generalmyrick wrote: »

why are all of you switching campaigns?

do you mean - "why are we switching characters, who are on different factions, on the same campaign"?

for myself - the lore stuff never really meant a whole lot to me...as soon as I could I put all my characters in to the same, most populated, 30 campaign: azura's star > scourge > vivec...

I just like to fight...

I wanted a fairly consistent play experience for all my characters...my characters are whom i'm most loyal to...

when I play, depending on that character's faction, i'm all in, committed to helping that faction, at that time, as much as I can...

generally I don't really care too much what other people do, or - how they play...

to each their own...

for myself, i absolutely loved our last campaign - it was super even and balanced...this campaign kind of sucks...

I'll spend a lot more time on AD and EP then I will DC this campaign to try to help balance the populations - but, for the most part it's on zos to help keep the pop's balanced...

Edit: installing a faction switch timer - 3 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours - something, would go a long way towards curbing some of the trolling which goes on...

generalmyrick wrote: »

why are all of you switching campaigns?

oops, sorry @generalmyrick ...totally misunderstood you...

I got a little emotional

hahahahaha...

yeah man, not sure how to even spell it - but, Vivec is pretty wack (?) at the moment...

makes good sense for a lot of players to go to shor, or even sotha sil...

I can't remember the last time I saw an even zerg fight on vivec...

some fun smale scale no doubt (as always)...but, it's mostly roll or get rolled at the moment...

When EP won its first Azura campaign, it was amazing because we couldn't switch alliances back then. We were locked in so there was a lot of pride. We didn't win again for another year.

My first guild was TSlugs back in Juliek or Rislav a couple of weeks after launch. I didn't know what guilds were, but I remember getting killed while sieging Bleakers by myself and some guy named Lysurgic rez'd me and then invited me to his guild.

After a year, I just got curious about what the other home bases looked like and what it would be like playing on AD and DC so I left the slugs because they were die hard EP.

Now I'm like geo and just play to play and help the 2nd and 3rd place alliances.

Playing in Shor has been a lot of fun lately while waiting to get into Vivec. Funny to hear the Shor players shouting in text chat for the Vivec players to get out. It's a game....I play where I want, buddy.

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

The problem with Atrocity is every time they get on EP everyone hates on them screaming transactional when they're the best players on PS4 NA all in a single group coming to HELP EP.

That's truly a shame. I mean, let's face it - EP needs all the help they can get.

Stoney is right about group sizes not really being an issue. Guilds run across guild chat and can run as many as 80 deep at times. By lowering the "Pick-Up Group" size, I fear the imbalance would only get worse. At least with 23 randoms and a semi-decent crown, there's some hope that the faction might not get run completely over. I also like that he's into teaching - that's so important in this game. Even now, I see EP players using fire ballistas against walls (doing 50% of the damage of a straight ballista) or hitting side doors with siege, which does no damage at all.

These days, if it takes you longer than 2-3 mins to flip a keep, you're going to get killed. Always amazes me to roll up and find 40 reds milling around the front door of a keep with 3 of them on siege. It's 20/20, or you're gonna wipe.

Gooch tried coming to EP a couple of times, and was driven out by salt (I assume). I'd love to see some good players come over and give us a hand. I have open guild slots and will roll with anyone who is competent and knows what they're doing. What I don't have are any characters on other factions - Just don't really have the time for that grind.

AD is heavy in Shor at the moment. Sanj was crowned emp when I was on last night. Shor has become as competitive as Vivec this time around.

dotme wrote: »

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

The problem with Atrocity is every time they get on EP everyone hates on them screaming transactional when they're the best players on PS4 NA all in a single group coming to HELP EP.

That's truly a shame. I mean, let's face it - EP needs all the help they can get.

Stoney is right about group sizes not really being an issue. Guilds run across guild chat and can run as many as 80 deep at times. By lowering the "Pick-Up Group" size, I fear the imbalance would only get worse. At least with 23 randoms and a semi-decent crown, there's some hope that the faction might not get run completely over. I also like that he's into teaching - that's so important in this game. Even now, I see EP players using fire ballistas against walls (doing 50% of the damage of a straight ballista) or hitting side doors with siege, which does no damage at all.

These days, if it takes you longer than 2-3 mins to flip a keep, you're going to get killed. Always amazes me to roll up and find 40 reds milling around the front door of a keep with 3 of them on siege. It's 20/20, or you're gonna wipe.

Gooch tried coming to EP a couple of times, and was driven out by salt (I assume). I'd love to see some good players come over and give us a hand. I have open guild slots and will roll with anyone who is competent and knows what they're doing. What I don't have are any characters on other factions - Just don't really have the time for that grind.

AD is heavy in Shor at the moment. Sanj was crowned emp when I was on last night. Shor has become as competitive as Vivec this time around.

I switched to Shor last Friday. This game has a lot of performance issues in PVP and Vivec just amplifies them. Shor has been a blast.

What I see is a beef between PvDooring playing AP gains and then the AP gains from tryharding with kills and zergs busts.

The politics is always the same, so and so wants emp and feels he or she deserves it but the person or people on the top 10 aren’t going to just drop for random people who can’t even hold their emp so drama happens.
Doesn’t matter what alliance it is, it happens.

