Guild Wars 2

I will donate $1.00 for every badge that I pick up in WvW. I encourage all of my fellow FA’ers to do what they can. The shock and emotional damage of something like this echoes for many people throughout their lives.

The lines in the zerg class got messy becuase we all know what mega zergs do to the server, prevent skill activation. Unzerg yourselves and provide a better experience for all, find out that there is a whole world of small group comp and what it takes to get good at it, and run with it. Seriously, it will prolong the life of WvW and open up a whole expansion worth of enjoyment for many of you out there.

Bottom Line: Zergs suck, make game boring, help us and yourselves.

/salute in advance to Valor on Kaineng, already know there will be some good fights when I see the RUN tag. Although I doubt any of them will notice this since they steer clear of the forums.

Great WvW community on FA, I have seen an overwhelmingly positive attitude by the server on my time here. FA has the core to be a solid T2 server with a few additions to critical time slots. I would love to keep FA small, but the reality of WvW dictates that any server which desires to benefit from the better fights of T2 must also have adequate coverage to remain in T2. Lot’s of quality WvW fighters here and would love to see a few more.

Talons on FA is a great open field guild, just as good as some of the others I have seen mentioned here. At some point it becomes very difficult to measure this because there are no real benchmarks.

Thank you for taking the time to approach this issue sensibly. This is the first good move by Anet in regards to WvW in months. Please continue to apply these sort of community influenced options into your decision making process in the future.

Even though I am still highly disappointed by the actions taken on WvW as a whole, I can at least give you credit for not making a bad situation worse. I sincerely hope that another month+ of delays will yield the results you hope for in WvW. What is truly scary is that we don’t even know what the new developments are, or if we even want them. Help!

Top notch guild filled with great people. Had a great time running with them in the past. If you are looking for a premium WvW experience then Helioz deserves a look imo.

Great bunch of folks in this guild, been lucky enough to hang out with them in game for a while and really had a great time.

Great ideas OP. Who knows what lies in store.

Plus 1 (million).

OP basically just listed the opinion of my guild’s consensus, as well as most of the people I have spoken with on the topic. This analysis makes entirely too much sense to be ignored, Anet moderators please pay close attention to this, respond, and if at all possible give us insight on to why you would implement this now, AFTER the volatility caused by the end of free transfers has settled down and is nearly complete. The past 3 days in T2 are some of the most balanced fights I have seen in months, and based on the information you have given us from behind the Anet Iron Curtain of Secrecy, at the end of this weeks match is going to pitch the WvW community back into a cauldron of discontent.

Please consider.

Did this on thief and warrior, warrior scaled very well at all levels even as I was learning the class. Thief is easy if you are already familiar with thief. Roll a few rounds of sPvP to get comfortable with your weapon set and build, then dive right in.

Pendragon.8735:

Rob.7624:

Hmm.
Adding stuff to Mesmer? Engineer? Thief? Ranger?

How about we add something to your friendly Guardian class.
Like every class has something fancy and cool above the skill bar.
Every single class. Except for Guardian.

Why can’t we have cool stuff too?

Loot bag bubble. Opponent goes to pick it up, repelled by shield.

Implement this immediately!

Cat Amiss.9463:

Pretty sure we only lost once to IoJ by 2k points, but ya We’ve been blue since i can even remember opening my eyes lol :P

You may be correct, I spent a LOOOOOOOOOONNGGGGG time in T2 on IoJ, and it was hard to distinguish amongst the Red Hordes who showed up week after week.

I like that, but “Loot Bag Box Trap” for thief must be implemented for balance.

I would like to point out that they endured 7 weeks of 2nd place finishes and 2 weeks of 3rd, as the glorious Isle of Janthir reigned supreme and unchallenged for second place twice in the Long Battle.

SoR deserves a shot at T1 more than anyone gunning for it right now.
The fight against BG required an incredible amount of effort over a sustained period of time. As far as recent arrivals in T2 are concerned, you guys haven’t seen anything yet. Be ready. T2 will bleed any server that does not have the goal of recruiting for and competing inT1 over the long run. Grow or die in T2 is the tough facts, it is up to the server there to decide.

Sincerely,
Blrrgh

I have to say, in regards to “nerd pickles”……

I don’t think i can ever look at a pickle again without getting the creep shivers.

