Curse

zara · Apr 03, 2007, 08:54 AM // 08:54

Not to flame but I thought 8v8 was supposed to bring teams back to HA...looks like winning halls has proved me wrong

NOTE: 8v8 > 6v6
Bonus to anyone who can guess what we were running and abusing before it meets the impending nerfbat.

Divinus Stella · Apr 03, 2007, 08:59 AM // 08:59

They all got bored of playing against scrub builds with thumpers?

Cass · Apr 03, 2007, 09:03 AM // 09:03

Live in New Zealand?

There were 5 IDs when I played yesterday eve (euro timezone), which was more than the 3 I had anticipated after the 2x fame weekend.

pigdestroyer · Apr 03, 2007, 09:07 AM // 09:07

this weekend I realized why I havent hit up HA for quite a while, its boring as RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO.

Bread Fan · Apr 03, 2007, 09:12 AM // 09:12

I moved on to another game as I know many others have. Anet took way to long to "fix" HA. I predicted at the beginning of the year Anet would bring back 8v8 but would not remove kill count, what a surprise...

elektra_lucia · Apr 03, 2007, 09:18 AM // 09:18

People were all probably waiting in the vault and did not know what to do in there! Felt embaressed and did not ask their team leader so they pulled out the plug to fake an Err7!

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This is my theory anyway.

ZenRgy · Apr 03, 2007, 09:57 AM // 09:57

Great Temple of Balthazar testing their spike on the suits of armour, then sync /jump'ing.

FoxBat · Apr 03, 2007, 02:52 PM // 14:52

If 8v8 takes longer to form groups as some have argued, then there will be more districts for the same number of people. The only people showing up in districts are those that have yet to get their team ready, everyone else is too busy playing.

Nurse With Wound · Apr 03, 2007, 03:31 PM // 15:31

Where are all the good teams? You answered the question yourself

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Originally Posted by zara

Bonus to anyone who can guess what we were running and abusing before it meets the impending nerfbat

Waiting for skill balance, because they are sick of fighting the same gimmick builds over and over again.

defrule · Apr 03, 2007, 04:48 PM // 16:48

Well I'm eating at the moment.

Death_From_Above · Apr 03, 2007, 06:34 PM // 18:34

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Originally Posted by Nurse With Wound

Where are all the good teams? You answered the question yourself

Waiting for skill balance, because they are sick of fighting the same scrub builds over and over again.

And waiting for great kill count the suckage to die a horrid perminant death and be replaced with king alter cap ftw.

Alleji · Apr 03, 2007, 06:44 PM // 18:44

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Originally Posted by zara

Not to flame but I thought 8v8 was supposed to bring teams back to HA...looks like winning halls has proved me wrong

To be fair, this happened at 1 AM and there are 3-4 districts (after double fame ended) as opposed to 1 district + 5 people idling in ID2 at the same time of day in 6v6...

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Bonus to anyone who can guess what we were running and abusing before it meets the impending nerfbat.

A balanced build? Well, that's what I'd call it if soul reaping, healer's boon, OoA, soul reaping, RaO, and soul reaping were balanced.

Do I win the prize?

zara · Apr 03, 2007, 07:17 PM // 19:17

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Originally Posted by Nurse With Wound

Where are all the good teams? You answered the question yourself.
Waiting for skill balance, because they are sick of fighting the same scrub builds over and over again.

Notice I did not say good teams - I said teams, which implies any team. And please explain to me how fighting searing flames, invoke, icy veins, thumperway, paragayway, rit spike is any different from fighting iway and bspike every match like it was before the 6v6 change. I'll give you a hint - there are 6 scrubways to fight instead of 2.

Oh I almost forgot, 8v8 was the end all fix all solution to bring people back to HA (I am sure I don't need to find a thread to cite since there are so many in this forum saying that). IIRC there were few who were wanting balance - most were just screaming "We want 8v8 back b/c 6v6 limits our builds or 6v6 is junk or some other variation of how lame 6v6 is.

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Originally Posted by Death_From_Above

And waiting for great kill count the suckage to die a horrid perminant death and be replaced with king alter cap ftw.

I havent seen killcount in Halls come up in awhile and the February 14th update said "The “kill count” objective has been removed temporarily from rotation in the Hall of Heroes. This change was made to better facilitate testing of 8v8."
The February 19th update said "Reset party size in Heroes' Ascent to 6."
But nothing of re-enabling kill count and from my last 10 Halls matches 8 were relic runs, 1 ghostly cap and 1 alliance battle. Also, watching observer I havent noticed it. Please correct me if I am wrong.

And why would anyone want that old lets sit around on our ass for 6 minutes (4:00 when they made tombs a 3way instead of a 5way) until the timer hits 2:00 before we decide to do anything garbage back. It was boring and required no skill - sorry spamming PD and cg rangers does not count as skill. Granted it would be better than relic running in halls.

