Guild Wars 2

Iceman.5034:

I was the norn female on the “slytherin” team. I must say thanks for the comments on my fashion. Laar and I spend a lot of time on fashion and it is fun to do stuff like this. I also owe her for her keen eye in helping guide me. Also a huge shout out to rising duck for helping us get our 5th and coming thru with that great RP story. Hope to be in many more of these contests.

Rising duck 4lyfe! Ducks>dusk all day :p Seriously though, thanks for the write up. I think it was just enough to tip the scale!

Laar is such an internet bully. I’m being badgered to make a decision, while at work. And hey, with a name like Curvsaplenty, I went for the CoE chest, due to it being the breast best representation, but being vogue (SHOULD) is great too It was a closely scored contest though, and was fun to participate in, so thanks for organizing it, Lilith!

It’s nice to finally go up against FA, shout out to [PRO]. You guys have some great small group pvper’s knocking heads around. My guild is tiny, usually only 3-6 on at a time, so usually not enough to field a full party. We were running around in TCBL around 2:00 am EST, group of 3, mainly just causing havoc, and had a blast killing escorts, and also dying, a lot, to both sides.

We shifted over to EB once we wore out our welcome (bullies!), and were doing the same thing. Lot’s of 3v3-8’s going on, and we had some most excellent fights with both sides. We had a fight with about 8-10 TC south of smc in between the two sentries that lasted about 10 minutes around 3:30-4 am EST, with both sides getting multiple rallies, and rez’s.

Haven’t had fights like this in weeks. MagumLOLa and Emergad Bay just complained that we were a mindless zerg, and declared, win or lose (lose), they were much more talented than anything CD could muster.

It’s hard to see if there is bad blood between us 3 servers yet, due to the clean-up mod crew, but it seems civil enough. I have always enjoyed going up against TC, and hope we get that chance still to come. FA is a great server on the rise that I, also, look forward to crossing swords with.

Cheers!

Rhyis.7058:

Curvs.9183:

In this light, it does look bad, and I’m sure some probably did bail. It was pretty nuts in there; I don’t think i was above 50% health or endurance for a good 10 minutes, once EBay and Maguuma broke in. However, I left after SMC was taken, and our last stand on the roof was broken. I hid for a few minutes on the roof before I thought I got spotted.

I didn’t think it was implied that I ran out in the confusion. I took advantage of said confusion as long as I could.

But if you ported away it means you weren’t fighting in that last stand on the roof, as you can’t port while in combat. So you literally watched your comrades die while doing nothing… And really, unless you’re a mesmer, there wasn’t any reason to be on that roof. If you weren’t able to stop us with 50+ sieged to the gills, you sure as hell weren’t going to stop us with 10-15 with a single ballista. You’d have been better served either having the 10-15 of you hide somewhere, and hope we didn’t find you so you could instantly ninja cap the location. Or to have a true last stand in the capture point, increasing your numbers and your chances of wiping everybody right then and there.

Raincrow.1840:

Curvs.9183:

I didn’t think it was implied that I ran out in the confusion. I took advantage of said confusion as long as I could.

Sometimes you can just look around and see that your death has no meaning, so getting away in a situation like that isn’t a bad thing.

There is such a thing as a tactical retreat.

This is true when there’s no hope of winning the battle, however that wasn’t the case in SMC at all. Each army sat inside the capture point for upwards of 10 minutes. It really was anybody’s guess who was going to come out on top. If CD had an extra body or two in there, who knows, it may not have flipped.

I was on my mesmer, and I never said anything about Way-pointing out. And once it got to “one more tick to cap” (and i think Mag may have had an arrow cart up?) there wasn’t a whole lot our skeleton crew could do. So, we retreated upstairs and tried to set some siege down, but realized we didn’t have a whole lot of supply, so we did what we could. Once that didn’t hold out, I found a spot and did /sleep when the order was issued for mesmers to hide. once my spot got blown up, I alternated my group stealth/decoy/blink/veil, while jumping down as needed. It was a lost cause I went straight out from SMC, and started building trebs in WC, to start the counter attack.

