Guild Wars 2

Merry Christmas

-Your Big Horse

Traited – GS #5 has a 24sec cooldown. That’s 4 seconds longer than a Traited Banish. Staff 5 has great area of denial, yes. But if you cast it on top of all those people ressing they all get knocked down. The same can be done with Hammer #5, but requires alot of practice and good positioning in fights.

At the moment banish is all about having perfect positioning and timing. I check to see if the target has stability or similar, check to see my cooldowns, then I start casting and running towards my target, positioning myself for where I want them hit and which target will be hit, if they are close together. Just before the hit goes off I double check to see if I’m blinded and if so, I condi clear before the hit. If I arrive too late to the target and banish is not in range, I waste my cooldown. If I’m too early and run slightly through the target, the Banish misses – Great! I’ve been punished for making a mistake. If my teammate gets stomped etc, its completely my fault.

This to me is balanced. If I use a really powerful and game changing ability correctly, I’m rewarded for it. If I use it incorrectly, I’m punished for it and my enemy can capitalise on it if they are smart enough to and should be rewarded with a stomp or making my team blow more cd’s to make up for it.

Making it a cone effect would increase the hit box, which would simply make it a ‘Push #4’ ability. And people would go flying in any which direction, like Mesmer GS #5. Making things like Punt Stomps and isolating targets from their groups completely RNG based or no longer possible at all.

Guardian CC only lacks if you’re trying to chase someone. In a fight or while kiting they have some of the strongest CC in the game. THE strongest defensive CC in the game, if used correctly IMO.

Guardian thrives in group play. So lets assume you have a group with you. Nearly any of your DPS teammates can gap close and lockdown a target long enough for you to arrive and get some CC off. Great! – You were rewarded for using teamwork.

I play with 300-400ms latency, and have no trouble landing my cc for the most part. I know my Hammer #5 is going to lock me in place so I position myself accordingly or call for a target to be locked down or crippled so I can position myself. If people cant land their Ring of Warding it’s because they didn’t have good positioning, they didn’t use their other cooldowns or teammates effectively or because the target dodged the other cooldowns to lock him down and he was rewarded for it.

Thanks for the ‘1st week of release’ tip. The reason I don’t use JI is I feel it’s a complete waste of a cooldown in the groups I run in. Why would I want to waste a stun breaker, and a slot with a huge cooldown, for a 1200 range CC (~2000 range if using hammer #3), If the thief or ele in my group can do double that plus delete the target in 2 seconds? The only reason I would want it mid fight is if I was 1200 range away from one of my allies and I needed to peel/heal for them. In which case something is going very wrong if we are that far from each other in a fight and we should be punished for it accordingly.

Instead, I use ‘Hold The Line’. Which I can use twice per one JI. Which totals at 6k regen for my whole team, 14seconds of protection (-33% damage) for my whole team, and two condi’s not only cleared but converted into boons for more survivability and can save the life of someone caught in an immobilise or act as a stun breaker for someone caught in a fear. The only thing JI is good for mid fight is correcting bad positioning, which is great, but I can already do that with my GS which has 1/3 the cooldown.

I’d give you some of my tips in return, but I haven’t seen any of your vids.

Dynnen.6405:

modDW.4187:

Hammer #4 is amazing where it is at the moment. Its only a troll ability if you want it to be. It is extremely powerful if used correctly and if you spend the time practicing it. If it was AoE it would remove alot of the plays you can make and nerfing the knockback range would do the same.

At the moment I feel Banish has a fairly high skill cap. It shouldn’t be changed just because of that.

I use banish to stop stomps, secure stomps, move enemy downed players to better stomp locations, stop a person from reviving, knock people off cliffs for fast stomps, interrupt heals, and ofc…troll. What I can’t do: stop more than 1 person stomping, prevent more than 1 person from reviving, etc, etc.

I would love to see it changed to what I suggested because we need CC and that would be a perfect place to put some into hammer.

GS 5 and staff 5 can do both those things. Honestly I think adding anymore CC to guard will make it unbalanced. Co-coordinating CC with team-mates is what people should be trying to do, not trying to lower the skill cap of an already low skill cap game.

Fixing things like how leap skills interact with terrain is a great idea though.

Just my 2 cents.

