Guild Wars 2

Sittingonacouch.com is proud to introduce our first ever EU Tournament update featuring some of the top EU Tournament players. Each month we will feature some exciting tournament stories, current in game metas, tips and tricks, and a special guest solo queue player. This week our hosts talk about leaderboards, team makeups, favorite maps, ma kitten ues that need to be fixed and some of their favorite tricks for tournament play. SOAC Gaming is proud to feature as our hosts Danto of Team Curse, Battosai of Team IDL, and the currently number 1 ranked EU player Denshee of Team IDL. Symbolic of Team Paradigm was unable to make this podcast, but we hope to catch him back in a few of our future ones.
Throughout this podcast, you get to know some of the best players in the tournament game today, and hear their take on what really matters in today’s game. They give feedback on some of the current meta’s. You get to hear them rage against the Spirit watch, explain why the Ranger is one of the most underrated classes in the game, and give a detailed perspective on each map. We also map out the direction we want to take into the future. Give us your feedback, and let them know that you want to hear more.

We are going to expand to two hours next month so send us your questions for the next podcast.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-tpvp-podcast-eu-tournament-update-april/

esports????

waka.9826:

esports????

I will ask them about it in May. We didn’t cover it in this month’s podcast because the Leaderboards aren’t even set, and there aren’t enough teams to legitimately say it can happen.

it would be more entertaining to listen if you add some kind of webcam chat or even replays or something, 1 hour of audio is rough.

just pointing that out, good job anyway.

Jony.6815:

it would be more entertaining to listen if you add some kind of webcam chat or even replays or something, 1 hour of audio is rough.

just pointing that out, good job anyway.

Thank you for the feedback. I will try to get some game play video from them for youtube. We do an audio only so players can listen to it while they play, and it gets it out the same day. Video takes me a few days to put together and upload.

danto so fame! <2

cocaftw.4279:

danto so fame! <2

Don’t get his head all big, we like him on the show :P>

Good show well done

Lordrosicky.5813:

Good show well done

Thanks I am hoping to get some gameplay of our hosts with the audio to put up on our youtube channel.

Symbolic has given me his word he will make it to the next podcast ;p

Great podcast. Enjoyed it

FLIMP.8172:

Great podcast. Enjoyed it

Thanks, we are looking at doing an NA one as well, but it’s really tough to get the NA guys locked down.

If anyone is interested in assisting us with an NA version of this please let me know.

More warrior talk next time. ~ Phd

Why don’t you upload podcast on soundcloud so people (or you) can add comments into the timeline, for example to say “hey, we are talking about Guardians here”?

Tiborb.1453:

Why don’t you upload podcast on soundcloud so people (or you) can add comments into the timeline, for example to say “hey, we are talking about Guardians here”?

Or put it on Youtube where the description of the video has time stamps or whatever they are called to skip to the beginning of the topic one is interested in.

Lady Sara Goldheart.2764:

Tiborb.1453:

Why don’t you upload podcast on soundcloud so people (or you) can add comments into the timeline, for example to say “hey, we are talking about Guardians here”?

Or put it on Youtube where the description of the video has time stamps or whatever they are called to skip to the beginning of the topic one is interested in.

I will try to answer both questions here.

I should get into doing timelines and transcripts especially for this type of a setup. We did not get into class specifics, because we wanted to keep it to an hour. Next month we will do something for a longer period of time where we will cover more class specifics, the Forest (we completely forgot to cover this one), and other tournament specifics. We plan on possibly going to two hours next month since we will have Symbolic and a special solo-queue guest.

We are working on getting it on youtube. I have never heard of soundcloud so forgive me for not having an answer on that one.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SOACGaming is our youtube channel.

I am working on getting gameplay of our hosts so we can add it to the podcast and then upload it on to youtube. I am not sure how to put in timestamps, but I will read up on it.

Bas.7406:

Lady Sara Goldheart.2764:

Tiborb.1453:

Why don’t you upload podcast on soundcloud so people (or you) can add comments into the timeline, for example to say “hey, we are talking about Guardians here”?

Or put it on Youtube where the description of the video has time stamps or whatever they are called to skip to the beginning of the topic one is interested in.

I will try to answer both questions here.

I should get into doing timelines and transcripts especially for this type of a setup. We did not get into class specifics, because we wanted to keep it to an hour. Next month we will do something for a longer period of time where we will cover more class specifics, the Forest (we completely forgot to cover this one), and other tournament specifics. We plan on possibly going to two hours next month since we will have Symbolic and a special solo-queue guest.

We are working on getting it on youtube. I have never heard of soundcloud so forgive me for not having an answer on that one.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SOACGaming is our youtube channel.

I am working on getting gameplay of our hosts so we can add it to the podcast and then upload it on to youtube. I am not sure how to put in timestamps, but I will read up on it.

This (ArenaNet have an account on soundcloud too) :

https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/guild-wars-2-voiceover

Tiborb.1453:

This (ArenaNet have an account on soundcloud too) :

https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/guild-wars-2-voiceover

I will take a look and see what I can do.

Pretty cool show, I prefer it to the state of the game to he honest since players are actually discussing the current game and tactics.

Plus it’s much more enjoyable to listen to as you guys seem to be genuinely having fun talking.

All in all I’d say: good for tactics/strategies insight, gameplay discussion and the atmosphere. I can’t emphasise it enough but 8 months after launch we lack so many relevant discussions on strategies that this show is a drop of water in the desert:p

Neat time management from the host as well and very nice to see him making sure everyone participates equally.

