Get Ready for ESO's Cyrodiil Champions Test

We explain what the ESO Cyrodiil Champion test entails, how you can prepare for it and showcase all consumables, sieges and class skills available to you.

By Edenprime • Published 6 months ago

ESO Cyrodiil Champions test will be on live megaservers after the Fallen Banners DLC launch, so possibly sometime late March or early April. In this article we will explain what the ESO Vengeance test entails, how you can prepare for it and showcase all Vengeance consumables, sieges and class skills available to you.

Please keep in mind that this is a performance test for data gathering, not a direction ESO PvP is going. ZOS needs the data from this test to figure the cause of Cyrodiils performance issues.

ESO Fallen Banners DLC and the Update 45 Base Game Updates launches on March 10th on PC and March 25th on Consoles.

Cyrodiil Champions test is active on PC/Mac from March 24 to March 31.

What is the ESO Cyrodiil Champion Test and Vengeance Campaign?

Zenimax is dedicated to find the root causes for the performance issues you see inside the ESO Cyrodiil PvP Zone, starting with a campaign that is a simplified version of Cyrodiil and your characters. It is important to remember, this is not "the direction" ESO is going, this is a test to gather data on mass battles and find issues they can fix. The Cyrodiil test will be held on live megaservers as it is the only place where there will be massive amounts of players. Even bots can not simulate the complexity or stress the server enough, that's why live servers and real players are needed.

ZOS_Kevin on the official forums noted: " Anything you see that's enabled or disabled during this test, is purely for the sake of performance, and getting calculations as low as possible on the server."

All other Cyrodiil campaigns will be disabled during the one week test leaving only the Vengeance campaign available. There will be server downtime to disable all the other campaigns and enable the Vengeance campaign. The Vengeance campaign will have a 100% increase in Alliance Points and Experience earned which is granted to you after you leave the campaign.

Your character, sieges, skills etc. will have the prefix "Vengeance" on them so you will be able to easily tell the difference. The skybox is a mix of red, purple and green to signify that this is a completely different campaign.

What you should know when queueing for the Vengeance Campaign in Cyrodiil Champions test

Basically think of going into the Cyrodiil Champions test as if you are logging into a Test Server with a Template character to gather data. Class skills are the only skills available in the ESO Vengeance campaign and have not been balanced at all, so each class has its weaknesses and strengths especially with cleanses and heals.

Sustain will be an issue, since almost all class skills use magicka. You should use a staff to heavy attack quite often so you don't run out of magicka. Stamina is mainly used for dodge rolling and blocking which gains no benefits from equipping a one hand and shield.

Since your stats are not affected by anything, you can successfully play with a naked character. If you zone in with gear on your character, you can equip/unequip them but it makes no difference to your character aside from having weapons to use.

Players that played during the ESO launch in 2014 might get a familiar feel from the Vengeance campaign as back then skills had no stamina morphs, staffs were always better and some classes were just worse than others due to their utility.

Summary of ESO Cyrodiil Champions Vengeance skills to keep in mind

Be sure to read the tooltips before slotting your usual skills. All ESO class skills can be found further down the article.

Almost none of the skills leave a ground effect
Most classes won't have access to a cleanse or execute skill
Both damage and heal skills affect a maximum of three other players
Pets are not summons, but instead need a target and will disappear after completing the animation
There are very few heal over time skills
Some skills function completely different from their live versions
Some classes will be better than others

ESO Character Stats inside the Vengeance Cyrodiil Campaign

Everyone inside the campaign will have the same stats that can only be affected by the class skills you use and possibly Keep bonuses.

70000 Health
30000 Magicka
30000 Stamina
5000 Spell and Weapon Damage
33% Spell and Weapon Critical
0 Spell and Physical Penetration
500 Health Recovery
2200 Magicka Recovery
16133 Spell and Physical Resistance
1650 Critical Resistance

You will not be able to do the following during the Cyrodiil Champions test

During the ESO Cyrodiil Champions one week test you are severely limited in what you can do. Your screens upper right corner will show an error message "You cannot do that in this Campaign" when you try to interact with something that is disabled. Below is a list of what you will not be able to do after you have zoned into the Cyrodiil Vengeance campaign.

Can't unlock Alliance War Skill Lines
You don't have access to any passives, weapon-, guild or other skills lines besides your class skills
Can't harvest materials
Can't interact with Skyshards or Mundus Stones
Can't interact with NPC's such as merchants and quest givers
Can't access the Crown Store, Armory, Mail, Crafting UI etc.
Leadership boards and Emperorship are disabled
Can't see your normal inventory items or currency
Can't trade with other players
Can't interact with the collections UI (ie. can not equip/unequip a costume or adornment, change your mount etc.)
Can't re-log directly into Cyrodiil if you logged out in Cyrodiil.
Can't access item sets or bonuses
Can't access Champion Points
Can't make new outfits (you can change between saved outfits)

What you can do in the Cyrodiil Vengeance Campaign in ESO

Think of your character as a template of your class that is given to you when you enter the Vengeance Campaign during the test.

You get 100% extra Alliance Points and Experience inside the campaign (granted after exiting the campaign)
You can group up with other players
You can slot and use Class Abilities
Slotted abilities will be saved upon exiting the campaign
Your character has access to Keep bonuses (possibly a bug, but it was active on the PTS test)
You can use sieges given to you. One of each type can be deployed at a time, the previous one will disappear if you try to deploy a second one. You can not pack them up.
You can destroy keep walls, doors etc.
You can use an infinite potion given to you
You can use weapons given to you (no passives or stat changes so the weapon only matters for resource return)
You can use your mount (everyone's mount will have the same speed)
Golden Pursuits will be active

All Cyrodiil Champion Consumables and Sieges

Your character is given sieges and consumables to use in the Vengeance campaign. These will not show up on your character after you exit the campaign.

Tri-Restoration Potion of Vengeance
Soul Gem of Vengeance
Forward Camp
Cyrodiil Repair kit of Vengeance
Ballista of Vengeance
Flaming Oil of Vengeance
Battering Ram of of Vengeance

All Cyrodiil Champions Class skills

Here you will find images of all class skills that will be available during the one week Vengeance test in ESO. Note that class balance is not the focus of this test so some classes will have better utility than others.

Cyrodiil Champions Arcanist Class Skills

The Arcanist class will have access to simplified versions of its skill lines inside the ESO Cyrodiil Vengeance campaign, shown in the images below.

Vengeance Curative Runeforms
Vengeance Soldier of Apocrypha
Vengeance Herald of the Tome

Cyrodiil Champions Dragonknight Class Skills

The Dragonknight class will have access to simplified versions of its skill lines inside the ESO Cyrodiil Vengeance campaign, shown in the images below.

Vengeance Ardent Flame
Vengeance Draconic Power
Vengeance Earthen Heart

Cyrodiil Champions Necromancer Class Skills

The Necromancer class will have access to simplified versions of its skill lines inside the ESO Cyrodiil Vengeance campaign, shown in the images below.

Vengeance Grave Lord
Vengeance Bone Tyrant
Vengeance Living Death

Cyrodiil Champions Nightblade Class Skills

The Nightblade class will have access to simplified versions of its skill lines inside the ESO Cyrodiil Vengeance campaign, shown in the images below.