Global RvR chat channel

World RvR in WAR has been suffering when compared to scenarios. It seems pretty simple as to why, scenarios are easy. Just queue up and often (on order) you are in the action within a minute or two. With world RvR you need to get a group together and go take some objectives or find the action. This can often take a while to accomplish.

Tier based chat channels for world RvR may help the situation. It would make it much easier to find other like-minded players or just find out where the fighting is taking place. Open groups do not really help the situation, as I would have to create a group and go sit in a RvR zone... and wait.

I wouldn't think the chat channels would be difficult to implement, especially considering possible benefit of increased world RvR.

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Short scenario queues hurting world RvR?

With the recent change that allows you to queue for all the scenarios in your tier from anywhere, people tend to get in them quicker. As great as this change is, I wonder if it will have the unintended consequence of hurting world RvR.

Prior to the change, I would queue up for a scenario then go check out the world RvR situation. If I found a world RvR fight, I would leave the queue. If when the scenario was ready I still hadn't found any action, I would jump in. Now, the scenario is ready before i can get very far into an RvR zone.

The main reason I do this is that my playtime is limited. I don't care which gets me xp/renown the fastest as some might, I just want my time spent in game to be fun. I prefer world RvR, but that can take some time to get going.

The min/maxer type may find they get more XP/Renown by doing the quick scenarios rather then participating in world RvR. I don't care much about this type, as they are not fun in world RvR anyway. They did put people in the fight though.

So will faster scenarios hurt world RvR? Time will tell. What do you think?

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When CoW's attack...

Ok, so it isn't quite like the picture.

The last couple days spent in WAR have been mostly about RvR combat. I had been doing mostly PvE, but I got the sickness and cannot break away from the fight.

Yesterday was a particularly fun day, as me and some fellow CoW's took to the fields of battle in world RvR. A group of 4 of us started out in Nordland, where a battle was already raging. We had 2 Engineers, and Archmage and a Bright Wizard. A couple other CoW's joined up at various times too.

It was a back and forth battle at the start and we got pushed back to the warcamp several times. This was mainly due to the fact we were facing a larger force which was loaded with tanks. We had no tanks at all! Plenty of Elves and Dwarves, just no tanks. Despite that, we did not do too bad. When the sides evened out a bit, we were able to push back and take the 3 objectives. We fought for a bit to defend then got the call to another battle.

Speaking of tanks... their armor looks much cooler than the rags T1 Engineers are forced to wear.

CoW's were set to advance upon the Blighted Isle, so we moved over to that front. There we had a Warband of CoW's (~9 folks) and we proceeded to take all the objectives. We ran into some light resistance at first, but then hit an organized group. We trounced them in the first encounter. They came back for more, with friends. The 2nd encounter we lost, but not before taking out a fair number.

Sadly at that point, I had to retire from the battlefield.

Some notes:

• BR 9/ RR 9
• Lots of World RvR and Scenarios.
• You can get buff's from the bosses at your Battlefield Objectives by clicking on them.
• Watch out for artillery!
• Started Ekrund Ch 3.
• They took away the ability to Salvage renown gear :(
• CoW achieved Guild Rank 7
  

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