How do you view the other alliances?

Pink_Violinz · May 2016

I've been in pvp all day losing help me

I'm talking pvp-wise. As I'm a healer in pve, I get to talk and interact with the other two (AD and DC) on a daily basis. They say basically what I've been thinking too. For further clarification, I'm on PS4 NA Chillrend but a lot stretches to all servers.
Ebonheart is 100% mindless zerg. We of course have our few unstoppable players, but for the most part we're just an angry army that has nothing but numbers. Of course, I don't play against EB, so this is going by what I've seen and DCs have told me.

AD is a bit different. While they also have considerable numbers, they have more skilled players and MUCH more coordination. Although we may (sometimes) outnumber them, when they get five(!) nightblades to Soul Harvest us in succession at a lumbermill thats a wipe.

Maybe I've just been playing too long tonight. Maybe they're attacking us at Arius while blue is two keeps away from emp.

DC is... weird. They have far fewer numbers but the players they do have are beasts. Some nights, they wreck havoc on the server threatening to claim the entire thing. Other nights... they get Aleswell and thats it. They had a full group but they quit after one keep. The only reason why they had Rayles and Glademist to begin with was because we were busy dealing with AD after the server reset. On other servers, they still have far fewer people but constantly win against the other two sides. It's so strange.

So how do you see everyone? Of course things are going to change server to server, platform to platform. Was curious about what experiences you guys get over on pc and xbox land.
And please, no foul comments bashing other alliances without good reason or name calling. Every alliance has bad players. Including yours.

LadyLethalla · May 2016

Well speaking for myself I dislike EP, because nine times out of ten when I get ganked, it's by an EP player. And I'm talking about clearing caves etc.

Okay, yes, I know that is the risk you run in Cyrodiil. Wouldn't have bothered with doing that kind of stuff there, except for the associated trophies.

NativeJoe · May 2016

DC, the ultimate solo'ers. Left alone DC will be found in every corner of the map picking flowers, and fishing. attack a home keep, and they'll crawl out of their delves and come from every corner of the map and form the blue tide. DC players typically have a pretty high skill level because they're used to fighting 1vs X. They have a very unusual obsession with claiming chal, and it's not uncommon to see the strangest defensive strategy of all occur, the fabled CHALAMO, in which case it is the only keep DC has, and every DC can be found inside.

AD- The min maxers, the elites, They don't group play to well (atleast in siege situations) and typically stick to small gank groups till something like their SACRED alessia bridge is tread upon or alessia is actually taken. 75% of the population is nightblade, and typically these are the "best" over all players because their elites can take on 5-9 people by themselves. These players take whatever advantage they can ruthlessly, and are well known for their habits of ledge camping in imperial city, or perching on castle walls and never coming down.

EP- Skyrim kiddos, Zerglings, When you see 1, there are 12 behind them... and thats their idea of "soloing" haha.... By far the most populated faction, and by far the worst skilled faction in the game. DC and AD alike can take on 5-10 of these buggers by themselves...but that means nothing when they have 75 stomping their way towards you. Everyday when school gets out the red tide begins, and the AP flows for all of us. They do have a few note worthy elites...but I think those are all banned now

K4RMA · May 2016

AD + EP = AP
Courtesy of @KenaPKK

Strider_Roshin · May 2016

Well for starters this is from a PS4 NA perspective, and I've leveled up a character in DC and multiple in EP.

AD: the worst abusers of zerging, and with by far the highest population. You'll find a few good players here and there but overall they're not a very talented bunch.

DC: the gankers. No other alliance compares to DC when it comes to ganking.

EP: the melting pot. They gank, they zerg but it's always an uphill battle being part of EP since you're always outnumbered by AD.

When it comes to respect in questing towns in Cyrodiil. I have had the least amount of problems with DC. EP is mostly good but once in a while you'll encounter a prick. AD is only respectful when the numbers are not in their favor. Once in a while you'll find a good guy in AD, but they're not the majority.

