I hate the pvp event.

Aptonoth

I have notoriously bad luck in mmo's like this and have to grind 100x the usual amount if there is something critical I need. It took me 7 months of grinding 10 hours a day to get a single dungeon staff. Now when the pvp event comes up like this and it has items in it I may as well just give up as I always get ganked or the gorup I'm in who have Normal levels of luck stop grinding way before I get anything.

Now I can't farm for this armor set and I also can't buy it. Thanks for making people like me with bad luck feel so excluded from this event every year.

GreenHere

Aptonoth wrote: »

Now I can't farm for this armor set and I also can't buy it. Thanks for making people like me with bad luck feel so excluded from this event every year.

But... you can buy it.

Scrounge up some gold, and just snag them from guild traders towards the end of the event. Prices just crash as more and more people try to be the lowest seller as these event style pages flood the market. You can get enough gold just harvesting and farming chests/mobs for a little while a few times a week. There's like 12 days left.

The only thing you'd really have to "work" for is tickets to buy the morpholith and whatnot, but even then you can get tickets from pvp-less scouting missions in Cyrodiil and a few battlegrounds matches (which anyone can get through, regardless of skill/winning), right?

Don't count yourself out just yet; literally anyone can participate and get rewards from this event. Even without really participating. : P

Maxx7410

are you a low level player? because PVP zones can be nasty for weak toons and even for high levels without pvp experience lots of bullys there that wont let players in peace when they dont want to fight

wolfbone

Aptonoth wrote: »

I have notoriously bad luck in mmo's like this and have to grind 100x the usual amount if there is something critical I need. It took me 7 months of grinding 10 hours a day to get a single dungeon staff. Now when the pvp event comes up like this and it has items in it I may as well just give up as I always get ganked or the gorup I'm in who have Normal levels of luck stop grinding way before I get anything.

Now I can't farm for this armor set and I also can't buy it. Thanks for making people like me with bad luck feel so excluded from this event every year.

you can buy it for 5 tickets a page.
I cant farm the imp city bosses. so I'm just grinding the tickets to buy a page. I've 4 left to get.

Starlock

If it isn't massive hyperbole when you say "7 months of grinding 10 hours a day to get a single dungeon staff" I... really, very strongly suggest that you put the game down. MMOs cultivate addiction by design, and if you are seriously finding yourself doing nothing with your life but playing this game and mindlessly grinding for a virtual reward, please, for the love of the gods, put the game down. Have a friend help you. Co-write a short story together, take walks in the park, just... anything.

Aptonoth

I didn't know you could buy it from traders whew thanks guys saved me lots of grief. Also it isn't that massive a hyperbole it was like 4.5 hours a day for 5 months to get a single staff. Now you now why I stopped playing end game stuff in eso and play it solo.

Pauwer

Babeh, i didn't want anything to do with the undauntent (sp?) dungeon event, so i did not participate at all. You don't have to pvp if you don't want to. Also i previewed the armor, eeeeh, you are not missing out. I will not collect/buy either, but i will be in cyro, having a blast, as usual on any day, event or no event

cnyanes

Yeah, I hate this MF event too. Except in my case, it's just that I hate PVP.

oddbasket

Many pve players just put in the effort to complete the minimum dailies required for tickets and buy the style pages, but the pages themselves usually drop to low prices anyway by the end of the event.

GreenHere

oddbasket wrote: »

Many pve players just put in the effort to complete the minimum dailies required for tickets and buy the style pages, but the pages themselves usually drop to low prices anyway by the end of the event.

Yep, this. I think I picked up all the style pages from events I missed for ~1K each. Don't buy early, when fools are trying to sell for like 40K a page. That's whack.

markulrich1966

cyrodiil:

there is more than one campaign. Queue for those where not all of the 3 bars are full.
Then open the map to see if a village (looks like a chapel on the map) is connected to your base. Travel there, do the quest, takes 5-10 minutes.

If no village is available as it is occupied by the other colors, leavve the campaign and try another.