Anyways 8v8 is back - you all got what you kept asking for - now come back so my scrub thumperway can roll you in 2 minutes plx

EDIT: @ Alleji - no fair you were there and it was 12:30 CST Hardly late for the West Coast and Pacific Rim countries

Randomway Ftw · Apr 03, 2007, 07:34 PM // 19:34

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Originally Posted by zara

Notice I did not say good teams - I said teams, which implies any team. And please explain to me how fighting searing flames, invoke, icy veins, thumperway, paragayway, rit spike is any different from fighting iway and bspike every match like it was before the 6v6 change. I'll give you a hint - there are 6 scrubways to fight instead of 2.

That's an exageration, in old 8v8 there was a fair amount of balanced, degen, and shutdown builds, IWAY was nerfed to hell so it wasn't around much anymore, and when it was, it was easy to beat.

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Oh I almost forgot, 8v8 was the end all fix all solution to bring people back to HA (I am sure I don't need to find a thread to cite since there are so many in this forum saying that). IIRC there were few who were wanting balance - most were just screaming "We want 8v8 back b/c 6v6 limits our builds or 6v6 is junk or some other variation of how lame 6v6 is.

Many people never asked for ANET to screw things up with objectives changes, we wanted normal halls with normal objectives, instead they give us relic run halls, kill count, and AB trash.

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And why would anyone want that old lets sit around on our ass for 6 minutes (4:00 when they made tombs a 3way instead of a 5way) until the timer hits 2:00 before we decide to do anything garbage back. It was boring and required no skill - sorry spamming PD and cg rangers does not count as skill. Granted it would be better than relic running in halls.

It was fun, and much better than what it currently is, i should not have been changed, I'll tell you right now if you can't cap against PD or seeking arrows you are bad at the game. Crying about how lame and unskilled it was does not make you good at this game.

Zenos Squad · Apr 03, 2007, 07:44 PM // 19:44

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Originally Posted by zara

Not to flame but I thought 8v8 was supposed to bring teams back to HA...looks like winning halls has proved me wrong

NOTE: 8v8 > 6v6
Bonus to anyone who can guess what we were running and abusing before it meets the impending nerfbat.

Might of been nub hour you were playing then? Hell I wouldn't play either with these retarded ass mechanics. Like many people have said before it's not the party size, its the mechanics.

I use to like going to broken tower and courtyard, but not I just tell myself if i'm lucky i will skip them.

tomcruisejr · Apr 03, 2007, 08:54 PM // 20:54

Still playing WoW...

Gimme Money Plzkthx · Apr 03, 2007, 08:59 PM // 20:59

8v8 would have brought back the good teams and people. Killcount trash has/will not.

zara · Apr 03, 2007, 09:58 PM // 21:58

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Originally Posted by Randomway Ftw

That's an exageration, in old 8v8 there was a fair amount of balanced, degen, and shutdown builds, IWAY was nerfed to hell so it wasn't around much anymore, and when it was, it was easy to beat.

If by a fair amount you mean 1 out of every 10 teams forming then yes. And yes IWAY was easy to beat - yet it was extraordinary popular...

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Originally Posted by Randomway Ftw

It was fun, and much better than what it currently is, i should not have been changed, I'll tell you right now if you can't cap against PD or seeking arrows you are bad at the game.

Can you please say where I said I could NOT cap through PD or cg/seeking spam? I would very much like to be enlighted of what you are assuming I have said...What - thats right I didn't say that. Please stop misreading what I type, kthx

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Originally Posted by Randomway Ftw

Crying about how lame and unskilled it was does not make you good at this game.

And what does that make you since you are QQing about the current Halls objectives?
Hint - not good at this game like me, apparently

leeky baby · Apr 03, 2007, 10:14 PM // 22:14

more people..... less teams being made.... more guild teams xD

Randomway Ftw · Apr 03, 2007, 11:02 PM // 23:02

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Originally Posted by zara

If by a fair amount you mean 1 out of every 10 teams forming then yes. And yes IWAY was easy to beat - yet it was extraordinary popular...

It was more than that, but balanced right now doesn't exist. Actualy IWAY was almost dead after the latest nerf.

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Can you please say where I said I could NOT cap through PD or cg/seeking spam? I would very much like to be enlighted of what you are assuming I have said...What - thats right I didn't say that. Please stop misreading what I type, kthx

I've heard this all before from others and really I don't see what problem is. There are two possible choices, #1 you are bad at the game, #2 you are jealous of when people held halls with interupts against noobs. The fact is that it's a minor issue to cap against PD and seeking arrows, as they both have obvious counters and weaknesses, and yet for some reason you see the need to cry about them. You only need to bring a couple utility skills, and your good to cap, its wasn't that hard.