Things I unlocked durring PvP weekend

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

Yes, in this thread you can tell what you unlocked via the PvP weekend faction rewards!

In the first 30 minutes (Mostly made up of terrible random groups that didn't know how to press "T") I unlocked a minor Swordsmenship Rune!

Faction gained so far: About 1,200!

Most of the games I've played so far have only been one kill and then our team gets whiped out.

I've gotten two teams to four wins but other than that the random masses just aren't good enough to know how to listen to called targets, read the chat, use their skills or come up with a build that works.

(This is for everyone to particpate in, thanks.. o.o)

Savio

Savio

Teenager with attitude

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Nice. Hope to see you in there

banishd

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Ivy League [IVY]

Mo/

hmm ive got 6k faction in 1 hour 40 minutes

Leddy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Hell's Circus

E/Mo

Yeah. Now it's 120 faction per (random) match.

Sunman222

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Moa Birds

W/E

9500 faction, 3 HoH wins

Imp

Imp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Novum Igneus [NI]

Rt/

Super absorb, +30hp sword upgrade, ice sword upgrade. Still have 2,000

TideSwayer

TideSwayer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

We Farm Your [?????????s]

I've unlocked a couple of minor runes so far. My aim for the weekend is to unlock as many runes as possible. I've already had about half the runes unlocked with this account and would like to finish off at least a couple of classes by the end of this weekend.

ElderAtronach

ElderAtronach

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Mo/Me

3 superior runes so far and that's with a few hours worth of arenas and a couple of Tomb PuG runs as well.

So far I love what they've done to fireball.

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

So far..

Minor Sword, Minor Energy Storage, Superior Hammer, Peace and Harmony, Life Barrier, Major Energy Storage, Major Divine Favor.

Total faction gained: About 15k.

Draco Marr

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2005

Knights of the Pheonix Flame

W/Mo

havent really started in full fledge with the pvp weekend hope too today though.

Tactical-Dillusions

Tactical-Dillusions

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Grimsby, UK

R/

11,000 faction unlocked yesterday...nothing today because of the lag. I can't do anything related to the Arena.

Yesterday i unlocked a few staff/sword upgrades and two ranger elites. Sadly realised that the skills i unlocked with my PvE character are not applied to my PvE character.

c h a v e z

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

agony

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9257/xfaction9yz.jpg

word.

Dazzler

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

Super Absorp, Super Protection....6,000 faction left over! This is nice. I wish it lasted longer.

Shusky

Shusky

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Flying Purple Hippos

Nothing. Hog faction first, spend later

And nice UI customization, chaves

dansamy

Chasing Dragons

Join Date: May 2005

Lost in La-La Land

LFGuild

Mo/Me

So far, 4 elite skills and one Superiors Ele rune.

dansamy

Chasing Dragons

Join Date: May 2005

Lost in La-La Land

LFGuild

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shusky
Nothing. Hog faction first, spend later

And nice UI customization, chaves
Until you hit the 10k faction cap, lol! Then you have to spend it to get anymore.

Shusky

Shusky

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Flying Purple Hippos

I have 1k to go

Tomorrow I'll actually spend at higher level pvp, perhaps I'll be forced to visit the priest more often.

IlikeGW

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

got about 12k faction in random arena

bought a superior, an elite, a staff upgrade so far

aphex twin

aphex twin

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Xen of Onslaught [XoO]

Mo/W

About 5 elites, 1 major rune, 4 sup runes and around 3 or 4 weapon upgrades.

aLittle Bird

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

BBQ

got 70K in faction from GvG on Friday. (played all night after the faction increase and suffered at work on Friday as a result).

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Heh it's not much help to me, I've unlocked everything for a W and Mo long before this xPvp. I have nearly 10k still saved up for other characters if I should ever decide to play another. I guess this is great for the more casual players who can only play a few hours at a time.

Kaylee Ann

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Sonya
Heh it's not much help to me, I've unlocked everything for a W and Mo long before this xPvp. I have nearly 30k still saved up for other characters if I should ever decide to play another. I guess this is great for the more casual players who can only play a few hours at a time.
That is amazing considering faction caps out at 10k.....

Elena

Elena

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Belgium

seeing as my guild wanted to try air spiking and i missed some skills for there build

unlocks: lighting orb / elemental attunement ^^

Ensign

Ensign

Just Plain Fluffy

Join Date: Dec 2004

Berkeley, CA

Idiot Savants

Faction gained: a little over 9,000

What I've unlocked: nothing. In a wonderful display of timing, I finished unlocking my account on Monday night, just before the PvP EXTREME announcement.

Peace,
-CxE

iggk

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

Triple X (XXX)

played about 12 hours so far this weekend and spent about 29k faction.

even with the lower faction rewards i think random is best as you dont have to wait to form a team and playing as a monk you make the team good enough to win.

and when you lose its less than 30 seconds till your fighting again. unlike HoH when the group just about allways break's up

octaviancmb

octaviancmb

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Me/

Kudos to ANET for this great weekend!

