Curse

upier · Oct 12, 2008, 02:21 PM // 14:21

Waaa-hooo!
I have done it!
It took me almost a week - but it is done!
I managed to get together 10k faction and donated it!
40k faction!
Go me!

Sweet weekend - thanks!

Trub · Oct 12, 2008, 04:21 PM // 16:21

heh.
j/k dammit.
I must admit...there has been alot of activity on both sides of the AB battle field this week-end.

germanturkey · Oct 12, 2008, 04:35 PM // 16:35

i need another 150k to reach r4... only 3.5 more runs of hfff...

Dallcingi · Oct 12, 2008, 08:17 PM // 20:17

yay i got my r7 kurzick im like done with this game now lols...
(well need double fame for 90 more till r8 then ill be officially done)

kazjun · Oct 12, 2008, 11:03 PM // 23:03

Sweet weekend. Please repeat soon

illidan009 · Oct 13, 2008, 12:09 AM // 00:09

Wow...seems like most Kurzicks were HFFFing and Luxons were ABing...Lux was controlling towns with only 4mil while our alliance(Kurzick) had 19 mil and didn't own anything...lmao
I GOTZ MAH RANK4!!!

slowerpoke · Oct 13, 2008, 12:25 AM // 00:25

must be fun being a kurzick

Zapper901 · Oct 13, 2008, 01:35 AM // 01:35

Donated 140k on Saturday (so 560k to title) and 50k on Friday (200k) so great weekend. Getting near that r10 and 6 second SY.

germanturkey · Oct 13, 2008, 01:55 AM // 01:55

i'm 30k away from 5 second SY... i can't wait to finish this and NEVER hfff again. unless i need to buy some skill for some character i haven't made yet.

crazybanshee · Oct 13, 2008, 01:58 AM // 01:58

I hope they work this weekend into the rotation more, they do this like once a year or so? While double ss/lb and double eotn rep is every couple months. Gogo double lux/kurz donation!

MStarfire · Oct 13, 2008, 02:27 AM // 02:27

Some odd terms came up while I was in Lutgardis. What the hell is a Cronus? Saw a lot of people "HFFF 100g/drop need Cronus".

Esprit · Oct 13, 2008, 02:37 AM // 02:37

While the Alliance Battle arenas were certainly busier than normal, I saw maybe two or three AB requests in my entire Alliance. But I did see dozens of H/FFF farming/leeching requests.

I prefer the double faction points in Alliance Battles over a farming weekend like this. Not only did you, Anet, devalue the faction title to an even more worthless state, but you encouraged farming and grinding rather than actual real gameplay.

This thread lauds this weekend left and right, so I guess you do cater to the grinders as you want to maintain an inflated player base for the game.

ALF71BE · Oct 13, 2008, 02:37 AM // 02:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazybanshee

While double ss/lb and double eotn rep is every couple months.

O rly?

Meh couldn't reach r6 but at least got my Elonian Vanquisher.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MStarfire

Some odd terms came up while I was in Lutgardis. What the hell is a Cronus? Saw a lot of people "HFFF 100g/drop need Cronus".

Evidently is the youngest and leader of the first generation of Titans. Just another victim of his hating, power-hungry sons.

Doh!

Kook~NBK~ · Oct 13, 2008, 04:29 AM // 04:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazybanshee

I hope they work this weekend into the rotation more, they do this like once a year or so? While double ss/lb and double eotn rep is every couple months. Gogo double lux/kurz donation!

Uhhh, the last (and I think only) Double SS/LB point weekend was back in January. I think this was the first time they've done the double points for faction donation. They've had various double factions earned weekends in AB, JQ & FA, and vanquishing.

It was a good weekend, got some AB pracitce in. Vanquished the crap outta Pongmei Valley, and got some nice loot for doing it! (the 2,500 faction every 30 minutes was nice, too.) QUIET YOU HFFFer's!

All told, I casually got 180K points & am now R6 Kurzick.

germanturkey · Oct 13, 2008, 04:54 AM // 04:54

woot. rank 4 kurzick.. happy days. i ran around saying 1 VS per run, instant faction. and people were like, srsly?

upier · Oct 13, 2008, 07:24 AM // 07:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esprit

While the Alliance Battle arenas were certainly busier than normal, I saw maybe two or three AB requests in my entire Alliance. But I did see dozens of H/FFF farming/leeching requests.

I prefer the double faction points in Alliance Battles over a farming weekend like this. Not only did you, Anet, devalue the faction title to an even more worthless state, but you encouraged farming and grinding rather than actual real gameplay.

This thread lauds this weekend left and right, so I guess you do cater to the grinders as you want to maintain an inflated player base for the game.

Rank: 12
Title name: Savior of the Kurzicks/Luxons (Max level)
Faction spent: 10,000,000

Since the release of Factions I have made some 1,5 mil Luxon Faction playing Aspy. (But since there was no benefit in donating it I traded it in for rocks, which means I am now somewhere around Rank4.)
One does not earn this title by playing the game.
The title itself encourages farming and grinding.
What you saw on the AB weekends wasn't people expressing their love for AB. You saw people abusing the best option available.
And the same thing happened this weekend.
Because thats the ONLY bloody way one gets there!

Evil_Necro · Oct 13, 2008, 12:01 PM // 12:01

omg the lag.. I can already imagine the pain T_T

AB normal day is bad.. AB special weekend... eh..

oh well just hope I am wrong :3

The Arching Healer · Oct 13, 2008, 12:05 PM // 12:05

Very good weekend. From Kurzick rank1 to rank4 and luxon rank 4 to rank 5

Pleikki · Oct 13, 2008, 12:33 PM // 12:33

i didnt get even 1000pts towards the title during the weekend and im r10.. hmm..

Sjeng · Oct 13, 2008, 12:51 PM // 12:51

I managed to squeeze in 2 full bars of faction from HFFF during my busy weekend. Barely got r3, yay. 150k more for r4 = 15 full bars divided by 4 because of bonus weekend = nearly 4 full bars = 4x25 HFFF runs = 100 HFFF runs... sheesh I have better stuff to do. And now the weekend is over I'm going to need 200 runs for r4. r12 is max you say?
Quick calculation: 10 mil faction with 400 faction per HFFF run divided by 2 for the donation/skills = 12500 HFFF runs. Minus the amount you got by doing the quests and some vanquishing, and perhaps some AB I'm guessing that would leave you with roughly 12000~12300 runs left to do. Christ allmighty. At 1 min per run that's 200~205 hours of boring HFFF. Seriously Anet, what on earth were you thinking?

Let's hope the grinding title update will make this title seriously easier to achieve, because vanquishing all kurzick areas and doing all quests get you, what, 1 rank in this rediculous title? maybe 2? And let's face it, there aren't many people who would vanquish all kurzick areas ánd do all the quests with áll their characters. Usually you go through that with 1, maybe 2 characters, the others don't vanquish and only do the main storyline quests (at least that's the situation in my case).
Then it's grind yourself silly with HFFF, or you'd have to be REALLY REALLY into AB.