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7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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I find this funny too, because SoR is very lucky Anet has kept the rally/downed state in place. If they ever decide to remove it, a certain server may find themselves way down the rankings :P I’ve never seen any server’s front line drop like theirs does lol.

Have you fought TC or BG or JQ or DB ? Happens all the time on every server unless you are fighting one of the better guilds…. even then at times even some of them are mostly dead within the first 2 seconds of a fight.

How much celestial gear is best?

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The only thing celestial gear accomplishes for our class is making us mediocre across the board.

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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Forums appear to be bugging out atm

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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Interesting forum bug ….

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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Good GvG today [RE]. Shame those SoR [FEAR] & [TW] trolls in [BG] tags had to come rolling in at the end.

Final Score: [RISE] 3 to 0 [RE]

Woah, you better slow down with that. There was absolutely no TW involved. We ported back to garrison and then into EB long before any of that happened. I suggest that you get yours facts straight before blasting someone on the forums. I expect you to man up and retract that statement and issue an apology.

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7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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I’m not making fun or belittling, I’m just a bit surprised is all. I’m not specced for 1v1. I do a lot of roaming, but I’m not specced particularly for it.

Ability to 1v1 is not only gear/spec dependent itself, but the class involved can make it vastly more do. For instance, if I catch a staff ele out in the open when I have my roaming gear on….. free points. They can’t run and they cant hurt me… and there is nothing they can do about it no matter how good of a player they are. (well unless they get help or have somewhere real close to run)

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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Well I spent the bulk of my day watching people run from me. From some of the big name guilds too. I looked behind me to see if maybe there was a massive TC zerg, but nope. I really am quite terrible, you guys should stop running, haha

I’m not a big fan of spvp .. but I guess I’ll find the fights I’m looking for when I head back to EU.

There are objectives to be had, fires to be put out. You are just a meaningless blip on the road.

Not everyone is specced for small man either. I won’t touch a 1v1. When I run, it is me admitting defeat and saving both you and me the waste of time.

Truth to this. Two things happen when I get jumped. I either run from the thief, or the thief runs from me …and it is entirely dependent on gear/spec. Farming thief gear != farming zerg gear.

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I don’t command Raif.

I do have different gear sets depending on what I am doing though But yeah, my toughness is low. That is what I am sacrificing to hit harder because I seldom find myself in trouble.

When I am running havoc or doing GvG’s I run something different.

And yeah, I was counting guard stacks for the total health. I dont have the power stacks too at the moment unless we get get a point reset again.

Edit: Keep in mind that you can still maximize power along with toughness and vitality as the trade-off of crit/crit damage. You can come in around 65% crit damage, 50% crit with fury and still have extremely high pvt if you do something like slot beryls in the accessorys’ slots.

Personally, I would rather lose some crit damage to have several hundred more power. The difference it makes is pretty big.

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Also keep in mind with staff, your bigger problem is going to be things like retaliation if you use your range and escape tools effectively. You can afford to drop armor for damage as long as you keep your vitality up.

Edit: I was referring to 20kish health with guard stacks. You only have 10 less vitality than me, so we are comparable. I realize I shouldn’t factor them in, but quite honestly it is not uncommon for me to get stacks and never lose them once for my entire play period unless gravity sneaks up on me and owns me…. kitten in game physics.

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Raif you are confusing power and attack power…..

With Sharpening stone, blood lust (removing food cause we use different.. mine adds 200 after first kill, yours is a static 100):

Power/Attack Power
You: 1977 / 2987
Me: 2451 / 3562

This is why most ele’s say celestial gear sucks for us… because the drop off in damage from it is astronomical.

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No… just no. Too many reasons why for me to list them.

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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FEAR would like to welcome [BG] “Sponsored by Nike” to SOR. You guys did very well on the battlefield. Your team will be a great addition to our community. We could use the numbers in oceanic time. See you guys on the battlefield.

Those guys are fast. I had a hard time keeping up with them last night.

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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There are zergs.

There are blobs.

A blob is never a zerg but a zerg can be a blob.

