The Blond Brigade - Melee only events: 3v3, CTF, Tournament?

What is Blond Brigade?
A series of PvP events based on set rules to create a better balanced environment than the global PvP scene.

Why need rules? Why is it so limiting?
Lack of support and care from GGG towards PvP created a very imbalanced meta, which is uncomfortable and discouraging for most players, limiting build choices and skill requirement heavily. Given the circumstances, while we are left without balance patch we must work out something on our own, and it is very hard to create a balanced and enjoyable environment that satify the most players.

The list of imbalanced things in PvP aside from obvious broken items and skills, is strongly arguable, and this is why I think a small, easy to define subset of builds is more managable and enforceable, opposed to handpicking a controversial list of things, which would affect players differently, where with a subset like mine recommendation prompts everyone to build into something fresh.

Rules:

• Melee only. All of your damage must come from melee attacks. Spells, traps, mines, minion and projectile skills that deal damage are excluded. Ancestral totems are allowed. Auras, Curses and utility skills that dont deal damage are allowed. Only exception is lvl1 Frost bomb which will be allowed.
• Ascendant/scion only. There are numerous balance problems coming from ascendency classes, so I narrow it down to the Ascendant because it excludes the differency of the many ascendency classes the most easily, it's not a popular/overpowered class for PvP, but it still has many options, and hopefully this is the character class most of us has a spare unspecced. If someone really doesn't have any scions but would like to participate I will allow to bring any class without ascendency at all, I will try to find a yellow wig for that case.
• Excluded skills: Temporal chains, Glove enchants, Arctic breath, GMP/LMP. Temporal chains buffed too much is still problematic, so all forms are excluded for now. Most (or all?) glove enchants are either spells or projectiles so that's why they are excluded.
• Excluded items: Aegis Aurora, Zerphi's Last Breath. They would allow close to unkillable builds with the above restrictions and their effect is easy to spot to bust.
• Have decent damage. Bringing tanky characters is good, but you must have decent damage to it, and that is the amount that you would be able to kill yourself with in a mirror match

I want you to contribute to this idea by simply participating in the event!

Schedule:
I will check every Friday and Saturday night at 10pm/22:00 GMT+2 (CEST) for participants. Contact me ingame: Markusz or enter Sarn Arena. When enough people are present we will try to make simple 3v3 or CTF matches for as long as there are players. Common chat channel for the events: global 1337

Feel free to post your suggestions!

Great idea. I hope you get it going. I find it hard enough getting any 3v3's or CTF's off the ground, with any build as it is now though.

I'd participate, although I don't have any mirrored weapons(or close to it), let alone other melee gear, which will probably be needed to be even mildly competitive.

brb getting onslaught song from guildmate

lol I literally just sold all my scion mjolner gear and turned her into a CTF speed runner (with no damage)

So I got nothing to gear her in melee with (since mjolner is the only "melee" build I ever played).


Thing is, it's already hard enough to get 3v3 CTF going especially with rlowe running his mouth every time we try to get people interested (seriously I get that you're joking dude, but stop. We really want 3v3 CTF to be more regular).

We shouldn't limit builds just yet. Otherwise, I'd be surprised if we even got 6 people.


Let's start by joining our efforts and spreading the word to our friends/guildies that whenever they hit Sarn Arena, if there's a bunch of people we should all queue for 3v3 CTF. I try to get it going with a few other regulars and I change my status so at least my friend list knows they can queue.

We had it going good for a few weeks with matches every night or second night, but it died off last week and this week. Would be nice to just make it a habit. They're definitely more fun than just fucking around in Sarn.

As I understand many people are disgusted by the meta builds, but if we exclude those there will hopefully be an increase in player numbers.

Sadly those matches you mention were at US night times so I couldn't play, but it's good to hear they happened.

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Márkusz wrote:

As I understand many people are disgusted by the meta builds, but if we exclude those there will hopefully be an increase in player numbers.

Sadly those matches you mention were at US night times so I couldn't play, but it's good to hear they happened.

Well meta builds are there and we can't increase the playerbase by limiting options. I'm not talking about players that we already have, but the new players we're trying to attract. Personally I avoid melee like the plague. I played barbs and zons wayyyyy too much in D2 and I stay away from bow and melee builds now.

ahfack's 3v3 videos on reddit were a good start, we just need consistency.

Everyone needs to do their part in getting players to join us. If we're trying to do 3v3 CTF, it's important that everyone who wants in reaches out to their friends to play or give it a try.


We can't really start making niche events when the playerbase is so small.

I mostly hope to return some old players who can't get into the current meta with how things are.

It could be also somewhat good for new pvp players as we can offer a starting place where they can avoid the opponents that would otherwise disappoint them from pvp.

I could be up for that, got a bunch of useless scion roting away on my account.

I would also exclude EQ as when you can hit the whole screen, it's not really melee anymore.

i think he's excluding mjolner simple

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Lordsidro wrote:

i think he's excluding mjolner simple

it's fine, this really isnt for me anyway.