Guild Wars 2

Great fights tonight on BG BL!

Christos de Soufre.3802:

I’d like to apologize on BG’s behalf for GoF wrecking the parade. I didn’t think we had anyone tasteless enough to do that on our server until now. I expected more.

GoF has members who have attended the Yak Parade many times, and the person who used to run it on BG is in GoF. We support the idea to those who want to participate. GoF does not troll the Yak Parade. Tonight is a free night for GoF and we have a group that is roaming right now, this was not something intentional that GoF did. This group will not be attacking the Yak Parade anymore.

UPDATE: We appreciate everyone’s interest and are grateful for those who have join us. We are now ONLY looking for small/medium sized Oceanics (Aussies/Kiwis).

Blackgate, ranked tier 1 in North American WvW, is seeking guilds to provide coverage outside of the NA primetime, before the commencement of the league system. We are seeking active and committed South East Asian, European, and Oceanic guilds and individual players who want to join the server that maintained the lead in WvW points-per-tick, while simultaneously defeating Tequatl in a world first effort.

The core player base of Blackgate has been here since the launch of the game and will continue the fight to be the best server! We gather daily on our community run TS3 to battle enemy forces together. We fight as one server, united; we did not get the nickname Beast Gate without reason.

If you are seeking a server to provide easy wins, look elsewhere. As a community, we gather together regularly in an effort to collectively better ourselves, not as one guild, not as one time zone, but as family. We put in great effort to achieve what we have thus far and are looking for equally skilled players, organized guilds, and strategists to help aid the wonderful community that we call home. Join us on Blackgate.

Website:

• http://www.blackgatewvw.com/

South East Asia Contact:

• Choc Pudding (ChocPudding.6128) – Community Organizer
• Death Dollie (Tenebris.9258)

Europe Contact:

• Skugg (glorius.1235)

North America Contact:

• Riven The Exile (Esoteric.5490)
• Donn Asklepious (Asklepious.6014)
• Hollywood Fiend (Vodka.3958)

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Yeah we’re right there with you, the lag is horrible!

Good Luck Everyone, happy to finally see some new faces

Polismassa.6740:

That would be our commander Natrixx, A.K.A. the “Golden Sunrise Commander”. He actually got challenged to a duel, glove in face style, by a CDS commander too xD.

Anyway, if BG truly is a sinking ship (which i’m not entirely convinced of) then it sucks to see you go. There were a lot of guilds that i had a good time fighting on BG. HB, GoF and KnT come to mind, but there were many others. If you end up deciding on a new home, good luck.

GoF is here to stay on Blackgate come rain or shine

Rawnoodles.1398:

Fantastic kick-off this week.

Enjoyed fighting against GoF & FEAR today on JQB. On behalf of EMP, we had a fantastic evening!

Be looking forward to seeing pastime guilds like TSYM and the newly anticipated AFS on the field!

Yeah, it was some of the best fights I’ve seen in a while. Great great fun in JQ BL last night!

SpitFire.4690:

Been WvW +14hours straight!! ahhh! goodnight everyone! great reset night.. [RISE] had lots of fun defending at kaineng borderland.. bringing back to back zerg from TC and Blackgate.. id like to thank GoF and LW for constant zerging! you gave one hell of a show then [Urge] came in for euro time.. and it was gg.. so IMA GO TO SLEEP!! night!

Always a Pleasure Jarvin, We still scream in map chat “balls deep” in remembrance of you

Best of luck to everyone this week!!! Looking forward to even more great battles ahead!

Best of luck to everyone this week!

Update as of 11:05 pm server time (PST)

Here is the update as of 5:31 pm server time (PST)

Good luck everyone!

Great job FA tonight. We’ve been on that map since map reset and you guys took back your borderlands with a vengeance, haha!

Good luck to all Servers!

Good luck to everyone this week! Hopefully CD isn’t too full on Turkey, Ham, Sweets and Casseroles! Had a lot of fun tonight and looking forward to the nights to come!

pdfrod.1948:

Discussion about Simin already going on here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Arah-dungeon-seers-path-is-impossible-to-finish

Yes, as I’ve read through most of this and I didn’t see anything on the theory of there being an actual mechanic to the fight. No where on the internet discusses the theory of an actual intended mechanic to the fight. Only a brute force take down. Which is why I created a new thread. Because I still believe that those animations appearing around 1, 3, or 5 circles mean something be it with or without the interact button. So I would think this covers a different topic than I’ve found in that forum. But ty for your suggestion.

