Guild Wars 2

GavinGoodrich.1382:

Never before have I seen 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places switch hands so many times. What an epic week.

That’s IoJ for everyone: Why bother placing in one spot, we could shoot for all three!

Atlas.9704:

That’s IoJ for everyone: Why bother placing in one spot, we could shoot for all three!

Sly IoJ… trying to win all 3 places at once… Didn’t see that one coming :/

the new system is going to be a up one down one system i believe… If you win you go up.
if you lose you go down, second place stays.

i think that would be the best system to do as it would keep things super fresh.

Also, wanted to thank King for all the bags. I must have killed 30 people with that ballista in the doorway of that camp 8P

Ephedrine.4521:

Looks like our tier is the most competitive this week so I think its a win win win for the tier. I finally finished the jumping puzzle in southsun and will be in wvw tonight looking for a fight to relieve my frustrations.

That was the main idea, to make a closer match that didnt just have one server running out to an “uncatchable” lead. We will see what the rest of the week has in store, but so far it has been much more fun.

lilcoffeebean.3149:

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Psssst Darkhaven. Get your act together! Anvil rock has given up and is skirting T6 in points. We need some new opponents.

Sincerily, T5

Don’t worry, we will be seeing you soon. =P But this has been one hell of a fun matchup this week.

Doubtful, unless you are referring to the new WvW patch bringing you up.

http://mos.millenium.org/na

As of this posting you are losing nearly 40pts in rating.

I laugh at the DR guys now, the ones that were saying that they’d stomp us if we didnt have Darkhaven to hide behind…We’ve been ahead of Darkhaven this whole week i think? Not for much longer as you guys are slowly gaining points!

I’ve had A LOT of fun trying to flip DHs stuff! Taking all of EB again last night is still new to me Their Borderlands seems a lot harder than EB, not when SF come in and flip their garrison but

And a tip to you SF guys, DONT GIVE UP SO EASILY! It should NOT be that easy to flip veloka and your overlook with the ~25 people we had, We’ve held off 35-45 SBI, countless golems at that keep with the 10-15 people we had defending!

Loving this week! The scores being so close makes it all the more better <3

I dont want Zoo- Darkhaven to leave
And i hope Gate of madness can put up a decent fight otherwise itll be back to the old days, Green stomping blue and red (assuming thats how the rating system will work)

Oh and Hyjax, youll be dreamin if you think we were going to let SF get first this week, of course we’re going to hit them aswell! I think that was obvious to everyone, SF has a HUGE handicap against us.

LOL. Thanks for making the work day bearable with the humor here.

Had my bit of fun taking over SF Borderlands early in the morning, finishing off their Garrison with some Golems, but my question is, where did everyone go when we took it? You guys had roughly 30-35 people defending Hills, but when it came time for your Garrison it was vacant. We were all a bit confused.

But near the end of my night, i had to call it quits and made sure these golems stayed afloat.

Keep up the good work you two Servers, have been having a pleasant time fighting you both.

Myro Pyro.1749:

but my question is, where did everyone go when we took it? You guys had roughly 30-35 people defending Hills, but when it came time for your Garrison it was vacant. We were all a bit confused.

Like my post above, SF had a lot of people defending OW and some defending Veloka but once we capped their 4 towers and hit the keep, we got in there and saw 2 people in the lords room on balistas.

Thats one thing SF need to address ASAP! The moral of your server drops so fast. Us on IoJ, we have a core group that will fight till the last supply camp falls and when that happens, we’ll be popping breakouts and hitting keeps straight after!

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Us on IoJ, we have a core group that will fight till the last supply camp falls and when that happens, we’ll be popping breakouts and hitting keeps straight after!

QFT.

We’re try-hards. We’ve been through A LOT worse. The amount of money IoJ has thrown at inevitably lost upgrades, siege, and repairs would probably blow minds. I’m sure Anet loves it. But we don’t mind. IoJ is the fighting server. We’re like the splinter in your finger that you just cant seem to get out. A little irritating at times, but bump it just right and the real pain sets in. Pain that you can’t get to go away.

In all honesty we just love to have fun. And it’s a really AMAZING feeling to see so many people more than happy to join WvW and learn it because we’re doing alright for once. Once in more than four months.

We have our decent weeks, and we have our bad weeks. This has been our first REALLY FRICKIN GOOD WEEK since December.