As for stuff to improve, we’ll it’s mostly my preferences here but I like talks where the host orientates the discussion but let the guests do the talking:p Also i wouldn’t mind less focus on “who’s the weakest class” who’s the strongest? As I think it’s all down to players skills and team tactics. Finally any topic about the community -teams players dramas- are more than welcome!

Finally 1 hour is good IMO, especially when it’s only sound:p split it in two episodes if you feel like having guests for 2 hours:p

As if the pvp community didn’t already know that Spirit Watch sucks, and that rangers have access to a very select few effective builds that lots of people can’t handle because the concept of paying attention to more than one thing at the same time from the same person makes their heads explode.

I’m sure the effort is honest, but I can’t help but think it’s misplaced; this game will never have really serious PvP.

Leuca.5732:

As if the pvp community didn’t already know that Spirit Watch sucks, and that rangers have access to a very select few effective builds that lots of people can’t handle because the concept of paying attention to more than one thing at the same time from the same person makes their heads explode.

I’m sure the effort is honest, but I can’t help but think it’s misplaced; this game will never have really serious PvP.

I am not sure what you feel serious pvp entails, but some of the highest rated pvp games like DoTA and LoL are simple strafe back and forth boring stuff.

As for Spirit Watch, you misunderstood their point. They loved the concept and idea, but the implementation, bugs, and key skills that are out of balance. The place itself we love and the idea that there are two things to do instead of just one.

Allie Murdock.8152:

Loved it! Thanks for sharing!

No problem! Glad you liked it! Now if I could just convince one of you to appear on a podcast haha ;P

Hugs.1856:

Pretty cool show, I prefer it to the state of the game to he honest since players are actually discussing the current game and tactics.

Plus it’s much more enjoyable to listen to as you guys seem to be genuinely having fun talking.

All in all I’d say: good for tactics/strategies insight, gameplay discussion and the atmosphere. I can’t emphasise it enough but 8 months after launch we lack so many relevant discussions on strategies that this show is a drop of water in the desert:p

Neat time management from the host as well and very nice to see him making sure everyone participates equally.

As for stuff to improve, we’ll it’s mostly my preferences here but I like talks where the host orientates the discussion but let the guests do the talking:p Also i wouldn’t mind less focus on “who’s the weakest class” who’s the strongest? As I think it’s all down to players skills and team tactics. Finally any topic about the community -teams players dramas- are more than welcome!

Finally 1 hour is good IMO, especially when it’s only sound:p split it in two episodes if you feel like having guests for 2 hours:p

The problem with only 1 hour is that we were missing Symbolic and we never made it to Forest in terms of Battleground discussions, we also want to incorporate what we will call the solo queue special where we bring in a solo queuer or player who we notice exhibits skill and is looking for a solid team.

I do think that less talking from me is a good idea :P. I don’t have nearly the wealth of knowledge our hosts have. I will do my best to serve as a moderator and question gatherer.

Next month we will probably focus more on class objectives in battleground and strategies against specific comps and teams. As well as other ideas that came up during the podcast. I will also get our hosts a list of the topics we want to focus on so there is less wandering by myself.

Bas.7406:

I am not sure what you feel serious pvp entails, but some of the highest rated pvp games like DoTA and LoL are simple strafe back and forth boring stuff.

As for Spirit Watch, you misunderstood their point. They loved the concept and idea, but the implementation, bugs, and key skills that are out of balance. The place itself we love and the idea that there are two things to do instead of just one.

I don’t think anybody who’s approaching spirit watch from a pvp perspective would be speaking about anything but how it was mechanically implemented.

2 hours is quite a long time to listen to a podcast in one go.

You can just record the 2 hours then split them in several releases so that content would keep coming throughout the month.

Hugs.1856:

2 hours is quite a long time to listen to a podcast in one go.

You can just record the 2 hours then split them in several releases so that content would keep coming throughout the month.

That’s a really good idea. What I may do is split it up into a specific strategy podcast and a more general update one? I am not sure, but I do agree with you that anything more than 1 hour seems long. I will see what I can do.

Dude what is with EU not using rangers more. They are so common in the Na meta.

daydream.2938:

Dude what is with EU not using rangers more. They are so common in the Na meta.

There are some rangers, even Battosai plays mainly a ranger.
But I think there are more engineers being played on EU than rangers.

Lady Sara Goldheart.2764:

daydream.2938:

Dude what is with EU not using rangers more. They are so common in the Na meta.

There are some rangers, even Battosai plays mainly a ranger.
But I think there are more engineers being played on EU than rangers.

engineers especially the HGH build is currently a hard counter to elementalists so it’ more prevalent in EU. Rangers in NA are all trap or BM rangers so its not quite everywhere. Rangers are difficult to really play well especially against highly mobile classes so there is a tendency to stray from them where more thieves and eles are present.

daydream.2938:

Dude what is with EU not using rangers more. They are so common in the Na meta.

i guess it’s mostly trap rangers, which get easily shutdown.

Battosai.5620:

daydream.2938:

Dude what is with EU not using rangers more. They are so common in the Na meta.

i guess it’s mostly trap rangers, which get easily shutdown.

You have the BM guys too, but they aren’t quite at the same level as Battosai :P

We have ostrich eggs on board for the NA update. Could use a few more players on the NA side?

Anyone interested in partaking in a North American version of this?

Nice job Bas, good luck with the next podcasts.

However the title is misleading, I came here thinking you were hosting a real tournament

Rerroll.9083:

Nice job Bas, good luck with the next podcasts.

However the title is misleading, I came here thinking you were hosting a real tournament

I wish I could :P. I will attempt to be more clear on the next episode :P.