Guild Wars 2

What the title says…

They like to fight doors and don’t put up much more of a fight than a door when they encounter an enemy.

Pretty much what Spell said, plus they have had more server implosions and comebacks than any other server. It’s pretty unstable, the only consistent thing they have going for them is a SEA crew that kicks in doors while enemy NA players sleep.

If they’re anything like they were a year ago when I transferred off, their SEA displaces them into matchups that their NA and EU cannot effectively compete in, and as a result their daytime coverage is often overwhelmed and eventually demoralized by superior numbers in those time zones.

As a result, though many will move to the server for the prospect of having overnight coverage keeping them in the game, many of us NAers will move away due to the lack of even competition during the time that they enjoy playing. It has always been about holding the fort until the “night crew” logged on.

Though there’s some pretty good karma trains at night, if you’re unemployed and have nothing better to do at 4AM than run around in a computer game popping fireworks, animal tonics and beating on defenseless wooden structures. Obviously less inviting for some now that EotM is a thing.

Can’t speak to the community now, but it was a pretty lax and enjoyable place when I was there from release until the summer of last year. They aren’t as pptryhard as some of youmad.jpg players on their opposition servers would claim.

~ Kovu

They are pretty active around the clock from what I’ve seen. Good amount of players who know enough to go solo. Often pug tags and the guilds are all cool haven’t seen any of the trolling you get from gvg heavy servers.

If you looking t4 they will probably be there soon enough the way they have been winning.

displayname.8315:

If you looking t4 they will probably be there soon enough the way they have been winning.

And they will quickly get stomped because they won’t have several hours in the early morning where they are ticking for 600 points.

DB ranks right up their with SoR and SF for the most boring servers to fight. During NA prime they roll around in 1 blob that flat out runs from groups that they don’t have at least 3-1 odds on. If you come to a tower with 1 person in it with an ac they will move on until they find one undefended, and their roamers don’t exist.

If you are looking at that tier I would like to say you would be better off joining AR or DH but then you’d be stuck in a boring match up with DB…..

What really needs to happen is DH and AR need to quit hitting each other and focus DB so they can get knocked down to T6 with SoR and SF. Let the boring servers work out their karma train rotation and never have to worry about fighting anyone again.

Is it possible to get stomped in T4?

Funny all I’ve seen during NA is massive DH voltrons and pug blobs big enough they probably see a queue during primetime. I see how they earned their FULL status not long ago… AR meh weak showing for the most part.. some say they aren’t showing up much this week, think it’s the first time I’ve fought against them.

DB is in the best position to make a comeback now that their population status marked as medium last time i checked , only cost 500gems to transfer to, with their kick kitten SEA blob the NA guilds that transfer there will surely can expect to be carried…..

Puck.9612:

displayname.8315:

If you looking t4 they will probably be there soon enough the way they have been winning.

And they will quickly get stomped because they won’t have several hours in the early morning where they are ticking for 600 points.

DB ranks right up their with SoR and SF for the most boring servers to fight. During NA prime they roll around in 1 blob that flat out runs from groups that they don’t have at least 3-1 odds on. If you come to a tower with 1 person in it with an ac they will move on until they find one undefended, and their roamers don’t exist.

If you are looking at that tier I would like to say you would be better off joining AR or DH but then you’d be stuck in a boring match up with DB…..

What really needs to happen is DH and AR need to quit hitting each other and focus DB so they can get knocked down to T6 with SoR and SF. Let the boring servers work out their karma train rotation and never have to worry about fighting anyone again.

Agree with you I am from AR and DH was hitting us pretty hard today with their blob but again they are just trying to secure that second spot and they are afraid if they don’t hit us we might catch up and beat them. About db meh if DH and AR chose hit em together on the reset night things might have been different but they were hitting us instead so whatevet. Some guilds also haven’t been raiding lately cuz people are going on holidays stuff so can’t really complain about us losng this match up.

Kovu’s got it pretty much spot on. Dragonbrand lacks NA-TZ raiding guilds and pugmanders that can compete with the 20-mans from other servers. There are definitely pugs and roamers about, but let’s be real- nobody wants to die and people WILL fight from the safety of walls. I honestly can’t blame them since DH and AR never do anything without a group of at least 15.

expandas.7051:

Kovu’s got it pretty much spot on. Dragonbrand lacks NA-TZ raiding guilds and pugmanders that can compete with the 20-mans from other servers. There are definitely pugs and roamers about, but let’s be real- nobody wants to die and people WILL fight from the safety of walls. I honestly can’t blame them since DH and AR never do anything without a group of at least 15.

Aren’t you the guy with the spy account on AR that was caught destroying golems parked at spawn about a month ago?

expandas.7051:

Kovu’s got it pretty much spot on. Dragonbrand lacks NA-TZ raiding guilds and pugmanders that can compete with the 20-mans from other servers. There are definitely pugs and roamers about, but let’s be real- nobody wants to die and people WILL fight from the safety of walls. I honestly can’t blame them since DH and AR never do anything without a group of at least 15.

Think that is about to change very soon.

If a server had really good out of hours coverage but kinda meh coverage in prime time and was rated medium for population then wouldn’t that make it a great one to transfer to in order to build up an NA prime time?

I know the server I’m on (EU) really suffers in our night time and early morning coverage and that’s what’s really demoralising. Seeing everything you fought hard to upgrade and defend get wiped away to a karma train.

