I was kinda following some paxa people last night in the BP BL. Just like almost every other time I’ve seen them they were running with a small group of 5 people. I don’t know. Where people get 8 from. Ranger pets? Usually don’t see 3 rangers in the paxa 5 man…
Quite easy: 5 men + 3 mesmer clones = 8
Well I only see people talking about WvW here, not girls beating on big bad dudes.
Sidenote, one of the guide users made a lovely vid of condition support mesmers life in solo gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nUPetCiOco
Love, love love this video ! You Osi are really mean by killing her. It’s like killing… cuteness !
I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one facing the “panic moments” just to take the worse decision ever. I’m always like :" noooooo, why did I just do that !" T.T Then I die >.<
Thank you for sharing her video!
And btw, your last one is amazing, as usual.
I understand the needing of a zerg to accomplish tower/keep capping or defending. This is world versus world after all.
But I don’t understand why people need a zerg to kill the solo player who just capped the sentry in the far south of the BL map.
So I’m curious ladies; why do you WvW? And if you do, what role do you find yourself in: support, supply, or out on the front lines bashing some heads?
I WvW because I enjoy open world pvp. I’m a solo pvper, which means I’m looking mostly for good challenges, 1v1 of course but 1 v x too.
I really dislike the zerging mentality. I could care less about towers and points as long as I can find people to fight with. I have met really nice people this way when I was playing Aion.
I wish I could do the same in GW2, but it’s hard since we can’t see our opponent name.
Really nice video ! I know nothing about guardian but it seems to be a nice class to solo with. Might try it in the future.
Thank you for sharing.
Hi everyone.
I had a nice time in AR borderland this afternoon. It’s always good emoting with you all ( and BP of course, you were there too !).
And I’m glad we will stick together for another week. I can’t live without [CAGE] trolling our troops.
You sir are pretty good <3
So the pve crowd cried about the small 50 wvw kills for months and it was ok.
Now, we wvwers (and dungeon haters), cry about dungeons and suddenly, we want things to be handed to us…
Hypocrisy much ?
Back off of Toble, PAXA. You guys did, indeed, break up fight club on multiple occasions. These were organized as a fun way for people from all 3 servers to test themselves 1v1. The fact that you guys broke it up proves, to me, you don’t hold that much respect towards any of the servers here. Toble has called you guys out because that is what your are currently presenting yourselves as. I personally don’t care how you play, but I do care about server and guild respect.
We personally don’t care about OS and especially fight club. Little respect for carebear activities. Fight club doesn’t hone anything other than bunker builds. Toble throws out garbage daily, don’t kitten where you eat.
I wish I could use a “carebear” title instead of the ‘killer’ one. This sounds so pretty and would match my quaggan backpack very well.
And by your logic, everyone also must know you’re a non-factor as well – seeing as how loud you are on the forums and how insignificant you are (doing fight clubs 2 nights in a row) in game.
Well at least, she’s not a non-factor killing afk players during fight clubs
Temple’s map is fun. They also add bonus items but it’s still node capping. I’d have to try it in tpvp tho. I have so many tickets, I don’t know what to do with these.
Last evening, our BL was left without any kind of protection/commander. BP took it in less than 1 hour.
I tried to rally people, I spammed map chat, running between our different towers to check the siege etc… but people only showed when we took back Longview.
Most frustrating moment was at Cliffside. There was a lot of siege weapons there and I was the only one defending it. I was spamming chat way before BP attacked this place because for me, it was the best place to wipe their small force with that many weapons.I guess no-one is interested in defending our stuff.
Not having a commander tag on map didn’t help either I guess.
Last night was bad. That was my first real extended look at WvW in a while and man, that was disappointing. It really didn’t look like we had many people, then everyone showed up to take Long back. Then they all disappeared! You were the only one really communicating for a while. I threw a bit of info out there, and tried to go where you needed me, but I’ll admit I was nowhere near top form.
And that commander got on, and a few others, and they KINDA communicated at first but then it just turned into “Let’s all follow the icon!” after we lost Hills.
If last night is any indicator, then there’s a lot of work to be done. I can only hope that the community site helps get us on track.
I’m a very discrete player usualy, but I was so sad to see BP taking our bl that I had to do something. I guess it would have been a lot more efficient with a tag over my head. Like someone said, we still have people who don’t know tower/keep’s names ect… Oh well, next time, we will have to ping locations instead of naming it. It was my mistake. I was a bit nervous and I’m quite a no-name using broken english so…
Fortunatly, it should be quite different tonight. My guild has a strong presence in our borderlands. Monday was just our day off.
