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RoF - RoS - WSR

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Yeah, the blobbing has been a bit crazy at times, esp. on EB.

featuring ring of fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DquVckwj590
featuring whiteside ridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsM-FeVkQUo

But there is also plenty of fun to be had. This evening had some fun fights at rof bay, much less blobby, wish I had recorded that :/

You’re the last guild/server to call anyone out for blobbing.
You spent about 20 minutes all blobbed up with Riot + friends in the southeast supply camp on Rof borderlands last night. If you’re going to complain about blobbing, don’t be the reason we actually do it.

Tbh I haven’t seen a single blob this week except on EB RoF & RoS.
As for RiOT, we wouldn’t blob up 50 vs 20.. RiOT is all about fighting, we seek blobs to fight.

A lot of times we waypoint to get rid of pugs following us, it’s not like we need blobbing to be successful. =.= There might be that rare occasion where RiOT blobbed but 90% of the time we don’t, so no need to cry about it on the forums each time you spot us.

I haven’t been part of any guild runs this week so I can’t tell how they went but I do know we don’t like blobbing up with people and we try to get rid of randoms following us.

This goes to anyone whining about blobbing, also ROS.

RoF - RoS - WSR

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I wanted to compliment the S/D thief & ranger @ north camp on WSR border from TEO guild, mainly the thief because he had sick movement.. very hard to track at times. I died because I tried to add you guys to party lol.. and afterwards u kept denying my party (which is understandable, you probably thought I was going to rage or something.. but I just wanted to compliment the thief really).

Also those 2 d/d eles from TEO are a pain in the kitten >_>, I have a feeling they were stalking me on purpose lol.

RoF - RoS - WSR

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“And I woldn’t say FIRE joined any bandwagoning”

cough cough cough… FIRE moved to Gunnar’s Hold from SFR and took off to Surmia a week later once they discovered Riot, Vcy and Votf moved there, so much for bandwaggoning, no offense :P (i wrote it down now, will NEVER mention it again :P) On another note its amazing seeing RoF still in the lead against RoS, very suprising to me. Greetings from a relaxed matchup against Dzag and Arborstone going at each other’s throats while we be chilling.

Hmm, we are flattered but what makes you think RiOT is uberhaxt1professional? We are a casual PvX guild, infact most of ours members are PvE, what “we do” any guild can do.

Randoms run with us a lot and you may think of it as “blobbing”, but those randoms we try to shake off all the time.. they just see RiOT tag and stick with it, this is no good for us because they die and rally opponents.

RoF - RoS - WSR

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Very unlikely RiOT blobbed up today.. but hey, I was offline all day.. we run max 30 people (after a guild mission for example) but usually we run with about 20ish.

We don’t have the numbers to create a “blob”, but nice try… theres a lot of whining already which is a pitty..

RoF - RoS - WSR

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Two and a half hours into the match and we have already seen a RoS thief hacking into the RoF Bay keep. How pleasant.

Excuse me?

I was that thief and I got in legitimately, I’ve waited for over 40 minutes for your people to leave the keep after you took it from us. T1 wooden.

The fact that it took the entire lordroom and 5-6 people to kill me u can trust me on my word I got in legitimately.

Feel free to check out my gameplay videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyRtPDtCH0af7KV7BSJ4FLVrivqfa9YEi

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7/6/13: GH-MS-RoS

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I’m a GH guild leader and i do not endorse the attitude my comrades have been presenting in this particular thread. We were really fine in previous matchups, but something seems to have snapped this week.
Time to man up rather than whine.

I don’t post much here at the forums but ugh I’m getting tired of seeing all this whining from GH if all those people would get their kitten in WvW we would have a higher chance of capping our points back.

Night capping will always happen it’s part of the game, I don’t care much about that it happens we done it before ourselves as well. Get over it if you don’t like being nightcapped then do something about it instead of kittening at the forums here.

I have no idea what’s up with GH but we seem to be doing bad this week and it’s nobody his fault but our own. So yeah deal with being focused then as right now we are the weakest server.

On a different note I enjoyed defending our keep yesterday evening in EB was good fun specially when both servers got in.

Yeah, for the most part we’re a mature and friendly community, but there’s always a handful who like to vent on the forums. My advise would be to ignore them and understand that they speak for themselves and no one else.

I want your babies, from all of you.

