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Epic Moments in PvP
Bipp
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There was a bit of QQing in my guild chat last night about how soulcrushingly boring and mineless the current WoW honor grind is and it turned into Epic PvP Story Time. Here are a couple of mine, mostly from my shaman:
Pre BC one of my favorite places for world PvP was Booty Bay. On this particular day we had just finished a ZG and I was waiting for someone to turn in the Heart of Hakkar, so I went to gank for a while. I killed a couple of lowbies who made the mistake of standing in a guard deadspot, then went out into the water, started water walking and lightning bolting anyone I could. Eventually 3 60s show up, a priest, warrior and mage. The war and mage jump into the water and start swimming after me, I think I'll be able to get away with water walking, but then the priest jumps off the end of the dock with levitate on and throws a SW:Pain on me and knocks off my water walking.
I dive under water and start swimming down and away from them, but the priest mindflays me, which lets the other two catch up. The warrior charges, then for some reason the mage sheeps me, probably thinking that I'll drown, but it gives me a bit of health back. I trinket out of the sheep and start swimming deeper, they follow and hit me some more, I Nature's Swiftness a max rank heal, pop a healing potion and turn on underwater breathing. With that they realize that they aren't going to kill me without drowning and try to head to the surface. All 3 die just under the surface of the water.
I've never been very serious about arena apart from a 3 week peroid were I did about 20 games a week with a lock, but every so often I'd find some random person to do some 2v2 with, just for whatever small amount of points we could squeeze out of it. Some awful mage that just hit 70 in my scrub guild want to 2v2 with our GM hunter who he is absolutly in love with asks if anyone has a team, I say I do and he asks if him and the hunter can join. I say sure, and invite him but when I send a tell to the hunter asking him to join he says no, that the mage sucks. I decide to try to get in enough games to get points for the week, beginning the 5 dumbest games of arena ever. My spec at the time was elemental, with about 8k hp, the mage has about 6.4k hp
Game 1: 8:30 into a 9 minute 2v2 queue mage goes afk to grab a drink, misses queue, I lose solo
Game 2: We're against hunter/rogue in blades edge, I get an EM chain lightning off on the hunter, get focus fired and between hunters pet, hunter and the rogue I can't get another cast off. They then pretty much two shot the mage. After the game we have a very nice strategy conversation
Mage: Why weren't you doing anything?
Me: Spell pushback from 3 dmg sources. Why didn't you frost nova so I could jump off the bridge and heal?
Mage: I was casting pyroblast.
Me: /headdesk
Game 3: We decide that the mage is going to sheep someone. Its MS war/holy pally. Mage sheeps the pally, who trinkets it, mage sheeps him again, pally bubbles, mage tries to sheep bubbled pally, but gets destoryed by MS war, who then kills me, while a pally with almost full mana heals him. Afterwards the mage has this to say:
Mage: WTF that pally wouldn't stay sheeped.
Game 4: Don't really remember, mage trys to sheep someone again and is perplexed when it doesn't last the 45 secs like it does in PvE
game 5: About 7 min into a 9 min queue the mage leaves to go run SV for his Kara frag. I'm solo against a rogue/rogue team. I ride around on my Kodo for about 7 min somehow managing to keep dodging them until they realize its 2v1, break stealth, sprint and gogue me, then start a 2 rogue stunlock
Leave game, teamkick mage, add to ignore list.
A later installment: Proof that warlocks are OP (and any lock that tells you otherwise is lying!)
Pre BC one of my favorite places for world PvP was Booty Bay. On this particular day we had just finished a ZG and I was waiting for someone to turn in the Heart of Hakkar, so I went to gank for a while. I killed a couple of lowbies who made the mistake of standing in a guard deadspot, then went out into the water, started water walking and lightning bolting anyone I could. Eventually 3 60s show up, a priest, warrior and mage. The war and mage jump into the water and start swimming after me, I think I'll be able to get away with water walking, but then the priest jumps off the end of the dock with levitate on and throws a SW:Pain on me and knocks off my water walking.
