Guild Wars 2

ades.1386:

^^ Actually it didnt work out, and we made thing worse in T3.. SBI will not fight at all now, CD is total joke with very poor skills and no competent commanders to PPT, and even mag wont fight unless its small numbers of blobs. A lot of us moving down from t2 to t3 really arent happy with what happened. T3 was supposed to be like the EU GvG scene instead it turned into a mess.

Well maybe it’s short term pain .. growing pains? EU GvG is really cohesive. I think you guys in T3 have a chance of shaking things up at least T2-T3 and having an abundance of different matches weekly — and leaving Tier 1 to its own devices.

Maybe an investment in training, a few days a week of blue tagging it (I know gvg guilds have no interest in this), but perhaps a little bit of help can turn it around?

Influx of new players is always going to have some pain with it as everyone adjusts. It’s hard to change your pov after you’ve been used to things a certain way for so long.

Jayne.9251:

SkyShroud.2865:

i think that if people have to keep saying that t1 is the only viable place for sea and ocx, it just means they are not confident with that “fact”, thus is a propaganda.

Or the SEA/OCX players organize like the GvG guilds did and spread out over three servers in lower tiers (cheaper xfer rate, guaranteed fights, friends/family can join, etc.).

JQ has 2 ocx guilds, BG has 1 or 2, TC has 2. I know if 1 of the JQ guilds left it would place an unreasonable burden on the other that would have a detrimental effect. There aren’t really enough guilds to spread out.

morrolan.9608:

Jayne.9251:

SkyShroud.2865:

i think that if people have to keep saying that t1 is the only viable place for sea and ocx, it just means they are not confident with that “fact”, thus is a propaganda.

Or the SEA/OCX players organize like the GvG guilds did and spread out over three servers in lower tiers (cheaper xfer rate, guaranteed fights, friends/family can join, etc.).

JQ has 2 ocx guilds, BG has 1 or 2, TC has 2. I know if 1 of the JQ guilds left it would place an unreasonable burden on the other that would have a detrimental effect. There aren’t really enough guilds to spread out.

Which is why I was suggesting they all coordinate and go to a lower tier. That way they can add to their numbers without a cap. And have guaranteed fights when they play. I believe there are some lower tier servers with OCX/SEA already. This gives them the chance to grow. Right now they are stuck with what they have now. It becomes a numbers game, not growing your guild. That’s not much fun.

Theres been a lot of talk about T3/CD this is my own personal opinions on this subject, we have a lot of great people trying to help T3 become a great place, Its just taking longer than I hope.

We have some amazing people on CD that want this to go and grow into and I realize it takes team effort 1 person cannot force, maybe the higher skilled players can mentor and build up CD. 1 person doesnt make or break a server. Were working on building up T3 into a stable community, it doesnt happen overnight,

I have offended many people and judged too quickly, perhaps one of the things about this game I needed to slow down and realize not everyone plays at a level I want to bring them too. GW2 is place to bring your own people together to build up a server, not try to force it into something in an instant.

Again I dont speak for T3 as a whole, and I think I should of step backed and realized that, Im sorry to all ive offended, I want to help people but maybe there is other ways of doing that than forcing people.

azyume.6321:

Soridormy.8132:

wow, azyume u have to stop lying first, do u have account on tier2? or r u employee of anet?
I have alt accounts on tier2 n tier3 servers n have played NA time n OCX n Late Seatime, tier2 was almost dead after most of gvg guilds left
I only can find pro ppters in whole time, and even though there r some fights, Fa n SoS blobs get rekt in only 1push(i have seen so many times n have some video about that)
Their fighting skill is below average so farming bags by killing easy guys become so boring
I dont understand why tier2 servers r still full n really wanna know the algorithm for managing server statue
i think Anet(actually staff about server statue) has no brain n keep ruining this game

Yes I have an account on tier 2. Happy? Yes, I know how every time zone looks like. Happy?

Is it dead? No, it is not. So stop with your lies. because now you went from “dead” to “there are people but skill is below average”. Make up your mind about what you are really trying to claim.

