While we're at it...

RadRzRg

Duiwel wrote: »

Picked EP in the Beta,

Picked AD in NA server (when I started) cause I hated the red lava and Stonefalls zone in general back then.

In EU I picked DC, stuck with it, in February - March 2016 I deleted all but one of my AD and EP chars ( I had x3 EP and x3 AD ) and remade them all in DC.

I have x10 DC chars today.

It's sad that most South Africans get forced to play AD because most of them are AD and the guild is AD.

I am not a part of that family for that reason, my blood is blue my cause is true.
All the elves? I slew

I judge factions by their PVP behaviour.
EP-Zergs
AD-Bigger Zergs
DC-Even bigger zergs when they wake up
How a PvE map looks like is slightly irrelevant to me, but in terms of map design and beauty, AD gets the trophy.

Marabornwingrion

lordrichter wrote: »

EP, due to both Morrowind and Skyrim.

^ same here.

Galwylin

I knew nothing of this wider world of Elder Scrolls so went with something comfortable, a Breton. I have all Alliances now but I still like the races of the Covenant best. From what I've learned, Argonians are idiots simply for fighting with the Dunmer at all much less what unfolds in history but what happened in it. I think the High Elves are overbearing perfectionist with major flaws (so, I like them) but their two other member races seem to not give a hoot who's running the world out there. Of course the Covenant Orcs get the short end of the stick in their Alliance but their help and the Redguards seem more of rather having an enemy they know in charge as opposed to one they don't. I can see why the Dominion outlast them all when one strong ruling race over two couldn't care less races where the other Alliances have a lot of competition within.

I am hoping as I explore the other two Alliances more that I get more detail on individual races. I loved Orsinium and Alik'r for the flavor of those races. Bretons don't stray too far from standard though I think they must enjoy House of Cards. The Altmer is one power hungry character after another which is probably insight into the whole. Just getting to the Bosmer. Nords seem completely the Dunmer lackeys and little else.

onemoredragon

Picked EP at beta and then at launch too - majority of my former guildies wanted to be EP because of Morrowind and Skyrim, and I wanted to PvP with the guild so I followed

waterfairy

I picked EP because nords...then I realized nords suck in this game so I jumped ship and made an AD altmer mage.

Keldheir

I started with DC because I knew a certain youtuber - the only youtuber whose videos I was watching at the time - was there and so were all his other followers. He planned to play with them regularly but in the end nothing came of it. I stayed, did my own thing and even so I today prefer AD over every other alliance I will never delete my DC character. She's my first, my oldest and closest to my heart.

LadyDestiny

I picked AD well.....because of kittens. ^•¥•^

ImmortalElf13

My first char was AD because Khajiit. I don't play him much any more because my build sucked and I was too frustrated to bother respecing the damn cat. I'll make a new Khajiit for Morrowind, I think.

Ch4mpTW

AD because of their obvious superiority to the other alliances. Throw in the fact that the queen is voiced by Kate Beckinsale, and it's pretty much a no-brainer.

Azurulia

I judge players of factions by their usage of buzzword and trigger phrases in PM's.

"Zerg:"- Sore Loser.
"Bad:" - Sore Winner
"You had to use a potion/poisons to kill me:" - Not very resourceful.
"All you can do is spam one ability:" - Not very adaptable.
"You mad bro?:" - Childish and/or immature.
"[INSERT CAPS RAGE HERE]:" - PvP might not be for them.
"LOL!:" - Triggered.
"[Insert multiple excuses here.]:" Needs more practice.
"[Insert long list of things for no particular reason]:" Too much time on their hands and should get out more rather then lurk for Natch Potes.

captainwolfos

In beta I picked AD because khajiit.

When it went live, I picked DC first because FOR THE COVENANT.

My EU main is AD, as is my Xbone NA main (if you can call a level 5 character a "main"). My PC NA main is EP.

I may have too many characters.

QuebraRegra

DC the most diverse areas.. also a sorta LOTOR starter quest.

