When was the last time you were in a situation where you know you shouldn't have won, or at least had no expectations of doing so, but you managed to beat the odds and come out on top?
My example happened today during a friendly GvG scrimmage with a bunch of random alliance members. I decided to join the fight with my PvE elementalist, who was still level 19, had 45AL armor with nothing on it but a fire rune, and barely knew any skills and no good elites. Mostly because it was just a friendly fight and nobody really cared who won.
Before the fight we joked about how it was really 7.5 vs. 8 because my ele wasn't good enough to count as a whole player. Our team got pretty handily smacked at the start, only surviving because our lone monk lasted long enough for us to resurrect. But then we made our counter attack. At the start of the attack I cast meteor shower right away, full 5 second cast time with no interrupt protection, and since they had at least two players with interrupts I didn't even expect the spell to cast.
5 seconds later, I see 3 waves of 105 damage numbers, and killed their best monk while hitting a few of their other players with it. After that it was smooth sailing and we completely wiped the enemy team.
Your biggest win!
Necromas
Yelling @ Cats
500 to 17
Yep
Yep
Still Number One
It wasn't a big comeback or anything special, but I think this is the biggest win I was ever a part of because of what it ended up leading to.
In what I believe was the October mAT of last year, my guild defeated Big Bomb on frozen isle in round 2 in like 5 minutes. A lot of elite players won't consider Big Bomb to be anything amazing but compared to the guild I was in, they were a solid guild. They ended up beating sup later in the tourney and getting silver and we ended up getting bronze because after beating Big Bomb we were unlucky enough to be ranked #1 in that mAT and had to face Stealing Society and Bdv back to back losing both. We ended up going 3-3 but it was a solid monthly considering all the drama that happened the week prior and running a build we never had played previously. It is only memorable because it ended up giving me my first trim ever and unfortunately because I haven't played competitively since, my only trim.
In what I believe was the October mAT of last year, my guild defeated Big Bomb on frozen isle in round 2 in like 5 minutes. A lot of elite players won't consider Big Bomb to be anything amazing but compared to the guild I was in, they were a solid guild. They ended up beating sup later in the tourney and getting silver and we ended up getting bronze because after beating Big Bomb we were unlucky enough to be ranked #1 in that mAT and had to face Stealing Society and Bdv back to back losing both. We ended up going 3-3 but it was a solid monthly considering all the drama that happened the week prior and running a build we never had played previously. It is only memorable because it ended up giving me my first trim ever and unfortunately because I haven't played competitively since, my only trim.
Zahr Dalsk
Looked through my screenshots folder.
lewis91
3 sins v me (sin) in RA, the rest of my team got obliterated quite fast. And although i was using a build very simular to a PVXwiki build, i was chuffed because i put it togeather without knowing that someone had come up with my set of skills. And then i got called a pvxwiki noob (this was before i even knew what pvxwiki was) Felt good after i killed them all anyway, even if they did call me a pvxwiki noob >=]
Yelling @ Cats
I kited a toucher in RA for 2 hours, to force a stalemate. Does that count as a victory? Because I think it is an epic win.
Daisuko
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I kited a toucher in RA for 2 hours, to force a stalemate. Does that count as a victory? Because I think it is an epic win.
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subarucar
Guesting for a guild that was out of the top 1k, we ended up beating a rank 70/80 guild. After a few more matches, my guild needed a 4th for BYOB, faced the same guild, lost a lord race by 1 or 2 seconds.
I have no idea how they got r70/80, i heave played pleanty of top 400 guilds that outclass them in every way possible.
I have no idea how they got r70/80, i heave played pleanty of top 400 guilds that outclass them in every way possible.
1337 H4X
How did your rank 1k guild get a match with a rank 70 guild?
kedde
AT'ing with cookie's level 2 warrior to go from 2->5 and then holding halls getting it from 5->9.
Admittedly, pretty dead times mid-day on a monday during vacation, but it was still funny.
Admittedly, pretty dead times mid-day on a monday during vacation, but it was still funny.
Malla13
Henching Thunderhead Keep my first time through, all of the party had died except for Lina. She miraculously survived, killed all the baddies, and res'd the whole party. 
I thought I was toast but I went on to win the mission through sheer dumb luck!
Silverhand
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How did your rank 1k guild get a match with a rank 70 guild?
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my 2k guild went up against r15 steel Phoenix a few days ago
Thamior Shamus
Pug group of R3s destroying high ranked HAers. Sadly we lost in Halls because we werent on vent and disbanded the group right after that =(
exploiter
HM duncan. we got wiped on first group about 4 times, because of some dumb ele using searing heat (scatter). somehow managed to kill duncan without the sorrow spammer, just with roj and cry
Still Number One
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Originally Posted by subarucar
Guesting for a guild that was out of the top 1k, we ended up beating a rank 70/80 guild. After a few more matches, my guild needed a 4th for BYOB, faced the same guild, lost a lord race by 1 or 2 seconds.
