ESO PvP in 2019 - Interview with Dottz Gaming on Balance, Performance and the Future of ESO

many devs claimed their game would be the wow killer but in reality blizzard killed wow themselves.

No discredit to Dottz. Seen his videos and like his content but can’t complain about mobility first section of the video and have nothing on his bar to help it out. I play a lot of mag dk and yea your not the fastest but if you run chains it fixes that problem. There is a lot of checks and balances in the game I feel and as a mag dk you have to realize that pretty much your weakness and play around it

The biggest changes that need to take place are the removal of proc sets to no cp PVP all around it carries players so hard, you cant balance classes with proc sets in the game. the PVE community will complain if you nerf them again so to not bother them and promote skillful PVP just remove them from PVP. most classes are balanced but proc sets create huge imbalances like skoria on a DK or caluurions on a magblade or fighting a Templar with pirate skele, red mountain and skoria on stam sorcs. makes PVP super skill less and frustating for players like me who dont use them and realize how much damage you gain/lose in that meta. Magblade even without proc sets is so strong its hard to complain about magblade with the kit they have

cool stuff, loving this 💪🏼

I like dottz, but why bring a guy in who only kinda pvps to talk about the state?

They should add some new imperial city sets you can only get from the key frag vaults. That would get people back in there

1: Stam Nightblade
2: Stam Warden
3: Mag Sorc
4: Stam Templar
5: Stam DK
6: Stam Sorc
7: Mag Warden
8: Mag Templar
9: Mag DK
10: Mag Nightblade

11: Hybrids (all)

Absolutely love this discussion ❤️
You guys have a great ability to put to word how PvP has felt to me over the last two patches

I miss Healing Ward 😰(Magblade main here)

I play Kyne.. Screw Vivec, CP is aids and the lag is aids.. Sotha Sil, can't be mad, but I've played Kyne too much and enjoy it too much now to change

Summerset was the best patch for PvP because of the mobility options. I ran swift on my mag classes, too: magdk with 3x10% speed swift jewelry and elusive mist made light armour magdk viable. Everyone benefitted from swift, because the game needed more mobility. It is a fast game with slow movement, it doesn't make sense. It is why everyone ends up wearing heavy armour every second patch, because you take damage quickly but can't transform the battlefield quickly enough when moving at half the speed of smell.

As a magicka nightblade main in pvp(no cp) I have to agree they got cut down pretty hard. My favorite parts of this class were were the sustain, huge magicka pools, and mind games that shade opened up, but now with the Murkmire that is gone. After they have had sustain nerfed patch after patch murkmire put the nail in the coffin, with the class having no good sheilds and shade being broken has next to nothing for survivability. On top of that the only class heals(excluding ults)are swallow souls and dark cloak which are very underwhelming compared to vines, twilight, coagulated blood, and breath of life. In no cp the problems are amplified ten fold with lag, lack of composition from cp, and the majority of damage coming from ranged burst skills with a very small kill window even smaller on dks and wardens. This isn't ment to be a rant I just want to share what i see as the weaknesses of the class in it's current state for players who dont have expense with it. For new players and much as it hurts me to say it, just make a sorc.

People hate vampires because of the high flame damage, and the Health generation of minus - 75%.
NOBODY PLAY VAMPIRE+TR, dont be stupid they told me ecc..
B U T C O N S I D E R
1x stamina DD build with trollking is very stupid like much usless..

WELL MIST form on a stamina build makes a lot of sense! Imagine if somebody would manage to turn -75% HR into plus +75% HR? with a magicka recovery that mist form can cast forever? and WITHOUT losing 4k weapon damage on main dps bar.

1th.problem is mist form cut off magicka recovery for 4s, right? that's just not true, blu betty netch makes it anyway in mist! and HR works very well while you are invincible in mist form, k8ting people with permafrost as stamden for exemple

Real eso tryhards know this and they make use of it, abuse this with reason..

Do you guys think making IC it's own location will help with some of the cyrodiil lag?

the two best eso pvp creators!

You guys should come on over to xbox and see how pvp is here.. Vivec specifically..

@DottzGaming @Kristofer ESO isnt that the same we said last year ... "a big year, big balance changes" and all that stuff ...

