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  • Telel
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    This one is told it can be like watching a slow motion train wreck.

    Especially if one imagines the train being filled with clowns and lightning at the time of collission.
    Character: Telel
    Class: Night Blade-Werewolf-viking-ninja-catgirl-mallet wielder
    Past times: Refusing to go full magika spec, hitting things with a big hammer, sniping, and speaking in khajiit
    Also: Gelel the Derp Knight, Altsel the streaker, and Filafel the temp temp.

    Khajiit has a twitch stream! https://twitch.tv/telel_khajiit feel free to come see how truly unskilled Telel is.
  • caeliusstarbreaker
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    Zardayne wrote: »
    Start with pick up groups, if they require TS... Just get TS. You don't have to talk, plenty in my guild type only.

    Pick up groups are basically your junior high school dances, it's where you wind up meeting people, have a little more freedom to figure out new skills, understand the broadest strokes of group basics.

    From there inevitably, someone gets tired of getting hit in the face over their jello pudding, and goes into the "high school" phase, where they make their own guild... Basically of friends they have made in PU group, that they trust are decent enough players. Those friends invite their friends (because at this point they are all in 5 guilds) and then you get your HS click of mid level players that still lean on numbers a little more than skill which is where most of the map is won/lost.

    From there we enter the college phase where people start experimenting, small group, making their own guild, dueling, basically any weird pvp scenario... You'll see someone with purple hair doing it. Some still cling to HS working at their faction Applebee's. This seems to be where players start to "come into their own," claiming they understand the world because they have been to their gates and behind the enemies gates and completely understand where and what pvp should be.

    By the college level of PVP, players more or less understand in what direction they want to go.... And then real life pvp happens. They have either become their own boss and have made a thriving/flailing pvp guild struggling to make money in a debt driven pvp economy trying to put their khajiits through private school so they have a better life, or they have made it into a cushy big firm, with a luxurious spa and amenities like recognition as map winners and ap bonuses, or you have the professional athlete guild who still runs large enough to get *** done, but small enough to be marveled and declared a model for redguards across the land to look up to.

    Then you have your super small group/1vx people.... Who are basically the gopro wearing extreme sports athletes, who only drink redbull... And have been wearing DC sneakers, backwards Pact hats, or Eagle Earrings, since they earned their sponsorship when they defeated more than 3 people, by themselves, and have been searching for that heart pounding fun in game ever since.

    Then you reach a level of pvp maturity. Where you can take part in any pvp community, people ask about your build at the 4th of July BBQ while you wear those salmon colored shorts and yellow cuffed button down shirt. Your hair is a little receded from that damn blood spawn helm you wore for years until you decided it was time to hide it in the settings menu.

    Long story short, pretty much everyone has to some degree followed this path, learn to be ok with failure, make sure you learn from it, and at the end of the day, never come to the forums and complain that no one is adding you to their group when you have an invite button yourself.

    Have fun in Cyrodiil.

    First off I even though there is some complaining on my end, no doubt, I'd like to think it was also a suggestion. DC could be a lot more powerful if some of the "leaders" would rise up and harness some of the untapped potential of the lone players out there. There's a lot of them. Like I mentioned earlier which some of the earlier posters decided to disregard and instead leave a *** message in hopes of getting their awesome button mashed, I would try to run some PUGs if I felt I was a bit more experienced to do so. I'm not going to go out there and wrangle a bunch of people into a group who know as much or less than I do and feed points to the enemy. Hell I do that nightly getting ganked by NBs..You know this whole Cyrodiil experience reminds me of trying to get my first safety job after college years ago. I had a hundred resumes out and everytime a potential employer called the first thing they would ask is if I had 5 years of experience. I'd respond no but I've got years of industrial experience to which they'd reply well get 5 years and call us back. I went through this many times and I always ended the call with how can I get experience if no one's willing to give me a shot. I'm not going into my life story but I finally got that shot but it was nothing short of right place right time. You know I'd love to learn more of the ins and outs of eso's PVP so I could then try to lead and I'm sure there are a lot out there that feel the same. Unfortunately I don't have the time due to work and raising grandkids to spend running a guild ( I had my own years ago in multiple games) or champion the cause of being the PUG warband leader. Hell it takes enough time to rad class forums to see what 's changed and what's working every few months. I'd just like to log in on my prime time 7-11 PM central weekdays and most weekends, join a group of pvp orientated folks, and work together to win. There's a lot of folks with 501+ CPs that have way more time than I have. Hopefully someone, someday will figure out how to harness the PUG power.

