Turtles

Chrysa1is

So a dragonknight just challenged me to a duel. I received a lot of emote-tional abuse, I was spat on, kicked and taunted. I was very triggered (sarcasm). I accepted because duelling is fun right?.....right?

During the duel, the player casted constant shields and constant heals making it pretty impossible to even make a dent. the guy had about 50k health. I was able to get it down to about 18k before they cast shield and heals. The guy was clearly trying to wait for me to exhaust my stamina before he attacked...but he literally didn't attack, he just stood there, blocking. In the end I had to go and unfortunately forfeit (which maybe was they way this players 'wins' duels), I said gg take care, then logged off. Fair play the guy was a sick tank but I thought it was dead boring.

Pretty bad sportsmanship from the opponent. I thought about it after and i couldn't help but wonder ''what is the best way to deal with someone who blocks constantly?'' I was unable to fear as I didn't slot any fear abilities. and couldn't change during combat. Will oblivion damage ignore blocks or just shields?

Don't suppose anyone has any tips incase this ever happens again? I am a Nightblade btw.

VoodooPlatypus

I was very disappointed this had nothing to do with actual turtles.

Aisle9

VoodooPlatypus wrote: »

I was very disappointed this had nothing to do with actual turtles.

I KNOW, RIGHT?

Edziu

VoodooPlatypus wrote: »

I was very disappointed this had nothing to do with actual turtles.

I was also as this thread smell with blazing shield build templay which isnt that good like before whiel are many other and better turle build in game than this which was good probably only against 1 or 2 enemies and much useless against more that 5+ players

Samadhi

Chrysa1is wrote: »

So a dragonknight just challenged me to a duel. I received a lot of emote-tional abuse, I was spat on, kicked and taunted. I was very triggered (sarcasm). I accepted because duelling is fun right?.....right?
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Pretty bad sportsmanship from the opponent.
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So someone taunted you, and you aggro'd against him or her until you had to log off
Pro tank is pro.

Chrysa1is wrote: »

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Don't suppose anyone has any tips incase this ever happens again? I am a Nightblade btw.

Recognize your enemy is a troll and make your own troll build

Thogard

I like turtles

paulsimonps

https://youtu.be/CMNry4PE93Y

umagon

Chrysa1is wrote: »

So a dragonknight just challenged me to a duel. I received a lot of emote-tional abuse, I was spat on, kicked and taunted. I was very triggered (sarcasm). I accepted because duelling is fun right?.....right?

During the duel, the player casted constant shields and constant heals making it pretty impossible to even make a dent. the guy had about 50k health. I was able to get it down to about 18k before they cast shield and heals. The guy was clearly trying to wait for me to exhaust my stamina before he attacked...but he literally didn't attack, he just stood there, blocking. In the end I had to go and unfortunately forfeit (which maybe was they way this players 'wins' duels), I said gg take care, then logged off. Fair play the guy was a sick tank but I thought it was dead boring.

Pretty bad sportsmanship from the opponent. I thought about it after and i couldn't help but wonder ''what is the best way to deal with someone who blocks constantly?'' I was unable to fear as I didn't slot any fear abilities. and couldn't change during combat. Will oblivion damage ignore blocks or just shields?

Don't suppose anyone has any tips incase this ever happens again? I am a Nightblade btw.

Make a tankblade and troll the trolls. 100 points into befoul and reverb bash helps with players who have a lot of healing. Also, your shades can help burn their stam when they block when used in conjunction with a stun.

Chrysa1is

Samadhi wrote: »

Chrysa1is wrote: »

So a dragonknight just challenged me to a duel. I received a lot of emote-tional abuse, I was spat on, kicked and taunted. I was very triggered (sarcasm). I accepted because duelling is fun right?.....right?
...
Pretty bad sportsmanship from the opponent.
...

So someone taunted you, and you aggro'd against him or her until you had to log off
Pro tank is pro.

Chrysa1is wrote: »

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Don't suppose anyone has any tips incase this ever happens again? I am a Nightblade btw.

Recognize your enemy is a troll and make your own troll build

Disappointing that the only apparent way to deal with this issue is to also troll I don't want to troll

Reverb

This is why I won't accept random duel invites from anyone with more than 30k health, because I know the fight will be boring af.

Chrysa1is

Reverb wrote: »

This is why I won't accept random duel invites from anyone with more than 30k health, because I know the fight will be boring af.

its funny because I did look and the health and think wait, but hey h/o. Y'win some y'lose some.

starkerealm

Chrysa1is wrote: »

So a dragonknight just challenged me to a duel. I received a lot of emote-tional abuse, I was spat on, kicked and taunted. I was very triggered (sarcasm). I accepted because duelling is fun right?.....right?

