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PvP vibes check

cuddles_with_wroble
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Just checking in to see what dosage of copium we are all on or not on. Are classes and sets balanced? Is Cyrodiil fun?… are bgs fun?
Edited by cuddles_with_wroble on May 18, 2025 9:22AM

PvP vibes check 154 votes

PvP is fine, no changes needed
2%
SluggyJohnRingoVonnegut2506danko355 4 votes
PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
25%
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PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
31%
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PvP is doomed
16%
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Vengeance will save us
18%
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Former player / quitting and why
4%
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  • Calastir
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    Vengeance will save us
    Never is, never was, never will be.
    Chaszmyr Do'Benrae (Dunmer Magsorc Vampire Infinity) ~ Dusk Doublespeak (Breton Magplar Werewolf) ~ Stan of Rimari (Nord Dragonknight Tank) ~ Bunto Kim Alhambra (Redguard Magplar Paladin) ~ Alicyankali (Argonian Magicka Necromancer Draugr Kin) ~ Gruuman Odinfan (Orsimer Magplar) ~ Boymans van Beuningen (Khajiit Stam Warden Bowzerker) ~ Flannelflail (Imperial Stamina Nightblade Brawler PVP) ~ Calastir (Altmer Stamina Dragonknight) ~ Sallystir (Bosmer Stam Warden Frostbite PVP) ~ Zalastir (Altmer Magicka Warden Ice Storm) ~ Capt Peach (Nord Stamcanist Crux Cannon) ~ PC EU ~ Flynt Westwood (Bosmer Magicka Dragonknight) ~ Chandu the Conjurer (Redguard Magcanist Rune Walker) ~ PC NA ~ since May 26th, 2021.
  • RebornV3x
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    PvP in its current state is the absolute worst ever there's no way someone could look me dead in the face and seriously tell me PvP is fine right now. At this point I wish they would just completely get rid of PVP in this game. Vengeance is a band aid on a broken limb at best.
    Xbox One - NA GT: RebornV3x
    I also play on PC from time to time but I just wanna be left alone on there so sorry.
  • RealLoveBVB
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    Voting for Xylena already, who only wants RoA nerfed/removed. Else everything is fine B)
  • The_Meathead
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    I was a bit conflicted on which option to pick.

    I think PvP in general is actually pretty good, but that Cyrodiil needs limitations placed on Cross-Healing/Shields and a heavy nerf/removal of RoA and any other really problematic sets that surface, from time to time. Maybe the Cross-Heals/Shields nerfs constitutes big changes? I put it in scale against the Vengeance campaign that was fun temporarily but gave up so much individual choice that is a full-on rework/BIG change, so I picked "small changes."

    Then again, the 2 team BGs are awful, so I don't even know.

    PvP Combat itself is pretty good, just needs some tweaking - but instead we're getting/had massive overhauls of systems with BGs, Vengeance, and now Subclassing, all done by the same people who destroyed U35.

    I wish they'd just kept up better (at all) with balance the past couple years.
  • xylena_lazarow
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    Vengeance will save us
    Voting for Xylena already, who only wants RoA nerfed/removed. Else everything is fine B)
    Let's make a deal. You keep Rushing Agony. I get god mode. Very fair offer, limited time.

    For real though, between RoA and double spec bows, build Cyro is cooked. Nobody is gonna wanna play this random invisible instant death fest once they've played the new simple but meaningful Vengeance build system.

    They also fixed the slow mount speed in Vengeance, now all we need is the missing Meatbag siege.
    PC/NA || Cyro/BGs || RIP old PvP build system || bring Vengeance
  • JustLovely
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    Two team BG's are absolutely horrible though, my vote was based on Cyrodiil PvP. Cyro PvP was advertised as the primary end game activity during launch and why I log in to ESO.
  • Xarc
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    I like BGs, even if they are not perfect, but still better than what Cyrodiil has become.
    @xarcs FR-EU-PC -
    Please visit my house ingame !
    sorry for my english, it's not my native language, I'm french
    "Death is overrated", Xarc
    Xãrc -- breton necro - DC - AvA rank50
    Xarcus -- imperial DK - DC - AvA rank50 - [pve] pureclass
    Elnaa - breton NB - DC - AvA rank50
    Xärc -- breton NB - DC - AvA rank49 - [pve] pureclass
    Isilenil - Altmer NB - AD - AvA rank41
    Felisja - Bosmer NB - DC - AvA rank41
    Glàdys - redguard templar - DC - AvA rank40 - [pve & pvp] pureclass
    Xaljaa - breton NB - now EP - AvA rank39
    Bakenecro - khajiit necro - DC - AvA rank28
    Xalisja - bosmer necro - DC - AvA ?
    Shurgha - orc warden EP - AvA rank? [pve & pvp]pureclass
    Scarlętt - breton templar DC - AvA rank?
    - in game since April 2014
    - on the forum since December 2014
  • WuffyCerulei
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    Definitely need more done to counter ball groups. They’re just so dang hard to deal with and legit make PVP unfun af a lot of the times.
    Sorcerer's pretty much been the same for years. Nerf Rush of Agony and Saints&Seducer's
  • Jestir
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    Vengeance will save us
    The extremely positive reaction to Vengeance probably is why PvP is a complete afterthought with sub classing