Puck.9612:

expandas.7051:

Kovu’s got it pretty much spot on. Dragonbrand lacks NA-TZ raiding guilds and pugmanders that can compete with the 20-mans from other servers. There are definitely pugs and roamers about, but let’s be real- nobody wants to die and people WILL fight from the safety of walls. I honestly can’t blame them since DH and AR never do anything without a group of at least 15.

Aren’t you the guy with the spy account on AR that was caught destroying golems parked at spawn about a month ago?

No, I’m the guy that chases down bad rangers (read: all of them).

apharma.3741:

If a server had really good out of hours coverage but kinda meh coverage in prime time and was rated medium for population then wouldn’t that make it a great one to transfer to in order to build up an NA prime time?

I know the server I’m on (EU) really suffers in our night time and early morning coverage and that’s what’s really demoralising. Seeing everything you fought hard to upgrade and defend get wiped away to a karma train.

Before my guild was bought by DB I was commanding Maguuma’s OCX shift, so I can definitely empathize with your frustration. Dragonbrand’s had a few bandwagon pushes in the past because of the off-hours coverage, but none of them were long-term successful at getting the server to T1. This has understandably made people hesitant to go the server again, even if all the stars seemed to line up.

What is interesting, however, is how the server reorganized itself after the last push that resulted in the exodus of many EU & NA WvW guilds to HoD. Server leadership is communal now instead of being dictated by one individual. The community, which was already very friendly and open, has strengthened because they’ve gone through these rough patches together. So as strange as these comments might sound I’d honestly say Dragonbrand is one of the better transfer options for guilds that are rebuilding.

Pros:
Friendly & open community
Dirt cheap transfer cost
Stable off-hours coverage

Cons:
Very few raiding guilds during EU-NA
Pugs don’t use TeamSpeak
Monkey Shinezz

DB blobs. DH blobs. AR blobs. SF blobs..

there summed it up for every server mentioned in this thread that are around the same tier.

Oh and we fought DB a bunch of times these past weeks and they do have more NA then these people make it out to be

When fighting Dragonbrand I always thought of them as the Zerg in the since that they will just keep attacking at a target till it breaks like swarm host from starcraft 2.

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No, I’m the guy that chases down bad rangers (read: all of them).

Yeah I’ve noticed how your entire map blob will chase a solo roamer from one end of the map to the other.

Puck.9612:

expandas.7051:

Kovu’s got it pretty much spot on. Dragonbrand lacks NA-TZ raiding guilds and pugmanders that can compete with the 20-mans from other servers. There are definitely pugs and roamers about, but let’s be real- nobody wants to die and people WILL fight from the safety of walls. I honestly can’t blame them since DH and AR never do anything without a group of at least 15.

Aren’t you the guy with the spy account on AR that was caught destroying golems parked at spawn about a month ago?

THIS! I remember that and it was pretty kitten dirty. The other thing I remember about DB is they ran like a raging herd when they knew the enemy was in bed. With overwhelming numbers they would still stay within the gates and use AC against a group of 6 enemy at their gate when the odds were 10 to one in their favor.

I did encounter a few good fights from a veteran or two, but they were few and far between. That’s the nicest thing I can say about them after that cheap shot of logging a spy toon and driving our golems off a cliff….If you can’t win fair go pve….

I thought Monkey Shinezz was a pro, not a con!

expandas.7051:

Kovu’s got it pretty much spot on. Dragonbrand lacks NA-TZ raiding guilds and pugmanders that can compete with the 20-mans from other servers. There are definitely pugs and roamers about, but let’s be real- nobody wants to die and people WILL fight from the safety of walls. I honestly can’t blame them since DH and AR never do anything without a group of at least 15.

I cannot tell you how entertaining it is to keep hearing this from DB. Saying that DH only blobs or PvD’s meanwhile DB won’t do anything but camp in towers with a million AC’s unless they outnumber the opposition 3 to 1. DB is Yak’s Bend junior but with more asians.

GFC is probably the only decent guild on DB so I’ll credit you with that but otherwise the entire server is absolute garbage. I’ve fought enough different servers having transferred as much as I have to know that they’re among the worst fighters out there.

Kamara.4187:

Puck.9612:

expandas.7051:

Kovu’s got it pretty much spot on. Dragonbrand lacks NA-TZ raiding guilds and pugmanders that can compete with the 20-mans from other servers. There are definitely pugs and roamers about, but let’s be real- nobody wants to die and people WILL fight from the safety of walls. I honestly can’t blame them since DH and AR never do anything without a group of at least 15.

Aren’t you the guy with the spy account on AR that was caught destroying golems parked at spawn about a month ago?

THIS! I remember that and it was pretty kitten dirty. The other thing I remember about DB is they ran like a raging herd when they knew the enemy was in bed. With overwhelming numbers they would still stay within the gates and use AC against a group of 6 enemy at their gate when the odds were 10 to one in their favor.

I did encounter a few good fights from a veteran or two, but they were few and far between. That’s the nicest thing I can say about them after that cheap shot of logging a spy toon and driving our golems off a cliff….If you can’t win fair go pve….

DB is trash… Every server has a personality of it’s own and DB’s is “hit the enemy when they’re sleeping and stay near gates when they’re not.” The only fights they win are against NPC’s and off hour crews that are half their size. Really beyond tired of their bullcrap AC’s they use to clean siege inside towers all the time too. I swear anything they attack there has to be an AC somewhere so they can eliminate any possible chance defense would have at slowing their karma train.