Online:Battlegrounds

Istirus Outpost

Battlegrounds are small-scale player-versus-player (PvP) gameplay locations that can be accessed through the Group & Activity Finder. Initially, each battleground featured a three-sided team setup with four players in each team, but since Update 44 this has been expanded to include two-sided team setups with four or eight players per team. At launch, there were three battleground maps and three game types: Capture the Flag, Team Deathmatch, and Domination, with more were added in later updates. Battlegrounds feature leaderboards and have their own unique item set rewards.

Unlike in Cyrodiil, Battlegrounds are not Alliance-based. Instead, players can fight for the Fire Drakes (Orange), Pit Daemons (Green), or Storm Lords (Purple). Your team is assigned randomly on entering each Battleground, and you are able to queue up for Battlegrounds individually or in pre-formed groups.

According to the developers, Battlegrounds have had a Matchmaking Rating (MMR) system since their release. Initially it only accounted for your wins and losses, though it later was changed to account for the difference between your team and the enemy team's MMR difference. There are other factions, but the developers have left it vague on purpose to avoid it be exploited.

Teams

Fire Drakes	Pit Daemons	Storm Lords

Game Modes

Battlegrounds are divided intro three types, each with separate leaderboards:

• Deathmatch: Find and kill enemy players to earn points for your team.
• Flag Games:
  • Capture the Relic: Capture the enemies' relics and return them to your base.
  • Chaosball: Pick up and try to hold a ball which gives points but deals increasingly serious damage over time.
• Land Grab:
  • Crazy King: Capture and try to hold capture points that will regularly move to different locations on the map.
  • Domination: Capture and hold sites across the map, continually earning points based on locations held.

4v4 maps do not have 'Capture the Relic" and "Chaosball".

Locations

• 4v4v4 Battlegrounds:
  • Ald Carac: A dilapidated ruin of an ancient Dwemer city
  • Arcane University: A ruined outer district of the Imperial City, once Tamriel's center of magical learning
  • Ularra: An old overgrown Daedric worshipping site
  • Foyada Quarry: A quarry set in the shadow of Red Mountain
  • Mor Khazgur: An Orcish stronghold on the eastern slopes of the Druadach Mountains
  • Deeping Drome: A cavern containing a mysterious Dwemer ruin
  • Istirus Outpost: A fortification in southwestern Cyrodiil (allows mounts)
  • Eld Angavar: An extraplanar Ayleid complex floating in an otherworldly void (has two separate maps)
• 4v4 Battlegrounds:
  • Huntsman's Fortress: A Breton fortress in the Systres Archipelago
  • Coldharbour Colosseum: An Imperial arena pulled into Coldharbour
  • Mota-ka: An abandoned temple in the mountains of Murkmire
• 8v8 Battlegrounds:
  • Strid River Valley: An abandoned Bosmer village by the Strid River
  • Port Dufort: A Breton town in the Systres Archipelago
  • Reman's Folly: An abandoned vault buried beneath Cyrodiil
  • Shehai Waystation: A Yokudan ruin in the Alik'r Desert

Rewards

As you participate in matches, you will earn points and medals based on the game mode. Points are earned for completing the game mode's primary objectives: killing enemies, capturing flags, defending locations, and holding the chaosball. Medals are earned for unique feats related to the game mode, including dealing damage, healing allies, performing kill streaks, capturing or defending flags, healing flag carriers, and taking damage.

Your points and medals contribute to your final rewards when the match ends, being: PointsAlliance Points , Experience and sometimes a Battlegrounds Memorabilia. The Alliance Points you get at the end of a match are as follows:

Alliance Point Reward Tiers

First Place - 001200012,000  AP + an extra champion reward through mail.

Second Place - 00070007,000  AP

You get either a Battlemaster Rivyn's Reward Box or a Battlemaster Rivyn's Competitive Reward Box by winning your first battleground of the day in the Service Mail "One day at a time!". Ranking in the top 100 of the Weekly Battlegrounds Leaderboard will grant you unique rewards mailed as "Go Forth and Conquer!".

Battlemaster Rivyn's Reward Box	Battlemaster Rivyn's Competitive Reward Box	Weekly Leaderboard Rewards
Transmutation Geode (3)[verification needed]	Transmutation Geode (10)	Transmutation Geode (50)
One Soul Gem[verification needed]	Five Soul Gems	A new battlegrounds set piece in gold quality
Random battlegrounds set piece in blue quality	Random battlegrounds set piece in purple quality	Random battlegrounds set piece in purple quality
One PVP Style Material	One PVP Style Material	One page of the Galeskirmish Gladiator Style
A chance at a battleground style page	A guaranteed battleground style page	If you have completed Galeskirmish Gladiator Style, get one battleground style page
An extremely low chance at Chef Arquitius's Lost Thesis	A very low chance at Chef Arquitius's Lost Thesis	If you have all the battleground style pages, get one Battlemaster's Bauble

• Style pages are all curated. If you have all the style pages given by a reward, you get nothing.
• Prior to the switch to Two-Team battlegrounds, Second Place awarded 001000010,000  AP and Third Place awarded 00070007,000  AP. You also could get a middle-tier reward by finishing second out of the three teams

Also, every win will get you mailed a "A Champion's Prize" and every loss will get you mailed a "Renown and Rewards"

A Champion's Prize	Renown and Rewards
Random new battlegrounds/reward of the worthy set piece in purple quality	Random new battlegrounds/rewards of the worthy set piece in green quality
One Soul Gem	One Soul Gem
One PVP Style Material

As with all PvP related activites, you get mailed a Rewards for the Worthy box every 002000020,000  earned.

Quests

Introductory Quest

• For Glory: Prove yourself in a Battleground competition.

Repeatable Quests

•  Let the Games Begin: Participate in five Battlegrounds matches.
•  Test of Mettle: Earn one thousand Medal Points in a Battleground.
•  To the Victor: Win up to three Battlegrounds matches.

Notes

• A prototype battleground called Colovian Crossing, which featured a single, central capture point, was playable at many gaming conventions in 2014 and 2015.
• Battlegrounds originally launched with the Morrowind chapter of ESO and only available to owners of Morrowind. It was implied that owning any future Chapters would grant access to Battlegrounds as well, but they are now available to all players as of Update 18.
• The daily repeatable quests are collectively repeatable as a group, not individually. You need to complete an open quest of this type before you can receive another from Battlemaster Rivyn.
• While in the battlegrounds, to enable PvP between the teams, your Alliance may be temporarily overridden. Fire Drakes become Aldmeri Dominion, Pit Daemons become Ebonheart Pact, and Storm Lords become Daggerfall Covenant. This override is usually hidden by the user interface, but can be revealed through use of Alliance-specific skills or items, such as Dragonknight Standard or the Alliance Rider Outfit.
• The names of the battleground teams are a direct reference to early designs for TES:Arena. 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, the Firedrakes hailed from Torval, the Stormlords from Narsis and the Pit Daemons from Helstrom.
• In 2022, all game modes but Deathmatch were removed. Separate queues for the other game modes were added as weekend events, offering a +25% bonus to Alliance Points earned. This was reverted in an update.

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