Guild Wars 2

Good luck to all parties involved! Please keep this thread as civil as you can.

Good luck everyone, and here’s to having a week clean of hacks and exploits!

Hopefully we can have a decent fight this week! Was curious who were on Darkhaven were paired with! Hopefully this doesn’t end up like the last 2 weeks and 1 side absolutely dominates the other 2!

Good luck! Have fun!

So Reddit vs the Accession Alliance vs misc players + a portion of WoodenPotatoes fan base…?

New match ups are so exciting. I want to play. xD. Good luck to all teams and lets have an exciting week.

Jasott.7914:

So Reddit vs the Accession Alliance vs misc players + a portion of WoodenPotatoes fan base…?

ascension alliance has not been on NSP for over a month now.

Any chance of a score and ppt update? I’m at work right now

Darkhaven was ahead for most of the time, but recently NSP took the lead.

Yeah, Ascension Alliance is on ET now. NSP is its own community.

Best of luck to both DH and EB. You’re going to need it!

Keep the score updates coming guys I’m interested in seeing how you all go this week.

So far I enjoy fighting against Darkhaven and Ehmry bay, but hey, it is NOT cool to use mesmer portals the way you on Ehmry Bay are using them. We are all aware that the mesmer portal skill is most likely not supposed to be used as it is now. It really tickles my nerves when I see a 50+ zerg from Ehmry popping up inside the inner gates of Garrison and insta-zerg the lords room. Where’s the honour in doing that? I’d be sad to see this happen again and I hope most of you won’t take part in such game breaking behaviour.

Apart from that I enjoy the match-up and I hope to see Darkhaven and Ehmry put up some competition!

Already the accusations are flying? Can’t we wait until Monday at least?

It’s legit. I’m not exactly happy with it either, especially how it favors one profession as a huge determinant of entire strategy in WvW, but there you go. As far as I know the devs have not spoken against it.

It’s now simply a part of the game to sweep for Mesmers.

It’s kind of like a catapult on the inside of a tower/keep to hit your own gate and knock the attackers on the other side of the gate away.

Personally I really don’t like that it’s an option, but so long as it is people will use it.

Telljer.5469:

So far I enjoy fighting against Darkhaven and Ehmry bay, but hey, it is NOT cool to use mesmer portals the way you on Ehmry Bay are using them. We are all aware that the mesmer portal skill is most likely not supposed to be used as it is now. It really tickles my nerves when I see a 50+ zerg from Ehmry popping up inside the inner gates of Garrison and insta-zerg the lords room. Where’s the honour in doing that? I’d be sad to see this happen again and I hope most of you won’t take part in such game breaking behaviour.

Apart from that I enjoy the match-up and I hope to see Darkhaven and Ehmry put up some competition!

In fairness that is a legitimate use of that skill. If you were to refer to the culling issue relating to it you would have a point. We only just prevented yall from doing that to us a couple times in EB.

From the Ebay perspective though the Eternal Battlefield was fun tonight. Plenty of wild fighting back and forth and I’m not even complaining when both Darkhaven and Northern Shiverpeaks both hit us on two separate fronts with everything they had in the zone. THAT is warfare, and after the bloody nose we came back and held our own.

I hope that all week is as fun and close as tonight. Oh and a score update as of 12:20 CST.

Mesmer was designed to use Deception and Cunning to overcome foes. They use stealth, misdirection and trickery to complete objectives.

To talk about Honor and War is kinda whiny.

If Honor to you is having Two Brutes bash each other over the head in toe to toe fashion, it saddens me think what you feel is fair.

Where in reality, this mentality truly shows how narrow minded you are. A good defender knows his surrounding and guards against every possible attack. Because you complain about the Portals, it goes to show how much you really pay attention.

As far as Darkhaven is concerned, there is no real leadership. no one listens and the majority refuses to upgrade. And when something is upgraded or upgrading, they refuse to defend it to further reinforce not upgrading anything.

Another aspect of Darkhaven players is simple laziness. They steal supply from upgrading or freshly taken keeps/tower… especially the front 2 towers so they never get a chance to upgrade. This particular travesty is shameful because the front two towers is supplied by a single camp. When it is the enemy borderlands, it forces the invaders to take of the northern most camp and hold it so the supply can reach it; otherwise the tower is easily taken back.

With this failure of teamwork and lack of direction, I disagree that this match will be interesting as it may merely be a two-sided match with Darkhaven in the rear.

Undermine.1678:

As far as Darkhaven is concerned, there is no real leadership. no one listens and the majority refuses to upgrade. And when something is upgraded or upgrading, they refuse to defend it to further reinforce not upgrading anything.

