Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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Posted by: Liquid.9672

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I say this completely selfishly, but I kind of hope SBI comes in third — only to keep them with us for at least another week. The matchups this week have reinvigorated us all — SoR, TC and SBI. It’s been a ton of fun.

Even if SBI wins the match (or even future matches) you’ll probably have them for at least a few more weeks. This week, BG will likely gain rating even if they take third, and SBI will lose rating even they win. You can thank the rating system, but I think you’re safe from those nasty BG guys for a good 3 or 4 weeks. Oh wait, I’m one of those nasty BG guys!

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Posted by: Xirin.8593

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The issue BG is facing is that in T1 servers are obsessed with points and rank.

Good luck to all!

I just wanted to say that this post was awesome. Incredibly accurate and well written. And since it was written by an SBI player, I hope people will give it credence.

Anyway, good luck SBI/SOR/TC in your match-up. Sounds like you all are having a blast with the more balanced T2.

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

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I say this completely selfishly, but I kind of hope SBI comes in third — only to keep them with us for at least another week. The matchups this week have reinvigorated us all — SoR, TC and SBI. It’s been a ton of fun.

Even if SBI wins the match (or even future matches) you’ll probably have them for at least a few more weeks. This week, BG will likely gain rating even if they take third, and SBI will lose rating even they win. You can thank the rating system, but I think you’re safe from those nasty BG guys for a good 3 or 4 weeks. Oh wait, I’m one of those nasty BG guys!

Aw I didn’t mean it that way. It was just that getting nightcapped every night was getting a little tiring. If all things were equal, I’d love to see you guys back in this tier, but as it stands now, it’s pretty lopsided and makes for some not fun WvW for everyone involved, even you guys.

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Posted by: Kman.7358

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I say this completely selfishly, but I kind of hope SBI comes in third — only to keep them with us for at least another week. The matchups this week have reinvigorated us all — SoR, TC and SBI. It’s been a ton of fun.

If they come in third too much (Hell, maybe even if they come second) it’ll put them within striking distance of being replaced by CD. So TC and CD may be in for a reunion. Really depends how we do, and how all of you do. Anyways, looks like T2 has some interesting fights.

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Posted by: Elthurien.8356

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This is the best match we’ve had in months, I’m looking forward to knocking off work today so I can get amongst it again. Here’s hoping we have a few weeks together.

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

Jayne.9251

The issue BG is facing is that in T1 servers are obsessed with points and rank.

Good luck to all!

I just wanted to say that this post was awesome. Incredibly accurate and well written. And since it was written by an SBI player, I hope people will give it credence.

Anyway, good luck SBI/SOR/TC in your match-up. Sounds like you all are having a blast with the more balanced T2.

lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

It’s ok, in the end you guys got what you wanted and moved up a tier, there’s no hard feelings because it’s what you needed to do to get there. But life has a way of showing you different viewpoints, given enough time, and what you’re experiencing in T1 right now is what we saw when we entered Tier 2.

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Posted by: Liquid.9672

Liquid.9672

I say this completely selfishly, but I kind of hope SBI comes in third — only to keep them with us for at least another week. The matchups this week have reinvigorated us all — SoR, TC and SBI. It’s been a ton of fun.

Even if SBI wins the match (or even future matches) you’ll probably have them for at least a few more weeks. This week, BG will likely gain rating even if they take third, and SBI will lose rating even they win. You can thank the rating system, but I think you’re safe from those nasty BG guys for a good 3 or 4 weeks. Oh wait, I’m one of those nasty BG guys!

Aw I didn’t mean it that way. It was just that getting nightcapped every night was getting a little tiring. If all things were equal, I’d love to see you guys back in this tier, but as it stands now, it’s pretty lopsided and makes for some not fun WvW for everyone involved, even you guys.

I didn’t take your post negatively at all Jayne, and I completely understand.

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Posted by: Doomdesire.9365

Doomdesire.9365

An affront to Thieves has been detected.

