Guild Wars 2

Hoping for another mostly-balanced matchup here in tier 8! Welcome to any and all new transfers on all three sides, and hope you find your new (almost-)permanent home worlds to your liking!

Love the balance, SF doesn’t seem to have much of a night crew, but it is still always back and forth! gl to all!

We don’t need a night crew when we dominate morning til night! o.~ (SF!)

Like the matchup, but I really wish the colors could change without our rankings moving.

Looks like I have to wait at least another week for 100% map completion

EDIT: Especially with the swarms of Sorrow’s Funless. Would it be so much to ask that you go take the keeps of, you know, the people who actually have the WvW map covered and not us?

Been a great night of fights thus far. Eredon’s Terrace has had an extremely impressive opener, and continuing into the night lots of epic fights from SF. Nice fights for all servers.

Gotta give a shout out to KWBH for their portal bomb tactics. Feels like you guys have been on crazy mode tonight.

It’s generally accepted as a good idea to check next to the vista. Four of your guys viewed the vista… and then left me alone :X

We had some great fights at reset guys and as always thanks for everyone that fought us. (fergusons crossing tonight). There were some epic battles against seas of red over the bay where we just didn’t have the manpower to push you all the way back to cap the north camp / tower (came really close once to pushing through that camp).
Eventually you guys brought in an outrageous amount of people, but we made you earn it.

Looking forward to roaming a bit more and practicing defense/ offense until more ppl xfer to ET (which we need badly to even things up).

Sorry it took me so long to post, I had started another thread like a giant forum noob!

Today was some awesome fun, great to see everyone out in force and also great work from our Gm SmilingKnight on leading today

There was a Golem Party on FC’s borderland last night. Don’t know about anyone else, but this was the most fun I’ve had in WvW in weeks :P

golem rushes tend to be less impressive when there’s no one to defend against them

One does not simply take TTA’s tower.

Seems like SF is turning into another Kaineng ( sadly )

Really, it’s not the Zerging that I’m most miffed about (though that’s annoying) as it is that, in my past hour and a half on SF’s borderlands (I hoped beyond hope to get the garrison back, and it was close, but wham, the lawnmower rolled through and murdered us after we hit the inner gate the second time.)

What annoys me more is that I saw a whopping ONE Engineer or Necromancer throughout these fights. Guardians spamming full heals galore, sure. Elementalists meteoring places? Why not. Mesmers shattering for 20k in the face? Yeah, those too.

Heck, I would’ve even been happy to run into a thief tonight, not so many bloody guardians/mesmers/eles (and warriors too, but I can at least handle their spam approach.)

It was a great day of WvW for Ferguson’s, that’s for sure. What started out as small-time plan on a whim to 3-golem rush a keep or two quickly grew into a full out joint operation between TTA and WZ. SF put up some pressure at first but quickly buckled under the two-pronged attacks leading Ferguson’s Crossing to takeover most of Sorrow’s Borderlands (all 3 keeps) and effectively hold a strong position in it for hours, until people started logging off for the night. We certainly got to cash in our share of points from that, and the fights with SF was a ton of fun. Note though that one tower (Sunnyhill I think?) stood the entire time as symbol of SF’s resistance. I hope SF will give due props to whoever it was that had them arm that tower so heavily.

It’s funny to think that TTA and WZ started out at such odds, and yet now we’re quickly becoming bro-guilds.

Edit: Drama moment is now censored.

you can actually edit those screenshots to block out chat, abilities, and pretty much whatever else you want

- and that guy seems pretty mad

You guys (FC).
It was interesting and scary to get the receiving end of golems once in a while. After you guys took all the keeps, we had to rally everyone up at our spawnpoint and see what we can do. Across 3-5 commanders, we decided to make our last stand at Sunnyhill. The plan was to wait for you guys and kill all the golems before we start taking stuff back. It was a tough, well fought battle on all sides. Goodjob on you guys for holding down Garrison for a long time.
Its going to be a long week lol.

To the fergs who found my hidden cata spot by their EB keep, keep it quiet so SF doesn’t know so we can take your keep instead of them

Been a great couple of nights of fighting …SF and ET you guys are veracious like a badger when we back you into a corner… I like it…

/Salute

SniffyCube.6107:

you can actually edit those screenshots to block out chat, abilities, and pretty much whatever else you want

- and that guy seems pretty mad

Great advice. Excuse me while I do self-obligatory facepalm for not having thought of that.

Manoa.5897:

Cosmic.6047:

Seems like SF is turning into another Kaineng ( sadly )

Yeah, TOTALLY like Kaineng… /sacrasm :p

Yes indeed totally !!! ( no sarcasm )

Cosmic.6047:

Manoa.5897:

Cosmic.6047:

Seems like SF is turning into another Kaineng ( sadly )

Yeah, TOTALLY like Kaineng… /sacrasm :p

Yes indeed totally !!! ( no sarcasm )

Hmmm, posted about two hours ago. So, that’s what…3:40something Pacific? That there is what we call nightcapping. Which happens when one server has a stronger night population than the other servers. All this means is that SF has more of a night crew than ET and FC. This is nothing new since we’ve arrived in Tier 8 and is by no means an indication that we’re a Kaineng situation. Come back during peak hours when the match is running at full cylinders.

