Midyear Mayhem for No-PVP Pacifists - (Mostly) PVP-free ways to get your Event Tickets

VaranisArano

I want to be very upfront about one thing: You cannot avoid the risk of PVP during Midyear Mayhem if you want event tickets. You do not have to fight back or kill other players, but Cyrodiil, Imperial City, and (obviously) Battlegrounds are all PVP-enabled zones. PVP will happen. If you queue into a PVP-enabled zone, you are 100% consenting to engage in PVP and should expect that other people will fight you. Do not expect that people will respect questers and you will be pleased and gratified if it happens instead of disappointed when people PVP against you in a PVP enabled zone

You don't have to fight other players.
There's no guarantee that other players won't fight you if they find you.
We clear?

However, there are ways to get the Event Tickets without actually having to do any fighting or killing other players, so long as you accept the risk that other players will fight and probably kill your character. There is also one method that will let you get an event ticket without any PVP on your part at all if you are willing to be very patient and lucky.

What you need to do to prepare:
You need to minimize your exposure and time spent doing quests. To that end, prepare in these ways.

1. Queue into one of the lower population campaigns. Seriously, the less people around, the better it is for you. Usually ZOS spins up new campaigns for Midyear Mayhem which are perfect for this. If you can do the questing at non-primetime hours, even better.
2. Use your fast horse. Having a fast horse will allow you to reach distant quest areas faster, escape other players, and complete your quests quicker. It also makes it much less painful if you get killed and have to ride back to your quest area. If you don't have Rapid Manuevers unlocked, do the "Welcome to Cyrodiil" quest you get at your Alliance Base - there's no PVP involved and you'll get enough AP to unlock Rapid Manuevers which is a big speed boost for your mount. If you are new to Cyrodiil, I recommend doing the quest instead of just talking to the Grand Warlord because it explains the transitus shrines to "fast travel" around Cyrodiil pretty well.
3. Get stealthy. Bring invisibility potions or other stealthy gear if you want to avoid other players. Be aware, stealth works on players but players also have means of detecting you! Use line of sight to your advantage. Finally, if you are creeping around in stealth, other players who see you may assume you are a ganker waiting to pounce, so don't be surprised if you do get attacked.
4. Get tanky. For a pacifist run, this may seem odd. After all, you aren't going to fight back. However, gankers often go for low health, squishy targets so by getting tankier, you have a better chance of not getting targeted.

The Quests for Pacifists
Event Tickets are gained from the following methods: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/55475
Battleground quests from Battlemaster Rivyn
Scouting, Bounty, Battle, Warfront, and Conquest Missions
Elder Scroll capture and recapture quests
Town quests in Vlastarus, Bruma, Cropsford, Cheydinhal, and Chorrol

Scouting: (VERY EASY) Obtained from your Alliance Base quest boards, this quest will send you to a random enemy-controlled resource, where the quest will prompt you to stop, jot down a few notes and return to base. This is easily completed from stealth, usually requires lots of riding.

Scouting (Imperial City): (EASY) Now, ZOS didn't specify that these are included, but I assume so since they just said "Scouting". However, these have not awarded Pelinal's Boon boxes in the past, so they may not be. Obtained in your Imperial City Alliance Base, this tasks you to go to a District and put a marker on your rez point. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Scouting_the_Memorial_District

Battle: Capture a Resource - (MEDIUM) Obtained from your Alliance Base quest boards, the quest will send you to capture a random enemy controlled resource. You can get credit by being presetn when your alliance captured the resource or you can solo a resource yourself. As long as no enemy players show up to defend the resource, this is an entirely PVE fight. There will be guards defending a tower, worker NPCs, and a few wandering guards. You need to kill the guards standing on the flag and stand on it long enough for the flag to change color to your alliance. Other people may have slightly different tactics they can share. When I solo a resource, I typically kill the guards at the entrance to the tower along with any nearby wanderers, go into the tower to kill the mage at the top, then rush out to kill the four guards on the flag. (I save my ultimate for players, but for a pacifist run, go ahead and ulti drop the guards on the flag.) The guards do respawn, so it may take some practice to get the timing right so you can kill them all and flip the flag. Be aware that other players can see on their map (and on PC, their addons) when a resource flag is being flipped by another alliance.

Conquest: (HARD) Capture 9 Resources - same thing as above, just 9 different resources, obtained from the Conquest quest board.

