Guild Wars 2

They could have been using macros and it just seemed like a 2 hit kill. Look in your log, you will probably see a few skills going off in an amount of time that’s just not possible using keys. People on here will say otherwise but I’ve been insta-downed in full ascended celestial gear by 1 person as well. It’s usually a thief.

Mal’s answer pretty much sums it up.

TC still queues maps during NA time zone. The other time zones don’t have the coverage to be competitive. Most nights we have 2 maps queued during NA and lots of good fights.

Reverence.6915:

TC’s fat as heck man

Every time I’ve faced them in the past few months, even though they lost a ton of guilds, there were still SO MANY FREAKING PUGS! In fights, they’re pretty easy to beat if there’s a commander leading that knows what they’re doing, but it’s like a hydra. You kill their group here, they show up elsewhere to take a keep/tower. So annoying

When was the last time you’ve faced TC? We usually have 1 decent sized group that constantly map hops to try and keep our main objectives, which we normally end up losing in the end by having to chose 1 over another.

It’s actually funny reading “TC is fat as heck” from someone with BG in their sig…

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

This is why I try not to respond to these kinds of threads. The people inside them are immune to reason. Have fun refusing to get better.

I’ll bet every character in your sig is running a condi spec…

atticus.5284:

In that case the tier Mag is in will always get you fights. They could care less about PPT…only fights.

They don’t want fights, they just want to karma train. They run of they don’t outnumber their opponents. All they do is ktrain EB. Most boring server to fight. The only 2 ways they’ll fight is if they outnumber you or if they are in range of their staggering amount of defensive siege. I thought BG was bad until we got matched up with Mag. You are right though, they don’t care about PPT, that’s why their BL gets rolled without much resistance. Worst server ever…

Melanurus.1506:

Whatever tier Mag isn’t in.

LOL, when I saw the title of this thread that was the first thing that popped into my head as well. Cheers!

Love being in the lower tiers. Fights are better. I laugh at the people who left TC, we haven’t had this many good fights in a long time.

AxOw.3820:

Well i am not playing much anymore, because of broken condi low skill, this is boring me very fast, game is ruined for me.

Same here, playing less and less lately. I can last about 10 – 15 minutes before getting totally disgusted with the current condi crap. Worst state the game has ever been in IMO.

2 months would be fine if the players didn’t transfer to stack servers once the relink hits.

As it is now there is way too much population imbalance. It’s not fun to get run over by a group twice you size every time you go into WvW.

PaladinVII.1647:

Gaile Gray.6029:

• We encourage our team members to play the game. Many of us do. This is a good thing for the game and for the community! This is good for every aspect of the game, from PvP, to WvW, to PvE, and beyond.

This is the best argument for continued developer claiming of objectives I have heard. A.net claiming objectives means they’re playing the game and might actually see some of the long-standing issues we have been voicing for years, and take action. I am in favor of this.

They were playing all along and didn’t address any long standing issues. They knew the state of WvW and still did things like open BG multiple times, link JQ with 2 servers, buff thieves, make condi OP, etc. Nothing good comes from Anet claiming objectives. I’d like to see some devs playing on TC, then maybe they’d see how bad WvW has become.

X T D.6458:

Paarthurnax.8931:

It’s not fine.

Im on Tarnished Coast (5th) currently full while the 1th and 2nd servers are with transfers open while our wvw population is small compared to them.

It got to a point where we’re playing in peak hours, we had a 20 man squad against a truckload of people on maguuma and blackgate on the Eternal Battlegrounds, each time we got wiped, people left the squad until our commander said kitten it and we all went to EoTM instead.

In peak hours we

TC is intentionally tanking this week to avoid getting locked in tier 1. This has been a wasted week of nonstop ktrains. I always enjoy fighting TC and I hate how this is playing out but I also understand why people don’t want to be in this tier. As for me, my interest in wvw couldn’t be lower when its just ktraining. Ironically there’s more fights in EoTM sometimes.

If TC is intentionally tanking this week, then let me know how people on TC communicated this to their players. I’m on TC and haven’t seen or heard of anyone telling people not to play. The forums are barely even used anymore. The only thing I see when I log in to WvW is Zog running in EB wiping repeatedly. No commanders on any other maps and this is in NA timezone. There aren’t many commanders left to follow anymore, most of the good commanders have left the server.

I couldn’t believe we were put in T1 this week. Doing so shows a total lack of attention and caring from Anet. We didn’t even win the week in T2 and they put us in T1? TC is a ghost town lately.

Server links are coming up, BG probably hoping they can game the population cap like they’ve done in the past.

