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T8: 5/17/13: FC/ HoD/ ET

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On a side note two eles two guards in a roaming team should be outlawed, holy 100% stability and protection uptime batman.

Im looking at you PAXA.

QQ

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The state of Necromancer

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The problem with that build is the same with all necro build Hackkz….. Necro is an easy a focus target.

Necro is fine until you fight good players, problem is right now there are very few people that take GW2 pvp serious so the perceptions of classes is not really correct all the time. Halfway decent players call targets well and they call targets on necros for the easy stomps, bad players tend to call targets on tanky thieves and tanky memsers because they are annoying while they ignore the necro because the necro does not look to be doing anything fancy just swinging a scepter.

/shrug

If you enjoy the necro fine, just seems silly if you never Tpvp to argue with people that do or even worst to make claims the tops teams are using comps they are because they dont understand a class….. come on good players spend hours just talking about and testing builds and combos for all classes.

Xomox ~Human Necro/Engineer ET

Best Class/Build to Farm Rank in Hotjoins?

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What the most amount of points you have scored in hotjoin with your Mesmer because I reckon I’ll have more on my necro.

Xaragon, I main a necro have had the champ title a long time, yes I top scores all the time in hot join. However I do the same with my mes with much much much much much MUCH less effort its faceroll easy.

Some classes are just very easy to play with low skills caps Mesmer Ranger Thief, nades Engineer, and to some extent War are going to get you easy top scores in hot join. I actually seen a good thief get 580 points and the games before he was high into the 400s. You cant do that on a necro without the treb or a team backing you up best i ever got on necro (solo hot join only) was 480 average is more around low 300s high 200s depending on map.

Lots of forum warrior necros lately spreading misinformation, I main a necro I like necro but its not a good class choice at this point in the game.

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NA T8 Matchup 5/10/13: HoD, FC, ET

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That was with ET in Golanta a few times (who passed up FC owned Klovan…really??) to attack us on the backside for a while until we ran off both servers and proceeded to take back our towers and keep.

I don’t give into conspiracy theories on servers making alliances to double team, but it was so obvious at times last night from viewing the map or watching ET and FC not fight when right in front of each other

I recently transfered from HoD to ET to join BS(basic) and can tell you flat out the 10 of us wandering around EB for just a few minutes were just ganking we passed undefended towers to find a fight with a zerg open field. Ferg or HoD we attacked and so did the pugs that tagged along.

There is no conspiracy and claiming ET and FC are not fighting each other when face to face is just crybaby bull.

Whats messed up is part of the reason i went to ET was because it was the most underpopulated in WvW and I wanted more people to fight….. now HoD is a no show.

At lest Im seeing some mend and vlk around.

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The state of Necromancer

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I find it unlikely that people at the top have really played around that much. Maybe we are totally off base and you have tried every build out there, but I find it highly unlikely. I feel confident saying this because competitive gamers in every game tend to play quite a bit, and just not notice the power of something. They stick to FOTM because they know it will work, and frankly there is no incentive to take the chance.

If you think you have invented a super build that others necros and top necros have not tested you’re nuts. Most are just not forum warriors and spend their time playing.

I used to think the same thing you did about bunkers builds power builds, dagger builds etc… I thought they were good because i did very well with them, until I started playing against better players. Flat out there are other classes that do it better.

There are a ton of builds all over the place for all classes, dont think for a second I and other necros have not tested and tested again anything you think is a god build.

I predicted this months ago, Necros would not have a top spot once players became better and learned how to counter other classes. People figured out very fast how to take a necro out of the picture and how easy it is to control the necro in a fight.

Its a playable class for sure but a one trick pony. Still I do expect to see more necros again when corrupt boon stops failing so often, a faster recharge would help also.

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NA T8 Matchup 5/10/13: HoD, FC, ET

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I dont know about the double team, seemed most the people on my friends list from HoD that are normally in WvW are doing the new PvE content.

