Which is your most favorite faction with respect to questing, lore etc ?

vpy

Mates,

From your opinion which faction has the best storyline/lore/zones/visuals .?
All are equal but are some more equal more than the others

Xvorg

EP has 2 very well written storylines, Stonefalls and Deshaan. A good one (Shadowfen), and two weaker ones, Eastmarch and The Rift imho are the weakest storylines in all the game. Also it has the best introductory zone. The exiled from Bleackrock is a great story, and you feel sad when you see them mourning the deads in Stonefalls.

DC has the best storyline in all the game and the best char too. Verandis story could be used in an entire game. After that, you have 2 decent ones (Stormhaven and Alik'r) and other 2 weak ones (Glenumbra and Bangkorai)

AD has a more than great storyline in Greenshade (really, the Wilderking arc surprised me a lot), while the rest of the stories while playing AD never catched me entirely... but that's because AD is more about Raz than anything else.

McI

I picked DC, even though all my characters are AD. I had more fun doing the DC story line.

Aliyavana

I liked ad the most and learning and seeing zones we havnt seen before in terms of lore too

cheemers

DC storyline is excellent imho. Glenumbra is a bit generic but at the same time manages to have this awesome feeling of creeping unease, with the mist and the fogs and the ruined castles. Rivenspire was breathtaking, both environment and story. It is by far my favourite zone in the entire game - it gives me chills whenever I go there. Alikr was a breath of fresh air, such a unique and beautiful looking zone.

I feel it's pretty telling that even though I now have the choice to level up new characters in whatever zones I want, I still find myself replaying the DC zones over and over.

Nerouyn

Definitely AD. I enjoyed the story for each race and Valenwood is a very impressive region.

EB is ok but I find it difficult to get past dunmer and argonians together. I get it - the argonians agreed to fight to win freedom for some slaves - but it's a very ugly marriage of convenience. Plus the Tribunal are bad, which we know cos we spanked the hell out of them in Morrowind. Their regions all look great though.

DC is nice. A bit fantasy generic in appearance but looks good. I find the story less engrossing (though I haven't finished it yet). Seems to be a lot of petty politicking. I like the Wyrd covens and Azura's spirit wardens.

Moonscythe

I agree that Rivenspire is a great and cohesive storyline but I didn't much like the rest of DC. I could never get my head around the entire Pact. I dislike Nords, think Dunmer are s'wits and have a lot of sympathy for the Argonians but I just can't see the Pact lasting at all past the fighting. I like all of AD. Ayrenn is the only potential leader who would be able to gain my loyalty is I were suddenly dropped down in Tamriel.

max_only

I don't know what it is about the DC storyline but I was bored to tears.

I liked the depth of King Emeric having to face his vulnerabilities and Bill Nighy's acting was the highlight.

I've played the AD story line twice now, and I know I'll choose it again for my warden.

I just.... can't get into EP.... and I really wanted to.

AcadianPaladin

AD - All about Queen Ayrenn. Not since Martin Septim in Oblivion have I seen such an inspirational leader that my little elf would follow anywhere. Also love the tall trees and jungle. The storyline is pretty good.

DC - I was surprised to find the storyline/quests the most enjoyable of the three factions. Also very much enjoyed the deserts.

EP - I found the king to be 'derp-dee-derp' and my character was unable to care about their questline. The saving grace of the EP was the nostalgia of visiting familiar places from the game of Skyrim.

mb10

Think EP gives you the most diversity in lore and races even though I personally am a AD person

Blacksmoke

AD deffintly is my favorite mainly because of Raz and queen Ayrenn also the Bosmer quests where really intresting. But I have to say that DC is a VERY close second I just like the feel of the zones!

EP sucked.

Sweetpea704

Rivenspire and the story of the Wilderking were my favorite stories in the game. I kind of liked the Amalexia story, but it went on a little long. I went and did the AD story about the College in Auridon. It just so happened that I had picked up the Blade of Woe beforehand. It was quite satisfying to wreck the mean instructors.
I also liked reading bookcases that have nothing but meat on them in the Bosmer areas. Funny...

FrancisCrawford

EP is the worst by far. Reasons include:

• The major regional quests are pretty blah, with Deshaan as the only exception.
• King Jorunn is the least interesting of the three monarchs.
• There are many more lazily designed side quests of the "Kill 10 rats" ilk, especially in Stonefalls.
• They focus a lot on the alliance war, which is jarring when one plays or has played characters from other alliances.

DC is the best. Reasons include:

• The general awesomeness of the Rivenspire story.
• A large collection of good and often recurring characters, including pretty much everybody in Rivenspire, everybody in the main Stros M'Kai quest, Darien Gauthier, Gabrielle Benele, King Emeric and more. It's no coincidence that a large fraction of the characters who get additional play in the Coldharbour quests originated in the DC, such as Darien, Gabrielle, Skordo and Stibbens.
• A lot of mysteries and plot twists in the side quests. (And in the main quests too, actually.)

AD strengths include:

• Queen Ayrenn, but she's not around as much as one might wish.
• Razum-dar.
• Strong plot continuity through the main quest lines.

Wrothgar is very strong as well, actually. It may be the second-best quest region in the whole game, after Rivenspire.

FrancisCrawford

Also, I'm politically liberal enough to salute the gay marriage/romance orientation of ESO. Of the 3 best of those stories in the game, I'd say 2 are in the DC and 1 in the AD.

CapnPhoton

Aldmeri, but honestly it is followed closely by Daggerfall.

Demycilian

Aldmeri. It got Ayrenn, it got Raz. Not to forget the Silvenar and Reapers March, which makes me curl up and cry every time.