I hope to see you again later ! And thank you for your help last night. At least, we took something haha
Last evening, our BL was left without any kind of protection/commander. BP took it in less than 1 hour.
I tried to rally people, I spammed map chat, running between our different towers to check the siege etc… but people only showed when we took back Longview.
Most frustrating moment was at Cliffside. There was a lot of siege weapons there and I was the only one defending it. I was spamming chat way before BP attacked this place because for me, it was the best place to wipe their small force with that many weapons.
I guess no-one is interested in defending our stuff.
Not having a commander tag on map didn’t help either I guess.
You’re a real beast O.O
I had some very nice 1vx fights last night and I was very proud of me, but when I see your last video, hahaha, I think I have to improve a lot more to be as good as you.
Simply amazing !
PAXA nice showing of the TRUE small inner man runners you guys have.
It was a close fight b/w GOAT and OS…but we made the call and came to their aid.
I though you were pvpers, not bullies…
Such a disappointment.
I had a blast pvping tonight. Lots of small groups/solo players. Thank you all guys for not zerging, and to this guardian (or warrior…) from [evil], sorry for all the zerging stuff when we were fighting together.
congrats man. that was funny lmfao. sadly, zerging around takes no skill even naked.
i’m currently baffled on how we ever wipe with armor on.
ALS? lmfao good one. as I said before. it was hilarious to see that naked army stroll the naked mile around SM.
was going to just clear the walls again until i realized BP was busy with their own tower. Maybe NSP should try fighting together, you let paxa get into your heads about how wvw is meant to be 5v5.. its ruining your scores.
It maybe ruins our scores, but honestly, very honestly… zerging is boring. I think it’s more boring than pve.
I know it’s necessary to win wvw, or just to counter your zerg mentality, but how can you have fun spamming 1 (maybe 6 if you need health) for hours and hours?
As a pvper, I could care less about that score. I just want to fight other players. You feel good when you lead your 20-30 men zerg agains’t a door? Good, I have nothing agains’t it. If you have fun, then you win this game.
But you have to understand that many of us enjoy small scale open world pvp. We just want to experience this kind of wvw.
Don’t worry, you’ll still zerg us on a daily basis (I know, it’s so exciting to chase 1 opponent across the map with 30 men) and we will take our revenge on slowpokes in your karma trains.
I wish we could have choice between pvedungeoncrap and www kills.
Dungeons are such a pain for me :/
Ah! I’ve been dreaming, too. Dreaming about the lowbie 4-man group …
Oh you ! You forget the 0 after the 4 !
It’s ok, you’re forgiven <3It’s a fair mistake that you’ve made, there. We do have a bad habit of queueing the maps we go into during primetime this week.
Ssshh. It’ll only last for a few hours. Just try to lie as still as possible and we’ll lose interest.
Let’s hope we bump into each others later then. It will be a very interesting fight.
Ah! I’ve been dreaming, too. Dreaming about the lowbie 4-man group …
Oh you ! You forget the 0 after the 4 !
It’s ok, you’re forgiven <3
I like the part where imalog calls a whole server bad when he leads a zerg to chase 5 enemies across the map for 20 minutes instead of taking and defending towers. Oh the irony!
You can’t blame them, they LOVE pvp !
I want an Immobulus/Princess wand like staff. More hearts, moon crescents and stars with fairy dust please !
Killing uber males with cute weapons is priceless.
And a unicorn when you /rank. That would be amazing !
Amazing videos, amazing thread, you are an incredible mesmer Osicat.
And do you know what could make you even more incredible?
A Quaggan Backpack.
Yes, definitly
Underpopulated? Shortly after I took it I see a zerg of 40-50 NSP trying to take it back.
I didn’t know we had so many players in WvW. Are you sure it wasn’t 10 mesmers and 30 clones?
However last night, my small group encountered a large bunch of you in nsp southern supply camp, right on the bridge, you guys did very well countering us, by using mass invis. Great move as the end point was my team wiped, yours was left standing. I didn’t realize the size of your group till it was to late, thank you culling, but overall it was a good attempt by us. So i give you guys props for that. Your group was well prepared compared to mine.