Honestly, I am tired of people using the phrase I coined so many months ago incorrectly. Most of what people are complaining about are zergs, not blobs. Very few blobs actually get ran any more because the meta has moved on now that people have figured out how easy they are to beat outside of tight quarters.

With that said, adding things to the word ‘blob’ like super-walmart-mega-superstore-gigantic-voltron-blobs is beyond silly. They simply don’t go together period, and never did.

Thanks.

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2651 power & 112% crit damage I would not see ‘routine’ meteor showers at 11k. That is running both air traits, the water trait, and the earth trait.

So what is your power at before might? I don’t think is can be higher by much. The extra 15% crit damage from running your zerker gear isn’t going to make 11k routine regardless.

I do agree with you that full zerker is foolish because retail will own you. You can dish out high damage and still keep your health around the 20k mark to help you deal with that. I also don’t recommend even my current gimmick build to anyone not good at staying out of trouble because with the low toughness. I only switch to it because I was going days/weeks at a time without dying in my old build and felt like I could bump up my damage.

Also, the celestial gear is garbage for an ele imo, so I wouldn’t recommend that for anyone.

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Lolwut?

Well, sry. I dont do PvE and in WvW you wont land it this perfectly vs any player that is not, hm… never mind.

You can do this without a wall against a player though. Left a couple of lines to show overlap point.

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I am confused now.

Are we complaining about bragging or complaining about night capping? Are we mocking the bragging, the night capping, or the complaining about either?

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i think u should read it again. I see a guy saying that chest thumping, while hitting an out manned force isnt classy.I didnt see him complaining about u guys getting points

If he were complaining about chest thumping in general, then that would be fine. But he’s saying that SEA has no right to brag because they win by outnumbering their opponents. Outnumbering your opponents has been how you win WvW since day one. So no quotation marks necessary, SEA is dominating their timezone.

Try reading it all again. First you missed the point and now you are injecting something that wasn’t there.

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Thank you covenn for attempting to provide a screenshot. However, Caffynated is right.

I wasn’t disagreeing with him. I just wanted to make sure he got the point of my post and it looked like he did from his response.

Edit: Is it possible with 25 might stacks and the gimmick build I mentioned to hit 10k on a fireball with all the conditions met for all the damage increases? maybe…. but its not something to mention outside of laughing at an amazing one off hit on something.

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Perhaps upleveled or a glass cannon…

2651 power with power stack + 200 power on kill (i was running that at the time) / 112% crit damage. (unsure of might stacks at the time)

Roughly 50% higher damage on meteor shower over fireball… and it could have potentially been a hit much harder from base due to the gimmick build I have been playing with 0/30/10/10/20 and the % increasers.

Star alignment

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7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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I’d rather not get involved, but I don’t see any complaining. Take a look at page 7 and you tell us which server is “complaining”.

Hey I found where it went bad on page 7!

We do not mind providing bags as long as we keep you boxed up in your peppered garri – you know the one that has more holes in it than Swiss cheese……as your PPT plummets. But hey, my bad, I forgot you guys do not play for PPT……

Right up at the top where your server mate bragged about PPT Which was then responded to by someone mentioning playing against doors… right on queue as the expected response.

Seems like a complete rehash of months of SoR/BG forum posting and we are still not tired of it yet.

(Edit: lets keep it real here, it has been one server or the other flame baiting like this forever… this is the stuff that needs actual moderation)

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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I’d rather not get involved, but I don’t see any complaining. Take a look at page 7 and you tell us which server is “complaining”. I’m sure TC could figure it out as well. The thread was going well. All I see is people from your server throwing accusations & names at us yet again. Sure, some people from all servers can’t control what they post but come on. A thread doesn’t have to get nasty to be entertaining, BG/KN/TC was just fine.

So much for not getting involved. You just jumped right on in. My advice: Don’t let any of it get in your mouth, nose, or eyes.

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You don’t need to have true 24/7 coverage to cover a 12k stretch…it happens by chance and circumstance, like when one side shows up and the other doesn’t.

The logic lacking there is when it repeatedly happens in the same time slot for a period of time. Then it is not chance or circumstance, but strictly a population issue. It is what it is, no need to try to make it into something it is not.

