PvP to See Lots of Changes to Battlegrounds & Cyrodiil in Update 18 - Elder Scrolls Online - MMORPG.

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PvP to See Lots of Changes to Battlegrounds & Cyrodiil in Update 18 - Elder Scrolls Online - MMORPG.com

Elder Scrolls Online News - Update 18 is the free-to-all patch for Elder Scrolls Online players that will go live when the Summerset Isles expansion launches. It promises to bring a lot of quality of life improvements but also a number of changes to the PvP system. Players will be able to set off on daily faction-based quests in Cyrodiil that can be completed once per day per character. These will yield the Gladiator's Rucksacks that come packed with crafting materials, treasure maps and redeemable Gladiator's Proof.

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Alomar

While these changes are desperately needed, what isn't mentioned is what's killed ESO's pvp community. The load screen fix listed in this patch was copy and pasted from the previous patch, which also didn't fix this several year old bug. None of the dozens of bugs me and my guildmates encounter weekly are listed as being fixed.

Meanwhile, the classes in need of nerfs got buffed, especially the one you have to pay extra for to play continuing to spark realistic p2w debates, while others got nerfed. Item sets such as earthgore, a really op healing two piece set that procs when group mate's health drops to a certain %, remains intact when the entire meta surrounds it due to how strong it is. Negate, a sorc ultimate skill, is receiving another buff after bringing the game's meta backwards similar to the purposely altered 1.6 era meta where whoever had the most negates won.

Battlegrounds still don't grant enough ap as rewards even when you win often. I've played close to 500 bg's and won nearly 390 of them, during that time I lost over 1 million gold in food, potions, and poisons because the ap rewards alone are so small compared to ap earned in Cyrodiil. Pvpers fight over and in the exact same places four years later with even less to fight for, the ap/gold/xp increasing passives based on how many keeps you own doesn't work and has been broken for months.

The emperor health buff doesn't take effect half or more of the time, a health increasing buff when your faction has emperor. The invisible group member bug has gotten worse not better, it used to be when it occurred (which is very often) you could only see the group member's chevron, now you can't even see that. This bug causes 5-10 minute loading screens when your grouped with someone who is invisible to you, which now you can't even tell has happened!

Siege reticle bugs are still ingame, I first encountered this bug over 3 years ago, where when you use a siege engine there is no reticle and you have to keep using it and exiting till you have one again. I can go on and on like this listing bugs that have been around for years and are still not fixed, individually they are annoying, together they've chased away this game's pvp community and rightfully so.

Viper482

More daily quests......yay.

So over this model of MMO.

YashaX

Alomar said:

While these changes are desperately needed, what isn't mentioned is what's killed ESO's pvp community. The load screen fix listed in this patch was copy and pasted from the previous patch, which also didn't fix this several year old bug. None of the dozens of bugs me and my guildmates encounter weekly are listed as being fixed.



Meanwhile, the classes in need of nerfs got buffed, especially the one you have to pay extra for to play continuing to spark realistic p2w debates, while others got nerfed. Item sets such as earthgore, a really op healing two piece set that procs when group mate's health drops to a certain %, remains intact when the entire meta surrounds it due to how strong it is. Negate, a sorc ultimate skill, is receiving another buff after bringing the game's meta backwards similar to the purposely altered 1.6 era meta where whoever had the most negates won.



Battlegrounds still don't grant enough ap as rewards even when you win often. I've played close to 500 bg's and won nearly 390 of them, during that time I lost over 1 million gold in food, potions, and poisons because the ap rewards alone are so small compared to ap earned in Cyrodiil. Pvpers fight over and in the exact same places four years later with even less to fight for, the ap/gold/xp increasing passives based on how many keeps you own doesn't work and has been broken for months.



The emperor health buff doesn't take effect half or more of the time, a health increasing buff when your faction has emperor. The invisible group member bug has gotten worse not better, it used to be when it occurred (which is very often) you could only see the group member's chevron, now you can't even see that. This bug causes 5-10 minute loading screens when your grouped with someone who is invisible to you, which now you can't even tell has happened!



Siege reticle bugs are still ingame, I first encountered this bug over 3 years ago, where when you use a siege engine there is no reticle and you have to keep using it and exiting till you have one again. I can go on and on like this listing bugs that have been around for years and are still not fixed, individually they are annoying, together they've chased away this game's pvp community and rightfully so.

Yep I have seen all those bugs as well, sigh.

Hellbender27

Anyone know what motif style helm the character is wearing in the picture? I've never seen that helm and open face Spartan style helm. Is it a new summerset motif?

Scot

Hellbender27 said:

Anyone know what motif style helm the character is wearing in the picture? I've never seen that helm and open face Spartan style helm. Is it a new summerset motif?

Must. Have. New. Helm....

Magplar

OH YEAH BABY!

. catapults will be more effective

Iselin

Hellbender27 said:

Anyone know what motif style helm the character is wearing in the picture? I've never seen that helm and open face Spartan style helm. Is it a new summerset motif?

It's not in-game footage. It just looks like an idealized version of a run of the mill Imperial style helm to me.