Guild Wars 2

We did it!

Woooo!

I’d be impressed if you guys were fighting servers from the same tier as you. Personally I don’t see the achievement of doing it to servers you shouldn’t even really be fighting. That said, gz! Always fun to hit 695.

Nice!, now upgrade their garrisons with WP etc lol

And the troll train rolls on.

If I was on IoJ or any of the opponents I would find another game for the week. That looks boring as hell.

This is a really sad statement on the poor quality of the matchmaking process and the negative impact of EotM on the main game. A very bad commentary on the state of WvW in this game.

I would like to thank Fellbad/Fellblade he is the #1 commander on IoJ and this wouldn’t have been possible without him.

This is why I dont play in WvWvW when I’m on IoJ, we get matched up with pugs and easily stomp them due to us doing it in their sleep, but when they are awake we get demolished, here are some good points on why EoTM is better than normal WvWvW
Pros:
Geography is graphically pleasing and the variety of the desert, ice, and jungle territories make each territory distinct for both new and veteran players.
The land allows for play on multiple levels which makes the map seem bigger and allows for more variety of fights.
Veteran and Champion NPCs are unique from territory to territory and have unique abilities.
No dolyaks. Generators allow players to not have to escort yaks for supply.
Less goldsinks than borderlands or EB – no upgrading towers or keeps with gold.
Shorter matches means that bad matches are not as big of a deal.
More rewards throughout the match to reward players. (Additional chest for taking camps/towers).
Dynamic events that impact the map make the match more varied- the wurm tunnel, mechanical scorpians, and observatory are all huge elements not seen in wvw before. It would be nice if we didn’t have collection quests however, as they are not as fun as other pve dynamic events.
Cons
Siegerazer costs gold. I don’t know why.
Rewards for defeating NPCs is high, so there is sometimes too much incentive to PvE instead of PvP and entire zergs of players can do a champion farm loop.
No reward for winning the match besides supply (500?) being dropped into your home borderland.
Unclear map. It’s very hard to tell the geography of the 2D map because there are many levels to the map, thus leading people to get lost.
Unbalanced territories. Because of the unique properties of each territory, it is not balanced 100%. Some places are more useful than others; for example the Shrine is useless and Altar is useful.
Boring buffs and debuffs. Overgrowth and Frostreach territories have a buff/debuff which are not fun to play with or against. Playing with -30% movement speed is not fun and playing with ‘free’ regeneration (100hp/s) doesn’t feel fun either. The turrets however, are hilarious.
Overflow hopping is tedious. The map feels like a wvw hotjoin, but it doesn’t have a hotjoin UI to swap maps or even queue for. I would like to queue for a full map my friends are in.
Spawn layout is not straightforward. The bridges are both very easy to camp, and also unusually confusing and far away from the action. I especially dislike running to the overgrowth keep from spawn. The issue of how contested keeps and waypoints operate is still an issue in wvw, so this seems to exacerbate that issue.
No dynamic event circles on the map and no one seems to care about doing the events after one week.
Easy to get stuck in a generator while it is being built/repaired/spawned.
Aetherblades and other NPCs are not fun to fight against when they have high amounts of CC.
Siegerazer is sometimes invulnerable forever.
Champions are extremely powerful and highlight the problem with banner rezzing.

The Pimpin Pig.4283:

I would like to thank Fellbad/Fellblade he is the #1 commander on IoJ and this wouldn’t have been possible without him.

thx it was rly hard. i tried me best

Downskee.2650:

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ya ur right downs i completely agree.
our pvd scrubs r getting out of hand

Grats to you guys = ) <3

When you can’t win fights in the open field you can always take pride in PPT scores made in the early morning hours of a workday against servers with no offhour coverage.

Well done, [Wolf] and IoJ. I’d suggest that you make a post like this when you are able to beat a good group in the open field with even numbers, but we both know that isn’t ever going to happen.

Try to take the main Keeps where they port in now. I mean what else is there to do?

kitten that’s a lopsided match… I don’t think BG ever hit 695 matched up against t2 servers during season 1 leagues, and they were lopsided and boring as hell.

People complain about stale matchups, but I prefer balanced matchups to complete curbstomps.

yeah, as speaking for ehmry here… we are having parties in EOTM. We dont care about the matchup anymore. Hopefully this will make us drop a tier.

That’s what everybody is hoping. It’s not the low population of Ebay that makes fighting you guys so boring but the low level skill everybody on your server has.

When did this happen? Last night around 5 TEST members and I took all Ebay keeps/towers before I went to bed, would be cool if it turned into this!