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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 8:19 am

    now before you lot hate me i did this for a reason, so im in the burg i summon 2 whites and wait vader shows up the other 2 whites charge and kill him, this is very very very very very very very very boring, so i have to ask myself why would other people do this constantly and not wanna jam a pencil in there eye!
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    Post by DoughGuy Tue May 15, 2012 8:31 am

    Next time summon 2 whites, wait till someone invades then suicide off an edge. I've always wanted to do this in the forest.
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 8:40 am

    i aint doing it again its the most pointless waste of the internet since they made bebo
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    Post by DamageCK Tue May 15, 2012 9:58 am

    Still don't understand why you did it in the first place.
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 9:59 am

    to understand why they do it, what pleasure they get from it, or if there just degenerate assholes who shouldnt even own an etch a sketch let alone a games console,
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    Post by DamageCK Tue May 15, 2012 10:01 am

    Obviously the latter.
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 10:02 am

    yes this is the conclusion i have come to i generally tend to never judge someone until i have been in there shoes so i thought well maybe there is some upside to ganking but alas no, its a fools ideal
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    Post by skarekrow13 Tue May 15, 2012 10:10 am

    I did a run with a group in the Kiln and posted my results what seems like ages ago. I was there helping with Gwyn in my first run through the game and got summoned by a group. I stuck around awhile and saw some upsides but, and this is the key, only if the group abides by a few rules. Primarily every fight should start honorably with a chance at 1v1. The only time I felt a group battle was acceptable was when invaders chose to engage all of us simultaneously. I did see a large number of persons looking to fight a group. I'm ok with that. I always gave an option. However, my "compatriots" broke this rule and attacked a guy while I bowed to him. I let them get slaughtered and bowed to the invader as I let him kill me.
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    Post by BLA1NE Tue May 15, 2012 2:02 pm

    Why did you have to do it in the Burg?

    Dark Anor Londo, the Kiln, the Forest... Why the Burg??
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    Post by DamageCK Tue May 15, 2012 2:06 pm

    BLA1NE wrote:Why did you have to do it in the Burg?

    Dark Anor Londo, the Kiln, the Forest... Why the Burg??

    Good question. Of all the places, why the one that's still a reliable 1v1 spot?
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 2:11 pm

    cause i was in teh burg when the white signs popped up so i thought argh what the hell, after the first invader got killed i bc'd them out and carried on dueling
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    Post by Serious_Much Tue May 15, 2012 2:17 pm

    Good, you're one of the few people who actually tried it before condemning it. It is dull isn't it? The only reason I can think of doing it is soul farming.. But other ways are faster than this so I fail to see the point.. :|

    Just sore losers playing in the only way they can win, i guess.
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 2:19 pm

    thanks, im wondering why im getting slight hostility from other people about this, anyone who has dueled me knows i am a very honourable player, it was an expirement
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    Post by sparkly-twinkly-lizard Tue May 15, 2012 3:00 pm

    in ye olde demons souls you'd run into parties of three who would 1v1 an invader with the phantoms going first and the host acting as the ref/ match starter guy until he was alone, then the host would duel, sad it doesn't happen all that often anymore.... and i've experimented this way as well so i know what your talking about, the only times it was really profitable was in the forest when a lvl 600 or so showed up and got killed.... frankly its more fun to run naked through the forest and then just pull the invaders along all over the place...
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 3:06 pm

    ive started leaving dungpies all over the forest
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    Post by Buggy Virus Tue May 15, 2012 3:57 pm

    I like playing 1v3, they are a good challenge.
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    Post by MsCherryBlossom Tue May 15, 2012 4:14 pm

    I played with two other friends once and we killed several invaders together while on our way to Quelaag. Are we in the wrong for not wanting to wait to fight the invaders one by one wasting our time?

    Unless you're speaking of just waiting for invaders to come, I see nothing wrong with 3v1 since im some cases people are actually trying to progress in the level and not exactly wait for an unlucky invader to try and spoil our game.
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    Post by skarekrow13 Tue May 15, 2012 4:51 pm

    As an occasional Darkwraith invader I wouldn't take offense to being ganged up on if it looked like you were going through the level. As a forest hunter I've seen two people.....and that's ever......going for Sif. Neither had help. I take some offense at the camping but not a lot since I know a good deal of strategies to turn the tide. 3v1? How about 10v3? Mwah ha ha haaa
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    Post by Rynn Tue May 15, 2012 5:01 pm

    Not all gankers are ganking just for the joy of it.
    I had a conversation yesterday with a few friends of mine. They were trying to reach level 105 so we could co-op... and I was hearing some strange things over the mic.
    "What are you doing?"
    "We're in the forest"
    "....together?"
    "Ye- FLASK! The bastard bacstabbed me!"
    "...."

    EDIt: I've also personally been accused of ganking on several occasions, since by NG5, I refuse to take on sif without two heavily armored players, and getting summon signs to work takes time.


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    Post by dwx Tue May 15, 2012 5:02 pm

    I think everyone is talking about the 1v2, 1v3 where guys are just waiting for you, that's the definition of ganking. I've only been playing DS for about a month now, a latecomer, but I like to play as an invader in the forest covenant because it's a somewhat good skill builder and maybe 1 out of 5 times you get a decent duel.

    Of course it's difficult sometimes when you have two guys who sit at the spawn points with TWoP set to go or both guys are in full Havel's armor flipping around like they are on crack, while spamming Wrath of God.

    I like the dung pie idea I'm going to have to start doing that once I collect some more from Blighttown. Right now the best I can do to annoy people is keep acid surge loaded and ready to go when I spawn in... I've had gankers actually message me to tell me using it is cheap...
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 5:38 pm

    the whole idea of this was to see what the point was and i cant see any, if you need souls just host some FC for about an hour, i messaged the guy who got ganked and apologised for it and explained what i was doing i then offered a 1 on1 duel and a titanite slab if he won, he didnt but he dropped a sign again and i game him one anyway
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    Post by Majikero07 Tue May 15, 2012 5:42 pm

    Using acid surge will break their talisman so Wrath of god won't kill anything. Due to the summons, the can't go back to fix it.
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 5:45 pm

    i can deal with gankers i can easily take down 3 people if needed i think you missed the point of this im not complaining about gankers, i wanted to understand the appeal of it, i could not find any
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    Post by Glutebrah Tue May 15, 2012 5:54 pm

    the point of ganking is either A. To troll piss iff people and get hate mail for the lulz. Or B. To get fast easy souls to level.

    Usually A.
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    Post by billy_bayonet Tue May 15, 2012 5:54 pm

    yeah but why A there has to be reason for it, is it some sort of warped twisted sense of humour

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