That was utter chaos and absolute fun!

Tornaad

I just picked the best 40 minutes ever to log into play PVP in ESO. I logged in and realized that a blue group pushed all the way to get one of the Elder Scrolls from the temple of Altadoon. I ran over and helped retake castle Black Boot which was easy. By this time the blue group running with the scroll was leaving Castle Faregyl, so I ran up there to help retake that. As I got to the keep, the outer walls still had a massive gap in them that let the group that was all running in to retake the keep. As we were about half done taking down the inner door, a call came out saying that the blue group was coming back. A quick look at my map, and I realized that they were bringing the Elder Scroll with them. I maintain my position in the battering ram as the blue group likely numbering somewhere around 40 people comes pouring through the walls. From there, we took down the door and I and several others started focusing down the guards in the keep, while the blue group run in right behind us. I managed to stay alive by quickly hiding off to the side and then resumed my work on the flags. I had no idea if we could actually retake the keep or not with the blue group running around inside, but sure enough, I started to see that happy little bar start to progress. From there, while an army still at least 20 to 30 strong of blue is running around inside of the keep, a group of people start repairing the doors and everyone starts to place siege weapons as we chased the blue group around the keep resurrecting everyone as needed. When we finally got the whole blue group wiped out, I half expected more to come back out, while the other half felt a little confused.

I am still new to PVP. The build I am running is a slightly modified heavy attack 1 bar sorcerer, that I moved all my points from magic to stamina in hopes that I will not pop the moment an enemy player looks at me wrong, which I might add served its purpose. Right now, I am just trying to level up my pvp ranks and collect gear. Thanks to the 100,000 AP we got today, and the stuff I have done before, I just got to Captain Rank 2. I have no idea what that means, if it means anything at all, but that was a lot of fun. I look forward to more insane battles in the future.

Tornaad

ps, thank you to this wonderful map
https://gamemap.uesp.net/eso/?world=ava_whole&x=0.503&y=0.713&zoom=2.969
and this wonderful guide
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Siege_Weapons
to remind me of what the names of the various places and items were.

Tornaad

What are some your favorite pvp moments?

soelslaev

Too many to list. This is the life of the game to me.

I'll give my first solid memory.

This was back around the Morrowind release. I must have been red. I did not realize what was at stake. It must have been during Whitestrake event. I was casually doing quests in Cheydinhal. I was at the women giving out quests not the dude. I was talking to her. Out of nowhere, I am killed in 2 hits in less than 2 seconds. A skeleton polymorphed PC blends back into the shadows while walking backwards away from my dead body. It was so shocking. I was hooked after that.

Nowadays we know that person as just a ranking jerk who was picking on new players, but still. That horrible encounter is what sold this kind of gameplay to me.

geonsocal

@Tornaad , great story, thanks for sharing 😊

I started playing eso July 2015...it wasn't until about 2 months after starting the game that I tried the cyrodiil zone...

I still remember riding my mount with a bunch of other allies from Aleswell to Ash to go siege/fight...

it was such an incredibly exhilarating experience...

I was literally up all might that first night I played pvp...

I'm an old guy, but I remember the following morning smelling like some dang sweaty teenager - it was great 🙃