The Costume Brawl Thread

[Bobby2]

Originally Posted by Martin Alvito

Two probable issues:

1) If you were good and you wanted to play melee, you'd be on a Sin. Therefore, people playing Warrior are terrible.
2) It's the class that's being botted.

Warriors have a run skill. GOGO!

[~ Dan ~]

Originally Posted by Sarevok Thordin

Some freakish retards will BERATE you for trying to cap that shrine....followed by colourful language.

You get these teams on the 3 shrine map who insist on holding center to win. So you go 5-0 up, sit there for respawns, and then instead of taking the fight to the other team, kill them some more and finish the game quickly, they insist on waiting at center doing nothing whilst the other team caps buffs.

It amazes me.

[ousbique]

Originally Posted by Bobby2

Warriors have a run skill. GOGO!

Battle cry > Enraged

So i propose this CB should be renamed to "sin brawl" or "palmstrike Arena". So many Nika's/Anton clones in each teams, it's just ridiculous.

[Feathermoore Rep]

@DivinePimp: Monks should probably be running all Disciples Insignias + the 4 condition redux runes. The last rune doesn't matter, nothing left good to put there. Then you should have a Piercing Sheild and a Lightning Shield with a 20/20 wand. Also a second weapon set with a 20/20 offhand.

You can run swift as the wind if you like. It will give you 40% redux on cripple duration. Which on the 4s duration of PS's cripple is 2.4 seconds. (think GW rounds down but not positive)

But personally I'd rather have the extra +25 armor from shield/insig combo.



And on the 3-shrine map, its always rush center, and hold. Well rushing BC first then center if you spawn that side is acceptable, but if you win the 5v5 fight it doesn't matter on that map. You can't out kite and cap on that map. The only possible way is to make it through their spawn portal to avoid being snared in the middle and ganked.

So essentially you can just sit on the center and win once you hold the advantage. Teams fall apart HARD on this map, when you kill a couple players each rez period. Cuz they generally wind up rushing back in to try n save their players, but its too late, So they all die. So instead of just going down 3 or 4 points they go down like 7-8.

[DivinePimp]

@Feathermoore Rep: Thank you for the information, I'll put it to good use as well as all other info on this thread for a good monk.

Just hope I don't get all these inept random teammates you all keep talking about.

Edit: For the Disciples Insignia, will I really have that much conditions on CB to the point where I'll need four Disciples? Wouldn't it be safer to go with Stalwart? I don't know, as I don't have that much experience in CB.

[WnxChild]

Originally Posted by Rhamia Darigaz

your weapon sets tell me you aren't as good as you seem to think you are. that, or you shamelessly admit that the "decent" players carried you through that streak.

You're terribly wrong. Infact I'm always the one who leads my team, split tactics etc.

It's Costume Brawl, not Codex or any other PvP arena.

[Feathermoore Rep]

@DivinePimp: Yes Stalwart would be a safer option. Personally I'd probably go with Disciples just because if your facing a sin, warrior, ranger, or ele, your bound to have a condition on you if you being attacked.

Esp against a sin. So +20 vs sins and +10 versus other melee is still better than nothing. But if your going to be killed your going to have conditions on you. So i'd roll with Disciples.

[Lihinel]

Anet: We fixed synching.
World: /point
/laugh


No seriously, 5 man synch?
I have seen 2 & 3 a lot, but 5?

[garethporlest18]

I saw SuB out syncing and they whooped us. But I think they are better at DA then they are at CB.

[Feathermoore Rep]

Just go to asian district. 3-2-1 sync. Every time. Easy for 5 man to get in.

[~ Dan ~]

Originally Posted by Lihinel

No seriously, 5 man synch?
I have seen 2 & 3 a lot, but 5?

Synched a team of 5 today. 2 sins, 2 monks, 1 ele, rolled everything until a solid team on our 14th beat us 20-17. Great fun.

Originally Posted by Feathermoore Rep

Just go to asian district. 3-2-1 sync. Every time. Easy for 5 man to get in.

^ Truth

[AKB48]

yeah, just sync and hope your teammates are better than you, that's how you win.


GG.

[Mr. Undisclosed]

Originally Posted by DivinePimp

@Feathermoore Rep: Thank you for the information, I'll put it to good use as well as all other info on this thread for a good monk.

Just hope I don't get all these inept random teammates you all keep talking about.

Edit: For the Disciples Insignia, will I really have that much conditions on CB to the point where I'll need four Disciples? Wouldn't it be safer to go with Stalwart? I don't know, as I don't have that much experience in CB.

It doesn't really make sense to bring disciples if you're bringing -20% condition runes. Your main threats are always physical so might as well go for stalwart.

[Sarevok Thordin]

Well I know where to go to harass syncers at least.

[Perfected Shadow]

Originally Posted by Lihinel

Anet: We fixed synching.
World: /point
/laugh


No seriously, 5 man synch?
I have seen 2 & 3 a lot, but 5?

Yeah I see SuB syncs often enough that I might go take a look at some gww feedback pages and spam some QQ about anet's failure to address CB syncs.

[Snow Bunny]

Originally Posted by SluggyTheZealot

Seems to me like having two health shrines against just battle-cry is better if you're splitting against a mob style team and end up getting in to a 5v5 with them. Too many people waste time going for morale shrines when the other team has two useful shrines (ie battlecry + 1 health or both health). I could be wrong, I'm sure people will let me know if I am.

IAS and IMS are a lot better than the 240 health that will just vanish when two sins jump on your ass.

[mohni]

I got yesterday 47 consec. I synced with my friend though. Anet hasn't really fixed the syncing problem because we succeeded to sync everytime we tried.

Anyway i was playing an ele, my friend was a mesmer and our team also had ranger, monk and assassin. Ranger and assassin were also syncing. We could easily defeat any team that came against us. All of us were above average player skill level and we won all 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 or 5v5 matches. However we were defeated by not so good looking team.

I think that ele can easily solo many classes. Just blind vs. dervs, warrs, rangers and paras. Blind is good against assas too, but it needs some timing. Bad assas can be blinded anytime because they just use their chain anyway. Against good assas you need to use BF just after palm strike so they dont have time to cancel trampling. Good assas will just think that you are a noob ele who wont blind. This wont work if enemy team has BC-shrine because trampling comes out too fast.

In the 3-shrine map, I think best tactic is first to cap BC and energy shrine. Then regroup at the center and go 5v5 against other team. The battle should be easy because of the shrines u got. Usually the other team will just camp at the center shrine and wont be wise enough to go against one of the splits.

My friend also had fun time interrupting 3 palm strikes that were used against him with tease. Go go assassins!

[~ Dan ~]

Originally Posted by mohni

Against good assas you need to use BF just after palm strike so they dont have time to cancel trampling.

A good sin would wait 2 seconds to see if you use blind at/after palm, then signet -> combo. Works everytime.

[IronSheik]

Originally Posted by ~ Dan ~

A good sin would wait 2 seconds to see if you use blind at/after palm, then signet -> combo. Works everytime.

But then any good player the sin was attacking would have cripple runes+Shield, and in the two seconds the sin waited for blind the cripple wore off.

[~ Dan ~]

Originally Posted by IronSheik

But then any good player the sin was attacking would have cripple runes+Shield, and in the two seconds the sin waited for blind the cripple wore off.

Which is about 1 in every 100 eles (in CB anyway).