This is why I PvP

xlarisux

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

10 Oct 2005 at 20:45 - 1

I know it's not really impressive to many of you people who have win streaks of 30+ or whatever, but for me, as a casual PvPer, this kind of stuff is what keeps me playing PvP.

A random arena group progressing to team arenas and going on to win 20 more games, before losing a VERY close game on the map where the highest number of kills wins (don't know what that map is called). If we lasted just 10 more seconds on that map, we would have won.

And if we had won, who knows how much longer we could have gone on winning. Kudos to that team for getting 2 kills in the last 13 seconds.

And this, which happened a few games before we lost, is one of the reasons why I keep playing Guild Wars in general:

Playing with people who are nice and can make you laugh.

Sum Gai

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Toronto

Me/

10 Oct 2005 at 22:22 - 2

ZOMFG HAXX0RZ!1! Someone in CA with ENCHANTMENT REMOVAL

GJ with the 30+ streak

derrtyboy69

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Clouds

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/Me

10 Oct 2005 at 23:25 - 3

i had a group that was good, 2 monks (i was one) a great AoTL and a axe warrior, we got 10 flawless comp arena, then 10 in team arenas then the monk quit, then the AoTL quit, got replacde by a w/mo and IW and we got our ass kicked

Beqxter

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Berkeley, CA

10 Oct 2005 at 23:38 - 4

Congratulations. There will inevitably be people who scoff, but as a casual PvP'er myself, I consider this an achievement. Job well done.

heist23

Journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2005

R/Mo

10 Oct 2005 at 23:57 - 5

nice job, i've never breached the 10 wins mark. congrats.

Frost_

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

11 Oct 2005 at 02:03 - 6

Iere

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Midnights Revenge [MiRe]

Mo/Me

11 Oct 2005 at 02:39 - 7

I got a similar run before I had to leave for one of my matches.

Two monks- one me doing prot (Tatyana von Zarovic) and another doing Heal, with wards. An insanely awesome damage-crazy warrior. A mesmer who didn't have the best skills, but managed to be a pain anyways.

It was pretty insanely awesome. All of them were flawless, too, except for the first one (back in Comp).

I've also gotten to teams with more limited success when running my skill-denial mesmer.

legandry

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

Houston, Tejas

Morbidly Obese Terror Squad

E/Mo

11 Oct 2005 at 04:08 - 8

That is great, good job. My best with a CA team is 15 streak... we ran into a 4 ranger team that owned us

30 wins though with a CA group is insane... and I love that skill setup - I use it all the time on my N/Me. Soul leach + backfire is sooooo nice vs. teams without good anti-hex, and if you have an interrupt you can usually get it off vs. their remove/smite hex (holy veil is a diff. story though).

Congrats

xlarisux

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

11 Oct 2005 at 19:07 - 9

Thanks for all of the positive replies. Although I just wanted to share my great experience, I was expecting apathy at best, and flaming/trolling at worst.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sum Gai

ZOMFG HAXX0RZ!1! Someone in CA with ENCHANTMENT REMOVAL

I find that it's quite helpful in many cases; I don't know why more people don't bring some form of enchantment removal. Stripping Mending, Healing Breeze, and/or whatever else monk enchantments off the ubiquitous W/Mo is quite fun and makes them much more killable. One of my teammates from the win streak team thought it was quite funny when I rended a Vengeance'd monk, obviously causing him to die instantly. At the time, I had no idea that he was still alive due to Vengeance, and was quite surprised when he died instantly with most of his health still intact. Of course, it made sense after my teammate explained it to me that he was enchanted with Vengeance.

In another battle, the enemy team brought along a farming build monk... After the Rend, he died quite quickly....

Originally Posted by legandry

That is great, good job. My best with a CA team is 15 streak... we ran into a 4 ranger team that owned us

30 wins though with a CA group is insane... and I love that skill setup - I use it all the time on my N/Me. Soul leach + backfire is sooooo nice vs. teams without good anti-hex, and if you have an interrupt you can usually get it off vs. their remove/smite hex (holy veil is a diff. story though).

Congrats

Believe it or not, our team faced a 4 ranger group in Team Arenas and we killed them in about a minute, maybe slightly more or less. Our team, being mostly casters, believed we would be in for a really tough fight. I don't even know how we won so quickly, but I think our elementalist's Meteor Shower had something to do with it. When it was over, we were all like "WTF, did we just beat a 4 ranger team just like that?"

Regarding the skillset, I've hardly ever seen any necros using Soul Leech at all, let alone another N/Me using Soul Leech + Backfire together. Parasitic Bond works wonders on monks with hex removal; one of the toughest fights we had was against a 2-monk team, with both monks running hex removal of some kind. We still managed to win, but it was definitely one of our longer battles.

Thormar_Beowulf

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

None

W/Mo

11 Oct 2005 at 23:11 - 10

Originally Posted by xlarisux

I know it's not really impressive to many of you people who have win streaks of 30+ or whatever, but for me, as a casual PvPer, this kind of stuff is what keeps me playing PvP.

A random arena group progressing to team arenas and going on to win 20 more games, before losing a VERY close game on the map where the highest number of kills wins (don't know what that map is called). If we lasted just 10 more seconds on that map, we would have won.

And if we had won, who knows how much longer we could have gone on winning. Kudos to that team for getting 2 kills in the last 13 seconds.

And this, which happened a few games before we lost, is one of the reasons why I keep playing Guild Wars in general:

Playing with people who are nice and can make you laugh.

Makkert

Black Beast of Aarrrrgghh

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

The Biggyverse [PLEB] // Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

12 Oct 2005 at 08:52 - 11

Xlarisx,

congratz. having fun is the most important thing ^^.
hilarious to see the TA players leave after you said you were from RA even before the match started.
And Frosty, go make your own thread if you want congratulations or something. Congratz on your wins, but not needed in this thread to steal someone's moment of fun and sense of accomplishment.

Congrats again Xlaris, maybe i'll see you someday in Team Arena....