Guild Wars 2

DevonCarver.5370:

There is an updated version of the matchups in my post at the top of the forums. This should all be working correctly at this point.

ahhhh, ninja edit! ok, so the old matchups are the new matchups (mostly). A few server managed to change colours and a few even managed to change the matchups (mid-tier servers). So, not so much random , but he it’s a start.

Third Reset is already in progress. Third time is a charm…. hopefully.

Asbrandr.6324:

Calico.9780:

Well, thx for the second try…. maybe the third time it’ll work.

Right now, Elona is fighting Vizunah and Jade Sea…. again. Only change was that we changed color (from blue to red). Obviously another reset is in order cause we do not have the matchup that is predicted (that would be Vizunah vs Seafarers Rest vs Elona Reach).

Come on Anet, you can do it!

Not quite sure how you could, with 100% certainty, determine the predicted match chosen by a semi-random algorithm that was just introduced, but ok.

Ah, let me help you:

Posted by Devon Carter:

Here’s the raw data version of the new matchup as well as an image of the matchups.

Matchup Green Blue Red
1 Vizunah Square Seafarer’s Rest Elona Reach
2 Baruch Bay Kodash Jade Sea
3 Riverside Abaddon’s Mouth Desolation
4 Piken Square Augury Rock Fort Ranik
5 Underworld Far Shiverpeaks Gandara
6 Gunnar’s Hold Drakkar Lake Miller’s Sound
7 Ruins of Surmia Aurora Glade Blacktide
8 Arborstone Dzagonur Ring of Fire
9 Whiteside Ridge Fissure of Woe Vabbi

Well, thx for the second try…. maybe the third time it’ll work.

Right now, Elona is fighting Vizunah and Jade Sea…. again. Only change was that we changed color (from blue to red). Obviously another reset is in order cause we do not have the matchup that is predicted (that would be Vizunah vs Seafarers Rest vs Elona Reach).

Come on Anet, you can do it!

Still not able to place any siege. We have like 3-4 arrowcarts to defend 2 Keeps and 2 Towers on Elona Homelands…. EB has the same problems. Other maps seems to be affected too.

So, this weeks match is coming to an end. Seems that a farewell to Desolation is in order, you were worthy foes. Best of luck in T2, hopefully you can regain your strength there.
Not a lot to say to Vizunah. As always, a pleasure to fight you. You ain’t as bad in the open field as some claim. Had some good Fights, even during the nights.

Managed to get to the Top of EU. Wasn’t easy, but I’m as happy as i can be. All that hard work wasn’t nothing. Ty Elona.

And so begins the very last matchup with the old ranking system. May it rest in peace. Looking forward to a bit more randomization. Hopefully not to much.

Daxter.4286:

Ok, last night of WvW against viz done. Hopefully Anet’s ranking fix will make it so that you aren’t stuck fighting the same server for months on end anymore. One thing you can say from vizunah at least is that they will always be there to fight, i hope tier 2 will also have opponents to clash with.

Thanks everyone for your support at Deso border today, was a lot of fun.

And finally grats to Elona for 2nd victory and i wish you good luck against the French.

Oh also looking forward to finally a new matchup, let’s make it a good one!

Tyvm.

Trust me, Kodash will put up a good Fight. They aren’t that different from Elona, they also have quite a few good Guilds that have learned quite a lot from Jade Sea and us. Very worthy enemies. Don’t know SFR that good, but if they can put up a fight against them, they surely ain’t as dead as some ppl claimed.

It’s true, every single player on Elona Reach did his best to make this possible. And i believe the outcome of this weeks match is more then justified… Unlike most Servers that managed to claim victory over Vizunah we never had the luxury of bandwagoners jumping on our Server to push us to the top. Although not having that “luxury” has been a good thing.

Elona Reach has grown… it has evolved, from a mid tier Server, back over 8 months ago when i led my first Raid, to a force to be reckoned with. We had our share share of mistakes and setbacks, but we never gave up. Although it was close at times. Our Community has grown, our Leadership has learned, our Guilds have trained. Sometimes we copied tactics, adopted them and even suceeded in perfecting them. We’ve been teached a lot of lessons from Servers like Far Shiverpeaks, Arborstone, Vizunah, Seafarers Rest, Desolation, Jade Sea, Kodash and so many more. We do thank you for those lessons, because without them this would not be possible.

We came a long way, never relying on Alliances (although some still believe we did). We managed to unite dozens of Guilds and hundreds, maybe thousands, of individual Players on a single Teamspeak Server.

This Victory does not not belong to any individual Player, Commander or Guild. It belongs to this great Community that we have today.

