Guild Wars 2

Sunspots.9861:

The zerg is nothing more than the amount of people that hook on to any given commander. More commanders..more zergs, but I will say that everytime a zerg starts to get big the Guilds start breaking off and thats really where our militia shines. You throw those guys at a target and they will siege and supply quicker than any other group of 15 guild tags.

From personal experience, a large chunk of us [TV] typically roaming EB will indeed split off if our group grows substantially. Once a strategic point is taken, as much as we love following our dedicated commanders (Zudoari, Snurff and now Minniè) we’ll often devote a squad to defense, siege and supply. (Pangloss and the ‘Alamo Tower’ are favorites of mine.) While traveling in packs may be lucrative (either gold or karma) tactical advantages are most oft in the right priority.

Bedinar.1754:

(A special Thank you to the guild with the Tag [OOTT], and also to [TV]. Those were the two main guilds I noticed there. It was a lot of fun, and it was really cool of you guys to let my friend and I through. I really enjoyed having a great experience with your server, and felt that I should compliment you guys as awesome and classy. I know it was only a few of you in comparison to your entire server, but your kindness reflected well on your community and brought my opinion of the server as a whole up a notch). Thanks for the fun night, and bravo to anyone who read that long somewhat badly written story. I’ve never role played before, so I hope that I didn’t offend any of the pros over in TC with my poorly done work.

You guys make me so proud! <3

Edited to kindly request a score update please.

TC – 164,336 – 300ppt
YB – 121,638 – 185ppt
FA – 119,326 – 210ppt

Yaks always hitting us with trebs from red keep when we own SM! shakes fist

There are a few guilds from FA that are really fun to play against, [ULTD] being the most notable to come to my mind. We learn more from losses and you guys bring the pain.

Karuna.1357:

TC – 164,336 – 300ppt
YB – 121,638 – 185ppt
FA – 119,326 – 210ppt

Yaks always hitting us with trebs from red keep! shakes fist

There are a few guilds from FA that are really fun to play against, [ULTD] being the most notable to come to my mind.

Thank you!

ULTD is indeed a tough contender, Langor sieges come to mind pretty quick. XD

Thanks Deyja, Aaynhe, all the Mesmers portalling, and everyone else for the excellent time this morning in EB!

TC – 169,479 – 320
YB – 124,901 – 115
FA – 123,041 – 260

kanikani.2430:

I want to put a question out there for all severs, no bias just a questions.

How would you feel if we had this same match up next week?

Personal opinions and server based.

I’d feel great about it. I have fun every single time I log in, regardless of whether we find TC to fight or YB.

Vagrant.1094:

Oh, yes. I don’t disagree that quite often whoever is in first place can dictate who comes second. Once whoever is in first gains enough of a lead (25K or so) it is very rarely recovered, and whichever team is in 3rd place going into the match (red) has more to gain by taking on whoever is 2nd (blue) in terms of differential gain.

However, it’s not my intention to dictate who ends up 2nd/3rd when ’I’m’ co-ordinating EB – I’m more interested in hitting whoever is TC’s closest competition, or shows the most aggression towards us. I have no personal preference as to which of YB and FA take 2nd and 3rd, though I am enjoying the closeness of the race between you two. I’m hoping both servers flip back and forth between 2nd and 3rd over the last few days of the match, as there really is something to gain or lose for both in terms of position ranking.

While they’re likely outmanned, YB have kept quiet for the past 3 hours in EB, while FA came over and tried to hit Klovan. This resulted in TC sweeping out and taking Langor, my beloved Quentin Lake and Durios. Kudos to FA on their Bravost defense – I’m more of a defensive minded person than offensive (I rarely leave TC’s 3rd of the map in EB), and I made a few mistakes there, which FA rightly capitalised upon.

~Nyari Cil, Queen of EB!

^The challenge being that someone (likely both YB/FA) need to show aggression towards TC, otherwise for the next few months (barring xfers) tier 3 will just be an auto win for TC and the match just comes down to who comes in 2nd…..with TC having a great (greatest?)influence on who that ultimately is.

