PVP Event - Is there an easy way to do this without dealing with the PVP?

Saccopharynx · January 2021

I don't like PVP. For me, personally, it's too stressful. I gave it a shot when I first joined ESO and it was an absolute miserable time of being repeatedly targeted by the same player over and over again, tbagging me each time they killed me. I don't get any enjoyment in that, some find it funny to harass new players but I don't get any enjoyment in being harassed. It's hard to hear all of the positive speak about PVP when that was how I was introduced to it.

I just want to know what the easiest ways to get these event tickets are so I can get the pet fragments and get out. I saw mention of scouting missions not requiring any PVP at all, but I'm entirely clueless on what that means. I missed out on a lot of the Indriks because I assumed they would simply rotate and return each time, so I don't want to miss out on yet another thing because I skipped it.

oddbasket · January 2021

Scout dailies in Cyrodiil, just need to run long distances, no fighting involved.

Arena district daily, just use range attacks from the safety of the tower u entered from.

Hapexamendios · January 2021

Sewers - Arena quest can be done from the towers usually if your patient enough for citizens to respawn or alternatively you can go back into the base and back up into the tower by the ladder to try to get them to respawn.

You can jump of the tower and find citizens faster, but your much more likely to be killed by someone.

Cyrodil- Scouting quest, stick to off road as much as possible, sneak when necessary, scout target, kill yourself, respawn at base & turn in.

Saccopharynx · January 2021

Thank you both for your answers, that helps me out a lot!

SeaGtGruff · January 2021

For Cyrodiil tickets, scouting missions can be a way to avoid PvP if you're willing to sneak slowly abd carefully across Cyrodiil to reach your assignment. Otherwise you can try doing a city quest, but you can't always avoid PvP that way.

For Imperial City tickets, do the easiest district daily. The choice might depend on your alliance.

FrancisCrawford · January 2021

If a city is solidly controlled by your alliance, you're likely to be safe doing quests there.

Bruma has a quest where you never have to leave the building (close three portals). It's really rare to have an enemy player interfere with that.

The city deep in DC territory has one easy quest (kill 4 nearby atronachs).

The city deep in EP territory doesn't have anything quite that simple, but there still are easy quests that you're unlikely to get enemy player interference with.

volkeswagon · January 2021

I know exactly how you feel about pvp. The whole concept of harassing, killing and griefing other players doesn't appeal to me. Some people crave that call of duty type of warplay while others like myself are more light hearted, kind, social housing and crafting nerds. The key is pick one of the low population servers that come out just for the event and go with a friend. Just hope you done run into griefers

Dame_Scorpio · January 2021

I don't like the IC, but what I typically do is take my 2 Magblades in prior to the event and do all 6 dailies so I only have to turn them in during the event.

Otherwise, the easiest dailies are probably Dousing the Fires of Industry in the Elven Gardens District (burn some ballistas, grab some tar, and light an explosion) and Lifeblood of the Empire in the Arena District (rescue 12 prisoners, and you get credit for it even if other people free them and you're close enough). For Cyrodiil, the scouting mission is definitely your best bet.

There are lots of build options to sneak around and avoid the fights, but I've had good success with 5 pieces of Shadow Dancer for the ignore movement speed penalty of sneak + 5 pieces of Darloc Brae for the sneak cost reduction and restore resource while crouching (there are equivalent sets for stamina builds). This combination basically allows me to get around fast while crouching and never running out of stamina.

