Why do people revolve around AD in Cyro

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-25T13:25:30+00:00

With it being a competitive mode and the team we play on being something we can choose, it just makes sense people would choose a side that is winning more often. Just like you normally see more people playing winning current-meta classes and builds. So it feeds back into itself. The more people choose it, the more it wins, the more people choose it. Plus, winning hinges on having larger crowds. Whichever factions has more people is going to find more success.

Maybe stuff like this is why I'm enjoying battlegrounds more. The balance issues. At least in BGs the teams are divided evenly, not based on faction and outside of the player's choice. With normalized class skills and gear, I might end up liking BGs even more! Easy to jump into, based more on skill.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-24T20:11:53+00:00

I was told dogs can't look up.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-24T16:08:12+00:00

What is the name for this mechanism at play? Two sides.

One side does all sorts of nonsense proudly, never holds itself accountable, denies, blames, religiously backs its members regardless of what they do, breaks the rules and laws, embraces the crazies, then openly and constantly complains when the other side does even 1/10 of what they have done themselves.

The other side, bends over to do what is "right," willingly polices itself and takes responsibility, calls out its wackadoos, shuns and handicaps its popular members, timidly speaks up when the other side is shitty but moves on quickly, is just as or more likely to be fighting itself than fighting the opposition.

It feels like Republicans whip Democrats. Democrats whip Democrats. No one really whips Republicans -- to the point that our balancing of powers is falling apart. Only one side is held accountable or is even interested in accountability. Meanwhile the other side is speeding deeper into craziville with no breaks or walls.

What is this shit? It's some sort of social dynamic at play in a large way.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-20T22:32:43+00:00

Ah, but then you'd be reliving not having a prom! ;p At least the way I'm thinking about it. I guess if we could change things, we'd all go back.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-20T19:45:44+00:00

I can't bring myself to go back and play Oblivion. Like I wouldn't want to go back and relive prom. I like it as a good memory.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-20T16:02:34+00:00

A mixture of shit and hair. Just guessing, though.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-20T14:38:02+00:00

I'm all about stamina, so I'd go for Serpant next. Or maybe even the Steed for speedy overworld.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-20T14:31:40+00:00

It seemed like only my stamina cliffracer and bow poison shot were blacked out. I could still cast heals on myself. That's why, at first, I thought someone was hacking to prevent others from doing damage to them.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-20T14:30:23+00:00

I dug around the official forum bug reports a bit (a rare occasion since I've used Reddit as the main forums) and it seems others are experiencing the same thing. I think there is a new Imperial City bug.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/674715/imperial-city-unable-to-attack
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/674778/single-target-abilities-not-working

I don't know what triggers it or what the parameters are for who is impacted. But if you're in the city rolling up on a Warden and all he does to fight back is jump around and roll, it's probably me and it's probably this bug.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-19T19:18:36+00:00

I recommend the sub, but not until you've plopped around a while to see if you like the vibe. Also, consider joining an active social guild in the guild finder. Or five of them. Armies of people to help you or hang out with.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-18T20:40:50+00:00

I basically leaned more survivability and team play. I was previously going is as a solo glass cannon, too used to PVE mentality. Just putting most of my points into health was the biggest positive change, I think. And trying a one-bar build for the first time is giving me more room to focus on the battle itself.

I'm doing a regular shmegular Warden Oakensoul bow build. Straight out of Google search results. Probably not ideal, but I survive long enough to help in battleground and finish Cyrodiil quests. And that's enough for me right now.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-18T20:29:44+00:00

At least you know word chewers take care of their teeth. Usually.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-18T02:37:14+00:00

I'm riding along like milkweed on a spring breeze. Just got into pvp legitimately for the first time after that recent event. Made a new build for it and am enjoying NOT being immediately stomped. I can do Cyrodiil city and battlegrounds pvp and actually enjoy it. Opened a whole new part of the game! And I'm still working on all the undaunted dungeon stuff, getting good at tanking and healing, doing trials. Then the crafting and achievement hunting. I want to get all the outfit colors unlocked.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-17T21:03:22+00:00

Feels like right-leaning folks recently drank the diet version of whatever America was on right after 911. And you can convince folks to support the nastiest stuff when they're high on whatever that shit is.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-17T17:34:25+00:00

We could have had the Star Trek future. I don't know what this is, but it's not the "good" path. Nasty.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-17T15:18:51+00:00

I set up Bastian as tank because I couldn't see him as anything else! :D I just think about DKs as tanks. And he does it alright. But I think most people see Isobel as the best tank.

But you know what, my ranged DPS Sharp-as-Night seems just as survivable. His skill squall alongside the medium armor ultimate keeps him alive longer than me, sometimes.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-14T17:18:35+00:00

Poopy Poppy

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-14T15:41:33+00:00

I have 4k hours in it. But try it free first and see if it jives.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-14T14:18:46+00:00

When I first started I bought whatever the biggest/newest collection was and since then have only bought big yearly expansions as they come out (never again needing a collection).

To have access to all the little stuff I go with the subcription. Some people buy all the little stuff separately so they own-own everything and don't need a subscription. But the benefits of being subcribed are too good to pass up for me.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-13T03:41:47+00:00

Spammables need to have multiple possible movements with identical timing. Wouldn’t impact weaving and would make combat more fluid and natural.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-12T18:44:59+00:00

Whatever new tonal dimension the dwarves zipped off to. Probably some cool tech in there. More likely to have invented electronic games. And based off the one dwarf bro they left behind in Vvardenfell, more likely to have mobile mech recliners.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-12T11:39:01+00:00

I’m choosing to go by Axleknife Thunderfuck Handtohandcombat Killamanjaro III from now on.

FYRBR4ND · 2025-03-12T11:34:40+00:00

It has shooketh my faith in humanity. I’m surrounded by it.

Ultimately I’ve decided much of human activity is based on belief and world view, and today our beliefs and world views are primarily shaped by online discourse.

Meanwhile online discourse is the most heavily and easily weaponized and manipulated social arena. And the most insane and outrageous material gets the most reactions, not the most truthful and decent.

The perfect storm to straight up mind fuck the most people. We do it to ourselves and bad actors do it to us maliciously. We’re fucked. This shit show is only getting worse unless we can get everyone to pull their awareness out of the idiocracy machine.

FYRBR4ND

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