IMO (as viewed during my playtime – and I’m sure it varies throughout the day) I suspect you see more of FA as we are generally an offensively focused server with limited defense….the majority (98%?) of our population seems to be on the front lines pushing against another server, and when/if our borderlands is all blue it quickly becomes a ghost town (hence the near constant TC/YB activity there vs the other BLs – as we do a poor job at limiting initial footholds of opposing servers).

^all that being said. It’s a video game, there are no rewards for placing, and an individual has limited impact on overall performance of a server 24/7 for 7 days, and you can understandably see why people act as they do. In fact “optimal server point gain” is not pursued by many on FA imo (or the decisions made on the battle field suggest they don’t, per your example), and even many of the recognizable FA guild names in this thread are playing more for fun/good fights then optimal point acquisition/AND retention strategies imo. That could change with time, lead by some of the larger guilds, but honestly I don’t think FA has the numbers, or many large enough guilds(with coverage) to implement that strategy yet – perhaps with time and more consolidation and/or coordinated alliances…..but then you fall back on the motivation/reward issues. I like competition, for competitions sake, but overall I think joe average mmo player (wvw is numbers game) is motivated by individual fun and rewards – and those don’t always align with optimal server strategy.

TLDR: This match-up has been fun, and always has hectic fights and things to do

Well one thing that isnt fun, at least for most people, is to log in…..find Yak’s Bend Hill is the only you own on the entire field, and see 20+ TC people right outside the gates basically spawn camping it.

Not really fun at all.

Cogbyrn.7283:

kanikani.2430:

I want to put a question out there for all severs, no bias just a questions.

How would you feel if we had this same match up next week?

Personal opinions and server based.

I’d feel great about it. I have fun every single time I log in, regardless of whether we find TC to fight or YB.

It has been fun for me! Except when all but 2 or 3 FA log for the night and then it’s just an exercise in quickly hitting the waypoint after my dirt nap.

On a different note, I wish the experienced WvW’ers in FA would chat a bit more to guide us less hardcore people who aren’t in big guilds. I catch on quick if I have a clue about our strategy. Otherwise I end up just looking for someone who seems to know what they are doing and latching on to them (or joining the zerg).

VisceralEdge.8910:

On a different note, I wish the experienced WvW’ers in FA would chat a bit more to guide us less hardcore people who aren’t in big guilds. I catch on quick if I have a clue about our strategy. Otherwise I end up just looking for someone who seems to know what they are doing and latching on to them (or joining the zerg).

/tell me or mail me in game, I’ll gladly teach you anything you’d like to know or answer any questions you have. And when I am on you can follow and I can try to teach what I can. Char name is in my signature. This goes for anyone on FA server as well. I also offer siege practice/training for anyone who would like to.

kanikani.2430:

I want to put a question out there for all severs, no bias just a questions.

How would you feel if we had this same match up next week?

Personal opinions and server based.

I’m down for it. Even if we’re the underdog, there’s been a lot of fun fights and a lot of OHKITTEN moments that really make it worth playing.

Also, for those TC that were camping the invuln cliff side yesterday when ULTD was attacking Sunny Hill, I hope you learned your lesson about trying to trickle down at me. It was a blast knocking you off the cliff and feeding you to the rest of my guild

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

I agree 100%

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

You were leading me this morning and it was great fun!

I’m glad you had a good time! I try to make sure there’s some crazy mixed in with the chaos. ;]

Any chance we can get TC to stay out of YBBL and FABL for the next two days and let both servers battle it out for second. I’m sure we’ll come to EB and TCBL looking for points and fun but would be interesting to see the two servers battle it out in each of their own BL’s.

Soba.3041:

Any chance we can get TC to stay out of YBBL and FABL for the next two days and let both servers battle it out for second. I’m sure we’ll come to EB and TCBL looking for points and fun but would be interesting to see the two servers battle it out in each of their own BL’s.

I sincerely doubt it. =/

I rarely step foot in any BL as I favor EB but, it’s not likely they’ll stay away.

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

Again….I think many (most?) play this way on FA..

…there is a distinction between fights and war though. Fights being measured by immediate individual (win/loss), whereas the war is measured by the server scores.

