Best Way to get AP/HOUR? For Solo Player

generalmyrick

I know BGS are not solo, but i can q solo...

help me out with your facts and opinions!

if you comment please tell me under what circumstances these massive ap gains are gathered as well! thanks!

FloppyTouch

Cyrodiil

Zerg surf

Recremen

Cyrodiil

If you count BG as solo then idk what your standards are specifically, so I'll just recommend zerg surfing in Cyro. Use a bunch of AoE attacks, especially ones that you can do from a safe range, so that you get damage tags on as many people as possible. Siege is also massively overperforming right now, so set up some scattershot or meatbag catapults and point-and-click your way to success. Best done from the safety of a keep, but you can risk setting it down in open field too, especially if your zerg is zerging hard enough. Enjoy!

Stovahkiin

Cyrodiil

Follow a decent sized group around in Cyrodiil and spam heals while they get kills. Capture/Defense ticks can give fairly large bursts of AP on their own if there’s enough action. Just depends on how much you describe “massive AP gains” as being

ZarkingFrued

Defending keeps and joining a good AP farm group. 3 or 4 good bombs, couple negates, and some AOE/CC spammers. Farm towers

Morgul667

Cyrodill is highest ap hour rate if you know what youre doing

Depending on that and the time of day the. BG is better

Yakidafi

Battlegrounds

I don't see zerg surfing as solo play. So I would say battlegrounds, alot of times you are alone in those games depending on how you play and sometimes depending on your team. 12k per game if winning and games can end in 10min.

Unfadingsilence

Cyrodiil

As a solo player "for the most part" I can get aound 100k an hour sometimes more depending on what I'm doing in pvp, and if I spend a full 8 hours in pvp and get great fights and nice ticks in towns or outside keeps Its easy to pull in a mill a day

Unfadingsilence

Cyrodiil

Yakidafi wrote: »

I don't see zerg surfing as solo play. So I would say battlegrounds, alot of times you are alone in those games depending on how you play and sometimes depending on your team. 12k per game if winning and games can end in 10min.

Tonight on Xbox NA I did a solo town defense that took probably 20 mind by the time it was done and over with and got a FAT 90k tick, I find it a lot easier to get more AP in pvp then in battle grounds any day of the week. But when I solo pvp I stay around towns or outside of keeps during big fights and pick off those lost kids who can't keep up with the zerg and pull 3-8 of them away "thirsty little zergers" and if I'm lucky and they have not been killed that long ago 2k per kill is pretty easy AP. I remember when I first got my emp on my EP toon and ganked my way to 2 million AP in just one day of pvp, and I've never been able to pull that kinda AP in battle grounds. But NJ to anyone that can make over a million in 8 hours of BGs

Mayrael

Imperial

I run ~95% of a time without group and TBH I was surprised how fasr IC is when it goes to earning APs, but you need be able to kill someone solo.

Qbiken

Cyrodiil

Step 1: Look at the map and see if any of your own keeps are under attack, or even better, be there when the enemy initiate the attack. Try to make sure the keep is at lvl 5

Step 2: Defend the keep

Step 3: If you´re successful with the defence and the assault on the keep kept going for a while you´ll earn a huge defensive tick as a reward.

TL:DR = Leech defensive ticks.

resdayn00

Cyrodiil

Probably similar numbers are possible with both BG and Cyro. However, BG performance is heavily determined by the groups. You can get insanely good teammates that carry the match, beginner teammates who play bgs just for the daily reward box and do nothing, get a premade enemy group, get 3 DK + 1 healer + sload enemy group, etc etc etc. Possibly high or low amount of AP this way.

My choice would be Cyrodiil. Really, just join a large group and follow the leader. No need to chat if you don’t want to, just pay attention to the leader’s messages and try to be helpful to your team. Use sieges, deal damage or play a healer, resurrect your groupmates, etc. You’ll get a nice amount of AP if you have a good leader and the group actually pays attention.

I can’t write numbers, never measured. But looking at my progress I can say Cyrodiil gives better results AP wise for me.

ArchMikem

Cyrodiil

Ive gotten abouts 75k in a night just surfing the waves. If you had the delve boss bonus then that's 150k.

But your zerg has to actually win instead of crashing into pieces on a better zerg.

PlagueSD

Cyrodiil

Cyrodiil. Just join up with a zerg and watch the AP roll in.

FakeFox

Cyrodiil

BGs are very effective if you have a very high win rate, which you just can't assure if you queue solo. IC is dead anyway. In Cyrodiil you can be decently effective solo if you know what you are doing, otherwise just zerg, turn resources and leech ticks.

Biro123

dunno - never been bothered enough about it to count..

cazlonb16_ESO

ArchMikem wrote: »

Ive gotten abouts 75k in a night just surfing the waves. If you had the delve boss bonus then that's 150k.

But your zerg has to actually win instead of crashing into pieces on a better zerg.

Delve boss bonus is 20%, not 100%. So that would have been 90k rather than 150k.

ATomiX96

Cyrodiil

zergsurf and PvDoor with the "highly organized and coordinated LFG Zerg"

in order to outperform zergsurfing/PvDoor you could do bgs, but you need a 4-stack stomping people in 3 minute games (highly dependent on queue times if worth or not)

Dextail

Cyrodiil

I see a lot of people suggesting Zerg surf...

