King Stoneys Joust

King Stoney's guild coffers have become full with the abundance of gold only due to the diligent work of his Lords, and has ordered his guild treasurer, (Lord Killroid) to host a Joust in his honor. During this joist, a winner will be decided. That winner and those who place high among men will be awarded a mighty sum of gold including bounties of rare weapons as well. The Tournament will begin on the morning of the 25th of Febuary. Check the rules and rewards for exact times.

Because vDv Guild is so wealthy in tradition and honor, it will allow this year a open entry, no fee charged, to any knight who wishes to represent its respective guild in battle. For more information on this contest as well as the rules and awards, click here. Also feel free to log on to our ventrilo server and speak to any of our barons or Lords and they will answer any questions you have about the contest of Knights.


To Admin: i posted this in another section of your site, but it did not appear. Sorry for the duplicate if it appears later on!..

What a nice contest and good idea.. very nice of your guild to host something like that for the community.

Too bad I don't ever use melee characters..

Hi, my ebon dust aura stance war with 5 heals wants in. Is that cool? Forsooth?

One small question - how on earth do you enter?

interesting tournament.. hehe no doubt will be attracting the swords of many warriors, rangers, assasins..

can we know what time in GMT would the tourney be held on the 25th?

The rules as stated are very simple. You may use any character with any skill set. You can be a mesmer or an ele so long as you weild a melee weapon. NO OFF HANDS> other than a shield. No weapons swapping mid match. Thats what makes it interesting. We will have refs in each match. They will be hosted via our guild hall. The tournament is capped at 150 people. Other rules and regs can be found at this link..

http://www.vdv-guild.com/modules.php...howpage&pid=30

To register for this competition, you must go to this link.

http://www.vdv-guild.com/modules.php...viewtopic&t=93

It would be a good idea to register with the site as well so that you may recieve emails on the Joust schedule and times.
The exact time that this will begin on the 25th will be determined by total number of entrants. We will post the exact start time and scheduled matches in a tournament grid a week before the Joust begins..

Here is a couple of ign's of my guilds Lords and Barons... (officers).. they can answer any questions you have.

Killroid the Killer
Night Stick
Painfully Reaped
Sir Shiznex Girl
Grom Darkwater
Willie Wacker
Crazy Slater
Stoney Faust

Just a few questions since it wasn't clearly stated in the rules:

Can you bring a caster using only spells and enchantments but carrying a sword and sheild and makes attacks in melee? (With something like Illusionary Weaponry)

Also what constitute a melee joust? Could I make one melee attack and apply the the rest of the damage via spells? If not, would casting spells in melee range count?

As you can see, my primary characters, (E, Me, R), that I play are not melee, just seeing if there's a way around it. :P

Yes, Yes and yes.. You can have ranged spells..... you can be a full spell caster, but you cannot weild any weapon other than a hammer, sword, axe, shield, daggers or scythe. You have to have one of those equipped. You cannot come in to battle with anything other. Illusionary weapon is going to be common place and very popular in this type contest. You will be surprised however at what type builds actually do the best in a 1v1 situation like that.

One more question:

Does your primary prof HAS to be melee? I mean if you'd be able to take mesmer as primary you can hardly call this a melee competition anymore.

Thank you for clearing that up!

I'll be signing up as Rock. I hope that everyone plays Scissors.

Any profession, as long as you have a melee weapon.

There goes the melee tournament idea, and bring in the mesmers!

Nice rewards, I'm in it to win it!

And i'm hoping that zings optomisim can be passed to all contesters! Oh.. wait.. that'd be a bad thing now then wouldn't it.

It sounds very intresting, nice way to get my assasin out of farming and into pvp again.

Well, you will see very quickly that mesmers wont last long in the joust. They will do well dont get me wrong. There will be lots of people using big degen and illusionary wpn.. But they will eventually run up against some everlast warriors or judgment mesmers.. It wont be a mesmer fest like he is thinking.. Youll see some odd builds do very well. But i do hope that all those who really wish to see the best solo builds in action, come and participate. Remember, we are capped at 150 people, so please do make an effort to go ahead and register. Gl guys......

So, Blinding Surge mesmers all round then?

as much as I hate 1v1

ECHO SF SINS!! O_O

but we all know the e/d tanks will be beat by those awesome mending wammos.

oh noze my build will be ruined....lol this will be interesting but im thinking that casters wont be the best in this competition
i gotta sign up now heh

Can I suggest one thing with this whole thing? Post the top ten builds that win this thing! It would be interesting to see what builds come on top in this one.