I really wanted to give at least a Neutral, because I really enjoy the PVP in this game when it actually works, but the current state of PVP is just atrocious. Where do I even start?

Server performance is questionable at best, Oceanic connection performance is *** horrendous thanks to the DDOS protection the game uses, the game is littered with bugs to varying extents, balance is god awful currently making the game just depressing to play, Cyrodiil is just laggy zergfest, Battlegrounds have a variety of problems associated with match making and team balancing, dueling is woefully neglected with no options for non-CP duels, and I can continue going.

If they were to address the main problems with PVP, it'd already be a Satisfied for me, with only the little things tarnishing the experience. But, as PVP stands currently, it's a solid Dissatisfied, leaning towards Very Dissatisfied.

DanteMR1995 wrote: »

There's grind behind grind behind grind to get to a level where you can actually compete with others in PvP. I'll just list a few examples of stuff you have to grind because you can even start being competitive in PvP:

• CP 810, probably the most important and most grindy aspect of getting into PvP.
• Item sets; you're really screwed if you want Maelstrom or Dragonstar arena weapons, or trial gear.
• Upgrade resins and etc to get equipment all to gold.
• Grinding skills and then morphs to max.
• Grinding storyline quests for skillpoints.
• Hunting skyshards and lorebooks.
• Getting Undaunted to 10 so you have the max stat passives.
• Farming reagents such as Corn Flower to make potions.
• Buying recipes, food materials, and then making the right foods for your build.
• And the list goes on...

Does not matter how much skill you have, if you fail to grind our all of these things before hand, you will lose against an average player who has done all of it. I find the never-ending grind to be competitive very dissatisfying, and losing in PvP just feels bad, like you've wasted so much time. Additionally to that, there are over performing abilities, like spin-to-win builds and dragon knights with permanent up time of reflective scales. I came back at the start of the week, and honestly I'm ready to quit ESO again. Just my honest opinions and my experience with the game I've played on and off for years.

Most of the points you listed range from misinformed to flat out wrong.

1. Play in non-CP.
2. As it should be, IMO. The strongest gear should be locked behind the hardest content, otherwise why run that content, but the other options should be more than strong enough to put a build together. Believe it or not, a lot of well performing PVP builds don't use arena weapons, nor do they use trial gear. It's all crafted, overland, dungeon gear, and monster sets.
3. The only equipment you need to be gold is weapons, gold armour provides negligible improvements. It's literally a difference of at most 5% between all purple and all gold.
4. It isn't that hard. This more falls under the category of "how to level characters up efficiently", than "how to get characters ready for PVP". I've got 1 of every class, plus an extra stam sorc, and every time I've leveled them up to 50, I've had every class skill and passive unlocked, all but the last class skills ready to be morphed, most if not all of the weapon skills unlocked and (ideally) ready to be morphed, Fighters Guild maxed out with Dawnbreaker already leveling (since I level through dolmens), etc.
5. Skyshards can offset the loss from storylines.
6. Lorebooks, agree, they're a pain in the ass. Skyshards, though, it isn't that bad, especially if you make compromises. The best way to get skill points is honestly to just run through some public dungeons, as you get 1 skill point when you complete the group event, plus the skyshard. My PVP pain has only cleared most if not all skyshards in maybe 3 zones, and I've only got a couple flavour passives left to grab, like the rest of the alliance passives (have the passives that give ulti when you kill a player and reduces rez time), grab the Undaunted passives (need to run dungeons for them), have like 3 passives left for Mages Guild (lorebooks), etc.
7. Agree here, I feel there should be an equivalent for PVP.
8. You can just buy the potions directly from guild stores for gold, or if you're using weapon/spell power potions, buy them with AP from siege merchants.
9. Again, buy them from guild stores for gold.

Get the 25K Ap and then out.

It might be fun if something would be done about the terrible performance, constant lag and over-all unresponsive game play I always seem to experience when I go to Cyrodiil and BG's. PVE's even a mess half the time depending on how recent the last patch was.

Oh yeah and then there's the Ruskies hax...