Props and Cheers to kitten this game wont let me put in their tag…..(DERPPP) from GoM. Finally a 5 man worth fighting. Glad to see you boys out there tonight. Thanks for the fights.
(DERPPP) is so hot they censor our name (i wish i would have known that before making the guild tag :/.. and WHY????)
Likewise Paxa, after our first fight I said “we aren’t going to have more fun than that, lets find them!” . We kept looking for you, ran into NS zergs or GT’s zerg from your side more than I’d care for though. But very fun fights when we met up. I’m glad we pulled off a win once. Were you just running 5 in all those fights?
ARM
All 3 times we hit you guys last night we had 4. Our 5th wasn’t on last night but we still ran. Was really fun for us too. NSP had SPCA hit you guys and us a couple times as well. We all hope you guys decide to run as nightly as possible. It’s safe to say you’re on our radar ARM! Cheers
Likewise to you guys they were some great engagements and some of the better ones on that scale in a good while, but by our count you had us by 1 each time. Half of another if we count that NSP scout with the PAXA tag, although I don’t think they ever engaged.
Did you guys end up living in the end of that 3rd fight when those NSP adds came back?
I think we may have had a HoD pugger in one of the fights…But there is no reason for us to make up how many PAXA tags there were last night..We ran 4 guys (5th wasn’t even on).
We continued that last fight into the field across the river by the dolyaks and ended up getting swarmed by respwning NSPer’s.
Cool. Yeah I too wish we had had more then our 3 last night when NSP pushed across that river that would’ve been a fight to remember.
Props and Cheers to kitten this game wont let me put in their tag…..(DERPPP) from GoM. Finally a 5 man worth fighting. Glad to see you boys out there tonight. Thanks for the fights.
(DERPPP) is so hot they censor our name (i wish i would have known that before making the guild tag :/.. and WHY????)
Likewise Paxa, after our first fight I said “we aren’t going to have more fun than that, lets find them!” . We kept looking for you, ran into NS zergs or GT’s zerg from your side more than I’d care for though. But very fun fights when we met up. I’m glad we pulled off a win once. Were you just running 5 in all those fights?
ARM
All 3 times we hit you guys last night we had 4. Our 5th wasn’t on last night but we still ran. Was really fun for us too. NSP had SPCA hit you guys and us a couple times as well. We all hope you guys decide to run as nightly as possible. It’s safe to say you’re on our radar ARM! Cheers
Likewise to you guys they were some great engagements and some of the better ones on that scale in a good while, but by our count you had us by 1 each time. Half of another if we count that NSP scout with the PAXA tag, although I don’t think they ever engaged.
Did you guys end up living in the end of that 3rd fight when those NSP adds came back?
Guys, who cares if people get the perception that WM is what made you move up in tiers. Just be grateful you have WM. I know TC could definitely use WM and would welcome them with open arms.
I don’t think I’ve seen WM’s warband yet myself, but from what I’ve seen of some of their people I’m not too worried at all.
Kaineng outnumbers us, HoD is full of fail, and for some reason tier one guilds like to jump on the up and coming servers when they join GoM’s teir… So I am done, I stayed through the orb hacking and the mass exodus we had then, TCMM & PRO leaving us, and the last wave of guilds leaving that caused us to fall way behind BP and AR (before everyone jumped ship those BP, AR, GoM wvws were some of the best world pvp I have been apart of)… I cant find PvE groups for anything but fractals and AC, Cursed shore is a ghost zone now, and the overall server population is dead… I didnt want to bail but I enjoy GW2 the MMO not the single player console RPG.
I hope nothing but the best for you GoMers staying here, my overall hope is that they merge tier 8 servers and 7 into two or three servers and give you guys a chance one day.
TCMM & PRO were afterthoughts for many months now and even when they were around they did little but add bodies to the fight and bickering in the chat. Anyone from GoM launch knows some weeks are for skirmishes, some for zergs, some for defense. I for one loved WvW last night as I always do because my guild did not concern itself with the score choosing to instead focus on the skirmishes. Kain came in like a hurricane and lost every significant fight my group had in their borderlands eventually going so far as to alt-log into GoM toons to fake join, troll, and ultimately follow us. The subterfuge was flattering but unnecessary as it did nothing to stop us from continuing the enjoyment we had for hours. Of little concern too is the fact at this very moment are the afk spies in EB & GoM borderlands warcamp from guilds I’ve never seen since launch.
Point is, don’t leave our server as it’s just another faceless opponent who got the jump on us perhaps using new tactics or maybe just shear numbers but who can also do little to stop what is fun in situations like this and is something we’ve always known at heart here in GoM… Get with your people, pick the fights when you can while always staying tight, mobile, and ignorant to anything but the kill count until the time is right to pick up objectives.
I’m sure HoD will be happy to join with us in obliging this weeks mole hill called Kain.
After playing fair bit of WvW tonight myself and some guildies are starting to suspect there was an additional change to either mitigation or condition based damage. People were noticing they were taking more damage then usual and it certainly seemed that way on my mesmer (both receiving and overall TTK). Nothing like this is reflected in tonight’s 01/03 patch notes but it may be worth a look to see if some added inadvertent build made it out that effecting condition damage or perhaps mitigation.
