Curse

Thomas.knbk · Jan 17, 2007, 03:01 PM // 15:01

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Originally Posted by Neo-LD

This is kind-of loosely related to the thread so just humor me.

So one of my RA teams yesterday made ten wins without breaking a sweat, and so we pop in TA and in our first match meet some random guild team (didnt recognize the tag, I forget it now) Anyways, they are running some pretty normal things that most RA teams just cant handle so we lost. I remember a dervish, and them spamming SV/Shame/Diversion all over me (the monk). Apparently the monk on the opposing team noticed when I used Purge Signet to clear myself, and said something to the extent of "LOL Purge Signet... you could just tank a meteor shower if you wanted to lose energy" or something. I retorted with something like "its called a low energy set", and nothing else was said, but afterwards, I realized some rather amusing things.

To him, I was exactly equivelent of a Mending Wammo, or a Mesmer with Headbutt, or a Warrior with Signet of Midnight. Purge Signet had instantaneously categorized me in with the utmost noobs in this person's mind... and nothing that I would say to try and convince him otherwise would work. In fact, I imagine that he thought it probably thought my attempt similar to a wammo trying to justify his mending with "it counters vamp degen". It kind of bugged me that there was pretty much nothing I could do to help this person realize the truth - so convinced is he that he knows exactly what is good and bad in guild wars. I imagine that if he screenshotted it, he will one day post it in the "RA stupidity" thread on iq.net, fully expecting everyone else to laugh along with him.

Sigh. Just food for thought. <3 Purge Signet.

OMG you still use monk primaries?

Franco Power · Jan 17, 2007, 03:53 PM // 15:53

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Originally Posted by Turbobusa

Personnally, I like the endure pain + protective spirit combo.

Yeah?

And I like the Defy pain + Infuse combo

/sarcasm

Oren The Destroyer · Jan 18, 2007, 02:33 AM // 02:33

me/rt
12 resto
12 illusion
lots of sup runes

illusion of weakness
mantra of recovery
lively was naomi

all he did was kill himself the entire game

Riotgear · Jan 18, 2007, 04:30 AM // 04:30

My opinion of alliance battles has recently improved.

Evidently, the REAL geniuses play at Aspenwood.

matti90 · Jan 18, 2007, 07:36 PM // 19:36

Some or even most might be posted of these but I didn't look through every reply...

Anyway here are some pearls I found in ab:

(the assassin really cracked me up, he kept calling me noob when i killed him by the time he had finished casting backfire

)

urania · Jan 18, 2007, 08:14 PM // 20:14

wow at the mo/me...a whole 3 energy e burn

taxed · Jan 18, 2007, 08:50 PM // 20:50

Actually, while Ride the Lightning may be frowned upon, it doesn't work badly on a W/E....It is quite possible to kill a target with it (while under frenzy) while said target is knocked down by shock. It's especially fun when encountering a MM in AB....build adrenaline on minion..Frenzy>Ride the Lightning>shock>sever artery>gash>final thrust = Dead MM (or whatever target...)

Patccmoi · Jan 18, 2007, 08:51 PM // 20:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neo-LD

This is kind-of loosely related to the thread so just humor me.

So one of my RA teams yesterday made ten wins without breaking a sweat, and so we pop in TA and in our first match meet some random guild team (didnt recognize the tag, I forget it now) Anyways, they are running some pretty normal things that most RA teams just cant handle so we lost. I remember a dervish, and them spamming SV/Shame/Diversion all over me (the monk). Apparently the monk on the opposing team noticed when I used Purge Signet to clear myself, and said something to the extent of "LOL Purge Signet... you could just tank a meteor shower if you wanted to lose energy" or something. I retorted with something like "its called a low energy set", and nothing else was said, but afterwards, I realized some rather amusing things.

To him, I was exactly equivelent of a Mending Wammo, or a Mesmer with Headbutt, or a Warrior with Signet of Midnight. Purge Signet had instantaneously categorized me in with the utmost noobs in this person's mind... and nothing that I would say to try and convince him otherwise would work. In fact, I imagine that he thought my attempt similar to a wammo trying to justify his mending with "it counters vamp degen". It kind of bugged me that there was pretty much nothing I could do to help this person realize the truth - so convinced is he that he knows exactly what is good and bad in guild wars. I imagine that if he screenshotted it, he will one day post it in the "RA stupidity" thread on iq.net, fully expecting everyone else to laugh along with him.

Sigh. Just food for thought. <3 Purge Signet.

I really agree with the general thing of what you say in there. A lot of people consider that they know what is good and not so well and classified some skills as garbage (on some chars anyway) that they don't really realize that it can be good depending on the situation.

Even in this thread there's a couple of things or screens people put that i think 'it's not necessarily bad'.

Example? W/E with Blinding Surge. It might seem stupid (and there's more chances that it is than not), but if you're running an adrenal-heavy war, BSurge is such a freaking good spell overall that i wouldn't consider it stupid to put on, especially in a place like AB where you can have sins jumping on you, etc. I mean, it's not something that i'd bring in GvG, but i ran BSurge Assassins (Deadly Arts or Daggers), BSurge Mes, BSurge Nec, BSurge Rt... basically BSurge is just good on ANYTHING and even 2 pips of regen can make good use out of it cause low energy spammable blind is awesome.

I mean, we ran lots of things before that i'm sure would be put on that page cause people don't really realize how it meshed with the rest of the setup. Like nearly winning HoH with 3 W/Es using GoLE-LSurge-LOrb, GoLE-Shatterstone-Vapor and Dismember-Starburst. Had big pressure from level 12 Conjures + Frenzy and a fun elemental spike that pretty much straight killed coming from the same wars (and a warder with OFlame so you have 4 elements ^^). It was just for laugh and kinda gimmicky, but it still worked.