HoD numbers just made taking things very easy seemed like Ferg did their normal EB pushing while ET pushed the BLs.

Xomox ~Human Necro/Engineer ET

NA T8 Matchup 5/10/13: HoD, FC, ET

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Good fun I was starting to regret going to HoD worried they would move up to T7. Clearly that wont happen all three of us might be stuck together for some time.

Xomox ~Human Necro/Engineer ET

[Video] Necromancer's Lower Downed HP

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It took the same effort from the necro community to get the DS trait fixed when it was not giving the higher health in DS.

Good job OP. I really have hated losing downstate fights in WvW so kitten fast, Necro should be stronger in downstate.

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Small man/Havoc Crew Tier Consolidation?

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As the worlds greatest warrior this greatly intrigues me and I will join whatever tier is chosen

We already have a few of the worlds greatest warriors in T8 Bulky Boy and Titan but the more worlds greatest warriors the better.

Shout out to KoM, I was doing my normal roaming around when Hobbits found out I was not in exotic gear, he sent gold… even when I returned it feeling bad about just being given gold he insisted and sent it again, so now I have all exotics condition gear thanks to KoM.

If KoM people kill you at least you know they are good peeps.

So whats the current layout of things? I just roam with a guildmate and we are prob xfering, been high tiers for too long and want to get back to some solid small group fighting.

Doubt we’d “lopside” anything but what would be the best server to xfr too in t8?

Really does not matter what server you pick, in your shoes I would pick ET or Ferg incase HoD moves up to T7 (unlikely).

There will be plenty of winnable small scale fights for a 2 man group. However be aware whatever side you chose the people that roam in small groups on T8 are flat out beasts. I have seen a drastic improvement in the player quality roaming in T8 over the last few weeks. I think this thread had convinced players from other servers to join and also motivating solid players in existing large guilds to roam in small packs.

Its actually getting much harder for me to get a ton of kills solo like I used too, however I’m having alot more fun the higher skill level foes have forced me to adjust and improve.

Xomox ~Human Necro/Engineer ET

How do you guys feel about Death Shroud?

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Deathshroud is a terrible mechanic because Anet is balancing Necros at 100% lifeforce.

Problem is getting to 100% lifeforce and even then if you are focused at any point when in deathshroud you just lost your class mechanic and there is no getting it back, nearly impossible as conditions.

I would like to see deathshroud damage lowered and more defense added with utility skills like boon ripping, cripples, etc for condition builds.

Really would like to see new deathshroud skills based on your build/weapon, or even better a choice on what skills the 1-4 deatshroud buttons will have like an engineers f1-f4.

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As the worlds greatest warrior this greatly intrigues me and I will join whatever tier is chosen

We already have a few of the worlds greatest warriors in T8 Bulky Boy and Titan but the more worlds greatest warriors the better.

Shout out to KoM, I was doing my normal roaming around when Hobbits found out I was not in exotic gear, he sent gold… even when I returned it feeling bad about just being given gold he insisted and sent it again, so now I have all exotics condition gear thanks to KoM.

If KoM people kill you at least you know they are good peeps.

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Where does the individual begin to matter?

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On T8 a good 5 man can defend a tower for sometime normal zerg size is 20-30 maybe you stop them maybe not but you will not get rolled in a minute with arrow carts up.

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Looking for a WvW Condition build

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There are two main paths for WvW condition build.

Typical scepter build, or Staff as a condition or hybrid. The staff version is a really good starting point its easier to play and understand.

0.30.20.0.20 or 0.25.20.0.25 or 0.20.20.10.20

They all have a few things in common greater marks and faster staff recharge combined with soul marks. The other trait choices are fairly open.

http://www.intothemists.com/calc/index.php?build=;0_-34;0kHFC0r3FJ-K0;9;5TJ-J;113614;219-K-F4U;1dZH9fgm92VF

Here is one, the idea is to just spam marks use corrupt boon and epidemic. Soul marks is your lifeforce generator you can easily change to wells or spectral if corruption is not to your liking.