Ok, I have checked everywhere for more information about this and there is none anywhere, hence the reason I am making this post. If you look while you are fighting her, the Corrupted High Priestess of Dwayna, there are certain circles (where the sparks are to be returned) that are glowing purple with shields around them and some that are not. There is also an interact button on the back of the center stone. What is the purpose of the Purple Animation switching between those circles and even sometimes going between 1-5?

• Could there be a pattern with this that makes this fight far simplar
• Possibly only having to put in how ever many orbs it suggests (1 or 3) instead all 5
• Could put the sparks in the ones without the shield animation
• You could have to put the exact orbs it is selecting by the direction those return circles are pointing

Another key point in all of this is that pesky interact button on the back… what exactly is it’s purpose in all of this. If you do one of these right maybe it takes hitting the interact button to work?

I’m very curious about all of these reasons because think about it. Anet doesn’t always just go “hey guys you are doing this wrong” they always like people to discover it on their own and there has to be a reason for those animations to keep switching every-time you put the orbs in. My group got tired or I would of loved to of tested it. Does anyone else have any theories on this?

Keep in mind I have not completed this fight yet.

Or is this fight literally just simply a brute force fight? If so that is disappointing.

Great great fun tonight, keep up the good fights! Map reset night is always the most anticipated, but now I can’t wait to see what the rest of the week has to offer!

Hey guys, Guild leader of GoF here. Aliases.8354 was a member of GoF over a month ago named Conflict. He was removed from the guild for causing drama and saying some very rude inappropriate things in guild chat with a very crude sense of humor and has sense sought out revenge on us for removing him.

We are new to Crystal Desert as of today as the WvW on Darkhaven was dying. This is the first time we’ve ever transferred servers and did not leave because of losing the past 4 weeks but for the reason that the WvW community is virtually gone. Our policy is to stay where we pick as long as the WvW community is alive. The people from Crystal Desert were very welcoming to us and we are very happy to be here.

As far as exploiting, we do not stand by exploiting in any sense. Our mission statement is public on our website for any and all to see.

GoF is willing to work with any and all people on Crystal Desert in the direction of benefiting the server in WvW.

We are sorry conflict, as things did not work out for you in our guild. However, we do still wish you the best in your journey.

at 11:47 pm server time

Plok.6145:

Dont remember the tag, im too tired but DH has one guild who are 50 wherever they go, it’s nuts.

That might of been us, GoF, only because I remember seeing a lot of Goat tonight in Darkhaven Borderlands. We were shouting in vent: “Kill the Goat men!” haha. If not it was probably RE or WE.

Just in general to everyone: I wish all 3 servers the best this week and for us all to keep this a friendly competition!

From what I’ve discussed with solo it was just a hypothetical situation on if the 24 hour coverage of Darkhaven + Dragonbrand were to happen.

Just to clarify any confusion, GoF has no intentions on moving away from Darkhaven. We’ve been on Darkhaven since launch and would hate to leave our Home. Everyone is going to have a tough lineup every once in a while, as is the wonderful dynamics of WvW, but sticking with your server and fighting for it is what makes it home.

This staff should be the skin of a legendary staff. It’s awesome (although i can see it’s appeal even more because of how hard it is to get) I really hope Anet makes an official statement on it sometime. Although doubt they will it builds hype

I personally love the idea of the laser! There could be a lot more implemented into WvW and idea like this would make it much more strategic and take more away from the zerg mentality. Very creative!

Littlefeather.8623:

Talking about arrogance, Ethersin does not run around in a lv 15 PvE area with his top armor off rallying people on him. Seal is no where to be found, our commanders have abandoned us (some), and from what I seen, RE is the only collective guild putting in 8-12 hours a day in WvW on a daily basis. Other guilds try, but it seems like they loose morale too quick and wont stay the long fight. Even GoF, we had a chance to defend SH lastnight in FA BL, but as soon as things got hard they started to loose patience and eventually left. Not RE, and not Ethersin, and your hero Seal has been a no show this whole matchup, alot of people show no heart and have no b@lls to loose. Say what you want about Ethersin, but we will not abandon DH, we will not quit WvW because were getting our faces rolled. No matter how much of a brick wall Ethersin runs into he wont quit and he wont let us quit. Because if we do how many other collective guilds will do what we do? We do have some good commanders in DH, Acium and Yaska come to mind, and more as well, but how many will keep their commander tag on when things get rough?Even I was curious about Seal, but Ethersin talks on the battlefield, I have not seen Seal show up once for this face rolling mathcup.