I dive under water and start swimming down and away from them, but the priest mindflays me, which lets the other two catch up. The warrior charges, then for some reason the mage sheeps me, probably thinking that I'll drown, but it gives me a bit of health back. I trinket out of the sheep and start swimming deeper, they follow and hit me some more, I Nature's Swiftness a max rank heal, pop a healing potion and turn on underwater breathing. With that they realize that they aren't going to kill me without drowning and try to head to the surface. All 3 die just under the surface of the water.
I've never been very serious about arena apart from a 3 week peroid were I did about 20 games a week with a lock, but every so often I'd find some random person to do some 2v2 with, just for whatever small amount of points we could squeeze out of it. Some awful mage that just hit 70 in my scrub guild want to 2v2 with our GM hunter who he is absolutly in love with asks if anyone has a team, I say I do and he asks if him and the hunter can join. I say sure, and invite him but when I send a tell to the hunter asking him to join he says no, that the mage sucks. I decide to try to get in enough games to get points for the week, beginning the 5 dumbest games of arena ever. My spec at the time was elemental, with about 8k hp, the mage has about 6.4k hp
Game 1: 8:30 into a 9 minute 2v2 queue mage goes afk to grab a drink, misses queue, I lose solo
Game 2: We're against hunter/rogue in blades edge, I get an EM chain lightning off on the hunter, get focus fired and between hunters pet, hunter and the rogue I can't get another cast off. They then pretty much two shot the mage. After the game we have a very nice strategy conversation
Mage: Why weren't you doing anything?
Me: Spell pushback from 3 dmg sources. Why didn't you frost nova so I could jump off the bridge and heal?
Mage: I was casting pyroblast.
Me: /headdesk
Game 3: We decide that the mage is going to sheep someone. Its MS war/holy pally. Mage sheeps the pally, who trinkets it, mage sheeps him again, pally bubbles, mage tries to sheep bubbled pally, but gets destoryed by MS war, who then kills me, while a pally with almost full mana heals him. Afterwards the mage has this to say:
Mage: WTF that pally wouldn't stay sheeped.
Game 4: Don't really remember, mage trys to sheep someone again and is perplexed when it doesn't last the 45 secs like it does in PvE
game 5: About 7 min into a 9 min queue the mage leaves to go run SV for his Kara frag. I'm solo against a rogue/rogue team. I ride around on my Kodo for about 7 min somehow managing to keep dodging them until they realize its 2v1, break stealth, sprint and gogue me, then start a 2 rogue stunlock
Leave game, teamkick mage, add to ignore list.
A later installment: Proof that warlocks are OP (and any lock that tells you otherwise is lying!)
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We have an active war declaration against a nearby corporation of a decent size, and we've been getting several even matched fights. We form up one afternoon, when our fleet commander tells us we're going on a joint up, with us, Sanguine Legion pairing up with several battleships from The Black Rabbits. We start off and bait a few ships, and take down a couple cruisers with no losses. Finally the hostiles start showing up and take the field at a stargate. We get a safespot off the gate by 10,000km, not really caring if they decide to use a covops and scan us out, we just want a rally point to gain force.
Things go into a lull for several minutes, when Black Rabbits start showing up in local, and we're given the order to take the gate. We warp in, the hostiles jump through. We wait for everyone to enter, and we jump in behind them. What follows is the longest running engagement I've ever been in.
Jumping in, we open fire, my ewar ship choosing the largest ship to try jamming. We lock down a couple battleships, call primaries and take them down, with the rest of their gang warping out to the next gate, falling back towards the direction of their station.
Again, we give chase, they jump out and we follow. Repeat what just happened, only this time our scout informs us that there's reinforcements, atleast several ready combat ships, a mixed group of cruisers to battleships in the system behind them, with pods going back to their station and trickling back in with ready ships. We say screw it, push forwards until they're wiped.