LOL One-push→all wiped is happy? u r literally ‘below average’
nowdays, only what i can see on tier2 raid is nasty fight like “veil→push→rekt all(not 2~3guys)”, If u dont believe my story, Follow yb guild group
U can see Fa blob which always get rekt by yb, only 1 pushing

keep enjoying that kind of fight. then ur skill will not improve ^-^

Im telling only truth, Dont spread ur subjective opinion what u wanna believe

And dont console urself ^-^

Jayne.9251:

SkyShroud.2865:

i think that if people have to keep saying that t1 is the only viable place for sea and ocx, it just means they are not confident with that “fact”, thus is a propaganda.

Or the SEA/OCX players organize like the GvG guilds did and spread out over three servers in lower tiers (cheaper xfer rate, guaranteed fights, friends/family can join, etc.).

Not really viable due to the volatility of those tiers. If the matchup gets screwed up, it’ll be a snoozefest for at least 1 server.

Anyone that thinks there’s enough OCX/SEA/EU below T2 to stay competitive is dreaming. There’s not even enough in tier 1 to have good competitive fights. Previous seasons have also shown that even T1’s vastly diminished OCX~EU coverage completely and utterly dominates T2.

There’s like, 4-5 SEA guilds in T1 worth a fight. No OCX guild that focuses on fights. EU guilds raids on T1NA servers are non-existent since they all lead large pug blobs. All this because there’s simply not enough people out there to recruit keep WvW guilds that raid in those time zones healthy, especially people that want to challenge themselves and get better.

There’s only enough of OCX, SEA and EU players on NA for 3, maybe 4 servers if we want to have good matchups.

Everyone keeps saying there are no SEA players, but this is a fallacy. There are many SEA players. One issue is that SEA guilds trend toward being very large. This leads to them congregating on just a few servers. If the SEA guilds spread out a bit they would find that there are many things to do without dominating a TZ completely, and in the process skewing an entire tier.

EU is more sparsely populated, primarily because there are EU servers. Why would they play here with much higher ping than in EU where they don’t have to deal with the ping. Much of the EU playerbase on NA servers are NA players with odd schedules or school schedules, although I’ve played with quite a few fun Europeans.

As far as OCX goes there are plenty here and there for them to get fights, and many do find good fights in tiers other than T1.

Tier 1 created a good part of this problem by gathering guilds left and right in order to stay in T1. Had these guilds thought about what moving en masse to T1 would do it’s quite likely that everything would be quite a lot better for all involved.

SoS ticks like 400 every OCX and FA ticks at like 30. YB is somewhere in between but they just hump siege to defend since they’re severely outnumbered vs TF’s map blob.

Gr8 fights during OCX m8888 /s

Reverence.6915:

There’s only enough of OCX, SEA and EU players on NA for 3, maybe 4 servers if we want to have good matchups.

Well exactly. And they’re currently trapped in full servers with no hope to expand if friends/family join up for HoT.

If they go lower, amd go as a group, they have options at least.

fishball.7204:

SoS ticks like 400 every OCX and FA ticks at like 30. YB is somewhere in between but they just hump siege to defend since they’re severely outnumbered vs TF’s map blob.

Gr8 fights during OCX m8888 /s

I don’t play OCX but that amazing coveragewars2 says otherwise to what you claim.
It shows OCX prime. YB average ticks 277, FA 140, SoS 278. At least you have two servers have close ppt to each other, while the other is probably no-show. This already seems better than all other timezones in T2 where it is all YB.

2015-08-10 13:51:02 57 822 +460
2015-08-10 13:36:02 57 238 +450
2015-08-10 13:21:02 56 680 +400

From Mos, for SOS.

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/37/

They should start to put the smaller servers together, everyone deserves a decent wvw server, roaming for an hour and finding nothing is just sad :’(

I don’t understand why Anet is trying to force people on to servers they don’t want to go on. The negative of being on a full server is massive queue times. This is something that THE PLAYERS SHOULD DICTATE whether or not they want to deal with, NOT ANET.

If a full server is full, you shouldn’t be able to get in. That’s what “full” means.

Anet’s not forcing anyone to do anything. All they did was close the loopholes.

DeWolfe.2174:

I still completely disagree with a lot of the info and suggestions on here. For WvW to be healthy, the players have to be having fun, to be engaged enough, to be a WvW community. Forcing players to separate and force size and scale shows Anet’s lack of caring for communities.