Sir, a little known fact even among Thieves is that the follow-up skill to Infiltrator’s Strike – Shadow Return – is an almost unlimited range teleport. This may look like a hack to those who don’t know about it.

Some Thieves have reported teleporting so far that they had to go through the WvW loading screen. Infiltrator’s Strike is no. 2 main-hand sword, so sword Thieves can do this pretty often.

Actually the range is 10000, it’s an extremely funny skill to use, and yes, it does give you loading screens when you go too far =D

Also, a weird glitch, sometimes if you place it behind an object that would normally block shadowstep, and you go far enough, you will go through it, I’m guessing because it hasn’t rendered any object while it’s loading. I don’t think it works with towers, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

So if we can load Trebuchets with Thieves and fire them, those Thieves can later Shadow Return back to the Trebuchet?

EDIT: Illustrating 10000 range.

Well how it works is that you place down a trap, and in order to shadowstep back, someone must activate that trap, and in actuality, you shadowstep to the person who activated the trap, not the trap itself. In addition, once activated, you only have a few seconds to shadowstep back, otherwise you lose the option too and must restart, but yeah, it is possible, however it’s entirely luck that it would happen. The more likely scenario is using it as an ambush, which I do use sometimes. Place it on a commonly used road and wait behind a bush far away and go for the ambush :P

In actual WvW gameplay, that’s the only real use I found the trap for. I can’t find another use for it, due to the few seconds you get upon someone activating the trap, and the unlikely hood that someone would even activate it.

If anet removed that timer, the trap would be a great skill. We could activate it and stalk someone without being there. If thieves ever get extreme nerfs, I hope traps are given some love, because I really want to see the timer removed and the true potential of this trap revealed.

If they did this they they’d need to put a range of 900-1200 on the ability to warp to it, just like every other ability in the game has a max effective range. Interesting idea for the skill though, sounds like it could be tweaked a bit like most other classes have tweaks to make them a bit more effective.

If the range was only 900/1200, we would be back to square 1 imo, because thieves would just use shadowstep with 1200 range, with acts as a stunbreaker X2 and a traveling tool.

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Posted by: GekoHayate.2451

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lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

It’s ok, in the end you guys got what you wanted and moved up a tier, there’s no hard feelings because it’s what you needed to do to get there. But life has a way of showing you different viewpoints, given enough time, and what you’re experiencing in T1 right now is what we saw when we entered Tier 2.

Yes but BG and SOR didn’t stand side by side building siege to take red towers >.^

And if it helps I almost always was in BG BL so my group focused heavily on SOR >.^

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Posted by: Xirin.8593

Xirin.8593

The issue BG is facing is that in T1 servers are obsessed with points and rank.

Good luck to all!

I just wanted to say that this post was awesome. Incredibly accurate and well written. And since it was written by an SBI player, I hope people will give it credence.

Anyway, good luck SBI/SOR/TC in your match-up. Sounds like you all are having a blast with the more balanced T2.

lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

I didn’t come to this thread to argue, so I will just say I disagree with your comparison of the two situations (especially since you were/are not experiencing the T1 match-up firsthand). It is your right to hold the opinion that you do, so I will leave it at that.

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

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lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

It’s ok, in the end you guys got what you wanted and moved up a tier, there’s no hard feelings because it’s what you needed to do to get there. But life has a way of showing you different viewpoints, given enough time, and what you’re experiencing in T1 right now is what we saw when we entered Tier 2.

Yes but BG and SOR didn’t stand side by side building siege to take red towers >.^

And if it helps I almost always was in BG BL so my group focused heavily on SOR >.^

Oh man. That’s both horrifying and hilarious.

Godspeed m’love.

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Posted by: Elthurien.8356

Elthurien.8356

The issue BG is facing is that in T1 servers are obsessed with points and rank.

Good luck to all!

I just wanted to say that this post was awesome. Incredibly accurate and well written. And since it was written by an SBI player, I hope people will give it credence.

