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Food for thought for ArenaNet

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BLKNovember.5620

Not a GvGer myself, but I do have huge respect for those who do it. +1

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Community Standards - Mass Server Transfers

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There are servers that actively go out and look for transfers, this is true.

Being on FA, we’ve received and we’ve lost guilds. It didn’t really matter whether or not we paid for them.

When we absorbed IoJ’s OCX guilds the first time, it wasn’t because we paid them, or went after them. My guild was FA’s OCX, we were pretty much all it had during that time. We didn’t have enough to beat Crystal Desert, but neither did IoJ. Eventually leaders from IoJ’s OCX started asking us about FA. Those guilds later had a meeting and eventually decided to move over to FA. We didn’t have gold to offer them, but they felt that FA had good players, but just didn’t have the numbers to stay competitive.

What I learned from that was that people burn out. The IoJ guilds for one reason or another didn’t want to be on that server anymore and together as a community decided that moving was the best option for their guilds. With FA having an established community and a large guild like mine already covering a time zone that those guilds played in, it meant for them that they could play without worrying about having to carry the server because of a weak time zone or an unstable community.

At the end of the day, people are going to do what they feel is best for their guild. When FA got stuck in leagues and was getting smashed by HoD from their huge bandwagon period, it was really bad. FA got really bad. Everyone was burned out, morale was low, the community was shaky at best, and my guild, being one of the largest at the time, was seriously considering leaving since our play style did not reflect what was possible during that period. If we reached out to another server and they were willing to accept us, no matter if the transfer was paid for or not, we probably would have moved.

This happens everywhere, not just FA, tier 1, tier 2, or so on. It really doesn’t matter if you “buy” guilds, chances are, those guilds would have left for their own reasons eventually. Paying for them just makes it easier for everyone, but that doesn’t make it an easy decision either.

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Spawn camping at it's worst

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Well, when everything else is yours, spawn is where the fights are at. There are other exits, but people choose to fight anyways. Someone else posted and clearly elaborated more on what exactly happened. We don’t make it so every single spawn is blocked, and we most certainly do not have a queue on every map in a match up like this. EB is always queue’d however because Bannok is usually there, or RAIN whenever they decide to rally. If you keep coming out of your spawn to fight us, I assume it’s because you want the challenge, if not then there are very simple solutions to avoiding the bag farm. We got a very stupid RNG roll, but even then you’d still have to deal with a server with higher numbers, and if not you’re steam rolling another server and will eventually find yourself doing this exact same thing because your guild needs something to do. I have much respect for SBI, Bannok, and all the other commanders who manage to muster a zerg even in a match up like this, but things like this are going to happen because there just isn’t anything else to do.

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LF WvW guild

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Check out the guilds here: http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/
WS and TLC specifically run in the time you play. And we recently got a transfer for that time slot as well that could use some people.

They’re not too big, and are pretty friendly.

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EoTM Matches Being "Fixed"? *Updated*

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

How dare they try to karma train more effectively on a map that is now essentially only karma train?! pls ban.

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A window of neutrality in WvW for mapping.

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Honestly, just be involved in your server’s WvW community. Learn and grow with them and hell maybe even lead. Do some good, don’t be selfish. I’m on the same boat that I need to do map completion for my legendary, but I much rather tag up and lead the charge than spam the commander asking if we could cap it, which btw happens quite often even now.

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Tournament pricing ended May 30th

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BLKNovember.5620

We are indeed stuck in a strange place for post season.

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FA/TC/MAG week 3

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BLKNovember.5620

Just finished commanding EB after several hours. Thank you STUN and PYRO for the great fights and keeping us on our toes. Especially the fight at Rogue’s, forcing us to fight our way out through a crowd of TC into the dredge tunnels or get sandwiched. Has actually been a great night for FA in EB. Keep up the fight Mag and TC!

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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BLKNovember.5620

You guys got beaten up by a T3 server…..again…

Tiers aren’t even a thing anymore.

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2844d01.png

Interesting.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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BLKNovember.5620

Z’s role these days seems to be nothing more than trolling Fort Aspenwood. Sad how the mighty have fallen.

