You may want to look up this thread on arenas and battlegrounds on the general forums it's a lengthy thread but it has a detailed system on how we can fit in battle grounds and arenas while not "destroying" cyrodiil like a lot of the chicken Littles keep saying. There us also some history on the development of arenas in ESO and there are several discussions on it. Give a look and some support =3.

Rook_Master wrote: »

Please do NOT add arenas. Cyrodiil has issues, but I will take that over boring arenas any day.

If you find arenas boring you don't have to participate in it...don't ask them to take away from other parts of the game simply because you'll find it boring. Its not like they'll remove Cyrodiil from the game by adding Arenas, it'll just add a different style of play, and more choice for people who want to PvP in the game

Darklord_Tiberius wrote: »

LOL. They need to balance the classes and fix a ton of skills before introducing structured PVP. Just sayin.

Maybe in smaller Arena situations it would be easier to see which classes need reworking?

I'd really like this to be added. It's hard enough for those of us in Legend to get duels going when maps are either all one color or two are making massive pushes and making it hard for the third side to reach a dueling spot (riding halfway across the map only to get ganked when all you meant to do is get to the duels gets frustrating after awhile). And sometimes, when the map IS okay and we get duels going, then one or two sides pushes the other one or two sides back, it gets hard for those who came late to get to the spot, and once duels are going and a lot of players get there, it gets exceedingly difficult to move them. An Arena would help with this... A lot. Would probably make tourneys a lot easier, too.

#SignedInBlood

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Well ZoS is reading so let's give ideas for them. As I said in my first post that was my idea for a arena and after some time of thinking and reading other thoughts maybe we can do with out special rewards (was talking about voidsteel swords and shadow spun armor.). Also for those who think a arena will kill Cyrodiil remember there be NO AP gain and WILL NOT effect the leaderboard. It will not effect pvp in any way at all. Just some players wanna do a 1v1 or group vs group. Also do keep in mind alot of other MMORPGs have a form of pvp arena and there pvp is still good.

I like pvp as much as the next guy but I love to really test my skills and build in a 1v1 with out having to worry about the enemy player either running away when there close to death or them getting zerg reinforcements mid way through battle. Plus there just something about being in a arena just seems so right. I don't know if it's the towering walls or the cheers of the spectators.

^This. +1

indigoblades wrote: »

I want an Arena, at times i need a break from Cyrodiil.

I used to get that break by spawning at one of the Legends dueling camps and I'd just stand there and watch, can't really do that anymore

+1 Arenas plz.

^ constructive post right there.

I'd like to see arena, ESO combat seems perfect for that type of PvP, being reaction based

Rewards should be decent enough to make it worthwhile, but not exclusive or overpowered to prevent the decline of cyrodiil population.

3 way arena would be awesome to stream/watch, and would likely draw in a lot of new competitive players who wouldn't have otherwise been interested in the game.

joshisanonymous wrote: »

No.

That comment history .

+1 for arena

Manoekin wrote: »

Bouvin wrote: »

Manoekin wrote: »

Would kill Cyrodiil which would in turn fix the lag in Cyro because no one wants to deal with that. Won't admit their failure in the most promising part of the game. Arenas would bring back lots of people though, but I doubt they care about the more hardcore players.

Would there be less people in Cyro? Probably.

But would it kill Cyro? Pry not... Cyro still has it's place for larger scale battles.

But if they did release structured PvP, and everyone started doing that instead.. all that really shows is that's what people want. It's not like you'd be "forced" to do the structured PvP.

Personally... the Zerg balls and endless lag are getting annoying. I'm having more fun doing small fights in delves than running around in a Zerg farming AP.

People have wanted it since the game was in beta. However, Cyro done right is the best PvP you can get in any game imo. It's just been destroyed by game breaking bugs that somehow takes months to fix and ridiculous lag. Anything to allow constant pvp with no lag should be done.

and you think these devs making an arena will not be accompanied with even more bugs? yea ....

vortexman11 wrote: »

Darklord_Tiberius wrote: »

LOL. They need to balance the classes and fix a ton of skills before introducing structured PVP. Just sayin.

