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(edited by Ross Biddle.2367)
Phew. I thought you were showing me playing on my mesmer — in those matches where I kept stepping away from the computer. This makes it almost seem like I know what I’m doing in pvp.
It’s weird watching a toon of mine play. But fun watching you. You have gotten way more aggressive with Staff/Sword-Focus and that’s probably not what people expect from a mesmer without a GS. And it’s obviously working.
Really nice portal plays (but you should have recorded the match in Forest! We barely won that one from you stealing far with portal and me sniping creatures!) I think we kept doing the right thing at quarry. Even if I died, I was holding the point in contention for as long as possible. I went down the first time trying to head to you when you were in trouble. For a 2v2 that became a 2v3 with a turret engi, we didn’t do bad.
You can also see some things that people do wrong, like when the enemy mesmer walked back into your iWarden at the Quarry. Or just when I sometimes display my “map unawareness.” But who know LB Survival of the Fittest + Lockdown was such a good/fun team!
@Ross: Which fights? In the beginning, I don’t think the mesmer was a real threat — especially considering he was on point and using GS, so Chaos would interrupt him even if he didn’t mean to (probably). Since the enemy team was just letting a LB ranger nuke from up top, it probably didn’t matter who we killed first there, I’d just rather not risk the Lich. Another strategy could have been to just down the mesmer and not worry about the stomp. For CS interrupts, maybe necro wouldn’t be priority, since the stun comes from dazing and not interrupting. But with CI, Necros have such long casts and no stun breaks, like Chaos said in the video, that it’d be dumb not to focus them. Resources, however, will be burned in a 3v1
@Ross: Which fights? In the beginning, I don’t think the mesmer was a real threat — especially considering he was on point and using GS, so Chaos would interrupt him even if he didn’t mean to (probably). Since the enemy team was just letting a LB ranger nuke from up top, it probably didn’t matter who we killed first there, I’d just rather not risk the Lich. Another strategy could have been to just down the mesmer and not worry about the stomp. For CS interrupts, maybe necro wouldn’t be priority, since the stun comes from dazing and not interrupting. But with CI, Necros have such long casts and no stun breaks, like Chaos said in the video, that it’d be dumb not to focus them. Resources, however, will be burned in a 3v1
I don’t remember what fight specifically, I don’t want to go back through watching :p But maybe CI/CS thing is the key note. I’ve been playing CS Phantrupt solidly of late and the difference is in that detail. I couldn’t see what the issue was. In the 6, 6, 2 setup I’m also packing a ton of single target damage so a necro can be dealt with on my own much faster.
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You seem a little rusty from last time. Good thing I haven’t seen you on in a while or I would whip you into shape
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As for the vids, some really nice plays with portals and just CI in general. That 4 man pull into chaos storm was perfect and pretty much blew the entire team up. However, you pretty much tunnel visioned the necro while the gs Mesmer was just free casting on you lol. Most gs mesmers (You wish I was) are free kills as CI, but you already know that so I wont lecture you lol. Nice vids.
Alright then, lecture away!
In the first vid (ci mes loves gs mesmers and necros) at around 1:30 you engaged the quite tanky necro instead of the zerker lb ranger which would have died much faster then the necro. If the necro liched then I would have swapped target to him. Also no energy sigil on staff?
You did this again at around 3:00 except this time the ranger was at 25% hp casting barrage. That literally says free kill for us CI mesmers lol.
At the 4:30 part where the friendly thief was getting stomped I would have curtained and then chaos stormed to guarantee the interrupt. You should have also left the fight when the necro lich formed. You would have still been alive. At the final fight of this vid you continued to train the soldiers necro while the shatter mes got you to 33 hp. Didn’t focus the mes enough basically.
In the second vid, that start was really bad lol, as you said. Don’t need to comment any further. At around 1:10 you wombo combed the enemy team with that perfect pull into chaos storm. Very nice.
From winning the mid fight you went to far to 1v1 a turret engi. I would not go far at all in this game because if the turret engi afks at far its a 4v5 for the rest of the team which means its a very easy win. Basically this video was just never go 1v1 a turret engi, its just a waste of time. The Mesmer was also soldiers so he was really no threat.