Anyway, good luck SBI/SOR/TC in your match-up. Sounds like you all are having a blast with the more balanced T2.

lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

It’s ok, in the end you guys got what you wanted and moved up a tier, there’s no hard feelings because it’s what you needed to do to get there. But life has a way of showing you different viewpoints, given enough time, and what you’re experiencing in T1 right now is what we saw when we entered Tier 2.

There is a big difference between two dominating servers coordinating against the weaker ( What was described in an earlier post on SoS/JQ/SBI) compared to three servers fighting off each other and trying to capitalise on opportunities (BG/SoR/TC).

BG and SoR never ever cooperated to beat down TC. We were always fighting on two fronts. If the map looked like we were dominating TC borderland while BG borderland remained green it was only because BG were better defenders, they truly were a challenge on their BL and SoR also retreated to our BL each night and defended it to the last.

In reality, when it looked like you were getting teamed up on it was generally in retaliation from TC attempting to get a foothold and getting repelled. I can’t count how many times we started to push BGs corner in EB only to find TC trying to capitalise and invade Umber/Durios/Bravost. We would then return the favour by pushing you back and having those fun Pangloss battles.

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

Jayne.9251

The issue BG is facing is that in T1 servers are obsessed with points and rank.

Good luck to all!

I just wanted to say that this post was awesome. Incredibly accurate and well written. And since it was written by an SBI player, I hope people will give it credence.

Anyway, good luck SBI/SOR/TC in your match-up. Sounds like you all are having a blast with the more balanced T2.

lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

It’s ok, in the end you guys got what you wanted and moved up a tier, there’s no hard feelings because it’s what you needed to do to get there. But life has a way of showing you different viewpoints, given enough time, and what you’re experiencing in T1 right now is what we saw when we entered Tier 2.

There is a big difference between two dominating servers coordinating against the weaker ( What was described in an earlier post on SoS/JQ/SBI) compared to three servers fighting off each other and trying to capitalise on opportunities (BG/SoR/TC).

BG and SoR never ever cooperated to beat down TC. We were always fighting on two fronts. If the map looked like we were dominating TC borderland while BG borderland remained green it was only because BG were better defenders, they truly were a challenge on their BL and SoR also retreated to our BL each night and defended it to the last.

In reality, when it looked like you were getting teamed up on it was generally in retaliation from TC attempting to get a foothold and getting repelled. I can’t count how many times we started to push BGs corner in EB only to find TC trying to capitalise and invade Umber/Durios/Bravost. We would then return the favour by pushing you back and having those fun Pangloss battles.

That would be all fair and well … And completely logical if we didn’t see aberrations on our own BL …. Like SoR players escorting and defending BG yaks into newly claimed keeps …. Or witnessing three BG players WITH two SoR players go cap a supply camp and turn it green, all over the map. There were numerous events like this on our BL …. It was typically credited to SoR wanting BG to move up a tier … And none of us were ever angry about it, most times it just made us chuckle or scratch our heads.

I understand there’s some sensitivity right now given current challenges, but what happened to us on TC only helped us to learn and grow and get better. Perhaps this will happen for BG too.

L’enfer, c’est les autres

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Posted by: Lanthrudar.1437

Lanthrudar.1437

Not sure how this person was in the wall but…

They were actually deeper inside the wall/under the ramp initially, to the point you could only see part of their name. Luckily AOE’s still work for that sort of thing.

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Posted by: Jeknar.6184

Jeknar.6184

The issue BG is facing is that in T1 servers are obsessed with points and rank.

Good luck to all!

I just wanted to say that this post was awesome. Incredibly accurate and well written. And since it was written by an SBI player, I hope people will give it credence.

Anyway, good luck SBI/SOR/TC in your match-up. Sounds like you all are having a blast with the more balanced T2.

lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

It’s ok, in the end you guys got what you wanted and moved up a tier, there’s no hard feelings because it’s what you needed to do to get there. But life has a way of showing you different viewpoints, given enough time, and what you’re experiencing in T1 right now is what we saw when we entered Tier 2.