Again, I’m not denying SF has a population advantage. But again, the idea that we’re just like Kaineng (i.e. getting a surge of transfers and throwing off the balance) is absolutely ludicrous. (Seriously, do you REALLY think FC would have been able to take over our Borderlands yesterday if our situation was JUST like Kaineng?)

EDIT: And the status of the map at 6am PST…

Manoa.5897:

Cosmic.6047:

Manoa.5897:

Cosmic.6047:

Seems like SF is turning into another Kaineng ( sadly )

Yeah, TOTALLY like Kaineng… /sacrasm :p

Yes indeed totally !!! ( no sarcasm )

Hmmm, posted about two hours ago. So, that’s what…3:40something Pacific? That there is what we call nightcapping. Which happens when one server has a stronger night population than the other servers. All this means is that SF has more of a night crew than ET and FC. This is nothing new since we’ve arrived in Tier 8 and is by no means an indication that we’re a Kaineng situation. Come back during peak hours when the match is running at full cylinders.

Again, I’m not denying SF has a population advantage. But again, the idea that we’re just like Kaineng (i.e. getting a surge of transfers and throwing off the balance) is absolutely ludicrous. (Seriously, do you REALLY think FC would have been able to take over our Borderlands yesterday if our situation was JUST like Kaineng?)

EDIT: And the status of the map at 6am PST…

lol I think you misunderstand what were saying. we’re saying you guys are becoming “like” Kaineng, it’s obvious that its not an utter domination, but to a FC player, a server with a high population is either Devona or Kaineng (you probably know why). And a server that has an extremely unbalanced night crew is especially familiar sounding to Kain and their SoS guild.

Darek.1836:

Manoa.5897:

Cosmic.6047:

Manoa.5897:

Cosmic.6047:

Seems like SF is turning into another Kaineng ( sadly )

Yeah, TOTALLY like Kaineng… /sacrasm :p

Yes indeed totally !!! ( no sarcasm )

Hmmm, posted about two hours ago. So, that’s what…3:40something Pacific? That there is what we call nightcapping. Which happens when one server has a stronger night population than the other servers. All this means is that SF has more of a night crew than ET and FC. This is nothing new since we’ve arrived in Tier 8 and is by no means an indication that we’re a Kaineng situation. Come back during peak hours when the match is running at full cylinders.

Again, I’m not denying SF has a population advantage. But again, the idea that we’re just like Kaineng (i.e. getting a surge of transfers and throwing off the balance) is absolutely ludicrous. (Seriously, do you REALLY think FC would have been able to take over our Borderlands yesterday if our situation was JUST like Kaineng?)

EDIT: And the status of the map at 6am PST…

lol I think you misunderstand what were saying. we’re saying you guys are becoming “like” Kaineng, it’s obvious that its not an utter domination, but to a FC player, a server with a high population is either Devona or Kaineng (you probably know why). And a server that has an extremely unbalanced night crew is especially familiar sounding to Kain and their SoS guild.

And this is why clear communication is key. To you guys, being ‘just like Kaineng" is just a server who has the population advantage in Tier 8. But to everyone else who was not in Tier 8 with Kaineng for so long, being “just like Kaineng” means getting a huge surge of WvW transfers, throwing off the WvW balance and steamrolling their way up WvW rankings (so much so that there’s actually a chance they may actually skip Tier 3 entirely next week and jump from Tier 4 to Tier 2).

To us and every other server, Kaineng represents everything that is wrong with the free server transfers (thank goodness those are coming to an end today!). So when you guys call SF “just like Kaineng,” you can understand why some of us will bristle at the comparison.

Yeah, we should be careful with the K word. First, if you say it three times fast they’ll all transfer back, and second, it was really a unique case that messed things up for a lot of other servers.

I think everyone’s main concern is that no matter how unbalanced this matchup gets in whoever’s favor, it’s going to take forever to get someone out of this tier because there’s only so many ratings points to be had from winning against servers whose rankings skewed so low.

Rematching opponents like this is a huge step forward from other games where you were stuck with whatever the population split happened to be on your server forever. With a few adjustments things should work fine, but until then everyone’s on edge about being sentenced to another month of trying to hold Spiritholme.

SF does have more players in WvWvW no doubt. But they do have a empty bracket in the hours like 3 hrs ago, a group of us . 6 -8 took back 1/3 of Eb in less then 30 mins.
It’s still pretty "balance at the moment
ET needs more night crew though.

I way pointed back to FC and landed in the Twilight zone … wtf

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All this talk of “night capping” directed at us makes me chuckle, and it’s exactly why I’ve been posting in other servers’ recruitment threads in favor of whatever recruiting they’re doing.