During the duel, the player casted constant shields and constant heals making it pretty impossible to even make a dent. the guy had about 50k health. I was able to get it down to about 18k before they cast shield and heals. The guy was clearly trying to wait for me to exhaust my stamina before he attacked...but he literally didn't attack, he just stood there, blocking. In the end I had to go and unfortunately forfeit (which maybe was they way this players 'wins' duels), I said gg take care, then logged off. Fair play the guy was a sick tank but I thought it was dead boring.

Pretty bad sportsmanship from the opponent. I thought about it after and i couldn't help but wonder ''what is the best way to deal with someone who blocks constantly?'' I was unable to fear as I didn't slot any fear abilities. and couldn't change during combat. Will oblivion damage ignore blocks or just shields?

Don't suppose anyone has any tips incase this ever happens again? I am a Nightblade btw.

Fear, Oblivion damage, Stuns. Burn their resource pool with poisons (though you may not care about this for duels.)

Samadhi

Chrysa1is wrote: »

Samadhi wrote: »

Chrysa1is wrote: »

So a dragonknight just challenged me to a duel. I received a lot of emote-tional abuse, I was spat on, kicked and taunted. I was very triggered (sarcasm). I accepted because duelling is fun right?.....right?
...
Pretty bad sportsmanship from the opponent.
...

So someone taunted you, and you aggro'd against him or her until you had to log off
Pro tank is pro.

Chrysa1is wrote: »

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Don't suppose anyone has any tips incase this ever happens again? I am a Nightblade btw.

Recognize your enemy is a troll and make your own troll build

Disappointing that the only apparent way to deal with this issue is to also troll I don't want to troll

If you only derive pleasure from winning fights,
be certain to only accept fights you can win

if you derive pleasure from experimenting with the different ways the game mechanics can be pushed and prodded
then there is a variety of interesting and trolly things for you to try

your call,
but don't look for other random players to always be measuring up against you in the same manner

Dojohoda

I too am disappointed that the only turtles in the game are tanky players and that little statue. :'(

EvilCroc

I prefer tortoises.

Malamar1229

To be honest, in any kind of dueling tournament he would have lost or been disqualified.

I_killed_Vivec

Came for the turtles... stayed to see a NB complain he can't kill everyone he wants to.

I mean the bare-faced cheek of someone having high health and using shields and heals (not that DK shields and heals are the best...).

"Oi, referee! He isn't playing the way I want him to!"

kessik221

Sounds like you got baited and accepted a duel from a tank. Totally a L2p issue. At 50k health his damage should of been laughable.

Kuramas9tails

Tanks can't really test their build like DPS can with a test dummy. Tanks and healers learn by being in the dungeon, trial, or pvp but since dueling came out, tank builds will test themselves and their rotation on another player. Not a lot of random players will duel if they see double sword and board plus 30K+ health. Some sets you can tell what it is just by looking at the style. Sounds like the player just wanted someone to attack them and not a lot were so they taunted players to get them to accept the duel.

Yolokin_Swagonborn

came here for "I like turtles"

was not disappointed.

kamimark

Chrysa1is wrote: »

I am a Nightblade btw.

Error: OP is not a turtle. Do not care about OP's complaint.

ZOS should add turtles to the ponds and beaches, and tortoises to the deserts, and they should be armored like, well, a turtle.

FloppyTouch

I came here for pics of cute turtles...

WTF!

starkerealm

kessik221 wrote: »

Sounds like you got baited and accepted a duel from a tank. Totally a L2p issue. At 50k health his damage should of been laughable.

Hey! My 50k Sorc Tank pulls... like... 3k DPS.

Ilithyania

Ch4mpTW

Yep. The dueling in ESO has become pretty toxic, and overall not such a nice experience (when dealing with strangers). I’ve both experienced and observed players using: Resource poisons, line-of-sight, “troll builds”, things like TrollKing and Malubeth, PetSorcs who camp mines and shield stack 3 shields to proc Infernal Guardian, immovable and vitality potion-users, and more.

Unless you’re dueling a buddy, or guild brother/sister, I would avoid dueling entirely. It just isn’t worth the negativity. Not to mention the people who behave poorly upon losing, and also behave poorly upon winning. It’s all about ego, and “exposing” people in duels for the most part.

Mind you, this is all from experiences and observations made from PS4-NA in: Auridon, Grahtwood, and Wayrest. Things may not be so toxic on other platforms, and or servers. But on the platform and server listed above, dueling (with randoms) is pretty much a fight of egos. Not so much about learning and or fun.

phileunderx2

There are plenty of these turtle dudes in cyrodil. No need to duel.