When BGs first launched and there was no MMR.

A close second would be the days of endless battle royals in the Imperial City Arboretum.

Wrothgar to One Tamriel.

From IC release to Dark Brotherhood release was the sweet spot. Dark Brotherhood broke the game with the start of the heavy Meta, poisons and proc sets.

Back in 2016 when I started PvP-ing lag was far less severe. I mean you got the spikes at big sieges, but the population was also higher than today. For about 1.5 years I've mostly gone to Cyrodiil to collect shards and do the town quests, and my characters gain their ranks in BGs instead. The most recent stint there was during the Jester's festival in late March when I did the Empielor achievement - took a while on Stamina DK and ended up with about 550K AP the day I got it.

Pre-IC

Increasing the ttk really killed the PvP. It's just been downhill from there.

First months of IC

nurf harmony to 15% per piece and make group heals cost more/less effective than single target self heals. and i'll be happy with PvP again. tanks not an issue if they can't get spammed by 20 sources of incoming heals and the whole harmony group bombs fun sure but very much over tuned.

The whole game is getting downwards since Dark Brotherhood, that's when they overbuffed heavy armor and introduced proc sets and everybody who didn't play 100% meta got powercrept. Also the performance was much better. Playing ESO nowadays feels like playing a worse version of WoW, ESO has nothing to do anymore with the unique action MMORPG which it once was and which I fell in love with (all classes and abilities got pruned down way too much, the combat is clunky, unfun and linear now).

I'm not saying that ESO was perfect back in the days, it's had its issues as well but none of the issues really ruined my gaming experience. I haven't logged in to ESO since I've duelled on the PTS the last time, the game just became such a horrible boring themepark.

all DK must love the dark ages lol

Very well then, it is decided, a second dark age. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Funnest ? Probably during the time before they turned azuras star into no cp and back when the cp cap was 501.

Dark Ages for me, everything was still new and exciting and bar some OP builds and buggy locations it played well.

Massive battles for keeps, some of which could go on for an hour or two.
People cared about campaign victories and didn't switch alliances as often as their underwear.

Ragnarock41 wrote: »

BaiterOfZergs wrote: »

Funnest ? Probably during the time before they turned azuras star into no cp and back when the cp cap was 501.

Those were the days, also CP felt like a lot less of a balance nightmare back when the cap was only 500, but the unkillable builds were already starting to get popular.

I liked this era because small scale was great, could take a resource and farm it by yourself or with someone else & repeatedly do it. These days it’s hit or miss.

And when azuras star was cp multiple campaigns thrived and gate farming existed. Actually gate farming, tower farming and breaking down the steps of a keep farming was alive and well. There was more players to kill too when an alliance was capped out. I remember swarms of players repeatedly rushing behind gates, like 200 people and it would last all day unless we got enough people to push out.