Comments on: Mind if I Have Your Tasty Fortresses? http://www.quirkyquiescence.com/2009/10/30/mind-if-i-have-your-tasty-fortresses/ A peculiar state of quiet; our random musings on Aion Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:43:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Middea http://www.quirkyquiescence.com/2009/10/30/mind-if-i-have-your-tasty-fortresses/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Middea Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:43:12 +0000 http://www.quirkyquiescence.com/?p=534#comment-147 What's even better than farming guards? Farming players that are farming guards :) Much more AP and tons of fun! What’s even better than farming guards? Farming players that are farming guards :) Much more AP and tons of fun!

]]> By: Zot http://www.quirkyquiescence.com/2009/10/30/mind-if-i-have-your-tasty-fortresses/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Zot Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:36:12 +0000 http://www.quirkyquiescence.com/?p=534#comment-123 The fort instances, while somewhat novel, get really old. Someone might go in and come out with 2000 AP but the RNG behaviour of drops doesn't guarantee everyone will get rewarded. There's a very good chance you'll enter with 0 AP and exit with only 100 or so from the mobs. I don't bother these days unless someone asks me to come. Defending a fort gives you access to these instances, it's true. But even on a successful defense you've lost something much more valuable: the ability to farm the fortresses' guards. These non-elite level 40 guards, if solo'd, award stacks of stigma shards and over 60 AP each. It's very easy to get a duo together and farm them, granting much more AP than the instances as well as that rewarding open-PvP aspect... you will have member of the other faction try their hand at you :) Of course, the chance of successful defense is slim. You either need to rally the legions (asmos on nezekan are great at this, but then they only need to bring two legions: neph and tog, whom can each field 3 alliances) or just get slaughtered by the zerg, losing AP with each death. The alternative? Just let the asmos have it. This of course gives access to guard farming but it also opens a new door: Fort assault! 1-2k AP and invaluable silver/gold medals. The rewards from the "trading" option thus take the cake. The Nezekan asmo legions have finally realised this and just let their forts get taken last night... I gained 3 silver and 2 gold medals as well as 3k AP for the half hour's effort. Will this upcoming patch help? No. Medals will be sent to the occupying legion on successful defense. In an ideal setting, that legion could then share the love to legions who pledge themselves to defend the fortress... but they can't get given out to pugs. Thus, at best, defending a fort will come down to faction one's legions and pugs vs. faction two's legions... automatically outzerged already. In the real world it'll also be difficult to get defenders. All legions will want to attack by default, while you would have to bring legions into the defensive fold manually. The alternative there of course, is to create a multi-legion legion. :P The fort instances, while somewhat novel, get really old. Someone might go in and come out with 2000 AP but the RNG behaviour of drops doesn’t guarantee everyone will get rewarded. There’s a very good chance you’ll enter with 0 AP and exit with only 100 or so from the mobs. I don’t bother these days unless someone asks me to come.

Defending a fort gives you access to these instances, it’s true. But even on a successful defense you’ve lost something much more valuable: the ability to farm the fortresses’ guards. These non-elite level 40 guards, if solo’d, award stacks of stigma shards and over 60 AP each. It’s very easy to get a duo together and farm them, granting much more AP than the instances as well as that rewarding open-PvP aspect… you will have member of the other faction try their hand at you :)

Of course, the chance of successful defense is slim. You either need to rally the legions (asmos on nezekan are great at this, but then they only need to bring two legions: neph and tog, whom can each field 3 alliances) or just get slaughtered by the zerg, losing AP with each death. The alternative? Just let the asmos have it. This of course gives access to guard farming but it also opens a new door:

Fort assault! 1-2k AP and invaluable silver/gold medals. The rewards from the “trading” option thus take the cake. The Nezekan asmo legions have finally realised this and just let their forts get taken last night… I gained 3 silver and 2 gold medals as well as 3k AP for the half hour’s effort.

Will this upcoming patch help? No. Medals will be sent to the occupying legion on successful defense. In an ideal setting, that legion could then share the love to legions who pledge themselves to defend the fortress… but they can’t get given out to pugs. Thus, at best, defending a fort will come down to faction one’s legions and pugs vs. faction two’s legions… automatically outzerged already. In the real world it’ll also be difficult to get defenders. All legions will want to attack by default, while you would have to bring legions into the defensive fold manually.

The alternative there of course, is to create a multi-legion legion. :P

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