SoR and BG fighting side by side? PREPOSTEROUS!

SoR and BG hate for each other would never allow such thing to happen… I’ve already seen people rather kick SoR out of TC BL (by taking bluebriar) than trying to actually assault the northern part.
And since i’ve been almost all time at SoR BL, i can tell you, if it was all blue, it wasn’t because BG wasn’t there. It was because they were defending it, and hell they do it good.
Of course both BG and SoR problably attacked TC… BG was hungry for points to go back to T1, and SoR wanted points to try keep BG at T2 (by narrowing the gap). But an actual fight side by side would probaly end in both servers killing each other in front of TC base…

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Posted by: GekoHayate.2451

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Jayne that has me scratching my head as well lol.

I guess BG BL was more cutthroat. 3 wolves fighting each other for scraps.

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Posted by: Lanthrudar.1437

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An affront to Thieves has been detected.

Sir, a little known fact even among Thieves is that the follow-up skill to Infiltrator’s Strike – Shadow Return – is an almost unlimited range teleport. This may look like a hack to those who don’t know about it.

Some Thieves have reported teleporting so far that they had to go through the WvW loading screen. Infiltrator’s Strike is no. 2 main-hand sword, so sword Thieves can do this pretty often.

Actually the range is 10000, it’s an extremely funny skill to use, and yes, it does give you loading screens when you go too far =D

Also, a weird glitch, sometimes if you place it behind an object that would normally block shadowstep, and you go far enough, you will go through it, I’m guessing because it hasn’t rendered any object while it’s loading. I don’t think it works with towers, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

So if we can load Trebuchets with Thieves and fire them, those Thieves can later Shadow Return back to the Trebuchet?

EDIT: Illustrating 10000 range.

Well how it works is that you place down a trap, and in order to shadowstep back, someone must activate that trap, and in actuality, you shadowstep to the person who activated the trap, not the trap itself. In addition, once activated, you only have a few seconds to shadowstep back, otherwise you lose the option too and must restart, but yeah, it is possible, however it’s entirely luck that it would happen. The more likely scenario is using it as an ambush, which I do use sometimes. Place it on a commonly used road and wait behind a bush far away and go for the ambush :P

In actual WvW gameplay, that’s the only real use I found the trap for. I can’t find another use for it, due to the few seconds you get upon someone activating the trap, and the unlikely hood that someone would even activate it.

If anet removed that timer, the trap would be a great skill. We could activate it and stalk someone without being there. If thieves ever get extreme nerfs, I hope traps are given some love, because I really want to see the timer removed and the true potential of this trap revealed.

If they did this they they’d need to put a range of 900-1200 on the ability to warp to it, just like every other ability in the game has a max effective range. Interesting idea for the skill though, sounds like it could be tweaked a bit like most other classes have tweaks to make them a bit more effective.

If the range was only 900/1200, we would be back to square 1 imo, because thieves would just use shadowstep with 1200 range, with acts as a stunbreaker X2 and a traveling tool.

Does it have a timer? If not, put timer’s on all their abilities so they can’t be spammed and people will have to learn to use more than one thing. Shadowstep, being able to leap as far as most weapons shoot is a bit too long anyway, but all this is a discussion for another thread.

Good luck in the WvW this week no matter your side

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Posted by: Kerithlan.1659

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Enough 2v1 bickering — score update!

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Posted by: Elthurien.8356

Elthurien.8356

The issue BG is facing is that in T1 servers are obsessed with points and rank.

Good luck to all!

I just wanted to say that this post was awesome. Incredibly accurate and well written. And since it was written by an SBI player, I hope people will give it credence.

Anyway, good luck SBI/SOR/TC in your match-up. Sounds like you all are having a blast with the more balanced T2.

lol this was what was done to TC in Tier 2 tho. Or have you forgotten? It’s the mechanics of the game, the third place server will always be targetted and both BG and SoR did this nonstop to TC.

