Guild Wars 2

Seriously.

My guild raided escorted Dollies weird-cattle-on-steroids last night. There was a queue on EB sadly. #realdollieshavefur

Anyhow, finding a group to fight in the vastness of the Desert Borderland was quite difficult at first, so we spent our “raid” time doing PvE nonsense. Such is WvW life post-HoT.
Later on, we were fighting the enemy at Hills. Wait, “fight” is the wrong word. We stood on the bridge with a shield generator and they trebbed us from a distance and we awkwardly looked at each other like on a first date, and people cursed Revenant hammer on TS.
After a lot of staring, we eventually broke through. I logged off and went to sleep.

And I actually found myself dreaming of fights in True Hills on the Alpine Borderland. The old cata spot, the chokes on the bridge and in the Lord’s Room, visible surroundings [not obscured by overly elaborate (pretty but useless) cliffs and canyons], reasonable verticality, the snowy breeze caressing the cheeks of combatants…

Never forget the perpetually christmasy Citadel, structures that we cared for and upgraded ourselves, watersports while looking for a mesmer in Bay, flatlands where we could easily spot an enemy group and engage, jumping that was only restricted to the Jumping Puzzles and not forced on the players, good ol’ Henry the Worm (for some servers on EU), and last but not least, wandering heart and soul of Home BL – cute n’ fluffy yaks, the Real Dollies that you want to hug.
You get my point.

So Anet, if you ever find yourself with the desire to make someone’s dreams come true, you can bring back a real WvW borderland – Alpine.
Until then, I’ll be in EB.

So can we assume it was a wet dream?

As wet as bay water i suppose. Guess new players reading posts like this might not believe it there were actually big battles going on all over the place. From roam/havoc up to zerg/blob fights. Aaahh the good ole times..

I remember quite a few very long sieges in Bay, usually where you defend a T3 bay on an enemy border. Trying to hold it with a skeleton crew during daytime, holding out until reinforcements (primetime) is there to relieve the siege.
Because a T3 keep on an enemy border was a big thing, you knew people had put effort and time in upgrading and defending it, and that only strengthened the resolve to keep defending it.
It wasn’t about ppt, it was about some form of prestige, and being a thorn in the enemy’s side.
Similarly, holding your home garrison was something important. When garrison falls, you lost (not necessarily ppt wise).

But now? I couldn’t be bothered if our whole border is overrun, it isn’t our border anyway, npcs own and care for it.

hedix.1986:

The old cata spot, the chokes on the bridge and in the Lord’s Room, visible surroundings [not obscured by overly elaborate (pretty but useless) cliffs and canyons], reasonable verticality, the snowy breeze caressing the cheeks of combatants…

Never forget the perpetually christmasy Citadel, structures that we cared for and upgraded ourselves, watersports while looking for a mesmer in Bay, flatlands where we could easily spot an enemy group and engage, jumping that was only restricted to the Jumping Puzzles and not forced on the players, good ol’ Henry the Worm (for some servers on EU), and last but not least, wandering heart and soul of Home BL – cute n’ fluffy yaks, the Real Dollies that you want to hug.

I’ve seen it called Henry on Gandara too, although unaware of the name’s origin. (Oh, and we called dolyaks ‘bessies’, which always warmed my heart.)

Beautifully stated.

As wet as bay water i suppose. Guess new players reading posts like this might not believe it there were actually big battles going on all over the place. From roam/havoc up to zerg/blob fights. Aaahh the good ole times..

I actually met you in game. Although I rarely ventured out of home BL, I was on your border incessantly tagging your keeps with angry people chasing me around (I main Mesmer). You were on a Ranger. We spoke briefly when you wearily asked me if I could end the nonsense, and I did. Still it’s a warm memory in my book!

I remember that too! Also a good memory of the good ole times.. Knock a keep nowadays and you wont get ANY fight out of it. Unless its EB but you have to run from a zerg then, not quite the same.

New maps are not perfect, I still prefer them a lot more than the old hamster wheel maps.