Statistic of the races used in PvP

Jura23 · January 2016

As you probably noticed there are achievments in AvA section saying how many enemies of each race you killed. I don't know exactly how it counts the kills, but it doesn't really matter, what I thought would be actually interesting is to compare the numbers, so I did it now because I've hit 100 on one of them, where the counting ends, so it wouldn't be representative in the future anymore. This might be influenced by me being on AD faction, so take that into account.

So here are the numbers:

Breton: 100
Redguard: 59
Dark Elf: 53
Imperial: 49
High Elf: 34
Nord: 33
Khajiit: 27
Orc: 21
Wood Elf: 19
Argonian: 9

mods: I put this into this category because I felt like this falls under "character mechanics", but feel free to move it if you feel like it.

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO · January 2016

Mine looks like this

Argonian: 15
Breton: 39
Dark Elf: 66
High elf: 88
Imperial: 69
Khajiit: 59
Nord: 68
Orc: 17
Redguard: 15
Wood elf: 52

r.jan_emailb16_ESO · January 2016

That's kinda flawed, cause I'm sure there was no 50/50 distribution between your kills on DC and EP, and your own faction is not in there... also the set is way too small

That being said, it's very likely that the order is more or less like that. But yeah, it's been discussed endlessly on these forums that some races just suck.

Toc de Malsvi · January 2016

Now you just need like 300 players or so from each alliance to link their's and then you can compile it and then get a small sample from which to provide an educated guess. In all seriousness it would be really cool if someone took the time to compile this just for something interesting to read and look at.

Erdmanski · January 2016

Those numbers are going to be skewed by what you come across in your campaign and what you can actually kill.

I think if you were purely looking for a population average, I would say the distribution would go something like this:

Top 3:
Breton
Dark Elf
Khajiit

Middle 4:
High Elf
Imperial
Wood Elf
Nord

Bottom 3:
Orc
Redguard
Argonian

Breton has more utility than High Elf for Magicka class builds
Khajiit is more common than Wood Elf for stamina based characters
Dark Elf is popular for fire mitigation/damage in PVP
Imperial would be top 3, but not everyone has purchased

Jura23 · January 2016

Toc de Malsvi wrote: »

Now you just need like 300 players or so from each alliance to link their's and then you can compile it and then get a small sample from which to provide an educated guess. In all seriousness it would be really cool if someone took the time to compile this just for something interesting to read and look at.

lol, yeah you are probably right.

hrothbern · January 2016

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Mine looks like this

Argonian: 15
Breton: 39
Dark Elf: 66
High elf: 88
Imperial: 69
Khajiit: 59
Nord: 68
Orc: 17
Redguard: 15
Wood elf: 52

@iamnotweakrwb17_ESO ,

What faction are you ?

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO · January 2016

DC

Jura23 · January 2016

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO wrote: »

DC

Then it's strange that our Orc numbers are practically identical.

hrothbern · January 2016

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO wrote: »

DC

thanks,

So.. nice list up @Jura23 , @iamnotweakrwb17_ESO ,

guessing how Stamina Magicka distribution is, only looking at the obvious races, it moves between 40-60% Stamina !

that's more than I thought.

Tamanous · January 2016

Jura23 wrote: »

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO wrote: »

DC

Then it's strange that our Orc numbers are practically identical.

I can only imagine Orcs would be purely represented because of 2 factors (outside of faction choice):

1. Some simply can't get over their looks and concept in ESO.
2. Their racials were updated later on making them far more appealing.

If ZOS wakes up and updates Argonian racials they may actually appear in game too!

I play an Orc stam DK and personally love the racials overall now but wouldn't have picked them prior.

Waffennacht · January 2016

Hmm OP has roughly 400 kills, 500 for the next poster.

When I get home I can check it, Smart Glass only tells me I currently have aprox 900 kills. Gonna go out on a limb and guess most are NBs, and whatever their most prominent race is.