And OP, you are in T1 now, it hasn’t been fun for months, just a FYI.

Grim West.3194:

Josh XT.6053:

Grim West.3194:

The biggest zerg always wins in WvW. That’s the way it is designed.

Untrue. Smaller groups are just as much to blame as the zergs. Last night on YB BL, we had 2 smaller groups and 1 blob on the map and we managed to take almost the whole map over because the 2 smaller groups would go taking towers and camps while the blob would attack keeps to draw the enemies. Most of our PPT was from that map in particular lol.

Hilarious. BlobGate has the most players in all time zones, that is why you are winning. Period.

TC moved up to T1 because they stacked up with old JQ and YB players. But they don’t have complete coverage so have no chance of winning the match. They could never have moved up to T1 without stacking and you know it.

If skill mattered in this game then non stacked servers would regularly move up to T1. But that NEVER happens because all that matters is numbers given the current design.

BlobGate has the most zerg players so they win because that’s all that matters in WvW.

TC had just as many players leave when the T1 players came to our server. TC moved up because Anet adjusted the Glicko for a short time after server combinations. “Blobgate” wins because they have the most coverage out of any server. You are right though, skill doesn’t matter as much as player numbers, but coverage is the most important for total scoring.

Reverence.6915:

TC and JQ will never have room for complaint when it comes to 2v1 since season 2 until GW2 ends. Especially when right now is just welcoming you guys back to T1 and seeing what there is to fight from you guys. I doubt anything will come close to the zhit you guys pulled in season 2

Most of the people that organized that 2v1 either don’t play anymore or moved off TC. I’ll bet some of them are even playing on BG now. But by all means keep living in the past, the fights are much better that way.

We had a queue for BL maps and none for EB. People on TS were laughing and sounded very happy. It was nice running around, hitting Bay, heading to north camp, capping ruins, and defending Garri. Thanks Anet. Looking forward to having some map rotations, hopefully that’s still the plan.

Chaba.5410:

DeceiverX.8361:

My point was to convey that the notion of TC being this huge bandwagon server for tons of guilds to megablob T2 is just ridiculous based on first-hand accounts of the reasoning from the only guild I do know transferred.

Personally, I’ve only seen one new guild move to TC, Kazo (I’ve come to learn that NEON is not xfers, but a split from CERN). TC had way more guilds in NA a few months ago and Kazo hasn’t exactly replaced those that left TC.

NEON is actually made up of people from many guilds. I joined because some of ZzZz make up their core leadership, most players on TC were/are members of CERN at one time or another. It’s a great guild to be part of, very community friendly.

I’ve seen some people that used to play on TC return, but for the most part it’s a bunch of new commanders uniting the militia that has made the biggest difference lately. Most big groups running around have many guild tags. The new commanders are very welcome and most TC militia/pugs are experienced players that just need some kind of leadership. They know how to fight.

Knock them back and they’ll be in combat and unable to finish rezzing.

Yea, same thing happened to me on one of my attempts. The platform didn’t reset properly. It reset the next time through and I was able to complete it.

Tommyknocker.6089:

Beer
Pot
Good looking women
Hot tub

You know the usual, I love the dungeon theme BTW.

If you mean in game, a friendly group willing to help each other with whatever skills they have. I’m not picky.

LFG

Jayne.9251:

Looks like only one more week and they should be knocking out someone in T1. So two weeks to get back into T1 from transfer time. Not bad.

Seems that opens to the doors to tons of possibilities.

The evolution won’t be as high next week. You essentially compete against your last weeks performance. It’ll take a few weeks of crushing T2 before we see a change in T1, unless the new algorithms make a difference.

NeHoMaR.9812:

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/medals

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups
Grats on your medals though.

NeHoMaR.9812:

Anyway, I am talking about the whole thing of April Fools in WvW was a mistake, not the see through walls, I can live with that “exploit” for 24h, but not with the annoying effect when trying to be competitive and help my server in tier 1, actually I am NOT going to play WvW until this end, I hope other players with more patience than me help the server to win, every minute counts in tier 1.

The only I can do is sPvP, is not affected.

This is an April Fools joke right? Competitive play in T1? Competitive play is WvWvW, not WvW+W. You know this isn’t JQ’s week to win right?

sharkmegabyte.2859:

This is a nice gesture, but we’re seeing that it’s still not enough. Yesterday, in Tarnished Coast’s garrison, a small guild full of trolls drained all the supply with useless trebs and flame rams. They were mass reported as they stood around TAUNTING THE MAP OPENLY IN CHAT and building their trash.

No GMs showed up….

Until HOURS LATER, when it was all gone and none of the trolls were still around.