It’s ok, in the end you guys got what you wanted and moved up a tier, there’s no hard feelings because it’s what you needed to do to get there. But life has a way of showing you different viewpoints, given enough time, and what you’re experiencing in T1 right now is what we saw when we entered Tier 2.

There is a big difference between two dominating servers coordinating against the weaker ( What was described in an earlier post on SoS/JQ/SBI) compared to three servers fighting off each other and trying to capitalise on opportunities (BG/SoR/TC).

BG and SoR never ever cooperated to beat down TC. We were always fighting on two fronts. If the map looked like we were dominating TC borderland while BG borderland remained green it was only because BG were better defenders, they truly were a challenge on their BL and SoR also retreated to our BL each night and defended it to the last.

In reality, when it looked like you were getting teamed up on it was generally in retaliation from TC attempting to get a foothold and getting repelled. I can’t count how many times we started to push BGs corner in EB only to find TC trying to capitalise and invade Umber/Durios/Bravost. We would then return the favour by pushing you back and having those fun Pangloss battles.

That would be all fair and well … And completely logical if we didn’t see aberrations on our own BL …. Like SoR players escorting and defending BG yaks into newly claimed keeps …. Or witnessing three BG players WITH two SoR players go cap a supply camp and turn it green, all over the map. There were numerous events like this on our BL …. It was typically credited to SoR wanting BG to move up a tier … And none of us were ever angry about it, most times it just made us chuckle or scratch our heads.

I understand there’s some sensitivity right now given current challenges, but what happened to us on TC only helped us to learn and grow and get better. Perhaps this will happen for BG too.

Oh that’s hardly two servers working together, I must have read too much into your post or you might just make a bigger deal out of a few pugs doing things out of the ordinary. When someone says they were getting teamed up on, one generally thinks that it is large organised activity, not 2-5 pugs doing random pug things.

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Posted by: Liquid.9672

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That would be all fair and well … And completely logical if we didn’t see aberrations on our own BL …. Like SoR players escorting and defending BG yaks into newly claimed keeps …. Or witnessing three BG players WITH two SoR players go cap a supply camp and turn it green, all over the map.

Say whaaaaaat? So some SoR players, were defending a BG Yak from … TC? LOL! I’m not saying it didn’t happen as I wasn’t there, but man, it’s hard to believe. Are you sure you weren’t hitting ye ole bourbon bottle a little too hard that night?

I also have a hard time buying that SoR would intentionally throw a match as most of their guys are packed with server pride, but I guess there could have been a small faction that was quietly trying to make it happen.

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

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That would be all fair and well … And completely logical if we didn’t see aberrations on our own BL …. Like SoR players escorting and defending BG yaks into newly claimed keeps …. Or witnessing three BG players WITH two SoR players go cap a supply camp and turn it green, all over the map.

Say whaaaaaat? So some SoR players, were defending a BG Yak from … TC? LOL! I’m not saying it didn’t happen as I wasn’t there, but man, it’s hard to believe. Are you sure you weren’t hitting ye ole bourbon bottle a little too hard that night?

I also have a hard time buying that SoR would intentionally throw a match as most of their guys are packed with server pride, but I guess there could have been a small faction that was quietly trying to make it happen.

Eh let’s end this discussion because its derailing the thread. For that I apologize. But yeah, for the record, these things happened, and yeah it confused us too.

Lets get back to the match at hand.

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Posted by: Elthurien.8356

Elthurien.8356

score update?

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Posted by: akamon.2769

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keep ‘em coming, SoR! when i went to bed last night, we’d just lost Garrison on SoR BL. and now waking up to this, it’s pretty crazy. this match up so far makes me want to never go to work and just stay at home and play all day. lol.

kudos to all. with the skirmishes i’ve had with SBI and TC, really feeling like i’m getting to hone my skills on an individual level, and being more in touch with the commanders and map overall, i’m getting to see how some small coordination can put some really good players together.