Examples of server over fight: ie ensuring the easy camp flips in proximity are taken within a few minutes of score tally instead of chasing down 2-3 opponents running, camping your BLs southern areas to ensure no other servers obtains any footholds (lots of time idle as opposed to being “active” 100%), pushing into BLs that your server can credibly hold for longer periods of time, without giving up similar sized or larger territory in another map, for FA (we don’t generally fill maps) – moving maps when necessary to help with defense or pushes, upgrading and repairing positions (supply runs yay!), choosing what server to provoke and when etc etc…. All these small things, translate into your overall score and standings (but can often lesson your individual fighting experiences with more “mundane” activities or down times)

I just want to thank the TC guild [MF] for some great fighting yesterday on FABL @ Hills Keep. We fought for hours to take this and our best attempt had the walls rebuilt and reinforced as half our squad got in… Good times and let’s keep the positive thread going, since this is a game and we are all in it to have a good time.

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

I have to say some of the tactics I have seen you guys use, makes me grin. Yes, I get my rear end handed to me, but I always learn something every time. Believe me, when I see ULTD, I tend to think twice before acting. And I like that.

Also, forgot the [PRO] player that was behind the vale right in the sweet spot of protection, I haven’t had a good laugh in a long time. Finally got a little to brave and was Illusion Waved to far from your safe spot and taken out. Loved it, loved the taunting you did and the taunting we did =D

Can we get a map/score update please? Thanks.

TC – 395 ; 177,5k
YB – 220 ; 129,7k
FA – 80 ; 127K

I see a lot of people complaining about complaining, or complaining about zergs or corpse dancing or 2v1 or what not.

If you read the other threads, especially on gw2guru, you will see this is nothing unusual. Indeed, I think this is a remarkably even, fun, well balanced, and amicable match.

The threads for the tier 1/2 servers, especially if the same servers are in the same matchup multiple weeks, seem to very quickly descend into bitter acrimony and dislike for the other servers, along with absolutely endless waves of accusations/complaints that one server is the victim of a 2v1.

It’s part of the territory. In tier 1/2/3 people complain about 2v1, in tiers below that people complain about always being outzerged and nightcapped.

I think this is probably a good tier with relatively good matchups. TC is clearly a notch above FA and YB, but we seem to be a pretty good matchup against YB. TC is probably going to win, but we aren’t going to let them have it all their own way and will keep coming out and fighting and doing our best. It even gives us a chance to learn and hone our tactics! I was a little shocked to see FA had the outmanned buff in EB the other night right in our primetime (9 EST) but the few there were actually putting up a fight and trying to nab things from TC. We would have success for a while then the main TC force that I gather was off battling a large YB force in the North would swing back and undo all our hard work :p

That’s a much more situation than when you hold everything and there is no challenge and no enemies and nothing to take. Good fun!

If any of the servers were kicked down a tier it would probably just effortlessly roflstomp tier 4, which is no fun for anyone involved, so I hope we have this same matchup next time.

That was a pleasure to read, Bedinar! Really makes me wish I’d been there to witness it. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.

Also…

Bedinar.1754:

The ranger was moving closer and closer, still yelling “Phree Badgers ov Oner!” over and over.

Bedinar.1754:

“Phree Badgers! Phree Badgers! Phree Badgers!”

My month is made if this actually becomes something people say in-game. <3

Bedinar that was great!

Love how you described the rezzing mechanic

Bedinar.1754:

…To his joy Koenix found his friend barely alive. It was possible, that with the right care, probably a long time rubbing the ground by his head, incanting a particular healing spell, that he would be able to raise his friend from his defeated state. Slowly he began the process. It took a long time, for Sentry was gravely wounded. …

Bedinar.1754:

Whoa, that was long. Sorry for the novel!

(A special Thank you to the guild with the Tag [OOTT], and also to [TV]. Those were the two main guilds I noticed there. It was a lot of fun, and it was really cool of you guys to let my friend and I through. I really enjoyed having a great experience with your server, and felt that I should compliment you guys as awesome and classy. I know it was only a few of you in comparison to your entire server, but your kindness reflected well on your community and brought my opinion of the server as a whole up a notch). Thanks for the fun night, and bravo to anyone who read that long somewhat badly written story. I’ve never role played before, so I hope that I didn’t offend any of the pros over in TC with my poorly done work.

