Sotha Sil NA PC Thread 2

Jamini

What happened to the salt in this thread?

It's almost like the PvP event has sucked it all out as everyone is enjoying proper large-scale PvP to care about mining!

WHAT IS THIS MADNESS. DID I ACCIDENTALLY LOG INTO THE WRONG FORUMS?

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Keep up the positivity folks!

W0lf_z13

Jamini wrote: »

What happened to the salt in this thread?

It's almost like the PvP event has sucked it all out as everyone is enjoying proper large-scale PvP to care about mining!

WHAT IS THIS MADNESS. DID I ACCIDENTALLY LOG INTO THE WRONG FORUMS?

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Keep up the positivity folks!

I think the salt is being gathered and stored to unleash all at once after the event is over

Kartalin

High AP gains are known to reduce salt levels even in the face of faction stacked zergs.

Malibulove

How are we supposed to be salty at anyone? I couldn't even to begin to pick individuals out from the herds of AP that roam Sotha during this event.

Kartalin

I guess we still have the fact that DC continues to try to make the map blue every single night and has been able to succeed a few times. This is one of the few things that pulls EP off of AD.

Does that help @Jamini ?

gabriebe

I have to say I sit in wonder at statements like 'DC keeps trying to make the map blue every night' said in complete seriousness.

Adenoma

Wait until 6am EST +/- 2 hours. We'll probably have a blue emp around then. So I think it's relatively accurate.

Kartalin

Not so much this campaign due to the higher populations for the PVP event, but perhaps you were around for the previous two months?

Neither statement i made is particularly true, just trying to get things going I guess. I'm surprised at the lack of salt against AD actually. We've done really well in prime time when all three populations are locked.

gabriebe

lol I'm aware of how dominant DC has been in the last few months during the night. I'm just not sure what the alternative you are proposing though. A truce between 1am and 2pm? Of course DC will try to flip the map blue at night, and so does EP and AD. Flipping keeps to your own faction is the goal of this game, and DC has had an advantage during that time. I'm just saying you could formulate your complaint around how unbalanced the pop is, or the sportsmanship of camping trikeeps. Because 'oh noes, they are trying to flip keeps!' is kinda funny to me.

As for AD, I think they have more success during primetime at the moment because they run bigger tighter guild zergs. I haven't been impressed by the leadership in DC so far to be honest. They either do their own thing without communicating or rely on unexperienced leaders to lead the zone zergs. It also helps that EP seems to be making really really stupid decisions strategy-wise sometimes,.

Adenoma

I think it's the pushing and flipping of the keeps overnight and then the holding of the tri keeps after scrolls are gone that grinds folks' gears. I've got no problem with flipping keeps overnight. It's killing PvP throughout the day that is the issue.

And your second point is false. We have literally no organization. Come into AD Sotha zone and you will see - it's not often some guild that is running PUGs around. Those guilds are generally running something like 12 tops it seems.

gabriebe

12 tops seems to be the case for most guild groups in Sotha DC too. It's hard to buy the no organization thing though when you run into a keep with 24 people with the same guild banner above their head ulti bombing.

Kartalin

With the event we've been running 16-20 in the evening and have been facing increased numbers as well.

Itsnotarealwar

Tried to acquire some friends in zone chat tonight. You all are a rough crowd. Somebody offered but in exchange I had to "do things". When I bought the game my friend told me to choose AD. He said DC had some nice people but more rude ones. He said the Nords don't have running water so they never shower therefore they smell bad. But that AD had the nicest people. So far it just seems like AD has the most pimps.

Humphie

gabriebe wrote: »

lol I'm aware of how dominant DC has been in the last few months during the night. I'm just not sure what the alternative you are proposing though. A truce between 1am and 2pm? Of course DC will try to flip the map blue at night, and so does EP and AD. Flipping keeps to your own faction is the goal of this game, and DC has had an advantage during that time. I'm just saying you could formulate your complaint around how unbalanced the pop is, or the sportsmanship of camping trikeeps. Because 'oh noes, they are trying to flip keeps!' is kinda funny to me.

As for AD, I think they have more success during primetime at the moment because they run bigger tighter guild zergs. I haven't been impressed by the leadership in DC so far to be honest. They either do their own thing without communicating or rely on unexperienced leaders to lead the zone zergs. It also helps that EP seems to be making really really stupid decisions strategy-wise sometimes,.

We been trying to talk to the DC taking trikeeps, holding them. It's not the pugs, it's the very same people doing it that run in an organised guild.
People that just know how to win outnumbering the enemy by far. So ofc every gets salty about that. It is just no fun when you try to hold Farragut, with no scroll behind, with 3 people vs 16, getting coldfired, tbagged and whispered what a scrub you are when dead. So how about you try walking in these shoes before you come in here and trying to be funny?

I wish the AD hords would play a bit smarter too. There is really no reason going Drake when the said DC people have emp and EP is trying to change that. You just doing those clowns a favor.

