I think IoJ and NSP have pretty much given up. They’re tanking and its not deliberate.
It was even more devastating because of the Sneak Attack, everything felt more hopeless in T3 against big brother Green.
Rather than merge servers, maybe a merge Tiers would be a better option. T1+T2 where T1green and T2blue are allied in one corner, T1red and T2red are in another corner and T1blue and T2green are together in the last corner. And you do this for all the other Tiers. T3+T4, T5+T6, etc.
This allows for weekly alliances where you team up with higher Tiered/“skilled” wvw servers and lower Tiered/“ranked” servers.
I don’t know about IoJ but NSP has not given up. Yes we lack the numbers to fight against the kind of coverage a t2 server brings but no one to my knowledge has given up. At least I’m seeing no overt signs of it.
I can’t speak for IOJ’s major WvW guilds as I typically only roam. My guild does do runs twice a week; we didn’t do too bad holding our BL on reset night but it took a large amount of our population just to hold BL while EB went completely green and has been ever since.
Our guild run last night was less successful as we tried to breach the fully upgraded and impenetrable keeps in the FA borderlands. Having waypoints in keeps is a big bonus and I think FA has had a waypoint in our Bay for most of the week.
As the week has progressed, our tick has gotten worse and worse (we were actually ticking ZERO for some time yesterday), so I’m guessing our major guilds may have lowered their activity in hopes of dropping down a tier. Or it may just be that upgrades and numbers have made it impossible to take much back and keep it.
I would also guess that the return of white swords will make the situation worse, not better, since FA has the coverage and the waypoints to defend almost everywhere.
We actually broke the Hills waypoint of the FA home BL two days ago versus the END lead zerg force online at the time. We also had times were we where pushing high 100’s for PPT.
So don’t think that IOJ has given up. The FA blob might flip our whole BL but they have to spend 2-4 sorties on our garrison with a bigger force supplemented by Golems every attempt. That has been my experience this week at least. I’ve actually had more fun this week than the past couple of months with the outnumbered fights that we win around 70-80% of the time.
