Some great fights on Piken GL with many smaller groups running around. Best reset in ages and we never felt outblobb’d with our ~15 guys and gals. Thanks for that.
/salute
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
I can assure you, even if we’re outnumbered, we won’t run away.
See ya on the battlefield
How can you lie like that ?
You are right – today I was running away.
I was the last survivor of our small roaming group trying to cap the north camp on sfr bl and 15-20 guys were chasing me from the camp until they got me near the crossroad between garrison and hills. At the NE camp I ran near a Jade Zerg capturing the camp and hoped the seefarers would be more interested in fighting an equal zerg and defending their camp but I guess I was a more worthwhile target.
Anyway, we had great fun today on sfr bl.
/salute
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
In fact I don’t really think it’s double teaming against you, this is a match Elona vs Vizu with Deso spectating the match,
We’re not spectating, we’re actively doing your work for you. Like doing all the hard work to take Bay on Vizunah BL only for you to take over when it gets easy.
You’re welcome, by the way.
An entire map full of green towers and you go for ours. So frustrating.
Hm, what time are you talking about? At the time of your post we [ÆGIS] were on Vizu BL and took bay in four hours only twice, the rest of the time we ignored you since you were pretty much inactive. We defended the Vizu garrison for hours and their towers switched the owner all the time.
Now I can understand that you were not happy because the second time we took bay, well, we waited a long time for you guys to take it back from Vizu, you didn’t and we couldn’t let the points tick for Vizu forever. Then we surprised you at the inner gate, but hey sh.. happens. So yeah, thanks. But really, I got about 190 badges in those four hours and surely less than 10 from Deso players.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
Hows the roamers on kodash or JS? Lots of ppl running alone or in groups of 5? Or bigger zergs?
Like everywhere in the top tiers most people run in a big zerg (sometimes two) but both servers have roamers, mostly to capture supply camps. I’m not sure if [Buka] is still on Kodasch, they lost a few guilds, but if they are expect good fights against a bunch of thieves and mesmers. And while Jade zergs try to avoid fights without superior numbers most of the time their small groups send for camps are pretty good, I had fun fighting them. Don’t expect many solo roamers though.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
looks like they made some minor changes to the maths. according to millenium Elona was suppose to remain in t1 but they dropped down to tier 2. That surprised me alot since im on Desolation server.
Probably not as much as it surprised us – can you imagine the confusion on our TS after reset? :P
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
At times one server might have ques on all maps while another none at all. The latter would have a huge disadvantage at defending (additional to the lack on manpower) while it wouldn’t be an issue for the first server, they couldn’t switch maps anyway. So this idea would punish the weaker server even though they might have the organization necessary to defend all maps with limited forces.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
We will likely go down to tier 2 even if we finish second, just because elona is gaining so many points from no opposition =/
Its a shame, really. You don’t deserve to go down but this week is a mess everywhere. Look at baruch – they might go up to T2 even though they are losing lots of points.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
Unbuilt siege sites that are placed by players will go away if someone does not bring supply to them within 10 minutes. Anyone that adds supply to a site should reset that timer.
Completed siege weapons will despawn if they haven’t been manned for 30 minutes.
Why do we have to do this? Each weapon takes up some small amount of resources on the server because we register a few pieces of data for each weapon in the field. One thing we absolutely cannot do is remove the timer entirely or else we have a situation where someone can put down a ton of weapons that could potentially be around forever (or until matches reset) and it would start to cause bad things to happen to the server. We also use some placement restrictions to help prevent there being too many siege weapons on the field, I’ll explain those more in the next question.
It’s admittedly not an ideal system but it is something we are required to do to keep the game running as smoothly as possible. We’d like to make it more obvious that the weapons have some sort of despawn timer since it is a completely hidden mechanic, but we don’t have a way to expose that timer to players yet.
Thanks a lot for the infos. The way the despawning of siege works atm is very annoying though because someone has to use it every 30 minutes or your keep is naked when an attack happens, its just no fun to run arround and tap every piece of siege all the time.
