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ESO BEST ZONE COMPETITION HEXADECAFINALS ROUND 3 - VOTE'S CLOSED

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It's a battle of the Ebonheart Pact zones! Does Stonefalls have the Stones? Does Bal Foyen have the Bals? YOU DECIDE!

The lineup and current standing of all contenders can be found here, so people can keep track of the overall action.

Each of these bouts will last two days, so this one ends at noon CST (5pm UTC) on November the 25th. FIIIIGHT!
Edited by Saucy_Jack on November 25, 2019 6:15PM
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ESO BEST ZONE COMPETITION HEXADECAFINALS ROUND 3 - VOTE'S CLOSED 91 votes

Stonefalls
75% 69 votes
Bal Foyen
24% 22 votes
  • Hippie4927
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    Stonefalls is one of my favorite zones. I see a lot of people here that dislike Stonefalls but I love the terrain and appearance.
    PC/NA/EP ✌️
  • RaddlemanNumber7
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    Stonefalls is my favourite zone in the base game.
    Edited by RaddlemanNumber7 on November 23, 2019 6:18PM
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  • Hallothiel
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    But aren’t they pretty much the same?!
  • Aliyavana
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    Hallothiel wrote: »
    But aren’t they pretty much the same?!

    One is yuger
  • Gythral
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    With lava - without...
    “Be as a tower, that, firmly set,
    Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
  • Raisin
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    100% Nostalgia reasons. Stonefalls is s great zone... But I remember when I first started playing and my vr16 gf carried my little newb butt through quests, I just had this whoa moment arriving at the little Bal Foyen beach. Even with bad graphics, it was just really cool and I loved the almost tropical mushroom feel, Morrowind vibes, etc.
  • SeaGtGruff
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    Despite how frequently I visit Bal Foyen for my farming needs, versus how infrequently I visit Stonefalls, there's no question that Stonefalls is larger and has much more to offer.
    I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!
  • SeaGtGruff
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    Huh? I guess we don't get to see who voted for what in this round. :(
    I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!
  • Saucy_Jack
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    SeaGtGruff wrote: »
    Huh? I guess we don't get to see who voted for what in this round. :(

    That's bizarre; I don't remember hitting the "anonymous poll" option - I must've check it by accident. :/

    womp womp
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  • BomblePants
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    Stonefalls baby...... when I first started playing I didn’t leave there for two months.... just had no idea what I was doing 🙊

    Anyways much love for Stonefalls ♥️
  • SeaGtGruff
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    Unless a bunch of bots log in on the forums and vote for Bal Foyen, I think we can safely call this round right now. :)
    I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!
  • Varana
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    Stonefalls was the original game's Vvardenfell stand-in - "people liked Morrowind, we want to have a zone like that, but Vvardenfell itself is too large, let's make something similar in atmosphere".
    As such, it is an automatic win. Dunmer, lava, mushrooms, daedric ruins. It's only missing the swamp.

    That's what Bal Foyen was there for. So both zones really should be together. In a direct comparison, Bal Foyen loses by quite a margin. It's not that the area's design is bad, it does exactly what it's supposed to be doing - being the companion piece to Stonefalls.
    Edited by Varana on November 23, 2019 10:00PM
  • MartiniDaniels
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    I love Bal Foyen for the nice bay viewpoint with Maiq. Really tranquil and lovely place. Funny quests like gather guars back into family and make netches attack daggerfall scum :D
    Stonefalls looks great, but quests... ugh, idk what is wrong with them.. maybe that brothers of strife were so weak and despite dire description there were no any danger when I was doing them on my first toon..
  • ShawnLaRock
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    My alt, afavshdjagsh farms there, and miraculously has a cool scamp pet at Lvl.2!

    S.
  • CaffeinatedMayhem
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    Bal Foyen is Tiny - Stonefalls is BIG - therefore, Stonefalls.
  • IndianaJames7
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    Bal Foyen is such a cool zone, its a shame there is no content that brings me back there.
  • Saucy_Jack
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    Looks like Stonefalls kicked Bal Foyen right in the Bal(s)!
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  • Tommy_The_Gun
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    Hmm...

    - Bal Foyen - Former (or at least temporary closed) Concentration camp / Slave ghetto / guarded by a Stronghold. Hell, it is a slums - style city with houses so I assume it was also used as (from a lack of better term) "slave breeding facility" - with whole families born & destined from the get-go for most cruel fate ever.

    - Stonefalls - The place where all the Slavers live or part of their homeland...

    Not gonna vote. Can I hate them both instead ?
  • SeaGtGruff
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    Bal Foyen is such a cool zone, its a shame there is no content that brings me back there.

    There is. It's called "farming." It's also known as "competing against bots," so it's at least as challenging as most of the other overland content. :)
    I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!
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