Incentive to PvP in Imperial City

Llilium · March 2016

sup folks. you know what DLC i really love? Imp city. PvE/ PvP zones are awesome and give me a reason to live because my RL is pathetic and i need to flex my e-peen to feel good about myself.

you know what isn't awesome? the fact that there is a lack of activity in imp city these days. I'd love to see regular updates in imp city to keep people coming back to the city constantly. I would like to see parties of people in imp city left and right like in launch.

what do you guys think would give incentive to continuously come back over and over? there is still a ton of content in imp city and it is still extremely fun. not to mention there is not a lag problem like in cyrodil, you'd think there would be reason enough there, no?

sekou_trayvond · March 2016

They'd need to make TV stones desirable again.

I frequent IC often enough still but really only because of trophy and motif farming, which is (relatively) easy to accomplish solo.

But the main allure from PvP action, TV stones, is nearly worthless atm.

Apart from that, just hang out in Arboretum- the easiest place to engage in PvP, and from my own experience- get better.

Llilium · March 2016

yeah, maybe add the jewelery and weapon pieces in for a high TV stone count. i've never enjoyed gold farming in mmo's but stuff like TV stones aren't an issue. jewelery pieces could be like 20-30k TV stones. maybe another new armor set, or the pact motifs, etc etc. oooh! ooh! or best yet, Alliance themed mounts. people love freaking mounts. preferably horses dressed up in Alliance type armor/ colors. make that like 120k stones or something lol

Deadfinger6 · March 2016

Just got IC so i guess I'll be pottering around.

RAGUNAnoOne · March 2016

Llilium wrote: »

sup folks. you know what DLC i really love? Imp city. PvE/ PvP zones are awesome and give me a reason to live because my RL is pathetic and i need to flex my e-peen to feel good about myself.

you know what isn't awesome? the fact that there is a lack of activity in imp city these days. I'd love to see regular updates in imp city to keep people coming back to the city constantly. I would like to see parties of people in imp city left and right like in launch.

what do you guys think would give incentive to continuously come back over and over? there is still a ton of content in imp city and it is still extremely fun. not to mention there is not a lag problem like in cyrodil, you'd think there would be reason enough there, no?

ARE YOU KIDDING no lag problems!? I last week was in a fight with 4 or was it 5 DCs with an equal number of EP and only 1 AD and my skills and especially my weapon swap took 2 or more seconds to work in area chat everyone else was saying the same thing was happening to them!

DerpyShadowz · March 2016

They should have made the new PvP Vendor function on Tel Var Stones.

Teridaxus · March 2016

Everytime i try to go there , only gank squads of nbs or sorcs are waiting.
Even better when they teabag me despite 5vs1.

Artjuh90 · March 2016

RAGUNAnoOne wrote: »

Llilium wrote: »

sup folks. you know what DLC i really love? Imp city. PvE/ PvP zones are awesome and give me a reason to live because my RL is pathetic and i need to flex my e-peen to feel good about myself.

you know what isn't awesome? the fact that there is a lack of activity in imp city these days. I'd love to see regular updates in imp city to keep people coming back to the city constantly. I would like to see parties of people in imp city left and right like in launch.

what do you guys think would give incentive to continuously come back over and over? there is still a ton of content in imp city and it is still extremely fun. not to mention there is not a lag problem like in cyrodil, you'd think there would be reason enough there, no?

ARE YOU KIDDING no lag problems!? I last week was in a fight with 4 or was it 5 DCs with an equal number of EP and only 1 AD and my skills and especially my weapon swap took 2 or more seconds to work in area chat everyone else was saying the same thing was happening to them!

well the lagg in IC is way less then in cyrodill topside ....

RAGUNAnoOne · March 2016

I Highlander l wrote: »

They should have made the new PvP Vendor function on Tel Var Stones.

YES THIS @ZOS_GinaBruno add the ability to use TV stones at the cyrodiil vendor

captainwolfos · March 2016

mzapkeneb18_ESO wrote: »

Everytime i try to go there , only gank squads of nbs or sorcs are waiting.
Even better when they teabag me despite 5vs1.

This is the main reason I hate Imperial City.

There are PVPers complaining it's largely a PVE zone; there are PVEers (like myself) who complain that it's a PVP zone. The two don't mix very well, and I quickly found that I can't do either very efficiently. It's a complete mess. As soon as I try to deal with some mobs, I'll get ganked when the fight is over. So in a PVP/PVE zone, I try to avoid both.

In my experience, gankers don't even care about Tel Var stones, they just want to murder.

I only went there for the fishing achievement, which surprisingly only took me three days. Why is it only worth five points?