Much better imo would be if all siege had a set lifetime, shorter for rams (like 15 minutes), say an hour for trebuchets and golems and maybe 3 hours for arrowcarts and katas. After that time they should despawn 5 or 10 minutes after the last use, so that they don’t dissappear in the middle of a fight.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
There may be more classes but these 3 are the only ones I played with roaming potential.
The warrior can be a great roamer with sword/warhorn as second weapon set. Permanent swiftness, sword-2 is a great leap to get in or out of fights, the horn also can remove conditions.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
So the other day I was saying how there is a thief build that can kill me in 0.5-1 second and people said I was lying. Well I decided to get proof on this build and found someone who was willing to help, It takes 1 second to chunk me from full health to 0.
For those interested in my stats:
1653 – Toughness
2572 – Armor
Exactly the same happened to me today, the first time I’ve seen something like that – and a lot of Thieves have tried to kill me in the past. The perfection of the execution let me to wonder if there is a macro for this kind of stuff. Hit a key and BOOOM.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
- We don’t nightcap infact our score is very near in the morning (07.00) to Midnight, the only exception is when BB nightcapped all Borderlands.
In any case regards
Well, 20-25 additional guys at a time when we don’t even have 10 on all maps quite makes a difference, don’t you think? Our very small but reliable nightcrew was able to capture and hold 3/4 of all maps in T3 last week and you can imagine that the other two german servers there weren’t happy… Now we are lucky if the same crew holds at least something somewhere…
I have no doubt that SFR would win by a huge margin anyway, we don’t have the manpower to compete with a T1 server. I was just correcting the claim that SFR didn’t got an oversee guild. And I bet you’ll be glad to have them against Blacktide and Vizu when you are finally in T1 next week.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
I and some other pals were fighting in ER BL and someone told us that 25 Baruch Bay were farming us (SFR) at our spawn in their BL (where they had everything). So we went there and 25-35 minutes later the BL was 100% green. The 25 from BB crumbled as soon as we came :-(
Sounds like you were looking for easier targets after you failed to take our garrison a few times.
Looks like you going T3
Possible but seems unlikely atm, mostly because Desolation doesn’t make enough points in T3 to overtake us. We lose a lot of points every night and don’t have enough manpower for all BLs and even had outmanned buff on EB in the early afternoon today but we still can keep up more or less with BB.
Next week should be easier when SFR is finally in T1. Should be interesting to watch how you do against Vizu and Blacktide. Especially after the first week, when everyone is still motivated.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
I and some other pals were fighting in ER BL and someone told us that 25 Baruch Bay were farming us (SFR) at our spawn in their BL (where they had everything). So we went there and 25-35 minutes later the BL was 100% green. The 25 from BB crumbled as soon as we came :-(
Sounds like you were looking for easier targets after you failed to take our garrison a few times.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
Karma shouldn’t be a problem if you do your dailys. Just save the cans of karma you get, if you use a karma enchancer you need like 35 for a full set of karma gear.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
naphack has it right – you won’t be a great damage dealer but low levels can be very useful supporters, just chose the right skills for that. And your level doesn’t matter for using siege and carrying supplies. Just don’t forget to upgrade your gear every few levels, it makes quite a difference, especially for your hp.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
My own personal opinion on FS and Elona is that I seriously doubt there’s a coalition. Most things have a simpler explanation; just because we focus on one side in a 3-way fight (which we sometimes do) doesn’t mean we’re allied with the other side — it just means we deem it more important to kill our targets. Similarly, we ourselves many times run past small enemy groups if we’re going somewhere more important. Then there’s the personal grudge angle alluded to before, and the fact that if we deem server 1 our main focus at the time, server 2 forces can fall under the “the enemy of my enemy” clause.
Of course, I have only managed to play a few hours last night. So I haven’t seen much of what’s going on in game myself. It just seems to me that a conspiracy is a less likely cause of w/e is being observed.
Indeed. If it is burning somewhere and we have to hurry our raidleader orders us to rush and ignore all enemies on the way that would only slow us down. Sometimes (quite often actually in the top brackets) you have no time to waste.
Pishy – Warrior
[FeaR] The First Impact – Riverside
