Guild Wars 2

Let’s keep it clean this time folks! What a fantastic match so far!

Well it’s a pity what happened last time. I wonder if this is just more common in the higher tiers. Our(TC) middle Tiers were a lot more classy chat. I’m sure it’s the same for the other two(YB and CD) servers too.

Well I’ve been having fun. Keep up the good fight everyone

Best. Match. Evar.

All 3 servers have robust populations during NA prime time. I haven’t logged in yet this morning to see if any damage was done overnight, but it’s great to be in a true 3-way that wasn’t already decided by this point in the battle.

And so far, I haven’t personally seen any corpsedancers or other silliness, though I’m sure there’s one in every crowd.

Here Titan War Commander of CD Omega Warlord Guild [LORD].

We had some nice tough fights at CD borderlands where TC hold for hours the South Camp from Bay from where they sieged it. They camped it with plenty balista and after few hours finally they took down the Bay with a massive zerg.

Then this TC zerg managed to get garison where our force that seemed to be at least half of theirs. We pushed them back; killed plenty until reaching Bay so we took Bay’s gate down: then on the bridge we once again took over TC zerg to catch back Bay.
After getting back Bay, we could finally clean the south camp during that momentum push.

Was great fight and epik battle that probably costed them plenty silver in repairs :p and for sure dropped us plenty wvw badges ^^

I just love such fights, thx for visiting us at our homeland !!!

I do know that I really love this week guys. Finally a great battle. I know the week is what decides the winner. CD you wiped us last time with you asian recruitment hopefully you are ready. TC I personally haven’t played you yet but looking forward to bathing in your blood( with respect you your hard work of course) . See you in wvw everyone I will be representing BADGERS SPIRITS!!!!!!

So far, an amazing matchup. Here we are on Sunday morning, and the spread from “top server” to “bottom” on this matchup is less than 6,000 points, with the “potential points” (at this moment) reversed, the “bottom” server gaining the most while the “top” one is gaining the least.

I can’t help but figure that this one won’t actually go down to the wire, surely one of us has to break away? Best week of WvWvW so far.

I corpsedance, but i do it with love!!

(great match)

Just visiting from FA. Can someone post SS?

Thanks,
Uber

UberLander.8326:

Just visiting from FA. Can someone post SS?

Thanks,
Uber

TC – 51,975 (215)
Yaks – 48,534 (105)
CD – 47,732 (375)

UberLander.8326:

Just visiting from FA. Can someone post SS?

Thanks,
Uber

Talking as a Yaks Bend commander, so far I have been impressed with all of the teams tenacity. This week will be hard on us all, and I have to say, CD and their endless zerg left me exhausted after their 8th attack on EH in YBBL last night. That was one of the best sieges I’ve seen in a while, from both teams.

Keep it hard, and keep it clean. So far, this the best match yet!

Also, anyone who wants to face bash a wall, Look for the Black lion, with the white flame. Badger Spirits are always waiting, always watching.

That scoreboard looks amazing. FA wants to play with whichever 2 of you don’t move from your bracket. Looking forward to a sweet week of intense fighting. <3

This is how WvW should be!

Here’s a potentially controversial line-of-thought: wouldn’t it be fitting for there to be a Thief + Mesmer WvW guild called “Crows of Antiva” on Tarnished Coast?

Atrophied.8725:

That scoreboard looks amazing. FA wants to play with whichever 2 of you don’t move from your bracket. Looking forward to a sweet week of intense fighting. <3

Yeah, next week will be great. Tier 3 looks awesome now that the T1/T2 servers are in the correct tiers and HoD/ET are no longer in this tier. Only tier that is closer is Tier 7 which will be disrupted when HoD/ET arrive.

TC staying is a given and I’m not sure if I rather have a rematch with Yaks or fight CD for the first time (not counting the 24 hour matches). I wonder which potential trio would be more exciting. Too bad for whoever drops though. Tier 4 is in a mess. There is a sizable gap in server strength between our four servers and the next best ones (DH and Maguuma). Even without HoD, there will probably be a blowout.

In terms of double teaming there’s not really any mystery behind this- we have zerg groups that generally just roam around the map wherever they can go without meeting so much resistance that they have to retreat. They do actually look at the fortifications a bit as they run past and they keep a loose mental tally of the enemies they run into as they do this. Based on this they try to take a fairly random tower or keep.

Stretch this over a long time and you’re generally going to get two teams that are more interested in taking things from from a third team. With people staying at towers to refresh defensive siege you would naturally have the two smaller teams most interested in taking places from the largest, as they would have to spread themselves thinnest to defend everything.

