Myself (Raxal / Aqua-Lung / -Lebowski-) and Tacticus had a chat after the last guild meeting and we have decided to take upon the task of setting up a time where KS members interested in the GCW side of SWG (PvP & PvE) could reliably come together to achieve GCW goals, provide GCW content, and most importantly have fun within the GCW. Ultimately we wish to see saturday come to pass as the day where KS members come together for GCW in the same fashion as we already do for heroics on Sunday and Wednesday evenings.
What is the goal?
The goal is to provide maximum GCW content for the maximum amount of KS folks interested in GCW, and to provide a dedicated time/day for that content.
We want to stress that these outings are not exclusive to non-combat toons. In fact, traders and entertainers are quite valuable contributers and grossly under-estimated and under-utilized in GCW invasions. While the other aspects of GCW do leave ents and crafters on the sidelines, we wish to make it a priority to accomodate all archetypes who show up for GCW action on saturdays.
What is the plan?
The plan for now is a very loose one. Whatever it is we are able to do, we will do. If we have the professions necessary to base-bust, we will go base bust (I will follow up with a post later on how base-busting and open-world non-restuss pvp is now much easier than ever), if we have some traders and ents show, then we will run invasions. As the GCW is a constant-running content provider, it allows us to change what it is we are doing on the fly and as the group dynamics change.
How does one participate?
Myself (Raxal / Aqua-Lung / -Lebowski-) and/or Tacticus/Keetip plan to be logged on on saturdays and will be spending our time doing something/anything GCW related. Either of us will head up the GCW activities for the day. Simply send a /tell or get our attention in guildchat to join up.
What is the point? What are the benefits?
As most of you already know there are some pretty nice in-game items & features offered by the GCW via GCW tokens and GCW rankings. As you climb the GCW ranks on your toon, you receive new abilities in the form of buffs that are quite useful in both PvP and PvE. Tokens accrued during invasions and battle fields are redeemable for cool weapons and factional gear. But in my opinion, the coolest benefit is the City/Guild benefits from climbing the GCW leaderboard.
The guild/city can receive Instant Travel abilities that are found in your datapad under the buttons "guild waypoints" and "city waypoints". In there you will find a listing of key waypoints as designated by guild/city leadership. Waypoints marked with a "X" are Instant-Travel-enabled. This means no matter where you are, inside a structure, outside a structure, in a city, open world, by a lair, anywhere in the galaxy....you can click that waypoint in the listing and you will be instantly transported to the nearest shuttle to that waypoint. This is a VERY handy feature that does not suffer the restrictions of the conventional ITV ability (rattletrap, Amidala's transport, etc). It would be great to make this feature available to KS and Amber Ridge residents.
If you have read all of this, I thank you for your time and look forward to seeing you on saturdays. Please feel free to post your typical saturday playing schedule and be sure to include your timezone so others can get a feel for what time of day folks typically log on on saturdays.
-- Edited by Aqua-Raxal on Sunday 21st of November 2010 01:34:44 PM
Myself, dr-mont, maras, keetip(tacticus), and couple others had one of the most intense defensive stands I have ever seen end in success. We managed to get maras way up the player leaderboard to #8 I think, K-S got as high as #2 but dropped to #3, and AR is now at #3 too!
Plenty of tokens and GCW points were earned as well. That was a lot of fun!
Sorry I missed you monty. Unfortunately I spend my mornings and early afternoons doing stuff with my wife or any other things I need to get done over the weekend. It's the only way I can evade the wife-aggro in the evening when I login to SWG :)
It has been really dead the last couple of weeks as far as GCW. I guess all the new games have drawn a lot of people away for the time being. Last night we had great builds with a smuggler slicing the terminal, only to find that there were no imperials building anything.
I plan to log Meesta for the saturday invasions if thats what we do just so that a crafter is guaranteed. I can do the invasions as a combat toon anytime during the week
Since we sucked a bit in GCW during last week, I plan to do some invasions tomorrow (Saturday Jan. 29th) morning (about 10 a.m. CET) and afternoon. If we get a decent group, I would suggest we switch a bit between trader/ent and combat, so everybody gets what he needs. I would also be up for some BFs if we have ppl with imp alts online.
Hey everyone, I had been gone out of country for a few eeks and also moved during the same timeframe (I dont recommend do this). As my wife and I get more and more settled in to the new house, I can get back into swg on a more consistent basis. We are mostly settled in now so I plan to take advantage of the bonus weekend as much as possible. My online gametime is bound to shrink as the weather continues to improve and I can get out more, but I still plan to get in some GCW on saturdays when possible and any other time during the week in the evenings.