The next system we go through, we catch one of them while the rest fall back to the final stargate before their station system. We assemble, and jump in with a dozen of us as a few more of our guys log on, another dozen or so rabbits, and more than equal numbers on the opposing side. We come out of warp in one fleet, call primaries and I begin jamming once more. This time the battle is less organised, and both of our sides have lost the tackling ships, which means battleships and cruisers are constantly warping in and out from the gate, to planets and asteroid belts. At one point the fight moves off the gate and over a planet.
We're downing more than we're losing, but they've begun bringing out their heavier ships, and while their station is one jump behind them, the legion is several jumps, and the rabbits are over 20 or so jumps from their own territory. We make the best of it, and our guys that get blown apart are making their best speed back in to help us. By the end of it, both our sides are heavily lacking in numbers, but manage to push them back to the other side of the gate, and for the first time we enter their home system.
And the fighting begins anew as they bring out another several ships to fight us off, to a bit more success this time as they retreat to a control tower. By now over 3/4 of the rabbits have been downed, and the others are more reluctact to jump in as we've all taken heavy losses, and we agree it's best we salvage whatever we can, and get out where we can reinforce. We get jittery as their numbers continue to rise, and we loot several wrecks as quickly as we can, then move back to our side of the gate and continue picking up what we can to cover our losses.
It's hard to describe, and this was nearly a year ago. The size of it is paltry compared to what we've been doing now in 0.0 space. Even a month later in the Stain region I was in daily fighting that was double the size of this, where I would be primaried repeatedly by several hostiles or even their carrier support at one point, but I'll never forget how fun this fight was because like I said, not since this fight have I ever been in a running engagement that lasted across several systems, asteroid belts and planets.
Someone should tell the epic tale of the battle for 66-, or 9-9. Now those were some fun fight, it's not often you get to warp out while your battleship is on fire with 0 shields, 0 armour and 15% hull left.
I mean, they wiped out one entire goon fleet of 200+ ships, and we came back with even more numbers within 15 minutes.
I think in a span of 3 weeks there were about 4-5 major battles where major battles == about 200+ players.
You know
Back when SWG as passable as a PVP game.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
So I toss on my tank gear, mount, Crusader aura, and run the hell out to the flag, where I toss up my porcupine buff set - retribution aura, blessing of sanctuary, holy shield, swap in a shield with a spike on it. And I control that flag for, I dunno, five minutes, however long it takes to tick 200 points with 3 towers but it felt forever long. Consecrate every time the cooldown's up. Stunlocked? Can't be crit, so I ride it out until I've got about 200 HP left and bubble before dropping a consecrate and having three healers mend me back to full. Get low again, and my healers are nowhere to be found, so I blow Lay on Hands and heal to full.
I finally die, and horde (naturally) immediately grabs the flag. They're running back towards the Blood Elf tower, running up the hill, and the game ends. Alliance victory. I was so happy.
Of course we lost the next five games, but that's par for the course, so.
You probably could have capped it at one point with 3 spots held and won the game.
On a more personal level, there was one AV among hundreds along my honor grind to Commander that I knew I was doing something right. Somehow my healer buddy and I held Iceblood Tower and Graveyard against two fully-geared Warlords and a BWL-equipped rogue before riding down and tanking Drek'Thar.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
this was pretty fun.
Heh, you used to play Spirestone horde? I'm Spirestone alliance now and know most of those guys. That pic must have been what, Winter/Spring 2006?
Seconded. It's the closest we'll ever get to "real" space combat, a little bit slower and less twitchy, more methodical, and very complex in 3D.
Margaret Thatcher
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.....that's how PvP *should* be. I hope Warhammer Online is mearly 25% as cool as that must have been.
Margaret Thatcher
(especially if you're #1 bg wide in damage yo)
But to be honest, everyone sucked and 8/10 team members on both sided did nothing but turtle.
Always a favorite.
This was a duel.
Also, what the hell battleground is that? That is a fuckton of bonus honor.
Edit: AB I guess, from back in the old days. But still, wow.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
The Stage: Arathi Basin
The Players: my guilds main tank (in prot), a pvp resto druid guildie and myself, an insanely geared holy pally.
