Sotha was yellow prior to 10PM est. You guys know I'm an opponent of gate camping but last night was so zergy from all sides that the server literally crashed briefly.
my 5 man tried taking Brindle and we were instantly jumped by 9+ AD.
Northern cyro was even worse, the EP emp-assisted push on Aleswell was a slide show of 450+ping and 10fps.
like, I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation they earned, but at least try to be honest, Sotha Sil is Trueflame 2.0
I cant even imagine what Vivec is like. . .
Oh, no one is saying DC didnt have a zerg. I havent seen that many DC in a long time.
I'm saying everyone was like that. Like there were zergs on all three factions. and its like every man for himself now. its kinda sad
Congrats @Prince_of_all_Pugs on your emperorship last yesterday... it was a good fight. I wish I could have been on for the dethrone but DC waited until after we logged.
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2) About pushing to the gates. Let's imagine one of the alliances is objectively stronger at the moment (has more people or better people) or other alliances are already pushed to the gates when (abstract) I login. Am I not supposed to pvp? I mean, if they are pushed to the gates - that's where pvp will be happening, right? So of course I'll go and fight there. And that's the thoughts of every PvPer, I imagine.
Don't take it as attacking you or anyone. Just a question.
Sotha was yellow prior to 10PM est. You guys know I'm an opponent of gate camping but last night was so zergy from all sides that the server literally crashed briefly.
my 5 man tried taking Brindle and we were instantly jumped by 9+ AD.
Northern cyro was even worse, the EP emp-assisted push on Aleswell was a slide show of 450+ping and 10fps.
like, I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation they earned, but at least try to be honest, Sotha Sil is Trueflame 2.0
I cant even imagine what Vivec is like. . .
Prince_of_all_Pugs wrote: »Sotha was yellow prior to 10PM est. You guys know I'm an opponent of gate camping but last night was so zergy from all sides that the server literally crashed briefly.
my 5 man tried taking Brindle and we were instantly jumped by 9+ AD.
Northern cyro was even worse, the EP emp-assisted push on Aleswell was a slide show of 450+ping and 10fps.
like, I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation they earned, but at least try to be honest, Sotha Sil is Trueflame 2.0
I cant even imagine what Vivec is like. . .
haha "earned" is a strong word, If your not a youtuber or a streamer and you are dc you havent earned NOTHING. the fear and respect that DC has earned has come from the streamers and youtubers who carry the DC faction. Everyone else on DC is just walking AP, you can ask any AD or EP they will tell you same thing. Ill even go as far to say that if your not a youtuber or a streamer, you are not a real dc. So im gonna correct this comment for you. "I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation that our streamers and youtubers have given to us, all we are without them is BLUE AP.
Prince_of_all_Pugs wrote: »haha "earned" is a strong word, If your not a youtuber or a streamer and you are dc you havent earned NOTHING. the fear and respect that DC has earned has come from the streamers and youtubers who carry the DC faction. Everyone else on DC is just walking AP, you can ask any AD or EP they will tell you same thing. Ill even go as far to say that if your not a youtuber or a streamer, you are not a real dc. So im gonna correct this comment for you. "I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation that our streamers and youtubers have given to us, all we are without them is BLUE AP.
Prince_of_all_Pugs wrote: »Sotha was yellow prior to 10PM est. You guys know I'm an opponent of gate camping but last night was so zergy from all sides that the server literally crashed briefly.
my 5 man tried taking Brindle and we were instantly jumped by 9+ AD.
Northern cyro was even worse, the EP emp-assisted push on Aleswell was a slide show of 450+ping and 10fps.
like, I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation they earned, but at least try to be honest, Sotha Sil is Trueflame 2.0
I cant even imagine what Vivec is like. . .
haha "earned" is a strong word, If your not a youtuber or a streamer and you are dc you havent earned NOTHING. the fear and respect that DC has earned has come from the streamers and youtubers who carry the DC faction. Everyone else on DC is just walking AP, you can ask any AD or EP they will tell you same thing. Ill even go as far to say that if your not a youtuber or a streamer, you are not a real dc. So im gonna correct this comment for you. "I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation that our streamers and youtubers have given to us, all we are without them is BLUE AP.