Oh, you were the elementalist in the arena! I really enjoyed this, it was a pretty excellent depiction of your journey through the puzzle, I must say. I’m not of the guilds you mentioned, but I was the thief in Whispers armor, a.k.a. the stranger who cheered you on during your duel. Haha. We were trying to keep it peaceful in the puzzle, for as long as that is actually possible anyway, but we did have a server mate who was more into the PvP aspect of it. I’m glad you got to make it through.

Sinfullysweet.4517:

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

I have to say some of the tactics I have seen you guys use, makes me grin. Yes, I get my rear end handed to me, but I always learn something every time. Believe me, when I see ULTD, I tend to think twice before acting. And I like that.

I am one of the WvW Commanders in ULTD.

We have one goal in WvW: Prosecute our enemies and kill them repeatedly.

Often times we forgo the opportunity to make a server wide tactical decision in favor of what we do best: WvW wide murder. The battlefield is our home.

If we see an opportunity to assault a tower only that another server’s proud zerg can continually push their group against our might few, we will do it and farm them for an hour.

If we see an opportunity to put up crossed swords on an objective with soul purpose of drawing out as many zergs against us as possible, we do it and then continually blast our way through your forces.

We like to let you regroup, take a tower or a camp and feel confident. Then we like to smash that confidence and roll your groups and zergs up into nice tasty loot bags. The feeling is even better when we hear you left the zone to go to another.

We might even let you kill a few and give the illusion we are running, only to turn around and punch you in the mouth.

You can take this message as a chest thump. We have already played in the T1 bracket as a founding member of the Titan Alliance. We have fought against the best and beat the best. We came to FA because there are fewer queues and the enemies we would face would outnumber us. More killing for us. More QQ tears to collect into little bottles and give to the WoW players as mana pots.

If you see our tag on the battlefield, its because you are right where we want you to be. It was not coincidence that we showed up on your screen, it was planned. We know how to manipulate the map to get our enemies to feed us kills, bags, badges and fights.

Good fights to everyone and see on the battlefield.

-Quenta

Quenta.2978:

Sinfullysweet.4517:

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

I have to say some of the tactics I have seen you guys use, makes me grin. Yes, I get my rear end handed to me, but I always learn something every time. Believe me, when I see ULTD, I tend to think twice before acting. And I like that.

I am one of the WvW Commanders in ULTD.

We have one goal in WvW: Prosecute our enemies and kill them repeatedly.

Often times we forgo the opportunity to make a server wide tactical decision in favor of what we do best: WvW wide murder. The battlefield is our home.

If we see an opportunity to assault a tower only that another server’s proud zerg can continually push their group against our might few, we will do it and farm them for an hour.

If we see an opportunity to put up crossed swords on an objective with soul purpose of drawing out as many zergs against us as possible, we do it and then continually blast our way through your forces.

We like to let you regroup, take a tower or a camp and feel confident. Then we like to smash that confidence and roll your groups and zergs up into nice tasty loot bags. The feeling is even better when we hear you left the zone to go to another.

We might even let you kill a few and give the illusion we are running, only to turn around and punch you in the mouth.

You can take this message as a chest thump. We have already played in the T1 bracket as a founding member of the Titan Alliance. We have fought against the best and beat the best. We came to FA because there are fewer queues and the enemies we would face would outnumber us. More killing for us. More QQ tears to collect into little bottles and give to the WoW players as mana pots.

If you see our tag on the battlefield, its because you are right where we want you to be. It was not coincidence that we showed up on your screen, it was planned. We know how to manipulate the map to get our enemies to feed us kills, bags, badges and fights.

Good fights to everyone and see on the battlefield.

-Quenta

I think your kitten is showing.

Quenta.2978:

You can take this message as a chest thump.

Here’s the thing. Even if you’re totally indisputably the best of the best in WvW hands-down, that message is still nothing more than a ridiculous chest thump. :/

Quenta.2978:

Sinfullysweet.4517:

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

I have to say some of the tactics I have seen you guys use, makes me grin. Yes, I get my rear end handed to me, but I always learn something every time. Believe me, when I see ULTD, I tend to think twice before acting. And I like that.

