Favourite battlegrounds game mode?

akl77

Correction, domination not dominion.

Also, what did you get queued up the most?

SirGabenOfSteamia

Death match

Easy score for easy title

BraidasNM

Death match

the one where people actlly fight each other

Artis

Dominion

I like dominion because it's the only mode where you can actually win premades.

I hate it that some people queue like that and ruin fun for everyone else, but in Dominion they are actually punished for that. If they run together - you can control more flags because they move between them rather slowly. If they split - then there's nothing left of their premadeness and it all comes to individual skill and here sometimes randoms like myself can win some fights and def/cap a flag.

Since we're talking about modes, I think I'll add that I don't like capture the relic at all. It doesn't work that well with 3 teams, the spots are very close to each other, and that seems to be the worst mode to play if you queue solo: so many people just don't seem to get it. They don't grab the relic of the winning team that has 1-2 relics to go and is already carrying them, etc.

max_only

None

I'm waiting for "deliver the payload"

Deathmatch is at least easy to understand, the other two modes really depend on the attitude of your team. Some people are there to kill kill kill and some are there to actually win by strategy.

All in all I like BGs when I thought I would hate it. It's short little bursts of stress free carnage that remind me of my Orange Box days. Or maybe it's stress free for me because most of the time my team is within 10-15 points of winning so i feel like it was a good game, fairly won. I wish they never allow premades in, unless they are going to add voice chat as an ESO feature on pc. It doesn't seem fair that soon the only way to win will be to coordinate armor, buffs, and voice chat with 3 other people or gtfo.

Cously

Death match

I like Deathmatch. Mainly because I find very complicated to focus on objectives and attack/defend at same time. It feels more like a stress than anything. Deathmatch is plain simple, kill or be killed and the tactic is centered around teamwork. It's less complicated but not entirely dumbed down so more my cup of tea. I can't wait for Chaos Ball tough, I was a huge fan of Huttball in SWTOR and I hope will be the same here.

akl77

Dominion

I like domination the most, cos it's like hide and seek, you just go where there're no people looking. Easy high score while others fighting each other.

But I get queued up for capture the flag all the time, what is wrong with your queue ZOS??

KeiruNicrom

Capture the flag

Like capture the relic the most. There is a strategy to it that most dont understand. Two teams are fighting over one relic? Go get the other one. Need to keep a team from winning? Grab their relic and run like a bantum guar that had too much moonsugar

BraidasNM

Death match

KeiruNicrom wrote: »

Like capture the relic the most. There is a strategy to it that most dont understand. Two teams are fighting over one relic? Go get the other one. Need to keep a team from winning? Grab their relic and run like a bantum guar that had too much moonsugar

heres a strat for you: 2 teams are pvping? well *** that let me pop an immov pot, shield wall, and run across the map at full speed in med cause no one can stop me from picking it up. such strategy, much wow

Chufu

Death match

I like all the modes, but atm is Deathmatch the best when you come home from work. You don't want to think about strategy then, just kill players.

I am really excited about the new "Chaosball" game mode!

Feanor

Death match

I love it.

Magdalina

Capture the flag

BraidasNM wrote: »

KeiruNicrom wrote: »

Like capture the relic the most. There is a strategy to it that most dont understand. Two teams are fighting over one relic? Go get the other one. Need to keep a team from winning? Grab their relic and run like a bantum guar that had too much moonsugar

heres a strat for you: 2 teams are pvping? well *** that let me pop an immov pot, shield wall, and run across the map at full speed in med cause no one can stop me from picking it up. such strategy, much wow

Maybe other 2 teams shouldn't have been PvPing without having picked up the enemies' relics first. Full speed or not, you are't capturing enemy relic if your own is missing.

I voted the relic for the semblance of strategy as well. It's also one mode where one person can make biggest difference sometimes. It can be very frustrating if other team members don't understand the point or flatout refuse to play it though.

Betsararie

Death match

Most people prefer death match. We need to be able to choose. The others can be enjoyable on occasion.

ParaNostram

Death match

It's a fun bit of madness. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good capture the flag or domination match as well but usually I hope for death match.

Tasear

Capture the flag

Since chaos ball isn't out. I like capture the relic since involves actual teamwork.

rhapsodious

Dominion

I'm not a big fan of deathmatch because if you get put against a team of "experienced" PVPers when you're average it's a pubstomp. And it's just... not fun when it's 400-60-30. When you get three fairly even teams, though, it's a blast.