I have 16 accounts devoted to recruiting only the finest forum warriors from every tier match up thread in the game, on both NA and EU servers, which by T1 standards is pathetic. I have been studying the methods of more advanced players and will be writing up an advanced guide on WvWvW posting to be published on guru soon. Podcast to follow.

We need to recruit more T3 posters for the NA lunch to smoke break block if we want to be able to compete in posts at the T1 level.

junglizm.5843:

JKRJSTR.4019:

well what we learn from history is that the WEAK tend to group up together to fight a stronger enemy , much like bullies or gangsters . since when do you see them go to a fight alone ? LOL not pointing fingers . you know who you are

George Washington, Chester Nimitz, Duke Wellington, William Wallace, Themistocles and Leonidas would all respectfully disagree.

Don’t forget Epanimondas! ( ; D )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaminondas

Toggles.1783:

Jimmybass.2159:

eithinan.9841:

is blarrgh on FA?…or totn and big lady?…

Blrrgh is on FA. Hel (formerly Totn) is now on SoR.

Oh I remember that guy!

A few months ago when IoJ had some big server transfers coming in I had a discussion with him. I said they may get to tier 1 but ultimately they needed to be careful otherwise the server would drop like a stone just as quick as it rose up. S/He laughed in my face and called me names getting our discussion deleted…

• looks at the rankings *
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  I guess I was wrong.

There was also a lot of false loyalty bravado coming from a lot of the posts in those threads months ago. What’s happening now puts a smile on my face and I don’t even care if CD is behind this week. AFAIC I didn’t need to be a part of the leftover T1 faceroll next week anyway.

CD has weathered a lot and shown that it has a solid core group of people that I’m happy to share a server with.

Actually, I am still on IoJ, fight in WvW there every day, as well as on FA, and on a EU server. The “false bravado” of IoJ community members is mutual respect and the loyalty of people who have become friends and allies through highs and lows, and if you look at the transfers, ultimately chose overwhelmingly to stick together.

I still get to WvWvW with most of the great IoJ W3 community on FA, with a bunch of new great people. If I want to PVE and WvW casually/help out, I go to IoJ. If I want to keep an eye on T1, I go to EU. If I want to work with a great group of W3 teams and my amazing guildies I just log into my FA account.

Win Win Win.

Food for thought:
90%-95% of the WvW community of IoJ left the server.
Server population remained Very High/Full.

One final note, name calling is not something I need or choose to do. We both know the truth about what is going on here, and I am not foolish enough to fall for the bait. Good luck to you and your friends ; D.

Syeria.4812:

I can’t say there’s any merit in your post at all.

You allege that you’re extremely disappointed with what Anet has announced, then list 4 ridiculously tiny non-issues that you demand resolution for. To address them individually:

1) While adjustments should be made to commander training, this has been acknowledged by Anet, and they have stated that changes will be coming (although they may have called it low-priority).

2) Exploits are continually fixed as they are identified and solutions can be found. Some still exist, but the number of working exploits right now is a tiny fraction of the number of exploits which have been fixed.

3) Enough has been said on this and not only are you wrong, but the article actually addresses this issue.

4) The article you’re so senselessly whining about is the communication you’re demanding. It’s impossible to complain about this in this context and claim that they’re not doing anything about communication. Furthermore, your nonsensical reaction to all this is a perfect example of why it’s difficult for Anet to communicate.

On top of all this, it’s stressed multiple times in the article that they’re only discussing a portion of the updates and changes. There will be many many more things fixed or added because it’s not an exhaustive list.

These issues may be tiny to you, but they are huge to others who left the game. I happen to agree with them on many points. I fail to see how I am demanding anything, my assessments are fair and reasonable to at least a sizable minority if not more.

While exploits may be fixed, the system for reporting and policing them is underwhelming and practically gives all cheaters carte blanche to exploit away unless they are caught via fraps/bandicam/etc. with continuous footage from prior to their exploit, during, and after the exploit. Feel free to research this on your own.

They have lied about the gear treadmill, and actually in the article worded it so as to suggest that while there will be no more tiers of gear between ascended and legendary for 2013 . Ascended gear was actually the first step in that broken promise, so can’t help you there. Am i going to throw a tantrum over it? No. It is an insult to anyone with intelligence to insist this isn’t well documented truth, and heavily referenced as a core design principle, which was flippantly disregarded shockingly early in the life off the game.