    I'll end by saying I spend what little free time I have researching builds to succeed. I go out, do my best, and if need be I make changes and try again. I fail quite often in ESO (mainly PVP) but I'm old and wise enough to go back to the chalk board, make some changes, and try again. I've been MMO gaming a long time so I know how it works but for the life of me I've never had such difficulties in finding a group in pvp especially when realm pride's at stake. Daoc people used to form up outside and push into enemy territory. Warhammer was the same.Sure you had your guild groups but most fo them would pick up solos if their raid wasn't full. I guess those days are long gone it seems.

    I run every voice comm program out there. I'm just waiting for a chance to use it.

    I wasn't at all trying to be derogatory to you at all bud. I'm just satirically displaying the state/mentality of pvp in ESO. Hoping you could find the proper channel that works for you.
    Rhage Lionpride DC Stamina Templar
    K-Hole
  • Zardayne
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    Zardayne wrote: »
    Start with pick up groups, if they require TS... Just get TS. You don't have to talk, plenty in my guild type only.

    Pick up groups are basically your junior high school dances, it's where you wind up meeting people, have a little more freedom to figure out new skills, understand the broadest strokes of group basics.

    From there inevitably, someone gets tired of getting hit in the face over their jello pudding, and goes into the "high school" phase, where they make their own guild... Basically of friends they have made in PU group, that they trust are decent enough players. Those friends invite their friends (because at this point they are all in 5 guilds) and then you get your HS click of mid level players that still lean on numbers a little more than skill which is where most of the map is won/lost.

    From there we enter the college phase where people start experimenting, small group, making their own guild, dueling, basically any weird pvp scenario... You'll see someone with purple hair doing it. Some still cling to HS working at their faction Applebee's. This seems to be where players start to "come into their own," claiming they understand the world because they have been to their gates and behind the enemies gates and completely understand where and what pvp should be.

    By the college level of PVP, players more or less understand in what direction they want to go.... And then real life pvp happens. They have either become their own boss and have made a thriving/flailing pvp guild struggling to make money in a debt driven pvp economy trying to put their khajiits through private school so they have a better life, or they have made it into a cushy big firm, with a luxurious spa and amenities like recognition as map winners and ap bonuses, or you have the professional athlete guild who still runs large enough to get *** done, but small enough to be marveled and declared a model for redguards across the land to look up to.

    Then you have your super small group/1vx people.... Who are basically the gopro wearing extreme sports athletes, who only drink redbull... And have been wearing DC sneakers, backwards Pact hats, or Eagle Earrings, since they earned their sponsorship when they defeated more than 3 people, by themselves, and have been searching for that heart pounding fun in game ever since.

    Then you reach a level of pvp maturity. Where you can take part in any pvp community, people ask about your build at the 4th of July BBQ while you wear those salmon colored shorts and yellow cuffed button down shirt. Your hair is a little receded from that damn blood spawn helm you wore for years until you decided it was time to hide it in the settings menu.

    Long story short, pretty much everyone has to some degree followed this path, learn to be ok with failure, make sure you learn from it, and at the end of the day, never come to the forums and complain that no one is adding you to their group when you have an invite button yourself.

    Have fun in Cyrodiil.

    First off I even though there is some complaining on my end, no doubt, I'd like to think it was also a suggestion. DC could be a lot more powerful if some of the "leaders" would rise up and harness some of the untapped potential of the lone players out there. There's a lot of them. Like I mentioned earlier which some of the earlier posters decided to disregard and instead leave a *** message in hopes of getting their awesome button mashed, I would try to run some PUGs if I felt I was a bit more experienced to do so. I'm not going to go out there and wrangle a bunch of people into a group who know as much or less than I do and feed points to the enemy. Hell I do that nightly getting ganked by NBs..You know this whole Cyrodiil experience reminds me of trying to get my first safety job after college years ago. I had a hundred resumes out and everytime a potential employer called the first thing they would ask is if I had 5 years of experience. I'd respond no but I've got years of industrial experience to which they'd reply well get 5 years and call us back. I went through this many times and I always ended the call with how can I get experience if no one's willing to give me a shot. I'm not going into my life story but I finally got that shot but it was nothing short of right place right time. You know I'd love to learn more of the ins and outs of eso's PVP so I could then try to lead and I'm sure there are a lot out there that feel the same. Unfortunately I don't have the time due to work and raising grandkids to spend running a guild ( I had my own years ago in multiple games) or champion the cause of being the PUG warband leader. Hell it takes enough time to rad class forums to see what 's changed and what's working every few months. I'd just like to log in on my prime time 7-11 PM central weekdays and most weekends, join a group of pvp orientated folks, and work together to win. There's a lot of folks with 501+ CPs that have way more time than I have. Hopefully someone, someday will figure out how to harness the PUG power.

