Traitor

Logically I'd say after Cadwells Gold would be more appropriate

but would prefer the faction locking per campaign route.

After killing billions of soldiers of the other factions, they wont welcome u

I disagree with having to reach GO.

I agree with it being allowed One Time Only after Cadwell's gold and silver. Yes I know it's a pve achievement but it makes sense in that the character has now explored and experienced the other two faction and can now choose to stay with the one they are in or another. However the account must also have any race, any alliance if the race of the character not considered native to the chosen alliance.

This eliminates the issue where a new player chose an alliance without knowing the implications then made friends or joined a guild where they pvp in another alliance or their current guild died and they find a new one in another alliance. They won't have to delete a character they invested time and/or money into with horse upgrades etc. Again, this would have to be one time only per character so people aren't constantly switching.

Yes people say (including myself), just make a new character. The fact is people don't want to, dont have time, dont want to repeat content do that. I've seen someone join a guild that was pvp only in one faction and they could not join in on those activities on their character. It was kind of disheartening to them to be in a guild they like but not be able to participate.

There should be rewards for playing to the same alliance, not limitations or punishments to alliance swap.

IMHO, it would be better if you had to chose an alliance each time you start a campaign, and then stick with it for all its duration, than any proposed method of changing factions.

Grand Overlord is the LAST person to be allowed to swap factions

Thyeve gained like 50m AP from killing the other alliances, I doubt they'd welcome them in with open arms

DeadlyRecluse wrote: »

I don't really think an alliance change mechanism is necessary

Perhaps all things being equal, but they're not. This is ESO.

At launch if you hadn't pre-ordered, you were restricted to 3 race options per faction. If you wanted to play a particular race then you literally had no choice of faction.

None.

Zero.

Nada.

Sure, eventually they started selling the race / faction unlock but this is ESO. Creating a new character isn't like other games. You wipe out six plus BLEEPING months of daily horse feeding, trait research, motifs, recipes etc. BLEEP that for a BLEEPING joke.

And it's potentially more than just a matter of personal taste. Race matters in ESO. Racial bonuses are not insignificant.

Had I the choice I'd have been playing DC. My guild concept would have been a better fit but humans are so boring and I'm not into orcs either.

Not that I care much any more. Spellcrafting never eventuated, there's very little variety in magic except across classes which the game shouldn't have, group content for healers is super boring, and if you've bothered to master crafting and learn motifs (I have) why would you invest all that effort in end-game content to get better gear and lose control of your appearance?

Ok yes now there's the wardrobe thingy but at $15 a costume slot per character, I'll pass.

Crafted equipment is perfectly functional for solo PvE but probably sub par for PvP, so that's something else I can pass on.

Which, returning to the point, is why I'm not much bothered by faction any more. It doesn't matter except for PvP and it's easy to ignore that. But it probably still matters to some and with appropriate measures to prevent potential abuses, of course it makes sense to give people an option to change. ZO should want people to be happy playing their game.