There are quite a few people who've made 80k RP in the past week. How? Do they play all day long? Is there something I'm missing?
The highest I've ever gotten is 20k, and to me that is a lot! I'm starting to wonder if maybe the AOE Dot is overrated. 90% of my targets live through the attacks, and I only get points for the small percentage of dmg it does. A body cabalist can nuke for 400 dmg a hit, so I believe they may actually have the advantage in this situation!
The flipside is that I still have my utility..I'm draining healers power, interrupting casts, and able to be very effective at nearsighting.
But still, how the hell do they get so many bloody points?
A lot of the people on our server Dual. That is how they are gaining all those RP's. I sat and watched duals last Saturday for an hour and now i know that is how most are doing it because those same names you are seeing are the 1's i saw out there. It is lame in my opinion but Mythic won't stop them so in a way they are condoning it.
Which is funny because once 1.53 goes live I'll be tough to beat in a duel. I might have to do a few just to show them who is boss. Then I can go back to getting nuked into the ground :)
Things were much different back then though. We still had 5 relics (20% melee damage bonus), GTAE wasn't in yet, hibs had no insta-CC, and Alb in general was doing really well.
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I think the key nowadays is to get a solid RvR group together. Trying to run around emain with a pickup group with no speed isn't gonna get you many RPs.
You might also wanna try convincing the emain zerg to take a keep. You'll be suprised how many RPs those DoTs will get you in keep defense.
Average RPS per kill in and 8v8 battle is 200 rps. So for 1 battle, each group member can get around 1,600k rps per battle. Now multiply that times the amound of skirmishes they can go thru per hour and again by how many hours a day/week and you get alot of rps.
From what I understand, the amount of RPs you get from one kill is divided evenly amongst all the people who helped kill (did damage) plus any bonus modifiers (keep posession, etc).
The problem is that most people rely on the zerg. That means that more people are attacking (getting a cut) of your kills. Thats why you see RP kills for 50, 30, 100, 2, etc.
Highest I got in a week was 40k. No duels, just running in beatsquads.