This week we talk about differences between bad players and “scrubs”.
Bad players lack in the specific qualities that make up a good player. Things like reaction time, tactical know-how, profession knowledge, etc. is what makes up a player and more-so, good players. While good players have enough knowledge, sense and ability to excel in any aspect of video games they undertake, bad players struggle to keep up.
Being a bad player isn’t necessarily a bad thing because at some point everyone was bad. They worked to better themselves in whatever they lacked and sometimes even surpassed experts.
However there are those bad players who are too hardened by ego, laziness and pride to even consider this option. These players are “scrubs” and “scrubs” refuse to improve. They suck at what they do and they will always suck until reality hits them hard enough. They are bad and they should feel bad.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson!
For further reading on scrubonomics, check out:
http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/intermediates-guide.html
Sirlin wrote that article over a decade ago and not much has changed.
What the …. did i just watch, no fire works or pew pew.. the horror
On a serious note, that’s a great idea, As much as i hate to admit it WvW is dieing in the lower tiers. Its not that its any less fun to play, its just the fact that there is a decrease in players, we are starting to see more and more players transfer away because they can’t find a fight.
If this continues for another year we will end up with A: full servers in gold league only or B: 1 super server per league. Either option is depressing.
Server stagnation is also a factor in why players jump ship, in addition to the desire to join a stacked server to win. That’s why I think guesting would be HUGE if implemented for WvW. If you start getting burnt out, you can guest into a fresh and different WvW experience without having to transfer off your home server.
I’d also be thrilled to see how strategies and tactics would evolve. Even in the lower tiers, we’ve already got cross-map communication and coordination. Imagine expanding that level of thinking to cross-matchup play. Green might decide to send some T2 guilds to bully the T6 matchup. In response, Blue might send some of their T3 guilds who are enjoying a healthy lead in their own matchup over to T2 to punish Green for over-extending. Meanwhile, Red might see that Green and Blue are busy with each other and instead send a ton of people over to queue all maps on T8 for some quick points. It’d be crazy and intense.
I want GOM/NSP/FC so I can fight interesting people this week.
I saw Stealth in that fireworks vid … who’re you, and what happened to the real Taquito?
Technically, if it actually were Stealth, you wouldn’t be able to see it.
Yeah lets all leave FC and go join iom on ET cause they are just so skilled.
ET you say? why not join join NSP and relax while you get everything won by the WvW community, or move to BG or JQ and just wait it out till the leagues are over, I hear people are getting ready to xfer to the league winning servers, so I might as well move to a guaranteed win and not care for WvW until this blows over
Day before leagues we all join NSP, get 3 chests every week, league win, and XOXO/SPCA/tM will never get to talk about how our server has bad roamers with no skill ever again!
Really, it’s hard to see the downside.
I welcome you with open arms.
Is that a dagger hidden up your sleeve?
Nope , no dagger here. I like Styx and his playstyle Nsp would be a better place with him here. I even gas up your private jet to make the trip over.
P.s please bring the taco bandit with you.. I have fireworks.
I must warn you. My fireworks kungfu is stronk.
Hello my pals, I guess we are fighting you now
Wait wat
omg I might log in now
Hello all my stealthy, evasive buddies. This is a very simple post with one goal, that is to find out if there is something wrong with this utility! And by this i simply mean, personally 70% of the time im using this skill it does not pull but simply just knocks them down. /:
Is this utility a bit buggy? or?
It’s very buggy, but oh so much fun!
LMFAO to this [WAR] AR zerg for trying to crash our fight club and within 1 minute got completely stomped by the fight clubbers… I had fun spam sitting ur bodies
(I only do so rarely, but it was well deserved in that case.)
On the plus side, ty for bringing more DH to the fight club tho, and the loot bags, they have quite tasty content for watching the rest of our duels
So, does anymore AR wanna come to have friendly duels in GoM BLs, besides those crashing kittens? I only see two here
LOL war tryed doing the same thing to us and got their kitten pushed in by 7 meddling kids from Yarr! GG on the wipe, I hope your emotes echo through eternity!
<3 Yarr
Except for Mooby. He’s a jerk. :P
Horrible demoralizing matchup. Will be glad when the week is over with. It sucks being outnumbered. The matches are fun when they are EVEN
And GOM…how come its never acknowledged we are in a serious slump???
