My top 3 liked zones:

1. The Rift
   • It has one of the werewolf shrines and it's the zone where Hunter's Glade is located. Plus, the autumn look is great and the zone's music is good.
2. Bangkorai
   • I love the spooky aesthetic of this zone, and there are plenty of werewolves here, too. I just wish I could've sided with the werewolves in that zone's story.
3. Malabal Tor
   • I used to visit Crimson Cove in this zone a lot, so I have fond memories of it. Plus, it's another zone with lots of werewolves in it, and once again I wish I could've sided with the werewolves in this zone's story, too. The Salvation set from this zone could use a rework, though.

My top 3 disliked zones:

1. Bleakrock Isle
   • There's hardly any reason to return here. It's small and there's not much to do. Once we get Solstheim as a zone, the "cold island" aesthetic would no longer be unique to this place.
2. Southern Elsweyr
   • It's very easy to get lost in this zone, especially when hunting dragons. Once I finished the daily quest grind for this zone, I went back to Northern Elsweyr to hunt dragons instead of trying to hunt them here.
3. Shadowfen
   • I want to like this zone, but Murkmire does the swamp aesthetic way better. Murkmire has better music too. I don't see a reason to return to Shadowfen when there are better alternatives.

Mine are:

Faves

Summerset
Wrothgar
West Weald

All have great aesthetics, good original quest lines, and show the best of ESO.


Worst?

Murkmire
Shadowfen
Deadlands

I hate the swampy stuff. Depressing AF! And Deadlands just isn’t my vibe. I was tempted to put Solstice on this list, just because so far this year’s “Season Pass” has been a rip-off. Or Blackwood, the worst of the Chapters.

Faves (enjoy spending time there)
Auridon - the gold standard for a beautiful classic medieval fantasy zone. The look, music, quests, all of it.
Grahtwood - Giant Trees!
High Isle - A professed return to classic medieval fantasy zones that didn't last long.

Least faves (one and done, spending as little time there as necessary)
Apocraphobia (lol). I hate anything to do with Hermaeus Mora.
Clockwork City. Steampunk. . . no thanks.
The Deadlands. Another ugly realm of oblivion. Ugh.

Favorites:

Auridon
Summerset
The Rift

Least favorite:

Clockwork City
Coldharbour
Deadlands

Top 3 most favorite:
- Wrothgar
- Hew's Bane
- Northern Elsweyr
Honorable mention: Murkmire

Top 3 least favorite:
- Malabal Tor
- Coldharbour
- Bleakrock Isle
Dishonorable Mention: Southern Elsweyr

Wrothgar, Murkmire and Bleakrock isle are my favourite ones I'd say, having strong identity. Second part of EP zones like the Rift and Eastmarch are really enjoyable.

From the worst ones take any random one since after Elsweyr release, maybe with the exception of Necrom as it's mostly a reuse of good assets.

Zones I really like the aesthetic

Hew's Bane
Summerset
West Weald
Blackwood
Anywhere there's snow except Wrothgar

Zones I'm not a big fan of

Apocrypha
Southern Elsweyr
Shadowfen

Favorites:
Summerset - loved the design & stories
Clockwork City - LOVE the zone music and interesting environment
Vvardenfell - I love the lore & stories for the dark elves
Blackreach Caverns - reminds me of the Forgotten Vale in Skyrim which I loved
Western Skyrim - because Skyrim
Northern Elsweyr - Dragons!

Least Favorites:
Cold Harbor - I hate trying to navigate this place, ugh
Craglorn - just not a very visually exciting zone
Apocrypha - I feel like Skyrim did a much better job portraying Hermas Mora as scary, whereas in ESO I felt nothing when confronted by anything that’s associated with him, it was such a let down

Not to be over-looked:
Wrothgar is well done story & zone-wize
Blackwood the zone story final battle was pretty great

Surprised to see Deadlands getting ragged on. It was one of my favorite zones, and is my favorite small dlc. It had a superb story and characters. Rynkus was so great, as was Arox. Great quests, great cataclysmic zone. Great fitting mysic.

So i'd rank my top 3 being:

Deadlands
Apocrypha
Wrothgar

Honorable mention goes to the North and South Elsewyr zones. I also really liked Solstice...right now that story is only half complete. Big fan that it jusitified my Meridian Altmer through its dialogue and the Corelanyas.

My least favorite zones

Reaper's March(no matter how many times I do it I can't seem to get into it).
Eastmarch(I like Windhelm but the zone story if boring)
The Rift(love the aesthetics but again, really boring story).

