Guild Wars 2

Such a funny video

What a great battle. I’m worn out. To me it’s a tie. Neck and neck the whole way down the line for an entire week. Your work in Stonemist on Sunday and Monday was brilliant. I didn’t practice my guitar once this week for any length in time I was so devoted to fighting you guys. You guys cost me a lot of money, a ton of gold in Seige Blueprints, upgrades and repairs. I know that I’m not going to put as many resources into a week long battle again. It’s too taxing to play this many hours a day in WVW for such a long extended time. Great job Maguuma. See you on the Battlefields, Excelsior!

Well Maguuma I have to hand it to you. I knew that 13,000 pts was a big lead. My friends were very afraid but I kept telling them if our Guild actively participates in this war we can maintain a victory. Turns out that this match is too close to call. I’ve had time off work recently so I’ve been able to log 10 hours a day for the past week. You Maguuma guys are the best fight we’ve ever had. We had fun fighting you two weeks ago and are having the closest neck and neck match ever now. About to log in, about to punch the clock and begin my shift. I’m tired, but i’m focused. I’m here to bring you hell. Lets go the distance. See you on the Battlefields, Exelsior!

Well tonight’s report is a great one. We started in Dragonbrand and our Guild Leader Ethersin’s leadership enabled us to quickly take half of that map. We attempted Garrison and the two northern towers and were rebuffed. We then decided to leave the map and attack Eternal Battlegrounds. The score was so close and we knew that Maguuma was going to surpass us unless we controlled Stone Mist. We entered the map as Maguuma was pressing two fronts on our Darkhaven Keep and Aldon’s. Furious fights at both ends. Maguuma pushed hard at Darkhaven with 4-6 golems coming through in different portal waves, and tried to portal bomb our courtyard. A great battle was had, Darkhaven was victorious and we repelled the attackers. We mobilized quickly to take back our towers and supply camps. Maguuma Stonemist began to Treb Wildcreek, and Kloven mercilessly seconds after we took them. Massive 30+ zergs hit Rogues Quarry, and Golanta again and again. We rallied under our two commanders Ethersin and Arishock and fought Maguuma tooth and nail for a foothold and our territory. After three hours of hard fought struggle and our Wildcreek and Kloven changing hands several times. Maguuma slowed down, and probably went to sleep. Commander Paopao of the Icoa Guild contacted Arishock who was now leading the Rethisis forces. “I want to build a Golem army, how many Mesmers do you have on, can your RE guys pilot them, cause I know they know how to do it?” Arishock relayed the info over vent. I was stoked, so stoked I stopped playing my noob thief, got on my Commander Threnn Airborne and started rallying troops. We set up trebs in Wildcreek and Kloven and began attacking Stonemist to burn her supplies. We then attacked Southwest SM with catapults and all our forces. The battle for SM waged on for about three hours. The first time we got inside Maguuma only had about 15 guys inside. We outnumbered them 3 to 1. However, two of our Commanders got greedy and our diversion became a new primary attack drawing too many of our forces North and not enough to take SM. We breached SM and charged in slaying everything in our path, but not enough of us and in time we died. We continued pounding on her walls with Trebs, Cata, and Ballista. The Diversionary force in the North was repelled we breached SM a second time and surged in. It took lots of convincing to get our Pugs to the South gate but when we did we were quick to port in our Golems who waited patiently for over an hour inside Kloven for the attack to start. We tore down the walls and charged headlong forward. Maguuma had a very strong ball of men in the center of the field. I Aoe’d and died nearly instantly to them before I could see them render in. I watched as our Golems came spinning into them. I lay on the ground and told our guys to push in hard, flood around them and contain them from all sides. Then Rezzed and charged back. A great and bloody battle was had inside SM Maguuma fought hard to keep her. Darkhaven was victorious. Commanders of note Arishock of RE, Paopao and Original Joker and Hollywood fiend of Icoa. See you on the Battlefields, Exelsior.