It’s so silly I have to explain all the details. If it were a Mag player, making my post, he could have said. “SMC, inside, killed some, got out, yey!” And they would get showered in adoration in how they outsmarted the mindless CD players.

Tactical retreats, as Raincrow said, are just as viable as staying till death. I’d have to say that’s something TC was/is so good at. They burned us more times than not, by pulling back, and regrouping.

I, and my guild, are totally looking forward to next week’s match. We picked up (randomly?) a few great NA guilds, that are making an impact. That is where we fell short in the past in the upper tiers, once we had our guild exodus. When we used to have a safe spot in tier 2, we had excellent NA coverage. We were close to bumping up to tier 1, if i remember correctly at one point. So hopefully, we’re on the right track again. we’ll need to be against the likes of TC and YB.

It would be awesome if they implemented some mechanic that would balance the play field at any given time, but that’s highly unlikely. So until the brackets work themselves out a little more, this current tier will always be a bit rocky.

Rhyis.7058:

Curvs.9183:

Furthermore, during your successful capture of SMC, which did seem to catch us off guard, as well as EBay coming in from the other side at the same time, I got 31 badges off the impregnable maguumans. without being downed once, and getting away to boot.

This isn’t something I’d be proud of and share with the class. You just ousted yourself as a coward. If you weren’t in the middle of that ring, you’re the direct reason why Mag was able to flip SMC in the first place. Hell with the waypoint upgrade, you shouldn’t even be worried about death. You can port in every 3 minutes at your leisure.

As a Maguuman, I suppose I should thank you.

In this light, it does look bad, and I’m sure some probably did bail. It was pretty nuts in there; I don’t think i was above 50% health or endurance for a good 10 minutes, once EBay and Maguuma broke in. However, I left after SMC was taken, and our last stand on the roof was broken. I hid for a few minutes on the roof before I thought I got spotted.

I didn’t think it was implied that I ran out in the confusion. I took advantage of said confusion as long as I could.

Bones.5762:

I guess CD just don’t understand what it takes to be a maguuman, so please don’t xfer over here because you guys will qq about how we play.

You’re right, we don’t know how to be Maguuman. We can’t comprehend getting rolled so hard, then still claiming we’re better.

Also, I had a 1v3, then a 1v4 against the supposed elite maguuman small force pvpers. I figured I stood no chance, being my zerg wasn’t with me. I mean, Crystal Desert players are nothing without the zerg, right? But I won both encounters! So weird. I guess this means, since I fought, collectively, seven people, that you’re whole entire server is actually awful.

Furthermore, during your successful capture of SMC, which did seem to catch us off guard, as well as EBay coming in from the other side at the same time, I got 31 badges off the impregnable maguumans. without being downed once, and getting away to boot.

So, with that said, and most of this thread going to shambles (admittedly, this post is no different than most in here, and apologize for that, but I could only read so much blowhard before responding) I, sir/madam, along with what i’d think would be the vast majority/all of our, Crystal Desert, server are proud of not being maguuman. Mainly, and this is just speculation, because we like to, you know, win. Something you guys just haven’t added to your superior tactics, yet.

Yeah, ignoring all ^(drew) guys posts from now on, because he’s really the only person i’ve run into from Yak’s that is so butt hurt about something CD did, obviously.

Tonight was the most my guild [BB] has ever had on, two teams of 4. We finally raised enough gold to buy one co-leader a commander tag, so we could all squad up. We ran around in TC borderland for quite some time, and it was a lot of fun. We were the only ones in there for a while, until we started taking some camps. We had some awesome small group PvP sessions with both sides.