Capture a Keep/Outpost: (HARD) If you have the quest active and you are on the grounds of the keep or outpost when it is captured by your alliance, you will get credit for the quest, whether or not you participated in the battle. Obviously, there's a high risk of PVP involvement with this one, even though technically you don't have to PVP to complete it. The Conquest version requires 3 different keeps.

Conquest: Capture All 3 Towns - (HARD) Obtained from the Conquest Board, this quest requires you to take the flags (or be present when the town is captured for your alliance) at Vlastarus, Bruma, Cropsford. Each town has 3 flags that all need to be turned. Two flags have NPC guards, and the last flag has no guards. Like with resources, the guards will respawn and can turn the flag back to their alliance, so I recommend starting with the non-NPC flag so you have time to kill the others and flip their flags. You may run into enemy players who are questing in the town or enemy PVPers looking to capture the town for their alliance transitus. Bruma has a a Dark Anchor which can also complicate matters. While you can do this method, its one of the harder ways to get your event ticket compared to...

Cyrodiil Town Quests (VERY EASY)
The Cyrodiil Town Quests are easy, entirely PVE objective quests where the real threat comes from other players. Remember that Bruma, Vlastarus, and Cropsford have Alliance flags and matching NPCs who may oppose you if you are the other alliances or help you if you are the matching one. Also remember that even though you are pursuing a PVE quest, the entire zone of Cyrodiil is PVP-enabled and that some PVPers can and will watch these quest spots so they can easily fill their own PVP Bounty quests. In short, its really easy questing unless an enemy player spots you and then it gets really hard
Bruma: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Bruma
Chorrol: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Chorrol ; https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Weynon_Priory
Cheydinhal: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Cheydinhal
Vlastarus: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Vlastarus
Cropsford: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Cropsford


How to get Event Tickets without any PVP at all on your part (Just a LOT of Patience and Luck)
There is one quest that awards an Event Ticket that does not require you to leave the safety of your Alliance Gates at all.

Capture/Recapture an Elder Scroll

However, it requires a certain about of patience and luck.
You must have the correct Elder Scroll quest and be in Cyrodiil.
Your alliance must capture the Elder Scroll and place it in its Scroll Temple or in a home keep.
When the Elder Scroll is placed in its Temple/Home Keep, everyone in Cyrodiil with the quest gets credit for it.

This method is best used on a populated, competitive campaign, because you are depending entirely on the PVPers in your alliance to go out, captue/recapture a scroll, and share the quest with you (unless you were lucky enough to get it from the Grand Warlord before your alliannce grabbed the scroll). Be aware that once your alliance holds the Elder Scroll, you cannot obtain that quest from the Grand Warlord and it must be shared with you.


What to do when you die (because its PVP and everyone dies)

• Try not to get upset. Everyone dies in PVP-enabled zones, especially if you are choosing not to fight back for pacifist reasons. More power to you for going for the event tickets anyway!
• Rez up at your nearest home keep, ride back and try again.
• If you keep dying to the same person, you've got a couple choices. 1) Try to quest somewhere else. 2) Go to zone chat and say "LFG for Town Quests" or form your own group so you can get assistance and be less of a target, 3) Go to zone chat, say "So-and-so is being a jerk to questers, can anyone help me out?" The PVPers will probably laugh and make fun of both you and the ganker and maybe someone will swing by and clear him out for you or offer to group up and help with the questing.
• Ignore the jerks. Some PVPers can be rude with they kill you. Don't let them stress you out and the best way to deal with them is to ignore them. Telling them you are a quester or replying to or with hate tells usually only makes it worse. If you do receive a tell you think is against the TOS, however, go ahead and report that.

I myself am going to be happily PVPing this Midyear Mayhem. For everyone who hates PVP for varied and entirely valid reasons and wants these Event Tickets anyway, I wish you the best of luck during this Event and hope this guide helps you obtain your desire.

Best of luck!

VaranisArano

A note from me:
I used to be a PVE-only player. I came to ESO from Skyrim, so I was totally opposed to the idea that I would ever try PVP. Except I really, really wanted those Master Angler fish!
So I went in to PVP. I didn't prepare. I didn't want to fight anyone. I was prepared to die a lot to get what I wanted.
I died. A lot. Slaughterfished. Ganked. I spent a lot of time ducking and hiding down by that ocean fishing hole right by the AD gates.
I was a pacifistic quester in a PVP-enabled zone. I fully accepted that PVP was going to happen to me if another player found me because that's what Cyrodiil and Impeial City are for - PVP.

