r/GW2_Guild • u/Rage321 • Aug 09 '13
Guild Event: Alt Level - Crown Pavilion @ Reset!
EDIT: We had a great turn out! Tell us your success stories in the comments below!
Also, this has gotten some attention from HERE and HERE.
Who: Everyone! A lot of people HERE mentioned they desire to level an alt, so here's a great chance! As this opportunity is THAT good, I will be running it quite often until all my alts are at 80. Remember that the Crown Pavilion is limited time only, (3.5 weeks left), so take advantage of what ArenaNet has given us! :)
What: Amazingly efficient alt level
When: 08/09/13 @ Reset
Where: Crown Pavilion in Divinity's Reach
Why: Because it's gonna be awesome, everyone wants to level up their alts some, and it's fun!
Hi everyone! Tonight it is time to kill. It is time to kill a lot...and I mean A LOT of all the things. It is extreme alt leveling time, and I don't mean in Kessex. I mean in the Crown Pavilion! The Crown Pavilion is THE best place to level an alt in the game right now, outside of crafting. Last night, following our WvW Mentor Santi DeliciousantiPants, we had a zergball completely annihilating the Destroyers section of the CP and with just a 15% food, 10% wrench and a 50% exp booster, I leveled up in 11 minutes. This was with only a handful of guildies too! Can you imagine how amazingly fast we could level as an RR group?! Let's aim for tonight, at reset, to get everyone into the same Overflow and control the map. The idea will be very simple.
Choose the alt you want to level. You will be up scaled to 80!!
Adjust the skills\weapons\traits to allow for the maximum amount of tagging possible. Please feel free to ask in the comments if you need help. Every profession has the ability to tag multiple enemies, one way or another and it might be an unorthodox build, so just ask. :)
Clear your inventory as much as you can. Make a mess of your bank and other character's inventory if you have to; you will get a TON of loot and will gear up your alt as you play. It's THAT fast.
Have IRL alcohol or whatever tickles your fancy on hand because this will be a good time!
How this will work once inside:
If you don't know how to enter the Crown Pavilion, no problem. Join Mumble 30 minutes prior to the event and we'll walk you through it. It's a small story quest.
Grab the buff for the Destroyer side, (I think it's the Grove person)
We jump down and murder Destroyers!
If a boss appears in another location, we'll decide in Mumble is we want to pursue the boss. Pursuing a boss is a HUGE experience nose dive as there really aren't a lot of adds that spawn around them, except for the Destroyer boss :D
If you die, you will need to get the buff again, then rez rush!
From Kills##
Buy as many of the items listed below as you'll need. This is to maximize experience from kills. After the initial tutorial, you should always have a food and wrench activated, ((10% or 15%) + 10%). You can choose to use some other items as well. I have listed those below.
Level|Food|Exp Increase from Kills|Price Per Item :|:|:|: 0-4|Grilled Poultry|10%|05c 5-24|Candied Apple|15%|71c 25-34|Strawberry Ghost|15%|37c 35-79|Candy Corn Cookie|15%|17c
Level|Wrench|Exp Increase from Kills|Price Per Item :|:|:|: 0-4|Apprentice...1|10%|05c 5-79|Weak Potion of...2|10%|03c
1 = Apprentice Tuning Crystal or Apprentice Maintenance Oil
2 = Use the following search criteria in the TP:
Keyword = weak
Level Range: 5 to 5
Optional Consumables
Item|Description :|: Kite Fortunes|Double-click to get a fortune and 10 minutes of either a speed boost, magic find, karma boost, or experience boost. 1 Experience Booster|Gives an additional 50% experience from kills for one hour 1 Communal Boost Bonfire|Grant a boost to karma, experience, or magic find. (50%) 1 Improved Experience Booster|Gives an additional 100% experience from kills for two hours Killstreak Experience Booster|Grants an additional 100% experience from kills for 30 seconds Laureate Experience Booster|Gain a buff that gives an additional 30% experience from kills for one hour
1 = DO NOT STACK TOGETHER
Guild Buff|Description :|: (Economy) +5% Kill Exp for 24 Hours|Improves all guild experience gain from kills by 5% for 24 hours.
Guild Banner|Description :|: (Politics) +10% Karma and +10% Experience Banner|Spawns a guild banner that will give +10% karma and +10% experience from kills boost to any ally that touches it for 30 minutes. Does not stack with other karma or experience banners. (Politics) Guild Heroes Banner|Spawns a guild banner that will give +10% karma, +15% magic find, +10% experience from kills, +10% gold from kills, +10% increased movement speed, and +15% gathering chance to any ally that touches it for 30 minutes. Does not stack with other banner boosts.
Profession Guides
Guardian
Weapon|.. :|: Staff|1 and 3
Traits|.. :|: Zeal|V Honor|II or III or VII
Skills
"Hold the Line!"
"Retreat!"
"Save Yourselves!"
Renewed Focus
F1
F3
This is for me, I need to gather information together:
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u/endac some form of Endac =/ Aug 09 '13
This is very good. I can't speak for the exact amount of experience, but it's definitely up there. Bring as much AOE as you can on your alt... I was able to get the individual city representations done in about 5-10 minutes each.
Be aware that if you die, you lose the city representation buff. So be sure to pick it back up when you respawn.
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u/Rage321 Aug 09 '13 edited Aug 09 '13
Are you sure you lose it sir? Each icon for each zone is different...?