However honestly if your good at pvp try actually killing stuff solo.

I will go where the action is “ie attacking or defending keeps” to get the big boy ticks from the Zerg capping the keeps or defending.

But I aim to be in solo fights. Therefore I’m usually sitting outside the keep walls picking off the others factions reinforcements, or running behind their lines drawing Agro into a tower and picking off the weak ones.

Or capping a resource and killing the scrubs who come to flip the resource this gives nice defence ticks but also prepare to get the whole AD faction to come flip one resource. One BIG player in AD likes to do that a lot

This usually nets me between 60-100k AP per hour (without AP buff) it largely depends on if your able to pick people off. Some times you get waves of people coming to help the keep and your just gonna get swarmed. Other times you get 20players mounted in single file coming in 20-30second intervals and your able to rack up aloads of AP



CHEESE STRAT: slap on mutagen and heal. My GF is a healer and she usually averages 10-15% more AP per hour than I do just because of her healing other people

DarkAedin

All these ppl saying "zerg serf" for the most ap are:

1) wrong
&
2)need to l2p and not zerg, stahp ruining the glory that once was cyrodiil

Smh
The above poster, @Dextail , summed it up nicely

DeadlyRecluse

Solo Dtick farming is super inconsistent, but it's got to be close to the highest possible AP per hour. With current calculations, if you can win a 1v3 on a resource you are looking at a monster solo tick.

The problem is, usually nobody comes OR dozens of folks come. It's hard to get the consistent 2-4 players at a time trickle you need to actually get the Dticks.

SugaComa

Cyrodiil

Fastest ap for a solo player is cyrodil

Go anywhere you know your faction is fighting stay safe sonic defending up on a wall, if attacking wide to back of the pack

Now spam the *** of the restro staff abilities that are

Combat prayer, healing springs, healing ward

Switch bars every so often and put dots on enemy players

If you have the undaunted orbs let them flow too especially in side keeps and in the tunnel doorways

Prosper and enjoy

SugaComa

Cyrodiil

Dextail wrote: »

I see a lot of people suggesting Zerg surf...

However honestly if your good at pvp try actually killing stuff solo.

I will go where the action is “ie attacking or defending keeps” to get the big boy ticks from the Zerg capping the keeps or defending.

But I aim to be in solo fights. Therefore I’m usually sitting outside the keep walls picking off the others factions reinforcements, or running behind their lines drawing Agro into a tower and picking off the weak ones.

Or capping a resource and killing the scrubs who come to flip the resource this gives nice defence ticks but also prepare to get the whole AD faction to come flip one resource. One BIG player in AD likes to do that a lot

This usually nets me between 60-100k AP per hour (without AP buff) it largely depends on if your able to pick people off. Some times you get waves of people coming to help the keep and your just gonna get swarmed. Other times you get 20players mounted in single file coming in 20-30second intervals and your able to rack up aloads of AP



CHEESE STRAT: slap on mutagen and heal. My GF is a healer and she usually averages 10-15% more AP per hour than I do just because of her healing other people

Let's assume they're not good at PvP and are wanting to get in and get out quickly with vigour and caltrops

Zerg surf healing is best for them

Grabmoore

Other

I would 've choosen BGs, but every good player needs to wait 30 minutes+ to find a single match. Therefore zerg surfing or destro bombing might be best.

DarkAedin wrote: »

All these ppl saying "zerg serf" for the most ap are:

1) wrong
&
2)need to l2p and not zerg, stahp ruining the glory that once was cyrodiil

Smh
The above poster, @Dextail , summed it up nicely

Well, what he described is ... Zerg surfing. Running around and leaching ticks while killing strugglers is a form of zerging. Just because you are not in a 24 man group doesn't change anything.

Capping resources is only profitable with underpopulation bonus.


Don't fool yourself. You are not glorious. You are running with the mass.

Dextail

Cyrodiil

Grabmoore wrote: »

I would 've choosen BGs, but every good player needs to wait 30 minutes+ to find a single match. Therefore zerg surfing or destro bombing might be best.

DarkAedin wrote: »

All these ppl saying "zerg serf" for the most ap are:

1) wrong
&
2)need to l2p and not zerg, stahp ruining the glory that once was cyrodiil

Smh
The above poster, @Dextail , summed it up nicely

Well, what he described is ... Zerg surfing. Running around and leaching ticks while killing strugglers is a form of zerging. Just because you are not in a 24 man group doesn't change anything.

Capping resources is only profitable with underpopulation bonus.


Don't fool yourself. You are not glorious. You are running with the mass.

He’s asking for the best AP per hour. Which is this form of play.

I play solo, and actively seek out solo fights. No I’m not ignoring ticks to get that solo fight. Why bother. If a Zerg is hitting roe, flipping roe resources and killing those around is solo play.

The only time you are “truly solo” is when your the only person on a resource away from front lines, when your dualing or sitting in a field doing F all.

In cyro pretty much 99.9% of fights are duo+.

Unless your the 00.1% of players who travels 2 keeps deep into the front lines to cap a resource. In which case the AP per hour is so slow you might as well not play.