/salute

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Posted by: Digivolution.8029

Digivolution.8029

TC, just let me get Mendon’s Gap poi for map complete alright?…

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Posted by: Lanthrudar.1437

Lanthrudar.1437

TC, just let me get Mendon’s Gap poi for map complete alright?…

And what server are you on? Trying to get TC to capture it for you, or on an ‘enemy’ server and want to be let through?

Details, always helps to have more details.. “They’re at the gate!” Ok, what gate, and where? “Hills!” Ok, which, North or South, etc..

Details always help.

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Posted by: Mishi.7058

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Yo Jed, I have a flame ram with your name on it! (Also welcome back from Vegas)

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Posted by: Elthurien.8356

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Nice scores. TC is bringing the pain.
Loving the small skirmish groups getting around in this match, there is some amazing skill on all servers.

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Posted by: Conditional Love.8149

Conditional Love.8149

I say this completely selfishly, but I kind of hope SBI comes in third — only to keep them with us for at least another week. The matchups this week have reinvigorated us all — SoR, TC and SBI. It’s been a ton of fun.

As an SoS player, you can keep SBI. I am having a lot of fun crushing BG.

Just some questions. Did blackgate use nonsurvival stacks in T2? Did they ever backstab a SoR v TC fight? Did they QQ about 2v1 and coverage?

Blackgate seems to be a different beast in T1. We call them turtlegate.

FWIW, Blackgate put up quite a fight in the first 2 days, but in my opinion SBI is more skillful and experienced.

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Posted by: TheDevilWithinU.7092

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Great fights so far! ALL ABOARD THE PAIN TRAIN~

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Posted by: Liquid.9672

Liquid.9672

Great fights so far! ALL ABOARD THE PAIN TRAIN~

You edited your post so I edited my reply out of courtesy. But I’ll include that the vast majority of us on BG have nothing but respect for Choo.

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Posted by: Digivolution.8029

Digivolution.8029

TC, just let me get Mendon’s Gap poi for map complete alright?…

And what server are you on? Trying to get TC to capture it for you, or on an ‘enemy’ server and want to be let through?

Details, always helps to have more details.. “They’re at the gate!” Ok, what gate, and where? “Hills!” Ok, which, North or South, etc..

Details always help.

I’m from sor, I need the poi

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Posted by: Javik.9086

Javik.9086

I say this completely selfishly, but I kind of hope SBI comes in third — only to keep them with us for at least another week. The matchups this week have reinvigorated us all — SoR, TC and SBI. It’s been a ton of fun.

As an SoS player, you can keep SBI. I am having a lot of fun crushing BG.

Just some questions. Did blackgate use nonsurvival stacks in T2? Did they ever backstab a SoR v TC fight? Did they QQ about 2v1 and coverage?

Blackgate seems to be a different beast in T1. We call them turtlegate.

FWIW, Blackgate put up quite a fight in the first 2 days, but in my opinion SBI is more skillful and experienced.

iCoa did stack a lot, and the tactic didn’t work at all against us SoR. I don’t know why they are still doing that after the healing nerf though.

HB seems to me the best guild in Blackgate. But still, not as threatening as PRX or Tsym imo.

Blackgate has a sizable Asian, oceanic force, namely Thai, ND, while SoR and TC have almost no Asian coverage (especially after nine dragon jumped ship). So Blackgate Asian guilds are rusty and may need some time to get used to tier 1 fight.

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Posted by: TheDevilWithinU.7092

TheDevilWithinU.7092

Great fights so far! ALL ABOARD THE PAIN TRAIN~

You edited your post so I edited my reply out of courtesy. But I’ll include that the vast majority of us on BG have nothing but respect for Choo.

Thank you. <3 I also appreciate you editing your post as well, sorry for that folks!

Keep up the good work SoR.

SBI: You guys have been really fun to play against and we expect the same thing each and every day!

TC: You guys always come out to play and we apprecaite it, keep up the good work.\

Big thanks to both servers for making this match-up so dang competitive!