If you don't have a Nightblade, you can use invisibility potions to sneak away from enemies that get too close, and you can port out of IC instantly by joining a Cyrodiil campaign, and vice versa.

markulrich1966 · January 2021

you don't get killed in imperial city. People just offer you a quick way to teleport back to your homebase

LannStone · January 2021

As a PVE player myself, I go into Cyrodill to get AP for transmute crystals since they have become so valuable. I had to create stealth characters to repair walls and run missions without being detected. I never expected to be able to get AP in Cyrodill on my PVE characters. Even now, I expect to be killed on sight if I'm detected, so I remain in stealth or invisible.
It's not really my cup of tea, but I do what I have to do.
The scouting missions are just that - get an assignment from an NPC at your home base (totally safe area where you arrive when joining a campaign) to travel somewhere and report back what you saw. I never had any problems in stealth but the trips take a while for not much reward - but it sounds like at least that's a way to get the two tickets with little risk (if you don't get detected).
Google Cyrodill town missions and you can go to one of those towns and find an NPC who will give you some easy quest. Hopefully you can find a town that your alliance controls and is not under attack. But again, if you're on a PVE character, you better remain hidden - or you can just keep dying until you accomplish it.
I'm not much to give advice on Cyrodill, but that's how I've been doing it.

Kwoung · January 2021

Stay off the direct paths between keeps in Cyrodiil and you are mostly safe. Hardly anyone wanders out in the boonies. That said, make sure you are writing your reports from a well hidden spot, as there are a bunch of jerks who literally camp those resources and wait for you to show up. You are better off taking a keep report mission as opposed to a resource, as you can write the report anywhere around the keep. As previously mentioned, don't stand in a line between two keeps when doing it.

zaria · January 2021

For IC I say the easiest quest is rescue civilian in Arena, you need to rescue some civilians from daedra. This can technically be done from the tower but faster if you jump down and run around.

For Cyrodil one tricks is to go to an campaign where your faction is very low in population, get an Scouting quest then go to IC on an campaign your faction has most players, rescue citizens in Arena.
Then queue for an Cyrodil campaign there your faction is strong, its very likely that you can just port to the keep and ride up to the farm or other resource and write an report.

However as event goes on the overflow campaigns tend to become more and more PvE where one faction owns a map.
Now is the time to do town quests and farm skyshards.

Kwoung · January 2021

zaria wrote: »

For IC I say the easiest quest is rescue civilian in Arena, you need to rescue some civilians from daedra. This can technically be done from the tower but faster if you jump down and run around.

For Cyrodil one tricks is to go to an campaign where your faction is very low in population, get an Scouting quest then go to IC on an campaign your faction has most players, rescue citizens in Arena.
Then queue for an Cyrodil campaign there your faction is strong, its very likely that you can just port to the keep and ride up to the farm or other resource and write an report.

However as event goes on the overflow campaigns tend to become more and more PvE where one faction owns a map.
Now is the time to do town quests and farm skyshards.

There was a rather large group of EP camping the final spot for one of the dailies in CP IC tonight, killing off every solo that tried to complete the quest. Was pretty low IMHO, but hey, if that's their style, they can have the 2 AP and 0 Telvar they got from each of those folks. Was more like griefing than any sort of actual PVP.

Scottfree2 · January 2021

You get 2 tickets for a daily pvp quest such as in Cyrodil or Battlegrounds, and the 3rd ticket for the day from a daily in imperial city, so Zos is trying to get people to try a wider variety of stuff i guess.

I dont pvp except in events, soo .. for me its do the "show yre contribution" quest for the battle master which is the easiest BG quest imo, then go to Imperial city and do a daily there.

you will die, but eh, its more of a "its not personal, just wrong place at the wrong time", so i can accept that.

SeaGtGruff · January 2021

I don't especially care for PvP, but I always enjoy this event a lot. It's really fun if you just take the attitude that you're going to killed anyway, so you might as well just run at your attackers and go down swinging. Sometimes you might even win.

Tommy_The_Gun · January 2021

In IC there is a quest "Dousing the Fires of Industry"

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Dousing_the_Fires_of_Industry

It does not require to kill anything, just to burn sieges... I run this quest daily on my Nightblade, I just sneak past "PvP". Also, even if you will get killed at some point, just respawn at the "ladder entrance" and just go to next objective, till you manage to do the quest.

