Most Enjoyable Alliance areas?

Kronosphere

Ebonheart pact, Daggerfall Covenant or Aldmeri Dominion? which was your favourite based on storyline, scenery/maps, and quests?

Personally for me Ebonheart pact was the best, especially the start stonefalls is still my favourite looking and feeling zone and the quests are great. Aldmeri dominion ive just started but so far feels really awesome and fun quests, great scenery, this will likely be 2nd place for me. i personally found Daggerfall to be mega dull, boring and tedious quests as well as nearly every zone felt generic and the same.

what was your favourite?

nerevarine1138

Aldmeri Dominion

The Dominion narrowly beats out the Covenant here, but it was a close call.

I can't fathom anyone finding the Pact story compelling. They picked a drunken idiot for their leader, and they all hate each other anyway.

reggielee

might have been better to split the poll up betw best looking, best storyline, best ease of leveling. some areas are just pitas to level in with the amount of to-ing and fro-ing and distances betw stables/bank/craft etc.

as far as best looking, I like EP, the art work is lovely there. I cant claim best storyline as i have only done DC to the end.

Kronosphere

Ebonheart Pact

true, the skyrim areas wasnt too great but i think for me the 1st 2 zones were that cool and enjoyable that the other 3 (which were less fun but still unique) didnt matter to me =P. but im a bit of a morrowind fanboy so.. theres that lol

Sabin1269

Daggerfall Covenant

I enjoyed EP, didnt have any bugged quest there but I liked the beg gaining story of DC the best. I have a toon with each faction and really enjoy the story of AD but hate the way the second and third zones are designed. The third is so confusing to navigate on top of the quest markers being broken makes for a very long and trying time getting quest done.

Auralia

Aldmeri Dominion

I enjoyed AD the most, EP is ok a bit disjointed in the storyline. I played DC to 18 with an alt and found it rather dull.

Firestar_

Aldmeri Dominion

EP is awesome lore-wise. This fangirl loves running around Skyrim and Morrowind and Blackmarsh. But it also has some of the stupidest town layouts with most of the wayshrines sitting outside the city. -_-

AD has some of the best scenery in the game. I'm not a fan of being a queen's lackey as it really stretches the suspension of disbelief for me, but she's a really awesome character. So much better than EP's leader at any rate. And so far, the starting area has the best crafting layout in the game I've found, not to mention not as RIDICULOUSLY NOISY Shadowfen is.

Quest-wise, Daggerfall was the best at least in the lower 20s. Becoming a pirate is the most believable turn of events out of the three faction to me.

All my mains are on EP. The idea my friends formed was, "the later levels will be harder so we should start in the area we like the least." Meh. Oh, how wrong that was. At least until someone hits VR12 at any rate

BBSooner

Ebonheart Pact

With the exception of shadow fen I enjoyed allof EPs zones, only slightly more than the DC zones. Which is a shame, since my main is AD and I really only enjoyed auridon and grahtwood.

Kronosphere

Ebonheart Pact

yeah as dull as i found daggerfall shadowfen is just... shadowfen. but its a weird thing. i have no desire to ever go back. and by the end of trying to get all the quest acheivements i hated it. yet when i think back i kinda like the place? it makes no sense lol

Falmer

Aldmeri Dominion

I enjoyed the Dominion and Pact areas a great deal with the Dominion just slightly better. While I have enjoyed the Covenant areas up until recently. Once I hit Alikir it was kind of like hitting a wall. The current story quests just seem to be going nowhere and a bit dull. In all other areas you seemed like you were at least part of something... now in Alakir you are the ONLY one doing anything. The rest of the country seems content to just sit back and do nothing about their situation. Not sure why, but I have a problem helping people that don't want to help themselves.

ebondeath

Daggerfall Covenant

I love and adore the DC zones and characters. Sometimes with all the zombies I felt like I was playing Elder Scrolls: Left For Dead, but then I got flaming purple swords (Expert/Evil Hunter) and blowing up zombies became awesome. The quests I enjoyed the most overall, and Darien just made it even more awesome.

I liked the EP quests for the most part, though I was pretty meh about Shadowfen and Deshaan. I liked Stonefalls with its volcano and was super excited to get to Skyrim. Loved Eastmarch and The Rift and how familiar it all felt. The Nords are probably my second favorite culture after the Bretons (except the watered down Nord accents are driving me crazy in this game. They sound like a weak imitation of their Skyrim selves). I was surprised after meeting the king in the main questline. As a DC member, when I tried to convince him to come to Stirk he was all gruff and hostile, and then I did the EP quests and he was honestly kind of....wishy washy. I was disappointed.

