Guild Wars 2

Jayne.9251:

Look! It’s me and Diashame in our matching sweaters!

I hope mine is the blue one!

PS I asked my cat does Pink have a massive Zerg, here is the response.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6utE5APd4wA

We don’t need oceanic, east or west coast us or even late night euros. We just need more SEA time afternoon-night players. We have received a lot recently but we still want you to come plug that gap a little more.

Confirmation that my next game will be teso.

Attacking from stealth should give a 30 second reveal buff. If and when culling is fixed.

Yeah ban all the pugs while your at it.

Since we started this thread, the things that have happened.
1. We have gained over 50 transfers in the minor coverage gap between pst and our oceanic time zone. People who play between 10am pst and 2am pst.
2. A fair few w3 craved individuals have xfered servers to Join our top guilds.
3. One of our regular pug commanders has changed his play time to late SEA/euro times to help the server by gathering the pugs and coordinating them.
4. Two of our sea w3 guilds have grown exponentially. One has increased 16 members in two days and about to merge another guild into them.

Check out DPS and HERO

As you can see from these points, FA has committed individuals, have a dedicated w3 community and are here to stay in t2 and be a thorn in any super servers side for regaining a t1 spot. Who knows we may even get a look at t1 when the next server crashes and burns.

When ET and FC are smart enough to take the entire week off w3 and make less than 10k points each. Hopefully that will in turn bring more average points to t8.(if the dethroned t7 server has a positive points outcome hat week.)

I must be dumb cause I hate it. Remove rally from w3 all together imo.

Glad to see t3 a more enjoyable place to be now. We just had too many numbers in NA PT to make it fun. The march patch could end up screwing over balance again so enjoy it whilst it lasts.

I had a chance to play a lot this weekend and I have came up against some fairly solid TC groups. You play the ppt game better than any server I have came across as well. Pink defended amazingly all day Sunday (today) in their borderland. Slightly out numbered we were up against it but never an excuse. Some good moves from pink as well, I particularly loved the move you pulled on us as we entered hills and you jumped down on us to split us in half.

Remove rallying from enemies being killed and problem solved!! Only way to get ba k up should be from self or others healing.

You have been infracted, dood your dreaming. It doesn’t matter what the players want, we are only the paying customers.

This or next week will be K-Towns best chance of making it to T1. As mentioned the history between FA and TC has caused a rivalry like no other in GW2 and K-Town can catapult of this. The problem with K-Town is there huge gap of ability outside of WM Primetime. They have some solid guilds outside but not enough solid ones to make an impact on the score.

FA has the points lead against K-Town for more time than thy do, just when WM comes to play we have very little players on then and the score blows out to 6/500+ to allow them to break ahead faster then our 20-100ppt lead.

In T1 I would expect WM to be negated by Merc and Foo and then other times they would be blown away.

K-Town also need to blow FA and TC out of the water to get to T1 and as the thread states early, FA will be doing there best to say “You also shall not pass”.

All the best though guys, you have some great guilds to fight that have seen you wipe us more than we have you in a night and that is rare with my experience in my short time in my guild. Loving fighting you o kitten it’s […] brace!

I don’t mind Zerg v Zerg when it’s not at numbers that grind my abilities to 15 second lag. Love seeing 20 bags on the floor after a good clearing.

I would like to see some built in features to help minimize numbers to around 30 per Zerg. Like a commander UI that has a maximize of 30 players in the raid ui.

Also the game encourages fighting doors over people. How about making some alternative entry to castles via controlling certain non walled off areas.

Also make SMC worth 50 points per tick and it takes 1 hour to get walls up once you break in. The opposition could slow this process down by 1 hour by killing a NPC in control of putting up the walls bottm floor and the legendary guard/indicator is on the top floor and controlling his area changes ownership and he is on the top floor of SMC.