So thank you all for the good games.

Well after our raid on their Garrison you can call them Baghaven. They eventually retook their garri after their zerg from EB came. It’s like 500 vs. 20 in there.

Filled my 1 × 20 slot and 6 × 12 slot bags with drops from them and 52 badges of honor just defending garrison. It’s was a good time with [HARD].

Tukmolytes.3467:

Baghaven

Is this the new thing? Can we make it a thing?

Lol’d so hard IRL.

Crimson Magdelana.9024:

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Us on IoJ, we have a core group that will fight till the last supply camp falls and when that happens, we’ll be popping breakouts and hitting keeps straight after!

QFT.

We’re try-hards. We’ve been through A LOT worse. The amount of money IoJ has thrown at inevitably lost upgrades, siege, and repairs would probably blow minds. I’m sure Anet loves it. But we don’t mind. IoJ is the fighting server. We’re like the splinter in your finger that you just cant seem to get out. A little irritating at times, but bump it just right and the real pain sets in. Pain that you can’t get to go away.

In all honesty we just love to have fun. And it’s a really AMAZING feeling to see so many people more than happy to join WvW and learn it because we’re doing alright for once. Once in more than four months.

We have our decent weeks, and we have our bad weeks. This has been our first REALLY FRICKIN GOOD WEEK since December.

So thank you all for the good games.

I’m on DH, but I must say I respect you guys in ioj. I have only once had someone do the /laugh at me when i was defeated (3:1 but that is just because I am tanky as kittten). You guys really do deserve the “stick to it” medal if there ever was one, and for your good sportsmanship, you have my respect.

Mind you I will still farm you for badges when given the chance; No hard feelings.

Tommyknocker.6089:

I’m on DH, but I must say I respect you guys in ioj. I have only once had someone do the /laugh at me when i was defeated (3:1 but that is just because I am tanky as kittten). You guys really do deserve the “stick to it” medal if there ever was one, and for your good sportsmanship, you have my respect.

Mind you I will still farm you for badges when given the chance; No hard feelings.

No hard feelings here. This is what the game is supposed to be. As long as I lose in a fair fight it’s fine.

Tukmolytes.3467:

Tommyknocker.6089:

I’m on DH, but I must say I respect you guys in ioj. I have only once had someone do the /laugh at me when i was defeated (3:1 but that is just because I am tanky as kittten). You guys really do deserve the “stick to it” medal if there ever was one, and for your good sportsmanship, you have my respect.

Mind you I will still farm you for badges when given the chance; No hard feelings.

No hard feelings here. This is what the game is supposed to be. As long as I lose in a fair fight it’s fine.

Yeah i always go after you TRBO guys with your emperor titles and 400g weapons because i feel like you drop better loot

I Monk For L O V E.7528:

Yeah i always go after you TRBO guys with your emperor titles and 400g weapons because i feel like you drop better loot

Only one of my guildies has that title (Emperor) and no, we don’t have 400g weapons. I used China-Made weapons and armors. LOL!

Tukmolytes.3467:

I Monk For L O V E.7528:

Yeah i always go after you TRBO guys with your emperor titles and 400g weapons because i feel like you drop better loot

Only one of my guildies has that title (Emperor) and no, we don’t have 400g weapons. I used China-Made weapons and armors. LOL!

This is lies! I ran into a whole party who had The Emperor, was atleast 4 of you guys in the party

I Monk For L O V E.7528:

This is lies! I ran into a whole party who had The Emperor, was atleast 4 of you guys in the party

No, no really only one of us have the Emperor title, maybe you are looking at clones (I don’t know if clones can have titles). In my whole guild only 4-5 have legendary weapons and they are PvE players. We WvW player are dirt poor.

You misunderstand. Every time I log on WvW, I hear my own servermates complaining about the zoomhackers in SF/IoJ. Many of them have logs of screens and “proof.” I’m not hurt that I’m being lumped in with hackers; I’m tired because people are blatantly ignoring common sense and QQ’ing about it on the public forums. There’s a time and a place, and this is neither. Go through proper channels or send private communications to guild leaders; stop wasting space here.

Oh, and congratulations on being a level 50 fractal runner, I guess?

