Guild Wars 2

Manoa.5897:

insanemaniac.2456:

Manoa.5897:

So if we are getting transfers and/or more PvEers involved, it certainly isn’t enough yet to bump us to max map capacity terribly often.

all of our populations are low enough that you could quadruple our numbers and not hit queues

or well… they were.

I’m not trying to argue that our WvW isn’t getting more numbers and/or doesn’t have population advantage over FC or ET at this time. Just sharing my personal observations, nothing more.

I can’t say for certain whether or not we are indeed seeing more numbers (as I haven’t been active during this particular match) and if so, what the actual source of that population increase is (i.e. transfers or PvEers joining us when we’re winning or a combo of the two).

There are many reasons for score discrepancies due to population. We may very well be seeing more folks joining us in WvW, thereby swinging the population advantage in our favor. Or the other two servers may be loosing WvW population (either to other servers or to PvE), which would also swing the population advantage in our favor. And the two are not necessarily mutually elusive either…it could be some mix of the two.

i was agreeing with you o.O
even if your population doubled… youd outnumber us/et and still not hit queues

Eh, too many trolls on ferg :p

almost moved there instead of et but settled on et instead

It may just be how the different primetimes line up, but it only feels like we’re hitting FC the hardest because you guys actually put up a decent fight during the times I’m on.

A couple things from just last night come to mind:

• Me, a ranger, and an engineer wiped an ET zerg of 20 in front of Durios right as I got online. 3v20 should not have been easy. Even if NPCs had just respawned, 5v20 still should not have been easy. If the commander in that zerg had posted a couple people on the bridge (or noticed the NPC sentry evaporating) that might not have happened the way it did, especially when I showed up and it was 20 vs door.
• ET keep was essentially undefended. There were literally four people I saw during our push there, none of whom were actually level 80 when our push was about 40 people golems inclusive comprised of about 2/3 level 80s. Veloka had nobody in it. Mendon was literally undefended as well. I switched over to pushing into blue territory after realizing wiping red out on EB was going to be minimal effort at best. At this point, ET BL was completely red, and FC BL was completely blue, I couldn’t see a tangible explanation for this outside of ET being severely undermanned on all fronts and had to try to focus on preserving their borderlands.
• Our push at FC’s keep ten minutes before we launched the ET keep assault was met with heavy resistance despite the fact that we portal chained golems in from SM. There were probably 15-20 blues defending their keep versus about 35 (and no spawncamp during that push to prevent reinforce) so the odds did suck, but they were at least mostly real level 80s, not upscaled.
• On FC borderlands, ET had a supply camp “under lockdown” as reported on map chat. I casually strolled in there with three others to find four arrow carts, two ballistas, a catapult, and a treb, all unmanned. Not quite sure why you guys had a treb in the northern supply camp where literally all it can hit is FC’s spawn.
• Also on FC borderlands, when four reds (all of them real 80s for once! …but two were wearing what looked to be green armor, not rare or exotic…) was capping a supply camp, I downed three of them before my stupidity in cooldown management meant a 100b warrior at 1/8 health splattered what was left of my health bar with no dodge rolls or stun breakers ready. That fight shouldn’t have been that close or even remotely winnable for me. Had I had more than zero allies with me we would have stopped that camp from being capped.

Generally speaking, FC just put up a much better fight when I was online last night whereas the ET groups I ran into last night let me engage recklessly and get away with it most of the time. I’m just hoping that a couple more guilds fill the ranks of T8 so we can keep even matches going. These last two weeks have been the most fun I’ve had in WvW in quite awhile since it hasn’t been an utter blowout, not to mention getting 700 badges effortlessly in that same timeframe as an added bonus. I heard from Banjo that two guilds had transferred in from SoR albeit not during my coverage times, and my only hope is that ET and FC end up getting more transfers than we do. It’s no fun when I’m spending the last couple hours on WvW wondering what’s left for me to do. And please for the love of kittens and everything fuzzy field more real level 80s. 1vXes aren’t challenging when people instagib when I haven’t even had to execute a full combo.

insanemaniac.2456:

i was agreeing with you o.O
even if your population doubled… youd outnumber us/et and still not hit queues

Sorry, I read your post and wrote my response before my coffee kicked in. Totally misinterpreted what you were getting at. :-/ Didn’t mean to come off as argumentative or antagonistic, I promise!

Time to head on for a bit of Wuving here. Let’s see if I convince our commanders to take <REDACTED> so that I can <REDACTED> <REDACTED> a <REDACTED>.

Pack Dolyaks, here comes an Asura for your fragile little kneecaps!

Geeze ET.
You scared us with your 20 golem zerg rush at SM.
Nice try

yeah we had more golems than people on that map, left some in the keep – good thing you failed with your counter rush or you might have killed them

Great to see red and blue both fielding a lot more people tonight!

we turned SF border blue this morning! well except for sunnyhill.. which we took later once a few defenders showed up and we lost control of a few camps.

also rumor is ET got a transfer windfall, EB turned red while we were painting SF. hope things dont get too out of whack, but sort of glad the underdog will probably be able to fight better.

and yes, thats right guys… sf had PPT’s around 10-50 ish ;D

naked portal bombs for everyone!

Just have to share this for ET : YES we can.

Hello everyone
Some good battles were had by all. It seems like the theme for this week was siege golems.
I dont really care about what anyone else say but low tier wvw is fun. Anything can really happen. With a little more dedication from FC or ET, they couldve stolen this weeks wvw.

What’s up guys! Maephina here just saying hello and that I’ve had a blast doing so much battle over the past week it’s been pretty epic.
To those who wonder what’s happened with regard to our point lead this past week, I would like to give a shout out to Banjo, Oceanid, Yuki, Dreadmode, and a host of other commanders and players who have taken the lead to really ramp up the direction our battles have gone.

I tend to think that what has happened is assertive and well organized strategy and direction from people on the field.

Also I’d like to give a shout out to Sanctum Chrae on our server for getting me addicted to helping defend our homeland while the battle rages in EB.

Let’s keep it up!

<3 Maephina and I salute all the other commanders for your great cooperation and enthusiasm

Kukchi.6173:

<3 Maephina and I salute all the other commanders for your great cooperation and enthusiasm

You’re kind of late there dude. About 16 days late, to be precise. :P

Detharos.3157:

Kukchi.6173:

<3 Maephina and I salute all the other commanders for your great cooperation and enthusiasm

You’re kind of late there dude. About 16 days late, to be precise. :P

I know… but better late than never

Fergs and ET in bed together..thats funny

Your servers teamed up against us and still the result is the same.
Do you think now it may not be a population issue?

Dogsmack.4910:

Fergs and ET in bed together..thats funny

Your servers teamed up against us and still the result is the same.
Do you think now it may not be a population issue?

i see a 2v2 brah… honestly its wvwvw expect anything…