Imperial city:
if you have a wood elf, try that. I used it this year, and it was much more fun than last year with my high elves and orcs.
Woodelves can crouch undeteced in many places where others would be detected (must assign skillpoints in the passives).
And in case they get detected, they can run so fast and far! *lol

I did 6 dailies today and was killed just once by other players, by a large group of more than 20 that simply overran me.

volkeswagon

Pvp events tend to give the advantage to pvpers. It's still easy to get your tickets though

volkeswagon

With ESO running so poorly this week I'm not sure it's a good time for a pvp event.

Miszou

I concur. This event is a hot dumpster fire of frustration.

Time to throw a few battleground matches I suppose. At least you don't have to ride for days only to be murdered in 3 seconds.

ealdwin

markulrich1966 wrote: »

cyrodiil:
there is more than one campaign. Queue for those where not all of the 3 bars are full.

^ This. Find the emptier campaigns and head there. Found most of the Cyrodiil Skyshards on emptier campaigns during a previous Midyear Mayhem.

If you are on DC, head to Fort Rayles if it's Blue, otherwise SE from Southern High Rock Gate through Alma Rune Gate. Find Chorrol and grab a quest from there.

If you are on AD, head to Castle Black Boot, otherwise NW from Western Elsweyr Gate through Altadoon Gate. Find the Abbey of the Eight and grab a quest from there.

If you are on EP, head to Farragut Keep, otherwise SW from Southern Morrowind Gate through Gate of Ghartok. Find Cheydinhal and grab a quest from there.

These 3 locations are not targets of the alliance war, and therefore tend to be more ignored than the towns with flags. They are also close to your alliance's bases, meaning if you do happen to die and the forts are held by the enemy there will be a shorter ride.

jle30303

About the Cyrodiil towns:

There are five towns, each of which has 2 quest givers that give 5 daily quests each. Three of those towns are "contested" - on border zones that frequently change hands between the factions: two are "independent".

In the case of the "contested" towns: They have NPC guards which belong to the faction that controls the town (and have to be killed to take control of the town. Doing so usually alerts actual players of the controlling faction who may come to the town's rescue.) These towns are: Bruma just inside Covenant territory near the Pact border), Vlastarus (just inside Dominion territory near the Covenant border) and Cropsford (just inside Pact territory near the Dominion border. If any of the towns is conquered by the third faction - the one from the opposite side of Cyrodiil - its tenure there is generally brief, as it cannot be "connected" to their territory's Transitus Shrine network, thanks to the locations of gates on that network that only answer to one faction.

(The notional "borders" are the lines of milegates on the west and in the north, and the Niben River bridges in the southeast - although effective zones of control may well extend beyond them, hence the fact that the towns change hands as frequently as the nearby forts do.)

In the case of Bruma, there's a triple battle going on there, thanks to the perpetual Dark Anchor Dolmen that has popped up in the city, causing it to be a battleground between Covenant, Pact *and* the invading Dremora from Coldharbour.

Now... If a city is controlled by a faction that isn't yours, you may have to sneak around it to avoid the NPC guards, and possibly use invisibility potions. In some cases you may literally have to sneak up on the quest givers and initiate conversation with them from invisibility.

The two other "neutral" towns, Chorrol and Cheydinhal, are both deep within a faction's home territory - Chorrol for the Covenant, Cheydinhal for the Pact. The guards in both towns are neutral, and will not attack any player: however you may need to beware of actual players passing through, from the forts on one side to the forts on the other. Chorrol shares its ten quests with Weynon Priory nearby (1 quest giver in each place, each having 5 quests): Cheydinhal's two quest givers are both in territory held by the "rebels" who want to free the town from Imperial control in the west half of town, the Imperials controlling the east half and being hostile NPCs to everybody.

To be honest, much of Cyrodiil is a huge empty space and you generally won't meet many other players riding through the countryside. If you do, they will most likely be PVE players searching for a delve or a quest objective, or on the way to a quest town - UNLESS you are near the current line of control between two factions, in which case PVP forces of either faction may be crossing to invade, or coming up from behind the border to defend.