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Myro Pyro.1749:

but my question is, where did everyone go when we took it? You guys had roughly 30-35 people defending Hills, but when it came time for your Garrison it was vacant. We were all a bit confused.

Like my post above, SF had a lot of people defending OW and some defending Veloka but once we capped their 4 towers and hit the keep, we got in there and saw 2 people in the lords room on balistas.

Thats one thing SF need to address ASAP! The moral of your server drops so fast. Us on IoJ, we have a core group that will fight till the last supply camp falls and when that happens, we’ll be popping breakouts and hitting keeps straight after!

I was there for that garrison cap, and yeah it hurt. I’m surprised you guys didn’t know that we lose a lot of people around those hours due to people going to bed. We were already on our last legs defending Hills and Cliffside. After Hills went, we were losing people by the minute. When DH flipped Garrison, we had like 6 people on the map. And you also had us distracted trying to counter the Cliffside treb haha, so props on the backdoor I suppose. By the time someone called out watergate in map chat, it was already too late.

King Amadaeus.8619:

I am level 50 Infractals anyway

torridstoic.7492:

Oh, and congratulations on being a level 50 fractal runner, I guess?

—>Whoooooooooosh….

“Your Head”

Also your server exploits a lot (space wasted).

torridstoic.7492:

You misunderstand. Every time I log on WvW, I hear my own servermates complaining about the zoomhackers in SF/IoJ. Many of them have logs of screens and “proof.” I’m not hurt that I’m being lumped in with hackers; I’m tired because people are blatantly ignoring common sense and QQ’ing about it on the public forums. There’s a time and a place, and this is neither. Go through proper channels or send private communications to guild leaders; stop wasting space here.

I tend to command a lot, and have yet to see an IoJ even look like they are zoomhacking, if you or anyone else have screenshots of our server zoomhacking/exploiting, feel free to pm them to me! I would love to see who (if anyone) is zoomhacking on our server because everyone i’ve talked to about it outright hates it.

Its not wasting space here, it is a HUGE problem that is somewhat ruining this matchup, we make it public and hope your server takes notice. Exploiting should not be encouraged. This is the time and place. I’ve talked to an [abys] member about one of them zoomhacking, nothing has been done about it as it is still happening.

A DH member that made a post then deleted it about SF ‘Zoomhacking’ i replied to it as he clearly didnt understand what zoomhacking was. If thats what people are calling out and screenshotting i will laugh my kitten off.

hyjaxxx.1584:

yall just seem a lil sour that your WvW double team diddnt have the effect you were hoping for.

Jaxx

the double team worked as intended, it prevented us DH from getting a huge point lead
and giving us really fun battles

manabevulkan.9527:

hyjaxxx.1584:

yall just seem a lil sour that your WvW double team diddnt have the effect you were hoping for.

Jaxx

the double team worked as intended, it prevented us DH from getting a huge point lead
and giving us really fun battles

Nice to see a DH person “keeping it real” (I added that so the signet warrior would understand since he only speaks in wangster cliche’s :P). That was the idea, that if IoJ really wanted to go for first that we would help them, provided they assisted in focusing on DH primarily before just cherry picking us at opportune times.

I am surprised we haven’t seen more kitten from DH about it, (Ajax has been borderline a few times but stopped short of QQing, good on ya bro)but in all reality we knew DH would have enough folks to throw at the problem to make it competitive. So in the end, while not knowing what we would get by the next reset, we had hoped it would give us a more competitive match with possibly something to play for during the latter part of the week. It isn’t perfect, but I think this has been the most fun week for all 3 servers.

For DH’s part I think they have took it all in stride and, I do hope they are enjoying having some to play for at this point rather than just sitting back and PVdooring all day with a 30k lead.

melodey.4652:

For the screencap you posted, Crimson, I wasn’t there and I don’t speak for everyone on my server but I would have built an AC in that exact spot. Why? Because there is a gap in the door where you can see over the door to hit any AC’s/ballistas behind the door, including on that bridge, and near the supply depot roof and with range, to the lord’s room as well.

Correct me if I am wrong (seriously), but I thought that screenshot was of Blue Keep SE(going from memory) outer wall, which would have made that siege actually at a wall not a door. Or are you referring to the inner door?

