not complaining here (famous first words always followed by somebody's butt), but - what the heck is up with the (1) wall, door, siege repair kits...

they look awful lonely in those rewards for the worthy mails...

number 9...number 9...

woo hoo...reached tier 3 on character number 9...biggest challenge this campaign has been in overcoming the mighty queue monster...

something cool happened...was up on top of ash getting overrun...enemy players coming up the stairs...noticed i still had my ult, so popped a pot, shielded up, rolled down the stairs and went to fire off my northern storm on the second flag...

just so happens at exactly about the same time a small group of allies rolled through the front door popping off their ults on the way to the second flag...

amazed to still be up and kicking, headed upstairs with the other players, and, then we all died - we were way, way outnumbered

had one of those nights where I was about two minutes behind every keep capture...fortunately with double AP and a full map was still able to reach 100k AP in a few hours...

so I've decided to keep my two wardens on as slow a leveling process as possible...while i was waiting out my 140 queue had to figure out something that wouldn't level me too fast...not much into fishing - ended up spending some nice quality time farming craglorn...

TequilaFire wrote: »

geonsocal wrote: »

number 9...number 9...

Ah yes, John Lennon's favorite number and birthday.

You are an old fart like me! lmao

when the god kids were younger and would do the whole kid thing and repeat the same stuff over and over again - i would break out the "number 9" thing and after repeating that for a solid minute or two - they would miraculously stop repeating stuff...

wherever you might be john - thanks for the parenting tool

I miss all the recognizable names from Vivec but Shor has been a fun adventure. It Shor is fun! (I'm such a dork)

I decided to go off and solo for a while capturing resources behind the lines and wrap up my scouting and resource capture missions. As an AD, of course I had to scout Dragonclaw lumber mill. So I slotted rapids and took off towards the top of the map. Along the way I'll grab a couple resources at Ash and Aleswell. So far so good, no one showed up. It's nice that Ash lumber mill is so far from the keep. I finally make it up to Dragonclaw and scout the lumber mill. (I imagine my notes on the place read something like "Looks very similar to every other lumber mill".)

I decided since I am there, I may as well take it. Since it is in BFE it is a level five resource and I can't cap it on complete auto-pilot (I am getting a new attack routine down that works well but if I snooze through it I can get the embarrassing NPC death). Anyway, I've got all the NPC's dead and I'm burning that blue flag down when I see a rider approaching from the castle and a moment of panic sets in.

Sometimes I forget that I'm not a total noob and that I'm not on Vivec and that there are many new PvP players right now. I figured, worst case scenario I die and save myself that ride back to the gate. So he comes charging in and I get him with the destructive reach stun, toppling charge in, spears-spears-spears, radiant and bam! This guy drops without landing a blow. I almost felt bad (almost). There are still many times where crap like that happens to me. I go back to burning the flag and replacing the sickly blue lion with the Mighty Eagle Banner when here comes the guy I killed and a friend. Oh no. I'm no 1vX master. So I pop an immovability potion and brace myself for my death. Only, what's this? He's bringing a level 47 with him? Oh guys... you shouldn't have! It's just what I wanted!

So I'm pounding on the level 47 punching bag (sorry guy!) and the other guy is rolling around shooting me with poison injection and literally nothing else. I had to get my bearings after waxing meatshield so I'm standing in place looking for where the annoying arrows are coming from and I spot him. I again hit him with stun and then melt his face with Soul Assault. Good night. He's down and a third rider is coming up and it's a name I've seen before but not one of the unkillable tank - high dps guys (how do they do that?). It was, however, another solid player. So he comes flying in and my ultimate is gone and my potions are still recharging. Then boom! The flag flips and my honor guards unload on this guy and I do too. He drops and I decide it's time to get the hell out of there.

I hit rapids and jet off south. Four dead blues, resource scouted and captured and I'm heading out. Hmm... Bruma is on the way, maybe I'll take that too...

geonsocal wrote: »

reiverx wrote: »

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Overlord grade 2. I'm not sleeping this weekend until I get my five stars dammit.

And when that's done.....