    I'll end by saying I spend what little free time I have researching builds to succeed. I go out, do my best, and if need be I make changes and try again. I fail quite often in ESO (mainly PVP) but I'm old and wise enough to go back to the chalk board, make some changes, and try again. I've been MMO gaming a long time so I know how it works but for the life of me I've never had such difficulties in finding a group in pvp especially when realm pride's at stake. Daoc people used to form up outside and push into enemy territory. Warhammer was the same.Sure you had your guild groups but most fo them would pick up solos if their raid wasn't full. I guess those days are long gone it seems.

    I run every voice comm program out there. I'm just waiting for a chance to use it.

    I wasn't at all trying to be derogatory to you at all bud. I'm just satirically displaying the state/mentality of pvp in ESO. Hoping you could find the proper channel that works for you.

    Not a problem Rhage. I definitely liked your post. So far a few have reached out to me so things are looking up.
  • Armitas
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    Telel wrote: »
    Telel has never let their incompetence keep them from leading groups. In fact they have never let their incompetence stop them from doing anything that they demand others do for them.

    No, the only things that stop them from doing that is the selfishness of the people who claim they wish to be led, but then refuse to listen. Such people make an already burdensome task most unappealing.

    I've watched the stream as well (never snipe) it's good stuff and fun to watch, AD is lucky to have you and you handle those that don't listen really well. I used to lead pvp pug raids in other games but only after I got pissed off enough that it needed to be done. They all had TS and listened though. I couldn't do it here, I'd lose my cool and disband before I said stuff in chat. So many people don't listen, refuse to get in TS and join the group to play solo while they leech heals and rezes. I have never seen that before in any game;.. the willingness to receive the benefits from a group while being unwilling to give anything for the group.

    It's important that there are people like you doing this because we always need new crops of players to keep the fight going when others leave.
    Edited by Armitas on June 6, 2016 9:18PM
    Retired.
    Nord mDK
  • Minno
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    Telel wrote: »
    Telel has never let their incompetence keep them from leading groups. In fact they have never let their incompetence stop them from doing anything that they demand others do for them.

    No, the only things that stop them from doing that is the selfishness of the people who claim they wish to be led, but then refuse to listen. Such people make an already burdensome task most unappealing.

    Also this one is already accused of having fleas, and can do without more obvious parasites latching onto them.

    But as khajiit requires team speak for any random groups they may lead this results in them very rarely needing to deal with such selfish children. Any that happen to make it past that filter are dealt with swift by means of battle field execution. AKA, right click, kick from group, and then put on ignore.



    Yes and I've watched your steams and have heard the frustration first hand lol

    I've never seen a tele stream. Should I expect khajiit accents and yarn balls?
    Minno - DC - Forum-plar Extraordinaire
    - Guild-lead for MV
    - Filthy Casual
  • Armitas
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    Minno wrote: »
    Telel wrote: »
    Telel has never let their incompetence keep them from leading groups. In fact they have never let their incompetence stop them from doing anything that they demand others do for them.

    No, the only things that stop them from doing that is the selfishness of the people who claim they wish to be led, but then refuse to listen. Such people make an already burdensome task most unappealing.

    Also this one is already accused of having fleas, and can do without more obvious parasites latching onto them.

    But as khajiit requires team speak for any random groups they may lead this results in them very rarely needing to deal with such selfish children. Any that happen to make it past that filter are dealt with swift by means of battle field execution. AKA, right click, kick from group, and then put on ignore.



    Yes and I've watched your steams and have heard the frustration first hand lol

    I've never seen a tele stream. Should I expect khajiit accents and yarn balls?

    Nah, just a cat in a samurai hat in the twitch window. I have seen myself get killed on the stream and found myself rooting for the Telel raid...which is kind of a strange. It always looks like a fun raid to be in...not that the groups I'm in aren't fun, just different.
    Edited by Armitas on June 6, 2016 9:26PM
    Retired.
    Nord mDK
  • Rohamad_Ali
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    Minno wrote: »
    Telel wrote: »
    Telel has never let their incompetence keep them from leading groups. In fact they have never let their incompetence stop them from doing anything that they demand others do for them.

