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Reminiscing, PvP a year ago

Rylana
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Do any of you remember November beta test weekend, the beta test where the first massive population of players were invited to stress test cyrodiil, encouraged to level to 10 specifically for that?

Do you remember...

- Players literally everywhere
- Battles at keeps lasting 10+ hours
- Alessia Bridge being the hotspot the entire weekend
- Drakelowe being the most important keep because that was the only keep cap quest given all weekend
- Kill 20 players being unlimited and giving twice as much AP
- AP gear costing 10x as much as it does today
- Horses costing 1g
- Spending three hours at a dungeon to fill your inventory with soul gems/loot because the bosses always dropped them on every kill.
- Despite stress test disconnections, a game that rarely ever lagged or dropped FPS, but still had literally thousands of players in the same zone
- When seeing a vet level character was the most awesome thing youd ever seen (vet 1-2 people were rare and were like the gods of battle)
- When everyone was a Tyro or Legionary and no one had ever hit Corporal, not even once.
- When you were part of the first scroll run and you felt like you had just won the game.
- When no one complained about forward camps because no one could afford them, yet we charged across the battlefield 100 strong anyway to our next objective
- When no one complained about zerg balls
- When no one complained about what abilities others were using
- When youd occasionally see a Dev or GM on the battlefield watching the fight, and sometimes even helping the losing force a little bit. (and everyone followed him)
- When we still had fun
Edited by Rylana on November 10, 2014 6:47AM
@rylanadionysis == Closed Beta Tester October 2013 == Retired October 2016 == Uninstalled @ One Tamriel Release == Inactive Indefinitely
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  • Sanct16
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    Oh yes, that was so nice back then. I remember after I was first part of a raid taking some keep after several wipes and heavy resistance. I was sooo amazed "Hell yeah, we got it, we got it!!!!".


    - EU - Raid Leader of Banana Zerg Squad
    AD | AR 50 | Sanct Fir'eheal | ex Mana DK @31.10.2015
    EP | AR 50 | Sanctosaurus | Mana NB
    AD | AR 44 | rekt ya | Mana NB
    AD | AR 41 | Sanct Thunderstorm | Mana Sorc
    EP | AR 36 | S'na'ct | Mana NB {NA}
    AD | AR 29 | Captain Full Fist| Stam DK
    AD | AR 29 | Sanct The Dark Phoenix| Stam Sorc
    EP | AR 16 | Horny Sanct | Stam Warden
    EP | AR 16 | Sánct Bánáná Sláyér | Mana DK
    DC | AR 13 | ad worst faction eu | Stam Sorc
    DC | AR 13 | Lagendary Sanct | Mana NB

    >320.000.000 AP
  • Lava_Croft
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    Those times were what sold me on the game, instantly.
  • Orchish
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    Good times.
  • Insurrektion
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    Yea I never had the time to play to even get level 10. It seemed every beta weekend was a weekend I worked.

    My pvp experience went like this. I leveled a Sorcerer to about level 8-9 while zone chatting with people who told me DKs were like raid bosses. I rerolled DK and leveled to 10. There were a bunch of pvp servers to choose from so I went to some random pvp server because the name sounded cool. It was completely owned by an opposing faction. I ran on foot to a nearby enemy keep and got killed by guards instantly. Then I managed to find a group of about 3 other guys on my faction and joined them. We didn't have the cajones to do anything.

    Shortly thereafter I discovered the holy grail that was Wabbajack. It was a lot of fun and even though I was still only lvl 20-30 the campaign was so close and so contested by all sides that it felt like even my meager contributions mattered. Then the overnight AD crew threw what was a VERY fun and challenging campaign into the shitter.

    I went back to leveling. Thornblade came it was fun. 2.0 came and it was probably the same peeps from wabba that decided what was tantamount to griefing the entire NA Thornblade population by throwing a greatly balanced and contested campaign into unbalance and disarray was more important than rerolling and beating on themselves instead of doors.

    Meanwhile I'm still VR1.

    I'm glad you've had fun with the pvp in this game. I keep having people poop in my mouth.
  • Artis
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    Rylana wrote: »
    - When no one complained about forward camps because no one could afford them, yet we charged across the battlefield 100 strong anyway to our next objective
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    Everyone was complaining about running too much. And the keeps would change owners every 10 mins or so lol. PvP was fun (a lot of people were there), but felt so pointless. Having forward camps made battles really epic and long even with lower campaign population.

    Now.. I don't know, I don't even want to check how PvP is now. Every time I remember how much running it would be on those beta events, I want to delete the game lol.
  • FluffiestOne
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    Rylana wrote: »
    - Drakelowe being the most important keep because that was the only keep cap quest given all weekend

    That's because it's the source of my power.
    Fluffy
    Senior Fluffykins, Daggerfall Liberator of Haderus, Dragonknight.
    Fliffers, Daggerfall Liberator of Hopesfire, Templar.
    Prophet Fluffy of Death, Casual of the Dominion, Sorceror.
    Nozdorumu The Timeless, Daggerfall. Dragon. Nightblade.
    All my toon names are subject to change.
    " Ignorance must be bliss because I can't imagine why anyone would live in it. " -Fluffy
  • Soris
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    Oooh that restoration staff's big yellow light ball... I missed it. And Lingering Ritual had an actual use in pvp instead of Healing Springs spam...
    Welkynd [Templar/AD/EU]
  • Soris
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    Good ol' days
    Welkynd [Templar/AD/EU]
  • Armitas
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    Was there and loved it. I think I liked it most because there wasn't any drama about a flip or kill, or this guild or that guild. People played for fun rather than as a source of self esteem.
    Edited by Armitas on November 10, 2014 2:51PM
    Retired.
    Nord mDK
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