I'll play my mDK for a little longer but I'm thinking about retiring it from PVP so I can focus on another class.

dude...what the hecks - you have like 15 million points this campaign...

holy cow...i don't know how I haven't seen you on any of my death recaps...

I wanna contribute to your score

Well I reached Grand Overlord and the event is over so I'm going to slow it down. The decoy Elder Scrolls that you can buy from the achievement vendor in Cyrodiil are awesome. They really light up the area.

geonsocal wrote: »

oh ah...so shiny and purty are they...my preciousssssssss....

hmmmm, surprised there aren't more images online of the scrolls...

congrats @reiverx...

when ya gonna roll that EP toon to help out against the mighty onslaught of Dominion forces...just kidding

made it to tier 3 on everyone...and, i seem to have satiated my lust for the moment for acquiring more armor...

probably just tweak a few things with my current builds until the campaign ends...maybe go check out IC for awhile - always a lot of pleasure and pain there...

Well you know it's crossed my mind to move to another alliance. But if I do it, then it's done for good. There's no going back.

But..... I get mega-zerged down a lot, and I think to myself those guys don't need any more numbers. The vast majority of my deaths are death by zerg. But then again, all alliances zerg so it would be no different.

AD has some really good guilds that tolerate each other and will coordinate when needed. That's the formula for success. There's no doubt it is a numbers game to an extent, but it's how the numbers are distributed that decides what color the map looks in the long run.

oh yeah @Ballcap ...that's a name to keep track of...

although imcredibly petty - if someone disposes of me in a sort of frustrating, unpleasant, repetitive, and or weird gamertag ID kind of way - let's just say, nothing puts a smile on my face bigger than a well timed revenge notification...

helps to provide pvp purpose...

I'll never forget...i hadn't been in battle for about an hour (off to some quest or skyshard hunting somewhere)...got in to a scuffle and ended up with a revenge notification...i stood there for a few seconds trying to remember when I died last or who they were - couldn't remember...still made me smile though...

got one for ya - was finishing up my AP/tier 3 stuff, and, went on my last, but not least, character - a level 21 DC khajiit stam warden...

got the pelinal's scroll and headed off to a fight by nikels...found some action and noticed I was gassing out quick...

went to the aeylid well to east on the way to roebuck - got jumped by some low level 40 character...

I was kind of surprised by their aggression...normally the lower level characters on Vivec stay fairly well tucked in to the zerg...

most all my characters are built with shields and buff resistances in mind...so it surprised me when I died a couple of times pretty quick (which happens a lot when I first log in)...

i remember heading back out to roebuck and ran in to a bunch of low level characters - my first thought was some guild must be hosting a intro to cyrodiil event...a second later noticed everyone on my side was non-vet...i forgot that I had paid a visit to Kyne a few weeks earlier

no shame in my game - man do I love me some cp...

woo hoo...got a chance to get in for a little bit of saturday night's alright for fighting action...

went in red cuz had a special request to "be fire guy" (all my mag dk offensive abilities are fire related) - ugh, does summer vacation ever end for kids

was a very yellow map...on the plus side - still had my 2x AP scroll active and actually hit 100k AP in just under an hour...just got lucky with some battle, warfront and bounty quests and picked up AP super fast...

probably will stay red and play my other 2 EP characters next...

I'm fairly happy with most of my gear set ups on everyone - but, been thinking a bunch of switching my magblade from velidreth, spinners and julianos (5 pc on DW) to velidreth, knight slayer and torug's pact...

also, probably gonna re-gear my stam dk...right now I'm using 2 medium sets and heavy monster pieces...wanna switch to one heavy and one medium set and keep the monster gear heavy...basically go back to a 5 heavy and 2 medium setup...

