Are people having fun in Battlegrounds?

russelmmendoza · October 2018

This is a trick question. All the choices are against bg. I enjoy bg but not the reward system. Specially the battlemaster reward. You know that guy the gives you task for bg.

ATomiX96 · October 2018

Haven't played since they broke PvP with Sloads

Its also broken in many other ways..
once you reach higher MMR and start soloqueuing all you see are:

4 stack tryhards with coordination and cheese
aoe stacking (blockade and spin2win)
swift tank builds for chaosball and capture the relic
sloads & master dual wield bleed spam

After you experience all this *** you gotta reroll character to not get matched against the same two teams over and over again.
And then after 10 games you match them again

I know that MMR is meant to make the BGs more competetive, but what it ends up doing is making it stale rather than competetive because running cheesy sets > skill in the end.

What the core message of this essay is: sets and builds carry way too hard in this game. Thank you for your attention.

sudaki_eso · October 2018

Other reason

I have fun doing the daily random bg, thats all i do, not queueing for a specific type, just the random one and then i move on...

Aurielle · October 2018

Biased poll is biased.

I have fun in BGs, but it depends on the mode. I hate Capture the Relic and am not overly fond of Chaosball; when I get them on my random dailies, I often leave and queue up on another character that hasn’t done the daily yet.

russelmmendoza · October 2018

Bg is fun but frustrating when its chaosball and relic mode. Better than lagtastic cyrodiil. Deathmatch is definitely my favorite.

Delimber · October 2018

Other reason

I enjoy it until I'm on a mis-matched team lol

tunepunk · October 2018

Yes I enjoy it. I use a cheese build with steel tornado

I think it's really fun. I don't use steel tornado though.

Some game modes are more fun than others. Relic, and Ball is not very fun imo.

IlCanis_LupuslI · October 2018

I dont play it. It's not fun

I literally only touch bg when I have 4 buddies... Going in there alone is pointless no fun and frustrating af if your fighting premades 90%of the time.. If your in a pre-made it's loads of fun cause no 1 stands a flipping chance against you

russelmmendoza · October 2018

I consider it a personal challenge to at least make it to 2nd place against premade groups.

I just get frustrated when its chaos ball or relic.

raviour · October 2018

Always enjoy BGs. They are a nice break from AFKing and zerg surfing in Cyrodiil. Never seen any MMR, just re-queue every 2 mins. Often make a friend or 2 in BGs also.

The quality of players in random BGs is usualy better than random vDungeon groups and beating pre-mades in a PuG is always fun.

Late night BGs are really nice for watching others' playstyle because you often get same players from the previous fights around.

SPE825 · October 2018

Other reason

I'll say yes, but my cheese build isn't steel tornado. My cheese is snipe and poison injection.

SPE825 · October 2018

Other reason

Corpier wrote: »

The issues I have with BGs I think could be solved by having pvp events more regularly such as on a montly or weekly basis. Things like Triple Telvar Tuesdays or increased drop rates for BG motifs during the weekends could incentivize more players to participate in such content, reducing ques and increasing variety or who to play against.

Excellent idea. I mean why would they not do something like this? I really like Imperial City, so it was nice getting to play there during the IC event recently. I mean we have all other forms of dailies like writs, quests, undaunted, etc.

HowlKimchi · October 2018

Other reason

Sounds like OP is a bad player.

magictucktuck · October 2018

Other reason

well im about to log off since this is the 3rd time out of 5 battleground we didn't get the people because the bug of w/e

soooo an hour of waiting because of it?? goodnight guys :P

SugaComa · October 2018

Other reason

Queued for ages ...which is getting worse steadily ... Even longer when in a premade group even though most in group are new to BGs and just here to check it out ... It really puts them off wanting to try again ...

But I actually enjoy it, my only gripe is putting me outside a delve afterwards ... Especially if I've not completed what is that is filling my queue time

TheKingofSass · October 2018

The queue and team bug is beyond annoying but I enjoy bg a lot. Capture the relic is definitely my favorite. Chaos ball comes second, there is just something hilarious on having a bunch of people killing each other over a ball that slowly kills you.

jhall03 · October 2018

You mean Endless Fury grounds?

They are currently my go to thing to in the game since I only have a couple hours a day, or less, to play.

I enjoy them less as my MMR gets higher and I encounter more pre-mades. And the cheese is definitely overpowered (snipe, damage proc sets, endless fury) that you almost have to run some sort of cheese or you put yourself at a big disadvantage.

rumple9 · October 2018

Other reason

I like death match but hate the other modes

RABIDxWOLVERINE · October 2018

Other reason

Your poll is straight up garbage... Obviously you dont like Battlegrounds so you give crap poll answers.

I have been enjoying Battlegrounds for about 2 weeks now and I find it extremely fun. Ive only played under 50 BGs but so far its a blast. Sure I dont have the highest score every game and I dont do great every game but I hold my own and enjoy the content.