Prince_of_all_Pugs wrote: »haha "earned" is a strong word, If your not a youtuber or a streamer and you are dc you havent earned NOTHING. the fear and respect that DC has earned has come from the streamers and youtubers who carry the DC faction. Everyone else on DC is just walking AP, you can ask any AD or EP they will tell you same thing. Ill even go as far to say that if your not a youtuber or a streamer, you are not a real dc. So im gonna correct this comment for you. "I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation that our streamers and youtubers have given to us, all we are without them is BLUE AP.
lol. thanks man, i needed that. too bad DC streamers are fair weathered tool bags that are so caught up in their tv persona to know what reality is versus video game land. Maybe i can quit the game and try to drag as many ESO players with me just so i can pretend Paragon is so awesome, only to come back to the game and drink the ZOS kool aid, then quit AGAIN so i can pretend For Honor is the next best thing even though 95% of the For Honor player base has boycotted the game due to Ubisoft's deafeningly poor handling of the entire game, and then come back to ESO and act like nothing ever happened because i can because the players will stroke me no matter what happens or what I say to people.
2) About pushing to the gates. Let's imagine one of the alliances is objectively stronger at the moment (has more people or better people) or other alliances are already pushed to the gates when (abstract) I login. Am I not supposed to pvp? I mean, if they are pushed to the gates - that's where pvp will be happening, right? So of course I'll go and fight there. And that's the thoughts of every PvPer, I imagine.
Don't take it as attacking you or anyone. Just a question.
You can:
1) Go to another campaign
2) Go to IC
3) Duels in Rwal'kha, etc.
4) Queue for battlegrounds
5) Log on to an alt on another faction or, hey, switch permanently (more or less) to another faction
^Five PvP options that don't include making it harder to find PvP in the future on your preferred campaign. Because if you keep pushing a faction to their gates, they leave and then that's not where pvp is happening either.
Put the shoe on the other foot: if you log in and go take a resource at one of your gate keeps, and a full raid shows up to kill you before you can even flip the flag... how many times will you try? What happens to your desire to play when you port in to Cyrodiil and the emperor is firing cold fire into your spawn points along with a half raid of buddies making sure no one can leave? Or full faction stack thinks it's funny to farm a scroll your spawn point?
These are not hypothetical, abstract scenarios. I've seen all 3 happen.
Prince_of_all_Pugs wrote: »Sotha was yellow prior to 10PM est. You guys know I'm an opponent of gate camping but last night was so zergy from all sides that the server literally crashed briefly.
my 5 man tried taking Brindle and we were instantly jumped by 9+ AD.
Northern cyro was even worse, the EP emp-assisted push on Aleswell was a slide show of 450+ping and 10fps.
like, I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation they earned, but at least try to be honest, Sotha Sil is Trueflame 2.0
I cant even imagine what Vivec is like. . .
haha "earned" is a strong word, If your not a youtuber or a streamer and you are dc you havent earned NOTHING. the fear and respect that DC has earned has come from the streamers and youtubers who carry the DC faction. Everyone else on DC is just walking AP, you can ask any AD or EP they will tell you same thing. Ill even go as far to say that if your not a youtuber or a streamer, you are not a real dc. So im gonna correct this comment for you. "I know right now DC is easy to demonize due to the reputation that our streamers and youtubers have given to us, all we are without them is BLUE AP.
But as expected, the very person who was saying that and whom I asked, had nothing to reply.. Because, well, it's not something you can expect from anyone.
Oh, no one is saying DC didnt have a zerg. I havent seen that many DC in a long time.
I'm saying everyone was like that. Like there were zergs on all three factions. and its like every man for himself now. its kinda sad
I'm on no one's side and don't wanna fight or anything, but just want to ask you a couple things after reading the thread.
1) Do you see how most guilds don't really invite everyone. And people who want to start pugs don't really get many players - because those players want to join already big groups (like guilds that do invite pugs). And again, some people (I'd even say most) want to relax and play the game and they can stay on crown and such, but a lot of groups require TS. Basically, what I'm getting at is that there's not much choice other than every man for himself if you don't have a guild. I tried both - looking for group to join and starting a group and looking for people to run with me. Failed in both cases. The again, I tried it long time ago, in winter maybe, and that's how things were back then. Could try it now and report my findings if you want
2) About pushing to the gates. Let's imagine one of the alliances is objectively stronger at the moment (has more people or better people) or other alliances are already pushed to the gates when (abstract) I login. Am I not supposed to pvp? I mean, if they are pushed to the gates - that's where pvp will be happening, right? So of course I'll go and fight there. And that's the thoughts of every PvPer, I imagine.
Don't take it as attacking you or anyone. Just a question.