Hammer #4 is amazing where it is at the moment. Its only a troll ability if you want it to be. It is extremely powerful if used correctly and if you spend the time practicing it. If it was AoE it would remove alot of the plays you can make and nerfing the knockback range would do the same.

At the moment I feel Banish has a fairly high skill cap. It shouldn’t be changed just because of that.

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Pretty much this.

AH is great and all, but it only benefits you. Essentially you become a brick wall, which is awesome if the enemy decides they want to tunnel vision you, instead of your glass cannon friends. However, 9 times out of 10 that’s not gonna be the case and you’re gonna end up running around doing nothing. With good mechanics and proper use of cooldowns, you can survive much longer in a 0/0/10/30/30 build and you can easily sustain your team while you’re at it.

For support in WvW you could run 0/0/10/30/30 or 0/10/0/30/30. Can check out some of my vids if you want to see what it can bring to a team.

I run in small man groups too on JQ and I always use staff. It’s way better for small man. I guess the music is OK though.

Kronyx.2570:

Need moar PVF here

DB’s NA time is terribad. And Oceanic crew, having supply problems in YBBL?

NSP gave up Saturday morning. Even your roaming groups are MIA.

Discuss.

Discussed.

-Your Big Horse

Glaeser.8015:

Varconi.1804:

modDW.4187:

This is for my pal Rackin Stack (2nd best engi NA after Kevin).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK0SzUM8ztY

- Your Big Horse

Id like to think I am pretty good at this game but you guys are just at another level. Looking forward to Rackin’s return.

Yeeaahhh I feel like a pretty terribad player by comparison after watching that video.

Thanks team, this is really old footage though and I made way too many stupid mistakes.

That is Rackin carrying.

-Your Big Horse

This is for my pal Rackin Stack (2nd best engi NA after Kevin).

- Your Big Horse

Rackin you’re taking too long. How do I heal the world?

-Your Big Horse

Lord Kuru.3685:

Has there been any talk of organizing a double team of CD? It’d probably make the week more enjoyable for everyone, including CD.

And even if we can’t do that, can we at least agree implicitly that letting CD have SM (much less a T3 SM) hurts both DH and NSP?

I noticed several times over the weekend where DH was in inner of SM — maybe even the Lord’s room — where NSP probably could have made a difference by either taking CD towers or killing CD reinforcements, but instead NSP attacked DH towers. In my opinion that hurt us (NSP) over the long run.

Yes, this was actually discussed at the council meeting last night. DH agreed to double team CD with us, starting on reset.

For anyone interested the meeting minutes were as follows:

The Lad Guy: “You have my sword.”
Kevin: “And my axe.”
Your Big Horse: “Then it is settled.”

-Your Big Horse

helo it’s me.

People were asking for inside footage of our latest SPCA Training Night. We weren’t expecting everyone in the match-up to come. What a great turn-out. ty

-Your Big Horse

Sororita.3465:

zerg scrubs. lol

Get zerged on the forums too

ty

-Your Big Horse

urieldhynne.2743:

Thanks for the answers.

I think arenanet need to rework that skills to work as predictive path, or make it skillshoots… Is very frustrating how it works and you need to immobilize with a class with almost nothing of CC….

You can skill-shot hammer 3 if you deselect the target and have auto targeting turned off.

It is time.

-Your Big Horse

does anyone not dislike the lad guy as little as wafflez doesnt?

- Your Big Horse

not sure if badie roamer should leave this here

-Your Big Horse

I wish I could read

-Your Big Horse

Helo friends,

I haven’t played for a week, so I was rusty and needed practice when I logged on. So I did some duo Guardian play for the laugh, this was a pretty fun fight, so I decided to uplaod it. Was 15min total so I just used the 2nd half.

Hope you enjoy.

-Your Big Horse

Raven.9603:

Toble.2968:

Not many very consistent roamers. Did have a few fun fights though.

SPCA, SPLT and XOXO still often come out to play.

Citadel[CTDL] ran into 2 SPCA the other day, one was probably the ugliest charr mesmer I have ever seen and the other some guardian who could probably lose a few pounds and still have a cholesterol problem.

Good fights though, those guys were hard to put down.

http://youtu.be/nb1JZavHq4w?t=1m58s

-Your Big Horse

pls no

-Your Big Horse

MrFluffy.9307:

Noroz.9527:

torridstoic.7492:

Noroz.9527:

Yeah… about that… If WvW came down to pure skill, IoJ would be in tier 9 EU while NSP would be top 3. Every big server we’ve been up against, we keep wiping you. Over and over again. With fewer numbers.

