NA - PS4 - EP,DC,AD - The new Chillrend?

Erdmanski

DividendGamer wrote: »

Trying to figure out where a bunch of people I pvp with in a couple different guilds want to move to, Chillrend used to be good, but a couple EP and AD guilds left within the last few weeks. I really miss all the old fights as a DC player we used to have.

Our guilds were one of the first to fight back against the initial red zerg buff server, back when the game first launched there.

Then we flipped it to blue for a while, then had fantastic fights and back and forth pvp for months. I want my pvp back lol

It is sad to see what has happened to Chillrend over the past couple months. My guild was in Chillrend on Day 1 and remember the days when taking a resource was an accomplishment for us. It was always fun not knowing if the map was going to be blue, red or yellow when you logged on for the day.

Unfortunately, the change to the campaign scoring killed Chillrend. Yellow seemed to disappear and it became a red vs blue ordeal, which was still fun for some time. But when players started doing all the nefarious things with the scrolls, a lot of our regular PVPers stopped playing because it wasn't fun anymore and frankly didn't want to be associated with the other DC players, that in our eyes, were cheating.

We recently took our guild over to Thornblade to hopefully replicate what we had in Chillrend. We are still way outnumbered by EP and get rolled over when they are zerging, but we have been able to put up a fight and even crowned an emperor 3 times already this campaign (maybe 4 if we did last night). I would encourage other DC and AD guilds that want to a fun PVP server to come on over to help even the odds.

Our guild just wants to fight and have fun, whether we are crowning an emperor or defending Glademist doesn't matter.

SCOTTI_SNIPE

Yeah right now Thornblade seems like it might be the official move. There's still a lot of guilds not very hype abut joining Scourge for 30 days. Hoping lots more organized ad and dc come. Would love to have strategy again.

Stoney_McGeee

I'll check it out this campaign

DividendGamer

I have been playing fallout until orsinium launches on wednesday, I will talk things over with people and see how they feel about thornblade.

I like pvping as the underdog, since when we can get some close fights once we get over a group or two we can get in some awesome fights.

Erdmanski

SCOTTI_SNIPE wrote: »

Yeah right now Thornblade seems like it might be the official move. There's still a lot of guilds not very hype abut joining Scourge for 30 days. Hoping lots more organized ad and dc come. Would love to have strategy again.

DividendGamer wrote: »

I have been playing fallout until orsinium launches on wednesday, I will talk things over with people and see how they feel about thornblade.

I like pvping as the underdog, since when we can get some close fights once we get over a group or two we can get in some awesome fights.

I definitely see many similarities to old Chillrend in the week we have been in Thornblade. Our late night group has been able to take the map almost every night and hold it until early evening (US time) when EP gets it zerg going and we are significantly outnumbered. AD pretty much has 1 group that can really only push when DC and EP are occupied with each other.

It would be nice to get some more AD in the campaign to give them more presence. DC could use more numbers to be able to fight the EP zerg and EP could use some late night players to challenge DC at night. I'd also imagine we will see some EP leave at the end of the campaign (let's face it, there are players that don't like a challenge in PVP and only want to be on a buff server), so that should make some room for you and your crew Scotti.

BigDSoulReaper

my guild was in this campaign last night. the campaign is a joke. the green alliance is strong here. when blues help wipe red inside a yellow keep then just sit there with yellow without attacking eachother for ten minutes, face to face mind you. its a joke. maybe one day this games pvp will be worth something, but as it stands now, its garbage. another problem i see is that all the guilds from chillrend spread out on 3 different servers. need to come up with just one server. other wise its just 3 small population servers which is terrible. so put all your heads together and pick a server, preferribly a keep campaign, so those worthless scroll cheaters cant effect the campaign scoring.

Scrippie10

FireCowCommando wrote: »

My v16 Templar will be complete by Monday, to fight for the Daggerfall!

Soon my EP brethren shall fall!

Lol Apop - Doc, Aussie, and a few other of us are re-rolling on DC. We'll be able to gank EP soon! hahaha

Scrippie10

Obviously there are AD and EP players here that are looking for a competitive PVP campaign, I re-read some of the comments on this page and I think I only saw one DC comment..

