Guild Wars 2

What happens when you have to endure (yet another) a week of being facerolled by a server who can outman you on your own border by running around in a 40+ blob? And do nothing else but blob? It magically mutates WvW commanders into PvE commanders! Getting players to flock to world events has never been easier. Might stacking, waterfields, the dragons have never been slain so fast. The poor things… Even the temples in Orr have never seen so many visitors!

But to be honest, this new system has been rather bad for FSP (EU). Last week we faced Gandara with their mighty zergs. Only in the end of the week did we have some fun when they started playing in smaller groups. Then we finally got what we play WvW for, tense and small scale (<20) fights between groups where the tactics, not the numbers, determined who won. Thanks Yak and XxX, we had allot of fun fighting you.

This week we and Gandara were matched up against Abaddon’s Mouth, we faced them before some months ago and we know they have numbers. But this is just a gamekiller, having to fight 40, 50+ blobs non stop. Fighting all day just to retake your own border only to lose it again in 15 minutes when the almighty AM blob appears again. Let’s hope the next matchup will be kinder to FSP, we have lost allot of WvW guilds and players in the last weeks because of the matchmaking.

Well, you can’t blame people for playing the game they bought. There will always be servers with higher WvW population (especially with the new matchup system).
You got my attention with the thread title, but as you said yourself: It’s the effect of the new matchup system. Blobbing exists on every server, determined by the WvW population. Check the other (even higher rated) matchups. There’s always that one underdog that suffers from the higher populated servers. Even the infamous Blobbadon faced servers with bigger Blobs (can you imagine that?) and higher coverage.

It’s a shame if you really lost a lot of your WvW guilds because of that – hope you guys get the matchup you wish for next week.

Cheers from AM!

Lol. Our guilds had fun wiping out these “almighty” blobs , in the end they came last.

Not that strange, you are a T2 server, we are T5/6.

a guild that quits www “because we are going to lose” can continue its nice CoF1 farm when we win (and we will win again as soon as we get a kind roll).

yesterday evening we gave a tough lesson to AM, a pity the around 1.00am the 40+blob reappeared to take our border in full PVD mode.

Gandara here. I admit it wasnt much fun last week when we had the upper hand, was just a WxP grind and PvD. It was also obvious given the new system hat this week we would be the ones to be facerolled. And so AM is indeed winning completely in points overall, but we are wiping their blobs regularly, and even managed to hold our towers and SM for hours against both servers at the same time today (we are on 3rd place atm). This was some of the best fun ever. Turning blobs into lootbags. Even though were last.

I do feel as I felt since the start, that we are playing this game wrong, Gandara should unite with FSP and strike AM together, two lowest servers should bring the stronger server down to their level. Still after all the months, it doesnt happen. Because the devs still havent implemented a in-game server diplomacy system like the one I suggested many months ago. Now all I see is farming Anza most of the time in EB (that belongs to FSP) and the keeps of AM are not touched at all. Why? Sure it’s easier, but the real reason is, that there are no mechanisms in place to create a cross-server alliance inside the game.

What use is a out of the game alliance, if you cant get both server zergs together to attack the overwhelming top server blob? Most players attack all that is red ally or not. You need systems in place, voting for alliance, friendly fire off for allies, different color (like yellow) for allied server forces, a cross server alliance chat for commanders etc. Otherwise you will always and forever see XXX-XX-XX scores after 24h no matter how you adjust it.

To the devs: by design you wanted for the two lower servers to attack the stronger server, so why haven’t you given us the tools to form alliances?

In our defence the week we ‘smashed’ you was purely cos Arborstone wasn’t there; having 2 thirds of the points makes your score rise exponentially, and it had the complete opposite effect of what you’ve stated here, namely every PvEr known to wvW to pick up easy PoI’s and vistas, hence why you guys were overpowered.

When only 2 servers are against each other minuscule differences are infinitely more important, and extra few players at night could potentially change the matchup.

I agree with Tetro, FSP havn’t met Riverside yet (think AM on steroids with bigger blobs and 50 superior arrowcarts in every keep) BB are awesome fun to play but 4 of their major WvW guilds could run 50 strong – that’s not a blob, that’s a guild op in higher tiers.

Yeah Gandara was hugely blobby last match up becasue of the points, we had the opposite of you, every PvEr on Gandara came to WvW The WvW players could not get in for hour long queues. We are sorry for this, but I know you suffer the same as all heavy PvE servers do, winning brings all the PvErs in – and with no third server it made things worse last week.

Trust me, you will know when Gandara chooses to blob properly and when it is just accidental becasue of so many PvE puggies. Last time we blobbed on purpose for serious play and points and winning at all costs we had 50+ pieces of siege in every keep + 100 man blob containing all the best guilds – in every BL – 24 hours a day – we won tier 3. Blobbing is a valid strategy if you want to win at all costs, Gandara learnt the hard way that winning is not worth ruining the fun, you get nothing for it cept tired people bored of skill lag. Sure sometimes running with a blob is fun for an hour once or twice a week after guild ops, but not for 24/7 all day every day, it gets boring.

But since playing MS and their great guilds (and of course Kodash are amazing, the beasts of WvW but it’s been a while since we met them) it gives me hope that some German servers prefer the fighting style. AM are starting to come out and play with smaller MUCH harder hitting groups more and more each night. They have some great guilds in there so I have hope they will be fun soon.

Remember FSP 1 month ago? 1 blob to rule them all, your blob was bigger than RS, we seriously spat out our coffee when we saw the size of it. But look at you now, an amazing fun challenging server to play with great guild groups and supportive puggie blobs to keep everyone happy.

FSP will suffer with a 6 man nightshift, (Gandara has about 20 people) but I can tell you Piken has like a 5 man night shift in tier 3 and look at them.

Keep the faith FSP, the random match ups will bring you something nice soon I am sure /salute

Piken? You mean Ruskie-land? their night cap is made up for by the horde of Russians during the day and in the early morning before primetime.

Still the message is good