The Costume Brawl Thread

got a 50 game winstreak with 3 sins ele and rit

I just got done with a 25-game win streak with two monks, two assassins, and one necromancer.

We could have gone farther with consecutive wins, but the new build made us all quit.

Played against a sin today.

Death's Charge -> Palm Strike -> Falling Spider -> Critical Strike -> Trampling Ox -> Twisting Fangs. "wtf how are u blocking my duals"

If you don't see me for the rest of Halloween, I've probably been banned due to very amusing conversations.

He did hit with critical strike though right?

It is kinda funny that everybody says the sin bar is so good (which it is), but it is so bad when played by noobs.

Heck... aren't the skills even automatically arranged IN ORDER on the bar of the sin attack chain?

I swear every team I'm getting now has a DCer. What's up with people's internet, I've never experience this before in pve or pvp.

Lol on saturday i was in a team with 3 other sins and a monk ( i was also a sin) it just hilarious how we rolled through every team we came against, we won 12 matches and probably could have won more if I didnt have to leave, Idk what happened to the team after I left.

you can cancel palm strike, but how you can cancel an attack skill?

Who said they were?

You press a movement key while the skill is blinking and it will cancel.

And you don't need to skill cancel. Just leave rangers alone. And kite targets, then dc to a target and pop your skill chain. Rangers are only good with Savage if they are close to their target. Otherwise they generally won't hit an important skill. They put out shit dmg and only degen shit to death.

They are only good for capping, but if they go to cap, just fight the other group split fair or manuever to out number them, roll the team, and leave the ranger alone. He's only a distraction at most. Just lineback their melee, and make sure your other sins/melee are on different targets.

I cant tell you how many times i've seen teams of 3-4 sins, just ball on one target, and die because the enemy monk just roj'd the group and no1 kited out of it.

I mean seriously if you're sins play smart, DC and lineback other sins/melee. Sig of Malice after using PS, the team thats going to win is the team with better support. Monk with Roj are best with sins. Eles are next for blind and dmg support. Mesmer with degen and caster hate support. Then Necros with hexes degen and dmg. Follow by Rangers. Even Dervs, Paras and Warriors are better than the Ranger.

Rangers in CB are neither melee nor caster. They just sit back and spam degen + cripple + and run away when attacked. Its seriously like gimping your team. Sins can remove the degen by popping DC if crippled and using their chain + sig of malice. Boom all conds gone and a heal.

The only team I've played that was any good with rangers, was 2 Mo, 2 rangers, 1 sin.

Our team was. 2 monk, 2 sin, 1 rt.

We went down 10-4 early because 3 of us got caught up in the moonbeam spread aoe, so we wiped completely once. Dumb dumb mistake and we knew it. 20+ wins of just rolling shit, we were getting lazy.

But all it took was regrouping, linebacking the sin because he was their only kill dmg, while the other ganked a monk. If the ranger interrupted a chain, then both sins immediately switch to different targets. Generally, the uninterrupted sin switch to the other sins target, while the other picks the other priority target. Bam, monks n sin we're down.

Repeated till we won 20-14. They scored 1 morale point, and wiped the sins each once and monk once from degen and constant pressure from rezing and running back into fight.

Now i'm not going to lie, their one ranger was GOOD. He hit me with savage on various random skills about 5 times that match, saving his monk twice. Problem is the Sin skill chain recharges in 7s. Auto-attack for 2-5s, DC to another target away from the Ranger, pop your skill chain. Shit dies. Even if he manages to savage something, odds are its going to be Falling Spider if he's on point. Wait three seconds for PS to recharge, then PS>Twisting Fangs. He won't hit Savage back to back on recharge. He's gotta keep up preparations, poison tip, and keen arrow dmg. As well as try and savage your chains.

So while you can provide great support, cond degen, and capping ability. Overall you're dead last on the usefullness in CB. Rangers are like flys. They pester you and bother you, but can hurt you. And if the other team has a Necro or Mes, rangers are dead. Nat Stride gets ruined by hexes. Then you have 12s left to kite away. So if a Ranger is on your team, your almost fighting 4v5. Sins are just too OP in CB for rangers. You're better off playing a Warrior for KD + high armor, or a derv for DW spread and faithful intervention to survive spikes. Para is practically useless too. The whole Para bar is just completely underrated cuz of lack of KD or daze or cripple. They get a speed boost. Whoop dee doooooo.

But hey, if capping actually ya know was worthwhile, the ranger would be worth playing, but sadly its not. Only shrine worth capping is BC. Run faster, quicker recharge, and faster attack. Its like this shrine says Cap Me so sins can kill shit quicker.

Yes, as far as I can tell the optimal team is 3 sin 1 mo 1 ele. What you had is close enough for government work.

High damage owns the 3 shrine map (which is always decided by the initial melee over the central shrine), teleporting power plays own the diamond-shaped map, and the six shrine map is won by splitting at the start, collapsing to divide the opposing team and get a couple of cheap kills, then time killing and farming spawn.

The mo/ele team is strong for obvious reasons, and with three sins should be able to generate two kills right at the start of any 5v5 grand melee.

So Costume Brawl, is really frustrating. It can take ages just to get a winning streak going. However I was lucky enough to be put in a team with decent players >.<

Yesterday, the new build ruined my 35 Consecutive wins! Heres the SS



I must have been working on that well over 2 hours, and it was so easy. You can see the new build message pop up. Literally I don't think it's fair They should do at a time where lowest amount of people play, not in the evening of a Sunday (UK TIME).

