Guild Wars 2

Definitely the personalities of the people you play with. Being mistreated by the disaster of a ranking system has been a bonding experience.

We’re fairly certain that after owning tier 4 this week, we will be bumped down to tier 5. That’s OK, because we are having the best times together.

The map queue is crazy long every night now because everyone is rallying. Is it due to injustice or because we just have so much fun? Both, I think.

We crashed in on a tower about to be turned last night, enemy zerg working on lord. Instead of fighting, we tried one of King Bullyfoot’s new strategies…lying down to sleep right there on the bridge to the tower. It must have been very scary because the enemy jumped out of the tower and ran away. Really, this happened. (Devs, please add “zzzZZZzzzZZZ” to this emote).

Thank you to players of SF and DH who are willing to fight. We’ve had some good ones here and there. You guys surprise us sometimes. PVT boring. Battles are awesome.

SBI, I joined you guys while we were getting smashed by Maguma. You make everything fun. You guys make me want to be a better player. Transferring was worth the fortune in gems it cost me.

Having players around you have fun with makes the overwhelming wins & loses seem inconsequential (because they are).

As for our SF and DH opponents. Being outnumbered is a pain, we know all to well. Hang in there, it won’t last. Keep being tenacious like this SF ele a couple nights ago that kept coming to SW camp to charge into two of us standing in there. It just kept getting melted over and over again. He/she did this for over an hour. It was surreal.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Having players around you have fun with makes the overwhelming wins & loses seem inconsequential (because they are).

As for our SF and DH opponents. Being outnumbered is a pain, we know all to well. Hang in there, it won’t last. Keep being tenacious like this SF ele a couple nights ago that kept coming to SW camp to charge into two of us standing in there. It just kept getting melted over and over again. He/she did this for over an hour. It was surreal.

Too true. I’m still finding a lot of fun despite being horribly steamrolled 90% of the time number-wise (I’m on DH). The game mode is but a way to share stories and frustration with ppl you enjoy being with and we find our victories, however small, where we can..

As an aside I used to be exactly like that ele when I began playing WvW. We sure could use more people who aren’t solely motivated by loot bags and karma but by impossible odds they want to beat anyway.

The people make WvW great. On the same blade, they can also make the experience very unpleasurable if they can’t keep themselves composed. Overall I would have to say the good people and community stand strong, and that’s what makes it great. No one cares about the points when you’re having a good ol laugh…

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Having players around you have fun with makes the overwhelming wins & loses seem inconsequential (because they are).

As for our SF and DH opponents. Being outnumbered is a pain, we know all to well. Hang in there, it won’t last. Keep being tenacious like this SF ele a couple nights ago that kept coming to SW camp to charge into two of us standing in there. It just kept getting melted over and over again. He/she did this for over an hour. It was surreal.

Too true. I’m still finding a lot of fun despite being horribly steamrolled 90% of the time number-wise (I’m on DH). The game mode is but a way to share stories and frustration with ppl you enjoy being with and we find our victories, however small, where we can..

As an aside I used to be exactly like that ele when I began playing WvW. We sure could use more people who aren’t solely motivated by loot bags and karma but by impossible odds they want to beat anyway.

I like the little nerds who link how many lootbags they got. Reminds me of those guys that put those fart cans on the back of their 1994 honda civic and 2000 dollar rims on a 200 dollar car lol

Innocent deer with BEEG UGLEE TEEF?

Oh wait, community. Spot on.

I have say community above all.

Today reminded me what makes wvw special. I hung out with OMEN guild on Dbay for a bit and TS was fun as hell. Even though SBI had much more than us and kept slamming us around, we still had fun and kept thinks positive.

Overall, I’m not sure where this next server linking is going to take us but I am sure that the people here are still putting up a fight and keeping it real

What makes WvW awesome?

Don’t ask me. I’m stuck in the tier 4 slum.

RodOfDeath.5247:

I have say community above all.

Today reminded me what makes wvw special. I hung out with OMEN guild on Dbay for a bit and TS was fun as hell. Even though SBI had much more than us and kept slamming us around, we still had fun and kept thinks positive.

Overall, I’m not sure where this next server linking is going to take us but I am sure that the people here are still putting up a fight and keeping it real

Yes!

xzzx.7408:

What makes WvW awesome?

Don’t ask me. I’m stuck in the tier 4 slum.

You should come see the Imperial palace in tier one some time, we have got the latest in lag and one button for everything installed. Guest from three lands tend to drop in very frequently, and the lord is often entertaining them with his airship shows and snow makers (don’t mention this to him, but they tend to clug up and make ice shavings instead). Miyani is usually busy serving tea and crumpets, sometimes she has time for a private showing of legendaries from the mystic toilet, I mean forge, same thing…

Xenesis.6389:

You should come see the Imperial palace in tier one some time, we have got the latest in lag and one button for everything installed. Guest from three lands tend to drop in very frequently, and the lord is often entertaining them with his airship shows and snow makers (don’t mention this to him, but they tend to clug up and make ice shavings instead). Miyani is usually busy serving tea and crumpets, sometimes she has time for a private showing of legendaries from the mystic toilet, I mean forge, same thing…

On our way. We (SBI) just bounced back up to Tier 3 for reasons unknown.
Tell Miyani to keep the tea warm.

