Last day of the previous campaign zerg squad sieged aleswell and the moment they charged into inner with proxis and ultis going off in synch my ping jumped up to 500 and that honestly was the beginning of the end for lag-free PvP in azura's that day. More guild groups logged on and the lag didnt really go away until prime time ended and most of them ended their raids.
That's not criticism towards any specific guild... just an observation that it's blatantly obvious they do have a more serious impact on performance than some random PUG.
It's not about winning (lol) the campaign anymore, it's about having fun and engaging in good fights and subsequently enjoying what you're doing. Not gonna mention names since it's pretty obvious by now, but the state the campaigns in for while now is genuinely atrocious. I don't support the idea of nightcapping or a one colour map. Takes away the fun. I also don't support zerging down the gates, when there's clearly an uneven population distribution. You made pretty much most of the AD leave, and even some from the DC. If you have fun with beating down 15-20 people with ur group of 50, then I genuinely dont know what to say. I almost wish there were more DC in Azura's, hell, even a blue emperor. They're way more fun and competitive than the 'skilled' 50 man prox det trains. And yes im AD.
It's not about winning (lol) the campaign anymore, it's about having fun and engaging in good fights and subsequently enjoying what you're doing. Not gonna mention names since it's pretty obvious by now, but the state the campaigns in for while now is genuinely atrocious. I don't support the idea of nightcapping or a one colour map. Takes away the fun. I also don't support zerging down the gates, when there's clearly an uneven population distribution. You made pretty much most of the AD leave, and even some from the DC. If you have fun with beating down 15-20 people with ur group of 50, then I genuinely dont know what to say. I almost wish there were more DC in Azura's, hell, even a blue emperor. They're way more fun and competitive than the 'skilled' 50 man prox det trains. And yes im AD.
themdogesbite wrote: »
You know that the de facto moto of said red guild is "more people, more fun" right?
No offense, but a month ago we couldve had this rant about AD, and there was way more semi-organised (big boss) nightcapping happening back then. EP's numbers have exploded and AD has simply packed up and left because the fights arent so easy anymore. Apparently theyre now swarming Trueflame.
If you think DC doesn't run proxi trains then you're in for a surprise when the map isn't full red anymore and you get to actually fight the blues.
I loathe the state the campaign was in the past few days, but a reality check is needed here.
There is a solution to it: take the ep blob to another campaign of your choice when opposition is too low on azura (not meaning that ep is the only faction packing on keeps ofc). Azura is a second choice campaign with cp limitation anyway.
Some of the ep groups stacking on azura were seen on ebon blade early in the evening, but switched back to azu after one hour or so: too much opposition for them to blob there most probably.
Yesterday we were 12 when we switched to azura as tf was still lag unplayable and ebon blade got dc emp... just to find 40ep rushing to an empty dc spawn (no scrolls). We wiped them then pushed to emp keeps, but obviously if you really run for real opposition... switch to other campaigns when you don't have enough defense in front of you could be a solution
In an ideal world we'd have one or two big lag-free campaigns where people who want to PvP at all would go so there is no campaign hopping, but I know we can't have that.
whats the point of playing campaign properly when reds with their superior number or even 8 ppl can clean whole map when rest of the folks sleeping?
First we get aldmeris who act like boss, now its ebons turns, i hope that my own faction doesnt embarras itself by dominating campaign 80-90% of the time for next 2 month after this ebons domination is "over"
ITs typical selfisness that drive us to be idiots> lazyness, and the huge urge to have advantage over the others to ensure that "we win"
Whats the point of attacking keeps when defenders get there in 1-2min time with their "blob"
Reds owning whole map and having transit network helping them to transport nearly everywhere in time discourages anyone to bother trying to recover piece of the map. Defending being so stupidly easy unless you got 50 ppl behind your back so you dont mind if 25 to 40 die into oils/calrops, detonations,nb aoe bombing or something else before flipping the keep.
I have no motivation to lead troops at cyro when big part of my own faction prefers ap farming or sitting at gate instead of actually trying to be useful. The excuses like keeping dumb wits at resource tower getting farmed into few ap farmers get very old. or some some heroes kiting 20 red off while picking them one by one since nb:s and sorcs boltescape + cloaking is so damn easy to peform. All those elites could perform way more for the faction but they dont wanna try for the sake of shaming themself by dying into these zerglings. I have in my guild too many of these guys who dont fancy being branded by my tag of donkey for failing to perform as well as i expected them to do so they swap into this ap farming mode. Better farm these enemies easy way than actually try play for your faction.
This issue here is what sickens me> ap this and ap that. You get ppl who sit at resources farming or you get these folks who wait for ticks.
Thankfully majority of my raid members are loyal enough to follow when we leave the place after capturing / securing safety of it instead of wait for ticks.
Eso pvp is atm just so unbalanced that its beyond madness. Why bother play AvAvA when you can play farmville?
I been repeating myself for past 5 month or so since i joined here to explain why campaign playing is pure misery for most of us>
First of all> who becomes emperor? OH i can tell you its most of the time someone who doesnt cares about if their faction is winning or not.
