Guild Wars 2

Assassin X.8573:

Ganking.2089:

Well it seems like all of AR’s momentum is gone. The PVE fairweathers that we had from season 1 have gone back into their dungeons, and some people are leaving the server. I am finding out manned in EB most of the day.

As a result of this; myself, and many of the other main commanders will be taking a break from wvw until the week before season starts. I will just be running some commander training etc. to try to get more ready for the season due to the fact that we have had several of people and a few guilds leave wvw, or the server as whole. So the new “buffed” AR is gone temporarily. Back to our old self. Enjoy the high ppt this week ET and DH.

But do not fret, hopefully we will be back on our game for season 2 in January(?). With the “buffed” AR back in action.

You know its like a big holiday week, right? If you have a larger name force other times than this week, don’t fret. As for season two there is no confirmation that there will be one. All Anet has said is that there won’t be another season in 2013…

We lost numbers starting last week, not this week. And it is holiday for every server, not just AR. So it should be proportional and not make any difference.

Anyways, a lot of us are tired from working so hard to get our wins against SF, GOM, DR, and Kain and just tired of wvw. We had been working overtime to create the new “buffed” AR, and perhaps it was just too much work to keep consistent every week.

Well it seems like all of AR’s momentum is gone. The PVE fairweathers that we had from season 1 have gone back into their dungeons, and a lot of people are bored of wvw. I am finding out manned in EB most of the day.

As a result of this; myself, and many of the other main commanders will be taking a break from wvw until the week before season starts. I will just be running some commander training etc. to try to get more ready for the season due to the fact that we have had several of people and a few guilds leave wvw, or the server as whole. So the new “buffed” AR is gone temporarily. Back to our old self. Enjoy the high ppt this week ET and DH.

But do not fret, hopefully we will be back on our game for season 2 in January(?). With the “buffed” AR back in action.

PIC, I guess you guys must be a new guild because I have been against ET many times and never faced you.

Anyways, you guys have been caught glitching into bay twice tonight. No respect for you guys at all.

Had fun trolling ET by bluewater in ETBL just now with my PU build.

PU build is so op….there’s no way I should be able to kill 5 people by myself.

bob.8632:

CyberSamurai.1208:

Ganking.2089:

Really glad that MUFN guild is deciding to finally come over from Tarnished Coast to help out the Anvil cause! You guys made the right choice picking our server. It will be fun having another guild to wvw with, and your extra 50 or so night time numbers will really be a help.
We look forward to seeing you guys in wvw today/tonight. It will give our other guilds a chance to have some much earned rest while we observe your prowess.

MUFN – Welcome! Be sure to join the server Teamspeak (ask in chat) and visit the web page at www.anvilrockserver.com

Looking forward to working with you.

I call shenanigans because SF ppt is the highest its been all week this morning…

Despite what people think the “oceanic talk” only worries about 20 people on SF….Eventually those people will band together and buy an Oceanic guild (of that I have little doubt), but me personally I think some well placed Europeans could make all the difference.

The Muffins are taking a little bit longer to transfer over than expected. Only a couple are over so far due to a few of them getting banned for distributing transfer gold. They should be here tonight, or tomorrow at the latest.

Really glad that MUFN guild is deciding to finally come over from Tarnished Coast to help out the Anvil cause! You guys made the right choice picking our server. It will be fun having another guild to wvw with, and your extra 50 or so night time numbers will really be a help.
We look forward to seeing you guys in wvw today/tonight. It will give our other guilds a chance to have some much earned rest while we observe your prowess.

Damocles.8716:

@Ganking
The way you describe Anvil Rock definitely makes it sound appealing. Can you tell me more about the guild scene on that server? Also, are there active commanders on TS? I find following a commander much more efficient when they are able to give voice orders.

@Reverence @Artimes
I have reservations about EU servers mainly because I fear the latency would be much more severe. It is an interesting thought though.

@Styx
I certainly agree, and I have sought out these guilds. Unfortunately it feels like there is only so much action one can get during the hours I’m active. Perhaps it is more than just a server issue, but it often feels like the maps are barren of both NSP and opponents during those hours.

We have several extremely experienced commanders constantly on teamspeak. A few are giving voice commands to only their guild, but many stay in the general channel and command the public zerg.

The commands are precise. Each skill use and movement is called, and we try to play as organized as possible. Sometimes the commander will even divide his zerg into parties of different classes in order to micromanage them while in combat.

