Here is what you need to know about PVE right now.
1. Play a warden, they are god mode right now, and that is no exaggeration. This is the only class I have seen where they can not only solo 10 – 15 players but even kill people in those groups. Warden is effectively a raid boss in PVP.
2. Play a dragon knight, they are dang close to god mode. Can be another raid boss in PVP say in older content, but not quite as tough as wardens.
3. Play a Necro bomber, easy mega kills. Odd how a necro can kill 20+ players instantly and that is not considered overpowered… Could you imagine the outrage if a templar ability ever instantly killed just one person, the servers would be taken down for an immediate nerf to the templar.
4. Play a Night Blade, you can pop in and out of stealth every second, detection pots are broken and never work reliably, radiant mage light or flare I forgot the fighters guild skill are so power hungry you will run out of juice superfast spamming the ability to find them and even though some of these abilities say they will prevent targets from going into stealth or invisible.. they don’t or not reliably many times they will just immediately stealth again. with server lag you can even burn siege and go stealth again before other players even see you.. super broken but great for night blades.

The people playing the above classes will tell you… never mind can’t type this with a straight face they will tell you these classes are finally in a good place and … oh lord… balanced. Just keep in mind they are trying to maintain a narrative to ride this god wave as long as they can.

Don’t play a templar, they are the joke and I think Zos just keeps nerfing them trying to kill the class. You can look up YouTube videos on templar PVP builds but remember these people are just trying to get hits on the video so they can get paid, the builds never ever work as well as the video examples they cherry-pick to demonstrate how powerful the build is. Where a templar can do ok, get a programable device that is in violation of game rules and you can do alright.

Next, you have to accept that cheating is off the charts now in PVP with programable devices, with the ability to script in a barrage of attacks with animation cancelation in-between you will get a massive wave of attacks from one player in a split-second killing you. All they need to do is press one button and the programmable device does the rest for them. It’s an old game and Zos is just clearly not interested in any way shape or form of permanently booting these accounts from the game. Again, people will try to maintain a narrative there is no cheating going on or they have never seen it themselves but it’s all over the place.

But hey try this for yourself and then puzzle out how others are doing it. Make your character run around in a circle and without breaking out of the circle or stopping keep jumping nonstop and use 5 – 7 different abilities while bar swapping all at the same time. Now unless these folks went to china and got 4 additional thumbs transplanted on the right hand and an additional 1 or two thumbs on the left hand… shy of using a device (that ESO says is a violation) where you can just press one button (to do all those actions) so you can keep your thumbs on both sticks at all times to keep moving in that circular pattern… I don’t know how they do it (wink, wink), but I am sure someone will say “these are just really skilled players with years of experience”. Ahh ok Sure.