Now, I've since gone back to PVP to try it out and have come to love it. I found a great guild and PVP regularly. Not every player comes to love PVP through exposure to it even though I certainly did. There's one thing I've learned from my experience. PVP is an all-around better experience when you prepare for PVP. ESO's PVP has a steep learning curve, its true. Preparing for it make it that less punishing. (Best Source I've found for preparation for PVP: @Joy_Division 's Advice for Midyear Mayhem )

I also fully understand that some people do not like and never will like ESO's PVP. There's a ton of varied, absolutely valid reasons for that.

However, I will ask something of the PVE players coming to Cyrodiil and Imperial City for Midyear Mayhem: Don't queue up for a PVP-enabled zone and walk out of the Alliance Bases and expect to avoid all the risk of PVP. Don't walk into a PVP-enabled zone expecting guaranteed safe conduct just because there's an event on - there is no "safe conduct" and that's fully intended by the design of Cyrodiil and Imperial City. Don't leave the safety of your Alliance Base and complain when members of the other Alliances kill you.

Once you leave your Alliance Base, the best you can do is minimize your risk. That's true for all of us, PVEer and PVPer alike. If that's not your cup of tea, there is no shame in staying out of PVP-enabled zones.

I love ESO's PVP now even though I used to hate the very idea. I want everyone to have a good time during Midyear Mayhem, whether you enjoy PVP or if you hate it but want those Event Tickets anyway, just like I wanted those Master Angler fish.

So know what you are getting into, prepare accordingly, and good luck getting those event tickets!

Tasear

* note battlegrounds are base game and you can pick your style of game. Capture flag games are very pve friendly.

VaranisArano

Tasear wrote: »

* note battlegrounds are base game and you can pick your style of game. Capture flag games are very pve friendly.

I would not have thought of doing a pacifist (non-killing) run as a Battlegrounds healer, but if someone is willing to play like that, it could certainly work!

If that interests anyone, you would need to do one of the following:
Let the Games Begin: Participate in five Battlegrounds matches.
Test of Mettle: Earn one thousand Medal Points in a Battleground (Not necessarily in one match, I believe)
To the Victor: Win three Battlegrounds matches.

I confess I mostly ignored Battlegrounds because I assumed that most non-PVP players wouldn't enjoy the combat in Battlegrounds and I'm not in favor of doing the "stealth at the team rez point and leech" method.

Beardimus

Great community focused thread @VaranisArano As we know there are going to be a few threads raised in this event and this can be linked in response.

Spot on

DovahkiinHeart

Recently leveled two toons in BG to get caltrops and vigor and got a ton of RftW so I rec the method for BG. Even if your team gets 3rd place, you still earn a ton of AP. All it takes is patience and some tenacity. Only positive thing I can say for pvp is that your armor doesn't suffer damage, and with BG when you die (like everyone else) you get rezzed at the starting point. There's no 'running to the place' you got ganked since the arena is small compared to the whole map of Cyro.

Just do the Battleground quest giver's quests, and if you get one that you don't like, you can always abandon it and try to pick one of of the other ones. And if you get some die-hard player being salty that your team is not 'winning', there's always the wonderful ignore button (or even better, go offline mode) so they can rage all they want but you don't have to waste your time on them. Put on some good music in the meantime while you play so you don't get bored.

Voila, event tickets! AND Rewards for the Worthy, usually with transmute crystals and gear that usually sell for a decent price at guildstores~ All without the major Cyrodiil lag, campers, and gankers.

Yw.

Minno

Thanks for this! Going to camp these areas

zaria

Then doing the cyrodil town quests you want an town who is deep into your factions territory.
It will attract more players from your faction and will cause enemies to have to teleport to their nearest keep who is far away both makes it high risk for gankers.
Way safer than an town on the border between factions.
The various campaigns will have wildly different maps, asking in guild chat will probably work well.
Say you are after fast town quest and that faction you are in.

On the other hand now is the time to get caltrops and vigor and also getting some transmute crystals. Vivec and sota sil give 50 at the end of campain.

coj901

It's not a big deal. I had to deal with all these pve quests. Time to dust off my stamblade and do some ganking.

SugaComa

I will tell you the best way to get the PvP event tickets done

Join campaign

Put LFG in zone chat explain you're new to PvP and you would like to earn event tickets

Most PvP players on your faction will happily help escort you ... Yes you will die, but you will do so in a group of PvP players who will also die that's what PvP is


But you will also win some, do some quests get some cools stuff and make new friends and maybe learn how much fun PvP is when you're part of the community who play it rather than moaning about those of use who play it ...