I turned on the Darkhaven Commander Icon for the first time tonight and had a blast. It was a great feeling taking camps, and towers with men following me on the field. I’m a Guild member of RE and we are doing our damndest to take points away from Meguuma by taking the fight to their Borderlands hard as we can. I loved when we took AB and I figured with our numbers we could take Garrison as well. Hell no we couldn’t we got to Garrison and got cannoned hard, then went to Dawn’s Eyrie and got pummelled by overwhelming numbers. I wondered hm where did my zerg go that just took AB? It’s difficult as a Commander when the number of forces you have suddenly dwindles and you are outnumbered by the enemy. Maguuma came on strong and took AB back. Then they took Redbriar, and began to treb and catapult our Redwater Tower. The battle at Redwater was epic and somehow we held them for a long time from taking our Tower and Supplycamp. They took the tower and set up at Stargrove and started using 3 trebs to take AH down. While they were trebbing us we took back our tower with a treb of our own. Maguuma took down our wall but never got in. We killed 5 of their trebs tonight and they killed 2 of our golems so good trade. Great fun, See you on the Battlefields, Exelsior!

It sucks spending 10 hours a day upgrading and taking the main keeps and Stonemist everyday only to lose it at night when i’m sleeping.

Having a blast in WVW this week. Was playing my noob thief all day today, so you didn’t see my heavily armored warrior on the field tonight. Worked hard as hell on the Maguuna borderlands for most of the day. After our alliance commanders left and our guild Commanders weren’t logging on had to leave the map. Great job Maguuna defending your Askolonian Hills on your BL. We tried, oh how we tried to take it but didn’t even come close.

At the end of the night we had a hell of a three way Stonemist fight. That was hella fun. And after we got wiped inside Dragonbrand almost took our EB Darkhaven Keep by bringing Golems up through our watergate. We fought em off repaired our keep and I finally called it a night. Great matches guys can’t wait till tomorrow to resume the insanity.

See you on the Battlefields, Exelsior!

Rendering Issues. Other than that this game is fricking awesome!

Just started farming mats to make rare swords to get my precursor
20 lvl 80 rare broadswords= 4 exotic swords, 0: precursor
16 lvl 80 rare Greatswords=1 exotic sword, 0: precursor

I recieved a Honor of Humanity exotic sword which looks like a Roman Gladius and has a superior rage sigil in it. And I also now have an exotic Greatsword to use as well through this method. So i’m pretty hapy with the process so far.

Threnn Airborne from Darkhaven Rethisis guild here. Having a blast tonight. One strong Darkhaven alliance ransacked the Eternal Battlegrounds tonight. ICoa, Cap, and Rethisis loaded up the field and made it over an hour queue to get in. Commanders Ethersin, Arishock, Hollywood fiend, Guardian Joker, and Paopao all did a great job. Both Magunna and Dragonbrand have shown some real fight to them. We fought Maguuna two weeks ago so we know a lot about them and are excited to fight them again. We spent a lot of money and upgraded everything strategically near and dear to us. We dropped a ton of siege down on the map and fought tooth and nail. Taking Maguuna’s Keep was really hard and had some awesome fights there. Loved how Dragonbrand stuffed us when we tried to take their keep. I’ve ran hard for ten hours straight but its time to sleep and I’ll see you on the Battlefields tomorrow, Exelsior!

Great job, I like fighting on an even playing field. Very fun battles all night long.

I want to say bravo to the OTG. This week Rethisis has had sure footing on the Crystal Desert borderlands and everytime we go and attack your Bluebriar Tower, you old fellas came out and chased us away. Had some really fun battles against the OTG at Bluebriar. Good luck to you guys in the future.

Really Seal you come in here and defame Ethersin. You are low man. If you want to be a leader than lead by example. Don’t point fingers and call people names. Rethisis captured Crystal Desert’s orb nearly every night this week and held it for the entire Darkhaven server to gain the buffs off it. RE does not hack, I’ve been here five weeks and have not seen a single hack. Madison and Ethersin worked their tails off five weeks ago to form a massive alliance of Guilds. You did the same. In effect two powerful alliances were formed with the two Alliance leaders not being able to communicate and worse more likely to resort to childish behavior when seeing each other on the same maps. I’ll tell you one thing RE guild hates how much you use Caps Locks. We find it tiring, annoying, and uneccesary. The majority of RE plays during primetime. Head to head with the enemy and we can dominate any one opponent. We get stalled however when we have to fight our war on two fronts at the same time. You come on after Primetime and fight much less enemy and play PvD a much different game. Both are effective.