The move here is obvious, 2/3 factions are searching for a challenge, why don't we simply bring the PVP to the one faction that is not commenting much on this idea?

In other words, why doesn't AD and EP GO to Skull of corruption? Rather than having a two way fight in Haderus or Scourge why don't we just crash DC's buff campaign? I'm not sure if that's a scroll campaign or if it's a resource and tbh I don't care. I don't care to win the campaign, or care much for the rewards, I usually get crap from them anyways. I don't know about you guys but what I'm interested in is competitive PVP without the lag fest. I'm talking about 3 way fights.


**DISCLAIMER** I am NOT suggesting that AD and EP double team DC by any means. Each faction can take 1/3 of the map that way not just one faction is dominating, we can wait a few hours, maybe a few days and hope that word gets out and more people join SOC.

I think this is the easiest and smartest route for all of us.

Our guild, Pullout Pros will remain in Haderus for a bit until we get what we need from Orsinium. If we see that no one from the opposing factions join Haderus then we will have to migrate to a different campaign in the following weeks.

This suggestion is just food for thought. Rally em' up boys.

What do you guys think?

Humphie

Scrippie10 wrote: »

FireCowCommando wrote: »

My v16 Templar will be complete by Monday, to fight for the Daggerfall!

Soon my EP brethren shall fall!

Lol Apop - Doc, Aussie, and a few other of us are re-rolling on DC. We'll be able to gank EP soon! hahaha

Traitor!

SCOTTI_SNIPE

Humphie wrote: »

Scrippie10 wrote: »

FireCowCommando wrote: »

My v16 Templar will be complete by Monday, to fight for the Daggerfall!

Soon my EP brethren shall fall!

Lol Apop - Doc, Aussie, and a few other of us are re-rolling on DC. We'll be able to gank EP soon! hahaha

Traitor!

I get to kill you guys as blueberries...? Sweet!

Stoney_McGeee

I thought skull of corruption was getting closed ?

Scrippie10

Stoney_McGeee wrote: »

I thought skull of corruption was getting closed ?

Oh word? I thought it was moon cursed blade, but you may be right. I guess that means DC will have to look for a new buff campaign? Regardless EP and AD should crash their party

SCOTTI_SNIPE

Skeleton Key and Hestra (non-vet) were the ones taken from PS4. Each platform had different servers taken out.

SCinsight

All that needs to be said and done is make Cyrodiil competitive again. Like Scotti started out saying, it is shameful that one group of people effectively killed Chillrend. ZOS needs to remove more campaigns even still to force players into other campaigns, thus reducing/removing the buff servers. Please do something, my sword misses the taste of glorious battle.

SCOTTI_SNIPE

SCinsight wrote: »

All that needs to be said and done is make Cyrodiil competitive again. Like Scotti started out saying, it is shameful that one group of people effectively killed Chillrend. ZOS needs to remove more campaigns even still to force players into other campaigns, thus reducing/removing the buff servers. Please do something, my sword misses the taste of glorious battle.

Was fun getting those battles in the other day although Azura was way laggy. Come to Thornblade Wednesday, lets get that place lit!

Erdmanski

SCOTTI_SNIPE wrote: »

SCinsight wrote: »

All that needs to be said and done is make Cyrodiil competitive again. Like Scotti started out saying, it is shameful that one group of people effectively killed Chillrend. ZOS needs to remove more campaigns even still to force players into other campaigns, thus reducing/removing the buff servers. Please do something, my sword misses the taste of glorious battle.

Was fun getting those battles in the other day although Azura was way laggy. Come to Thornblade Wednesday, lets get that place lit!

Thornblade has been fun, but depending what time you come on, there really are only 2 scenarios:

EP is rolling over DC and taking the whole map or
DC is rolling over EP and taking the whole map

The former usually is in place during the peak hours of play (US time). The latter starts sometime In the late evening and remains until the early afternoon when it start flipping back to red.

What Thornblade really needs is AD players. Right now there is virtually no AD presence in Thornblade. It is pretty much EP vs DC fighting over the inner keeps and scrolls, while AD struggles to take back their home keeps from the NPC's.