There....salt spilled.

WhiteMage

So, I meant to write this Monday, but there were naps to take and AP to be had so I forgot. It was also so much better when I composed it in my head two days ago, and had something to do with postcards.

Anyway, I'd like to thank TM for the 3 meteors they sent me within 5 seconds. You really must have a thing for me, or not because you proceeded to ignore me and destro train the pugs at Glade LM. You guys should vet some of your members more, though. Some of the people you have in there I don't think they'd know what they'd do if they were caught alone in a dark alley. Some of you would fight back, but others would just run or potato.


It's a lovely event and all, Midyear Mayhem, but there are some problems:

• The lag. Server can't take all these players.
• The queues. People who are there to PvP just can't get in during the weekends, even if they're first overall and got disconnected because ZOS is ZOS.
• The fights. Things have mostly regressed into zerg vs zerg, and that's probably because of
• The AP. Unless you are bombing or very successful resource farming, by far the best AP gain comes from mowing down enemy objectives. It's better to forsake one keep to zerg down another, then go back to zerg it back from your enemies than it is to defend it, if you want the most AP.
• The Golden. While this is nice for us, because of all the AP being proliferated, these coveted gold jewels will be bought and re-sold enough to drive down the price of them and devalue the end of campaign gold gear rewards.
• The warden bounty quest. Pretty self-explanatory.

The boxes in the rewards of the worthy, though? Awesome. It would be more awesome if i had a craft bag, ofc.

Adenoma

I've actually found really good fights solo avoiding keeps. I just get in transit lines to lit keeps, end up getting some 1vX where everyone is basically a 3k AP kill, and then double back for keep ticks. I've actually had a nice time avoiding zergs if I want to.

Also, I'll still be your friend @Itsnotarealwar ...

Sylphie

Thought I'd share some clips of the first 2-3 days of double ap week, along with 1-2 CP/BG clips while I was waiting in queue. The amount of tbags we got from interfering with the AD/EP Alessia bridge zerg was quite amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VmzlqDd7I

Adenoma

All honor to the 4 hour reign of the night cap emp today. You know, if you guys just took turns getting sleep instead of night capping then you'd actually get to play as emp. The title isn't that cool - I swear.

Scamh

WhiteMage wrote: »

Anyway, I'd like to thank TM for the 3 meteors they sent me within 5 seconds. You really must have a thing for me, or not because you proceeded to ignore me and destro train the pugs at Glade LM.

my best guess is that they mistook you for just another pug at glade LM

shame on them - that is truly terrible - how dare they - shakes fist - writes angry letter with lots of exclamation marks etc

Kartalin

I'll admit that meteors are sometimes difficult to aim. Divines forgive us if there is a dead player between caster and intended target, or a player moves in between at the wrong moment.

Drakkdjinn

Aaannd the 4am potato PvDoor zerg strikes again.

If players scare you that much DC, I'd like to introduce you to a gametype more your speed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_versus_environment

Sadly, you can only take 12 people at once into this gametype which is perhaps why y'all haven't tried it yet.

Itsnotarealwar

It's funny how many blue's it takes to capture an outpost. How embarrassing.

Scyantific

We'll y'all musta done something bad to em last night because they were in Xarxes zerging down Bleaks and Chalman

Kartalin

They must have been in danger of fighting almost equal numbers and peaced out.

And then descended like a plague of locusts on Xarxes.

Adenoma

Is that where they go during primetime? DC always gets good population in the morning/mid-day (obviously, 4am EST too) but then it seems to slow a bit.

gabriebe

It's less about DC logging in at night to emp and more about the other factions logging off while DC keeps playing. The 4AM crew isn't very different from the 9PM one.

Malibulove

gabriebe wrote: »

It's less about DC logging in at night to emp and more about the other factions logging off while DC keeps playing. The 4AM crew isn't very different from the 9PM one.

Meh we're past the point where the proof even matters because DC has a round the clock population advantage currently, but the original DC night cappers were specifically avoiding opposition.

When they dethroned our DR emp Pug last cycle, there was a repeated process of: 1. Try to take keep 2. If keep defended pull away 3. Afk for 45 minutes. That repeated for a couple of hours.

Raknosh

Saw the weirdest thing ever tonight in Sotha. Looked like an EP RP zerg, all walking around slowy at ALES. They ended up getting bombed without much reaction from them. That left me scratching my head...

D0RID0RI240

Ales farm? Yep...they were stoicism incarnate right up to the end heh

casparian

Raknosh wrote: »

Saw the weirdest thing ever tonight in Sotha. Looked like an EP RP zerg, all walking around slowy at ALES. They ended up getting bombed without much reaction from them. That left me scratching my head...

The question is: was getting killed part of their RP? Did you disrupt their session, or inadvertently participate in it? Face it Rak, you're becoming an RPer.