    I wish it wasn't so but things are gonna get really rough on this side of the game for a while
  • Zama666
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    Fix lag and getting kicked.
  • MasterSpatula
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    PVP, in this game, is overseen by a guy who likes to play troll builds in PVP. I couldn't come up with a better way to describe the state of PVP in this game than that.
    "A probable impossibility is preferable to an improbable possibility." - Aristotle
  • supabicboi
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    PvP is doomed
    PVP, in this game, is overseen by a guy who likes to play troll builds in PVP. I couldn't come up with a better way to describe the state of PVP in this game than that.

    block tank wheeler smh disgusting.
  • Arrow312
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    They need to adjust a few things but then it is fine.

    - RoA monsters only
    - heal stacking
    - shield stacking
    - reduce lag

    I think when those few things happen it will be better exp. Because no one can be pulled like a ball from right to left and back. With the remove of heal / shield stacking they will make groups more killable.

    What they cant fix is that people still chasing others in towers, around rocks....
    PC EU X'ing, Small Scale PvP
    Arr0w312
  • Veinblood1965
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    RebornV3x wrote: »
    PvP in its current state is the absolute worst ever there's no way someone could look me dead in the face and seriously tell me PvP is fine right now. At this point I wish they would just completely get rid of PVP in this game. Vengeance is a band aid on a broken limb at best.

    My sentiments exactly. It is just horrible in all areas. It's almost like it is deliberately unloved for any updates. Low population caps so it's hard to play on the weekends, ball group meta, stale zone that has not been updated at all since when I started playing years ago. We've had some new sets and some lancers along with multi function repair kits. Did we get a PVP related item wheel when extra wheels were introduced a while back?
  • JaxontheUnfortunate
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    The current state of pvp in all its forms has more or less driven me away from it entirely. Significant changes to balance will need to be done before I would engage in it again on a regular basis.
  • JustLovely
    JustLovely
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    If vengeance mode become mandatory I'm done for sure. Vengeance mode is a totally different system than what we have now. I might be done anyway depending on how bad subclassing is, so we'll see I guess.

    With all these changes I am not on board with at all I'm super glad I stopped supporting ZOS financially after U35.
  • RebornV3x
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    My few problems I have with PVP:
    • Is ROA needs to be fixed why is this one set allowed to break the rules? If this was any other MMO I would accuse the devs of purposefully leaving this set broken so they can exploit it in there off time. But I know ZOS devs don't play there own game cause nobody that has any power to change things in this game can seriously believe pvp is in a good state right now. Also the pull needs to be decreased a meter or 2 the tooltip says 12m but I swear its 13m or 14m+.
    • Players with 40k+ health shouldn't be allowed to still hit hard there needs to a massive trade off if you have more than 35k health
    • The time to kill in this game is bad I either die or kill my opponent in the first 15 seconds or we have a 5 minute fight where one of us dies of boredom, or just gives up and runs away and nothing in between.
    Xbox One - NA GT: RebornV3x
    I also play on PC from time to time but I just wanna be left alone on there so sorry.
  • fizzylu
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    PvP in this game died for me the day they removed 4v4v4 BGs. I can deal with broken sets and poor balancing, after all, every MMO has those issues.... but boring gameplay that puts me to sleep? I'll pass and will have zero interest in investing time into ESO PvP unless they bring back three team BGs with some new maps, rewards, etc.
  • mrreow
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    PvP is doomed
    The only thing fun about PvP left is BG below 50. Still why no 4v4v4??

    It will even withstand update 46 as multiclassing terribleness won’t start until 50.

    Every other PvP was already broken and unfun. to finish it off with u46 is kind of brutal
    Edited by mrreow on May 23, 2025 9:55AM
  • Major_Mangle
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    mrreow wrote: »
    The only thing fun about PvP left is BG below 50. Still why no 4v4v4??

    It will even withstand update 46 as multiclassing terribleness won’t start until 50.

    Every other PvP was already broken and unfun. to finish it off with u46 is kind of brutal

    Sub 50 is the complete opposite in my experience, it´s just an excuse for smurfing and seal-clubbing like nothing else in this game. Honestly don´t see why sub 50 should even exist these days with how quick/easy it is to level up. Sub 50 Cyrodiil is literally only used for selling emperor achievement and sub 50 Battlegrounds is as I said a seal-clubbing smurf fest. Sub 50 PvP should just be removed completely if you ask me.

