Post by Loubell on Jan 27, 2014 13:33:31 GMT -6
Hey y'all
It's a good match up this week in WvWvW for those who don't play it often or who are working towards world map completion. I meant to post this earlier, but I was too busy map completing. lol. Was running on Loubelle because she had all 0%'s in the 4 WvWvW maps. I've played some this weekend and then today at lunch time and I've already gotten her up to 82% (CD borderlands), 91% (HoD borderlands), 100% (IoJ borderlands) and 79% (Eternal Battlegrounds). Not bad for a few days work.
You probably won't have much of a shot, depending on when you're on and how we're doing as a server to get 100%'s on the Red (CD) or Blue (HoD) borderlands just because there are areas on the maps that are much harder to flip. I have seen it done though, I was able to get the HoD garrison because we were holding it. They were in the process of trying to take it back, but I managed to sneak in and get the POI and 2 Vistas and sneak back out without getting attacked. But that doesn't always happen, and it might be more often to happen during the day when more people might be working and they have less map coverage. It's usually pretty easy, when we get a match up like we have now, to 100% the IoJ borderlands (which is green this week). There will be periods where we lose ground, but with a match up like this we're doing a pretty good job of holding it.
So, while you might not be able to knock it all out, you can get a good start. And I'm more than happy to run with you if you want help navigating your way around. I don't have the maps and short cuts down pat like serious WvWvW'ers do. But when I'm running map stuff I usually do a pretty good job at running undetected. There is a chance you'll get attacked though, and a lot of the people are traited out to hold you in place and kick your butt. There's an advantage to leveling in WvWvW, you can make your attacks stronger against enemy players and increase your defense. So if you aren't leveled in WvWvW, at least from my experience... you tend to get kicked around pretty easy. Even if it's just 1 v 1.
If you're running an area where we are outnumbered, while you may have more of a chance of running into people and potentially dying... if you see the little icon for the outnumbered thing, you won't have to pay repair costs for fixing armor. Which is a nice thing. Makes it tolerable to work on the map even if we're outnumbered. The only downside is it can be a lot of running. Especially if you're all the way on the other side of the map and have to WP back to IoJ area.
There's a jumping puzzle in each of the borderlands (exact same puzzle, in same area but different achievement for each). Once you get it down it's not to bad (not that I didn't struggle with it). First time through wasn't so rough, second time sucked really bad and the third time I started to think I'd never finish the puzzle again because I was so frustrated. But I do know my way through it if anybody wants to check it out. There's also another jumping puzzle in WvWvW which you can get to directly from the menu now. That puzzle can be trickier because there can be enemy players in there, and they can set traps. You can set traps too. I didn't bother with the traps and lucked out that the other people in there weren't setting traps either so I didn't have a problem with that.
From what I've experienced, once you're in the area where the jumping puzzle is most enemy people won't attack you. They're usually just doing the puzzle too. HOWEVER... there will be people who will just be dinks, and try to stop you from being able to make it. I didn't have a problem with that. Well, once I was in the puzzle anyway. In fact I had one enemy player who could tell (I think) that I was trying to get to the puzzle and he just let me go, didn't bother attacking. One of my other trips there, however, I had someone attacking me before I got in there and I just kept running to get away, without attacking back hoping he would get the hint. He continued to attack, even half way up the stairs to the puzzle until he got me downed. He was nice enough at that point to let me go without finishing me off. So, if you want to do the jumping puzzles it's just something to think about.
There are Skill Points and Pois on the WvWvW maps. They are in areas where there are centaurs or skritt. They're kind of out of the way of capture points, so it's usually pretty easy to get them. The skritt area is actually just north of the jumping puzzle. I've gone into those areas when there have been enemy players in there and gotten mixed results. Some times I just got ignored completely. Other times... I got dead. The last time I got killed trying that there was a zerg from CD doing the centaur event. I ignored and ran up and started the skill point fight. Luckily I didn't wait to start it. I started it, took a lil damage off the skill point baddie and then was attacked by the CD zerg. I died pretty quickly and luckily for me, they finished the fight. Because I had started the fight, and done damage too him I still got credit for completing the skill point. Which... is nice, if you have to get killed in the process not to have to run all the way back to do it again.
It's fairly easy, in my opinion, to get to the centaur camp pretty much undetected. If you can get as far east as you can go and just run up the eastern border. You'll have the opportunity to run through a few supply camps to get POI's. Although you should note, if you do that it can make swords pop up on the supply camp which alerts them to the fact that there is someone in the area and might make people come look for you. For running through, just to get POI's without fighting, my suggestion would be to do something to make yourself invisible, or there are some skills for giving you a shield or to make it so you run faster. And I'd be ready to dodge. Because the guards at those camps can be pretty tough too. And they also will use skills which stop you in place and let them beat on you for a minute. And since there are several guards you can get stuck more than once.