I'm on no one's side and don't wanna fight or anything, but just want to ask you a couple things after reading the thread.
1) Do you see how most guilds don't really invite everyone. And people who want to start pugs don't really get many players - because those players want to join already big groups (like guilds that do invite pugs). And again, some people (I'd even say most) want to relax and play the game and they can stay on crown and such, but a lot of groups require TS. Basically, what I'm getting at is that there's not much choice other than every man for himself if you don't have a guild. I tried both - looking for group to join and starting a group and looking for people to run with me. Failed in both cases. The again, I tried it long time ago, in winter maybe, and that's how things were back then. Could try it now and report my findings if you want
2) About pushing to the gates. Let's imagine one of the alliances is objectively stronger at the moment (has more people or better people) or other alliances are already pushed to the gates when (abstract) I login. Am I not supposed to pvp? I mean, if they are pushed to the gates - that's where pvp will be happening, right? So of course I'll go and fight there. And that's the thoughts of every PvPer, I imagine.
Don't take it as attacking you or anyone. Just a question.
But as expected, the very person who was saying that and whom I asked, had nothing to reply.. Because, well, it's not something you can expect from anyone.
It's something I expect from myself. I don't find demoralizing and discouraging the people I rely on have fun to be productive or entertaining. Because there's no pvp without an enemy, and no good pvp without a worthy enemy. Or frenemy, as it is sometimes.
I'm on no one's side and don't wanna fight or anything, but just want to ask you a couple things after reading the thread.
1) Do you see how most guilds don't really invite everyone. And people who want to start pugs don't really get many players - because those players want to join already big groups (like guilds that do invite pugs). And again, some people (I'd even say most) want to relax and play the game and they can stay on crown and such, but a lot of groups require TS. Basically, what I'm getting at is that there's not much choice other than every man for himself if you don't have a guild. I tried both - looking for group to join and starting a group and looking for people to run with me. Failed in both cases. The again, I tried it long time ago, in winter maybe, and that's how things were back then. Could try it now and report my findings if you want
Ok so I will have to agree with this one. My traditional auotinvite string is "rick roll" (because my name is rickter and you know, rick roll is a meme. . .yeeeaaaahh. . .) and I have thrown out in zone many times "type rick roll if looking for a group" if i feel liek the faction is floundering without direction and we are losing keeps in the matter of minutes. I seldomly get any bites. It's almost insane. There are people literally asking for a group but ignoring my offer. I attribute that to maybe people aren't as familiar with me and thats fine, I wouldnt join someone's group that I havent really heard of necessarily. So recently, I've resorted to simply typing the instructions out in zone chat and people actually listen. It was a good feeling. But thats ten times more work. trying to direct a defense or a push through text is draining to say the least.
In any case, yes people tend to gravitate towards zerg balls BUT this is because like you said, they are essentially lazy. Now i know you didnt say the word "lazy" but thats what it is. You get home from work, youre tired, you just want to kick back and casually pvp you dont want to think about your every move etc, I know the feeling. But its lazy. for whatever reason, its simply laziness. And thats not meant entirely in a negative connotation, so please dont take it that way.
I lead groups. period. whether its 2 or 10 i pull from my guild and occasionally open that up to pugs. I try to match fighters with my group size. If its just 3, I go to the towns or outside keeps, if i have more, i push inner keep objectives. Those decisions come easy for me but i've been doing this for a long time. I understand this isnt an option for everyone but you have to take it upon yourself to find a group/guild that fits your needs.2) About pushing to the gates. Let's imagine one of the alliances is objectively stronger at the moment (has more people or better people) or other alliances are already pushed to the gates when (abstract) I login. Am I not supposed to pvp? I mean, if they are pushed to the gates - that's where pvp will be happening, right? So of course I'll go and fight there. And that's the thoughts of every PvPer, I imagine.
Don't take it as attacking you or anyone. Just a question.
Alright this is where I have to disagree with you. When i log on and see my faction has taken the map, no, I do not feel inclined to go to the gates simply because "thats where the pvp is". in a campaign overrun like that, you will get more ap from BGs than you will 10v1ing the guy at their gate keep resource. "change starts with you." right? isnt that the saying? if you see your faction pushing gate keeps dont participate. Vocalize something if you want but dont participate. I HATE proc sets. I know they will be nerfed very soon. I do NOT use them. I put my money where my mouth is and you will not see me wearing cheese proc sets. this is an example. if you see your faction pushing someone else to the gates, walk the other way. It's as simple as that.