My Personal: Best to Worst.

Daedric War (Morrowind/Clockwork City/Summerset)
Orsinium
Thieves Guild
Planemeld (Main Quest)
Alliance (EP/AD/DC)
Season of The Dragon
Fighter’s Guild
Mage’s Guild
Dark Brotherhood
Dark Heart of Skyrim
Imperial City

Should have been a poll?

Daedric War (Morrowind/Clockwork City/Summerset)
Alliance (EP/AD/DC)
Planemeld (Main Quest)
Orsinium
Mage’s Guild
Fighter’s Guild
Season of The Dragon
Dark Heart of Skyrim
Thieves Guild
Dark Brotherhood
Imperial City

Its hard to rank the top, in part because nostalgia and the pre-One Tamriel experience heavily clouds my thoughts on the Planemeld/Alliances Arc.

But the Dark Heart of Skyrim is down at the bottom for me. When the first part of Greymoor was basically rehashing all the info we discovered in the dungeons and the prologue quest, and Markarth had a gigantic plot hole based around my character stupidly never sharing the plot-important info she'd been told in the villain's early monologue...it's the only storyline that's left me not just dissatisfied, but also doubting the writers. This was the storyline that really encapsulated the problems of the year-long story for me. It wanted to tell a story in Q1, then realized it had to spend so much time recapping info for brand new players in Q2, then saved its big story for the Q4 DLC only to treat my Vestige like an idiot who incapable of putting two and two together when the villain spells out the pieces of his plot in the first story quest. Thanks, writers. I hope you do better with Blackwood .

Daedric War (Morrowind/Clockwork City/Summerset)
Planemeld
Alliance (EP/AD/DC) Though I think the Dominion has the weakest story line of the three
Season of The Dragon
Thieves Guild
Dark Brotherhood
Mage’s Guild
Fighter’s Guild
Orsinium

Dark Heart of Skyrim
Imperial City

I have a space between Orsinium and Dark Heart because I think the last two are considerably worse than the others. I am not an orc fan but even Orsinium had a much better story than the last two.

Dark heart of Skyrim is the worst overall main Greymoor part.

Sometimes I think it also depends on what you encounter when. Murkmire I loved because it was so different to the usual and also whilst it started out as 'raiders of the lost ark goes eso' it rapidly turns into something quite different and unexpected rather than the now over-rehashed daedric meddling, nobody believes you, insert twist, reveal, bossfight, close.

Greymoor was probably the worst by far. About 20% of the way in the 'plot twist' might as well have been painted in flashing neon lights. The reach was a bit better but more of a quick short story than any real content. Some of the other stuff in it was good like all the antiquity furnishing and the like but as a story no.

I guess I'd go
Main quest
Alliance quests
Elsweyr
Clockwork (the rest of the Morrowind line really didn't grab me so much, and I'd also like to shove the psijic questline somewhere....)
Murkmire

Orsinium
Thieves Guild
Alliance (EP/AD/DC) -EP, DC and then AD i guess.
Dark Brotherhood
Imperial City
Daedric War (Morrowind/Clockwork City/Summerset)
Planemeld (Main Quest)
Season of The Dragon
Fighter’s Guild
Mage’s Guild
Dark Heart of Skyrim

Planemeld.
Orsinium.
Daedric War (would have been top if Summerset had stuck the landing and not exchanged Nocturnal for Mephala for some reason).
Alliances.
All the Guilds.
Murkmire.
Craglorn.
Dragons.
Skyrim.

No interest in pvp so can't rate Imperial City.

luen79rwb17_ESO wrote: »

(because "alliances" is a way too broad definition)

I agree, but I did not want to type out the name of every single zone on my phone here lol.

ya'll Feel free to separate the Alliance zones in your rankings if you want.

Orsinium — lovely city design, good non-apocalyptic story, cool puzzle, and you're not play in dialogue simulator only.

Daedric War — the truly one year epic story with 3 awesome (and different!) locations. There are some problems, yes, and some moments are repeat itself, but this is the best Chapters. And I'm not a nostalgia fan of TES 3. Summerset is the only one part in the whole TESO where I cried.

Imperial City — the real dark story, your Hero can't be a hero and safe everyone.

Thieves Guild — even considering that I guessed about the plot twist on the 2nd quest, I think this is a good example how to tell about a characters in your team. Awesome city.

Murkmire — atmospheric location. The story didn't impress me so much as it planned, but still it's a nice non-apocalyptic story.

Season of The Dragon — well, it could be better and more focused on Elsweyr policy, not a dragon nostalgia. Euraxia was the better villain than the 3 other, it's a shame her "elimination" was lackluster. Not bad some of changing of Tharn, and I hope ZoS wouldn't ruin his little story during the arch via what they likes to do with a hype characters.

Alliances — I don't like the Pact story. Its' storyline is focused on other alliances vilification to make itself as "good" side, so it was unpleasant to questing there with DC character. Dominion is better, but Valenwood locations are spoils the impression. And Ayrenn. Yes, many players likes her, but she's not so good ruler as it may seems, and the troubles with a conspirators was her fault. I like Covenant mostly for local stories and some interesting characters (more than any other alliance). I just don't like Alik'r. And Redguards for their godliness.

Planemeld — I found it boring and overly pathos. Mannimarco is a clown, not a terrifying necromancer for all the story of Tamriel, all Companions except Tharn are flat and lifeless. Only Tharn and side plot with a Coldharbor assault brought variety to this story. Funny thing that the end of Coldharbor assault plot has killed some characters offscreen and then they were resurrected later.

Dark Brotherhood — I'm not a fan of Dark Brotherhood, so this story wasn't interesting to me. The plot is not hesitate to be a violent and bloody — it's a rare thing in TESO. None of the characters on our side we know very well, so there was no one to empathize with. The best character for me is Elam Drals, I like his tales.

Fighter’s Guild & Mage’s Guild — I don't even remember what was in Fighter’s Guild lol. The Mage’s Guild is fine but Shalidor is annoying for me, I can't say that I see a great person in him.

Dark Heart of Skyrim — the worst Chapter, the worst zone DLC, the worst story. The better parts were Harrowstorm dungeons and the both Prologues — they turned out to be more interesting, than a general story parts. The plot tries to copy Dawnguard, Rivenspire and Dragonhold plots. The old characters are degraded, became empty or repulsive, the new characters tries to copy some better examples or loosed their potential and became pathetic in the end. The best and pleasant character is Old Mjolen. Our character have the most idiotic answers and questions. And all this with a ton of fan-service and political correctness — if I start to give specific examples, my words will be deleted by the moderators, so I just say that Greymoor and Markarth are a zones I have unpleasant to explore in terms of Lore and direction that ZoS have taken for a luring audience.

Top three favourites:

Alliances
Thieves Guild
Season of the Dragon

Least liked:

Greymoor
Dark Brotherhood
Fighters & Mages Guild

Daedric War is by far the best one, with Summerset being the best part of ESO that developers have created so far. A shining pinnacle of the game, story-wise, characters-wise, etc. Both by itself, and as the final part of the trilogy. Everything that came out after it so far, looks like an afterword to me.

Main quest is on the second place, with a considerable gap though. Classic one, and the beginning of everything, including the origin of the most notable characters of the game. I count the Imperial City as a part of the Main quest, because it's about "Plan B" of Molag Bal.

Season of the Dragon is the third.

Dark Brotherhood is the worst for me. This story simply has no place for my character. Everything else is inbetween.