After getting the fishing achievement, and effectively buying the trophy vault key achievement, I never want to go back there again.

hrothbern · March 2016

Add to the Arcane, Robust and Healthy a tri-stat to the IC Jewelry.
(The equivalent to the tri-stat Armor Enchant from Hakeijo)

Hybrid and many Tank builds will love that

kadar · March 2016

Agree. Imperial City is by far my favorite zone both aesthetically and in function. But we need reasons to go there! The last few times I've been, it's been fairly empty even on a population locked server (Haderus NA). And even the people who are there, are either solo gankers who just want to grief people, or zergs who have no interest in PVP whatsoever.

Make IC seperate from Cyrodiil in population (it's already seperate in every other way) or connect them in more ways and give us reasons to FIGHT there! Like better Tel Var Rewards, more profitable farming, ways to help the war in Cyrodiil!

I want to fight there again!
@ZOS_GinaBruno

Silver_Strider · March 2016

I'd love for jewelry and weapons of the current tel var armors to be added in and bought.
I like to play supports DPS which is why I wear Powerful Assault but if I can wear both that and Hunding's Rage, I'd be all for it.
Also, Hakeijo runes would be greatly appreciated for my tank build.

aLi3nZ · March 2016

Ic is plenty populated for small scale pvp. Maybe large groups doing Molag Bal at center doesn't happen as often but plenty of solo 1vsX to do. I like to do both farm and pvp there.

Vaoh · March 2016

Incentive is to escape the lag. Used to work perfectly, but Thieves Guild has made both Cyrodiil and Imperial City have terrible performance. Even with small populations the performance starts to tank.

Sausage · March 2016

I also love to grind in the IC, I wish it was even more dynamic, especially with my squishy NB what can die very fast there, not to mention the risk being ganked or gank someone yourself. Anyway, devs posted just couple days ago in the forums that when next Major Update comes theres going to be some use for TS. Dark Brotherhood might not be major, its probably minor like TG.

Speaking of IC, I think they should merge IC between all Campaigns to boost the population.

Brrrofski · March 2016

God mats. Simple as.

People would go there for sure. Even if they don't need them, people will make gold off them.

Vangy · March 2016

Well, IC is still good for one thing. To make overly attached NB friends. They might pop out of the shadows and give u a shiv too the [bleep] hole but hey, at least you made a new friend!

Necrelios · March 2016

Thin out the mobs a bit or remove them completely in some areas. Or just kinda push them all over onto the side into one large heap that might actually work out a little better. As long as they are somewhere out of the way.

Julianos · March 2016

Llilium wrote: »

sup folks. you know what DLC i really love? Imp city. PvE/ PvP zones are awesome and give me a reason to live because my RL is pathetic and i need to flex my e-peen to feel good about myself.

you know what isn't awesome? the fact that there is a lack of activity in imp city these days. I'd love to see regular updates in imp city to keep people coming back to the city constantly. I would like to see parties of people in imp city left and right like in launch.

what do you guys think would give incentive to continuously come back over and over? there is still a ton of content in imp city and it is still extremely fun. not to mention there is not a lag problem like in cyrodil, you'd think there would be reason enough there, no?

Nope its a nightblade place cuz its easy to kill someone while hes/shes fighting againts pack of mobs im glad its dead i played imperial city few times and ganked by NBs so i never set foot again. And i dont care.

Tdroid · March 2016

Given that Nightblades are at a significant advantage in the environment of the Imperial City and that people tend to hate to be ganked... I dunno? Scale up the environment so the Nightblades aren't at such an advantage with their invisibility? Remove invisibility?

I am not in favor of taking the Nightblade trademark stealth away, by the way. Just think it would be necessary to make Imperial City appealing to most people again.

Also, nerf PvP damage even more. Even at 50% damage reduction and +5000 health we can still be one-shot. Looks like we need 80% damage reduction the way things are going. Or just bring back the soft-caps. Which would also solve the racial imbalance and go a long way to solve the magicka/stamina imbalances. Curious how that is.

Farorin · March 2016

Tdroid wrote: »

Given that Nightblades are at a significant advantage in the environment of the Imperial City and that people tend to hate to be ganked... I dunno? Scale up the environment so the Nightblades aren't at such an advantage with their invisibility? Remove invisibility?

I am not in favor of taking the Nightblade trademark stealth away, by the way. Just think it would be necessary to make Imperial City appealing to most people again.