Vipstaakki

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

Aliyavana

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

SydneyGrey

I loved the story line in Bangkorai ... The region was being invaded by two different groups from two different directions, the Reachmen and the Imperials, and there are a lot of awesome inter-dynamics associated with that.

TheNuminous1

aliyavana wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

He is just blinded by his alliance to see its actually the most frail and least likely to hold any bearing in time and history.

And genocide? Obviously he has not paid any mind to the quest dialoge and lore of either of his opposing factions.

Vipstaakki

aliyavana wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

aliyavana wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

He is just blinded by his alliance to see its actually the most frail and least likely to hold any bearing in time and history.

And genocide? Obviously he has not paid any mind to the quest dialoge and lore of either of his opposing factions.

I think you should both play through the Bleakrock and Shadowfen questlines.

Publius_Scipio

ESO is a good game in my opinion. I think all three alliances had zones and parts of the story that I found awesome and then there was some questing where I struggled simply due to the lack of being engaged by what was happening. That being said Craglorn (now that you can solo much of the content there) and the DLCs are much better. Much better stories, everything is more interesting from the environments themselves to the writing and dialogue.

I like less the mundane "everyday living in Tamriel" type of quests and really enjoy the quests where ZOS really grabs on to Elder Scrolls lore and history and runs with it. More magic spell to travel back in time to speak with an ancient alyeid king and be part of a battle from long ago, and less of run here run there grab crab meat and apples so i can feed hungry Khajiit, for my personal preference of questing.

mistermacintosh

EP is the best overall to quest through. Shadowfen is the only area that I kind of rush through... maybe because it's a swamp and full of stupid crocodiles? But the Morrowind and Skyrim areas are great and have interesting storylines. The races are great too and have really good voice actors.

AD is almost as good or better for the same reason. The only reason I wouldn't pick it over EP is because Valenwood takes forever to get through. It's just too much green all at once. I love the Khajiit (not Razum-Dar) and Bosmer. The Altmer are kind of a-holes, but the females are pretty.

Then there is DC. I'm really disappointed with Bretons in this game, as most of them are less magical and more knightly. For a half-elf race, I expected sorcerers in towers, not meat shields. Between that, the not so great redguard voice actors (you know who I'm talking about), and the fact that orcs are pretty much the joke race, the characters are often disappointing. The High Rock areas can be dull too, with the exception of Rivenspire and Bangkorai. Sentinel is kind of cool too, but again, some lame voice actors can take you out of it. (To ZOS' credit, I think they have tried to address some of these things with the new DC areas we saw last year and the year before in DLC).

I really wish ZOS would make a PVE instance of Cyrodiil (maybe post-planemeld?) with new quests you don't have to rush through for fear of getting ganked (establishing the Cheydinhall Dark Brotherhood sanctuary, for example). That would be my favorite area.

akl77

AD probably most interesting

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Voted EP although I've not really paid attention to the others ( just spammed a to click by), I was just curious to the poll results.

FrancisCrawford

Vipstaakki wrote: »

aliyavana wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

aliyavana wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

He is just blinded by his alliance to see its actually the most frail and least likely to hold any bearing in time and history.

And genocide? Obviously he has not paid any mind to the quest dialoge and lore of either of his opposing factions.

I think you should both play through the Bleakrock and Shadowfen questlines.

That's a weakness of the EP zone. It's not consistent with what actually happens when you play in the DC areas.

Jimbullbee85

Every character I have is in the Ebonheart pact. I'm a loyalist but still have to admit that I enjoyed the AD questlines more.

Vipstaakki

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

aliyavana wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

aliyavana wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

EP has the best storyline and quests by far because

- We have Naryu
- We have the Vanos siblings, Kireth and Raynor
- We actually make an effort to fight in the war during the quests,
- AD wants to genocide all non-elves, DC wants to genocide all Argonians, EP wants to genocide no one.
- There are some really nice small details and Easter eggs on each zone. Drunk Nords are the best ones!
- A strong plot that goes together with each zone and actually gives you a reason to go there rather than just, there's nothing to do here anymore, i have to continue to the next zone.
- Conveniently placed quest NPC's. Never far from where you need to go and never behind some obstacle you have to circle around.

For your 4th point did we even play the same game?

He is just blinded by his alliance to see its actually the most frail and least likely to hold any bearing in time and history.

And genocide? Obviously he has not paid any mind to the quest dialoge and lore of either of his opposing factions.

I think you should both play through the Bleakrock and Shadowfen questlines.

That's a weakness of the EP zone. It's not consistent with what actually happens when you play in the DC areas.

No. It is a weakness of the DC zone. It's not consistent with what actually happens elsewhere.

Hallothiel

AD is my favourite (even with 2 zones with Bosmer related stories). Reaper's March is, I think, a excellent story. And Raz.

Then DC - Rivenspire has perhaps the best quest line of all - but the Redguard & other areas are a bit meh.

As for EP - not hugely keen on any of the zones except Shadowfen as was new. I get the Skyrim etc appeal & was interesting for the first time to see areas from there but then I don't feel reverential towards the game that others seem to....

GreenhaloX

I can't say on this one. I have now all toons from each faction and class group, even Imperial, and I have enjoyed playing each of them. Each has its own unique and enjoyable skillset and abilities. I have been playing with one single StamDK for a year, until these recent double XP events, which had intrigued me to create the new 7 toons, and I have been enjoying the experience with ESO since creating the other toons from the different classes. I have actually enjoyed ESO more with the new toons, even doing the same quests/lore and the same skyshards and lorebook hunting with each toon. The good thing is I believed I know where each skyshard and lorebook are located and memorized where I didn't need a physical map opened on my laptop for the other toons. Ha ha.

GrigorijMalahevich

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