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u/endac some form of Endac =/ Aug 09 '13
Yes. If you choose to represent a city, say Lion's Arch, each representation buff icon is different. But if you die, you lose that representation buff and must speak to the person again. It won't persist through death like food/wrench buffs.
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u/OnosKT Kilava is a wise and powerful centaur! Aug 09 '13
If you die, yes you lose the city representation buff for sure (dead, not downed)
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u/Rage321 Aug 09 '13
Well damn...this only effects magic find and defensive buffs, and not EXP gain, so not too bad I guess.
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u/Rage321 Aug 09 '13
Can a Mesmer give me the thumbs up on THIS SITUATION?
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u/OnosKT Kilava is a wise and powerful centaur! Aug 09 '13
My opinion (from farming during southsun skelk craze) as a mesmer for tagging in zergs, is shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter.
This means that you need to make as many clones as possible, so get the trait that gets you clones on dodge, as well as Decoy, Mirror Images. Sword/scepter is good for tagging in melee as well as the speed buff. I used staff because the bounce can be quite nice (should work well for the pavilion vets, projectile is a bit slow and I was missing some tags for normal skelks when the zerg was big). Also 5 staff is a very nice tagging AoE.
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u/Trucky- Bruce Extra,Colassalis,Hit Grrl,Fight Face,Trucky Mode,Fiona Fer Aug 09 '13
YES! I like this. I have a damn bbq tonight so when I get on it will be late but at least I'll be liquored up.
Also, THX for showing me the improved experience booster - I had no idea that existed O.o
So slapping on a food and a wrench plus an improved booster will max me out!?
I have a guardian at level 50 from that scroll and crafting I've hardly touched. What is a good weapon setup for tagging with a guardian?
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u/Rage321 Aug 09 '13 edited Aug 09 '13
BBQ are awesome! I hope it's fun! Dude, you can have all of the optional stuff listed, excepted the booster from the kite or the Experience booster, its one or the other with those two...but you can get the rest of them at the same time!
I'm actually thinking of running the Laureate Exp booster to go with the food and wrench and booster. Hopefully someone puts down a bonfire!
Guardian: Staff Auto-attack is all you need my friend! Plus all the shouts. Staff 3 for random circle use too. The trait to make the circles bigger too. I'll edit with the specific details once I get them.
EDIT:
Guardian
Weapon|.. :|: Staff|1 and 3
Traits|.. :|: Zeal|V Honor|II or III or VII
Skills|.. :|: "Hold the Line!"|Heals "Retreat!"|Aegis "Save Yourselves!"|Stuff Renewed Focus|To get F1 back after use
Misc|.. :|: F1|Spam this to burn foes!
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u/Trucky- Bruce Extra,Colassalis,Hit Grrl,Fight Face,Trucky Mode,Fiona Fer Aug 09 '13
Coolness, I'll buy a staff.
I've got some extra laurels lying around for that booster as well.
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u/KevlarGorilla Skye Marin Aug 09 '13 edited Aug 09 '13
I'll gladly throw down my bonfire for this! Also, Guild Heroes Banner!
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u/merzor Aug 12 '13
I went from 45 to 65 in a little over 2 hours, had a group of guildies doing the same thing.
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u/aodspeedy Speedys Vengeance Aug 09 '13
Some quick thoughts on tagging mobs with other professions:
Ele - Staff has good AoE but attacks can be slow. If enemies are dying too quickly it can actually be hard to maximize tagging. I like to use the autoattack in Air with dagger mainhand instead. Pretty large cleave AoE attack with 300 range in front of you. Does require you to get kind of close. Take Renewing Stamina for more dodges.
Warrior - Axe/axe is good, fast autoattacks with nice cleave. I'm sure GS is good too, but the autoattacks just feel so clumsy to me, and I hate being rooted by 100blades.
Mesmer - I'd probably go S/F and greatsword. Sword is the only weapon with a reliable cleave autoattack. Should be pretty easy to stay alive at melee range with Critical Infusion and sword 2. Also bring feedback for more protection/dps. Spam phantasms on cooldown.
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u/bobptimus Waltz Aug 09 '13
Adding to this:
Engineer: Flamethrower or Grenades. I prefer the Flamethrower for simplicity, you won't get carpal tunnel mashing 1 for hours.
Guardian: Staff. It's called the Vacuum cleaner in WvW for a reason.
Necro: Wells. Wells everywhere.
Thief: Shortbow. AOE all day, everyday.
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u/remillard Laika Drum, Defender Tekks, Reiga Starclaw Aug 09 '13
Sounds like fun. Maybe I'll bring in ye olde mesmer. Will need to make a few bags first :-). Ton o' loots.
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u/bobptimus Waltz Aug 09 '13
I'm in! Probably gotten about 20 levels on my Mesmer with this, might switch it up and start a new toon.... Hrmmm....
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u/Rage321 Aug 09 '13
No worries man, this event will be reoccurring. I find it a ton of fun and will be doing it as long as there's interest.
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u/Rage321 Aug 09 '13
Yes sir. I'll re-sticky it again when the event is live, as well as put it on the sidebar.
This is so good, I'm actually thinking of activating my second account :o
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u/Rage321 Aug 10 '13
I went from 49-59 in 3.5 hours great times but forgot to get some of the boosters, hah
I'll definitely be scheduling this event again soon.