Regular PvP-ers - What's the biggest reason you run in Cyrodiil?

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I'm curious to understand what motivates people to play regularly in overland PvP (Meaning Cyrodiil, not Imperial City)

I know more than one answer may apply, but what is the biggest reason you regularly play PvP in Cyrodiil?

DeadlyRecluse

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

AP has been pretty meaningless since Thieves Guild, campaign score hasn't been a really compelling reason (for me) to do anything since 2015. Friends are cool.

Eirella

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

Pretty much just to have fun, since I really don't have a use for any AP or gear you get in Cyrodiil.

Sandman929

Other (Please explain)

To play map objectives (and as many good fights as we can along the way) to help with a victory for the alliance. Weird, right?

DannyLV702

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

I enjoy fighting other thinking players. When I first started I was into killing npc's, but that got boring after a month. I then gave PvP a chance before I "quit" the game, only to become addicted to it. So now here I am still, even though I haven't really PvP'd for the last 2 months or so, I haven't quit. Just a tiny break from the game. Still log on every day to sell and stuff.

Sallington

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

PvP is just more interesting to me. PvE is static and gets old fast.

IxSTALKERxI

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

I don't think anyone would ever pvp for AP or end of campaign gold... If they did they are stupid because you can earn 10 times more gold outside of cyrodiil.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

I like PvE more but PvP is a nice way to break up PvE time when waiting for new content. Also you can pickup some nice equipment with AP and doing daily town quests. The Akivair motif is pretty $$$ if you're trying to buy it with gold, better to farm AP and get it that way. But mainly I like the PvP guide I'm in and we have fun running around in Cryodiil.

zuto40

Other (Please explain)

To get some dope 1vX clips featuring underleveled pugs

NordSwordnBoard

Other (Please explain)

If war gets boring I go to town and work on grinding sets that may be useful soon.

AP for golden vendor to buy jewelry for all my toons instead of spending gold.

Rickter

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

Cyrodiil hasnt changed much in three years. MMOs are social games. if you dont play it to have fun with your friends, whats the point? you arent going to gain world notoriety or epic fame. what maintains the drive? its got to be your friends.

Durham

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

Rickter wrote: »

Cyrodiil hasnt changed much in three years. MMOs are social games. if you dont play it to have fun with your friends, whats the point? you arent going to gain world notoriety or epic fame. what maintains the drive? its got to be your friends.

So true ... totally agree same here...

IcyDeadPeople

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

Rickter wrote: »

Cyrodiil hasnt changed much in three years. MMOs are social games. if you dont play it to have fun with your friends, whats the point? you arent going to gain world notoriety or epic fame. what maintains the drive? its got to be your friends.

I usually find it more relaxing to run around solo compared to playing in a group. No objectives, no obligations, just wander around and kill people or get killed.

DeadlyRecluse wrote: »

AP has been pretty meaningless since Thieves Guild, campaign score hasn't been a really compelling reason (for me) to do anything since 2015. Friends are cool.

Well, compared to the first year or two of ESO there are finally at least some useful things you can buy with AP now, like monster helms and stuff that you can sell for gold.

I play just to have fun anyways, but whenever there is something good on the golden vendor I tend to play a bit more that weekend, enough to buy a few monster helms.

Unfortunately a lot of the sets keep repeating. Would be nice to see a second golden vendor added to IC who sells different items each week for Tel Var or something.

Takes-No-Prisoner

Other (Please explain)

Getting AP and Gold, sometimes grouping up with people. But most of the time, it's solo city.

CavalryPK

Other (Please explain)

To Find some grate small scale fights. The ones that I am really after are good 1v1s with players with the same or better skill .

Minno

Other (Please explain)

Combo of running with friends and defending/taking objectives to help pull a faction win.

The campaign score is the only measured pvp system worth fighting for (requires teammates and both solo/guild groups to help win), and in most cases dictates where players will generally be.