Another aspect of Darkhaven players is simple laziness. They steal supply from upgrading or freshly taken keeps/tower… especially the front 2 towers so they never get a chance to upgrade. This particular travesty is shameful because the front two towers is supplied by a single camp. When it is the enemy borderlands, it forces the invaders to take of the northern most camp and hold it so the supply can reach it; otherwise the tower is easily taken back.

With this failure of teamwork and lack of direction, I disagree that this match will be interesting as it may merely be a two-sided match with Darkhaven in the rear.

This is very familiar on Ehmry Bay as well. As a level 25 I put about 60s into a single location, Ogrewatch/pang tonight. I managed to get a couple people to help me upgrade. But though we had 10X the amount of time needed to do so it was never fortified with siege nor was either upgraded to max. An enemy zerg came later and took both, when neither would have fallen had it been properly outfitted.

It is sad when a level 25 warrior is upgrading, defending, and doing more for the war effort than numerous 80’s. out there who refuse to even carry supply, much less upgrade/defend things.

I don’t know who Undermine is, but it sounds like he should make use of the free transfers to go somewhere else if he doesn’t like being on Darkhaven.

FYI: Darkhaven isn’t losing yet.

Quite frankly I don’t plan on loosing this match up. We have lots of great guilds working together atm, lots of communications being made via vent servers, and lots of distribution of players.

It is true that it is not always easy to get people to help build up seige to defend a certain tower for any amount of time b/c the zerg just loves running, and it’s in their blood, but I believe that is where alot of the guilds come into play working together to defend a keep.

My suggestion to DH, join a guild and work together, were doing great.

ThyOwnage.5736:

Quite frankly I don’t plan on loosing this match up.

We noticed that when your server sent 10 golems at us during the first couple hours of the match.

You guys must have burned like 50 gold in golems alone in just the first few hours of the match :/

Supersun.4603:

ThyOwnage.5736:

Quite frankly I don’t plan on loosing this match up.

We noticed that when your server sent 10 golems at us during the first couple hours of the match.

You guys must have burned like 50 gold in golems alone in just the first few hours of the match :/

Not really… we had a week of doing dailies from all our main characters + alts from all my guildies since we had like the whole matchup dominated so we stocked up for this match with no gold spent on siege weapons from my guild

Supersun.4603:

ThyOwnage.5736:

Quite frankly I don’t plan on loosing this match up.

We noticed that when your server sent 10 golems at us during the first couple hours of the match.

You guys must have burned like 50 gold in golems alone in just the first few hours of the match :/

For some reason I just don’t see the math of 10 golems adding up to 50gold, but your maths probably close………….

From my understanding [RE] pulled them all together as a guild (meaning jump puzzles and gold donations). In fact, I myself have 3 golems on me right now just from doing EB jump puzzles, so who knows probably not such a loss in gold after all.

EDIT: Oh and there we have it, no gold spent at all (edited after I saw Joshiasi’s post).

No bodies were ready for this

Last match for Northern Shiverpeaks was an even match almost all the way through. Don’t know why we aren’t fighting our equals this match.

Guess the true battle is between us losing servers for now. We will beat you Ehmry Bay! 10 to 50 points at a time!

Kita.7819:

No bodies were ready for this

Yeah…

you slightly outnumber us both at night by quite a bit.

Last match for Northern Shiverpeaks was an even match almost all the way through. Don’t know why we aren’t fighting our equals this match.

Guess the true battle is between us losing servers for now. We will beat you Ehmry Bay! 10 to 50 points at a time!

Throwing in the towel a bit early there aren’t you.

They will have a good lead for sure, but if we ally up for a while we could easily even things out by annihilating them during the day.

I certainly don’t expect that Darkhaven has that many more Omega Siege Golems that they can throw at our gates :/

looks like spvp this week for me…

East Coast Servers always have a major disadvantage going up again DH, simply because its one of the few ‘unofficial’ Aussie servers, so when its peak time for you guys, all of us are sleeping – Which again, kinder makes a mockery of WvW in general. I think umm..Sea of Sorrows was the other unofficial Aussie server too.

Anyway, these week I expect DH to run away with an easy win because of that fact ~ Ebay has a severe lack of population, unless your counting PvE bots running around..I still think the population levels are broken (Click World transfer) Everything is high ~ our server at 5am in the morning is dead – no chance in hell is Ebay high population not unless there is a bot army somewhere hiding out.