I have no idea how they got r70/80, i heave played pleanty of top 400 guilds that outclass them in every way possible. |
Oogball
I dno... I guess winning in Jq with 10 - 2 and not dying a single time.....
The Scorpion Knight
Probably Gate of Madness HM, did it the hard way, got masters as well.
glacialphoenix
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I think the most ridiculous one for me was the time where my team was playing in Kaanai (Yes, once upon a time Kurzicks did manage to get to Kaanai, I know it seems impossible now) and we got ourselves trapped in the fort, with no way to escape unless we died, and two teams poured in and started to attack. Two of my team died quite fast, but the touchie and I decided to stall for them to cap - which I figured wouldn't be very long. I mean, two of us vs. eight players + the shrine NPCs?
After the game (we didn't win, but it was a close fight), my friend, playing an ele, pokes me in guildchat. "I can't believe you lasted that long."
"How long was it?"
"Long enough for me to solocap two shrines and move on to a third before you died."
Yeah, and I expected to stall just long enough for him to get to a shrine before I died. Small victory in relative terms, I guess, but it was the most unexpected thing I ever did.
lord of all tyria
Today, I created a pvp monk to run flags for my glorious guild. I had got the correct attributes for my bar, and attached word of healing when someone says "match" on vent. So I ran flags with my WoH, no runes and my one 40/40 set.
I didn't die once and we won :/
I didn't die once and we won :/
Solas
going byob with a alliance I was in, the guild i was in was r900 at that time.
we got a random selection of toons and went, just lost against one rank 300 teams, came down to the final 2 min and beat another rank 300 team. nice day.
we got a random selection of toons and went, just lost against one rank 300 teams, came down to the final 2 min and beat another rank 300 team. nice day.
subarucar
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Probably numerous others, those are the ones i have been in a match against.
@Still Number One: They were mainly an HA guild, the guild i guested for told me that they rolled this r70/80 guild in HA the day before, and that the build the r70/80's used in GvG was a variant of the build that the r1k's used to roll them.
So yes, they probably were gimmick abusers.
Naphtali
I think this picture speaks for itself. The rest of my team had equally bad builds, if not worse. We managed to beat quite a few teams that seemed to be pretty decent actually.
More specificly, in addition to the abomination you see, a E/W Cripslasher, a R/Mo Healer and a Mo/W with Tripple Chop.
The thing I like the most is that I managed to "tank" both a hammer warrior and a knockdown sin with my Dolyak Signet for quite a while.
Sure, it was an RA synch, but that's irrelevant in this case.
More specificly, in addition to the abomination you see, a E/W Cripslasher, a R/Mo Healer and a Mo/W with Tripple Chop.
The thing I like the most is that I managed to "tank" both a hammer warrior and a knockdown sin with my Dolyak Signet for quite a while.
Sure, it was an RA synch, but that's irrelevant in this case.
Ghost Dog
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Sure, it was an RA synch
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Take this garbage out of here, anybody that syncs RA is just sad regardless with what build.
inb4 RA is srs bsnss right?
If it's not serious why sync?
Cursed One
being able to keep Alesia alive through out the entire Fort Ranik missionin HM.
Naphtali
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Take this garbage out of here, anybody that syncs RA is just sad regardless with what build.
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I forgot that it's not allowed to fool around in this game.
You have my sincere apologies, my bitter friend.
upier
One of the best moments in all of GW had to be my first run through C1.
Me and Dougs - both on our first guys - were slowly advancing though the desert. I was doing my necro and he his trusted ranger, both with shitty ass builds with shitty ass armour. We struggled with the necro pop-ups and the earth eles, but we managed. And then, all of a sudden, the ground starts shaking!
KA-POW!
We get knocked on our pretty asses and a wurm rises from the ground!
We wipe in amazement!
Then we try again and after much trouble we take it down!
We actually took a piccy of the thing lying dead on the floor with us next to it - that's how proud we were of our achievement!
I miss moments like that.
Me and Dougs - both on our first guys - were slowly advancing though the desert. I was doing my necro and he his trusted ranger, both with shitty ass builds with shitty ass armour. We struggled with the necro pop-ups and the earth eles, but we managed. And then, all of a sudden, the ground starts shaking!
KA-POW!
We get knocked on our pretty asses and a wurm rises from the ground!
We wipe in amazement!
Then we try again and after much trouble we take it down!
We actually took a piccy of the thing lying dead on the floor with us next to it - that's how proud we were of our achievement!
I miss moments like that.