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Ssj Fighter · Feb 15, 2006, 04:03 PM // 16:03

what teams usually reach the HoH, balanced, spike, iway,...?

Lord Iowerth · Feb 15, 2006, 04:07 PM // 16:07

Well, reaching HoH and holding HoH are two very different things ... I once went straight to HoH directly after fighting the unworthy

Any team style can reach halls ... depending on who and what they have to fight along the way. I'd say, at a busy time when you have to go through each and every map, your most likely candidates are going to be balance teams or the more flexible of the FoTM teams.

Cyan The Archer · Feb 15, 2006, 04:08 PM // 16:08

All of them, but balanced can hold for the longest time.

Ssj Fighter · Feb 15, 2006, 04:21 PM // 16:21

hmm k, coz i usually play iway, but never get further than 4th arena

lishi · Feb 15, 2006, 04:26 PM // 16:26

there 2 way to reach hoh

beat all map to the vault

get lucky jump.

since the HUGE amout of iway team playing some of them get lucky jump

Ssj Fighter · Feb 15, 2006, 05:41 PM // 17:41

so that means ur directly sent to HoH, or to the map right before, i got once a 'lucky jump' that sent me to one of the maps right before HoH, but we still lost, and since im not yet r3, the chance i will get there is very small ^^

romO · Feb 15, 2006, 06:51 PM // 18:51

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Originally Posted by Ssj Fighter

hmm k, coz i usually play iway, but never get further than 4th arena

yeah all of those iway groups are not actually looking to win hall. they are simply fame farming. what the point of that is, im not entirely sure, but if you are interested in winning or holding hall, try to play a more versatile build.

Divine Elemental · Feb 15, 2006, 10:41 PM // 22:41

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Originally Posted by Cyan The Archer

All of them, but balanced can hold for the longest time.

It can also get Wiped very fast

Hmm most Holders are atm..
Dei Victorae w Their Spike [ im friends with em ]
iA with Their Ranger Spike ..
and sometimes.. Hold Builds.. iE : Spirit Spammer / E Denial under Qz / Etc
Most holders are Spike.. aW with Mix Spike and a Certain Uber skill on their Monk

a Very UBER ONE!

Clusmas · Feb 15, 2006, 11:41 PM // 23:41

You reach and hold hoh with player skill.

Even IWAY can hold if it's a good IWAY team.

Phrozenflame · Feb 15, 2006, 11:56 PM // 23:56

Yea, initial maps are about killing enemy, then you reach maps where positioning becomes more important and running and holding skills count alot, by the time you reach HoH, you will have crossed maps which require skills, timings...so at the end maps, its more about skills.

Mysterial · Feb 16, 2006, 01:20 AM // 01:20

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Originally Posted by Phrozenflame

...so at the end maps, its more about skills.

"it's more about random chance" would be a lot closer to the truth, since the rediculous 3-way altar format means that in most cases the winner is decided by who teams up on who and whose hero is attacked when, not which team is strictly better.

The Real Roy Keane · Feb 16, 2006, 01:32 AM // 01:32

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Originally Posted by Mysterial

"it's more about random chance" would be a lot closer to the truth, since the rediculous 3-way altar format means that in most cases the winner is decided by who teams up on who and whose hero is attacked when, not which team is strictly better.

If your're holding the alter and lay down EOE,it's GG half the time..sad but true.In answer to the OP's question, balanced,IWAY,ViM and every other build you can think of(well,not Minion Factory) can and has held the halls.

Lichtenberg · Feb 16, 2006, 02:55 AM // 02:55

ranger spike prob have the highest chances of making it and holding hoh

Ju_Smurph · Feb 16, 2006, 06:12 AM // 06:12

The 'skilled' team

Ssj Fighter · Feb 16, 2006, 03:50 PM // 15:50

what exacly is ranger spike, vim? and is HoH all time pvp, or an area to walk around like UW?

Arya Nibelrund · Feb 16, 2006, 04:18 PM // 16:18

From what i know (getting into pvp only recently) a ranger spike team goal is to kill the enemy in the fastest way possible. They need an order necro (order of pain, order of the vampire) to cast those hexes on the target, then count to 3 and rangers attack simultaneously the victim with dual shot, quick shot and other skills to power their attack (they usually have already fav. winds and read the wind up); and they all use a 5:1 vamp string to deal even more dmg... there's a nice thread about that build in the team arena subforum i think.
Vim is Victory is mine, war elite skill... it's basically a trapper party that gains energy and health from conditions dealt to the enemy... you can fight and see how good they are in Zaishen challenge.
HoH is a pvp only map, thought u will be in it also in pve, the last level of new underworld.

Ssj Fighter · Feb 19, 2006, 12:06 PM // 12:06

so HoH is just map, where new teams keep coming? but now im more farming rare items, so how does ppl in HoH get cryst. if there are no chests?

Effendi Westland · Feb 19, 2006, 12:22 PM // 12:22

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Originally Posted by Ssj Fighter

so HoH is just map, where new teams keep coming? but now im more farming rare items, so how does ppl in HoH get cryst. if there are no chests?

I think when u win hall some rare perfect items drop, plus a guild hall scroll. Not sure tho, that's just what i heard.

Grimm · Feb 19, 2006, 12:36 PM // 12:36

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Originally Posted by Ssj Fighter

so HoH is just map, where new teams keep coming? but now im more farming rare items, so how does ppl in HoH get cryst. if there are no chests?

We're talking about real HoH, not the PvE version that also exists now. They use the same maps, but they're completely different.

fenix · Feb 19, 2006, 01:50 PM // 13:50

Real HoH has a Chest that appears once someone has won, and drops rare items, as well as Celestial Sigils, for the winning team. Drops can include anything that exists in the game