Guild Wars 2

Let’s exchange stories about some of the crazy things you got yourself into and somehow managed to get out of! I know everyone out there has waded into a zerg once and slipped out alive some way, or taken a tower right from underneath the enemy’s nose. Things like such. Brag yourself up and let everyone know what you’ve been up to.

Feel free to chat up your class as well. I’m sure there are plenty of people wanting to know more about the other classes and what crazy things they can do.

I play an 80 Thief that runs 0/30/30/10 in full Zerker’s with Shadowstep, Blinding Powder and Shadow Refuge as the utility skills. It offers extended stealth time and plenty of escape power, which I absolutely love. High mobility is my thing and I feel like the Thief is the supreme class when it comes to such. I don’t know how many times I’ve gone into numbers that should kill me, pick off one or two of their buddies and then high tail across the map with them chasing me half the way.

When I hide in enemy towers to portal people in, I don’t usually hide.
I stand right out in the open until someone sees me than I drop a portal, jump out of the tower and wait a few seconds to portal back in again while they’re chasing me outside.

It sounds silly,
But it’s rather satisfying, and for some reason it always seems to work. People get confused and just stop looking for me.

I play a Ranger and I love doing the Self Rez from downed with the Nature Elite,

When they finally down you and you time it right and pop back p at 50% Health with some Endo and a fresh HoT and it’s Go Time! All over again =)

I have a couple of instances recorded in my new Vid, it’s a hoot!

“Guard” stealthed my wolf on enemy BLJP rock as invader followed, wolf knock down into [Terrifying Howl] to fear him off the edge, allowing me easy access to the upper half of the key.

As a necro this will never happen

Zelthios.5902:

As a necro this will never happen

Is it really that bad for a necro? I tried the class at release and couldn’t stand it.

Mistmoore.3728:

Zelthios.5902:

As a necro this will never happen

Is it really that bad for a necro? I tried the class at release and couldn’t stand it.

We’re slow and our stun breaks are on long cooldowns so there is literally no way for us to get away from an enemy zerg or anyone unless you find friends

Zelthios.5902:

Mistmoore.3728:

Zelthios.5902:

As a necro this will never happen

Is it really that bad for a necro? I tried the class at release and couldn’t stand it.

We’re slow and our stun breaks are on long cooldowns so there is literally no way for us to get away from an enemy zerg or anyone unless you find friends

Good necro can control zergs with well placed wells
And plague + other AoE are great too, did i mention epidemic with 12s CD?

Being a guard and knocking people off cliffs never gets old. Have both hammer and shield, plus you have plenty of ways for stability so you don’t have to worry about getting knocked off. And when you do go down position yourself to knock off even more people with Wave of Light.

How about no Mistmoore you RP’er :P

As an engineer, Magnet pulling people out of enemy zergs or off walls and punting them deep into our zerg with Overcharged Shot and PBR never gets old.

Sovta.4719:

Zelthios.5902:

Mistmoore.3728:

Zelthios.5902:

As a necro this will never happen

Is it really that bad for a necro? I tried the class at release and couldn’t stand it.

We’re slow and our stun breaks are on long cooldowns so there is literally no way for us to get away from an enemy zerg or anyone unless you find friends

Good necro can control zergs with well placed wells
And plague + other AoE are great too, did i mention epidemic with 12s CD?

Do let me know when any of that makes a difference when you’re alone

Sovta.4719:

Zelthios.5902:

Mistmoore.3728:

Zelthios.5902:

As a necro this will never happen

Is it really that bad for a necro? I tried the class at release and couldn’t stand it.

We’re slow and our stun breaks are on long cooldowns so there is literally no way for us to get away from an enemy zerg or anyone unless you find friends

Good necro can control zergs with well placed wells
And plague + other AoE are great too, did i mention epidemic with 12s CD?

Maybe in t3 and lower, in t2 and above, unless you’re running small groups, wells are nothing. I sit in wells all day.

This one time solo roaming on my necro I seen 5 people running at me, so I used the best and only leave the area fast option for a necro. I ported away before I was put into combat.

Necros tend to be the ones people get away from, I cant count how many times I get a 1 v 1 or even a 2 v 1 that im winning and the mother kittening zero risk classes run away with ease. (this is not an invitation for advice from some wvw/pver, quality foes get away if they want to from a necro)

I think my favorite thing recently was playing on my necro, and somehow chasing down and stomping a D/D ele who had tried to run away. This is pre 4/30 patch and to this day I have No Idea how it happened, but I bet that ele sure felt embarassed.

