What is with the DC domination on all the campaigns?

Cuwen · October 23

Blackreach, Grayhost, what is with DC completely dominating both campaigns for months now? What is that?

SeaGtGruff · October 23

Which server are you on?

On PCEU, DC is in third place in the Gray Host campaign this month, with EP in first place by a very large margin and AD in second place.

On PCNA, DC is in second place in the Gray Host campaign this month, with EP in first place and AD in third place.

Perhaps you meant to type EP instead of DC? Or perhaps you're looking at the scoring for your home campaign and not for Gray Host? The only way I can see the scoring for other campaigns besides Gray Host is to queue for them, select Scoring while I'm in the campaign-- which defaults to my home campaign (Gray Host)-- and select the Scoring for Local Campaign.

Right now DC is indeed in first place in the Blackreach campaign on PCNA, by a very large margin. But that is definitely not the case in the Gray Host campaign.

Avran_Sylt · October 23

A symptom of a small PvP population and the introduction of Battlegrounds.

People that like ESO's PvP combat now have an easy way to experience it without needing to ride for 2 minutes for every fight, with an MMR that at least tries to filter players based on combat effectiveness so you don't get dumpstered as often, even if you do, getting back into the fight is quick.

Cyrodiil PvP is another beast altogether, as logistics plays an even greater role. Ball-groups, guild hours, social engineering to bring promising players to your faction, and of course, being able to swap to the winning team. Over time one side is going to be chosen to be the "right faction" to play on, given past history of victories. Players may swap to or create characters for that faction, and when its time for poplock, they trickle down into these other campaigns, moreso than other factions, bringing about general dominance across multiple campaigns.

They may even stay up later to nightcap if they weren't able to get into the campaign early, or they enjoy such "espionage" as taking over the map when players are asleep.

It takes players stubborn, unaware of, devoted to another faction, desiring a challenge, or cognizant of the problem, to create counterforce groups in the opposing factions.

Usually as underdogs because Cyrodiil is designed around tri-faction fights at full strength, giving keep and scroll bonuses to the "leading faction", tipping the scales to allow a single faction to potentially gain an edge when pushing against two warfronts before the opposing factions collapse onto their overextended keeps.

But that only serves to address poplock periods of time, getting back on only to see your map got nightcapped, those bonuses are just an additional hurdle to surmount.

It's a lot, so the easiest solution for most players is just: join the winning team. There's no benefit to playing the underdog (unless you're stubborn). You may even quite literally get less AP, fewer rewards, and a less exciting PvP experience given your faction bled good players whom are now making it more difficult to secure kills and whatnot. And again, if you're just looking for spontaneous combat... BG's.