There is a vista, on a roof north of the south supply camp (near the Vet. harpy event if it's up). Which is easy to get and then if you continue north past that, you can run under the "Hills" keep which is allows you to stay away from places easy for you to be seen. You don't really have to worry about people jumping down to get you, I know because I've jumped down from there and even with the 50% falling damage turned on I've always died. There's another supply camp North of the Hills. And then you run into the centaur camp. If you've done these maps enough, you'll be able to tell where the skill point is and which one it is. If the skill point and poi are together, then you just have to run up and it gives you something, you click on it and it gives you the skill point. If the skill point is off to the side some it's the fighting skill point. You might want to kill the centaurs around him before starting the fight so you don't get overrun. And if the skill point is furthest away from the poi then it's a commune.
From there you can go slightly north, and depending on which borderlands you're in, you'll possibly be running through enemy territory. There's a supply camp in the middle. And before you enter/exit the area there will be guards at the gates. I suggest running through, dodging to avoid attacks and just keep running. Especially if you're running by yourself. If you spend too much time dinking around with an enemy guard there will be a more likely chance of someone coming to stop you. You can run through to get the poi, there is also a vista. Just BEWARE. while those are easy to get to you are right outside the enemy camp (unless you're on IoJ) borderland. Which means it's a way point away from them running out to get you. You can keep going west and follow the road into the skritt cave. For the poi and skill point. The skill point will again either be commune, food or fight. There can be a lot of other skritt (like the centaurs) so plan ahead before the fight.
In these camps, the events I think are kill 30 of either the skritt or centaurs. Once that event is completed there is a Veteran that spawns for a 2nd event. Just something to be aware of. You might want to think about it if you're by yourself and it says 29/30 kills. It's also a good thing to watch, if that number keeps changing and it isn't you doing the killing... there maybe enemy players in there. The might be fellow IoJ'ers but you won't know til you see them.
If you have areas of these maps you can't get completed because we don't have them, don't worry. When it resets on Friday there's a chance we'll end up being a different color. Which means our home area will then be those areas that you can't get right now. So it may take a few cycles to finish all the maps 100%.
All for now. Thanks for playing. See y'all online.
*cheers*
It's a good match up this week in WvWvW for those who don't play it often or who are working towards world map completion. I meant to post this earlier, but I was too busy map completing. lol. Was running on Loubelle because she had all 0%'s in the 4 WvWvW maps. I've played some this weekend and then today at lunch time and I've already gotten her up to 82% (CD borderlands), 91% (HoD borderlands), 100% (IoJ borderlands) and 79% (Eternal Battlegrounds). Not bad for a few days work.
You probably won't have much of a shot, depending on when you're on and how we're doing as a server to get 100%'s on the Red (CD) or Blue (HoD) borderlands just because there are areas on the maps that are much harder to flip. I have seen it done though, I was able to get the HoD garrison because we were holding it. They were in the process of trying to take it back, but I managed to sneak in and get the POI and 2 Vistas and sneak back out without getting attacked. But that doesn't always happen, and it might be more often to happen during the day when more people might be working and they have less map coverage. It's usually pretty easy, when we get a match up like we have now, to 100% the IoJ borderlands (which is green this week). There will be periods where we lose ground, but with a match up like this we're doing a pretty good job of holding it.
So, while you might not be able to knock it all out, you can get a good start. And I'm more than happy to run with you if you want help navigating your way around. I don't have the maps and short cuts down pat like serious WvWvW'ers do. But when I'm running map stuff I usually do a pretty good job at running undetected. There is a chance you'll get attacked though, and a lot of the people are traited out to hold you in place and kick your butt. There's an advantage to leveling in WvWvW, you can make your attacks stronger against enemy players and increase your defense. So if you aren't leveled in WvWvW, at least from my experience... you tend to get kicked around pretty easy. Even if it's just 1 v 1.
If you're running an area where we are outnumbered, while you may have more of a chance of running into people and potentially dying... if you see the little icon for the outnumbered thing, you won't have to pay repair costs for fixing armor. Which is a nice thing. Makes it tolerable to work on the map even if we're outnumbered. The only downside is it can be a lot of running. Especially if you're all the way on the other side of the map and have to WP back to IoJ area.