Also the way-pointing could be different. Add more waypoints and add a wp point system. The less points you earn per tick the more wp points you get. if a WP is contested you need to use WP points but can actually move to that location if you have wp points. give the side with less people an advantage and encouraging more fights.
The WP would be in open field areas not behind walls to encourage fighting, giving the WP a 10 second invulnerable buff.

Got so many different ideas to create more variety and less Pvdoor and more pvp which would also encourage spreading out.

You trying to deny K-Town being a bandwagon server? thats funny if so. If I was to bandwagon I would of left for JQ. SoS or Kaineng. I left for FA because they kicked my butt over and over again with half the numbers of IoJ Zergs.

You obviously didn’t read my message because i really couldn’t give a kitten about who wins the stupid ppt meta game. So gloating over winning a part of the game i couldn’t care about is supposed to achieve what? Before i forget “Congratulations you came first in the second tier.”

Killtrox.2019:

Actually, alot of guilds decided if we got a good lead (20-30k) alot of us would PvE. We’re taking it easy till FA starts to catch up then alot of us (RISE), WM, CO, and KO will come in and take care of the situation. xD

FA and K-Town couldn’t be two worlds more apart.
No offense but I’ve been here 2 months since the IoJ implosion and the community on this server can’t get enough pvp. They never need a break, you see the same people out every night for hours on end. They care only for points to stay in a high enough tier to have fun battles. They crave to be out numbered or at least only even numbers when going head to head. This seems to be the attitude of 85% of w3’ers on the server.

When my old guild went to K-Town and my long term mmo buddies (now living in a different region) went to FA I had the choice of moving to the bandwagon server or the hardcore but under populated pvp server.

Boy did I make the right decision. The PvP server is so much fun!

Ps: Jayne, Internet not even ordered yet. Told the misses today that she has to order it by Monday or I’m buying a one way ticket back to Australia. (I live in Mexico on a tourist visa and am not able to order it). I can go back to my in-laws to play but not much.

Lyndis.2584:

Tick count is at +15 for SoS.

FA seems to REALLY want us out of T2 quite badly. :/

They just want to play with their great friends TC.

The worst thing is they don’t even see how good w3 could be for them.
Imagine map rotations
Variety of combat objectives
Fixed culling
Commander utilities
Character progression
Raid ui
More areas to encourage pvp rather than Pvdoor and ARrow Cart
Making one map 70% of the points to encourage guilds spreading out
Potentially linking a euro and us server and have them combine points (create skill based game rather than coverage based.)

Sooo much potential to nail this game mode and make it one of the best ever but it is neglected.

Crimedawg.8954:

I’m sure Dragonbrand will welcome us with open arms

You guys are going to destroy T3. T3 will be your new home and it will be fun for you guys as you will rotate YB, Mags and DB through with a possible visit to t2 every 4th week.

However you may miss the competition that T1/2 brings. Really it’s a grand cannon gap in pvp ability and numbers on these servers.

Our SEA coverage is slowly growing and were in a great position to do well in T2 for a long time. If you love PVP as much as your PVE and looking for a good guild to join during this time slot there are a few better guilds to enjoy GW2 with.

Anyone living in the Asian time zone and looking for a guild to move to should consider DPS. Awesome group of people and there on an awesome W3 dedicated server.

nomdeplums.5780:

I’m suddenly reminded of why I don’t browse through this board very often. The server-bashing and chest-thumping is embarrassing. I nearly cut myself on all of this edginess.

Whenever your bragging or chest thumping about killing TC Zergs you make yourself look stupid. I’m embarrassed as well with my server. Seriously guys pull it together and if you need to chest thump, do it when you kill a worthy opponent.

The community in the SEA/Euro prime time zone is slowly growing. We have had small guilds and individuals move over but could do with more to help us compete in that time zone and allow some of our guys to get sleep.

FA is full of never say die hardcore pvp players, the server is constantly improving due to this dedication. Come enjoy our w3 community!

Ejiofor.4801:

Talk about a total bummer!