Most of us don’t do that though, so instead it becomes a game of “can the ball break through the gate while murdering the trickle of defenders trying to get to the door?” This game is quite different from from the first where instead you want to take towers from the team that has the longest walk from a waypoint. We’re not entirely stupid enough to go deep into enemy territory so this takes place almost entirely on the front lines (deep enemy territory towers will more probably be fortified so you can’t get break into them as quickly.) Granted that the winning team tends to have a lot of safe spots for trebuchets they naturally have somebody in their fortifications and the zerg can focus on just rolling over camps and maybe taking even more towers. This gives them a very strong presence so the point of least resistance tends to become the weaker opponent, especially with the added pressure from the strongest team.

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The scouting system where you dogpile back into your home borderland when even just a camp is under attack isn’t anything new but the response time to a camp like hero’s lodge seems insane. You’re there with twice the attacking number in barely the time it would take to get through the loadscreen, but you’re all in a ball without even the straggler in front trying to delay a cap of the camp.

TC definitely doesn’t seem to care about how many people are in a camp though. They’re happy to run forty people over to kill five. In CD we decide someone is stupid if they took so many of us away from other objectives to hit such a small number of people. Group cohesion goes down because we think they’re just calling wolf.

Hekatombaion.4320:

TC definitely doesn’t seem to care about how many people are in a camp though. They’re happy to run forty people over to kill five.

In our defense, guard duty at certain times of the day is quite monotonous; so the opportunity for bloodshed attracts us like bees to a honey-pot.

This looks like a blast! WvW as intended!

The fighting has been intense all weekend. Great WvWvW and it’s everything Anet would like to see in every match. Great respect for CD and TC.

I was on YBBL for most of the day and believe it was a TC group of five that continually killed the supply coming out of the east and west supply camps. It appeared to be a group with a guardian, thief, ele and two hammer warriors(?) I think. This was by far the most coordinated and impressive group our server has seen in GW2 Wv3! Fantastic group build and you guys played it with absolute skill and precision. It took 10-20 of us to take out the 5 of you! The way you guys knocked people down then pulled them in and AoE’d was top notch. The talk on Yak’s mumble server was the utmost respect for your group.

Now with that said, and I have never complained about the balance of the game I do have one complaint. And I understand culling issues and have a nice computer. This is not a culling issue, it’s a class skill issue. I’m sure someone who plays a thief can explain the skills required that make this possible.

There is a female thief on TC that tends to run pretty much solo. Hangs around battle areas but also ninja’s supply camps/dolyaks solo. No problem with that whatsoever. The problem I do have is when a class that can remain stealthed almost indefinitely. Throw out the caltrops and every 10-20 seconds he popped out of stealth, attack/condition and was immediately back in stealth. And he was killing people easily.

Playing any class to it’s fullest extent is what we all strive for. But to be able to keep a supply camp from being capped after the all NPC’s have been killed is a bit game breaking. You can run around with AoE’s trying to get the stealthed thief out but a cap area that large is hard to AoE with a small raid group of 5-10 people.

I had a ballista on the stairs at the north supply on our borderlands map. This thief could literally be stealthed, pop out and hit the ballista and regain stealth with impunity even when it was placed next to an NPC.

I know I’ll get flamed for that rant but until you see how this person plays that build, you may not appreciate how hard it is to counter. I’ve played against all types of thief builds and most are not a problem. I’ve seen the best and worst. But this build is over the top.

Looking for 4 more thiefs to run this build as a party in Wv3

The Coast seems to be picking up the pace. Let us see if we can continue doing so now that the weekend is over!

Great game all! This has been THE most fun I have had since game release. At this point I dont care who wins so long as we can do this again.

special hats off to TC-TV! /hugs!

This has definitely been the best matchup evah!
I say put in a /hug @ enemy emote to replace the corpse dancing lol…

2 hours later they got it

katanah.8431:

Great game all! This has been THE most fun I have had since game release. At this point I dont care who wins so long as we can do this again.

special hats off to TC-TV! /hugs!

Weee!

To all the CD in their keep.. who held off under the brunt of the Mama Golem and her minions..

..well done. SO CLOSE. Best match up ever thus far!

CD and Yakkity Sax, I want you all to know this: If you spin to win near me, I will turn you into a chicken, downed state or not. Chickens all around!

Does anyone know how was it possible for them to be up there? We took back the garrison almost 2 hours ago.

Sneaky mesmers can hide for quite some time, Deathdom.

Deathdom.8250:

Does anyone know how was it possible for them to be up there? We took back the garrison almost 2 hours ago.

yeah. you go to the southwest garrison gate. instead of going to the gate, you run around to the left of it. make a jump over the gap, then fall down to that area.