Maybe in smaller Arena situations it would be easier to see which classes need reworking?

if you don't know right now what classes and skills and builds and scaling type need to be rebalanced RIGHT NOW then idk tafak you've been playing, you don't need an arena to know this ....

kevlarto_ESO wrote: »

frozywozy wrote: »

Manoekin wrote: »

Would kill Cyrodiil which would in turn fix the lag in Cyro because no one wants to deal with that. Won't admit their failure in the most promising part of the game. Arenas would bring back lots of people though, but I doubt they care about the more hardcore players.

It would not kill Cyrodiil. There are 4 major campaigns rolling right now with at least 2 factions into each of them going max pop at primetime. If they introduced other instances of PvP such as arenas, they could probably get ride of one or two campaign depending how it goes, and once arenas start getting more and more popular, bringing tons and tons of new players and old players back, then they can reconsider adding those campaigns back into Cyrodiil.

The most important factor is to make sure that at least one campaign stay competitive (all factions with equal population most possible) and that arenas are LAG FREE.

I agree some, all types pvp will have it's own problems, small scale matches will suffer from pre-mades, which can ruin players fun just as much as the current imbalance we have in cyrodiil, there really is no fix that will fix all, I am not really a big supporter of small scale pvp did it a lot in other games, but I am not totally against it either, if it gives players options and more things to do, I am all for that, I might not take part in it, but others might love it, and that is great, I think options are always good in games as there are some many different play styles coming together in an mmo. I just hope players do not think other types of pvp would be some flawless game fix, and end up disappointed again. I do not think it would kill cyrodiil, but is a fine line, on how you reward players that take part in both types of pvp.

even if they somehow find it reasonable to add arenas / battlegrounds AND give rewards for that alone you know everyone is going to farm it at one point, so why bother with "special reward caus i do arena huehue"

Angavar wrote: »

^ constructive post right there.

I'd like to see arena, ESO combat seems perfect for that type of PvP, being reaction based

Rewards should be decent enough to make it worthwhile, but not exclusive or overpowered to prevent the decline of cyrodiil population.

3 way arena would be awesome to stream/watch, and would likely draw in a lot of new competitive players who wouldn't have otherwise been interested in the game.

And there is the biggest issue of all, how in the world are you going to balance this ? class restriction? will still bring cheese builds into it. No class restriction 3 DKS will Q up and petrify + WB spam you to death

rebalance everything? upset the pvers .....

competitive pvp, structered pvp in this game? Please .... stam builds need to be rebalanced, petrify needs a SERIOUS look at, and all other crap that is utterly broken right now. In case you deny stam is broken heres a stam build that kills everything:

bar1: WB, WB, WB, execute, rally

ur stam dps build is done.

SafiyerAmitora wrote: »

I'd really like this to be added. It's hard enough for those of us in Legend to get duels going when maps are either all one color or two are making massive pushes and making it hard for the third side to reach a dueling spot (riding halfway across the map only to get ganked when all you meant to do is get to the duels gets frustrating after awhile). And sometimes, when the map IS okay and we get duels going, then one or two sides pushes the other one or two sides back, it gets hard for those who came late to get to the spot, and once duels are going and a lot of players get there, it gets exceedingly difficult to move them. An Arena would help with this... A lot. Would probably make tourneys a lot easier, too.

#SignedInBlood

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Well ZoS is reading so let's give ideas for them. As I said in my first post that was my idea for a arena and after some time of thinking and reading other thoughts maybe we can do with out special rewards (was talking about voidsteel swords and shadow spun armor.). Also for those who think a arena will kill Cyrodiil remember there be NO AP gain and WILL NOT effect the leaderboard. It will not effect pvp in any way at all. Just some players wanna do a 1v1 or group vs group. Also do keep in mind alot of other MMORPGs have a form of pvp arena and there pvp is still good.

I like pvp as much as the next guy but I love to really test my skills and build in a 1v1 with out having to worry about the enemy player either running away when there close to death or them getting zerg reinforcements mid way through battle. Plus there just something about being in a arena just seems so right. I don't know if it's the towering walls or the cheers of the spectators.

^This. +1

if they add arenas (and they probably wont) it wont have an option to Q up just for a 1v1 ....


Everyone screaming out right now for arenas and battlegrounds need to seriously think about how they would want it structered and balanced, caus with the current state the game is in, it's going to do more harm than good, since 1.6 allready turned pvp into a 1 button win type of gameplay

joshisanonymous wrote: »

No.

Arguments?