I’m not a fan of let’s pass emp for the achievement around.
I’d rather have a EMP that has his own emp group and can handle his own vs a emp that’s in a 24 man and you don’t even notice it’s a emp group.

Sadly there’s nothing you can do about someone who wants to spend their whole life playing a video game and being a emp.
I guess find the person you like and support that emp like a president? Lmao

To Grand Warlord Sorcolin
Re: Nikel Outpost

The air was frosty that morning. The water vapor in our breath hung in front of our faces on every exhale. Well, every face except for a nearby stam DK, he had some kind of poisonous gas floating through his beard. It was either residue from a previous Noxious Breath or some kind of ale and fishy sticks combination. It looked bad and smelled even worse. Dentistry in Tamriel leaves a lot to be desired.

It was quiet right now. So quiet you could hear people tighten their grip on their swords. Scouts had reported earlier that a large Covenant force was moving in towards Nikel and we were ready. As ready as we could be anyway, after our failed push on Fort Ash. The silence was broken by a nearby honor guard, "Naemon should have had the throne!" Remind me after this is over to have the Queen's Eyes look into that guy's ties to the Veil.

Earlier there were reports of skirmishes with a band of Pact soldiers nearby luring our troops away from the Outpost, only to be jumped and murdered by several more bandits hiding nearby. Have these guys no honor? Boom! Boom-boom-boom! The Covenant forces have arrived and rather than knocking down the door they are hitting the north wall. I throw up some anti-siege lightning ballista, that'll slow down the guy trying to run three ballistas on his own. The force is smaller than General Madden's armies but initial reports have described this band, led by General @Stoney_McGeee , to be efficient, bloodthirsty, and organized. If they break in, we could be in some trouble. I'm targeting their siege rather than the players to try to prevent that wall from falling. I feel a lot better with a wall between them and I. A small band of AD soldiers engaged the enemy outside but they looked to be in trouble. Suddenly the band of Pact marauders from earlier slammed into the rear flank of the Covenant forces and chaos ensued. We had a three-way battle on our hands!

Suddenly, I recalled my masonry roots and went to patch up the wall while there was a gap between ballista shots. It was at around 30% and I and a few others managed to get it back to 60% before the siege resumed. It was only a stray shot though, and between our forces and the Pact band, the DC group was routed. Quickly we patched up the wall and went out the side door. By this point a larger Dominion force had arrived and it was mostly mop up duty. Beam! Another beam, and the last of the enemy are gone. We survived this one but I don't think we can count on the Pact bailing us out again. We need to get organized or General Stoney is going to have our forces for breakfast.

For now though, the calm resettled over everything. Our breath steamed the air, and the Dominion had a victory. A small one, but a victory none-the-less.

Jake1576 wrote: »

I just honestly believe the emperor system should be taken out of the game all together it really has no real purpose and alliance lock should be implemented once you are part of that alliance you have to remain on that alliance until the end on the campaign no switching no matter what and also they should remove resources and towns and imperial city flags all together only leave keeps to defend or take and the amount of ap should be raised for defending just my opinion

I like the idea of being Emp only once per campaign cycle. After you've been Emp once in the campaign, the next highest point total will be crowned next time all the inner keeps are captured. Sometimes you look at the #1 point totals and they are so far ahead of #2 it's crazy. It's either that person for Emp or no one. I believe it would make the campaigns more dynamic if more people had a shot at emp. Let's say you're the #5 guy, suddenly crowning an Emp for the fourth time looks interesting because you would be next after the dethrone. Maybe that would lead to chain emp crownings and dethrones and it would probably happen a couple times but it's hard to get everyone to agree and be organized enough to do it between all three factions.

still have (1) more character to get 100k on...it's my DC mag blade...he's also my main and does most crafting for me...

definitely have gone through a lot of changes with this character...took me a long time to settle in on a good build and skill rotation...right now i have him in velidreth (wanna give the nerien'eth set a try, but, need 1 more piece), torug's pact and spinners (on DW bar)...after going to 5 heavy/2 light feels much better, also switched up to weapon/spell damage glyphs...

still need to polish his 1v1 rotations a bit...

i have the infernal guardian set - but - i'm pretty sure neither cloak or mirage will proc it...the only other complete monster sets i have are: selene's, maw of the infernal, valkyn skoria and molag kena...i actually kind of had fun using kena on my stam sorc...

my mag blade can put out a little damage now; and, unless someone hits me with detect pots or abilities - he just doesn't have to die...

with two weeks left in the campaign though, i'm in absolutely no rush to jump back in to Vivec...hopefully some of the DC players will start getting bored of rolling all over the map and their pop will drop a bit...

it's funny, with the mechanism zos is using to keep the scores close, DC is still only leading by a few thousands points...

seriously, every time i check on Vivec - they have about 70 something current points for the next eval

right now trying to finish up the main quest on my EP nord magplar so i can get soul assault, need to figure a good way to work that and radiant oppression into some fights

i still haven't got meteor on any of my characters - the closest is level 9 on my main...i've just never got in to skyshard or lore book hunting...

also want to go farm the draugr hulk (direfrost keep) and bone pirate tatter (blackheart haven) sets...hopefully i can talk my buddy in to go do some dungeon farming with me...not that fond of having to do serious button mashing that goes along with fighting bunches of enemies or bosses with a gazillion health points - but - i want that stuff