instead at the end of the tournament though

Oh ye, and we learned the servers are even more crappy than thought, already having fps issues with only a lot of people standing around not doing anything.

Sublime

Really enjoyed it as well. I heard somebody saying that there will be a 3v3 tournament, if that's true I'm really looking forward to this. Some variety will be amazing.

Hexys

Tournament was great, can't wait for the next one. Big thanks to those organising the duels!

Maulkin

Sublime wrote: »

Really enjoyed it as well. I heard somebody saying that there will be a 3v3 tournament, if that's true I'm really looking forward to this. Some variety will be amazing.

That would be extremely intereting.

And it would be great for Templars too. I think they make insanely (if not THE most) useful group class, but sadly they do suck a bit in 1v1 as a trade off. So big props to the ones that stepped up to fight.

Etaniel

Definitely looking forward to some 2v2 or 3v3 tournament ! we have to make our own arenas it seems

Lava_Croft

Congratulations! One of the best examples of players creating content for other players because the developers lack the resources/motivation.

Yuke wrote: »

Ah, yes, no one needs or wants duels / arenas / small scale pvp, right ZOS?

http://gph.is/21lRMSx

I think it's awesome that players create content for players, but please don't fool yourself into thinking that this GIF shows anything but a really, really small percentage of ESO's player base. ZOS remains a business, so the focus on those who bring in the most money.

Get more people to duel!

Derra

Hexys wrote: »

Tournament was great, can't wait for the next one. Big thanks to those organising the duels!

Hexys what was your plan when encountering a stam dk with shieldbreaker like yuke or krazzt?

Yuke

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Congratulations! One of the best examples of players creating content for other players because the developers lack the resources/motivation.

Yuke wrote: »

Ah, yes, no one needs or wants duels / arenas / small scale pvp, right ZOS?

http://gph.is/21lRMSx

I think it's awesome that players create content for players, but please don't fool yourself into thinking that this GIF shows anything but a really, really small percentage of ESO's player base. ZOS remains a business, so the focus on those who bring in the most money.

Get more people to duel!

They already made an arena for the Quakecon years ago, they only need to make a good matchup system and maybe ladder system with rewards. Also i think to *** give us a duelling option within the same alliance wont kill any programmer because of workload. Would have been extremly helpful yesterday where four DCs came out Top4.

I was so glad that i dodged the stamina sorc bullet and at the end i still had to fight Jo only because we didnt have a fricking duelling option within the same alliance.

Lava_Croft

Yuke wrote: »

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Congratulations! One of the best examples of players creating content for other players because the developers lack the resources/motivation.

Yuke wrote: »

Ah, yes, no one needs or wants duels / arenas / small scale pvp, right ZOS?

http://gph.is/21lRMSx

I think it's awesome that players create content for players, but please don't fool yourself into thinking that this GIF shows anything but a really, really small percentage of ESO's player base. ZOS remains a business, so the focus on those who bring in the most money.

Get more people to duel!

They already made an arena for the Quakecon years ago, they only need to make a good matchup system and maybe ladder system with rewards. Also i think to *** give us a duelling option within the same alliance wont kill any programmer because of workload. Would have been extremly helpful yesterday where four DCs came out Top4.

I was so glad that i dodged the stamina sorc bullet and at the end i still had to fight Jo only because we didnt have a fricking duelling option within the same alliance.

This comes down to both resources and motivation. Working on implementing some form of dueling means those people are not working on something else. Personally I don't want ZOS being anywhere near anything PvP related other than fixing Cyrodiil and to be honest I'm kind of scared thinking about how ZOS would implement dueling. They sadly have a track record of great ideas and horrible implementation we are all too familiar with.

Hexys

Derra wrote: »

Hexys wrote: »

Tournament was great, can't wait for the next one. Big thanks to those organising the duels!

Hexys what was your plan when encountering a stam dk with shieldbreaker like yuke or krazzt?

I was running seducer and 2x reduced cost, against a stam DK I was going to move alot keep the proximity on, curse and dawnbreaker pressure. But in the end I think the perfect counter for me is stam DK with wings and shieldbreaker so if I would have fought fluffy I would have been correct in #2.

Fluffy_Fr0zR

Hexys wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

Hexys wrote: »

Tournament was great, can't wait for the next one. Big thanks to those organising the duels!

Hexys what was your plan when encountering a stam dk with shieldbreaker like yuke or krazzt?

I was running seducer and 2x reduced cost, against a stam DK I was going to move alot keep the proximity on, curse and dawnbreaker pressure. But in the end I think the perfect counter for me is stam DK with wings and shieldbreaker so if I would have fought fluffy I would have been correct in #2.

Im not a shieldbreaker scrub, you offensive prick!

Derra

Fluffy_Fr0zR wrote: »

Hexys wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

Hexys wrote: »

Tournament was great, can't wait for the next one. Big thanks to those organising the duels!

Hexys what was your plan when encountering a stam dk with shieldbreaker like yuke or krazzt?

I was running seducer and 2x reduced cost, against a stam DK I was going to move alot keep the proximity on, curse and dawnbreaker pressure. But in the end I think the perfect counter for me is stam DK with wings and shieldbreaker so if I would have fought fluffy I would have been correct in #2.

Im not a shieldbreaker scrub, you offensive prick!

Yeh yuke and krazzt both would have been more dangerous probably - or maybe not bc no leap. Who knows.

ToRelax

I was just hoping someone else would deal with the shieldbreakers and anjoy the fairer fights I'd get. Judging from the outcome I guess it was good I did something else with my time. ^^