I love the feeling of finding a group that just “works.” When everyone is on the same page, build’s feeding off one another, and having a ton of fun while it’s all happening, makes for one amazing gaming experience.
Fine vid, but I do think you could greatly benefit from some more toughness with your sort of play style.
I’d like to see ascended gear (weapons, accessories and armor) become available to buy at certain tiers of WvW kills (total).
10,000 Kills
25,000 Kills
50,000 Kills
or something similar.
Any lower tier server and certain classes outright would never see the 25k let alone the 50k level of kills. Doing this would only force to make the PvE Ascended route the only viable choice for those smaller WvW servers who themselves would already be facing an uphill battle against greater enemies and even their own morale.
off topic, do u help ur server atall other than killing people, ur other achievements are really bad compared to ur kills..
You don’t get badges for escorting a Dolyak. =)
In all seriousness though, killing other players is probably what he enjoys. Nothing wrong with that.
I’d say killing people is the ultimate contribution to their effort. Dead players don’t do squat until they arrive back to whatever was interrupted when they died, perhaps finding nothing left to salvage or maybe even death again. To me, his stats are right on par with months of successful campaigning.
I came on to post a few fraps from the last 49.7 hours per the request of a guildie and just say how nice this last week has been in the company of HoD & SF. Keep it up GoM.
As it’s a worldwide 24 hour game I can’t much complain about these roll outs as the alternative would effect another player somewhere else in the globe in much the same way. It also makes some sense as their workday has or is near ending after having enough daylight to have likely tested the new iteration beforehand at least once on one of their offline environments.
I for one am grateful that they are routinely responding as a needed which is more then can be said for the patch priorities of some subscription based alternatives.
@DrSparkles The “zerg blinders” hit at QL, so I knew the wipe was unavoidable, but yeah you guys definitely held your own and pushed in, props to the GoM that were there, some days are harder than others to keep the entire group focused.
I was asked why I pushed GoM later, and the exact reason was indeed Pangloss, but I’m pretty sure you guys knew that, needed to keep you off there so we could continue fortifying overlook, couldn’t keep losing the supply camp.
@Dovgan That actually makes very good sense as the alternative of not holding us at Pangloss could’ve likely been far worse. Likewise, when you factor the speed at which you guys to retook all that land which NSP had captured in that interim I am left with little doubt that it was the best move on your part.
However, what doesn’t make much sense to me is why anyone would’ve given you lip for it.
GoM absolutely great response time in EB tonight. Hats off to you guys for moving forces as quickly as you guys did. We’ll see if I can misdirect you guys tomorrow.
The night started off in good stride holding off both entrances to Pangloss for a bit, but Gates of Sadness really shined in that hill fight between Valley and Quentin Lake. I hope our server keeps it up.
Oh and respect to that lone AR thief who filled our team chat with so much rage.
+ Illusions mean combat mode and thus, reduced speed.
whats your point?
His point is that that illusion summoning must have a hostile target, thus get you in combat. Speed is reduced in combat so any benefit is instantly negated for a null or negative gain. The trait is rubbish anyways as doesn’t even give the weak 9% bonus with three illusions out.
Oh and I’m a sword/focus mesmer as well. I tried it based solely on the speed wall and now has become a potent burst tool. The patch last night to the sword 1 coupled with the warden’s lowered start time makes it worth everyone’s time to try out this weekend.
To our OP:
I think you are looking at this all wrong and arguing that coming back alive is somehow bad. The downed state isn’t guarantee for anything, death or resurrection. It is simply a new stopgap iteration to prevent adding the same old fluff elements from other traditional MMOs and having them taking more primary roles in PvP (i.e. dedicated insta rezzers, coordinated aoe stackers, unmitigated cc/elite bombers, endless front line tank walls, etc…). Frankly I like not seeing the same traditional tactics & compositions and I also like the comfort this down state provides knowing that although every fight must end if you and your people happen to keep your cool it can possibly make a turn around in your favor.
I think you should earn all of your kills and this downed state is a great mediator of TTK to help assure this. Likewise, if you happen to be on the receiving end and pop back up I see it as a justified bonus to you keeping a level head (or perhaps your enemy’s lack of diligence). Your video is a good example as it shows in that going against 5 rookies you were still well out manned and their superiors numbers made it harder for you to earn their deaths as I think it ought to be.
Although, I will concede that adjusting the downed state to have some sort of diminishing returns to prevent those near endless sort of stalemates would only help to add to the dynamics of both attacking and defending.
Bantha Poodoo: Sorry but I have to give you -3 as I suspect the poster above me saw it in SWTOR and upon realizing it was already taken over there decided to port it into GW2.
Just tried it in WvW and it procs, but far less then I remember. I run 56% crit and #1 attack only stacked 2 bleeds at any given time and never more. As i recall after launch I could easily stack 4 by it alone with about the same crit %.
Nice vid Ray keep making more like the old days. I don’t have quite the style you do, but felt compelled to throw something together sans the bit music. All of it was compiled 10/29 while weathering the storm.
