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What Chapter is your most favorite so far?

  • Jusey1
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    Morrowind
    I main an Argonian in every Elder Scrolls title... I play him in ESO all the time. I have defeated Jagnar Tharn as him in Arena, solved a mystery in Daggerfall, was reincarnated in Morrowind, protected Martin in Oblivion, and became the Dragonborn in Skyrim.

    My very first steps in Tamriel as this Argonian though was the docks of Seyda Neen... Vvardenfell has ever since felt like a secondary home to me, a peaceful home in it's own way. An unique beauty that I honestly rarely see done properly ever since, and thus and very obviously... Going back to Vvardenfell, seeing it updated in the ESO engine, and having brand new adventures in this place was great to me. By far my favorite part of ESO.

    It also helps that Vvardenfell's Vivec is honestly the best hub there is. All crafting places, bank, and guild traders are all mere seconds away from each other. It's perfect.
    Edited by Jusey1 on March 4, 2021 5:56AM
  • ElvenOverlord
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    Summerset
    Huge fan of high elves, their lore and culture and really enjoyed playing through Summerset. Despite the narrative that high elves are snobby nobles with no edge that is far from being indicative of every Altmer.

    Also, I loved the whole concept of daedric lords actually working together on a grand scale such as this which is extremely rare. Nocturnal turning on the two wasn't a surprise, you can't trust a prince. Mortals in many ways are lucky. If the daedric princes ever fully put their differences and egos aside and work together plus actually take mortals seriously as a legitimate threat Nirn would be doomed. Thankfully, doing any of those two things goes against their very nature and we're nothing if not victims to our own nature. They'd rather screw up another Prince's plans out of jealousy by helping us than actually working with them. Lets be honest most of the time we defeated a Prince was thanks to the help of another Prince.

    Aside from that I enjoyed the Psijic Order as well though I disagreed with not having the Order be a part of the Crystal Tower's defenses in the future considering they just saved all of Nirn which the rest of Summerset was ill equipped to do. Not the first or last time the Psijic Order will help save all of Summerset but overall I greatly enjoyed the chapter.
    Edited by ElvenOverlord on March 4, 2021 6:18AM
  • Nord_Raseri
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    Wrothgar
    World design:
    1. Wrothgar
    2.Graymoor
    Lore/Story:
    1. Wrothgar
    2. Summerset
    3. Morrowind
    I know Wrothgar isn't technically a chapter, but it was better than every chapter so far(to me)
    Veit ég aðég hékk vindga meiði á nætr allar níu, geiri undaðr og gefinn Oðni, sjálfr sjálfum mér, á þeim meiði er manngi veit hvers hann af rótum rennr.
  • LadyLethalla
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    I love Summerset for its beauty but I love Greymoor for the Skyrim nostalgia and Fennorian. But I also like Wrothgar as it was the first DLC I played. Morrowind and Elsweyr are last on my list but I still enjoyed them.
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  • Lugaldu
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    Greymoor
    I've always been a fan of vampire stories.
    Otherwise also CWC, although it is not a chapter.
  • Suna_Ye_Sunnabe
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    Summerset
    Summerset was the last great chapter, and in my opinion, representative of how great ESO could be. A breathtaking zone full of detail, lore, life, gorgeous music, and great quests, punctuated with wonderful voice acting and delightful additions such as Artaeum. No major upsets to combat balance at the time were present to plague players with dread, and the introduction of the long awaited jewelry crafting was exciting. I absolutely loved the Morrowind/Clockwork/Summerset continuing story as well. Absolutely fantastic, and I will forever be unsatisfied until they truly conclude that story line (they hinted at so much in Darien's letter...!). Greymoor is at the bottom of the list for me easily, with its weak storytelling, bland world building, an inordinate amount of closed off doors and areas, small zone size, dismal soundtrack, poorly written characters (Fennorian excluded... he was the only thing I liked about it), wasted potential of what could have been interesting lore, forced "gothic" themes, childish plot twists, and failure to capture anything that made the Elder Scrolls 5 feel like Skyrim in atmosphere or execution. That and the absolutely unforgivable butchery of the vampire skill line.. As a vampire main with many alt vampire characters, this was particularly enraging. And don't even get me started on this farce of bringing back characters that we could have well seen dead in the original Molag Bal storyline (looking at you, Lyris, and Sai)... I have little hope for chapters going forward after this, especially with these cumbersome year long themes. We'll see. I just want something with the passion and quality that prior chapters such as Morrowind and Summerset had, with a team respectful of established lore.
    Edited by Suna_Ye_Sunnabe on March 4, 2021 9:21AM
    Angua Anyammis Ae Sunna
  • Ryuvain
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    Elsweyr
    Just a quick add in to my vote: greymoor was second place. The vampire lord and werewolf focus was awesome with stone garden being the best dungeon in the game. Skyrim itself was meh tho.
    That one khajiit obsessed with werewolf behemoth and vampire lord. Lady Thorn is bae, dont @ me.
    Werewolf behemoth=vampire lord>blood scion>werewolf>vampire.
  • RaddlemanNumber7
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    Elsweyr
    Cats, Tharn, Dragon hunting, some well behaved Imperials, the skooma cat. So much good stuff, and nothing really bad. Every time I go back there after playing other chapter zones I'm struck by the sheer quality of the production and how much better the whole zone works as an adventure story.

    Plus no racist Altmer, no slavers, no evil gods I'm forced to help, no Sun-in-shadow, no thuggish Titanborn, no Verandis Ravenwatch treating my Heroes like they're his little ***, no squeaking Eveli... oops
    PC EU
  • Nairinhe
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    Morrowind
    It's such a difficult choice...