The biggest difference in the Tiers functionally is the scale of combat. People on the top tiers prefer and enjoy the largest scaled combat available. Others like smaller scaled combat like 15vs15vs15. That’s why people are transferring to T3 right now. Trying to force players into a generic “one size fits all” scaling is full of fail. You’ll just end up lessening the experience most players are receiving. Unless you are in that Goldilocks zone of liking the middle.

Totally disagree here. It is for the benefit and health of the game, particularly the WvW part of the game, that this has to be undertaken. I find it interesting that the people who are complaining the loudest, against what A.Net is doing, are players who are on one of the highest population servers where all they want is massive map blobs. I mean JQ doesn’t even like to fight blob vs. blob unless they have a 4 or 5 to 1 advantage, otherwise they run away. I have seen this first hand. The only other way it seems they fight is a coordinated effort against another server. This they have done constantly.

Hammerguard.9834:

I don’t understand why Anet is trying to force people on to servers they don’t want to go on. The negative of being on a full server is massive queue times. This is something that THE PLAYERS SHOULD DICTATE whether or not they want to deal with, NOT ANET.

They are trying to stop all the blobbing/k-training and also trying to lower the map lag. When you have one or two massive blobs on one map, the lag on a map is so bad, you can barely get skills off.

A.Net HAS TO LOOK AT THE HEALTH AND LONGEVITY OF THE GAME. Players do not as they look at what is best for them. That is a huge difference.

An example of players myopic view, is from another game in which I was playing. When the game was released, many players were complaining that one profession was way OP over all the others but that particular profession had several glaring flaws. Immediately, the publisher of the game nerfed that profession into oblivion (this was 3 days after release) instead of letting the players LEARN how to play against this one profession. In hindsight, the publisher should have let well enough alone.

This is not what is happening with GW2. A.Net has let well enough alone and the situation is getting dire for WvW. Something has to be done to prevent more players from leaving. Players want good and balanced fights, not get blobbed to death.

Soridormy.8132:

U can see Fa blob which always get rekt by yb, only 1 pushing

FA has a blob during SEA? That’s FA’s weakest timezone. How can it have a blob? SEA guilds on FA are small, like around 10 ppl each, and don’t always rally and hate tagging up.

Chaba.5410:

Soridormy.8132:

U can see Fa blob which always get rekt by yb, only 1 pushing

FA has a blob during SEA? That’s FA’s weakest timezone. How can it have a blob? SEA guilds on FA are small, like around 10 ppl each, and don’t always rally and hate tagging up.

I did see 20+ YB run away from a single Dx member not too long ago. And a while back 30+ YB ran away from Alphabets solo push.

So I guess anything more than an NPC counts as a blob.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Totally disagree here. It is for the benefit and health of the game, particularly the WvW part of the game, that this has to be undertaken. I find it interesting that the people who are complaining the loudest, against what A.Net is doing, are players who are on one of the highest population servers where all they want is massive map blobs. I mean JQ doesn’t even like to fight blob vs. blob unless they have a 4 or 5 to 1 advantage, otherwise they run away. I have seen this first hand. The only other way it seems they fight is a coordinated effort against another server. This they have done constantly.

Man you are salty about JQ how about you just stick to the issue you are going to derail these topics otherwise.

Reverence.6915:

Jayne.9251:

SkyShroud.2865:

i think that if people have to keep saying that t1 is the only viable place for sea and ocx, it just means they are not confident with that “fact”, thus is a propaganda.

Or the SEA/OCX players organize like the GvG guilds did and spread out over three servers in lower tiers (cheaper xfer rate, guaranteed fights, friends/family can join, etc.).

Not really viable due to the volatility of those tiers. If the matchup gets screwed up, it’ll be a snoozefest for at least 1 server.

Anyone that thinks there’s enough OCX/SEA/EU below T2 to stay competitive is dreaming. There’s not even enough in tier 1 to have good competitive fights. Previous seasons have also shown that even T1’s vastly diminished OCX~EU coverage completely and utterly dominates T2.

There’s like, 4-5 SEA guilds in T1 worth a fight. No OCX guild that focuses on fights. EU guilds raids on T1NA servers are non-existent since they all lead large pug blobs. All this because there’s simply not enough people out there to recruit keep WvW guilds that raid in those time zones healthy, especially people that want to challenge themselves and get better.

There’s only enough of OCX, SEA and EU players on NA for 3, maybe 4 servers if we want to have good matchups.

