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Dunn tells you, "I hate you."
(Party): You say, "Bad plan coming right up."
That said, the current raid system is easily gamed, it's much better to be a counter-puncher letting another faction raid, use guards and disarm then retal raid off hours (will be exceedingly boring waiting an hour to detonate though).
1) No Sartai online.
2) We just finished raiding Cyrene, Hashan, and Targossas, plus a defense against Targossas and Eleusis earlier in the day
3) It was 2:40 AM
I've already said to like..everyone and their mother, mostly Ashtan's raid leaders, I have a shut-off time. It's 2:30am EST so I can be in bed by 3am EST, if I'm not already gone before then. You come knocking around that time or after, which is 100% Ashtan and sometimes Hashan, the likelihood of me engaging is pretty nill. Other's also leave around this time.
We can go in circles about how much so-and-so sucks, but in the end it's a game, and I don't play the game to entertain other people. Do I get annoyed when someone comes to the forum and makes an issue about it? Sure, but that's life. Everyone (should) have their IC personas to wear. Why that same attitude gets brought OOC to the forums, one never knows.
Ashtan would probably have a lot more fun if they engaged the other cities - Eleusis, Cyrene - instead of sticking to just Hashan and Mhaldor. ICly it makes sense for them to engage the whole world, but they don't because 'shopping'. I'm enemied to every city, and if I need something from Cyrene, I find a way to get it. It's not too hard.
Embrace evil, kill everyone. It's good times.
Dunn tells you, "I hate you."
(Party): You say, "Bad plan coming right up."
My preference, and this is what Hashan also does is this. We engage you a few times before moving guards, which is usually my MO. Get a few skirmishes in, see how it goes, then guard. It's more fun that way.
I used to have much stronger feelings about guarding when I came back from dormancy. Then I realized that sometime in the 4 years I was gone it became essentially an expected part of warfare, and tactics adjusted. So you guard, you don't guard, whatever. But claiming Targ guards more unfairly than you do somehow is just wrong.
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
Aegis, God of War says, "You are dismissed from My demense, Astarod. Go forth and fight well. Bleed fiercely, and climb the purpose you have sought to chase for."
You don't ever do an engagement without guards that I can see before attempting to move them, unless you mean the sanction-gaining engagement. That doesn't really count though. Once the tank is down, you move them, and that is all that really matters since before then raiders can just move.
Aegis, God of War says, "You are dismissed from My demense, Astarod. Go forth and fight well. Bleed fiercely, and climb the purpose you have sought to chase for."
My point is this: Moving guards before a sanction-gaining engagement sucks. Achilles does that, it's why I called him out on it. To me, that's a 'bad' thing, and I mentioned him doing it. And here Targossas is, trying to tell me that you don't do that. Except, he does, and when you aren't awake to lead, and he is, that's what happens.
It was less a slight against Targossas, and more a pointed response to Achilles.
So, you can think that, but we'll all see you as a hypocrite.
We say the same on our parties about you. "Expect guards." Doesn't stop us from raiding, but we do always have to contend with them. You really have no ground to stand on about this. Achilles doesn't do anything you don't do, and I've seen him participate in a lot more "difficult" fights than I've seen you attempt.
Regarding last nights raid, we would've gotten stomped without guards, do we need to not get stomped? Nah, we could've pulled our sleeves up and kept trying our best but our first rush went horribly horrible. We managed to get 1 starburst on our focused target before wiping. Let alone trying to true-kill everyone. Targossas' small raid teams are much stronger, and experienced than our small teams, the sentiment has beens expressed before that it feels like fighting a self-repairing brick wall when trying to actually wipe Targossas
Syndra, Taryius, Davok, Tasus, Elly and Iloisee vs Achilles, Vinzent, Icraa, Farrah, Mezghar, Issam.
Lots of gems, lots of flasks, lots of DW revives and olive branches and priest revives and earrings and urn mounts to get out and ink more starbursts. If anything its an impressive sign on how effective Targ's combat teams can be. And more than likely I'm also weighing that advantage too much, and Targ weighs that advantage too little. That biased perspective will always exist.
Mhaldor defends a lot of losing shrine fights up to multiple times per day, feels like both Mhaldor and Targ are looking through the bias-goggles when it comes to in-city raids, and its best that people keep such conflict IG where it can be used productively. People just weight negative experience much heavier than positive ones, its often referenced that people only start weighing good and bad when they are experiencing positive results 66% of the time.
None of us are complaining about the guarding at all, though, Tary. Just pointing out it happens. I guarantee you all the times Targ guards, they feel the same way about the combat disparity. Mhaldor has big guns who don't die too. Targ has relative non-coms who die easily.
It's just silly to talk shit about one team/person over it and take some "high ground" when the "high ground" isn't there.
That said, I've never heard anyone go "We should raid X city, it's pretty empty so they won't put up a fight." We -want- a fight, and actively try to avoid making people not want to defend. If we end up overpowering the defenders, it's not because we're trying to curbstomp.
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
Small detail, you had a 7th though I can't recall who it was.
(Get it?)
Try not to let it get you down though.
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."