Truth is a PvP player does attack you cos your a pve player they attack you cos they think it's PvP, being attacked is how we do things

Friends tbag each other and basically it's just friends having a lot of banter ... And a wipe isn't the end like it is in pve.


Seriously .. I hit PvP for the first time two years ago and have hardly ever left ...

So the new mid year mayhem event ... Use it wisely to make new friends, new experiences and most of all have fun.

If your doing it alone and moaning about us pvpers that's your doing not ours

ccmedaddy

Another tip: be open minded! I used to be sure that I would never be interested in PvP in this game but during one of these events I decided to suck it up, typed lfg in zone chat and had such a great time that nowadays I spent more time in PvP.

ZOS went out of their way to make sure the mechanics are consistent throughout the game (for better or worse) so the chances are, if you are halfway decent at PvE, it won't take you that long to get decent at PvP as well.

Jayne_Doe

DovahkiinHeart wrote: »

Recently leveled two toons in BG to get caltrops and vigor and got a ton of RftW so I rec the method for BG. Even if your team gets 3rd place, you still earn a ton of AP. All it takes is patience and some tenacity. Only positive thing I can say for pvp is that your armor doesn't suffer damage, and with BG when you die (like everyone else) you get rezzed at the starting point. There's no 'running to the place' you got ganked since the arena is small compared to the whole map of Cyro.

Just do the Battleground quest giver's quests, and if you get one that you don't like, you can always abandon it and try to pick one of of the other ones. And if you get some die-hard player being salty that your team is not 'winning', there's always the wonderful ignore button (or even better, go offline mode) so they can rage all they want but you don't have to waste your time on them. Put on some good music in the meantime while you play so you don't get bored.

Voila, event tickets! AND Rewards for the Worthy, usually with transmute crystals and gear that usually sell for a decent price at guildstores~ All without the major Cyrodiil lag, campers, and gankers.

Yw.

Hmm...maybe I should try BGs.

_Ahala_

If you have a friend who enjoys PvP to the point of living in Cyrodiil, you should probably group up with them for protection from gankers while you quest... also heavy armor, radiant magelight, and detect pots are your friends

Aliyavana

just remember, you are not hurting other players by killing them, its a pvp zone after all and they are just pixels

xxthir13enxx

Now go forth ya lemmings! Dare to Be Brave!!!!! Slay them All!!!!!

Okay everyone get ready....bunch of fresh meat incoming......

Mintaka5

When I was doing my fishing achievement in Cyrodiil, I guested into Shor. Very low population, and I even ran into 2 friendly AD (I'm EP), who fished by me the entire time down by one of their gates.

On a side I'll finally be able to get 1v1 kills. =P

ArchangelIsraphel

I'm wondering how getting some of the achievements for the laurel crown work. Especially for killing 50 players. Does it count everyone your team kills, or everyone you, individually, kill?

I've never tried PVP, so I'm not sure how good I'll be at it, and if I can even get the crown

Katahdin

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

I'm wondering how getting some of the achievements for the laurel crown work. Especially for killing 50 players. Does it count everyone your team kills, or everyone you, individually, kill?

I've never tried PVP, so I'm not sure how good I'll be at it, and if I can even get the crown

Its usually whomever gets the killing blow that counts

VaranisArano

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

I'm wondering how getting some of the achievements for the laurel crown work. Especially for killing 50 players. Does it count everyone your team kills, or everyone you, individually, kill?

I've never tried PVP, so I'm not sure how good I'll be at it, and if I can even get the crown

It requires you to get the killing blow on a player.

I got it on my raid healer in Cyrodiil by playing aggressively, throwing out lots of light attacks, and using flaming oil and scattershot siege at every opportunity. Siege is some nasty stuff.

Lots of people have good luck doing this in Battlegrounds.

I also have a friend who hates PVP who grabbed another friend from a different alliance, went to a deserted campaign and "dueled" each other until they got it, so YMMV. I don't recommend that method, but I certainly see why some players do it.

doomette

ccmedaddy wrote: »

Another tip: be open minded! I used to be sure that I would never be interested in PvP in this game but during one of these events I decided to suck it up, typed lfg in zone chat and had such a great time that nowadays I spent more time in PvP.

