The Greatest Quester Ganker of All Time

krachall · April 2018

I'm terrible at PVP. I fully admit it and have a lot of respect for those who excel at it. With the anniversary event, I've been running my 5 PVE characters through Cyrodill quests and have been on the receiving end of a few ganks. Not a lot, fortunately, and I've been easily able to complete 10 quests per character each day, but I have spent a bit of time observing the gankers. Most operate with ruthless efficiency. When I fail to escape , I see I usually die in 2-4 hits (depending on if their Zaan's went off) from a 2h sword before I even realize I'm being attacked. Impressive.

But last night I saw the opposite and it was enjoyable to watch.

An AD player jumped me as I was talking to the quest giver. Normally I just let them kill me and then take the 90 second ride back and continue my quests. But this time, I managed to escape. When I returned, I find the ganker dead where he stood. Sweet, someone got him.

A few minutes later, he's back and this time, 2 of us PVE'ers fight back and kill him. Interesting, considering most of the time a single PVP ganker can wipe Chey clean of PVE'ers in seconds. Later, the same thing. OK, maybe this guy isn't the best ganker in the world.

Later, he's back but this time he's brought 3 friends. 4 AD gankers swarm onto Chey...and get wiped by PVE'ers again. Bwahahahah....

And again...bwahaha...

Then, to my surprise, as I'm crossing the bridge to complete a quest, I see one of those immediate respawn tents pop up. OH, these guys are SERIOUS now. And then the tent burns down and they get wiped. I didn't see my friend or his gang the rest of the morning.

Enslaved · April 2018

More than half of these festival gankers are just clueless. That is why they need an event like this one to prove themselves they are not as worthless as they seem to be.

Shezzarrine · April 2018

In Shor a couple days ago there was a certain DC YouTuber and his *inappropriate word* riders farming Chey, so in zone all of the EP questers started a group to push them out. The EP group ended up wiping out the DC multiple times and eventually the DC gave up. I thought that was pretty funny.

Giraffon · April 2018

Shezzarrine wrote: »

In Shor a couple days ago there was a certain DC YouTuber and his *inappropriate word* riders farming Chey, so in zone all of the EP questers started a group to push them out. The EP group ended up wiping out the DC multiple times and eventually the DC gave up. I thought that was pretty funny.

Ah, I wish I'd been on to see that. My alt has suffered much grief from DC gankers in Cheydinhal and Bruma both during this event. Those guys are making new enemies that they will keep for a long time. AD and EP have had occasional truce periods where everyone was too busy getting loot to worry about the other guys, but DC...no friends, no truce. You gotta' admire their...well whatever you call it, they are sticking to it.

Fleshreaper · April 2018

Giraffon wrote: »

Shezzarrine wrote: »

In Shor a couple days ago there was a certain DC YouTuber and his *inappropriate word* riders farming Chey, so in zone all of the EP questers started a group to push them out. The EP group ended up wiping out the DC multiple times and eventually the DC gave up. I thought that was pretty funny.

Ah, I wish I'd been on to see that. My alt has suffered much grief from DC gankers in Cheydinhal and Bruma both during this event. Those guys are making new enemies that they will keep for a long time. AD and EP have had occasional truce periods where everyone was too busy getting loot to worry about the other guys, but DC...no friends, no truce. You gotta' admire their...well whatever you call it, they are sticking to it.

As a DC main, I can't even tell you how many times, I have seen your AD/EP truce fall apart because of your own people. You come on with this, leave us along and we will leave you alone, 5 seconds incoming AD/EP zerg.

Kanar · April 2018

Fleshreaper wrote: »

Giraffon wrote: »

Shezzarrine wrote: »

In Shor a couple days ago there was a certain DC YouTuber and his *inappropriate word* riders farming Chey, so in zone all of the EP questers started a group to push them out. The EP group ended up wiping out the DC multiple times and eventually the DC gave up. I thought that was pretty funny.

Ah, I wish I'd been on to see that. My alt has suffered much grief from DC gankers in Cheydinhal and Bruma both during this event. Those guys are making new enemies that they will keep for a long time. AD and EP have had occasional truce periods where everyone was too busy getting loot to worry about the other guys, but DC...no friends, no truce. You gotta' admire their...well whatever you call it, they are sticking to it.

As a DC main, I can't even tell you how many times, I have seen your AD/EP truce fall apart because of your own people. You come on with this, leave us along and we will leave you alone, 5 seconds incoming AD/EP zerg.

Yes because every time a truce falls apart, it is because one side or the other breaks the truce. So it's not really surprising "how many times" you've seen it. Point is, AD and EP both see the benefit and fun of putting the war aside for a moment to get loot, whereas DC always wants to fight.

To OP, last night I killed a NB ganker as I was questing by bruma. He hit like a wet noodle; I think he's a ganker-in-training. There's also another scamp guy who dies a lot, but often has a few friends protecting him.

I've been having fun teabagging every dead quester ganker, but it probably does more harm than good because then they want to gank more.

krachall · April 2018

I actually like the quester ganking. It makes those boring Chey quests FAR more fun when you have to avoid ganks. The mobs there are far weaker than even a normal dungeon mob so it’s boring as hell without some gankers.

And as a wanna be pvper, I can learn some by watching them.

I didn’t learn much by watching this inept AD gank-fail group but some of the others have been good.

And I will say that there are 10x the DC gankers than AD at Chey. I’m guessing they are working through some self esteem issues

Cryptical · April 2018

Fleshreaper wrote: »

Giraffon wrote: »

Shezzarrine wrote: »

In Shor a couple days ago there was a certain DC YouTuber and his *inappropriate word* riders farming Chey, so in zone all of the EP questers started a group to push them out. The EP group ended up wiping out the DC multiple times and eventually the DC gave up. I thought that was pretty funny.