Also - important note - try doing this quests between 20 hours "cooldown" - as this is the timer (I think) within you will get special "Siege of Cyrodiil Merit" token. If you do them sooner you will not get it through Siegemaster's Coffer.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Siege_of_Cyrodiil_Merit

Kwoung · January 2021

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

In IC there is a quest "Dousing the Fires of Industry"

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Dousing_the_Fires_of_Industry

It does not require to kill anything, just to burn sieges... I run this quest daily on my Nightblade, I just sneak past "PvP". Also, even if you will get killed at some point, just respawn at the "ladder entrance" and just go to next objective, till you manage to do the quest.

Also - important note - try doing this quests between 20 hours "cooldown" - as this is the timer (I think) within you will get special "Siege of Cyrodiil Merit" token. If you do them sooner you will not get it through Siegemaster's Coffer.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Siege_of_Cyrodiil_Merit

That's the quest that was being camped tonight that I referred to above, so be careful.

Nairinhe · January 2021

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

Also - important note - try doing this quests between 20 hours "cooldown" - as this is the timer (I think) within you will get special "Siege of Cyrodiil Merit" token. If you do them sooner you will not get it through Siegemaster's Coffer.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Siege_of_Cyrodiil_Merit

You can do all the quests and turn all of them in, but you need to open the coffers only once in 20 hours.

Danikat · January 2021

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

For Cyrodiil tickets, scouting missions can be a way to avoid PvP if you're willing to sneak slowly abd carefully across Cyrodiil to reach your assignment. Otherwise you can try doing a city quest, but you can't always avoid PvP that way

I used to do that when I first started but (playing on PC EU) I've found it's not really necessary.

At first I would always make sure to wear dull colours to camouflage my character and would go around the very edges of each area, staying as far away from roads as I could, sneaking any time I thought I might be exposed. I'd carefully watch gate houses to make sure no one was around before sneaking in and out the other side. Then I'd sneak all the way back after I'd finished.

After a while though I realised I wasn't really avoiding anyone because I never saw anyone. Away from the main roads or areas currently under attack it's rare to even see another player, and if you do there's a chance they're also trying to do a quest and will avoid you too.

Now I just ride as straight as I can to my destination. I still change my clothes, hair and mount but more for immersion than practicality and I stay off the roads but they're usually not going straight anyway (which is odd now I think about it, given the Imperials are based on Romans and they're famous for making their roads as straight as possible).

It has the same effect - you're away from the action and therefore unlikely to run into other players, but it's a lot faster.

Titansteele · January 2021

I have to commend OP for the approach used here.

All too often people make these kind of posts and it follows the basic premise of ........ "It shouldn't be like this because I don't like it"

OP doesn't like PVP and just wants advice on how to achieve their goal with the path of least resistance. Well done and may you be an inspiration to others!

DragonRacer · January 2021

Kwoung wrote: »

There was a rather large group of EP camping the final spot for one of the dailies in CP IC tonight, killing off every solo that tried to complete the quest. Was pretty low IMHO, but hey, if that's their style, they can have the 2 AP and 0 Telvar they got from each of those folks. Was more like griefing than any sort of actual PVP.

It's funny how my experience and many of the stories I see here on the forum have a similar thread of EP ganging up and camping spots solely to farm poor solo players trying to do a daily and GTFO.

That's a total repeat of what I saw the last time I was forced into Imperial City districts to get event tickets.

PrimusNephilim · January 2021

MissAethe wrote: »

I don't like PVP. For me, personallyI just want to know what the easiest ways to get these event tickets are so I can get the pet fragments and get out.

go to your base camp, pull a daily survey and hightail it to your destination, to get back quickly to camp, head for the nearest enemy fortification and let the NPC's kill you, then you respawn back where you picked up your daily mission and collect your tickets

Inaya · January 2021

IMO the easy answer is no. Some days you will be able to complete the dailies easy, even in IC. Yesterday I only got killed once in IC. Today may make me want to scream.

All I can say is join a campaign in Cyro, look at the map and if it's in your favor get them done as quickly as possible.

For IC, head over cross your fingers, be prepared to die without getting all upset and angry about it and get the daily done.

