The best strategy should be to hold the scrolls. Players should be encouraged to try to win, not just avoid losing. I don't know what the best mechanical change would be here, but something feels really wrong to me that so many players are trying to avoid PvP and avoid the scrolls in Elder Scrolls.we would also lose the strategy of dunking opponent's A scroll that was being held by opponent B, in order to make it reset further in B territory so we can keep A focused on B
As much as I see how frustrating behaviours like those are, I don't think a temple reset would be a good workaround. Not only people would no longer have to run their scroll home, but we would also lose the strategy of dunking opponent's A scroll that was being held by opponent B, in order to make it reset further in B territory so we can keep A focused on B.
Reducing the reset timer would keep things more fluid though.
Last night I was there while EP scroll was being trolled by current (they change factions all the time) EP guilds. It is a selfish move, it isn't cool, but they were the ones who organized themselves, bursted Glademist and took it. They did it twice, the second time I even tried to grab it before them but didn't make it. It was close. If more EP had been there, we might have had it. I see no way to counter this rather than organizing and taking it ourselves before them or reporting such players for non fair-play (I don't think this is a think that ZOS cares about though).
Honestly? When this happens, just take the opportunity to advance further in the enemy territory while they are busy dealing with the trolls. Don't get stressed because of their actions. The game ebbs and flows, the score changes every time, every campaign is different. Ignore those trolls, don't give them the attention they crave. Chat got very toxic while all of that was happening, which is not cool to see, even though understandable.
xylena_lazarow wrote: »The best strategy should be to hold the scrolls. Players should be encouraged to try to win, not just avoid losing. I don't know what the best mechanical change would be here, but something feels really wrong to me that so many players are trying to avoid PvP and avoid the scrolls in Elder Scrolls.
EdmondDontes wrote: »The "strategy" of dunking scrolls so they reset at a more inconvenient keep for the enemy is one of the primary reasons I think they should change the scroll reset mechanic. This is a toxic "strategy". It's the same as giving the enemy the ability to move a scroll from one keep to another just to make it harder. I seriously doubt ZOS intended for enemies to have the ability to move the scroll from one of their enemies keeps to a different enemies keep.
If a faction picks up a scroll they should either take it and seat it in one of their own keeps or lose it. They shouldn't get to move the scroll from one enemy keep to another enemy keep. This is not "strategy", it's poor sportsmanship.
Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »The current scroll mechanics are good.
You could make it so that the scroll will 'float' to the edge of water closest to it
xylena_lazarow wrote: »The best strategy should be to hold the scrolls. Players should be encouraged to try to win, not just avoid losing. I don't know what the best mechanical change would be here, but something feels really wrong to me that so many players are trying to avoid PvP and avoid the scrolls in Elder Scrolls.
It's completely random whether it "forces the double team" like so many think it magically does, or just ends up a functional handoff to the 1st place faction, like all those times the DC scroll respawned at KC for the fast easy PvDoor. It seems like a massive design failure to me that avoiding the scrolls would ever be seen as a "better" strat than holding them.In my opinion, dunking a scroll to the slaughterfish is a valid tactic
biminirwb17_ESO wrote: »The scroll should just reset to the keep it was last placed in, even if another faction holds it. That way there is no benefit in dunking it. It also forces a fight at the keep it was placed in by all three factions.
biminirwb17_ESO wrote: »The scroll should just reset to the keep it was last placed in, even if another faction holds it. That way there is no benefit in dunking it. It also forces a fight at the keep it was placed in by all three factions.