Ethersin does not force people to show up in WvW for certain time slots, and will not yell at his guildies for WvW matters. Ethersin leads RE by example and runs supply just like any one and is never even assertive in vent. Yet we still remain here dong the best we can for this server like clockwork, where is HVN, where is your hero you speak so highly of?

Wow littlefeather I am rather surprised at some of your comments here. On a note of saying how RE is the only collective guild, GoF has worked with RE multiple times and even tonight was one of those where together both guilds accomplished much. We held off Fort Aspenwood and even worked with RE to take the garrison a couple of times. Fort Aspenwood borderlands was the only map that had so much progression due to our two guilds working together tonight. As for mentioning last night we were asked to come and help out on the map as a call to arms with RE. Once RE members started leaving and abandoning ship due to a commander taking a break to eat dinner we thought it would be best on another map since the numbers were dwindling. As to address your time spent, there are nights where GoF spends 14 hours or more in WvW straight with members coming and going.

GoF has been called by multiple guilds one of the three or four main powerhouses on the server and trying to discredit a guild in anyway hurts the server as a whole especially on public forms.

GoF will continue to work with everyone on Darkhaven and be there for the server itself including RE even with your incompetence. I even like to call Ethersin one of my personal friends in the mmo community. I like to stay out of unnecessary drama that is created however when it comes to allegations that you have no knowledge of against my guild I see the need to correct them.

I would still like to see the orbs brought back to bring more people to the borderlands (because they are dwindling) But have the orbs to have a different buff. Say give it the outmanned buff and maybe the addition of increased badges of honor drops for each orb (you could use to replenish you siege supply with this) you have and give the outmanned buff the previous orb buff.

At this point i just feel like there does need to be something to keep bringing people out to the borderlands and this could do that without favoring the already winning. Just a thought.

Steb I’m kind of in the exact same boat you are. I loved my condition build scepter dagger especially with epidemic but more and more i’m finding myself mostly using my staff instead of conditions. My current build is 30/20/20/0/0. So i’m thinking about switching to staff for towers / keeps / zergs and dagger dagger for the 1v1… however i’m really interested to see what people say about this. I’m interested in every aspect. Runes / Builds / Traits / Specific Gear / Sigils / every single aspect. I’ve toyed around with it but just am struggling with find the sweet spot for WvW yet. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated

it has been mentioned a thousand time but it should be mentioned a thousand and one times because it is needed that badly!!!

I have mixed feelings about it.

On one hand it brings a lot less people to the borderlands which I think is a very bad thing. Before it was a global strategy on all four maps, now the strategy is focused on one map for the entire server for the most part. (I’m not saying the entire server focuses one map now I’m saying guilds planned attacks based on where other guilds were at the time to achieve the most optimum out come for the orbs / points) now it’s focused on just capping.

On the other hand having the orbs did favor the already winning. Which is a horrible design.

With this being said I do not understand why the same stats that the orb gave you is not applied to the under-maned buff instead of the + karma experience and magic find. If the orbs increased the amount of magic find karma and experience than that just seems more fair especially if you tied in the badges of honor drop rate to the amount of orbs you have. It would benefit the server to have the orbs through purchasing more siege with them but it wouldn’t be directly like the stats were.

Its the only solution I can see at the moment to have the orbs mean something and to bring more people back into the borderlands and not so strongly favor the already winning.

Hey guys, I would just like to make a simple response to the idea of “Darkhaven being poor sports.”

I honestly believe that this idea is caused by just a couple of people. I know this match so far has honestly been one of the most fun I’ve played in since launch. Specifically because of how close the matches are happening. Every server out there is going to have hackers and the only one I have personally heard of during this match is the speed hack. That was one guy only and should not reflect the server. Therefore from my stand point the battles have been extremely fair on all accounts. GoF has had a great time in WvW this week and will continue to do so.

As for the post on Darkhaven trying to form an alliance with NSP against Maguuma in a previous match, Many of the large good Darkhaven WvW guilds out there did not participate in this. Fighting is going to happen and you are handed the card you are dealt with. To pair up with another server and focus one down is just not good sportsman like conduct and I feel like most of Darkhaven realizes this now. I do believe that you are accurate in saying that this was probably a small group but a very loud one. But know that most did not do this and the few that did I doubt will do it again.