I was there as a guest ! I remember you tried to portal bomb us (right?) and a couple of seconds later, you were all dead O.O.
It happened so fast I couldn’t believe in it.
You can’t consider it low when you can craft a full exotic set and weapons in less than 15 minutes.
You can if you know that ascended gear is supposed to be somewhere between exotic and legendary. Because the amount of time needed to get 1 item is exactly that.
So you can level to fotm 10 in a couple of hours then start getting pink rings (people have tons of them actualy), but if you are wvwing, it suddenly becomes an “almost legendary” item that you have to grind for weeks/months?
You can’t consider it low when you can craft a full exotic set and weapons in less than 15 minutes.
I’m probably that kind of loser as well. I’m lvl 4 fotm, and I hate this place. Horrible, repetitive, boring.
I wish I could get that gear by wvwing, but apparently ANet only appreciate their pve crowd (can’t wait for the next patch tho… I hope this time we will have some love from you).
Oh well, I guess 100 days for 3 items isn’t a “grind”.
I love when a wannabe d/d ele RTL to me. I always expect them to be a tough fight, but they are like BS thiefs… fotm, not really skilled, and generaly, they RTL in the other direction very fast.
But yes, when I face a skilled one… ewww it becomes a LOT harder to survive him/her. This class is very strong in the right hands.
I have one but I still prefer my mesmer. Butterfly effect I guess ^^
IMO, the biggest challenge in this game is winning 1vX in WvW.
It’s a personnal goal for me, I don’t need any kind of ladder or pve content. I just want opponents in an open world area that can fight back. It’s never the same, 9 times out of 10, I’m in desesperated/outmanned situations, but when I survive, I feel quite happy.
GW2 is actualy the perfect game for me. No gear threadmill, insta open world pvp. I wish I could have the shiny weapons by doing wvw only, but I can live without it.
And actualy, you are both zerging our BL, acting like brave heroes in your big groups but still running from 1v1s.
I should have fraps this when AR then BP took Cliffside 15 min ago. It was depressing.
But at least, you fight back when you have your 30 friends with you. It’s better than nothing I guess…
PAXA boys are pretty slick. I was running around with them last night and there where no times that we were not outnumbered
This. I experienced the exact same thing, and it was really funny because I could stand in the middle of the zerg and watch AR running around me and chasing PAXA’s members only. I was wondering if I was invisible or something.
Some people tunnel vision on those they don’t like.
I enjoy it because I am tanky and get tunnel visioned by VS so all my DPS in back stays alive.
If only he hadn’t tried to camp the jumping puzzle. Poor VS!
Ha, ha, yes, the hate there was obvious !
Btw, you wouldn’t happen to be a female who played Aion, right?
O.O
So you are the Toble from Aion ? Israphel server?And I was wondering the exact same thing about Pesti !
Lol, yeah, seems to be a small world!
I actually have people in my guild who were asmo that I used to kill or who played when my ranger was just a baby on zikel.
Who are you!?
I was playing a cleric ( Cassandre), and mostly pvping after 2.5 patch. I think I’ve seen you several times in Gelk. I was quite discret and wasn’t playing with a big legion tho.
It’s good to see old Aion players here ! Who are the asmos in your guild?
PAXA boys are pretty slick. I was running around with them last night and there where no times that we were not outnumbered
This. I experienced the exact same thing, and it was really funny because I could stand in the middle of the zerg and watch AR running around me and chasing PAXA’s members only. I was wondering if I was invisible or something.
Btw, you wouldn’t happen to be a female who played Aion, right?
O.O
So you are the Toble from Aion ? Israphel server?
And I was wondering the exact same thing about Pesti !
In WvW:
I think a staff is better if you want to go melee, like bombing a group or a zerg then quickly retreat.
For me, staff #2 > any GS skill. But from range, GS seems to be better. It’s probably a question of playstyle.
If you enjoy fighting from walls or behind a zerg and don’t have to react fast (well, as fast as our profession allows us to move), then use a GS.
If you use a OH sword/X and have to go melee to burst people, staff is the best choice when things become tricky. And you can generate clones pretty fast as well.
The biggest thing IMO that kills combat depth in this game is the fact that everything is overly offensive. 90% of the skills are attacks/conditions and very few defensive abilities.
Sorry but I have more defensive than offensive skills as a mesmer.
Several teleport.