Yep, looks like ill be in Orr for the week, just cant compete with darkhavens numbers during my primetime.

Nightcapping for the win!!!

So who was saying bad things about Darkhaven?

We’ve done a lot in terms of organization the past week after our night capping strategy was shut down by Sanctum of Rall. We’ve also been drumming up support for WvW to try and fill maps during peak (we used to have no queues for half the maps during peak) and are now looking at off-peak coverage.

But to NSP and Ehmry Bay: Please keep up the fight. Last week was boring for us. Don’t give up when you’re behind; work harder. That’s what we did.

This isn’t that unbalanced of a match. NSP had a pretty weak turnout though, hopefully it picks up soon. Have had fun fighting so far. I’ll see you on the battlefield soon!

mikefmc.5961:

looks like spvp this week for me…

You do realize that it’s only the first night correct? For our tier we tend to have a decent day time group mon-fri.

Radiodread.8469:

This isn’t that unbalanced of a match. NSP had a pretty weak turnout though, hopefully it picks up soon. Have had fun fighting so far. I’ll see you on the battlefield soon!

You ninja’d me

Darkhaven, as a whole(there are exceptions) is bad at WvW. I say this as a Darkhaven player. We are technically bad. We misplace siege equipment, we misuse resources, we waste time attacking objectives we have no business attacking and we rarely have the patience to defend properly. Timing and coordination between pugs, small guilds and larger guilds is rarely optimal. Anyone playing against us tonight has seen all of those failings, and will probably try to capitalize on those problems.

But we’re learning, we’re improving, and we have three things that bode well for us.

1) We are a high population server, and I think more and more of our people are realizing that WvW is the endgame of GW2, and gradually shifting more and more into WvW. Our PvErs are horrible at WvW. But as Napoleon said, “Quantity has a quality all its own.”

2) After last week’s match-up there is real excitement and passion to do WvW. The bandwagoners, and fair weather players who saw us crush FC and AR last week think DH is great and want to do WvW. The veteran WvW players(few as they might be) were utterly bored for an entire week, and now want to battle against NSP and EB in hopes of a good fight. We’re hungry, hungry for WvW as I have never seen on this server before.

3) We have a decent nighttime/Oceanic population. No, it is not as big as people claim(except maybe on weekends). We can maybe muster maybe one 40 man main zerg, and a couple 10-15 man squads. But we also operate much smoother than our daytime crew, and it appears so far that NSP and EB cannot match our nighttime forces.

So yes, if DH wins this match-up(which I frankly doubt, NSP stood toe to toe with YB and SoR last week, something DH failed at miserably) it will be because of our numbers, not the quality of our players(mostly).

But I’m okay with that, we’ll be in good company. WWII, the American Civil War, and countless other wars were not won by the nations with the best soldiers. They were won by the nations that could field the largest armies and keep them sustained in the field for the longest period of time.

Caliburn.1845:

3) We have a decent nighttime/Oceanic population. No, it is not as big as people claim(except maybe on weekends). We can maybe muster maybe one 40 man main zerg, and a couple 10-15 man squads.

Uhh…yeah, that’s a LOT more people then we have on at night on Ehmry :/

Well hopefully this week will be as fun as last week. Seems like it has been already.

Score update after first night (7AM est)

Darkhaven all 3 orbs 20k
Northern 10k
Ehmry 9k

Was all even up round midnight, but hey… Gday mates!

Last match for Northern Shiverpeaks was an even match almost all the way through. Don’t know why we aren’t fighting our equals this match.
Guess the true battle is between us losing servers for now. We will beat you Ehmry Bay! 10 to 50 points at a time!

Stick with it. Darkhaven is strong over night, and historically abysmal during the day. We typically build a nice lead, and then watch it vanish until our night crew comes back.

So idk why Ehmry bay is saying they simply can not compete, just like 20 minutes ago they had almost their ENTIRE map back! I unfortunately forgot to get a screeny, but they only had 2 places left to go, a tower and a keep where our orb was. Was pretty kitten good on their part. ([HOT] eventually came in and saved our butts, thx guys!)

GJ Ehmry and way to put up a fight!

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

East Coast Servers always have a major disadvantage going up again DH, simply because its one of the few ‘unofficial’ Aussie servers, so when its peak time for you guys, all of us are sleeping – Which again, kinder makes a mockery of WvW in general. I think umm..Sea of Sorrows was the other unofficial Aussie server too.

Anyway, these week I expect DH to run away with an easy win because of that fact ~ Ebay has a severe lack of population, unless your counting PvE bots running around..I still think the population levels are broken (Click World transfer) Everything is high ~ our server at 5am in the morning is dead – no chance in hell is Ebay high population not unless there is a bot army somewhere hiding out.

