How are you guys enjoying mid year mayhem?

Theo_VVS · June 2021

With mid year mayhem here im seeing a lot of new faces in BGs. I’m just wondering how are you guys enjoying it?

Starlight_Whisper · June 2021

I ended my night with mvp achievement 🏆

To get there...I tripped on ledge carrying relic just before finish line only to ironically accidentally get enemy off trial.

Ran to wrong team while carrying enemy relic..I learned how directionally challenge I am

Killed ganker at cropsfield after they killed me.

Tried to blood port but enemy stopped killing me...the cruelest mercy

Waited in stealth for two enemies to lower each others to lower each others for me to only come snatch ball.

I wonder if bosmer stealth detection helped me?

Ksariyu · June 2021

Walked five minutes to a newly flagged castle - cleared and claimed by the time I arrive.
Follow group for five more minutes to outpost - stand on flag and instantly die.
Follow group another five minutes to castle and finally actually see an enemy I can target - Die immediately upon getting in range to use a single attack.
Can't respawn at forward camp for some reason.
Logged out.

I really don't understand the appeal of this mode in it's current state.

YstradClud · June 2021

I only played for a bit earlier when AD were on the assault. I don't bother playing Blackreach NA around this time of the night because its usually just EP and DC going at it.

relentless_turnip · June 2021

I love midyear! It's great when PvP feels so populated. Performance on EU is still shocking despite them swapping to the magic server just before midyear as they always do. IC is really busy and cyrodill is rammed. I wish it was this alive all year round.

FlopsyPrince · June 2021

Theo_VVS wrote: »

With mid year mayhem here im seeing a lot of new faces in BGs. I’m just wondering how are you guys enjoying it?

I still haven't done a single BG in my years of playing. Having to win to get credit makes it a complete downer for me. At least I MIGHT survive ganking in other areas. I would just drag my team down in a BG.

Ippokrates · June 2021

Honestly, more intense game in Cyro I have seen at the end of the last alliance campaing, when two of my alts get Grand Overlord Killer achievement ^^

WySoSirius · June 2021

Getting in as many dailies as I can due to working 6 days a week

noblecron · June 2021

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

Alucardo · June 2021

noblecron wrote: »

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

That sounds incredibly boring. Without the players, Cyrodiil is just a vast wasteland of nothing. Though if you're a pver I guess boring is right up your alley.

Cadbury · June 2021

Aside from the boon boxes sometimes not counting for the achievement, It's good. Helped a couple of newbie Pact players do their dalies, sneaked around Cropsford, trolled Ash and Roe.

#JustEPThings

Ippokrates · June 2021

noblecron wrote: »

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

Today I was pleasantly surprise by EP players, cause even they occupied Cropsford I was able to do all daily quests and nobody was chasing me.

Alucardo wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

That sounds incredibly boring. Without the players, Cyrodiil is just a vast wasteland of nothing. Though if you're a pver I guess boring is right up your alley.

Like any other overland zone. However IC & Cyro mobs are slightly more demanding than usual, so idea with pve version of that is fine for me.

noblecron · June 2021

Alucardo wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

That sounds incredibly boring. Without the players, Cyrodiil is just a vast wasteland of nothing. Though if you're a pver I guess boring is right up your alley.

Yeah would be boring if you enjoyed pvp. They could even have a setting to where you can't be attacked and you can't attack players/npcs/keeps and it can only be turned on or off outside of Cyrodiil

Ippokrates wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

Today I was pleasantly surprise by EP players, cause even they occupied Cropsford I was able to do all daily quests and nobody was chasing me.

Alucardo wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

That sounds incredibly boring. Without the players, Cyrodiil is just a vast wasteland of nothing. Though if you're a pver I guess boring is right up your alley.

Like any other overland zone. However IC & Cyro mobs are slightly more demanding than usual, so idea with pve version of that is fine for me.

Yeah I had a nice AD guy in cropsford when I was turning in my daily. Gave them a wave and stepped out after I turned in my daily.

oterWitz · June 2021

I took my in-training stamden into Cyrodil for the first time today since rerolling him from a tank. I sourced a lot from complaints and tips on the forums and was pleasantly surprised at how well I survived and could contribute during fights. I even lived through some bombs after the tips in the earlier MYM thread about investing in health and resistances and not stacking. I have been wondering though, would keeping magelight/expert hunter/flare up while flipping a flag help vs bombers, or is it already too late by the time the bomber is close enough to be revealed?

RaddlemanNumber7 · June 2021

No prep, no expectations of victory, just lots of knock-about fun with my RP-build toons. I've got the level 1 campaign rewards on 5 of them so far, hope to get that on all 18 toons.

Ippokrates · June 2021

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

No prep, no expectations of victory, just lots of knock-about fun with my RP-build toons. I've got the level 1 campaign rewards on 5 of them so far, hope to get that on all 18 toons.

Try to get to lvl 2 - if their alliance win the campaing, you will get a lot of nice weapons (lvl 3 with jewelry is not so great imho

Beardimus · June 2021

Ksariyu wrote: »

Walked five minutes to a newly flagged castle - cleared and claimed by the time I arrive.
Follow group for five more minutes to outpost - stand on flag and instantly die.
Follow group another five minutes to castle and finally actually see an enemy I can target - Die immediately upon getting in range to use a single attack.
Can't respawn at forward camp for some reason.
Logged out.

I really don't understand the appeal of this mode in it's current state.

A horse will be a game changing experience...