There's a jumping puzzle in each of the borderlands (exact same puzzle, in same area but different achievement for each). Once you get it down it's not to bad (not that I didn't struggle with it). First time through wasn't so rough, second time sucked really bad and the third time I started to think I'd never finish the puzzle again because I was so frustrated. But I do know my way through it if anybody wants to check it out. There's also another jumping puzzle in WvWvW which you can get to directly from the menu now. That puzzle can be trickier because there can be enemy players in there, and they can set traps. You can set traps too. I didn't bother with the traps and lucked out that the other people in there weren't setting traps either so I didn't have a problem with that.
From what I've experienced, once you're in the area where the jumping puzzle is most enemy people won't attack you. They're usually just doing the puzzle too. HOWEVER... there will be people who will just be dinks, and try to stop you from being able to make it. I didn't have a problem with that. Well, once I was in the puzzle anyway. In fact I had one enemy player who could tell (I think) that I was trying to get to the puzzle and he just let me go, didn't bother attacking. One of my other trips there, however, I had someone attacking me before I got in there and I just kept running to get away, without attacking back hoping he would get the hint. He continued to attack, even half way up the stairs to the puzzle until he got me downed. He was nice enough at that point to let me go without finishing me off. So, if you want to do the jumping puzzles it's just something to think about.
There are Skill Points and Pois on the WvWvW maps. They are in areas where there are centaurs or skritt. They're kind of out of the way of capture points, so it's usually pretty easy to get them. The skritt area is actually just north of the jumping puzzle. I've gone into those areas when there have been enemy players in there and gotten mixed results. Some times I just got ignored completely. Other times... I got dead. The last time I got killed trying that there was a zerg from CD doing the centaur event. I ignored and ran up and started the skill point fight. Luckily I didn't wait to start it. I started it, took a lil damage off the skill point baddie and then was attacked by the CD zerg. I died pretty quickly and luckily for me, they finished the fight. Because I had started the fight, and done damage too him I still got credit for completing the skill point. Which... is nice, if you have to get killed in the process not to have to run all the way back to do it again.
It's fairly easy, in my opinion, to get to the centaur camp pretty much undetected. If you can get as far east as you can go and just run up the eastern border. You'll have the opportunity to run through a few supply camps to get POI's. Although you should note, if you do that it can make swords pop up on the supply camp which alerts them to the fact that there is someone in the area and might make people come look for you. For running through, just to get POI's without fighting, my suggestion would be to do something to make yourself invisible, or there are some skills for giving you a shield or to make it so you run faster. And I'd be ready to dodge. Because the guards at those camps can be pretty tough too. And they also will use skills which stop you in place and let them beat on you for a minute. And since there are several guards you can get stuck more than once.
There is a vista, on a roof north of the south supply camp (near the Vet. harpy event if it's up). Which is easy to get and then if you continue north past that, you can run under the "Hills" keep which is allows you to stay away from places easy for you to be seen. You don't really have to worry about people jumping down to get you, I know because I've jumped down from there and even with the 50% falling damage turned on I've always died. There's another supply camp North of the Hills. And then you run into the centaur camp. If you've done these maps enough, you'll be able to tell where the skill point is and which one it is. If the skill point and poi are together, then you just have to run up and it gives you something, you click on it and it gives you the skill point. If the skill point is off to the side some it's the fighting skill point. You might want to kill the centaurs around him before starting the fight so you don't get overrun. And if the skill point is furthest away from the poi then it's a commune.
From there you can go slightly north, and depending on which borderlands you're in, you'll possibly be running through enemy territory. There's a supply camp in the middle. And before you enter/exit the area there will be guards at the gates. I suggest running through, dodging to avoid attacks and just keep running. Especially if you're running by yourself. If you spend too much time dinking around with an enemy guard there will be a more likely chance of someone coming to stop you. You can run through to get the poi, there is also a vista. Just BEWARE. while those are easy to get to you are right outside the enemy camp (unless you're on IoJ) borderland. Which means it's a way point away from them running out to get you. You can keep going west and follow the road into the skritt cave. For the poi and skill point. The skill point will again either be commune, food or fight. There can be a lot of other skritt (like the centaurs) so plan ahead before the fight.
In these camps, the events I think are kill 30 of either the skritt or centaurs. Once that event is completed there is a Veteran that spawns for a 2nd event. Just something to be aware of. You might want to think about it if you're by yourself and it says 29/30 kills. It's also a good thing to watch, if that number keeps changing and it isn't you doing the killing... there maybe enemy players in there. The might be fellow IoJ'ers but you won't know til you see them.
If you have areas of these maps you can't get completed because we don't have them, don't worry. When it resets on Friday there's a chance we'll end up being a different color. Which means our home area will then be those areas that you can't get right now. So it may take a few cycles to finish all the maps 100%.
All for now. Thanks for playing. See y'all online.
*cheers*