"Scouting" quests usually send you deep into "enemy" territory, and you have to enter the grounds of an enemy fort and stay there for a certain number of seconds without being interrupted by other players OR the fortress's NPC guards. However, the NPC guards are usually well out of the way and follow predictable routines, and the "scouted" fortress is usually far enough behind the front lines that no players are bothering to guard... unless it's near the OTHER front line, in which case your other adversary may themselves be trying to invade, and the area is suddenly full of both enemy factions instead of neither. It should still be possible to stay out of the way and undetected: usually the greatest annoyance is just how far you have to ride, especially if your horse is slow, to actually get there in the first place.

jle30303

Another option, if you have Fighters Guild level 9 and have spent the skill point in the Bounty Hunter passive, is to take quests from the Fighters Guild in Cyrodiil. These will send you into the wilds of Cyrodiil to kill NPC enemies, such as bandits, undeads or goblins. Look up where they are (there are Delves, Ayleid ruins, and other Caves crawling with all types of enemies), ride there and kill those: doing one of these quests counts as a Cyrodiil daily.

PeacefulAnarchy

GreenHere wrote: »

oddbasket wrote: »

Many pve players just put in the effort to complete the minimum dailies required for tickets and buy the style pages, but the pages themselves usually drop to low prices anyway by the end of the event.

Yep, this. I think I picked up all the style pages from events I missed for ~1K each. Don't buy early, when fools are trying to sell for like 40K a page. That's whack.

I hope so, but I haven't noticed that in the previous PVP events. Unlike the regular overland events a) there are much fewer people participating and b) there don't seem to be any guaranteed drops and c) the drops are only from IC world bosses, not from quests, not from BG, not from Cyro.

GreenHere

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

GreenHere wrote: »

oddbasket wrote: »

Many pve players just put in the effort to complete the minimum dailies required for tickets and buy the style pages, but the pages themselves usually drop to low prices anyway by the end of the event.

Yep, this. I think I picked up all the style pages from events I missed for ~1K each. Don't buy early, when fools are trying to sell for like 40K a page. That's whack.

I hope so, but I haven't noticed that in the previous PVP events. Unlike the regular overland events a) there are much fewer people participating and b) there don't seem to be any guaranteed drops and c) the drops are only from IC world bosses, not from quests, not from BG, not from Cyro.

Fair point! The prices likely won't dip as low as the PvE events, but I'd be truly shocked if they didn't fall over the course of the week(s). One thing I've learned selling things in guild traders is that there's always somebody willing to undercut you to be listed higher on TTC. : P

"Don't buy too early unless you're willing to pay the premium" might have been better advice. Thanks for making those points, @PeacefulAnarchy! : )

Vevvev

Just make a good solo PVE build, equip swift trait rings or the Wild Hunt Ring, and do the PVE quests in the PVP zones. Can get your tickets while using speed and healing to your advantage.

Minyassa

Scouting missions with five pieces of Darloc Brae and a Ring of the Wild Hunt makes it easier to do on foot than riding. Yeah, it takes a few minutes, but you stay stealthed the whole time. Stay off roads, move from obstacle to obstacle when you're near a road to block line of sight, play some music and just chill out for a bit. If you have a leveled vampire you can jog while stealthed and it's even faster.

IC--do the Elven Gardens daily. No killing of daedra involved (except by accident), it's an easy route to learn and stealth along, and unless there are gankers lying in wait for PvE players as there was this afternoon, it should be fairly incident free. If there are, mention them in Zone chat and maybe some real PvPers will come show them what PvP is.

Araneae6537

I kind of expected to get ganked in IC but everyone was grouping up and I found it actually easier than normal to do a daily! I was already confident I could do a Cyrodill or BG daily but I think I actually won my first level 50 BG and it was a fun close game too! I’m feeling quite positive about the event!

Zulera301

investing points into the Git Gud skill line should help alleviate your problem.

or just go back to PvE. you don't *need* to do every event.

FlopsyPrince

This event is far worse since you have to complete a daily in both areas for the tickets.

Poor design.

Aptonoth

Guys this topic has been resolved forever now.

ZOS_ConnorG

Greeting all,

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