We had a few brand new guys to WvW that just started playing, so it was cool to take them out when it was relatively calm. We must have stirred something up enough, because after we wiped the few small groups trying to take red vale back, we got rolled over by a sizable TC force. I had a good laugh when about 10 stayed behind and laid/sat/danced/etc on my corpse for a while.

after that, most of us went to bed, except for myself, and the other co-leaders. we decided to do a jumping puzzle tour, because, well, we never do it. it shouldn’t be there in the first place, or at least should have a grace period, or be a neutral zone, or something, so it’s not such a big deal. we made an agreement to not attack anyone, unless first attacked. for the most part, it went by all smooth. every now and then, i got hit a few times, but /waved and they stopped. the one guy in our guild was hammered though, and kept attacking everyone. we even trapped him outside of the chest door in the one BL while some yak.s/tc were trying to loot their chests. it was pretty funny, he was yelling up a storm in vent.

he eventually passed out, so the remaining thief, and myself on mesmer, decided to try the EB puzzle for the first time ever. We knew CD had been camping it, so we went in thinking we’d get shot up immediately. and we did. we were just beginning, and waved a few TC players to show we were friendly, and got pulled off the ledge. so, we killed those ones, and moved on. after the dark room (which sucks without a torch…now i know), 4-5 TC were camping the one hallway, so we killed them as well, then eventually got the chest, and had a dance party with a different TC player.

All in all, it was a good time, and wish more of the fights were like that. any NA time frame is so…depleted for us on CD, that we just can’t compete anymore. tier 4 is welcome for most of us who play WvW almost every day, so if that was your agenda, then thanks!

As of right now…YB and TC will stay tier 3, and FA will move up. We at CD will fall to the top spot in tier 4. They (TC & YB) should hope to stay in tier 3 :p CD being in tier 2 for so long is what killed us, and caused lots of transfers. We were large enough to hold our spot, and had much more uniform coverage, but after a few bad weeks/match-ups of tier 1 servers dropping down, stomping us, lots left for the greener pastures.

Tier 2 was alright, extremely competitive and organized, but it felt more like a chore. An inch really was a mile. It may have seemed a little less zergy though, since all the BLs were full most of the time, so 20-30 v 20-30 was the norm.

There are quite a few commander’s names I don’t see anymore, and haven’t seen in some time, along with their guild tags. Whether they only PvE now (saw 5 PvE commanders in cursed shore today? wtf), and have truly left, kinda sucks. The main one I can think of, that I liked to follow, was Housin. No idea where he ended up, but seemed pretty legit.

Hopefully when we roll over tier 4, we can steal some transfers away from those servers, and have a bit better coverage This has been my favorite match-up yet, by far, and i’d like to get into it again, if CD ends up in 3rd.

Zergish tendencies or not, TC is tenacious when they know they have the element of surprise, and/or the upper hand. They fight just as hard as anyone i’ve faced, and i’ve been doing a lot of running! They have lots of lowbies though…but guessing that’s mainly due to them being in the lead. Not complaining, helped me buy 2 more pieces of invaders armor

YB is not much different from the last time we faced them: awesome. I’ve had fun butting heads so far, and you all are good sports from what i’ve experienced. seconds place is still a battle to be fought, but it’ll be hard to gain ground with YB in our way.

Had a lot of fun in TC borderland defending the bay keep today, as well as the constant back and forth in EB in(side) and around langor and quentin towers.

Win or lose, we still booze!

Ok, the mentality of camping the JP is to prevent the other servers to get easy siege. if you can stem the flow of easy, free siege, then why not? I personally don’t camp them, or even do the jump puzzles. I go to WvW to PvP, not jump around for a chest :p

All the tier 2+ servers do it, same with camping spawns. Keep the enemy down, cut their siege, cut their supplies, and they have much more work to do to become a factor. Ruthless/boring/annoying, yes, but it’s a strategy with proven effectiveness.