I am so proud of you Anet for realizing the problem, then acting quickly to neutralize it. Way to go, bravo. I am very impressed.

If the Anet game designers possessed any forsight they would have known how many people would be able to generate enough gold to buy the Commander tag in the first few months would be staggering. And that there would be so many comanders on a map it would become confusing. I have personally told one of the Anet Dev’s that we need to be able to turn tags off that we don’t want to see, we also need to be able to change our guild commanders color so that that we can see it and recognize it quickly on the map. He said these were both great ideas and he’d tell his team them. Commander tag so far is really just another Anet money grab which is kind of sad.

Hello, I really enjoy this game. I spend about 50 hours a week playing WVW on the Darkhaven server. Three times this week I have noticed Orbs getting hacked out of keeps illegally. First one was Crystal Desert getting hacked on day one by a Yakk’s Bend player. The Yak’s commander was so emberassed he convinced his entire map to allow CD to take back the Orb no harm no foul. An incredible display of sportsmanship. Today an orb on the Crystal Desert Map about 6:30 pm was hacked by Yakk’s Bend again. After reset Darkhaven retrieved Orb from the North pedastal and brought it to Shadaran Hills. minutes after we placed it the Orb was hacked in Shadaran. The Hackers strat is to teleport in break the pedastal drop the orb and leave it so it respawns. Anyhow with the Orbs being the most valuable thing in WVW being hacked so easily it ruins the entire WVW experience. Which means the number one thing in your game that keeps subs playing past 80 will upset players due to hacking and you will see less people logging into wvw and then your game. Please do something about people hacking your game in WVW.

Look lets forget that I ever assigned genders to these items. The point is 80% of your player base is going to be boys and most of us want kitten looking weapons. It takes a modeller about a day to make most of these items for use in the game. How did your art lead ever okay these designs? The art in this game is amazing. The character models gorgeous. The Armor sets highly detailed and fantastic. Legendary weapons are the ultimate skins achievable in GW2. These are the most difficult items in game to gain. There are people who have crafted thousands of items to throw into the Mystic Forge in the first two months the game has been alive to get one of these. This is a huge, huge, huge error by your art team. There are people leaving your game with a sour taste in your mouth because of the difficulty in achieving this item. You should reward them with something spectacular. My guild of over a 100 people all looked at the designs one night together. You want feedback, a focus group of mostly male hardcore gamers. Well the feedback is very negative for Shortbow, Pistol, Mace, Longbow, and Horn.

If you transmute your legendary it just becomes a normal exotic without any added effects. After working for hundreds of hours it all becomes a huge waste of time.

I’m a warrior with full toughness build and shield. Theives pop stealth and try to burst me, I block, snare them and feed them pain. They run from me after realizing that they can’t kill me in their first burst. Thieves were way more dangerous in Star Wars, and Warhammer online. I am unafraid of them. Thieves absolutely destroy glass cannon builds in WVW and its their fault they specced that way in the first place. Run little thief, run.
See you on the battlefields, Excelsior!

Seriously people don’t waste so much time and energy following this gamblers dream. There are tons of cool things to do in this game. Don’t let the RNG system be the White Whale that you are forever hunting and depressed over. Best thing in this game is WVW, when you reach 80, beat all the dungeons, get all your exotic sets, and have nothing better to do than farm gold to throw into the Mystic Forge. Come join your server on the battlefields and slay your enemies with all that gear. It’s a huge amount of fun.