The article I am referring to gives no real details and addresses things vaguely. The update is only a few weeks away if they deliver on their stated time frame. Why these great fixes and improvements must be veiled in a shroud of secrecy is beyond me. I am seeing Anet fall into the same tired traps that have ruined other games. What you perceive incorrectly as whining is simply an appeal for the developers to recognize this and an opportunity for them to win back players who have already left, with a few simple actions.

As to your last point, I can stress to my employer that not only is the design work I promised completed, but that it meets the expectations set forth, and furthermore I have done much much more that I cannot even hint at, but provide no details whatsoever…. and I am fairly certain I would be asked for some concrete example of a system, procedure , or model. I do not expect an exhaustive list, I expect a reasonable amount of detail this far along in the process. Once again, why is there a need for secrecy or subterfuge. Reference my post above for the last similar experience I was witness to in an MMOG.

Finally, please refrain from bringing this kind of attitude into any more of my threads, it is unwelcome and personal, you can do that sort of thing via PM if you really really can’t control yourself. I would like to see these issues addressed, they are important to some people, and I am entitled to place value or rank where I see fit. The forums are my place to do so as I am not employed at Arenanet, nor do I have any personal communication or access to the process other than here.

GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR!

The points above are the most common issues brought up to in my communications with former WvW players. While I am glad there are additions and improvements being addressed, the things being addressed are not things which lost the WvW community a considerable numberof allies/opponents in WvW, and are core issues.

My personal issues with this post:

There is no reason to not announce the features specifically and in some reasonable detail prior to release. Here is a good example of why I believe this is necessary.

The last game where I experienced near identical lack of communication and vague promises from a developer was Star Wars Galaxies prior to the infamous CU patch(Combat Upgrade) (some of you may remember this) and the even more hated NGE patch (New Game Experience). Both “improvements” were actively and vocally opposed and hated by the vast majority of the player base after their roll out. Both were preceded by the same sort of PR and lack of details we are seeing now from Anet. Both instigated mass exodus from the game. Transparency please.

I cannot express how disappointing it was to read the below article in regards to the focus of Arenanet for 2013 in general, and in particular WvWvW.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/

There are several issues which have driven away over 80% of the founding members of my W3 guild. These are players who convinced me to give GW2 a shot, who advertised for and recruited literally hundreds of accounts to GW2 who may not have ever purchased it, with the express purpose of WvWvW. They are gone to Planetside 2 and other games now, and the core of them have several non negotiable points when they speak of even the possibility of returning to GW2.

None of these are being addressed. I will not go into great detail because there are many threads on these forums with great, innovative solutions already. Arenanet, you need to read them. Stop what you are doing for one week. Read the entirety of the WvW forums, every bit of trolling, the good and the bad. Then reset and move forward.

THE ISSUES AT HAND: AKA WHAT IT TAKES TO BRING PEOPLE BACK

1) Commander Tome functionality. Company of Heroes and BF 2142 both beat you on this with very simple team map UI functions. That is the very least. This is a huge point of contention.
2) WvW exploits, dealing with exploiters. You have lost far more non exploiters than you would by simply banning the few who abuse the system, and your policies do not help those trying to contain the problem within the community.
3) Gear treadmill. Enough has been said on this and you know that you are in the wrong.
4) Ignoring WvW. All you have to do is regularly communicate (two way communication)with your player base and address their desires, complaints, and solutions. Is that so much to ask?

These 4 simple areas will pay you huge dividends if they are given attention. I ask that you do not throw away the opportunity to address them in a timely manner. Every game that has ignored its world pvp communities has died or shrunk incredibly after failing to respond to them. Do not repeat the numerous mistakes of the past.

IoJ has some really great people from that part of the world, I have become overly attached to them based on their extraordinary perseverance, good humor, and fantastic attitudes. Cannot say enough good about the core of the server WvW community, outside of that I know we have a ton of people but I just have not met many of them ; D.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/37877/wvw.png

From the Server matchup thread 34 minutes ago.

I see a lot of posts recently about people wanting Oceanics to come to them. Well, IoJ has been asking for NA players for a long time. Isle of Janthir offers an organized community for WvW, with experience fighting against every top level server and guild in the game. It also is home to great Oceanic guilds and players with great attitudes

IoJ’s story has never changed, we have always been outmanned and asked for just a few more to rally to us. Our core has stayed strong and is still here. We are finally getting our PVE community to engage in WvW, slowly, but if we can awaken them we can become terrifying very quickly. We are asking for a few more WvW focused guilds to reach critical mass. 10 more skilled WvW players in NA & EU time can make a huge difference.