I can understand why.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

You guys got beaten up by a T3 server…..again…

Tiers aren’t even a thing anymore. Anyways, the big guilds are on holiday, all we have is one milita of 40 people at most for all the BL’s. I expected it to be a slow week. And it is. Winning is out of our reach this week, but at least the fights are still good.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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BLKNovember.5620

That video has at least 5-6 months old, it was the first time Tyrion face AGG, thats why he’s so excited.

Now Tyrion was the one who asks AGG to battle over there, he was saying to a guildmate who has friends in AGG to go in that direction, because he want to face them.
He lose but as you can see in the video he dont care, he just want to fight more and more, thats why we love him so much.

The actual Tyrion its much much much more organized to command.

But its really funny to see how much people desired him now. I still remember when he start in APS, he was the leader behind the leader, he plays more from the darkness and never try to be a Famous Commander, Delune and Tyrion was the true leaders on that guild.

When APS split Tyrion go to RQ and learn a lot from Novus Y, and when RQ go to JQ Tyrion stay in FA and created [BOMB]

Its very funny see people talk about him, even when he is on vacations and he is not comming back until January.

I’ve known Tyrion since I started commanding, but Z was my friend, I knew his style of commanding, and he was great at it. I don’t see how you can condone the tearing apart of a community, you didn’t say anything about him but the message is clear. No wonder he left FA.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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BLKNovember.5620

Lol is this your guild? A “perfect portal bomb” is when you lose 5 people and don’t kill a single enemy? rofl

See the other tag on the map there? That was me. They were so busy with NV that they didn’t even bother to defend the tower from us. We ended up breaching the wall and taking the tower before SoS had any idea what was happening while they were fighting NV.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Please do not mistake Tyrions ego and ignorance as the opinion of all of FA.

Most people think hes a joke, and the ones that are nice to him are just scared that he will stop commanding our EU timezone if they don’t kiss his kitten.

On a side note: Thank you for the fun fights this week PYRO, STUN, Ark, Azn, VR. Our raids this week have actually been fun because you guys don’t run into towers like Yaks Bend and SBI do.

This is why we can’t have nice things, like a winning week. Seems like our commanders are more willing to attack each other rather than the other servers.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Interesting. When FA beat TC last week it was because of their superior organization and outstanding open field fighting skills.

Now with FA in 2nd place…its because of 2 v 1.

Some things never change.

We were more organized than we usually are. If we’re losing now it’s because we have little presence. At most I’ve seen one 40 man zerg for all BL’s. No matter how good they may be, that’s not going to be enough. I don’t know about double teaming, I’d say we wouldn’t be able to respond to just one side at full strength. It’s the holidays after all. Not going to force people to play.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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BLKNovember.5620

My response could have been perceived as rude, and I get the angle you’re taking. “Mmmmmm, the guy talking about sportsmanship was rude, oooo baby I’m going to jump on this chance to prove his hypocrisy! Mom, can you bring the lotion down? My hands are dry.”

However, it was the perfect word for the occasion, since two posts with arguments seemingly went unread, or were simply used as a soapbox to preach the same repetitive gospel about how bads and sensitives ruin everyone’s fun. I also wanted to let him know that I wasn’t going to respond to any more of his posts, since the conversation was already vacuous after 2.

@Tricare: A few things

1. Tyrion’s style of commanding is the reason why I absolutely refuse to ever join the FA Teamspeak. I acknowledge it is the best idea to effectively run with a zerg, but I only use zergs as means to find fights, really. I’ve heard a similar sentiment expressed from others. We can’t keep people from tagging up and finding a following, regardless of their methods. Just know that not all of us think it’s…. good.

2. No, I’m not suggesting that professionals don’t smack talk. I specifically mentioned high-school, but that isn’t even the point, really. After a professional game, often the players walk across the field and congratulate one another, hug, pat cheeks, etc. I see the forums as the “after-party”, where you come when the game is over. How many times do you see a post-game interview where the player was like “Yeah, their defensive line kept cheating, but the refs wouldn’t call it. I’m going to send them video footage so hopefully they do something about it”, or “Yeah they are a really bad team, we owned them”, or “They aren’t good, we’d beat them for sure if it wasn’t for <insert excuse here>”. You don’t.

