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Akela Xeroxz
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Positioning[/LINE]
Frontline:
The frontline of a team, usually contains only the melee professions, such as Warriors, Dervishes, and Assassins.
These professions are constantly among the enemy, therefore this area of combat is most often reserved for professions which are most effective in this area of combat.
Midline:
The midline of a team, usually contains only the casting, ranged damage dealers, and support professions, such as Elementalists, Mesmers, Necromancers, Rangers, Ritualists, and Paragons.
These professions have the goal of inflicting as much damage, and provide as much support without being the target of the opposition frontline. The midline must stay within range of the backline for the purpose of healing, and also stay in range of the enemy in order to deal as much damage possible.
Backline:
The backline of a team, usually contains healing, support, and protection professions, such as Monks, Ritualists, and occasionly Paragons.
These professions are responsible for the healing and protection of the team, the backline is half an aggrobubble away from the midline, and 1,5 aggro of the frontline, incase your frontline needs healing, order them to retreat so you can easely them without the risk of becoming the target of your opponents.
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| 01/16/08 02:04 |
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stanzhao1
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I'm not sure what to make of this post...
The stuff you have talked about should be common knowledge, and as you havent gone into great detail about what the 3 types actually do, i'm not actually sure if you know that yourself.
You have also used the same picture 3 times that offers no actuall benefit for the x3 posting of it.
Maybe if you listed the proffessions you mentioned and went into detail about what they do it would be a lot more useful to the people here. Also you could mention what types of situation this sort of tactic would be useful in, pve? - where would this be useful? high end areas etc?
pvp? - what sort of pvp are you talking about? HA, GVG? TA? also how would the amount of people in your party effect this.
sorry i dont mean to sound harsh, but i dont think this will make it into the epic post section
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| 01/16/08 03:51 |
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Blazings
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Lol yeah please give some side info. I don't get a crap what you're willing to accomplish here.
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| 01/16/08 03:57 |
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Akela Xeroxz
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| QUOTE | I'm not sure what to make of this post...
The stuff you have talked about should be common knowledge, and as you havent gone into great detail about what the 3 types actually do, i'm not actually sure if you know that yourself.
You have also used the same picture 3 times that offers no actuall benefit for the x3 posting of it.
Maybe if you listed the proffessions you mentioned and went into detail about what they do it would be a lot more useful to the people here. Also you could mention what types of situation this sort of tactic would be useful in, pve? - where would this be useful? high end areas etc?
pvp? - what sort of pvp are you talking about? HA, GVG? TA? also how would the amount of people in your party effect this.
sorry i dont mean to sound harsh, but i dont think this will make it into the epic post section |
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Indeed this should be common knowledge and thats exactly why it should be posted
If I didn't know what I was talking about I wouldn't have been in Guardians of Flame, a high rated GvG guild ( now disbanded I think, left along time ago )
The Pictures are indeed not supposed to be 3x the same, I'll fix that when I get home.
Professions listed, this isn't supposed to be a profession guide, maybe you mean roles? If so, I'll gladly add that.
PvP, basic positioning, maybe I should reclass it, to define to the roles? Is that what you ment? Like; Flag running, ect? Basicly go beyond the basic knowledge then frontline, midline, and backline?
Epic Post Section? Don't know what your talking about mate, I'm new to GameAMP posting ^^;
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| 01/16/08 05:41 |
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Forumite
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No offense Akela, but yes, although it should be common knowledge, it kind off is.
You see, even in PvE people are fast enough to learn the difference between monking on the frontline and death.
If they don't, then you have a licence to call such a person a ''noob'', but otherwise, people simply learn their place in a team. You don't even have to PvP at all to learn that.
I guess your pics went wrong, but even so, Positioning has been told before, however, not as a team, but as individual builds for each profession.
E.G A new monking build for PvP with a guide, almost always explains exactly where you got to stand in the team to have maxmimum effectiveness, same for say a ''Tank'' (just exampling), he's obviously supposed to be on the front line.
Although the initiative of posting this is very nice, the fact it's been told ten times before makes this another ''rant'' about something everyone already knows.
Well, most people, those that do not know are either inept to ever learn, or have just started playing the game.
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| 01/16/08 06:53 |
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Hardstrike
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Well, for some it aint common knowledge :) so be glad he/she is sharing it with us. At least its helping.
keep it up :)
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| 01/16/08 07:09 |
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| QUOTE | Well, for some it aint common knowledge :) so be glad he/she is sharing it with us. At least its helping.
keep it up :) |
read first, post later, almost every build you can find for a profession for PvP states the best position to be at in a team, frontline, mid, or back in the bus.
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| 01/16/08 07:13 |
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odin60
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Usually this kind of information is more useful in builds as on occasion some build break the rules.
For example, smiting monks would not stay back line and BIP necros would not stay midline necessarily.
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| 01/16/08 08:53 |
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The lines are somewhat ever shifting. Typically when I play ranger, I'm in the opposing midline almost the entire time I'm at the stand. Sometimes I'm even in the opposing backline, but that's typically rare.
Warriors should be free to ping around basically in the midline and backline the entire game. Linebacking doesn't really help as much as you might think.
Mesmers sometimes need to push forward to get off a shame on a spike or something.
Ele's and monks typically run around slightly farther back than most, just because of how they do their positional awareness. Bsurge is a very defensive character (Don't just spam it, that makes you bad).
Then when you split, you have all kinds of insanity going on. Sometimes you colapse and end up with 5 people on one side of the opponents team and 3 on the other.
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| 03/19/08 17:24 |
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aznese guy
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| QUOTE | | Linebacking doesn't really help as much as you might think. |
Ye agree with the ele, especiall b surge they stay with the monks usually, just to make sure they can get b surge to repel the melee.
Mesmer's will only move forward on a spike, maybe e burn on a frenzy war idk w/e u do in you ppl's gvg's. But because of the mesmer's lack of real solid defense, they stay in the middish/back line to keep themselves alive. I've seen mesmer's die a lot and that can totally make a team crumble since spikes can't be interrupted, monks cant be shut down and then the warriors just penetrate the backline and rape. Mesmer's need to hang back and throw out an occasional spike.
quit gw for good. end of story.
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| 03/19/08 18:29 |
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