Yet. You try again.
And again.
And again.

Yeah, eventually you might get our keep or tower, but how does it feel, being 50 taking it from 10 people defending it? (If you’re even able to cap).

If we have close to equal numbers, you guys can’t do jack.

I don’t recall ever being particularly impressed by any players or groups with an [AS] tag. I guess I must have never seen you, because you guys sure sound impressive.

Im not just talking about AS. But yes, we are good. If you haven’t seen us, you just haven’t seen us when we are running structured. We tend to run outside the massive blobs.

But we really don’t care if people notice us or not. Makes it easier for us to get stuff done

NSP by far has the worst roamers I have EVER seen, atleast completely inferior in every aspect to the average IoJ roamer. We completely demolish your zergs with equal numbers in open field. Also about that remark about being able to hold something with 10 people, a keep no less. A keep can hold 1700 supply, now thats more then enough to build 5+ arrow carts for every gate, and conveniently for the red corner overlook is by far the easiest keep to defend with the elevation and the fact that there are only 2 inner gates (blue keep has 3) makes it even more so easier to defend. So its nothing that great to brag about honestly especially since you end up losing the keeps in the end anyways. Now if you were to say wipe a zerg of 50 IoJ’ers (which will never happen since we’re better then you and we can’t field 50 people like NSP can) with 10 people in open field then that would certainly be something to brag about.

TL;DR

IoJ > NSP

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

- Your Big Horse

MrFluffy.9307:

IoJ is clearly a better server then NSP. We always win in open field even with half the numbers NSP throws at us coupled in with all the hackers on your server. Anyways its become clear as day NSP will try whatever they can to double team IoJ with DH even more so then they have been already just so that they can keep the lead. But we all know Darkhaven will get 1st like they would have been and IoJ being a better server then NSP will get 2nd while the NSP (that happened to be in first so far thanks to IoJ) will end up in 3rd.

lolololol NSP u so bad

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

-Your Big Horse

Hello team,

I finally made a video featuring some of this match-ups game play with SPCA 5man.

The first fight features me calling for our group to kite into a dead-end, haha!

Enjoy.

-Your Big Horse

Sororita.3465:

i miss you NSP guys, its been so boring.
Gom has been trolling, counter trolling ourselves now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdUlvSgVg8

outplayed

I’ve been lied to for the last time…

Allyoh.5479:

pls delete the music, for germany its impossible the see this – thanks to GEMA

Dam that sucks! I’ll try upload a version with no audio and post it back here soon for ya

-Your Big Horse

Hey man,

I have a lot of experience with the playstyle and builds you’re after. Send me a mail in game or on the forums and I’ll help you out with any questions you have.

-Your Big Horse

Haha! Yes… Yes it could… Looks like I might have to start working on a Pt.2 then lol

-Your Big Horse

This deserves a bump. Really nice, man

-Your Big Horse.

Xirin.8593:

I read “Hammer Punts” as “Hammer Pants” at first. Even after I realized my mistake and the subsequent disappointment set in, I still thoroughly enjoyed the video.

A++ would watch again.

rofl, that would have been a way better video! I understand your pain now

-Your Big Horse

Completely viable. I run Tome of Courage in WvW 100% of the time, IMO it’s the strongest elite in the game. Just don’t be afraid to use it early, or to just use it to spam ‘1’ to buy some time for other cd’s to come back up. #3 is also extremely powerful and often overlooked. If you want some ideas of how I use it, you can check out some of my vids here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrYourbighorse

-Your Big Horse

The latest Teivospy Classic is up now, Lad guy gives it 1 doggy out of 2 dwongos

-Your Big Horse

akamon.2769:

hah, nothing like a little golf on the field.

i especially loved how after each punt, even if there were like 20 people still fighting around you, you’d have to walk to to the edge of the cliff.. JUUUSUT to make sure they’re dead flat. lol XDDD

Rule #1 in playing a Support, Hammer Guardian:

Always make sure to tunnel vision your target until the very end (Use all of your cooldowns as a precaution, to ensure the target is successfully launched, even if you’re at 100% health). Then proceed to blame all your dead teammates for not living long enough to rally off of your perfectly executed, and well thought-out kill.

