Although I was in Mexico for the greater part of the past week, I’ve still felt like I haven’t done as much PvP as I wanted to or should do to continue getting better. Of course, I’ve also been busy running operations and farming dailies and flashpoints for crafting materials, which leaves less energy to be motivated enough to get potentially ROFLstomped in the warzone! I felt like I was slacking off a bit, but I did play a few warzone matches yesterday.
I logged into my Assassin on the Prophecy of the Five server and found myself to be the lone guild member online. That felt a bit discouraging. However, I did get an instant queue pop for level 10-29 Voidstar match, which was very encouraging! I’m not sure how the queues were going for Ranked and unranked PvP at higher levels on the server, but it was pretty nice to not have to wait. I still lost that match. Even though I think it’s better to learn while you’re leveling, I felt really frustrated and gimped with less abilities than I’m used to playing a level 19 character.
I realized—I’m really not a noob. I’m not a terrible PvPer. I’ve been playing this game since near launch, and while my current guild is more focused on PvE and GSF, my last guild from almost a year ago took me into quite a few warzones. I also vaguely remember wanting to PvP when I joined <Despair>. (Remember me dragging you guys out to Korriban to duel on the steps of the Sith Academy? So much fun.)
Basically, I said to myself that I was tired of this lowbie PvP. I’ve done enough matches, and I wasn’t leveling nearly fast enough. And it’s such a drag to do the same class story for the third time. I logged into my level 55 Assassin on the Harbinger, tricked out in “beastly” PvE gear (which means nothing in PvP) and armed with a single Obroan Relic of Serendipitous Assault—and queued with one of my guildies, a Marauder.
When I enter a warzone or arena, I try to go in with low expectations. Then I’m not that disappointed if we lose. Surprisingly, we won that first Huttball match, but this time, I don’t think it was due to any contribution of mine. I didn’t have the right abilities in the right spot, nor was I specced for PvP, but we still won by sheer luck. Maybe our team was really good, or maybe the other team was just horribly bad. Our other guildies heard our victory in Mumble and decided to join. Why not? We brought in another DPS and a healer.
We got smashed in the next few matches. I was a little sad that we didn’t get The Civil War, which is my favorite map, but we completed the [DAILY] mission. My guildies stopped queuing, but I persevered for a few more matches.
I did try something new that’s probably elementary to veteran Shadows and Assassins. In Voidstar, it takes 8 seconds to plant the bomb on the door. I saw that there was only one visible person, a non-stealther, guarding one of the doors. Since we were already in the second round and the other team had already made it to their Datacore, why not take a chance? I snuck up to the player and zapped him with my CC. He broke it. Perfect. I quickly casted my Whirlwind which also lasts 8 seconds, and knowing that he had already blown his CC breaker, I successfully planted the bomb. It was not without a slight interruption, because a derpy teammate shot the Whirlwinded player and broke my CC. Luckily, I still was able to get the door open.
I know I said I’ve been playing this game for a while and that I’m really good at using my Assassin, but wow! That was a cool trick that I had never done before. I did it again on the next door. We still lost because we weren’t fast enough, and I didn’t get as many MVP votes as I wanted from the non-guildies on our team (hello? Objective points?!) . However, I’m glad I learned something new, which I shamefully should have known for a long time.
Have you ever had any eureka moments in-game? What were those like? Let me know in the comments! You can also send an e-mail to heather@prettylittlesith.com or a tweet to @Heather_PLS!
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