Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the update, Josh. Are you going to keep us informed as updates and such roll out from testing? It’d be nice to hear the juicy details as it progresses along.

Cool, which guilds were chosen?

It would be cool to see a list of guilds invited to the test, should the ones invited at this time wish to coordinate with others guilds.

My BLTC guild, The Elitist Quaggan was chosen!

Just kidding, guess I’ll have to wait for release.

Dawn from AG was NOT choosen, if you get choosen just type here!

I think people might not say as they will get a wave of people trying to their guild

Personally I’d like to know the metrics…how many Gold guilds vs how many Silver…etc…

It might be worth noting that guilds may not be able to say if they are in the Alpha or not, yet…

RIOT was selected: http://teamriot.org/riot-has-been-accepted-as-beta-testers-for-the-edge-of-the-mists/

Looking forward to streaming it as much as possible!

There’s no nda around this from what I’ve been lead to believe. So this should be interesting for us wvwers.

Correct, there is no NDA, says it right in here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-edge-of-the-mists-a-new-map-is-coming-to-wvw/

“None of this testing will be under NDA, as we want as many people as possible and we need your input.”

No NDA, so expect some streaming, or at least pictures, from the chosen guilds.

Oh in that case.. [VG] Varangian Guard on Piken Square were selected.

Lol knew it. Vayle is bad at playing innocent.

Hehehe, too true Bamby, I’m looking forward to seeing which other guilds will be in it too.

should have asked the top GvG guilds and make a small tournament of it.

[Os] of NSP was selected.

Is there any small-sized guild (less than 5 or 10 members) selected so far?
Or does Anet just select medium-to-large-sized guilds only for this testing? ^^

Is it possible to get clarification on what type of guilds you are looking for for this kind of testing? (though I guess it would sway future applicants)

Just be nice to know if the app we put in is off the table or not, since we didn’t get one. Have guildies excited for a chance at it, hopefully we weren’t excluded or anything.

Why would it be off the table?
He even says in the post that they will send out more invites the coming weeks.

If you did not receive an invitation, do not despair – we will be adding many more guilds in the coming weeks.

As in, they might be picking and choosing certain aspects, perhaps some guilds don’t meet that.

I know there’s more invites. I’m just curious.

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Well I hope they will try and drive this map away from the “same old kitten” that anet seems to love. Aka. No 25 man guild blobs all clustered up and moving around the map in seconds to just blob everything they can.

This shouldnt be viable. They need to add skill to the combat by making roaming more viable. Which means bigger maps and more spread out objectives.

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Yeah we are normally out with a 5 man. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Depends on who’s online. I do hope large guilds will split up their groups so we can get in some fun skirmishes on this cool terrain. I think we have 13 people submitting for the beta.

If it’s possible, we will try to split onto separate maps, if not we will just roam with 2 groups in the same map separately unless we get blobbed on.

Lordrosicky.5813:

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Well I hope they will try and drive this map away from the “same old kitten” that anet seems to love. Aka. No 25 man guild blobs all clustered up and moving around the map in seconds to just blob everything they can.

This shouldnt be viable. They need to add skill to the combat by making roaming more viable. Which means bigger maps and more spread out objectives.

25 people is not inherently a blob bro.

Lordrosicky.5813:

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Well I hope they will try and drive this map away from the “same old kitten” that anet seems to love. Aka. No 25 man guild blobs all clustered up and moving around the map in seconds to just blob everything they can.

This shouldnt be viable. They need to add skill to the combat by making roaming more viable. Which means bigger maps and more spread out objectives.

That’s not what the map is for though. This map is just an “overflow” waiting area while queued to get into WvW to fight. Nothing that happens on this map will contribute to the overall score, it will just be a place where all players can get in to play while waiting.

They are likely picking bigger guilds to test the lag/latency of real time fights and see if any of the area architecture has any impact, etc .. It likely won’t solve the zerg problem, unless they build specific architecture to thwart that.

All they need to do is give every player on a WvW map a 2-5% bonus to all stats that disappears whenever they are within 1200 range of more than 20 people (or maybe a smaller number) from the same server. The exact bonus percentage needed to encourage zerg breakup should be determined by beta testing.

