My advice for you, OP:

1. Ignore anyone trying to shame you into not voicing this concern, being rude or disdainful towards you, maybe implicating things about your personhood or skills. They're mostly insecure people trying to feel better about themselves. Pity them, then ignore or block them if they become too annoying. Be sure to report whoever crosses certain boundaries.
2. There are certain ways to make your life easier when solo. I'll recommend you some of my own:
2a. Elven Gardens, Arena and Memorial are in my opinion some of the easiest districts.
2b. Try to study where the bosses are spawning so you choose a district as far as possible from it, as most people will be farming it.
2c. Spend a minute or two idling on the district spawn, checking both map and chat in search of signs of struggle and/or battle. You'll know this because in chat, you'll see [X] has killed [Y] near [District]. In the map, you'll notice two or three crossed swords, color-coded by faction. If everything seems clear, go ahead.
2d. Dump your Tel Var stones in your bank. Always. Helps reduce the frustration from dying bc they won't get something from you, other than wasting your time.
2e. Jump servers as much as you need. If you don't feel safe in any of them, give it a try and wait for later if you don't. Take note of which hours your faction tends to dominate that server.


They'd save EVERYONE a lot of trouble by adding a PVE only server for both IC and Cyro during mym AND ALSO PvP alternatives for all the other events in order to make the perpetually online contrarians happy, those that spawn only during MYM, pretending they don't do PVE events because it bores them, just so they can justify themselves in camping ppl with no chance of killing them back (If you genuinely don't enjoy PVE and would like a PvP alternative, please don't feel called out by this. You know exactly which kind of people I'm talking about. I'm actually endorsing PvP alternatives so you can participate in the rest too!)

Either go in an group or go in slow hours, an Khajiit nightblade has benefits because better sneak and cloak.
Do multiple quests and hand one in daily.

First day of event is the worst possible time as its packed, same with any event really.

It's too late for this now, but next time, bring 2 chars in before the event and do all the daily quests and don't hand them in.

That way you can just hand one in every day.

I did this with a small guild group earlier this week. It was busy in IC and we were killed a few times, but I also encountered enemy players who were doing their own dailies and we stayed our of each other's way.

Other than that, IC is working as intended. It's not for everyone, but it is a fun place if you don't mind dying.

Two things make your IC dailies successful and painless:

1. Choose Arboretum or Arena. These are wide-open areas where you don't have to go to one exact location, so they're harder to gank and you have more options to move/sneak. If players are camping the platform, switch campaigns or try later.
2. Mental attitude/problem solve. Assume you're going to die and accept that you're not there to beat skilled PvPers. Make some progress on your quest, and if you die, keep going. I always die on purpose to turn the quest in--losing a few hundred Tel Var is nothing.

What's your goal? For me, it's get it done as fast as possible. So getting ganked is a little setback, but doesn't erase any progress.

Sometimes, I still feel bad getting ganked doing my daily. I let it pass and focus on what I'm doing next to do my quest. Over, under, and through!

I do the arena district with my Rincewind-like Khajiit NB. He's unarmed, built entirely for stealth and speed. All he does is click on enslaved citizens, then cloak and run away. He carries no Tel Var, so getting killed costs only the few seconds it takes to respawn and climb the ladder again.

I jumped down from the AD platform and got ganked. I immediately respawned and got two kills by heavy attack from said platform, killing the ganker and his friend. Then I freed the other slaves and ported out too Cyrodill. It can be frustrating but I had a blast. Looking forward for tomorrow and what IC brings. Oh yeah, I primarily pve. If I can do it, so can you. Have fun out there. Cheers.

I feel you, OP. If you aren't a PvPer, this event can be very frustrating. Cyrodiil isn't too bad because you can do scouting quests, but Imperial City is often a pain in the rear. (It's a pity because the story there is actually pretty good.) It is a PvP event, so spending time in PvP zones is to be expected. Still, that doesn't make it any less irritating for those of us who are just trying to complete a quest and keep getting killed by invisible people camped out at quest step locations for the express purpose of killing non-PvP questers who aren't even trying to put up a fight.

If you're just there to collect the event ticket, it can be frustrating, but it's not impossible. You will have to be patient though.
My advice is to collect all the quests first by hopping in and out of each trapdoor. Then look for an area without a lot of activity to quest in or an area controlled by your alliance. Sometimes I can complete only part of a quest before an area is taken over by a group from another alliance, so I just move to a new location and work on that quest. Eventually I'll finish one of them.

Also, if you happen to be online when it's relatively quiet or your alliance has control of all the zones, go ahead and work on as many quests as possible. You don't have to turn them in all at once and can save them to turn in on days when the zone is crowded with enemies or when you have less time.

Good luck!

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You try to do these daily quest for the event and it is a pain in the ass.
You get ganked, then you have to wait 5 minutes until you can join the area again just to get ganked 1 second later.
Is this the definition of a funny event? Really?

This is why you do the quests before the event starts, not during. Just complete them ahead of time when IC is much quieter, then turn in one quest per day while the event is active.

Of no help to you for this event. But you can do all 6 IC daily quests on a character before the event starts and wait to hand one in a day once the event starts. Do this on 2 characters and you have enough dailies to cover the whole event time.
Same can be done for the Cyrodiil dailies too.

Try no CP and go a few days before the event. That‘s how I always do it. IC is pretty empty then, you can do all quests in a relatively short time, and return one each day.