How long did it take you to make ranks 3-9?

It took me 180 hours of PvP alone (with waiting time included) just to make Rank 3. Of course, I gained almost all of my fame from PUGs (and every time I joined a decent guild group such as XoO, UV etc) they bombed. Maybe 180 hours is typical but then I'll hear of someone who made it in a few days, and I can't help but be struck by the unfairness of it all.

How long did it take you (per rank) in terms of PvP (Tombs) hours?

I'm a rank lowbie myself, but I know a lot of people were essentially rank/faction farming with builds like IWAY at one time. Perhaps its less effective now as people are expecting it.

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4200 fame in 3 months. then i stopped playing tombs. i have been gvging exclusively for the last couple of months. i figure when im bored some time i should go get my rank 9, but honestly, i dont like tombs because its so boring and it has too much crap (flavors of the month), too many newbs, and doesnt show skill, while gvg does.

5 fame in 10 days....

180 hours of pvp for rank 3? that's like 1 fame per hour

can't remember how long it took me really, no way was it over 180 hours though.

have to agree with you
im at 3411 atm

i seriously dont know exact..
as stated tombs is getting boring T.T

I find it surprising how the rate of fame gain can vary. You get people who take long to get a certain amount of fame but then someone like Power of my rangers comes along and prob gets over 1000 fame in a day. Pretty weird f you ask me.

its cause power runs his build steadily and pretty good ;D

and 1000 fame in a day is over acting
maybe 100-600

If you are in a decent guild, chances are your fame will go up a lot faster. PUGs are definitely not the way to go if you want fast fame.

Try making some friends with people that have lots of friends. Eventually you'll have invites into the top guilds and you won't even have to be that good.

but u wont contribute into the guild and just leech and once they notice ur out

its still a lot. Imagine getting 600 fame per day.

well
thats what Good Team Work / Builds Do

and power is quitting soon

and also 600 fame a day i highly doubt anyone can farm fame that good ;D

he does realise he will get himself banned for that. Im curious as to why ppl like to sell their accounts.

I find gaining rank in tombs is a very slow (and therefore tedious) process. After many months of playing tombs a few times a week or so, I still don't have any /rank deer to show for it, which I find rather dissappointing.

I have been playing tombs for months now (not every day and not for hours at a time, but fairly regularly still) and I am still on 101 fame only. I do not lose every battle or something (I think it must be a ratio of about 50-50 slowly improving) and while I am not a great player or anything, I am not a noob either. And I don't play pugs anymore because 1. They tend to lose most of the time. 2. They do not employ any strategies most of the time (I am in Europe) or if they do, it is IWAY (which is boring). 3. Good Pugs want rank 3 at least. When I play, I play with my guild.

I just wish that there was something else you could earn (perhaps indicative of your win/loss ratio, your tendency to leave or stick with teams, your performance in teams, etc.) Maybe there should be a player-rating like there is a guild rating or something.

In one weekend i went from 75 to 180. then stopped doing PvP for a while and now that i started back up ive gone from 180 to 325 in this past week. so just depends on what kind of group you are in and the ability to win. but most of all just have fun, because why would someone want to play agame thats not fun.

Even with good builds and players, one's ability to gain fame a lot is limited by having to wait for good players to congregate together.

After every run or two, at least one player will usually have to leave. Replacing a good player with another good player can often take quite a bit of time.

Waiting wastes a lot of time, no matter what rank a person is.

As for how long it took me to get to rank 3 and 6: I have mentally blocked out those memories from my brain due to the great mental trauma that all the zillions of crappy parties I had to endure have caused me.

Well, it's good to hear someone else went through what I'm going through now.

104 more fame... 104 more fame .... 104 more fame ... All I need is 104 more fame

You last two posters have made me feel glad I'm not the only one who went through (or is going through) such a horrible PUG experience

it took me about 3-4 days for rank 3. of course i had the game since open beta and so i had to unlock everything i needed with pve (which sucked anet, just so you know). so in game hours it took a lot, but in tombs it was only short time.