The smack talk happens on the field. The appropriate analogy to this situation is in-game when you’re lining up for a fight. If I could, I’d yell choice bits over to people standing on walls or hiding in guards. I’d taunt zergs to see if I could pull a few over to me. I’d try to pull them off of their game and into a disadvantageous situation to help my server/me win a fight/cap a location/etc. Professionals try to get under each other’s skin to gain an emotional advantage that they can use to win the game. But from what I can tell, they leave it in-game.

Unfortunately, we don’t have the opportunity to chat with each other in-game, so I guess people just have to use this subforum to vent their frustration. And that IS what it often is.

I’d even probably be more OK with it if many of the posts had any hint of respect at any point. Or if they were clever at all. The “we owned you” “no we owned you” “you’re exploiting” “no you’re exploiting” has been literally going on for over a year. Is that not insane to you? The Code of Conduct violations notwithstanding, I’d close this subforum for a lack of originality.

Ugh, this post is too long. I went to run errands halfway through, and it’s too long for even me to go back and read. Oh well.

TL;DR – I’m having fun fighting you folks, please stop dodging for no real reason and unintentionally ruining my Corrupt Boons, if you see me bow to you it’s because I respect something I saw you do, if you see me laugh it’s because I think what’s happening is funny (not because I’m mocking you).

Tyrion offers a form of commanding that most people don’t mind. If you don’t like it, there are other commanders on TS, not just him. We range from commanders like Tyrion, micro managing the group, to commanders like me, that just go around in loose groups with little orders mostly going for fights and smaller objectives. I don’t like the micro managing zerg commanders do, but at times it is appropriate, still it’s not a good reason to boycott TS.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Tyrion – Best commander on NA servers. Hands down.

I’ve never followed him, but that is absolutely amazing.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

On an unrelated note, join the dirty roleplaying pirate carebears of TC as they hunt for the lost treasure of Stephen Bonetti Brolbooty Bootybert’s Bootylicious Booty this Christmas!

Oh my goodness, this made my night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbdflriheIM

This is quite possibly the best post I have ever seen.

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11/8 FA/EB/IoJ

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

IOJ schooled FA tonight in keep defense in EB. Frankly, I’m mostly just proud of IOJ. We were disorganized and running multiple tags most of the night. FA is already in the karma train mentality and is getting soft I think. We had the map queued, and IOJ had (I’m guessing) 30 people on the map? Great job IOJ.

FA could be in for some rude awakenings once leagues are over and we’re at a population disadvantage again.

You seem to be forgetting that this is FA’s 8177168th week into leagues and the only server even close to a legitimately equal opponent we met in battle was SBI. You expect us to take every aspect of these match ups seriously? I don’t expect you to understand, but we’ve been frustrated with how little amount of competition we are getting, I am not an offensive commander, I have never been, yet I was in EB last night attacking a keep, what does that say to you? And that little comment about you being there when we fought BG, but not me? PRO has been in FA since the start, and so have I. I’ve been there commanding in FA BL since we were getting smashed by CD, TC, and YB because we just didn’t have the coverage. I was there before the IoJ transfers that gave us the numbers we needed to stay competitive, and I will be there even when the server begins to die, if it ever does. I admit, I was out of my element, doing something I don’t usually do, but at least I tried and learned from it. I do not, however, appreciate tagless CORE members throwing down siege keeping us from building what we need to get built, you were in our TS, we see your names. And I do not appreciate you making assumptions and starting something when you have no prior knowledge about me or my guild. You can come back with a better attitude about things and try to work as a team, or leave the server because if you can’t then it’s clearly not for you.

Woah. Hold on there dude. No need to get all worked up. Yes its the middle of silver league and we are stomping left and right. But that doesn’t change the fact that FA has gotten a little sloppy. Thats fine. Happens to everyone in matches like this. I’m sorry CORE has been going a little stir crazy but like you said, does it really matter? We have history with IoJ. That happens too.

Vis was making an observation and complimenting IoJ on their defense. They are taking advantage of FA just as FA takes advantage of higher tier servers I imagine.

