The current King/Queen will have a post listing their build in this thread. This build cannot be changed until defeating someone, upon which they may pick 2 points from the below list to alter:
- change 2 sigil’s worth of weapons
- reallocate 2 trait points
- change 2 major traits
- change 2 utilities
- change 1 pet
Each victory will allow the above choice again. You are not required to change your build.
Anyone may participate at any time by finding the most recent post labeled either NA King (or Queen) of the Hill or EU King (or Queen) of the Hill and challenging that player to Mortal Kombat 1 vs 1 combat.
The duels are the best 2 out of 3, and there are no immediate rematches.
Each round is only over when one player is defeated, not downed. Self-rezzing is acceptable if you can pull it off, including via Spirit of Nature.
There are no build limits. Nothing is cheesey or bad manners. Use any build or equipment allowed by game in sPvP. However you must (hopefully obviously) be using a ranger, and you must use the same build for all 3 duels.
Duels will take place as soon as you contact the current King/Queen in game and they agree you have called next in line and now is a good time.
Challenges are accepted in this thread first, in-game second. So if someone challenges you for tomorrow in this thread, and someone challenges you in-game today, you can’t accept the in-game challenge yet. If the challenge in this thread is an unreasonable amount of time (example, 4 days) you may reject it for in-game challenges first.
Duels will take place in sPvP on either 1) public duel servers or 2) a custom arena if one of the contestants has access. The exact location is up to the contestants, but it is recommended to be a large open area where Line-of-Sight can’t be used extremely extensively. Some good examples would be in front of the bases on Legacy of the Foefire or on the beach between bases on Forest of Niflhel. An example of a bad location is the Henge on Forest of Niflhel. (Be sure both participants are clear about potential “out of bounds”.)
Rounds will start after both opponents bow.
Upon the results of the duel, the winner will make a new King/Queen post marking the score and result of the duel as a win OR the new King/Queen will make a post marking themselves as the new King/Queen and posting their build. The thread will self govern in this manner. Follow the established format of bolding the title and adding some dots above and below the text, so it is easier to find among the other posts.
If you hold the hill for 8 opponents, after the eight opponent and every opponent after, you must select one of the following to handicap yourself with.
- No Armor
- No Sigils
- One Weaponset
- Subtract 2 Trait points – this can be chosen multiple times
- Subtract 1 Utility – this can be chosen multiple times
- No Elite
This is a for fun, on-going challenge for any rangers. Weird or experimental builds are welcome, and the idea is not necessarily to hog the hill for the rest of GW2s life.
What do you mean with no immediate rematches? Why?
And is the challenger allowed to change build between the 2 (or 3) fights?
No one said anything about it in the other thread and it seemed sort of logical that you couldn’t immediately reclaim your throne just by changing your build. But if immediate rematches are a popular idea I’m open to changing it. I think both parties should stick with their build through the challenge just so we don’t have a constant tweaking and counterplay on the fly.
I think that’s partly why having no immediate rematches is a good idea. It prevents 2 people just continually challenging eachother in counter builds.
If someone challenges someone then the loser should not be allowed to re-challenge until a 3rd person (or maybe even 2 other people) has made a challenged (regardless of outcome), or if noone else makes a challenge then they need to wait till the next day.
This, hopefully, encourages people to build more rounded builds which have no massive weaknesses because if they do so they will easily be defeated and not be able to quickly regain their title, thus making it better to aim for staying in the top spot rather than aiming to just get there 6 times a day.
Cufufalating – Ranger / Part-Time Mesmer
Gunnar’s Hold
Ok Solrik. If noone challanges you until Friday evening I will. And being the perfect gentleman I am I’ll let you choose from the below 3 /sparkles, fireworks, flashes/ AMAZING celestial builds:
1) Fire trap, spirits unbound and nature’s vengance for just that storm spirit, Signet of the Hunt, sigil of smoldering and runes of the elementalist. And… dun-dun-duuuuuun THE EAGLE OF YOUR NIGHTMARES…. mares…. res… 2) Predator’s intinct, Pretadtor’s onslaught, Intimidating training and sic’em. Be affraid, be very affraid if you choose this one, your barkskin will be nothing but toothpick to my eagle. Yeah. Exactly. 3) Or my personal favourite /drum roll/. Soldier runes, heal as one, reef drake, honed axes, 3 shouts, no RaO /whispering/ and no.friggin’.grandmaster trait. /tsissss…./
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/drops the mike and walks away nodding with a mean stare/
2) Predator’s intinct, Pretadtor’s onslaught, Intimidating training and sic’em. Be affraid, be very affraid if you choose this one, your barkskin will be nothing but toothpick to my eagle. Yeah. Exactly.
