Need icon from annwyd! Graah!

[kiya]

So I didn't get in at the beginning of that AV game.

I just left it.

It's been going for eleven hours.

It's still not over. (Which means my primary purpose in playing -- getting the token for the game -- was foiled. And I lose the bits of bonus honor I actually managed to get.)

My secondary purpose (not losing sergeant rank) should be maintained with my 1800+ honorable kills, however. (Previous lifetime total: 1996, I think.)

I left the game because I am so tired I am likely to shoot myself in the foot.

Also, I ran out of arrows.

That's after restocking mid-battle.

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Comments

Cow.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Re: Cow.

[kiya]

Ee! Cow!

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the big problem with AV, if both sides are moderately competent, it goes on for EVER.

[kiya]

I did pretty well, though. I was getting about twice as many killing blows as deaths, and even after my crashes lost me my place at the top of the chart I climbed up to third or fourth again before I left . . .

(And 1800+ HKs will maintain low sergeant, I think.)

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

HK is misleading. It's actually Honor or Contribution Points that determines rank (actually, it's Rating that determines rank, but there's no way to check Rating in the game).

The problem with AV is diminishing returns. Killing the same player repeatedly eventually gets you to a point where that player gives zero honor for a kill. So you only get Honor for about the first 200 HK in an AV game, assuming it's the same 40-man opposition throughout. Although, if the game proceeds long enough, the DR timer can reset, and you'll get more credits.

AV games are bad for Honor. AB or WSG is better for rank, because of the bonus honor rewards for each victory. AV has the best faction rewards, though, for a lot of classes.

[kiya]

Yah, known stuff. (And I should log in at some point and see how much honor I managed to pick up in that slogfest.)

The game did go on long enough that we started picking up new faces. I wish Alliance had gotten its act together and pushed more effectively when we outnumbered them by ten men (after about eight hours); by the time I left it was back up to 40/40.

I went up an entire reputation bar in there. From a third of the way through neutral to a third of the way through friendly.

[mephron]

One of these millenia I'll get into one of the PVP instances, but that whole 'sit around for at least an hour until a space opens' thing really kills my buzz on it.

[kiya]

I miss WSG, which was the only one open for non-50s when the first battlegrounds patch hit; I was really good at WSG. Hunters kick ass on defense in Warsong.

AB was more annoying in the 50s bracket, though I went and shot a lot of trolls to farm dwarf rep while waiting to get in, typically. Now that Samh's 60 the waits aren't so long. Which is a different sort of irritating.

AV is . . . something else altogether. I enjoy it -- and I'm pretty good, but hunters have an advantage there -- but man. If you want a finite game, you want Arathi Basin. Unless someone actually plays WSG on your server.

Ah.

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

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*nods and smiles*