Tamanous · January 2016

Waffennacht wrote: »

Hmm OP has roughly 400 kills, 500 for the next poster.

When I get home I can check it, Smart Glass only tells me I currently have aprox 900 kills. Gonna go out on a limb and guess most are NBs, and whatever their most prominent race is.

I keep seeing this talk of NBs being everywhere. This must be a console thing. There doesn't appear to be nearly ratio of NB to everything else on PC.

Ever_75 · January 2016

since it counts the kills.... that mean those argonians are real tough to kill ;-)

Waffennacht · January 2016

Last night, as It was late I ran into three enemy groups.

Group 1. x3 NBs x1Sorc
Group 2. x1 Sorc x1 NB x1 DK
Group 3. x1 Sorc x1 NB

Sorcs and NBs are heavily favored in my experience, with it usually being 2or 3 NBs per Sorc

I've seen an UP in DKs, however there is rarely more than 1 per group.

Templars are the rarest (and strangely I find them most often alone)

The thing about races is, a ton of clothing hides the features of all races. Example, im sure I fought an Orc, however I wouldn't know it based on what I've seen.

driosketch · January 2016

At a glance, looking at just the numbers:

Jura23 wrote: »

Breton: 100
Redguard: 59
Dark Elf: 53
Imperial: 49
High Elf: 34
Nord: 33
Khajiit: 27
Orc: 21
Wood Elf: 19
Argonian: 9

AD player

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Mine looks like this

Argonian: 15
Breton: 39
Dark Elf: 66
High elf: 88
Imperial: 69
Khajiit: 59
Nord: 68
Orc: 17
Redguard: 15
Wood elf: 52

DC player

Bretons are pretty popular cross faction as are High elves. Redguard, Khajiit and Wood Elves are popular in faction. Imperials are popular over all, Orcs and Argonians not so much.

Minno · January 2016

Should be noted, reason why orc numbers are so low is because orc master race can't be killed.

Xvorg · January 2016

driosketch wrote: »

At a glance, looking at just the numbers:

Jura23 wrote: »

Breton: 100
Redguard: 59
Dark Elf: 53
Imperial: 49
High Elf: 34
Nord: 33
Khajiit: 27
Orc: 21
Wood Elf: 19
Argonian: 9

AD player

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Mine looks like this

Argonian: 15
Breton: 39
Dark Elf: 66
High elf: 88
Imperial: 69
Khajiit: 59
Nord: 68
Orc: 17
Redguard: 15
Wood elf: 52

DC player

Bretons are pretty popular cross faction as are High elves. Redguard, Khajiit and Wood Elves are popular in faction. Imperials are popular over all, Orcs and Argonians not so much.

Argonians don't die because they are master race....

:oknot:

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO · January 2016

Most sorcs would be magicka. Very few stamina sorcs.
Most nightblades are stamina Still a good number of magicka nightblades.
Most templars are healers
Most DKs are stamina.

If I had to hazard a guess I would say magicka templars and magicka nightblades provide the majority of deaths for magicka races. The sorcs, while there are a lot of them around, they are much harder to kill. Magicka nightblades have a tendency to bite off more than they can chew due to stealth getting them into dangerous positions.

I would think breton would be the most killed race due to them being mostly templar healers. All healers go down like sacks of *** in this game without extremely tanked up builds. Most healers will have stamina issues and be in light armor so they will die pretty easily.

TheNephilimCrow · January 2016

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/240342/what-race-do-you-play-pvp-only

I did a poll in the PvP forum. We'll wait for answers there.

Joy_Division · January 2016

Took me forever to get the kill Argonian achievement.

Think I got the Altmer one the first week I PvPed...

code65536 · January 2016

High elves were the ones I reach 100 for the soonest. Probably because I'm DC and during my early days of PvP, I played on a server that was largely dominated by AD, so we had far more opportunities to kill AD than the server's other underdog faction.