Then a GM showed up, saw nothing, and from what my servermates are telling me, they are being accused of false reporting.

Unbelievable.

Pay attention to the chat logs and the screenshots, please. And it’s obvious there are not enough people prepared to respond to these reports.

If this was last night NA, we would have eventually lost it anyway. JQ golems at water gate, BG golems to the West, massive groups on both sides. Lag was so bad I had trouble changing attunements let alone casting a timely water. Was a valiant effort by all, but to no avail, our waypoint was lost.

If this was daytime NA, good job holding Garri with no supply.

Thanks Gus for dealing with our siege griefer that was following our group around yesterday. It was a most welcome sight to see them dealt with. You rock!!

timetopat.7921:

So im a little confused by WvW. I remember when GW2 launched it seemed like there were battles everywhere. Now I log into any of the borderlands around 7pm EST and they seem dead. If they are not dead there is only one blob of about 40 people who runs around border land to border land. It doesn’t seem like there are massive battles or defenses. I had a fond memory of defending stone mist castle near the launch. There were about 14 waves of attacks before they left. Now it seems like we just hand it over and flip flop owner ship. I currently play on Tarnished Coast. Why does it seem like a lot less people play world vs. world? Or is it like warhammer online where you have musical bases so everyone gets points but never fights? Or is prime time different on Tarnished Coast? I understand that a lot of people have complaints about WvW, did that hemorrhage players?

Thanks

Usually around 7pm alot of people are trying to defend TC Garri from the daily JQ and BG attack there. They seem to like to try and reset our waypoint at the start of NA prime.

There is also a map roaming group you can find if you log on Mumble. Most of the time you can find fights in EB but they tend to be zerg type fights. I usually log in Mumble while my game is loading so I have an idea of where to head once I get in.

If SMC is flipping easily, it’s usually due to another more important keep being defended somewhere.

Elementalists need to call out their waters on voice comms so others can blast them. If you don’t like to talk on comms, go Guardian.

pandahru.2954:

In WVW, it’s pretty difficult to get the map completed whenever the enemy spots you and decides to ruin your day by killing you. So I came up with an idea: what if when you entered the borderlands, you were given two options of play; combat mode and map completion mode. When the player enters combat mode, it’s the normal mode you enter in as now where you can attack and be attacked. But when they chose map completion, they can’t be attacked and they can’t attack in return. So that way, if you’re just there for map completion, you can do so without being knocked around by the enemy. It would make a lot of people’s days a little bit easier and more enjoyable whenever they have to go in for map completion.

Now to avoid a quick problem, the only way to change the mode you’re in is to leave the borderlands and reload back in where it’ll ask you which mode you’d like to be in. This way, if an enemy team is losing, they can’t just swap modes and become untouchable.

I’m thinking for those in map completion mode, they could be granted stealth the entire time they’re there, so they don’t really interfere with the gameplay at all.

Just a few ideas to make it a bit easier.

When I started playing this game (about 2 years ago) I hated PvP. The only reason I went into WvWvW was to get map completion. When I went in I was very intimidated and tried to sneak around grabbing the easy points. I soon realized that if I followed a group around I wouldn’t die as much and would eventually get the points I needed. After the first few nights and a few epic battles, I was totally hooked. Since then I’ve joined a few WvW guilds, got into some GvGing, and had an absolute blast. I wouldn’t have even found this playstyle if it wasn’t for map completion in WvW. Give it a try, you may like it, you may hate it, but you also may LOVE it. Either way you will eventually get the points you need and may just find some fun in the process.

If your ideas were implemented, I’d have just stealthed around and never found the fun I’ve been having for the past 2 years.

Cheers!

Fuzzion.2504:

Really wanted an sos tc jq fight for week 4

That would have been a good match, I was looking forward to it as well.

When I try and zone in to the zone our mission is in my game crashes with a lost connection to server message. If I try and log back in to that character, the game just keeps crashing. If I try logging in with a different character and going to that zone, that character will now start crashing. I tried 3 different characters and it happens to all of them. I cannot log in with them for the rest of the night.

The issue seems to clear up the next day and I can log into them again. It happens on multiple computers and has been happening for the past 2 weeks. Right now my character is stuck in Plains of Ashford.

Boonprot.6274:

A friendly fellow from BG on Reddit informed me that T1 meta consists of 50+ man hammertrains. Literally the pinnacle of skill and meta evolution.

Some maps have 50+ trains but if you go to other maps you can usually find some really good fights. We run with between 15 – 25 and can usually find some guilds that are close to our numbers to fight. What’s been happening on TC lately are guild groups running tagless and a militia commander running with the tag. If something we don’t want to lose comes under attack, all groups come together to defend or coordinate an attack on an enemy keep. I can’t speak for everyone but I’ve been having much fun in T1. I don’t think it’s as much a zergfest as it used to be.

