Volendrung NA Campaign. Calling all Daggerfall Covenant and Aldmeri Dominion!!

Dahter

This server is severely lacking in the Daggerfall and Aldmeri department. Ebonheart has no challengers, and has been so for several days. JOIN UP. BRING YOUR GUILDS.

Harakh

Eu or NA?

Dahter

NA

Dahter

Come on people, bring your guilds to volendrung!!

GunemCleric

I will come as soon as there groups large enough to take the newly buffed super npc mages.

I will bring my guild, i just need to convince that there are actually other people and that a lightly defended castle can actually be taken with less than 30 vets.

...and talk a few into returning to the game after this last "patch"

Dahter

Good news^^

Come on DC and AD where's your guilds at?? Volendrung desperately needs them.

phaedraei

Looking to join a Dominion guild that wants to take back Volundrung... Anyone out there?

Supersun

phaedraei wrote: »

Looking to join a Dominion guild that wants to take back Volundrung... Anyone out there?

Try contacting Murder Thumbs. I'm sure he'd be able to point you in the right direction.

(Now excuse me while I go take a cold shower).

ardikus

AD and DC need to dominate every single campaign. If there's one campaign that EP dominates, you guys call for reinforcements. What's the deal with that?

Dahter

Hey Ardikus, I'm on ebonheart, just looking for some alliance points LOL

ardikus

Well you got your wish. DC now owns the map. Thanks.

Dahter

Not for long

jonal11_ESO

Yup, thanks for ruining my EP Cryodiil PvE campaign. If you want fair PvP go to Wabbajack, anything else is just ruining the rest of the PvE Cryodiil campaigns.

*But I bet fair PvP isn't really what you are looking for anyways. Just some nubs to farm.* Time for me to find a new guest campaign.

Dahter

LOL, AD and DC dominated volendrung until my guild came to volendrung, so not sure what you're talking about

Ezareth

Volendrung clearly needs more caltrop exploiters like Dahter and his terrible guild.

AD continually held the campaign through superior group skill and tactics despite fielding 1/3 the numbers. This is why 16 of the top 20 players on the server are AD.

Enter Judge, Gutsu, Dahter and the rest of his terribad emperor farming group plus another 100+ EP Zerg. Since caltrops makes traditional keep defense like oil, siege weapons and AOE useless, skill no longer matters, it comes down to who can zerg more.

Dahter only wants more DC/AD to come here so someone will actually trade emperor with them which is the only reason they're here.

So yes bring your zerg, bring your exploiting terrible players and spam that caltrop button. Everyone with even a modicum of skill on EP and DC has already left the campaign so we get to farm the dregs.

If you KNOW you're a skilled AD PVPer and you feel like continually facing overwhelming odds while farming hordes of exploiting terrible players feel free to message me (@ezareth) in game. We'll always choose quality over quantity.

...and if you ever happen to see a Sorc wearing antlers puking on your corpse, rest assured he's saying: "Welcome to Volendrung!"

SwampRaider

my guild will be on call if DC ever needs assistance. like *AHEM* being farmed at the gates by *** AD

Supersun

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

So yes bring your zerg, bring your exploiting terrible players and spam that caltrop button.

Yes, and keep spamming those invulnerable mercs...

Seriously, I'm not saying there's no one on EP that doesn't abuse exploits, but don't make AD all cute an innocent. I see just as many caltrops on the group under the yellow flags protecting their rear from burning oil as under the red.

NeeScrolls

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

Volendrung clearly needs more caltrop exploiters like Dahter and his PC guild.

--- I'm not the biggest fan of 'PC' anymore either (since i figured out what they were really up to and subsequently broke their false pretensed "deal" ) but umm fyi: everyone from all 3 factions exploited that caltrops *bug* . Everyone.

Not to mention the fact that i seem to recall ole Murder Thumbs taking plenty advantage of the emperor/vampire/unlimited-ultimates bug/exploit quite a few times. Sure, he's good regardless and much respect to both of you tbh...But seriously, MT is so good enough to wipe 40-player groups over & over...all by himself?!

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

AD continually held the campaign through superior group skill and tactics despite fielding 1/3 the numbers.

-- lol come on now Ezareth, you know that's far from the truth. You, MT, & some of your crew are indeed very skilled yes. But i've been fighting on Volendrung since Week 1 and aside from a few scrappy days here & there, EP has had the LEAST amount of consistant 'numbers' by a mile. Particularly Vets.

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

Dahter only wants more DC/AD to come here so someone will actually trade emperor with them which is the only reason they're here.

