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when aurora actually fight we do go all out, it’s just keeping up our numbers is challenging, we seem to have much smaller numbers than blacktide and gunners that make things interesting for a while, i think some lose interest at the sheer difference in numbers though.

Nice to see GH crush you in your own borderlands and take your orb this evening. And goodnight.

[11.10.2012] Current match-up: Gunnars Hold vs Blacktide vs Aurora Glage

The day went according to schedule. Now we are having the advantage over Gunnar 40k, over Aurora 120k and we are leading on points in 15 minutes. In current situation we would rise to 7th place in the world rankings (in forecast). Hard to say what is better to enjoy it or better start from the 9th. 9th place likes better to get more rating points, but 7th place looks very good. As Aurora would goes down (forecast -5 to 15th), so we rise up (+4). In any case, our new objective to foothold in a new trio and if all goes well rise to next.

See you next Thursday.

Gotta love a brag thread like this. Everyone knows why Blacktide has high scores. What they lack in skill they make up for by tossing people/money at the problem, along with the timezone issue.

And people that consider servers capping at evening and servers capping at night/morning to be the same thing fail to understand how the clock and the point system works.

Luterin.9876:

Gotta love a brag thread like this. Everyone knows why Blacktide has high scores. What they lack in skill they make up for by tossing people/money at the problem, along with the timezone issue.

War has always been amount money, so that’s really not an issue/excuse, but the difference in time zone, especially when it’s being used on purpose, while authorized, is annoying.

well, one solution that comes to mind is that ArenaNet use the server logins and activity reports to their advantage in match-up´s each week, and pit servers against eachother with the same prime time.

Unfortunatly that idea is near impossible to implement, because then you would get unbalanced match-up´s based only on wvwvw prime time, not to mention that server transfers are still free, atleast lock them for 48 hours or something, or rather, the whole week, and let there be free transfers every time new match-ups are done, like for 24 hours or something so people who wants to switch gets the chance…

It was a good match up , this week, with some great fights. i enjoyed it a lot.

Thanks.

I’m agree with Snort, thanks everybody for the good match-up. Today have seen a very interesting video from Gunnars, nice golems teleportation via mesmer’s portals

Another good match, Blacktide. Hopefully see you again soon and good luck in your next one to both you and Aurora Glade!

Nice to see Blacktide doing well. I enjoyed fighting you last week (SFR). Was fun. And don’t mind others commenting your “nightcapping” – you fight in your prime time or whenever you want.

[13.10.2012] Current match-up: Blacktide vs Augury Rock vs Desolation

Not so good day, now (19:30) we have about 200 points in 15 minutes. How it was? Epic! For long time we didn’t have so fun. With Gunnar was a great feeling of moral satisfaction from success, but here was a fun. Spent in battle 14+ hours without a break, so I remember all in fragments.

Early morning: Desolation have big zerg, that beat our mini Zerg. But we slowly begin to correct the situation. Take little corner on one of the maps and begin to strengthen. Fighting there lasted about hour, we have only 50-70 points in 15 minutes, which we scrabbled with great difficulty. Gradually enemies collapsed, we begin to send troops to other maps. Desolation can’t longer control everything and begin crumble. At 10am they went to have a rest. We saw around 50 people, and in next few minutes no one. 3 quiet hours, for which we have time to downgrade almost all maps. Only 3 keeps resist.

3 hours passed and enemies gathered. For a few hours we take 400+. Till 6pm we held first place at least 90% of all time. Desolation was not as scary as it seemed in morning.

Desolation defend supply ?amp in 20-30 people setting there over 20 sieges. 3-4 mesmers portals, that immediately appears in all sieges, and they fell. It was epic.

During all day I received reports from borderland commanders: we were attacked by almost 10 golems (and at least 2 were superior), lord rooms defending for hours. Sometimes we were defeated in lord rooms too.

Thanks for all. I thought that everything would be much worse and harder. Of course first day is not an indicator, but it is clear that we can get at least the second place. Also we have chance to take first, but it will be much more difficult than with Gunnar.

