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Hey guys!

Back in action after a long break. My channel finally hit 100 subscriptions and I’ve got a special solo roaming/commentary video in WvW for you. Realize it’s not a serious video when I’m talking about wiping 40 man zergs. Hope you enjoy!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfTEUrGFkc

- Davy

Being a transfer out of Kaineng in May and seeing the direction of the server right before I left, it’s pretty safe to say they don’t belong in silver league. The few major wuv wuv guilds that remained after the exodus of [WM], [RISE], etc have left for the leagues and without them KN is pretty underpopulated in terms of WvW presence.

NSP is 100% better off than Silver League than KN. Can’t really blame them for not wanting to get rolled for 7 weeks though.

MrFluffy.9307:

mind if I add these videos to my guild website?

As long as I’m given credit or it’s just a link/embed video to the YouTube, I have no problem with that

Hexin.5603:

Hey Davy thanks for putting this together. It should be good base how to for players newer to WvW.

Saves others time to make training tutorial videos. I’d post this into any server match up threads so others can use to help with there population who might only go to there server or guild websites.

If you ever need a guy to trait into something to help with these videos let me know.

~ X

Thanks man, I appreciate the kind words. Might take you up on that trait offer

hihey.1075:

Some tips:
You should have showed that it is really important to “face” your target when deploying a catapult, as it would take loads of time to turn it if you throw it in the wrong direction.
Also, you could have shown more “sweet” spots for deploying catapults.
Over 30% of the video is pretty useless, as anyone would understand what “turn left” and “turn right” mean.

Ah, I forgot about mentioning how it’s important to deploy the catapult to face your target. I didn’t mention “sweet” spots because I’ll be doing siege placements in later videos.

As for 30% of the video being useless, it’s for beginners and not people who have played a lot of WvW and already know how to do everything. Sorry you feel that way though!

Thanks guys

/15char

Hey WvWer’s,

I’m back again with another video! I started a tutorial series covering WvW basics for new players to help lower the learning curve of playing.

Tutorial video #4 is now up, covering anything and everything that is the catapult.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88PN84cfe3M

Check out http://www.youtube.com/user/DavyCraft. Hope it helps!

These dudes are pretty good.

I hope SBI can sustain and doesn’t repeat Kain 2.0.

We’ll see how the week rolls out, but it sorta looks like SBI could be a T1.5 server like TC. Here’s to hoping TC can finally have a match-up that’s within 10k by the end of the week.

Awesome fights against [TG] near DB garrison tonight, hope we get to do that often this week.

Hexin.5603:

Mind if I post/share in server forums?

Go right ahead!

Zomaarwat.3912:

“Oh theres a daily kills daily, lol this means people dont kill things fail Anet”

i lol’d at this

style.6173:

Traxien Cion.9261:

TC does not want this. Every match up we’d have would be a 100k+ stomp that’d kill our server.

I’d like to see a matchup of TC, FA, and either SoS or Mag this coming week. I’m not convinced that TC is as strong anymore with the various guild moves and breakups.

I’d like to see this, especially with Novus off of FA

^ Not sarcasm, I’d really like to fight FA and see if the servers are becoming more even-footed in T2.

Hexin.5603:

If TC had 2 EU guilds, we’d easily yak stomp ya. And 2 SEA guilds wouldn’t hurt, … and why not 2 NA eastern guilds, and 2 NA pacific guilds.

Then we’d be purrrfect. Make that 3 EU guilds.

Our NA can hang with T1, and our EU is already better than BG. Some SEA presence and we’ll be alrighttttttttt

My guess is:

1. SoR
2. JQ
3. BG
4. TC
5. FA
6. Maguuma

Handin.4032:

Excalibur.9748:

how many guilds did TC lose? Can you list them?

As far as I know, TC only list ZN (To get back with guilds they had played with a long time ago) and WvW (not sure of their reasons), and I believe both went to BG. TC did lose some individual players (not a lot) to JQ, but thats it.

We lost [WvW] to JQ as well.

selan.8354:

ty very much this is a good video again for all the beginners. pve players should go to your youtube channel first if they wanna wvw.

thanks

Chris.3290:

Deli.1302:

And if Anet doesn’t change the leagues, here’s something you guys can do to encourage destacking:

How to kill T1 stacking via boredom: don’t let them karma train.
That’s what they do to keep themselves busy during blowout matches. Deny them that luxury and they have nothing. Of course, that means you can’t karma train as well but for the greater good….