Dishonorable mentions:
Gold Coast because I never do DB. Its a murder cult that worships a god of death. I find it very disturbing that the questline makes the DB look like the good guys while the Order of the Hour the bad guys. Should be exactly the opposite.

Cyrodiil

My favorite zones are the ones that are easy to navigate letting me get in and out fast with NO delays.

Least favorite are ALL zones that are a PITA to navigate making me waste precious time trying to complete simple tasks.

1. Northern Elsweyr
2. Summerset
3. Wrothgar

-1. Deadlands
-2. Apocrypha
-3. Shadowfen

Love the feel of Northern Elsweyr.
Summerset is beautiful, together with Auridon.
Wrothgar has that genuin Skyrim feel.
Never liked any of the Oblivion realms. Not here, and not in the original games.
Shadowfen is just a drag to ride through.

Hm, these are fascinating lists. Almost glad that the server is down, because otherwise I wouldn't have seen them. Nice.

Heck, I'll join in.

Favorite 3 Zones (no particular order):
1. Glenumbra - I love the way it looks, I love the writing, and I adore the structure of the zone. It predates level-scaling and the expansion zones, so it's pretty linear... but that lends to some great storytelling as things just get worse and worse as you go north. 10/10. In the process of doing it again on my Templar alt.
2. Bangkorai - Again, just *chef's kiss*. I love the way it looks, I love the writing, and the flow of the zone perfectly matches the story. Evermore is such a doomed city, and then you save it... only to find that everything outside the walls isn't any better. It's such a journey. :-D
3. Necrom - This zone totally floored me. Great writing, clever quests, stunning vistas, etc.. I found myself lamenting that Telvanni Peninsula wasn't a full-fledged zone (It's about 40% of a zone, like Blackreach in Western Skyrim), but that was only because I had such a wonderful time that I wanted MORE. Still love it. I think it's a stunning accomplishment.

Least Favorite 3 Zones (no particular order):
1. West Weald - The main quest is anemic and a brutally disappointing end to the plot from Necrom. The zone is shrouded in pea-soup fog that obscures almost all vistas. We waited years to finally see Colovian culture... and this expansion could not care less about them. Instead, we get poorly written wood-elves and tortured committee-informed writing (the Bosmer invasion is bad, but not really because immigration is wonderful, but they're plotting to kill everyone, but diversity is our strength. We're going to invoke the "right of return," which is questionable in of itself, but what if the faction invoking it consists of magical terrorists? Oh, even worse? Cool. Let's paint the humans as evil colonizers... for overthrowing their demon-worshipping, slave-mongering, necromancy loving Elven grapists? Awesome. Let's harp on the idea that the Bosmer migrated to a sparsely populated region, so killing and terraforming it wasn't "that bad," except the first quest in the terra-formed region takes place in an IMPERIAL CITY full of corpses and half-dead survivors. Most foul-fishing holes are in jungle bogs, which have become foul because the bosmer have been dumping oodles of corpses into them. You know, sparesly populated. Now, anyway.). This zone was the lowest point for me in 10 years of playing. When I beat it, I literally wondered if I should cancel my account.
2. High Isle - I love the zone and the sidequests. I regularly just wander around it for fun and nostalgia. But man... the main quest was insufferable, had some of the worst dialogue and writing that I have ever experienced, and involved so much pointless running back and forth that I laughed in incredulity. It left me genuinely worried for the future, and then Necrom came out in 2023 and course-corrected with one of the best main quests in the entire game.
3. I don't really have a third. Technically, I barely have a second. Again, I love everything about High Isle... except the main quest. Bleh.

Honorable Mention:
1. Solstice - What a spectacular zone. My hopes after West Weald were exceedingly low, but Solstice is great. Stunning vistas, clever re-uses of in-game architecture, snappy writing, minimal agenda, meaningful political nuance (it notes the brutal conquests of the Ra-Gada, but throws them a bone in that they were fighting necromancer elves, but throws wrinkles in that by indicating that the elves delved deep into cursed magic out of sheer desperation to not be ethnically cleansed, but questions that with hints that they weren't particularly squeaky clean with the people they themselves conquered in the first place, and so on), and a genuinely well-crafted main quest. When my only complaint is that tricksy crab boss being a tad glitchy, I can't complain. I hope Solstice is a sign of things to come.

