Current alliance pops?

Actually_Goku

Hey guys!

I’m returning to the game after a solid 2 years away - I’ve just bought all the chapters that have released since then. I must say, kudos to ZOS for the faithful recreation of Solitude, and the general expansion of the game! It looks amazing. I’m so excited to get back into it

I’m generally a 75/25 PVP/PVE player, I love my competitive PVP, and I ADORED the ESO PVP experience. Open-world Cyrodiil, BGS especially, and evening duels as well! Mag DK ftw, by the way

To that end - I am someone who pushed HARD for alliance change tokens, and alliance lock on PVP, I mean, heaps. I’m so affirmed they both occurred during my absence.

Upon my return, I’d like to join the alliance struggling the most, for players. I play on NA XB1, though in my experience, while there are ebbs and flows of population differing across all platforms and servers, they are relatively similar, in that, EP tends to have the most players, followed by AD and then DC, though DC tends to have more skilled players than AD, especially streamers.

So, in the current standing of the game, who would you say is the most populous alliance in the game? I plan to join the alliance with the LEAST votes in 2 days time.

Please discuss

I read all comments, so your input is appreciated in advance.

BisDasBlutGefriert

Honestly, I’d read some of the topics in the forums here about pvps current state first, before going too crazy in there.

Actually_Goku

BisDasBlutGefriert wrote: »

Honestly, I’d read some of the topics in the forums here about pvps current state first, before going too crazy in there.

I have, there’s not much in there in the way of alliance pop

Yuffie91

Aldmeri Dominion

I play AD. I love the quests there. And we get Raz!

Ysbriel

The reality is that it depends on the time you are playing. Sometimes it might seem that a certain Alliance has less people depending on the time of the day .

Sylosi

Actually_Goku wrote: »

I love my competitive PVP.

Then you are playing the wrong game (and for the most part, the wrong genre).

Danikat

It might help to specify which platform and server you're on, since the results could be different for each one.

Aurielle

I’m not sure it’s worth the time or frustration to get back into open world PVP in this game at the moment, especially on console — not unless you want to spend your free time crashing, experiencing three second skill delays in prime time, experiencing ten second skill delays/not being able to bar swap after gap-closing, hitting even more load screens than ever before in the middle of combat or just while generally riding around, etc.

ayu_fever

Ebonheart Pact

red or dead baybayyy

shimm

Daggerfall Covenant

I’m wondering from the responses if I misread your question or if most of the voters did... gray host is the most populated campaign in pvp On Xbox NA and it has consistently (at least the last three campaigns) been dominated in population by DC (blue!), like it isn’t even close...

Sahidom

Ebonheart Pact

Not to sound negative but its a mute survey when players hop factions.

EP dominates Grayhost for the most part; but thats also a faction lock campaign.

Or simply visit other campaigns and you find players removing scrolls from one facfion and walking them to their friends alliance gate (happened in late July 2020) or faction hop to ride any groups effort to collect AP from their PVP efforts;

Sometimes you come across small 4 man premades but they usually get squashed by other groups; some are good but soon fall too. You find those more in Imperial City where the fights are usually smaller, and you have more terrain options to pick your engagement.

PvP ESO server performance is poor; So expect players to land massive damage fast, dysync your health bar for a sudden death without notice.. Or encounter load screens and return to game dead - someone got an AFK kill... or back at the home base.

ShawnLaRock

Currently DC is steamrolling, XBOX NA.

S.

idk

Actually_Goku wrote: »

BisDasBlutGefriert wrote: »

Honestly, I’d read some of the topics in the forums here about pvps current state first, before going too crazy in there.

I have, there’s not much in there in the way of alliance pop

They are talking about how bad the performance in Cyrodiil has gotten since you last played.

Alliance population depends on the time of day and really carries across time.

xshatox

This is actually representative of cyrodiil current population. More than half if the population are EP, thats why they have enough people for 24 hours. The other 2 alliance usually only have people during NA primetime or weekend.

shimm

Daggerfall Covenant

xshatox wrote: »

This is actually representative of cyrodiil current population. More than half if the population are EP, thats why they have enough people for 24 hours. The other 2 alliance usually only have people during NA primetime or weekend.

This is not accurate. The topic creator is talking about Xbox NA - the campaign with the highest population is gray host, the alliance that has won the last two and has a huge lead in the current campaign is DC (32,000, the next closest alliance has 19,000). I play exclusively AD so it has been painfully clear that blue has a higher pop at nearly every time of day..