Rizz_the_Filthy_Dino · October 2018

It's broken

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

Your poll is straight up garbage... Obviously you dont like Battlegrounds so you give crap poll answers.

I have been enjoying Battlegrounds for about 2 weeks now and I find it extremely fun. Ive only played under 50 BGs but so far its a blast. Sure I dont have the highest score every game and I dont do great every game but I hold my own and enjoy the content.

100% agree with this guy. I enjoy BGs as a dedicated healer, but mostly play in groups (premades) because why not? Playing in a group where people coordinate and strategist is enjoyable, and honestly the next level of PvP imo. If you aren't having fun, then either get into a premade of your own (only takes 3 others amirite boys), or just don't do BGs.

Galalin · October 2018

OP has enough salt to cause a heart attack

wheem_ESO · October 2018

Other reason

I'd choose the "Sometimes" option, if there was one. There are several problems with BGs, as well as general game/class balance issues that need to be addressed, but the single biggest problem with enjoyment right now is pitting premade teams against randoms, especially when the random team(s) aren't full and/or have people with < 160 CP on them. And before anyone suggests that I get my own premade team: I find being on either end of a "pug stomp" to be really boring, and I would no more enjoy steamrolling every single game than I do getting focus fire ult-dumped by stacked up tryhards.

HEBREWHAMMERRR · October 2018

It's broken

Ques for high MMR are broken AF I can’t even play with friends anymore and solo takes 30+

HEBREWHAMMERRR · October 2018

It's broken

Mister_DMC wrote: »

This poll is biased, you obviously don't enjoy them. Don't play them.

Many regular BG players can’t lol literally have to make new characters to play this feature consistently

lucky_dutch · October 2018

You mean Endless Fury grounds?

I do my daily and that’s it.

No-CP PvP is just horrible. Tanky builds are unkillable and light/medium builds are so glass cannon they get killed by a gentle breeze. I think part of the reason is CP devalues set bonuses.

BG lag is also worse than small-scale Cyro lag for some crazy reason.

Cinbri · October 2018

It's broken

Battlegrounds just like noCP are ruined by new ecnhants proc mechanic. When your death recap is just full proc - it just sad. Never before it was in such terrible state.
On bright side - it allow to find out who is who.
That is every single recap in bg now

brandonv516 · October 2018

I think this poll should have had an end date for Murkmire and then a restart date after Murkmire again.

We don't even have Murkmire on console yet but I'm already worried about the "DW enchant meta" that's going to plague BGs.

wheem_ESO · October 2018

Other reason

brandonv516 wrote: »

I think this poll should have had an end date for Murkmire and then a restart date after Murkmire again.

We don't even have Murkmire on console yet but I'm already worried about the "DW enchant meta" that's going to plague BGs.

It's oh so fun.

https://imgur.com/a/AWJjRsO

I color coded the names of different people in the blackouts. Also, notice how pathetically weak the bleed damage is in these screenshots (1.6k - 1.9k is usually pretty typical, while these were ~1k). This leads me to believe that either a lot of these people are wearing defensive sets and relying on just the enchant procs, and/or I had Major/Minor/both Protection running at the time(s) the screenshots were taken. Doesn't matter, I got wrecked hardcore either way.

RedGirl41 · October 2018

BGs is absolutely cancer broken right now. I've been a pvper since the game dropped and its really in a terrible place right now. open world cyrodiil is non existent (whole other topic) so I queue up for bgs and I'm constantly in groups with 200 or less cp (yes its non cp but these players are dead 24/7 and in experienced). everyone just uses nonstop proc sets to make up for the noncp and out healing the damage is almost impossible as a light armor mdk. I was just in a death match for the full duration of time and was matched up against all tanks. at the 3 min remaining the top team score was about 250. Its not competitive its just bad. I get paired up with biggest try hards and my own team mates are new to pvp. elder tanks online.

Danklord · November 2018

BGs are fun atm, but some things needs adjustments. For example, bleed was supposed to hurt tanks the most, but they didn't scale it after how much resistance a class has (that way tanks takes the big hits). So now every class, no matter your resistance, you get squished really fast. I mean using torugs, dmg health, master axes, you do insane dmg so fast. Let me show you a premade i faced, they had 1 templar, 1 Dk, 2 werewolves.

So theres things that could be improved. I would like to have separate queues for 4man premades, because they put together the perfect combo and just roflstomp. Having a dedicated purifier/healer templar, the tanky Dk that leaps in, then having 2 dps. Or having a tanky frostwarden aswell, then a bleed dps. It's almost impossible to win against these. Most of the time i win by stealing their kills and sandwiching them with the other team.

But im having fun playing with my friend, i think magsorc atm is in a good balanced state, i would just like to actually have a reliable stun without needing to have master staff. Because using reach vs impulse is a big dmg decrease just to get a stun. Also you waste alot of magicka using it.

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