Ew, did you really just call him Norm Chomsky? Haha. Want another awesome quote? “colorless green ideas sleep furiously”, and yes, that is Noam Cholsey as well, which clearly makes my statement that much more valid. Yay for linguist’s that comment on politics in a gaming thread. All over the place in hurr.

King Amadaeus.8619:

melodey.4652:

For the screencap you posted, Crimson, I wasn’t there and I don’t speak for everyone on my server but I would have built an AC in that exact spot. Why? Because there is a gap in the door where you can see over the door to hit any AC’s/ballistas behind the door, including on that bridge, and near the supply depot roof and with range, to the lord’s room as well.

Correct me if I am wrong (seriously), but I thought that screenshot was of Blue Keep SE(going from memory) outer wall, which would have made that siege actually at a wall not a door. Or are you referring to the inner door?

Blue Keep in SE corner (IoJ keep on EB) indeed. There isn’t a door there on the outer wall. They were focusing fire to get that wall down over and over, but the siege was hitting all the way to our inner, right to the supply spawn and no further (I was on our arrow cart at the supply spawn for at least 15 minutes clearing out the few DH that got inside, once our wall was back up I went after the siege).

Original post was deleted. Apparently I was accusing someone of something. Sad really, it was a good write up. I’m not accusing anyone of anything, just pointing out my observations. After DH was successfully pushed out of our corner, it seemed you guys just gave up. You could have stormed the keep and probably had it if you tried. Four outer walls down, and two inner at one point….and you guys never fully pushed in. Tisk tisk.

Hi everyone

We would like to ask you to keep the hack/exploit discussion and accusations out of the forums. If you suspect someone from engaging in such actions, please report them over at: https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ providing as much information as possible e.g. screenshots and videos.

Thanks for your understanding.

Yay you guys finally got me, love all of you, i can always count on you to be trolling the invuln spot <3

I’ve had some fun dance fights with other servers that way. One gal kept slinging some electric sword around like it was techno club night.

Get it together Darkhaven. Take our spot in the rotten T5 matchup, we’re all farming PvE and sick of being sat on by Ehmry and trading off second with Borlis. If you get it together and move up, know that Ehmry Bay is organized and deadly in the open field. Be prepared to get handled a lot. Siege placement? Not so important. Being able to fight zerg vs. zerg? Extremely important.

Borlis is wimps

Not accusing ANYONE of anything, just simply uploading a picture of the IoJ vs. DH for IoJ Garrison tonight here, i would like to direct you to combat log and the faint red circle you can see in this picture though. Again for you mods, not accusing anyone of anything

Banzie.5248:

Not accusing ANYONE of anything, just simply uploading a picture of the IoJ vs. DH for IoJ Garrison tonight here, i would like to direct you to combat log and the faint red circle you can see in this picture though. Again for you mods, not accusing anyone of anything

You do know that we had an arrow cart on the opposite/outer wall right? But you can’t see over the walls from inside, so probably not.

After hours and countless omega golems…oh and the multiple arrow carts Derphaven finally capped our Garrison, wiping us off the map.
Our final stand on inner garri was hard fought for, good job DH!

Miss Firesss.3704:

You do know that we had an arrow cart on the opposite/outer wall right? But you can’t see over the walls from inside, so probably not.

With my 24inch monitors and from where you arrowcart was, i cant see they places you were hitting with it…
But hey DH is legit, i believe you

EDIT: I too am not accusing them, its just they have some pretty kitten big monitors!

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

With my 24inch monitors and from where you arrowcart was, i cant see they places you were hitting with it…
But hey DH is legit, i believe you

EDIT: I too am not accusing them, its just they have some pretty kitten big monitors!

Sure you can!

EDIT: Maybe I should change the file name to something like “working as intended”.

nyckolag.2394:

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

With my 24inch monitors and from where you arrowcart was, i cant see they places you were hitting with it…
But hey DH is legit, i believe you

EDIT: I too am not accusing them, its just they have some pretty kitten big monitors!

Sure you can!

EDIT: Maybe I should change the file name to something like “working as intended”.

Wait, we’ve been preparing for days this Omega Golem attack and “supposedly” we would be playing it for 3 hours at an unwatchable resolution just to setup an arrowcart for 30 seconds in a huge zerg battle that runs at about 5 frames per seconds? This is pretty ridiculous.

In all honesty, we don’t even care that much about winning; we just wanted to have fun and play as well as we can.

