Campaigning on Forts

[Urat]

So what's your guys' method for the fortifications? What gear dop you generally lean towards to max out your damage and exp?

Personally I stack my haste and att, and one hand my weapon since the second attack round apparently doesn't count towards exp according to wiki.

For WSing I do my wild flourish one man SC, 20 of em gives me an extra 300 exp so that's nice. I just pop basic att+ food, mithkabobs are cheap.

Generally I find I cap out around 2.5K exp on fortifications alone, 2K if I just afk, so I swap my tags every 20 mins, netting me about 6K/hour.

Any tips or tricks you other guys have?

 

[Lyall]

You strategize Campaign? I just wail away on it on my dragoon. No muss, no fuss. I never bothered with food or anything, but maybe I'm just a lousy participant.

 

[Tyrath]

Yeah I just AFK on forts. The whole idea is to not have to put in any effort <_< I hate campaigning. Quitting soon as I get max rank.

 

[Nifal]

No strategy, I just like beating on things. I get what I get one exp. That's good enough for me. Still beats merit parties any day. They bore me to tears.

 

[Jeska]

I find if you afk on a fort you actually get less exp overall than if you went for several evaluations.

In eldreme one time as lv 68 ninja I experimented, left myself afk for 40 mins nearly got 1180 exp.

Went for several evaluations in a 30 min one I got 906, 1080 and 800. I didnt ws or ja either only time I cast shadows is if the Orcs came to spoil our afk fun lol.

Strangly enough I went to Crawlers Nest other night got 1950 exp first evaluation after about 20 mins or so. There were only three other people activily hitting the fort block so i wonder if the amount of people on one makes any difference, every night at eldreme there was 50+ people it seemed.

 

[Jeska]

Eek need to check this myself to be sure but from what I read elsewhere they nerfed fortifications exp bad. 15 minutes of hitting the wall resulted in 20 xp and 10 notes.

Also

Attacking Fortifications and other enemies specific to Campaign no longer increases combat and magic skills, regardless of whether or not you have received the effect of an Allied Tag.

 

[Pupusa]

Looks like it was nerfed pretty bad, last night I was hitting a fort AFK for an hour, watched some TV, when it was over, all I had was 150XP. I wasn't doing much damage, but I've never gotten that low before.

 

[Halifirien]

That sucks. I always liked throwing in the fortification attacks as a nice change of pace. Punch-punch-punch-Asuran Fists-punch-punch... It hardly seems worth it now.

 

[Jeska]

Yes no more afk fighting now, I got over 6k in an hour with several evaluations at garlaige citadel but I was taking on Imp's and random Yags as well as bashing the fort. In a sense I dont really mind this change as it rewards the people that do more now.

One thing for sure those interior areas will be a lot less crowded now.

 

[kicamo]

cept that with less xp for hitting forts people are gonna be less likely to even bother going there so we will lose more areas.

 

[LadyKiKi]

cept that with less xp for hitting forts people are gonna be less likely to even bother going there so we will lose more areas.

Good. I want my city campaigns. Going out there is boring. I miss them so much when they were endless in the cities.:clap:

 

[Khajit]

I kinda miss those too. as nice as it is to get a shot at cuchulan's mantle the city fights were awesome.

 

[Z.Z.]

I never afked on forts but I liked beast controled areas cause it made the CB last longer so you could you know get the amount of exp you earned and not have it be cut out by the stupid time caps.

 

[Jeska]

I kinda like what they've done, after all some places like eldreme were getting silly with 70 people afk there the lag was awful.

 

[Nifal]

It is simply to encourage PARTICIPATION. AFK at the wall was no better then the Bards spamming.

 

[kicamo]

Good. I want my city campaigns. Going out there is boring. I miss them so much when they were endless in the cities.:clap:

exactly... i loved when cities got attacked all the time. fast easy xp. theres a difference between afking at a fort and the brd spammers, atleast the afkers are doing something benificial. spammers would just sit at the ca guy and sing.

 

[Urat]

I'm thinking of trying to hunt down that sallet that rapidly drains your hp for haste and att...

TP on wall with it equipped and spam my CW4, rapdily healing myself, once I've capped the 500 exp worth of heals, afk 4-5 mins and then trade in tags. At that rate I'll get 5-6K exp and hour in eldieme, since it has the closest forts to the npc...

Gonna be a bitch hunting that sallet down =/

 

[Snowballx]

Well I think it sucks that they changed the fort exp. I mean what elsse is next that they will change? T_T