Stone Immortal

I'd rather see reasons why this build is ineffective (in what it sets out to do, which is, from what I garnered, to survive - not to gain faction) than pig-headed blathering. The problem is that the 'what it sets out to do' part is ineffective. If your other 3 members win while you use this build, they would have won faster if you were using a good build. If they lose, then your only chance of winning is if no one on the other team has good enchantment removal (probably the case in 4v4, absolutely not the case in 8v8), no one has good interrupt power (now you're on sketchy ground, there are a ton of interrupt rangers and mesmers these days in 4v4), and then you just have to wait until they give up. So in essence, all you contribute to your team is a backup strategy to last the 1-45 minutes it takes for the other team to get bored and quit out.

If 'tanking' were possible in PvP, meaning having the enemy attack the person on your team that's set up to be hard to kill, then this build might be useful. However, even if people go for you because you're a soft target, they'll quickly notice that you have 0 damage output, aren't healing your teammates or assisting them in any way, and are generally useless. They'll quickly switch to a better target. Even people who aren't very skilled know that if they can't kill someone they should try attacking someone else.

So the main problem is that almost no one is stupid enough to keep trying to kill you while your other team members are alive....yet there are plenty of people stupid (or competitive?) enough to enjoy playing "the waiting game", putting off your tiny faction reward off even further.

It's a garbage build, because not only will it piss off your enemies and teammates, but it also has a very slow faction gain. The only redeeming factor is that it's sometimes fun to feel invincible, and this build will accomplish that in many 4v4 games; but as a real pvp build, it's rather useless.

It's netted me almost 1,000 faction
today in 4on4 Sorry to say, but you could have earned much more faction by playing an offensive build.

1,000 faction is really nothing nowadays. You get 4*20 + 25 = 105 faction per win. So 1,000 faction is 10 wins. Let's say you win only 30% of all matches and we don't count the faction you get when you loose:

on average a fight lasts (let's be pessemistic) 6 minutes. That is 10 fights per hour. You will get (worst of the worst cases) 400 faction per hour.

You will get about 50 faction per hour with your defense build.

You can't improve the 50 faction per hour you get with your defense build, but you can improve the 400 faction you get with a normal build.

i can win 1,000 faction with the paladin premade, that doesn't mean its good idk if i ever played the premade paladin id probably be in the hospital from laughing before i could get 500 faction =/

Apparently your bitchiness is the most effective thing you have.

What you're saying in that whole post is just what I had asked in mine.

If you're mad because it works, that's just stupid.
Hahaha..so you saying some of us here are stupid for being mad with a build that works by wasting people's time?

Yes, I suppose you think gaining factions faster is stupid and being considerate with others' time is stupid as well.

Maybe we should rename Guild Wars to The War of Patience, huh?

It's not that hard to make stalemate buids for 4v4. The only problem I have with the OP is the way he's making himself look like an ass while taunting the other team in the screenshots.
And you didn't consider that maybe I was just being an ass so people
would leave faster?

Besides, it was a test. Nothin' more. You guys are all having a conniption
fit about how stupid this build is, yet you post pad the thread by saying
the same things over and over. So whatever. Enjoy. I've already tweaked
the secondary class of the build and make a new test charater. So enjoy
continuing to shithole the build, I've moved on.