I am one of the WvW Commanders in ULTD.

We have one goal in WvW: Prosecute our enemies and kill them repeatedly.

Often times we forgo the opportunity to make a server wide tactical decision in favor of what we do best: WvW wide murder. The battlefield is our home.

If we see an opportunity to assault a tower only that another server’s proud zerg can continually push their group against our might few, we will do it and farm them for an hour.

If we see an opportunity to put up crossed swords on an objective with soul purpose of drawing out as many zergs against us as possible, we do it and then continually blast our way through your forces.

We like to let you regroup, take a tower or a camp and feel confident. Then we like to smash that confidence and roll your groups and zergs up into nice tasty loot bags. The feeling is even better when we hear you left the zone to go to another.

We might even let you kill a few and give the illusion we are running, only to turn around and punch you in the mouth.

You can take this message as a chest thump. We have already played in the T1 bracket as a founding member of the Titan Alliance. We have fought against the best and beat the best. We came to FA because there are fewer queues and the enemies we would face would outnumber us. More killing for us. More QQ tears to collect into little bottles and give to the WoW players as mana pots.

If you see our tag on the battlefield, its because you are right where we want you to be. It was not coincidence that we showed up on your screen, it was planned. We know how to manipulate the map to get our enemies to feed us kills, bags, badges and fights.

Good fights to everyone and see on the battlefield.

-Quenta

If I add to your badges, so be it. Still learning tactics from ya! Came from a top tier server (SB) myself, enjoying every moment of it! No crying from this player, they call us CRZY for a reason! Happy hunting!

Just have to say, Yak’s Bend, you guys have seriously earned my respect over the last couple of weeks. To be honest, in the last week matchup we had, I didn’t see much of your presence at all, and when I did I didn’t get much of an impression from it. There was always talk of how tenacious at defending you were, but being a primarily Borderland player myself, not seeing you at home or in FABL that often made me wonder at times how you got to be T3.

Then this week came along. After pushing on your BL a few times, both alone and with FA pushing on their side, I can certainly see exactly why you are in this tier. You don’t just defend tenaciously, you defend VICIOUSLY. Numbers or not, you certainly know how to spread your troops right and hold things as well as you can. I’m honestly not surprised that you’ve swung ahead of FA in points, and I really look forward to seeing you again next week.

Thanks for the great fighting from both sides!

Daedalus.3954:

I did, early 90’s. Jesus, I haven’t even thought about a MUD in ages.

Should probably clarify that you may have played Medievia , but you’re not the Daedalus from that game

Soba.3041:

Any chance we can get TC to stay out of YBBL and FABL for the next two days and let both servers battle it out for second. I’m sure we’ll come to EB and TCBL looking for points and fun but would be interesting to see the two servers battle it out in each of their own BL’s.

Some of us prefer to fight in Border lands over EB. I only go to EB when TCBL has no fight, and when the opponents BLs to do have enough TC to push anything.

Score + map update

So, [GODS] split our group into 3 squads of 15-20 people tonight. We had the squad leaders in chat with all their memebers and also in a separate chat with eachother. It worked out really nicely because we could split up to take points and we could also group together to outflank a giant zerg (which we did several times to zergs bigger than all of our numbers combined) with little to no casualties in battle. Our guild has grown a lot over the past few monthes, and we kicked about 300 members that we do not consider to be guild quality today. I hope other guilds in the Fort Aspenwood Server can learn the lesson that GODS has learned: Superior numbers do not equal superior abilities, and superior application process only disables the acceptance of those who will flourish into the best GW2 WvWers. GODS will continue to take a leadership role in the advancement of tactical development in WvW, if for no other reason than that, because we have such a high number of zealous members willing to play with and help each other learn the game. And please, Please, PLEASE, if you were one of those morons who killed the worm in EB earlier today while we lost our keep, transfer off of the server . . . we don’t want you here. – Proud member of Fort Aspenwood Server!

Technically, we killed the grub lol.

this has nothing to do with the regular discussion, but does TC have any other players then thieves?

playing in EB today and started to get frustrated when it took 15 minutes to down a perma invisible thief. then i ran into another thief immediately after that. then another, and another and another.

i played against at least 15 different people, all thieves. when we took a tower, it was defended by all thieves. in one hour i found only 2 people from TC who where not thieves.