This game has been out for just over two months. And look how many of you whine and cry about not having a precursor, which really means not having a Legendary weapon. The ultimate skin in the game to show off and look impressive with. QQ some more. Quit wasting all your time madly devoted to this slavish RNG quest. There are tons of other cool things to do in this game. WVW is awesome, always moving and changing, and is a huge social adventure as you have to learn to work together to succeed. Try bringing your fully decked out toons to the battlefield and benefit your server. Your slavish devotion to this Legendary Quest makes me laugh at all the hundreds of hours of gameplay time you devote and waste to it. Cry some more Final Fantasy Legendaries took years for huge guilds 60 man teams to get for one guy on the team. Get into the battlefields and quite being obsessed over winning the GW2 lottery!

Okay, I saw the Shortbow, Pistol, Focus, and Mace today and thought omg what is this art team thinking this is some really silly, circus, girly, stuff. These Legendary items take literally 400+ hours for a player to work for to get and your art team hands them these girly items to use. I do 3d art and I know it takes about a day at most to make a weapon in a game. Some weapons can be fully modelled, and textured, in hours. Do you see the discrepency? We players spend Months working for these rewards and then they only come in one look and it looks like a My little Pony bow that shoots frigging rainbows and has pink tassles on it, ugh. Please make masculine versions of the girly legendaries so that the men in the room can have some hard edged slaying weapons to bring to the battle that we will feel are so kitten that we will be admired by all other men. Not laughed at because we pulled out our ridiculous pistol in combat that looks like it shoots bubbles instead of bullets. Just trying to make your game better by telling you what the boys want. Today our 100 man vent looked at the legendaries and hated the Shortbow, Longbow, Mace, Pistol, and Horn because they were an affront to our masculinity. Thanks Anet, GW2 is the best game ever!

Well day 2 is over and its been a serious battle so far. Today started off with a few Rethesis guild members on different maps trying to slow down the CD advance. We decided to take three party’s and attack the CD map directly together without any of our Commanders on. We took Redwater camp, then worked on a fully upgraded Redlake Tower. Took the tower while killing some pug CD players that came to defend it. Next took Heroes and lo and behold Original Joker one of Darkhaven’s best Commanders came on and then we took Foghaven, and Shadaran Hills. Once we had hills we had enough of an army to take the orb. I spent about three hours guarding Foghaven until the CD zerg overan us. Which was some fun fighting. Then I spent the rest of the night upgrading, and building seige at SH. Around 8 pm CD came at us with 9 Golems one being an Omega. Melted our North gate, but we destroyed them when they got to inner. Few minutes later CD came at us with 5 golems and again we annihilated them. CD pushed a third time without golems and we killed them all, swept for mesmers, killed the mesmers portallin people in, and finished upgrading our keep. Such good battles in the CD borderlands tonight. Remember CD when Rethisis wants to take an Orb and hold it. We are going to hold it all day and kill any enemy that try to take it from us. Really enjoying the match up, its a shame the other Guilds on Darkhaven can’t hold our Borderlands like they did the last few weeks. See you on the Borderlands, Excelsior!

Have fun today guys, i’ll be back on primetime after i finish my work. I’m a relentless beast and will work for hours to bring Yak’s and CD down. See you on the Battlefields, Exelsior!

Oh boy this week is going to be hella fun. Rethisis guild from Darkhaven stole the orb on Yak’s server and placed it in the bay about 6 pm. Then Darkhaven pulled off the impossible defending Ascencion Bay from the North by the Yakk’s Bend and by the South Crystal Desert. It was so bad that Yakk’s got into our inner keep, killed our guild claimer, broke our Orb stand and then for about twenty more minutes we held the orb and fought off Yak’s from claiming our keep. Meanwhile Crystal Desert took our Fort, then our supply camp, then tore down our South Keep Door and waded in to kill us as well. Darkhaven fought them all off for about 40 minutes killing hundreds upon hundreds of encroaching enemies. The Orb changed hands 4 times before the battle was over. Finally we pushed them out the door, took our camp, and took back our fort. We tried to swim Golems into Garisson that didn’t work. We tried taking Dawns Fort and were repelled again. Yak’s leadership built three trebuchets, with two counter ballistae up by Garrison and proceeded to spend hours bombing Ascension Bay while they took the rest of the map because CD left the borderlands. Nine hours later we still held AB and the Yak’s orb. But now it’s bed time. Really excellent battles tonight, had fun all around. This is going to be an intense and fun week of PVP. And one of the Yak’s dropped an Abyss Dye!