Edit addition: for added emphasis, I've collected the skyshards in West Weald on almost all my alts. Partway through my second alt's skyshard gathering, I realized that I couldn't endure most of the writing anymore. So I muted the game, turned off subtitles, and clicked fast through every dialogue tree so that I couldn't read them. Then the experience felt palatable. I've been playing games since 1989 and I've never felt the need to do that before, ever. I am clearly not the intended audience for that zone.

Favorites:
1. Summerset. Will always be my favorite zone. I do my dailies here usually and if I just want to pass time and harvest, I come here.
2. High Isle/Galen. Hard to decide between the beautiful Systres zones. Both have so many great locales - Galen has Glimmertarn, High Isle has the big waterfalls and sunflower fields. High Isle takes the cake barely because it just has more of it.
3. Wrothgar. Rugged beauty at its finest, especially up in the NW. Like the other two zones, it's a zone I will visit to relax and explore.

Honorable mention: Auridon. I love it for the same reasons I love Summerset.

Not-Favorites:
1. Coldharbour. It's hard to navigate and it's hard on the eyes. The quests too - not very fun. Especially the one with the wood elves.
2. Apocrypha. It's a green Coldharbour. The assets are objectively well done. The zone itself is well done, I just don't like the theme.
3. Shadowfen. Swampy areas are rarely enjoyable, but this is the worst of the swamp zones. I think it'll be a little better now that we can mount in water, but only slightly.

Dishonorable mention: Reaper's March. So many of the AD zones are a bit challenging to navigate, but this takes the cake. It's just so arid looking, on top of having the middle of the zone inaccessible.

Oeh its hard to just make a top 3 for my favorieten since I live many zones for diffrent reasons.
My top now would be:
-Summerset: even tho I generallt dobt like high elves due to the snooty elf trope, I really really enjoyed the side and main story's. A lit of the myrder mysteri3s reminder me of vritisch murder mystery shows I liked to watch, where there is this cozy idillic surrounding but then also a lot of murders. Great humor. Plus the island looks stunning and it also gave me some new apreciotion for the high elves.
-necrom (both the telvanni part and apocryphia): desing wise Mora's realm is right up my ally, the weirdness the colours its my second favorite deadric realm after that of Nocturnal. The story of the zo es also gave me a bit of hope back in the writing. Again liked the writing with the humor, loved the characters. And yes even tho I hear a lot of people loath it that they made Mora more approachable I liked tgat, actually gave him more dimension for me. Maybe since I knew already a lot of his scary side, which actually made his soft side give me more of the jitters since I didnt know if he was really trustworthy and more nice and aproachable or he was only doing that to lure me in for the time he needs me and can drop me when he's done. In my headcabon he's the one that eventually will remove my character out of excistence once in real life te eso servers close down (but hopefully that wont be any time soon haha!). So him being somewhat nice actually gives my character more doubt in themselfes and the pereception on the deadric princes. Even being tempted to follow Mora.
-North and South elsweyr. Great zone design, beautifull landscapes. Great story, lovelly lore. Lots of fun characters. Also loved the dragon dailys.

But yeah hard to state this as my only top 3, since I also lived Glenumbra, Rivenspire, Murkmire, W. Skyrim and the Reach a lot.

Least favorite 2 are:
-West weald. Do have to confess I was never really interested in the Imperials (for me they feel like the boring version of Bretons) so I'm biased (all tho I did enjoy Blackwood). Only 2/3 side quest were memorabele for me (the one with the khajit in boots, the rivenspire vampire and the mage guy who probably will become a necromancer, and maybe the quest with the thieves that were being culled by the dude that wanted revenge on them). The main story was dreadfull to go thru, at every moment I hoped I coukd sacrifice Beragon. His tone of voice soubded like I was a 3 year old and it was so annoying. As many noyed the story was also badly written with no room to theory craft yourself becuase the simplest of things were spelled out and repeated a hundred times. Besides that Ithalia was bot fleshed out enough to make her interesting. I understand its difficult to do (the other princes have so much more lore which I was already aware of before eso), since there was such a short time they had to build her in the story and let the story progress. Now it felt rushed and before I could even care she was gone again. The woodelevs also did not get much more enriched in their lore for me. In short west weald is my absoluut leest favorite zone, had to drag myself thru it.
-gold coast. Probably the same bias as with west weald, Imperials dont interest me and also the darkbrotherhood is not for me. Love sythis lore tho so that makes.

Dont really have a 3rd leats favorite.