Unofficial aussie server? Anyone that plays on DH got a good laugh at that one. Our “night capping” crew is a relatively small group from all different guilds and time zones. What we gain with efficiency late night we more than make up for with little organization and population mid-day anyway. At any rate it was nice to see that at least some people fought through the night in EB and kept us from sweeping the zone.

I was thinking this would be a fairly balanced match so I hope people don’t get discouraged because the total score is uneven and just give up right away. Things seemed to be fairly even at the start so even if populations are uneven during certain hours I hope that doesn’t keep people out of wvw. Another week-long boring lopsided match means everyone loses.

I don’t know why everyone is always hating on DH like it’s the worst server in the game. A lot of us are trying to make the effort to make the server better and do well in WvW, and other people are always like “I’m from DH and we suck”

I’m from DH, and I’d rather show server pride and improve our game, rather than sit and whine that we aren’t that good for this that and the other reason.

My guild as a whole, as well as several others have put forth a lot of effort to work with each other this week. Mad thanks to RE, HVN, Zzzz, SFFR, and all the others this week!

Let’s keep it up!

not sure why anyone thought this would be a good matchup

I will see my fellow ebayers in a week

I think you need to reevaluate the situation quercus. The EB folks are putting up a fight in their home borderlands right now.

This match just started. Darkhaven has been better at night… With the sun coming up and the better players logging off, Darkhaven is starting to lose their keeps and towers…

Darkhaven may be ahead now but in 12 hours I doubt there will be much blue anything on the map.

Just keep in mind, Red and Green, Darkhaven refuses to defend anything… so don’t be intimidated by their holdings… no defenders and no upgrades.

Guys don’t get so happy the fight isn’t over, let’s keep up what’s good and get ready to use PLAN B as we have discussed in guild leader meeting. Keep the troops Mobilized!!!

-half naked norn

Update on the score, good match so far, keep in mind Darkhaven is known to have a stronger night time presence than day time.

So a decent fight so far! (Except “late night” I suppose!). Just please, I hope no server “gives up” leaving us a boring week of WvWvW.

I had loads of fun last night, (around 10pm-12am CST) and it was probably some of the best WvWvW fun I have had yet. Keeps were changing hands, SM was changing hands, supply camps were changing hands.

The best part I enjoyed (in eternal battlegrounds) was all the smaller battles going on around the map. 10 people trying to take a tower, 6 people fighting 6 people over a supply depot, 20 people fighting at SM, all going on at once, in the same battleground. There just seemed to be battles everywhere!

I hope the fun continues, and even if Darkhaven caps at night, it doesn’t mean you guys have to give up! Point accumulation is point accumulation, whether you get 1st,2nd, or 3rd.

Cheers to hopefully a good week of WvWvW!

For all who want free BOH/Loot bags feel free to kill the Darkhaven Bots in the Lakes of each borderlands..you can find up to 3 groups of 5 most times…they do not fight back as they are programmed to kill only the fishheads.

Easy money…and yes reported but that seems not to do anything..

We broke into Etheron to find this little surprise from Dark Haven. Quite the effort. This army eventually became 10 Alphas and 3 Omegas that stormed our garrison. I’d like to complain about it but having 50 guilded players pouring the same resources into this strategy is the way to break conventional defense.

I’m just surprised that Dark Haven is somehow in our bracket despite having only 10% pugs in our borderland on Friday.

I think the issue with NSP not having a good turnout is that we put our all into that last week match up against SoR and YB and we got dropped an entire tier just for having a third place, even though it was the closest third place to second and to first of the entire WvWvW community. We fought our butts off and paid just as hard a price for losing as if we hadn’t done anything productive at all. That’s how I feel, anyway, and it makes it hard to want to queue up, especially when we’re so quickly behind again. The week isn’t determined and we haven’t given a fair showing of our strength yet, but it takes time to care again about something we did honestly try at and get shut down by the bracketing system like we did. In all honesty, I wish we could have had another week with SoR and YB to really determine who the winner was. SoR just happened to be in the lead for the last ten or so hours before the week was up, but the truth is, at various parts through that week every server had just as much of a lead as SoR did in the end. I’m glad they both got to stay in their bracket though, it should be a lot of fun for them.

Well, Darkhaven is starting to fall apart as predicted. In the homelands they only manage to pull up 4 defenders per objective… rest of them just sit around and camp the garrison.

Soon, there will be nothing left owned by blue.