ZOS has repeatedly stated that fair play and game balance are core principles of ESO. However, the continued presence of organized "ball groups" in Cyrodiil and Battlegrounds represents a direct contradiction to these principles and may even violate the game's Terms of Service.
Ball groups exploit unintended interactions between skills, stacking healing, mitigation, and synergy effects in a way that eliminates meaningful counterplay. The result is a gameplay experience that discourages new players, frustrates small-scale PvPers, and leads to significant server performance degradation. In this regard, ball grouping is functionally identical to multiboxing, which ZOS has already classified as a bannable exploit.
Multiboxing is prohibited because it grants an unfair advantage by synchronizing multiple characters to act as a single, unbreakable force, overwhelming normal players through sheer coordination. Ball groups achieve the exact same result ,not through software, but through meticulously organized play that abuses AoE healing, mitigation, and synergy stacking to create an unstoppable, lag-inducing cluster of players. Just as multiboxing removes meaningful counterplay and damages server performance, so too does ball grouping.
ZOS has implemented multiple balance patches aimed at reducing the effectiveness of these groups, proving that they recognize the issue. Yet, the core mechanics enabling them persist. Given the repeated efforts to limit this playstyle, it is reasonable to argue that ball groups are, in essence, exploiting the game.
ESO’s Terms of Service prohibit the use of exploits or game mechanics in unintended ways that give an unfair advantage. If ZOS is serious about this policy, then organized ball grouping must be classified as a violation. Either ZOS needs to implement hard restrictions to eliminate the playstyle or take direct enforcement action against players and groups abusing these mechanics.
It’s time to demand a fairer, more competitive PvP experience that does not rely on server-breaking exploits.
ZOS, we need clear enforcement!! when will you act?!