-- That much is true, unfortunately. But they did help me (mostly because they had to since i was #1; and not quite as much as they think they did) achieve Emperor. So, while i def. enjoy trolling them sometimes, is it really their fault...or is it ESO Dev design fault?

Everyone with even a modicum of skill on EP and DC has already left the campaign . [/quote]--- ?? Really? I seem to recall killing at least 10 AD vets tonite while defending the remnants of our couple Keeps (after PC left) by myself and i'm still only a Level 45 "weakling Sorcerer" lol.

The truth is: our EP side has had numerous quality players (even after May Queen & her crew abandoned our server) ...and PC is in fact especially smart & tactically skilled, even if their smothering 'plan' has now all but alienated the rest of the server toward them & their arrogance. It's too bad really, cuz imo if EP had PC from the start (working together, you know, as a PACT lol what a concept! ) our side + DC's numbers + You guys at AD could have = an extraordinarily *consistant* competitive Campaign. You know, how the Devs intended it to be.

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

. We'll always choose quality over quantity.

-- You guys do seem to work well together, with MT as your 'leader' and of course You Ezareth as the 'right hand man' . I look forward to fighting you both someday when i'm actually Vet12 .

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

...and if you ever happen to see a Sorc wearing antlers puking on your corpse, rest assured he's saying: "Welcome to Volendrung!"

--- ahh so THAT's what you meant by doing 'push-ups' on my white-werewolf corpse Day 5 of my emperorship after that epic 3 hour 'Chalamo' battle. ... /bow, Nee

Ezareth

Supersun wrote: »

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

So yes bring your zerg, bring your exploiting terrible players and spam that caltrop button.

Yes, and keep spamming those invulnerable mercs...

Seriously, I'm not saying there's no one on EP that doesn't abuse exploits, but don't make AD all cute an innocent. I see just as many caltrops on the group under the yellow flags protecting their rear from burning oil as under the red.

We use Mages just like everyone else. They bug out sometimes and there is nothing we can do to prevent that short of not dropping them. When you're continually outnumbered 3 to 1 on a good day you use what you have. We get screwed by bugged mages just like everyone else.

NO ONE in our guild or at any keep defense I've been to has ever dropped caltrops on the flags, walls or anywhere. When the exploit started we all swore to kick anyone from the guild or our group(which gets all the AP) if they use Caltrops in any way other than how they were intended. I can't speak for any of the Shoddycaste groups that have come in from time to time but they have their own groups and guild and only 1 of the top 10 on the AD even has the ability (I don't).

Ezareth

@NeeScrolls‌

NeeScrolls wrote: »

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

Volendrung clearly needs more caltrop exploiters like Dahter and his PC guild.

--- I'm not the biggest fan of 'PC' anymore either (since i figured out what they were really up to and subsequently broke their false pretensed "deal" ) but umm fyi: everyone from all 3 factions exploited that caltrops *bug* . Everyone.

Not to mention the fact that i seem to recall ole Murder Thumbs taking plenty advantage of the emperor/vampire/unlimited-ultimates bug/exploit quite a few times. Sure, he's good regardless and much respect to both of you tbh...But seriously, MT is so good enough to wipe 40-player groups over & over...all by himself?!

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

AD continually held the campaign through superior group skill and tactics despite fielding 1/3 the numbers.

-- lol come on now Ezareth, you know that's far from the truth. You, MT, & some of your crew are indeed very skilled yes. But i've been fighting on Volendrung since Week 1 and aside from a few scrappy days here & there, EP has had the LEAST amount of consistant 'numbers' by a mile. Particularly Vets.

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

Dahter only wants more DC/AD to come here so someone will actually trade emperor with them which is the only reason they're here.

-- That much is true, unfortunately. But they did help me (mostly because they had to since i was #1; and not quite as much as they think they did) achieve Emperor. So, while i def. enjoy trolling them sometimes, is it really their fault...or is it ESO Dev design fault?

Everyone with even a modicum of skill on EP and DC has already left the campaign .

--- ?? Really? I seem to recall killing at least 10 AD vets tonite while defending the remnants of our couple Keeps (after PC left) by myself and i'm still only a Level 45 "weakling Sorcerer" lol.

The truth is: our EP side has had numerous quality players (even after May Queen & her crew abandoned our server) ...and PC is in fact especially smart & tactically skilled, even if their smothering 'plan' has now all but alienated the rest of the server toward them & their arrogance. It's too bad really, cuz imo if EP had PC from the start (working together, you know, as a PACT lol what a concept! ) our side + DC's numbers + You guys at AD could have = an extraordinarily *consistant* competitive Campaign. You know, how the Devs intended it to be.