We have been playing this game for months and should be well aware of how coverage effects the score by the end of the week. A NA server has little control over what goes one during non-NA hours when the bulk of their potential player base is at work/school/whatever.

It’s not like this is a ground breaking discovery by this point…..

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7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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It amazes me that BG can put on 12k points between 2am and 10am PDT, and still come on these forums to complain about SoR.

It is the same propaganda from the same people for months. What amazes me isn’t that it is being done, it is that they still think people believe them.

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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Nobody gets to complain about outmanned but TC! And we don’t complain cos we like no repair bills :p

I wasn’t complaining. I was just pointing out what I saw.

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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I think this has a lot to do with your fair-weather population not wanting to queue up.

Fair weather not showing up? Being in the lead going into oceanic hours doesn’t drive fair weathers away. If anything, any we had would be more likely to play.

In other words, your comment does not compute.

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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SoR has huge SEA zergs roaming around right now. You have the players, stop complaining.

SoR has to defend paper things while BG can go on full offense with T3 stuff. Besides, BG does have more numbers in SEA to an extent they can queue 3-4 maps.

BG has EB que’d right now, thats it.

SoR out manned in three of four. Now /shrug

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Mist form ftw ?

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Pretty much spot on with that…. stars aligning on another player. Not in full zerker gear as I still have around 20k health with guard stacks, but umm yeah.

Meteor shower does over 50% more damage than fireball. WvW is full of uplevels.

Point missed ? Unsure

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Its a shame SoR won’t fight in open field unless that have like a blob with them =/. They won’t even fight if its like 20v40 they must bring like 80 people with them x.x

This is why we can’t have nice things in these match up threads…..

What is the most dmging weapon combo...

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Scepter/Dagger has highest ST burst

Staff has highest AE burst

Need some tips

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Alt 1-4 attune
Rebound Strafes to A/D (use mouse to turn left/right)
Q/E/D/C/X are bound to what would be the default 6-0 slots
Dodge/Take target/Auto run on extra mouse buttons

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FGS is not 100% reliable – you need a wall

Therefore, the most damaging weapon SET is FGS + Wall. gg

You don’t need a wall. Lightning flash works too.

As requested by the 4 eles from last night

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I run a comparable build gear wise, but for staff. I just drop toughness down (since I am at range and good at avoiding damage) and keep my health at shy of the 20k mark with guard stacks.

Obviously spec is different as 20 arcane is needed for blasting staff. It is also a little gimmicky because I focus on spiking low health targets, finishing downs, and keeping blobs back on their heals.

2451 power with stacks / 112% crit damage.

Depending which food, base crit before fury at 42% or 37% (with base power at 2651 after first kill.. run that food often when i know there will be large fights constantly)

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Because devs have a talent for nerfing fun :P
Seriously, it shows some things that might seem overpowered like the fiery greatsword 4+lightning flash behind to stack the fields thing. I doubt they wanted to make the ability like that.

Yeah I doubt that they did. I would post a screenshot of just how nasty it is, but I don’t want it nerfed.

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Fiery Great Sword

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Pretty much spot on with that…. stars aligning on another player. Not in full zerker gear as I still have around 20k health with guard stacks, but umm yeah.

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well with this new match up system.

SoR will be kicked out of T1 this week and JQ will be back to T1.

so there may be some guilds moving again . . .

There are no longer any tiers. I think this should be readily apparent by the fact that the 5th ranked server is in a match-up against #1 and #2….

I use the term t1 is two ways first representing the servers is the top 3 spots (SoR/BG/JQ) I consider them “tier 1” servers based off the older tier system. Also I would use “tier” to describe what group the server is in. For example JQ is in the tier 2 match, Thats not necessarily calling them a Tier 2 server. People are just referring to the groups of servers by tiers. So they technically aren’t wrong, it just not the same as it was before the RNG match making.

Did you even read the post from the person I quoted? Just curious.

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well with this new match up system.

SoR will be kicked out of T1 this week and JQ will be back to T1.

so there may be some guilds moving again . . .

There are no longer any tiers. I think this should be readily apparent by the fact that the 5th ranked server is in a match-up against #1 and #2….

