Just go into IC before it starts and complete the 6 daily quests on couple of characters. Then just hand one in per day to get the event tickets.

Means you don't have to get involved heavily in PvP but can still get the benefits of the event.

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Yeah, we can get double Tel Var stones that others can steal when they gank us!

What a great idea!

We don't even have the Cyrodil dailies to give other chances for a daily quest.

I am sure this will make many PvP players happy as the have lots of targets. Why fix the bugs in PvP whe. You can generate lots of easy targets instead?

I'll run dungeons for my tickets.

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Yeah, we can get double Tel Var stones that others can steal when they gank us!

What a great idea!

We don't even have the Cyrodil dailies to give other chances for a daily quest.

I am sure this will make many PvP players happy as the have lots of targets. Why fix the bugs in PvP whe. You can generate lots of easy targets instead?

Here's what you do.

You go to IC now. Not on Sept 3. Now. Preferably last week but oh well.

Do 13 quests. If that means 13 alts then do 13 alts. If that means 5 quests on 3 alts then there you go.

Come Sep 3 turn 1 in each morning and open your glorious box

Then go about your day with no PVP and no forced anything.

VaranisArano wrote: »

I guess it's a choice between longer and repetitive dungeons vs six quests that have the potential to be way more exciting than you want, including getting roadblocked by enemy players.

If you don't like PvP, but want to run the event for your tickets, it's way faster to jump off a ledge and kill 4 daedroth or flame atronachs, and kill dremora and loot 8 documents, then run up to an enemy player and let them kill you in three seconds so you can respawn in your base and hand in your daily than to run an entire dungeon.

The key to not hating PvP for PvEers is to accept the fact that you're going to die a lot while doing your PvE in Imperial City, so put your pride on hold for a bit and just let it happen. You don't lose experience, your gear doesn't degrade when killed by players, and sometimes the best way to get back to your base is to die and respawn there anyway. Honestly.... I suck at PvP, and avoided it for years.... but there may come a time when you want to grab those missing skyshards that are keeping you from the accomplishment and also get the skill points that are available to you. And after I read up on IC and got some information about what to do and how to do it, I just bit the bullet and tried it out. And frankly, it's become my favorite zone and the one I play in the most.

Some tips for people new to Imperial City who are PvE focused:

1) Bank all that Tel Var you have accumulated from events and daily rewards before you even set foot in the districts or the sewers.

You will lose half of what you carry each time you die, so if you go in with zero, you won't lose much. And PvPers that kill you will see right away that you aren't profitable, and they may be more likely to look for fatter targets next time they see you. Plus, if you go down fast without a fight, many will be courteous and leave you alone next time, realizing that you aren't a challenge and are just doing dailies or farming daedra. I can't tell you how many times I've faced off against an enemy player, and we both just looked at each other and went our separate ways. They may be just like you and rather be somewhere else, and be grateful to be able to walk away, too. Obviously, there are quests for killing a certain number of enemy players, so expect to die. But these are regular people playing these toons, and sometimes you get the unexpected pass, and it's cool when it does happen.

2) Grab all six dailies at once, before even setting foot in the Districts, and if you're new to the zone, talk to the Drake of Blades to get the zone quest that awards Tel Var and skill points. You can do that alongside the dailies... kill two birds with one stone.

In your alliance base is a room with six ladders, one for each district. The daily quest givers are at the top of each ladder, in a safe spot. As long as you stay up on the ledge and away from the edges, you will be safe, and can interact with the NPCs. Get the quest, and go back down the ladder. Repeat this with each ladder, until you have all six repeatable quests.

The reason for this is that once you jump off the ledge into the District proper, the ways to get back and turn in the quest are limited. There are doors between each District, and if you leave one and enter another, it's good to already have the quest so you can work on it without having to go back.

3) If you see people from your Alliance standing around a flag.... join them ASAP!

Each district is controlled by an Alliance. The capture point is a flag near the middle of the map, closest to the White Gold Tower. It is guarded by three NPCs who are of the controlling faction. If you kill the three guards, the flag will begin the process of converting to your faction, and if you stand there long enough, you will get a District capture achievement, decent experience, and most importantly, 1500 Alliance Points. The AP allows you to buy gear from Cyrodiil vendors, including The Golden in your Cyro base. It's also required to level both of your Alliance vs Alliance skill trees, and is one way to earn back the Rapid Maneuvers ZOS so unceremoniously ganked from many players.

