Guild Wars 2

zastari.1730:

We can mobilize, break, and regroup our stacks quickly on Mag now. We’re getting really good at moving them around in live environments and countering people back when they try to break us up. If you’ve been trying to find a new server, read this thread and realize that Maguuma is the place to be

Also, when we lose, we fight back instead of whining on the forums like the servers we fight!

fellyn.5083:

Interesting you say that because it happened at least 3 times to me earlier tonight in back to back fights. They were sporting the lovely [GOON] tag.

But yeah..never happens. I just imagined a guardian disappearing into thin air when his health was about to drop to 0. I wasn’t aware that Anet gave guardians stealth in the patch the other day. My bad.

OT whining in a Maguuma tactics thread? Our opponents get this demoralized even when they’re winning!

Demoralizing? You guys are the ones posting in threads about how you 6v1 us and all that other nonsense about being so dramatically outnumbered all the time and then proceed to alt-f4 when you get beat in a 1v1 fight. If you want to call that demoralizing then go right on ahead and do so. Personally I have another word for what I would call that.

Those first three posters need to learn reading comprehension. And not be donkey-reared jerks when replying.

The poster was asking a question. Answer it.

No one informed the poster, so the discussion is going off-topic. AoE only affects a cap of 5 players I believe. But per tick, so a different 5 can be affected next tick.

If there really were that many bunched up, it probably was a bot. The bot simply targets 1 player at a time, and causes instant death. No clue why people bot the game, but they do.

Otherwise, if they were actual players that were bunched that tight, they were being quite stupid. A ballista out of their range would kill them.

No way to know now. I’d just ignore it. But if they were moving in and out of the area, they were just using the tactic to stay healed because they realized the enemy wasn’t catching on.

We use simple tactics often because people don’t catch on, and we’re ready to do the real work if they do.

Hey Hsinimod, you should get some reading comprehension. It wasn’t bots, it was a group from 2 guilds as people already said in the thread. Also, I answered his question in the first response — It’s not an exploit, it’s a tactic to take advantage of how AoE mechanics work, and yes you are correct that the AoE cap is 5 per tick. Targets are calculated based off of proximity to the center of the attack each tick.

Good call on dropping a ballista; you already thought this one through a lot more than OP did! Thanks for calling me a donkey-reared jerk too~

People still complain about the unimpressive goon? (they were really only kinda impressive in EvE)

Use siege on them….at least till they up or remove the AoE (I hope they do that)

fellyn.5083:

saiyr.3071:

fellyn.5083:

Besetment.9187:

Scorpio Shirica.1286:

I wish MAG would stop losing, I enjoyed fighting them a lot as Tarnished Coast. They are a great bunch of gamers… most didn’t even complain about losing, almost zero q.q posts if any. Either that… or I hope GOON and SFD transfer to a server with more population so we can have our epic brawls.

Yeah I miss fighting Tarnished Coast. My dream bracket right now would be Toast vs Mag vs Fort Aspergewood but we need to maintain our pop and keep building our new guilds and pubbies up first.

I’m not aware of any plans for GOON or SFD to transfer server. Constantly fighting uphill battles makes us better players I guess and you figure once you lose enough, its not the end of the world. Good times.

I’m curious about the tactic where you guys log off and/or alt-f4 when you lose an even fight. Does that make you a better player or just a coward? That’s the part I’m getting stuck on.

That never happens because Darkhaven doesn’t stick around for even fights.

Interesting you say that because it happened at least 3 times to me earlier tonight in back to back fights. They were sporting the lovely [GOON] tag.

But yeah..never happens. I just imagined a guardian disappearing into thin air when his health was about to drop to 0. I wasn’t aware that Anet gave guardians stealth in the patch the other day. My bad.

I was obviously exaggerating in the same way that you consider that an organized tactic. At least, I hope you were exaggerating, considering you made that reply to a pretty unrelated post to be a jerk out of nowhere.

saiyr.3071:

fellyn.5083:

saiyr.3071:

fellyn.5083:

Besetment.9187:

Scorpio Shirica.1286:

I wish MAG would stop losing, I enjoyed fighting them a lot as Tarnished Coast. They are a great bunch of gamers… most didn’t even complain about losing, almost zero q.q posts if any. Either that… or I hope GOON and SFD transfer to a server with more population so we can have our epic brawls.

Yeah I miss fighting Tarnished Coast. My dream bracket right now would be Toast vs Mag vs Fort Aspergewood but we need to maintain our pop and keep building our new guilds and pubbies up first.

I’m not aware of any plans for GOON or SFD to transfer server. Constantly fighting uphill battles makes us better players I guess and you figure once you lose enough, its not the end of the world. Good times.

I’m curious about the tactic where you guys log off and/or alt-f4 when you lose an even fight. Does that make you a better player or just a coward? That’s the part I’m getting stuck on.

That never happens because Darkhaven doesn’t stick around for even fights.

Interesting you say that because it happened at least 3 times to me earlier tonight in back to back fights. They were sporting the lovely [GOON] tag.

But yeah..never happens. I just imagined a guardian disappearing into thin air when his health was about to drop to 0. I wasn’t aware that Anet gave guardians stealth in the patch the other day. My bad.

I was obviously exaggerating in the same way that you consider that an organized tactic. At least, I hope you were exaggerating, considering you made that reply to a pretty unrelated post to be a jerk out of nowhere.

Call me frustrated when the first 3 maguuma people I fight in NSP borderlands last night all with the goon tag disappear before my eyes and none of them were thieves.

Perhaps it didn’t need to be brought into this thread but you guys keep going on and on about being superior and outnumbered so when this happens… I was a little angry.

This is also the first time I’ve ever encountered it in any of our match ups.

Remove 5 cap on offensive AoE, imo.

/flamesuit

Anyways, ya could have built pults and trebs then carpet bombed them. I am fairly certain they would probably move if that happened. Throw sum cow bombs in there then rush when they are confused.