Thanks so much for the spectacular defense by FA tonight in TCBL at Bluebriar. I’ve never seen such a minor objective defended with such vigor. While FA was outnumbered, GODS had multiple teams out destroying siege and harassing Bluevale camp while simultaneously defending Bluebriar and capturing camps in the north. The offensive lasted more than an hour with both the gate and one wall down multiple times and a 2nd wall at 30%.

/salute!

FA is seems to be better with defending keeps and towers when their walls and gates are down, than when they are up

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

FA is seems to be better with defending keeps and towers when their walls and gates are down, than when they are up 3

That almost wouldn’t surprise me. It turns into a more aggressive fight, player on player, and it seems FA is bloodthirsty for such a thing. It took me all of 5-10 minutes of observation to figure out why people on this server thought YB and TC 2v1 against us, at least in EB. I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes since I usually run with the guild group, but our fine lads and bonnie lasses pick fights every single where.

I tried really hard, but I couldn’t fault them, because it was almost non-stop fighting/fun.

Cheers to the YB and TC over around Umber/Durios/Bravost tonight. Eventually I had to stick more between Bravost and Umber considering TC and YB were both making appearances, but a lot of awesome skirmishes took place regardless. I even had an opportunity to have some more personal time with a Thief seemingly specced more survival-oriented, and it was… a thing. Methinks my tools are not the appropriate tools to tackle such an opponent, but I refuse to give them up. Too much fun.

Derv The Monkinator.4915:

So, [GODS] split our group into 3 squads of 15-20 people tonight. We had the squad leaders in chat with all their memebers and also in a separate chat with eachother. It worked out really nicely because we could split up to take points and we could also group together to outflank a giant zerg (which we did several times to zergs bigger than all of our numbers combined) with little to no casualties in battle. Our guild has grown a lot over the past few monthes, and we kicked about 300 members that we do not consider to be guild quality today. I hope other guilds in the Fort Aspenwood Server can learn the lesson that GODS has learned: Superior numbers do not equal superior abilities, and superior application process only disables the acceptance of those who will flourish into the best GW2 WvWers. GODS will continue to take a leadership role in the advancement of tactical development in WvW, if for no other reason than that, because we have such a high number of zealous members willing to play with and help each other learn the game. And please, Please, PLEASE, if you were one of those morons who killed the worm in EB earlier today while we lost our keep, transfer off of the server . . . we don’t want you here. – Proud member of Fort Aspenwood Server!

This is great to hear, actually. As my guild on TC was discussing a few days ago how we thought GODS was well organized but never splitting up enough to be effective across the entire map rather than just one section.

Tbh I am a bit tired of this match up. It was ok for a while but its gotten repetative.

I’d like to chime in and say there has been some really good fighting going on! I’m glad FA and YB are bringing it, it’s much more fun to fight sides that will constantly put up a fight.

The fights in the first couple days around DB in TCBL were really great! It seemed FA really wanted that keep! Which made me sad you guys made me sink 4g into it, and when you took it after the first day, you ruined my shiny pretty walls!

If we fight against each other again next week, I’m sure it’ll be even more fun!

It’s also been great that is seems like the FA and YB people are starting to adapt much better and learn to fight off portal bombs to their siege! Fighting against an improving opponent is always much more fun and challenging than fighting against servers that just give up.

I’d like to commend the GODS and ULTD people from FA as well for REALLY knowing how to sweep your keeps! You guys find me at least 1/2 the time I’m hiding out. And the other 1/2…well, I have my fun

Look forward to good rest of the week on the borderlands!

Relentliss.2170:

Tbh I am a bit tired of this match up. It was ok for a while but its gotten repetative.

While I agree that the same match-up gets repetative after a while, I would rather have these great fights that are constant around the map instead of us dominating all 4 maps or a higher-tier server dominating all 4 maps against us like what has happened in the past.

I don’t care that we spanked YB and FA two weeks in a row, but rather these past two weeks have resulted in some of the best fights I’ve ever been in. I think all across the board people are growing with their skills and having fun in the process. Keep up the good work everybody.

