Zenimax has basically destroyed PvP completely - both in terms of performance and the things they've introduced to the game.

I'm not going to start on performance because there's about 30 threads out there documenting the freezes so I'll leave that aspect alone.

Even on the very slim chance that your game is running fine for about 15-20 minutes, you're more than likely still going to have the worst possible experience ever due to these reasons.


- Sloads: Yep, an unmitigatable dot that has 100% proc uptime. Even with sloads being nerfed, the fact that they introduced this set to the game speaks volumes of ZoS not having a clue about game balance. This set has been well documented though so not much for me to say.
- Rune cage: A 40m range CC that has a 4k tooltip, which is also bugged in terms of break free. If you get rune caged with 4 people on you it's RIP regardless of the circumstances
- Defile: Sets like Duroks Bane that are also uninteracteable just bewilder me as to how this can exist. The scaling of befoul is also abnormal. How has this not been looked into yet?
- Snipe bugs: This goes hand-in-hand with the above point seeing as Snipe adds a nasty defile...But regardless, snipe has been bugged for god knows how long. There are NO visual cues or audio cues anymore. Your resources just get zerod and before you know it you're dead by some thumbless *** in the background who only knows how to press one button.
- Cost poisons Okay ZoS, so you nerfed our sustain a while back (Morrowind?), but why are cost poisons in the game? How is it ok, especially in no CP environments, for me to lose 60% of my resources and be able to do nothing about it? Please explain your reasoning here.
- Proc stacking - The builds out there that are stacking sets like valkyn, overwhelming, caluurions, viper, sloads etc - You don't understand that this is FREE damage...This doesn't encourage players to learn a rotation. This just encourages them to spam light attacks or random skills in hope for their procs to do the rest. Why is so much of your game dictated by free damage? I don;t understand. In fact, proc sets are so broken right now that stamina classes are using valkyn, which should be a magicka based set, because its still insane...
- Damage shield stacking - Ok this is at the bottom of this list because its something we've probably grown used to now. I still think magicka sorcerers particularly have too much security in terms of their harness + hardened combination...Being immune to crits and not being affected by a person's penetration value really makes this really difficult. Manageable, but still difficult.
- Infinite stealth I think this is the only MMO to allow you to stealth for prolonged periods of time...Stamina nbs not so much but magicka nbs can literally stealth forever, open with an incap+ calurions + valkyn combo, and then go back into stealth to repeat the process if they were unlucky the first time. I do think stealth needs some type of 'streak' treatment where the more you cast it the more costly it becomes...


Ok that's my checklist of things that are wrong with this game at the moment. I'm actually going to cross off each point of the checklist as ZoS hopefully responds to the countless PvP related threads calling for changes, hopefully bringing some type of skilled/balanced gameplay to this game. Lets hope in a years time every one of these points is crossed off (or most of them).

If there's anything I've missed, please add them.