Guild Wars 2

To that group of 10-15 SoR guys at the top of the arena in the Eternal Battlegrounds jumping puzzle at about 6:30-7:00PM(EST) last night (10/1/12), I want to introduce myself as the sylvari mesmer from SF that came up behind you along with the sylvari guardian. The two of us completely wiped you out in what was the most exhilarating experience I’ve had in GW2 so far.

Using the mesmer focus skill 4, I started right away by pulling four of you off the outer edge to your deaths. By the time the rest of your group ran around and got to us, the cooldown was up and I pulled a few more of you off as you charged me. We backed down the stairs a little bit and some of you were hanging out on the ledge above us. I pulled a couple more of you down to our level, one at a time, and we picked you off one by one while the rest of your group fired at us from the ledge. By the time we came back up the stairs there were just two of you left to mop up. So we did, and then we resurrected three of our guys that you killed just before we got there. The rest of the way up to the chest I had the adrenaline shakes and kept falling off. I still can’t believe it happened. Thanks for the good time guys!

See, it is exactly for THIS reason that ArenaNet should make no move to change where and how the jumping puzzles work in WvW. Some of the most fun (and most frustration too, truth be told) I’ve had in WvW has been in small 1-4 man skirmishes in the jumping puzzles. Sure, most of the time you get a 4v1 or worse, and ya, siege inside can suck, but you as often as not get some good action in there. I can understand the folks who would like to move the puzzles to a seperate WvW server so folks who are doing them aren’t part of the queue though.

SO you killed a bunch of PVErs in a PVP zone, good on ya.

This is why I love WvW puzzles as they are. A warrior guildie and I (Thief) love those skirmishes that pop up. The groups that camp up on the trap chains in EB are my favourite. They get all kitteny and stand at the edge, taunting me, and suddenly, Scorpion Wire.

Celestian.2689:

SO you killed a bunch of PVErs in a PVP zone, good on ya.

Except no, they appeared to be camping the top, and obviously had just killed three from my server. Thanks for playing.

Come back when they have arrow carts set up in the right places and it’ll be a different story.

Azure Prower.8701:

Come back when they have arrow carts set up in the right places and it’ll be a different story.

Yes, I love skirmishes in the puzzle, but it’d be nice to see siege camping go away.