Aldmeri Dominion. Ugh. I really did not like any of their questlines except for Reaper's March with the khajiit twins. I can't stand the elves in the Elder Scrolls series for some reason. Raz was about the only thing keeping me invested in that alliance and it almost ruined VR questing for me. At first I thought it was the difficulty, but no. It was my deep dislike for the insufferable Altmer and the crazy Bosmer (Ayrenn and Gwendis being the only exceptions). And elves aside, I didn't even enjoy the scenery because there were high cliffs everywhere that I couldn't get over or around without having to travel half the zone away to find a path. I will probably never roll an AD alt, or if I do it will be a khajiit.

Soloeus

Ebonheart Pact

EP was great. I hated Shadowfen, which was a drudge.

DC lands, I hated Bangkorai and Alik'r because they were a big ugly drudge.

AD lands has some nice areas but I guess no migratory trees...

demonlkojipub19_ESO

Hard to chose. All of them had their good points and their bad points. I really liked most of the conversations I had with the DC king, EP had some really humorous quests and argonian names, and I think wood elves in their natural habitat are just weirdos.

What I didn't like about any of the areas is that the opposing alliances always seem to have the men to spare to invade enemies lands, but when you go through their quests they are all backed in a corner. whats up with that? And then they all have [Alliance name here] Necromancers. Doesn't seem right at all. I don't think alliance leaders would allow necromancy in their ranks, period.

Gothic

Aldmeri Dominion

I really enjoyed the Aldmeri Dominion. My character's backstory was that he was an Argonian who escaped enslavement by a rebel Dunmer house (who still used slaves). I went to the Altmer to hone my sorcery abilities so I could come back and take vengeance on the Dunmer slavers.

I really enjoyed becoming a trusted envoy for Queen Ayrenn, and I absolutely loved Razum-Dar. He was my first friend in the Aldmeri Dominion, and I became as loyal to the queen as he.

The downside of playing AD, is that you need to like forests. A lot of forests. Aside from Khenarthi's Roost, you're going to be in trees a lot. At least until Reaper's March.

The AD stories were great if you stopped to listen, and I also enjoyed helping the Bosmer and the Khajiit find their new spiritual leaders.

Now that wacky Cadwell has me helping out in the Ebonheart Pact... but I'm just pretending it's a "triumphant return" to my homeland, where I can liberate other Argoninans from slavery... and I'm really a double agent for Queen Ayrenn, and sometimes that involves killing off Dominion forces.

Gotta work with what ya got!

Nox_Aeterna

Aldmeri Dominion

I quite prefer AD to the others, while i also found DC fun.

EP is ... boring.

rgjutroub17_ESO

Aldmeri Dominion

AD was by far the best, with EP being the worst. They really nailed every zone in AD.

Kikazaru

Aldmeri Dominion

The AD questline as a whole is vastly superior to the other two factions, imo. Greenshade and Reaper's March has the most compelling storylines.

The EP questline is the worst of the three. However, I have to give them credit, Stonefalls and Shadowfen storylines is actually decent.

The DC is much better than EP, but not better than AD. Riverspire is a great contender to be my all time favorite zone, against Reaper's March and Greenshade. The quest in this zone is really amazing.

Scarletblaze

Aldmeri Dominion

AD is so much better than other factions! It's beautiful scenery, helpful players, and hardly ANY gold farmers/mail spammers.
I initially started in the EP faction; once I reached VR5, however, I realized that i was too unhappy of being part of the pact. Too many bullies/chat trolls/botters/etc. dominate that faction.
Now, I am a happy VR 3 in AD---very fun experience!

murklor007neb18_ESO

Daggerfall Covenant

Aldmeri was nice and is my main alliance, however I found Daggerfall to have more memorable quests and characters overall. Aldmeri has a funny khajiit and that's about it. For Ebonheart, Skyrim parts was a disappointment but the dark elf areas was at least interesting.

Lord_Draevan

Ebonheart Pact

I prefer the Ebonheart Pact because it's story is almost entirely about fighting the Covenant and Dominion, unlike the DC and AD ones which are 99% about internal conflict or fighting the Imperials. Plus it's made up of my favorite races in TES.