7/6/13: GH-MS-RoS

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It’s a good matchup.. and those who say RoS double teams on GH.. possibly.. just keep in mind that it took us 3-4 days to get waypoints on Hills & Bay after reset because Both GH & MS pushed us the entire weekend.

You’re now in the position we were in during the weekend.. enjoy it.

Underworld vs Ruins of Surmia vs Fort Ranik

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With regards to the wedding… we at RiOT believe that one needs to do the right thing… so we had an arrowcart at Crad’s back just in case he tried to back out.

I am sure that this is something that the VcY legal department can appreciate.

We can argue about which guild the little Jr. Crads will join in 9 months time.

I think this is non negotiable it’s already set in stone that Crad Jr will be moving to RiOT to follow the lead of his daddy and follow in his footsteps at a later age.

Underworld vs Ruins of Surmia vs Fort Ranik

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Someone posted that I’m a “bandwagoner” for joining a “successful server”, has been deleted. I just want to clarify that Ruins of Surmia was a ship at the bottom of the ocean when I joined them, ticking last in T8 while UW at that point was ticking first in T5 vs FSP.

I had no clue that Surmia would become decent with several T1 guilds, I hopped to a “bad” server to start my own guild and make a difference (although I completely failed at the guild part).

Very tight matchup, any winner at this point is a fair winner, good luck to you all.

As promised a video of our marriage in SM! Fully edited version coming soon

You commanded that wedding like a boss Crad! “We got to walk out, to the south, let’s go!” lmao, this video is pure comedy.

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Underworld vs Ruins of Surmia vs Fort Ranik

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Nice GvG aZm, lets repeat this another day!

4-1 to RiOT

Underworld vs Ruins of Surmia vs Fort Ranik

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Err, I’m Outmanned on every bl everyday, even home at times lol.. and exploiting happens on every server mate.
RoS has a horrible reputation when it comes down to cheating (I know a lot of that is false or just due to individuals since RoS was my home..) but that sorta makes it RoS can’t complain about some individuals using “ac hacks”, because your people do literally the same and I see none of us crying about it (for a change, because I remember people accusing RoS in every matchup lol).

And yea i just replaced UW with RoS, fun eh?

See how easy it is to post some random junk, it proves nothing.

No matter how much Server X cheat’s, it doesn’t give you a freeride to cheat too.

Justifying it by saying but but but you cheat too, and your reputation is so bad, which it isnt btw. maybe in your shaded biased view it is, but only that.

I totally hate cheating, no matter if its done by an ally or by a foe, it’s foul play.

I enjoy the matchup, i don’t care who wins in the end, but stop acting like your the topdogs here, cause the few RioT i saw in eb where barley noticable.

Let the flaming begin!

Keva
[Rain]

I’m actually saddened getting this response from you. I clearly stated not all of it is true and spoke in defense of what Enocka typed. There are a lot of screenshots/videos on youtube to begin with but hell.. I have always been the first person to defend Underworld in every matchup thread even while being in RoS.

My point was clearly that you got cheaters, we got cheaters, everyone has their cheaters.. and accusing an entire server of cheating is just lame and I do take it personal as I am part of that server. But +1 at completely failing to understand my comment.

Underworld vs Ruins of Surmia vs Fort Ranik

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You are joking right all ive seen from Ros this week so far is huge zergs and people exploiting ac

Err, I’m Outmanned on every bl everyday, even home at times lol.. and exploiting happens on every server mate.

UW has a horrible reputation when it comes down to cheating (I know a lot of that is false or just due to individuals since UW was my home..) but that sorta makes it UW can’t complain about some individuals using “ac hacks”, because your people do literally the same and I see none of us crying about it (for a change, because I remember people accusing UW in every matchup lol).

Underworld vs Ruins of Surmia vs Fort Ranik

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Hey guys been great WvWing. (No need for the “No guild can give us a challenge” bit though, didn’t expect it from sceinna :P )

SPGR thanks for the fights and hope to see you tonight too

Sorry I didn’t mean to come off as kitteny as I did there. It’s just that we haven’t really encountered anyone yet.. I should know how good SPGR is (seeing UW used to be my home server) but we haven’t spot you a single time yet in WvW..

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Underworld vs Ruins of Surmia vs Fort Ranik

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Yes that’s undeniable, but it’s not an aZm Blob
Don’t say FR is blobing when there are one guild and many pick up. I don’t know how your server works, but on FR we try to get one PU lead on each map.
Yesterday, we fought a blob too on your border (in your Bay) but it’s not a guild alliance or something so it’s not shamefull to blob with PU.

