Best to worst enjoyable battleground mode ?

EnOeZ · March 2024

What is your ranking ?

Mine:
Deathmatch : best and

most enjoyable, action everywhere and non stop, teamplay+++
Death ball : non stop action and teamplay
Mad King : Running simulator, lots of time doing nothing standing on a point if you play the objective, that's why most people prefer to not bother with objectif and have fun fighting. Not enjoyable.
Domination : Your life lost while standing in front of a screen close to flag. Pray to have a fight, otherwise the mode I not just like less, I hate I despise, I want to commit suicide each time I feel I waste time like in this mode, time I could have employed otherwise, I wish it never existed in this game.

Two first : S-Tier
Two Last : Z-Tier minus²

EnOeZ · March 2024

What is your ranking ?

Mine:

Deathmatch : best and most enjoyable, action everywhere and non stop, teamplay+++
Death ball : non stop action and teamplay
Mad King : Running simulator, lots of time doing nothing standing on a point if you play the objective, that's why most people prefer to not bother with objectif and have fun fighting. Not enjoyable.
Domination : Your life lost while standing in front of a screen close to flag. Pray to have a fight, otherwise the mode I not just like less, I hate I despise, I want to commit suicide each time I feel I waste time like in this mode, time I could have employed otherwise, I wish it never existed in this game.

Two first : S-Tier
Two Last : Z-Tier minus²

loosej · March 2024

1. Deathmatch

Large gap

2. The other ones

the1andonlyskwex · March 2024

1) Chaosball
Small gap
2) Crazy King
Small gap
3) Domination
3) Deathmatch

Large gap

5) Capture the Relic

Major_Toughness · March 2024

Deathmatch
Chaosball
Crazy King
Domination
Capture The Relic

Kartalin · March 2024

Major_Toughness wrote: »

Deathmatch
Chaosball
Crazy King
Domination
Capture The Relic

Same list for me. Capture the relic is by far the mode that I least want to participate in, to the point that I just hope one opponent has a sprintVx build just to get it over with fast while I go somewhere else to fight and let our relic get stolen repeatedly.

Chaosball can be fun regardless of whether or not you play the objective, but there are times when it's especially enjoyable when everyone is playing the objective.

xylena_lazarow · March 2024

Best: Chaosball when it's 12 solo randoms on damage builds, no tanks or healers, no terrain exploits

Worst: Crazy King, which punishes players for finishing off fights rather than chasing the next flag

EnOeZ · March 2024

Completely forgot Capture the Relic !

Mine then:

Mine:

Deathmatch : best and most enjoyable, action everywhere and non stop, teamplay+++
Death ball : non stop action and teamplay
Capture the relic
Mad King : Running simulator, lots of time doing nothing standing on a point if you play the objective, that's why most people prefer to not bother with objectif and have fun fighting. Not enjoyable.
Domination : Your life lost while standing in front of a screen close to flag. Pray to have a fight, otherwise the mode I not just like less, I hate I despise, I want to commit suicide each time I feel I waste time like in this mode, time I could have employed otherwise, I wish it never existed in this game.

Necrotech_Master · March 2024

worst: deathmatch

most of the others i do like, though i would say a lot of it is actually the map i have issues with instead of the game mode, some of the maps are way too large for a small scale BG

edit: chaosball is definitely one of the most fun modes as long as theres no cheeseball play

Jestir · March 2024

chaos ball- fun and focused
domination- classic pvp mode that just works.... usually
deathmatch- meh, at the very least it is usually quick
crazy king- domination but you get punished for doing anything that is not immediately running to the newly spawned flag
capture the relic- just awful

LunaFlora · March 2024

worst is Deathmatch.

i like the others mostly the same.
i think my favourites are Domination and King.

edit to add: i wish there was a queue for specific modes like how we can queue for specific dungeons.

Aznox · March 2024

Deathmatch
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Chaosball
Crazy King (at least there's a fight at the start)
The others.

moo_2021 · March 2024

Relic: steal and run is the best part
Ball
Land grab: no idea what's the difference between two

DM last. Always got into AoE, got sandwiched between 2 teams, out of stamina, cc'ed, ulti doesn't fire and died. Oh and enemy teams always get great healers, never happened with other modes.

hmm maybe it's because often I'm the only melee guy in team?