The game isn’t awesome and the people are rubbish. Particularly Twigz, he’s the definition of leaf litter

My guildmates make WvW awesome, I have lost all faith in Anet so without my guild and some of the enemies this game would be no fun anymore.

Nuzt.7894:

My guildmates make WvW awesome, I have lost all faith in Anet so without my guild and some of the enemies this game would be no fun anymore.

This, a thousand times this. Its literally the only thing

If my brother stopped playing,so would i.WvW is so unbalanced now,the only fun left for me is chasing people down and stomping on their faces.

Kimiku.1652:

Being mistreated by the disaster of a ranking system has been a bonding experience.

SBI got an unlucky matchup roll when the dev’s broke CD out of the locked T4 match and you’ve come to the officals with a passive aggressive title to have a cry? I guess maybe WvW is more alive than I thought. This also kinda baffling as your post makes it pretty clear you are a k-trainer or blob guild player, so it anything you shoulda enjoyed the last couple of weeks of having massive numbers on your opponents.

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The map queue is crazy long every night now because everyone is rallying. Is it due to injustice or because we just have so much fun? Both, I think.

Your maps are queued because, like yourself, many like to just k-train and blob down opposition. SBI’s fairweather has like come out in droves to enjoy the easy matchup. This is a sad reality of the player mentality in general. WvW operates much like the hot-join matches in pvp did, where players would swap to the winning side to zerg and outnumber the opponents or if full they could find another matchup to hop on the winning side. No one was there to actually pvp. It’s similar here that SBI, and yourself it would seem, are enjoying the lopsided matchup.

Kimiku.1652:

We crashed in on a tower about to be turned last night, enemy zerg working on lord. Instead of fighting, we tried one of King Bullyfoot’s new strategies…lying down to sleep right there on the bridge to the tower. It must have been very scary because the enemy jumped out of the tower and ran away. Really, this happened. (Devs, please add “zzzZZZzzzZZZ” to this emote).

Ya that’ll happen when you are rolling a map queue in TS on map that is queued with more people trying to get in on that organized blob. Bully runs a full squad+ when he’s rolling. It seems kinda lame to be blobbing that hard and then come to the forums and post that you /sleep to opponents with much much less numbers. Good stuff. I didn’t see any posts in your history where you came here to share and thank Anet for the tough and uphill fights against Mag for example.

Kimiku.1652:

SBI, I joined you guys while we were getting smashed by Maguma. You make everything fun. You guys make me want to be a better player.

A suggestion if you want to get better as a player: join a wvw guild and get off the map pin blob. Try some roaming and/or pvp to improve your individual play rather than run around with 50 others in TS complaining you can’t find a good ‘battle’ to spam skills.

My post is all silver linings. You seem a bit grumpy though…maybe get some rest and try a cup of tea from the Imperial Palace in T1?

Thanks, I’ll ponder your advice your sending k-train car #47 of 60.

I notice you straight skipped the part about self improvement. gg wp.

I’m really glad you’re having fun, OP. Given the state of the game it’s nice people can still enjoy it. But honestly, it was not the best weeks to post this.

Hope you keep enjoying these matchups we have now.

I love organized and semi-organized large scale battles, especially when things go completely sideways and kitten happens and chaos and all kinds of shenanigans ensue and at the end of it its the players and team wide ability to adapt and change on the fly that ends up winning an engagement.

lol, you guys, I joined sbi server when we were being overrun by maguma…still fun because of the people. Being knocked down to t4 after winning our tier was frustrating and made no sense to me [as a former admin of a competitive online fps gaming league and ladder, and as a long time fps competitor,] but everyone did their best to keep it fun. We’re back in t3 and having great times in match up that is closer to our play level. Definitely my preference for game play is to have a challenge, however, it’s the people of SBI who make it awesome no matter what hand we’re dealt.

Tongku.5326:

I love organized and semi-organized large scale battles, especially when things go completely sideways and kitten happens and chaos and all kinds of shenanigans ensue and at the end of it its the players and team wide ability to adapt and change on the fly that ends up winning an engagement.

Life is all about the shenanigans. Everything else is just on the path to death.

Kimiku.1652:

lol, you guys, I joined sbi server when we were being overrun by maguma…still fun because of the people.

And yet not a single post thanking Anet for matching you against Mag to get thumped for weeks? Spends two weeks in T4 matchup and you’re on the forums chest thumping about emote-spamming a havok group with your map queue blob. That logic seems tight. Maybe just post at gw2wvw, they love this kind of ‘bragging about beating up cripples’ over there.

Kimiku.1652:

Being knocked down to t4 after winning our tier was frustrating and made no sense to me [as a former admin of a competitive online fps gaming league and ladder, and as a long time fps competitor,] but everyone did their best to keep it fun.

If you feel that a ladder system would work for 3-way matchups in wvw with a very small pool of servers to match, then I can see how “Being knocked down to t4 after winning our tier was frustrating and made no sense” would be a struggle for you.