What for last week, thats was great! We liked this match up with GH and AG, especially weekend and start of the week.
Thanks for you guys. Glad to see you again.

llexa.2396 do you plan on adding into your battle reports, the activities of Xoac? who were caught trying to glitcvh into dreaming bay on Aug Rock borderlands?
If you type – Blacktide [Xaoc] Glitching into youtube you can see for yourself.

don’t worry they not glitching only on your broderlands but everywhere when they are not able take something by swarm, but taking bay by exploit is theyr favourite,

Dina Van Heyr.3018:

don’t worry they not glitching only on your broderlands but everywhere when they are not able take something by swarm, but taking bay by exploit is theyr favourite,

You lie. Ask any other past enemy. We never used it before and wont use it in future. Problem is to find that imbecile who initiated glitching and smash his head.
Btw, you look like another jealous Xaoc hater (they are russians too, usually).

Kees.2573:

Dina Van Heyr.3018:

don’t worry they not glitching only on your broderlands but everywhere when they are not able take something by swarm, but taking bay by exploit is theyr favourite,

You lie. Ask any other past enemy. We never used it before and wont use it in future. Problem is to find that imbecile who initiated glitching and smash his head.
Btw, you look like another jealous Xaoc hater (they are russians too, usually).

A small subgroup of you did both times Aurora Glade fought you, amongst other things.

If you really don’t want it to happen, then catch the ones using it and kick them from the guild and have the whole server ignore them.

Kees.2573:

Dina Van Heyr.3018:

don’t worry they not glitching only on your broderlands but everywhere when they are not able take something by swarm, but taking bay by exploit is theyr favourite,

You lie. Ask any other past enemy. We never used it before and wont use it in future. Problem is to find that imbecile who initiated glitching and smash his head.
Btw, you look like another jealous Xaoc hater (they are russians too, usually).

Yet you are still glitching in using the same method. Its always multiple guild members. You are a guild of cheats, and no I am not russian, but after seeing the way you play yes I am a hater. Save your lies about not glitching for some one who will believe them. Xoac = fail.

I’ve been up against Xaoc and never noticed them glitching.
Considering the size of the guild, I’m not surprised that some others have seen it, always a problem to keep track of who does what in such large communities.

[14.10.2012] Current match-up: Blacktide vs Augury Rock vs Desolation

Today was not so good. In the morning Desolation decided not to go to sleep and stop us. As a result, there were some upgraded keeps, which we cannot capture. Unfortunately their primetime gets against our early morning. Of course we capturing, but cannot take all, which we lost in night. Let’s see what will be on weekdays.

By fights, for all morning we were fighting with big scratch. All keeps actively defending and wore tag Ruin. Then I had to go for almost the whole day. Big problems with balancing forces on maps. On one map zerg, on another void, sometimes vice versa. For this reason we lost so much in upgrades. As a result, there were few upgrades, what complicate our life then.

About the good news, some active guilds going to join us on Blacktide. Some of them fought with us today on Blacktide borderland coordinating with our small squad, others now watching and going to join in the end of week.

About glitching it not good and its not so bad.

But despite this we doesn’t support methods like this. We are big guild and cannot control everybody, and sometimes something like this can happen.
But our leaders doesn’t encourage such things.

UPD
It is necessary to add, that we repeatedly seen some not so fair play from our opponents, but it is war, and we try to win despite this. Of course if it was not so disbalansing. Because it’s clear that allways and everywhere there are somebody who can substitute another players.

There were some nice & funny battles against Desolation during weekends. Especially I’d like to pay attention on the next guilds: [Lion], [IRON], [Ruin]. Nice work, guys!