Necrotech_Master · March 2024

moo_2021 wrote: »

Relic: steal and run is the best part
Ball
Land grab: no idea what's the difference between two

DM last. Always got into AoE, got sandwiched between 2 teams, out of stamina, cc'ed, ulti doesn't fire and died. Oh and enemy teams always get great healers, never happened with other modes.

hmm maybe it's because often I'm the only melee guy in team?

for land grabs:

domination all of the capture points are "fixed" in 5 locations and remain there throughout the match, the typical "hold more flags, get more points" methodology

crazy king is kind of like king of the hill, but using the flags from domination, the flags will despawn over time, and the start of the match has fewer flags (starts at 1 and then goes up to i think 4 active flags as the match goes on), the start of this mode is great if you have a solid 4 man group who sticks together, but these groups will fail the objective if they dont spread out later when more flags are available (more flags = more points)

Jierdanit · March 2024

Deathmatch is by far the best, because you're actually rewarded for fighting and killing people.

Chaosball is nice mostly unless you get one team with full tanks and healers just carrying the ball from the start.

In Crazy King you get one nice fight at the start and then it gets pretty boring, because everyone starts running after flags.

Domination and Capture the Relic are both absolutely boring and almost never fun, because in most games it is most effective to avoid fighting as much as possible.

El_Borracho · March 2024

Deathmatch

Chaosball, unless you get Ald Carac, then its all about who can get the ball into the room by their respawn

Domination
Crazy King. These two really depend on which map you get. Some are outright brutal, like Arcane University and Istirus

Capture the Relic. To the point I have considered helping other teams win when stuck on a bad squad to end it quicker.

xDeusEJRx · March 2024

Deathmatch
Crazy king

Large gap
Chaos Ball
Capture the relic
Domination

I don't like any game modes where it's capturing points or capturing an objective because far too many of those end up with 1 player who maxes out speed to run the chaos ball or relic or run from flag to flag and the game ends in 2 minutes.
I feel the same about a block tank that sits at the objective spamming X to capture or bashing you constantly.

Crazy king is not bad because at least the flags go away so run builds can't anticipate the flags as easily and tanks are less effective because that can't sit in 1 spot the entire game.

Chaos ball definitely needs a ramping snare to prevent you from just running laps around the map, it removes the "Chaos" aspect of it.

tincanman · March 2024

Deathmatch
Deathmatch
Deathmatch
Deathmatch
Deathmatch

It was a difficult choice particularly between 4th and 5th places.

DrNukenstein · March 2024

S-Tier:
-Death match

A-Tier:
-Relic
-Domination

B Tier:
-Chaos Ball

Next-Tier:
-Crazy King

Give us counterstrike/overwatch style scenarios plz.

EnOeZ · March 2024

So to my surprise I must say, according to your answers (I wish we could do an automatic poll):

Deathmatch is the most polarized BG, with lovers and haters
Chaosball seems globally the most appreciated
Domination globally the least appreciated

Chaos Ball
Deathmatch
Relic
Crazy King
Domination

Please ZOS, like in SC2 tournaments, allow us to ban some mods or use this to... remove domination, no one puts it first.

Kartalin · March 2024

Domination could be a lot more interesting if there were only 1 or 2 domination points, which is to say less points than there are teams. Unfortunately the way the battlegrounds maps are set up, they are not necessarily conducive to this unless the domination points are randomly chosen from the crazy king spawn points.

1 domination point would be a more king of the hill style game which could really be exciting.
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Necrotech_Master · March 2024

Kartalin wrote: »

Domination could be a lot more interesting if there were only 1 or 2 domination points, which is to say less points than there are teams. Unfortunately the way the battlegrounds maps are set up, they are not necessarily conducive to this unless the domination points are randomly chosen from the crazy king spawn points.