I will be waiting for the video!

Darkhaven bringing the pain! Why you no like 2nd place?!

I learned my lesson mods!

I will now no longer quote anyone, ever. Nor will I even allude to the fact I am responding to a specific post, to avoid having a perfectly legitimate post deleted “because another post was deleted.”

Anywho, I basically said that while I am seeing a rise in suspicious behavior (including just downright bugginess in the game itself), IoJ remains imminently respectable overall. SF perhaps less so, but there are still some great encounters even if it ends up with me waypointing!

We’ll see how long this stays here, since I am technically just saying the same thing as my old post and “referring” to the fact.

Mods, get your cat off the keyboard!

edit: Actual footage of the incident:

Every once in a while, I like to make a post similar to the following. I do not expect anything to come from it, but hey, its something I would eventually like to see. The only issue is thakittens simply not the work of one person, but of all of us as a team.

I realize that DH hasnt had much issues for a while, which is why starting to implement a new foundation for our server might be easier now than when we start to flounder a bit (for whatever reason). Resets are always weak, with the very random exception of last match. This will undoubtedly change, and I do have an option to try out. This isnt something I have seen in many games, but when utilized by myself in previous games, it has been incredibly effective in raising the mean average of player skill and education in a given group. It also makes new players feel more welcome, and increases retention, play time, and effort of said users. This is basically copy/pasted from a previous post which was also largely ignored, lol.

The biggest thing that would help DH start unifying is to focus on communications that are accessible to PUGs, which is essentially /map and /team chat.

The attitude thus far (and not just in this game or server) is that everyone should be on voice comms. The truth is that many want to just play the game, and not have to get extremely involved during their playtime. No effort of any kind has been made to communicate through common means, only proprietary (either get in “x” guild or sign into vent/mumble/ts3/etc). Nor have many actions been taken to actually educate new people through common means and it can be downright intimidating at first.

We should build a system/foundation that doesnt just include PUGs, but makes them a priority. A system that encourages people to share ideas, strategies, and even fail together (which is also an opportunity to learn). Coming up with a strong foundation, built on means accessible to anyone just playing the game, would be a great boon to the strength of the server.

Maybe now is a good time where we can truly build a strong server that focuses on communication and education done through means accessible to anyone who owns and plays the game. The benefits of this, while briefly mentioned in this post, have a much larger impact than just making us “better” at WvW.

Time will tell, I suppose. I wont be holding my breath though

Keep it classy, San Diego.

Saw 3 ANET employee while playing a while ago. I hope they serve their purpose for whatever it is.

Nightmare, Miso and Kryllin. Thanks for visiting IoJ.

neiliam.8614:

Keep it classy, San Diego.

Ohhhhhhh you must be doing something right if you made palace angry :o

CRYSTAL DESERT | ANVIL ROCK | DARKHAVEN PARTAY :o

melodey.4652:

CRYSTAL DESERT | ANVIL ROCK | DARKHAVEN PARTAY

CD just got a big guild transfer so you might now have too much fun with that

I Monk For L O V E.7528:

melodey.4652:

CRYSTAL DESERT | ANVIL ROCK | DARKHAVEN PARTAY

CD just got a big guild transfer so you might now have too much fun with that

Yeah, you guys were tier locked with that guild forever and ever. All I know from talking to them when they were considering DH is that they can basically fill up a queue on a map by themselves.

Poker face…

Props to DH for really earning 1st this week, fightin’ tooth n’ nail. We’ve seen you step up your game a lot, given you’re fighting more of us overall…when you take 10-15 people to guard a yak ‘cause that’s what it takes to get SM upgraded safely…you know you’re doin’ it right.

melodey.4652:

CRYSTAL DESERT | ANVIL ROCK | DARKHAVEN PARTAY :o

According to that Example: IoJ/FC/DR.

So….inb4 Gab rants.

Whatever happens, I’ve always said DH deserves a better match up. No one likes being farmed for badges (IoJ when DH & DR were in this tier). And I think you guys moving on in life would be great for your server. All of our servers really. Whatever happens…good games. Best of luck. We’re all gonna need it depending on how this system works out.

Had some nice fights with an SF s/p thief from [LH] outside SM tonight; those were lots of fun!

Signed, the [EO] s/d thief with the tricorn hat.