Guild Wars 2

We’ve been having lots of fun roaming round in groups of 5-10 since launch, and I’ve been recording. PoV is, naturally, a Mesmer (or did you guess from the oh-so-original title?). Video contains a few nice fights against larger numbers, but mostly exists because making videos is fun. Hope people enjoy watching, either way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_JFTvHIMI

Added – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mesmer-Videos-Post-your-Video/first#post542892

I am still trying to figure out that tunnel scene. Massive amounts of combos used by a skilled and coordinated party versus typical, easily baited and frightened zerg… is that the jest of it? Either way, I am still in awe of that part of the video. Well done.

Also, it is nice to see Portal get so much love. That skill is immovable from my skill bar (outside dungeons).

Thanks, I think we all really enjoyed that fight.

I wouldn’t say use of combos won it for us, though (we’re actually pretty poor at using them) – I’d put more focus on the coordination, and more precisely the positioning. The problem with fighting a zerg of that size isn’t killing them – we have more than enough damage to do that – the problem is us getting downed. If we pushed into them straight at the start of that clip, all their players can target us, and we’d die before we got chance to use an ability. By funnelling them at the tunnel exit, we allowed ourselves to fight only a few at a time, and when we’d downed enough to be confident we could push in without getting instantly melted, we went for it. Several of us (including me, soon after the cut) still got downed (and rallied, and downed, etc etc) a few times but we made it through and got the lewt. There’s quite a bit more to that fight actually, but it’s not as interesting – a lot of time is spent making several pushes to resurrect our defeated ele, which doesn’t make for such interesting footage in my opinon. Maybe I’ll upload the whole clip sometime just for completeness, though.

And yes, obviously the fact it was a totally uncoordinated zerg helped a lot. Any decent group wouldn’t let us funnel them like that, they’d not follow us into such a silly place, but that’s the beauty of fighting zergs. There’s tonnes of them, and exactly like you say, you can bait them where you want until you find favourable ground. So long as you can stay alive long enough to get them there, of course…

As for Portal, I love it. So many tricks you can use it for that people just aren’t expecting – it’s so much more than a tool for portal bombing and keep ninjas, but I’m more than happy if people keep thinking of it like that! :P