I was taking SS's every win above the 20 mark lol :X I really hope I find a team like that again </3

i know how you feel about it :'(

Nice going!!! Yeah, somtimes you're lucky enough to get a team of people who know how to PvP...other times you just get a whole bunch of PvE noobs looking to dress up as Razah for a bit of fun...lol like me

Last year I had a little over 150 conseq and a new build ruined it for us. :\

That's sounds unhealty.

Lol, yea. We were in for quite a long time.

need more QQ threads after long streaks

Just had a warrior trying to hurt me with a sword...
And he bull striked me while I was casting rejuvenation.

He left quite soon; guess he figured out why he couldn't use most of his skills.

that's a bit gutting, at least u didn't loose because you we're outskilled.

we has a streak of 23 then got whooped by a team of 4 sins and a monk lol.

What you will get in CB?
Fun? No
Fair play? No
Fair builds ? lol no
So what I will get?

This:


3 Assassins snaring you while you try to survive,noobs spamming 1 2 3 4 to win

I really like to play with random builds,like the Ritualist build in CB,but the problem is because assassins doesn't have random builds...

I have reason to QQ, you try getting 35 wins, and then fail cause ANET decide to be annoying :X

I think we've all had winning streaks ruined by pointless updates. Get the QQ out of your system and then try again.

Play a sin and then you get:

Things happen. Just live with it, and hope for a better team.

Switch out the ele for a mesmer.

The mesmer bar is highly underrated. It has fairly significant solo-gank power, and it can easily finish off stragglers.

Correct me if I'm wrong but couldnt your team just not restart the GW client and carry on til you fail?

You are indeed wrong. The team gets disbanded.

Everyone has its reasons to QQ and make a thread about it, and this is one of the more silly ones, so please next time overthink again if your not being to arrogant when you make your own QQ thread because you have "reason".

I think if you get 10 wins in a row you should be disbanded anyways. Give other players a chance to win against fair uneven teams as random gives more of. I have no symphathy for the OP. Good job Anet more new builds during prime time. )

Considering there were 4 more people in your party I expect 4 more threads like this.

Yes how dare a team actually be good.

Cmon, there's so many bad players/teams that the chance of actually playing a good team is rare enough. Disbanding at 10 would be just as stupid as you currently getting disbanded after 25 RA wins.

This just sounds like something said from jealous spite because they're incapable of winning streaks beyond 10.

You don't have a defensive set.
You have one dagger. (i use 3)

I'm sure that you don't have the right insignas/runes on your armor. I'm not saying that you are unexperienced, i cant know, but i never had a 35 cons wins, *insert pvp rank showoff here* so you should be grateful for your team. Dont be sad , either angry.

Peace

And ^ just sounds like the typical elitist pvper who doesn't want or care if anyone else wins as long as he wins and wins and wins and can brag and brag and brag. Yup typical pvp elitist that.

No, I just don't see the point of stopping a team getting xx amount of wins if they are capable of doing so. It's just silly. Why disband the rare good teams just because shit teams can't manage streaks.

If you look at what you said, it can be turned around on you also. I don't care about everyone else as long as I keep winning, whereas you don't care about losing as long as everyone else loses/gets disbanded too.

It happens to everyone at some point.

Life goes on.

to be fair is a team game, sure 3 assassin will kill you no matter what kind of counter they have. but you have a team also, if your team is better then theirs you will win the confrontation

You should have never been in a fight against 3 sins if your whole team wasnt there anyways.

Aboout the bars.Yeah its stupid that everyone else gets bars that they have probably not played before, while the sins get bars they been playing for the last few months.

I'm actually shocked of people being dissapointed.
Im not a guy who leave a team without a good reason, so after about 10 consecutive i was hoping for my internet connection to fail or a new build.

Unluckly for me i had to waint 20 more match.

The rare instance where we actually met decent team where not worth the insane amount of times we ganked the lone nub who decided to go 1 vs 5

I don't think RA has this many bad players really. I've never seen such stupid tards in all my GW days. Charging in solo vs a group. Thinking sins have SF hahah. Such stupidity in this one. Not calling targets, leeching of course is still popular here and trying to get 3 people to report them is like trying to get everyone to vote. You end up getting dishororable points if you report. People quitting, others won't resign and make you wait out 20 points when you're behind so far you'll never catch back up. Gw has some of the worst pvp rules I've ever seen. Forcing you to play when you can't win, allowing griefers to continue to grief you because of this because you can't get your team to report them. Shear stupidity on both sides really.

I've been ganking mesmers with my sin since this thing started. Mesmers are worthless like warriors and paragons. Rangers have a little usefulness in that they can run and cap solo faster. But, they still play their old coward roles of running away when losing. I just can't play a coward ranger. Sins rule be power. 3 sins ganking power is unmatched and when I get in a good group of 2 other sins it's hilarious how fast we kill the entire other group.

The sin build might be a little overpowered this year, but generally speaking sins can still be taken down pretty easily IF you aren't stupid.

I've been enjoying playing the sin bar (been in a sin mood), and I'll admit that I've screwed up my combo a few times. I hate hitting the keys faster than the skills activate, screws me up every time. I think my best streak is like 18 - team of 3 sins, a rit and monk. Lost round 19 to 4 sins and a monk, go figure.

I haven't played anything else as yet, but I look forward to fiddling with the mesmer build a bit.