Also my thanks to ULTD and (especially) GODS for all the badges. :P

Quenta.2978:

Sinfullysweet.4517:

Daedalus.3954:

WvW has but one incentive for [ULTD], war. Winning said fights through superior tactics. The server may not be number one, but when we hit the field it’s your keeps or your blood. We’re going to take one of the two, if not both.

Isn’t that why we bought this game?

I have to say some of the tactics I have seen you guys use, makes me grin. Yes, I get my rear end handed to me, but I always learn something every time. Believe me, when I see ULTD, I tend to think twice before acting. And I like that.

I am one of the WvW Commanders in ULTD.

We have one goal in WvW: Prosecute our enemies and kill them repeatedly.

Often times we forgo the opportunity to make a server wide tactical decision in favor of what we do best: WvW wide murder. The battlefield is our home.

If we see an opportunity to assault a tower only that another server’s proud zerg can continually push their group against our might few, we will do it and farm them for an hour.

If we see an opportunity to put up crossed swords on an objective with soul purpose of drawing out as many zergs against us as possible, we do it and then continually blast our way through your forces.

We like to let you regroup, take a tower or a camp and feel confident. Then we like to smash that confidence and roll your groups and zergs up into nice tasty loot bags. The feeling is even better when we hear you left the zone to go to another.

We might even let you kill a few and give the illusion we are running, only to turn around and punch you in the mouth.

You can take this message as a chest thump. We have already played in the T1 bracket as a founding member of the Titan Alliance. We have fought against the best and beat the best. We came to FA because there are fewer queues and the enemies we would face would outnumber us. More killing for us. More QQ tears to collect into little bottles and give to the WoW players as mana pots.

If you see our tag on the battlefield, its because you are right where we want you to be. It was not coincidence that we showed up on your screen, it was planned. We know how to manipulate the map to get our enemies to feed us kills, bags, badges and fights.

Good fights to everyone and see on the battlefield.

-Quenta

Actually find most ULTD users in the borderlands very easy to take out. You have some skilled people in EB now and then. I find the JPN guys more skilled individually.

Someone asked opinions on repeating this matchup.

It has been fine, one of the better ones, but definitely not the best for YB. We had a couple 3 way nail biters in the past, only ruined from staying that way due to large transfers.

There are good fights in this matchup, but TC doesn’t seem ever in any real fear of losing. I think the best matchup might be YB/FA/CD, but I don’t think TC is gonna be able to move up anytime soon. So if anything, one of YB or FA might eventually swap with CD into 4th tier and clean up for a while before coming back.

As players dwindle to other games or just get bored in general, I wonder if Anet might consider merging servers only for WvW purposes. Leave them separate for PVE as many are still high there, but simply cannot put out respectable coverage 24/7 in WvW which really renders end week scores kind of meaningless.

Then you might get Yak’s Madness as a team, or Crystal Pass

Pendragon.8735:

Then you might get Yak’s Madness as a team

That would end up a complete and utter disaster! GM blame YB for all their troubles they had early on.

Current Score as of 7:45pm Aussie time:

TC: 200,571 – 295
FA: 139,820 – 295
YB: 139,243 – 105

Fiorrello.8126:

this has nothing to do with the regular discussion, but does TC have any other players then thieves?

playing in EB today and started to get frustrated when it took 15 minutes to down a perma invisible thief. then i ran into another thief immediately after that. then another, and another and another.

i played against at least 15 different people, all thieves. when we took a tower, it was defended by all thieves. in one hour i found only 2 people from TC who where not thieves.

Haven’t you noticed how many of our thieves are dressed as pirates? We’re the RP server, and thieves make excellent pirates.

Really though, despite your possible exaggeration (it’s a bit unlikely that you run into 15 different thieves in a row, in my opinion), I feel as though thieves are just a popular WvW class choice. I see many from every server. Just have to learn to be a step ahead of ’em once they reveal, or bring an ally or two. No big deal, my friend.

Juici Fruitz, this is not at all ironic, you are our best commander ,other than Subtle, come back to us ;_;

PS I’ll Bossanova with you any dayDDD

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