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PvP is even fun if you don't do damage!
allocater
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I am total defensive specd Guardian Fighter. I love playing tanks. Usually in PvE. But then I tried PvP and it's so much fun.
Here is what I do:
- I don't do damage
- I don't kill anybody
Instead I play tactics!
I run to an unchallenged enemy point and keep it under challenge to deny the enemy team the score increase.
- Now if 1 enemy comes to try to take it back, I just out-tank him for minutes! Every second I survive I denied the enemy score. And 1 vs 1, I can survive very long! Win for me! By surviving, I can contribute to the team success = awesome!
- Now if 2 enemies come, I know I will die. But I just try to hold on as long as possible, stuns, heals, blocks, try to delay my inevitable death, because while I keep 2 enemies on me, my team can conquer the rest of the map 4 vs 3. Every second a victory for me! Then if I finally die, I have 1 loss, the enemy has 1 kill, they maybe laughing at me, but I laugh last when the other 2 points are under my team control! Having fun by tactically dying = awesome!
* I am not 60 yet, so if lvl 60 pvp is just instant-dying I will quit the game, or re-roll an alt.
Here is what I do:
- I don't do damage
- I don't kill anybody
Instead I play tactics!
I run to an unchallenged enemy point and keep it under challenge to deny the enemy team the score increase.
- Now if 1 enemy comes to try to take it back, I just out-tank him for minutes! Every second I survive I denied the enemy score. And 1 vs 1, I can survive very long! Win for me! By surviving, I can contribute to the team success = awesome!
- Now if 2 enemies come, I know I will die. But I just try to hold on as long as possible, stuns, heals, blocks, try to delay my inevitable death, because while I keep 2 enemies on me, my team can conquer the rest of the map 4 vs 3. Every second a victory for me! Then if I finally die, I have 1 loss, the enemy has 1 kill, they maybe laughing at me, but I laugh last when the other 2 points are under my team control! Having fun by tactically dying = awesome!
* I am not 60 yet, so if lvl 60 pvp is just instant-dying I will quit the game, or re-roll an alt.
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Hence why me said "enough" not "a ton."
This guy knows what Team PvP is about. That's how you do it. Playing your role. I take my hat off to you friend. You are one of the greats. Now I just feel he should be rewarded for playing smart in terms of keeping score of his intelligent play so that everyone can see that's how it's done.
As long as you don't get into a sticky situation with a rogue(which is basically the anti-GF tool of choice) or have two CW's either side of you, you're good. Unfortunately, the last 4 PvP's I've played were against teams made up of only CW and TRs with the occasional GF. Maybe it's bad luck, but it sure isn't fun.
Must be even worse for clerics.
as a cleric you get half the defense points on your equipment that a tank class gets, you get virtually no deflection (not the 40% that a tank class gets), what you do get however is everyone on the other team attacking you enmass from the onset while typically turning off your ability to cast anything at all for quite some time (usually not long if you consider you are typically dead quite fast)... you try to run, but half the time the bulk of the other team would rather chase you down for the kill statistic than fight an even fight against those remaining
I honestly believe that CW's would work better against GF's. GF's are more like anti-rogues in my opinion. High raw survivability, decent to amazing damage output, and they can lock you in prone position as long as you don't have stealth on.
Better get ready to quit because I can 1v1 a guardian with my rogue and take you out in less than a minute. The only way this slows me down is if an annoying cw shows up to try and get in on the action. No worries though, I just switch focus, take out the cw and go back to pounding on the guardian.
Yea you do know team PvP. Just not how I play my GF. I like having 20 kills. regardless of what team wins at that point if I have 20 kills I always am the winner. Selfish yes. but I like to kill. Winning as a result of that is just bonus.
I assure you, rogues are my worst nightmare as a GF.
Seriously? Rogues and CW are GF bait! They're so squishy and very easy to get into a KD/Stun rotation.
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A single CW is GF bait, yes. A single TR who isn't really paying attention, yes. A TR who is paying attention normally stealths before I get into lunge range, from there they can dictate the fight. Of course, I could just be a terrible, terrible player.
Its seems CWs, GFs and TRs are pretty balance in pvp.
Heavily depend on player skills.
Thats healthy for the game I guess.
wait until you reach level 60 when everything changes in PvP, level 59 play and under is relatively balanced between the classes... level 60 is completely different