With that said, the only time CD really has a big zerg on all maps, is oceanic times. It’s 12:30 EST, and we have no queue on any map that i tried. Maybe 5 mins max. So if you play in the hours ahead of now…say 3-4 am est, then you’ll be catching that zerg. Maybe earlier since it’s the weekend. It seems like we’ve lost a lot of NA coverage, and have been slipping in that time frame for weeks. Our server is just so PvE centric…i swear, all the popular zones are camped/zerged/overflowed out sometimes it seems. I’ve only ever seen Arah down once, in my normal play hour, and 40+ people LFG outside, when WvW has like, 15 on each map.

Still though, these are the two servers i’ve enjoyed playing the most in the past, in TC and YB. Regardless of time, or numbers (screw the score), I’ll be out there in WvW.

Another thing to try out, is to just try out a few builds/armor combos in the mists. I’ve been leveling my mesmer mainly only in WvW. I just went into the mists tonight, for the first time on it, and really learned what works well, for me…armor-wise, which runes i prefer, weapon sets, sigils, etc. Personally, i feel a mesmer can sacrifice some toughness/vit, because they have a lot of get-away slot skills/traits handy. I spec’d mainly into power/precision/vit/crit% and killed much more, than I died. I also found myself coming up with better strategies for 1v1/1v2/1v3 situations, which can be common in WvW. After some practice, I was starting to win most 1v2 situations, and downing at least one person in 1v3, something I was not the best at in WvW.

It depends on the play style you like. My mesmer is 70 right now, and has about 22k hp in WvW, but still does plenty of damage. I mainly use a combo of Knight’s/Berserker’s armor, and my jewelry is all knight’s with beryl gems, i believe. i go with a greatsword main, and sword/pistol swap. focus is also great when travelling for the runbuff, and when attacking towers/keeps, to pull enemies from their comfort zone off of the walls For slot skills, they’re mainly all to get myself out of the terrible situations i generally run headfirst into. decoy, blink, null field, and moa as the elite. not sure on my traits, not signed in to check ;0

While the invader/AC/etc etc armors are decent in most regards, i’d look for a karma alternative. It’s much easier to come by, at least for me, and you’ll be a little less likely having buyers remorse. I like the pow/prec/vit armors, stacked with a main weapon with a bloodlust sigil, and swap weapon with an accuracy one. once you rack up some kills, and start stacking, you can do some pretty serious damage/crits, while having some great survivability.

hope my post, and personal experiences help you out! have fun

Scorpio Shirica

I like to visit FA threads just to see them complain about fighting TC’s “overwhelming night presence.” I hope we at TC get to fight Yak’s, they don’t seem to complain as much even when losing. I think YB, TC, CD would be a fun fight.

I think this would be an awesome matchup. TC is kinda rolling over us at CD right now, not without a fight, of course. Mainly because HoD has hardly any presence whatsoever. A third server, especially one as great as Yak’s, would even the play field. Both TC and Yak’s have been my favorite servers to play against, so far.

With that said, nice going YB! Keep it up, and I am sure most of us at CD would like seeing you again in the (near) future.

qq. make a new build with more toughness/vitality. When i play on my lowbie mesmer, arrow carts maybe do between 500-600 unless they crit. and i still have plenty of power/precision to kill people.

sounds like you’re just complaining, instead of trying to figure out how to defend against them.

As far as I know/have heard, CD is a full/near full server. The vast majority, are all PVE-centric. So, larger guilds do not have the free cap space to bring an entire guild here. It’s been both a blessing, and a curse.

I will say, the guilds/people we have that are active in WvW, are pretty darn good. We have some pretty insurmountable coverage gaps, which is why we went from 5th to 10th or whatever we are now, but when we are hitting on all cylinders, its a pretty good force.