Jukitten wait until leagues! All the servers 20 – 24 are going to have a blakitten facing rank 12 – 15! Kudokitteno Anet
Im losing the inspiration to play and given how AR and DH have mokitten of everything…alot of people have lokitten the desire.
hugs for Melody I’m sorry you’re in a slump, transfers are bad for morale. I’m on a break myself right now!
Apparently I don’t need to come back to the game ‘cause Taquito is solo’ing everyone with fireworks (how ikittenhat even a thing?!).
I’m just trying to do my part to keep these matchups balanced.
El Taquito….I love you! Killing people with fireworks…you are a boss!!!!! I was just talking about how much I loved fireworks last night. You sir, are my new hero!
xD
I’m just disappointed I didn’t get a chance to duel you and Melodey this time around. And it seems the guy with the bounty on me missed out as well.
Horrible demoralizing matchup. Will be glad when the week is over with. It sucks being outnumbered. The matches are fun when they are EVEN
And GOM…how come its never acknowledged we are in a serious slump???
Jukitten wait until leagues! All the servers 20 – 24 are going to have a blakitten facing rank 12 – 15! Kudokitteno Anet
Im losing the inspiration to play and given how AR and DH have mokitten of everything…alot of people have lokitten the desire.
hugs for Melody I’m sorry you’re in a slump, transfers are bad for morale. I’m on a break myself right now!
Apparently I don’t need to come back to the game ‘cause Taquito is solo’ing everyone with fireworks (how ikittenhat even a thing?!).
I’m just trying to do my part to keep these matchups balanced.
hahaha El, you run build i wanted to make for a while now
what weapons do you run? d/d?
edit: ah nvm you run p/p build; i want to make one for d/d with perplexity runes but 6th bonus would be hard to utilize with it
Weapons? None at the moment. I’m using perplexity runes, so weapons are not needed. But normally I run a P/P power build.
btw, Gom, you guys rule – much love and respect for you and yours – you have heart!!
Thanks for that. We’re a stubborn bunch, but there’s no other server I’d rather be a part of.
Pistol Mastery should add Piercing also.
But ricotched is way better than piercing.
Depends on who you are fighting and who they are hiding behind. Honestly, for as lackluster as Pistol main-hand is, we should have the option for both.
Chance to pierce (%50) + chance to Ricochet.
Sounds fun, but it might be to much RNG dependent then.
How so? Pierce might give you the second chance to hit someone (behind your target) that Ricochet might not have given you.
It also helps in that (with Pierce) now you don’t have to worry so much about your positioning around pets, clones, etc. or accepting a reduced chance to hit your intended target (that is behind them).
Wait, I thought with Ricotched the Projectiles work like the Shortbows aa, which would mean that it would hit the nearest enemy as long as he is in range, no matter
where he stands.Setup…
Mesmer clone/phantasm is directly in front of you.
Fruity Mesmer player is creeping behind clone/phantasm.Situation 1: No Ricochet
You shoot Mesmer clone; Mesmer clone takes damage; Mesmer player is safe.Situation 2: I haz Ricochet! (Pistol shots have a 50% chance to bounce to an additional target.)
You shoot Mesmer clone; Mesmer clone takes damage; 50% chance Mesmer player takes damage from a Ricochet.Situation 3: I haz Ricochet! (and if Pistol Master had 50% chance to Pierce)
You shoot Mesmer clone; Mesmer clone takes damage; 50% chance Mesmer player takes damage from a Ricochet or a Pierce.Maybe the bullet did not Ricochet, but it could Pierce. Or vice versa. Or RNG could hate you and just stop at the Mesmer clone.
That means a 50% chance for either a Ricochet or Pierce off the Mesmer clone, not a 100% chance guaranteed that it will be one of those two.
Or at least that’s how I am imagining it. In a perfect world, I want both. :p
But neither of those have an internal cooldown, so theoretically each shot that pierces would have a chance to ricochet to up to 3 additional targets per target hit by the initial shot AND the pierced shots (don’t forget that piercing can hit up to 5 targets). In turn, these ricochet’d shots would ALSO pierce since they inherit the original attack’s attributes and abilities, and create new chances for even more ricochets and more piercing since each bullet is a new element in the chain (sort of like how each individual meteor in a meteor shower can separately hit up to 5 targets).
Now apply this to something like headshot + perplexity runes. You can already interrupt multiple targets from your ricochet’d headshots. If you added piercing, one person could feasibly cripple an entire zerg simply by spamming headshot.
(edited by TeamBattleAxe.3901)