We don’t have 50-60 blobs (because that’s what it really is) covering each map at any time of the day. It’s not aZms fault, neither Ranik.. you guys are just ranked incredibly low. Reason can easily be found in the video I posted a few posts higher.

Ranik has an insane amount of people but none of them have a clue of what they’re doing (thank god they don’t o.o). We don’t have the people to cover multiple borders, this is why we are ticking last.. because RiOT hasn’t wiped a single time in a fair fight, hell.. we haven’t even met a good guild in either UW or RoS that gave us a challenge lol.

We even struggle to find anyone to GvG with.. :| which is pitty because GvG improves you a lot as a guild.

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There is a gap between words and actions. It seems that the FIRE is fearing our storm. You got a big group, we got a guild group, you flee …. ok very nice, but don’t say we’re the runners

Choo choo

At 13:50 we wiped once (only time we wiped that day lol) and tell me is this a blob or not? It was 20 vs 70 or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o74Mgg_gYk0&feature=youtu.be

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UW should thank RiOT for doing them a big big favor yesterday keeping 50-60 fr occupied all day long (altho UW backstabbed us while doing so :P:P on our own border) but from my contacts I heard you guys had no resistance at all in FR border.

My question to FR: WHY in the hell do you care about a t1 tower and 20 RiOT so much to allow UW to cap your entire borderland? :P It was great fun though and a lot of lootbags. <3

Thief WvW (Laela Blackbird) - D/P Roaming #2

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My first roaming video reached 3.5k views, I hope this one can do better as it is a better video.

Greeting,
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Thief's; Least Fav. Class 2 Fight, & WHY?

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Engis & Mesmers by miles..

Engis for their sick CC, Mesmers for their aimbot-like phantasms blowing you to pieces each time you come out of stealth if you’re not careful.

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I always have the feeling people that create these kind of topics have no concept of how to play thief or how it is played at all, the only problem we are facing is the ease you can stealth with while stealthing should require you to be actively in combat. (avoid resetting fights & coming back)

Thief is not superior as in; pretty hard to manage iniative at times, one screw up means you’re done with, hs spam spam doesn’t work and I only smile at people doing this..

Thief has a million counters, conditions (not every thief has condition removal, depending on build), daze, stun, knockdown.. don’t forget the anti stealth traps that blow your cover for 30s aka instantly kill you, a counter NO other class except for mesmer has to endure (not that mesmer has much use of stealth).

Lets talk about d/p: Ultimate counter for d/p is draining their iniative, you can do this by running into black powder field, because 9 out of 10, he’s stacking stealth in it.. if you have an interrupt or daze, fire it at the same time he leaps throught the field, gg.. your d/p is now dead.

So many counters but people need to be spoonfed.. I myself fought gs rangers, certain mesmer builds, guardians, d/d eles.. all which not could be killed, but why is thief “op”? Because it can stealth and people do not play thief and are not aware of stealth works, they think of it as the most evil thing there is when infact a thief instantly dies without stealth, so if you break stealth.. you break the entire class.

GH-vs-ROS-vs-DZ

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We kept crashing like crazy. We just kept running back from spawn all the time rather than whine about bugs

Yeah, the difference is that you came with a massive 60 man blob and 10 omega golems and the few of us defending kept crashing but fair enough lol.

See I’m not whining about bugs, I’m just saying we are unable to defend or do anything in our border without crashing and GH took advantage of it, WE WOULD DO THE SAME.

I’m crashing everywhere in WvW to the point I gave up lol.

GH-vs-ROS-vs-DZ

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We couldn’t defend Bay, Hills or Garri due to crashes and it seems GH isn’t affected by them lol.

Lost our entire border only due to us crashing if we get near our keeps, I would do the same though to DZ and GH if it happened so I’m not blaming them.

Just saying our lack of resistance is due to that, we are really crippled badly on our bl and this might even cost us our matchup.

GH-vs-ROS-vs-DZ

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I hope you enjoy this bugged borderland. ^^

GH-vs-ROS-vs-DZ

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Bah, 10~ omegas and 60+ GH on our borderland and we cannot defend due to crashes.. we crash everytime we enter our keeps.

Be sure to watch our borderland in like 2h… lol

Thief WvW (Laela Blackbird) - Various

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Hard to label this video as it is a mix of various random stuff, includes Redlake & Briar solo, stalking zerg with Anti-Supply traps and some random kill scene.