As for another build that i consider stupid... last night in GvG we faced a solo ganker A/W using Seeping Wound for elite.

Skuld · Jan 18, 2007, 09:39 PM // 21:39

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Originally Posted by taxed

Actually, while Ride the Lightning may be frowned upon, it doesn't work badly on a W/E....It is quite possible to kill a target with it (while under frenzy) while said target is knocked down by shock. It's especially fun when encountering a MM in AB....build adrenaline on minion..Frenzy>Ride the Lightning>shock>sever artery>gash>final thrust = Dead MM (or whatever target...)

[skill]Shadow Prison[/skill]

More useful, without the double exhaustion from your suggested bar.

[skill]Iron Palm[/skill] optional :]

Franco Power · Jan 18, 2007, 10:16 PM // 22:16

lol someone in my alliance last night was asking for warriors for ride of the lightning spike, we laughed so hard.

: lf 4 r6+ W for ride the lightning spike

x_x

taxed · Jan 18, 2007, 11:42 PM // 23:42

Sorry, it's not...that's just wrong. That same mm would just taste of death and you are powerless. With Ride the Lightning+Shock they can do nothing but die. That combo adds 100 damage, allowing sever+gash+final to kill. Try it on the barrels, the 60 al barrel dies, the 80al barrel has about 20 health left and the 100 al barrel needs one additional swing before final to die. Sure double exhaustion sucks, but it does work. I can't count how many RA monks I've killed with that exact combo. They have no time to prot themselves, and the spike is not given away by a hex. Shadow Prison is a dead giveaway, allowing time for pre-prot.

It may not be the best, but it is certainly not nearly as bad as the wammo I saw today with Ageis, RoF and Gift of Health...that's all I saw before he died.

Thomas.knbk · Jan 19, 2007, 08:08 AM // 08:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oren The Destroyer

me/rt
12 resto
12 illusion
lots of sup runes

illusion of weakness
mantra of recovery
lively was naomi

all he did was kill himself the entire game

I once made a mesmer with 16 illu 15 FC lots of sup runes and Illusion of weakness.
All I did was kill myself as soon as the enemy team was in range and shout 'omg noob monk heal me wtf' and scream 'res res res res omg'
Funny thing is I actually won a match with it too.

subjugatedcereal · Jan 19, 2007, 08:14 AM // 08:14

This is the build I used when I first started the game, back in the glory days of the never ending Thunderclap:

Ranger Monk build:

Penetrating Shot, Hunter's Shot, Charm Animal, Bane Signet, Orison of Healing, Lightning Reflexes, Read the Wind, Dual Shot

Crystal Titan · Jan 19, 2007, 08:19 PM // 20:19

Here are some pearls i picked up in Fort Aspenwood today

The most stupid build i have ever seen must be the mm warriors

Thomas.knbk · Jan 19, 2007, 09:22 PM // 21:22

My loot from a 40 minute RA run today:

The Mo/N also had life siphon, and the first two monks were on the same team.
The most embarrasing thing is that the R/Mo actually completed his cast

Moun10Dew · Jan 20, 2007, 05:46 AM // 05:46

It's all fun and games until a monk uses Frenzy during Rebirth in RA. I wish I could've screenshot it, but I was too baffled.

also, a R/Mo using Ressurect in AB, and i've seen this more than once, a Necro killing himself with Blood Renewal.

Either there are lots of new players joining GuildWars, or most players are just plain retards.

Moun10Dew · Jan 20, 2007, 05:52 AM // 05:52

RANDOM ARENAS CONSTITUTION

We the People of the Random Arenas of Tyria, in order to form a more Stupid Arena, establish idiocy, ensure a lack of target following, provide for the common Mending war, promote the general stupidity, and secure the Blessings of Illogicality for ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Random Arenas of Tyria.

I found this constitution somewhere, but I forget where. And yes, I know it's based on the Preamble, not the Constitution itself, so before you point that out, I know.

Manfred · Jan 20, 2007, 03:00 PM // 15:00

Taxed, you do realize that due to the hugetastic exhaustion that your proposed style of attack, your warrior would be left with no energy whatsoever, and that the effective recharge would be sixty seconds in a long-term fight? And that he would be nearly useless in between? And that he probably wouldn't kill a necro in 2 attacks?

Perhaps not.

Amadei · Jan 24, 2007, 10:38 AM // 10:38

Ran into a very confused ranger in ABs yesterday:

Yes, he echo'd Wastrel's Worry at least twice that I could see. I do not know why.

Thomas.knbk · Jan 24, 2007, 11:03 AM // 11:03

I ran into a Mo/E with Flare, Fire Storm, Inferno and Phoenix a few days ago.
Then yesterday I faced a D/Mo with Divine Boon and Reversal of Fortune (reminded me of the FC boon/prot lol).
At first I thought the guy had to be a tard, but then I started to see a pattern

Mo/E nuker
Mo/W sword warrior
E/W Decapitate Spiker
D/Mo boon prot

Think about it....when you see a Mo/E you automatically assume he's teh healer, but then he turns out NOT to be....All those time you've been attacking the wrong guy, because the healer in fact was a D/Mo boon prot (think about it...you can dismiss your Boon AT WILL to get teh mistycism bonus AT ANY TIME!!1!), their nuker was in fact an axe spiker and their second healer was in fact a sword warrior

Mark my words, STEALTH is going to become the new meta

You heard it from me first