In this weeks PvP Leaderboards we see two, if not three previous records shattered into pieces! Interesting times ahead! Let’s go take a look.

Largest Battles – Week #3 of August 2017

Comment: The largest battle yet since release has happend last tuesday when ZERG alliance forgot to feed Stonetop Sink over in the east of Mercia. Three alliances, namely the previous owner ZERG, OOPS and ARCH alliance all rushed to fight over it. With more than 450 players involved over the course of multiple skirmishes the numbers tallied up to more than 243 total kills and 6.34m fame left on the battlefield. Sources tell me that while the experience was pretty laggy it was an interesting and massive battle nonetheless. Interestingly enough, people also decided to pick weapons specifically for laggy zerg fights, mostly glacial staves. So you can shoot a field of death and run away and survive the lag of death. In the end ZERG alliance barely managed to defend its territorry to the OOPS and ARCH contenders! Quite costly battles can result in forgetting to feed a high blackzone territorry… who would have thought. ;)

Top PvP Kills – Week #3 of August 2017

Comment: Jemal from Money Guild manages to score the kill on Kubb from Exertion, carrying not just his own 7.2 and 6.3 artifact gear, but other – presumably looted – 8.1 and 7.2 items in his inventory as well. From the killboard it looks like the Exertion guys ran into some sort of open world or after GvG skirmish and got a unpleasant surprise.

Top Kill Fame (Player) – Week #3 of August 2017

Comment: HAELZA from Black Mamba is the first player to crack the 5m fame mark at 5.24m kill-fame last week. Looking at the largest kills he scored last week, a lot of them are in GvGs against EWA and DD0S alliance, with some open world kills against ZERG sprinkled in between.

Top Kill Fame (Guild) – Week #3 of August 2017

Comment: What a week for Exertion! 122.28m is the record to break! Even though Exertion is not the guild with the most GvGs this week, they appareantly had some amazing results, raking in tons of fame. Did the big boys bring out the T8 to play yet, or is it just a lot of 6.3 and 7.2 still? I shall go take a look.

GvGs – Most Attacks & Defenses Won – Week #2 of August 2017

Comment: 35 GvGs for Nilfgaard? That must be another record as well! 5 a day is an even more impressive pace than we saw in the last weeks. No wonder why the ZERG alliance and especially Nilfgaard  is taking over a lot of the Mercia teritorries. As always, the amount of no-shows and unfought GvGs is the real question, but I dare to say: the war over Mercia has begun!

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Exertion, NoLife and Nilfgaard top the fame charts this week! Let’s look at the details. If you have comments, corrections or additonal info, please get in touch with me on Discord!

Largest Battles – Week #2 of August 2017

Comment: 1.9m as the top battle? Thats a low value and from a tuesday (?!). Maybe last weeks DDOS issues caused lower overall activity, which would explain those numbers. OOPS beat ARCH in last weeks top battle, with War Legend being the largest donator of fame there.

Top PvP Kills – Week #2 of August 2017

Comment: MacheteBandit in 4.3 and 5.2 (!) getting the kill on KingSporot wearing 7.2 and carrying a bunch of 6.2 artifact sets. Looks like someone got caught on this way to a GvG by Tea Party.. ouch.

Top Kill Fame (Player) – Week #2 of August 2017

Comment: Only ZERG & HATE in the top#10 last week and with Lui from NoLife on top at 3.2m. This is the fourth week in a row where ZERG shows a superior pressence in the top killfame boards. With those numbers  being slighlty lower than last weeks top values, I am also attributing that to fewer chances to GvG due to DDOS last week. However, with those two teams collecting all the kill-fame on the top, who will challenge them?

Top Kill Fame (Guild) – Week #2 of August 2017

Comment: Oh my. 62m+ for Exertion and NoLife already! Nilfgaard in #3 with 53m. We finally see proper numbers in the leaderboards again! Conflict in #10 with 30.4m. Question: Where was Money Guild last week? Did someone forget to capitalize on an early lead? Oh oh.

GvGs – Most Attacks & Defenses Won – Week #2 of August 2017

Comment: What! 21 defenses won for Black Mamba? Adding the defenses to their  attacks, they had 28 GvGs last week, thats an average of 4 a day! Black Mamba is holding their ground and Nilfgaard securing their territorries as well with 16 defenses won and 9 attacks won. What a pace!