Yak’s Bend get ready on Friday night cause you are going up against Darkhaven and we’ve won four in a row, and taken powerful guilds from our enemies. This last week VIP joined us from Northern Shiver Peaks and they are strong as hell. We have two huge alliances and about 15 commanders ready to lay into you and our other enemy as well. I remember how you outnumbered us when last we fought this time around the numbers will be even, and we will have solid leadership working to take you down. Good luck and see you on the Battlefields!

On Darkhaven we have several solid commanders. Joker, Ethersin, and Yaska are all Commanders who do great jobs.

Friday night was very fun. Meguuma kept us from taking Lowlands for several hours. And at the end of the evening for most of us in the Rethesis Guild RE we finally took her down. Yes, a NSP Guild Leader came into our vent and asked us to form an alliance to, “Teach Meguuma a lesson for exploiting in WVW.” But that said NSP was constantly taking our supply camps and towers. We had a wonderful series of Commanders on the Northern Shiverpeaks map and had a blast. There was a point where we had to take Stone Mist from NSP and break the alliance. The Alliance was ridiculous anyhow because NSP constantly attacked us from the North and split our fronts. I don’t know how many times they took Durios from us, and even at the end of the night when we were focused hardcore on Jerrifer’s they swept down and stole Cloven from us. Anyhow Darkhaven has some very strong alliances and good Commanders. Great battkitten th Friday and Saturday night, i’m having a blast. Welcome to Darkhaven VIP things were much easier with you than against you. But with the addition of VIP our queue times are quite a bit longer now.

PS. I used to play with GOON on Warhammer Online and they have a fun bunch of guys over there.

No, I’m not a bad player. I haven’t done much of the dungeons in this game since they were made more difficult a few weeks ago. My previous experience with dungeons in GW2 was AC story, CM story about 30 times, SE story, TA explorable, Arah Story, and CoF explore. When a silver mob can 2 shot you I definitely have to say that dungeons are set too difficult. When during the first spider boss in AC I spent nearly all the time sitting on my butt because every time i got up i got poisoned, and then either cleansed once and got poisoned soon after and watched all my health tick away. And the boss of course could 1 shot me. Meanwhile I watched the 4 level 80’s I came in with circle the Spider at close range and burn it down. Even some of the level 80’s got downed once or twice. When you have to fear trash mobs because they can 2 shot you there is a problem with the dungeons. I’ve played MMO’s since Everquest, and i’ve always been able to handle the most difficult dungeons in all the games I’ve ever played. This games trash mobs are set too difficult with their huge damage and health. I felt that because I wasn’t level 80 in good gear that I couldn’t contribute or survive enough to feel that I was helping the team instead of hindering it. Very frustrating.

Well developers I dare you to go into one of your own dungeons at the bare level minimum with green and blue gear and try to accomplish it. I think what you have done is set the dungeons up so that players in full rare’s at level 80 are able to accomplish them, but to me that seems excessive. I went into AC explorable at level 37 on my thief. I wear greens and blues my three mates were all level 80’s in solid rare’s and exotics. I died over and over and over again while my mates were able to survive and prosper. However, we still had a very difficult time with the boss fight with the crystals, breeders and skelks because we had one guy set up full tank, all vit and toughness and heavy armor and of course me lvl 37 green and blue guy. The players got very frustrated after several wipes. They couldn’t figure out why their strats weren’t working. I’ll tell you why because the other 20 times they did the dungeon they did with a full team of 80’s in rare’s and exotics. Go ahead I dare you to play your own dungeon and maybe after 30 party wipes you will realize the problem. Bad game design difficulty implementation. A lvl 35 dungeon should be beatable by lvl 35’s not lvl 80s in great gear.