Hello there!
I see a lot of posts on these forums asking about the place of the Staff Ele in zerg play in WvW, and a few nights ago my guild had a rather enjoyable night of constant zerg-busting on the Yak’s Bend Borderlands.
Props to Yak’s Bend for defending their structures so well. We couldn’t take anything!
Because our server, Stormbluff Isle, had lost the match early into the week, and because various acts of sabotage were ruining the whole take-keeps-and-defend-aspect of WvW (I had 5 of my Omega Golems destroyed by a troll spy from YB), we decided to forego trying to take stuff or defend stuff and just goof around picking fights in the open field.
I make a ton of mistakes in this video. I was tired and not quite in the right state of mind at the time – originally we were going to just havoc when we suddenly got a few more people and decided to switch to zerg busting instead. You can even see it in the video that I forgot to change my Air Trait – Zephyr’s Boon – to something more useful like Bolt to the Heart, since I was playing D/D Ele right before.
Still, we had a lot of casual fun beating up on bigger numbers, which is where I get the biggest satisfaction when playing WvW. And the footage was pretty OK as well, so I thought to share it with the community.
Keep in mind that zerg busting only works because the enemy players are not used to, or specced properly for WvW. It’s pretty apparent here in this video that we were mainly picking on PvE heroes. YB’s main WvW guilds such as One and Side Effect weren’t around as much (though we spot a few of them at times), so this is really more of us fighting their PUGs rather than their server’s best. Still, again, props to YB for seiging up so well, and don’t mind the trash talk – it’s typical for server banter. I actually think that while the actual structure-taking of WvW was kind of lame this week (seriously upset about having so much of my stuff destroyed by trolls who transferred over to my server), the fact that YB beat us so handily and never lost morale in the open field and let us fight with them was excellent. So the actual fighting was pretty fun! (Though the game mode, spoiled.)
Here is my video. It’s my stream’s raw footage from Nov 26. It shows some pretty nice coordination by our raid, as well as the unique things that Staff Eles bring to the table (large water fields, CC with no target limit, high Ranged AoE burst damage), and I even left the comms in so you can hear how our raid communicates with each other. Overall, while I do make a lot of mistakes (I blame it to 4 weeks of faceroll due to the leagues – my positioning is terrible and had I been fighting against better players I’d have died much more frequently), I think there’s a lot to be learned from them, and you can see some great examples of team work in the video. Also, I leave my own eventual deaths in the video, so you can see what I did wrong, along with what I did right.
Also, skip to 4:20 in the video, as not much happens before then. A big ol’ fight starts at 12:20.
(edited by Neko.9021)