If they bring 8 players to counter solo roamers, perfect. That’s how a numeral advantage for your server is made elsewhere.
Unless they just have 8 more people on that map/server then your team does…
@Topic Title, Mesmer and Thief are the 2 easiest classes to solo roam on since you can mess up or get outplayed and still easily get away or even win because of stealth/teleports. Anyone who solo roams on any class other then Thief or Mesmer does so because of preference not because of effectiveness.
Tpvp has way lower stat cap, no food, bunker based objectives and most the team fights are 3v3 or 4v4. Also the re-spawn timer is to short and the maps are to small.
Our guild has played tpvp, played T1, and fought PAXA/KoM/BS/Oink in 5v5 random roaming in wvw in T8 and there is no comparing how much more fun the 5v5 in t8 was compared to all the rest so please stop telling PAXA to try spvp its no where close. But even before Anet put in random matchups and ruined our system it still wasn’t perfect because we needed more small mans then we had.
There really isnt a good choice to make but if I was you I would give T1 a shot. Before we left BG to move to FC T1 was really zergy but a few months before that SoR had a few groups that would beat us with close to even numbers. So I think if you go to a server that faces SoR/BG most weeks you should find some good fights.
The hardest part about T1 at least for us, was when we would finally find a good fight we had to try to finish it as fast as possible because its just a matter of time before a zerg spots you and swoops in.
Also 95% of the wvw’ers in T1 obsess about the score so that can get frustrating if you don’t care about it.
But I can’t think of anywhere else for you to try.
Our guild would never count in your definition of “legit 5 man” but we run everyday on average from 2-5 players and occasionally 6/7. We look for the open field fights, will take on groups of up to 15 (yes we die often enough), and take camps, towers and keeps (we have actually 4 manned hills and bay several times), We do not however form the perfect combination of class/specs but simply run with whoever from our guild that happens to be out doing WvW. We have fun and do well enough
@ Everyone other then Moobs check this out if your interested PAXA is a ton of fun to play against so I’m sure they are also a lot of fun to play with.
You can go with Endure Pain, or Dolyak Signet(switch your discipline III major trait to VI if you go Dolyak Signet) instead of Frenzy if you want, and you can go with Hoelbrak runes for more damage if that is what your after.
Gear I replaced some of my berserker gear with valkyrie to get down to 50% crit chance.
I don’t know if it’s what your looking for but I’m having alot of fun with it. Just stun with mace F1 and then weapon swap and blow them up with 100b or chain your bulls charge, shield stun, mace daze and mace stun to set up a damage spike for your buddies before you switch to GS. If you get low on HP and your buddies are not going to die don’t be afraid to GS 3/5 away and get out of combat to regain health (but watch out for that dang invisible thief that is waiting for you!)
Somewhat related question, and not looking for teh trollz: Are there still any servers who by-and-large can and do appreciate roaming groups and what they bring to WvW?
I don’t think there is much love for skirmish teams or roamers on the servers I have been on. Most are either apathetic or in some cases openly hostile particularly when a larger guild is trying for a big objective (such as “EVERYONE TO MY TAG NOW” or “if you leave the commander, YOU WILL DIE!” messages).
Most of the blob players see keeps and towers as the point makers but a 5 man team flipping 2-3 camps per tick is frequently generating a lot more points per player than a zerg. Our team can usually keep 3-5 camps on a map flipped at any given time plus we often cut off reinforcements by sitting between a contested waypoint and the closest spawn.
We ran into a little of this on our starting server that ended up high tier but after we moved to FC we’ve had no problems with zergs/commanders acting like we shouldn’t be there.
WvW is about many things, but one of the biggest of them is siege weapons. We will continue to make changes and additions to the game to make siege weapons more varied and more interesting while also changing other aspects of the game. But it will always be a game type that uses siege weapons and uses them a lot. It is part of what makes WvW unique and the strategy involved is important. And before you mention it, I have died to many, many arrow carts.
Whats your /deaths at now after the many, many arrow carts? I think you were around 150 3 months ago.