The guild scene is a very tight knit one. For the most part, all of the main guilds are friends. We all work together, and although many of us have our own voip, we all get on the same teamspeak and coordinate with each other. There are 3-5 guilds who consistently run 10-30 man tight, advanced groups especially at night time.

One of these guilds is my own, TFH (The Fluttering Horde). We love wreaking havok by ourselves in enemy bl, taking keeps, holding them, etc.

Another great guild is ASAP (Anvil Secret Army of Protector) which is a new but fast growing wvw guild lead by a commander who transferred from IOJ.

WAR, and WARMerc are two more related large guilds which also generally run on their own in EB. They are also very coordinated, and highly compatible with the public teamspeak zerg.

There is also Zero, which is in the process of transferring back to Anvil from Blackgate, and is heavily recruiting. They are an organized wvw guild as well.

You’d definitely have a lot of choices when it comes to wvw guilds.

Noobie.1073:

Ganking.2089:

I have been on Anvil Rock since the commercial launch of the game. Never have left, never will. I have been with us through thick and thin, and although I am appalled at a few of the threads on here and their misrepresentation of our excellent community, I am happy to see that most people were humble about our recent climb.

Well, 2 days left and it seems the numbers are starting to settle and the matchup is drawing to a close. I usually am on Anvil Rock commanding at least 3 or 4 late nights per week, however I regretfully was not able to make it over the weekend or on reset night due to my University finals week. This was especially disappointing, because I have never had a chance to really play against SF on somewhat even terms since our servers’ free fall.

That being said, I was able to get on to command a good amount monday and tuesday night against you guys (SF and Kaineng), and it has been a pleasure more so than most other tier 7-8 servers I have faced recently. I see that kaineng has taken their class with them from the higher tiers in their current state of falling ranks, and SF is classy as always. You guys havn’t done any of the cheap shenanigans (bugging etc.) I have seen from other servers in bronze league, and have been fun to play against overall.

Kaineng, I wish you guys luck. We were in your position for a long time over the past 4-5 months. It sucks to fall so far, but as long as a few good players remain faithful to your server and don’t all abandon ship you will bounce back eventually as we are. Don’t give up.

SF, as I said I didn’t get a chance to play much against you this round, but I hope we see you again soon. I hope you manage to climb back up the ladder with us.

I am posting this now because I probably won’t get a chance to play much tomorrow or Thursday night due to one more final. So long story short, was a fun match up and glad to have played you guys. I really don’t know how we will perform against FC and DH with our new organization, but hopefully it is well. Wish us luck, we will need it.

It might be just me…but as I was reading this post I kept picturing you as a “born again” christian, preaching about mistakes made and learning to get right with the lord lol.

Nothing against any person or religion, it’s just what I pictured.

Lol honestly I have a bunch of friends in SF including my old guild who transferred over, so I just wanted to say something nice especially to you guys since we hadn’t played you in so long.

I also just finished writing a 5000 word persuasive research paper as my final for one of my classes before I wrote that, so that is probably why it seemed preachy haha. Was kinda still in essay mode.

The previous screenshot was our last matchup. This is the score of our current matchup. The next matchup will be against FC and DH, and we are hoping it will be the same story.

Try anvil rock. We hit rock bottom about 3 months ago, and are finally organized and shooting up the ranks fast. We are working our way back up from the bottom. All of a sudden we have gotten our act together with massive server teamspeak zergs, and great skilled, organized wvw guilds. A conservative estimate is that we will be contenting with HoD, DH, and FC for the top spot in bronze league. However if we keep smashing our opponents like we have been the last few weeks, and keep up the momentum, we may find ourselves back in tier 5 against ehmry bay like we were months ago.

We are most definitely a night crew server. During the primetime we are able to at least match our opponents, if not slightly surpass them, but at night (around 3:00 AM EST) we are still fielding 60 man coordinated teamspeak zergs, plus all of the pugs. 2 nights ago at 4:00 AM there were still about 50 people on teamspeak.

Basically what you will find here is a very fun, coordinated community who loves to stay up late and make the enemy servers wake up to 50ppt. Community morale has never been higher, and we have begun a snowball effect as we rapidly grow more and more coordinated and stronger. Oh and not to mention we have the best roamers of ANY server. This is based on the fact that we are the highest ranked pvp server overall.

Attached you will find a typical night lately. The servers we are currently against cannot keep up with our night crew whatsoever.

