Recently, in Tier 3 (Tarnished Coast v. Yak’s Bend v. Fort Aspenwood), one of our [Tarnished Coast] players decided to amass a huge army of siege golems that he had been saving up for quite a while. Though we had them built for quite some time, we never used them, so instead, we stored them at Rogue’s Quarry. Come 1:00 A.M. EST, when people were tired and beginning to log off, our server had the brilliant idea to launch an all out siege on the Eternal Battleground with our 41 golem army, some of which were omegas.
After we finally got into the golems, we were excited beyond belief. We wanted blood. We NEEDED blood. So when one of our commanders told us to attack Quentin Lake first with the army, instead, in a furious hivemind stupor, we attacked Stonemist head-on.
When I first read about 40 Golems getting killed by an Oil.. I was like, has the Anti-Golem God risen from the Mists to pour missfortune over us all, I spent several hours praying inside the Shrine of the Golem God (TCG for all you heathens) , but then I recieved a vision of utmost importance, all those Golems that were sacrificed to the oils of the enemy, were actually powered by tainted powercores, and had to be weeded out. My heart was still broken, but alas I was gifted with new plans, and new ideas, how to turn our warriors into the machine god avatars of the Golem God.
And now a short prayer for all of you nonbelivers:
Lol.. such a waste Why didn’t the 2 omega’s use their rockets at range at least? :P
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Haha, I see this happen all the time. Several times I’m in a golem charge and I see the oil up and say don’t go up to the door or you’ll die. But the golems just go up anyway and get massacred. Kinda like telling a kid to not touch fire I guess, they just have to see for themselves.
I sure hope more people feel the same way as you do. I am pretty tired of trying to supply run to build every single oil in one of those BL keeps/garrison when everybody else just run off right after the mesmer sweep.
Yes I am from TC and a lot of us don’t understand how awesome oil pot is.
I was the guy on the oil. i got a lots of bags. 16 badges, lots of heavy loots and a rare. but the best part about it was the sheer amount of numbers on my screen. The first person you see on the path was in my guild. She started going off in TS about some huge Golem army and I went right to the oil, not once expecting to use it. good times lol
Alfric the Wolf
Guild-Obsidian Fear
Level 80 Warrior
Recently, in Tier 3 (Tarnished Coast v. Yak’s Bend v. Fort Aspenwood), one of our [Tarnished Coast] players decided to amass a huge army of siege golems that he had been saving up for quite a while. Though we had them built for quite some time, we never used them, so instead, we stored them at Rogue’s Quarry. Come 1:00 A.M. EST, when people were tired and beginning to log off, our server had the brilliant idea to launch an all out siege on the Eternal Battleground with our 41 golem army, some of which were omegas.
After we finally got into the golems, we were excited beyond belief. We wanted blood. We NEEDED blood. So when one of our commanders told us to attack Quentin Lake first with the army, instead, in a furious hivemind stupor, we attacked Stonemist head-on.
Mwahahaha yes this is my video.
And agreed to the above comment about people starting to log off. We did the golem strike while we had no queue and everyone was going to bed. It was poorly executed and I was quiet intoxicated at the time, but never the less it was fun and funny. I know all the people that were butthurt about us wasting that many golems, but the guy who gave them all up still gives golems for good causes even after this (not on this scale). Really it was mostly in good fun for laughs, not some striking tactical decision made to try and sweep the map (obviously).
really? I think this was the only thing in gw2 left alone by noobs with “nerf” mentality… until now. I dont see you complaining because no one was smart enough to destroy it it takes 2min… nooo, you cant be bother by this silly thing, you are too pro for you for such a low task. Nerfing is better.
Evil, GH -Charr rule.
A Skritt is dumb. A group of Skritt are smart.
A Human is smart. A group of Humans are idiots.
Oh my god that is amazing, I wish I could have been there! Can only imagine what the people in SM were thinking seeing that many golems charging their gate before it all ended to oil.
Destanna – Elementalist
Member of [STFU] S T F University on Tarnished Coast
Brave of you to post such a video but it’s cool to see some failure too. Most other videos are about posing or showing off, but this one shows just how bad things can go without coordination or organization.
Brave of you to post such a video but it’s cool to see some failure too. Most other videos are about posing or showing off, but this one shows just how bad things can go without coordination or organization.
I feel bad for the guy who payed for the party.
Don’t, he still regularly offers free golems for no particular reason. We are crazy like that. Everyone involved knew it was a joke attack, so I’m guessing they kind of saw it coming.
I just watched us try this again. And it worked this time. I don’t think we had 41 though. And then right after we captured Stonemist my game froze. Argh!
w00t! At 4:00 I make my appearance in the filmmakers targetting frame with a death from above > HB > whirlwind to the door attack, followed again, and again, a death in the middle of the golem horde, a rally as they start dropping like flies and a quick retreat back into the portal sometime around 5:03. Fun times and lots of bags/badges.
I happen to be standing on the wall when I saw the mass of golems approach the gate. Apprehension soon turned into glee as I rained down grenades as fast as I could toss them. What a sight to behold!!
Zek Tursa – small package, big bang
Guild Free [FREE], Yak’s Bend
heh kinda amuseing. However in the future you may want to bear in mind that anything over about 6-10 golems at a time is probably a bad idea. 6 is plenty to rip down a reinforced gate long before cata’s on the other side of the door can down them baring extream counter siege. I was on the defending side of a 6 alpha bum rush. We saw them comeing and had time to setup 3 cata’s behind the door and 3 balista’s in spots that could hit the door… dispite all that they broke the door down as the last golem died.
you would have done far better with 10 golems and 31 players to take out the oil and enemy players.
Hmm. Perfectly executed offensive move just unfortunate you didn’t have enough siege Golems. I hope you’ve learnt from this mistake and will make 66 next time, as order 66 is quite deadly.