[15.10.2012] Current match-up: Blacktide vs Augury Rock vs Desolation

Overtaking Desolation and Augury on point in 15 minutes. But the transfer of active guilds from Gunnar is still far from completion, but the effect is already visible. We are glad that finally can interact with someone, not only in the evenings. In the morning (about 10-11 to MSK) CIR countering Desolation. In the evening ThUn (which partially transferred) help them. DkR and HRY are in process. Now so much depends on how we can compensate nights sags. We are pretty sure that new BT guilds keep and exceeded scored points. We look forward to meeting with Kodash and Seafarer. In the morning Seafarer was around zero. In the evening we should not sag. It’s likely that next week we’ll have the operation “Retribution”. For this week it is difficult to make predictions, the Desolation have very powerful American guild that countering our morning rush and we have a tangible advantage only to 12 hours. At the same time in the evening, we had push them and unlikely sag at the beginning of our night. So in any case the chance is still there. However, our new allies promise to reach their full capacity to next week. Now they have organizational work and reshaping the guilds. We will try to intensify further in the arena of international politics.

Score speaks for itself (~21 in MSK)

Your new allies have been doing you proud. There has been some epic fighing all day long. This will be a close fight for 1st, and looking forward to fighting for every point. Been alot of fun today, keep it up Blacktide

Starscream – yes, I suppose it will be hot )

[16.10.2012] Current match-up: Blacktide vs Augury Rock vs Desolation

Daily results inspire confidence in the “bright future”. Today our gap decreased up to 20k points and we continue to catch up Desolation. Maybe Ruin’s went to work or just had some relax, but we started to earn our max points for a few hours before than usually. Moreover, we even had time to take down the whole Eternal. With 10 golems destroyed Stonemist (by the way the 10 golems were lost on the outside gates, a huge amount of siege defense was there, but inside almost on zero). Then, a few raids and another 5 golems killed Desolation Overlook – the last upgraded keep on their piece of Eternal. It was the first time during this match-up when we downgraded all enemy buildings . Our Euro guild also are awesome – Blacktide Garrison and Eternal’s keep were our up to 6 AM (Moscow time). Although keeps were lost, but before we have lost all up to 2-4 AM. However, it is too early to rejoice.

The transfer of Heresy [HRSY] members from Gunnar’s to Blacktide is almost completed. Some members are still stuck reporting that Blacktide is currently full and transfer is not possible at this time. We are mostly active during the evening BST. We’re happy to join the Blacktide forces, and btw, thanks for the epic defence at Garrison @ AR yesterday evening

The last two days since transfer have been very enjoyable.

Glad Heresy are over now, we had the out manned buff yesterday at AR homeland at about 10.30pm.

We could do with some additional number then. We still managed to keep out noses ahead by 5 points.

I logged at about 11 as did a lot of others and they maps started swinging. We will need to fill in the slot between midnight and 6 am and strengthen 6pm to midnight.

Ideally one more EU time zone guild and 2 US guilds would address thsi.

It’s better to make a transfer in the morning/afternoon. A population of BT is high, but unfortunately WvWvW population is low)

We had a few guys transfer after 7 pm and it was fine.

It depends on many reasons – day of the week, weather, etc

Guys whats the present status?

PS HRSY guys give me a buzz in game at 6 pm.

Always like reading these.
And i believe these reports deserve a subforum.
keep it up.

Ill echo that, more servers should do a news report.

just write up a paragraph every know and again.

It makes me hungry to get online.

[17.10.2012] Current match-up: Blacktide vs Augury Rock vs Desolation

After a great day yesterday, today was not so good. It was started in the morning, almost three hours Ruins fought with us and prevents us from taking anything, except few towers and supplies. Finally, at 9-10 hours our quantity was comparable with Desolation and we equaled on points in 15 minutes. Then we went ahead in people and points/15min despite three Desolation’s orbs. So today we went to 400+ only on 3 hours later than yesterday.

During all day, fights were not so swimmingly. In the middle of the day suddenly Augury and Desolation went out big zergs, that we hadn’t seen for all week. Ran here for three hours and downgrade almost all our towers\keeps, which we upgraded in the morning\afternoon, except two keeps on the borderlands. Then, as usual, event was over and we back to 400+ points. After few hours (in the evening) they came again and it was pretty hot.

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

Always like reading these.
And i believe these reports deserve a subforum.
keep it up.