Yesterday…work from 7 AM til around 11:45ish PM…drinking coffee ALL. DAY.

Come home wired, ready to toss mines, Thumper Turrets, Net Turrets, BBQ some people with the NERF Special Sauce and a side of Grits…

30 minutes in…Internet Crashes…

Ah well. The times I’ve been on, it’s been great. Solid gameplay and sportsmanship from Kaineng and Sea of Sorrows. Also, nice to see folks in these forums ACTUALLY HAVING FUN!

Marks on the ground…SoS…Okay… jots down some notes and smiles… Well played, ladies and gents…well played…

Could be worse and you move house and not getting Internet for 3-4 weeks

kfarb.6732:

Out of all the T1/2 servers begging for more people in their desperate attempt to move up the ladder to achieve some sense of accomplishment, FA is the most deserving. They actually have players who know what they’re doing and do it when it needs to be done.

Also, I never want to have them in my tier again, so bandwagon here and enjoy the “large scale epic fights.”

This may well be the nicest post I have witnessed you write, even though it’s likely 100% sarcasm.

Redscope.6215:

Drigan.7382:

Draygo.9473:

Its hard to compare FA to TC, it seems like TC’s American prime is stronger

Score update!

So wait, BG moved to T1 where they belong and SoS is on the slow track downward so the only real T2 server this week is Kain?

Kinda feel sorry for FA when TC gets bumped back up and they have to face two T2 servers instead of one :/

Paid server transfers need to cost real money, not gems that can be bought with fake money. This stuff just needs to stop happening…

You have no idea about the culture of the FA W3 community. Feel sorry or us? We wiped more times in 6 hours against WM than I ever have with RET in the rest of my 6 weeks with them put together.
The result: general consensus of the best night of w3 any of us have ever had. We love fighting actual pvp and our past mistakes of too much neglect of the ppt has been corrected.

While your feeling sorry for us we will be having the best time of ou w3 lives.

Also:
SoS in current form is a t2.5 (coverage) server. Thy will destroy Mags / DB / YB even if the 2 other servers both only attack SoS like they did FA.
If TC is a T2 server FA is T2 server we barely were beaten last T2 with a total different mind set on ppt than now. Also with only a 4 hour SEA coverage gap now that is steadily improving including a Singaporean guild joining recently well be good for competitive ppt as well in T2.

Nuzt.7894:

Wouldn’t be a bad idea until you get to the higher tiers that I’m assuming already have full coverage and Que’s.

People would need to xfer obviously and they would.

I made this suggestion many times.

Tie the servers together with 30 minute overlap on either side of a 12 hour session. Each region can only loggin to the other severs W3 once theirs was down giving the home server the advantage of joining the question first.

Makes a hole lot of sense and you would have 12 fully packed servers and 12 decreasing in number and people could move to the server density thy like.

To the person saying you wold get a hole lot of xfers to the more populated / winning servers – that not already happening.

Jayne.9251:

Diashame.6328:

We are rivals and whilst respect is given when warranted I don’t want to hear anything about being bestys.

Aw drat. Now what am I going to do with these matching sweaters I bought us Diashame?

You need a hug? Someone needs a hug!

Hey …. Wait ….. Why are you running away?!!

GET BACK HERE!!

I’m running away because I have killed you so many times my diminishing returns means i don’t get bags from you anymore.

I’m just a little cranky today since I moved house and I won’t have Internet for 3-4 weeks. No daily GW2 w3 fix.

Lanimal.6541:

Magiofdeath.2745:

TC, can you just leave our thread please? In return, I will leave your thread. I’ve already done enough damage in your thread apparently, so please just leave us be. In time, I’m sure each of our servers will be able to prove who is actually better, but now is not the time. Good luck in tier 3, not that you need it.

But we did beat you guys the last time you were in Tier 2. So as of now TC is better but yes it should be fun when we face again as that match was really close.

