Balanced/competitive BG option.

Mr_Gallows · April 2021

I'd like to see a BG with a system similar ro the one GW2 has. You equip one PvP item that gives you all your stats. You can pick weapons, but all stats are from the PvP item you equip in a special slot. There would be different "builds" like tank, damage, healer, dot-master, brawler etc. Zos would make these different builds. You still pick your own skills.

It should not replace the current BGs but simply be an option for people who want to play BGs 100% for the gameplay. It would also allow zos some good balanced data on class balance, where they can see how different classes perform with the different builds.

Waffennacht · April 2021

People have said that the reason why we do not have a mode selection currently is because they do not want to further divide the BG community.

This gives the impression the BG population cannot support many divisions.

So before we even get into whether or not an idea even has merit; its unlikely to ever see implementation

Mr_Gallows · April 2021

Waffennacht wrote: »

People have said that the reason why we do not have a mode selection currently is because they do not want to further divide the BG community.

This gives the impression the BG population cannot support many divisions.

So before we even get into whether or not an idea even has merit; its unlikely to ever see implementation

Maybe if BG PvP wasn't so terrible because of balance and broken builds the BGs would not have this issue🙂

Merforum · April 2021

Waffennacht wrote: »

People have said that the reason why we do not have a mode selection currently is because they do not want to further divide the BG community.

This gives the impression the BG population cannot support many divisions.

So before we even get into whether or not an idea even has merit; its unlikely to ever see implementation

For past year and up to a month ago I was able to get into a BG pretty quickly and was even doing 13 a day from april to Nov. But in the last month I only got on 3-4 times around 5pm pacific, I tried to get on a BG about 5 times around 9pm pac, and waited 30 minutes, gave up, then did something else. You might be right that the amount of players in BG is dwindling.

On top of that with the increased stats it is a total mess. Back to super fast paced combo spammers and/or heal bots that literally heal faster than anyone can damage them while losing less resources than you do. If they want more people using PVP and BGs, they should stop listening to ideas that make it more toxic, like excluding fun proc set, and allow more diversity than every single person using DB, Dzy, Exe combos almost exclusively because it is the only thing that works.

Mr_Gallows · April 2021

Yeah... the meta is just not very good gameplay. Back in beta and early release PvP was fast paced... but not stupid like what we have now. There were a few imbalances like being able to kill people with snipe before they could react, but nothing as silly as what we have now.

And it's really sad, because the core mechanics of block, dodge and light/heavy attack weaving is good. Also getting resources back on heavy attacks is brilliant. Now however with regens for all three stats that are completely out of control and other issues the core gameplay is just crap.

It would be so much fun playing eso PvP in a balanced environment, because the core is absolutely brilliant.

If you try duel with a make in only basic stat gear, no pots and no food, the fights are really good

The whole armor/penetration system is also broken.

It would be better if regen was just set at a balanced rate set as a percentage pf your total.

But they could make PvP builds that would produce great gameplay