Guild Wars 2

As we are moments away from reset, here’s a preview things to look out for this week of Jan 11.

— Blackgate — Most anticipated this week is the rise of Blackgate back into Tier 1 since November of last year (was it really that long ago?). BG is ranked 4th overall positioned in Tier 2, and has consistently won Tier 2 for the last 8 weeks always coming in 1st with margin of victory no less than 20k points. Some would even say they’re Tier 1 in disguise. BG has been characterized for perfecting the strategy of “attacking the enemy when they are weak” and often sweep every map with their strong presence of oceanic/europe guilds during off hours in North America, demoralizing their opponents when they log each day. Of course, Tier 1 is stacked with coverage, and you can bet Jade Quarry’s own international guilds would like a word with BG. How they perform next week will be the key measuring stick of power differential between Tier 1 and 2, since Tier 1 has been in a 8-week lock down with Sea of Sorrow, JQ, and …

— Stormbluff Isle — The last remaining of the original Tier 1 since WvW launched, and they will be dearly missed. After the quick lost of Eredon Terrace and later fallout of Henge of Denravi, they fought to hold on and stayed on top. But perhaps age and wear has finally caught up as their paced seemed to have slowed a bit recently leading to their descend down to Tier 2 and trading places with BG. Still, many remember SBI kicking BG in the rear last time around and only see this set back as a vacation in Tier 2. They’re forecasting a BG flop and will be back in Tier 1 before you can finish a glass of dolyak milk. Indeed, the minds of SBI are sharp, beside the basics of zerging, their tactics and strategy are more sophisticated with effective leveraging of other servers on different maps. It appears that SBI seems unlikely to follow the fall of ET or HoD, and a little bit of R&R with new servers might be just enough to ignite the guilds across SBI again. Tier 2 better watch out, you thought you were tough, but daddy’s in town and it’s a whole new ball game out there, just like …

— Kaineng — A name you probably never heard before, and for good reasons. Dead last in the heats, Kain ranked last and stayed last for the next 3 months of WvW. Morale was low, hopes were lost, and pride wounded. Yet, as some feared the end of the world last year, the stars aligned and brought miracle to Kain. A huge influx of guilds came on-board to Kain in the last 2 weeks of December. They teamed up with native guilds to form what is now the NEO alliance, going on to dominating and escaping Tier 8 to with a 500k points win. They have since stepped on the gas pedal and never looked back getting another 500k win saying bye-bye to Tier 7. You have been warned Tier 6, Kain is no funny business, they are riding a rocket, so step up or get out of the way or you’d wish you were at the Searing of Ascalon. While still 100k points differential, we’re going out on a limb and saying Kain will leapfrog Tier 6 and come face to face with that elder brother you always hated Devona’s Rest next week.

Good luck and good hunting.

I think it’s important to note that Kaineng gained WM from SBI so that is the correlation between Kaineng now winning and SBI now losing.

edit: I would love to hear how WM likes Kaineng fulltime. I assumed they would miss SBI and was wondeing if they do or are happy with their move.

D’awe, go go Kain! I started off on Devona’s and miss the devona/kain relationship. good to see both servers doing great lately.

Setch.2398:

I think it’s important to note that Kaineng gained WM from SBI so that is the correlation between Kaineng now winning and SBI now losing.

edit: I would love to hear how WM likes Kaineng fulltime. I assumed they would miss SBI and was wondeing if they do or are happy with their move.

Indeed that does correlate nicely. Was WM a huge guild? And did they all transfer?

Eliesume.1687:

Setch.2398:

I think it’s important to note that Kaineng gained WM from SBI so that is the correlation between Kaineng now winning and SBI now losing.

edit: I would love to hear how WM likes Kaineng fulltime. I assumed they would miss SBI and was wondeing if they do or are happy with their move.

Indeed that does correlate nicely. Was WM a huge guild? And did they all transfer?

I am not sure of their exact numbers but they had more than 10 commanders if that tells you anything. So yea, they were pretty big. They were/ are? 3 guilds depending on the focus. IE PVE / PVP/ WVW (korean mainly) afaik.

Eliesume.1687:

Setch.2398:

I think it’s important to note that Kaineng gained WM from SBI so that is the correlation between Kaineng now winning and SBI now losing.

edit: I would love to hear how WM likes Kaineng fulltime. I assumed they would miss SBI and was wondeing if they do or are happy with their move.

Indeed that does correlate nicely. Was WM a huge guild? And did they all transfer?

As mentioned in another thread, WM is about 100 members, most of them are skillful, very very hardcore WvW players.