Distortion
Daze
Confusion
Stealth
Condition removers
CCs
Reflect
Interruption
Block
I love my purple butterflies, they match perfectly with my princess wand (so sad scepter doesn’t match my build tho).
I wish ANet could add a /butterflies emote. Throwing butterlies everywhere. Hop, hop ! It would be amazing.
In Aion, the Legion who were holding a fort was receiving daily kinah (gold) and medals ( for pvp gear).
It would be interesting to see this kind of system in WvW. Guilds would be more motivated to upgrade and hold their forts. + They would have to keep good relationship with other guilds on the server if they need help when they are under attack.
Actualy, it’s a pure waste of gold and time to upgrade a tower with the zerg mentality. Same for defending. Just lose it and retake it 5 minutes later, you’ll do more money/xp/karma this way.
IMO, kills don’t mean anything. Many many zergers already have dozen of thousands of kills. It’s easy to Aoe the other zerg from walls or behind your own zerg. But I don’t think it makes them good at anything in WvW, except for leeching kills and badges.
But yes… it can’t be worse than allowing players to buy the title with gold.
Dylic, you should share your videos
Fight the dragon – win – use it as a new siege weapon.
I love the idea of horizontal progression.
Because I don’t have to care about pveing forever to be competitve in open world pvp (WvW).
I love the idea of exotic gear.
Because you can get them from pve (karma)/crafting/pve (dungeon)/ WvW (even if the choice is pretty limited to pvt).
As a pvper, I enjoy having different sets of gear that match different builds/traits. If I want to try sometyhing new, I just go to the crafting station and make a new armor set, then try to find good weapons with my pve/wvw tokens. It takes… 10 minutes of my time then I can press B and leave LA.
If ANet applies this philosphy to ascended gear in the next patches, I will be very happy.
I don’t want to do daily stuff I don’t enjoy just to stay competitive (let’s say… fractal 10+ dailies).
I just want to get my gear the way I want.
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That’s why you take a zerg to a supply camp.
/logic
Actualy, NSP BL is blue. Tell us again why you need to send a zerg to a camp?
I was there and I’ve never seen a group moving like them. It was really weird.
The current matchup is interesting and boring at the same time. Interesting because there is action all the time and everywhere.
Boring because it’s ultra zergy, and running back and forth spamming 1-5 isn’t really what I’m looking for ( I know it’s WvW and it’s a very personnal opinion).
I really don’t enjoy the zerg mentality, and I remember on friday night watching War Machine (it’s them right? I’m not sure about the name) locust zerging in EB and thinking… omg, don’t tell me WvW will be that mindless chase for the next week !
Well it is, and I can’t wait to see them and the whole Kaineng server move away from our tier (no hate <3, I just prefer small groups of people actualy pvping instead of crushing their ennemies because they can’t defend themselves ).
All in all, I had several 1v1 and 1v2-3 and they were all great fights. Thank you for this and see you on the battleground tonight.
I fought a d/d ele – thief duo last night and it was just… insane. But a mesmer/thief/d-d trio… I don’t want to thing about it O.O !
Great video again ! I tried your build but I think I need a little more toughness (I’m still using my berserker weapons, I’m too broke to buy anything else and too lazy to run AC or fractals for the rings. But I noticed wvw weapons had pvt stats as well ( but horrible skins… meh). I just need more tokens !).
And I will use Master of Manipulation for sure now ! 6 sec on blink is just amazing. I was using the 3% less dmg/clones, but being able to blink out of a tough fight > dmg reduction.
Can’t wait to try this now ! Thank you Seven
Shatter and Time Warp need a nerf in pvp. Stop rationalizing.
They just need to split skills so PvE time warp and shatters are not affected.
Even if ANet would nerf shatter and TW, people will still continue to whine about mesmers. They don’t even know how our class works, they don’t want to learn how to counter us.
Nerf shatters and you’ll see more condition bunker mesmers like Flimpy still destroying people in a 1 v 4.
What next?
“Scepter is OP, nerf it ANet !”
Seriously…
This is really a learn to play issue.
Your last video is pure entertainement !
Your survivability skills are A-MA-ZING.
I was a pure glass canon before but now I just want to be a one-mesmer-army. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and skills.
And the “anticipating” quote made me laugh. This poor guy swinging in nothing was hilarious.
They could easily fix this issue by allowing us, poor mesmers, to blink through walls…
^_^