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Some random funtimes in WvW, includes soloing Briar & Lake, having fun with anti-supply traps (I bet Cry Havoc hated my kitten :P) and some random kill scene.

These were the only recordings I managed to get this week, been too laggy to record gameplay.. and too crashy mostly, what is up with GW2 this week.

GH-vs-ROS-vs-DZ

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Because it was 3 thiefs against us 2 at that time? Or mainly because i didn’t record that fight.

No it wasn’t. I showed up later.

I didn’t wipe a single time and the only reason Kyll (Karolis) wiped is because he’s d/d and two d/d eles means constant knockdown, AoE and plenty of heals. It’s not like we stood a chance vs two bunker d/d eles and some s/d troll that kept us stunlocked and reset every fight, so I don’t quite understand why you make a video about it lol.

We killed that s/d troll like 10 times, he kept running back from spawn, I personally couldn’t even bother fighting either of you because that dude was on me 24/7 stunlocking me.

It’s cool to watch myself fight tho, thanks for that!

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AFAIC if you guys don’t want to fight multiguild groups and only wish to fight against people running under one tag then take your elitest attitudes and GTF back to the higher tiers.

You can’t transfer down to this Tier expecting to find a host of organised guilds with the same numbers you can pull out every day unless you’re extremely naive.

So please stop complaining about “Blobs” ruining what has otherwise been a great matchup and go back to playing. Thank you

RiOT is a PvX guild, we have 130 members (I could screenshot if you wouldn’t believe), we have a small dedicated core that plays WvW mainly during the evening, that’s when we run with 15-20~

My response was to a guy that said RiOT blobs up because it’s the main thing we try to avoid, we run without commander tags to avoid pugs from joining us (unless we are really outnumbered).

Zerg vs Zerg is the nature of WvW, but I don’t really enjoy fighting massive groups of 60+.. which has been happening all day yesterday, sad part is that we wiped them multiple times with atleast half their numbers.

In short, YES I do prefer smaller scaled fights of 15v15 rather than 50v50 which makes my computer go smoking.. lol

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Riot runs a lot in blobs too, only guild I’ve seen running around alone most of the time is FIRE. We (MM) had organized gvg vs FIRE.

Are you serious or just trying to troll?
We run without commander tags to avoid having pugs with us, what the hell are you saying we blob? We’ve been fighting 20 vs 60 all day yesterday LOL!

If you mean a few individuals that run in a “blob”, sure that can happen, but RiOT does not blob stop making up things seriously.

Have you seen that massive German blob on our border yesterday? 40-60 depending on the time, but they have been there in huge numbers almost the entire day lol, a lot of HON guild.. which is pitty cuz I had a lot of respect for that guild, but blobbing up to outnumber your opponent just shows you’re weak and afraid. :P

Also simultaneously GH attacked our border with 25~, you have started the breakout event like atleast 10 times (I know because 5 times I was actually inside the tower watching it get flipped back and forth waiting my chance to take it back myself, which I did once lol :P)

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thief nerf required in www

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Any profession can be built for high burst. But thieves have the easy get away card with easy access to stealth and shadowstep, plus high mobility.

The reason why you see much less warriors etc. running in full berserker gear in WvWvW is because unlike thieves, they cannot reset the fight so easily.

Thus thieves have an unfair advantage.

I agree and disagree. First of all a full zerker Warrior has damage up to 3x as high as a thief and hits multiple targets at the same time, Warrior has a lot more options inside of a zerg, thief has none.. thief was basically made to scout.

I do agree that stealth is too easy and you should in combat actively in order to stealth, resetting a fight is lame and way too easy.. only for the 100th time I mention this: Shadow Refuge IS TOO kitten OP.

Other than that, stealth and mobility makes up for thief being glassy as kitten, I run knights trinkets on my thief just to have a little bit of toughness (not that it helps a lot, but it sooths my mind lol). Thief is not that engange 5+ people and kill them with ease class people portray them to be, I do win 1v5’s a lot because my opponents don’t know how to play or counter a thief and generally move like robots.. when a better player than you gets their hands on stealth mechanics so you wouldn’t even be able to get lucky and land a few aoe’s right in their face.. then it’s well game-over.

I don’t know if the class is broken then or you just lack skill, I play a thief 95% of the time, my Guardian is my main though and I absolutely destroy thiefs with it, simply because I know how to counter and play one..

