When pvp was most fun

ThePhantomThorn

i know i have done a poll like this before but kinda skrewed it up.

but title says it all. when did you enjoy pvp the most
and sry i got a few patches muddled. so many of them now

FPH

You miss one option: Pre 1.2 Lightning Patch - give the 600 player each faction and deer back

Solariken

morrowind - horns of the reach

When BGs first launched and there was no MMR.

A close second would be the days of endless battle royals in the Imperial City Arboretum.

VaranisArano

I've been playing since pre-Morrowind, and I have to say that PVP is still fun when it works. Performance is my main make-or-break issue and that's definitely gotten worse over the years.

RebornV3x

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

Wrothgar to One Tamriel.

GhostofDatthaw

pre morrowind (dark brotherhood, theives guild, orsinium, imperial city, shadows of the hist)

I'm pre morrwind, I was a total pve scrub who ran like a snipe spammer in dungeons pre t1. Played alot of other games at the time as well. Was not until T1 that I found bwb and learned lowbie pvp. Played that campaign during it's heights and was AMAZING. Moved into vet dueling and once Morrowind hit everything starting losing its flare and getting boring.

_Salty_

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

From IC release to Dark Brotherhood release was the sweet spot. Dark Brotherhood broke the game with the start of the heavy Meta, poisons and proc sets.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

I.5 even with the lag was most fun in comparison.

Since then probs most fun patches for me was scalebreaker > Thieves guild > whenever destro ulti came in

Asardes

pre morrowind (dark brotherhood, theives guild, orsinium, imperial city, shadows of the hist)

Back in 2016 when I started PvP-ing lag was far less severe. I mean you got the spikes at big sieges, but the population was also higher than today. For about 1.5 years I've mostly gone to Cyrodiil to collect shards and do the town quests, and my characters gain their ranks in BGs instead. The most recent stint there was during the Jester's festival in late March when I did the Empielor achievement - took a while on Stamina DK and ended up with about 550K AP the day I got it.

Joy_Division

Why do all these "when was the game most fun" polls ask to choose between

1. Recent overly tanky meta with weird combat change nobody ask for update
2. Recent overly tanky meta with homogenized skills update
3. Recent overly tanky meta with inexplicable sweeping nerfs update
4. Recent overly tanky meta with another weird combat change nobody asked for update
5. Other

Strider__Roshin

Pre-IC

Increasing the ttk really killed the PvP. It's just been downhill from there.

Tommy_The_Gun

murkmire - summerset

Hard to say.
Either Between Morrowind & Summerset or between Murkmire & Wrathstone. Of course, it very much depends on what class did you played & playstyle, but for me personally, this is where experience was best. At least back then we had less lag and it was actually playable...

Edit: I remember times before One Tamriel, but barely (long time ago, & did not PvP much), but I remember that there was like basically no lag. Compared to now, it is as if you had 0 Ping. Also, maybe my memory fails me, but we did not had ball-groups back then...
Good old times...

ChefZero

pre morrowind (dark brotherhood, theives guild, orsinium, imperial city, shadows of the hist)

First months of IC

Unfadingsilence

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

1.6 and 1.7

DRTE

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

nurf harmony to 15% per piece and make group heals cost more/less effective than single target self heals. and i'll be happy with PvP again. tanks not an issue if they can't get spammed by 20 sources of incoming heals and the whole harmony group bombs fun sure but very much over tuned.

ThePhantomThorn

dragon bones - clockwork city

Well...
time for a eso classic

Ragnaroek93

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

The whole game is getting downwards since Dark Brotherhood, that's when they overbuffed heavy armor and introduced proc sets and everybody who didn't play 100% meta got powercrept. Also the performance was much better. Playing ESO nowadays feels like playing a worse version of WoW, ESO has nothing to do anymore with the unique action MMORPG which it once was and which I fell in love with (all classes and abilities got pruned down way too much, the combat is clunky, unfun and linear now).

I'm not saying that ESO was perfect back in the days, it's had its issues as well but none of the issues really ruined my gaming experience. I haven't logged in to ESO since I've duelled on the PTS the last time, the game just became such a horrible boring themepark.

ATomiX69

dragon bones - clockwork city

CWC was the last patch where PvP was somewhat playable and enjoyable for me.
Every thing after CWC = 📉

Raudgrani

pre morrowind (dark brotherhood, theives guild, orsinium, imperial city, shadows of the hist)

PVP was pretty new to me right before Morrowind, so I didn't quite feel/recognize any sustain nerfs etc. All I remember is, that it was exciting and very, very fun. Hours passed like minutes, and days like hours. I miss those days. After the last patch, I haven't even bothered logging in at all, been playing Total War games and doing other "non gaming" stuff instead. Still have some hope the game might be worthwhile again, but I dunno. No good thing lasts forever...

Master_Kas

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

Before CP was added.

Zer0_CooL

pre morrowind (dark brotherhood, theives guild, orsinium, imperial city, shadows of the hist)

When gankblades could oneshot with a HA

Cathexis

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

Master_Kas wrote: »

Before CP was added.

You can actually physically see the difference in balance quality in no-cp, and thats not even accounting for the impact of rolling tank patches.

Davadin

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

all DK must love the dark ages lol

Cathexis

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

...

Cathexis

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

Very well then, it is decided, a second dark age. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

ThePhantomThorn

dragon bones - clockwork city

It’s sad that the most popular times are the oldest. Wtf is zos doing


@ZOS_BrianWheeler

I doubt that he will take notice but FIX THE GAME.

BaiterOfZergs

Funnest ? Probably during the time before they turned azuras star into no cp and back when the cp cap was 501.

Ragnarock41

pre morrowind (dark brotherhood, theives guild, orsinium, imperial city, shadows of the hist)

BaiterOfZergs wrote: »

Funnest ? Probably during the time before they turned azuras star into no cp and back when the cp cap was 501.

Those were the days, also CP felt like a lot less of a balance nightmare back when the cap was only 500, but the unkillable builds were already starting to get popular.

Turelus

pre one tamriel (dark ages)

Dark Ages for me, everything was still new and exciting and bar some OP builds and buggy locations it played well.

Massive battles for keeps, some of which could go on for an hour or two.
People cared about campaign victories and didn't switch alliances as often as their underwear.

SodanTok

pre morrowind (dark brotherhood, theives guild, orsinium, imperial city, shadows of the hist)

Honestly any patch before Scalebreaker was fun in some way minus Homestead and those 2 weeks where DW could proc backbar enchant from DoT.

BaiterOfZergs

Ragnarock41 wrote: »

BaiterOfZergs wrote: »

Funnest ? Probably during the time before they turned azuras star into no cp and back when the cp cap was 501.

Those were the days, also CP felt like a lot less of a balance nightmare back when the cap was only 500, but the unkillable builds were already starting to get popular.

I liked this era because small scale was great, could take a resource and farm it by yourself or with someone else & repeatedly do it. These days it’s hit or miss.

And when azuras star was cp multiple campaigns thrived and gate farming existed. Actually gate farming, tower farming and breaking down the steps of a keep farming was alive and well. There was more players to kill too when an alliance was capped out. I remember swarms of players repeatedly rushing behind gates, like 200 people and it would last all day unless we got enough people to push out.