Alpheu5

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

Unless you're going for a 100% gold gear setup, end of campaign rewards have been completely pointless ever since they removed the chance of getting Master weapons for being in one of the top spots.

Kartalin

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

Alpheu5 wrote: »

end of campaign rewards have been completely pointless ever since they removed the chance of getting Master weapons for being in one of the top spots.

i never did get a master weapon (would have been v14 so wouldn't help now). I do have gold vicious ophidian and eternal yokeda v14 pieces I got from campaign rewards.

geonsocal

Other (Please explain)

the gold is important to me...i'm no "master" merchant - so, one of my primary sources of income in game is the end of campaign rewards and selling the gear i get from rewards for the worthy...

I spend at least 200k each month gearing up for cyrodiil...having 8 characters reaching tier 3 rewards (for each faction) helps greatly...

but, the reason I spend a good amount of gold gearing up is because I love the opportunity to compete with and against other players...

it's a constant challenge that has stayed fun for me for almost 2 years now...

Sallington

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

geonsocal wrote: »

the gold is important to me...i'm no "master" merchant - so, one of my primary sources of income in game is the end of campaign rewards and selling the gear i get from rewards for the worthy...

I spend at least 200k each month gearing up for cyrodiil...having 8 characters reaching tier 3 rewards (for each faction) helps greatly...

but, the reason I spend a good amount of gold gearing up is because I love the opportunity to compete with and against other players...

it's a constant challenge that has stayed fun for me for almost 2 years now...

And here my cheap self is, spamming my crappy looted magicka and stam pots... lol

Ghost-Shot

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

The AP/ranks are good too but the end of campaign rewards are a joke.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

Sandman929 wrote: »

To play map objectives (and as many good fights as we can along the way) to help with a victory for the alliance. Weird, right?

This is a pretty accurate representation of what I do. I used to solo resources when I was getting 25 AP for them because it ... gasp ... helped my alliance. Now that I get 1500 AP it's just an added bonus.

When soloing I try and get 1 resource per life and fight anyone in my way to said resource. Sometimes it ends in a humiliating defeat. Other times I fill up a kill 20 in 4 minutes because I ran into a Zerg fight.

Sallington wrote: »

geonsocal wrote: »

the gold is important to me...i'm no "master" merchant - so, one of my primary sources of income in game is the end of campaign rewards and selling the gear i get from rewards for the worthy...

I spend at least 200k each month gearing up for cyrodiil...having 8 characters reaching tier 3 rewards (for each faction) helps greatly...

but, the reason I spend a good amount of gold gearing up is because I love the opportunity to compete with and against other players...

it's a constant challenge that has stayed fun for me for almost 2 years now...

And here my cheap self is, spamming my crappy looted magicka and stam pots... lol

I only use those magic pots for PVE. It's been a long time since I had to buy any reagents but it's safe to say that I probably burn through 100 columbine in a month due to PVP.

If you're not running immovable + health + health regen + magic (or stamina) + magic regen (or stamina regen) you're at a severe disadvantage.

Between that and my Invisibility + Speed I average probably 20 potions per hour in PVP.

geonsocal

Other (Please explain)

Sallington wrote: »

geonsocal wrote: »

the gold is important to me...i'm no "master" merchant - so, one of my primary sources of income in game is the end of campaign rewards and selling the gear i get from rewards for the worthy...

I spend at least 200k each month gearing up for cyrodiil...having 8 characters reaching tier 3 rewards (for each faction) helps greatly...

but, the reason I spend a good amount of gold gearing up is because I love the opportunity to compete with and against other players...

it's a constant challenge that has stayed fun for me for almost 2 years now...

And here my cheap self is, spamming my crappy looted magicka and stam pots... lol

the pots from the siege merchants in cyrodiil aren't too bad, nor very costly - but, yeah the immovable and invisible pots are super useful...

personally I waited over a year before I started using pots and then another six months before I finally leveled my alchemy to be able to make them - they definitely help give you an edge in fighting...

