Guild Wars 2

I personally never liked dropping siege in open field unless we’re outmanned at the starting area getting farmed. As I said before I haven’t been on much this weekend, but I did like what I played against with TC. Granted I was just fooling around and not going for a coordinated effort, but the fights were still hellish.

TC still has plenty to learn, but this isn’t anything new to them they’ve been through hell and back with SoR before and they will always be back to keep the fight strong.

Shout out to TC for the fights in Bay last night. I personally had a blast. After taking a few weeks off it was great to just run around and get a few good fights going. I saw a comment earlier about SoR netting 80 Man zergs, and I can tell you last night in Bay that was just not true. When I logged on we had no visible commanders on because according to my guild the commanders couldn’t get a rally of troops going. we had no queue from 10:00 – 1AM EST and no cordination. Hell I didn’t even get in TS that night I just popped up the tag to get my guild together and we hit Bay’s gate.

Few minutes of gate bashing and player smashing we drew TC Zergball and started a crowd. When we finially pushed into bay. I think I had 35-maybe 40 players with me and hell I just wanted to fight (sorry for those who were looking for points) Java took over when we wiped on south gate, but I still have a blast! I hope to see TC out more and more with that fire in their eyes.

Sooooooooooooooo What small 5 man groups were out there looking for some fights?

I like the fix, but I still rather not be able to solo camps. I think we all know this shouldn’t be allowed. 5 players should be able to take a camp together, but not just 1 or 2.

Sentries still need a boost in my opinion as well…At least kill Dolyaks

styx.7294:

I am aboard this complain train.

WvW exotic gear might as well not exist. The heavy one shares its skin with low level PvE karma vendors. The stats can be gotten cheaper off PvE karma vendors in Orr and like half the dungeons I’m sure give them out anyway (and dungeons actually pay good money on top of the ridiculous fast way to earn badges). How is this still a situation? It’s like 6 months after release now! How come this is the only equipment we can earn in WvW?

The monthly achievement this month had dungeons. That was a lil’ ridiculous. Half my guild skipped it. Where’s the achievement for spendin an hour runnin over a map flippin camps to split people before makin a push on a fully upgraded tower while outmanned? or having spending half a gold repairing every night because there isn’t some glitchy AI abusin way to win every fight I’m in. What do PvE players spend their gold on if not repairs or buying siege other than drivin up prices on the tradin post?

Ugh, the guild mission ascended gear feels like a kick in the balls. I thought what they meant was “earn it in multiple ways, which includes people in WvW. We totally aren’t going to keep it away from them for 4 months, at which point they can have 1 after doing their dailies for 30 days”.

I also don’t think adding an ecto cost on top of the laurels is helping anyone other than PvE players who got too much gold. All the rich people in the game I know run dungeons or Fractals or play the trading post. None of them just play WvW a lot. At least for me, putting in a lot of hours in WvW only means that after I gear a character I have 5 gold left in the bank.

Where is the karma vendor for the heavy skin?

I love how people are just trying to deny they stacked their server. Who cares if you did accept it and be proud of it. No matter what you do, you’re not going to come into Tier I like some underdog.

I don’t think I want to work with the enemy…ever

I don’t remember much about BG, what was their coverage like?

No one really has a queue in all 4 maps at prime time right? I mean from like 7EST to 2 AM EST

The only thing I want in WvW is good competition during MY TIME. I don’t care if JQ is up by 100k by thursday, if I’m still having fun against competent guilds/zergs/players/whatever. I’m happy. SoS PLEASE come out to EB more often, I saw the Outmanned buff on you guys at prime time, and that makes me sad.

I’m proud to be on SoR because I know that everyday we will have guilds out there fighting regardless of score, and we’ll always have a good night.

JQ has amazing coverage so props to them on what they accomplished. I hope they bring their A game to Prime time more often honestly, but that can come with time as well.

urzen.7096:

ITs not JQs fault. THey have a ton of players throughout most timezones. What else is there to do but conquer whatever isnt theirs? SOR or SOS would do the same. DOesnt means its fun for anyone.

Who even cares if they havfe 700pts or 150k points. There are no rewards for winning. WvW is about fun, and steamrolling or being steamrolled is not fun. Blame Arenanet for poor game design.

I think we all already do

eh it’s only like…9:30? EU time. They could just be bored of doing all the work, so they’re relaxing

So you’re calling a 2v1 on reset because you can use crayons? lol honestly dude if you’re not in the fight don’t talk about it. Those who were there know what was going on.

VOLKON.1290:

covenn.7165:

VOLKON.1290:

Let’s face it… when Friday night rolled around and things reset there was apparently a coordinated 2 on 1 effort against JQ.