Some people might recommend carrion gear, I like rabid gear either is fine.

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Do Life Siphons Builds Really Not Work?

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When you play against higher skilled players you will see its not great build.

The MM version in spvp is fine, sadly pets do not work in WvW.

Still its a fun build to play, I run it in WvW time to time the wells and melee damage on dagger does smash bad players quickly.

However if you are a duelist/roamer that wants the best possible build to handle people that know their class, its a terrible build you will get smashed with no hope vs a good player. Paired with a teammate that has snares stuns or imbo its usefulness starts to go back up again.

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GW2 sPvP is a big fail...

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Well they really need to remove skill queue, and they need to do it hotpatch fix. Its ruining combat.

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Build: Staff+Corruption

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Its a decent build, I like having more conditions damage at least 1000 before I start putting more into power with my staff builds. Dont use pure carrion unless you are sitting far back you will be paper if some targets you. Better to mix rabid and soldiers with just one or two carrion.

Agree with skipping reapers protection the cooldown is far to long and its a skill you cant control.

The terror/fear build is overrated its faceroll easy to play but kind of weak vs good players.

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SOTG Interview: DS To Get a Unique Condition

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C’mon Anet, bring back disease! A necro special from gw1.

This would really be a nice addition and give the necro more group fight potential.

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WvW power builds?

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A good starting point for a pure power build go with knights gear and wells. The basic Axe power build with staff or dagger (I like the staff alot more) 30.0.20.20.0.

For solo running going head to head with players of skill you will get stomped by people worth a thing with a power build. (talking good players here not average)

Pure conditions is serving me better against higher quality targets, however power + wells drops multiple average and below average players faster. I do run a heavy staff focused condition build, kind of like Flows but its all rabid gear.

Necro is hardmode if you want to solo have no doubt.

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You dont seem to have a problem rolling me…. I kept trying to lead you into that BS/FoE group or them to you hoping to get a few kills in the chaos.

I have seen BS people die before but its hard as heck to do with that kitten super mes around. I was so close to getting a stomp on their thief….but nope go go gadget mes saves the day again.

Xom! I didn’t realize that was you last night. I’m trying to get BS and FoE to roll together on a more regular basis. Hallucination (BS Mes & guild leader) is amazing. That was a fun three way fight.

Yes, I got some new gear but looked a bit like a clown with the mismatch sets so spent some badges for devout skins. Now I have a matching noob looking armor skin set.

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Hard core WvWers tier 4 & below.

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I probably should not of commented on your utilities Chip, it derailed the thread a bit. You play what works, since I have not been in 80 v 80 zergs I would not know how bad the lag is.

Perhaps on average T3 and up players are more dedicated, however i think lower tier commanders need another skill set on top of good tactics. The lower tier players on average tend to be less dedicated so it puts that much more pressure on the commanders to keep things exciting for the PvE and very casuals following them around, a few bad fights/wipes and these players leave. I do play objectives time to time and have seen what good commanders need to do with hopping map to map and point to point so the casuals keep moving along and dont leave. Heck I’m often guilty of wandering off to take a camp or chasing kills instead of sticking with the commander take a keep.

Whos to say what takes more skill leading already dedicated WvWs on TS/Vent that play for hours on end… or leading casual players.

Lets all just have a group hug

/hug

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Deffinately a humbling experience being in this environment. Were having to have a lot more conversations about group set up and strategy which is definitely a good thing.

Outside this tier you can roll up with 5 whatever and roll all night long. not so anymore.

You dont seem to have a problem rolling me…. I kept trying to lead you into that BS/FoE group or them to you hoping to get a few kills in the chaos.

I have seen BS people die before but its hard as heck to do with that kitten super mes around. I was so close to getting a stomp on their thief….but nope go go gadget mes saves the day again.

