AnduinTryggva wrote: »Battlegrounds matchmaker MMR ensures your first few matches should be against characters of the same experience as yourself. Under 50s Cyro allows you to rank up somewhat when you're nowhere near endgame. Level 6 isn't hard to achieve without PvPing at all by doing the intro quest then either repairing walls or doing some town quests in Cyro.
I get 64 AP for one repair kit that costs 250 AP. Of course I also could spend cold. For 1024 AP I need to spend 16 repair kits but I can only buy 4 repair kits in turn for the gained AP. That is a pretty slow grind.
This alliance war skill line leveling grind is multiple times worse than leveling warrior guilde skill line.
Ishtarknows wrote: »AnduinTryggva wrote: »Battlegrounds matchmaker MMR ensures your first few matches should be against characters of the same experience as yourself. Under 50s Cyro allows you to rank up somewhat when you're nowhere near endgame. Level 6 isn't hard to achieve without PvPing at all by doing the intro quest then either repairing walls or doing some town quests in Cyro.
I get 64 AP for one repair kit that costs 250 AP. Of course I also could spend cold. For 1024 AP I need to spend 16 repair kits but I can only buy 4 repair kits in turn for the gained AP. That is a pretty slow grind.
This alliance war skill line leveling grind is multiple times worse than leveling warrior guilde skill line.
There are ways to make this better. Put CP into healing, wear healing sets, 2 seperate monster pieces that both give 4% extra healing , carry a Resto staff. All these things increase how much repairing and therefore AP you get per kit. Obviously not ideal to switch if you're also fighting, but worth doing if you're just going in to repair all the keeps
AnduinTryggva wrote: »It is just so impossible to prevail in PvP. Now if I meet an enemy player I just wait for quick death. No use to press any bottons.
AnduinTryggva wrote: »Bammlschwamml wrote: »If you don't need to level your alliance rank right now, you can look for good situations on empty campaigns whenever you have nothing else to do. After you did the introduction quest of course.
Just go there for a minute and see if one of the two underdog bonuses is active. If you are lucky both can be active at the same time. You will get +100% alliance points for the low population, and another 100% for low scoring. If your alliance also owns all the keeps you will get up to 15% and another 24% for owning the edge keeps (brindle, drake and dragon). 20% for one hour after killing a delve boss in Cyrodiil. Another 50% from colovian war torte (i would not use the expensive 100 and 150% ones unless you are extremely rich). Up to 15% from mora's whispers mythic. And 100% from the pvp event.
You probably will never be able to get all the bonuses at the same time, but you don't need all of them.
And then start repairing.
You can improve the efficiency of your repairs by buffing your healing done. Equip one of your powered 2 hand weapons for up to 9% increased healing effectiveness and have the weapon on your bar when you repair. Use the ritual mundus stone for another 13% increased healing effectiveness. Put on some set pieces like earthgore or symphony of blades for the 4% healing done. I am pretty sure some champion points work too.
Your repairs will be more efficient, so you will get more ap for every time you repair, and combined with some of the ap buffs you will get more ap back than you spent for buying your repair kits.
Might sound a bit complicated at first and I might have screwed up some numbers and bonuses, but I think this is a good way to get your skills without doing pvp at all. Without ruining a bg for others, or not helping in keep fights...
Additionally you can get 50 transmute crystals per char every month, if you repair some walls on your home campaign until you earned 25000 alliance points and reach tier 1 for the end of campaign rewards. You get the boxes in your mail and can store them on a char you never play, for later.
If you are lucky, others will fight and die for the keeps you are repairing, and you will get extra ap for defending, without ever having to fight. If you know your allies will win the fight and defend the keep, you can just let some enemies kill you so everyone gets more ap for the defense, and it will make everyone happy. I am not 100% sure about all of this but somehow I think it's true.
To be honest, you should just fight and enjoy yourself. It can be very entertaining.
Thank you for your constructive reply. Very appreciated.
AnduinTryggva wrote: »It is just so impossible to prevail in PvP. Now if I meet an enemy player I just wait for quick death. No use to press any bottons.