SCinsight

Erdmanski wrote: »

SCOTTI_SNIPE wrote: »

SCinsight wrote: »

All that needs to be said and done is make Cyrodiil competitive again. Like Scotti started out saying, it is shameful that one group of people effectively killed Chillrend. ZOS needs to remove more campaigns even still to force players into other campaigns, thus reducing/removing the buff servers. Please do something, my sword misses the taste of glorious battle.

Was fun getting those battles in the other day although Azura was way laggy. Come to Thornblade Wednesday, lets get that place lit!

Thornblade has been fun, but depending what time you come on, there really are only 2 scenarios:

EP is rolling over DC and taking the whole map or
DC is rolling over EP and taking the whole map

The former usually is in place during the peak hours of play (US time). The latter starts sometime In the late evening and remains until the early afternoon when it start flipping back to red.

What Thornblade really needs is AD players. Right now there is virtually no AD presence in Thornblade. It is pretty much EP vs DC fighting over the inner keeps and scrolls, while AD struggles to take back their home keeps from the NPC's.

From the looks of Thornblade currently, it seems that the two are just emperor farming. We went in there the other night and there was virtually no EP in Cyrodiil while DC was taking keeps, despite the 2-3 bar population they had. As soon as DC took the last keep, EP made their entrance.

SCOTTI_SNIPE

Well lets force this to end. Lets get as much Ad in here as possible...our groups will try pushing the Emp pushers out. Tired of these emporer push servers.

J2JMC

DC doesn't have the dedicated pvp population you guys have outside of azura's star. All you have to do is look at the amount of buff campaigns there are for ep and ad in comparioson to dc.

SCOTTI_SNIPE

Well my group is going to be in Thornblade for the next week. If anyone wants to join and oppose us, we'll be there.

mrdaveqc

I was wondering where to go to get a good balanced challenge ( I'm a dc player ) sadly there is no place azura is *** lag skull is way overpopulated by us and all other is empty well I think I'm ***. And thx to those guy in chillrend who break the game with those scroll farm

SCOTTI_SNIPE

mrdaveqc wrote: »

I was wondering where to go to get a good balanced challenge ( I'm a dc player ) sadly there is no place azura is *** lag skull is way overpopulated by us and all other is empty well I think I'm ***. And thx to those guy in chillrend who break the game with those scroll farm

come to thornblade we've been there. lots of blues

Takes-No-Prisoner

What time does things usually start moving and shaking in Thornblade? Tempted to go guest it on my Templar... Azura's starting get a sizable wait time. Lag up at Ash was pretty real last night with every Blue and Red wanting to de-throne Hatchets. Though watching that ball of Blue get beaten back by Hatchets group + Zerosin a few times was pretty impressive. And seeing red show up to flank blue was pretty neat.

P.S. Always remember to repair those walls! ... Or keep them flagged or else.. !

J2JMC

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

What time does things usually start moving and shaking in Thornblade? Tempted to go guest it on my Templar... Azura's starting get a sizable wait time. Lag up at Ash was pretty real last night with every Blue and Red wanting to de-throne Hatchets. Though watching that ball of Blue get beaten back by Hatchets group + Zerosin a few times was pretty impressive. And seeing red show up to flank blue was pretty neat.

P.S. Always remember to repair those walls! ... Or keep them flagged or else.. !

It's because dc doesn't have good organized groups. I was playing on azura's yesterday with a friend and it's ridiculous. DC pugs have no problem fighting in the open world and do rather well imo. However, the minute they hit keeps it's like they forget how to play. When that huge fight was going on at ash,(thanks for lagging tf out of the server btw to any a-hole who participated in that) Aleswell and Chalman were both easy pickings. Dc just doesn't know how to set-up siege.

Granted it's hypocritical coming from me as I was on my alt trying to get proxy det so I barely set-up siege. However, the 2 times I did attempt to siege I would be surrounded by 10-20 people with only my siege up. Not an exaggeration.

Of course I'd be more inclined to actually siege and participate in organized pvp if azura's wasn't such garbage. Unfortunately, considering there are no other campaigns with even a bar of dc I'm forced into azura's to AP farm.