3 rd time this has happened in this matchup.

Kintari.4172:

junglizm.5843:

I looked at the population tonight. IOJ was full, CD and FA were very high. I guess my server is just tired of upper tiers so only our WvW core fights now. I see less and less random tags out everyday. There are no excuses. IOJ was always just lucky to have a good core WvW community that carried it in T2 for so long. Our militia players have always been a disorganized, inattentive and generally disappointing. Enjoy the morale boost while you can, T2 and T1 servers will not as easy going as you guys have had it this weekend.

IoJ talked a big game about being a bunch of diehards, but the past few weeks tell a different story. It’s too bad really.

FA, while not exactly a powerhouse in this tier, clearly has the intestinal fortitude to keep coming back for more.

What is the story? Is it anything new or is it the same population problem we have been dealing with for months? The dedicated very small WvW community on IoJ is still doing the same stuff we always have. We asked for people to transfer to us when we went to T1 to help our WvW population, T2, etc etc. Nobody came. I still see the same 30-40 names trying to hold down 4 maps most of the time. Been like this since we went to T1. As far as guts are concerned, I am pretty sure no one in this game or any other really has to worry about “intestinal fortitude” …. saying that just makes you look foolish and makes a mockery of what that means in reality.

IoJ is still looking for WvW guilds and players, no ques, team players welcome!

Blrrgh.6908:

Deathdom.8250:

This matchup is beyond perfect. The scores are all so close, even IOJ, who is last right now, has a good shot at 1st place. None of us has a chance of going up into T2 while the T2 servers won’t be dropping down any time soon. As for T4, DB is in the same position as TC in the past. They will win for sure but will not be moving up any time soon. In other words, we will be fighting each other for quite a while longer.

If only, however the f’d up ELO/Glicko system will punish IoJ severely for not winning by 2 trillion points in every matchup below T1. We were losing double digits in rating even while we were winning. As much as it would be fun to hang out in T3 it just is not realistic if we do not win every week, and if we were able to win by the amount of points w need to stay afloat in rating it would not be fun for the other 2 servers. Lose/lose/lose situation.

Why would you think that managing a 30k lead over the other servers should mean you are fit enough for the next tier? Why would you think even having a 50k lead over the other servers would mean that you don’t belong in your current tier?

If there’s not some exodus of players off of a server above you then to get into the next tier you need to be better than the server that last moved up there. You need to be better than a server that had 100k leads over you for a month or lead you by 200k points at least two weeks in a row. To move up you need to be better than a server that pushed you out of your home borderland time and time again.

Just look at the matchup for tier two for a moment and recognize that TC is in third place. This is the server that made both FA and CD whine like a kitten because they outnumbered us even when we had a queue and we really knew that they had exactly as many players on the map as we did. This is the server that only needed one guild to decide to obliterate FA all week long because some guild they had never seen before set up a ballista to butcher some yaks that were shooting off fireworks.

You think that by being so much less powerful than them that you deserve to be above them in the ranking? That there aren’t gaps just as wide in the level of competition between ever tier?

Or do you just not think before you complain? If I’ve hit the nail on the head there then you’re like most people on forums, but hopefully you learned something just now.

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You missed my point completely. Also, there isn’t anything in my comment about moving up in rating. The rest of your response to me is basically a ramble about FA and CD outnumbering you,( which is amusing to say the least. CD slightly outnumbers IoJ, and we outnumber FA somewhat, off of their peak times) and “who deserves what”.
Try to take the time to read and understand what is written.
I’ll decipher my comment for you: T3 is a good matchup for IoJ, but we are probably going to drop further down in ranking even if we win, which means the system is bonkers. This is not news anyway, the ranking system is designed for static entities, not GW2 servers with radical population shifts every 3 weeks.

Deathdom.8250:

This matchup is beyond perfect. The scores are all so close, even IOJ, who is last right now, has a good shot at 1st place. None of us has a chance of going up into T2 while the T2 servers won’t be dropping down any time soon. As for T4, DB is in the same position as TC in the past. They will win for sure but will not be moving up any time soon. In other words, we will be fighting each other for quite a while longer.

