Guild Wars 2

mhm, we dont get many regulars posting. I’ll probably move to the new forum just to read what people post there.
Enjoying the matchup so far and hope it continues! Since this is out last thread and last day of the subforum? good luck and have fun in our other matchups too ^^

Yay drama for our last matchup thread on this forum

Out of curiosity where are people planning to move to after this sub forum is closed? Looks like gw2wvw.net is a thing but since we will probably be eternally paired with vabbi wanted to know where you guys plan to go ^^

Love reading the forums for all the dramas/comments would be a shame if it died out.

Kencu.5846:

Just before we took SM this morning

I was wondering why we had waypoints in our borderland keeps when I logged on this afternoon xD

@Jathres I was actually there for that first video (although I wasnt chasing you or taking part in the fight at all, was just watching to see how your team handled it ^^) Had no idea they chased you so far and for so long. Can understand why you would get pretty frustrated with that. Maybe its because your guild tags have become quite infamous on our server.
The reason the zerg was there was because fow had made a mess of our border, guess you just got caught by the end of the clean up crew.

And yes, I am baffled as to why we have achievement trains again but hey, guess WSR is just a little bit different I’m sure by midweek we will be back to our usual smaller numbers.

@Monkeymonger I think your comment is a little unfair, most of the people playing wvw right now (at least for wsr) are people who are trying to finish their season 1 meta achievement. We have had ques in eb for a lot of prime time which hasnt happened since the start of the season. This means a lot of the people in our maps are looking for trains or trying to form trains to get their achievements done.
When these people see a guild team that they recognise or are known to get a lot done they will choose to follow them. Also, there are a lot of pve commanders running around who are pretending to know what they are doing, our dedicated wvw community isn’t going to follow these so will probably end up in the same area as the guild teams or will try to follow them instead.
And hell, when you have so many people on a map its pretty hard not to be in the same place as other people. What do you expect them to do? Just decide that there a lot of pugs here so better stop defending this keep/tower or stop the attempt at trying to siege this place? Not the best attitude to have when we are trying to get more people to be active in our wvw community.
Especially considering (currently) wsr is in first place, after a long time of either being second or more commonly last, who wouldnt want to work hard at trying to finish first?
I’m a fan of fair fights as much as the next person, but realistically unless organised in advanced this is almost never going to happen. (assuming the reason why you brought it up is because you are finding it hard to find the right sized group of pugs to kill and make videos of?)
I may have taken your light hearted jest at two guilds a little too seriously and dont get me wrong I am a fan of the videos the vabbian guilds produce, I’m just not a fan of people passive aggressively insulting guilds on the forum.
A screen shot is included to sum up wsr eb as of this matchup (what my post was originally going to be about).
Regardless I have had a lot of fun so far and hope it continues ^^

Shout out to those at the new obsidian sanctum arena, had some fun duels and enjoyed myself after the 3 man killing squad at the door were taken care of.
Some trolling from all sides but hey this is still wvw, trolling is to be expected

Dave.6189:

oliverstoned.2695:

Can we get some kind of etiquette for the new arena in Obsidian Sanctum? Something like not attacking one loner out from stealth who is waiting there for a duell? Or jumping on him 3v1? At least there is a place now for duellists, so why destroy it with such behaviour?

The way I got round this problem was running around with a kite, people didnt seem to bother me. Although results may vary xD

Quick update, this method only works with rof, it seems drakkar have no sense of fun.

oliverstoned.2695:

Can we get some kind of etiquette for the new arena in Obsidian Sanctum? Something like not attacking one loner out from stealth who is waiting there for a duell? Or jumping on him 3v1? At least there is a place now for duellists, so why destroy it with such behaviour?

The way I got round this problem was running around with a kite, people didnt seem to bother me. Although results may vary xD

Had great fun on rof border this evening, as the only wsr on the map for a fair amount of time I decided to try my luck picking people out from the 2 zergs, (since I couldn’t find any roamers willing to fight me!). After nothing of note really happening rof decides to have an attempt at bay! Had great fun watching the fight/tagging lootbags, also picked off a few stragglers before all hell broke loose at inner. Only screenshots worth looking at included below
Thanks for the loots and an enjoyable evening!

Neandramathal.9536:

Yeah We gotta lose harder! But sadly even when our zergs are in full karma train mode BT still can’t beat us hard enough to knock us to last.

We have an unfair advantage being against drakkar and all. Guess next matchup will be the decider

Neandramathal.9536:

Think about it, if we wanted to win why would we move from a silver league server to the LOWEST (Edit at the time, kitten it!) server?

That honour belongs to us now!!! :>

Not sure why everyone is complaining, we all knew drakkar blob, just need to find a way to have fun with it. Also would like to mention I was in eb late at night and found some drakkar who knew how to fight, although, they weren’t quite prepared for a wsr who knew how to fight too So drakkar does have roamers, they are just lost amongst the endless zerglings.

GL and HF all, and let the blobiest server win!

Looking forward to this, hopefully we can get some more interesting fights compared to the last few matchups of either getting 60 man blobbed when trying to do small group stuff or getting 5v1 when trying to solo roam. Gl Hf all.