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

. We'll always choose quality over quantity.

-- You guys do seem to work well together, with MT as your 'leader' and of course You Ezareth as the 'right hand man' . I look forward to fighting you both someday when i'm actually Vet12 .

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

...and if you ever happen to see a Sorc wearing antlers puking on your corpse, rest assured he's saying: "Welcome to Volendrung!"

--- ahh so THAT's what you meant by doing 'push-ups' on my white-werewolf corpse Day 5 of my emperorship after that epic 3 hour 'Chalamo' battle. ... /bow, Nee



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I've said my piece on Caltrops above. We've never used them. In fact if ESO hadn't fixed Caltrops within the next week a good half of our guild was ready to let their subscriptions lapse.

On Murder Thumbs. Really? He was a vampire for ONE day and he didn't use it in PVP. He's never exploited any bugs, people just had no idea how to fight a good DK emperor and they continually fed him time and time again. Zuits, Rosalyn, and a couple other people used to 4 Man Thumbs back before they nerfed AOE. It wasn't impossible but when fighting Murder your zerg mentality worked against you. The only reason he never ran out of Ultimate fighting those zergs is because it took him something like 3 kills to be able to use his ult again as emperor. When you have 20 people who charge into a DK Emperor banner, 3 kills is an easy thing.

We fought 90 Blue (One of the DC was messaging our guys bragging about it) and 30 Red yesterday and our group NEVER hit 20. We had 16 or less most of the night and that's pretty much all we had. We got 12 more AD reinforcements later on from off campaign but all but 2 left when the blue zerg left. I've been online and defending every time Murder has lost emperor and it has always happened, especially recently with 3/1+ odds. The last 2 times Murder lost Emp there were a total of 3 AD on including myself.

True, EP lost most of their people after DC rolled the map and held every resource for a week. However, don't forget we GAVE May Queen emperor and let you guys keep your scrolls and starting keeps to try and bolster the EP numbers. It was unfortunate that she like so many others left the campaign once they got emperor.

I hear you on the GC guild. You should have seen all the trash they talked, constantly messaging the top guys on our side and at the end of the day even with Caltrops they got rolled. It is really a shame when you start killing V12s and they only give you 15 AP. There are a few people in that guild who seem nice but any respect they may have earned was lost with their continual use of caltrops in any and ever way possible.

Last night we lost players to V5 guards. We had to retake those last 4 Heritage keeps with no healer on and 6-8 people. You don't need to do anything but sit there to get kills under those circumstances. I'll give you credit for defending as long as you did but the reality is you're not even a Veteran yet and if you have any skill it is eclipsed by the weakness of your character. The only person that sticks out at all on EP to us right now is Felicity and that is just because she's a patient little troll with a two-hander ( =

There are one or two people on the DC side who would have earned my respect but one of them was such a prolific caltrop exploiter I'll forever regard her as garbage and the other is a duplicitous piece of trash.

Ezareth

@NeeScrolls‌

I will give you credit though man, I've never seen you use caltrops and I apologize if I'm a bit condescending. There have been so many exploiters, trash-talkers, and two-faced backstabbers on EP and DC that it is pretty easy to lump everyone together and forget that there are still some good people on both sides out there.

Feel free to message me in game any time if you have an issue or question for me or us.

NeeScrolls

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

@NeeScrolls‌

I will give you credit though man, I've never seen you use caltrops and I apologize if I'm a bit condescending. There have been so many exploiters, trash-talkers, and two-faced backstabbers on EP and DC that it is pretty easy to lump everyone together and forget that there are still some good people on both sides out there.

Feel free to message me in game any time if you have an issue or question for me or us.

Cool , thanks. I do/did use 'caltrops' a few times actually, but mainly cuz i'm trying to level it up lol (i only just purchased the skill a few days ago) .

But no worries , i never take/took offense to practically anything when it comes to PVP (heck part of the fun is 'gamesmanship' sometimes anyway) , least of all "condescending" tones. It is a video game after all.

That said, low-level still that i am , i have always observed the manner with which You & MT & crew fight together (and i probably unintentionally presumed that all the OTHER AD's -- exploiters or otherwise -- were just taking orders from you guys. So if that's not the case, then my bad. )

Funny story about MT btw: a few weeks ago, during one of his 'reigns of DK terror' , i was having a bit of fun dumping OIL on him from above inside a Keep (while he dealt with NPC's below and a few EP players too) . And anyways, so many people in my group were frustrated with his steam-rolling us (and *perceived* vamp/ultimate/emp exploit, etc. ) that i started talking trash to him with /say to boost our morale lol.

