What is the current state of PvP?

Pr0jectseph · February 2016

Returning player.

1.Are specific classes more dominant/considered entirely useless? (For example, early last year when I played, Sorcerers were considered nearly useless..)

2.Are specific weapon/skill-sets considered majorly un-balanced/OP (Bows/Sword & shield/Healing) etc...

Thanking you

ClockworkArc · February 2016

Thieve's guild update is about to drop so it's hard to say. The general thought is that Stamina was dominant for quite a while but won't be getting as many buffs as magicka with next patch.

The main changes are that Magicka DK is coming back, Templars have had some rebalancing (hard to say what's happening but Stamina Templars are getting indirectly buffed), Nightblades will find it harder to maintain cloak in PVP, and Magicka Sorcs can heal with pets.

Magicka Sorcs have been dominant for quite a while, same with both builds of Nightblade. The other two classes getting re-worked to come in line.

Heavy Armor is weak at the moment.

Bossdonut · February 2016

Wrecking blow

Brrrofski · February 2016

3 fps

bikerangelo · February 2016

Magic sorc; their shields and damage were left untouched and their healing was buffed.

imredneckson · February 2016

Pr0jectseph wrote: »

Returning player.

1.Are specific classes more dominant/considered entirely useless? (For example, early last year when I played, Sorcerers were considered nearly useless..)

2.Are specific weapon/skill-sets considered majorly un-balanced/OP (Bows/Sword & shield/Healing) etc...

Thanking you

Just left PvP 2+ raids of EP just stormed ales, horrible lag, and unkillable players because of the lag. ZOS has failed to fix most anything in Cyrodiil and has broken it more and more with each patch.

Kova · February 2016

bikerangelo wrote: »

Magic sorc; their shields and damage were left untouched and their healing was buffed.

Healing from a pet, which is pretty friggen strong, but the pet is a one shot.

Magicka builds in general are on top in pts, but sorc is by far the best in a 1v1 fight. Superior burst and now that ani cancels on buffs/shields have been all but obliterated it's now even harder to keep a Sorc from turtling up.

The plus side being that you can kill aggresive sorcs who don't shield like they should a lot easier now. The bad being extreme burst introduced with the new CP system.

A big plus for others is that Shield breaker is a lot more effective now. Because you can't cancel buffs, sorcs can't secondary heal themselves anymore. I've tried it against a few great players and had it tried against me. It used to be that only bad sorcs died to shield breaker, but now it's a great set if you just can't get one down.

High crit magicka templars, much to the antithesis of the forums templars, are pretty strong in pts. I know a few who can 2 shot almost any one with a det. Dawnbreaker combo.

Kammakazi · February 2016

A lot of people complaining whining about everything.

Palidon · February 2016

Lag, lag, more lag. Crashes, load screens, players whining nerf this nerf that, non responsiveness in large battles etc etc etc.

In other words same ole problems, nothing has changed.

Wycks · February 2016

pvp = lag

ZOS has done nothing to prevent zergballs /clueless...