We run straight for stables, and for the next 20 minutes fight off 8-15 alliance. It was like the tank had a tractor beam or something, allies just swarmed to him. Trying, and trying, and trying, and dying.
They completely ignored all the other flags, they had to kill the warrior.
86 HKs and a 4 cap later, horde won. Our team was #1 HKs, #1 damage and #1 & 2 on heals.
It felt good after sucking so much, even if they were pretty bad themselves.
It was cool though, just take my word for it.
Edit: OH HAI GUYZ I FOUND IT
Happiest moment in my entire WoW career: I'm out in Skettis, trying to get my Daily done before my guild PvP group re-queues for BG fun. So i'm bombing eggs out there, and at the first stop (closest to the camp) I see the escort guy, surrounded by 3 level 70 Alliance. Hunter, Paladin, Druid.
So I figure I'll just chill on the outskirts and watch the escort, then zoom around looking for his respawn, as I sit there watching, the Druid decides to Moonfire me.
At that point i'm like whatever bitch, I'm going to die doing it but i'm going to make this escort as hard as possible for all of you now, you could have left me alone and everything would have been fine, but now I'm just going to be a dick.
So 2 Guards always spawn at the end of the first bridge you cross, so I fly over and stealth behind the side there and wait for the spawn. They Spawn, I sprint in and follow them, cheapshot the Druid, throw up Adrenaline Rush, Blade Flurry, get another Hemo in and then kidney shot her, the Hunter is right next to the druid, so all my hits are hurting her as well. I down the Druid in about 3 more Hemo's and an Arcane torrent, and then turn my attention on the Hunter.
At this point i'm thinking, okay i'm fucked, paladin is going to heal the hunter as he kites me around, I already burned sprint, but whatever. So I focus on the Hunter, bam, dead in seconds, he didn't even try and get away or bring his pet out. I then vanish, cheapshot the Paladin, Hemo, Kidney Shot, throw up Prep and Adrenaline rush again.
The Paladin just stood there, I don't know if he was stunned or stupid or just panicking, but he didn't even bubble, so he went down shortly after.
Three Alliance down and I still had about 70% of my health left, I couldn't believe it. Icing on the cake was that the escort guy respawned immediately in the same spot, so I talked to him, walked him through the entire thing and completed the escort in a few minutes without any interference.
Most of this was due to the fact they had to be absolutely horrible players, but still, taking down 3 people like that felt so good.
around summer 2006 yeah. was great fun. i loved that server, had a good community of funny people.
Whats epic is that stupid people are stupid enough to take advantage of like this.
Salt in the wound : I did this as the game winning flag was headed up our tunnel for the cap.
30min of assholery = deserter debuff
/win
Oops.
The banker dies, and then this 70 tauren warrior turns around. And he just kinda looks at us. And then all hell breaks loose and he is joined by his rather pissed off guildmates. The three of us are then surrounded by about 20 horde guys from the same guild, and we just get butchered. Managed to take a couple down with us, but that was about it.
Another time, my guild got together about 10 people and decided to raid Thunder Bluff. Took the elevator up, then proceeded to wipe out every banker, merchant, and trainer before deciding to attack the battlemasters. That proved to be our undoing since we got mobbed by a ridiculous amount of guards and players.
But my favorite PvP story....it was right after they added that ogre encampment above Shattrath. I had just hit 70 and had gotten my flying mount, so I decided to check it out. Flew up there with my Paladin. Started doing the quests. Unfortunately the place was crawling with Horde, Horde who would only attack you when you were getting beat on by two or more mobs. Well, I managed to finish one of the quests and was gonna head back down to Shatt when this priest and his warrior buddy decide to attack me. At first I start to fight back, but end up aggroing the wandering elite ogre that was up there. Not good.