Now what I'm curious about is why the characteristics since in the end we're all gamers.

GeorgeBlack · May 2016

Player plays Skyrim
Player starts eso Nord
Player wants min max magika/stamina
Player goes altmere/khajit

In other words EP doesn't offer min maxing races. That is why they make bretons orcs or high elves and khajit smurfs and bananas

Scrippie10 · May 2016

I'm an EP and hardcore pvper. I play on PS4 and this is how I view other factions as well as my own.

DC: They're pretty cool people, definitely the less populate faction out of the three however they can and will zerg you down. A lot of the players that I know from DC like to do small group play and gank, but again if you're fighting in one of "their" campaigns they can and will swarm you down. Despite being smaller, overall they probably have the most well rounded players.

AD: This faction is full of salty folks, a lot of people that think they're good when in reality they are simply average. They have huge egos and are very likely to send you hate mail. Don't be fooled, AD is definitely the most popular faction. They currently own virtually every PVP campaign on PS4.
One minute the campaign could be empty but as soon as they start getting rolled they call in back-up from different campaigns.

EP: The second most popular faction, I'll admit that in the beginning we had the numbers however a lot of people have quit. This faction is probably the less "developed" faction. In other words, the pugs can be pretty bad. Don't get me wrong we do have a lot of good players, in fact I've noticed that a good amount of the better AD and DC players have re-rolled a red toon. But, unfortunately we do have a lot of mindless players.
Remember how I said that the AD had big egos? Well that's because they constantly roll the under-average EP which makes a good chunk of our population. Maybe even 70%. However we do have one of the more organized pvp guilds *cough cought* a well organized 12 man group can easily roll 50 players. Though I guess that applies to any given faction.

If I could give my own faction some advice it would be to stop with the hybrid builds!

Duiwel · May 2016

AD - they are usually the most players but in PvP most of the time they are the least ( usually skilled players, good fights )
I refer to AD as scum because most of my good friends in RL are AD players and I tease them.

If you see anyone saying they are from South Africa in this game, you can be assured they are AD players ( at least 7/8 if not 8/8 of their chars are AD ). I am the exception ( there might be one or 2 other exceptions, but I doubt it )

EP - Nords drink too much to have a plan so mindless zerg is correct but the group that have been on SB EU ( small group Fjoldir and that one Templar ( forgot the name screen shot it at home ) put up BRILLIANT fights

very challenging and good classic PvP fun kudos to them! EP - kill them with numbers or die trying ( this is their strategy ) it rarely works

DC - Noble knights of the Lion, brave warriors and proud soldiers. The zone chat doesn't really help lately as the numbers have dwindled or most people who PvP are in organised PvP guilds.

EP /z is prob the most active simply because they have the most numbers by far...

Short answer :

AD : Banana
DC: Blue Berry
EP: Strawberry / Tomato

rootimus · May 2016

Pink_Violinz wrote: »

How do you view the other alliances?

I view them as the red team. Like Pokemon, you gotta kill 'em all.

Mettaricana · May 2016

Red: empty or gets bored halfway through conquest

Blue: gank squad or sits in its corner during red and yellow war

Yellow: zerg legion or turning green when around blue

WuffyCerulei · May 2016

EP: A bit disorganized and zergish. We have good players, but due to all the Skyrim fans joining the faction, we get a lot of unskilled people. Also in-fighters. None of the major pvpers in EP can seem to get along.

DC: Skilled but lower on numbers. I know that a lot of more pvp vets are in DC. They have a lot of fight in em too.

AD: The other zergish faction and the damned tower farmers. Once they have somewhat of an upperhand, they zerg. Lots of gankers and uncool elites. Generally those people are disliked across all faction. Like to gank in delves.

Horker · May 2016

Scrippie10 wrote: »

If I could give my own faction some advice it would be to stop with the hybrid builds!