If only, however the f’d up ELO/Glicko system will punish IoJ severely for not winning by 2 trillion points in every matchup below T1. We were losing double digits in rating even while we were winning. As much as it would be fun to hang out in T3 it just is not realistic if we do not win every week, and if we were able to win by the amount of points w need to stay afloat in rating it would not be fun for the other 2 servers. Lose/lose/lose situation.

Complaining because you cannot camp your opponents spawn as effectively as you like is sad.
SW supply camp is fine. If you can’t hold it by fighting away from the invulnerable area…. can’t help you there.

Niim.9260:

Blrrgh.6908:

For Niim….I am the “bad” thief commander from FIST, and if you had 1 v 5’ed us (lol), I assure you I would have been the first person to post the video and congratulate you. Because I would have been impressed, as the only person I ever saw 1 v 5 successfully was Mjollnir from SoS on his guardian. If you were the thief who kept trying to kill me while we were camping Longview, I have to say you were not bad, and it was fun kiting you around, if I had a GC build you probably could have killed me once or twice, instead of you getting spiked when we were done playing with you.

You spiked someone else, after downing two of your group and them getting revives before I could stomp, I had to back off because the rest of the zerg arrived. SBD.

Man I don’t know how you were able to back off with that flag in your chest. Epic! : D I’m out there every night, come show us your leet skillz ! If I am impressed I might ask you to apply to FIST, becuase I could use a thief who effortlessly kills 5 mans in WvW.

no one can really be objective = my ice cream analogy. I am sure every server has people who are proud of what they have done. However, no other server (period!) except IoJ can tell you what it is like to face T1 level opposition week in week out for MONTHS on end with a T3 population….. fight off up and coming servers over and over…… I don’t expect anyone to understand either. IoJ is simply a very different place than other servers, have to be here to understand it I guess.

I have been having fun in this matchup, because it is the first time in forever where we get to compete against anything close to our population. Refer to my point about opinions and ice cream if we are going to start talking about guilds, skill, who is the uber super dooper kings of WvW etc.

For Niim….I am the “bad” thief commander from FIST, and if you had 1 v 5’ed us (lol), I assure you I would have been the first person to post the video and congratulate you. Because I would have been impressed, as the only person I ever saw 1 v 5 successfully was Mjollnir from SoS on his guardian. If you were the thief who kept trying to kill me while we were camping Longview, I have to say you were not bad, and it was fun kiting you around, if I had a GC build you probably could have killed me once or twice, instead of you getting spiked when we were done playing with you.

As far as FIST vs all challengers goes…had some fun fights out there…. nothing new or special compared to other matchups…..and for all the tough guys who have something to prove…….open invitation is open! WvW is for fighting! Bring it! The tougher the opponent, the harder the fight, the better Armored FIST will get.

Regarding the Flashypants video…… If you guys knew Flashy you would know that his post was only meant in good spirits, I am sure everyone ( me , you, everyone) in the game probably has a cameo in somebody’s kill video by this point. No big deal.

Just try to have fun out there, even if we are the “bad guys”, its nothing personal.

Keep up the good match all! And btw, it’s just a fact that Mint Chocolate Chip is the best. ; D

Wow this comment….IoJ whupped up on BG guilds in T2 NA…………., FA , SoS, SoR, SBI, JQ….. all have superior NA teams to BG from an opponents perspective… instead of getting offended you guys really just need to improve your team in that block. Oh and learn some humility, please.

IoJ doesnt have to prove anything, to ourselves or to our past opponents as far as skill or grit is concerned. We definitely don’t need to rely on some vague opinion from Niim. Be better off arguing about which flavor ice cream is the best. If you haven’t been on IoJ for the duration of the “GW2 Anabasis” that IoJ has experienced since September, you have no idea of the quality or determination of the core population. See you all in WvW.

Lat, if you are looking for a great guild on IoJ, you can search for registered IoJ guilds at isleofjanthir.net.

If you are looking for a guild which is involved in PVE and WvW, I would suggest Love and War, which is led by Guardian of Janthir. It is a medium sized guild with great players, who are active in all areas of the game PVE, sPVP, WVW.

Respectfully,
Blrrgh
Armored FIST

No Ques on IoJ, as in zero, for months. Armored FIST is small, active, and WvW focused. Everything else is secondary, but I as the Captain support people having fun. I am looking to grow the SpVp community on IoJ , and I want members who are willing to form the core of a competitive team.

As a thief/ warrior/mesmer: my technique for dealing with other thieves.