Whatever happens in the future, i have and always will feel a sense of Pride when we rush into battle, crying out

“FOR ELONA!!”

yeah, annoying little Bug. I understand thats not a “high priority” thing…. but pls ANet, for the love of the six Gods of Tyria, FIX IT ALREADY. Almost a year since the first open Beta and we still have this Bug.

Just back from the battlefield with the small UvL/AI Guildteam on Elona Homelands. First couple of hours have been pretty boring, with the occassional Commander Event to knock down. But the last hour really showed some promise, with MOS and some other Guild showing up and giving us good fights. We couldn’t really win any of the fights (outnumbered 2:1), but i think we managed to hold them at bay at least. With a lot of help of our Mainzerg ofc.

I hope Vizu regathers it’s strength soon, with the upcoming holidays for ~25% of Germany next week. As a 50/50 Guild and PUG Server we usally profit quite heavily from the increased numbers we can field.

CorliCorso.6254:

Unless ANet change the system soon then it’ll be longer than a couple of weeks.

Winter is coming. Wait, i mean Change is coming. Guess it’ll take them a couple of weeks, but they are reworking the formula.

@Troma

Ty for telling us whats going on. My guess is that many of the problems evolved because there was no real competition for a while (and surely your departure also played a role). Hopefully we can help fill the gap and give Vizunahs strong WvW Playerbase something to focus on. Fighting us for the Throne of Europe should prove more funny then fighting each other.

Pls consider a comeback. But even if you don’t, you have my respect. And so does the Vizunah Community (at least those good ppl from the good old times).

Always enjoyed fighting you.

Dayra.7405:

Oh that’s easy, if e.g. the damage is halved, you build 20 ACs instead of 10 for your 50+ people. Or increase the % of SACs should you run short on people to use them.

Don’t forgot, we got trained 10 weeks by THE AC specialists of GW2, and most of the time was pre-AC-boost-patch.

I second that. The true Masters of AC Warfare have enlighted us.

A true Kodashi will stay with his AC. Even unbuffed.

And it looks like they will NOT nerf the damage against players, only siege.

Finally back in Tier 1… took long enough. Quite happy to see that our “Training” in Tier 2 has paid off. The time with Jade and Kodash really helped us evolve our tactics (especially our Guildgroups, but also our RandomZergs). Worthy Enemies those two.

Also good to see that there is still some life left in Deso, i missed you guys.
I don’t think there is any need for “defeatism”… you proved yourself more then enough during the last few weeks that you’ve been stuck in T1 (and we Elonians know that morale gets low after more then a month). One, maybe two weeks and you can enjoy a few rounds with Kodash, Jade or SFR. Maybe even Piken, who knows. Would like to fight you after you well earned “holidays” in tier 2. And trust me, when i say holidays, i actually mean bloody hard fights cause neither Jade nor Kodash will give you time to rest.

Current match seems to work in our favor, starting to hope we get our second Gold this week. And i really think we deserve it, Elona Reach never has been stronger than now. ok, maybe during our first rise, which was quite a while ago.

Anyway, i can’t wait to get my new computer, install GW2 and get back into the fray.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
For Elona!

Dalure.4691:

@ I Deschain I.4623 ye was a good time…..Elona is getting better organized with every matchup….gj:) FG always give what they can even with skilldelay lol.

Saw some guilds that did good….AI and UvL

/Salute

Yeah, we are always trying to improve ourselves. Ty for noticing that.

Sadly, it seems that our nice match up is coming to an end, with the now reinforced SFR. I really enjoyed the time we had with you guys, was fun and a mostly fair matchup. But the week is far from being over.

/Salute

Very good match indeed. Interesting Fights, you win some, you lose some. Had the Honor of leading the Elona Forces on Vizunah Borderlands for a couple of hours today. Really Fun Fights, was pretty much a deadlock between all sides.

Yesterday wasn’t bad either, had a nice 80ppl on TS on one Borderland (Lead by Fralle). Managed to wipe away all those pesky Waypoints on the map.

So far, we are in third, but SFR isn’t that much better off. Wouldn’t be surprised if we manage to get in second place end of the week. Vizunah still very strong, 24hours a day. Hopefully i can manage to get a fwe more shifts in before the week ends, this is way more fun then Tier 2.

Very nice start, feels good to be back in Tier1 EU, after a rather boring Week with the now dead Arborstone.

Good Fights on Elona Homelands all Night. Managed to get our Keep back, thx to a very successfull Fake-Attack on the Bay. Was a bit boring after SFR left the Battlefield to get some well deserved sleep. Thankfully Vizunah came in and tried their best capping our Towers… although that didn’t work out:

epochea.4538:

Why english speaking servers are always against each other? (German and french ones support each other)

No. and also no. no.

