Kudos to them for polishing PvE.

When the majority of an MMORPG's player base exists in PvE (as is the case in... well, every MMORPG), then PvE tends to get the most love. PvE players tend to spend the most money on the game, either through subscriptions or regular Cash Shop purchases, and the PvE side of the game (any MMORPG btw) is the "cash cow" of sustained revenue for an MMO.

Are they ignoring PvP completely? No.

Most every patch/update has "balancing" adjustments for PvP, and a quite healthy number of them. But when most of your player base is on the PvE side, it tends to get the lion's share of DLC-love.

It simply is what it is.

eh? what was 1T then? The ability to get all the skyshards without having to grind for them!

To me, it looks like the majority of balance changes coming in Homestead are PvP-focused, so your post doesn't really compute.

lehran wrote: »

To me, it looks like the majority of balance changes coming in Homestead are PvP-focused, so your post doesn't really compute.

Not really. Unless you have a PvP Crit build that somehow works despite all the Impen builds that counter it. Only the most recent PTS patch addresses PvP, while the bulk of class changes in Homestead mainly affects PvE.

The latest incremental PTS patch (2.7.2) is what I meant.

lol a post that has attempted to gain popularity by provoking PVP players into thinking there is no PVP focus has failed.

mb10 wrote: »

lol a post that has attempted to gain popularity by provoking PVP players into thinking there is no PVP focus has failed.

Soella wrote: »

Because this is MMO RPG, and no RPG in PvP?

PvPers have a lot of alternatives, MOBA games to start with, and therefore there is no chance to be the best in this area. With last year changes ESO is doing solid claim to become best from PVE PoV.

I think it was very valid decision to make a turn from mainly PvP oriented game (as ESO was advertised before launch) to mainly PvE game with some PvP for those who cannot leave without it.

Plenty of RPGs have had PvP. The whole argument that MMORPGS should be without it is baseless. I do both as well as a slew of other things with the smaller sub-communities within the genre and being jaded against a particular one is not only detrimental to the lifecycle of the game, it's detrimental to the community as a whole.

PvP gets updates all the time. The Imperial City gained a good update after player feedback. One Tamriel brought us the removal of tower doors and some scaffolding, plus changes to keep and terrain structure to put an end to certain exploits. We can capture towns now. The Homestead update so far is going to come with higher AP gains, and fixes to the API will break many of the controversial features in certain PvP add-ons. People are soon going to have the ability to buy zone set pieces with AP, never having to set foot in PvE areas or grind bosses and dolmens for them.

Plus, as others have mentioned, skills, passives, and sets are constantly rebalanced due to PvP feedback, for PvP (affecting PvE too of course). But it's not all nerfs; it looks like with Homestead, a lot of classes will be getting some buffs to existing skills to make them more useful in all situations. My partner is especially excited that certain Dragonknight abilities will be relevant again.

I'd say things have been pretty good for PvP and it's going to get better. And I welcome fresh and polished PvE content too; I can't spend all my time playing mount simulator in Cyrodiil.

Really? Because next patch is all pvp class changes and last patch was dueling. We haven't got a dungeon since soth and we're almost a year out of a new trial. But yeah... pve focus.

Mashille wrote: »

Cos they don't really care much about current PvP. Focusing on Battlegrounds

Pve raiding aren't getting any love either. It's purely casual roleplaying patch, where main focus are to satisfy those players and combine it with heavy money income from crown store.

Nobody cares about pvp. kappa.