I am going to stop you right there without reading the rest of your nonsense. You are absolutely wrong. There was nothing mentioned about it in the pre reset meeting in our VOIP. In fact, I hear someone mention about crushing SoS repeatedly until they learn to stop back dooring us while we are fighting JQ. Not only that, as evidenced by what was going on, we SoR constantly was having to leave fighting both JQ and SoS because the other was attacking something of ours on the other side of the map.

This is in your head only and not reality. Please stop posting nonsense. It is blatantly incorrect, childish, and only makes you look silly.

I’m naturally a silly person. However, facts on the field seem to indicate that there was a coordinated, at least in spirit, effort out of the gate. I’d recommend reading the rest of the post… I can be an eloquent typist at times. This, however, may or may not have been one of those times.

I’m part of Vengeance[VNG] we’re the guild that held your keep on friday night reset. We in no way “teamed up” with SoS in fact if you were there you would know we wiped SoS as they attempted to break into your keep initially. After fighting SoS and you we left for 10 minutes came back and took your keep because you had no supply to hold it. From that point on we spent our entire time in JQ keep attacking Aldon’s Tower because it was our next target. However JQ would take it from SoS while we sieged it. Did we team up with JQ now? we were the ones sieging SoS in Aldon’s after all.

Also if you knew anything about the fights going on, we were constantly defending umberglade from SoS. We spent hours walking yaks in because SoS decided to put a few thieves to work to delay us from upgrading SM. Your reset group was just down right horrible. there was nothing else about it. we took advantage of poor team work and bad coordination to keep points on our side of the board. SoS came behind us as JQ hit their front gate.

It was very evident that we didn’t “team up” especially considering how towers were taken that night actually.

Hello!

We are on Sanctum of Rall server and we are very active and friendly semi-hard core guild that focus mostly on WvW and PvE.
Our guild information is below:

Guild:Vengeance
Tag: [VNG]
Focus: Casual and Semi – Hardcore
Time Zone: Mostly EST and PST
VOIP – Vent/Mumble
Website: http://www.VengeanceClan.com
If you have any questions please PM me here or in the game!

I have nothing bad to say about the match up this week at all! JQ is doing a great job putting up 24/7 coverage, and SoS is showing that they will never give up even if it’s just for second place! OF course I’d love to see SoS and SoR have a better cover of the day, but we deal with it and keep fighting. I look forward to seeing both servers again and hopefully having all the great fights I’ve had this week again.

I will say that I’ve noticed the lag to be a bit harsh this week as well as the culling, but we’ll never get rid of those problems.

Binafus.8153:

We do not need anymore buffs, or pve events in WvW please.

If it makes you feel better to post the 101 reasons why your server lost please do so, but do not change the game to try to make a weaker server beat a better one.

Right now WvW is literally just a numbers game. Nothing about coordination or tactics at all, i’ts about who can net the most players on all day. I don’t see how that should be the deciding factor of “weaker and better” I’m not complaining about losing either, I’ve never cared…don’t think anyone in SoR really did, we just wanted a strong server to face us in NA prime time. I don’t see why you wouldn’t want the same in every time slot honestly. If I was constantly looking for players to fight i’d be kitten nothing really fun about waiting for yaks to come to a tower and picking off small groups desperately taking a camp for points….well ok, maybe grieving is fun some times, but not every day I’d play.

Meh, it’s just a pain trying to figure a way to give a buff without breaking the game to have people suggest a massive log out to gain the buff.

At any rate, score update? I’m still at work for another 2 hours!

If they just corrected the outmanned buff to give some sort of defense to….the camps and towers it’d be helpful. I’m not a fan to buffing the players because it’s about the property, and small man groups that are coordinated enough would just rip through 50 man zergs like it was nothing.

celeron.3469:

covenn.7165:

celeron.3469:

And yeah that bug has been around forever, which is why I think the map populations themselves were actually lowered. Not the bug itself was made worse, it’s just more apparent now.

So how do you rationalize this with the people reporting queues for zones where they have the outmanned buff?

The bug has been doing this forever, outmanned buff, as far as we know, is percentage related. Lower the cap and the percentage is also a much lower number (compared to before), but it’s also probably much less spread apart. Combine this with queue bug and it doesn’t take a lot of queue bugged people to cause it. There are of coarse much easier to create reasons somebody would queue into outmanned, like a guild on the map suddenly logs. Not everything is black and white.

I log into a borderland, my guild is in queue. I look at map and we’re outmanned. That’s as black and white as it gets. outmanned buff is a 1:3 player buff. means if they have 30..we have 10. and there’s a queue. we have 30-45 they have 150. That’s as black and white as it gets.

My guild jumps to another borderland..they’re all queued, but my map is still outmanned.. I fail to see the part where it’s not a problem?

