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The Elder Scrolls Online cover artvsWarlords Battlecry II cover art

The Elder Scrolls OnlinevsWarlords Battlecry II

The Elder Scrolls Online leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Warlords Battlecry II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

The Elder Scrolls Online leans harder on execution: Action combat with weaving and rotations

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 8

Warlords Battlecry II leans harder on optimization: Hero builds, race economies and campaign routing dominate

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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