Lastly I would just like to add that Darkhaven has received many compliments in the past of how we are a very fun server to fight against because we are always pushing back and are fair. I would like to extend that same compliment to Maguuma just because we’ve played with you before and know you guys. Now you have to keep in mind that when we were first in a battle with you guys it was the first time Darkhaven had come across many strategies that we had never seen before. So some naieve people might resort to claiming its a hack however 99% see it as an enjoyable challenge. And to Dragonbrand you guys gave us a tough time on your borderlands tonight and did a great job doing so!

I’ve looked forward to signing on and hopping into WvW every day this week and will continue to. Stay dignified Darkhaven and Keep Strong!

I completely agree with the moving the primary 5 skills around. Say have it unlockd and just drag them. Don’t allow other skills to be placed their but just move those around that are allocated with that weapon. Say the 2 handed weapons move all 5 around and single handed weapons just move within those 3 or 2 slots each.

However I disagree with the whole letting the healing abilities or the elite abilities be replaced. A lot of gw2 focuses around self healing and that would create an imbalance and bring it back more focused to the “trinity” designs.

Yeah i completely agree, first it would only be a temporary buff say 24 hours, or even just 5 hours for when the wvw events are going and if you didn’t want to participate in it you always have the option to not represent the guild.

I think even 5% could work doesn’t have to be as high as 10%

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

kick from guild option shouldn’t be in the “right click in party” menu.

it should be available only in guild menu.

reason is it can be confused with kick from party easily.

I can’t tell you how many times i’ve accidentally done this… even to guild officers haha. Made me feel like crap but of course they just got right back in. But i do agree it should only be accessible from the guild page.

A guild member last logged on is greatly needed. My guild has to keep an excel spreadsheet of the people to clean out people who don’t get on anymore and having 400 members it is not an easy task. It is actually something that I think is needed rather soon!

if anet would do it even from the full monster coin drop then guildies get 90% and the 10% goes to the treasure trove that would be great as well.
Good Suggestion!

One of the most costly things in this game deals with WvW and doing keep upgrades and buying siege (if you are out of Badges of Honor). To upgrade a keep from base to max it is over 6 gold of which can be taken in a matter of minutes. This is so costly that many guilds do no even pay for the upgrades just out of fear for losing all that they poured into it which could be very bad for the server.

One idea that me and some friends came up with is to have a system that the money loot that guildies gain from drops add +10% of the money to their loot and that is taken and automatically deposited into the guild treasure trove. So the guildies will still be gaining 100% of money drops but the extra 10% is directly and automatically deposited into the guild treasure trove. This could be applied only through an influence guild buff. The influence buff could cost 2,000 – 5,000 influence, take a week to build the buff and only be active for 24 hours. This would not affect the economy nor WvW in a negative light due to the fact that we already have +10% magic find that last 3 days which helps increase profits of individual guildies. With requiring high amounts of influence or long build ques it takes away from some of the guilds Fort buffs. It creates an even better balance between having it focused on the guilds to upgrade keeps and help with siege to better the server.

Any thoughts, ideas, or alterations are greatly appreciated. I hope everyone stays on topic and please no trolling.

Gwal.2813:

I know what they said about the servers. But that’s not the case. I tried it on Vizunah (FR) and it was a IP localized in Texas.

There can be 2 different datacenters located in the exact same location doesn’t mean they are the same.

Gwal.2813:

All servers are actually in a the same datacenter in Texas, including the EU ones.
You can type /ip in game to see the actual IP of your server.

That’s why I think a solution of having two ladders (International worldwide ladder / EU local ladder) is realistic and doable : it’s just about reorganizing things and won’t frustrate anyone.

“There will be 3 major regional designations for the release of Guild Wars 2:

Europe: Defined as Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Players in these regions connect to the European datacenter.

North America: Defined as Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Players in these regions connect to the North American datacenter.

Other: All countries not already listed above will connect to the North American datacenter"

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-world-of-choice-the-regions-of-guild-wars-2/

NA has had people playing at night since the beginning. I don’t call them night cappers because Whose night is it? My night is not the Australians night. Our servers are going 24/7 stuff is always getting taken but it’s been that way since the beginning.

