Ha.. well, there were only like 3 EP there at Dragon, so not like that would have made much of a difference at Chal...
Don't know about Ales, wasn't there. It happens, though. I know EP and DC traded Chal back and forth, then we went over and defended BRK vs. AD, then DC as they tried to come in behind AD. When I logged, EP had taken back chal and Bleaks.
When you say DC was at low pop, is that based on the pop bars, or actually seeing the numbers defending vs attacking? Pop bars really mean nothing in any particular battle for a keep. If there are 35 DC defending and 20 EP attacking, doesn't matter what the bars say... Of course, you can always defend a keep with less people, too.... 1 person could hold off 10 unorganized attackers until help arrives by running multiple siege and focusing 2-3 closely grouped trebs at a time.
vamp_emily wrote: »Ha.. well, there were only like 3 EP there at Dragon, so not like that would have made much of a difference at Chal...
Don't know about Ales, wasn't there. It happens, though. I know EP and DC traded Chal back and forth, then we went over and defended BRK vs. AD, then DC as they tried to come in behind AD. When I logged, EP had taken back chal and Bleaks.
When you say DC was at low pop, is that based on the pop bars, or actually seeing the numbers defending vs attacking? Pop bars really mean nothing in any particular battle for a keep. If there are 35 DC defending and 20 EP attacking, doesn't matter what the bars say... Of course, you can always defend a keep with less people, too.... 1 person could hold off 10 unorganized attackers until help arrives by running multiple siege and focusing 2-3 closely grouped trebs at a time.
Anyone who says bars don't mean anything is just foolish. I use different tools to tell if an alliance is even pop, over pop, or under pop. In my previous example, there was a large group ( I would say 20+ ) that took bleakers in just a few minutes. I looked at the bars and we had 1 bar, ep/ad has 2 bars. A few minutes later EP flagged Ales. Chat comments were like, "GET TO ALES", "OMG there are so many EP here".. blah .. blah .. blah. I get to Ales and we had something like 6 defenders, and a few DC taking care of Ash mine. Lucky for us we had some stud on the inner wall with 2 cold fires pointing to the breach.
There is also other indicators. Does your alliance or the the enemy have any keeps? How fast are keeps being taken, or are keeps being defended? What does chat look like, anyone out there? There are so many indicators that let us know which alliance is under populated. You should know that by now, you have been on the underpopulated side for a long time.
Another example was yesterday, EP had 2 bars vs 1 DC, they were moving the map a little and all of a sudden nobody defended Chal. I look at the bars EP had 1 bar vs 2 bars DC. I could clearly tell just by EPs resistance and looking at the map that EP was the under populated alliance at the time.
As far as your chest thumping about defending DC, It was nothing special. Our goal was to get a keep with under population. What we decided to do was attack Chal and have me open up DC. If chal was a fail then we would have taken DC. Our strategy worked fine, it was one less Emp keep EP had, and we went back and got DC 20 minutes later.
Sorry, I don't need any noob post to teach me about PvP. I think I do good. However, I will give you a tip: Three players that go help a defense can turn a fight around. You guys should have jump off the wall before we flagged DC and killed me and my friend then ran to chal for the defense.
My weaknesses are fighting. My strengths are giving advice that I don't follow.
Superman does good. You do... okay?
As far as I'm concerned you're all noobs because you haven't embraced the ice treb meta.
@Lumsdenml , I don't think anyone thinks you're a bragger or chest thumper in here.
I'm just gonna laugh when I get a kill in a field fight with an ice ball treb.
Sreja_Bone wrote: »@Lumsdenml, you get a free awesome for being the only person other than Tolkien I've ever seen use "gross" as a quantity.
Any minute now you two are going to get slammed for being civil to one another. How dare you. Idiots
The problem with Vivec (and the main attraction) is that it's pretty easy to stay alive.
ColoursYouHave wrote: »
Wow Sotha tread 4 CLOSED ALREADY! They really need to L2Forum...
Is it skeptical? I've been DC before!
that moment when u first decide to farm coh chests and on the second chest get a powered lich resto staff ..... not too shabby at all
I hate you, soooooooo much. HATE!!!
My weaknesses are fighting. My strengths are giving advice that I don't follow.
Superman does good. You do... okay?
As far as I'm concerned you're all noobs because you haven't embraced the ice treb meta.
Sreja_Bone wrote: »@Lumsdenml, you get a free awesome for being the only person other than Tolkien I've ever seen use "gross" as a quantity.
Well, gotta make use of my English degree somehow...