Is it easier to run with 50+ zerg groups? Sure, but our guild commander likes finding the outnumbererd fights. Makes us get better at surviving as a group and we get a feeling of accomplishment when we wipe a group larger than ours.

Chris.3290:

Never saw them run 70 ppl either. Maybe 40 tops when they were k-training.

The only time we have 70 CERN tags up is during our guild missions. We have members from lots of different guilds. TC is a very friendly server so guilds kind of overlap. CERN doesn’t have a 100% rep policy so many members run with different tags. It’s alot of fun when we all get together under one tag. It’s a great guild full of fun people IMO.

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

I hate it. When I use /laugh I want to laugh AT, not with the enemy player!

Just use the “/laugh @” emote.

Anyway, I turned off emotes a long time ago as well. Too many people spamming emotes non-stop in some of our match ups.

Kreaven.3172:

Aberrant.6749:

Kreaven.3172:

CERN <3 you guys recruiting lol?

Not atm afaik, but you could contact a guild officer and double check. Were you stranded here on TC by EP? lol

Well I had no idea they moved till just yesterday when I got back. But either way, I would not have gone with em. Been on TC since the beginning ankitten ot going anyway. I put CERN out there cause EP and CERN used to have a thing for each other

Is Nightlight still around?

Send Xerica or Nightlight an in-game mail. Even though recruiting is closed, we have been taking in some EP refugees here and there. We get some EP guesting for guild missions as well. They are a great bunch of people.

Luvpie.8350:

Zzzz thanks for the only good fight tonight.

The fight at RQ was a blast and my favorite of the night, good back and forth. Was fun!

I participated in my first GvG in OS last night. It was so much better than at the Wind Mill. Didn’t have to worry about camera angles with trees and the hill blocking/changing my perspective. The platforms making it easy to wipe stacks was very nice, as well as a good vantage point to watch other matches. Much fun was had.

Thanks Anet! Well done.

Rhaegus.8924:

[CERN] behaviour in the new GvG arena is below any lvl. Some of those members deserve absolutely no respect.

Please message one of our commanders or guild leaders about this. I don’t know what happened but I’m sure it will be looked into. Most of us were in SoRBL tonight and were unaware of anything going on in there. If it would have been brought to their attention when it happened, I’m sure it would have been dealt with quickly.

/salute

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

I’m pretty sure I remember them saying we would receive 100g each as reward right? Maybe it was 800gems. Or maybe it was a set of ascended armor. A free precursor for each of us? maybe +1000 achievement points? Thanks for rewarding us for all our hard work Anet! Looking forward to seeing what amazing prizes you have in store for us!

Surely it couldn’t just be a poopy finisher and another chest with some dragonite ore and a green item in it. That would just be silliness!

They should reward the last place servers more than the top 3 since they put up with getting steamrolled every week. Give the top 3 their finisher and the rest the rewards for bringing it when they faced certain defeat.

Keiel.7489:

Ahka.6705:

Handin.4032:

akamon.2769:

Handin.4032:

Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade

Handin, Handin, will there be an SEA one this time around??D

also, server time is… PST?

Im actually not sure what server time is (I’m still not used to this rediculous daylight savings time). A fast way to tell is log on, turn on the server time on your mini map in options, and just compare (that’s what I normally do)

Server time is in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) which is basically GMT. Here in the EST time zone we are normally -5 UTC, but during daylight savings we are -4 which is why reset is now at 8pm instead of 9pm.

So the Doly parade will be at 11pm EST (8pm PST).

Server time is in PST, not UTC. If you go to your settings you can have a digital clock on your minimap and then set it to server or local time. Setting it to server time gives you PST times. This is at least true for US client, I’m not sure if the EU and Asia clients use a different time for their server time.

You are correct. They calculate reset time at UTC time, I assumed they used the same for server time. I don’t usually display the clock in game. Sorry ’bout that.

I use Celestial w/ Superior Divinity runes. Accessories are mixed ascendeds, and I’m going with Wupwup as my ascended staff. Basically this build http://intothemists.com/guides/107-staff_build_for_organized_groups.

Handin.4032:

akamon.2769:

Handin.4032:

Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade

Handin, Handin, will there be an SEA one this time around??D

also, server time is… PST?

Im actually not sure what server time is (I’m still not used to this rediculous daylight savings time). A fast way to tell is log on, turn on the server time on your mini map in options, and just compare (that’s what I normally do)

Edited out incorrect info. Reset time is set at UTC, not server time. Thanks Keiel.