Props to that mesmer then. I cant image sitting around doing nothing for that long. Also must have been disappointed when I stumbled upon them by accident.

great match so far! hopefully the rest of the week is just as much fun!

Thanks to TC [MF] Guild who provided us 7 big zerg rush to their death at north camp: we gained plenty kills and badges. Sorry you couldnt gank a half size team of you but good you kept trying :p I bet you would stop after 4th attempt but no I lost you tried 7times :p !!!

Plenty funs on CD borderland you are welcome to come back anytime you want ^^

To the Yak’s Bend Defender that dropped this in their Borderlands around 5:00pm PST, whoever you are, well, I love you. <3

http://i.imgur.com/u3cVm.jpg

And yes, I will use this to play the Trading Post and make tons of money to buy TC endless siege gear. I am sure the whole of TC should thank you. (thanks Anet, thanks RNG!)

PS: Amazing fights between Bay, Garrison, in the ruins, back in supply camps and at Greenwater. Yaks, your defensive Trebs are legendary and I will be taking note for the future so thank you for that too!

Severim.7938:

Deathdom.8250:

Does anyone know how was it possible for them to be up there? We took back the garrison almost 2 hours ago.

Could have been a sneaky mesmer you didn’t clear out. Then again, it isn’t the first time that PINK and questionable mesmer activity have been linked.

Please don’t bring up things that were already explained. Even if it’s not your intent, it will do nothing but stir up drama.

I’m one of PiNK’s officers and if you ever have /proof/ of one of our players performing a serious exploit – please let me or another one of our officers know. I would love nothing more then to bring the axe down (or the gkick, as it were) and get their account blacklisted from our alliance.

The mesmer in this particular incident happens to be very, very patient.

Severim.7938:

Deathdom.8250:

Does anyone know how was it possible for them to be up there? We took back the garrison almost 2 hours ago.

Could have been a sneaky mesmer you didn’t clear out. Then again, it isn’t the first time that PINK and questionable mesmer activity have been linked.

I don’t even understand why this was posted.

You A) don’t need to be in the keep to get to that spot, and B ) can’t get into the keep from that spot. The “questionable mesmer” activity was just a Yak commander missing a mesmer on a sweep and being too embarrassed to admit that he did. We’ve used the same hiding spot quite a few times on that tower and you A) can only get to it from inside the tower, B ) are usually hard to find unless they’re specifically looking for it. It also seems like he misunderstood the response to indicate that the mesmer used a glitch in terrain to jump onto the tower, when in fact, she was saying she was hiding in a spot that required some jumping to get up to the lord (but cannot be accessed if you’re not already in the tower).

People need to stop blaming exploits and hacks every time something unexpected happens.

PS: Coral, please lend me gold.

Probably missed that mesmer because they’re too busy fending off TC’s mindless zerg lol. Because ya know, that’s all we do :p…..Seriously tho, I know this is the first time Yak squared off with TC but next time just try talking to the people in question without the accusations and condemnations. We don’t bite…..that much…

Good fights all around. Regrettably CD has lost some numbers so we are unable to properly compete on all maps. I solo’d a supply camp and waited to see the eventual response. While doing so I was attacked by a fellow thief but they were able to escape. During the whole time I was killing the guards, 2 dolyaks, and the “boss” this person sat a safe distance away from me. I was too busy to run over and reintroduce myself at the time.

Not 5 mins later the zerg started trickling in……killed about 6-7 and then the masses plowed through. Stargrove wasn’t to be mine apparently.

But c’mon man! You had eyes on one thief (me) taking the camp and then you send a zerg of 30? TC at it’s finest I suppose.

I complain in jest as I was laughing the whole time I was running around dodging AoE’s and trying to C&D…….sad part is I missed once….

Good times. Quite a few badges. And only 5 from my side came to help.

Fun stuff.

/salute

saw a CD warrior in the guild [LW] some how porting his dead body thur the jumping puzzle followed noticed him at the bottom of the arena then on the first jump. Figured it was lag so i didn’t SS it but then he was on the next platform grabbed kitten the he was at the top and then gone before i could grab another to confirm. Not sure how, but i know he was dead (flagged him myself).

Absinth.6917:

Good fights all around. Regrettably CD has lost some numbers so we are unable to properly compete on all maps.

I was wondering that, your presence (CD) has been noticably smaller in EB at times where you would normally have a full deck; victim of transfers?

hmm this match seems like battle of na betweek yb and tc.

CD na n eu not enough ppl

asia timezone will be like CD vs yb.

TC not enough asia guild

Zino.1576:

hmm this match seems like battle of na betweek yb and tc.