The main problem with thief is that it confuses new players, they’re down before they know what actually happened.

Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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just some fight from yesterday evening

Hahaah, cool stuff!

Now people will think of me more of a stalker than they already do now. I see myself multiple times stalking XxX. >_>

Btw, as seen in the last minutes of this video.. thank you RoF for trebbing down fortified walls @ Dzag Bay and breaching inner all for us. ^^

Love and Kisses,
RiOT & XxX

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Monetizing on youtube?

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Why wouldn’t it be? If anything it is great advertisement for Guild Wars 2.
I am pretty sure Anet encourages this.

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There are so many ways to counter a thief, people are just too blind and ignorant to learn them. The amount of times I see a thief dropping Shadow Refuge and a zerg of players not caring about it, acting as if the thief vanished into thin air instead of blasting the hell out of that “deathtrap”. But afterwards they go complain the forums they died yet again to a thief…..

With that said, I made a huge topic a couple of days ago about which changes thief needs in WvW imo. D/D NEEDS to be encouraged again, because the new meta is d/p..
Area stealth needs a nerf, Shadow Refuge shouldn’t stack you up with 10s stealth.. it is already powerful as it is using it to resurrect someone and both of you safely get away.

Shadow Refuge is THE skill to reset a fight entirely.. I cannot express how much I hate this skill lol. I am a thief and I literally never touch this, such a disgusting OP skill.

Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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Our poor Staff ele was sad atleast always main Attention on her, but well since she is a women she probably really loved it ^^

The PWNY char engi is quite good it seems

Referring to our little encounter earlier? :P Couldn’t do much lol, like I said.. I can easily take on 1v5 but not if they are well organised, the squishy ele was the only one I was able to down and stomp fast enough to get a kill, you ran with 2 mesmers and 2 guardians I think… tough targets with good burst, pulls, dazes, stuns.. I had virtually no chance, except on the ele. Tell her I’m sorry.

I did get more kills on you guys when the main focus wasn’t just me though, near ruins where a couple of you died. :P

I wish WvW wasn’t as zergy as it is as well, mainly because my pc is quite crappy, that’s why I play thief mostly because I’m not part of the zerg that way. :P I do the stalking and reporting.

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Surmia vs Dzagonur vs Ring Of Fire [05/10]

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RiOT probably too but I’ll leave that up to Crad etc

Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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Everybody is entitled to their own Opinion. And i will only call a Guild good if all players or most players from that Guild seem good to me, i don’t care about their Zergskills or tactics since that doesn’t concern my playstyle.

If you want you can do a 5v5 against us?
For more we doen’t have enough people. But maybe you enjoy more attacking single Spectators with a bunch of people that watched the same GvG as you and kill them? Sad to say that you can’t be happy that a Guild from your Server got praised. No you need to make it clear that you are important too ^^

And ofcourse we are a farmspot for a 15+ Zerg since we are running with 3-6 ppl Groups, i don’t have any Problem with that, just is a part of roaming.

Jathres you have to keep in mind WvW is designed for zerging, everything and I mean EVERYTHING encourages zerging. You run a nice and organised group most of the time, but it’s not hard to roflstomp 10 randoms with 5 organised people that sit on teamspeak and res up properly etc (because those randoms won’t res up). The reason you don’t encounter any small scale guilds on RoS is quite simple, there are none.

You could get “lucky” running into me and Kyll who always roam solo, but then again, I wouldn’t be bothered to fight 5 of you because if we down one, we will get AoE’d to hell or never get a stomp done, that’s why we don’t even bother tbh. I’ve killed plenty of BNF players but like you said.. there are a few derps in it, when I see your group of +5, I’m not even going to bother.

Did DZ a huge favor though yesterday.. kept killing all RoF leaving their zone, ended up 2v15 there because we simply killed so many people for an hour straight, no one got out alive unless they took another way of course.

Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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Dear RoF people who were camping north camp in our bl, how do you like the colour of your bay (and hills)

This is the guy who used to complain bitterly about the Dzag’s being a bunch of opportunists, and they are, but that’s another story. Now he’s doing it too, using the German national holiday to take anything he wants, and using the forums to rub it in. Even the Dzag’s were classier than that.

Hey mate, what did Germany do during their day off? They massively played GW2. You have dominated the entire day yesterday, we held our border with 5 people because everyone was at school or at work.. you ticked +400 points almost the entire day.