A random number generator gave me 1724, limited between 1 and 3000.
Second build it is Your link is broken. No it isn’t…
Sure about friday? I can tomorrow, friday and the weekend.
Another guy, warriorjrcd or something (sorry), challenged me but haven’t wrote it here so I guess it’s unofficial.
You’re first in list!
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I don’t use bark skin for last pushes. He-he
2) Predator’s intinct, Pretadtor’s onslaught, Intimidating training and sic’em. Be affraid, be very affraid if you choose this one, your barkskin will be nothing but toothpick to my eagle. Yeah. Exactly.
A random number generator gave me 1724, limited between 1 and 3000.
Second build it is Your link is broken. No it isn’t…
Sure about friday? I can tomorrow, friday and the weekend.
Another guy, warriorjrcd or something (sorry), challenged me but haven’t wrote it here so I guess it’s unofficial.
You’re first in list!
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I don’t use bark skin for last pushes. He-he
Edit: That’s a hawk btw.
I’m not sure about my Saturday evening, so I’d say Thursday or Friday. But I need some heads up on how to get to the duel itself, cause I mostly wvw.
I think that’s partly why having no immediate rematches is a good idea. It prevents 2 people just continually challenging eachother in counter builds.
If someone challenges someone then the loser should not be allowed to re-challenge until a 3rd person (or maybe even 2 other people) has made a challenged (regardless of outcome), or if noone else makes a challenge then they need to wait till the next day.
This, hopefully, encourages people to build more rounded builds which have no massive weaknesses because if they do so they will easily be defeated and not be able to quickly regain their title, thus making it better to aim for staying in the top spot rather than aiming to just get there 6 times a day.
I agree with this. But I think it should only be after one other person has dueled the King or 3 days have passed?
hehehe. Im SO in! IM not sure if there is A line-up going on or what But If I see a champ on I Am so Whispering. Im not giving choice of build. I only use 1 that works very well imho.
I was thinking about the whole hogging the hill thing. Maybe if we impose a handicap after every few wins.
Such as after every x (2?) times you keep the hill you lose a sigil or a trait point. (after 2 win can only fight with 13 trait point instead of 14, etc) and after y (10?) times you keep the hill you lose a weapon set, pet or utility slot.
I not sure how well i can participate in this as i play in OC time zone.
I was thinking about the whole hogging the hill thing. Maybe if we impose a handicap after every few wins.
Such as after every x (2?) times you keep the hill you lose a sigil or a trait point. (after 2 win can only fight with 13 trait point instead of 14, etc) and after y (10?) times you keep the hill you lose a weapon set, pet or utility slot.
I not sure how well i can participate in this as i play in OC time zone.
I agree with the handicap rules, but it should be after 5+ fights…here’s why, The King has to post his winning build, therefore, his opponent can make a counter to it. A direct counter should be enough to take him out. But I agree after so many fights, some kind of handicap should be imposed.
@Fluffball, has anyone challenged you yet? I tried to PM you last night but you were offline.
Nope, you’re the challenger.
Edit: Ok we need a group decision here. Belaron challenged me in game, before ItIsFinished could get on. My thought was it doesn’t really matter was king, and I beat him so nothing has changed. However, do people think we should have a line? For example if I had lost, and ItIsFinished had a build he specifically thought would beat my king build is that unfair?
First challenger defeated: nagymbear.5280
First fight was quick.
Second fight I almost kitten my pants. Was late with the stomp and nagymbear rallied. I have short CD’s so that saved my butt. Match ended 2-0. Nice to see another charr ranger! No change to build
That’s awesome he rallied! Love the ranger downstate. By the way are we making new throne posts like this? I just updated my original. Your way might be easier to follow.