Also, nerf PvP damage even more. Even at 50% damage reduction and +5000 health we can still be one-shot. Looks like we need 80% damage reduction the way things are going. Or just bring back the soft-caps. Which would also solve the racial imbalance and go a long way to solve the magicka/stamina imbalances. Curious how that is.

There have always been so many counters to invis, now there are even more counters and even stronger counters, on top of that cloak isn't as strong as it used to be, and is buggy again like it was when the game weas launched. Invis is nowhere near a problem anymore.

Lokey0024 · March 2016

Was a good place to duel at but started getting laggy since the server became Haderus Star on ps4. Now its just not as laggy until the mobs start the chain spawn

Tdroid · March 2016

Farorin wrote: »

Tdroid wrote: »

Given that Nightblades are at a significant advantage in the environment of the Imperial City and that people tend to hate to be ganked... I dunno? Scale up the environment so the Nightblades aren't at such an advantage with their invisibility? Remove invisibility?

I am not in favor of taking the Nightblade trademark stealth away, by the way. Just think it would be necessary to make Imperial City appealing to most people again.

Also, nerf PvP damage even more. Even at 50% damage reduction and +5000 health we can still be one-shot. Looks like we need 80% damage reduction the way things are going. Or just bring back the soft-caps. Which would also solve the racial imbalance and go a long way to solve the magicka/stamina imbalances. Curious how that is.

There have always been so many counters to invis, now there are even more counters and even stronger counters, on top of that cloak isn't as strong as it used to be, and is buggy again like it was when the game weas launched. Invis is nowhere near a problem anymore.

Maybe with Magelight changes it has effectively been addressed in the Imperial City, but the ganking is still a problem in those claustrophobic environments. Until they solve ganking in addition to having a "solved"(AKA useless *sigh* ) invisibility, I doubt the Imperial City will appeal to anyone not in dire need of Tel Var stones for something.

olsborg · March 2016

They already said they are updating the telvar merchant with dark brotherhood dlc and hinted that you can also buy Hakeijo runestones for tv by then.

Tan9oSuccka · March 2016

captainwolfos wrote: »

mzapkeneb18_ESO wrote: »

Everytime i try to go there , only gank squads of nbs or sorcs are waiting.
Even better when they teabag me despite 5vs1.

This is the main reason I hate Imperial City.

There are PVPers complaining it's largely a PVE zone; there are PVEers (like myself) who complain that it's a PVP zone. The two don't mix very well, and I quickly found that I can't do either very efficiently. It's a complete mess. As soon as I try to deal with some mobs, I'll get ganked when the fight is over. So in a PVP/PVE zone, I try to avoid both.

In my experience, gankers don't even care about Tel Var stones, they just want to murder.

I only went there for the fishing achievement, which surprisingly only took me three days. Why is it only worth five points?

After getting the fishing achievement, and effectively buying the trophy vault key achievement, I never want to go back there again.

IC is better than I thought it would be. I enjoy protecting my Pact commrads around the home base. I have had IC for about a week, and got a couple thank you messages.

DC and AD scrubs like ganking unsuspecting PVE players as they come out or back to base.

I don't understand the ganker mentality. When I kill gankers, they usually have zero stones. I guess its fun to be a jerk?
Ah well.

Enodoc · March 2016

An incentive to come back to Imperial City? District Control. (I think they said they are actually working on this.)

Omg_Pwned · March 2016

Since you even get the v16 runes from nodes in wrothgar there is even less reason to go imp city

Ironside · March 2016

In my humble opinion, pvp is the worst and least entertaining feature in ESO. If it was truly great, fun, and entertaining, you wouldn't need an award incentive to do it. I don't care about my awards for the pve content because it is truly entertaining, unless you group with an epeen elitist.

Septimus_Magna · March 2016

Imperial City would be a great area if this zone ever gets finished.

The original idea was to have pvp objectives in the districts and an actually value to the Alliance War.
Without meaning to IC districts (and Tel Var stones) and the Alliance War campaign its just a pointless zone.

Such a shame, it had so much potential..

sirrmattus · March 2016

Llilium wrote: »

sup folks. you know what DLC i really love? Imp city. PvE/ PvP zones are awesome and give me a reason to live because my RL is pathetic and i need to flex my e-peen to feel good about myself.

you know what isn't awesome? the fact that there is a lack of activity in imp city these days. I'd love to see regular updates in imp city to keep people coming back to the city constantly. I would like to see parties of people in imp city left and right like in launch.

what do you guys think would give incentive to continuously come back over and over? there is still a ton of content in imp city and it is still extremely fun. not to mention there is not a lag problem like in cyrodil, you'd think there would be reason enough there, no?

i think if they didnt make it so fkn tedious to get there.