I want to unlock caltrops on an alt. I have zero combat passives with skill points because I have gear crafting levels maxed. Cyrodiil has been find as I'm just doing town quests. This alt is AD, and I've always been able to find quiets towns for dailies. Sunday I even did 9 of 10 in Chorrol before it flipped. Monday, I had a left over scroll daily that happened while I was doing town dailies so I just handed that in and called it a day.

In IC, I just bank all my telvar. I had the same guy kill me 3 times early. He probably got like 50 stones total. After the 3rd time, I released and ended up in another district where that AD had well under control and got my daily.

When I use my main, a tank, I can usually defend long enough to frustrate attackers. I can't really kill any competent PvP players.

That being said, I am all for people killing me in a PvP zone. That is the point of the zone.

Couch Potato here, skipping IC event tickets. Two from Cyro will have to do me, them scouting missions aren't too bad.

Vevvev wrote: »

Araneae6537 wrote: »

I am truly amazed at how impervious some players are to damage! It’s not CP (or not always) either as I encounter these in BGs as well. I can attack from stealth with an ult and that’s shrugged off and then I’m dead in two hits!

I encountered true ball groups for the first time this event — a mass of players moving together, so synchronized, bringing massive aoe and proximity damage with them! It’s like a force of nature — in its path you are dead dead but you can stand outside and watch, untouched. They do not care, for you aren’t capping the flag from that vantage point!

On the other end of the spectrum, I was caught off guard by a solo bomber who had remained hidden and then wiped most of the group while we were repairing the door! At first I was stunned that someone had ported through the remaining gap in the door, as I thought! It didn’t make a difference in the cap and they died instantly too, but they must have a truly impressive kill count!

It really does bring things into perspective does it not? This is also why immovable potions and mistform is so nice in PVP because it makes it possible to get out of the way of ball groups! I've learned they charge for your faction's "center of mass" and not the individual people themselves until it's only really the individuals off to the side that are left.

As for the bombers they use sets like Vicious Death paired with abilities like Proximity Detonation, Blood Frenzy, and powerful AoE ultimates!

Indeed! Some of the ball groups I encountered were in a keep, where they would pour down the stairs, sweep past the flags, then swirl around outside the inner door where anyone might set up siege, then back in, inexorable as the tide!

I was impressed by that bomber and am working on giving it a try myself, just for fun, even though I don’t see it being my usual playstyle.

drunkendx wrote: »

Only comment I have on event so far is quoting M'aiq:

"Some enjoy bringing grief to others. They remind M'aiq of mudcrabs—horrible creatures, with no redeeming qualities."

I had to test my new build yesterday. Unfortunately for the level 470 who was riding alone on my way to the battle, he became my test subject.

The test showed that one ice comet and 2 radiant oppressions from 20 yards out can, in fact, melt a level 470 before they dismount.

Sorry! 😬

Michae wrote: »

Another story from yesterday. On my way from a scouting mission deep in AD territory I came upon an active dolmen. I didn't complete any dolmens in Cyro up until that point so I thought that it was my time to shine. Unfortunately there was a sole AD player doing a dolmen. As we established I'm a potato so I didn't want to spook the player and get killed, or otherwise kill them myself if they also were a potato. So I started sneakily picking off the enemies on the other side of the central column and activating pinions without them noticing. We completed the dolmen and I'm fairly certain AD guy didn't notice I was there.

You had a big blue shield floating above your head. I guarantee they noticed you but realised you weren't there for it, just for the dolmens. I've had this happen before myself when I went to clean them all up.

renne wrote: »

Michae wrote: »

Another story from yesterday. On my way from a scouting mission deep in AD territory I came upon an active dolmen. I didn't complete any dolmens in Cyro up until that point so I thought that it was my time to shine. Unfortunately there was a sole AD player doing a dolmen. As we established I'm a potato so I didn't want to spook the player and get killed, or otherwise kill them myself if they also were a potato. So I started sneakily picking off the enemies on the other side of the central column and activating pinions without them noticing. We completed the dolmen and I'm fairly certain AD guy didn't notice I was there.

You had a big blue shield floating above your head. I guarantee they noticed you but realised you weren't there for it, just for the dolmens. I've had this happen before myself when I went to clean them all up.

Yeah, he just got lucky. Even as a bloodthirsty PVPer myself there are times when it’s better not to attack. 1 on 1 at a Cyrodiil Doleman is near the top of the list.

Speaking only for myself sometimes when I’m riding solo and don’t think I can take the guy (or have better things I’m on the way to do) I’ll ride up to them at full speed on rapid maneuvers simply just to spook them into getting off their mount.

literally every campaigns boosting, pve should have zero issue in this [Snip]

[Edited for profanity bypass]

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Soloing/duoing resources seems a little harder than it used to be, but it's still the case that a competent PvEer with a PvEish build can do it ... unless, of course, player characters from another alliance show up. So, plenty of successes in that area.

The three hardest things IMO about soloing resources are the bubbles, the multiple healers, and the mage on the platform hanging out from the second story of the tower. So my prefered technique is to ride straight into the tower (and out of LOS of the flag), ideally pulling one guard plus one mender with me. Then I kill them, go up the stairs (the short time in LOS of the flag is unimportant), kill the mage, take a couple of breaths, and walk back down and outside and deal with the rest of the defenders, menders first.