Lordrosicky.5813:

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Well I hope they will try and drive this map away from the “same old kitten” that anet seems to love. Aka. No 25 man guild blobs all clustered up and moving around the map in seconds to just blob everything they can.

This shouldnt be viable. They need to add skill to the combat by making roaming more viable. Which means bigger maps and more spread out objectives.

We have the exact same mindset. We will be representing roaming guilds out there to the best of our ability. We’ve always been about fights over anything else.

I do hope you guys get in, you sound fun to fight.

I think deterring blobbing is a hard problem to fix though. Without core changes to Wxp (splitting it based on how many people are around when someone dies), Upping the AOE cap, it will all be terrain based. From the screen shots, there does appear to be a lot of choke points, LOL Skyhammer style floating islands and bridges etc…so we will just have to see how that plays into the skirmishes. The blobs run with a ton of stability so it would be a huge pain to capitalize on getting a large portion of people off a cliff. Portal play looks be a lot of fun in here, especially on the snow map which has a lot more vertical structures.

We will need to see the actual size of these maps too to see how they favor smaller groups.

We also got in … from JQ.

As did we, it’s like a reunion party

Yes but I think it’s gonna be vs the Servers we are fighting that week.

Naw I think it might operate like the holiday events where you can be with different servers on your “team” …. Overflow map right? Although I’m not sure how it would work to get your guild in on the same team. Guess that’s the stuff I’m eager to hear about from you guys that get in. Would love to be part of it myself as a “roamer.”

They’ve said for now it’s only against the servers you fight that week but it could become a more generic overflow based on feedback. I assume that affects beta as well, though if it’s a variety of large and small guilds maybe it will be a mix while we test.

SF will be there! Praise Jedsus

Legends Never [DIE] from SoR got in, were very excited to be able to participate and help ArenaNet in this. Should be a lot of fun.

[PLX] – Plexity : From BG got selected. Thanks Anet! We are thrilled to participate!

Wonder how many people are going to lie about getting in just cause it looks cool

Could you chosen guilds please put brief information up regarding focus and size of your guilds (like “small man roaming”, “gvg” or similar)?

Thanks & best regards

Daddar.5971:

All they need to do is give every player on a WvW map a 2-5% bonus to all stats that disappears whenever they are within 1200 range of more than 20 people (or maybe a smaller number) from the same server. The exact bonus percentage needed to encourage zerg breakup should be determined by beta testing.

You have not understood the puropose of this map. It is amap for everyone to fight the way they want, without having any impact on the score. So you don’t have to play there if you don’t want to, and let other guilds play in their 20 man blobs

They are just slecting PvE guilds.

do we get loot bags in here?

LotuS.4378:

They are just slecting PvE guilds.

Maybe there is some world bosses and they need to test those mechanics.

Moon.6371:

Could you chosen guilds please put brief information up regarding focus and size of your guilds (like “small man roaming”, “gvg” or similar)?

Thanks & best regards

Nordvegr runs mostly roaming group(s). Old DAOC guild with many veteran gamers focused on WvW. About 30-35 active members.

LotuS.4378:

They are just slecting PvE guilds.

Because no kind of organised PvP stuff might happen in “WXP Crown Pavilion”
/shrugs

Omne.4603:

Lordrosicky.5813:

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Well I hope they will try and drive this map away from the “same old kitten” that anet seems to love. Aka. No 25 man guild blobs all clustered up and moving around the map in seconds to just blob everything they can.

This shouldnt be viable. They need to add skill to the combat by making roaming more viable. Which means bigger maps and more spread out objectives.

25 people is not inherently a blob bro.

15-20+ is a blob. A blob is a group so big that you just spam all your kitten without having to think. A blob becomes a blob when it is favourable to all blob up and abuse the aoe cap

“15-20+ is a blob. A blob is a group so big that you just spam all your kitten without having to think. A blob becomes a blob when it is favourable to all blob up and abuse the aoe cap”

Clearly we play in different zergs. Plenty of thinking is involved.

LotuS.4378:

They are just slecting PvE guilds.

VoTF isnt a PVE guild…

Any guilds outside of T1 selected?