Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-1600847-20140414195050

So after taking the last 2 weeks off to play ESO, I noticed two things on the PvP. It seems that, already, people are finding ways to be as cheap as possible and exploit/spam tactics. I'll bring up the two main ones which I've only seen the Dominion players use:

1: Scroll carriers. When carrying the Scrolls, you're supposed to be vulnerable. You can't use a horse, you can't use the Transitus Shrines to teleport around, and everyone in each Alliance knows you exact location at all times. But of course, people have found ways to negate all of these. Step one: be a Sorceror and gain the Bolt Escape ability. Step two: become a vampire and gain the Vampire Mist ability. With these, you will never die when carrying a Scroll. How, do you ask? Simple: horses boost speed by 15%. The Vampire Mist ability makes you invisible (there's no stealth detection in the game, oddly), negates 75% of all damage and boosts your speed by 45%. Literally, you can outrun any horse, take virtually zero damage and cannot even be seen by enemy players, ergo you cannot be targeted. This is ridiculous for Scroll carriers, as they become unstoppable. What's more, in the unlikely event you do manage to catch the impossibly fast and invisible Scroll carrier, they just spam the Bolt Escape ability 4-5 times in a row. This teleports them ahead about 10-15 meters forward each time. Combined, I find this is an unacceptable combination for Scroll carriers. They're supposed to be vulnerable, they're supposed to be heavily guarded, but with these two abilities, they can solo steal a Scroll and bring it back to their base unscathed. I find using any of these abilities should force you to drop the Scroll. It completely unbalances the PvP, so of course, people just spam it, especially the Dominion players.

2: Waiting until everyone is logged off. Another Dominion tactic in PvP: wait until about 3-4 am EST when there's virtually no one on the North America server, then log in all at once and capture every Keep and every Scroll when there's no one on to oppose you. This started just 4 days ago, but the Dominion has been using this tactic every day since. It's got to the point that most people on the servers they use this tactic on just leave for another server, myself included. We barely have anyone logged in until about noon, so... yeah. No matter how well we fight during the day, it's all for nothing. Dominion just takes everything at night when no one's on, and even if there is someone on, they're so vastly outnumbered they cannot hold them off. Last night, on Auriel's Bow, the Pact had 7 Keeps, the Covenant had 7 Keeps and 4 Scrolls, and the Dominion had 2 Keeps and 2 Scrolls. I log off an 1am to go to sleep. This morning at 9am: Dominion has ALL 16 Keeps and ALL 6 Scrolls. Their population is at Maximum while Pact and Covenant is at Low.

I find this to be a pathetic tactic, especially when you consider the following: when the alliances are equally numbered, the AD loses nearly every time. Pact or Covenant ends up on top. So the Dominion now uses this tactic: only bothering to play when everyone's offline. I personally have given up playing PvP and am just going to focus on leveling my Veteran Rank. I hope they stop being so cheap, it really ruins the PvP.

Well that's it, just needed to vent a little. Feel free to comment. 