    PvP in this game is at its core good/fine, but years of never ending power-creep and the developers refusing to listen to the active PvP community on what skills/tools etc are overtuned and needing adjustments (while simultaneously changing things that never needed to be changed) has brought us to where we´re at the moment. Unfortunately ZOS rather force us to play Vengeance (which is most likely what PvP gonna end up with if I had to guess) rather than making some easy changes to certain problematic tools.
    Edited by Major_Mangle on May 23, 2025 10:25AM
    Ps4 EU 2016-2020
    PC/EU: 2020 -
  • mrreow
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    PvP is doomed
    Below 50 is fun because mostly noone cares to min max. The distance between average player and PvP focused player in this game is a chasm that will only get exponentially wider in 46. Cyrodill is something that is unplayable at the moment
    Edited by mrreow on May 23, 2025 10:42AM
  • El_Borracho
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    The servers are still underpowered. Heal stacking is overpowered. Ball groups relying on both are annoying. Those are my main complaints.
  • Joy_Division
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    • Tiny population
    • Dead map
    • Overpowered organized groups
    • No rewards for winning campaigns
    • Good thing because every campaign is won by nightcapping
    • Fights either are over in 5 seconds or are drawn out for 5 minutes
    • Do everything builds with 40K health
    • Everyone using Blood for Blood because no spammable except Concealed is fun, interesting, or effective
    • Constantly resetting MMR so BG matches are never balanced
    • Broken proc set used by every broken ball group that breaks the most important core rule in the game
    • Players running around with 10 HoTs on them
    • Unkillable troll tanks
    • The Eight forbid you Ele Sus said troll tank bc/ you're in combat for the next 20 minutes
    • The only siege oriented game ever designed in which it is more difficult to defend a walled castle than an unwalled outpost
    • Game still cant handle big fights
    • No dedicated PvP dev
    • No dev aware of how PvP meta is played
    • Company believes playing with a bug for an entire patch is preferable to hotfix
    • AvAvA been on autopilot for 6 years
    • Etc., etc., etc.
    Make Rush of Agony "Monsters only." People should not be consecutively crowd controlled in a PvP setting. Period.
  • xylena_lazarow
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    Vengeance will save us
    • Everyone using Blood for Blood because no spammable except Concealed is fun, interesting, or effective
    This is Rending Slashes slander and I shan't stand for it, even if it's only good on like two builds anymore!

    I'd just like to add few more:
    • Instant ranged attacks and burst procs that fly at you like auto aim bullets that also go through walls
    • Leaving this alone while nerfing melee attacks with awful cast times, slow animations, and reduced damage
    • Double spectral bow
    • Double spectral bow
    PC/NA || Cyro/BGs || RIP old PvP build system || bring Vengeance
  • Divine1976
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    Unless something major changes with Cyrodiil I'm done with it and ESO in general. I really enjoyed Vengeance but tired of subbing to ESO+ to feel second class to PVE all the time
  • Turtle_Bot
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    • Everyone using Blood for Blood because no spammable except Concealed is fun, interesting, or effective
    This is Rending Slashes slander and I shan't stand for it, even if it's only good on like two builds anymore!

    I'd just like to add few more:
    • Instant ranged attacks and burst procs that fly at you like auto aim bullets that also go through walls
    • Leaving this alone while nerfing melee attacks with awful cast times, slow animations, and reduced damage
    • Double spectral bow
    • Double spectral bow

    I think you might have forgotten to add:
    • Double spectral bow

    On a more serious note, I would add:
    • the blatant dev favoritism towards 1 particular class that never sees any meaningful nerf.
    • the lack of class representation within the dev team outside of 1 class that still has a dev that mains it and buffs it every patch.
  • Tigor
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    1. Over the top
    2. No clear vision
    3. Disregarding feedback
    4. Underhand exploiting
    5. Imbalances

    Adding stuff is leading to more disproportion. Simplification would make it more fair. Vengeance+ ideally.
    GM - Decimation Elite - Ebonheart Pact - Cyrodiil (PC/EU) - aka Tigor (AR50), Leopard Tank (AR50) , Captain-Caveman (AR50), Tigors Claw (AR50), -Bud Spencer (AR50)
  • Qagh
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    PvP is not fine, big changes / reworks needed
    Read the other 100000 threads about the problems in PvP. 😉
    CP 2700+ PC/EU

    Ich habe so viele Khajiit, dass ich eine ganze Kolonie gründen könnte.
  • DeadlySerious
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    If a version of vengeance mode is mandated it will be the death of ESO PvP I think.

    To me it looks like ZOS is all in with vengeance mode and not doing anything to improve their original version of PvP, which they told us was the purpose of vengeance mode in the first place. So why aren't we seeing any changes to the original PvP format based on what they've learned from the "vengeance tests"?
    Edited by DeadlySerious on May 26, 2025 7:45PM
  • RealLoveBVB
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    PvP is fine, but small changes are needed
    So why aren't we seeing any changes to the original PvP format based on what they've learned from the "vengeance tests"?

    So you want all dot-skills and passives removed?

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