Operation: Lowbie

Hello everyone,

This is the project I mentioned in the previous post. It's a project that just popped into my head recently and since I will be out of school next week due to Spring Break, I thought it might be a good idea to see what I can get done in that week.

OPERATION: LOWBIE

So the whole idea of the project came about when I was thinking about how I dislike how the renown level is capped by the rank level. I have a lot of alts in Tier 1, and I love to jump right into RvR as soon as possible. It's aggrevating to do that, and have to leave RvR lakes to go to PvE quests so that I can level and gain more renown points.

I thought about a way to fix the system, which was to allow renown rank to only be capped by what tier your rank level fits in. So any characters rank 1-11 could gain renown points until RR11, even if they were still rank 1. I don't think this would cause any problems, as all renown gear have rank requirements too. This change wouldn't be as noticable in later tiers, as it takes much longer to gain renown (I assume) and that your renown might not always be capped like it is in the lower tiers.

I thought about how it is hard to gain good exp in RvR-based PvE. Much of T1 is just running around capturing BOs, with a few skermishes happening in Empire/Chaos area. Minus the few enemy player kills, the most exp you get from taking BOs is 400exp before and after captures. 400exp gets you nowhere near gaining a rank, unless your rank 1 or 2.

I wondered how much exp people get in T4 RvR and if it is a drop in a bucket like it is in the lower tiers. The only time when it might be good experience is if you were coming from a lower tier. That sounded feasible; coming from a lower tier and participating in RvR in higher tiers to gain more exp. I wonder how far you could push that. It sounded like a fun idea, so I thought I'd develop it into a project.

Operation: Lowbie

Operation: Lowbie will be a project of mine where I take a freshly made character, get him to Tier 4 and participate in Tier 4 RvR. I am going to see how much exp and renown I can get before it gets too boring to continue on. There will be problems I will have to overcome, like being incredibly weak on the battlefield, and being killed whenever any wind passes by. But hopefully I gain a lot of knowledge of how Tier 4 RvR works and maybe can walk away with some good exp/rp and a few cool items (that I can't use for another 30+ levels).

I am going to try to take some screenshots while on my journey and during my battles. I'll try not to take too many of me dead on the ground.

Strategy

The current plan of attack is to start out in the starting area, and wait for the War Signal to light up, and then instantly teleport to the Warcamp. From there, I will fly to the main city, and then head out of the city into the RvR areas around the main city. While I am in the RvR areas, there shouldn't be much NPCs to dodge, so I should be safe.

I'm going to be wearing now armor whatsoever. To me, this makes sense. My rank 1 armor isn't going to make any difference anyways. And I can get some cool naked achievements at the same time.

I'll download an addon that can keep track of my total exp each day/overall and post my results here on this blog.

I hope to have more projects like this in the future.

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