Capture the Relic is my favorite conceptually (I love running, I love backroom kitties, I love going up top in VHOF...) but it's awful when you're with a team who's trying to play deathmatch. Or when someone decides to be a pissbaby and just run around in circles with a relic instead of trying to capture it when they totally can - c'mon. Don't do that.

Domination is the most pug-friendly and it's awesome getting those people who think it's deathmatch to fight each other while I play the objective.

Enslaved

Dominion

I dislike capture the relic a lot.

Betsararie

Death match

There is no such game mode as 'dominion'. For the record.

DarkMatter909

Dominion

I don't usually enjoy domination but in eso I have have had the most fun when playing this game mode.

Soleya

Capture the flag

I voted CTF, but I have to be honest, I haven't really played the other modes. 1 Deathmatch (back during pre release), 2 domination and 20+ CTF games.

The 2 domination matches I played I didn't enjoy at all.

Also, I've never played anything other than CTF on below 50/non vet. And non-vet is the only fun I have in PVP.

Dakmor_Kavu

Death match

I voted for death match only because "anything but the torture that is capture the relic" wasnt an option. By far the least enjoyable mode. Got to love when all 3 teams have someone else's relic and everyone waits to see which 2 teams will actually fight so the third can come in and get easy kills and an easy cap

Ghettokid

Death match

Capture the flag is too easy. Domination is too hard. Deathmatch is fun.

bubbygink

Death match

Deathmatch is my favorite but Domination is a close second and may actually be the most balanced game mode. CTR is growing on me, especially as people are starting to learn the strategy, but it is still behind DM and Dom for me. I have to add in my obligatory complaint that I haven't had hardly any experience in BGs with premades because the group queue is STILL broken. Some game modes, like CTR, would probably be a lot more fun with a premade team.

casparian

Magdalina wrote: »

BraidasNM wrote: »

KeiruNicrom wrote: »

Like capture the relic the most. There is a strategy to it that most dont understand. Two teams are fighting over one relic? Go get the other one. Need to keep a team from winning? Grab their relic and run like a bantum guar that had too much moonsugar

heres a strat for you: 2 teams are pvping? well *** that let me pop an immov pot, shield wall, and run across the map at full speed in med cause no one can stop me from picking it up. such strategy, much wow

Maybe other 2 teams shouldn't have been PvPing without having picked up the enemies' relics first. Full speed or not, you are't capturing enemy relic if your own is missing.

I voted the relic for the semblance of strategy as well. It's also one mode where one person can make biggest difference sometimes. It can be very frustrating if other team members don't understand the point or flatout refuse to play it though.

I don't want to chase a relic, I want to PVP. To me, PVP means using your abilities to try to kill other players. This is why I don't enjoy BGs.

Kartalin

Death match

We asked for years for small scale battlegrounds where we could fight even numbers. But then they give us game modes where you do better in that game when you avoid fighting players (to a degree). And we don't get a choice in what game type we end up in either.

I like battlegrounds so far but there's definitely room for improvement. I'd like to be able to queue for a specific game type of course, but I'd also like for it to match premades with other premades, and random groups versus random groups. That would provide premades with more of a challenge and give random groups more of a chance. It'd also be nice to select specific teams to play against for inter- and intra-guild fun.

driosketch

Capture the flag

BraidasNM wrote: »

KeiruNicrom wrote: »

Like capture the relic the most. There is a strategy to it that most dont understand. Two teams are fighting over one relic? Go get the other one. Need to keep a team from winning? Grab their relic and run like a bantum guar that had too much moonsugar

heres a strat for you: 2 teams are pvping? well *** that let me pop an immov pot, shield wall, and run across the map at full speed in med cause no one can stop me from picking it up. such strategy, much wow

You say that, but that was one of my favorite things to do, light armor templar by the way. You pop the potion after you grab the relic or just before. And this only works because most teams leave their relic unguarded with all 4 run to the same enemy relic. 2-3 hard dps staying behind could take a single runner down. Also can be countered by someone grabbing their relic first.

Solariken

Death match

They're all great though

HeathenDeacon

Death match

i think it says it all that more than one poster says they like DOM b/c it allows them to avoid fighting... no disrespect but how many pvp games would ever sell a single copy if their main selling point was "the PVP game that allows you to never have to fight!"

-whatever floats your boat... fine, but bottom line is BGs have gone from the reason i wanted to log into ESO every day to the reason i don't want to log into ESO every day because i am forced to play game modes i don't like to get to the ones i do.

the announcement of BGs were the main reason i started playing again earlier this year.
IF ZOS won't let us choose our own game modes than they might just end up losing players that just came back for small scale pvp.

Jitterbug

Dominion

CTF is borderline boring to me.
The other two are equally fun.