Under 50s Battleground Bug

Fintasia · March 10

Hi,

I have noticed that there seems to be a bug affecting some, but not all players in under 50s battlegrounds since U49.
I have not encountered the bug in regular over 50 battlegrounds.

What is happening is that character stats are being massively reduced upon entering a battleground - far more than can be attributed to the removal of CP and the activation of Battle Spirit.

I took two screenshots of my characters stat sheet, one in Icereach (Under 50 Cyrodil campaign), and one in an Under 50 battleground, for the same character, with the same gear etc. and have attached them here, and you can see the battle spirit is active in both.

In some cases, stats are being reduced by over 50%.

Under 50 Cyrodil:

The under 50 battleground:

IrishJack72 · March 11

This happened to me a little bit ago in a random battleground. Health dropped from 26k to 12k. Magicka and Stamina also were significantly reduced. I could use around 2 or 3 skills before I was out of Magicka. It didn’t seem to affect everyone because an opposing player racked up 38 kills in like 5 minutes.

Fintasia · March 11

IrishJack72 wrote: »

This happened to me a little bit ago in a random battleground. Health dropped from 26k to 12k. Magicka and Stamina also were significantly reduced. I could use around 2 or 3 skills before I was out of Magicka. It didn’t seem to affect everyone because an opposing player racked up 38 kills in like 5 minutes.

Was that in a regular over 50 BG, or under 50 as well?

IrishJack72 · March 11

Oops I meant to put it was an under 50 battleground

Fintasia · March 11

IrishJack72 wrote: »

Oops I meant to put it was an under 50 battleground

No worries, just seeing if we can narrow down the scope of the issue so when a dev can take a look it's hopefully easier to troubleshoot!

Sidewaves89 · March 16

@ZOS_Kevin could you please add this to the U49 Launch Known Issues List?

LennaTheRussian · March 20

@ZOS_Kevin yes please. It's actually ruining peoples first time experience

FadeShade · March 21

LennaTheRussian wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin yes please. It's actually ruining peoples first time experience

and levelling newly created characters as it's good xp while unlocking & advancing alliance skills without needing to ride very slowly across cyro.

tsaescishoeshiner · March 30

For an under 50 character, Health, Stamina, Magicka, and resources are all 1/3 of what they are outside of BG. This has been the most aggravating experience in ESO by far. Every under-50 match lasts the full 15 minutes because when you break free once, half of your stamina is gone. And since your recovery is also 1/3 of normal, you can use one skill every 5-10 seconds. There's no way this is intended and it's absolutely horrible.

What's worse--it seemingly doesn't impact everything. For example, my critical chance is 10% higher than outside of BG. Some players get 30-40 kills each battleground, so there may be some stat sources that are not affected by this bug or modifier. But it's not clear what they are, so the few players who seem to know what the deal is are benefiting disproportionately, and no one I've asked seems to know what exactly is and isn't affected.

ShadowMole25 · March 30

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

For an under 50 character, Health, Stamina, Magicka, and resources are all 1/3 of what they are outside of BG. This has been the most aggravating experience in ESO by far. Every under-50 match lasts the full 15 minutes because when you break free once, half of your stamina is gone. And since your recovery is also 1/3 of normal, you can use one skill every 5-10 seconds. There's no way this is intended and it's absolutely horrible.

What's worse--it seemingly doesn't impact everything. For example, my critical chance is 10% higher than outside of BG. Some players get 30-40 kills each battleground, so there may be some stat sources that are not affected by this bug or modifier. But it's not clear what they are, so the few players who seem to know what the deal is are benefiting disproportionately, and no one I've asked seems to know what exactly is and isn't affected.

It seems as though level scaling is no longer active in the u50 battlegrounds, so low level characters have the same stats they would have had prior to the One Tamriel update. This means that higher level characters will have higher stats than lower level characters. The people you see getting lots of kills are probably level 40+.

This definitely needs to be fixed though as it will turn off new players from battlegrounds and makes attempting to level alts through battlegrounds a horrific experience early on