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Posted by: GekoHayate.2451

GekoHayate.2451

iCoa did stack a lot, and the tactic didn’t work at all against us SoR. I don’t know why they are still doing that after the healing nerf though.

Especially that last week, the stack (combined with portaling around the enemy zerg) worked wonders on any SOR guild that wasn’t TW.

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Just a suggestion for SBI and TC, unless the many SOR guilds aside from TW have their portal stacking counter tactics down pat.

Edit: I forgot to mention Choo being in the same category as TW. Both have amazing coordination.

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Posted by: Magnus Pym.2356

Magnus Pym.2356

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Wait… what? Tell me who supplies you, because that’s extremely good stuff right there.

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Posted by: TheDevilWithinU.7092

TheDevilWithinU.7092

iCoa did stack a lot, and the tactic didn’t work at all against us SoR. I don’t know why they are still doing that after the healing nerf though.

Especially that last week, the stack (combined with portaling around the enemy zerg) worked wonders on any SOR guild that wasn’t TW.

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Just a suggestion for SBI and TC, unless the many SOR guilds aside from TW have their portal stacking counter tactics down pat.

You wiping SoR with stacking? Ahahaha you MUST BE JOKING. I can’t even tell you how many kills [Choo] stacked up against BG when we stacked up. Most of the BG guilds didn’t even know how to use the stack correctly nor counter it!

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Posted by: DivineBeing.2086

DivineBeing.2086

iCoa did stack a lot, and the tactic didn’t work at all against us SoR. I don’t know why they are still doing that after the healing nerf though.

Especially that last week, the stack (combined with portaling around the enemy zerg) worked wonders on any SOR guild that wasn’t TW.

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Just a suggestion for SBI and TC, unless the many SOR guilds aside from TW have their portal stacking counter tactics down pat.

You wiping SoR with stacking? Ahahaha you MUST BE JOKING. I can’t even tell you how many kills [Choo] stacked up against BG when we stacked up. Most of the BG guilds didn’t even know how to use the stack correctly nor counter it!

From what I remember when I was on, Choo was using the stacking technique but against a random group of pugs. I would be impressed if they used it against HB, but I only saw it used against a bunch of pugs from mixed guilds not in the same team speak server or probably on one.

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Posted by: TheDevilWithinU.7092

TheDevilWithinU.7092

iCoa did stack a lot, and the tactic didn’t work at all against us SoR. I don’t know why they are still doing that after the healing nerf though.

Especially that last week, the stack (combined with portaling around the enemy zerg) worked wonders on any SOR guild that wasn’t TW.

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Just a suggestion for SBI and TC, unless the many SOR guilds aside from TW have their portal stacking counter tactics down pat.

You wiping SoR with stacking? Ahahaha you MUST BE JOKING. I can’t even tell you how many kills [Choo] stacked up against BG when we stacked up. Most of the BG guilds didn’t even know how to use the stack correctly nor counter it!

From what I remember when I was on, Choo was using the stacking technique but against a random group of pugs. I would be impressed if they used it against HB, but I only saw it used against a bunch of pugs from mixed guilds not in the same team speak server or probably on one.

We used it nearly against everyone including HB and we wiped them we they bum rushed our garrison’s water gate. Though it was not the only thing that we used in open field battles. But to each their own.

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Posted by: Elthurien.8356

Elthurien.8356

Score update please.
BG go back to your forums :P We don’t care who did what when. Focus on the now

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Posted by: Bavragor.1043

Bavragor.1043

iCoa did stack a lot, and the tactic didn’t work at all against us SoR. I don’t know why they are still doing that after the healing nerf though.

Especially that last week, the stack (combined with portaling around the enemy zerg) worked wonders on any SOR guild that wasn’t TW.

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Just a suggestion for SBI and TC, unless the many SOR guilds aside from TW have their portal stacking counter tactics down pat.

I would like to know how exactly you have been wiping [FEAR] all day, unless you think zerging supply camps with 30 people against yak runners is an achievement ?