Takes-No-Prisoner

J2JMC wrote: »

It's because dc doesn't have good organized groups. I was playing on azura's yesterday with a friend and it's ridiculous. DC pugs have no problem fighting in the open world and do rather well imo. However, the minute they hit keeps it's like they forget how to play. When that huge fight was going on at ash,(thanks for lagging tf out of the server btw to any a-hole who participated in that) Aleswell and Chalman were both easy pickings. Dc just doesn't know how to set-up siege.

Granted it's hypocritical coming from me as I was on my alt trying to get proxy det so I barely set-up siege. However, the 2 times I did attempt to siege I would be surrounded by 10-20 people with only my siege up. Not an exaggeration.

Of course I'd be more inclined to actually siege and participate in organized pvp if azura's wasn't such garbage. Unfortunately, considering there are no other campaigns with even a bar of dc I'm forced into azura's to AP farm.

DC always seems to have this problem. Its not just PS4 DC, PC DC had this problem too. Not enough organized guilds. Tell you one thing tho, they do have some pretty good players.

I think the reason, at least from my perspective, that people go cuddle up with each other at these exotic locations is simply there is nothing else going on. And no one wants to go hang out somewhere else, because there is no coordination-- speaking in general for every alliance when I say that. Main reason I was at Ash was for the action-- mind you on my Templar I do not exactly have the luxury of sneaking around like a NB. Thus my options to go places are limited without a group. I need bodies around me to help cover my frail body.

SCOTTI_SNIPE

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

What time does things usually start moving and shaking in Thornblade? Tempted to go guest it on my Templar... Azura's starting get a sizable wait time. Lag up at Ash was pretty real last night with every Blue and Red wanting to de-throne Hatchets. Though watching that ball of Blue get beaten back by Hatchets group + Zerosin a few times was pretty impressive. And seeing red show up to flank blue was pretty neat.

P.S. Always remember to repair those walls! ... Or keep them flagged or else.. !

As far as ive seen usually a bit after 8pm est...Its been picking up a lot recently. Yesterday was slow but its a work in progress.

Attackopsn

I've checked out thornblade a couple times, and when there is action, it's usually between two zergs. It didn't take longer than several hours for the server to start lagging , (invisible effects/animations). If we really want another server we can't do this, it's just going to deteriorate into the same mess that Azura's has become. I can't come up with a good reason why the three thornblade zergs would have any motivation to split, because there is usually only a single conflict, but just be aware that it's only going to create the same problem in time. If someone is reading this and is looking for better pvp don't be turned away by my comment though lol! It's still probably the best campaign available when it's active!

Attackopsn

I also agree with Erdmanski above, and if you want to encourage more AD to come, don't take the empty keeps from them when they aren't there haha. I think many AD try to check it out and get bored of running from basically the gate to fort ash every time they encounter one of the zergs. You have to be a little more passive with the keeps if you want to persuade them to come over, that's why Haderus died for about three weeks last month (Which I participated in as EP, so I saw it go down)

Catblade

Attackopsn wrote: »

I also agree with Erdmanski above, and if you want to encourage more AD to come, don't take the empty keeps from them when they aren't there haha. I think many AD try to check it out and get bored of running from basically the gate to fort ash every time they encounter one of the zergs. You have to be a little more passive with the keeps if you want to persuade them to come over, that's why Haderus died for about three weeks last month (Which I participated in as EP, so I saw it go down)

Yeah haderus got hit hard lol. Most of the guys there had no idea what to do so i can't blame them. It's where i go to grind alts up in caves so i try to defend when i can.

wazzz56

Attackopsn wrote: »

I also agree with Erdmanski above, and if you want to encourage more AD to come, don't take the empty keeps from them when they aren't there haha. I think many AD try to check it out and get bored of running from basically the gate to fort ash every time they encounter one of the zergs. You have to be a little more passive with the keeps if you want to persuade them to come over, that's why Haderus died for about three weeks last month (Which I participated in as EP, so I saw it go down)

had some reds gate camping last night..that did not help either..but oh well, I have my fun no matter what