1 domination point would be a more king of the hill style game which could really be exciting.
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thats why i like crazy king over domination

the first half of the match only has like a total of 1-3 flag points, crazy king turns kind of into domination after 3+ flags though with the only difference being the flags despawn/reset ownership

Darkmage1337 · March 2024

1. Deathmatch
2. Capture the Relic
3. Chaos Ball
4. Domination
5. Crazy King

1. Deathmatch = Deathmatch
2. Capture the Relic = Deathmatch, but with offense and defense
3. Chaos Ball = Deathmatch, but with one location on-the-move
4. Domination = Deathmatch, but with four fixed locations
5. Crazy King = Deathmatch, but time expires before victory

gariondavey · March 2024

Deathmatch goat
Chaosball is ok when people aren't on max move speed tanks and/or exploiting out of bounds with ball
Large large large gap
Crazy king (because smaller number of flags at start)
Large gap
Domination / capture the relic (both of which would actually be fun with only 2 teams)

moo_2021 · March 2024

Jierdanit wrote: »

Deathmatch is by far the best, because you're actually rewarded for fighting and killing people.

Killing, not fighting.

If you kill the same noobs over and over again, you get much higher score than fighting others of your own level.

Jierdanit · March 2024

moo_2021 wrote: »

Jierdanit wrote: »

Deathmatch is by far the best, because you're actually rewarded for fighting and killing people.

Killing, not fighting.

If you kill the same noobs over and over again, you get much higher score than fighting others of your own level.

Sure, killing always includes fighting though, even if the enemies are not great at fighting back.

In most of the other modes you're rewarded for not doing any fighting at all.

Also most of that could be fixed if there was an actual MMR system that put you against players that are roughly around your level.

EnOeZ · March 2024

Deathmatch have a lot of lovers! (me included)

True that going in BG to run or stand still is not fun (to me).
It seems like Crazy King Domination and Relic are a separate game where we should be able to change gear, spec and class and be called "Running and Standing still grounds" and not Battlegrounds.

To me CK, Domination and at a lesser extent relic are a loss of valuable time.

xDeusEJRx · March 2024

I've posted this in the past but I like to refer back to this as to why objectives need to be limited and or snare targets to prevent behavior like this, with 1 guy running laps around everybody else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjxeZ5y3ok

moo_2021 · March 2024

xDeusEJRx wrote: »

I've posted this in the past but I like to refer back to this as to why objectives need to be limited and or snare targets to prevent behavior like this, with 1 guy running laps around everybody else

He's quite good! I can only run in straight line back to base since map always confuses me. Even so most wouldn't bother chasing. Only once I was immobilized and snared, and died of course. Nobody in that video stun charged him or immobilize with long distance crippling grasp.

That's why I don't like DMs. There is no use of tactics and usually the score only depends on how good your healers are. And we all know most only pick easy targets, not fight those of their level. Objective means they'd be forced to fight the right opponents or lose the game.

xDeusEJRx · March 2024

moo_2021 wrote: »

xDeusEJRx wrote: »

I've posted this in the past but I like to refer back to this as to why objectives need to be limited and or snare targets to prevent behavior like this, with 1 guy running laps around everybody else

He's quite good! I can only run in straight line back to base since map always confuses me. Even so most wouldn't bother chasing. Only once I was immobilized and snared, and died of course. Nobody in that video stun charged him or immobilize with long distance crippling grasp.

That's why I don't like DMs. There is no use of tactics and usually the score only depends on how good your healers are. And we all know most only pick easy targets, not fight those of their level. Objective means they'd be forced to fight the right opponents or lose the game.

I can argue that there's also no tactics in building high speed and just running laps around the map like that. Also trying to CC these types of players doesn't do much because 90% of the time no one is built to be fast in a game mode, they're built to damage, heal, tank, etc all at once.
So realistically there's no way to counter someone who's built for all speed in a game mode like this for most players. No one goes into pvp thinking "okay I need to stop this max speed build from ending the game in 2 minutes by running around", that's not PVP.

And these game modes don't incentivize people to actually pvp, you win by doing what this guy is doing, and not being caught/killed by the enemy teams.

SandandStars · March 2024

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