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Can I change targets fast or ping a target for a boon rip into epidemic, sure alot of necros do its kind of the point of condition spec. Sometimes I miss but when it lands its a benefit and worth the extra effort. I dont see the point in arguing, yes I think epidemic or wells would be better choices but perhaps it does not matter because the best choice would be an arrow cart vs a blob of red like that.

Anyway I see you moved to T3 and its lowering skill lag, thats a solid reason for leaving the high tiers. What would you have to say if someone made a thread like you just did but set the lower limit at T2?

Ill give you this, perhaps your commanders are more practiced at ordering a zerg around. I dont fully buy into it as there is no way to prove it. I have seen commanders on Mag when it was still a lower tier do some very slick things as i have seen from some T8 commanders also.

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XII if you are really sick of zergwars just hop on down to T8 and run around solo. You will get a fair amount of 1 v 1, 1 v 2 and up.

Yes you will get steamrolled depending on the class you play if a zerg comes. Just pick places the outmanned buff is up and have at it, you never know if the 3 or 4 running at you are possible kills for a solo player or not possible until you try.

Solo or 2, 3 man teams is a great way to practice and chose builds/gear that work. I dont know if you are a spvp/tpvp player but i know my builds had to change for WvW and how I play is evolving the more WvW I do.

Just stepping into a 5 man group slot is not going to happen these guilds have the group set, and if you are backup for the 5 man team you will end up roaming solo time to time anyway.

Its not so bad solo roaming, until you try your luck with oink and die in two seconds.

The skill/gear gap in WvW is crazy sometimes.

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I doubt once you get into the 30+ zerg range adding another 30 is going to change the tactics.

Anyway I hope those screen shots are not yours, because if they are you lost alot of points in my eyes. Those utility choices are…. not optimal some are ok but not for the kind of fighting you are doing. I can see spectral wall in a zerg fight on a push… but blood is power and spectral walk in a zerg fight… solo sure but not zerg.

I’m sure you are a great commander but this goes to the point of small scale fighters that look for other small scale fighters are just plain going to be better at the class they play and how it interacts with teammates and foes.

Seeing all the red bunched up there and your lack of perhaps the two best utilities in the game for those kinds of fights is a let down. I hate to sound elitist because I’m not at all…. but man why would you not have epidemic and corrupt boon when you are clearly a condition necro?

/shrug

And you lose a lot of points in my eyes for suggesting Epidemic in a 60vs60 zerg fight. The game lag and computer lag, combined with its new line of sight requirement make Epidemic useless in WvW, specially for tower defense.

You clearly have very little experience with 60vs60, and no experience with tower defense. You don’t even browse the necro forums much. If you do, you would not ever mention Epidemic for WvW.

You probably do a lot of 5v5 to 20v20 open field battles, and your opinions are based from that. It just goes to show how different the two game play type is.

So you dont use the two skill based game changer utilities a condition necro has because of lagggggg, yet you claim T1-3 is of a higher skill level…. So you are actually a skilled zerger yet the lag is stopping you from showing your skills, lag my be causing you to just faceroll marks and run around a bit not really targeting anything.

I watched 1 min of your vid I seen targets that are clearly gaurds with a million boons on them… the good player would have selected the target corrupted the boon maybe laydown a few marks then cast epidemic. If lag stops you from doing that well then how do you know if you are a good player or not if you can never do actual combos and just resort to spaming marks?

Even if you land epidemic less then half the time it would be doing a heck of alot more then spectral wall, spectral walk and blood is power. I used to post on the Necro forums alot I stopped wasting my time. WvW necros are a good choice in large scale fights and epidemic is one of those reason.

I don’t always zerg but when I do I chose Epidemic.

(wells are also a good choice but I run them mostly with power builds)

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I doubt once you get into the 30+ zerg range adding another 30 is going to change the tactics.

Anyway I hope those screen shots are not yours, because if they are you lost alot of points in my eyes. Those utility choices are…. not optimal some are ok but not for the kind of fighting you are doing. I can see spectral wall in a zerg fight on a push… but blood is power and spectral walk in a zerg fight… solo sure but not zerg.