Also, during NA prime time, consolidate ALL your forces into one map (or two). Let the other 2/3 maps be completely capped. They will find that there is only 1-2 maps with things to cap and people to fight. Agonizing queue times will be encountered as their entire wvw population tries to get into one map. Cue the queue QQs.

And for all the oceanics, asians and euros out there who aren’t in T2:
They DO have them. Stop transferring to T1 and head to T2. The foundations have been built…. now come and let it flourish.

TC has : KH, Awe, xTyr, INVC, NAGA -> all oceanic/sea guilds – TC is the RP server and has a large pve community. If you want people to pve with during your wvw down time, TC has you covered. A lot of CD’s old asian community is now on TC. TC also has a solid militia force. No matter what time of day, there WILL be people out in WvW (eu prime time included).

FA has: uA, AVTR, NV, DPS, Meow, BKB -> all oceanic/sea guilds – If you’re oceanic, you should know that FA absorbed a lot of IoJ’s oceanic community. That includes several pvx/pve guilds which I did not list. And let’s not forget the asian community DPS/BKB (malaysians, filipinos) as well as quite a number of Japanese pvx guilds.

Both TC/FA have enough of their NA online during EU prime so if any euro guilds transfer to them, you won’t be alone. Some brave guilds just need to get the ball rolling. Take the first leap. Do what IRON did for SoR that eventually lead to KISS and AFTL moving over.

Have you faced any T1 in a while? Because if you have you know you need a queued map to hold off a determined T1 assault to stop the karma train. It’s the reality that it’s hard to get any PuGs into WvW outside of that night.

Often when defending against a T1 karma train (because I’ve done this a lot in TC for the week), you’ll defend hard against one mega blob and if you wipe them then mega blob #2 comes in during repairs and flips whatever you’re defending.

Very, very, very frustrating.

EQUALIZE T2!

Yaro.3251:

Not at all, just goofing around.

C’mon, that was funny, was it

yes :P

after reading your post again now i’m confused myself

Yaro.3251:

DAVYtm.7168:

WvW basics for new players to help lower the learning curve of playing

Wait, what? How people supposed to deal with negative learning curve?

not sure if troll or

Hey WvWer’s,

I started a tutorial series covering WvW basics for new players to help lower the learning curve of playing.

Tutorial video #3 is now up, covering anything and everything that is the flame ram.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bJhyW2CI9o

Check out http://www.youtube.com/user/DavyCraft. Hope it helps!

Fuzzion.2504:

Tietus.8013:

This is what I don’t understand about the T1 servers recent recruitment drives for more people. You’ll spend 4-6 out of the 7 weeks in the league being bored kittenless. People really transfer for some poxy finisher??? Amazing!

Not really true. T1 and T2 can be fun. Its just that fighting a t3 server like SoS is utterly boring.

Also Mag stands to gain from potential recruitment drives if they get into the gold league.

T1 is fun for T1, blob v blob warfare.

Thanks guys, really appreciate it. Next video going up tomorrow or Thursday!

quacthulhu.2546:

This match-up sucks for TC. Haven’t seen any “good” fight, just being over-zerged. WvW is no fun if it’s not sporting, for either side of the fight.

I’d like to agree with this, but I’d rather get crushed and play the underdog than roll another server underneath us. BG/SoR/JQ are my favorite match-ups for being in TC. I’d really like to match a server on even-footing with us though.

selan.8354:

yeah really really helpful. keep those coming!
the new people have to learn about upgrades and tower defenses and siege placement. we had a guy from my old guild training people on trebs and mortars and ac’s for weeks.
a new player will always feel lost in wvw when they start.
i can remember when i got to wvw for the first time. i used to buy the wrong upgrades because i didnt know. i didnt know how to use a ram or a treb. i didnt know about builds or anything. then i got picked up by a guild and learned the ropes quite fast.

these videos could definitely encourage newbies to play more often and effectively help the server.

Definitely, and I think siege use may be a video I go through before continuing my borderlands review.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

Good stuff to encourage new players. I really appreciate commanders helping out with tutorials.

Thank you!

selan.8354:

nice work. these videos should be pinned up on top off this forum so newbies learn the ropes fast

Glad you think so, I’m hoping to get the videos pinned or at least get them as a first-reference for new players/referrals from militia commanders. I’m a pretty regular commander myself but with time constraints this is the best way for me to help the community right now

clint.5681:

Interesting idea, i was just playing around with the idea of writing a WvW guide for my server members. Ill watch your videos a little later and give feedback.