My guildmaster got critrushed by a magicka sorc yesterday.

Kas · May 2016

on EU:

DC: Full of winning-team joiners that rerolled recently . Furthermore they seem to work together """nicely""" with all randoms coordinated through zone chat. If such big battles weren't unplayable for technical reasons, they'd be doing the perfect thing. As-is, however, they're runing the f*ing game with their entity-faction-one-zerg style.

EP: The guys that love 300ping and 5fps on Trueflame and never go anywhere else, except of the few duellists that spend most of their time spamming chat in whatever duel guild is popular and thus ruining such guilds for me (chat permanently disabled)

psychotic13 · May 2016

Xbox EU

I have characters in all alliances but my opinion is:

EP:
Like most people have stated, they have the numbers and they ALWAYS run in huge zergs, but tend to be less skilled IMO. They also love to send me hate mail haha

DC:
Again agreeing with a lot of other people, most unpopulated faction, but I do think they have some of the most skilled players, DC always seem to do well in big battles with there inferior numbers.

AD:
Decent population, this is my main alliance but I feel most people in AD don't play as a team, no one ever likes to pick each other up and most of them think they can wipe a Zerg by themselves, but they are full of ***.

Duiwel · May 2016

alexandrutenhove wrote: »

Scrippie10 wrote: »

If I could give my own faction some advice it would be to stop with the hybrid builds!

My guildmaster got critrushed by a magicka sorc yesterday.

There's a difference between hybrid and stam sorc though because stam sorc won't have points in Magicka mate

lucky_Sage · May 2016

Scrippie10 wrote: »

I'm an EP and hardcore pvper. I play on PS4 and this is how I view other factions as well as my own.

DC: They're pretty cool people, definitely the less populate faction out of the three however they can and will zerg you down. A lot of the players that I know from DC like to do small group play and gank, but again if you're fighting in one of "their" campaigns they can and will swarm you down. Despite being smaller, overall they probably have the most well rounded players.

AD: This faction is full of salty folks, a lot of people that think they're good when in reality they are simply average. They have huge egos and are very likely to send you hate mail. Don't be fooled, AD is definitely the most popular faction. They currently own virtually every PVP campaign on PS4.
One minute the campaign could be empty but as soon as they start getting rolled they call in back-up from different campaigns.

EP: The second most popular faction, I'll admit that in the beginning we had the numbers however a lot of people have quit. This faction is probably the less "developed" faction. In other words, the pugs can be pretty bad. Don't get me wrong we do have a lot of good players, in fact I've noticed that a good amount of the better AD and DC players have re-rolled a red toon. But, unfortunately we do have a lot of mindless players.
Remember how I said that the AD had big egos? Well that's because they constantly roll the under-average EP which makes a good chunk of our population. Maybe even 70%. However we do have one of the more organized pvp guilds *cough cought* a well organized 12 man group can easily roll 50 players. Though I guess that applies to any given faction.

If I could give my own faction some advice it would be to stop with the hybrid builds!

as ps4 ad player since they took champion points out of azura star ad only owns one server we use to own azura but it wasn't numbers we would win against yall purple players but now ad is all spread out and only win the one campaign they during day ep dominates map but at nigh as comes in and wins ever day the same thing its the most boring campaign
the option on factions
AD elitest who hate working together with anyone out of there party filled with average to skilled players
DC ive heard all all nice people and can tell they work together and are skilled
EP I have a 1 ep and in town mostly stupid kids and in pvp always out numbers AD even when in azura star bt mostly sub par player with a few skilled ones
but when alliance change
comes I bet a lot will go to DC and AD will become th smallest

ThisOnePosts · May 2016

On PC NA... I'd say skill-wise OVERALL, it goes AD, DC, EP.

I have characters in all, but when all go at it fully strong AD usually comes out on top. The only time AD doesn't, is when they're severely outnumbered or people are there to PVE and don't care about fighting.

