Ranked PvP in eso?

kralskritek · September 2019

Hello,
is there any kind of ranked system in PvP? Any special rewards why to do PvP mode?
Almost in every other MMORPG, there is usually ranked system - does eso have ranked system? How pvp work in this manner?
Or it is only "play for fun" without special rewards and any special PvP related stuff?
I can see there is some kind of leaderboard? What is it and how that works?

Thanks!

Holycannoli · September 2019

You get a rank with title, you get skill points, and you get alliance points to spend.

Nordic__Knights · September 2019

You get Alliance rank which allows you to buy one housing item per rank they're all different leaderboards changes per campaign Pur top players of the campaign with number one have any chance to become emperor also with each rank that you unlock you get a title and a color to dye with
And as far as ranked rewards there is none there's campaign Rewards which are based upon your standings per campaign top 100 getting gold jewelry in most campaigns of a 30-day nature

Olupajmibanan · September 2019

There is no such thing as a true ranking system. Both leaderboards, the one for Emperor and the second for Battlegrounds, are measuring only your time played in a given period and does not measure your performance at all like you are used to, from every other game.

So the answer is pretty mixed, there is a ranking system but it is for fun only. If competitive ranking system that is contest of player performance is what you seek, you will be disappointed. Sorry, ESO has zero competition in PvP.

However, PvE has some nice competitive leaderboards. Leaderboards in trials, vMA, vDSA and vBRP measure all of your group perfomance, deaths, time, everything. So you may satisfy your competitive needs there.

Naftal · September 2019

I thought battlegrounds have character MMR.

Olupajmibanan · September 2019

Naftal wrote: »

I thought battlegrounds have character MMR.

Correct, but

MMR is cumulative, it can go only up, never down. It is not visible to you or other players. You can't know precisely what your MMR is. The MMR number is used only for matchmaking purposes, nothing else.

Leaderboards which are visible are not tied to MMR in any way. They are display of cumulative medal score earned in a week. You earn 4k medal score in first match, than 2k in another, your leaderboard score will be 6k than. Leaderboards resets once a week on Monday. Who has the most time to play is the highest place in leaderboards, obviously.

Blinkin8r · September 2019

Battlegrounds have leaderboards, Cyrodil has Alliance ranks and that's the most ranking this game can handle. Any type of ranked 1v1s would never work because of how poor performance is in this game.

Nordic__Knights · September 2019

Blinkin8r wrote: »

Battlegrounds have leaderboards, Cyrodil has Alliance ranks and that's the most ranking this game can handle. Any type of ranked 1v1s would never work because of how poor performance is in this game.

Poor performance is well as broken sets

redlink1979 · September 2019

You get the titles (ranks) from the AP earned.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Alliance_Points

Rewards for leaderboards if you make enough points during the campaign.

Skysenzz · September 2019

Olupajmibanan wrote: »

Naftal wrote: »

I thought battlegrounds have character MMR.

Correct, but

MMR is cumulative, it can go only up, never down. It is not visible to you or other players. You can't know precisely what your MMR is. The MMR number is used only for matchmaking purposes, nothing else.

Leaderboards which are visible are not tied to MMR in any way. They are display of cumulative medal score earned in a week. You earn 4k medal score in first match, than 2k in another, your leaderboard score will be 6k than. Leaderboards resets once a week on Monday. Who has the most time to play is the highest place in leaderboards, obviously.

Blinkin8r wrote: »

Battlegrounds have leaderboards, Cyrodil has Alliance ranks and that's the most ranking this game can handle. Any type of ranked 1v1s would never work because of how poor performance is in this game.

This is not at all how MMR works in Battlegrounds lmoa
The points that u get from battlegrounds are for the ranking board, it is only there for the rewards.
There is indeed a MMR that filter players by their skill, but it isn't that much revelant cuz nobody knows/understands how group finder works (it's a huge pile of ***) So you can have some decent skilled battlegrounds but ye, they're most of the time unballanced because the teams are badly built; some teams are made out of 4 people while others only have 3, some teams have 1/2 supports while some team have none. With a bit of luck it can be really interesting match with balanced teams but ye, let's say it happens 20% of the time of high MMR Battlegrounds.
Also some times u get a high MMR dude lost in low mmr match & vice versa.

edges_endgame · September 2019

Legte black is the only true black ingame. And only get it with PvP

NeillMcAttack · September 2019

After the database re-build and, let’s say, attempt, at optimizing coming next year. I would hope to see improvements to BG matchmaking, with a goal for ranked matchmaking with more optimized game types, and maybe even the choice of support roles. Even having solo and group games separate.

It’s worth mentioning here I think, that the domination and crazy king game types are anti-PvP. I had a couple games the other night where the winning team in both games rode around on their horses avoiding everyone and just running between flags, it is the dumbest “PvP” I have ever seen in any game.

kralskritek · September 2019

Thank you for your responses.
I am quite used to play ranked PvP games... (gw2, wow...) and I am gonna miss this feeling of competition... the feeling that it matters whether you win or loose... Does it totally not matter in ESO, right?
Its sad Eso does not support this, because battlegrounds are fun.

MurderMostFoul · September 2019

Skysenzz wrote: »

There is indeed a MMR that filter players by their skill

No.

Olupajmibanan wrote: »

MMR is cumulative, it can go only up, never down. It is not visible to you or other players. You can't know precisely what your MMR is. The MMR number is used only for matchmaking purposes, nothing else.

Yes, on a per character basis.

MurderMostFoul · September 2019

edges_endgame wrote: »

Legte black is the only true black ingame. And only get it with PvP

This guy gets it.

Mr_Walker · September 2019

Nordic__Knights wrote: »

Blinkin8r wrote: »

Battlegrounds have leaderboards, Cyrodil has Alliance ranks and that's the most ranking this game can handle. Any type of ranked 1v1s would never work because of how poor performance is in this game.

Poor performance is well as broken sets

Not to mention poor choices for ddos protection.

MishMash · September 2019

Just fair warning about the state of PvP right now... there is one issue I can confirm as it happened to me.

There is a chance when you crash you will return to see that you lost your Alliance Skill Line -- where it goes from rank 10 to 1 and they cannot fix it! If interested see post WARNING: You Can Lose Rank Levels --

Standard support and Elevated support cannot do anything about this either. It will take the Devs to even take a moment to review this and fix it. I've been waiting since 8/29 and just found out yesterday 9/4 that they cannot do anything about the skill line rank loss. IMHO this is a critical flaw in the game. Anyone that has ranked up their Alliance Skill Line (Support / Assault) knows it takes time. My rank was 10 for about 3 1/2 yrs, so it broke my build -- especially with DoTs are strong right now not having purge really stinks!