I will worry about the scoreboard in off hours when they give us a suitable outmanned buff. Until them I’m only going to worry about the scoreboard when I’m in the battle. If I got to bed and we’re ticking 350+ I know it’s a successful night and that’s a win in my book. I know my server has been fighting it’s kitten off for -WEEKS- just to see 600 points tick in the off hours, but we still fight it out every night just to have fun.

Just ignore him and move on. Can we get a score update it’s been almost 2 hours since last :X

Definitely a close match, I’m going to be really upset we’ll have to wait a few weeks to have this match up again!

I don’t think there were any real comments of 2v1 except in the beginning, but most were just trolling

yea I think SoR is finally getting our more organized guilds in. VNG has about half in EB now, I’m still waiting after getting d/c’d 10 minutes after entry

I want to fight SoS again I’ll have to wait until tomorrow Morning I think though

1/4 of VNG managed to get into EB before Queue popped lol…

5 hour long siege and you have dedicated eles means you’re not doing something correctly on the map. IT’s as simple as that. Maybe you don’t have enough organized guilds, or maybe you just don’t know how to do it, but there are plenty of ways to stop a treb. SBI spent 60+ plus hours trying to take Bay from SoR and failed at every turn. SoR had multiple ways of not allowing SBI to take Bay and this was BEFORE we had 24 hour coverage.

It’s a bandaid yea, but 5 hours is an infection

this is just beyond stupid.

IF you’re blocking treb shots for over 10 minutes your server is doing something wrong. There isn’t a spot you can put a treb that you can’t take down. Stone Mist second floor can be trebbed, and ballista’d

IF you’re server can’t organize after 10 minutes then they are doing something wrong and you’re just wasting time sitting there defending a tower that will still be lost.

the Swirling skill is great for counter trebbing and protecting siege to -take down- their siege. If you need quick protection for a minute or two it’s great other than that, I would never sit an ele by a wall for defense.

The Queue isn’t that bad during the week, though it’s certainly there daily now. I personally still HATE blue area so I’m much happier in green lol VNG lives in Eternal. I think the biggest problem is just the lack of a 3rd opponent. I’ve only had Queues (long ones) in TC and EB.

Was a great night against TC in EB. You guys put up one hell of a fight defending Langor. I feel like with a little more practice and better coordination and you’ll have us pulling back in no time!

Vengeance is still actively looking for players to join us on SoR! Server transfers will soon cost you! Apply with us now, and be part of a stronger guild!

From Eyelusion:

“The Guild Wars 2 Support Team,

I’m replying again because this wait is ridiculous. It’s been 9 days since I sent this ticket.

I fully understand the need to look deeper into accounts you think might be behaving incorrectly, but I didn’t do any botting. Does a bot:

1. Play 400 hours on one character, mostly in WvW?
2. Get over 5,000 kills in WvW?
3. Complete the Wintersday achevement?
4. Get all mini endless potions and minis for Wintersday?
5. Never sell gold?
6. Buy approximately $150 in gems with money, not gold?
7. Buy Wintersday presents from the gem store?
8. Buy black lion keys from the gem store?
9. Complete 40% of the map?
I can keep going. What I did was farm in an area and you mistakenly think I was botting.

Because this ban is now 9 days old, I’m getting seriously close to the end of my patience.

If my account isn’t reinstated soon, I’ll be forced to demand for a full refund of all gems purchased in your game and I will not touch it again. I do not want to do this, but your obvious avoidance of reasonably responding to your false botting accusation and ban is more than insulting and a deficiency of good service.

I’ve been upset, but I’m getting mad now. If this continues without an appropriate response, I will pursue action.

Sincerely,

Eyelusion"

Incident: 130109-002425

Player name: eyelusion.8205
Ticket #: 130109-002425

Ticket was for botting. He says he didn’t do it.

lol WTB more Asian guilds. (Will also settle for asian women of suitable size)

Ever looking for a guild Vengeance is always accepting active WvWers

I’m still tinkering with a 1h Sword build as I just bought one with badges. It’s a great weapon I feel for front lines/solo builds, I just can’t figure out too many solid builds for 1h weapons in general.

I off hand Scepter with the whole basis of just snaring my target for a quick burst.

Bash, you make it sound like it’s you vs the world man lol. Don’t you have a strong guild to help back you in every fight?

That’s a solid burst build I used to play with it a month back, but I wanted to contribute more to my groups around me and help push lines instead of feeding them a free death from time to time.