1) Active dodge while targeting attacking thief, you should be healing yourself and clearing conditions at this point if you have the ability to do so.
2) keep moving while aoeing/frontal cone/basic attacking the thief/the last location of the thief in the second before the vanished. If Shadow refuge was dropped in the last 5 seconds HE IS IN THE SHADOW REFUGE.
3)obtain positional advantage or parity if possible using terrain/npc’s/movement abilities, reset fight.
OR
3) you have obtained health/condition/damage parity with the thief becuase they are probably a GC, and you did not panic, so now you can finish them off with your carefully retained ability of choice. Pat on the back for not blindly blowing all of your cool downs during the first 2 seconds of the engagement.

P.S.

Please no hate from thieves about posting this because people are still going to fail at doing these exact simple things and demand we be “fixed” instead.

So basically the Thief finished you before your teammates bothered to get you up, by successfully making it into the middle of your zerg, then infiltrated back to friendly forces, while the 2 forces where pew pewing each other at range.

I will say that imo the shortbow is underused and forces the thief into a different type of cat and mouse game, which to me is more ultimately rewarding. This requires thief players to take it on themselves to push the limits of their class in non-optimal damage builds, something which I do not see happening. Thieves don’t have to play a dps/spike role to be effective in WvW. They don’t even have to kill anyone to make a huge impact for their team. This is all biased due to the fact that I am a WvW player, in an organized WvW guild, on a fairly well organized WvW server.

It seems to me that the thread is not so much a thief thread as it is a Cloak and Dagger, and culling thread when you look at the most valid points. The getting killed while downed issue may be aggravating, but I can’t support that argument. I think if C&D were tweaked slightly then a lot of complaining would stop.

I would also encourage thieves in general to experiment a little more with builds, there are more weapons out there than dual daggers and dual pistols my stealthy bros!

I will just keep rolling along on my tank thief, killing you all slowly but surely.

The winning team will probably not be using the breakout event anyway, since they can get the job done quicker with an organized group and be inside/capping a tower before “Commander PVE” is even activated and escorted with the same amount (10) of people.

Blackgate …coverage gaps…same sentence…does not compute.

Please don your emotional armor now, as the next paragraph is honest and blunt.

At this point , you have to ask that Blackgate get better organized if they want to get to and compete in T1. You guys are now faced with a fight of mostly equal coverage parity. It is up to you to organize yourselves in such a way as to push your PPT against equal opponents to a degree that it lifts you out of T2…you were unable to do this vs IoJ/SoR even with your supposed superiority in WvW and a great advantage over IoJ in terms of both active numbers and clock coverage. Take hold of your own destiny, because at this point you guys are not even IoJ 2.0, where we sent people out of T2 week after week with far less coverage than you guys possess. Time to eat some humble pie and reevaluate Blackgate from the inside out, instead of being complacent imo. TC or SoR isn’t going to roll over and hand you guys a pass to T1 anytime soon, you will have to grit your teeth and beat the living hell out of them, and I have not seen that kind of determination to win 24/7 since SoS was in T2.

Respectfully,
Blrrgh
Armored FIST

Armored FIST working off of 50GB of raw footage, get ready for insano vids. Avatar Dynasty and RET, great vids, would like to see more from this past week if anyone else has any. Nice to see people out there proving that WvW is not always a numbers game, and that teamwork and group comp is out there in WvW.

( now that I know FIST has an evil FA twin known as RET, we will have to seek you guys out in WvW : D……. sounds like a good chance for some even better videos and some great fights)

Playing a mesmer, can stealth nearly as well as my thief, and now I have clones, confusion and a larger health pool at my disposal. This is the better stealth build so far. I will be playing and improving on the Mesmer “Thief” build as it is shaping up to be a ton of fun already.

All they have to do is tweak the Daily system:

kill “x” number of enemy players, cap certain type/amount of objectives….etc. etc, reward “x” number of badges depending on what you manage to accomplish.

System is in already in place, and seems much easier to implement.

Concerning Armored FIST on FA:

The extent of my “recruitment spam” last week on FA was contained in one conversation after asking about WvW on FA. The purpose for me being on FA was to make contact with and recruit PTX to IOJ. This was during the last matchup when things looked like we would be locked in a stalemate in T2, and things looked grim for FA and CD.

