PvP Tips for new people

Ballcap

1. Forts are DC, Keeps are EP, and Castles are AD
2. If you are a Templar (I don't know about other classes), healing buffs also help when repairing walls. Throw down purifying ritual and then fix the wall. You'll get more bang for your buck.
3. You CAN heal a wall that has recently taken damage if it is within the first hit or two. If the wall has >~98% health, you can fix it even if it has taken damage. In order to prevent the permanent wall fixing (we've been hitting it forever and it's still at full health!) you will need about four trebuchet shots to hit at the same time. Coordinate! Once it's below that 98% threshold it cannot be repaired and you can damage it as normal.
4. You can and will fall through the grate on the second floor of the outposts if someone hits you with certain skills. Be careful.
5. When looking at the map you can push X (on ps4) to get the resource/keep stats. If the resource is level 0 it has changed hands recently and there are likely opponents nearby. Resources upgrade every 9-10(?) minutes to a max of level 5. If the farm reads six minutes until the next level, and the lumber mill reads 9 minutes until the next level you know they hit the farm first, then lumber, and are likely on their way to the mine.
6. If you run into a resource tower player horde, DON'T take the flag! Use siege to knock down the tower. If you can't do that, stop running in there unless you have overwhelming numbers. You will get killed, a lot.

I've been playing this game for a while now and some of these were news to me not too long ago. I hope this is helpful to some.

If I've missed something or made a mistake, please let me know and I am happy to change/update this.

W0lf_z13

Ballcap wrote: »

4. You can and will fall through the grate on the second floor of the outposts if someone hits you with certain skills. Be careful.

^^^THIS totally!! happens often

God_flakes

W0lf_z13 wrote: »

Ballcap wrote: »

4. You can and will fall through the grate on the second floor of the outposts if someone hits you with certain skills. Be careful.

^^^THIS totally!! happens often

You can also hit through the grate with trebs and ballistas and catapults for damage they rarely see coming.

Minno

FYI, #2 will eventually be fixed by ZOS.

Jazbay_Grape

If you are standing in the area where the wall is getting fixed, you will get stuck in it.

Panth141

Ballcap wrote: »

2. If you are a Templar (I don't know about other classes), healing buffs also help when repairing walls. Throw down purifying ritual and then fix the wall. You'll get more bang for your buck.

Yep - this works for any class using major mending - so a DK with igneous shield gets the same buff.

Minno wrote: »

FYI, #2 will eventually be fixed by ZOS.

'Eventually' - should be plenty of time to make the most of it, then

Sallington

If you don't see anyone anyone of your faction in front of you, you are in front.

And you're probably going to die.

Use your fellow faction friends as meat shields until you get a feel for the flow of fights. When to attack, when to retreat, etc.


If you feel useless and can't kill anyone, BUY AND USE SIEGE WEAPONS. Everyone does the same damage on a fire ballista.

W0lf_z13

one of my fav fire ballista techniques is to drop one inside a keep in front of the opposite door beind seiged aimed at the seiged side... then jump up on the small ledge of the nook where the merchant is and fire from there ....

Rohamad_Ali

No swimming signs posted near Allesia Bridge aren't decorations .

Panth141

A more advanced tip but one of the most powerful: use your environment.

Your enemy needs to have you in their line of sight (LoS) to attack you - you'd be amazed how much longer you survive when you take a moment to hide behind a tree and re-engage on your own terms.

Whenever you go into a fight where you might be outnumbered or outmatched, spend a second spinning your camera around to find an environmental feature you can use - if you can get in a little crevice or ledge on a stack of boulders then you can funnel your enemies in one or two at a time. If you get the chance to drop to stealth (especially if you're a NB) and someone has seen you - just act like an idiot. Seriously, run back the way you came, go in a strange direction, go stealth in the middle of the field... when you're being hunted your enemy will be trying to logically determine where you've gone. Screw logic.

EDIT:

Also, whenever you're stacked up anywhere - though usually on a resource flag - hold block. The mitigation from doing so can save you from a magblade bomb.

Pchela

If you must break up a tower farm, pop immovable speed pot and roll through to the stairs, get to second floor and set up oils. Also stand off the flag if you cap it because chances are the tower inhabitants will jump bomb the flag.

Ghostbane

X) Do not take other peoples siege, some players run a rotation around multiple siege
XX) Purchase siege repair kits, help others to help you
XXX) Buy FCs. And for the love of toast, if you are the last player to use someone elses FC, please be the hero and replace it.

Jazbay_Grape

When you get ganked, and you will get ganked, hurry up and revive somewhere before you have to witness the teabag carnage

vamp_emily

Ballcap wrote: »

6. If you run into a resource tower player horde, DON'T take the flag! Use siege to knock down the tower. If you can't do that, stop running in there unless you have overwhelming numbers. You will get killed, a lot.

Take the resource, then dodge roll past first floor of tower, sneak to top floor and setup a FC. Then when your group die they can rez to the top of the tower.

Jazbay_Grape

Play with vamp_emily, because that was good advice.

Crispen_Longbow

Ballcap wrote: »

1. Forts are DC, Keeps are EP, and Castles are AD

3. You CAN heal a wall that has recently taken damage if it is within the first hit or two. If the wall has >~98% health, you can fix it even if it has taken damage. In order to prevent the permanent wall fixing (we've been hitting it forever and it's still at full health!) you will need about four trebuchet shots to hit at the same time. Coordinate! Once it's below that 98% threshold it cannot be repaired and you can damage it as normal.

Isn't the threshold 93-94%

Crispen_Longbow

Ghostbane wrote: »

X) Do not take other peoples siege, some players run a rotation around multiple siege
XX) Purchase siege repair kits, help others to help you
XXX) Buy FCs. And for the love of toast, if you are the last player to use someone elses FC, please be the hero and replace it.

This ^^^^^^ 100 times over

God_flakes

W0lf_z13 wrote: »

one of my fav fire ballista techniques is to drop one inside a keep in front of the opposite door beind seiged aimed at the seiged side... then jump up on the small ledge of the nook where the merchant is and fire from there ....

Also if you aim your toon and jump just right you can land on the little "shelf" over postern doors and range down attackers as they come in breached inner posterns.

Armitas

7. Kill all of the things.

Publius_Scipio

8.) Watch Sypher play ESO. This alone cancels # 1-7, and will make you elite. Or as those who have a beef with grammar and the english language say, "leet".

KenaPKK

Publius_Scipio wrote: »

8.) Watch Sypher play ESO. This alone cancels # 1-7, and will make you elite. Or as those who have a beef with grammar and the english language say, "leet".

but they god l33t skillz m8

Master_Kas

@DeanTheCat has a really good beginner guide for PvP Anyone who has the link?

DeanTheCat

@Master_Kas

You summoned Khajiit?

As requested. Link

kadar

Don't stand on siege. Reapply buffs/survey surroundings in between shots.

Don't set up a Fire Treb in a seige line of Stone Tebs. Go buy Stone Trebs.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Invisibilty potions are your friend.

Ghostbane

IF YOU SEE COMRADES DEAD, RES THEM.

RES THEM.

REEEESSSSSS THHHEEEMMM.

Nilmot

The_Outsider wrote: »

Don't stand on siege. Reapply buffs/survey surroundings in between shots.

Don't set up a Fire Treb in a seige line of Stone Tebs. Go buy Stone Trebs.

Yeah, that's a big one. Take your shot, then press alt (default) to get off and buff, drop ground effects on yourself, and look around. If you get hit by any type of CC effect while on siege, you're dead. You'll learn the timing to only be on for the half second or so you need to fire it.