I hate dying to easily

it's funny, was able to go a full campaign without changing any one's gear and managed to go from 40k in the bank to 440k coins...

still though need to work on my gameplay and gear set ups for battlegrounds - so, I may need to make sure to have some alternate sets on hand to compete in the cramped quarters, no cp environments...

today was a pretty good day...needed to rest up today and took the opportunity to get in on 2 of my AD characters...

it's weird - one of the characters, a stamblade, I thought I had gotten down fairly well...not sure where I went wrong, but, my bow doesn't quite feel right...need to rearrange my bow bar abilities...right now I have: mirage, vigor, relentless focus, shadowy disguise, and poison injection (using soul tether ult)...

the other bar is 2H: reverse slice, funnel health, surprise attack, shadowy disguise, and critical rush (using incap ult)...

spent most of the day going from roebuck to ash and fighting blues...had some really good, fairly even skirmishes throughout the day...

finished up on my mag sorc...man is he fun to play around zergs...as long as I can remember to shield up and stay moving - he can do quite a bit of damage...

EP is still keeping pace with AD, hopefully it'll stay close...

Ballcap wrote: »

It's been interesting on the AD side of things. We have players actively trying to give scrolls to EP any chance they get. While I understand that some people suck and there is nothing you can do about it, the people that defend giving scrolls away as a "strategic move" are the most annoying. No, giving the scroll to EP will not stop red from attacking us. No, letting EP have the DC scroll will not stop DC from attacking us. If you are going to be scummy and cheat for the other team I think you suck, but don't get in zone chat and try to tell everyone that it is a "smart" move. It isn't.

ugh, I wish there were some way to prevent that behavior...seriously next level frustrating...

during the time I was in it definitely felt like we were pushing much harder against blue than red - but, that may have just been the whole "path of least resistance thing"...

zone chat though seemed to be pretty chill...

it's been a while since I've grouped up, but, i still remember the most cool groups I would join were normally in AD...

oh yeah baby - a little defending the last emp keep action...

hanging out at aleswell defending my butt off

sure DC is bleeding points, and yeah, it gets laggy as hell at times - however - ain't gotta ride no where to find "bad" guys...

had some fun last night (thanks @Megabear for the guilt trip ) - good buddy of mine and I did some cross factional cyro delve diving...

it felt so weird going through caves, turning around and seeing another player glowing in red...

thankfully my buddy wears good armor and we weren't able to hurt each other too bad...

