Guild Wars 2

Radiodread.8469:

Im Not Braxton.6283:

Radiodread.8469:

Actium.8765:

Radiodread.8469:

Is the DH guild GoF a pretty big wvw guild? Our 10man group with pugs kept getting stomped by a 40-50 man zerg which seemed to consist of a high density of GoF players. It was a lot of fun! We had lots of back and forth between Klovan and Quent.

Yes GoF is a huge guild. I think they had about..40 or so members in our public mumble doing WvW the other day. That’s just what I seen too, I know there was more. lol

Correct me if I’m wrong, don’t they have a podcast?

I’m in GoF and i have no clue what your talking about. Podcast..? Plus we have very smart leaders who know how to make use of the people they got. Which is why we succeed.

There was some WvW podcast I listened to a few times and for some reason your guild name was ringing a bell with that. Just a fault memory. :P

Who knows what are guild records, with as many people as we have anything goes. But we try and go strong with numbers, but like braxton said our commanders are great and keep us from acting like a zerg and play really strategically. That night when we hit quentin 5-8 times, we were bouncing back and forth between ya’ll(nsp) and Db all night trying to hold our lead. Unbeknownst Db would take the lead that night and remain that way. I’m taking a swing here, but they must have a strong oceanic group playing pvdoor. But all in all, GoF is the place to be after the epic portal bomb tonight, with a loading screen at the other end of the portal showing just how many people went through it. /cheers.

Burstz, GoF Member

Nice even fight all around in DB BL today. RE was defending Keeps against DB and NSP simultaneously a few times lol, was very intense. And DB good stuff, not letting us paint your map blue with holding atleast one supply camp at all times lol.

“RE was defending Keeps against DB and NSP simultaneously a few times lol”

I guess there were no other guilds or Darkhaven players doing the same? Getting tired of you going on about “RE did this” and “RE did that” and “RE is great!” The game may be called Guild Wars. But WvW is not really about guilds fighting other guilds. It is about one server beating 2 other servers each week in case you don’t get it.

Is Darkhaven better off with a large guild like RE on the server than without? Sure…numbers mean a lot in WvW. But where would RE be without all the other guilds? Quit acting like your guild carries the whole darned server.

Guess I find it more annoying since we (by ‘we’ I mean Darkhaven) held off an attempt by NSP to take the DH garrison. Then someone from RE acted like we should be thankful cause they and RE were the reason. Yeah sure…none of the other players building and manning siege, repairing doors, fighting, etc had anything to do with it. Probably was you….have an alt named “Gearhead?” Or something weird like “GE aR hEa D”

Most, if not all, Darkhaven players that make posts here talk about what we as a server did or didn’t do. With you and some other RE players, it is always about what RE did. Get over yourselves already…please!

RedOwl.7496:

“RE was defending Keeps against DB and NSP simultaneously a few times lol”

I guess there were no other guilds or Darkhaven players doing the same? Getting tired of you going on about “RE did this” and “RE did that” and “RE is great!” The game may be called Guild Wars. But WvW is not really about guilds fighting other guilds. It is about one server beating 2 other servers each week in case you don’t get it.

Is Darkhaven better off with a large guild like RE on the server than without? Sure…numbers mean a lot in WvW. But where would RE be without all the other guilds? Quit acting like your guild carries the whole darned server.

Guess I find it more annoying since we (by ‘we’ I mean Darkhaven) held off an attempt by NSP to take the DH garrison. Then someone from RE acted like we should be thankful cause they and RE were the reason. Yeah sure…none of the other players building and manning siege, repairing doors, fighting, etc had anything to do with it. Probably was you….have an alt named “Gearhead?” Or something weird like “GE aR hEa D”

Most, if not all, Darkhaven players that make posts here talk about what we as a server did or didn’t do. With you and some other RE players, it is always about what RE did. Get over yourselves already…please!

You are right, I should be more politically correct next time as well. My thing is in RE we have a core group of people that stay in WvW for 6-8 hours a day. I myself will build a treb by myself if I have to, or keep pushing the enemy away from a certain area with or without help of the server. In my guild, we understand the importance of having supply at any given time, we can differentiate a small harrasing force over an actual zerg that needs to be addressed and dont over react or run around doing random things when more important things need to be done. We’re tired of our Golems being stolen by some random person to kill Moa birds, or seeing random people try to help defend something with their own skills rather than use the siege me and my guildies placed. We can not defend everything we flip, but when we do intend to defend something we place the siege and me personally, I would prefer people not in guild or in vent with us to not place siege. So many people throw around blueprints without building them thinking its going to do any good right in AoE range of the enemy.

