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RTSFirebat · Sep 16, 2005, 11:03 PM // 23:03

IWAY Warriors with Pets for tankers... damn they are annoying!

Discuss on ways to counter these guys since they seem to be every other team in the HoH.

Algren Cole · Sep 16, 2005, 11:05 PM // 23:05

don't kill the pets....

Manderlock · Sep 16, 2005, 11:12 PM // 23:12

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Originally Posted by Algren Cole

don't kill the pets....

Hahaha, Thats not an obvious awnser.

Theus · Sep 16, 2005, 11:14 PM // 23:14

1.Dont kill the pets if possible,
2.Use Shadow of Fear and other AoE Hexes.
3.Use Ward agaisnt Melee, with Eruption for some damage and blindage.
4.Kill the N/Mo or Mo/N's in each group.

Remember..Its a warrior based team, and from my experiance playing as a warrior, theres enough counters to them then you can count.

Ollj · Sep 16, 2005, 11:14 PM // 23:14

Beating them even with a team of 4 mesmers, 3 monks and one necromancer (or 3 mesmers 3 monks 2 necromancers) proves to me how pathetic this build really is.
Theorectically a bunch of warriors with pets should just own the mesmers, in fact it was the other way around all the time.
why? because its retard warriors rushing in fashion once again.

Never seen iway holding the hoh also, anyone seen something different?

how to beat a stupid build thats not even good but just in fashion ... let me wink with some fences:
-melee necromancers (they get more from each dead pet than a warrior could ever get)
-illusion mesmers and water magic (they slow down foes and kill them slowly but for sure, and do no Aoe (kill pets last, wow what a hint))
-aegis
-blurred vision (or just another aegis)
-guardian
-smiting monks (Yes, monks smite, not elementalists)

Mumblyfish · Sep 16, 2005, 11:39 PM // 23:39

This discovery is new and shocking.

Bast · Sep 17, 2005, 01:54 AM // 01:54

Yeah, I'm stunned too! *OMG*

Lord Kibinto · Sep 17, 2005, 01:56 AM // 01:56

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Originally Posted by Ollj

Never seen iway holding the hoh also, anyone seen something different?

yep, i have seen this a couple times before.

Eonwe · Sep 17, 2005, 02:28 AM // 02:28

Um, careface? :|

Tigris Of Gaul · Sep 17, 2005, 02:34 AM // 02:34

Rust works pretty well.

Aetherfox · Sep 17, 2005, 02:42 AM // 02:42

i've held hoh with iway for the better part of an hour but seriously that means nothing. without any interruption or healing, the only way you can "hold" the hoh is to allow someone else to take it, and then use brute force to beat them away and hope your hero does not get interrupted in the last 10 seconds when you retake it. there aren't any "inferior" builds, there are just inferior players.

in my experience (only my experience!) these problems iway cannot overcome ->

1. conditions -> traps. no way to remove cripple, bleeding, blinding.
2. hexes -> AOE hexes like soothing images, shadow of fear, suffering.
3. ward against foes -> enough said

what problems iway CAN overcome using a necro mix

Aegis and other block/evade -> using warriors cunning to spike targets
Heal Balls -> well of profane + maelstrom
Disease -> using tainted flesh

hope that's simple enough answer for you.

xChaoSx · Sep 17, 2005, 02:44 AM // 02:44

its basicly a fame farming build and you can hold hoh a couple of times if know what you're doing.

lynxxClan · Sep 17, 2005, 02:54 AM // 02:54

Its actually pretty simple, IWAY was designed to beat smite, Think of smite as a million ants coming marching at you trying to kill you, one wont do much but a bunch of small damages over short periods of time will kill you more often then it wont. Think of IWAY as a big Giant stompy creature that walks all over the ants.
Now you want to kill this stompy giant creature, then what do you do? its easy, you think like a human, trap it, kill it, and eat it.

Control my friend, is what its all about when trying to beat IWAY, a single prot monk could do it, a few mesmers could do it, a suicide necro could do it, a ranger build could do it.
Monk --> Think Aegis + blessed Aura + Yakslapper = 17 second aegis
Mesmer --> That skill that stops all adrenaline everytime they attack
Suicide Necro --> Dark Aura + Death Nova + Sacrifice Spells, blow em all to hell
Rangers --> Distracting shot, savage shot, crippling shot, pindown

This is just the tip of the iceberg when thinking baout how to stop IWAY and its actually pretty easy to do, anyone who is successful in tombs knows that IWAY is a counter to smite and nothing more.

LuLu · Sep 17, 2005, 03:22 AM // 03:22

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cookiehoarder · Sep 17, 2005, 05:52 AM // 05:52

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Originally Posted by xChaoSx

its basicly a fame farming build and you can hold hoh a couple of times if know what you're doing.

Actually you can't

Dead Panda · Sep 17, 2005, 06:39 AM // 06:39

Somehow sympathetic visage and soothing images comes to mind.

Maagus · Sep 17, 2005, 07:04 AM // 07:04

I have been playing iway for a while. Not because of fame farming - it´s not much anyway but simply because it is fun to me

When I want to hold HoH longer or experiment with guild builds, I won´t play iway.
Iway can be countered for example wards and two - three meteor showers on warriors in your ward, meanwhile killing their necro and monk (if any).

Navaros · Sep 17, 2005, 07:32 AM // 07:32

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Originally Posted by lynxxClan

Its actually pretty simple, IWAY was designed to beat smite

was it really? because all the smite groups i've been in have always decimated IWAY quite easily. perhaps i was just in good smite groups vs. n00b IWAY groups?

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