So, i think i made a few silly jokes about "what he could do with those thumbs" , etc. ... And then , finally, as MT was just about finished clearing the area below , i said "MT you exploiting mofo!" ....and i could swear he paused for a second, looked *up* at me, then did a quick 'chain pull' on me and 3-hit me to death as i lol'd in rl .

Now i'm not even sure if enemy players can even see our /say chat , but i'll never forget that fun & funny PVP moment.

imho, while very challenging, players like You & MT (and even guilds like PC) only serve to enhance PVP in general. It's important in MMO's to have things, even people, to strive toward...and fight against.

I only hope Zenimax and the ESO devs can figure out better ways to improve Cyrodiil for the next 90 day Campaign & beyond.

Time will tell. Either way , i'm sure i'll catch you guys (or be caught ) on the battlefields soon enough. /bow for now, Nee

p.s. nice *battle* tonite at BRK . I really enjoy it when you sneak up and use 'crystal fragments' on me while i'm 'using' fire-batista lol no one covering me. -- Oh also: apparently tons of players, including most of PC's guild, have refused to login until the "NPC mercs are fixed" . /sigh

SwampRaider

I loved spamming eclipse on you @ezareth_ESO‌ Last night was fun

Ezareth

@NeeScrolls‌

You just happened to be in my direct path to the keep on the way back from placing a Forward Camp, no sneaking I rode up on my horse haha. Considering the keep had been surrounded by both a blue and red zerg for an hour and a half, I had to come through somewhere.

Can you still deny we're continually facing 3-1 odds? Last night there were times where it was 4 or 5 to 1. The zergs are smaller on Wabbajack during those hours. In the end too many of us had to go to sleep and we ended up being zerged down. Easily the most AP I've got in a single day, over half the points you have in totality :P~

@SwampRaider‌

Yes eclipse spam I'm sure is fun Eros. Not particularly effective, but fun in a trolly sort of way ( =

demonlkojipub19_ESO

Good, Im heading to Volendrung.

Oh btw im EP.

NeeScrolls

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

You just happened to be in my direct path to the keep on the way back from placing a Forward Camp, no sneaking I rode up on my horse haha. Considering the keep had been surrounded by both a blue and red zerg for an hour and a half, I had to come through somewhere.

Can you still deny we're continually facing 3-1 odds? Last night there were times where it was 4 or 5 to 1.

Never tell me the odds!!

But okay yeah i'll give you that. Lately, you guys have been especially out-numbered. Lately. Except when you call in 'Alacrity' guild for reinforcement lol jk .

As i alluded to before: over the totality of our strangely uneven Volendrung Campaign, i'd say overall it's been DC with the most *numbers* .

AD second in numbers (overall) . And imo first in consistant 'quality' of player (including your Vets) .

And as for us? Well the truth is, we at EP actually COULD have more numbers...but certain guilds/players only login for like a couple hours at a time (once or twice a week) .

Sadly though, with the exception of the night May Queen got her 'emp' and of course the awesomely epic night i earned mine (finally some EP guilds came in to help us) as well as the night i lost it (3+ hour "Chalamo" battle ...sooooo fun that was) EP has consistantly had the fewer numbers.

Of course, when two groups of 24 players wipe from MT a few times in-a-row , it's tough for even me to convince them to stay in Cyrodiil lol .

Anyways, that BRK *battle* last night sure was a good one yep. And it'll def. be interesting to see how the 3 faction dynamic (and "deals" ) will pan out once ESO Devs implement the darn center Imperial City content .

demonlkojipub19_ESO wrote: »

Good, Im heading to Volendrung.

Oh btw im EP.

Excellent! The more the merrier imo. And we need all the help we can get; with only 21 days left in the current Campaign.

Aldjor

So Ep dominates Volendrung, DC dominates Bloodthorn, Ad Dominates Auriel's...

NeeScrolls

Aldjor wrote: »

So Ep dominates Volendrung, DC dominates Bloodthorn, Ad Dominates Auriel's...

?? EP def. does NOT "dominate" Volendrung. I wish we did. Maybe if all the people who abandoned our server at the first sign of any real *challenge* from MT & AD , maybe then we'd dominate now (or at least compete more often...and in greater numbers) .

We have moments...days of dominating...but usually it's because someone made some backhand "deal" somewhere so DC/AD "let" us dominate.

imo , AD = the most dominant on our server. DC = the most numbers aka zerg potential .

And EP = the most resilliant

Ezareth

The chief problem with PVP in this game are all the garbage players who use low pop campaigns like ours to farm Emperor for their PVE title and weak passive bonuses.