Lastnight I was surprised that people out side of guild responded with supply when needed, the server’s PUG population is showing some big improvements though, which is great.

My suggestion to any one that is not in a big WvW guild, to get in one if you really want to help, and please use voice communication program, so you know whats going on.

As a Dragonbrand player, I think that we have a lot of folks that work second shift on our server as we have a very strong morning presence (US time) It’s not “night capping” so much, but it’s still a bit of an odd time of day.

Anyone able to post a score update?

RockonHarder.7235:

Anyone able to post a score update?

According to Millenium it’s:

DB – 143,823
DH – 137,064
NSP – 129,116

I tend to not post on the forums, but…. THIS WEEK HAS BEEN AWESOME!!!! Great fights all around from DB and NSP, it has deffinetly been an action packed week! Maybe we will get matched again next week!!! Got much respect for all of you!

And to DH great work to all the so called “PUGS” i enjoyed watching alot of you work together and take back our side of ebg without the need of any commander. To thebig and small guilds who wvw (youknow who you are) amazing job all of you, lets keep up the good work darkhaven!!!!!

I Will Rez U.1743:

THIS WEEK HAS BEEN AWESOME!!!!

100% agreed. This week is what WvW should be about. All 3 servers are within striking distance of the lead and we have seen multiple lead switches. No one is fighting on this topic and I think all three servers are enjoying the challenge. Lots of fun hopefully it stays this way next week.

Man epic fight this morning on EB. All we had was NSP keep and we held it forever being really outmanned.

We really need more Night/morning guilds for NSP.

brandon.6735:

Man epic fight this morning on EB. All we had was NSP keep and we held it forever being really outmanned.

We really need more Night/morning guilds for NSP.

Ya, you and DH both, if we had that we could keep DB at bay. And with the score so close more then likely we will all see each other.

See ya’ll tonite DH, we need to make that difference up from DB again!

Burstz, GoF Member

Hi there friendlies, just wanted to say wow … I have had such a fun and enjoyable week this go around. All 3 servers … have played solidly. We all have peak coverage areas slowly overlapping, and we all see areas of improvement that we need to fill.

But, the battles, were nothing short of epic. Congrats to everyone in wvw for putting on such a strong showing. I personally have enjoyed this. to the point I am not wanting/caring to do anything else but wvw.

Now if only we could look for a way to increase our server population in non-peak hours =) maybe those golems would have gone down a different path (if they were truly walking, I’m a little surprised it was met with no resistance at all? but I bet you and team had a fun time).

I think night/morning … aka APAC/EUR coverage is a common theme for many NA servers. It’s something that is always on the board, but still trying to find a way to improve. Not many people from other regions would come to a high pop server, with low pop wvw time to face pretty challenging odds every day. Many individuals I believe would rather find a server with high pop during there prime time with successful runs/takeovers and fun in wvw. But it is always in discussion.

Hoping to see you all on the battlefield tonight,

~ Xgammon / Omega [RE], Darkhaven

RedOwl.7496 … =) … good to have a server with adaptable mentalities ^^ this is more the line of communication you are referring to (if i’m not mistaken). I have been also guilty in past and hope you see this as a step in the right direction. IM me if you are interested in partying up tonight for a bit.

Attempting to recruit people for non-peak hours for your server is a mistake. If you succeed, you move up a tier, and then need to massively recruit for more players. If that succeeds, then you move up a tier, and need to massively recruit to get past that. It’s a fool’s errand to try and recruit and get to the next tier, because the cycle never ends unless you’re the new bandwagon server.

You have a solid competitive tier, so you should be happy and just chill.

NSP has taken the evening off so far. to bad they could have closed the gap a bit more.

@ Littlefeather

Well I have to give you a lot of credit for taking criticism so well. Most don’t take it so well including myself. I woke up read your post before I had my second cup of coffee and couldn’t help being over critical I guess. In my defense I am a grumpy old man. But I fully expected to come back here later and get flamed for it. Not often will someone respond to with a “you are right” to a post that criticizes them. That alone earned you my respect.

Nothing wrong with being proud of your guild or its accomplishments. Just rather see more of the post be about pride in the server as a whole or whatever I guess. Give more props to ones that help you and they probably will do the same.

Seems too often a lot of guilds are fighting among themselves on DH. The only players that benefit from that is the ones on the other servers. The game should really be named ‘Server Wars’ or something. Though that sounds like terrible name . But it sure ain’t about guilds fighting each other.