So I book it. I decide my best option, if I want to survive, is to get to the cliff. Cuz I haven't popped my bubble yet, so I can jump and get away. So I'm running to the cliff edge, with this priest and warrior in hot pursuit. I get to the edge, pause a moment to look down. Its a loooooong fall. I jump. Land several hundred feet down. I can just barely see the the edge that I jumped from. Then all of a sudden I see the warrior jump off the edge after me. And it takes him a long time to fall. Long enough for me to start to think:
"What does he think he's doing?"
Which is followed shortly thereafter by "splat", as the warrior hits the ground right beside me and dies instantly. His priest buddy is standing at the top of the cliff looking down. I thought about going back up to attack, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't concentrate. So I mount up and fly a little ways off the ground so I can mock the warrior endlessly. Oh man, that was great.
I remember jumping off the cliff in AB, and not one but two warriors intercept me as I fall
I bubble and land, one dies from the fall and one is at 10% HP
I made sure to /cackle before I turned him into a thick warrior paste
When it bugged out and you controller their ghost was even better.
edit but my fave moment way back before they fixed the Warrior Sword spec/sword trinket thing. Was when I was in a WSG match I just killed a Lock and was at 50% and a shammy in full tier 2 (I was in partail tier 1 with The Untamed Blade) started on me. I swung about 6 times and missed every swing. I was down to about 2% health when my sword spec and the sword trinket thing ( I can't remember what it was called but it gave you a extra 2% chance for an extra swing) both hit off of each other hitting him about 6-7 times in one swing. This brought him down to less then 20% health and me up to full rage. That was defently my cheapest but coolest kill ever.
So I'm going from belt to belt, killing battlecruiser rats to test the things DPS, when a cruiser warps into the belt and starts targeting. I'd had a couple of fights in this ship already, having seen off a vexor who didn't know what was good for him, and a caracal that jammed the hell out of me and ran when he couldn't get rid of my drones. So I start targeting this Amarr cruiser and aproaching with MWD. He opens fire, and starts hitting me, hard. It is at this point that I realize I'm not going up against any old cruiser, it's a zealot class heavy assault cruiser, for comparison's sake, this ship is worth 150-200m compared to my myrmidon which as I said is about 50m.
I think to get the hell out, but he's jamming my warpdrive so no go, so rather than just wait to die, I wade in and start hitting him with my nosfaratu's draining his energy to feed my armor repair systems which are working overdrive and still failing to hold against this thing's whithering firepower.
At this point I know I'm going to die, but I'm going to give him a run for his money anyway, then a miracle, his lasers go dead, his tank starts to fail, I realize he's out of capacitor, my nosfaratus have depleted his energy entirely and he's dead in the water, it takes about a minute and a half for my drones to beat him to death. I made enough off of that poor bastard to pay for a whole 'nother ship.
also a good Illustration of the thing I love most about EvE, a 1+ year old char in a ship worth three to four times as much, can still get his ass whooped by a 2m old newbie with a good head on his shoulders.
Anyways, here's mine. (CoX)
I was hanging out in Bloody Bay on my Thugs/Dark MM, talking with two Hero friends.
This Tanker just walks up to us and starts trying to beat me up. Needless to say, I quickly dispose of him and he barely scratches me.
Friends and I continue talking.
Tanker runs in AGAIN and gets shot by me.
Rinse, wash, repeat. I issue the occasional "Man, why the hell are you even trying" taunt.
During the same incident, a friend and I exchanged shots with "OH! There's a fly on you!" "Uh sorry I missed"
And a fucking epic 5 on 1. Three of my foes defeated, 2 of them forced to flee.
Is there a free download trial thing somewhere?
There's a 15 day trial if I remember correctly.
I might have to go ahead and subscribe. I tried the trial for a short time, but I didn't get into it much. After reading an EVE thread and this one I really want to try it out some more.
It was during the opening days of the Great War against BOB. I remember it so clearly because essentially every weekend there were literally hundreds of players pounding any specific system.
The one I will always specifically remember was when I was with Pandemic Legion and we went out with the goons to take JV1V from the LV alliance.
