Guild Wars 2

First, thanks to Riverside and Augury Rock (EU tier 3) for this epic 4-hour battle yesterday from 1 pm to 5 pm for that one single camp on the Augury Rock home map south of the bay (Monday 30.03.). It was random small scale, sometimes 4 vs. 10, sometimes it was the other way round. The camp has been flipped several times. Sometimes siege weapons have been build. Sometimes I logged out before I got stomped because of frustration (Sorry, by the way! But doesn’t a rage quit shows that it was intense to the max?)

I would really like to enjoy more of these open field small scale battles were randoms just join at will and have a cup of fun.

I would like to know if you are also interested? What were your greatest small scale encounters? And what are your ideas to improve WvW in this direction.

I could imagine that it would be helpful if keeps and towers not only get supplies by dolyaks but also by just have that camp under possession. Consequently, the amount of supply a Dolyak delivers would have to be reduced.

cheers
Enkidu [TBoT]

That’s awesome! Sounds like a lot of fun. I wish there were more times that this happened.

My favorite, although it wasn’t as small scale as yours, maybe medium scale – around 15 or so on each side, was a three way battle for Greenbriar. It went on forever. We had trebs and catas on the hillside by SW Camp. Hand to hand going on between the tower and inside when the walls went down. Great fun.

As to how to make more battles like this happen I don’t know. Usually its too uneven to last very long. Or a zerg comes along at some point.

THIS is why I love WvW so much. Those battles can happen at any time. I’m on Ebay, and we have a pretty good match-up with CD & HoD right now- I seem to find a fight like OP describes at least once a day with this match-up! IMHO, there’s just no way anything PvE related (or even PvP for that matter) can compare to the level of excitement a fight like that can offer. Can tier 1 and 2 get battles like this, or is it too zergy for smaller battles?

I had my favourite experience in GW2 so far a couple days ago. I’m on Fort Aspenwood (We’re currently matched with Sea of Sorrows & Yak’s Bend) and we managed to get into a two-and-a-half hour long battle for the Yak’s Bend Borderlands Garrison. We have a couple of chinese guilds on our server that are fantastic at getting into and winning huge zerg v zerg fights. One of them was causing havoc in YBBL by holding Hills and upgrading it. They’d been doing it for a good six hours and even had a waypoint up. Our little group decided that we’d go help them after helping defend our keep in EB from a Yak’s Bend blob, so while the chinese guild was putting up orange swords by one entrance to the YB Garri, our group went around and took down a different gate. After that, we portalbombed inner garri, but YB was ready for us. For the next two hours we caused YBBL to have a queue because it was just a massive brawl on the inside of the garrison. I’m talking 60+ of each server fighting inside that garrison. We tried and failed a good 7-8 different strategies to get kitten in the inner wall, but YB was very good at taking our siege down. Finally, somehow, we managed to get the inner north gate down, slaughtered the remaining Yak’s Bend, and took the keep. It was definitely the most epic battle I’ve ever been a part of.

Because both of our servers were preoccupied with that battle, we ended up letting Sea of Sorrows capture almost all of EB, but it was totally worth it to lose the PPT game for a few hours just to say we won. :P

stickmanmeyhem.4192:

I had my favourite experience in GW2 so far a couple days ago. I’m on Fort Aspenwood (We’re currently matched with Sea of Sorrows & Yak’s Bend) and we managed to get into a two-and-a-half hour long battle for the Yak’s Bend Borderlands Garrison. We have a couple of chinese guilds on our server that are fantastic at getting into and winning huge zerg v zerg fights. One of them was causing havoc in YBBL by holding Hills and upgrading it. They’d been doing it for a good six hours and even had a waypoint up. Our little group decided that we’d go help them after helping defend our keep in EB from a Yak’s Bend blob, so while the chinese guild was putting up orange swords by one entrance to the YB Garri, our group went around and took down a different gate. After that, we portalbombed inner garri, but YB was ready for us. For the next two hours we caused YBBL to have a queue because it was just a massive brawl on the inside of the garrison. I’m talking 60+ of each server fighting inside that garrison. We tried and failed a good 7-8 different strategies to get kitten in the inner wall, but YB was very good at taking our siege down. Finally, somehow, we managed to get the inner north gate down, slaughtered the remaining Yak’s Bend, and took the keep. It was definitely the most epic battle I’ve ever been a part of.

