An open letter to Ferguson’s Crossing.
So you guys are all my server mates. Generally speaking, you’re all pretty chill and friendly, and we don’t have TOO many (“too many” being the key phrase) neckbeards running about, which is always nice.
But at times you make me wanna rip my lush mane of hair out and possibly cut my tail off. Take last night (9/25/12) as a perfect example. We were on the road to capturing Stonemist- we had retaken all of our homeland, had captured Durios and Umberglade intermittently throughout the night, and we weren’t facing all too much resistance from Shiverpeaks (which was a bit weird)- and you all screwed it up.
How so? Well I (Raezok Gunclaw) got the ball rolling by A. Getting people to Stonemist and B. Dropped a few ballistas which, for whatever reason, inspired you all to actually drop siege for once which quickly led to us throwing a massive bombardment of rams, catapults and siege golums at the first gate.
Putting my money where my mouth was I ran to Speldan’s to run supply (which I had said in chat that everyone needed to do), and I died along the way. I quickly respawned and made my way back to Stonemist, and lo’ and behold what I found.
The first gate had been brought back up- and quite a bit at that- and Shiverpeakians had been busy destroying the siege we had built up. As more respawners and late show-ups arrived I quickly realized that we were in a deep messy and sloppy pile of kittens if we didn’t get that gate down.
Talking to my guildies on the other side of the gate I learned that NO siege had been dropped. The combination of few if any people coming to take the first gate back down and no siege being dropped at the second gate quickly led to us getting pushed out of Stonemist.
I logged off later (sleep), and couldn’t help but think how close we had FINALLY come since our matches with Kaineng to actually steamrolling, or at least capping the map. And it was all prevented because you all were completely incapable of dropping siege.
Now, let me make this plain. We don’t have a massive alliance of WvW guilds for you to piggyback on. We don’t have 10-20 people devoted 24/7 to dropping siege equipment for you. We are NOT HoD or JQ. You have to drop siege! If you don’t, others aren’t going to do it for you.
And I think that this is the key problem with our server. People are expecting a free ride, when there’s no free ride to get. If you want to win matches, you need to use common sense. Does the enemy have cannons firing on us? Set a ballista and take it down. Are there arrow carts in the back firing on us? Drop a catapult and kill them all. Is there a MASSIVE horde of players headed to Anzalias while you’re all at Durios? Don’t wait for the rest of the zerg to get their thumbs out of their kittens, GO to Anzalias your self!
As a final note to the guilds on the server, COORDINATE for kittens sakes! We have WAY too many WvW guilds on this server considering how many people they each have. Now, I’m not calling for mergers here (although it would be nice…), but y’all need to talk to each other and get people organized dropping siege and ninja’ing stuff.
TL;DR
Drop siege for kittens sakes.
Be an individual, don’t just follow the zerg like a mindless sheep.
Work with other guilds to capture strategic points and defend/attack keeps.
Sincerely,
Raezok Gunclaw
(Charr Engineer)