Yes, as the situation stands right now, SF has the strongest night presence of the three servers. But when you think about our descent into T8, we’ve always been known in every single tier above this to have had the worst night presence by far compared with whomever we were up against. It’s pretty much like three people bowling who consistently hit the gutter comparing how far down the lane their bowling ball goes before hitting the gutter.

The best way to phrase it is that just because our night presence isn’t as anemic and disorganized relative to our neighbors doesn’t mean finger-pointing and accusations need to start flying around.

For the record though, the afternoon/early evening shift on both FC and ET yesterday made my armor repair guy real happy. It seems I’ve already developed bad habits from the last two weeks of 20-30 man zergs hitting the door, completely unaware of any sort of incoming force.

moutzaheadin.4029:

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See Sorrow’s Furnace? You really are like Kaineng (Pre-mass transfer) in more ways than one.

Sounds like ANet accidentally reverted map labeling when they re-enabled the settings for the “test” culling. Database revert gone bad I’m guessing. Meaning probably a WvW server restart right in the middle of peak hours with no warning :P

Here’s a joke, how many sorrows does it take to recapture Redlake with all the walls down?

dreaming bay

lol.

You guys died hardcore at dreaming @sorrows and ET

Man watching enemies run for their live in the Thunderdome of EB’s jumping puzzle is so much fun. They think they will get out…but then I pull em down and release the beasts.

What happens when you give a SF a bunch of golems against a pot of oil?

The results are

It makes me sad that my home has (rightfully) become profane.
The Kaineng natives miss our T8 friends ;_;

mclovinballs.4031:

The results are

The 6-8 Arrow Carts we had pelting them sure didn’t hurt either. Sooooooo many loot bags.

mclovinballs.4031:

What happens when you give a SF a bunch of golems against a pot of oil?

Lol golems are nothing when we own the Eternal jp…do yourself a favor and stay out of puzzle. Or save youself the trouble and jus stay Out of EB

Yes…because camping the jp and doing nothing helps your server…
Nothing to brag about.
How about you stop letting me kill 10 of you guys and bring 30 people next time?
Cuz i need the badges from SF players only.
Wont kill any FC guys, simply because i like them more

roostapro.9827:

Yes…because camping the jp and doing nothing helps your server…
Nothing to brag about.
How about you stop letting me kill 10 of you guys and bring 30 people next time?
Cuz i need the badges from SF players only.
Wont kill any FC guys, simply because i like them more

And we like you too!

Labarge.1439:

The 6-8 Arrow Carts we had pelting them sure didn’t hurt either. Sooooooo many loot bags.

Some of us actually look for defenses before putting down siege. That single catapult put down in the only corner without arrow carts was me and finally brought the inner wall down.

Had a great time in SF borderlands today then EB right before the new build. Thank you for dropping the siege you had for us (although I don’t think it was intentional).

These open field fights are a great time.

FilthyRatkitten.8953:

Lol golems are nothing when we own the Eternal jp…do yourself a favor and stay out of puzzle. Or save youself the trouble and jus stay Out of EB

youre boring. camp the other puzzles too please. if you dedicate enough people to it the matches might be less lopsided.

Ynot.8397:

roostapro.9827:

Yes…because camping the jp and doing nothing helps your server…
Nothing to brag about.
How about you stop letting me kill 10 of you guys and bring 30 people next time?
Cuz i need the badges from SF players only.
Wont kill any FC guys, simply because i like them more

And we like you too!

Lol . I am missing all the fun . But yes, my guildies also avoid any frontal conflict with FC .

We also try to stay away from ET although more often than not we get attacked anyway.

at least 90% of SF players attack in puzzles
at least 75% of ET players dont

…in my experience

its a different culture for SF, and one of the things i miss most about Kain/DR.
and SF has the balls to proclaim their superiority when the free golem rushes they try end up being promptly stopped at the first gate with oil or mortars. well whatever.

^ This.

Personal experience says SF players in JP will attack 90% of the time. ET players will almost always go about their business.

Funny thing is, I have the worst time with SF players in the ET borderland jumping puzzle. Makes me chuckle a little.

Salute to ET. SF.. I’ll be looking for you.

So I see SF has resorted to spawn camping in EB with siege… Nice..

insanemaniac.2456:

at least 90% of SF players attack in puzzles
at least 75% of ET players dont

…in my experience

its a different culture for SF, and one of the things i miss most about Kain/DR.
and SF has the balls to proclaim their superiority when the free golem rushes they try end up being promptly stopped at the first gate with oil or mortars. well whatever.

I’ve always had a policy of red = dead, even in weeks we were getting stomped on our way down to T8. Letting enemy teams have free siege that they should be earning through kills or coin is bad taste and anyone who thinks otherwise just wants to lose. I don’t even care if someone doesn’t want the siege and just wants badges for their legendary. That only gives me more incentive to kill them. Zero respect for PvE only players in a PvP zone.

Unfortunately this means I attack into 1v8’s all the time and have a love-hate relationship with the dark room. Mad King book OP.