CD na n eu not enough ppl

asia timezone will be like CD vs yb.

TC not enough asia guild

SERIOUSLY?

Yak and TC have left eachother alone COMPLETELY to doubleteam CD in our borderlands. Almost ALL of the action has been in CD borderland ALL weekend. Get out of EB for 5 minutes and look at what is really going on. It’s a battle between TC and CD with Yak holding a point advantage because TC refuses to fight them.

I miss being on second place, hell I dont even mind third….It seems like we’re being blamed for everything.

hmm 100% of my time i am in asia timezone.

btw i am from cd also. base on what you say both sv either think cd is more of a threat or they think we r easy own in those timezone.

I am not sure how to put this, but double teaming anyone is not really our style… when we decided to invade your borderlands, and claim it in the name of the golem god, you were second in points, and we wanted to secure our lead at that point, Are you seriously expecting to give up the locations we have captured once we are ahead?

TheFug.5278:

Yak and TC have left eachother alone COMPLETELY to doubleteam CD in our borderlands. Almost ALL of the action has been in CD borderland ALL weekend. Get out of EB for 5 minutes and look at what is really going on.

this man speaks the truth
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/74752-yaks-bend-vs-crystal-desert-vs-tarnished-coast/page__gopid__2073404#entry2073404

ilr.9675:

TheFug.5278:

Yak and TC have left eachother alone COMPLETELY to doubleteam CD in our borderlands. Almost ALL of the action has been in CD borderland ALL weekend. Get out of EB for 5 minutes and look at what is really going on.

this man speaks the truth
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/74752-yaks-bend-vs-crystal-desert-vs-tarnished-coast/page__gopid__2073404#entry2073404

the score speak the truth
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

YB: 66 758 + 280
CD: 62 055 +50
TC: 81 209 +365

You only posted numbers that have no context. I posted an image that is nothing BUT context. That said, if this can go back to being a 3-way fight, it will be the most fun of all of the current battles in any tier and not just b/c it was so close for a good while there.

And on that topic:

Thanks to TC [MF] Guild who provided us 7 big zerg rush…

I didn’t wanna say anything, but yeah these umm …Mallis Formus(sp?)… guys got the entire server’s attention. Huge guild btw, obviously pro at target calling or using TS. Their spiking was just this side of perfect and they didn’t get baited easily … but what the heck happened there with Spirit camp?

ilr.9675:

You only posted numbers that have no context. I posted an image that is nothing BUT context. That said, if this can go back to being a 3-way fight, it will be the most fun of all of the current battles in any tier and not just b/c it was so close for a good while there.

It never stopped being a 3 way fight, YB and TC have been fighting hard against each other the entire time. Don’t try to pass off one group acting silly as some whole conspiracy to double team you. There has been heavy fighting in all 3 borderlands all weekend, so I really have no idea how you can think that CD’s has been the only focus this whole time.

Cuz I’ve been there since noon today?
Also that Sunshine guy just supported the same conclusion in a fairly congenial manner.
It does make some tactical sense also … settling for 2nd place with the expected Lost Island event or w/e it that’s coming later this week b/c it will probably siphon off too many players to make a long term run at 1st place feasible…

Is today the only time you’ve been in there since the match began then? Look even now, aaaalll that action in CD BL surely must mean we’re ignoring eachother to double team you. Seriously, this weekend has been the most fun matchup I’ve been in yet due to the constant fighting between all 3 servers being pretty closely matched, instead of one side just getting stomped over or giving up.

played on CD BL today to try increase the divide in points to secure YB a second place finish to remain in tier 3. I imagine it does look we are hitting you from both sides but its only because we know your Oceanic will just take it all back so the more we can limit your score during NA times the harder it will be for them to bridge the gap. But i can tell you we fought off plenty in the south to keep TC from pulling a fast one on us and we often fought for the camp between us just not as much as we fought you for the bigger point tic spots.

Its the same that is going on in any other boarder lands your homeland becomes one big defend the north and push one side out that is weaker then focus other side.

All I have to say to our opponents this week:
Yak’s Bend- Be careful who you accept as bed partners in this war, dont sleep with your back to TC as you just might find a knife in it in the morning. Oh and have fun next week with their 50-70 man zergs on your lands.
TC- You guys are only effective because you outnumber everyone 5 to 1, but in combat you are weak and even weaker in the seige department. You should be thankful CD is teaching you something in that department cause when you get into tier 2 you will get spanked hard for having bad seige tactics.
I for one am looking forward to the easymode of tier 4. I am thankful we wont have to deal with Tarnished Zerg next week. Have fun with that Yaks and FA.
:D