Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!

I’m pleased to announce Maguuma Boot Camp, a joint venture between the Public Mumble of Maguuma and the guilds of Legion Alliance. With our recent influx of transfers, and our recent dominance, it’s come to the attention of the community that we need to go over a few things. We’ve gotten lazy, and a lot of the time we’ve started to mindlessly zerg around because we’ve felt that we don’t have to do anything else.

No one on the server wants to encourage bad habits, so we’d like to go over how Maguuma plays again. This boot camp is for everyone, not just new players! New transfers, regardless of skill, are encouraged to learn how Maguuma plays, how we communicate, and how we have fun. We would also like to encourage primarily PVE players on the server who have been afraid to jump into WvW to show up and learn.

The training will be broken into 3 tiers; basic, advanced, and commander. Basic training is for anyone who is uncomfortable with their play or feels like they don’t know what’s going on when they enter WvW. Advanced is for anyone who feels they grasp the basics of WvW and would either like to learn how Maguuma specifically plays, or who would like to learn some new techniques and siege placements. Commander training is for any new commander (new in general, or new to the server), or anyone planning to get their tag anytime soon.

The training will take place on Maguuma Borderlands on Wednesday at 5:00 EST and again at 8:00 EST. We will be using the Maguuma Public Mumble to communicate, in the “Boot Camp” channel. Download Mumble here.

Curriculum:

Three Tiers

• Basic
• Advanced
• Commander

Instructors

• Paralda
• Invalid Password
• Rékka
• Xushin
• Mystery Commander
• Promethieus
• Do It Two It
• Myers the Reckless
• Hackuuna

Topics

BASIC

• Siege Placement
• When to attack
• How to communicate
• Map Swords
• Appropriate Actions
• Always push
• Refreshing siege
• Vocabulary
• Rezzing
• Supply
• Parties
• Scouting

ADVANCED

• Siege Placement
• Distractions
• Advanced Communication
• Mesmer sweeping
• How to golem
• Tri-M
• Scouting
• Supply lines
• Spotting
• Tower defense
• Zerg Busting/Open field combat
• Upgrades
• Combos

COMMANDERS

• Siege Placement
• Communication
• Morale
• When to push/defend
• Supply
• Squads and you
• “Zerging”
• Mesmer usage
• Stacking
• Mental Stability
• When to leave
• Upgrades

Might have been better to do this after the 28th. Nice idea though.

I figure we won’t have enough time to do this after the 28th. The matches will be a lot more engaging.

Though I’m not in your server, I think it’s a great server activity. Wish you guys the best of luck in organizing and executing this huge event!

PS: where is the holy grail of Maguuma? —the Holy Ram :P
under which category will that be covered?

Cool idea. That’s alot of good topic to discuss.

BarnabyMalong.7561:

Though I’m not in your server, I think it’s a great server activity. Wish you guys the best of luck in organizing and executing this huge event!

PS: where is the holy grail of Maguuma? —the Holy Ram :P
under which category will that be covered?

Every category =P

Hello from Kaineng,

It’s a very good idea. Congrats for taking the initiative for your server. This really is something Kaineng needs to consider as well. We are in very similar circumstances. We are enjoying the strong influx we have had but the fact is the last tiers have ben a big push at reset (I don’t even get online until about 7ish on Fridays) and the week is more than won in 2 days. It’s a good time to train.

I am hoping someone from Kaineng takes a similar iniative…funny I was just thinking about this today. We could definitely benefit from it when we meet Maguuma one day

PS

We will be watching your match next week with interest. Best of luck to you.

Looking forward to it. See you gents there.

I would encourage everyone to make a special effort to attend. There are a lot of things that can be learned from those instructors.

Sounds like fun, and that’s an awesome list of instructors. I’ll probably miss them due to work but I’d like to catch them when I can. I’ve been on Mag since beta but I’d sit in on the Basics on up, the only thing I know is that there’s always something I don’t know yet.

Will training include a special topic on how to transfer the hell off of maguuma?

Acelerion.6820:

Will training include a special topic on how to transfer the hell off of maguuma?

I’ll be sure to include a special course just for you.

Hope to have a good turnout on Wednesday! See you all there.

ghtchill.7613:

Hello from Kaineng,

It’s a very good idea. Congrats for taking the initiative for your server. This really is something Kaineng needs to consider as well. We are in very similar circumstances. We are enjoying the strong influx we have had but the fact is the last tiers have ben a big push at reset (I don’t even get online until about 7ish on Fridays) and the week is more than won in 2 days. It’s a good time to train.

I am hoping someone from Kaineng takes a similar iniative…funny I was just thinking about this today. We could definitely benefit from it when we meet Maguuma one day

PS

We will be watching your match next week with interest. Best of luck to you.

Thank you for the kind words! I’ll be watching Kaineng’s match as well.

Acelerion.6820:

Will training include a special topic on how to transfer the hell off of maguuma?

The curriculum will be all you need to survive in the upper tiers:
1)How to find the nearest zerg
2)Portal Bombing

TY for the idea, I need to get something like this going for Kaineng now.

This could be the holy bible of Maguuma tactics.

Looks like I’ll be skipping boot camp. Last time I checked, I was a Sargent, not a scrub.

I wish the 10 people in attendance luck

This sounds like a lot of effort…
Can’t I just put a quote from Sun Tzu in my signature and declare myself a tactical genius?

Don’t be “that guy” that people make fun of in chat. Just show up, the tactics will absorb through osmosis.

CrassBippy.4619:

I wish the 10 people in attendance luck

Hopefully more than that will show up. Not really sure how to advertise this. Maybe Lions Arch spam.

That’s probably the best way to go. Well, that and getting the people who know to spam it in WvW. I don’t see why you posted it on the forums though.

