Guild Wars 2

Not been active for a while now due to work pressures and the ‘ball and chain’ WTS my job and my wife so I can play properly again…..she can’t cook but boy can she………nag! any takers!?

Ok back on topic I don’t think anyone really doubts why Deso are in the SL due to various factors and I don’t doubt that PvE hits both servers hard. The long and short of it is Gandara seem to have the numbers Primetime and Deso 2nd half of the week seemed to have had the numbers at night.

No problem each server knows where the weakness lies I think some of the aggression shown here is just a symptom of the perceived increase in night presence from Deso which came out of the blue, be it as part of recruitment or players starting to play again. However this is irrelevant really, as is the discussion about who tanked what and when the fact is we are where we are and we now know the makeup of the SL.

Good luck to all involved over the coming weeks I predict a strong showing from dark horses for the title for me are AG and GH. We have spies everywhere and my spidersense is tingling

And remember…..it’s them that dies will be the lucky uns….and its dog eat dog in this world and I am not gonna end up a tin of pedigree chum!

Sing along now

Tied my dog to the railroad track
Chu Chu train gonna break his back
Used to call him spot but now he’s called splat
Thats the kind or persons we arrrrreeeeee
hey baby wont you come on home with meeeeee

For those of you too young to remember ‘The Young Ones’ I apologise for the song above

Get down shep! x

kitten shame that I am on holiday…been away a couple of weeks and not back until after next weekend….would have loved to have fought Underworld no matter will probably get Viz, Elona and SFR on my return knowing my luck!!

Run for your lives before the skill lag finishes you off!!!

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I get the distinct impression that some people on here need a hug so come on over I have a big set of shoulders there there it will be all better now…..

More action (unless its hugging) less typing!!!

/salute

Will be back this evening after a week away so looking forward to meeting you both on the battlefield tonight and the rest of the week! Last week seemed like a good match up lets hope we get a repeat this week!

Good luck all

Thieves give much more to a zerg than a lot of people think if they are specced properly for group play and not specced for 1v1.

I am extremely average at 1v1 due to my spec but in a guild op running with 20-30 people yes I die a bit but not all that often on top of this I hand out buffs to allies by stealing, rip boons from enemies, have blast finishers for buffs, sometimes share some venom love to my allies, I have some healing, fields, stealth fields and some other uses for the group.

Well I was looking forward to this patch but have been left bitterly disappointed will see how it goes over the next few days but I may jack this game in. Yes culling is fixed, great it was working very well.

However the downsides

WvWexp is currently creating a zerg megabus.
Crappy Armour and skins for badges
Armour that I already have for badges
Progression is not what I had hoped just generic boosts to siege use. Nothing to do with real character progression.
Those name tags!!!!!! Ahhhhhh my screen was just a sea of red or blue last night the tags have to go.

Culling aside not found another thing yet that has made my want to log in. Will see how it is when I get home from work this evening…..

Anyone online later want to see a grown man cry then keep an eye out for me!

Looking at the coverage FSP (and AG) already have at night/early morning if Xaoc do move to you it will almost certainly unbalance this match up which has been great so far.

Can’t stop them moving if they want to join you but it just means us Gandaran’s will have to fight even harder!

Nice fights in AG borders last night have a feeling this week could go down to the wire.

Had a good couple of hours fighting yesterday in GBL some nice fights against guilds from both AR and Kodash.

Hopefully we can keep this effort going for the rest of the week it seems that at Prime time we are more than capable of holding our own in this tier but coverage at other times of the day my be our downfall. But win or lose hopefully we will have earned some respect from our opponents.

The fights so far have been more intense and much more fun than our last matchup so for that I salute you!

/salute (see I speaka da truth!)

Well I have not been around much this week due to work pressures but when I have been on it has been fantastic. A great match up every server having ups and downs and some great balanced fights.

It’s criminal to think that the rankings are going to get messed up so much this week given the apparent scores across most tiers this week (particularly our tier) where it is clear that most tiers are nearly sorted in terms of fair match ups

/Salute

Yes great start hopefully will be a funpacked close week!

However as mentioned above TIA took a tower in our BL’s by glitching into it. Auroura Glade were attacking the door I ran over to start a defence but 3 or 4 TIA were already at the lord and capped it…nothing down they did it under cover of AG catapult attacks….they also capped Greenlake Tower also but I dont think we had anybody there to confirm if it was legit. They were spotted in Hills Lord room but they ported when we spotted them before anything kicked off and the were also spotted in bay as mentioned above.

As soon as a few other Riverside players came to our borders they started to play properly and used some rams! but from 4am GMT until 6.30am GMT they were looking for easy bugged caps

I have been around as long as MMO’s have existed after flirting with a few of the very first MMO’s I found DAoC. DAoC was in my opinion the best WvW experience that I have had. I was hoping that WAR would replicate and improve on what DAoC was but in my opinion it failed and I was left disappointed…so much so I nearly thought about going back to WoW…*shudder*

Aion had aspects which were good for a short time but in GW2 I have found a game that is very close to what DAoC offered in terms of a WvW experience and I love it….However, in my opinion, it needs a lot of work to ensure it’s survival.

Now without wanting to sing the praises of previous games if just a little of the following was implemented in GW2 it would make me a happy bunny.

Rewards and progression be they skill and ability rewards or armour and weapon rewards or both!

Larger maps…the current map size is very small and encourages zerging make the maps bigger it will force people to defend and means that an entire map will not be captured within an hour.

