SAGA - Several kills to count one?

[Bozao]

Could someone explain to me how the death count works in events?

I really feel frustrated when I look at the SAGA event and it asks you to kill 200 Dark Elves... Somehow, even though the population is smaller, it seems like you need to kill two to count as one.

I've had fights in RvR where I killed 4 WEs, I certainly dealt more than 50% damage to each, but the quest count only registers one.

Not only is the amount the event asks for absurd, but I also feel like the system needs to be refined.

Ty.

[Akalukz]

generally only way to do it is in warbands or scenarios. Running solo, will be hard to accomplish. Not sure the criteria for a kill anymore, seems to change time to time.

[wonshot]

I was wondering about the same earlier today. Both for Live events and general ToK stuff.
I kinda assume its when you, your party, or the warband. Does majority of the damage to a target it then counts as a kill?

Kills are tracked differently across Enemy addon which is just last-hits. Scoreboard deathblows seem to be different metrics than killboard.
This area could use both clarification and unified systems.

[gisborne]

This task is basically "Get 800 kills." It's way too much.

[nocturnalguest]

Well, only suffering what to say. Its Warhammer afterall.

The intention of RoR team is to make it so you will struggle big times to do that fashionhammer item on many chars, so whole point is to make it somewhat okay to make on 1 char but a chore beyond imagination if you want to grab it on many. IMO, even for 1 char grind is just too much...

Kill counts are very simple. Killer from killboard counts (depending on amount of assists, but iirc it starts from 25% in case target got butchered by zerg) for event task. Assists for pure DPS dont UNLESS (and its very important)! DPSs in your party considered as "Killer" then you can leech it (so thats how you grind it on tanks/healers, thanks all mighty gods you have no important usage of it beside some weird&fancy screenshots of dualweilding tanks). And literally thats why it takes so long. In-game scoreboards do consider assists as "kills" so thats why it differs so much (as overall number for party/sc/warband scoreboard, summ of personal kills of teammates will be your exact number). Renown gains from kills is much more generiously spread along participants and whole different story.

The one who decided to make 200 racial "kills" a task for 7 days event knows a lot about perversions lmao

[nocturnalguest]

Small update, above mentioned system is fair for oRvR kills only. SCs kills count with assists (got a clear prove) and in oRvR assists dont count (got a clear prove).

[warlover]

I finished SAGA with about 2 hours to go in the event, and i must say killing 200 high elves was almost impossible, keep in mind I'm a WE so hard to get into wb's
had to play about 12hrs a day and work my butt off, please don't bring saga back ever again with the same requirements, its not fair to anyone and even less fair to certain players

[Shogun4138]

It wasnt a fun event..

[nocturnalguest]

I finished SAGA with about 2 hours to go in the event, and i must say killing 200 high elves was almost impossible, keep in mind I'm a WE so hard to get into wb's
had to play about 12hrs a day and work my butt off, please don't bring saga back ever again with the same requirements, its not fair to anyone and even less fair to certain players

I did it on lowbie SW, ive spent around 3-4 hours daily (havent played this much for years) to make it happen, finish on friday evening. Ive had some help from friends (they share me fort tale, ive shared them on other toons too and form up sc/roam groups for me to farm kills), but mostly i was pugging while always looking for opportunity to join something organised. What i can conclude - its literally violence to create such event designs. Ive had absolutely no joy in doing it, it was most disgusting experience ive had in-game recently, ive had to abandon objectives, proper playstyle, general meta and by any cost SNIPE OUT DARK ELVES! It was obvious and clear that many others did the same. Im not even talking about compositions in SCs ive seen while doing all this, half of order were on SW.
While each racial were different, i personally havent had any issues only with dwarfs/greenskins, dunno about emp/chaos, probably wasnt so hard too. Especially greenskins, ive done 200 kills in a highly organised 6men doing warfront within 2 hours on one of the toons. HE/DE pairing was surely absurd.
According to killboad skirmishes (which is lacking info, its somehow missing at least 2 forts i know of), for whole this time there's been just 16 forts, mainly dominated by order, and only in 6 of them destro has had more kills.
I'd also note absolutely braindead tasks of farming 5 stages of ch3 PQ, what for?!

Its absolute insanity to create such unjoyful chore for a cosmetic item many classes are just even unable to use anyhow.

Worst event tasks on my memory. I had 0 issues grinding for ring events, there is at least useful application of those.

[Sadsong]

I didn't even try. Requirements are too high and the rewards doesn't worth the hard work.