Countdown to HIGHEST HONOURARY RANKING ON RUBI-KA

[noobas]

Err, me and vasc found some DD and a willing crat... Vasc dinged 27, and I dinged 30, on sunday night... sowwwy

faros! joo need ai 30 now! Sooo, who all is AI 30?

Nooba
grind
gordo
chris
lupuc
faros (close)
hexy?
perky?
Mud?
rulz?

we almost have enough to make good TL 7 war team. I think we should practice up on pvp and see if we can't make a nice war one weekend.

[Rulzern]

Hah, I'm not AI30 and I doubt I ever will be. Grinding isn't my forte.

[Alphacenta]

Wat, I'm AI30 now?

You really don't need AI30 to kick AI30 pvper's butts.

[noobas]

good point lups

I'm thinkg we need a TL 7 pvp tourney.

lvl 5 is great and all, but TL7 is way better, harder, more competitive, and really, if you don't win at TL7, it's not such a big deal, because usually, it means you:

1. need mroe practice
2. your prof is weak against the prof youre fighting
3. is attributable to "lag"

Therefore, we should have a big pvp tourney and practice up, just incase there is a big war soemtime soon

[Alphacenta]

That's all great and such but I have to inform you that mass pvp (at towers at least) is very different from dueling pvp.

In dueling you don't have to worry about zergs, in dueling there's no OS, in dueling there's no enemy running out of range and gashugging, and most likely no ton of OSB.

In towerwars however you gotta worry about zergs, a grand scala of retarded debuffs (at least that's my experience), ShadowBreeds, OS, alot of OSB, blockers, etc.

It's simply not even close to the same.

Nevertheless, being practiced in surviving a certain prof in a duel makes you more likely to survive small zergs. This is why you should always push yourself to the limit in a duel, you can only get better from it. Things like what I mean:

Pre-LE, it was considered impossible to survive an enf alpha as an agent without kiting. Torakx however decided not to give up and started dueling enfs toe to toe... and after a lot of losses, he succeeded sometimes! Now, he can take on just about any enf toe to toe with a big chance of winning.

Until a few months ago, it was considered close to impossible to survive a melee adv alpha as an agent without kiting. Pheddex pulled it off however, by using Mongo Rage to stun the adv with Concussive Shot during his alpha, and by having rrfe from true prof. Of course, us opisexes were getting jealous of that so we kept on trying. And indeed, after a while a few of us started to get practiced enough to be able to toe to toe that adv as well. It's now even so that I can toe to toe almost any adv, even ones like Racsyka.

Until a month or two ago, it was considered close to impossible to survive an MA or shade alpha as agent without kiting... yet I managed to pull it off a few times. And I think I'm slowly getting better at it.

Now.... imagine if you have every OSB out there, and kite, use nasty tactics (like hiding behind geometry), etc. You'll certainly be able to survive that enf, and maybe even take on another toon.

[Alphacenta]

OH wait! I didn't see it in your post first as I didn't expect you having dinged AI30 yet, but a BIG grats! o.O

[noobas]

nice post!

Ya, I agree with everything you said.

So, being MA there is a thousand thing sI got to worry about in pvp, but practice only makes better, unless youre drunkpvping and then you forget everything.

The point is, is that I'd like to start building org confidence in pvp. those of you who already have it, great, but for many many people, pvp is the scariest damn thing in AO... and avoid it at all costs, even more so than soloing alien raids.

So, in the interest of building a strong balanced org, I would like to help start people in training for pvp: duels, BS, towers, and tara.

Who's in?

[Alphacenta]

Sure why not.

PS: I first did the shade toe to toe thing while semi-drunk so... it IS still possible!

PPS: BS is getting too damn boring same damn old map and VP farming ninjacappers all over again. So much for 90% of the BS population actually putting up a fight. :\

[faros1978]

I refuse to get AI 30 i love my AI 29 muhahaha .