Thanks mate, feel free to comment it here/on YouTube or mail me in-game.

selan.8354:

everyone is in t1 atm so they have massive queues and a massive coverage. i think t1 should be in their own league, because right now http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/map/1019

2 servers are being almost spawncamped on each bl.
we love to fight, but massive hammer trains everywhere u go is not really a good fight.
t2 servers wanna move down to escape atm. guilds flee or are getting paid to join kitten is getting a little out of hand.oh well… bring it!

I agree with this 100%. Being a TC player, it sucks getting crushed by T1 when we fight them (which will be most of the season). What sucks more though, is not being on even footing with FA and SoS. Get some transfers so we can have even fights!

I can feel bad for players who have been on JQ for a while, but for those who transferred for the leagues; I hope your queue lasts 7 weeks.

incandescence.6784:

Very nice work, ty. I will watch more.

Thanks

Korbaal.6402:

DAVYtm.7168:

Pretty pathetic that Blackgate had to have a trial account to kill off TC golems in OLK. No class, guess you really need that advantage to suppress a server that is already behind 35k.

To be fair you don’t know that, you are assuming its BG. However we all know for a fact TC likes to ninja a certain tower on EB using less than appropriate methods. So lets not go down that road shall we? People that live in glasshouses etc….

I thought it was a fair assumption because the account is the same that did it during a BG/JQ matchup. In regards to that tower ninja, I’ve never seen it but certainly don’t approve of any mode of cheating in WvW by any server.

Hey guys,

I’ve created a WvW tutorial series to help lower the learning curve that pushes so many people away from trying it out after PvE.

My channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/DavyCraft

So far there are two videos up, one with the very basics and another with the northern borderlands review. I’ll be continuing a comprehensive review of the borderlands before moving to eternal battlegrounds, siege placement, and eventually open field tactics.

Hope you enjoy!

Pretty pathetic that Blackgate had to have a trial account to kill off TC golems in OLK. No class, guess you really need that advantage to suppress a server that is already behind 35k.

Aurust.8961:

urak.4863:

BG/SoR/JQ should just be given their own league. Nobody else has coverage and queues map(s) 24 hours of the day :<

TC should stop whining in every thread about leagues and take their upcoming beatings. Like I point out, when TC stacked themselves far beyond any competition outside of T1, you had the same complaints lobbed against you that were dismissed out of hand.

Now its too late for your precious community…. there will be many slayings of roleplayers and dolyaks in your future. Get used to it because it seems almost every week you will be facing a t1 server.

i hope this is a joke coming from someone on SoR.

THIS GUILD IS FOR HARDCORE WVW. IT IS PURELY WVW, AND HAS NO AFFILIATION WITH PVE. THE REASON THE GUILD IS BEING MADE IS TO CULTIVATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH ALLOWS PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO BE GOOD AT WVW TO GROW AND BECOME BETTER IN WVW AMONG A GOOD GROUP OF PEOPLE.

Rules:
- 100% Representation.
- Trial rank, time period is subjective but two weeks at most. Once you’ve proven you can run with the group you will be moved to a member rank.
- 100% Comms on Mumble. You need to be on comms, and you need to be on Mumble. If you don’t have a mic that’s fine but you need to be able to listen to whoever is leading the group.
- Training is mandatory when it is held, will be posted in guild chat. If you can’t attend just mail an officer ahead of time if you can’t be there.
o Will include siege training.
- Class training will be held once or twice a week with designated class leads (they will be the same rank as everyone else), this will help augment our mandatory training to keep classes well versed in the meta.
- Primetime is MANDATORY. It will remain 4-7 but likely move to 5-8 server time soon.

Standards:
- Dropping fields when called for by the leader.
- Staying in a tight formation, not squirreling off.
- Will be a council system to vote for probation and kicking of those who fail to meet the standard.

Any questions, please mail me in game as I don’t check forums often.

DAVYtm.7168

Hello,

I just recently purchased GW1 hoping to work on some of the HoM achievements to get some of the cool skins. I’m having trouble linking my GW2 account to GW1 though, it keeps saying either incorrect password or that the information is wrong. Any idea of what to do? Thanks!!