Hey now, there’s one OCX guild that focuses on fights, it’s just that our choice is to blob your 6 with our 20 or have our 20 get blobbed by KILLs 60.

We’d play more often if we had someone to consistently fight but 9 out of 10 nights it’s either PvD or get blobed. That being said, we’d consider moving out of tier to get good fights but you’re never going to get KILL, SoX or Defy away from those doors.

There used to be all out blackout events when everyone logged off so we could drop server status. But now the best bet is to use an auto-clicker to join T1 because it will be very hard until Anets introduces the new system.

Edit : I would suggest spreading pops to t3

Hyper Cutter.9376:

If a full server is full, you shouldn’t be able to get in. That’s what “full” means.

Anet’s not forcing anyone to do anything. All they did was close the loopholes.

That’s the point – the servers are NOT actually full.

We rarely even have one queue on JQ.

This transfer system was set up to appease the complaints from lower tier servers that are happy to complain about their WvW being empty but not happy to merge or transfer to solve their own issue.

Dusty Moon.4382:

I find it interesting that the people who are complaining the loudest, against what A.Net is doing, are players who are on one of the highest population servers where all they want is massive map blobs.

…. and I find it interesting that the vocal critics of those JQ players do not even play in tier 1 and yet seem expert enough to comment on our situation and also seem quite resentful of tier 1 players enjoying blob fights and plentiful roaming.

You can guess why high population players are complaining: Because we’re the ones with servers classified as Full – so we’re the only servers that are really impacted by this change.

Either way I’m not trying to stack the server. I was complaining because I want 1 friend to join me. ONE. Not a guild or two. A friend that has never played GW2, he wouldn’t even know what server stacking and coverage is. He would be a total rally bot for a year and help the other servers by dying a lot. He’s never even played an MMO.

So I’m not trying to stack the server – if anything, letting my friend on would hurt my server.

Killing off the most enthusiastic WvW players and guilds by messing up tier 1 is NOT a way to make WvW healthier.

Fuzzion.2504:

There used to be all out blackout events when everyone logged off so we could drop server status. But now the best bet is to use an auto-clicker to join T1 because it will be very hard until Anets introduces the new system.

Edit : I would suggest spreading pops to t3

Whatdo you mean, when? The system is inplace already and that’s exactly the point XD It’s the new system that makes full servers nearly permanently full, or at least until enough people leave them.

stof.9341:

Fuzzion.2504:

There used to be all out blackout events when everyone logged off so we could drop server status. But now the best bet is to use an auto-clicker to join T1 because it will be very hard until Anets introduces the new system.

Edit : I would suggest spreading pops to t3

Whatdo you mean, when? The system is inplace already and that’s exactly the point XD It’s the new system that makes full servers nearly permanently full, or at least until enough people leave them.

Hot release will see good tweaks to the system.

Same, have a friend who was inactive for 2 years on a then mid-tier server, now that tier is absolutely dead and boring making him want to quit. He wants to transfer to play with me on the 2nd ranked EU server but can’t. This guy just bought the deluxe edition of HoT to get gems and stuff for transfer, but he can’t even use them and now he’s talking about quitting. Is this how you want it to go ANet? WvW is already partially dead in T1, if you try to force people away from kitten the lower tiers you’re only gonna demoralize and bore the T1 players even more making the largest WvW-fans quit. Please change this policy.

large portion of GW2 players do not complain about the new system, so it must be very acceptable then.

Everyone on T1 one is going to have a friend (real or imagined) that they would like to play with at some point so they really can’t try to bend the rules for any sorts of exceptions. Players just have to learn to adapt and we are usually pretty darned good at that. The only thing I think might still be missing to help speed the process along is a way for players on full servers to earn a free transfer off so those who have moral objections to the idea of paying to move and maybe less skin in the game on their full homeworld can relocate more easily.

I’ve been waiting nearly a year to transfer down since I take the whole world pride a bit more seriously than most but I have known for awhile that T1 is not for me. Friends are what keeps me staying put and when most of them no longer play regularly the worry is what will happen when they come back at some point like most MMO’ers do eventually. I think I’ll be waiting a little while longer to see how T3 settles out but still plan to find a new home before HoT hits because those 3 hours queues when all of us casuals come flocking in at once in T1 are not going to cut it for me.

