CarbonX wrote: »

Simple question; why do several players in PvP jump non-stop while taunting from distance or even while fighting?
 

Bugs out some cc and projectile skills, keeps momentum, so you don't get cc.

ArchMikem wrote: »

Bunny Hopping.

It's an obsessive behavior common to all forms of Multiplayer Gaming. It serves no genuine purpose other than to be annoying.

And they look really stupid doing it, we always made fun of bunny hoppers how dumb they looked and killed them quickly since it does nothing in this game for targeting.

In this thread: people who get 1vXed by hoppers.

While jumping isn't mechanically relevant on all classes, on some such as mag sorc it helps set a tempo and also maintain your momentum. On others, such a stam sorc or stam DK, casting a skill such as a dark deal or igneous shield while jumping just looks cool.

Nothing game changing, just a simple little touch of finesse. My question to those that have an issue with this is, are you all really so mentally feeble that a little jumping gets you this triggered?

It's just very relaxing for my fingers.

Because all those pesky small players in Cyro who are rightfully punished by ZOS with starting the swimming animation earlier than their superior counterparts would not be able to navigate the muddy areas, just like in real life xd

Olupajmibanan wrote: »

Jumping with autorun on allows you to turn your camera without changing moving direction.

Toggle autorun, jump and while jumping turn your camera backwards to check if someone is following you. Then quickly turn your camera to front until jump finishes.

Or you could just use the middle mouse button, or use your movement keys to keep going the same direction while turning the camera, ie, look to the side while pushing the side strafe key, you'll keep moving forward.

Personally, I target bunny hoppers first because they annoy the *** out of me, and I dislike videos where the person making it is hopping all over the screen.

Drummerx04 wrote: »

Jumping around has some interesting practical and psychological impact, minor though it may be.

• It can be distracting to fight a jumping opponent.
• Jumping around can obscure some telling information like when a sorc has frags procced or when certain attacks get launched.
• Some people have trouble tracking movement such as difficulty focusing on a moving target. Jumping is extra movement.
• If opponents are nearby (like within a few meters) and you guys are constantly passing through each other, jumping can make it a little harder to line up the soft lock. It's maybe only buying fractions of a second at a time, but that's extra time that you aren't taking extra hits from them. As other people mentioned, this sort of hails from the FPS and it absolutely works here.
• A lot of good... or simply really irritating and dangerous players jump around constantly. Shaking an opponent's confidence or willingness to attack is a basic part of combat.

Obviously, some people will have a different view on it, and maybe you don't think a jumping opponent has a tactical advantage or that jumping gives a psychological advantage, but consider this... some people are so bothered by jumpers that they make forum posts asking for jumps to cost stamina like dodge rolling does.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/362286/sost-in-stamina-for-jumps

Psychological impact confirmed.

Absolutely jumping should cost stamina.
Why should it be free?
Bunnyhopping should cost extra.

IRL:
Trot a hundred paces.
Time yourself threading a needle.
Now bunnyhop the same distance back in the same amount of time.
Time yourself threading a needle.

Tell me you're having no effects and can thread a needle the same in both cases.

Why should a player have unlimited stamina bunnyhopping all over the map?

That's my pee pee dance. Coffee and blunts make me have to go really really bad sometimes and I can't leave my post at the keep.

Feanor wrote: »

It's just very relaxing for my fingers.

I dropped GW because i could not bunny jump :P, now it's my first question if someone wants promote a new drug MMO to me.

ArchMikem wrote: »

Bunny Hopping.

It's an obsessive behavior common to all forms of Multiplayer Gaming. It serves no genuine purpose other than to be annoying.

@ArchMikem No, it's a ages old reflex most predominantly in slightly older gamers that lived and breathed through Quake and UT era (and some more modern arena shooters, such as Overwatch, Team Fortress etc) where it, contrary to what you say, served a very practical and actually, needed purpose - avoiding incoming shots, rockets, projectiles and to confuse the enemy and making it harder to aim.
I, myself am guilty of doing it, and i don't do it to annoy people, i just can't shake off many, many years of reflexes on a whim because it annoys somebody, nor do i care to. In some cases it intimidates some less experienced enemies, as it shows confidence and fearlessness, so it does serve a purpose to an extent..
I see a nightblade stealthing in front of me and waiting to pick his moment - I fearlessly bunnyhop to his last location basically telling him to "Come at me, bro" and thus, 80% of the times they never came. It ALL serves a purpose, just some people don't see it or haven't played games in general long enough to understand significance of certain gestures long rooted in gaming. They just see it as "annoying" because they themselves never went through it.

While some people do it just because they like it (with no real reason other than having twitchy fingers), others do it because they are long time competitive shooter veterans, and chances are - they are good here too, being competitive and all. There is a reason people in PvP that dominate practically everyone almost always bunnyhop - they've been doing it in other competitive games for a very long time and developed reflex of it, a muscle memory they are not even aware of anymore, and it strikes a certain level of fear in others who know what it signifies, that this person could be a potentially deadly foe.
While not always the case, obviously, it certainly is quite often.

CarbonX wrote: »

Eirella wrote: »

To trigger people who are easily annoyed and create these kinds of threads.

@Eirella, really? Where does it say I'm annoyed by them? I asked a simple question to know if there is a real/specific reason behind jumping. You have a big lack of reading comprehension.
 

I suppose my reply wasn't referring to you specifically (though I guess I kind of phrased it like it was.) I've just seen many silly threads before about hopping in pvp, and some people even saying jumping should cost stamina.

I have great reading comprehension btw, thanks.

Lots of reasons. Too much energy, trying to get some noob to stray away from his/her zerg, trying to not get stuck on a stupid pebble, to *** people off that think it's annoying, to say hi to someone you know without saying/typing anything and my new favorite that I just read in this thread, for the high elevation tbag.