what happened to the battle line?

Over the period of last night (like 9 hours) the battle line shoved extremely far into luxon territory taking cities such as Eredon Terrace among others and is just getting farther. Is it possible for the kurzicks to win enough battles in 1 night to push it that far or is it just a glitch?

dunno, i played about 10 - 15 AB matches and lost 2 at Etneran so i was surprised to see we got pushed back further. Also at Kaanai the gates at the start have gaps where the kurzicks spawn so they can cap the shrine at the top plus once out they can head to the other shrines before the time is up.. My suspicions of a.net being kurzicks doesnt seem to be unfounded lol

i think giving kurzicks those shrines is intentional

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Kaanai_Canyon

the whole line shift has caused a huge uproar in most Luxon towns and it's sickening to see the pointless arguements being thrown etc..

anyways it's odd that the shift was drastic

Wow, the entire south side of the map is taken, all the way to Seafarers Rest!

The "momentum bonus" ANet implemented must be pretty significant!

Seriously? Are you saying the entire Luxon territory turned into a giant Random Arena-style debate house?

Is it still going on? I don't wanna check myself because I can't stand Random Arena debates.

Disregard this post as someone said, i saw that i was wrong :|

so pretty much all the luxons need to do to to take bwack there territory si to farm kurzick and luxon points?.

xenex, you cant earn or farm luxon faction if you are a kurzick guild, yes you can get luxon faction as an individual, but if your guild is kurzick allied you cannot give it to the faction transfer.

reason why you see the towns owned by kurzick people is because they are now (for the moment) in kurzick territory.

and yes the line has been moved due to the alliance battles.

my point about those shrines at the top is that the gates dont work by the rez shrines and you can walk around them to cap the middle shrine before the gates open.. giving an advantage to the kurzicks

Disregard the above quoted material. No personal offense to you, Xenex, but you have no clue as to the game mechanic.

The blue and red line is positioned based on the outcome of alliance battles over each 3 hour period. I'm not sure if Jade Quarry and Fort Aspenwood factor in, but I don't think they do. When Kurzicks win more, the line moves into Luxon territory, and cities that are normally Luxon become part of Kurzick territory and are then under the control of Kurzick alliances. So, instead of each alliance having 8 cities to control ( I didn't count them), the Kurzicks may have 12 and the Luxons only 4. So, the top 12 Kurzick alliances get to control cities, instead of the normal 8. This has absolutely nothing to do with Kurzick alliances figuring out to farm Luxon points. Fact is, a Kurzick-aligned guild CANNOT receive Luxon faction transfers. The only way for a Kurzick alliance to to control a town is to have enough Kurzick faction transferred to it to place it within the top however many cities are under Kurzick control.



I can nearly positively assure you that it is NOT intentional. The deeper the line is in Luxon territory, the more advantage the Luxons are supposed to have on that map, and vice versa. If the line is deep in Luxon territory, which it is now, and the Kurzicks have such an advantage, it is something ANet will be fixing very soon. It is NOT intentional.

I was actually thinking a couple of days ago that a big guild should get their people together, and strike hard in AB late at night, when few people were playing. I wonder if that, together with the "momentum bonus", is what's happened.

Hmm, Aw lore you are right, everyone that read my post sorry for that,i forgot that you can not turn in the points.

Telling people to disregard the post is ok , and i dont think i should get offended by that, saying i have no idea about the game mechanic i do find offensive towards me, lets not get into an agruement,just wanted to let you know.

Situations like these hardly happen, when you start seeing the line moving closer into LLuxon or Kurzick territory, it becomes more difficult to maintain that line because the AB maps then favour the other side.

its not doin that atm, from my count its been at kaanai for 9 hours as of this post... something seems to be wrong?

the battle line hasnt moved much since this morning so it staying at canyon is probably right.

Well in my alliance people have been saying they have been winning like every match. I'm in the TLC alliance in Ka guild.

As does a guy in my alliance. We are Luxon and he claims he has won about 4 outta every 5 matches today.

But remember, the Line is an overall thing...as you win yours, luxons might be losing 3 other matches.

Anyway, Like everyone said...Kurzicks have EXTREME advantage because of a Gate glitch in the map right now. They can leave their base before the timers up...and cap the stuff...GG.

I left the base and started attacking their NPCs. I died and revived before the match actually started, lol.

yeah.. I won about 3/5 matches I've played today... and I will hafta search and find the link again.. but I read in one of these forum things.. (I dont think it was Guru) that Kurzick guilds and alliances outrank Luxons by 13-1. The overal population of Kurzicks with all these.. 5k faction + a day guild farmers. I can see how luxons get pushed back. (and I'm luxon) And I'm gonna take a guess here.. but since Kurzicks have the territory at this time.. I will assume that more guilds will switch Kurzick just to be on the winning side..