Likewise, though I was there for caltrops and vigor. Thought I would hate it, but I had such a great time my first day (defending Nikel and learning all about siege weapons), I go back almost every day. My main is still spec’ed out for PVE as far as CP and such (did get some PVP-appropriate, I think, gear and am leveling a PVP-specific character now) and it’s hard to break some PVE habits, so I die a lot. A lot. But it’s a hoot. Heck, I even find dying fun sometimes. I always chuckle after seeing the aftermath of a successful bomber attack. So much carnage.
It can be frustrating, especially with the lag, but I’m glad the game put two useful skills within Assault. I’m not sure I would have tried it out otherwise.

geonsocal

as always - great job @VaranisArano ...keep on teaching...

JumpmanLane

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

I'm wondering how getting some of the achievements for the laurel crown work. Especially for killing 50 players. Does it count everyone your team kills, or everyone you, individually, kill?

I've never tried PVP, so I'm not sure how good I'll be at it, and if I can even get the crown

You’ll get it. Sure fire fastest way is to defend a keep using siege. Meat bag is best as it fires fastest but cold fire ballista probably best way to go (buy some in a guild trader if you’re rich).

Go to the highest part of a tower (where the enemy can’t reach you).

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

@VaranisArano
Correction: the Imperial city quests do NOT give midyear boon boxes. (You can still get boon boxes for killing 20 players of a specific class in IC if you are good at that sort of thing or join a zerg.)

OrdoHermetica

There are groups of PvP-oriented players, myself included, who are more than happy to go town questing with PvE players. We need to do the quests, too, after all, and some of us (me) really enjoy ganking the gankers, especially when they're trying to ambush PvEers in towns.

So speak up in faction chat. You'll likely find some friendly PvPers willing to do some guard duty.

VaranisArano

Pyr0xyrecuprotite wrote: »

@VaranisArano
Correction: the Imperial city quests do NOT give midyear boon boxes. (You can still get boon boxes for killing 20 players of a specific class in IC if you are good at that sort of thing or join a zerg.)

Thanks! The Announcement said "Scouting" which is certainly the Cyrodiil Scouting ones, but I wasn't certain if the Imperial City "Scouting" quests would also count. Good to know.

OrdoHermetica

VaranisArano wrote: »

I also have a friend who hates PVP who grabbed another friend from a different alliance, went to a deserted campaign and "dueled" each other until they got it, so YMMV. I don't recommend that method, but I certainly see why some players do it.

I did this with a friend. We both enjoy PvP, but we just wanted to A.) duel and B.) try out some new builds. No shame in this approach at all, especially if you play a build that struggles to get killing blows (my friend is usually a PvP tank, so he was getting frustrated with his inability to get the killing blow).

MaxwellC

If you're a PvE player just ask players in zone-chat for help completing some objectives. I'm always willing to offer a helping hand to those who need certain things captured since I'm a solo player who doesn't group up but don't mind having anyone tag along as I push random objectives.

TL;DR Go to zone chat and look for that nice battle buddy, he/she is out there

Dojohoda

Mercenary for hire.

JumpmanLane

OrdoHermetica wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

I also have a friend who hates PVP who grabbed another friend from a different alliance, went to a deserted campaign and "dueled" each other until they got it, so YMMV. I don't recommend that method, but I certainly see why some players do it.

I did this with a friend. We both enjoy PvP, but we just wanted to A.) duel and B.) try out some new builds. No shame in this approach at all, especially if you play a build that struggles to get killing blows (my friend is usually a PvP tank, so he was getting frustrated with his inability to get the killing blow).

That’s just cheesing it. I main a MagDk (which has no execute). I ran a Destro/Resto heavy attack build. Soloed a flag in IC and ganked fools taking it back to get 30 of my fifty kills. The other 20 just happened in the normal course of things.

OrdoHermetica

JumpmanLane wrote: »

That’s just cheesing it. I main a MagDk (which has no execute). I a Destro/Resto heavy attack build. Soloed a flag in IC and ganked fools taking it back to get 30 of my fifty kills. The other 20 just happened in the normal course of things.

How is it cheesing it? We logged into one of the event campaigns and fought each other until we both had our kills. We weren't just trading deaths. I saw faction skirmishes stop for duels, too, so it wasn't just friends doing it. Good practice, too; I definitely needed it, since while I'm pretty good at small group vs. group combat, my 1v1 skills are one of my weak points.

And yes, you can get it through the normal course of play. But it can also take a very long time to do, and it's really not necessary to do it the long way.

Starlock

Thanks for posting this. Doing other things, I don't think I'll bother with the event this time, but who knows?