Just reduce everyone's movement speed by 170% lol

Also you should check out my nb tank lol 100% support but fun lol

Nice!

I hope they focus more on performance in Cyro. The constant lag has made me take a break from playing. Especially with the 80 man mega zergs that cause you to crash on arrival. I know a lot of others who have been taking a break too because of the shit performance. The past few months it just hasn't been an enjoyable time. I hope the next few updates make things more stable and bring the fun back.

Great Vid! I really enjoyed hearing you both talk about the state of the game, I think I cool video idea related to content like this, would be maybe a theory craft guide with Th3asiangod

This is one of the reasons why i changed my magdk to stamdk. I'm a slow target for others, while they can easily escape or hide (NB). Also I've never been able to beat any dual wield/2h bleed stam classes 1v1. Really frustrating. I've tried so many ways to beat them, but never can right as they heal right back up with vigor/momentum. So I decided to become one of them XD. I think he really hit the points with this video.

I just left wow for eso. Both games are completely different from what they use to be. One got worse and one greatly improved.

nice video guys anyway, but i think dottz is also a bit biaosed towards magicka. magden and magwarden are dominating the fields these days, magsorc are always super strong, so saying magicka is bad cause HIS class is not at a good spot is kinda biased imo...

Hot Dog this was a pleasant surprise!

Maybe in the future they can separate PVP from PVE so they can Balance PVP separately without punishing PVE proc sets and cp .

i love this conversation between two of my currently favorite content creators! please give us more. listening to one expert give their advice is fine, but your conversation gave me a better perspective!

Get clapped by dawnbreaker 😂 yeah i got to experience that joy when i thought hircine gave me the "ultimate power"

Good stuff. I don't want to be a jerk, but I do feel like the nerf hammer, complete gutting of certain aspects of the game, like mobility, was something that for some reason was Wrobels doing. A you guys say, we can already feel the difference in how this first patch is being handled from the actual racial changes to how they've implemented the testing period and giving us a heads up prior to the patch notes on what's coming. Im also looking forward to 2019. I think its going to be the first really good year in a while.

Lmao stam has an edge over mag? Wtf magplar and magden are the most broken classes ever

Brilliant questions and discussion. Christopher content & commentary are the best for this game, his content is soooooo relevant to this game. Those guys that thumbs down are morons. This doesn't mean I agree 100% with all the opinions, but the content & commentary are excellent.

If performance is still bad and earthgore still in cyro is bad

Theres no way this gonna be best mmo lmao

The game is going to get even more laggy when Necro comes in.

Interesting interview. I look forward to seeing some more! Keep it up!

Im sorry but it seems like you 2 are playing a completely different game than us. Everyone that had played PVP at least once in the past 2 months knows that the strongest mechanic in the game is the reflect and the shields. Nothing else is viable unless your target is afk. Cheers

Yup lag is already bad for NA/EU players for players in the rest of the world (for me SEA) it is cancer. I love the game and put too much time into it so its sad when it feels like im playing a pre alpha early access game cause nothing works.

As a stamsorc main I would like to see my class receive some identity in the next coming year

Thanks for doing a video like this! You are really doing a great job in being a community creator and hub of eso activity. More discussions with other big names would be great!

Jack I think your content is great for the community, You guys covered a wide range of tops so it was entertaining. When I see a video from you I think quality content. Also I liked the fact that Dots noticed zenimaxs bottom up approach to balancing and the possible futures that might arise from it. Looking forward to what ever content you cook up.

Magsorc needs it’s frag cc back.

Make imp city alliance free, then make Tel var worth more by adding more sets and more polymorphs etc. Side not stam is much more powerful than mag and wings is part of the problem (that stupid warden reflect too.)

to be honest this is better channel than Alcast has..... lets help this guys to promote this channel

PVP has become so cancer that I don't even want to play anymore. This shit is frustrating. Battlegrounds is just full of cancer and premades. It makes me sad because ESO PVP used to be so much fucking fun and felt relatively balanced up until a patch or 2 after Imperial city, and sure we have BGs and new features and overall it's a better game now, but it hands down couldn't be a more cancer time for PVP. But maybe that's just my perspective of a Magblade main.

necro will be op, in cyro u will see only necros and after 1 month it will get nerfed...

Impieral City emp hmm City Lord! Underground King!