Ladder has two big weaknesses:
1. Not necessarily the most skilled person wins or is sitting atop the ladder
2. The implementation and clunkiness of challenging up

Discuss

Kimiku.1652:

We’re back in t3 and having great times in match up that is closer to our play level.

Translate: ‘their map blob and EBG queue is as big as our map blob and EBG queue’

Kimiku.1652:

Definitely my preference for game play is to have a challenge…

But not really enough of a challenge to make good on self-improvement or stepping off of the map pin.

WvW really is just another form of hot-join. There are other ways to play if you are ‘bored with blobbing players down’, but I don’t think that you bored; in fact it seems you quite enjoy it. It’s not really a surprise though Anet has trained you through game play from the first hours of entering the game that GW2 is blob-to-win. From champ trains on starter maps for months and months, to turning a blind eye to match fixing and organized k-training in EotM, to blobbing down a toenail on world bosses in a slideshow, to out right building maps around map queue blobs in the taxi-wars that HoT is – you’ve probably never wandered to far out with a smaller group or on your own. I really suggest you give it a go with pvp, or roaming or join an organized wvw fights-oriented guild – you really may find you enjoy a different style of play. (Hint: if you are tagging along with a guild that is so big it can’t all fit onto the same wvw map, it’s not a fights-oriented wvw guild).

You know, it’s OK to let other people enjoy themselves. As frustrated as you seem to be with whatever your experience has been, it’s not cool of you to attempt in your post to shape me into everything you despise about what you’re going through.

Hopefully you will find your own enjoyment from the game or the people around you and if you can’t, maybe it’s a good time to move on or take a break.

Kimiku.1652:

You know, it’s OK to let other people enjoy themselves. As frustrated as you seem to be with whatever your experience has been, it’s not cool of you to attempt in your post to shape me into everything you despise about what you’re going through.

Hopefully you will find your own enjoyment from the game or the people around you and if you can’t, maybe it’s a good time to move on or take a break.

First adult response I’ve seen on these forums in a long time. Bravo.

Kimiku.1652:

You know, it’s OK to let other people enjoy themselves. As frustrated as you seem to be with whatever your experience has been, it’s not cool of you to attempt in your post to shape me into everything you despise about what you’re going through.

Hopefully you will find your own enjoyment from the game or the people around you and if you can’t, maybe it’s a good time to move on or take a break.

I do enjoy the game. I think its incredibly lame to kitten on the officials about blobbing people down and bm’ing in a gamemode on life support. Didn’t have to shape you into anything; go back and read your posts.

My post is a slice of WvW life.

Our server was just making the best of the situation we were handed, as we did when we were on the other side of the coin. We definitely prefer better matches, but we found a way to enjoy ourselves when facing adversity. Yes, being randomly bumped down is adversity. Being matched with servers that don’t want to have battles is adversity and we faced the other kind of adversity, where we were being totally trampled and we still made it fun. I switched to SBI while SBI was being trampled…I actually went out and bought a gem card and paid for a transfer to a server that was taking a bit of a beating because it is fun to play with these people. – Thank you, again to those on Tier 4 who, during the match up with SBI, gave us some good fights. As I said above, you surprised us sometimes.

Please stop trying to stomp out anything that resembles happiness or fun in your attempt to appear morally superior to all human kind.

Kimiku.1652:

My post is a slice of WvW life.

Our server was just making the best of the situation we were handed, as we did when we were on the other side of the coin. We definitely prefer better matches, but we found a way to enjoy ourselves when facing adversity. Yes, being randomly bumped down is adversity. Being matched with servers that don’t want to have battles is adversity and we faced the other kind of adversity, where we were being totally trampled and we still made it fun. I switched to SBI while SBI was being trampled…I actually went out and bought a gem card and paid for a transfer to a server that was taking a bit of a beating because it is fun to play with these people. – Thank you, again to those on Tier 4 who, during the match up with SBI, gave us some good fights. As I said above, you surprised us sometimes.

Please stop trying to stomp out anything that resembles happiness or fun in your attempt to appear morally superior to all human kind.

That’s refreshing to read someone enjoying our resistance. It’s so hard to keep on fighting when the odds are so ridiculously stacked against you. There was no hope of victory save in each moment played for the fun of trying to beat impossible odds.

Nuzt.7894:

My guildmates make WvW awesome, I have lost all faith in Anet so without my guild and some of the enemies this game would be no fun anymore.

^THIS. also, add my servermates who don’t bandwagon to it. Without them, i would have quitted a loooong time ago.

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

That’s refreshing to read someone enjoying our resistance. It’s so hard to keep on fighting when the odds are so ridiculously stacked against you. There was no hope of victory save in each moment played for the fun of trying to beat impossible odds.

Those times are good when you have friends around who make it fun. Hopefully you will also have lots of times when you guys are well matched.

Being owned by PvP specced thieves while running away. That’s the best! Who doesn’t love that?

TBH, WvW has an Arenanet tag on it, but I believe it’s a side-project of the freelancers who worked there during the development of the original game.