I used to be very active in Cyrodiil leading raids and fighting for campaign wins, however I kind of lost my love for that.

Mostly it's down to the fact the days of old when I knew my guilds and enemies and had fun rivalries have gone, now it's just a game of "who's on what side this week?" and it doesn't feel like we're fighting for factions so much as guild wars these days.

ZOS either needs to find a way to get the faction side back into it or just finish the job and unbind characters from factions and give us the option to enlist with a side each "season" for our accounts.

sharpened nerf made everyone bring out the heavy again, just ruined any chance at fun pvping watching blobs of 50+ all in heavy

I would like more of a story element in Cyrodiil. There are Daedra there, maybe once in a while have large armies march out of the Imperial City and take the keeps that circle the Capital. Add a new element to the campaigns.

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if you survive this,zerg or gankers will def kill you

I do play every so often, but I find myself wishing there were different dailies that were multi-faction, like:

-escort NPCs with healing supplies, wounded or rescued people back to their "homes" and have to fight other factions to do so

-some sort of "capture X resource [all 3 factions have the same 12 or 24 hour quest/daily]" that was a multi-faction area, and would have regular "NPC support" (at regular intervals in real time - which ever side was least represented would get an NPC boost).

Judging from the comments in this topic, 90% if not all of them are PVE players and shouldn't even be commenting here as it will lead to misinformation.

You should go to the PVP section of the forums for real information on why Cyrodiil is still fun and what you can do to get more fun out of it.

RPGplayer13579 wrote: »

I would like more of a story element in Cyrodiil. There are Daedra there, maybe once in a while have large armies march out of the Imperial City and take the keeps that circle the Capital. Add a new element to the campaigns.

LOL

I still enjoy Cyrodiil quite immensely. I've pvp'd since launch. Got my emperor slayer achievement from Murder Thumbs himself. But a majority of my pvp time was "shelved" due to my guild's primary focus on PvE endgame raiding. We only pvp'd sparing throughout the week and every saturday after that. It wasnt until June 2015 that we formed a dedicated pvp team and I pvp'd 2-3 times a week until February of 2017 and now i am in cyrodiil 5 times a week.

So if anything my interest and drive has only INCREASED for pvp as the time has gone by.

Im not new to PvP either. PvP'd like a madman in Rift, Aion and SWTOR. Not to mention I always created characters on pvp servers given the chance to help with my immersion of having higher stakes.

So with that being said, no, the burn out has not set in and i regularly field 8-14 players nightly in the name of the Daggerfall Covenant EXCLUSIVELY on the NA campaign Shor. Even so, I have to agree with Turelus here:

Turelus wrote: »

now it's just a game of "who's on what side this week?" and it doesn't feel like we're fighting for factions so much as guild wars these days.

I am an advocate of faction locking. I dont like the, "oh i dont like how things are going for this faction so im going to log into my character i have with the winning faction". Ive been in Shor while getting completely zerged during midyear mayhem and in zone chat i saw someone say, "alright guys lets log into our EP, DC has no chance"

There ARE a few people that like faction freedom so they can "help balance" the campaign. And i have nothing against those guys, they have good enough intentions. however, with the current system, there is far too much opportunity for abuse and "flip flopping"

Im a one guild, one faction kind of guy. loyalty. respect. honor. those things mean a lot to me, even in a video game.

Eirella wrote: »

Krayzie wrote: »

Cyrodiil is all tanks with 30k+ health since heavy armor buff

Pretty much this. People need to be way less tanky.

Ditto. Also proc sets and bomb blades.

Solariken wrote: »

I do love Cyrodiil as a concept, but I got sick of the huge zergs (full of tanks), night-capping, and the sea of stealthed try-hard stamblades. Cyrodiil is no country for solo players.

Thankfully we now have battlegrounds, which are an infinitely better PvP experience in my opinion.

Solo in open world PvP is about more than 1v1 or 1vX encounters which are fair.
As I have said and others have said in threads before, part of the skill of a solo player is getting fights and kill whilst being able to disengage and get away.
Hell at least if you die in this game it means nothing, oh no we have to run back to where people are.

It's all fun and games until EP takes all the keeps and it stays like that from 4am until like 7pm

I like fighting and killing people in a medieval fantasy type setting - so yeah, I am having fun...

that level of fun though is definitely influenced heavily by the status/makeup/health of the campaign...

The best experience is when everybody is there for first time still trying to find stuff out.

When the 1st FOTM build is out it will spread like a disease and mostly is when the fun start to vain a small bit.

When people no longer play for fun and PvP but only to win and for AP is when the fun starts to decline more.

But when a developer puts in stuff and allow things that just breaks fun combat (poisons, proc sets, no softcaps, addons which reveal to much information) is where it really hurts in my opinion.

Then add up a specific update which also caused major lag and loading screens (1.2.4) and people tear out there fingernails.

I try to log in once in a while and see my campaign (no-CP) overrun by one faction and hardly any of the other 2 online. I also enjoy CP campaigns, but for some reason i have to much lag there and loading screens which are to much if you don;t have much time to play.

So i still play when i am bored. But PvP is currently just as exiting as reading the forums.

Cyrodiil was never fun to begin with.