ESO BEST *DLC* DUNGEON COMPETITION: HEMIDEMISEMIFINALS ROUND 2 - VOTE'S CLOSED

Saucy_Jack

For round two of the DLC dungeon competition it's WHITE-GOLD TOWER against FALKREATH HOLD! Will Molag Kena grab the bull by the horns? Or will Domihaus the Bloody-Horned live up to his name? YOU DECIDE!

A list of the overall action for BOTH the base and DLC competitions can be found HERE, so people can get a quick glance at the overall action.

All fights will go for TWO DAYS and end at 8PM CST (or your timezone equivalent; figure it out) so this one will end on Wednesday, March 18th.

FIIIIIIIIGHT!!!

Hapexamendios

White-Gold Tower

Going with White-Gold. Like climbing up the tower. Good fight with Planar Inhibitor. Love Molag Keena's trash talking.

Lord-Otto

White-Gold Tower

Definitely the tower. It looks awesome, it is an important location and the bosses have fun mechanics with no cheap oneshots.

Reverb

White-Gold Tower

Still one of my favorite dungeons and some of the best fights in the game.

almightyalfo

White-Gold Tower

So much good memories and laughs from vWGT HM runs I did back in the day.

peacenote

White-Gold Tower

I forget sometimes that WGT isn't base game. It has given me so many great memories...

emilyhyoyeon

Falkreath Hold

poll results are shocking to me

MartiniDaniels

Falkreath Hold

Minotaurs are awesome. Their sounds, animation and impact - it all feels real. Like either you break them or they break you.

thorwyn

White-Gold Tower

WGT, no question. Falkreath is so hectic and the annoyance level of the voice over is a close competition with Blessed Crucible.

Raisin

This is a tough one. I feel like WGT would be really interesting if they buffed it and people had to play mechanics. Am a bit torn of the aesthetic because I love it, but we also get so much of it.
Falkreath isn't inherently a mechanic I like a lot, but they did a good job with the big mino adds and if I think about it, they put a lot of thought into boss mechanics? FH has a lot going for it. I feel like it's mostly the aesthetic here that I'm so meh about, but even that in theory is super cool. It's nice when a dungeon isn't a dungeon, and out-in-the-world type settings are always neat... The way they make you navigate behind houses, etc, as well as the underground part, even the contrast of the last boss still being in a 'normal' house... I feel bad voting against it, because it all sounds great on paper. Not sure why I feel so meh about it.

FrancisCrawford

White-Gold Tower

SPC is a big deal for those of who don't do trials. And the moth priestess is great.

Cirantille

White-Gold Tower

Molag Kena

DreadDaedroth

Falkreath Hold

Falkreath a Nord settlement under the siege of Reachmen and Minotaurs.

daemonios

Falkreath Hold

Does Molag Kena scream "GROVELLLLLL" at the top of her lungs? No, she does not. Domihaus has to take the crown.

Joke aside, WGT was, along with ICP, the first DLC dungeon to be released. I've run it more than probably any other dungeon farming the monster helm and the Spell Power Cure set for my healer (remember when you couldn't transmute traits or trade with group members?). With all the nerfs to the bosses and the power creep on the players' side, it's hardly a challenge unless you're running with very inexperienced people. Falkreath Hold keeps you on your toes, has some nice outdoors as well as indoor parts, and I have to say I really like the claustrophobic fight with Domihaus, which is already smaller than Kena's room but then gets even smaller with all the fire and the huge adds he summons.

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

poll results are shocking to me

I'm sure many people will never have run Falkreath Hold at all. There is an installed culture that says DLC dungeons are for "elite" players, so many people simply avoid them. Also, there is the fact that not everyone will have the DLC or ESO+, so they objectively can't run the dungeon.

snoozy

Falkreath Hold

FH is prettier
can't stand daedra or oblivion so easy one for me

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

i dont understand how this works? we talking about purely aspect? or actual difficulty of content? cuz if so wgt used to be hard until zos decided to nerf it 24/7 for 1 year and became the joke it is now...same with fh but in terms of current difficulty meh...fh u still need competent people...on wgt vet hm u can simply run it 4 dds :V

pod88kk

Falkreath Hold

That final bosses entrance makes it an easy win for him

Grianasteri

White-Gold Tower

Enjoyment wise, its White Gold Tower by an absolute country mile, be it on Normal, Vet or HM.

