Guild Wars 2

Forum bug 2016

grifflyman.8102:

FrownyClown.8402:

sbi has the worst pugmanders ive ever seen. Imagine commanding 40 pugs, 20 of which are druids and then solo bombing with self stab and raging for ppl not pushing.

A lot of SBI people have stopped playing lately. Myself included. We’ve consistently been matched up with Mag who have better and more players than us most of the time and SoS who don’t like to fight and prefer to run and play the PPT. It’s never an even fight on these match ups.

That kind of mentality you describe seems to fall into the group “of abysmally bad”. In fact, I would not lump you with that because you have tried to change the situation with great effort. It is not your fault when others refuse to help and you get tired and need a break as a result. Some people think it’s about running the newest shiny build and having MLG noscope reaction times but in reality it’s the mindset is one of someone that can never win.

Instead of tweaking their builds and learning to press the dodge button they’d rather complain about it. I mean you can see zerg fights when people complain about dying to imba “condis” (zerg fights mind you when Anet’s put nonsense like this) and there’s quite a problem. Sure, Mag has stacked NA, but it’s not Mag that put 15 rangers that stand there and shoot, guardians that don’t run SYG, ele that don’t switch attunements, and warriors that don’t run banner or cleanse in our squads. And people that have been here know I’m not exaggerating. It’s probably even worse. There’s a reason I could get away with the “Crystal Desert Import Frontline” joke because it was true when they were linked.

What else? Beg commanders to run, contribute nothing, and then cuss out said commander for trying. Or we have regulars that constantly call pugs trash when they are stubborn and really aren’t better, demanding things be done their way. People love to blame the pugs but in reality I find they’re pretty patient in putting up with the bullkitten veterans do to them. I haven’t counted the times when I see people on our forums talk about saving the server when I see the very same people mock newbies asking newbie questions and other nonsense.

People bash HoD for not coming on our TS, but refuse to go on theirs. Refusing to follow HoD tags because they won’t conform to our wishes or calling them bad when the karma train gets derailed. Linked servers are not some kind of vassal which are to wait on you hand and foot after all. Or yell at them for not defending some PPT crap. Oh btw, SBI is a PPT server. They’re just really bad at it. Breaking out of that delusion will help, trust me. I mean I really love getting yelled at for not defendng a camp with RI on it; gotta love it when people aren’t even good at PPT’ing when they obsess so much over it.

Or what about the talking big? People claim they’re sick of fighting Mag, but then Mag goes to t2 and brings us down JQ, and people leave even faster. It’s clear that Mag is not the problem here.

Now this isn’t everyone of course. There’s plenty of good folk and I stay for this reason plus moving in this current state of the game is silly. But I’m sticking around for the good folk and my guildies. You yourself and many others have tried to combat this kind of thing to keep things together and make stuff happen, and I recognize these efforts. But there’s a reason why we can’t recruit— most serious guilds that come end up dying here, and homegrown ones end up leaving. In the end, it is what it is, and I accept that our server is just going to stay the way it is until they shut us down.