This encourages all the garbage that is happening on our server where DC and EP continually trade emperor and work out deals to double team us. It also motivates one side to NOT defend their emperor so the next guy "in line" get's his bonuses/title sooner.

When this game started I actually thought they'd make Emperor actually mean something or be an achievement but the fact of the matter is, they are a dime a dozen and it is rare that I see a "Former Emperor" who is worthy of the title. I have more AP on this campaign than the past 4 non AD Emperors on our server combined and I'm only third on the server. Emperor is something that should actually be earned. No disrespect to you Nee but the reason you got Emperor had more to do with Resilience than anything. All the people who were above you on the campaign quit or left the server.

That all aside they need to make it so that no one side can have more players logged into that side than the other two sides combined with a minimum cap of 20 players. That should help balance the zerg-swarms from off campaign that ruin the campaign for the people who have actual interest in the campaign.

Anazasi

Lets set the record straight. First off, MT has never exploited the Vampire Ultimate bug that existed prior to the patch. I have played since week one with him as a healer and know for absolute certainty that he did not. In fact the vicious rumor that he was a OP DK Vamp and that his "crew" were all vamps was a total exaggeration propagated by bad players who couldn't understand that standing in a DK's banner was a bad idea. The weeks of being shot with silver bolts however provided his entire crew with hours of laughter. Second, The only reason that AD is do widely despised on Volendrung is because we empathically refuse to play the emperor swapping game. Both DC and EP have chosen to grind players en-mass on this campaign for the sole purpose of cheating the design of ESO PVP. Simply stated the farm faction till they are ready for the next guild member to become emp then the factions guest and zerg. Once they get the precious title they drop campaign for the next person. I have personally watched at least 17 emperors walk away with the title and passives only to leave and go somewhere else. AD however has held the same top 5 players for more than 35 days and I have personally watched MT be named Emperor at least 7 times. I know this because I am the next AD emperor and have held the number 2 position for my faction for at least the last 30 days. Now I am frustrated that I will never become Emperor and get the passives that so many want, but frankly I guess that's just the way it is. What upsets me and what should upset the community of players are all those players that farmed a title just to be able to get passives. So all those who want to come to Vulendrung to PVP great glad you are enjoying the game. If you are AD expect the fights to always be 3-1 odds against you, and understand that unless you have 5 million AP points you will never become Emperor. Just come over to PVP and go back to your home campaign.

NeeScrolls

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

When this game started I actually thought they'd make Emperor actually mean something or be an achievement but the fact of the matter is, they are a dime a dozen and it is rare that I see a "Former Emperor" who is worthy of the title.

. Emperor is something that should actually be earned.

No disrespect to you Nee but the reason you got Emperor had more to do with Resilience than anything. All the people who were above you on the campaign quit or left the server.

I hear ya about the whole 'manipulation-trade-off-dealing-for-paper-Emperors-who-leave' thing. It's a joke but again: blame the exploit prone Players or blame Zenimax for poor design? or both?

Anyways, no disrespect felt, cuz i definitely *earned* my Emperor. Yes through 'resilliance'. Yes with 'help' from other guilds. But also through: solo killing unsuspecting enemies, siege weapon accuracy, well-timed oils, rallying groups against odds, dealing w/ some EP players whining & quiting all the time, avoiding deaths from being stupid and therefore losing valuable travel-time, etc. etc. etc.

Plus: TACTICS (remember i went from level 20'ish to level 38 before i became Emp . To gain as many AP's as i did , at such a low level, took a crap ton of EFFORT on my part. Not to mention all the hate-whispers i got lol "why are you only level _____ ?! you noob! you sploiter!! " , etc. etc. ) .

I used Cyrodiil PVP to learn my Class , since imo there's no better way to get good (or decent) at your skills than by PVP'ing.

And i still have so much more to learn (and steal from quality Sorcs like YOU Ezareth )

Anyways, i know i'm not nearly as good as some of you "hardcore" PVP types, but the Leaderboard doesn't lie completely. And as of today, i'm still # 1 for EP Emp again and #6 overall for Sorcerors... and i'm doing it the ole fashioned way (slow & steady) .

If that makes my 'Former Emperor' title "less-than" in the eyes of others, well so be it. But it sure does mean a lot to me, as well as quite of few of my fellow HOME Campaign EP'ers who have been fighting along side me from the first week on Volendrung. And that's all that really matters in the end.

Heck if it weren't for the whole 'PC situation' , i probably would have been elected Emperor again (with Shesha as empress ) and actually been able to LEAD our side for the rest of the Campaign as the Devs intended.