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Another week, another look at the leaderboards! Last week we see Exertion and Black Mamba topping all the charts on the Kill-Fame boards. Let’s look at the details!

Largest Battles – Week #1 of August 2017

Comment: In two battles between OOPS and EWA, OOPS win the fame and K:D battles decisively.  Based on the times of the fights it looks like they are battles for warcamps. #3 is a massive 40minute fight between ARCH and GEAR, with GEAR having a K:D of 131:152(!). If I get some more intel about this fight, i’ll add it here later.

Top PvP Kills – Week #1 of August 2017

Comment: Oh boy! Energylegs getting 4/5 of the top kills! What a bad week for Money Guild. 5/5 of the top deaths against Exertion and ZORN? Looking at the kills, we see Money Guild fielding and dieing in some impressive 7.3 gear. The war-chests of Money Guild should be full enough however, if they kept capitalizing on their impressive early position from last week. Are a bunch of 7.3 sets chump change for Money Guild or did they take a beating this week? I’m not sure, but lets see how this rivalry and fight on two fronts in the high black will develop for Money Guild!

Top Kill Fame (Player) – Week #1 of August 2017

Comment: Even though energylegs did an impressive job scoring almost all of the largest kills, the rest of the Exertion GvG team manage to get even more Kill-Fame last week. Is everyone pounding on on MG and scoring some big kills or are we seeing a shift upwards of the top tier GvGs teams into an average of 7.3 now?

Top Kill Fame (Guild) – Week #1 of August 2017

Comment: Exertion and Black Mamba on top of the  boards by a large margin! The difference between the 1st and the 10th spot is still an impressive 20m+ fame. To me this shows the difference of gear that those guilds use somewhat clearly. While the higher tier guilds manage to score kills against 7.3 oponents, the lower ranked guilds must still be busy battling 5.3 and 6.3 on average.

GvGs – Most Attacks & Defenses Won – Week #1 of August 2017

Comment: Black Mamba going ham! 26 GvGs in a week? Thats more than 3,5 a day! Of course the question is, how many of those are actually fought, but once you see this impressive pace, the stats above make sense. What a week for Black Mamba!

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Alright, thats it for this week folks.

Apologies for being a bit late, but we are busy figuring out the Iron Bank drama thats all over reddit. If everything goes well, we should have some updates on that for you fairly soon.

Have a nice day :)

Now that release week is over, it is once again time for a regular look at the PvP Leaderboards!

I hope this will be a regular thing I can put out every monday-ish. We look at the largest battles, the largest kills and who is on top of the leaderboards for the last week. I am adding comments of additional information, wherever I find it useful.

Largest Battles – Week#4 of July 2017

Comment: In last weeks largest battle we see ZERG, OOPS and EWA clashing during what was the sunday castle fight about Hill of Hollow Earth. According to the killboard Echo of Silence was the largest fame donator of the fight, with Zorn in the 2nd spot, followed by Nilfgaard in 3rd. Nilfgaard ended up taking the castle after wiping Gentlemen first and then making Schnitzel out of Echo of Silence. By the time of writing this post, Conflict already took the castle back. Volatile times for castle ownership!

Top PvP Kills – Week #4 of July 2017

Comment: OOPS & ZERG duking it out in GvGs. Last weeks largest kill was KingMojo killing Ninjao for 818k killfame. Ninjao had a mix of 6.2 and 6.3 artifact items equipped while having more 6.3 gear in his inventory. He also randomly had a T5 ox in his inventory as well for some odd reason. To me it looks like Ninjao tried to loot some gear during a GvG and got picked off trying to get away.

Top Kill Fame (Player) – Week #4 of July 2017

Comment: Everyone hovers around 2.5m killfame with JaGGeR beeing #1 at 2.65m for the week. Most of the top#10 players fame is from killing high geared opponents in GvGs and Hellgates.  If you are a fan of GvG and Hellgate action, I can recommend the official Albion Twitch Stream where they do nothing but stream HGs and GvGs for like 3 hours.

Top Kill Fame (Guild) – Week #4 of July 2017

Comment: Nilfgaard ahead on this weeks leaderboard by a large margin! Probably due to them being successful in GvGs and Hellgates, where the big fame is and putting a few guilds into their places during this weeks open world action, such as the castle fights. Followed in #2 and #3 by Black Mamba and Money Guild with Chicken Kiss in the 10th spot for 15.81m. I know the bar will only rise for next weeks top spots, but for now you have something to compare your guild to.