What faction you're in and what the dominant factions of a campaign are will make a substantial difference in the numbers.

RAGUNAnoOne · January 2016

BUFF ARGONIAN PASSIVES ALREADY!

DaveMoeDee · January 2016

Tamanous wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

Hmm OP has roughly 400 kills, 500 for the next poster.

When I get home I can check it, Smart Glass only tells me I currently have aprox 900 kills. Gonna go out on a limb and guess most are NBs, and whatever their most prominent race is.

I keep seeing this talk of NBs being everywhere. This must be a console thing. There doesn't appear to be nearly ratio of NB to everything else on PC.

My main is DK, but my main is my first character at PC launch. At console launch, the NB was already highly advantageous in PvP, so PvP focused players might have favored them from launch with no attachment to old characters from when things were different.

Still, I see a ton of NB on PC. It might be because NBs come in for melee more aggressively since they can just disappear and run away, while other classes are more cautious about going toe to toe. It is also really in your face when they are spamming ambush.

Jura23 · January 2016

RAGUNAnoOne wrote: »

BUFF ARGONIAN PASSIVES ALREADY!

lol

Cathexis · January 2016

While I respect the integrity of idea, a sample of 500~ kills is probably not representative of pvp.

That said you could probably get this information through writing a global statistics compiling addon similar to MM for the kill counter addon.

TheNephilimCrow · February 2016

Looks like the poll says that Imperial is chosen more.

aLi3nZ · February 2016

So as an AD you killed quite a lot of high elf a race only avalible to Ad right? Unless those people had the any race any alliance perk?

wskill · February 2016

Tamanous wrote: »

Jura23 wrote: »

iamnotweakrwb17_ESO wrote: »

DC

Then it's strange that our Orc numbers are practically identical.

I can only imagine Orcs would be purely represented because of 2 factors (outside of faction choice):

1. Some simply can't get over their looks and concept in ESO.
2. Their racials were updated later on making them far more appealing.

If ZOS wakes up and updates Argonian racials they may actually appear in game too!

I play an Orc stam DK and personally love the racials overall now but wouldn't have picked them prior.

Sole reason ididnt pick an orc is because i cant stand the whole avatar lion like face they have and those stupid teeth just look way too small to be taken seriously, makes orcs look like someone with poor dentals rather than an actual orc, or i wouldve played an orcette for sure..

eniweys

I only have a breton, redguard, heyho elf and a nord.

Argonians look weird with the clippy tail, wood elfs are pretty much the ugliest race in the game unless you want to rp a midget or a child (some do, no hate), khajiit are so so, i might make one maybe..someday, just dont want to be confused with furries. (still need a templar see, but that class has so far not really been interesting to me, its not distinct.. looks like a random warblegarble of skills and personalities rather than something that spells out templar.. to me that whole skillset spells out "valkyrie, healer, fire.. ehh..lightning.. ..ehh ..mage.. dunno what to do lets call it templar) Dunmer has got to be the most one dimensional race in the game, if you play a dunmer you better be a dualwield dragonknight.. or youre shooting yourself in the foot hard with his passives.. and im not even a meta player, heck i have a redguard mage for godsake.

aLi3nZ · February 2016

I rolled dunmer went all the way to v16 got everything I could want then realized I shot myself in the foot and rerolled. Luckily battle leveling seems pretty great. But so much grinding left to do. Only lvl 21. I am actually looking forward to playing more of the main story. Main story is cool.

ToRelax · February 2016

Argonian: 20th Juli
Nord: 8th Juli
Dunmer: 28th June
Khajiit: 26th May
Redguard: 15th May
Orc: 8th May
Altmer: 7th May
Imperial: 3rd May
Bosmer: 2nd May
Breton: 30th April

...these are all in 2014 and I'm EP, unsurprisingly. Bosmer looks a bit off, the others make sense with magicka meta and softcaps.