I am still very much a supporter of consolidating all dedicated WvW into the top 2 tiers, where all WvW guilds can find the types of battles they are looking for, with a rotating matchup between the top 6 servers. This may or may not happen, it seems the natural shift at the moment but we will have to see. I originally asked a FA WvW rep about the situation on FA and the possibility of consolidating all serious FA guilds on IoJ in order to relieve our coverage issues and make us more competitive in the tier.

The conversation then turned to PTX and me mentioning that we had worked with them in the past, and that I was going to attempt to contact them based on previous efforts and discussions of an alliance which had taken place long before they ever arrived on FA.

Let’s be clear: At no point did I “spam”, and I was polite and respectful of FA and their efforts during my fun adventure in T3. I got 4 badges for my level 3 guardian and generally enjoyed the relaxed pace of WvW at that hour.

My exact quote on the PTX issue during a PM exchange.
“I would theoretically take one guild solely, which is PtX, only because we have had a working relationship with in the past prior to them arriving at FA, in which we discussed a possible future alliance built on a different model than TITAN or Ascenscion, which is a reality now. If they are happy where they are ( I have not spoken to them about this because it was just casual talk between you and I in my opinion) then all is fine and well, and I truly do wish you guys at FA good luck and I will help where I can as an individual in WvW. Good luck and please keep up the good fight!”

Why recruit on FA? Well, to be honest it seemed like a good idea to recruit from a place where there was an active small WvW community which would fit in with the personality of IoJ. I enjoy WvW and I want it to persist at a high level with the people who focus on it. Please forgive me for advocating a great server and extending the offer. IoJ is open to recruitment for those interested, and we are going to reach out.

Aside: Muffin, get your recruiter to chill out! The natives are gettin’ restless!

Back on topic: Armored FIST does not/has not/will not mass recruit for its ranks as we are a small, selective community.

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, and I acted on behalf of my server and NA alliance without malice or their implicit approval.

What can I say?
I <3 IoJ

See you guys in WvW!

P.S. I transferred my alt to CD, might hop on to collect a few Blackgate badges next week! ; D

tkalamba.2541:

Spartyr.6795:

tkalamba.2541:

Spartyr.6795:

Peetee.9406:

So Sanctum of Rall just lost its only two Asian guilds today and Isle of Janthir lost a 400 man alliance?

Well, atleast we fall together. It’s been a good 2 months IoJ, certainly been a pleasure.

Ouch. I’m wondering if SoR and IoJ should just merge. If IoJ Oceanics won’t move to SoR (understandably since they want other Oceanics around for PvE etc.), then maybe SoR NA should move there.

I hate saying that. I’ve been SoR since day one, and may even stay behind if this did happen, but it seems to make a lot of sense coverage-wise.

Well… if enough Oceanics/Asian players come to SoR, it wouldn’t be an issue.

There will be people around to play if they all come at once.

I would love this as much as anyone, but basically IoJ was chosen at the very beginning as an Oceanic server. You’d have to migrate all the PvE’ers and everyone else now over to SoR to make it work. I’m just not sure how feasible that is.

It probably isn’t feasible, but we do have people who play at that time, just not enough in WvW to make a huge difference.

Even if it were just WvW players who made the move, they shouldn’t have too many issues.

On the other hand , it would be much easier for SoR to fill the gaps in the IoJ server coverage vs the other way around. The problem is that both servers have very strong community loyalties and rightfully so. If this was “guild” wars and not server wars, this would not be an issue I think.

Tammuz.7361:

Ardon.4105:

Isredel.4302:

They’re better because they can keep coverage throughout the night so this is somehow Arena Net’s fault?

He’s talking about the broken and blatantly flawed scoring system. If it was the intention of Anet to have the same people fighting for over a month, the matches would be lasting over a month. The current system punishes the winning team by forcing them to lose rating, and rewards the losing team by giving them rating.

It sucks all three servers into a blackhole until they are rated exactly the same, and it forces the first seat server to beat the third seat server into a coma just to break even. Hence the lack of progression. It’s also quite stale. Who wants to fight the same servers and guilds for over a month?

this is true… it is kinda unfortunate that despite winning 4 weeks in a row we loose raiting each week…

This is an oversimplification of the overall issue, however I do agree that “week long matchups” are nothing of the sort. It seems to me as if Arenanet is confused over if they intend to have week long match ups or a permanent Glicko rating system. A mix of the two would be ideal based on the current server population balance and performance, with 6 servers to a Tier and constant rearranging of matchups within the 6 server group. Servers could still move up and down between the tiers.