In other news I played during the daytime some today. Guess about 8am EST to 4PM. Lot of new players and guilds I have never seen before. Lot of arguments for awhile in chat…but we went from having almost nothing, after Dragonbrand overran everything, to getting a points lead in late afternoon. Wish I could remember commander name now but around noon to 2 I think it was he did a pretty good job. “Omen” guild leader I think. Was very surprised to see decent size population for awhile on DH. Maybe sign things could improve with better daytime coverage.

Of course he left and soon after it petered out to like 6 at best. We were able to keep points lead for awhile just defending towers and retaking camps. Nice day for DH overall.

Not sure how we are going to stop the Dragonbrand zerg from wiping out everything each night. Be interesting to see what the score is at reset Friday for sure. This matchup is so much better that the last couple it doesn’t matter really. But of course I’d like to see DH win it!

I can take it cuz I dish it out. Today was a good day in EB, we had 535 point lead one time, held SM so far for about 6 hours now I think. Even though we have a que, meaning we have atleast 150 people in EB with us, theres still not a very big sense of cooperation with PUG’s. A lot do rally and put supply where it needs and help build/repair, but there is still a lot that dont. Thats what makes it so frustrating at times. I am not a casual WvW player at all. Things like refreshing siege, having identified and accountable personnel stand ready to use defensive siege, and not just running around doing your own thing when things quiet down. Always having supply on them, at any given time, watch for enemy build sites, having situational awareness at all times. And even something so small as calling things out on the map, “Incoming”. Ok, where? How many? Activity?

Simple things like those really frustrate me. Im active duty US Army, a lot of field training with over 12 years, a lot of things should be common sense IMO.

Atleast 4 of our counter trebs in SM went down, due to lack of them not being refreshed, and about 6 trebs got taken out, due to lack of personnel not using siege to defend them.

Thats about 2.5 Gold and 40+ Minutes spent building them that is just wasted for people not being aware and paying attention.

Am I the only one that dislikes this matchup? Other than Friday, it’s been almost entirely Player vs Door. Each server just takes turns throughout the day storming the entire map. Their population falls off and a couple hours later, another one is steamrolling everything.

Exedore.6320:

Am I the only one that dislikes this matchup? Other than Friday, it’s been almost entirely Player vs Door. Each server just takes turns throughout the day storming the entire map. Their population falls off and a couple hours later, another one is steamrolling everything.

Try to play during NA prime time. It is no way pvdoor at all, alot of 3 way fights, but DH dominates NA prime time hours but not by much.

Littlefeather.8623:

Atleast 4 of our counter trebs in SM went down, due to lack of them not being refreshed, and about 6 trebs got taken out, due to lack of personnel not using siege to defend them.

Thats about 2.5 Gold and 40+ Minutes spent building them that is just wasted for people not being aware and paying attention.

This is the fate of any stonemist treb. Unless you have a dedicated guild running them, pressing and holding 2 for hours on end gets boring as hell after a while (and so does running in a circle around the spokes and refreshing them)

Wow amazing battle at DH Keep in EB tonight. Both NSP and DB knocking on both doors and we managed to hold for 2 hours and eventually push out. Really great defending by everyone there. It seemed like a big mash up of random pugs just trying their hardest.

I wish I was still there but a man needs to sleep.

Exedore.6320:

Am I the only one that dislikes this matchup? Other than Friday, it’s been almost entirely Player vs Door. Each server just takes turns throughout the day storming the entire map. Their population falls off and a couple hours later, another one is steamrolling everything.

You were with us storming the DB Garrison yesterday. That wasn’t PvD at all. That was a really drawn out siege from 3 fronts.

Exedore.6320:

Am I the only one that dislikes this matchup? Other than Friday, it’s been almost entirely Player vs Door. Each server just takes turns throughout the day storming the entire map. Their population falls off and a couple hours later, another one is steamrolling everything.

Honestly i beleive your just getting on at bad times. For me i tend to get on after Dragonbrand Primetime. So i’m defending our captured lands with a outnumbered buff.

Prolonged stalling battles is all i deal with. with the hopes of getting lucky and stealing a win until the next wave hits us.

When I’ve been playing, there has been a fair bit of PvDoor, but that’s often a result of us trying to sneak in before a force can be organized against us, or attacking while DH is attacking DB (I’m on NSP). It’s something that’s happening to the other servers as well. I know twice yesterday we charged back (once at Klovan, once at Anz) through a downed wall or door to try defend our tower in the lord room. We were successful at Anz, but not at Klovan (although we did promptly recapture it). Later we capped Quentin while fighting off another server (don’t remember if it was DH or DB) in the same manner.

There’s been a ton of really good fights when I’ve been on, despite there being a significant amount of PvDoor.

