Should have be like cursed weapon from Lineage II (Zariche and Akamanah).
Vol need downside.

Cursed weapon in L2 give lot of CP (like health) to the owner, better stat and stat keep grow while killing ppl.
But here are the downside :
- Infinite karma (if you died with this you gonna drop all your gear)
- No grouping posibility
- Can't be healed
- Can't talk with other (in any way)
- Cursed weapon can be destroyed when upgrading after kill to much people.

It needs to be tweaked. Idea: the faction set to score the most at the next eval shouldn't be able to pick up the hammer. It might be that easy to fix.

Since Volendrung has been introduced I've mostly played in non-50 Cyrodiil, which is not faction locked. I spend a lot of time in that campaign as it's where I like to level characters and usually the PvP is more fun (for me) than at endgame. But Voledrung is spoiling the enjoyment.

There's two main problems. Firstly the artifact is stupidly overpowered, especially when it comes to breaking down keep walls. Secondly, certain players are abusing this artifact by manipulating who controls it and how.

I realise the intent is for Volendrung to shake up the balance of power in Cyrodiil when it spawns, but it almost never works out like that. It tends to reinforce the balance of power instead, making the strong stronger. Every time it spawns one of two things usually happens:

Either it winds up in hands of the most powerful players on the leaderboard, who always seem able to get to it first, or if not have someone engineer a way to get it into their hands, even if this means cross-faction co-operation (having a stooge from the faction it spawns in deliver it to them and suicide so the artifact can change sides).

Or else a cross-faction troll picks up Volendrung and either does nothing with it, deliberately takes it away from the action, or suicides on the slaughterfish with it in order to despawn it.

This cross faction trolling is worse on a non-locked campaigns like non-50, but would still be possible on locked campaigns via voice chat. But the ease of relogging to an alt on a different faction on non-locked campaigns really opens Volendrung up to abuse.

Terrible idea and and even worse implementation. It probably needs to be removed from non-locked campaigns and beyond that it needs to not spawn for whoever currently has an emperor.

seeing as there is no 0 option...

Suggestions on how to fix it

1: make it so that if you get emp while holding it, you explode killing everybody within 20 meters of you
2: make it so the leading faction can't pick it up
3: if your faction takes the lead while holding it, you wither and die in seconds instead of minuets.
4: the stat changs from picking it up also need to extend to weapon damage and crit to allow mag users to make use of it
5: you really should be allowed to re-arrange the power bar
6: have the power taper down based on the number of allies nearby

And that's it.

The faction with emp should not be allowed to pick it up.

It should be an anti emp type thing.

Should be 2 deciding factors when spawning.

1. Emp faction cannot pick it up and it won't spawn there.
2. Out of the 2 last factions whoever owns the least keeps gets the spawn. Both non emp factions can pick it up.

Yep ZOSie puts in the Hammer which just adds to their already pathetic game performance in cyro. Take the damn thing out and concentrate on fixing the performance issues.