Elder Scrolls Online has a small lizard problem. In Cyrodiil, some Argonians are trolling their own faction and ruining the fun for some PvP players.
In the open PvP area of Cyrodiil, the three factions fight for dominance. The legendary Elder Scrolls act as capture flags and reward all players of a faction with bonuses. Although Zenimax Online primarily brings new PvE content, there is an established PvP community that regularly disrupts Cyrodiil. However, the fun is overshadowed by a problem.
I’ll be right back…
What’s mine is yours: Players use various tricks and techniques in the open PvP area to obtain valuable Alliance Points. One of these tricks is “Scroll Trading.” In Scroll Trading, a player picks up a freshly captured Elder Scroll, intentionally runs into the arms of the opposing faction, and lets themselves be killed. This allows the enemy faction to gain Alliance Points and an Elder Scroll.
Resourceful players have developed a new method based on this to troll the entire PvP campaign.
Piranhas eat scrolls
Floating Argonians. Argonians have a passive racial ability that allows them to glide through the water faster than other races. It’s not a particularly strong passive ability, but in Cyrodiil it seems to be extremely practical.
Similar to Scroll Trading, here too a player grabs a freshly captured Elder Scroll and runs off with it. However, they do not head towards the enemy faction but run towards the nearest river.
In these waters, hungry fish lurk that pounce on anything that enters the water.
Because Argonians can swim so fast, they get further than other players and then die in the middle of the waters. The scroll is now unreachable for all players in this campaign, leaving them with nothing to do but wait.
After a few minutes, the scroll will be teleported back to the castle it was last located at. If the players who just captured this castle are unlucky, reinforcements will have already arrived to get the castle back.
Alliance Points reward diligent players
PvP players receive exclusive items. Alliance Points are important when players want to equip themselves with specific PvP and PvE gear. Once players capture castles in Cyrodiil, take over a district in the Imperial City, or kill players, they earn Alliance Points. ESO rewards players with gold and rare items at the end of each campaign based on the Alliance Points they have collected.
The Elder Scrolls provide bonuses:
- a defensive Elder Scroll: Armor value is increased by 5%
- two defensive Elder Scrolls: Spell resistance and armor value are increased by 5%
- an offensive Elder Scroll: Spell power is increased by 5%
- two offensive Elder Scrolls: Weapon power and spell power are increased by 5%
It is therefore worth stealing the Elder Scrolls from the enemy and bringing them under your own control.
Reactions of the PvP community
Known problem. In the PvP community, the issue of floating Argonians has been known for a long time. A few players do not understand why Zenimax does nothing about it. They say: “Zenimax doesn’t care about PvP in Cyrodiil anyway.”
Other players argue that one shouldn’t be too upset about it. The scroll resets after a certain time, and everyone can continue to hunt for it. Furthermore, players should not focus so much on the scrolls, but rather take additional castles.