DC4life

playsforfun

dc and will always be dc as my main guild is a bit fussy about playing other factions in pvp

Muramasa89

I picked a Dunmer and EP came with it. I didn't care what alliance I got.

The Uninvited

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

In beta I picked DC. When the game went live, I picked EP. No idea why but I think the reason I picked DC in beta was because I wanted to see something different that wasn't Skyrim

Lol, I did the exact same thing.

WalksonGraves

Irl friends went AD, now I'm the only argonian around.

EvilCroc

AD because of Altmers, Thalmor, Master race, Queen Ayrenn, all this stuff.

DanaDark

DC because I like the Bretons!

DMuehlhausen

RadRzRg wrote: »

What faction did you pick when you first started playing, and why?
I picked EP cause...Skyrim...

EP cause Nord

SirMontyII

EP at beta. Picked DC after. Really only wanted Imperial due to the ESO series. Got a surprise when I learned the Imperials are the bad guys. Have the any race/anywhere, and still all my toons are DC.

Keep_Door

Picked DC because it was blue

KhajiitLion

I picked EP because skyrim is my favorite es game and I heard that there was snow, so I picked that

RT_Frank

EP

Because my favorite color is red and two of my top 3 favorite races are nords and dark elves. Plus having a dragon as our symbol is pretty damn sweet

ParaNostram

When I first started I chose AD because I was a Bosmer (and though I had preordered it didn't make sense to me to play another faction as a Bosmer). I wound up going to Daggerfall instead when I realized AD had no good RP seemingly in the early months and Daggerfall had it (and EP RP communities in my then group of friends had a bad rep)

Now, faction is kind of irrelevant.

mandrakethebard_ESO

My wife and I didn't pick... we each made 3 characters, one for each faction, so we could experience all content. Then we found out that all characters would have access to all content. Since then we've only done DC characters because the Covenant is less unpleasant than the other two factions. (though Ayrenn and Razum-dar are very cool, gotta love Raz)

EDIT: edited in the word "unpleasant" because my previous choice of word was disallowed

Danikat

Galwylin wrote: »

I knew nothing of this wider world of Elder Scrolls so went with something comfortable, a Breton. I have all Alliances now but I still like the races of the Covenant best. From what I've learned, Argonians are idiots simply for fighting with the Dunmer at all much less what unfolds in history but what happened in it. I think the High Elves are overbearing perfectionist with major flaws (so, I like them) but their two other member races seem to not give a hoot who's running the world out there. Of course the Covenant Orcs get the short end of the stick in their Alliance but their help and the Redguards seem more of rather having an enemy they know in charge as opposed to one they don't. I can see why the Dominion outlast them all when one strong ruling race over two couldn't care less races where the other Alliances have a lot of competition within.

I am hoping as I explore the other two Alliances more that I get more detail on individual races. I loved Orsinium and Alik'r for the flavor of those races. Bretons don't stray too far from standard though I think they must enjoy House of Cards. The Altmer is one power hungry character after another which is probably insight into the whole. Just getting to the Bosmer. Nords seem completely the Dunmer lackeys and little else.

That's interesting to me because when I first started Elder Scrolls (with Morrowind) knowing nothing about the world and it's lore is what put me off playing a Breton. They looked like the most generically boring human race going.

I flicked through the list going "elf, human, human, elf, orc...maybe, human...oohhh. cat people and lizard people, that's different!" I'd only played one other game with those options (anyone remember Lands of Lore?) so they stood out to me as the most likely to be something original and interesting to play.

It was only later when I learned more about the lore and history of Tamriel that I realised some of the other races, and the Bretons in particular (being sort-of half-elves) weren't as boring and generic as they seemed.

paulsimonps

All of my characters are in the Ebonheart pact, this comes from my long love of the Dunmers and the original Morrowind game. I also named my first character after my favorite of the 3 houses you could join in Morrowind, Hlaalu.

phileunderx2

AD. Khajiit.

greylox

DC because it had daggerfall in and it was my favourite game in the series

CaffeinatedMayhem

DC always for lore reasons. Also High Rock and Hammerfell.