Keep in mind, AD has TONS of Nightblades and some amazing gank groups & solo'ers. AD doesn't always work well together though... I think DC works well together. However, when AD all rally behind a single cause... the yellow flows all over the other two alliances.

For some reason, I find a lot of people who seem too young to be playing the game in EP. Not all, but so many.

Rva_Kun · May 2016

I think AD and DC is full of 12 year old that's bout it. & wtb better PvPers on EP.

Tonnopesce · May 2016

@NativeJoe
Chalman is the most beautiful keep of the map everyone love it.
Especially considering that is virtually worthless for my fiction (dc).

JD2013 · May 2016

I play DC.

AD: I've had a lot of skilled fights with AD members. A lot of the time they seem quite organised, I find them to be quite skilful players and quite tactical.

EP: The Zerg train. I've rarely seen one by themselves (then they're closely followed by 12 or more others) they are swarmers. That's how they play. Ball up and Zerg. Ball up and Zerg. I find AD a lot more skilful. EP have no real skill beyond ball up together and spam bat swarm and other things.

alainjbrennanb16_ESO · May 2016

Each alliance has it own problems i play on pc in the eu on tureflame (or truelag as it has become know), AD is fully of zergs which i hate it takes no sense or skill to stack and run around between keeps not taking them, they seem more interested in killing players over and over again for no ap, as well as keep camping, sitting in a keep waiting for an attack, how boring is that.
DC from my point of view luv to keep camp and gank, inparticular the bridge just south of sejanus, they are better co-ordinated but you do find that they all go to the same place if a several keeps are attacked.

EP are a joke to the other factions and from my point of view i can see why, all the do is run around like headless chickens shouting at each other in zone chat chat blaming each other for losing the map and keeps.

Azor_Ahaii · May 2016

DC - Cool
AD - Disgusting scum
EP - Brain dead

I play all 3 factions, mostly on EP.

me_ming · May 2016

Have characters on all 3 factions, but I've only played PvP mainly on my DC, sometime on my AD and maybe once on my EP.

I do agree to most of the comments here, I don't know though why people think DC is coordinated. lol. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love DC, but I'm really skeptic about that "DC coordination". And yes, somehow we do rally when a keep/resource/scroll is under attack, but it's mostly people in zone chat calling out something's ua, and well... I go there, and find other DC defending.

I think when it comes to coordination AD has it... Well, at least, when you're in a group with them. I can't really tell how AD operates, but I was, for a short time, in a PvP small group guild, they were originally from AD, and I suppose they recently shifted to DC (PC NA TF), I will admit, when it comes to small group play they know their sh*t. Healers: Spam healing springs/purge/BoL, magNBs: get ready with Proxy det... aaaaand MOVE!!! Bye bye EP zerg. lol. Never had that strict commands when I was with my DC guild. lol. In DC it was more like so we 50/50 this keep or just burst it?

EP? Well, when my ping is at 999+ and I have 1FPS, I know they're coming.

HaldaAinur · May 2016

From DC:

AD; skilled, powerful, and annoying to beat. Normally rule most of the map. We occasionally grab a couple of beers and beat up the reds though. Seem to have a lot of templars & zergers according to other posts here.

EP; All is calm today, but come nightfall the reds will storm. Lots of NBs- which can be very skilled at what they do, to be fair.

DC; We like teamwork, and not to rush into ADs and EPs fights, and prefer to use them to our advantage. We have a few definite ringleaders that are the best at leading groups.

ThisOnePosts · May 2016

me_ming wrote: »

Have characters on all 3 factions, but I've only played PvP mainly on my DC, sometime on my AD and maybe once on my EP.

I do agree to most of the comments here, I don't know though why people think DC is coordinated. lol. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love DC, but I'm really skeptic about that "DC coordination". And yes, somehow we do rally when a keep/resource/scroll is under attack, but it's mostly people in zone chat calling out something's ua, and well... I go there, and find other DC defending.