-Your Big Horse

Thanks for all the kind words team, I had a lot of fun making it.

To be honest I think one of your Guards already got me yesterday lol. I was too focused on getting the last few Banishes I needed for the video, so I was just tunnel visioning like you have no idea hahaha. Fighting on cliffs is always good times though.

See you guys out there!

-Your Big Horse

Haha, thanks guys. It was a lot of fun making it

Yeah, I’ve always wanted to be able to punt those trash mobs too lol, but if I had it my way I’d make it so you could Banish everything and it would have no cooldown xD

-Your Big Horse

Hello my friends on GoM,

I was late in making this video, but it has some footage from the last match up, that some people might get a laugh out of.

-Your Big Horse

Hello,

I put together a whole bunch of highlights of my favourite skill in the game (Banish), into a video montage. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

-Your Big Horse

Hello,

This is a whole bunch of highlights of my favourite skill in the game (Banish), put into a video montage:

I hope you enjoy it, as much as I enjoyed making it.

-Your Big Horse

Hello,

As some of you may already know, my account got permanently banned last week, for no reason… Four times in a row… So in celebration of finally getting my account back and dodging the ban hammer, I made this video montage of hammer plays:

Enjoy.

-Your Big Horse

Hello it’s me, Your Big Horse

I Monk For L O V E.7528:

modDW.4187:

sephiroth.4217:

Congratulations to the 4 [XOXO] members that were all level 80 and killed me on my level 14 necro, I could tell it was an achievement for you to have to dance on me afterwards…

Hello, as the guild leader of [XOXO] I would like you to post any screenshots you may have taken, so I can have a word to the members involved.

Thanks,

Your Big Horse [XOXO]

This was the best troll post ive seen in a while Big Horse, i loved it.
Sincerely, a beloved fan from SF.

My covers been blown! Abort mission!

sephiroth.4217:

Congratulations to the 4 [XOXO] members that were all level 80 and killed me on my level 14 necro, I could tell it was an achievement for you to have to dance on me afterwards…

Hello, as the guild leader of [XOXO] I would like you to post any screenshots you may have taken, so I can have a word to the members involved.

Thanks,

Your Big Horse [XOXO]

Pentzski.4620:

modDW.4187:

Hello,

I was a little late getting this video out, but I thought some DR from the last match up might get a laugh out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMQf8Anvak

-Your Big Horse

Hah, I can see my thief for a split second in that video. I remember that fight pretty well.

lol. Yeah it was a fun fight

Hello,

I was a little late getting this video out, but I thought some DR from the last match up might get a laugh out of it.

-Your Big Horse

styx.7294:

Oozo.7856:

Dream In A Dream.7213:

Aeneasx.1589:

lol truly pathetic display SOCO commander. Come 1v1 instead of running to your zerg / siege.

Finish the fights you start -worst -necro -ever.

Care to explain?

Lion of the Wind
RgTg/SoCo

He left AD and transferred to NSP. He is in XOXO now but forgot to change his signature.

This is very confusing. tM is the thieves guild! XOXO is for mesmers. SPCA is for people who run very fast.

This is how I understand things and everyone should get in line with it already.

ty 4 ur kind words, we have been training hard for WvW marathon patch

-Your Big Horse

Wafflez.8460:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

Varconi.1804:

bellrang.1628:

Just wanted to say thank you to FIVE (aka SPCA) for ram sacking the fight club, to think you guys couldn’t get any lower.

Anyways, I enjoyed your loot bags.

wasn’t spca but grats getting 2 loot bags I looted 30+

FIVE is an alt for SPCA guys.

It is?……. um guys…… can i get an invite to our alt guild <.<

Wafflez, you will probably get this message after the new matchup, so hopefully you check the old thread, cause my new blazing internet speeds of 0.06Mb/s are quite impressive. But No… No you cannot hab invite to our alt guild which runs the exact same group comp and gear as our guild, because I wasn’t even invited or able to play T_T

Here is a teaser for her next montage btw:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8181355/teaser.jpg

WELL guys its been long coming but Teivospy has been banned for 2 months due to many reports about her actions a few weeks ago

Here is her last montage she uploaded a few days ago before ban hammer was dropped