Yes CORE hasn’t been here long but we are having a great time of it and appreciate what FA has got interms of guilds and community. Its great stuff. So I’m sorry that we have upset you. Keep up the good work.

I can appreciate his forum post, I know they may have some foundation and reason. I was there, I understand. And IoJ did pull off a great defense, there is no doubt in that. I simply do not think his comments and attitude in map chat were warranted.

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11/8 FA/EB/IoJ

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

IOJ schooled FA tonight in keep defense in EB. Frankly, I’m mostly just proud of IOJ. We were disorganized and running multiple tags most of the night. FA is already in the karma train mentality and is getting soft I think. We had the map queued, and IOJ had (I’m guessing) 30 people on the map? Great job IOJ.

FA could be in for some rude awakenings once leagues are over and we’re at a population disadvantage again.

You seem to be forgetting that this is FA’s 8177168th week into leagues and the only server even close to a legitimately equal opponent we met in battle was SBI. You expect us to take every aspect of these match ups seriously? I don’t expect you to understand, but we’ve been frustrated with how little amount of competition we are getting, I am not an offensive commander, I have never been, yet I was in EB last night attacking a keep, what does that say to you? And that little comment about you being there when we fought BG, but not me? PRO has been in FA since the start, and so have I. I’ve been there commanding in FA BL since we were getting smashed by CD, TC, and YB because we just didn’t have the coverage. I was there before the IoJ transfers that gave us the numbers we needed to stay competitive, and I will be there even when the server begins to die, if it ever does. I admit, I was out of my element, doing something I don’t usually do, but at least I tried and learned from it. I do not, however, appreciate tagless CORE members throwing down siege keeping us from building what we need to get built, you were in our TS, we see your names. And I do not appreciate you making assumptions and starting something when you have no prior knowledge about me or my guild. You can come back with a better attitude about things and try to work as a team, or leave the server because if you can’t then it’s clearly not for you.

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11/8 FA/EB/IoJ

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

I rather this thread not become an argument about which side is better or who had more people in a fight. Remember you are representing your server, your guild, and yourself. Act like it.

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11/8 FA/EB/IoJ

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Oh man, the fights in FA BL. Had a blast. Keep it up, everyone.

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11/8 FA/EB/IoJ

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Thanks E Bay for the fights. I’ve had an absolute blast fighting you guys, and tonight got me out there commanding for first time in months. Keep it up! Same goes for IoJ, stay strong out there, and have fun!

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WvW Happy Fun Time With Music!

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BLKNovember.5620

Nice, I’ll check some of your sets out tonight. Love Soundcloud! Here’s my current set for sPvP or WvW. Kind of went a bit ADD on this one, but have a few other sets I’m still building as well.

https://soundcloud.com/zona-eshe/sets/pvpmix1

Cool, cool. I’ll certainly check it out when I have the chance.

If anyone else would like to share their music here, go right ahead!
Also, just an update: https://soundcloud.com/blknovember/sets/fastforward
(Total Songs: 14 Total Time: 1 Hour 3 Minutes)

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WvW Happy Fun Time With Music!

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

I listen to electronic rooms with Plug.dj via my browser while i play.

I used to do that as well, but recently Plug.dj started bugging out for me a lot for some reason. I’m assuming it’s my connection, for the most part.

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WvW Happy Fun Time With Music!

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

I don’t know about anyone else, but when I WvW I like to have music playing in the background (Not the in game music, it’s awesome, buuut…repetitive.) So with that in mind I set out to create a playlist that would fit the fast paced combat that comes with being an elementalist! I ended up making many, so I wanted to share, and see if any of you would like something like this. Anyways here they are!

