Jun 01, 2008, 05:04 PM // 17:04 | #1 |
Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Apr 2008
Guild: Battle for Your Life
Profession: E/
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what is sway
hey i started HA and i really love it
i was wonder what sway stands for and what a sway team is and whats the basics of it thanks |
Jun 01, 2008, 05:08 PM // 17:08 | #2 |
Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Dec 2005
Profession: W/E
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Jun 01, 2008, 05:08 PM // 17:08 | #3 |
Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hall of Monuments
Profession: N/
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Sway stands for Spirit way. It is a team of 2 N/Rt healers, 1 Expel Rit, 2 Trappers, and 3 R/D Scythe rangers. Some positions can change, such as Nukers for Trappers and such. The trappers, Rit and N/rits carry spirits that fuel the Necro's Soul Reaping on death. It is designed to quickly overpower the other team for easy fame. It is the easiest team to set up and takes close to no skill, so it is a staple of new HA players.
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Jun 01, 2008, 05:12 PM // 17:12 | #4 |
rattus rattus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST
Guild: [GURU]GW [wiki]GW2
Profession: R/
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Still doesn't tell him what Sway actually stands for - SpiritWay? ScytheWay? SpikeWay?
Note - by "him" I mean "me" [edit]Poo - slow typing again :/
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hall of Monuments
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Jun 01, 2008, 05:30 PM // 17:30 | #6 | |
Forge Runner
Join Date: Aug 2006
Profession: R/
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Jun 01, 2008, 05:34 PM // 17:34 | #7 | |
Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: May 2007
Profession: W/
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Jun 01, 2008, 05:57 PM // 17:57 | #8 | |
Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2008
Guild: Order of the Flameseekers [NL]
Profession: W/
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Jun 01, 2008, 06:19 PM // 18:19 | #9 | |
rattus rattus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST
Guild: [GURU]GW [wiki]GW2
Profession: R/
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Jun 01, 2008, 06:24 PM // 18:24 | #10 |
Emo Goth Italics
Join Date: Sep 2006
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It stands for "Shitway".
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Jun 01, 2008, 06:25 PM // 18:25 | #11 | |
Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Nov 2007
Profession: Mo/
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For each point of Soul Reaping, you gain 1 Energy whenever a non-Spirit creature near you dies. http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Soul_Reaping |
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Jun 01, 2008, 06:33 PM // 18:33 | #12 |
Jungle Guide
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Droknars Forge
Guild: No Goats No Glory
Profession: Me/
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Before Sway was "spirit way" loads of spirit spammin Rt's.
Now its most known as "Schyte way" a shit load of R/D's running around in HA farming fame without tactics. With useally a snare RT, and N healers. Some play this gimmick build in GvG aswell but not as successful, Any team with tactics should be able to win vs this. |
Jun 01, 2008, 06:35 PM // 18:35 | #13 |
Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2006
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its crap and any HA'er with any respect wld run anything other than this nonsense
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Jun 01, 2008, 06:41 PM // 18:41 | #14 | |
Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Here & There
Guild: Blades of Burning Shadows - GoDT
Profession: N/
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Apart from balanced teams the majority of HA is whatever cookiecutter garners the most fame at that particular time, sway is effective hence it is now called lame, noob, shitway etc... doesn't change the fact that it works and even rolls ranked teams at times ppl bomb on it because anyone can play it, which upsets the elitism of HA, frankly I find that funny. |
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Jun 01, 2008, 06:44 PM // 18:44 | #15 |
Desert Nomad
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Officer's Club
Guild: Gameamp Guides [AMP]
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Im still amused that "Will Avenge You" is what the WAY in IWAY was, WAY doesnt even belong in the name of these builds
so actually i guess it stands for... S pirit W ill A venge Y ou :S |
Jun 01, 2008, 06:49 PM // 18:49 | #16 | |
Emo Goth Italics
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Player 1 wants to learn to play and have fun at HA running real builds, but is quite inexperienced. Player 2 wants lots and lots of fame for some flashy emote so he can /rank to take the piss out of whoever, making the Hero title more of a laughing stock than it ever was. Player 1 can't get better, because he can't beat Sway and resorts to Sway, so he's in the same category as Player 2. Either that, or he just quits HA. Some people manage to get to play decent builds, some don't. The thing is, Sway is a brainless buttonmashing build that can beat mediocre players with nought skill required. It further degenerates HA, and not only because of it's skill level, it gets a bad name aswell as being some crappy cookie-cutter. It's already doomed to farmers anyway. |
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Jun 01, 2008, 07:01 PM // 19:01 | #17 | |
Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Jun 01, 2008, 08:11 PM // 20:11 | #18 |
Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Here & There
Guild: Blades of Burning Shadows - GoDT
Profession: N/
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90% of the ppl that play in HA do so for RANK and fame, so ppl can look at them and go OMGz R<insert rank here> how leet, then proceed to bambi them until they emote their wolf/tiger/phoenix etc...
the remaining 10% are hardcore PvP who know the game inside out so don't use sway as they can roll it with their balanced builds (which if you look at them are all similar anyway with the exception of SoG who got nerf out of existence and are now playing the balanced build) |
Jun 01, 2008, 08:15 PM // 20:15 | #19 |
Desert Nomad
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Toronto, Ont.
Guild: [DT][pT][jT][Grim][Nion]
Profession: W/
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Jun 01, 2008, 08:35 PM // 20:35 | #20 | |
Lunar Rabbit
Join Date: Dec 2005
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