Guild Wars 2

(I understand that this is ridiculous.)

I think it would be great if our server dropped a tier. World vs. World has been pretty frustrating with our current match up, and we basically have no hope of changing tiers if things stay they way they are.

A crazy potential solution? Stop playing World vs. World for a week or so.

Ideally, this would force Sea of Sorrows to move up a tier, or potentially drop us down a tier. Either way, it would be a change of scenery. We’ve been up against the same servers for months, but the situation is only becoming more difficult as we lose guilds.

I know that this post will probably get flamed, but I’m definitely taking some time off of this part of the game for a little while. The amount of fun it provides for me diminishes every day, despite how it used to be my favorite part of the game.

I just really hope there will be something else fun / productive to do besides Fractals and dragon events… nothing is quite as dynamic as World vs. World, but the dynamic aspect of that arena loses its appeal when the end result is always the same server winning each week.

Please don’t allow this post to be a representation of Crystal Desert as a server.

Sin, take a break man. It’ll do you some good!

Keep up the good fight, CDers. Great weekend thus far.

Crystal Desert always put up a good fight. I would hate to see that change…

If everyone quit playing due to being outnumbered in off-peak hours (or all hours) and a bleak scoreboard I’m pretty sure my server would be a ghost town.. just enjoy the arrow cart battles

No CD, don’t you dare do this. EB is edging ever so closer to coming up a tier with each week. I want you guys to remain there so we may battle properly.

If you are tired of losing I would advise you to just transfer to a different server at this point. If SoS moves up then we will get YB who will beat us by the same margin or more given that last time we fought them with a lot more players and still lost by a lot. We have 100 more rating points than Ebay and both their rating and ours remains relatively unchanged over the past month, so even if a significant portion of our players decided to take a break from WvW it still wouldn’t be enough to drop us in tiers. Either way we will be losing for a long time.

Honestly, I’d advise not bothering to look at the score. Yes, we have overwhelming Oceanic coverage compared to you guys. No, that isn’t balanced. But, unless you’re Oceanic yourself, you should be getting some fairly balanced fights to be honest – it’s really just that time of day that causes the score imbalance – we’re frequently behind on ppt during NA.

Coming down though, we experienced (and to an extent, tried) the same thing – DB has some pretty crushing SEA presence that were just too late for our Oceanics to deal with properly, so they’d get a free couple of hours to try and flip everything in numbers of 50 to maybe 10, after how demoralising it was for most of the militia wore in. Rarely we could beat them back with a bloody nose for long enough not to lose everything, but we’d still go down into double figures for ppt whatever we did. Over the couple of weeks we were in the tier, I logged in just in time to preside over losing the Garrison and the rest of our BL more times than I care to remember before then spending the rest of the afternoon playing cat and mouse, waiting for them to call it a night and push back out to retake those towers and keeps which, in the end, people stopped bothering to upgrade because we could never hold them for a full 24 hours.

Yeah, I know it’s painful to fight against those kind of odds every day. If you’re not Oceanic, I’d just advise getting your head down and getting on with it as you have a far more enjoyable and balanced timezone than some of your compatriots. Either way, I don’t advise bombing – we thought that was a good idea for about thirty seconds. Turns out it just kills your militia morale even further and makes it so much more effort to get people interested and involved either when something does change and you do need them back or it’s gone on so long without any change that there’s no point in bombing any more.

If anything, maybe should just bomb for a week as an experiment to see what sort of impact it has on the standings, wait for this multi-box madness on SBI to clear up, and then come back fresh and recharged. We might even have the element of surprise on our side if we surge on a weird day or something.

Whatever tactics we’re currently trying to employ obviously aren’t working since even if we can beat SBI for the weekend and maybe the next day into the week, our coverage diminishes by the middle of the weekly reset and we’re typically back on the bottom again. Even if we’re not on the bottom, we’ll be nowhere near where SoS is.