Doly parade will be at 10pm EST (7pm PST).

Jaytee.9513:

Zikory.6871:

Hi Charak,

You have a interesting complaint. If you would use your link and take a look at the SoR/BG/Mag match, as you can tell BG is winning, at times ticking 300-400+ most the match. While mag doesn’t have the population to win, Mags guilds and players are out there fighting hard. Just a few moments before this post, Mag had BG pushed back to Vally in EBG (while our map is queued)

Your problem is expecting you can win the PPT game, with out coverage, you can not. You bring up balance? Both Anet and any WvW player will tell you, WvW is not balanced and won’t be any time soon. It’s up to you to make it fun, you say you’re a commander? Rally 20-30 regular people, train them, get better together. Get out there and fight, drop the “we can win the match” mentality because its (As SpehssMehreen said) a defeatist attitude.

Good luck

Says the player on the dominating server……….I really think its kinda disgusting that people tell others to enjoy a game they cannot win. For me its a has to be balance between effort and rewards……playing for fights but getting overwhelmed at every turn is NOT my idea of enjoyment, especially since those OP servers are getting more rewards for less effort.

Really the devs should take a stance and face this problem before the competition comes out or they will lose many players who feel they have been ignored and spitted on with this lack of empathy.

To all those players who feel playing a game when you have NO chance of winning is fun, don’t demean those vocal enough to say something is wrong with the game mode. Games are meant to be competitive where each match should not be determined before-hand and that would be the fun factor that most of us are looking for.

My server has one of the toughest schedules for the season. We are up against at least 1 T1 server 5 out of 7 weeks. We have no chance to win those matches and will not be in the top 3 when all is said and done, but we are still having fun. Forget about the overall PPT and look at individual fights. We are going to come in 4th. This has been known since they released the schedule. No golden Dolyak for us (but we have Handin ).

Skill doesn’t determine who wins or loses, it’s coverage. There is a thread about population imbalance going so at least Anet is acknowledging there is a problem and accepting ideas on how to address it. For now, just have fun, win the fights you can, and shrug off the ones you can’t. It’s all we can do at this point.

/salute

Titan.3472:

CERN grats to take out underlevel karma train zergs in EB you guys are T1 material with good spirit in the last match hours XD

Karma trains aren’t for EB, especially when we have the Nightlight on Plenty of Karma training on the other BL’s.

Monsoon.2589:

3 hours queue last night…logged off before getting in
3 hours so far and still counting.

I am done with this.
No game deserves 3 hours + waiting like to be able to play…none

Queues on TC have been pretty short this weekend. Reset was long, but it looks like it’s business as usual now that we are playing T1 servers.

This would be very helpful. With some queues being hours long, staring at the screen just isn’t an option.

I’m ok with them not being resettable. Letting them reset takes something away, like if someone hits the shield with the cata, you know they are the best person to be using it. We were cata’ing Durios and the person hit the shield and the commander said “Nice!!!” in mumble. Probably made them feel great. Lets people be unique. Eventually we will have everything anyway so why does it need changing? Personally I took what I felt to be mandatory, then worked on getting Applied Fortitude, now I’m working on Guard Killer (27 points to go!). Lets me look forward to something.

But that’s just my take on it, I’m sure many people disagree.

Sitting in queue for an hour for our home BL and then crashing a minute after getting in due to lag is not fun. Something needs to be done. The problem isn’t only in T1…

Rawnoodles.1398:

Good fights tonight

• On JQ BL and EBG
• shout out to [RoT,CERN,EP, EXS, STUN, AARM and RQ , EMP, MERC] !

PLX TEAM

Had much fun on JQBL last night as well. Gave me hope for the rest of the week. Many good open field fights as well as banging our heads in Hills. I was running with the STUN team for a while, lots of fun with you guys.

Luvpie.8350:

@ TC tonight during 5-8 pm pst. Good fights but then you guys grab all orbs… Was it not more fun with orbs spread out?

We were saying the same on Mumble. The buffs weren’t needed. The ruins are fun, but the buffs tend to favor the wrong team.

ActionCat.4162:

TC… i kinda feel bad for you guys, you gota face the never ending blob zergs of T1.. that massive skill lag and long ques.

It’s not all bad, we get some good fights, just can’t compete with their numbers. Yea the lag sucks but the queues aren’t bad at all, virtually non-existent when we face T1 servers. We have longer queues this week fighting you guys.

Thanks to all the BG and SoR that showed up for the parade and special thanks to all the people we ran by that didn’t attack. Good show!

/salute