    Wrothgar: most interesting story.
    Morrowind: nostalgia (that was their code word for it, right?), I literally cried when I arrived in Seyda Neen and I loved how you can use TES III map to find ancestral tombs.
    Summerset: that sea! The most beautiful zone. And the most heartbreaking main quest.
    Elsweyr: all the kitties!!! I mean, I'm a big fan of Khajiiti culture. And Abnurrr Tharn. Also best bard songs.
    Greymoor: I'll remember it as a buggy mess with the most boring main quest. But it had Fennorian. And I liked final song, antiquities system, "freezing" effect in certain areas, Greymoor Keep (seeing it for the first time was just "whooooaaaaaa..."). So it wasn't bad too.
  • Cirantille
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    Summerset
    The reason I bought ESO was this expansion

    I always wanted to go & live in land of High Elves in previous TES games

    I have always been a big fan of magic, high elves and Aldmeri dominion <3
  • barney2525
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    Morrowind
    This vote has nothing to do with the fact that Morrowind is the only chapter I ever completed. :p

    But I did enjoy the whole ' Save Vivec ' storyline.

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  • Tommy_The_Gun
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    I do not have any clear "favorite one", all of them have their pros & cons. Ask me again after this year's story (chapter & story dlc), it is probably the only content so far I am hyped for.
  • Destai
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    Summerset
    Such a toss up between Summerset and Morrowind. Both are gems, but I think Summerset takes the cake because it's just easier to get around. Morrowind has better quests hands down, but the land of Summerset is just stunning. Given I'm an Altmer at heart, it felt like coming home for a few characters.

    I was late to Elsweyr, but once I dug in, I loved the quests and vibes in that story. I got strong Indiana Jones Temple of Doom vibes. The topography of the zone was memorable too, lots of cool locales and world building.

    Orsinium is a masterpiece, questing and world building are top notch. Any time I need some time away, I head up there, roam around and enjoy the quiet remote feeling.

    Greymoor, bleh. The main quest started out super weak, IMO, but improved in the later DLC. Verandis and the others really developed in Markarth. The locations were ok, with only Blackreach standing out visually. Markarth was better than Greymoor, IMO.
  • Grandchamp1989
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    Summerset
    Summerset

    The only chapter I've been really disapointed with was Greymoor. It felt like such a chore to get through.
  • Sarannah
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    Morrowind
    Morrowind, by far! I would love to get more morrowind expansions, playing the zone in different timelines. Maybe even one where we somehow set in motion the events that happened in TES:3.

    Summerset is the best looking expansion zone though, also easy to travel across due to it being mostly flat.
  • KlauthWarthog
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    Wrothgar
    Wrothgar. Awesome story, scenery, sidequests, even world bosses.
    Then it´s Elsweyr and Summerset pretty close to each other, then Morrowind, and then... what was the name of that vampire snoozefest, again?
  • BXR_Lonestar
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    Wrothgar
    I've loved all of the chapters thus far, but Wrothgar has been my favorite. I love the Orcs. They're a grim people with a great sense of humor, and the storyline was amazing, especially the sidequest about Gaiden Shinji and Baloth Bloodtusk.
  • This_0ne
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    Wrothgar
    Wrothgar. it was a simple story about politics, the lust for power, born of the good intentions of one and the ambition of the other. I miss such stories, and not banal global threats seeking to destroy the world
  • craybest
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    Greymoor
    Greymoor. even though the story wasn't phenomenal to many others, the darker setting was really great to me. besides it felt different from all the rest. :D
    edit:also gave us excavation and scrying which i really enjoy as a calm side activity.
    Edited by craybest on March 4, 2021 3:56PM
  • Ashryn
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    Elsweyr
    This was hard for me to answer as I probably like both Summerset and Elswehr equally. I went with Elswehr, however, because I STILL enjoy fighting the dragons even to this day.
  • amapola76
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    I'm really torn whether to vote for Summerset or Elsweyr. I've probably spent the most time overall in Summerset, and it's really beautiful just to explore, even now. It's hard to beat those ocean views. On the other hand, Elsweyr had the best tutorial in my opinion, hands down, and it was the only one where I enjoyed the entire questline so much that I played it straight through. While I don't love the landscape in Elsweyr as much, I do love the architecture and style, particularly in the cities, and I still spend a lot of time crafting in Rimmen. Plus, I cannot lie, I still get a kick out of fighting dragons. So it's probably a tie for me.

    I would give an honorable mention to Wrothgar; even though neither the landscape nor the architecture are my favorite, something about it is very compelling, and I always enjoy going back for events.

    Morrowind is not my favorite, but I did enjoy it a lot, the tutorial was my second favorite, and it will always have a special place in my heart because I started ESO with the release of that chapter. I don't spend a lot of time there, but I'm never mad about going back for events.

    Greymoor has just never really captured my interest thus far. I'm not sure why, I like the look of it, and I thought I'd have a lot of Skyrim nostalgia, but I just haven't been that into it. To be fair, maybe it's just because of my general malaise last year because of, you know, the state of the world, rather than any specific shortcoming with the chapter itself.
  • MyKillv2.0
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    I really like the one about the young female, who we discover is someone really important, and we follow her on her journey to lead her people against a great threat and along the way, she becomes the leader her people need in their darkest hour. :D

    Joking aside, I actually like all of the chapters. Even the two that are so similar in story that you would think Todd Phillips wrote them. Unlike a lot of other MMOs on the market this game really hasn't missed a year as far as telling a good story is concerned (I am looking at your BFA and Realm Reborn). Even the year we only got dark brotherhood/thieves guild... I thought those stories were nicely done in a well self contained package. I have no doubt that Oblivion to be the same and be nothing short of an excellent story.... that has a lot of lag and promises to fix before mentioned lag. :D
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