Guards in buildings

Yinmaigao

Dear ZoS,

Either get rid of guards in buildings or remove the stupid mechanic for having to wait to interact with doors AND have to wait for the door to go through the opening animation before you leave.

Getting really sick of dying to guard 1-shot mechanic "Focused Strike" while running around like a derp because there are three guards in a tiny building that you can't use the door.

Molag_Crow

Agreed.

FortheloveofKrist

Disagree completely. The guards are already too easy to escape. Making them difficult to escape in a building is necessary. You can escape them in a building, but I agree it's difficult sometimes.

Yinmaigao

I see zero reasons for not being able to use a door.

It's like everytime I enter combat, my character has an aneurysm and forgets how doors work -_-

Conquistador

Yinmaigao wrote: »

Dear ZoS,

Either get rid of guards in buildings or remove the stupid mechanic for having to wait to interact with doors AND have to wait for the door to go through the opening animation before you leave.

Getting really sick of dying to guard 1-shot mechanic "Focused Strike" while running around like a derp because there are three guards in a tiny building that you can't use the door.

lol; don't be a baddie. When they do a heavy attack, block it and run. You can escape.

Yinmaigao

@Conquistador can't block when you are waiting for the door opening animation...

Just a dumb outdated mechanic.

I never said it was impossible; just clunky, artificial, and nonsensical.

kyle.wilson

Be a nightblade and stealth away. Then hide till he de-aggros

If you can just dump through a door, the guard should be able to continue chase outside.

DaveMoeDee

I do all my stealing these days with a nightblade alt. Makes life easier. Perhaps one of the worst design aspects of the game is to have a whole portion of gameplay and DLC where class matters that much. I'm not sure any other class has any similar advantages -- or ever will -- since stealth is unique among all the skills given to classes.

phaneub17_ESO

Just do it with an alt in the Mournhold bank, as long as you don't go downstairs you never have to deal with guards. I have an alt planted in that bank that doesn't even sneak around anymore. The master safebox shows up, I brazenly walk up and pick it whether or not a bank teller is looking not even in stealth. Grab all the desks, go to the next room grab the cabinet, desk, and the other two chests; logout. Come back another time when the safeboxes respawn to do it all over again. When I return the next day, all that bounty has cleared and I can prance my way over to sell the stolen loot.

Occasionally the Fighter guild NPC wants to fight, but I have prevent attack innocent NPC turned ON. In this case if its my Sorc alt I just summon pets who auto-attack for me, Twilight Tormentor does a lot of damage, and generally kill the NPC. As long as I am not in line of sight and in sneak when the NPC dies I won't get additional bounties even though my pets made the kill. Alternate option, if you have at least 30 points invested in Atronach CP you get Riposte passive which turns your Block into an attack, with Prevent attack Innocent On this becomes a viable counterattack without actually hitting back. As the NPC hits you while blocking, you do return damage eventually killing the NPC.

Taleof2Cities

This thread is ripe for constructive criticisms of another sort ... but I'll stand back this time and let another forum-goer say it ...

Mordiez

FortheloveofKrist wrote: »

Disagree completely. The guards are already too easy to escape. Making them difficult to escape in a building is necessary. You can escape them in a building, but I agree it's difficult sometimes.

lmfao i completely disagree, but yea i agree

UltimaJoe777

Either be more careful and not get caught or don't do skooma in the bank...

AJ_1988

No guards in banks where is the logic gone lol

FortheloveofKrist

Mordiez wrote: »

FortheloveofKrist wrote: »

Disagree completely. The guards are already too easy to escape. Making them difficult to escape in a building is necessary. You can escape them in a building, but I agree it's difficult sometimes.

lmfao i completely disagree, but yea i agree

@Mordiez

LOL. Okay, I must be tired. I just reread my own words three times before I realized what you were saying, and then I laughed.

Yeah, that was dum.