love me some gear...a few changes coming to some popular sets:
- Amber Plasm: Decreased the Magicka and Stamina Recovery granted by this Item Set to 250 from 300.
- Beekeeper’s Gear: Decreased the Health Recovery granted by this Item Set to 400 from 500.
- Blood Spawn: Decreased the amount of Ultimate generated by this Item Set’s proc to 14 Ultimate from 15.
- Death’s Wind: This Item Set now grants crowd-control immunity to the enemy after knocking them back.
- Draugr Hulk: Increased the Max Stamina granted by this Item Set to 2540 from 2500.
- Green Pact: Decreased the Max Health granted by this Item Set to 2500 from 4000, and increased the health recovery to 250 from 200.
- Grothdarr: Decreased the damage of this Item Set’s proc by 10%.
- Ilambris: Decreased the damage of this Item Set’s proc by 10%.
- Ironblood: Decreased the snare applied by this Item Set to a 50% Movement Speed reduction, down from 75%.
- Leviathan: Increased the Weapon Critical Strike rating granted by this Item Set to 1924 from 1643.
- Lord Warden: Increased the radius of this Item Set’s proc to 8 meters from 5 meters.
- Maw of the Infernal: The monster summoned by this Item Set now only deals Flame Damage instead of a mixture of Flame and Physical Damage.
- Mother’s Sorrow: Increased the Spell Critical Strike rating granted by this Item Set to 1924 from 1643.
- Necropotence: Reduced the Max Magicka increase granted by this Item Set to 3150 from 4000.
- Nerien’eth:
Increased the damage of this Item Set’s proc by 20%.
Decreased the delay from when this Item Set procs to when it deals damage to 2 seconds from 3 seconds.
- Nightflame: Increased the proc chance from this Item Set to 5% from 3%, and changed the 1-piece bonus to Max Magicka instead of Max Health.
- Plague Doctor: Decreased the Max Health granted by this Item Set to 4000 from 6000.
- Poisonous Serpent: Increased the proc chance of this Item Set to 50% from 25%, but decreased the damage to 3400 Poison Damage from 6800 Poison Damage.
- Selene:
This Item Set’s proc now displays a hostile telegraph to enemy players indicating its area of effect.
Increased the delay from when this Item Set procs to when it deals damage to 1.3 seconds from 1 second.
- Sellistrix:
Increased the damage of this Item Set’s proc by 30%.
Decreased the time it takes for the proc to erupt to 1.5 seconds from 2 seconds.
Increased the cooldown of this Item Set’s proc to 5.5 seconds from 5 seconds.
- Shadowrend:
Changed this Item Set’s proc to occur when you take damage instead of when you deal damage.
Increased the proc chance of this Item Set to 15% from 5%.
The Monster summoned by this Item Set’s proc now deals Magic Damage instead of Physical Damage.
Increased the duration of the Minor Maim debuff applied by this Item Set to 10 seconds from 5 seconds.
- Shadow of the Red Mountain: This Item Set’s proc now spawns a volcano that erupts after one second and launches a projectile at the closest enemy, instead of instantly dealing unavoidable damage.
- Shieldbreaker: This Item Set’s proc now only occurs once for each cast of a Lightning or Restoration Staff heavy attack.
- Slimecraw: Changed the 1-piece bonus to a double 1-piece bonus of both Weapon and Spell Critical Strike Chance instead of Health Recovery.
- Spawn of Mephala: Increased the damage of this Item Set’s proc by 5%, and changed the 1-piece bonus to Max Stamina instead of Max Health.
- Spinner’s Garments: Decreased the Spell Penetration granted by this Item Set to 3450 from 4000.
- Spriggan’s Thorns: Decreased the Physical Penetration granted by this Item Set to 3450 from 4000.
- Stormfist: Increased the shock damage of this Item Set’s proc by 10%. The physical damage portion remains unchanged.
- Swarm Mother: Decreased the cooldown of this Item Set’s proc to 1 second from 2 seconds.
- Torug’s Pact:
This item set now reduces the cooldown of your weapon enchantment by 30% instead of one second, and is multiplicative with the cooldown reduction of the Infused trait.
Fixed an issue where this item set’s bonus was modifying the strength and cooldown of poisons.
- Tremorscale: This Item Set’s proc now occurs after a one second delay instead of instantly dealing unavoidable damage.
- Twice-Fanged Serpent: Reduced the Physical Penetration granted by this Item Set’s proc to 860 per stack from 1000.
- Velidreth: This Item Set’s proc now occurs after a 1 second delay, and displays a warning visual on the set wearer when the proc occurs.
- Viper’s String: This Item Set’s proc now deals its damage over 4 seconds instead of dealing it instantly.
- Widowmaker: This Item Set’s proc now drops a spore on the ground in front of you that explodes after 1 second instead of instantly dealing unavoidable damage.
- Willow’s Path: The percentage increase to recovery granted by this Item Set will now modify all flat increases to recovery, such as drinks.

good shot @davey1107 ...

- five focused aims for about 28k...i like collecting death recap screenshots that include all one type ability...it's not easy to have that much of a resource stored up - and, to have all of them hit...

I didn't recognize the sound until about the third shot - too late...

I try to keep an eye out when clearing dolmens in cyrodiil...you timed it well

AD is in third (as of last night)! I'm not much for the guild politics although I recognize some names. Apparently a few guilds left Vivec from AD. It looks like the days of AD winning campaign after campaign are over. So continues the great cycle. AD are down for now, but will rise again! It'll be cool to see which "new members" rise up to become the next great group leaders. I usually run solo, so it won't be me.

As is expected when your team is in third place, our zone chat has become quite toxic. It may be better for my own well being to turn it off. May favorite is some guy accusing me of being DC. As if I have time to level an alt in another faction. There is just me with my Templar and all the skill points in the world running around for AD.

I did recently get the full motif of ebony armor and that chest piece sure looks good. I combined that with my Imperial helmet and I've got a pretty solid Paladin look going on.