Unlocks: several runes that have been taunting me for months, the +5 insightful staff upgrade, max defense staff upgrade, 10/10 sundering bowstring, and 10% furious sword hilt.

More importantly, I'm remembering how to play my Mesmer. Now that NR is only really good, my Mesmer rocks again.

cmb

Quebec Osti

Quebec Osti

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

More or less 25k faction so far

Xma

Xma

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2005

Belgium

Idiot Savants

Total faction was 17k before, jumped to 100k in like 6 hours

Axle_Fieshe

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

Mo/W

2 ele elites, a monk elite, two health upgrades for staff (hale & fortitude)
made around 18k faction so far

UltimaXtreme

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

gained around 60,000 in past 2 days x.x gvg gives insane amounts

Porkchop Sandwhiches

Porkchop Sandwhiches

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fishing Village in Wizard's Folly

R/

I wish the xp was always like this, I still have tons more to unlock *sigh*

I gained about 10-15k faction since this started, now at 32kish faction. Unlocked all the Necro and Mesmer elites I didnt have (don't have a spot for more characters (on second thought I'd just rather not go through to PvE crap again..) plus I'm too lazy to remake one or change a secondary class and grind out those skills points!). Working on runes next, meh!


Must go back to keeling O_o

Sarus

Sarus

Ministry of Technology

Join Date: Feb 2005

Washington D.C.

Idiot Savants

Mo/

Quote:
What I've unlocked: nothing. In a wonderful display of timing, I finished unlocking my account on Monday night, just before the PvP EXTREME announcement.
zomg no more carrot for Ensign. I smell WoW.

Doing a reasonable amount of GvG on friday and saturday netted me about 80k in faction. Went bonkers unlocking every rune and all the worthwhile weapon mods (zealous, defese, vampiric, enchant length), and then started grabbing all the good elites.

Combined with the 40 skill points in 55 monk farming I did I should be good to go for a while.

To be honest this is the most fun I've had in GW since ... the betas. In fact, it almost feels like the betas.

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Now all they need to do is every weekend all the npc merchants items like runes and rare materials are 100gp ea for the entire weekend. Heh wouldn't that piss off the farmers then? lol

DrSLUGFly

DrSLUGFly

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

European Server or International

I've gotten 15k so far and spent 10k. I've unlocked 3 random elites (I think it was elites) just starting at the bottom and working my way up. And also 1 normal.

r3dh3adkid

r3dh3adkid

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Soviet Propaganda [SovP]

Mo/N

Well thanks to PvP Extreme I have unlocked major and Superior Absorption, 3:1 Vampiric Sword Hilt, and Major Vigor all in one day.

I had never played PvP much untill this event. I saw that you got 5x faction so I figured now was a great time to start and get some faction while I was at it. I had recently created a W/Mo so I had a fairly good amount of skills to start with. I used my build from Role Playing to start with. I did faily ok with it but I knew it wouldn't cut it in hardcore PvPing. I used the Pre-made Paladin build so I could get Healing Hands because I hadn't unlocked it in Role Playing yet. My build thus far is:

Healing Prayers: 9
Smiting Prayers: 0
Protecting Prayers 0
Strength: 4 (+1 minor)
Axe Mastery: 0
Hammer Mastery: 0
Swordsmanship: 12
Tactics: 9

Resurrect
Sever Artery
Gash
Hamstring
Sprint
Healing Hands
Mending
Healing Breeze

I don't know if this would be considered a "good" build or not, but I enjoy it and can a fare share of damage with it.

I sometimes switch up Gash and Hamstring with Galrath Slash and Final Thrust. Sometimes the adrenaline needed henders me but sometimes it doesnt.


Thanks to PvP Extreme I LOVE PvP now and plan to continue playing it. It has owned my eyes to a while new area in Guild Wars. Thank you again



Any and All Suggestions for my character is welcome and needed.

Fr3sH

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

Doers of Evil

Mo/Me

Im glad that this event has opened the eyes of pvers.

Let me help you out with your build though. If your a warrior, dont bring any healing spells. smart teams know to go for casters first, and if your getting attacked, that means your team is already lost. Go with all out attack skills.

Lord Kibinto

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

the one thing i do have to complain about the pvpx weekend was the gvg. with all of the top guilds faction farming it just wasnt fun as we got steamrolled 9/10 times by guilds in the top 50 who had created guilds especially to farm faction.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death To Society

yes, i think pvp weekend was great!! i made about 50k faction, but thats cuz i always had a set group... i loved it. 20 faction per kill...

Mystic_Karnas

Mystic_Karnas

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Teh masters

N/

Yeah, it was so freaking fun, got a lot of faction, had a lot of fun, met some cool people, and some huge idiots, but all in all, I loved it.

Kaizume

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

Goda Vos [GV]

It was great overall! Made 6k faction, but unfortunately I have exams on monday to friday.... So that means my faction earning was cut! Managed to unlock some stuff still though!! More PvP Extreme events!!!