WvW Build

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmcz0mz9MmanNmmanNm0GxG0MsVoqMR8khT

Greatsword and Scepter/Focus. I use Accuracy Sigils.
Power/Tough/Vit with Rune of Melandru
-40% Stun Duration Food
Sharpening Stones

With this build I’m constantly pushing the front lines where I want them to be. When I have a fellow Guild Guardian on with me..we can push and hold almost any spot for as long as we want. I’m still on the fence of whether I want Retaliation after Aegis, or 20% Shout Recharge, but it’s a minimal decision. Healing isn’t -that- strong, but it’s enough to keep me going and I have enough -Stun/Cdmg duration to keep me mobile and durable.

I’m still very curious to see a good Dungeon build or Fractal build.

I was an active WvWer on Dragonbrand up until the transfer about 2 months ago with Vengeance. We transfered due to a number of our players wanting to be in a more “active” group. When we jumped to Sanctum of Rall…we saw just that. A very strong active server with plenty of knowledgeable players who were constantly playing day after day. SoR reminds me of what Dragonbrand -could- have been had all the guilds chose to stay. We’re a NA primetime focused server, but because we’re so strong during this time we’ve managed to keep our place in Tier II.

Enough of the life story though. My point is that no matter what server you end up on you’ll have ups and downs, and I’m glad you’re deciding to stay on Dragonbrand. I remember following you around some maps from time to time, and you did know what you were doing. Keep pushing on and you’ll have a more active cohesive playerbase. Should you choose to join others on another side of the fence. I know VNG would always welcome you to join us on SoR. There are still plenty of players I enjoyed playing with there.

I nominate SoS because they’re the only server to really challenge SoR’s NA Prime time. We lack the numbers around the clock, but I hope to one day be back against SoS for some real top notch fighting. I’ve also played with/against 80% of SoS’s guild since most of them were transfers from Dragonbrand server. So I do know how respectful they can be, and how tactical they are.

Chiolas.1326:

I think you are forgetting the fact that titles have zero relevance

Sometimes it’s just about the little things in a game. with a perspective like that, games have no relevance to life, life has no relevance, to existence, and existence has no relevance.

Don’t pick at something because you don’t care for it.

I’m not saying this is wrong or unrealistic, but you left out some variables.
2 yaks pop per camp, you can run roughly 3 camps in a 5 minute rotation. this is the optimum set up of course of you not owning anything in the area and running between the 3 camps.

that’s 6 yaks every 5 minutes
72 every hour
1,728 a day
12,096 a week
628,992 a year
it would take you roughly 83 weeks non stop farming to obtain this title

let’s put this in a realistic time frame

8 hours a weekday, and 12 a weekend that’s 64 hours. You hit roughly 4 yaks a rotation.

Nonestop in this time frame
3,072 a week
159,744 a year
That’s roughly 6 years and 3 months of farming dolyaks none stop for 64 hours a week!

While this is still an unrealistic goal, and honestly 10 years would be what it would take at that rate as well. It would be more logical at 100,000 total or 500,000 for a lifetime goal as 5 years I can possibly understand for a game

Let ICoa cheat, I’ve never had a problem wiping their groups when they come running anyways

Play a Guardian, drop ret, heal, and swing. I only lose to thieves when I’m afk

Is Lion guild still on Dragonbrand?

Red and Blue are both able to hit SM that isn’t from a tower/keep. I don’t play on green side enough to see there, but i’m sure given a day I could find one or 2.

Honestly with a few people, some siege, good eyes for portals. You can defend trebs from a few good locations without much concern

Vengeance has moved to SoR, join us and apply today!

I think every time you think you’re outmanned…you should post screen shots.

Pretty sure NA prime time SoR was up about +400~ give or take 10 points ever hour. I only stayed up to about Midnight EST time though.

Fun match regardless, I have to give props to PRX for trying so hard on EB they’ve been making the match up alot of fun. Where’s all the DB guilds at? I never see them in WvW anymore. or at least the numbers I thought I would see there.

Great to hear Night! I look forward to seeing you guys tonight. Let’s keep Dragonbrand alive!

@Disen I actualy agree with you because I know from other games that idea has worked out great. I’ve seen a server follow one leader who led his guild and we were dominating everyday without problems.

It of course does fall to wanting to follow this said person because you have to know you can trust him. Without trust you’ll doubt question and criticize everything he does . doing so will ultimate demoralize others and bring you back to square one.

Vengeance has been trying to work with pugs for some time now, we wanted everyone to be on the same page, we only insulted those who deserved it. I find it’s important that we keep morale and leadership at it’s highest.

I believe in this alliance and I know I will do everything I can to help make Dragonbrand a better server. I’m glad to see some players from other servers showing their support for us to rally back, and I hope we can one day get the chance to prove ourselves against recent servers we’ve fought so poorly against. Not for bragging rights, not for server rankings, but just so they know we weren’t that horrible server they once saw.
So every player knows we can be something more.