I think when it comes to coordination AD has it... Well, at least, when you're in a group with them. I can't really tell how AD operates, but I was, for a short time, in a PvP small group guild, they were originally from AD, and I suppose they recently shifted to DC (PC NA TF), I will admit, when it comes to small group play they know their sh*t. Healers: Spam healing springs/purge/BoL, magNBs: get ready with Proxy det... aaaaand MOVE!!! Bye bye EP zerg. lol. Never had that strict commands when I was with my DC guild. lol. In DC it was more like so we 50/50 this keep or just burst it?

EP? Well, when my ping is at 999+ and I have 1FPS, I know they're coming.

haha yeah some AD groups are very coordinated and people start talking about what to do next like the final scenes of Braveheart. I've seen and been a part of DC coordination though, but yeah it is not all the time.

I can find things I like and dislike with each alliance tbh.... before Beta I thought I'd never make a character in AD (Skyrim made me really dislike anything associated with the Thalmor). However, in this era of ES..... AD are pretty cool on the pve side... PVP side you'll find tools on all sides but chill people as well. I have friends in each alliance also... most AD followed by DC.. then a handful in EP that's about it.

me_ming · May 2016

ViciousWayz wrote: »

me_ming wrote: »

Have characters on all 3 factions, but I've only played PvP mainly on my DC, sometime on my AD and maybe once on my EP.

I do agree to most of the comments here, I don't know though why people think DC is coordinated. lol. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love DC, but I'm really skeptic about that "DC coordination". And yes, somehow we do rally when a keep/resource/scroll is under attack, but it's mostly people in zone chat calling out something's ua, and well... I go there, and find other DC defending.

I think when it comes to coordination AD has it... Well, at least, when you're in a group with them. I can't really tell how AD operates, but I was, for a short time, in a PvP small group guild, they were originally from AD, and I suppose they recently shifted to DC (PC NA TF), I will admit, when it comes to small group play they know their sh*t. Healers: Spam healing springs/purge/BoL, magNBs: get ready with Proxy det... aaaaand MOVE!!! Bye bye EP zerg. lol. Never had that strict commands when I was with my DC guild. lol. In DC it was more like so we 50/50 this keep or just burst it?

EP? Well, when my ping is at 999+ and I have 1FPS, I know they're coming.

haha yeah some AD groups are very coordinated and people start talking about what to do next like the final scenes of Braveheart. I've seen and been a part of DC coordination though, but yeah it is not all the time.

I can find things I like and dislike with each alliance tbh.... before Beta I thought I'd never make a character in AD (Skyrim made me really dislike anything associated with the Thalmor). However, in this era of ES..... AD are pretty cool on the pve side... PVP side you'll find tools on all sides but chill people as well. I have friends in each alliance also... most AD followed by DC.. then a handful in EP that's about it.

I think I have about 1 person my friends list who is EP. I have nothing against EP, just never really gotten much interaction with EP-mains, apart from one of my trading guilds which is EP based.

I honestly enjoy that the alliances have distinctions (well, PvP-wise). That (sadly) is the most balance element in PvP: that the alliance's distinctions have advantages and disadvantages.

C0wrex · May 2016

I look at the Ebonheart Pact like how I look at my Blackberry.

It's ***.

PokaPoka94 · May 2016

EP. Skyrim fanboys.

DenniMyuu · May 2016

I have toons on all three factions but AD I dislike the most. Zerg, gank and being butthurt when you kill them.
EP is nice but they have heavy communication issues and dont really know what working together means.
DC has a lot of really skilled players but tend to get cocky. Okayo communication between groups and pugs.

Oddball666 · May 2016

LFG .....

EP - Within a minute you are in a grp
AD - Also no hassle to get in grp
DC - LFG .... LFG .... LFG ..... u give up and go solo

Anhedonie · May 2016

DC - low population pve scrubs
AD - cheaters
EP - cancerous zergs