https://soundcloud.com/blknovember/sets/fastforward
(Genre: Electronic/Dance Total songs: 6 Total Time: 32 Minutes)<—-Still Updating
https://soundcloud.com/blknovember/sets/hip-hop
(Genre: Underground Hip-Hop/Instrumentals Total Songs: 50 Total Time: 3 Hours 12 Minutes)
https://soundcloud.com/blknovember/sets/escape
(Genre: Electronic/Dubstep Total Songs: 50 Total Time: 3 Hours 48 Minutes)
https://soundcloud.com/blknovember/sets/liquid
(Genre: Liquid Drum & Bass Total Songs: 50 Total Time: 3 Hours 51 Minutes)
https://soundcloud.com/blknovember/sets/chill
(Genre: Melodic/Electronic/Chillstep Total Songs: 50 Total Time: 3 Hours 53 Minutes)
https://soundcloud.com/blknovember/sets/electronic
(Genre: Melodic/Electronic/Chillstep/Liquid Drum & Bass Total Songs: 54 Total Time:4 Hours 14 Minutes)

Also, I don’t know about you guys, but my internet is terrible so sometimes I find some of the songs stop and won’t play. To fix this, just click on the song in the playlist, then refresh, it should play automatically.

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Please show some respect..

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

I disagree with you. Frustration is a legit excuse. I don’t care what you would do. Bow down and show respect for your authority figure. I will stand here and continue protesting.
Respect is earned through action.

lol

Yes, Devon Carver as an ‘authority figure’. You brave martyr.

Devon’s entitled to some basic respect as a human being trying to do his job.. ‘I feel I’m not being catered to in my practically-free hobby’ is not and never will be a reason for personal attacks.

I am not being persecuted. I did not claim that I was. I do appreciate the brave compliment though. The issue is failure to deliver service. Service is no longer adequate.

Wrong. Devon isn’t entitled. You are entitling him with respect he/she hasn’t earned. He is “trying” to do his job? That isn’t good enough. What else ya’ got? If you don’t like people being angry with Devon stop using the forums? It will not stop until service improves.

You don’t like it when people challenge neglectful developers “people doing their jobs” do you? This might be the wrong hobby for you Shoe.5821.

Sure, respect is earned, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to make it as hard as possible for someone to help me. I’m not going to be completely unreasonable to every little thing because someone hasn’t “proven” themselves. I don’t understand how you think an attitude like that would ever be constructive. This isn’t an argument of opinion, this is an argument of morals. You may feel good being as difficult as possible, others don’t. With that said, I can understand where you’re coming from. I stopped playing GW2, because I got tired of WvW and that there was no new content for it, a lot of my guild did. Does this mean I’m going to go to the forums and challenge the devs at every turn? No. Even if I had the time to do stuff like that, no. I’ve had a lot of good times in this game, maybe even some bad ones, but I spent tons of time playing WvW which was an afterthought to the game in the first place. Of course I wish they did more with it, but the flaming, the complaints, the whining, it’s not helpful, and it doesn’t build a good community. And an MMO is only as good as its community in the long run, in my opinion, anyways.

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6/21 TC/FA/KN

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

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lol all i got to say to TC is that you guys had my respect before this match up, but not, it is gone. I can also say that from all your transfers, that your once great community is lacking in the ways it once was.

I really do not want to go against you ever again, DB has better ethics when it comes to playing on the battlefield

I had some respect for FA before this match up, but now you guys are negative. You people shamelessly spy and share knowledge on your public teamspeak. You don’t even try to hide it. A lot of people inside FA is very kitten ed off at this kind of cheating behavior in your own server.

Not even Maguuma will sink this low to publicly cheat for everyone to see.

We got spies from TC all the time, does that mean I’m going to call all of TC cheaters and spies? No, it doesn’t. Because I’m not ignorant. You can’t control what everyone in your server does.

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6/21 TC/FA/KN

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

These accusations of glitching are stupid. There have been multiple occasions where while we were attacking a keep or tower some random person sets down a portal that mysteriously takes us into that said keep or tower without us even breaching it. And in multiple occasions people took it not knowing where it went, and when we do command we tell people not to take them. I would hate to be thrown into it because some random person or someone in my guild without saying anything and without permission glitched into a keep or tower to portal us in. That’s not the way we play, and I know that’s not the way EP plays. It’s hard to know where portals take you until you take them, and blame should not rest on the people who are associated with them in some way but to those who did it knowing it was wrong.

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6/21 TC/FA/KN

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Why do you want an FA commander to message you?

I took care of it.