Glad to hear it =)
And it would be really cool, if many servers write reports.

How are things this morning?

Currently we have only 240points, but we are taking every keep from the franchis.

[18.10.2012] Current match-up: Blacktide vs Augury Rock vs Desolation

We not led on points today. And now two borderlands are almost empty, it all happens because we had decided not to invest 30-50g in upgrades in the morning. Tower and keeps often intercepted, untags left two borderlands and went to Eternal and Blacktide where upgraded keeps were. Other maps were empty and enemies upgrade keeps there, what interfered us to capture points. For sure we can, but it would need big resources and we start preparing to next match.
Our allies were good today, actively jumping into our portal and help us destroying enemies, it only need to write it beforehand. May be it is impact that we have more guilds on the server. And let they haven’t got theirs commander on maps and run after commander icon, but now they know what to do in combat.

Situation on ~ 23:00

Blacktide has been a great opponent, llexa, and after the addition of the Gunnar’s Hold WvW guilds you gave us a big wakeup call.

It is not a coincidence that we started taking you guys very seriously in the past two days. You were having a big comeback and if we hadn’t increased our effort, Riverside would have stayed in Tier 2 and Desolation would still be in Tier 3, even if we won the match. So you not only gave us a very good fight, you also gave us a very real scare.

Xaoc is a very good, very well organised guild and you never give up. That’s a great quality to have. With some luck, we’ll meet up again in Tier 2 in just over a week. The servers are very close right now and I think Blacktide only needs a few more active people during US prime time to be nearly unbeatable. Thankfully for Desolation, you do not have those numbers just yet, but who knows how things will look like after next week.

I’d wish you good luck in your next matchup, but I doubt you’ll need it.

Until next time!

Deso’s scheduled events didn’t escape our attention, we were steadily gaining 10-15k points per day and at that pace we could have challenged you for 1st place. You guys upped your game and stalled us in some timezones, overtaking us in others, enough to make it a clear victory for Desolation. Congratulations guys, you definitely earned it. Much respect to IRON, GoD and LoR for putting up great fights during EU prime.

The general sentiment in CIR (one of the WvW guilds from Gunnar’s Hold) is that it’s a shame we missed the weekend ramp-up to the matchup. We definitely look forward to our next match-up against Riverside and Seafarer’s Rest, been hearing some good stuff about the WvW guilds on Seafarer’s so the WvW should be VERY juicy and challenging.

Big thanks to all the Blacktide guilds (not just XAOC) who accepted us wholeheartedly to Blacktide, you guys made us feel like we are home.

We noticed your great improvement after wensday, it was almost impossible to repeat our wensday hit and you are winning deservedly.

I think next time we will be more stronger and try to solve our loss of points at night, our night nearly US prime time. See you soon guys!

Thanks to Desolation for a high number of great fights during this matchup, it was very funny!

It was a week some epic fights.

A tougher prospect than our previous bracket was.

Been a nice week. Liked the fact that during prime time the last 2 days. All 3 servers were quite even. Hope to face blacktide again in a couple of weeks!

Huge props to BT and XAOC, you guys keep bringing it. Forced us to learn/try new strategies.

It was amazingly fun playing this week, and i’m sad that i became a bit sick and missed some epic fights apparently!
Looking forward to next week, and looking forward to facing the same servers again some other time

At certain times, all 3 servers were very close on point gain.

Yep thanks to all the people on Blacktide for a very fun week. In terms of defense I think you are probably the best server we have faced, in many cases forcing us to wear down your supplies before we were able to take a keep. Good luck next week, if your server hasn’t taken a hit on moral (and at least as your opposition it doesn’t feel as if ye have) then I’d say ye are the clear favorites and I’m looking forward to facing ye again in a higher tier.

Naikee.5936:

Thanks to Desolation for a high number of great fights during this matchup, it was very funny!

No thank you for the fights this week and never giving up.. and giving us a run for our money mid week. You renewed my hope that WvW will continue to get better and the dust will settle down to just epic conflicts instead of non stop complaining.