EnRohbi.2187:

When I hide in enemy towers to portal people in, I don’t usually hide.
I stand right out in the open until someone sees me than I drop a portal, jump out of the tower and wait a few seconds to portal back in again while they’re chasing me outside.

It sounds silly,
But it’s rather satisfying, and for some reason it always seems to work. People get confused and just stop looking for me.

Seen mesmers actually do that trick before :P I’d mostly just start piling traps or invite friends for a tea break around the nice shiny purple shrine.

Apart from the obvious fearing people off cliffs and the death shroud jumping as people follow you to their deaths….

Was in GoM garrison last night defending it against NSP and a bunch of NSP were above the lord room, see attachment for the location. I jumped up and mark/well bombed/DS #4 them until about 5 people were downed only took about 6 seconds.

Death from above.

Warriors will understand.

Gwalchgwn.1659:

EnRohbi.2187:

When I hide in enemy towers to portal people in, I don’t usually hide.
I stand right out in the open until someone sees me than I drop a portal, jump out of the tower and wait a few seconds to portal back in again while they’re chasing me outside.

It sounds silly,
But it’s rather satisfying, and for some reason it always seems to work. People get confused and just stop looking for me.

Seen mesmers actually do that trick before :P I’d mostly just start piling traps or invite friends for a tea break around the nice shiny purple shrine.

Well,
At first I’d just sit in the tower and end up killing people who found me. But that was boring so I got more kitteny

For some reason,
That I cannot figure out for the life of me,
No one has ever actually called in reinforcements to get me out of a tower.

They just leave me there about my business

class shenanigans?
okay, in the final matchup between GoM and BP, they were attacking cliffside(BP). it was me and 2 others in the tower defending it, and i remembered that i was a mesmer with a focus. i also noticed 6 enemies relaxing by the cliff…dropped my temporal curtain behind them and..poof! six kills at once.

My favourite one recently that had me giggling for ages:

Durios had been trebbed for ages from umber, walls had been down for ages, finally our 1 ac and 2 ballista were destroyed. The nme rush in and up the stairs and bunch up to get ready to spam might finishers and rush into our lord room to flatten the few remaining defenders.

Seeing the incoming stack about to get prepared, I popped stability then my ele tornado and ran through them. All I could see was people flying off the wall some out of the tower, some into the tower, some staying put.

Having broken them up the rest of our defenders rushed the stack at the top of the stairs and walloped them, then they got the ones in the center of the tower and the guys running back in from outside got royally punted back to spawn.

Somehow I survived it, 5%hp or so left after my kamikaze “charge!!!!”

Zelthios.5902:

Sovta.4719:

Zelthios.5902:

Mistmoore.3728:

Zelthios.5902:

As a necro this will never happen

Is it really that bad for a necro? I tried the class at release and couldn’t stand it.

We’re slow and our stun breaks are on long cooldowns so there is literally no way for us to get away from an enemy zerg or anyone unless you find friends

Good necro can control zergs with well placed wells
And plague + other AoE are great too, did i mention epidemic with 12s CD?

Do let me know when any of that makes a difference when you’re alone

Do let me know when being alone makes difference in WvW.

Asura Mesmer here, so you prolly already see where this one is headed. I was defending our BL Garrison which was being attacked from multiple pts. Finally someone yelled out that the NE gate was down and get to inner, so I hopped down from my perch and started running. Somehow I got turned around and rather than running to the inner gate, I ran smack into the attacking zerg. Nothing but a giant red blob. I figured my only chance was to keep going into them since they won’t be expecting a lone crazed Asuran to attack them, so I popped decoy, blinked further into them, then veiled and made it through the smashed gate that they just all came from. I didn’t have a scratch. I made it around to our water gate and got in to aid in the mad last stand, which was epic, the whole time laughing like a lunatic that my crazy save worked. We finally got wiped since they had 4-5x our numbers, but I’m sure there was more than one of them scratching their heads wondering WTH happened as they came through that outer gate. LOL.

The most hilarious thing I’ve done was on my engineer. I pulled an invader from the last set of stairs before the chest in the EB JP – I started the pull while on the ground and at the last second, jumped backwards over the edge. The yank caused the poor guy to fall from the very top all the way past my edge to his death while I managed to land on the same ledge I jumped from. I felt sort of bad afterwards simply because he was upleveled and an engineer to boot.