Least favorite had to be the AD... that College of Aldmeri Propriety in Auridon soured the entire experience for me. Teachers telling the students "Once you accept the Khajiit and Bosmer are worthless races, then the Dominion can use you!" Poor sods.
Plus the Dominion was too scared to face the Pact in battle so they tried to kill all the Argonians in their eggs at the hatching pools. Infanticidal cowards.

Azzuria

Aldmeri Dominion

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

The Dominion narrowly beats out the Covenant here, but it was a close call.

I can't fathom anyone finding the Pact story compelling. They picked a drunken idiot for their leader, and they all hate each other anyway.

As opposed to the Dominion who are made up of : Wildly racist, elitist prigs who hate their queen for not sufficiently hating other races, a race of elves more concerned with their tree-worshiping and killing anyone who has a salad and finally, a race of thieving cats who've been at war, off and on, with the salad-defending treehugging elves for generations.

And you thing the Pact has issues?

KariTR

Whatever else you can say about them, Vet levels are a great, unadulterated way to play out faction story lines. I am VR8 in the Covenant so I am kind of leaning to DC's being my favourite. However, as I have only played AD 1-50, not at Vet levels, and I haven't quite finished DC yet, I dont really feel it would be fair to vote at this time.

Currently though, I am thinking from best to not best:

DC
AD
EP

ETA: And you didn't mention Coldharbour. That was an awesome experience, love that map.

Lord_Draevan

Ebonheart Pact

Azzuria wrote: »

As opposed to the Dominion who are made up of : Wildly racist, elitist prigs who hate their queen for not sufficiently hating other races, a race of elves more concerned with their tree-worshiping and killing anyone who has a salad and finally, a race of thieving cats who've been at war, off and on, with the salad-defending treehugging elves for generations.

And you thing the Pact has issues?

I find it great that of the 3 alliances the Pact, supposedly the most "divided" of the 3, is the one who has the least internal conflict in their main questline. Their questline is almost entirely about defending their lands from invaders: Covenant in Bleakrock, Bal Foyen and Stonefalls, Dominion in Shadowfen, and Reachmen/Worm Cult in the Rift. And the entire time they work together quite well and set aside their differences for the greater good of the Pact.

In contrast the Dominion appears to be the most divided alliance, with Veiled Heritance nearly all over the place and Blacksap rebels in Grahtwood.

I have to give a shout-out to the DC though, the shenanigans of Lady Laurent and Stibbons were great fun.

BBSooner

Ebonheart Pact

I dunno, the further I got in to the AD the more 'eye-rolly' I got towards ayrenn, and the further I got in to the EP the more I hoped Naryu would show up. If we ever get the chance to defect my AD main is going to be on the first ship to Windhelm.

BBSooner

Ebonheart Pact

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Azzuria wrote: »

As opposed to the Dominion who are made up of : Wildly racist, elitist prigs who hate their queen for not sufficiently hating other races, a race of elves more concerned with their tree-worshiping and killing anyone who has a salad and finally, a race of thieving cats who've been at war, off and on, with the salad-defending treehugging elves for generations.

And you thing the Pact has issues?

I find it great that of the 3 alliances the Pact, supposedly the most "divided" of the 3, is the one who has the least internal conflict in their main questline. Their questline is almost entirely about defending their lands from invaders: Covenant in Bleakrock, Bal Foyen and Stonefalls, Dominion in Shadowfen, and Reachmen/Worm Cult in the Rift. And the entire time they work together quite well and set aside their differences for the greater good of the Pact.

In contrast the Dominion appears to be the most divided alliance, with Veiled Heritance nearly all over the place and Blacksap rebels in Grahtwood.

I found this great as well, making them the most believable of the 3 unlikely alliances for me. It truly is an alliance of convenience, I felt like the stories displayed that pretty well.

KariTR

BBSooner wrote: »

I dunno, the father I got in to the AD the more 'eye-rolly' I got towards ayrenn, and the father I got in to the EP the more I hoped Naryu would show up. If we ever get the chance to defect my AD main is going to be on the first ship to Windhelm.

Talking of which..., it would have been really cool if after Cadwell has shown us what life would have been like if we had fallen into another dimension, he tells us "Now pick a side".