I am seriously dreaming of a rematch with TC, there were factors contributing to our failures but in the end they were failures and no one cares. My guild came up against butter when fighting TC, I didn’t get wiped once when with the main commander even though we were usually outnumbered.

O and your new love affair with BG and Kaineng isn’t going to filter to me and I’m sure most of the FA community. We are rivals and whilst respect is given when warranted I don’t want to hear anything about being bestys.

Edit: SoS much respect to those that are deciding to stay.

Please make ALL w3 progress reset with server xfers.

It’s just the fact that there is 7 T2 or better servers at the moment.
Hopefully one implodes so that it balances t3 out a bit more.
A DB v Mag v YB would be very fun imo.

BLKNovember.5620:

SpitFire.4690:

[RISE] had +12hours epic battles in FA borderland thank you for zerg v zerg.. at first BT put a hell of a show zerging us with a whole server! that was pretty challenging.. then PRO came out later the night, things became fun to us lots of zerg v zerging till we hit outman in FA and it was gg.. so great reset tonight guys! i hope you guys enjoy fighting us in FA

P.S. Thanks to [Meow] 1st hills reinforcements and [WM] for 2nd hills reinforcements!

Sorry for the stale fights early on, I don’t think I got 1 fps when fighting you guys! lol

We felt the same against WM, sometimes when we went head 2 head my abilities bar would disappear an not come back for 10 seconds. I play on full graphics settings so going to change that to see if it improves.

My only current immobilize is from Stealth.

What concerns me is that the Ele can use Vapor Form to go through the glowing portal into a tower from the downed state.

They should get stopped at the gate. Entering in the downed state is an advantage no other class shares without penalty.

All I’m trying to say is that Eles shouldn’t be able to gain that advantage. Again, if someone presents a good enough argument why they should, I’m willing to listen. Otherwise I still hold that they shouldn’t be able to enter towers/keeps and should be more limited by terrain.

Here is an argument your looking for.
We have ONE advantageous ability that helps us survive and only in limited situations.

How about Thief being able to stomp from invis. How many extra kills do you get from this? Something no other class can do, so since our ability that no other class can use need to be nerfed maybe his one needs nerfing too?

It’s a pathetic argument “No one else can do it so its got to go.”

All classes have abilities to do different things or why create different classes.

QQ less and learn to minimize DMG from other classes abilities.

Wow what a baptism of fire!!
SoS Borderlands tonight was epic and every extra hour and g/f relationship breaking time I put in to helping us get here was well worth it!!

WM & TYSM thank you for handing our kitten to us for the first time in weeks. We learnt a lot and we started holding our own by the time I logged off. I have nothing but respect for you guys.

Such a fun matchup so far! Lets hope it stays like this the entire week.

zastari.1730:

Because I relish the small chance that the person I kill will post a QQ thread like this.

Rofl it’s like sweet sweet revenge for the frustration these JP freaks cause when your under the pump and then someone posts porting in JP.

Niim.9260:

Diashame.6328:

Hey DB you have a speed hacking wall exploiting player getting around ATM. Can you help us get him band by reporting him. He will be the guy that zooms past you.

There has been three from FA in the last week as well. I PM’d commanders from their respective guilds, but no one has messaged me back

We have it on video now so they can have their fun for a little bit longer. Seriously lame source stuff, I could only imagine its one of those kids who got beat up at school and now thinks the world owes them something.

Hey DB you have a speed hacking wall exploiting player getting around ATM. Can you help us get him band by reporting him. He will be the guy that zooms past you.

Drakh.3128:

FA tearing it up in T3 again this week. Heading back into to T2?

I was so proud of our FA community today as we pulled together to pretty much hold between 500-600 PPT the entire day, which will give us a very strong chance of making it to T2 this week.

Nuzt.7894:

Have they confirmed that new maps will be added ?