With that said, Yaks and DH are beasts. You both use your strengths to a great advantage, and really the only major glaring shortfall is coverage. Both sides have great organization, and quick response. I usually run with 2-3 guild mates max (super small wvw guild), and we hardly ever shy away from larger numbers, but both sides use some nifty tactics, and fight with tenacity most of the upper tier servers can’t match. tier 1 and 2 is, basically, all a zerg fest. Yaks and DH players all seem to not have been tainted by constant zerging, and most that i’ve run into are fantastic in small squad/solo pvp.

I believe someone said in this thread something along the lines of…the score doesn’t even matter in this match..etc etc. can’t have said it better myself. the score reflects nothing on whats going on in the inside.

My guild has mainly seemed to be running into DH mainly, and I have to give a shout out to [RH] Rethesis (sorry if i spelled this wrong!). You guys are pro, and we at [BB] Breaking Bads love putting up the dukes with you guys. Every last one of you, i’ve come across at least, more then holds their own out there!

Thanks for the good times so far, and lets keep it rollin till the end.

Ran around with a few guild mates (Breaking Bads), and others from CD in small groups in SoR and SoS borderlands for a few hours tonight. Lots of fun stealing camps over and over, and mainly being pests It was a blast, and 80% of the encounters we entered, we either won, or made the bad guys run. We knew we were getting on SoS’ nerves when they’d bring a much larger force to try and wipe us. We (at least my guild) hope that our diversions helped SoR take some ground back. When we entered, it was all blue, when we left, it was pretty much 50/50 sos/sor.

There has been at least three times for me, personally and more for guild mates, that an SoR raidforce has let me finish out a 1v1 instead of rolling over me. Won once, lost once, and ran once (due to SoS mucking it up), so SoR has earned mine, and my guild’s respect for that. We only have 3-4 active players that play every night, and for all of us to feel that way, is pretty great.

So, even though we are getting rolled, while 75% of our server would rather pve (winning or losing a match), it is a blast. Hope SoR gets back on its feet, and we’ll be taking SoS camps and yaks till the end!

Actually, one of the veteran wizards pulled me through a wall, while playing my mesmer, at quentin in EB last night. I couldn’t get through the walls back outside, or waypoint out due to constant battle, but i could run around underneath the castle floor. It also let me target siege, and eventually killed the tower lord, 4 players, and all the siege with beserkers, before i got bored and went to bed.

Man, the fight for SMC about 2-3 hours ago was epic. The fight between all 4 servers was awesome. Lag officially has it’s own realm after that fight. We (CD) would come in, then SOR, then SOS would clear us all out again, after the other two went at it. We pushed at least 5-6 times, so did SOR. If SOS held out (I got lag DC’d in lord room), then major qudos to them. Even with the lag, it was a blast just trying to stay alive.

Someone mentioned “dream match-up” and I’d have to agree. All 3 servers have proven they can hold their own (at least in EB where i spent a good 3-4 hours), to almost a dead stalemate.

IIRC, SoS rolled us once before, and I learned a lot from that match-up. They have such great coordination, that a few communication errors, will send you packing.

The few SoR i ran into were relentless too. I was in a group of about 10 taking the northern EB supply camps, and a smaller group of SoR ambushed us from some cliffs, then bull rushed most of us dead.

So, looking forward to the rest of this match up, and here’s to hoping it stays close and violent! I’m probably gonna have to start using my 80 a lot more in this one, rather than my lowbies

Nabarue.3290:

nothin some serious condition stacking and some well timed evasion cant handle

qft. did you read that post at all?

This match up is the best one i’ve been in so far. I’ve spent the most time in EB, but jump around in the borders too, and everywhere you go, it’s been a good fight. Still, even now, it’s anyone’s game. Although ET fell behind a bit, they are really holding their own, and pushing back really hard, by the time i logged. it’s unfortunate ET lost so much night coverage (last time CD fought you guys, well…wasn’t even a fight!), but to be honest, you guys are better off without those RUINoobs. It’s nice leaving spawn points without 10 ballista shooting you.

Best of luck to IOJ and ET…we’re all in for a good week I hope; with CD coming out on top