    No, the only things that stop them from doing that is the selfishness of the people who claim they wish to be led, but then refuse to listen. Such people make an already burdensome task most unappealing.

    Also this one is already accused of having fleas, and can do without more obvious parasites latching onto them.

    But as khajiit requires team speak for any random groups they may lead this results in them very rarely needing to deal with such selfish children. Any that happen to make it past that filter are dealt with swift by means of battle field execution. AKA, right click, kick from group, and then put on ignore.



    Yes and I've watched your steams and have heard the frustration first hand lol

    I've never seen a tele stream. Should I expect khajiit accents and yarn balls?

    No he doesn't do the accent . If he did his rating would go up . I can do the accent irl well just not good at writing it .
  • Ourorboros
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    See post #7. He pretty much nailed it for DC Trueflame NA. I'm in Blood of Daggerfall (BoD) guild and we run every night from 7-12 Eastern. Though we started by picking up non-guildies, lately it's guild only since we get a full raid or more from the guild. For our guild, there are only 2 rules: Have Teamspeak (to listen to calls), and stay on Crown. If you can do those, and say so in chat, you have a better chance of being pulled into a group.
    PC/NA/DC
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  • Skitttles
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    Type SG for group.
    Skittles | DC Stem Sok and sumtimes Nertbled
  • Zardayne
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    Thank you all for the messages and help folks. Knowing how to contact and join some of the groups out there should make life a lot better in Cyrodiil. Appreciate it!
  • Zardayne
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    Ourorboros wrote: »
    See post #7. He pretty much nailed it for DC Trueflame NA. I'm in Blood of Daggerfall (BoD) guild and we run every night from 7-12 Eastern. Though we started by picking up non-guildies, lately it's guild only since we get a full raid or more from the guild. For our guild, there are only 2 rules: Have Teamspeak (to listen to calls), and stay on Crown. If you can do those, and say so in chat, you have a better chance of being pulled into a group.

    I have all of the voice comms installed so thats never an issue. As far as staying on crown, that's the easy part. I came from Daoc and sticking on the lead was a nightly natural occurrence. Spreading out once we stopped was another to avoid the mezz bomb groups lol.
  • heystreethawk
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    Here's the thing -- other people have touched on it, and you've found some groups willing to take you aboard, so you're probably set and this becomes more of a general statement for anyone in the same boat -- group leads tend to tune out "LFG" because what you get out of Cyrodiil is a straight line from what you put into it, and those three letters don't tell us anything about your commitment, experience, or group role, aside from an implication that you might be 0 for 3.

    On the other hand, and speaking for myself to offer a more concrete example, I'm more inclined to give people a shot in our guild groups (AD/TF) if they whisper me asking if they could run with us for a while and potentially join the guild; ideally, they also indicate that this is not their first rodeo, and give some indication of their character's role. If they know who we are, I am going to assume they are down to clown & ready to put in the work, whereas "LFG" suggests to me that the player does not especially care what group they end up in -- simply that they find one. I'll spare us both the grief if that seems to be the case.

    There are enough experienced players returning to the game, people still in flux after waves of guild diasporas, and good players that haven't had a chance to turn great in the right guild to warrant giving people a shot now and then. We've picked up some ace players that way, and also from straight up whispering people we've seen running around long enough to assume they know what they're doing. I'll turn people away if we're trying to fix a messy group composition, if we're merged with another guild, or if we're having a bad night and I'm being rough to my people.

    Bottom line is that you'll get better results from identifying active groups in your faction, reaching out to them, and giving them a reason to give you a shot. Be attentive to instructions, and don't worry about convincing groups of your worth once you're in them; they'll notice if you play well.
    GM of Fantasia
    I heard those symphonies come quick
  • Makkir
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    shadowgrabber is always recruiting for his PUGs
  • Brynmere
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    Start with pick up groups, if they require TS... Just get TS. You don't have to talk, plenty in my guild type only.

    Pick up groups are basically your junior high school dances, it's where you wind up meeting people, have a little more freedom to figure out new skills, understand the broadest strokes of group basics.

    From there inevitably, someone gets tired of getting hit in the face over their jello pudding, and goes into the "high school" phase, where they make their own guild... Basically of friends they have made in PU group, that they trust are decent enough players. Those friends invite their friends (because at this point they are all in 5 guilds) and then you get your HS click of mid level players that still lean on numbers a little more than skill which is where most of the map is won/lost.

