Zos have completely overdone it with CC.

Everything pin you, stun you, push you and snare you.

The amount of CC in the game is revolting. How to make something hard? Or rather... "fun and challenging"? Add CCs everywhere. Coupled with the game's excellent performance, you often get situations where, with full stamina, you can't break free, you can't roll dodge, you can't bar swap, you can just stand there and it take it. What exactly is that? Being unable to change bars literally defeats the purpose of having bars. The only circumstance where you shouldn't be allowed to change bars is when you're dead.

It's extremely frustrating but yeah I guess the game is very fun and challenging when you can't do anything. Just compare base and dlc content. The latter is full of awful, unfair, and plainly wrong CC. Not fun at all.

Besides, I don't think anyone would disagree that the combat is somewhat clunky in eso. These stuns etc: from your run of the mill npc's exaggerate the problem to the point to having no real control over you character, and it's beyond frustrating.

If the combat was fluid, fast and smooth it might work, but never in eso.

Vanya wrote: »

I disagree. I would rather see guards CC'ing annoying players who desire to slaughter half of town then having a mindless guard just running towards them using common direct damage attack skills.

People aren't talking about the NPC guards in cities, which only have a handful of CCs, which while annoying, are barely an impediment to most ne'er do-wells escaping or continuing on their merry spree.

The guards in Cyrodiil are another story. Each one has an assortment of CCs at their disposal, which when added up at the right time can be a real pain in the derrière. I have little problem with those guards having CC, but the number that they have access to combined with the frequency at which they cast them (not to mention the guards that heal in one second right back to full health) is a bit of a problem that should be looked at.

I agree that NPCs must have some sort of CC, but the amount we have here is really frustrating. Specifically, 2 of them are the most infuriating to me:

- Negate bubbles or "dishes" (from MoL) because I'm Magicka, escaping them requires me to stop attacking, moving out or worse, dodge-roll, wasting my already short Stamina pool. While I understand the concept of "Silencing" (muting mages, preventing them to conjure spells) is classic in old-school RPGs, the fact that stamina players don't have a counterpart feels wrong

- Charge. When they lock you in-place and I "wtf! I can't move" then I see the sparks at my feet and "ah! someone is charging at me". I don't know how this works in PvP but at least in PvE it's a cleansable annoyance, but nonetheless, annoying. The other kind of Charge I hate comes, usually, from WBs. They charge at us and either knock us down (and far away - e.g. Kwama Queen in Vvardenfell) or and they push us so violently we get somewhat dizzy, shaking our arms up in the air for several seconds. Worse! As a Templar, I'm often hit by such a move while I'm "jesus-beaming" after 2-3s casting it. The push not only interrupts the attack, wasting the Magicka spent to cast at a fully charged beam but locks it, making me unable to re-cast it again because although the animation was interrupted its timer wasn't.

IMHO those crowd control skills by NPCs should be reduced by 50%~80%, thus still making them available to interrupt the player but not to exert some unnecessary delay.

As for PVP, another different sphere, crowd control is a vital tactic. It is the officious guards who we need to deal with.

I never seen a player getting mad at NPCs, you see something new everyday

I thought people were complaining that mobs were too easy.

Im so confused