Guild Wars 2

I just want to say thanks to all of my fellow team mates on Blackgate and everybody from SOR, JQ, SOS, TC, MG that I have fought against and enabled me to enjoy and start to learn how to WvW.

I have been on played GW2 for a while but never tried any PvP or WvW so one week prior to the start of the League I jumped in to see what it was like and have logged in most days since. I am an unguilded (so one of those terrible pugs probably!!!!!!) ele and playing a staff ele in WvW, started off in Beserker, haha don’t laugh soon changed that, and have tried most things, running yaks, refreshing siege, flipping bloodlust, piloting a golem, spamming healing fields, not always at the right times and it has been a blast. It makes PvE a pale imitation. I don’t really know much about the server politics and don’t care I just enjoy playing the game and learning how to play my characters better.

I have found the Blackgate commanders to be great, even when not everybody is on TS, or people are running off for accomplishments or are “asserting their right to do whatever they want” they work with what they have , communicate and encourage us all and keep the cats herded along. Even though I am in New Zealand (Oceanic) I have had the opportunity to play on all maps and during most of the different time zones. I have played with full zergs on all sides, when we have been out numbered and when we have had greater numbers even if not all of them have been fighting and it has all been different and fun, just what I enjoy with a game and my free time. I have actually reached rank 122 in the last 5 weeks not very high I know compared with you all but good for me.

Anyway thanks for all the fights, all the times I have been stomped, it teaches me how to be a better player (and there are some great finishers out there) and thanks to all the Blackgate guilds and commanders who have let me run with them.

Would like to add my support of OP and other posters and express my frustration with speed of respawn and ovelapping heart quests and Dynamic Events which interfer with each other. I am recently playing an alt in lower level areas. What makes these issues even more frustrating now is that the areas I am in are virtually deserted. There are no other players so the speed of respawn, the density of monsters etc make the play not fun at all. ANet if you say you scale things a request please scale mob density and respawn rates to how many players are actually in ceratin areas. As for trying to get to some Skill Points solo with no other players around and current rates forget it

I am unable to get the Arcana traits Elemental Surge or Evasive Arcana to proc. Yes I am dodging in combat for Evasive but they just dont seem to proc. My other traits work fine. Any ideas i can try?

I just wanted to add my support and endorsement to the OP. I have really been enjoying the game up until Orr. The spawn rate and mob density is just ridiculious and I spend more time getting armour fixed after dying than getting to my objectives or indeed collecting enough money to pay for reapirs in some particular areas. It is fine if there are many players or moving in a group but this is rare from my experience> the groups hand out for the events only running from one to the next.
Please make some adjustments as has been suggested in many forums so that level 80 in this area is as much fun as the other areas at different levels.