Because both of our servers were preoccupied with that battle, we ended up letting Sea of Sorrows capture almost all of EB, but it was totally worth it to lose the PPT game for a few hours just to say we won. :P

I was there.

The way you finally got inner garrison down was from the 5 trebs built outside of NE tower just within reach to hit the wall. Couldn’t reach them by treb and couldn’t reach by foot because they were protected by a sea of Chinese.

It was fun and very profitable though. Hitting the entire FA Chinese zerg with cows lead to a massive bag haul as they threw themselves at a wall of Yaks. lol It was a sad day when they finally built a bali I couldn’t hit. Then 30 guardians were on me.

atheria.2837:

Bragging about guilds that shouldn’t even be in the US servers is more than just a bit arrogant.

Bragging about beating Yaks after walking in with SoS while we all took pictures? Priceless. …And so dishonorable.

Wasn’t bragging, just telling the story from my perspective! It was the most fun I’ve had in this game to date, and it wouldn’t have been near as fun if YB wasn’t so good at holding inner garri. Also wouldn’t be nearly as fulfilling to finally cap it after 2.5 hours if SoS hadn’t wiped EB during the battle.
Honestly, I’d say the biggest winner of the whole ordeal was SoS. They didn’t have to deal with big resistance in EB at the time. Even YB didn’t really “lose” from that fight. They made off with boatloads of bags, as Dhemize said, and they took back garri not even an hour later. Overall it was just a lot of fun!

Dhemize.8649:

I was there.

The way you finally got inner garrison down was from the 5 trebs built outside of NE tower just within reach to hit the wall. Couldn’t reach them by treb and couldn’t reach by foot because they were protected by a sea of Chinese.

It was fun and very profitable though. Hitting the entire FA Chinese zerg with cows lead to a massive bag haul as they threw themselves at a wall of Yaks. lol It was a sad day when they finally built a bali I couldn’t hit. Then 30 guardians were on me.

It was hella fun! You guys put on a great show, especially considering you could only get supply by running it that entire time. You probably got quite a few bags off me, lol. I was part of the group that kept poking around all possible entrances setting up catas, rams, ballis, etc. I remember just shortly after we got inside we’d almost taken down one of the inner walls with some well placed guild catas, but you guys sacrificed one of your golems and managed to take them all down with one spin attack. There were a few times where we thought we had you guys, but you’d come and clear us out just in time to save your walls/gates. It was so intense!

Sinbold.8723:

THIS is why I love WvW so much. Those battles can happen at any time. I’m on Ebay, and we have a pretty good match-up with CD & HoD right now- I seem to find a fight like OP describes at least once a day with this match-up! IMHO, there’s just no way anything PvE related (or even PvP for that matter) can compare to the level of excitement a fight like that can offer. Can tier 1 and 2 get battles like this, or is it too zergy for smaller battles?

I’m in Ebay also! I think my favorite moment(s) in World was running with Cro in a CoT raid against I believe Mag and DH match-up. We protected Garri agains a 3-1, them high, by building ACs up the kitten We had ACs above lords in Garri Home BL, and just rained down on them. When the group tried to come up top as the rest of CoT fought in lords, everyone on ACs up top turned and focused 4 or 5 Sup ACs at the location of the steps to get to us. Slaughtered almost everyone and pushed them back out. Also, just some great times sieging Bay Worm Gate with trebs and ballis and ACs while fighting even numbers once I first got onto World, because I was so interested in learning EVERYTHING about world. Now, I pugmand once in a while when it’s needed, and am trying to get the RUN guild a better name with Afala. Don’t want to put any of our secrets on an open server, but all I have to say is, Afala has made a very evil plan to make us an assassin guild. >:)