GvGs – Most Attacks & Defenses Won

Comment: Nilfgaard again! They have 21 GvGs for this week, thats about 3 per day! A respectable pace for sure, only followed by Money Guild at 18 GvGs for the week and The Fleet at 17 GvGs for the week.

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Thats it for this week guys. Enjoy :)

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Launch is one month away!

Are people still pvp’ing in final beta?

Lets find out.

Largest Battles – Week #3 of June 2017

Comment: [OOPS], [Sexy] and other clash late wednesday night for a respectable 6.17m total fame. Looking at the killboard it looks like as if [Sexy] and especially Betrayed Souls walk away as a victor from one of the more costly battles this beta. In our second largest battle this week [ML] with Vigilance and Millenium win a big fight.

Top PvP Kills – Week #3 of June 2017

Comment: Oh what? Thats right. Filemon and Sickfarmer are in the same guild – Gentlemen. What happened there? After some some research and the friendly folks on the official albion discord channel, I was told the duel bug still persists in the game: When you still have a dot after a duel in a teritorry it can lead do you actually dieing. Oops. I hope nothing trashed. Heh. 2nd highest and thus more legit kill is Hoba from Red Army dieing in 8.2 in a GvG against Betrayed Souls.

Top Kill Fame (Player) – Week #3 of June 2017

Comment: Eh. Cmon guys. Just Red Army and 2 ex [Sexy], ex [Pk], ex (?) THE ABYSS. I think the ‘ex’ The Abyss and the two guys not being shown in a guild is the most important thing about this.

// Edit: After some research it turns out Lkuk is still in Grief and just left temporarily, but it shows like this for some reason.

Top Kill Fame (Guild) – Week #3 of June 2017

Comment: Fame totals to get you into the top#10 are going down again as we head towards the end of final beta. No major changes, but everyone except for RA is below 30m.

GvG – Most Attacks / Defenses Won – Week #3 of June 2017

Comment: Is THE ABYSS is back? Also, 3 attacks to get you into the top#10? Ugh. I’m looking forward to release ;)

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Hector released at the beginning of last week, which led to a new landscape and new oportunities for PvP engagements. Lets take a look at the leaderboards and find out, if we can see any of that impact already.

Largest Battles – Week #2 of June 2017

Comment: Very low ‘Total Fame’ numbers compared to the previous months, with at least two out of the top#2 taking place before Hector went live. In our largest battle last week [OOPS] clash against [Sexy] for a measly 4.6m. I had hoped for more.

Top PvP Kills – Week #2 of June 2017

Comment: Norzor is back! He now holds #1 and #2 for largest ever recorded ‘Top PvP Deaths’. #3 is held by Snowlz at 2.76m. Appareantly Boo managed to spank Norzor naked during a GvG. A bug on the killboard?

Top Kill Fame (Player) – Week #2 of June 2017

Comment: 9.16m and almost everyone else close to or above 7m fame?! That’s a new record high! More and more people are bringing out their T7+ gear stockpiles to play. Aggressor‘s kills are a mix of open world and GvG kills against a lot of 7.1+ geared opponents. Others in the top #10 have high amounts of open world / hellgate kills, with the occasional GvG kill sprinkled in.

Top Kill Fame (Guild) – Week #2 of June 2017

Comment: Red Army still holding firm onto the #1 spot. I doubt we will see any changes to that during this beta. Lots of familiar faces in the top#10, if you followed the previous installations of this blog. We see however, still somewhat low total fame numbers, which can be attributed to ongoing end-of-beta fatigue. In case you wonder who Betrayed Souls is, they partly comprised of ex Articulo Mortis members.

GvG – Most Attacks / Defenses Won – Week #2 of June 2017

Comment: Red Army winning a lot more compared to last week. Did someone get conqured in the east? ES MEJOR showing up on the leaderboards out of no-where. A quick look on the mini-map didnt reveal anything appearant. I’ll take another look and report back later.

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that’s it for this week again, let’s see how this Hector thing develops further!

have a nice day :)

It’s monday. Monday is PvP Leaderboard day.

This week we see the highest killfame average ever of the ‘kill fame (player)‘ list, but we see an overall trend of fewer GvG wins/losses and total kill fame (guild) numbers that secure you a spot in the top#10 lists.