We might share some respect for each other, but most of the times it’s pure hatred.

International Servers are usally hated because they very often got pushed by a few Guilds that just hot-drop them when things get rough. Blacktide, for example. Deso once was hated too, but they gained a lot of respect thx to the good recovering after RUIN left them.

Will miss Arborstone. Hopefully the community there will be able to compensate for the loss of soo many guilds, given some time. Always was a good Fight against them.

@marz: Nothing to enjoy about this “battle”. Even with the +695 pts Screenshot after only 6 hours of the match. Will be Karmatrain all week i guess. Not looking forward to it.

The current t1 servers ain’t the only ones that build up some strength lately.

Even without massive Guilds transfering to our server, we managed to increase our numbers in WvW by quite a bit. If it proves to hard we will stay a week or two and bounce back to tier2. But don’t count us out yet. Vizunah Players remember the time we made our first entry into tier1…. and to everyones surprise we’ve won that match-up. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time for a second gold medal. Time will tell.

salluks.6017:

This is exactly the problem, you will replace us in tier 1 next week. but when we go to tier 2 , we will beat tier 2 just as badly as u did unless piken moves to tier 2 next week , so we will replace u again in a week.

I’m not sure, have you ever paid attention to our Elona Reach before? We’ve been bouncing from rank 8 to rank 2, back to 7 and then rank 3. We are used to beeing to good for tier2 and not international enough for tier 1. With most NA Guilds now out of the Picture, we are almost on even footing with other t1 servers. Granted, that remains to be seen, but right now i got a good feeling.

So if Deso has that Problem now, get used to it. We’ve been living with bouncing around long enough, thx to massive Servertransfer every week. Finally this will come to an end and we can settle down where we belong. Wherever that might be.

And don’t think t2 will be easy. The current Match-Up includes only two Servers and Kodash isn’t as bad as the statistics make them look right now. They are simply overpowered by our numbers, with Arborstone out of the picture. Pretty sure they will put up a very decent fight in a “real” matchup.

Offski.4897:

Tynan.6279:

Hahahah… Make up your minds, before all I read was people whinning about free transfers and now the opposite. This community will never be happy.

I was never against free transfers and/or paid transfers, either way it did not bother me. The issue I have is giving people notice, when Anet must of known what would happen. Arborstone was a fantastic wvw server which has now had its wvw community pretty much destroyed.

Although i will miss Arborstone (one of the best servers i’ve ever fought against), i don’t see your point. Giving them a bit more notice would have been nice, but it’s not gamechanging. As far as i have been informed, they likely would have broken up anyway. The End of Servertransfer might have acted as a catalyst, nothing more.

So, this threads seems a bit like QQing over things that have been long coming. We knew that end of server transfers would come, many of us hoping for sooner then later. When the message of the end arrived, there was euphoric reaction in our Teamspeak Server on Elona. Finally no FotM Server anymore, like Blacktide. American Guilds leaving EU Servers, another good thing. Elona Reach always had a very strong nightshift for a EU Server, but we had a lot of trouble to compete with Guilds from overseas, leading to Raidleads that almost suffer from burnout syndrom. This was always a problem for our non-english speaking Server. Now we maybe compete with other Tier1 servers once again.

So, I’m quite happy. Servers with a loyal Community will survive this without a scratch.

There have been NO massive transfers of Guilds to or from Elona Reach. A few individuals may have joined, but since we are the only german Server playing regulary T1-T3 Matches, this is nothing new. We always had our share of WTJ.

Our Community remains pretty much untouched by the end of Server Transfers. Like most German Servers, there ain’t that many options to choose from anyway for most Guilds. What we see now is the very last wave. Things will settle in soon enough. Some strong Servers will lose a couple of ranks, like Arborstone. Some remain untouched (like Elona), some will even get stronger (Vizunah).

But afterall, finally things will settle down. No flvour of the month Server beeing pushed from nowhere into tier1 only to fall back to tier3-4 after the big guilds move on.

Brutaly.6257:

Nice job during the nightshift Elona! Really some great players you had out there and fun fights.

See you again after work.

Ty, we had some very nice fights all night (and morning). Batphoned our Zergs over all 4maps. “Hills in distress” “25+ SFR inner Bay” “Golem Attack Keep” etc. The usual, but a hell lot of it. At least we managed to get past Vizunah in this weeks match, will be interesting if they manage to catch up again.

BTW Respect for Vizu, the unnamed EU-Champion. Fair Fights, having a lot of Fun beeing back in Tier 1 with you again. Let’s see if we can make our stand here…… or suffer from burnout syndrom first.