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Seriously how is this being ignored

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Immobilize when stomping, problem solved.

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Where is our active defense?

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Our class has the most survivability in the game, and paired with a good build it can be deadly. Make a build that works for you, and learn the class a bit better. If that doesn’t help, elementalist is not for you.

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Elementalists in WvW huge flaw.

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Immobilize them when stomping. Problem solved, next!

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6/21 TC/FA/KN

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BLKNovember.5620

Thank you CERN for giving us some amazing fights tonight, sorry for focusing your commander, but I think you guys figured me out as it became harder and harder to kill him. :/ lol Anyways, it was some of the best fighting we’ve had all week. Keep it coming!

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Turns out the notes were real

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

It’s really not a big deal, I used Lightning Flash mostly for escapes or offensive combos like in mid Burning Speed, Earthquake, and Churning Earth. Why would you waste it on just a stun breaker when you have two other cantrips that can do just that?

As for the other changes, I run 30 air, and rely on crit for damage, so the recharge air attunement on crit is amazing, and works so well with the new scepter changes. Scepter/Dagger is actually viable in WvW now, and the change with Lightning Flash works really well when it crits with over 2k damage. It’s a step in the right direction.

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6/21 TC/FA/KN

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Thank you to the guy from RE who dropped by in our TS for being cool and trying to drum up some action. Sadly we could not do that with our numbers, and though we tried, I fear it wasn’t much of a fight, but we’ll try harder next time. ;D

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6/14 DB / Mag / FA

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

I really miss when FA was good at open field.

Hell, BT practically taught us how to fight open field, at least for a lot of us. Even RET was a bit of a challenge for awhile, but I barely see them anymore.

I’ve gotta say, I wasn’t originally impressed by FIRE from DB, but they’re getting a lot better, though it’s hard to tell when they run with 40+ others. Their movement is really good, and they have good recovery. TG, I haven’t seen you all week, PYRO misses you.

Also, where’s Agg this week? I was looking forward to some rematches.

Oh well, pretty good week all in all. I still miss BT/AoN/RET from FA. The remaining guilds aren’t kitten or anything, but they just don’t really stand out to me anymore.

Also, sorry to both servers for Mag’s karma trains.

Eh, not a fan of the balling up and stacking. I agree it can be effective in certain situations, but it’s not why I log into WvW, and certainly not the type of gameplay I find fun. I rather let people contribute on their own accord rather than micro manage everything they do. I find I end up in even more exciting and intense fights that way, but that’s just me.

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6/14 DB / Mag / FA

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

insert “People still play this game?” comment here

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6/7 Fort Aspenwood/Maguuma/Ehmry Bay

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

So there is a grow trend of posts from FA referencing ‘complaints’ about their server population with respect to the the Magummies and Ebears. This has been confusing to me because outside of a couple baiting troll posts, there hasn’t been any complaining at all (yes, I actually went back and read pages 4-8 just to make sure.) Just commentary stating the obvious coverage disparities and the dragon bash. Most, if not all, the active EB folks are happy for the change, the new blood and love the fights.

In any event, FA get over yourselves…take your week off and do whatever it is you do. Or come out and play.

Cheers.

There are places beyond this thread. Anyways, they apply only to the few who have. Not the entire servers and their people as a whole.

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6/7 Fort Aspenwood/Maguuma/Ehmry Bay

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

For those who are complaining that we have a lot of people playing WvW. What did you expect? Our people to stop playing because you’re not T2 servers? Clearly we have more people that like to WvW, and in our server all together. Is this our fault? No it’s not. It’s not yours either, it’s just how things worked out. So yeah, it’s going to be one sided, but that’s expected because of the new system, it’s not going to even out until much later. And yes we have a certain way of doing things, because in T2 small groups were not viable at all. We got used to large scale combat, and while I have no problem doing small scale fights, I know others are just used to that mentality. So stick it out, or rage quit, because it’s one week we have to face each other, or who knows, maybe more. I myself have quite enjoyed both the small and large fights I’ve encountered against both servers, and I encourage all of you to keep it together and fight on the battlefield with actions not through whispers and forums. Who knows, maybe we’ll end up having fun along the way.