And probably some gear / paitence / guild

WuChiWuGen · June 2021

This mode of the game makes pretty much no sense.
Unkillable ball groups.
Perma Block tanks that can kill others and not die.
Players that run desyncing skills to crash other players out of the server.
Perma debuff that lasts through dying and until you leave cyr zone and reque.
Stuck in combat that lasts until you walk to the next fight, evening porting to another castle won't fix. (Streakbug)
A pvp map that's so big, we spend more time riding than fighting.
A pvp map that has the same design for almost a decade.
A pvp map that has had the same loot for almost a decade.
A game that allowed you to send messages to the other side and cuss each other out brag insult etc.
And the lag sliding instead of being able to mount. Clicking on door and it not working. Having to go into a delv to get rid of the permanent debuffs and not being able to get bak in cyr. Skills that do not work.
A company that puts in better servers Just for the event and then turns them off after the even making lag even worse.
Thank Heavens there are other large-scale fantasy MMOs Where the development team listens and makes changes.

We have reported Cyr problems for years,,,,,,,, and nothings been fixed. So we have to think they (this company) dosen't care as long as the new skin sells.

SickleCider · June 2021

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone, where DC and EP are barely present and uncharacteristically friendly and AD are the great antagonists. Definitely subverted my expectations! PS NA. 🤣

Spurius_Lucilius · June 2021

BG becomes boring during MYM when you have teammates or enemies that have only 16K health. I feel like the amounts of player queue into BG who have no clue about the game significantly increased.

RaddlemanNumber7 · June 2021

Ippokrates wrote: »

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

No prep, no expectations of victory, just lots of knock-about fun with my RP-build toons. I've got the level 1 campaign rewards on 5 of them so far, hope to get that on all 18 toons.

Try to get to lvl 2 - if their alliance win the campaing, you will get a lot of nice weapons (lvl 3 with jewelry is not so great imho

Thanks for the advice, but I'm only doing it for the geodes

Smitch_59 · June 2021

I've simply ignored it. There are no rewards in PvP-land that I can't live without. So no event tickets for me during this event. But y'all have fun!

coop500 · June 2021

I mean, pretty much rinse and repeat of

Spawn in, grab daily quests, attempt to do daily quests, MAYBE get 1 or 2 steps done, get nuked by PVPers, rinse and repeat until finished.

Waffennacht · June 2021

Because of MMr still seeing pretty much the same faces in BGs.

Killed a ton o people in Cyrodill though

B0SSzombie · June 2021

Honestly, this is the first time I've ever enjoyed Midyear Mayhem.

Don't misunderstand, I still won't touch PVP.

But I have 15 characters now, so I was able to hit Tier 1 rewards in 30 day campaigns 15 times just by doing tutorial stuff and a few easy Scout quests.

In a few days, I'll be receiving 15 50 Transmutation Geodes in the mail, plus I'm sitting on something like 40 "Rewards for the Worthy" that I can open daily to get MORE Transmutation Geodes. Plus I completed 13 Imperial City Quests before MM started, ready to be turned in.

This has been the best Midyear Mayhem for me, and I've hardly seen another Player!

Sarannah · June 2021

Worst event ever. Having to do two seperate tasks for event tickets, and sometimes being placed in a deathmatch BG. Just terrible! And too many PvP oriented endeavour tasks, makes it even worse.

Did have a fun capture the relic yesterday though. Tactical play is somewhat fun, fighting overpowered/broken builds and skills is not.

Please never do a PvP event ever again!

PS: I was playing full days, till the event started... now I can just barely make it through to get my tickets, and log off.

Jazraena · June 2021

Alucardo wrote: »

noblecron wrote: »

I'd enjoy it more if folk didn't farm pvers just trying to get their tickets. Really wish ZOS would give us a non pvp server for Cyrodiil and Imperial City.

That sounds incredibly boring. Without the players, Cyrodiil is just a vast wasteland of nothing. Though if you're a pver I guess boring is right up your alley.

And here we have a prime example of the attitude among PvPers criticized in the other thread.

As for the event: Once you get something going, Cyro is mostly fun right now, even as a casual PvPer. My main and major gripe is getting there. Attempting to join my home campaign EU Ravenwatch is mostly hopeless - queue lengths of >250 people and 2h+ are the norm, so I can only go there if I have plenty time and enough non-instanced stuff to do on that particular character during the wait. The extra 7-Day campaigns are better, but it's still a solid 30 minute wait often enough. Luckily, I'm not trying to push the leaderboard and already have the Tier 3 reward, but it's still annoying.
Then, once I'm actually in Cyro... it usually takes at least an hour or two until I actually manage to find a group. If I'm lucky I can at least skirmish alongside one before, but not always, and I'm not really in a state to comfortably solo or lead.

So, for the moment, fun (and surprisingly performant) but the obnoxious wind up until you get there is extremely motivation-killing.

StamPlar_1976 · June 2021

It's like a walk through a grassy field with the sun shining in your face and a gentle cool breeze on your brow. It is my first Christmas of the year.

Tommy_The_Gun · June 2021

ThePianist · June 2021

The pve’rs going into Imperial city have no clue what is going on except doing dailies. You can farm tel var stones and use that to buy “Waxed Satchels” for 500 tel var. Each Satchel can give about 9-12 Alchemy mats. If you have no interest in pvp but have gold or resources in mind, I’d stay in Imperial city for the Tel var. You have 1 week to set up 1-2 years worth of alchemy mats.

I consider myself an all around pvper. I have zerged and I have 1vx’d, it depends on the objective.

There’s a streamer who’s favorite words lately are “Zerg”, “You got x’d”, “Trash”, “Garbage”, “You play in a group you’re a Zerg”. “F....U”...

1vxers are getting heated over nothing and looking like zombies on stream. If 1vxers are having an identity crisis, then eso pvp is in a good place.

Grandchamp1989 · June 2021

Seems like there's less rookies around than usually. Like people have gone tired of getting killed and have made an actual PVP build.