MonkeyAssassin24

Ebonheart Pact

Morrowind was one of the first games that I ever truly immersed myself in so I have a pretty heavy bias towards anything involving the Dunmer and their home province. I was excited about seeing part of Black Marsh as well but um...Shadowfen is the freaking worst (at least the main story of the area was interesting). The only zone that came close to it in terms of boredom and frustration was Grahtwood (cliffs, cliffs, cliffs, and more cliffs everywhere; every route was the long way to anywhere). Also the two Skyrim holds were so much fun...Nords are ridiculous

DC is such a bore other than the last quest in Bangkorai and I despise the Altmer so I had a bad taste in my mouth as soon as I entered the AD areas. Also when did the Bosmer all of a sudden start talking like they're all Cockney Londoners?

Orchish

Ebonheart Pact

I'm DC, but love EP zones as it brings back good memories of my Morrowind days.

Kaloran

Daggerfall Covenant

ebondeath wrote: »

I love and adore the DC zones and characters. Sometimes with all the zombies I felt like I was playing Elder Scrolls: Left For Dead, but then I got flaming purple swords (Expert/Evil Hunter) and blowing up zombies became awesome. The quests I enjoyed the most overall, and Darien just made it even more awesome.

I liked the EP quests for the most part, though I was pretty meh about Shadowfen and Deshaan. I liked Stonefalls with its volcano and was super excited to get to Skyrim. Loved Eastmarch and The Rift and how familiar it all felt. The Nords are probably my second favorite culture after the Bretons (except the watered down Nord accents are driving me crazy in this game. They sound like a weak imitation of their Skyrim selves). I was surprised after meeting the king in the main questline. As a DC member, when I tried to convince him to come to Stirk he was all gruff and hostile, and then I did the EP quests and he was honestly kind of....wishy washy. I was disappointed.

Aldmeri Dominion. Ugh. I really did not like any of their questlines except for Reaper's March with the khajiit twins. I can't stand the elves in the Elder Scrolls series for some reason. Raz was about the only thing keeping me invested in that alliance and it almost ruined VR questing for me. At first I thought it was the difficulty, but no. It was my deep dislike for the insufferable Altmer and the crazy Bosmer (Ayrenn and Gwendis being the only exceptions). And elves aside, I didn't even enjoy the scenery because there were high cliffs everywhere that I couldn't get over or around without having to travel half the zone away to find a path. I will probably never roll an AD alt, or if I do it will be a khajiit.

All of this. Exactly. Especially the bits about AD.

Stupid cliffs...


I'd also like to add that having Bill Nighy as my king is pretty rad.

Azzuria

Aldmeri Dominion

BBSooner wrote: »

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Azzuria wrote: »

As opposed to the Dominion who are made up of : Wildly racist, elitist prigs who hate their queen for not sufficiently hating other races, a race of elves more concerned with their tree-worshiping and killing anyone who has a salad and finally, a race of thieving cats who've been at war, off and on, with the salad-defending treehugging elves for generations.

And you thing the Pact has issues?

I find it great that of the 3 alliances the Pact, supposedly the most "divided" of the 3, is the one who has the least internal conflict in their main questline. Their questline is almost entirely about defending their lands from invaders: Covenant in Bleakrock, Bal Foyen and Stonefalls, Dominion in Shadowfen, and Reachmen/Worm Cult in the Rift. And the entire time they work together quite well and set aside their differences for the greater good of the Pact.

In contrast the Dominion appears to be the most divided alliance, with Veiled Heritance nearly all over the place and Blacksap rebels in Grahtwood.

I found this great as well, making them the most believable of the 3 unlikely alliances for me. It truly is an alliance of convenience, I felt like the stories displayed that pretty well.

The Pact seems to be the most realistic of all the factions. They -know- they don't like each other and are actively trying to -not- kill each other. No pollyanna, wishful thinking about 'forging' the future. It's purely an alliance of convenience and there's no imagining it's otherwise. The enemy of my enemy and all that.

Lord_Draevan

Ebonheart Pact

Azzuria wrote: »

The Pact seems to be the most realistic of all the factions. They -know- they don't like each other and are actively trying to -not- kill each other. No pollyanna, wishful thinking about 'forging' the future. It's purely an alliance of convenience and there's no imagining it's otherwise. The enemy of my enemy and all that.

It's amusing when you realise the Dunmer are the cause of the hatred. The Dunmer and the Nords hate each other because they've been fighting over Solstheim for generations. The Dunmer and the Argonians hate each other because of the Dunmer enslaving the Argonians for generations. But the Argnonians and the Nords have no problem with each other at all :P