Just wanted to point that out lol.

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I clearly said these are changes that imo should apply to WvW, not PvE.. because PvE is hard as it is for a thief. And yes I’m a thief QQing about the mechanics, why?

Because I’m tired of kitten thiefs slipping out of my hands day in day out, yesterday I had 3 thiefs too frightened to fight me so instead they were trolling me with s/d and d/p and using refuge whenever one downed. It has become such a troll class. I’ve been saying for months area stealth needs a nerf, because it requires 0 skill and it is way too OP.

I also did mention I’m not a fan of those anti stealth traps, because they are not the way to “fix” this problem Anet is trying to compensate for.

Stealth is a problem in any game, but as it is right now in GW2, it is far too easy, especially if you play d/p like I do, you can’t look past that, just check out my videos… I perma stealth in towers and solo them.

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This is a ticket I sent to Anet but I would love to see different opinions. Keep it clean and respect eachothers opinions, I am just curious if people think along the same line here.

“Dear Anet,

I am contacting you here because I have a better chance of developers reading this, I am not here to whine about how “broken” thief is, I play one and I’m by far one of the best thiefs on my server.. I only want to give advice on a couple of stealth mechanics that are “too much”, I’m not sure how anti-stealth traps are going to work.. but I am not really looking forward to those.

This is me playing, a small clip, forward to 2:30 for action.. I have several clips there, how I solo’d towers (which you fixed last patch) or roam around and kill groups of enemies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG6XCZv2JTo

The fun part of the thief class is.. it is a VERY powerful tool for a skilled player and a very hard one to counter for the casual player, which is “fine”. But it is also a very good “troll” class and I find myself fighting thiefs everyday that just reset fight after fight after I get a few backstabs into them, going stealth and fleeing.. mostly with Shadow Refuge.

My advice would be; make Shadow Refuge only stealth within its radius, it shouldn’t stealth you for an extra 10s afterwards. This still makes it a brilliant skill to recover or to resurrect people.

“Out of combat” health regeneration is also pretty stupid, every class has a healing skill, in PvE this is completely understandable, but IMO it has little place in PvP. It just makes it easier to reset a fight and come back fully restored.

I play D/P as seen in my videos, I can perma stealth by heartseeking 4 times into black powder, which is “fine” I suppose, because it takes a lot of skill to heartseeker 4 times in one powder, I need to manipulate my heartseekers to be shorter by positioning my camera at a certain angle and holding down strafe keys and turning with the camera all in the same time, something a casual player cannot do.. so if you would nerf that to “my standards”, thief class would become unplayable, because lets face it.. thiefs need their stealth, it’s their main damage output and they are too squishy to survive without.

Still d/p is pretty overpowered and has become the new “meta” for thief, one of the major issues is blind with this.. the blind is way too powerful.

One other thing imo; downed stance.. ressing a player is a lot faster than stomping one, which doesn’t make any sense, it encourages larger groups to still win even though they might have played worse, larger groups can get mass rally’s done etc too. In general, Gw2 at this state makes it very hard for you to win if you have a slightly smaller group, because even when you outplay your enemy, they can still mass rally. Downed stance just needs some sort of nerf to my feeling and many others.

In short: stealth is fine, as long as you remain in combat.. thief is such a beautiful class, but it could be so much more by making it a little bit harder, aoe stealth needs a nerf, not the ones that require you to fight close combat, such as cloack and dagger, those need to be encouraged, but they were hit too hard with anti-culling, it is very hard to be successful with d/d right now.

Hope this is somewhat useful information and be sure to check out videos on our guilds channel, mainly my thief videos, it might help tweaking thief better (but then again, it shouldn’t be nerfed “to my standards” because I am not a casual player and thief would become unplayable)

Thats it for now… thanks for reading and I hope this can help out balance the class a little.

Greetings,
Sceinna"

Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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Dear RoF people who were camping north camp in our bl, how do you like the colour of your bay (and hills)

Elnor you’re so cute when you’re angry.

Please disallow grouping with enemy servers

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I get added everyday with people flaming & raging at me, but to me that’s entertaining tbh.

It is important to be able to group up with an enemy, I was fighting a nice duel with some guy when 7 guys from the other opposing server showed up and messed up our fight, the guy understood me without a single word and we both focused on killing those 7 guys, 2 vs 7. We pulled it off, party’d up, continued our duel.