Fuzzion.2504:

stof.9341:

Fuzzion.2504:

There used to be all out blackout events when everyone logged off so we could drop server status. But now the best bet is to use an auto-clicker to join T1 because it will be very hard until Anets introduces the new system.

Edit : I would suggest spreading pops to t3

Whatdo you mean, when? The system is inplace already and that’s exactly the point XD It’s the new system that makes full servers nearly permanently full, or at least until enough people leave them.

Hot release will see good tweaks to the system.

I don;t see what unless they revamp the whole thing.

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

Hyper Cutter.9376:

If a full server is full, you shouldn’t be able to get in. That’s what “full” means.

Anet’s not forcing anyone to do anything. All they did was close the loopholes.

That’s the point – the servers are NOT actually full.

We rarely even have one queue on JQ.

This transfer system was set up to appease the complaints from lower tier servers that are happy to complain about their WvW being empty but not happy to merge or transfer to solve their own issue.

So your complaint is more valid even though you’re not willing to transfer to solve your issue ?

Think before you post.

Hammerguard.9834:

I don’t understand why Anet is trying to force people on to servers they don’t want to go on. The negative of being on a full server is massive queue times. This is something that THE PLAYERS SHOULD DICTATE whether or not they want to deal with, NOT ANET.

In a way I really agree with this. However, when guilds move to servers with high queues often they don’t really understand what that means. T1 NA is an elephant’s graveyard of guilds that moved without realizing just what waiting in queue really means. Many of these guilds went T1, couldn’t raid together, and died. Many of these players, who spent gems to move, couldn’t be bothered to farm the gold to move again, and consequently quit the game. This is something ANet is trying to slow down. Whether or not locking servers helps no one can know yet, but it is a step ANet felt was wise to take at the time.

What I would advocate is a two week trial period on any transfers. Let them try out the server for two weeks to decide if it’s what they wanted. If not let them return to their home server at the end of the trial without any outlay of gems. If they do decide to stay then the gems are removed from their account. They can then move again to a different server to see if it’s more what they are looking for. ANet still gets their gem sales, and players are happier with their decision.

Kaiser.9873:

What I would advocate is a two week trial period on any transfers. Let them try out the server for two weeks to decide if it’s what they wanted. If not let them return to their home server at the end of the trial without any outlay of gems. If they do decide to stay then the gems are removed from their account. They can then move again to a different server to see if it’s more what they are looking for. ANet still gets their gem sales, and players are happier with their decision.

While I admire the idea, I think it’s fair, I’m afraid it would be abused. If every two weeks you could jump server and try it out for a week, it would lead to all kinds of stupid exploiting and rigging. They have to make it cost something (even minimal) or players here cannot control themselves, lol .. sadly.

Jayne.9251:

Kaiser.9873:

What I would advocate is a two week trial period on any transfers. Let them try out the server for two weeks to decide if it’s what they wanted. If not let them return to their home server at the end of the trial without any outlay of gems. If they do decide to stay then the gems are removed from their account. They can then move again to a different server to see if it’s more what they are looking for. ANet still gets their gem sales, and players are happier with their decision.

While I admire the idea, I think it’s fair, I’m afraid it would be abused. If every two weeks you could jump server and try it out for a week, it would lead to all kinds of stupid exploiting and rigging. They have to make it cost something (even minimal) or players here cannot control themselves, lol .. sadly.

In such a scheme the gems should be paid up front and then refunded if the player wanted to move back.

morrolan.9608:

Jayne.9251:

Kaiser.9873:

What I would advocate is a two week trial period on any transfers. Let them try out the server for two weeks to decide if it’s what they wanted. If not let them return to their home server at the end of the trial without any outlay of gems. If they do decide to stay then the gems are removed from their account. They can then move again to a different server to see if it’s more what they are looking for. ANet still gets their gem sales, and players are happier with their decision.

While I admire the idea, I think it’s fair, I’m afraid it would be abused. If every two weeks you could jump server and try it out for a week, it would lead to all kinds of stupid exploiting and rigging. They have to make it cost something (even minimal) or players here cannot control themselves, lol .. sadly.

In such a scheme the gems should be paid up front and then refunded if the player wanted to move back.

How do you tell the “gee I just wanted to try it for 2 weeks and it wasn’t my cup of tea” from the “OK I went to another server, scouted for my home team, used up supply, announced movement and now I want to go home”?