[CDS] and [FEAR] have been doing geat work in SBI bl for hours, keep up the good work SoR !

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Posted by: Absinth.6917

Absinth.6917

iCoa did stack a lot, and the tactic didn’t work at all against us SoR. I don’t know why they are still doing that after the healing nerf though.

Especially that last week, the stack (combined with portaling around the enemy zerg) worked wonders on any SOR guild that wasn’t TW.

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Just a suggestion for SBI and TC, unless the many SOR guilds aside from TW have their portal stacking counter tactics down pat.

You wiping SoR with stacking? Ahahaha you MUST BE JOKING. I can’t even tell you how many kills [Choo] stacked up against BG when we stacked up. Most of the BG guilds didn’t even know how to use the stack correctly nor counter it!

By “good portion of the day” I believe he means a “good portion of the day between 6 am – 6:07 am”. I would even consider that claim to be quite dubious.

Anywho…..thanx for the fun at your garrison SBI. I certainly appreciate your willingness to mix it up. Good times.

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Posted by: omgonoes.5368

omgonoes.5368

This is the first time that I’ve been privileged to participate in this match-up, and wow; it’s been competitive, tight, and fun. Attempting to hold Garrison in SoR BL tonight from both SBI and TC from all sides was the most fun that I’ve had in WvW in a great while, even thought we lost it. Kudos to all servers, as this week has been one for the books thus far already. I think I can speak for all of us here at SoR and [Choo], there is nothing but respect for both servers. I believe that is one reason why this matchup has been so interesting; mutual respect between us all. See you on the field, everyone!

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Posted by: Sunspots.9861

Sunspots.9861

You know in 24 when the bad guy dies on episode 4 and then you find out there’s an all new bad guy above him!!!! Yeah that’s pretty much SoS. I think they are the Darth Vader of WvW at this point, but who will be the rebels that fight their way to the top and conquere them???? We’ll see…but for now, here’s your update!

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Posted by: Vanity.2506

Vanity.2506

You know in 24 when the bad guy dies on episode 4 and then you find out there’s an all new bad guy above him!!!! Yeah that’s pretty much SoS. I think they are the Darth Vader of WvW at this point, but who will be the rebels that fight their way to the top and conquere them???? We’ll see…but for now, here’s your update!

Your update is out of date :p

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Posted by: Bannok.3152

Bannok.3152

Dont count on SBI to be here too long. We’ve basically had outmanned on 3 of the 4 zones from 5 eastern till 12 am eastern today, and from the looks of the +55 we scored this morning, our off peak is totally gone. For the past month, prior to WM and friends leaving it has been a rapid decline, with the weekends being the only busy time. I gotta guess the Henge of Denravi rematch is only a couple of weeks away! ;p

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Posted by: Sunspots.9861

Sunspots.9861

Indeed it was! Here’s the real thing!

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Posted by: Handin.4032

Handin.4032

Not sure how this person was in the wall but…

They were actually deeper inside the wall/under the ramp initially, to the point you could only see part of their name. Luckily AOE’s still work for that sort of thing.

OMG…my armor looks seriously like it is glowing pink in those graphic settings…on my screen its only like normal pink. Whatever settings you use, it makes me glow pink (and not PiNK, which I also glow). If any enemies use the option to see opponents dye jobs, I think they could see me shining from atop garrison o.O

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Posted by: Talentless.5708

Talentless.5708

Good fights tonight/this afternoon. Seems like SBI is a bit outnumbered recently. Not intended as a knock against SOR, but the stacking didnt work well tonight for you all. With that said, keep it up because the bags are easier to collect.

/love.

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Posted by: Mishi.7058

Mishi.7058

Fun in SBI BL.

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Posted by: Talentless.5708

Talentless.5708

Fun in SBI BL.

I think it would have been more fun if Choo stuck to one map, CDS another and Fear the last. When you guys combined it gave the appearance of Choo calling for help after a number of wipes. Not much 100v30 needed out there lol.

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