#2. Huh??? your armor doesn't degrade from pvp.
3. Huh? What gear do u need from pve to pvp? Does this gear come with impen? So you've spent 150k on gems and repairs? This thread doesn't make sense to me.

The new undaunted stuff (PvE things) come with random traits, impen included.
It just took me around 20 runs to gain the head I need and after more than enough veteran pledges I still missing the shoulder.
You think that's funny? As a full time PvP player going into dungeons?
I would love these dungeons if they're as hard as sanctum but they're far too easy.
Same for the Sanctum Medium set with two 5 set boni, you gain nothing comparable in PvP.

PvP sets are mostly crap, not all, but the most.

You need pve sets. Wether looted or crafted but both come with high cost (buying price and/or upgrading them)

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

Also consider that this reduced AP generation and retention might actually be somewhat intentional, judging by some comments he made in the past about many players having millions of AP stored up in their accounts.

People have 7-8 figures worth of AP saved because there is nothing significant to purchase with them. Yes, you can buy a stack of wall repair kits for 30K AP; but those usually last long enough (on Thorn, for me anyway) to recover their price due to numerous players rushing to repair when a siege concludes. That leaves siege weapons at 1800 AP as the most expensive items people buy now and most people only carry half a dozen or less of them.

Six siege weapons and a stack of wall repair kits is just over 40K AP. Average players can make that much AP in a few hours, let alone the great players who can earn it even faster. Without camps to buy at 7200 AP, people earn AP faster than they can spend it. That is not the fault of the players - it's all on ZOS.

ZOS needs to provide more items that can be bought with AP. Why don't the vendors sell the tri-pots which countless players buy with their gold? Why don't the vendors sell blue or purple food items? Why don't the vendors sell blue VR14 mystery gear bags? Why don't the vendors sell cool gear like the Undaunted pieces which a player used last night to summon a Daedroth to help defend a flag I was attacking? For that matter, why are the PVP gear sets so limited in the pieces they offer that it is exceptionally difficult to mix and match sets, especially with regard to jewelry?

Of course, it would be a typical ZOS decision to solve the "problem" of AP hoarding by reducing the average rate of AP gained for most players. The real solution is right in front of them if they wanted to implement it.

Wow! You had 200K gold? My hats off to you, that's a hard number to reach.

How to fill empty grand soul gems quickly:

1. Acquire empty soul gems (115g each)
2. Find a sandy beach in any Cadwell's silver or gold alliance.
3. Use soul trap on mudcrabs till gems are filled. For improved speed, morph soul trap to soul splitting trap once you use it enough.

The starter areas tend to be pretty good for this sort of thing, i.e. Khenarthi's roost if you are EP or DC. Lots of vet level mudcrabs for you guys there. For AD I would recommend Stros M'kai.

If you're V14 surely you had to play some PVE at some point, right? I couldn't imagine getting to such a level and having enough skill points without it. But I started off full PVE and didn't try PVP until I was well into Cadwell's Gold, so my experience (and my 200+ skill points) seems to be different from many people.

I don't like the idea of forcing pvp players to pve any more than I like seeing anything else being forced. I'm mostly pve myself.

WraithAzraiel wrote: »

Uh....you must be doing something wrong - PvP doesn't damage gear that much at all. After a 4-5 hour PvP session I'll maybe have a repair bill of 150 gold at most.

The 150 you pay is probably from fighting the NPC guards around the Keeps.

Gear might be damaged when a player dies due to fall damage in Cyrodiil, have not checked that.

Repair costs in PvP are negligible to non-existant on the whole though.

I have like a stack of soul gems I got just from picking chests. That can help your soul gem problem.

The only valid argument here is soulgems. Potions, horse, etc.. if you want em... you need to earn em.

I've done nothing but PVP in the last 45 days. During that time I've bought hundreds of tri pots and yet I have still made a profit of 200k gold. You don't need to repair your gear, you don't need to buy soul gems. Just play with people who don't die often.

now for the potions....... Those may present a problem. If you are someone who charges the front lines, you will burn through a stack quickely.

i advise selling all the stuff you get in the alliance war mails: and selling off any mats you do not use. other than that, you will have to seek out someone that manages gold better than me for better help. You will be happy to know that armor very slowly(if at all) degrades when damaged/killed by other players. if you only do the PvP part of cyrodill, you should not need to repair your gear for a VERY long time

at high vet ranks, you get about 60 gold per aliance war bag, and you can sell the items you get in them for a good 40-100 gold each. so in 10 bags thats already 1K gold, plus anything you pawned off in guild stores that may be worth some good coin. potions stacks are about 10K gold. you go do PvE, save up and accumulate your 200K, then conserve and spend your money wisely, you should be good for quite some time.

now, once you eventually run out of your stash, you may run across problems. same thign happened to me.

i just sold alot of the crap i got from the alliance war bags, sold legendary and epic mats i got from slaves... er.. i mean hirlings(:D) and did the bounty quests when they appeared. i got 10K quite a few times(my mistake was i never bought the potion stacks. lol. i was PvE crazy at the time)

hopefully you get it figured out