We lost contact with goon leadership, and a followed a group of 100 goons to the JV gate, then proceeded to jump in. We got ripped apart before the grid even loaded (six+ bubbles on the gates, snipers in full 360 degree positions, dead end system)
We later learned that we had jumped in with the suicide fleet that was meant to probe their defensive abilities. Heh
Before that, when we were forming up, we had about 900 people on a single Goon station. It was amazing watching blobs of ships warping in and just continuing to collect into this larger mother-blob of every type of ship imaginable.
I had FRAPs of it all but lost it on a comp format
Shimmering flats. I'm a nelf warrior. 2 levels away from my first fear immune ability. I'm doing my circut, when a belf lock jumps me , fears, dots me up, and I die.
Oookay. Lock attempts to camp me. I rez, run, eat, run back, find her at the same spot she was trying to camp me. Charge hammy rend heroic strike slam execute dead.
I go back about my buisness.
I spot the lock about ten minutes later. I decided to let bygons be bygons and just /wave and run past, in plain sight. Of course, she looks at me, and then starts to make a move towards me. But she forgot one thing.
She forgot to target me.
Shadowmeld.
I dissapear from sight. Bewildered that a warrior in full mail gear carrying a ginormus axe just fucking dissapeared mid stride, she moves towards my last known location(where I still was) to attempt to find me.
Plan Success.
Charge hammy rend(feared)intercept heroic strike execute dead.
Twas the greatest PvP kill I ever had.
The battle of F-R[or something or other]. Where in the goon + Friends lost 50+ capital ships destroying the wrong station. There were 700 in system, with another 2000 trying to get in.
Unfortunatly the server melted, you couldnt do anything within 3 jumps of the fight.
edit: every combat in eve feels pretty Epic. I remember the first time I FC'd. Ran our slightly larger but really terribly fit gang into another hostile gang.
Our scout gets wind of a small tri-gang a jump ahead and i order us to hold on the gate and get ready to jump through into them. But they jump into us instead. Our dictor drops a bubble and the waiting starts. They decloak and descend from 15km out and i start calling primaries[in text!]. I call their two harbingers[battlecruiser] primary first and they call our command ship. The first battlecruiser goes down and then we change to the second, our command ship is still holding strong, slowly failing. The second harbinger drops speedily and the tank on our CS goes from "failing" to "holding" and they change targets to one of our battlecruisers whom they kill fairly easily. We then move between the last of the two battlecruisers[brutixes], and then clean up their command ship. Total kills, 4 battlecruisers, 1 command ship. Total losses, 1 battlecruiser.
One of the more memorable fights for me because i was commanding. But stuff like this happens every day.
E.G. the other day we are running a cruiser gang in fix space, we get a raven on a gate but cant break its tank, so we disengage and move on. We run into that same raven when some friendlies have points and as we get on the gate and engage. Two enemy interceptors get in, and we start to get points. I burn towards the crow and he burns away from my crusader[an interceptor]. When im 30km out, i overload my mwd and my 7.3km/s inty becomes a 10.9km/s inty, nearly twice as fast as his crow. Ive got points and he is still running while i keep him at a good range the second hostile inty, which if it gets within about 10-13km from me will kill me[my engagement range is 10km]. Moves away from the gate to get a warp in on the friendly crow[since he also seems to be slower than me] to kill me. We are moving father off the gate and the raven deaggress's so it can jump through and run. Finnaly the crow dies and i start to loot the wreck. The second inty decides it doesnt want to engage me when friendlies can warp to me and bails. The raven jumps and i immediatly warp back to the gate and jump through. It decloaks to try and warp and i have points. It aggresses to get me off of it and but i hold my point for 30 seconds and the rest of the gang jumps through and finishes the job
The first game is against Boomkin/BM Hunter. I'm too drunk to play right at all, we lose. Queue, wait 5 min, lose to warrior pally. Queue, then remember nothing until I wake up on the floor next to my desk the next morning.
Log in to see how much damage we did to our rating and our record for last week is 1-2. The lock logs on and wants to know what happened, I tell him and then ask about the win.
"You remember that warrior/pally team we lost to the 2nd game? I soloed them."