Todays Rant: Tomb of Primeval Kings

After completing the tombs with my ranger time after time i became bored, then like magic the next day factions came out hoorah. I wont bore you on my, lets say, rather negative views on factions as a game, however low and behold this hugely versatile proffession is born, know as the assassin(Rit is awesome too, havent tested it much tho).

Now after making my critical barrager assassin i ventured off to the tomb of primeval kings expecting for people to throw themselves at my feet and beg them to join thier party, due to my insane energy regen, high damage and the little bonus of added bleeding.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

I struggle to find a party, when i HAVE found the extremely rare party leader who knows what critical barrager is, the rest of the team go "OMG OMG NOOB ASASIN KICK HIM OR I LEAVE" and thus it ends with me partyless or a destroyed party. I wish they could at least learn how to spell "asasin" before they shun me.

What is wrong with people? why do they refuse to try new things? or even listen to someone else before they write them off? If you ever see "Nataku Mononoke" running around the the tombs looking very angry then please invite me.

Your resident, non-suicidal, sin

Nataku
AKA
Daktarins
Epyon
Millardo

If you haven't noticed; the assassin happens to be the most hated creature in all of Tyria and Cantha atm. I agree that they can be good, but people just wont let them into their hearts . Soon enough everyone will be hating the Dervish even more (some already are) and take some attention off the sins.

1. a LOTTTTTT of people went for assassin first back when Factions was released, even thought they didn’t know the first thing about the game, SO this makes like 30 assassins per outpost, and 29 of those are completely stupid players that are simply a waste of the monks energy... After Factions went live; I remember all the Naruto fanboys that dominated every outpost lol

IF u ever consider soloing and all, I would recommend you starting with Xuekao, his green does not worth much, BUT its kind of tricky to kill him alone with the sin and its a lot of fun (and fast since his just outside of the outpost portal).

Latter. Every sin who can kill that guy solo, is a good sin. I have done it, and it wasn't easy
The dagger is worth about 5K on open noob market, and some even think it's leet. It's worth it

Who said i was a farmer? You do Tombs over and over as a barrage ranger for fun?
Besides, you're complaining about not being allowed in farming teams. That's all there is at Tombs.

You do Tombs over and over as a barrage ranger for fun? I did. With a good group, it's a blast. Yeah, I made a ton of money at the same time, but is that a bad thing?

Now after making my critical barrager assassin i ventured off to the tomb of primeval kings expecting for people to throw themselves at my feet and beg them to join thier party, due to my insane energy regen, high damage and the little bonus of added bleeding. Problems with a Critical Barrager in the Tombs...

1. No Spirits. Lack of ranger runes make your Favorable Winds and Winnowing just plain weaker and not worth carrying into Tombs. That makes you a liability to a team that wants backup spirits.

2. No Rebirth. The Tombs is one of those sticky places where, if you have one stupid move, half the party could get wiped.

3. Weaker armor. Again, if your MM has problems/gets killed, you are the next line of defense and, honestly, rangers are much more durable.

4. Mass Bleeding. Not so effective in Tombs, given the massive health of the enemies you're facing.

5. Energy. I've never heard of a Barrage ranger in Tombs with energy problems.

- And the assassin is like *WHOOSH* *SPLAT* "rez me noobs!"
LMAO!!!

I can't stop laughing, only because it's so freaking true. I'm sorry, there are some really good Sins out there, but the majority of time this has been my experience. Still, my offer stands.

EDIT to add --> OMG, I'm still laughing. I can't stop. Must be because I'm so tired.

There's a difference between pugplay and normal play.

Pugplay: LFP, PLF Something blah blah
In pugplay people seem to be looking for what a profession is expected to do like...
- Warrior has to be a tank
- Ele has to be a nuker
- Necro has to be MM
- Monk has to be healer
- Rit has to do whatever, as long as he makes spirits pop up and does funky moves
- Ranger, assassin and mesmer seem to be the ones who are in the gray zone (unless ranger is barrage)

Now, what happens in pugplay is this:
- The warrior with mending, defences and other poop doesn't get hit at all because people just swarm around like mosquitos "I'm a good warrior because i'm the last one to die!!!"
- The nuker ele spams firestorms everywhere and people go "good nuking!!!"
- The necro summons 6 level 10 vampiric horrors and a mini flesh golem and people go like "lolz, it's a zoo out here XD!!!"
- The monk spams healing breezes and is like "I NEEDZ TEH ENERGIEZ"
... (the difference between the examples above and the examples below it that the ones above are predictable. You know that the ele is going to be nuker of some kind, the warrior will be some kind of semi-immortal thing, the necro will pump out minions and the monk will attempt to do some healing. Nobody knows what on earth a mesmer does, how to play alongside an assassin or care about which spirits are being deployed----> people would rather have lots of these guys than they would have assassins)
- The ranger is like "zomg nubs, lemme show you with my scouting powah" *pull*
- The rit is like "yo"
- The mesmer is like "mesmers kick ass but people are too stupid to know that" and then attempts to wand everything to death using absolutely zero things on his skillbar... except echo breeze
- And the assassin is like *WHOOSH* *SPLAT* "rez me noobs!"

^This information should be old news but for some reason, people seem to not see that other people have complained about this before so they don't know that pugging = asking for trouble.


If you play with fire, don't complain if it burns you X.x lawl

HoF plz