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Post a picture of your Elementalist [Merged]

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Got a little friend in the mail today. Why thank ya ANet. He seems rather comfortable with his new owner, no?

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Oh nooo, siege warfare? In an objective based multiplayer setting? Who would have thought?!

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6/7 Fort Aspenwood/Maguuma/Ehmry Bay

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

I am so used to fighting in large scale fights, but it’s really refreshing to have some small group fights. Glad to know I haven’t lost my edge, and thank you E Bay for giving us those fights. It is not refreshing, however, to see that 90% of the mag groups I run into are thieves and mesmers, it was rather disappointing to lighting whip people in the group and take out most of their health with just my auto attack. :/

Also, no that doesn’t often happen in T2. Quite simply, we have nothing better to do, so we won’t leave till we have an objective. In any other situation we would leave to get PPTs elsewhere, and come back later if possible, with another strategy. However, this is not very viable in this match up, since there is not really much else to take and we don’t have to worry about PPTs. Too many people, not enough objectives to take. Just enjoy the bags and the fights! As for the wiping, I’m pretty sure no one on our server is giving 100%. Which is sad, because we should be, but eh what can you do. We wipe you, you wipe us, and it just goes on and on.

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Tier 2: DB/TC/FA 05/03/2013

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

marriage is like a roller coaster

Strong enough for charr, designed by asura, and built by humans?

I’m confused. Again.

There you go again, Zestee, confusing even yourself.

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Let's talk about Fire grab

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

So I want my Firegrab to be able to do 7-8k damage on targets with 1500 or so toughness when I spec for damage (which means 4-5k normal builds).

OR reduce cooldown to half.

Ouch, what’s up with that build?

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Tier 2: DB/TC/FA 05/03/2013

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

This is a weird thing going on the last two weeks… Our WvW guilds aren’t transferring off the server or anything. They’re all still here… They’re just not really playing WvW all that much. It’s very strange.

They ain’t having fun no more. I mean look at us, FA. We don’t have any “rules” but one as a server – to have fun. We encourage guilds/individuals do whatever they want, go wherever they want. We don’t have “assigned BL”; we don’t have “WvW guild council”; we don’t have “meta game strategy”; we don’t care about being 1st/2nd or 3rd place as long as we stay in T2…

That’s why there are many servers raised and fell in front of FA. But guess what? We are still here.

Yeah, I think everyone was pretty tired of the TC, Kain, and FA match up after a while. The new change of pace with DB coming up really revived interest, I think. It’s quite refreshing.

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Tier 2: DB/TC/FA 05/03/2013

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

That seems to be the trend. NNK is big enough to do what they want at night which means the other two servers are at a disadvantage.

With a little more challenge to them, this tier might be a lot closer.

Not complaining, just observing.

That’s funny, because every night I see FA attacking TC and running scared from DB.

The only way this matchup will have any resemblance of balance is if FA get over their petty obsession with beating TC, and try to fight DB.

lol… this statement… wow, what crack are you smoking?

Otherwise, anybody have a score update while reality is happening?

This argument has already been settled. Keep it civil, please.

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Let's talk about Fire grab

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Fire grab is one of the most powerful ele bursts for off hand dagger along with churning earth, and it’s fine as is.

If fire grab is one of the most powrful burst skills in the game…you’ve never played against high tier phantasm mesmer, D/P thieves, tank burst guardian ( YEAH You read right, tank burst GS guardian), BM ranger, eviscerate warrior or HgH engy….

I didn’t say that.

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Tier 2: DB/TC/FA 05/03/2013

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

Also would like to apologize to the [PRO] ( I think it was PRO) Ranger that bowed to me last night at Titan in DB BL. I totally would of loved to fight you but you caught me eating dinner while I was getting that last vista I needed near Titan, so it was a one handed dash to the portal hahahaha.

Ooph, wish I could say I knew who that was, so I could pass it along. :o

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Fireball nerfed?

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Posted by: BLKNovember.5620

BLKNovember.5620

I only noticed that the range was fixed, since it was longer than it was supposed to be in the first place, but that’s about it.

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