Partying an enemy adds a lot to the WvW athmosphere, sometimes you just meet someone you WANT to talk to, I don’t understand how people can hate this.

Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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D*mn close golem – action on surmias dreambay
good job @ RoS

Haha yeah I was there, you guys used like 5 or 6 golems, got to inner, lord down.. capping.. I was pretty sure Bay was lost so I went in Dagger Storm.. thats when NOM rushed in and wiped you guys out, I was never downed, got like 40 lootbags or something. :P Best timing to perform Dagger Storm there.

Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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Omg, that two NABU engi’s are tough nutts to crack tbh. Skilled players that show how powerful Engi’s can be.. I love fighting them but the dude in the pink armor (seen in the last video).. he manages to get away everytime, I gave up because he made it to a bunch of mobs and would have rallied if I downed him surely. :P

Edit: I accidently linked your video in my previous post, I meant to link MY video LOL.
You BNF guys have cool and entertaining videos though, worth checking out too.

Video I meant to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG6XCZv2JTo

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Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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I remember you two thiefs running around. In my Opinion the P/D Thief was the dangerous one. Old rule of just ignore the Thief could still be applied good against you two

Matchup tends to 20+ Groups from my experiance, including all Servers :p Still sometimes there is decent small Scale that i like.

Add an humours view for yourself or not :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr44cA86N6o

It depends on the situation, we seek larger fights but you BNF guys play really well together so we will never ever get a stomp done when you have a party of +5 going.

I wouldn’t say totally ignore us though, we are a nemesis to our opponents at times.

Fun little video, made it a bit of a story;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG6XCZv2JTo

There’s more videos on that channel all worth checking out.

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Ruins of Surmia-Dzagonur-Ring Of Fire 05/03

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Hai RoF & Dzagonur, you may recognize :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZOl-e8KCkY

With love,
Sceinna

Guild Wars 2 Thief WvW PvP D/P Roaming

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Kills recorded yesterday, video made today.. I had a whole set of interesting kills/situations but recorded with a bad codec so all that footage came out useless.
I still think this is worthy of showing off though and it would be cool to get some views in. Constructive critism more than welcomed!

~ [RiOT] The Civil Rebels, roaming solo but there’s guild videos on there too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZOl-e8KCkY&hd=1

Ruins of Surmia-Gunnar's Hold-Dzagonur

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Been enjoying this week a lot so far. Even though I transfered to RoS myself a few weeks ago to avoid massive zerging and now the zerg comes to us! QQ

But all in all it’s been great fights and the T1 transfers are great and fun guys to play with.

Commander's Compendium for Badges of Honor

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I never liked obtaining commander by dropping 100G for it because it doesn’t prove your leading abilities, it doesn’t prove you are a good and active WvW player.. but if this changes to badges or whatever, I’d love a 100G refund because I can easily drop 1000 badges.. obtaining 100G however is a bit harder.

Asside of that, the best solution would be Guild influence meaning you are leading or have a leading role within a WvW guild (solo roamers don’t really have a place as a commander imo)

Remove commander icons; Introduce the Warband

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The idea behind this post is to reduce zerging, but that’s the nature of WvW.. battles on a large scale, if you want smaller scale and more organised you should consider playing sPvP.

I like how WvW works, because you can play amazingly organised with large numbers.. and you can screw around when you just don’t care.. and possibly get zerged yup. I like the randomness and I’m sure most people do, but as I said before; it would be nice to have an option to show your badge to just people in your squad rather than global because sometimes you want to go with just your guild, having a different badge for that (possibly other color only visible to players inside the squad) would be good imo.

It’s not a priority since with voicechat it’s not really hard to meet up.. but it would still be a nice addition, right now we target one person and follow him around, but as soon as you spin your camera in another direction you lose the target.

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Yeah, but you can’t just removed the random unorganised zergs.. some people like to play WvW on and off and aren’t as experienced as some of us are, thus they wouldn’t be picked in any groups in this system.

I do like the idea but you can’t get rid of the global badge imo, it’s needed. It would still be a nice addition next to Commander badge for guilds to pick up, because you don’t want puggers to join your organised group and possibly screw up things..

The Commander and his Finances

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I take care of one structure on a map personally.. and there’s multiple people like that on our server who like to “own” something and take care of it, you could ask for small donations in /t to upgrade keeps etc, usually a WvW guild covers the fees with ease..

Most of my siege I buy with badges, except golems because they’re ridicously overpriced.