I’m sure you are a great commander but this goes to the point of small scale fighters that look for other small scale fighters are just plain going to be better at the class they play and how it interacts with teammates and foes.

Seeing all the red bunched up there and your lack of perhaps the two best utilities in the game for those kinds of fights is a let down. I hate to sound elitist because I’m not at all…. but man why would you not have epidemic and corrupt boon when you are clearly a condition necro?

/shrug

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3-5 man teams: Some people are a little bit selfless and choose not to help their server I guess.

Lower tier fighting: can your guild leader have 20-30 people on him and out of a 45 min non stop battle (using siege, terrain, flanking, stealth, quick reaction) wipe a non stop 60 man force (T3 Yaks bend)? Which by the way was so much fun, and so many loot bags !

Can your commanders, while outnumbered, wipe away or even push back enemy zergs in T2?

Have any idea how much teamwork and organization this takes? Well not as much as lower tiers need I’ll say that much.

A “commander” leading 40-80 people who are ALL PRESSING 1 -2 SKILLS…….our 5 man uses 30-50 skills EACH in one fight….and win against 2/3/4x our number…..what is your argument for how building siege? coordinating 30 people to press 1 when hit by another zerg? spamming portal bombs and sitting on arrow carts make you hardcore at all…..like i said in previous post, “You carebears don’t even realize what hardcore pvp looks like”

Blah blah blah. If you can produce a video of your 5 man group wiping an ORGANIZED guild group of 20+ I will be impressed.

More than likely you just farm unorganized pugs lol. That is carebear PvP.

I seen them do it, seen other roaming groups do it also…. anything you can do these types of players can do better. A skilled pvper can excel and any part of the game if they chose too.

Lets bring some real world studies into this debate….Small companies have more capable individuals with a greater skill set then larger companies that do the same thing. I wont waste time explaining why that is.

I have seen T1 guilds step into Tpvp (I know its not the same as WvW) and get smashed by solo pug groups like myself. After they lost 4 or 5 (in a row?) I never seen them again. Im sure there are some great individual and small team players in T1-T3 but I will 100% tell you they did not become good by doing WvW, they had to of played a ton of Tpvp as a team.

The Lower tiers small elite groups lead to each individual player having greater skill, there is no buffer of a wall or arrow carts.

Also the commanders on lower tiers are just as good as higher, if you are on a high tier thinking you are doing some crazy tactics that no one in a lower tier has the brainpower to come up with….. you really are clueless.

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T8: 5/3 HoD/FC/ET

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No. Some TTA who were kitten about my guild reported me for no reason. I already made a ticket and over night they told me that they won’t revert it.
God that kitten es me off. I need to rename 6 of my 8 characters.

How silly.

Bob from fightclub had moobs, and he was still a man.

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This is why spvp isn't good in my opinion

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There’s not enough 5 man groups to have a premade q, it would take forever to pop, and you would play the same team over and over

Too bad then they wait, right now people getting stomped by premades its causing more to leave PvP.

Heck even hot join is getting bad with guilds all picking one side stomping new low rank players and mocking them. I had to help a new player rank 6 in my guild in Spvp because guilds are stacking on one side more and more now.

Anet MUST make a true RA format Spvp is quickly turning into guilds cheating the system to smash low ranks. At least in Tpvp people have an idea what to expect.

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Root/dodge bug destroying pvp

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Skill que is annoying, Dodge being part of it is gamebreaking

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I have seen 5 man roaming teams on T8 wipe 20+ in the open field. There are roaming guilds that have moved to lower tiers so they can roam with 3-5 man groups ignoring all objectives they are just in it for the fights.

You’re a necro and you like large scale fights…. I totally understand, ping a target in a zerg its instant 25 stacks of bleeds then you epidemic the target…… its a simple it works.
A good small scale group vs group fight in the open field is more epic then 60 v 60, at least they are for me. DAoC style roaming groups when a skilled group could wipe legions… ah those were the days.

