Dev vs Community - The Challenge

#1 - March 22, 2014, 7:57 a.m.

After reading Dev answers in community post about balance and how they try to defend they balance philosophy I thought how awesome it would be to see them in teamQ playing as a Dev team with they fancy new traits and builds!

I suppose it would be good for both sides – community wouldn’t whine so much after getting OWN by the new fancy builds and the DEV would learn something about their own game (especially what isn’t funny to play against).

If the spvp and skill and balance team would give 5 men team a 3h run every second day in tpvp (one day NA and the next for EU servers) this would be the best thing ever!

How do you think – can we see soon some devs in TOP 1000 !?

Justin ODell

#26 - March 23, 2014, 1:38 a.m.

Solo Arena:

Hugh, 178
Roy, 272,
Evan, 428,
Grouch, 876

Team Arena:

Grouch, 67
Roy, 309,
Allie, 353 (wut?)
Tyler B, 92%
Hugh, 91%,
Evan, 91%

I have seen Tyler and Hugh much higher (<500), they must be slacking. I’ve also seen Evan get into the top 1000 before as well.

Me, I suck… only in the 80%s, so :P

Allie Murdock

#34 - March 23, 2014, 11:38 a.m.

I don’t like playing with my tag because it’s a beacon for targeting.

I’ve been in solo arenas, turned my tag on, and become the instant target for coordinated play. I’d play more with my tag on if this wasn’t the case.

Allie Murdock

#39 - March 23, 2014, 1:01 p.m.

We team up and play every Tuesday with our tags on. We swap between WvW and PvP, and will swap servers occasionally as well.

Justin ODell

#49 - March 24, 2014, 10:18 a.m.

Thedenofsin.7340:
Justin ODell.9517:
Solo Arena:

Roy, 272,
Evan, 428,
Grouch, 876

Team Arena:

Grouch, 67
Roy, 309,
Allie, 353 (wut?)
Tyler B, 92%
Evan, 91%

OK

Can you cull out the ones that are not playing Warrior, decap engie or Thief as their main?

Done. Hugh plays a Hambow, but he played it before it was cool. I’m pretty sure he’s been using that same warrior (Nightmare) since launch.

Allie Murdock

#51 - March 24, 2014, 1:27 p.m.

I don’t play warrior in PvP. My warrior is my PvE character, which I also play in WvW. I don’t play hambow, though.

Justin ODell

#57 - March 26, 2014, 8:52 p.m.

Thedenofsin.7340:
Justin ODell.9517:
Thedenofsin.7340:
Justin ODell.9517:
Solo Arena:

Roy, 272,
Evan, 428,
Grouch, 876

Team Arena:

Grouch, 67
Roy, 309,
Allie, 353 (wut?)
Tyler B, 92%
Evan, 91%

OK

Can you cull out the ones that are not playing Warrior, decap engie or Thief as their main?

Done. Hugh plays a Hambow, but he played it before it was cool. I’m pretty sure he’s been using that same warrior (Nightmare) since launch.

OK, which one plays a Mesmer? Which one plays an Ele?

I main Mesmer, and I think Evan has a Mesmer alt. Branden plays Ele, and Allie use to play Ele before she went over to the dark side and started playing Necro. I don’t know what Roy and Tyler B run.

Justin ODell

#62 - March 27, 2014, 12:03 a.m.

skcamow.3527:
Justin, out of curiosity what build do you run in PvP?

I usually run a lockdown build, but like to experiment.

JoopFOX.9510:
It’s because you’re a mesmer that you’re “only” in the 80s, don’t you agree? XD

I think the biggest thing holding me back is keeping track of my illusions and knowing when to shatter. I have really hard time effectively using the diversion and distortion shatters.

I’m a better engineer than mesmer, but I keep coming back to mesmer because it’s more fun to play.