No, but surely they will. I assume when they release an expansion they will come with new maps because they cost a lot of time and money to develop. I heard a rumor that it takes over 6 months to develop one map(no number of devs included in that rumor)

You need to enter w3 and then open up your map. Look for a time in the day where your server dominates and go get them when th map is all you color. If this never happens you in trouble.

What are you hoping to see?

Can you imagine how many people will come back to W3 and give it another go if they see reports that it is fixed. It’s gonna be the cause of an all new mass server exodus. Awesome!!

Wow how lame I’m happy they are tanking. Any real W3 player will never move to a server that openly admits they are taking a break to allow the enemy IN their tier to survive.
kittening absolutely lame balls.

We have a moto on FA “The total and utter destruction of all enemies at all times.”

Never ever, ever will you hear from one of our members who are in one of our 25 dedicated w3 guilds utter the words “We are taking a break from w3 to allow our enemy to stay in T#”

You think it’s fun asking two servers to double team you all week and mostly they do and we still are destroying them? Regardless of reason why it’s not fun for anyone.

Why you guys tanking this week?

Wouldn’t it be cool if they designed a new map for every server, smaller, maybe double the size of spvp and there were no doors to bash down or siege. When you got matched up with a server you have the chance to play them on their home map 25 v 25 v 25.

You could implement individual style objectives like
1. capture and hold a poi.
2. Capture the flag
3. be first to achieve a goal.
4. Team death match.

Work out a system for scheduling 25 × 25 × 25 guild 1 hour raids of say 100 bonus points
Make each borderland worth 10% of the points and kills count for points (insignificant amount)

Design 3 different EB style maps and rotate them week to week. In them the centre structure is worth 20% of points but change the way you can take posession of it to multiple ways. for example by holding 5/9(3 in each teams advantage area) major structures around it at once you then have gate portal access for 30 minutes. that way the enemy has to leave the walls. Those 9 structures would be worth 50% of points in total and possessing them would also be able to be gained in two ways.

For example say an alternative way to seiging and capturing and holding a (1/9)keep you could choose an alternative path by say enter a wizards lair and pve the wizard down (fairly simple task) the map is alerted that the wizard has been captured and they have a 2 minute timer to respond. If at the end of the two minutes you still have posession of the wizard and his lair he teleports you to a temporary invulnerable location within the keep for you to battle inside the keep for ownership.

A little but more variety on the Pvdoor would be awesome imo.

Sorry a bit tired an this was just written and thought of quickly.

I’ve seen 10 people trying to kill one lonely theif and fail. Meanwhile the thief does their super simple button click to do 15k insta DMG and then pop back into stealth.

If a thief does DMG from stealth they should drop out of stealth and NOT be able to go back into stealth for 30 seconds. It’s the worst stealth in a game I have ever com across.

Turkman.1089:

Diashame.6328:

All this has achieved is encouraging you to have groups of 25 or less.
It’s changed nothing Other than the above. White swords have always needed to be scouted. 2 rams and a small group that is not stupid have always ninajed without swords.

But it’s definitely harder now to keep track of the zergs. Because now even a zerg (on our server 25 man is pretty much a zerg; we have bigger ones, but normally only when there’s some special event from a guild/commander) doesn’t trigger the orange swords so easily. And a zerg can get things done way quicker of course. It could be done before too, but you needed to restrain your people to not hit/get hit by random mobs on the way. Now you don’t need to look left or right and can just carve through the map and attack whatever you want and the enemy will have a hard time keeping track of your movements.
Of course, you needed to check white swords before that too, but you had more time to do so.

WvW just got a lot more difficult to coordinate and thus also less casual friendly, and I mean that neutrally. We’ll see how it will play out in the end, but I’m really hesitant to call this a change for the better.

I thought about this before you posted it and still think it is a positive change.
The less amount of 3rd server coming in behind you to cap after your hard work negated this a little.

Also I was on a server that was a high level of organized chaos and it could of been a worse change had I not moved to my awesome current server that constantly pushes itself to improve organization and the general population want to do good for the server.