@XanoNymOuS I had that screen shot and was going to post the same thing! Only time wsr were going to be ahead on points this whole matchup
Looks like it will be fun to watch 2 strong servers duke it out and we might even be able to sneak the odd tower/keep or even sm cap in the mean time.
GL and HF all ^^

Didn’t see a matchup thread yet so thought I would make one ^^

Good luck and have fun.

Bratwa.6582:

The other four could be normal ones, mushroom! And by the way real pros use omega golems nowadays to defend

I thought we had to be doing something wrong, even with 5 superiors we couldnt hold of the horde of what I guess was karma train/achievement whores.

I’ll be sure to try using some omegas next time

I hear TasH likes acs

I managed to play a bit on reset but after a few hours I had to come off, then I managed to kitten up my neck and wasnt able to play games again until this evening. So as you can imagine I had an idea but no understanding just how outnumbered wsr really was during off peak hours.
So I decided I would make the most of the situation and try leveling my troll warrior some in eb. It turned into a pretty fun night of defending all our towers/keeps almost alone and although I had no hope of winning I really enjoyed myself.
wsr doesnt seem to have much of a presence in this thread so thought I would give an impression of what the matchup is like for us, but since we are pretty used to not having the numbers to compete and most of the time just getting zerged you learn how to have fun in hopeless situations.
Added some screen shots for fun, in the 3rd one I actually managed to get a few down with my spread shot before getting overrun. All in all a lot of fun, shame we cant put out the numbers to compete but hopefully you guys on rof arnt getting too bored!

aspirine.6852:

Just a question, there seems to be an high amount of thiefs on vabbi. I think because it’s low tier attracts roamers and thiefs but i could be wrong.
There was this perma stealth thief trolling people in SM yesterday, and was annoyingly good at it =)

lol at fow complaining about thieves xD

Kinda disappointed in the mass achievement whoring going on in wvw recently, although I want the achievement points/rewards as much as the next guy but if any pver can just come in and zerg farm eb for them all I know is I wont be using the title, just feels pretty empty to me as I have “earned” them myself but whats the point when someone who only plays wvw for one matchup can have the same title?
Also the ICT guy who was hacking has been hacking before. I tried to mention it in one of our previous matchups but my post was removed by a moderator and I was given an infraction

Had a great time tonight on home border, ran into lots of very cool people from vabbi ^^
Spent far too much time running around with my kite but who cares when the match up is this one sided.

/salute

YuGiOh.4906:

Dave.6189:

YuGiOh.4906:

In my honest opinion, I wish there was two forms of commander, a PvE one (Green tag maybe?) and the blue one for WvW. Or improved commander abilities, maybe WvW abilities?

What?! An idea that would improve the wvw experience? Anet will never allow that

Ahh, I really should explain myself better, rather than let others fill in the gaps.

Err.. the intention was that, PvE commanders wouldn’t be able to show their tags in WvW, and make it an ability that you have to be say? Rank 50 for it to turn blue and use it in WvW? Or something to prevent the stupidity that destroys our servers.

Yes PvE commanders are vital for commanding when no-one else wants to, or a guild is running a raid, but they should have to work for the right imo, like the rest of us do just to level up, to get better abilities to help our teammates.

sorry my sarcasm didnt come across so well there, I agree with your idea 100% although I think it should be more like 2k badges of honor for a wvw comander, rather than something people can get by karma training around. But yeah, on our server pve comander are sometimes more of a hindrance than a help xD We have been in some situations where we have more comanders than people.

And while I am posting on here anyway, RoS…. is camping spawn/supply camps with ballistas really that fun? I tried roaming our home border and at the 3 camps I ran to there were ballistas up and people manning them ready to kill any would be roamer. I know you guys must be bored with such a difference in wvw population but, at least give us a chance to have some fun

YuGiOh.4906:

In my honest opinion, I wish there was two forms of commander, a PvE one (Green tag maybe?) and the blue one for WvW. Or improved commander abilities, maybe WvW abilities?

What?! An idea that would improve the wvw experience? Anet will never allow that

Whiteside Ridge is suffering from a lack of dedicated wvw players, we may be high population but of that very few people spend a majority of their time in wvw. Even when they do come to wvw they join the pug karma train so as soon as a hard fight comes along like this match up, they are nowhere to be seen.
Hopefully those of us who are dedicated can still give you some nice fights ^^ I know we had fun roaming around ros boarder flipping camps and fighting your homeborder team. But even then it was only 4 of us fighting your ~15. We ran into some incredible necro builds, they were hitting for 3k on an auto attack xD
If you are looking for some nice fights/sieges maybe try something more interesting than golems/trebbing t1 towers and keeps when you all ready heavily outnumber us. Because thats no fun for either side.

Somewhat of a predictable reset but I had fun none the less, hopefully we wont get zerged too much but I know its hard for it not to happen when there is such a difference in wvw coverage.

Nice to see my old guild WAR running guild groups and doing well in wvw, I look forward to fighting you guys ^^

On another note, wsr had a hilarious event when the veteran grub from eb decided to have a go at our keep, thought you all might appreciate this.

Had some great fights after the reset and looking forward to see how a server 10 ranks ahead of us on the leader board fights! Just a shame we cant put out the numbers to compete with on points.