Sadly there’s no way to differentiate. Sadly people lie. Over video games. Yep.

Tongku.5326:

Chi.2943:

I’m in a similar situation but I’m in T1 trying to transfer to T2 where my guild is current at and I have a friend who just picked up the game who is also trying to meet me in T1 or T2.

To all the people saying you can still get in during off hours. You can’t. The T1/T2 servers are currently perma locked 24/7. If you are on T1/T2, don’t bother getting your friends to start playing the game because they will never be able to roll on your server. Just tell them to skip the expac and go play something else.

LOL

so your guild was part of the YB stacking and you got cut off and now can’t overstack with them ? LOL

LOL just LOL @ this complaint

I honestly thought this whole thread was “we over stacked a server that will never make it to T1, now we are bored owning everything, can we go back to T1 now?”

OP,

What are you trying to suggest? Obviously, there is no reason in particular that there should be an exception made for your friends. I also don’t think threatening to leave the game or spending gems is a reason why they should be able to enter tier 1 when there are other options other than tier 1. It’s certainly within your right, but it’s impossible to cater to everyone and not really an argument that you and your friends as individuals should be getting any special treatment.

I think a better suggestion would be to increase the server cap if there is evidence of such. Perhaps you could offer evidence that the t1 servers do have downtime and that would make more sense to make changes.

ArchonWing.9480:

OP,

What are you trying to suggest? Obviously, there is no reason in particular that there should be an exception made for your friends. I also don’t think threatening to leave the game or spending gems is a reason why they should be able to enter tier 1 when there are other options other than tier 1. It’s certainly within your right, but it’s impossible to cater to everyone and not really an argument that you and your friends as individuals should be getting any special treatment.

I think a better suggestion would be to increase the server cap if there is evidence of such. Perhaps you could offer evidence that the t1 servers do have downtime and that would make more sense to make changes.

Let him leave – the game might be better off w/o them.

I don’t want server caps increased until the algorithm has a chance to really gauge what the true WvW population really is.

Whatever to do these players do in other games when their friends can’t join their full server?

Chaba.5410:

Whatever to do these players do in other games when their friends can’t join their full server?

From past experience, complaint posts on the forums.

EotM has been biggest success in this game so anet should change whole server system. One good idea would be that priory, order of whispers and vigil would fight against each other. For example If you did select vigil in your first character personal story you would fight vigil side.

Dusty Moon.4382:

ArchonWing.9480:

OP,

What are you trying to suggest? Obviously, there is no reason in particular that there should be an exception made for your friends. I also don’t think threatening to leave the game or spending gems is a reason why they should be able to enter tier 1 when there are other options other than tier 1. It’s certainly within your right, but it’s impossible to cater to everyone and not really an argument that you and your friends as individuals should be getting any special treatment.

I think a better suggestion would be to increase the server cap if there is evidence of such. Perhaps you could offer evidence that the t1 servers do have downtime and that would make more sense to make changes.

Let him leave – the game might be better off w/o them.

I don’t want server caps increased until the algorithm has a chance to really gauge what the true WvW population really is.

Well, that’s another thing. If it’s true that whatever they’re using is measuring things over the long term, it’s pretty ridiculous to make such short term observations to rant against it especially when it’s clear they’re doing this in the context of HoT.

That doesn’t mean people can’t be skeptical. On the other hand, threats and entitlement also don’t help either.

Junkpile.7439:

EotM has been biggest success in this game so anet should change whole server system. One good idea would be that priory, order of whispers and vigil would fight against each other. For example If you did select vigil in your first character personal story you would fight vigil side.

Cannot tell if serious. If you are you are so wrong about EotM. If not good play sir.

Chaba.5410:

Whatever to do these players do in other games when their friends can’t join their full server?

Probably leave, I mean one of the attractions of an mmo is playing with friends. If you can’t do it why bother.

Kaiser.9873:

Junkpile.7439:

EotM has been biggest success in this game so anet should change whole server system. One good idea would be that priory, order of whispers and vigil would fight against each other. For example If you did select vigil in your first character personal story you would fight vigil side.

Cannot tell if serious. If you are you are so wrong about EotM. If not good play sir.

All you need do is read ‘Success’ and ‘EotM’ in the same sentence to know he gets all of his ranks from there. EotM is a travesty to the WvW game play.