King Stoneys Joust

... you know that mesmer or necro with enchant removal and hexes will win this right? Snare + Degen > Warrior+Sin+Derv blah blah, melee hate.. etc.

Gonna be cool :O 275k here i come!

I wanna see a monk win this one!

That would make me laugh!

no if you think about it, a sin with dual shadow forms can just run up and gank the hell out of a mesmer and necro.

unless you have chillblains!

theres to many counters to different builds

55 all the way baby! with arcane echo SB woohoo

nah but the main thing would invovle enchants, hexes, and melee
got my build on the testing stages

No, I mean outlast the other guy.

"For 15 minutes the monk held the warrior off by his constant healing. The warrior was then raped when VoD came."

Simply "outlasting" your foe will cause you to lose. You will need to smite him down, "kill him" before the ten minutes is up, or else you will be headed to a sudden death round. You will only have five minutes in the second round to kill your foe. Ten minute tactics and five minute tactics differ greatly.. The ten minute build would need to contain a bit more self heal and escape, whilst the five minute build would most certainly require A LOT of firepower. Thats what seperates this Joust from a newbish paper rock scissors 1v1.. You actually employ strategy of a solo build, rather than survivability being foremost.... Gl gentlemen

Keep up the signing up!

I'm thinking the winner will be a surprise, coming with a build no one really uses and is not well known.

Altough I won't participate, I just wanted to congratulate the people involved in this event, since ANet doesn't present us with any competition. I just wished there was this kind of events in GvG.

Sounds fun... no, i will not bring my ineptitude/clumsiness/phantasm spiker to this. I wont.


promse.


Actually, I was thinking that a necro might win this. N/E with Blinding Flash to take care of melees, Plague Touch and stuff to rid himself of conditions, Chillblains to get rid of the undoubted Shadow Form/Spellbreaker useage... and of course, Signet Of Agony combined with a ton of mezzy hexes and spiking skills. Or a solo bomber. That'd be amusing.

Technically, an assassin should win this hands down. A/E with Temple Strike, knockdowns, expose defenses, and a shadow step to allow him to fly towards his foe before he can get a blinding flash or something off. Or maybe an E/D invinci ele with Stoneflesh Aura and wards.

Riposte will roar the assassin, though.

Well, I'll be contacting an officer. See you all in the match.

Wow this contest is fun. I might want to join.

it says that theres a time limit to the matches so you cant hold them off forever, and if u tie the next match your both losers lol..harsh..and vod is 20 mins

Contests like this never favor those with a valid build. Although it's creative, it's often pure luck as a specific build owns 90% of the other builds, then gets tossed out by another one. Pure luck.

dude stoney? never knew you were registerd on Guildguru, its that kid from RPGstars.

how do i sign up? I posted my application thingy on the vDv forums. does that mean im signed up?

nevermind, saw the list on their forums.

I just registered with this site 2 days ago to spread news of the Joust. I have also posted the same message across multiple fansites to include the entire guild wars community. Hopefully, there will be some special guest that attend the event as well. Screen shots will be taken, so make sure you are wearing your finest armor!.. You might end up on www.guildwars.com

As for this competition being pure luck, i would agree that there is some bit of luck to winning anytime you are pitted against random players with different professions and skills. I cannot argue that point. But i will tell you with certainty that no one build will dominate 90% of the field. Because there are energy restrictions, (minus a ele with high energy storage) due to the forced wielding of melee' only weapons, spell casting will be affected slightly. There is also a time limit and a "forced kill" which persuades each players build to be highly offensive. Instead of survivability it would be wise to look at how fast you can dish out damage before the other guy.

Yes Coloneh, you are registered. Here is the "registered" list....
http://www.vdv-guild.com/modules.php...viewtopic&t=96

There were 30 registered this morning, and i see about ten more that arent posted yet. We have recieved about ten entrants a day. It should hit the 150 mark fairly easy after the second round of advertising hits.

Along with the cash rewards and weapon that are being given out, we will send a very nice editorial with screenies included to the elite fansites and Anet. If they would be so kind as to post the results of my Joust, they would have the appreciation of this King.

Gl gentlemen...

Mr Yaga is here too......

I shall own you all, my mighty build shall never fall....until I get tired and sit down.

so... the winning build will be a class with high-armor, high energy, high health, high damage, and is nearly impossible to counter. Oh dear lord, what if a touch ranger wins!??!

you know what...? Your probably actually right about that one >.> dear god...time to bring diversion >.>

dude its a party now.