Thanks TFV for not being rude and letting me get my puzzle done. I was the little asura thief.

Score update? Wanna see how much work DB did and how much DH needs to do tonite.

Bursts.1540:

Score update? Wanna see how much work DB did and how much DH needs to do tonite.

DB – 178,632 +225
DH – 173,151 +185
NSP – 154,567 +285

As of 11:27AM server time.

Im impressed with DB, last time we fought the score was no where near what it is right now, must have called in all your buddies and what not

last time DH won by 4 or 5 times the score yall had, now if we win, it will not be by a large margin at all.

DB is pulling ahead a lot due to their large oceanic time forces most of their action takes place whenever the other servers are sleeping.

Skapocalypse.5236:

Wow amazing battle at DH Keep in EB tonight. Both NSP and DB knocking on both doors and we managed to hold for 2 hours and eventually push out. Really great defending by everyone there. It seemed like a big mash up of random pugs just trying their hardest.

I wish I was still there but a man needs to sleep.

I am going a step further on this. First, I’d like to say I fully agree. Oh my was that a hell of a lot of fun. Every time, and I think your Skap from your signature. Great job bud. You did some solid communication. Also to those on EB, during that later period, from SM’s slow retake from DB, you all did a great job calling %, and numbers.

To the elementalist name who sent me the golem food, it was appreciated. Sadly we never really got to use it all too much.

Also, to those who helped supply up the treb’s in SM, it is noted and very appreciated.
there was many positive takeaways from EB last night. I felt proud, I had some fun, and I think everyone kinda did.

God DB just toss away siege … always, it never stops … even if one goes down from a ballista in sight, laying another right next to it? Never going to understand that but it provided some good humour moments in constant times of battle. One of our guildies was thouroughly enjoying it, and I’m certain many of you did as well

Also, on our comm, I overheard some late night attacks and defenses ongoing in our own BL, and wanted to say great job there guys. I only was able to hear it via guildie (while in EB all night), but from what I heard … it was a good stand and you should be proud. Especially the dawn’s erye stand. Sounded like you guys fended off the entire 40 man zerg or so.

Looking forward to seeing you again in game tonight if you are there,

Xgammon / Omega Bomberman [RE]

Oh just to post a little something that you might like.

You know Dragonbrands keep that they’ve held onto all week?

See attached.

Thank you, thank you.
Snatched out of DH’s and DB’s hands

brandon.6735:

Thanks TFV for not being rude and letting me get my puzzle done. I was the little asura thief.

Good guy NSP.

Rob.7624:

Oh just to post a little something that you might like.

You know Dragonbrands keep that they’ve held onto all week?

See attached.

Thank you, thank you.
Snatched out of DH’s and DB’s hands

Coming from DH, no, thank YOU!

For those at work and what not.

This is gonna be a tight race, Good Luck to all, so competitive.

Great Effin Job for all the Non Guildies who stuck with us today in DB BL, and are still rolling strong !

RockonHarder.7235:

Honestly i beleive your just getting on at bad times. For me i tend to get on after Dragonbrand Primetime. So i’m defending our captured lands with a outnumbered buff.

That’s possible. By the time I get home from work, we’ve already taken most of DB or NSP border. Then it sits for a bit, our guys go to bed and there’s a 20man or so late night NSP guild and the big Taiwanese guilds from DB that just outnumber us and take most of that back. Seems like a lot of the action happens in EBG or early evening for eastern time zone.

Also, I wasn’t at the DB garrison siege from Wednesday. I arrived only at the tail end of it.

I think I’d be offended if I were from DH. Seems like one guild keeps taking credit for all their victories.

lani.7431:

I think I’d be offended if I were from DH. Seems like one guild keeps taking credit for all their victories.

Nah, they’re just proud of what they do. There’s nothing wrong with that. My guild is also very proud of what we do, we just let the battle speak for itself. Different styles is all.

lani.7431:

I think I’d be offended if I were from DH. Seems like one guild keeps taking credit for all their victories.

I was just addressing the people who stayed the fight as much as they could who are not in big WvW guilds on DB BL lastnight. The commanders from GoF, and WE and maybe SE even were there but I think they were needed in other maps as well.

Every WvW guild on DH contributes their fair share. I personally like the fact that PUG’s can count on us staying in a map for long periods of time keeping the enemy busy even though were outmanned and them not even trying to attack the Keep we fortify and defend till after we go to sleep ;p

Every guild has their strong points and even weak points, the guild I am in was the first big one I noticed in the BL’s I went in over a period of a week maybe as a WvW noob, so I went with them

Oh and I apologize for the little spawn camping we did in EB the other day Dragon Brand, it was only to keep yall busy, we didnt get any badges in that, it was only to keep yall pressured.

lani.7431:

I think I’d be offended if I were from DH. Seems like one guild keeps taking credit for all their victories.