Too each their own

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Does anyone from FoE read this thread?

Doubt it,

Good folks fun to duel and fight have a few on friends list.

If you are wondering and I’m sure you, they think PAXA is a hard fight at least a couple of them commented when you hit them while they were trying to take a tower from Ferg last night.

They do play objectives so are not leveling chars specifically to make ideal WvW group vs group team makeups like PAXA does, still they would probably group v group if you wanted.

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"Don't interrupt duels" the movie.

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Strange place to duel

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Small man/Havoc Crew Tier Consolidation?

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It will be something to see overtime if people stick to their guns with the group vs group fights. Will the losers eventually zerg? I say most will turn to greater numbers if they are handed a few loses in a row, the only people I seen not call in more people was BS they changed group make up came back and got us. Everyone else comes back with more people without fail.

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About that "unofficial dueling"

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The OP sounds like the type that wants to ban everything and anything he does not like or do even if its has no effect on him. There have always been and always will be these types around, they make flimsy emotional claims about how an activity is bad/wrong but really all the want to do is stop others enjoyment or seek control. If they get their way they move to the next activity and try to stop others from doing that, over and over the cycle continues.

We must stand strong duelers and unite against the people like Itwasntme, they hate us for our freedom.

Anyway

Champions of armies fighting each other in single combat has a long rich history, does not seem out of place at all that people would duel in GW2 every MMO I have played had an elite bunch that constantly dueled.

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About that "unofficial dueling"

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Yeah the last few days I have not gotten a single badge in WvW, all I did was duel. Had a great time doing it and it hurt no one.

I think you seen a chance to get some badges by stomping downed players you could never have downed on your own. If you feel so strongly against dueling run in and kill the people dueling to your hearts content, there is nothing stopping you.

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T8: 5/3 HoD/FC/ET

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Looooooool, hide inside towers? You don’t understand the method to my madness my friend

I would not of posted a thing, I’m more into the solo/duels/small group part of WvW. You just came off a little odd in your post, my first impression of you was someone that runs from even numbers and hides in a tower for hours asking where the Ferg/ET zerg is LOLing in map chat over your greatness. While myself and a few others were having a great time defending camps from the mighty Ferg zerg of 3-4 players and the huge ET zerg of one lost pver looking for vistas.

I really cant comment on your overall method or madness I dont have much play time with you or HoD. I just wanted to make sure everyone understood when you used the word ‘I’ that it was not actually you solo wiping the whole ET server breaking their moral.

Anyway lets have a blast this weekend and Ferg try not to get stomped so hard by Lin anymore.
ET I know it wont be easy, but dont let Lin beat you so bad you dare not even enter a zone that he is in.
/cheers

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T8: 5/3 HoD/FC/ET

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Lol was fun taking EB this morning!
@FC you guys need to get a better commander or something, we wiped you SEVEN times at Bravost, back to back…. twice at Quentin
@ET did I break your morale?

lol did you break their morale? Sorry I have to keep it real for you.

The time of day you play HoD has huge numbers. I have watched you hide inside towers/keeps when numbers are even or HoD has more, you could not hack it with lower numbers champ, you dont know when to attack and just wipe even/lower numbers foes so HoD can then move on to take more targets. I would guess its part of the reason HoD dropped out of T7.

Good thing HoD has a few commanders with guts and solid tactics taking objectives else we would be backed into our starting gate reading you brag about wipping a group of 10 ferg with a 50 man hod zerg and 10 arrow carts.

Of course thats just my opinion I could be wrong.

Xomox ~Human Necro/Engineer ET

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This one time solo roaming on my necro I seen 5 people running at me, so I used the best and only leave the area fast option for a necro. I ported away before I was put into combat.