Varana

White-Gold Tower

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

i dont understand how this works? we talking about purely aspect? or actual difficulty of content? cuz if so wgt used to be hard until zos decided to nerf it 24/7 for 1 year and became the joke it is now...same with fh but in terms of current difficulty meh...fh u still need competent people...on wgt vet hm u can simply run it 4 dds :V

Whatever you fancy, so for most, probably a combination of all of these. Aesthetics, fun (or lack thereof), interesting or frustrating mechanics, difficulty... it's your choice what you value more, and may even shift from dungeon to dungeon.

If you're not sure, you could just wait until I voted, and then follow my example.

Raisin

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

i dont understand how this works? we talking about purely aspect? or actual difficulty of content? cuz if so wgt used to be hard until zos decided to nerf it 24/7 for 1 year and became the joke it is now...same with fh but in terms of current difficulty meh...fh u still need competent people...on wgt vet hm u can simply run it 4 dds :V

You're also free (imo) to choose whether you want to consider it truly a matter of what you think is the 'better' dungeon, and just thinking about which one is your personal favorite, for whatever reason that is. Maybe you like one dungeon more and you don't know why. Maybe there's one dungeon you feel 'factually' just does a lot of things right and deserves the win.

Hell, you wanna flip a coin, flip a damn coin. Vote for the dungeon you hate, or the dungeon with the most vowels in the french translation of the name. The power is all yours.

SkoomaPie

White-Gold Tower

The struggle can be real at times with some groups, but when it is finished it can feel quite rewarding in my opinion.
Most definitely on Veteran.

AlnilamE

White-Gold Tower

They are both fun dungeons, but I just will never get tired of the dialogue in WGT. And Molag Kena has just the perfect annoying voice.

Saucy_Jack

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

i dont understand how this works? we talking about purely aspect? or actual difficulty of content?

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

Saucy_Jack wrote: »

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

i dont understand how this works? we talking about purely aspect? or actual difficulty of content?

i will just vote the same way i take life decisions, by flipping a coin!

Varana

White-Gold Tower

On the plus side for Falkreath Hold: It's still quite difficult, some of the mechanics are unique, and the entrance of the final boss is the best in the game.
On the other hand, I don't really like its setting and aesthetics, oversized cows are lame, the last boss has been bugged for me repeatedly, I'm not even sure what the story was (and I do at least one story-run for a dungeon), and it's a bit too long.

White Gold Tower has been hit both by power-creep and the nerf-hammer quite substantially. Apart from that, I still find it fun, and some of its visuals are spectacular. The Planar Inhibitor fight was so badly explained that it killed loads of groups before being nerfed, though.

Saucy_Jack

Less than a day to get your votes in!

Dagoth_Rac

White-Gold Tower

pod88kk wrote: »

That final bosses entrance makes it an easy win for him

Once, I was in front of horn, ready to blow it and activate hard mode. Domihaus comes flying down and knocks me into the horn. I was stuck. Had to teleport back to start and make my way back. Domihaus don't mess around!

I prefer WGT because it has a nostalgia factor. I ran it so many times back when it was new and the only place to get VR16 gear. It was very challenging back then, but a fun challenge, not an infuriating challenge. Nonetheless, Falkreath Hold is one of my favorite of the "newer" dungeons. Cool environment with indoor and outdoor bosses. Challenging but not overly long. Hard mode is doable with a good group, rather than something that needs a dedicated group to treat it like a progression raid. If Falkreath were up against just about anything but the dungeon that got me into dungeons in the first place, it might have won.

Starlock

White-Gold Tower

In fairness, I’ve barely run Falkreath. But one experience of a rude person trying to skip whole sections soured me to it. I don’t usually drop out of dungeon groups, but I left that one in a short minute.

Saucy_Jack

And White-Gold Tower towers over Falkreath Hold to move on!