I think the majority of the guilds on our server couldn’t really give a toot who takes credit.. Guilds or people who try to claim credit or portray them selves to be better than the other guilds are weak and have no idea what holds a server like ours together.

We all work at different times holding those key positions till more people come on and replace them. Said guilds go on break from wvw often as has been seen previously and the other guilds on our server will ALWAYS pick up the slack. keep up the fight Darkhaven!

Hoping for a Score update for those at work.

I love the people complaining about credit.

You know what you’ve done. That’s all that counts. Who cares?

Close game! Score update as of 935am PACIFIC TIME!

seems we held strong over night or came on early this morning with the pressure.

Whoever the thief from Darkhaven that chased me from EH to garrison in the DB border . Then /sit and /wave and finally /bow twas fun. I was trying to WP when you attacked me haha.

Tensala- Dragonbrand.

Kore.9523:

lani.7431:

I think I’d be offended if I were from DH. Seems like one guild keeps taking credit for all their victories.

I think the majority of the guilds on our server couldn’t really give a toot who takes credit.. Guilds or people who try to claim credit or portray them selves to be better than the other guilds are weak and have no idea what holds a server like ours together.

We all work at different times holding those key positions till more people come on and replace them. Said guilds go on break from wvw often as has been seen previously and the other guilds on our server will ALWAYS pick up the slack. keep up the fight Darkhaven!

^^ This. Brilliantly simple … and honestly …. I think I’ve only seen at most, 2 emotional outbursts by a random person at separate nights over losses when outmanned late night to the DB zerg. One in EB, and one in (I want to say DB BL, but honestly can’t remember if it were NSP).

But rather irrelevant, and the consensus seemed to settle it right quick, regardless of guild, tag or anything. The consensus of the server battling spoke about darkhaven as darkhaven versus the enemy. To anyone who is still a little up tight about credit and what not, if you’ve been following the trend since the initial posting from red owl and the in game battles, map chat. I’m certain you’ve seen the change. It’s prevailant everywhere.

In battle, there are times where hearts get excited (especially on good battles, cross duration). Some go our way, some do not … but the most important thing I have been witness to was the growing strength of our solidity. I actually commend red for the perfect timing to help us all sit and think about it. Even if completely unintentional, it alone had triggered multiple positive things for our server.

And with that note, I’d like to commend everyone who has helped turned the tide of this week (regardless of server, there have been some nice moves by everyone). It’s been nothing short of a fun enjoyable experience, and closely bracketed battle. On DH, all our teams may overlap slightly on peaks, but it’s irrelevant when we all dig our heels in and do what we can for our server. I’ve had the opportunity to run with many folks who normally I have not had the time to. Sorry for not retaining all the tags, there have been many of you (could be a couple friends in a guild), could be larger. But random people making a difference – whether nodes, or camps, or helping out at a tower/keep, coupled with some retention of our towers and keeps (great communication), and some pivotal offensive moves (on all borderlands) across the past 48 hours especially.

You all should be proud, this one is close… and regardless of outcome, should feel a sense of accomplishment because it has counted.

I’m also going to extend the thank you to NSP and DB. I personally have enjoyed our battles, whether 1:1 (ya you mr ele & warrior from DB chasing my norn warrior). The necro from DB I saw on the quagan middle isle – great battle), and the nsp crew who clean my clock there right after. Just to speak of a few moments last night in DB BL.

You guys have all given a great battle, and I look forward to more with ya again.

~ Xgammon / Omega Bomberman [RE]

Yeah, this was a nice, tight week between all 3 servers. Good matchup. And, frankly, I’m glad Darkhaven should be moving up instead of us. Everytime we move up into a new tier we just get zerged back down, being outnumbered like 5-1 during the daytime hours(I’m on DB).
Anyway, it’s nice to see such close scores and competitive matchups now and then.

I don’t think anyone is moving anywhere. Get to see the same servers at reset. Another week of epically close battles.

Looking at the current projections, the only movement is NSP and DB swapping spots. A server would probably need a solid blowout (say 75k+ point margin) to break into T4 right now. Next week’s last place team might slip down into T6 though.

Actually if you look at the ET/HOD/SF match up there is a small chance that SF could move up. SF of course having to play against 2 empty WvW servers is making some huge gains this round.

we will just have to wait it out i guess.