Necros tend to be the ones people get away from, I cant count how many times I get a 1 v 1 or even a 2 v 1 that im winning and the mother kittening zero risk classes run away with ease. (this is not an invitation for advice from some wvw/pver, quality foes get away if they want to from a necro)

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If anet ever did WoW style arena you would be nothing. In GW2 smashing pugs adds to your win count making the ranking invalid in the eyes of any true pvper.

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Tpvp daily results in even worst solo play

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Yes, had my tpvp wins long ago today but I just like doing tpvp solo time to time higher level of play….

Used to be all worth it ran at about 55-60% win rate, would sometimes get a full solo group of solid players that know what to do and beat guild voice chat teams. Or a group of two three players that joined together and you fill in slots and a good pug team.

It was not perfect but there was hope for a solo player that tried. Now……. its stuff like the picture below Red team was a full guild voice chat group I have played against before and won with a solo group. Red team was good players but they can be beat like anyone, I downed people at least 10 times with not a single kill due to the low ranks being nothing more then rally bait or flat never ever helping rez or stomp in a downstate fight. First game I ever just stopped playing.

Fix the kittening matchmaking Anet, if there are no groups in que for a full group to face MAKE THE FULL GROUP WAIT.

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Solo que was ok before Anet added the tpvp daily req. Most people that did tpvp were decent and came to tpvp to win so tried. Now tpvp is flooded with pve trolls there just for the daily reward, the number of leavers is at an all time high when the pve folks see the score is just a little behind they leave.

It would be fine if solo que did not end up against high rank voice chat guild teams but it still does over and over and over again.

Just make a Tpvp full group or full solo, right now you are ‘forcing’ pve players into a game mode they dont care about so they can get the kitten pve gear.

Yeah it got more players into Tpvp, but at the cost of the solo/non full group tpvp players sanity.

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Good reason why S/D thief is fun

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Its a troll build/class you should never die running it but you can pick up kills just by jumping in when someone is weak.

The risk vs reward is way off.

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Thief - too much evade, cleanse and port?

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Stealth/rogue classes tend to have high damage and a great opening attack. The down side was weaker defense and it was for the most part a ALL IN type of class.

So planning mattered (DAoC SB, and Melee ranger, WoW rogue) Anet made something new a class without prema stealth but with a million stealth resets and stealth that does not break on damage.

Its faceroll its stupid design, I gave it a chance as i try to all new things. I would be ok with old damage of a thief if it did not come with a ton of resets and unbreakable stealth. This is actually the first MMO I have ever played my main is not a stealth class… because in this game thiefs are faceroll low skill cap garbage that will forever be OP or UP because of the massive amount of resets and movement built into the class.

Making stealth unbreakable lowers the skill cap for a stealth class a huge amount, so something must be weaker damage or movement/get away skills.

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Only a bad thief loses to a necro no matter how good the necro is. Thief is a faceroll easy to play class like Mesmer they should beat you and if they dont they are truly bad. The best you can do against a good thief with that build is delay the death that’s coming.

Its a bad matchup necro marks just dont have what it takes to drop a thief thats not pure glass, it would help if Anet puts greater marks with faster recharge in one triat.

Dont stress it you bring more to small scale fights. Yes i agree its a pain fighting a thief same with mesmer its not about skill its about the amount of fighting with the GUI you have to do constantly, you fight the GUI more then the class.

Stupid design.

thieves and d/d eles are the hardest to play…..play well at that. mesmers are easy. tell u what. give me 3 choices of class to pick. ill play it and beat you one on one atleast half thetime. all i have truly mastered is thief. so u will ahve the advantage. then tell me how easy it is.

Thieves are easy to play have a very low skill cap, I would put mesmer a little above them on taking skill to play but not by much.

You might take a node but drop me on a thief, never, unless I chose to let you kill me, the class has a million reset/leave the area skills. The topic of the thread as i understood it was not really about power level but about stupid design, at least that’s the way i took it.

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@BS Mesmer

Was only so long until that 1v1 would get interrupted haha. Good fight none the less, looking forward to running into your small man group this week.

