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untilHello all! This is a PvP event in which we will practice (play around with) our 1v1 fights. It is meant to be both an entertaining dueling event and prep for the upcoming 3v3 Arenas. The event's location will be decided at event time by the person running it (currently our highly knowledgeable Mr. Kenyenke). Please bring your build(s) you want to test, and get ready to beat up some fellow company members (or, you know, get beat up by some fellow company members)!
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Come join us for some low-stress PvP. We'll run faction quests (and hopefully help another Syn company push influence), possibly do OPR, and probably build a bunch of camps in really weird spots. Lower level players are very welcome. For more particulars, please check out this post right HERE. (The link's red because blood.) Note: This is a special edition Night Owls. They'll normally just be on Thursday nights.
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I just have to vent somewhere as my poor wife has been having to hear it over and over this week. I teach high school English, and I'm at a school in an area that is not really mask observant. The school where I teach has a population of just over 1300 students. We are requiring students to wear masks but have no way to enforce it; there will be many without masks and others with masks under their chins. My classroom is about 600 sq. ft. with essentially no ventilation. One of my classes is currently 36 students. We just received our finalized teaching assignments today; the first day of school is tomorrow. There is no plan to social distance between class changes. I have to be in a non-ventilated bathroom with students during one assigned class change to remind them to wash their hands. I've been putting in 50 hour weeks with my department this summer to build a remote curriculum, and our superintendent doesn't seem like she will activate it unless we have an alarming outbreak. I could keep going on, but, honestly, I'm just exhausted and we are just getting started. Thanks if you read this far, and thank you to all those who have already been plugging away on the frontlines of this thing since the start.
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That really sucks Hrom; I hope your superintendent and school board come to their senses soon. With conditions like that, it's only a matter of time until there's an outbreak. It's a shame that it will come to that (especially since it's entirely predictable and preventable), but I have a feeling your efforts on the virtual curriculum will not have gone to waste.
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I wish i could say more, but man good luck to you. Seeing how the US is responding to this pandemic is really saddening. Please try to stay safe the best you can.
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I am so sorry. It is completely crazy in our country, and really I don't understand it. It's like we have drunk some kind of kool-aid. Because it is so hard to respect each others' safety. This pandemic is sweeping through our country and those most affected are people who don't get the choice to be safe. You are asked to put yourself and your
family in danger. It is soul wrenching. =(
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Mostly late night EST, 11:00 p.m. to around 2:00 a.m. I can get on randomly at other times but am pretty inconsistent due to RL schedule.
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What would be people's general playtimes? I'm all for running around in Middle Earth a bit, but the bane of my MMO grouping life is my offpeak playtime. I think I have a character or two in the 30ish range; if not, I can catch one up.
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I think this is the way I'd go about it. That's a lot of content for not much money.
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Do you not get access to mounted combat with the quests? I can't imagine doing Rohan quests without MC. Also, epic battles are a large amount of content and are fun initially, but they can get veeeeery repetitive. I have no idea if they're still useful for gearing, but I ended up buying Battle points from the cash shop on my mains just to avoid the grind for a couple of my class trait points. That was with me running well over a hundred Battles. Perhaps they're not as grindy now, but less grind doesn't seem to be the LOTRO way unfortunately.
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I don't think it would be superfluous. It can bring invuln, alacrity, extra resist, it's own cc, portal, and probably a few things that are slipping my mind. With a FB though, we'd probably want three pure DDs.
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Between the two, in a smaller group, I think probably the Ghetto Minstrel will work better as it can fulfill one of the support roles fairly comprehensively and brings cc. I'm sure the Trailblazer Chrono brings nice damage, but I can see us having scourges, warriors, heralds, etc. that better fill the role. Just curious, have you tried shatter mirage? I know it's not highly rated on metabattle atm, but we've seen some pretty nasty ones in-game recently.
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I agree on the cleanses, @RaVem. I'll start assembling a comprehensive list tomorrow. As far as calling for fields in the middle of a fight, I think water should be used in every fight if available with the person dropping them calling "water on tag" and everyone knowing to blast it. Light definitely looks promising. Frost and fire are strong going into a fight, and smoke is situationally useful. Dark is good to drop on a bundle of downs to blind them and help with stomps/cleaves. Lightning is solid when moving across the map when you don't have a rev crapping out swift. Your group comp looks solid. Good sustain with damage, and I'm also a fan of cc. The DD/support would be a good slot for a Cele scourge that can pop out decent barriers along with damage. I think your minstrel might fit into a cc/support role, and portal can be pretty devastating if a group knows what they're doing. Do you think you could give a comparison of your ghetto minstrel and the trailblazer-ish build would bring? For group size, as many people as are interested, but I'd imagine between 5-10 every week. I'd like to start with 5 man, but any discussion on larger is more than welcome. It would be awesome for some of this to bleed over to our Wednesday night group.
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I'm definitely interested in such a group, and, yeah, I think we have many people who would be interested and happy to work on developing this. TBH, I like seeing people try out different stuff, then making it fit together. We can look to have a group that wins against greater numbers without having to go all GvG on it. Those builds are certainly central to the meta for a good reason, but I'd also like to maybe examine this in terms of role composition. What roles makes for a well-balanced 5 man? (1) healer/support, (1) support/DD, (1) DD/support, and (2) DDs? Or could it look like (1) healer/support, (1) DD/cc, (3) DDs? Or, what if we wanted a pure bomb squad? (1) healer/support, (1) condi DD, (3) power DDs? IMO, in a guild like ours, flexibility in group comps will keep a regular-running, result-focused group together longer than 5 people rolling perfect meta comp and getting immediate results. I've seen firsthand what happens with the latter and, not coincidentally, am the only person from that meta comp who is still in the guild.
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I personally would like to see us start with coming up with a strong foundation, something that we can make work against most other similar or slightly larger groups we come across. With the right combination of sustain (for those unfamiliar with WvW speak this just means survivability through healing, invulns, buffs, whatever) and damage I think we could dispose of most similar sized T3 and T4 groups (Mag excluded; don't know how they're down here with us). That said, here is a more directed line: How should we deal with the current scourge meta? How do we sustain against a 5 man group that is, say, 3 scourges, a FB, and a SB? Against such a group, we'll be dealing with lots of condi, a pretty powerful burst class, boon corrupts, a big boon strip, and a healer who spits out resist, stab, protect, and aegis. I wouldn't want to build a group solely to hard counter this but a balanced group that can deal with this, then turn around and deal with a more power oriented group or a more cc/mobility oriented group.
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Let's theorycraft some small group goodness. What are some profession skills that combine well? What sort of combo fields should we be able to execute on the spot? Can we come up with a flexible group comp that, while maybe not totally meta, still lets us play at a high level? How can we use profession-specific tools like barrier, invuln, auras, druid buffs, and so on? These are just starter questions; anything else is welcome too. Once we start developing some ideas we think workable we can put the results in a forums post. Starting tags. Add anyone you think may be interested. @Kenji @RaVem @Jinn Galia @pareod @BlixBlix @Drubid @Winters Engineer
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