Second balance between populations and time zones> whats the point of playing campaign high end way for your faction? even if you able to kill all the baddies every single time you encounter them at some point you need sleep, thats when you make / lose the most points for your faction. At best have had 3 bloody person able to capture keep thats fully upgraded. i guess some elites can do it solo but at best personally being quite capable of understanding whats the best route to take keep i have been able to take it with 3 ppl.
third> ppl want ap more than anything else because of the unbalance of populations and the huge need of ap for alliance war ranks. nothing rewards more than sitting at resource killing / farming ppl or defending solo keep vs noob zergs by bombing them when they hit flag, all die thanks to nb combo of vicious death, fire ballista / cold harbout + clever alchemist, ofc there is few other nice combos that works aswell but you propably are able to understand what kind of setups i am talking about here.
Fourth> players dont play game thinking about their enemies. they play to make sure they only have fun, not their enemies.
Ppl want easy enemies, easy campaign victories, and vast majority of bonuses so they stick to these bonus stat campaigns.
Ofc we have campaigns like trueflame where ppl just run to arrius lumber, alessia bridge or whever they want with bloodthirst in mind but its quite irrelevant when most of the time we keep hearing on any or possibly in all campaigns how this faction this, and another that and third possibly you know what. There is no sportmanship here, there was this campaign of Azura before it turned into non cp when i played nearly 16 hour every single day to try ensure my own faction ( Daggerfall Covenants) victory, but alas, i could not play 24/7 to make sure that one enemy faction doesnt turn the map into full one color. My own faction didnt really help either when vast majority just want that arrius lumber action or alessia bridge action instead of defend glademist.
WHY BOTHER DEFEND WHEN THE OTHER FACTIONS WILL NONE LESS TURN THE MAP INTO ONE COLOR AT SOME POINT OF THE DAY WHEN POPULATIONS DROP DOWN?
That campaign was actually one of the closest i have had during eso "pvp career" each faction were around 300-400 point away from each other most of the time, but the moment i felt too tired to continue or i was performing badly since my team was not as focused as i and i got irritated from their lack of skills to perform at their usual level we went from being 300-400 point away into being 1-2k away in score. Whats worse is that i didnt lead meta raid. i led casual type raids that purely focused on campaign playing. no elite aoe bombing or farming, so it was so damn easy to wipe my raids and ofc there was these folks who were drooling to face my raid to get all that easy ap. Thank god in my faction there is folks like Abrax exile who did their share of being the evil force of being immortal godlikes at battlefield, and no, i am not naming and shaming him, its the zenimax itself who has allowed this unbalance between gear and classes vs folks who dont have the gear / classes to perform at meta level.
Have to admit i have gotten quite tired of watching in my raid being now these meta folks aswell. on my first year raid was consistedly filled with all classes, now its majority being nb:s and templars. I need to beg my guildies to log with their sorc alt to provide negate magic vs these aoe choo choos who just ruin everything if you dont have damn good counter abilities vs them and negate magic for me personally is the best way to fight them since i lack the skills to lead my troops in actual combat situations properly. i need more coffeine and redbull to be fast enough to react fast enough.
So atm we can split classes based on their annoyment level or ap farming quality level>
NB:s and sorcs are just soo awesome for kiting, trolling and harassing folks. Whenever my folks get harassed by one strong one i just sight front of my computer and have to relocate myself to the area where this is going since most of my folks are just so damn bad at doing anything about it. Either they just die or they get kited miles away and then killed.
DK:s. do i need to start about them? the beasts of the battlefields even tho atm it seems their fabulous take flight is bugged?
And templars. dear god its beyond stupidity level how many templars have in group who go jesus beaming trees and squirrels hoping for easy kills, then they die anyway because they cant target what they dont see.
Because of the balance issue and organized raids running exacly what they need to perform at jesus godlike level to kill everything most of the time there is no point trying anything, its just utter waste of time. So no wonder aldmeri left to god knows where and even my own faction losing motivation even tho we have amazing amount of ap farmers here at azura pc eu.
This kind of rant post again should wake up ppl but it has anyway no effect i know that, but there is no point for me being silent about it or try sugarcoat about eso pvp issues.
i repeat with one more sentence> THERE IS NO POINT PLAYING AVAVA OR TRY MAKE SURE THAT MAP IS NOT ONE COLORED MAP BECAUSE OF ALL THE LOSERS WHO FALL INTO CATEGORIES DESCRIBED EARLIER IN THIS POST.
ps> yes, zeni is failing us gamers aswell here since they dont realize that we players cant monitor ourselves to properly communite with each other in different factions to ensure that AVAVA would be fun. Give too much power to players and they make sure that rest of the gaming community action is ruined. Egos, bonuses and ap goes into ppl head harder than lack of alcohol in my blood strikes my head.
Yours sincerely.
Foxey o Zen, leader of Band of Daggers aka Love raid.
Daggerfall covenant
Only been twice in campaign where my own faction has won because i been aiming for competive and fun atmosphere for vast majority of playerbase.
...and there was way more semi-organised (big boss)...