Also ran into a small BS(basic) group, it was good fun they had a Mes, Warrior, and Necro. Changed to a Thief, Warrior, Mes after we got them the first time.

I was the human necro with the char warrior, good fights Mes you are the first Mesmer I have seen worth anything in WvW ever. (but dont terrain exploit you’re better then that).

ET has some solid players, got my best 1 v 1s against ET people. FG people seem to just zerg and are really really really really bad in small scale actually won 1 v 2 and 1 v 3s against them multiple times with a poorly geared necro, makes me want to invest in gear and play WvW instead of just Tpvp, see if I can 1 v4 or 1 v 5 some FG folks.

Cheers

Fight club is thursday night by the green BL windmill. Looks like you have laid down a challenge to FC’s champions, will you be there and let your weapons do the talking?

Plus after your opening night numbers and the big zergs we saw in our BL, I thought HoD were like SF (I had terrible flashbacks), so glad that I was wrong as the weekend panned out, such a close match-up and so glad of the good battles.

Welcome to the best tier in WvW (please don’t tell anybodys so we can keep it to ourselves).

Is fight club still happening?

Yarr from Ferg was there and made a good showing, cant wait for next week fight club.

WvW is turning out a great change from Tpvp. I think ill keep at it and even work on exotic cond. gear.

Xomox ~Human Necro/Engineer ET

Thief - too much evade, cleanse and port?

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Only a bad thief loses to a necro no matter how good the necro is. Thief is a faceroll easy to play class like Mesmer they should beat you and if they dont they are truly bad. The best you can do against a good thief with that build is delay the death that’s coming.

Its a bad matchup necro marks just dont have what it takes to drop a thief thats not pure glass, it would help if Anet puts greater marks with faster recharge in one triat.

Dont stress it you bring more to small scale fights. Yes i agree its a pain fighting a thief same with mesmer its not about skill its about the amount of fighting with the GUI you have to do constantly, you fight the GUI more then the class.

Stupid design.

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lol, Ungood he was not even talking smack to you. You chose to jump in on a perfectly normal pvp smack talk, of course he is going to respond.

Anyway nothing wrong with a little smack talk.

Dont be so hard on yourself ET, your sever is clearly outnumbered with terrible off hour coverage, but look on the bright side on average your players individual skill level is higher then HoD and Ferg.

@ codiac Yeah I did a really cheesy move with the new arrow cart. Built one on the south ruins and was wreaking people. The carts are a little too strong with the larger range and damage, Anet should of just gave one or the other not both. I see more people doing what i did a small group with an arrow cart is going to crush zergs in the open fields. Camps will be held with them against much greater numbers.

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Need a subsection to just talk about the small group fights, I feel out of place talking about small scale fights and duels.

Anyway starting to see solid Ferg players, I was just looking in the wrong spot. I tend to go where I can get the outmanned buff, when I went into battle grounds that give Ferg the outmanned buff I ran into the small group roamers. That would not run from 1 v 1s, good fights

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Good fight at the Bay and last tower ET

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Aye necro is not ideal in WvW roaming and to be fair the people I grouped with are also solo roamers so above average skil. Still necro is not terrible it has builds that work vs the mass of below average players. With all the in your face melee and people that stand in one spot with no stun breaks its auto win. Against someone with a basic understanding of when to backup and a stun breaker its not a hard build to beat.

Actually got rocked 1 v 1 by a smart guardian 3 times. Could not touch a BS(basics) Mes, and ET night crew had this Eng Mes combo that my only answer for was to run away, so dont get me wrong there are solid players, they just seem to all be from ET so far.

Anyway dueling is one of my favorite things to do in an MMO so im 100% up for it. I should have the gear for a hybrid power conditions build soon.

All three severs seemed to be evenly matched, ET with the smaller numbers but greater skill, Ferg and HoD with the well commanded zerglings. Good fun.

Xomox ~Human Necro/Engineer ET

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