GuardianOMS.8067:

That’s probably the best way to go. Well, that and getting the people who know to spam it in WvW. I don’t see why you posted it on the forums though.

Visibility, mostly. It’s gotten around 700 views. I’m sure at least a few of those are Maguuman.

I didn’t realise the goonies were taking things so seriously.
Guess we’ll have to be prepared eh? /flex

It’s for the commanders’ sanity.

Maniac.5163:

I didn’t realise the goonies were taking things so seriously.
Guess we’ll have to be prepared eh? /flex

Heyyyy youuuu guyyyys

But seriously I think only two of those commanders are goons.

Even if the outcome is small, a few people is still better than none. A handful of intelligent people can still make a difference.

You can spend months figuring all this stuff out your self or get it over with at the Bootcamp!

John Widdin.9618:

Even if the outcome is small, a few people is still better than none. A handful of intelligent people can still make a difference.

That’s the hope, at least.

When did we get an alliance on Mag?

When we decided to make one.

SethGrev.8275:

When did we get an alliance on Mag?

The Alliance that has been under development has been kept under wraps until we were ready with enough organization to be announced. We figured a good way to announce it to the public would be with a basic event like a training so it can be beneficial to everyone

We had planned to make our big appearance when we returned to Tier 4, but it was overshadowed by our massive transfers >.<

Ah – well its good to see when you hit 30, you don’t immediately start losing your memory.

Thanks Monztor

GuardianOMS.8067:

Looks like I’ll be skipping boot camp. Last time I checked, I was a Sargent, not a scrub.

Sergeant* And this is a great idea!, I hope you don’t mind I took it and used it for Kaineng as well.

Where’s JerkJerk? He should be an instructor.

Ah, what a nice recruitment thread!

This is the kind of thing that should be done in your own server-forum. If it was sent here, then maybe the server forum might not be as organized as it should be. Perhaps you should consider bringing as many guilds and players to the server-specific forum first..

I like your initiative, but to me….it feels more like a recruitment thread. The entire “Come to our server and we will show you this” on the background. Then player enters server “oh where is the training promised?…Oh no im stuck here!”

It is my experience that there is a major difference from what is written than what actually transpires.

Oh yeah, I wish the best of luck to your server next week. ^^

No matter how hard we try, even threads like this are interpreted as “recruitment threads”. That’s seriously pushing it. Have you seen our server forum? Hint: It’s dead. Literally not up at the time of this writing. And we don’t have time to get the server up and recruit guilds and bandwagoning players to it in time for a match that will actually be somewhat fair. In case you are still wondering, we still don’t want you on this server. So stop complaining that this is some sort of reverse psychology, it’s more like playing the cards we’ve been dealt.

No one said come to our server… it’s for the people that’s already on the server… what?

Littlefeather.8623:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Looks like I’ll be skipping boot camp. Last time I checked, I was a Sargent, not a scrub.

Sergeant* And this is a great idea!, I hope you don’t mind I took it and used it for Kaineng as well.

No, Sargent, it’s my last name :T
And I mind!

ParaldaWind.4523:

GuardianOMS.8067:

That’s probably the best way to go. Well, that and getting the people who know to spam it in WvW. I don’t see why you posted it on the forums though.

Visibility, mostly. It’s gotten around 700 views. I’m sure at least a few of those are Maguuman.

My personal opinion, but that doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.

Lol maguumas so funny. “we dont want anyone get out”

I hope it’s like when FA was fighting maguuma wayyyy back when. Some crazy tactics and strategies dominating much larger groups coming from you guys back in the day. Excited to see what happens

Better than nerd raging commanders people stop listening to.

IRSyKo.5843:

Lol maguumas so funny. “we dont want anyone get out”

I hope it’s like when FA was fighting maguuma wayyyy back when. Some crazy tactics and strategies dominating much larger groups coming from you guys back in the day. Excited to see what happens

Wait, what? I remember you guys winning against us but literally the only thing I remember from those matches was how many freaking people you had, everywhere.

GuardianOMS.8067:

My personal opinion, but that doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.

I guess we’ll find out tomorrow!

I hope everyone can make it, and please try to keep this thread positive, I was just hoping to help out some of the newer players, transfer or otherwise, to learn how we play, and to keep Maguuma’s identity alive.

Then again, it wouldn’t be a Maguuma thread without some trolling and flamebaiting.

Kaineng is having a boot camp that was heavily inspired by this thread too

Yet another excellent reason to transfer to Kaineng!

ghtchill.7613:

I am hoping someone from Kaineng takes a similar iniative…funny I was just thinking about this today. We could definitely benefit from it when we meet Maguuma one day

Maguuma has had Boot Camps in the past, you guys just need someone thats willing to put in the work.

While I think this is a good idea and I hope it works I will be surprised if transfers turn out. I think too many think they already know how to WvW, even though most came from failing servers. Most people will probably be long time residents of Maguuma there for refreshers and support of our server. But I see few transfers attending cause they are all ready awesome, just look at the map. I still support people leaving and rebuilding their own servers instead of staying and acting like they are why Mag is good. The community was built on guilds that have been here awhile, new transfers want respect I suggest attending and learning but you won’t your too good I’m sure.

This isn’t just for the new transfers, even as a WvW only player/commander I know I need to brush up on offensive seige etc, I guess being EU timezone which is relatively weak, installed a much more defensive outlook on the game. I’ll be there and would suggest any other maguuman, new or not shows up to maybe learn something new.

Well I hope everyone who wants to learn shows up! This is the first time I’ve attempted something like this, so I hope I and the other instructors do well.

2.5 hours away from the first session, I’ll see everyone then.

Is there going to be any exp gained at this? I might go and see how the other half lives if there’s a bit of leveling that can be done as well.

Casual WvW is getting super serial.