An overall calming down of activity before the storm of release?

Let’s look at the details below!

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Galahad Patch #6 / Version 1.0.319 / REV 84315 / 11 May 2017

Largest Battles

Comment: New record for largest, non-organized fight as of yet! It all happened when Nilfgaard accidentally (?) dropped their T8 building plot and everyone rushed to fight for it. Nilf managed to defend it – at a hefty price as we can see. For the curious, there is a video of it: Courtesy of SpooN04. The vid is from the 2nd egagement. The fights you see below from the 25th are all (!) related to that building territorry fight – so that makes the battle actually a 20m thing? Woa.

Top PvP Kills

Comment: All (!) vicims this week are from [FAME] – Envy, with Spots #2 – #5 being the result of various GvG matches and Envy dieing in 8.2+ gear for big numbers. This weeks #1 goes to Snowlz for getting caught by Red Army, presumably while transporting three sets of his GvG gear in his inventory. Happens? heh.

Top Kill Fame (Player)

Comment: All new faces in the top#10! Nice! NoLife fighting Say My Name and THE ABYSS in GvGs is where the bulk of killfame came from. Looking at our top#1 this week: Modestos – it looks like their GvG team managed to get a lot of juicy 500k++ kills. A new competitor in the Top GvG arena, pushing out the old champions from the previous weeks?

Top Kill Fame (Guild)

Comment: Red Army unreachable for 4 weeks in a row, since they took the top spot from Nilfgaard during the first week of may. New faces this week in the top#10: NoLife, The Pugs and Umbral. We see 6 Guilds below 30m weekly killfame in the top#10 this week, where 30m would only be enough to get you into the 7th or 8th spot in the previous weeks. Beta-fatigue?

GvG – Most Attacks / Defenses Won

Comment: Lower total numbers get you in the top#10. In accord with the analysis of things calming down a bit last week. Is everyone busy looking at Hector, trying out the changes and reading our patch notes analysis? pluggidy plug plug.

Guild Compare

Comment: Envy close to cracking the 10k kills this test! Shoutout to all the other guilds that made it into the top#10 this week. Various guilds manage to get 500 – 1000 (!) pvp kills a week. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

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Galahad Patch #6 / Version 1.0.319 / REV 84315 / 11 May 2017

Happy PvP Leaderboard Monday!
No massive french community event to report this week, but big numbers none the less. Read on for details.

Largest Battles

Comment: Highest fame this week goes to the [OOPS] Alliance pulverizing about 50 members of [EOS] alliance during an open world encounter late sunday night. The second and imo much more interesting battle this week saw about 150 (!) players (mostly Envy) beeing obliterated by Tea Party and Red Army. A K/D ratio of 5/142 for Envy. Oh boy. If you have a video link, please let me know. Battles #3, #4 and #5 see more Tea Party and Red Army domniation in the open world this week.

Top PvP Kills

Comment: Top#5 are all GvG kills again. Norzor got wrecked for 2.97m fame wearing 8.3 & 8.2 in a GvG against Envy. Jokeroyuncu bit the dust in a GvG against Mercenarios for 2.53m fame wearing 7.3 and 8.3. Pricy. Oh and also Hoba made it twice into the top#5. WP. heh

Top Kill Fame (Player)

Comment: Almost 6m and 2 players above 5m! THE ABYSS PvP team continuing to wreck face. GJ guys. Also their alliance changed because of [background info research here]. Aggressor hasnt been in the Top#10 before, but he scored various 7.2 GvG (#1, #2, #3) kills this week that catapulted him into the top spot.

Top Kill Fame (Guild)

Comment: Not a lot of change compared to last weeks top#10. The big guys continue to dominate the charts. Notably Nilfgaard is dropping out of the top#10 as they went ‘inactive’ two weeks ago. Red Army set an all-time record at 85.74m killfame this week!

GvG – Most Attacks / Defenses Won

Comment: Say My Name and Red Army in the top spots. Not a lot of obvious change. Will need to do some more research and report back with details!

Guild Compare

Comment: This is a potential segment we added for good measure this week. Sadly we can not filter this guild compare for ‘last week’ only which would give us all a much more detailed picture on guild developments. Its the top#10 guilds sorted by guild killfame last week. Interesting though, right?

Thats it for this week.

Have a nice day :)