MasterSpatula · January 2021

If you jump into a campaign that your alliance is losing badly in, you have a better chance of getting a scouting mission closer to home.

Then you can go into a campaign where your alliance is doing well. You might be able to get closer to your target. OR your target may even be controlled by your alliance in the second campaign--and you can still scout locations your alliance owns. (You won't get a quest for anything your alliance owns, but you can still scout them in another campaign or if the location changes hands.)

VaranisArano · January 2021

I'm afraid that thanks to IRL issues (mostly good ones, thankfully) I didn't have enough time to properly update my usual guide. Most of the questing info is still correct, but it was written for the June 2020 Midyear Mayhem: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/534060/midyear-mayhem-for-no-pvp-pacifists-june-2020

If you need Imperial City-specific advice, I went into more details during last year's IC event: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/543613/pvpve-during-the-imperial-city-celebration-2020

The comments on both threads have some additional advice from players who have their own ways about getting event tickets easily.

Hint for PVP-free Imperial City tickets: you can get the Arena Daily done without ever setting foot in the district. Just stay on top of your spawn point and kill (or wait in complete safety for someone else to kill) the dremore nearby to free citizens. It might take awhile to get enough respawns, but as long as you are nearby you can get the quest done without ever fighting.

etchedpixels · January 2021

oddbasket wrote: »

Scout dailies in Cyrodiil, just need to run long distances, no fighting involved.

Arena district daily, just use range attacks from the safety of the tower u entered from.

Don't even need to do that, just sit invisible/crouched nearby and wait - other people will slowly bump you up to completion.

etchedpixels · January 2021

Kwoung wrote: »

There was a rather large group of EP camping the final spot for one of the dailies in CP IC tonight, killing off every solo that tried to complete the quest. Was pretty low IMHO, but hey, if that's their style, they can have the 2 AP and 0 Telvar they got from each of those folks. Was more like griefing than any sort of actual PVP.

They have quests to complete like kill 20 enemy nightblades - the game effectively encourages and rewards this kind of behaviour.

gp1680 · January 2021

MissAethe wrote: »

I don't like PVP. For me, personally, it's too stressful. I gave it a shot when I first joined ESO and it was an absolute miserable time of being repeatedly targeted by the same player over and over again, tbagging me each time they killed me. I don't get any enjoyment in that, some find it funny to harass new players but I don't get any enjoyment in being harassed. It's hard to hear all of the positive speak about PVP when that was how I was introduced to it.

I just want to know what the easiest ways to get these event tickets are so I can get the pet fragments and get out. I saw mention of scouting missions not requiring any PVP at all, but I'm entirely clueless on what that means. I missed out on a lot of the Indriks because I assumed they would simply rotate and return each time, so I don't want to miss out on yet another thing because I skipped it.

What platform and server are you on? I’d be happy to help you get geared up and join you in Cyrodiil to help you get comfortable and give you some tips. I think you’re missing out on a lot of fun in PVP. Don’t let a few bad apples spoil the content. Get better and exact your revenge! 😛

worrallj · January 2021

Bwahaha come feed me your juicy alliance points...

SidraWillowsky · January 2021

Nine of the 10 dailies in Cheydenhal (middle of the map in EP territory) are really simple and many involve not leaving the town. You can pick up two quests at a time since there are two NPCs, so you could complete both, turn one in, then wait til the next day to turn the other in, then repeat.

One of the quests from the female NPC involves going to a delve that's a pain to get to, so if I get that one I just abandon it then talk to her again til I get a different one.

Nairinhe · January 2021

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

Nine of the 10 dailies in Cheydenhal (middle of the map in EP territory) are really simple and many involve not leaving the town. You can pick up two quests at a time since there are two NPCs, so you could complete both, turn one in, then wait til the next day to turn the other in, then repeat.

One of the quests from the female NPC involves going to a delve that's a pain to get to, so if I get that one I just abandon it then talk to her again til I get a different one.

They still may involve being killed by someone farming PVE players