Just try it again! Don't worry about other player's judgements (or perceived judgements). PUG groups won't kick you as long as you obey the primary rule of "stack on crown".

This is how to earn the AP & not be a good PVPer
Go to Cyrodiil & look at the map... if you can see a keep or outpost that is your faction colour & there are crossed swords near it or the resources are another faction's colour... then use a transitus shrine to go there. Buy a bunch of fire ballistas from the siege merchant.

Go onto the outer wall of the keep (or inner of an outpost) & find which side the enemy are coming from. Setup a ballista & fire at them. Get off the ballista between every shot & throw out some group heals to the other wall defenders. Keep this up till dead or victorious. If the keep is successfully defended you will get a big lump of AP (called the D-tick)... if the keep falls, you still get AP from kills (with your ballista) & healing others that get kills.

That''s it! No need to engage the enemy directly & if you are behind your siege engine you are relatively safe inside the keep.

You all are making me feel like I might have a chance to be somewhat successful. My main is a Bosmer Templar using dual wield main weapons with my Templar skills on the front bar and a bow with those skills, a heal skill and a fire rune on my back bar. I have 432 champion points, but those are points picked up over months and a couple of different toons. I have a feeling I might need to redistribute those.

I'm not against crafting new armor for PVP since it seems like a lot of people do that. But why is the impenetrable trait better than reinforced? Doesn't reinforced make the armor stronger?

Just unlock the destro ult and run with a zerg you'll be fine

Man the siege..... follow the zerg... get used to dying.
You are a pawn in a giant chess match... you may have to scarifice yourself for the greater good.

Here is what PVP was like for me when I first started playing it
http://imgur.com/a/AwZvw

First of all you are going to need a lot more hp than me you will need at least 22-23 hp instead of the normal 17K for a PVE DPS.

You can do just like every wanna-be-smallscaling guy,you don't need skill to be effective in PvP with the current meta:
5 shacklebreacker
2 bloodspawn
5 alteration mastery

Just permablock and spam breath of life(magicka skill but you dont need to respect,just put magicka glyph) and sword and shield ulti/bat swarm and enjoy your ap ticks

CMFan1966 wrote: »

I've only tried to play in Cyrodiil one time on one of my characters and I was really, really bad at it. I don't think I even got any damage done before I got killed. For me, it was a disaster. I never even got to finish my scouting mission. I am a member of only one guild, so it's not like I've got a lot of options for help there either. I'm afraid I'll get in there and not only a group will kick me, but my whole alliance will be embarrassed by my horrible performance and will try to give me away to the other alliances.

I'm not complaining. PVP players deserve love just as much as PVE players. I just want to participate, get some of the event goodies and not look like a fool while doing it. If anyone has any useful suggestions for me, I'd love to know what they are!

I didn't pvp for a long time in this game. I didn't feel I was good enough or knew enough about pvp to do it. I joined a good pvp guild a few months ago and am loving it now. Getting lots of AP to buys things like gold jewelry, monster sets, motifs, gear and crafting mats for myself and to sell has been great. You will make new friends that may also do pve stuff with you is good as well and can help you with the pvp aspect of the game. Just get in and advertise lfg in zone until you get an invite. You might even pair up with the same people everyday. That opens the door to getting into a pvp guild. Try to stick together and stick to crown as much as possible. Follow orders. When you get some ap buy some dominion and fire ballistas and some door and wall repair kits. Don't worry about dying. Everyone does...a lot. Just have fun and get some cool stuff. It won't take long and soon you will learn the ropes. If you decide that you enjoy it and want to continue, then start looking at getting a good pvp set to wear. Now get out there!

Ah yes, I did forget to mention that I am in the Aldmeri Dominion on my main. She was the one I was trying to earn Cadwell's Gold on and the only way I was going to get through it was to get it over with. Also, I am on PC/NA. I couldn't use a game controller to save my own life so I mouse/keyboard it!

As one of the achievements requires the killing blow on 50 opponents you'll need to practice getting the last hit on people. It can be hard if you're new to pvp, siege is a really good way to get KB's.

Everyone stinks at PvP at the beginning. And you are going to die a lot. Put that behind you and get over it; the very best players die.

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If you join a group, do exactly what crown tells you. Do not squirrel and chase after sorcs. Stay on crown. That is all.

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If you aren't in a group and are zerg surfing, play within your limits and acknowledge those are pretty narrow right now. Do not chase the guy dodge rolling around a tree. Do not overextend into an ult bomb. Do not get AP greedy and walk into a trap. Have eyeballs in the back of your head and beware of getting steamrolled from your flank.

If defending, do not pew pew from the walls, run siege. If your faction starts pushing, GO! Especially if the keep isn't lit (below 50% so you can't respawn there.)

Buy your own counter siege (meatbags, fire ballistas, flaming oils) and use it. Siege is a great equalizer and if you are running 3 oils or multiple siege on a breach, you are making a big contribution to the defense that requires no l33t pvp skill and frees up someone who may (or may not) be more useful elsewhere. Bonus: you are also "tagging" a whole lot of people so you get AP when they die. It makes me smile when I see recruits and tyros running multiple siege like a boss... because however awesome and essential countersiege is, they are *boring* (IMO) to run when I can be yoloing out there instead.

Random things that give AP: rezzing, repairing doors and walls, repairing siege and forward camps (if you repair my cold fire siege while I'm using it, I will love you long time), filling those repeatable quests you pick up at your gates. Kill 20 templars? You only have to tag them to get credit.

Fair warning: some people saunter into Cyrodiil casually one day and never leave.

misfitmanic wrote: »

Step 1: Equip Resto Staff
Step 2: Slot Healing Springs and Mutagen
Step 3: Port to Cyrodiil
Step 4: Use map to look for activity.
Step 5: Port to keep nearest activity on map.
Step 6: ???????????
Step 7: Swim naked in a pool of AP while giggling psychotically.

for this particular event you could swap step 7 for 'grind teeth for hours while you lag/disconnect/get stuck in loading screens' due to the possible massive influx of players,buy shares in a hamster breeding company would be my advice

Repair walls.

I got Vigor and Rapid Maneuver as a below 50 in regular Cyrodill because I didn't know about the sub 50 campaign. I stayed inside keeps, and shot ballista's and such at attacking enemies, repaired walls. Then when my side was attacking I stayed at the edges of combat, shooting arrows and jumping in when the enemy was outnumbered, and then shot ballista's at their walls. Sure, you die a few times, so what?