Why not keep stormlords by making the two teams in battleground random between the three.

elven.were_wolf · September 22

I don’t see why they have to remove stormlords all together where the motif and style pages won’t make sense in the game anymore. Why not make it so that the two teams are randomized between firedrakes, stormlords or pitdaemons. For example: you match up and it’s stormlords vs firedrakes / pitdaemonds vs stormlords or firedrakes vs pitdaemons?

Mooncake · September 23

This is the way.

meekmiko · September 23

My boyfriend asked me "Why didn't they just make two entirely new names for the teams and retire the other three if they weren't going to use all of them?"
He had a good point I thought. 🤔

CoolBlast3 · September 23

Yeah, is making the teams cycle really an impossibility??

acastanza_ESO · September 23

As a Sorc main, stormlords is my favorite team, I really hope we can get a rotation instead of abandoning one team altogether.

OtarTheMad · September 23

It would have definitely gone better if they just picked two new team names and kept those 3 to the 4v4v4 style. There are plenty already in lore too. On UESP, if you look at cities you will most likely at the bottom see a note which says that during Arena's development the city once had a gladiatorial team which had a name, could have picked two of those. They took that game a different direction but the names are still known.

Aliyavana · September 24

OtarTheMad wrote: »

It would have definitely gone better if they just picked two new team names and kept those 3 to the 4v4v4 style. There are plenty already in lore too. On UESP, if you look at cities you will most likely at the bottom see a note which says that during Arena's development the city once had a gladiatorial team which had a name, could have picked two of those. They took that game a different direction but the names are still known.

In Arena, the cut teams were the Firedrakes were from Torval in Elsweyr, Pit Daemons were from Helstrom in Black Marsh, and Stormlords were from Narsis in Morrowind.

If they decide to do two new ones, they should do at least one team based on Daggerfall Covenant locations, and none from EP territory. This page has the cities as well as the gladiator teams they were based on. https://www.imperial-library.info/content/go-blades

OtarTheMad · September 24

Aliyavana wrote: »

OtarTheMad wrote: »

It would have definitely gone better if they just picked two new team names and kept those 3 to the 4v4v4 style. There are plenty already in lore too. On UESP, if you look at cities you will most likely at the bottom see a note which says that during Arena's development the city once had a gladiatorial team which had a name, could have picked two of those. They took that game a different direction but the names are still known.

In Arena, the cut teams were the Firedrakes were from Torval in Elsweyr, Pit Daemons were from Helstrom in Black Marsh, and Stormlords were from Narsis in Morrowind.

If they decide to do two new ones, they should do at least one team based on Daggerfall Covenant locations, and none from EP territory. This page has the cities as well as the gladiator teams they were based on. https://www.imperial-library.info/content/go-blades

I am basing what I said off of UESP Notes section... example in the Daggerfall's lore page it says this:

Arena was originally conceived as a fighting game featuring a tournament that took the player to each of Tamriel's cities to challenge different gladiatorial teams. According to a file from that stage of development left behind in the final game, Daggerfall's gladiatorial team would have been called "the Guardians".[UOL 3]

City of Sentinel had one named "the Deathbringers"
Dragonstar's was "the Sacred Rage"
Wayrest was "the Highlanders"

Aliyavana · September 24

OtarTheMad wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

OtarTheMad wrote: »

It would have definitely gone better if they just picked two new team names and kept those 3 to the 4v4v4 style. There are plenty already in lore too. On UESP, if you look at cities you will most likely at the bottom see a note which says that during Arena's development the city once had a gladiatorial team which had a name, could have picked two of those. They took that game a different direction but the names are still known.

In Arena, the cut teams were the Firedrakes were from Torval in Elsweyr, Pit Daemons were from Helstrom in Black Marsh, and Stormlords were from Narsis in Morrowind.

If they decide to do two new ones, they should do at least one team based on Daggerfall Covenant locations, and none from EP territory. This page has the cities as well as the gladiator teams they were based on. https://www.imperial-library.info/content/go-blades

I am basing what I said off of UESP Notes section... example in the Daggerfall's lore page it says this:

Arena was originally conceived as a fighting game featuring a tournament that took the player to each of Tamriel's cities to challenge different gladiatorial teams. According to a file from that stage of development left behind in the final game, Daggerfall's gladiatorial team would have been called "the Guardians".[UOL 3]

City of Sentinel had one named "the Deathbringers"
Dragonstar's was "the Sacred Rage"
Wayrest was "the Highlanders"

Yes. The above page i linked contains those cut arena teams per city for convenience reasons. This information is also notated in uesp’s pages on the notes sections where relevant.

RaidingTraiding · September 24

That level of coding is not in the budget.

mdjessup4906 · September 27

RIP team purple. Always had my best wins with them.

Treeshka · September 29

Well did not they say in the stream that three-sided battlegrounds will be back after some time? So Stormlords is not going away permanently as far as i know.