Be aware that folks can easily see on the map when a flag is under attack, so be prepared for a fight. There are a lot of defensive sets that can be worn, CP that can be respecced to anti-player, Impenetrable traits, etc.... but the simplest thing you can do to avoid dying quickly is to block and roll out of harm's way. It may buy you just enough time to be saved by your teammates, or it may send another PvE player who saw an opportunity for a potentially easy battle running the other way when they see it's not going to be a quick kill. Odds are it will be a veteran PvPer who will simply freeze you in place as you die in seconds, however, it never hurts to hold block during a flag flip to mitigate that gap closer from stealth that would have taken you by complete surprise.

4) Put a Glyph Of Prismatic Onslaught on an Infused weapon, and craft a set of Torug's Pact armor for yourself to kill daedra and undead much, much faster.

Other than a few human type fighters (more prevalant in some areas than others), the vast majority of Imperial City, including the sewers and the two dungeons, are daedra and undead. Specializing to kill them will make your job a lot faster and easier. The glyph is very effective against vampire players as well. Also, there are Fighters Guild passives that let you generate more ultimate when killing these types and that provide 20% more damage against them when using Fighter's Guild skills on them.

5) When you open your daily quest rewards (year-round blue Siegemaster's Coffers, not the event coffers), only open ONE every 20 hours, or you will lose your Siege Of Cyrodiil Merits.

You can only earn one every twenty hours per account, and if you open your coffers sooner than that they will just disappear. They are used for a hat runebox, as well as two full costume runeboxes, including the new Timbercrow Wanderer costume. And even if you're not interested in the costumes, they are still worth 500 gold each to merchants.

There are also three Xivkyn polymorphs that can be bought with Tel Var, as well as a number of decent and useful armor sets. And it's the easiest place to get Hakeijo runes, which can then be sold to players.

6) Get in a group, your odds of survival increase greatly!

Nothing more fun than being in a zerg of 24 players rolling through the Districts or sewers killing everything in it's path, including the bosses that drop antiquity leads for furnishings and mythic armor pieces. This event will be your best chance to acquire these leads. Also the style pages that will have a chance to drop from bosses. Zerging through the sewers is also the easiest way to get the skyshards near the enemy bases, too.


There's a lot more that can be said, but really, part of the fun is discovering new things for yourself. Don't avoid IC and Cyro because you don't know what they're about, find out firsthand. You may be like the many players who learned what fun places they can actually be, and it can give you another option to enjoy with your playing time.

oregonrob wrote: »

Why have an event in a zone that is clearly not popular?

My guess is that they want to have a live test of their "backend changes" under load. But I'm afraid, based upon the new bugs introduced to IC with Update 27 (gap closers greyed out and unusable, for instance), that they aren't going to be pleased with the results.

This is another good reason to stock up the dailies for turn in once a day. It's entirely possible they may shut things down for long periods of time to address issues, like they have done in the past. And if past action is a predictor of future action, they may not extend the event to make up for lost time. So being able to take advantage of a potentially brief window of opportunity to hand in quests could be a wise strategy.

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Looks like the OP has left.

Maybe it’s sinking in now ... ?

No. I have this thing called sleep....

This even greatly limits the scope. Someone said to just do things in Cyrodil, but that is not an option now.

We also just had a PvP event very recently.

I will try the dungeons again, but I thought one or both of those were the ones I kept dying on the final boss to things that surprised me. Those are an acceptable alternative if these are not two of the hardest normal dungeons.

And I can do dungeons, just not some of them. Sorry if that means I need to L2P in the eyes of many.

I am still part of the audience and pay my money to play. Pushing all PvP into a small area (6 zones) where gakers can camp quest points is a very bad idea.

Should every event have 5 different ways to get the tickets? Or maybe they poll every player before every event to see whats agreeable.
Both are un-workable and frankly ludicrous options.

Seems like there are a few options here. Bank some dailies, get better at the dungeons, run the gank-gauntlet or not participate. I suppose you could add buy the tickets with crowns (a detestable *option* IMO)

What about all the other forced PvE events?