Towers and keeps should not be able to be captured from the safety of another tower or keep by trebbing.

Increase the hitpoints of walls and doors…there should be no way a door melts in 30 seconds when under heavy attack make people work harder to get in if a tower or keep can be captured in a couple of minutes its crazy. With bigger maps and stronger structures it will force servers to play more strategically and a nights objective for a guild group would be tonight we are going to x to try and take that keep…not we are going to y borderlands and by the end of the night its all green. When an objective is captured it should not be able to be recapped within a few minutes.

The tickover time for scores and the weekly scores needs to be rethought….no easy answer here though due to time zone coverage of some servers but with current tickover times servers can rack up a huge lead in a short space of time as they live in a different part of the world.

The orbs could be brought back but this would only work if not bugged and if the maps were a lot bigger. Again a nights objective could then be we are going to x and we are going to make an attempt on their Orb…if successful we would need to get it back to our territory and there it shall reside until the enemy wins it back. It should not be reset automatically it should be won back or stay there until the end of the matchup.

Either a keep is contested or not lets just have 1 type of swords show up please

There is more but even if the above was implemented I think it would make a huge difference

Come on in the waters lovely!

Shame to see a few posts taking a turn for the worst on both sides in these last tense hours…nobody can deny the fact that it has been a great week all 3 servers can take a lot out of this weeks matchup

Although its nearly there the week is still not won!

Anyways I was unfortunately not able to play yesterday and wont be on much today due to work looks like I missed a lot of fun!

/salute

Been having some great battles last few nights we, the real [WvW] not those imposters from Germany were in AG borders last night. Had some great fights

We had about 25 at our peak managed to get some randoms running with us and also saw TDA and DL running separately at times. Some great fights at Bay, esspecially the one where the door burst open and in poured around 30 DZ we were outnumbered as a lot of us had headed to the camp north of bay leaving a smaller number of us inside about 15 or so at Bay South outer door. We hid around the corner of the door, buffed, flanked and wiped the DZ attack as soon as the doors were down a great effort!

Hills defence was solid and the Golem attack on Garrison was probably the smoothest Golem run I have been involved in and had some nice fights between DE, Wood and Garrison.

Despite having a large DZ and Gandara presence on your home borders AG never gave up and continued to throw whatever they could at us both in defence and attack

Hopefully there will be more of the same over the next few days!

/Salute

Will be interesting to see how we do this week. We made good progress but took a hell of a beating last week as such we have lost some guilds and players who fled the nest. Hopefully though the Gandaran fighting spirit will shine through! some nice little battles so far

Good luck and have fun!

/Salute

So as soon as Piken start to win again the Arrogence comes back ten fold.

In addition the only way that you could beat us was the recruitment of a night time server to get cheap caps and old guilds that moved on a long time ago coming back

Quite a sad story actually…but lifes too short to worry about such trivia. This will be my last post in this matchup forum I tried to add a bit of humour previosuly but I can see that people would rather flex muscles, troll, bad mouth etc I have better things to do tbh

Gandarans we can hold our heads up high, suggest we leave PS to troll the forums and don’t get involved

/Salute

Well the last few posts have been a nice refreshing change to some of the previous posts more of this please!!

/salute

Looks like it is going to be another close week!

Early odds at the bookies

AR – Last weeks outsiders are making an early statement currently Evens favourites to come home in 1st place with the help of a few old Fort Ranik Guilds some early indications though that they may have fed pork pies to the other runners this week with some suspicious behavior spotted at the stables….

PS – Again made some early running on reset have they gone to fast too soon sweeping all before them they are slowly starting to get pegged back odds currently 3 to 1 lets hope they have the stamina to mount a challenge after the final turn too much Christmas Pudding may affect thier legs though

Gandara Slow out of the starting gate (and out of bed most days) but can they make a comback currently this weeks outside chance but always capable of sneaking up on the rails down the home straight! current odds of 3 to 1

It is still anybodies race folks!…although as last week New Year Celebrations may just affect the outcome of the race but who cares looks like being a fun close week again!

/salute

Maltra.7890:

WOW what a long discussion!

a contribute to this match:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lCRpSy6LA3s

Great Video again guys always enjoy watching them and glad you are on our side!

Been having fun this week looks like its going to go down to the wire!!

latest betting odds

PS Evens favourites
Gandara a good bet at 2:1
AR at 3 : 1 are the oustsiders but capable of an upset so may be worth a flutter on them….

The smart money though goes to me as I am out with the family today to watch The Hobbitt….have fun all /hugs

Been a relatively good clean hard fight so far and a very close 3 way battle I know we are all sufferig with numbers and will do even more over the next few days but so far….. it’s been emotional ;o) /salute

Yes been a nice few days so far I think all servers are suffering from drop in numbers both due to the ingame and real life Christmas Event so in theory who know what could happen this week!

As its our first time in tier 4 since daily matches staying in it for a second week would be another great result for us Gandarans lets hope we can keep it going!

Some pesky fighters on both sides taking my upgraded camps this morning….I know where you live ;o) x

Have fun all I will not be as active as usual this holiday period but I will try and spill some blood when I can

Good Luck, Have Fun and Merry Christmas!

That guild are exploiting all the time….a ban is needed the Guild is Mit Gehirn (PRO)

They are giving your server a bad reputation!!

Had a great week this week so far…win or lose there have been some epic battles FS are definately on thier way back up also been getting stronger by the day

Oh and not to labour the point seen lots of people Alt F4 this week really is the first time I have witnessed it a lot though…such a shame die with dignity please!