Ah, I wish I'd been on to see that. My alt has suffered much grief from DC gankers in Cheydinhal and Bruma both during this event. Those guys are making new enemies that they will keep for a long time. AD and EP have had occasional truce periods where everyone was too busy getting loot to worry about the other guys, but DC...no friends, no truce. You gotta' admire their...well whatever you call it, they are sticking to it.

As a DC main, I can't even tell you how many times, I have seen your AD/EP truce fall apart because of your own people. You come on with this, leave us along and we will leave you alone, 5 seconds incoming AD/EP zerg.

It boils down to individuals.

On Saturday I was riding into blue-flagged-Vlas for the quests and zipping out just ahead of the posse chasing me, and after that happened a couple times I was left alone and I left them alone.

Then a few other AD came in getting rowdy, and I stayed out of it, and as such I continued to be left alone.

At the same time, I have to wonder why the F were the blues haunting vlastarus when they have chorrol for dailies under the pvp radar as well as having Bruma within their home fort territory? AD owns one town with dailies, DC and EP each own two. If you really want to do the mutual coexistence thing for quests then staying in your lane is step number one.

Takes-No-Prisoner · April 2018

I was questing in Bruma for the event yesterday. I had no problem with the reds questing for the event, since it was what I was doing. There were a ton of blues in the area. They too, also had no problem with that.

I finished up and moved to Vlast, saw a red try to gank another blue and we both killed him. He brought friends, same thing happened.

Mindless killing is fun and all, and while gankers can certainly try to do that, they have to plan for the worst. Because some of those people PvEing, might just be veteran PvPers who are capable of flipping a switch from passive to kill on sight.

DeadlyRecluse · April 2018

Cryptical wrote: »

At the same time, I have to wonder why the F were the blues haunting vlastarus when they have chorrol for dailies under the pvp radar as well as having Bruma within their home fort territory?

It's entirely possible they had already done all the Bruma quests. The Chorrol quests are, imo, really inconvenient and time-consuming compared to Vlastrus.

Katahdin · April 2018

Cryptical wrote: »

At the same time, I have to wonder why the F were the blues haunting vlastarus when they have chorrol for dailies under the pvp radar as well as having Bruma within their home fort territory? AD owns one town with dailies, DC and EP each own two. If you really want to do the mutual coexistence thing for quests then staying in your lane is step number one.

AD also has the priory that is NE of Vlas

Sharee · April 2018

Most of the people who think they don't have a chance in cyro think so because they got attacked, wiped before they could even register their attacker, and then assume that is how every opponent in cyro is going to be.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. As someone who spends 90% of playtime in cyro, i can tell you the skill of players you encounter in cyrodiil is all over the place. You lose some, but you can win some, too.

A word of advice for new pvp-ers: if you want to experience the lower end of enemy skill scale, go deep into their territory, and cap a resource. More often than not the first few enemies who arrive will be pushovers(because their good guys are at your resources doing the same). You might even manage a 2v1 with the help of the guards, and learn a thing or two in the process, until they gather a zerg to deal with the "fearsome ganker"

Hamburglarjones · April 2018

It's a pvp zone and to think you should be immune to pvp whilst benefiting from the dailies that are there for more reward due to the risk associated with it is just stupid. Furthermore, they kill people there because in reality they are taking spots in the server from pvpers who actually partake in the activity they enjoy... Pretty dumb of Zos.

This is coming from someone who rarely pvps.

Takes-No-Prisoner · April 2018

Sharee wrote: »

Most of the people who think they don't have a chance in cyro think so because they got attacked, wiped before they could even register their attacker, and then assume that is how every opponent in cyro is going to be.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. As someone who spends 90% of playtime in cyro, i can tell you the skill of players you encounter in cyrodiil is all over the place. You lose some, but you can win some, too.

A word of advice for new pvp-ers: if you want to experience the lower end of enemy skill scale, go deep into their territory, and cap a resource. More often than not the first few enemies who arrive will be pushovers(because their good guys are at your resources doing the same). You might even manage a 2v1 with the help of the guards, and learn a thing or two in the process, until they gather a zerg to deal with the "fearsome ganker"

Absolutely true.

I somehow ended up outnumbered by an AD zerg yesterday. Followed 2 people, who were grouped, to a resource. We flipped it, and proceeded to kill as many as 10-15 players over the course of 25 minutes. I ended up being a bigger help to the MagTemplar and StamDK then I thought I would be. When they struggled to finish off opponent, I would run in and fear+Incap/Assassin's Will combo and StamDK would kill with Reverse Slice.

This is how good players notice you. You show up and help out! Even I surprised myself with that encounter.

Cryptical · April 2018

DeadlyRecluse wrote: »

Cryptical wrote: »

At the same time, I have to wonder why the F were the blues haunting vlastarus when they have chorrol for dailies under the pvp radar as well as having Bruma within their home fort territory?

It's entirely possible they had already done all the Bruma quests. The Chorrol quests are, imo, really inconvenient and time-consuming compared to Vlastrus.

Yes, they are inconvenient. However, there is no flag there blazing with color for all the population to see like the bat signal in the sky. So the only pvp attention the town gets is questers and lowlife gankers.

Grendel_at_ESO · April 2018

Just because people PvP doesn't mean they're good at it. They were probably just trying to take advantage of the pure PvE'rs who don't fight back.

Hurtfan · April 2018

I love it when the gank-er becomes the gank-ee

Well done OP

D0PAMINE · April 2018

Everyone backstabs in Cyrodiil