Edit: the biggest challenge though I have at times is deciding how much time do I feel like investing in "gearing up", and, how much time do I feel like just playing...

Lucky28

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

Rickter wrote: »

Cyrodiil hasnt changed much in three years. MMOs are social games. if you dont play it to have fun with your friends, whats the point? you arent going to gain world notoriety or epic fame. what maintains the drive? its got to be your friends.

I usually find it more relaxing to run around solo compared to playing in a group. No objectives, no obligations, just wander around and kill people or get killed.

yeah. this game used to be really fun for both Solo and group play.

Sallington

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

Sandman929 wrote: »

To play map objectives (and as many good fights as we can along the way) to help with a victory for the alliance. Weird, right?

This is a pretty accurate representation of what I do. I used to solo resources when I was getting 25 AP for them because it ... gasp ... helped my alliance. Now that I get 1500 AP it's just an added bonus.

When soloing I try and get 1 resource per life and fight anyone in my way to said resource. Sometimes it ends in a humiliating defeat. Other times I fill up a kill 20 in 4 minutes because I ran into a Zerg fight.

Sallington wrote: »

geonsocal wrote: »

the gold is important to me...i'm no "master" merchant - so, one of my primary sources of income in game is the end of campaign rewards and selling the gear i get from rewards for the worthy...

I spend at least 200k each month gearing up for cyrodiil...having 8 characters reaching tier 3 rewards (for each faction) helps greatly...

but, the reason I spend a good amount of gold gearing up is because I love the opportunity to compete with and against other players...

it's a constant challenge that has stayed fun for me for almost 2 years now...

And here my cheap self is, spamming my crappy looted magicka and stam pots... lol

I only use those magic pots for PVE. It's been a long time since I had to buy any reagents but it's safe to say that I probably burn through 100 columbine in a month due to PVP.

If you're not running immovable + health + health regen + magic (or stamina) + magic regen (or stamina regen) you're at a severe disadvantage.

Between that and my Invisibility + Speed I average probably 20 potions per hour in PVP.

I made 100 immovable pots when I spec'd blazplar for a week, but every time I drank one I got sad Now I have 28 left and never use them lol

KingJ

To just have fun killing stuff and running with friends

If it wasn't for my friends I would have quit a long time ago.

Goshua

Other (Please explain)

Good question. I've no idea why, something to do while waiting for a new mmo with balanced pvp mainly.

Karivaa

To earn Alliance Points (AP) for and high rank on leaderboards

I am a competitive person so love being on the leaderboards and also love playing with my guilds.

Ilpagliaccio

Other (Please explain)

Finding the now-very rare examples of organic small-man fights(without a premade) whilst in Cyro. Had an example of this two nights ago when I was fighting with 2 random EP at BRK LM and had a 3v3v3, and that's been my only fight like that(without getting zerged by any faction) for about 30 days of PvP. Yes, 1 organic 3v3v3 per 30 days of PvP play. It used to be at least 1 per day, not even joking.

sirston

Other (Please explain)

how well pvp feels in contact ways such as skills hitting players is real key in this game other then that its trashy.

Serjustin19

Other (Please explain)

I feel more alive in Cyrodiil, I feel more dead in PvE. Cyrodill is where I feel belong. Plus that rush of adrenaline in Cyrodiil and the never ending surprises. However given my differences in my alliances issues that I'm currently struggling and even more so, due to the upcoming Campaign changes.

It's a bit awkward whom you don't know where you truly belong. Alas, I only bought the game was due to Cyrodiil. It's what I wanted. The open wilderness is a vast, all 3 factions zones in Cyrodiil speaks to me. That vast lake surrounding the Imperial City is amazing. Plus also, I fight for who I am, regardless of the alliance I'm helping. Most of all, to have fun in Cyrodiil.