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DB is up 42.606 points at update. I expected a little more out of the “T1” servers, especially with Green getting a glitched tower for free.

Even if you got blown out, you would most likely gain rating. You shouldn’t have an expectation of otherwise if you understand how this is effected by the RNG they added to the match-ups.

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BG destroyed both servers when there was a lower tier server in the mix, but to show true superiority BG needs to become a King maker. BG needs to choose who becomes second place. Then they will truly put JQ and SOR in their place.

Dominating NA prime time on a NA server is what is actually required. Until that happens…… /shrug

With the amount of times that Anet has very vocally, very clearly, and without ambiguity, come out and said “WvW is a 24 hour game and is about how well a server can maintain their score 24 hours a day for the match”, it absolutely baffles me how people on the most populous servers in the game are still deluded enough to argue that off-NA-Hours playtime is less valid than NA primetime play.

It is definitely a foolish thing to say. However at this time SOR needs to find ways to rally it’s fairweather populous and touting themselves as dominating NA probably helps with this, though their NA performance to date in this matchup hasn’t been very spectacular given the number of recent guilds they’ve obtained.

Nah, that was something he injected into the conversation that wasn’t there.

This is a 24 hour a day game and worrying about time slots you don’t play in is pointless.

Edit: I am curious about what fair weather population you think we have though…. our coverage is what it has been for weeks. The only difference is that BG ahs come out to play again in the time slots they have always dominated numbers in. I just wish your NA players would come back out and play. You have the numbers.

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What is the big deal with paying repair costs 2 or 3 times a week? Big deal.

7/19 BG-SoR-DB

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Well i would not expect any less from the SOR forum trolls in here. You call BGs server crap and our guilds crap, and make EVERY excuse in the book….. I only have 1 thing to say to all your comments about BG and coverage and 2v1 and everything you spew forth from your mouths……

You are LOSING by 46 THOUSAND points right now…….. there is nothing else to say, no witty comeback, no snide remark that will get you those points back, no excuse you can use will get you the lead either! If you want to win then come take it from us. Until then you are nothing to us but 2nd place. So use all the excuses you want but as of right now BG is WAXING the floor with you.

/commence the SOR excuses and whining now.

It must be from all that stacking we are doing.

Nice post btw, I want to print it out and put it on my fridge with a gold star.

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A question why transfer to SoR, infact why transfer at all?

Yeah, it’s not even that they left, it’s where they went that makes everyone laugh. That and the nonsense excuses when they could just man up and admit that they’d rather join a winner than play to be a winner.

Does not compute.

JQ has more wins than SOR.
BG won last week (and will this week too).

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SoR NA havn’t done anything special neither without JQ . . .

There is nothing special left, just routine bag collection. I kept hoping for a 2v1 for weeks from BG and JQ during NA hours, even blatantly asking for it in the match-up threads, and it never happened.

Anyways…. Just trying to keep the game interesting. Glad DB is in the match this week, its nice to have an opponent that stays and fights for a change.

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it absolutely baffles me how people on the most populous servers in the game are still deluded enough to argue that off-NA-Hours playtime is less valid than NA primetime play.

Who made that argument? Looks like something you injected into a comment that was never there to begin with. I agree with you, this is a 24 hour a day game and worrying about time slots you don’t play in is pointless.

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BG destroyed both servers when there was a lower tier server in the mix, but to show true superiority BG needs to become a King maker. BG needs to choose who becomes second place. Then they will truly put JQ and SOR in their place.

Dominating NA prime time on a NA server is what is actually required. Until that happens…… /shrug

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Top WvW or GvG …they are two different beasts.

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Air 5: Great if you have aim of a god or the enemy is stupid enough to walk into it. Otherwise it’s only good for comboing with Earth 2.

No.

This is perhaps the single best ability in the entire game.

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Wow, I have seen just about possible complain in this game…. but this one trumps them all. A guardian complaining about survivability? Wow.

Is this a troll post?

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Reality check. There were exactly 2 TW online this morning in WvW. Not sure about now, but I was leveling an alt gasp some so I am 100% sure my number is accurate. Nice try though Joe