Tygra.4570:

Asklepious.6014:

is that not the purpose of dynamic. to adapt?

Either way, once Anet finishes Guesting hopefully in the next 3 weeks free server transfers will be stopped so it won’t be something you will have to worry about any more.

Oh i worry about transfer costing money while Desolation still has this huge American population. That would mean no more competition for the EU rank 1. I guess you didn’t think about that.

Well curious though wasnt that all because of one guild? And I do feel bad for you guys. My guild even had people for EU trying to recruit us on our websites forums to the EU servers. I know it’s not a good nor easy thing to deal with. My point was that it is already being worked on and trying to be prevented from happening again in the future with the free server transfers stopping. And do you really think that guild is going to have fun in World Vs Keep Doors? I mean thats got to get old after awhile. I really don’t see it lasting

Last thing I’m going to say in the matter is that you can’t fix what’s already happened. So try to find solutions instead of trying to focus on changing the past.

Did you read my entire post jaxom… it’s already from multiple countries with very differnt time zones. Especially in NA more so than EU. NA has Australian players. Also 3ish more weeks and it will be over I don’t understand what the big deal is because in a way it’s already being dealt with. No more free server transfers soon.

is that not the purpose of dynamic. to adapt?

Either way, once Anet finishes Guesting hopefully in the next 3 weeks free server transfers will be stopped so it won’t be something you will have to worry about any more.

If you don’t like the WvW jump puzzle than go do the PvE ones. It’s in WvW therefore there is going to be PvP

kerex.8150:

Hi,

my previous thread has been erased because of the “non petition rule” stuff.

So i’ll say it clear and simple : please A-Net, block NA->EU and EU->NA guild transfers.

THIS is not what you promised us before releasing the game.

GW2 was supposed to have 2 separate timezones and ladders but it’s nonsense if we have massive migrations of US guilds to EU servers or EU to NA, and for country-tagged servers [SP] [DE] [FR] this is going to be their death as competitive servers.

Please, clarify and tell us what you have in mind about that.

You do realize that there are 2 data centers. One for EU and the other one covers the rest of the world. Meaning NA, Brazil, Australia, even parts of Asia if I’m not mistaken. So not sure if you know or not but all of those have very different time zones. It’s the servers obligation to set up and recruit people to the server in your off hours. WvW is supposed to be dynamic (always changing) if you just have it set so only people from one time zone gets on that would get very boring after awhile. Most people don’t like more of a challenge but I know I sure do.

And I still don’t understand what you meant by what Anet promised… they promised not to hold your hand and for it to be dynamic and we knew in beta of these 2 data centers and how the “regions / timezones of the world” were going to be paired.

The only part of camping that is really frustrating to me is when people camp the arena room. There was a mesmer constantly using his portal here and it made me think … wouldn’t it be cool if enemies could use the mesmer portal too. That would prevent those tricky little [bleeps] from being able to do that. Anet think about it! You could even make it exclusive to jump puzzles, or not.

@Duleshna.7430 That would be freaking awesome! What a brilliant idea! I hope anet sees that suggestion.

Dragonbrand and Maguuma put up great fights tonight! Some of the most fun I’ve had in WvW in awhile. GoF and WE worked great together on the map securing the Dragonbrand borderlands. Epic fights at the bay keep. Wish I had fraps or screenshots from it. If anyone does please link it especially the ROS. Good job to everyone that helped!

Can darkhaven please keep server politics to themselves. All of the other servers out there does not need to read about the inner fightings between guilds (of which there shouldn’t be any). As I’ve always said matters like this should be handled privately. Flame wars from both parties back and forth never solve anything.

As both guilds know GoF stays neutral and we will continue to with friends on both sides but something has to be said at a point when this conflict is starting to publicly hurt the overall integrity and the name of the server. It is not needed and not desired.

Now back to the topic at hand. Good job CD and YB I look forward to future battles with both of your servers! It was a great experience in which broke Darkhaven’s winning streak and taught us all many lessons. May Darkhaven learn from this in the battles to come!

yeah kisses i agree, it’s just that i feel like when the legendaries were designed that they were designed towards specific classes in mind (if they were or were not i do not know) however that is almost how it seems. I just wish there was One designed with the necro in mind. Something dark / undead or even something with some green animations coming off of it or something that the necro could use and it look like it actually belongs to a necro.