You could try something like this instead. The 9 button utility skill you can play around with for another banner, shake it off, berserker stance, stomp, bulls charge, whatever you want or change it around depending what your doing. You will do alot better with it in wvw then your current build but I think it would have a similar playstyle.
Sorry I don’t have much playtime with banners I hate how clunky they are to pickup and move.
If you want to run 4 banners in WvW then your build is ok, maybe drop down to 10 Arms and go 30 Defense to get Cleansing Ire if you feel you need more condition cleanse or Defy Pain or Last Stand for stability. Should put a sigil of impact on your hammer and get rid of that cripple duration increase. But other wise unless you just love banners and are not that good of a player so you’d rather try to feel good by thinking your buffing your team while running around in a zerg spamming 1 and /laughing all day, banners suck.
8 min video where you killed 2 people, died once yourself and ran from every 1v2, doesn’t exactly showcase you being unstoppable with mobile strikes and lyssa runes. The greenie/lowbie even traded blows with you with him jumping off the cliff while you were both at around 60%. Cool jumping puzzle skills though.
Is Anet looking into this or just ignoring it? Pretty sad that people complain they want something different for server match-ups and then the change they make is worse then it was to start with.
I don’t think they read the warrior forums anymore since everyone made fun of them for the 5 signet warrior, or maybe this last patch was a result of that…. payback is a kitten.
Normal warrior action; We spend pre-patch weeks hoping the next patch will be better then after patch we spend post-patch weeks wishing they would just reverse all the changes.
Can’t say it will be to much work to put the orbs back in they already had to spend time on all the breakout event nonsense stuff because they weren’t thinking when they took the orbs out. So all the servers go kitten mode and completely zerg their home BL since the Orbs aren’t there to force them to spread out on maps. It’s kittened to look at the map and each BL be 100% home colored.
It’s okay Boulder I have heard there are quite a few good small man guilds in T7 also so if Anet makes the servers move around more often we’ll be seeing other guilds like the guy 2 posts above in BSty.
All we ask is for a one up, one down system… not difficult… actually easier than the current system. Winner of the tier at the end of the week goes up a tier, loser goes down a tier… only the mid server stays put.
Every week will be different opposition… sure there will be a few times where it is play the same server every two weeks… but on the whole it will mix things up a lot more.
At the moment it is getting really boring…
It would work okay in all the tiers but T1 where Green and Blue would just double team Red every week so they stay in T1.
Had one of the most fun fights in GW2 yesterday on HoD BL. Oink and BS fighting Invi +2/3 randoms I believe. We saw the fight and decided to jump in.
It ended up being a non-stop 15 minute 3-way fight. It was kittening kitten kitten sexy kitten super kittening awesome.
Yeah that was fun it was just free for all we kept trying to make sure we hit the back of Oink/BS while they were hitting you because we thought they had more people but then we would push to far and be stuck in-between all of you lol.
It’s almost impossible to win 5 vs. More with siege warfare due to them having more supply and a wall to hide behind, so to be effective with 5 you try to wait till your zerg is hitting something on one side of the map and try to quickly ninja something else which is really really boring 80% of the time. Sometimes another small man defending team comes along and you get a fun fight though. Or nobody comes and you walk in and cap it and maybe draw more enemies back to that BL to fight against.
Nice vid PAXA, kitten that north camp fight. I thought for sure we had you guys after getting the Guardian down but a perfect timed shadow refuge/ revive and you turned it around. Good fights and I’ll be back in town tonight so at least a few of us will be roam’n around.
If anyone on FC wants to roll with us tonight just hit me up in-game we should have room for a couple.
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Just wanted to pop in and thank everyone for the fun fights so far this week, its been a long time since we’ve had to tweak our builds/play-style and that’s almost as fun as the fights!
Also if there is anyone out there that is interested in this but doesn’t have a group/guild that is interested in it we are usually only 3-4 instead of 5 on Monday, Friday and Saturday nights and various other times. We would rather not run with over 5 so there might be a little down time for you while we all 5 are on. But if your interested just hit me up and we’ll figure it out. (We’re on FC server)
