Guild Wars 2

As someone pointed out in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/WvW-Forums-our-failure/first#post876266

There is precious little on WvW tactics and help discussed here. A lot of this can be traced to people not wanting other servers to take a look in their kitchen.

The best way to defend or attack varies, WvW is dynamic and the situations change. But once thing remains a constant: the need to communicate with your forces out there.

1. Call incoming: Report in /Team the amount of incoming enemies and your location, as precise as you can. Watch for disappearing Sentries or Caravans to predict where an enemy force will strike.

2. Call ‘location clear’ when attackers have been dealt with so people know no further reinforcements are needed.

3. Respond to ‘incoming reports’ even if you cant send reinforcements at least acknowledge that the message is recieved. There are few things as disheartening as calling out in a void.

4. Try to get in touch with the organisation on a map, even if you are a veteran or a commander, if you just arrived on a map there will be people there who know more about the current situation then you do.

5. Use the servers communication channels, either go there yourself or if you need to stay on guild comms send a representative to relay information.

Great points Nidhogg.

Thank you for number 3 as well. I see so many people get frustrated when they call out “incoming 15 to BlueBriar” and no one responds or replies.

Then they get upset and feel like they were left out to dry. When actually everyone else was trying to defend Bay. (Which we all know is more important)

When they are the “1” in BlueBriar and it falls, it is hard to swallow if they do not know what is going on.

I´ve seen this somewhere before .. but can´t really recall where .. are these your ideas Nidhoog, or do you have some, let´s say “incomplete” source?

I endorse the message of this thread! ;P Nice Post!

When I started WvW, someone claimed /map chat was shared between servers. I think that this isn’t true, and that the only way to communicate with other servers is through emotes (i.e. /say also doesn’t go between servers). Any comment?

You cannot communicate with the other server ingame. They will only be able to see classic emotes. Not player made emotes.

To add to this, Map chat is used for mindless chatter, or stuff that isn’t important. /team is used for WvWvW Communications.

Mathemagician.1836:

When I started WvW, someone claimed /map chat was shared between servers.

This was a bug back in the BWE’s that was fixed before launch.

Emotes do work though.

fenim.2395:

To add to this, Map chat is used for mindless chatter, or stuff that isn’t important. /team is used for WvWvW Communications.

Further on this:

/T should be used for anything the entire team might need to know about.
/M should probably not be used for anything important as many many people filter this out.
/S should be used for micro-strategy. If you’re attacking a tower and people are coming around the corner, use /S to tell people. The people defending SM don’t need to know and don’t care if there’s people coming from the left side of Mendon’s.

Some other tips:

/t INC NOW! HELP

This doesn’t help anyone. We don’t know where you are if you don’t tell us, so your warning does nothing. We can’t reinforce you if we don’t know where we should be going. Furthermore, it’s important to let people know as much as you can tell them. Is it the red team attacking you or the green (pretending you’re blue for the moment)? How many of them are there? Are they headed somewhere other than where you were, or are they attacking something there?

CAPSLOCK

Typing in all caps sounds to many people like a great way to get their message to stand out in chat. It’s not. Many people have trained themselves to simply ignore things said in all caps.

Constructive Statements

Much like capslock, making personal attacks upon people who “aren’t listening” does more harm than good. Asking nicely, and perhaps with a small explanation of why for those who don’t understand, will make you far more successful at group communication. On those servers which don’t have queues to get into WvW it will also help encourage players to keep coming back.

/w

Spotting for a treb? Find out who’s on it and whisper them directions. No one other than the treb needs to know, so it reduces chat spam and confusion in cases of multiple trebs. Someone continuously ignoring requests on strategy? Send them a courteous whisper repeating the request. They likely didn’t see the original instruction, but are far more likely to notice whisper text than any other kind. Many people assume things said in /t or /s don’t apply to them, a whisper is less likely to be ignored as long as it’s courteous.

Thanks for the responses, and also I think the “use this chat channel for this business” is a very useful contribution to the thread!