    From there we enter the college phase where people start experimenting, small group, making their own guild, dueling, basically any weird pvp scenario... You'll see someone with purple hair doing it. Some still cling to HS working at their faction Applebee's. This seems to be where players start to "come into their own," claiming they understand the world because they have been to their gates and behind the enemies gates and completely understand where and what pvp should be.

    By the college level of PVP, players more or less understand in what direction they want to go.... And then real life pvp happens. They have either become their own boss and have made a thriving/flailing pvp guild struggling to make money in a debt driven pvp economy trying to put their khajiits through private school so they have a better life, or they have made it into a cushy big firm, with a luxurious spa and amenities like recognition as map winners and ap bonuses, or you have the professional athlete guild who still runs large enough to get *** done, but small enough to be marveled and declared a model for redguards across the land to look up to.

    Then you have your super small group/1vx people.... Who are basically the gopro wearing extreme sports athletes, who only drink redbull... And have been wearing DC sneakers, backwards Pact hats, or Eagle Earrings, since they earned their sponsorship when they defeated more than 3 people, by themselves, and have been searching for that heart pounding fun in game ever since.

    Then you reach a level of pvp maturity. Where you can take part in any pvp community, people ask about your build at the 4th of July BBQ while you wear those salmon colored shorts and yellow cuffed button down shirt. Your hair is a little receded from that damn blood spawn helm you wore for years until you decided it was time to hide it in the settings menu.

    Long story short, pretty much everyone has to some degree followed this path, learn to be ok with failure, make sure you learn from it, and at the end of the day, never come to the forums and complain that no one is adding you to their group when you have an invite button yourself.

    Have fun in Cyrodiil.

    Funny post Rhage and so true in many ways. I still hope to hit 'pvp maturity' and attend a BBQ in my loafers.

    Good luck OP!
  • Ghostbane
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    Remember Jimmy the Templar and make your own damn group.
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  • Ishammael
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    Start with pick up groups, if they require TS... Just get TS. You don't have to talk, plenty in my guild type only.

    Pick up groups are basically your junior high school dances, it's where you wind up meeting people, have a little more freedom to figure out new skills, understand the broadest strokes of group basics.

    From there inevitably, someone gets tired of getting hit in the face over their jello pudding, and goes into the "high school" phase, where they make their own guild... Basically of friends they have made in PU group, that they trust are decent enough players. Those friends invite their friends (because at this point they are all in 5 guilds) and then you get your HS click of mid level players that still lean on numbers a little more than skill which is where most of the map is won/lost.

    From there we enter the college phase where people start experimenting, small group, making their own guild, dueling, basically any weird pvp scenario... You'll see someone with purple hair doing it. Some still cling to HS working at their faction Applebee's. This seems to be where players start to "come into their own," claiming they understand the world because they have been to their gates and behind the enemies gates and completely understand where and what pvp should be.

    By the college level of PVP, players more or less understand in what direction they want to go.... And then real life pvp happens. They have either become their own boss and have made a thriving/flailing pvp guild struggling to make money in a debt driven pvp economy trying to put their khajiits through private school so they have a better life, or they have made it into a cushy big firm, with a luxurious spa and amenities like recognition as map winners and ap bonuses, or you have the professional athlete guild who still runs large enough to get *** done, but small enough to be marveled and declared a model for redguards across the land to look up to.

    Then you have your super small group/1vx people.... Who are basically the gopro wearing extreme sports athletes, who only drink redbull... And have been wearing DC sneakers, backwards Pact hats, or Eagle Earrings, since they earned their sponsorship when they defeated more than 3 people, by themselves, and have been searching for that heart pounding fun in game ever since.

    Then you reach a level of pvp maturity. Where you can take part in any pvp community, people ask about your build at the 4th of July BBQ while you wear those salmon colored shorts and yellow cuffed button down shirt. Your hair is a little receded from that damn blood spawn helm you wore for years until you decided it was time to hide it in the settings menu.

    Long story short, pretty much everyone has to some degree followed this path, learn to be ok with failure, make sure you learn from it, and at the end of the day, never come to the forums and complain that no one is adding you to their group when you have an invite button yourself.

    Have fun in Cyrodiil.

    This was hilarious.
  • PosternHouse
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    How do I leave Cyrodiil?
  • Ghost-Shot
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    How do I leave Cyrodiil?

    /camp
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