I think challenges in this thread should be first priority and challenges in game should be second. Mainly because anyone can check here and guess around when the duel will be.
I think challenges in this thread should be first priority and challenges in game should be second. Mainly because anyone can check here and guess around when the duel will be.
Makes sense, I’ll update the original post.
I added:
Challenges are accepted in this thread first, in-game second. So if someone challenges you for tomorrow in this thread, and someone challenges you in-game today, you can’t accept the in-game challenge yet. If the challenge in this thread is an unreasonable amount of time (example, 4 days) you may reject it for in-game challenges first.
That’s awesome he rallied! Love the ranger downstate. By the way are we making new throne posts like this? I just updated my original. Your way might be easier to follow.
Well I was thinking “Why not?” because when someone else is the king I don’t want to update my post for him/her.
Edit: We need a way of making the “EU KING” text easily distinguishable from the others while scrolling through the thread so people don’t look at each post to find it
Edit2: 10 dots above and 10 below seems to do the trick!
Edit3: Regarding map choice, we went to Foefire and fought inside one of the bases. I asked prior to the duel if he was picky with LoS but no, so we just found a flat open space. I think both parties should meet in the middle because that’s the most fair thing to do.
Was fun indeed, since none of us had any stability that clutch wolf in downed state. Hehe I didn’t play the build to its best, and storm spirit was a bad decision to include since solrik used axe. But I didn’t want to make a counter build, so I have only myself to blame. Those chill pets though… I’m curious who will defea solrik, its a pretty solid build.
Oh jeez, I just noticed Belarorn challenged me in this thread, so the whole discussion of in-game vs thread challenges was based on a mistake anyway! I’m an idiot.
1) Fluffball vs Belarorn.9062 Sept. 25, 2-0
2) Fluffball vs Eggyokeo.9705 Sept. 26, 2-0
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I broke the rules here just to get another challenger in since I’m not sure how much I’ll be on this weekend. I think we should have challengers in this thread state whether they care if in-game challengers preceed them or if they specifically want to fight the stated King/Queen. Also mad props to Eggyokeo for an awesome and lengthy for-fun third fight where we self rezzed ourselves like 3 times each.
1) Fluffball vs Belarorn.9062 Sept. 25, 2-0
2) Fluffball vs Eggyokeo.9705 Sept. 26, 2-0
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I broke the rules here just to get another challenger in since I’m not sure how much I’ll be on this weekend. I think we should have challengers in this thread state whether they care if in-game challengers preceed them or if they specifically want to fight the stated King/Queen. Also mad props to Eggyokeo for an awesome and lengthy for-fun third fight where we self rezzed ourselves like 3 times each.
Yeah don’t worry about it Fluffball, my schedule at night changes which is why I haven’t set a hard time/day. I think accepting challengers via in game PM’s is perfectly okay too. I will try to get a hold of you this weekend. I’ll be off and on tomorrow and see if you’re online.
the two rounds where fluffball slaughtered me I ran this
then i switched to this where we had a very drawn out (multiple self rezes) very fun round, that i think i won.
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New NA King!
ItIsFinished.9462 Build(I will miss you build. Now that you’re out in the open)
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Good fights Fluffball! The first fight I was trying to get a feel for what I was up against. I knew he was going to throw out a lot of range damage at the beginning, getting up close and alternating my weapon swaps so that they were opposite of his melee and taking advantage of Whirling Defense helped.
The second fight went a little quicker. I think Fluffball may have messed up a rotation. Not sure, but either way, was a pleasure dueling/practicing with him.
The current King/Queen will have a post listing their build in this thread. This build cannot be changed until defeating someone, upon which they may pick 2 points from the below list to alter:
- change 2 sigil’s worth of weapons
- reallocate 2 trait points
- change 2 major traits
- change 2 utilities
- change 1 pet
Each victory will allow the above choice again. You are not required to change your build.
Just to clarify, according to the above rule, at what point am I allowed to exercise them? Can I do it before my next opponent?
Edit: Oh, after re-reading, it sounds like each victory I am allowed to exercise the above changes?
I was picturing you keep your build, and then upon your first victory and every victory after you can change those things. As always I’m open to editing the wording if everyone disagrees.