(Note: "LOS of the flag" is shorthand for "line of sight of the defenders gathered stationed around the flag".)

I agree, it definitely feels like they've buffed the hell out of the NPCs and their skills since last time I spent any significant time in Cyrodiil (pre-Nov healing/group change).

Been running exclusively IC this time. It's so much fun, but medium armor Stamplar is kinda not that good. Once I'm on the defensive there's almost no way back. Wondering if I should switch to heavy. Or another class. Anything that can still run without Crimson Twilight, I'm not going to farm that cheese lol.

Also, Dracane is a big ol' 10k frags meanie.

Youyouz06 wrote: »

Vicious death works on siege.
Nuff said.

wait, what???

can anyone else confirm?

MasterSpatula wrote: »

barney2525 wrote: »

I decided. for the first time ever, to take a look at doing scouting missions.

The mission was to scout Glademist farm. I studied the map for 10 minutes. Its not listed. There's a Glademist keep, but no structures anywhere near it that might suggest a farm.

google said it was NW of Chorrel. My mouse overs found various farms and other places of interest, but no Glademist farm.

So I dropped the quest and left Cyro to go do something that was actually fun.

It's too bad making the quest active in your journal doesn't put a big white quest marker on your map and your compass.

Seriously, though, unless you're DC, you probably didn't want to go all the way to Glade.

I have two comments about this.

@barney2525: One thing I discovered way back when I first went to Cyrodiil is that the default map filters were set to hide the resources, which made it very difficult for me to locate the resources I was supposed to scout. As I recall, a lot of other things of interest were also hidden, such as dolmens and delves, which drove me crazy. Then I realized that all I had to do was go to the map filters and turn everything on. I heartily recommend that you go the filters on your map of Cyrodiil to see how they're set, because that's probably one big reason why you couldn't find Glademist Farm-- but see below for more.

@MasterSpatula: I don't know if you do missions and quests where you don't already know where the target location is, but you might want to verify for yourself what I'm about to say, because it might help you be a little more sympathetic about this. What I've noticed is that if I accept a mission and then immediately go to the Transitus Shrine and "use" it, the map it shows does not display the quest marker. But if you close that map, open your normal map, and right-click out of the zoomed-in display of the gate area to see the entire map of Cyrodiil, you can see the quest marker. And if you then "use" the Transitus Shrine again, it will finally display the quest marker on its map. But for some annoying reason, going to the Transitus Shrine and using it without looking at the regular map first will result in the quest marker being missing from the map.

I went fishing in cyro, cleared all but one fish off the achievement, and the nerve-wracking fishing expedition had been death/attack free. Then I die, to slaughterfish trying to get to a fishing hole off a rock.

Waded back crouched, and got the last fish in 30 minutes without further... incidents

Fishing in the normal maps after that has been SO much more appreciated!..Over being a sitting duck-errrh... crouched cat?

I put this in another thread but it might be of use to any Midyear Mayhem potatoes with an eye on getting the 4 skyshards behind each of the opposing alliance's gates.

MYM is probably the best time to get them, as you can bounce from campaign to campaign looking to see if the gates are open (you can tell if a gate is open if the keep closest and the next one out is taken by a different alliance) and there's way more likely to be scroll raiding happening.

If you are going for them and you've never done it before (or for other first timers), my suggestions are as follows:

- check out the maps of where the skyshards are specifically online before you go in there and drop a marker
- if you're not on a nightblade, craft some invisibility pots, because even when the gates are open there's still guards unless you follow a zerg through.
- if you are on a nightblade, unlock shadowy cloak and make sure you have enough mag to keep it up
- if you don't want to go the invisibility way, getting in as close as you can and hitting rapids (if you have them unlocked) or having any other speed boost is a bonus
- have a spam heal if you can
- once you get through the gate and out of aggro with the gate guards, crouch ASAP to get into stealth from them AND any players

You don't have to be of the Alliance who opened the gates either, they're open for EVERYONE.

I also recommend once you get through the gate heading left or right at a right angle the moment you get through the gate and especially once you can get into stealth safely, because that means any unfriendly players coming to the gate won't see you once you're crouched because you're effectly invisible unless they're close to you.

Take a breather to let the adrenaline settle, then go get your skyshard. Stay off roads, stay in the wilderness. People generally ride on the road or in a direct line between their home base and the gate so avoid that. You don't have to stay in stealth but you can if it makes you more comfortable.

Get the skyshard and let the good in.

Rinse and repeat three more times.

If anyone else has any more suggestions, or if anyone has any questions, go for it.

wheresbes wrote: »

For the love of Mara, I couldn't understand what I had to do, where I had to go, what I had to grab, how to stay alive sigh

If there's flags, take the flags and don't let others take them. If there's a ball, take the ball and don't let others take it. If deathmatch, kill anything that moves and don't die. Some teams ignore the objectives and treat every mode as a deathmatch, which is fun, but doesn't help you win, and for rewards you want to try to at come at least second.