VaranisArano wrote: »If you want an idea of what ZOS originally saw as the goal, here's some of the launch details: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25357
And ZOS' Tel Var Guide:
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/guides/imperialcitytelvar
It's worth nothing that Imperial City started out inspired by Dark Age of Camelot's Darkness Falls, but has since evolved into its own thing.
RisenEclipse wrote: »I think the Tel Var system was more of a hindrance to IC pop, then an encouragement. They should have just stuck with AP to buy things in IC. Or prevented Tel Var from being lost on death. People want to gain Tel Var stones. But what they don't want, is to lose them. Getting ganked AND losing Tel Var is just a double frustrating moment, that seriously effects the possible enjoyment of IC. If they removed the Tel Var loss on death, it removes that disdain for possibly losing them, stops rewarding gankers, lessens stress in IC, as well as encouraging risk taking. Adding a scoreboard with unique rewards for each alliance at the top, and other ways to facilitate competition between alliances in IC, may allow IC to actually become more populated outside of events. The Tel Var system was a terrible choice to try encourage PvP in there.
drsalvation wrote: »To be fair, imperial city was designed as PvPvE (It's surprising how many people keep denying that imperial city is also PvE even tho the PvPvE was the MAIN point of advertising when it first came out).
There's a story quest which will take you through the six districts and foil one last ditch effort to take over Nirn and put an end to Molag Bal's schemes once and for all.
There's 2 dungeons you access through imperial city (but they're their own thing).
There's a large delve that will take you under the sewers as you defeat bosses, and in the center point that connects all sewers you'll find a huge public event about defeating an awful lot of mobs and a specter of Molag Bal. It's a hard event considering how battle spirit nerfs you down by an awful lot.
As much as it pains most PvP'ers, Imperial City is a PvE story expansion with a new zone that just happens to have PvP enabled.
The flags aren't necessary, they grant buffs and quick fast travel stuff, but they don't really do anything significant like keeps in cyrodiil. They were added to "spice up" PvP a bit more to have something to compete for, but it only ended up making things worse by preventing you from respawning right in the battle's heart.
So yeah, no PvP objective, it's PvE with PvP enabled.
Agree, IC is PvPvE, the objective is to farm tel var and do the dailies. Capturing the flags boost tel var gain and give more respawn points who make it kind of an PvP objective.drsalvation wrote: »To be fair, imperial city was designed as PvPvE (It's surprising how many people keep denying that imperial city is also PvE even tho the PvPvE was the MAIN point of advertising when it first came out).
There's a story quest which will take you through the six districts and foil one last ditch effort to take over Nirn and put an end to Molag Bal's schemes once and for all.
There's 2 dungeons you access through imperial city (but they're their own thing).
There's a large delve that will take you under the sewers as you defeat bosses, and in the center point that connects all sewers you'll find a huge public event about defeating an awful lot of mobs and a specter of Molag Bal. It's a hard event considering how battle spirit nerfs you down by an awful lot.
As much as it pains most PvP'ers, Imperial City is a PvE story expansion with a new zone that just happens to have PvP enabled.
The flags aren't necessary, they grant buffs and quick fast travel stuff, but they don't really do anything significant like keeps in cyrodiil. They were added to "spice up" PvP a bit more to have something to compete for, but it only ended up making things worse by preventing you from respawning right in the battle's heart.
So yeah, no PvP objective, it's PvE with PvP enabled.
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