Feels good to be winning again.

I have been on Anvil Rock since the commercial launch of the game. Never have left, never will. I have been with us through thick and thin, and although I am appalled at a few of the threads on here and their misrepresentation of our excellent community, I am happy to see that most people were humble about our recent climb.

Well, 2 days left and it seems the numbers are starting to settle and the matchup is drawing to a close. I usually am on Anvil Rock commanding at least 3 or 4 late nights per week, however I regretfully was not able to make it over the weekend or on reset night due to my University finals week. This was especially disappointing, because I have never had a chance to really play against SF on somewhat even terms since our servers’ free fall.

That being said, I was able to get on to command a good amount monday and tuesday night against you guys (SF and Kaineng), and it has been a pleasure more so than most other tier 7-8 servers I have faced recently. I see that kaineng has taken their class with them from the higher tiers in their current state of falling ranks, and SF is classy as always. You guys havn’t done any of the cheap shenanigans (bugging etc.) I have seen from other servers in bronze league, and have been fun to play against overall.

Kaineng, I wish you guys luck. We were in your position for a long time over the past 4-5 months. It sucks to fall so far, but as long as a few good players remain faithful to your server and don’t all abandon ship you will bounce back eventually as we are. Don’t give up.

SF, as I said I didn’t get a chance to play much against you this round, but I hope we see you again soon. I hope you manage to climb back up the ladder with us.

I am posting this now because I probably won’t get a chance to play much tomorrow or Thursday night due to one more final. So long story short, was a fun match up and glad to have played you guys. I really don’t know how we will perform against FC and DH with our new organization, but hopefully it is well. Wish us luck, we will need it.

Mugo.5723:

Again TFH is one our stronger guilds. They are an old AR guild and have always been oceanic. They can field up to 10+ on most nights. Shhh is a roaming guild from what I know which is anywhere from 5-10. Zero is an oceanic guild that originated on AR. I checked TS to see who was still on and we still have our NA players still playing. So yea we have gotten transfers but not as many as you think. I’m thinking our TS zerg was on a roll considering we have been keeping most of your real estate “wooden” throughout the day. There is a big difference between our 4 fortified keeps and your 4 wooden ones. Our NA players will put in a long night if we have a chance at placing better. The “carrot on the stick” if you will. 30+ players in TS at this hour isn’t a bad thing, but a lot of them I recognize as core wvw folk that play various hours of the day. Minimizing our success by stating we are winning due to transfers is a little insulting. It’s more like…overall server coordination, not to lose our keeps throughout the day so we can have an easier prime time which ultimately leads to easy night capping. Offense is all about timing. Fortified keeps take a long time to capture if said keep is also full on supply. If you have wooden gates going into the night that is bad news because a group of 10 can get to inner easily.

Closest match up all season between all 3 servers. This is the kind of match up that people want but only we can play in.

He’s right. We are just mostly the same night crew on a roll from earlier. I am GMT-5 (EST) time. It is 4:30 am here and I’m finally tagging down after a long night of eating gombl, and all the other maps for that matter. It has just been so much fun dominating all night that it is hard to tear myself off of gw2. I think everyone else feels the same way. It just feels amazing to all of AR to be winning again, and that makes it even less likely that we will sleep.

I wasn’t kidding earlier when I said AR doesn’t sleep.

Crunk n monkey.3749:

We actually pushed both BL with the same amount of players tonight. It’s just that AR put up a pretty good fight in their BL. I find it an honor when AR calls in a 30 man zerg or more to defend against 20 GoM. Some of the best fights were at Vale, Briar and Lake.

As for taking Hills, well you can personally blame me for that. After your morning crew wrecked all the hard work i put into our keeps and towers and turned them to paper. I got pretty kitten ed and rallied folks to take it. The first attempt was more of a poke to see your response time of your EB zerg to come and defend it. The 2nd attempt was more calculating to catch you off guard. Good stuff though.

Though we can’t complete my goal of taking ALL your keeps tonight. Rest assure, your garrison and bay are next on the list. Sleep well Anvil Rock…

I thought I brought about a 25 man zerg to fight your 20-25 man zerg. Even if it was 20 vs 30, our zerg was almost completely pugs. We wiped you about 5 times and didn’t get even close to wiped once. One of which you were completely sieged up inside of hills and we portal bombed you. You’d think a guild group would perform better against my pug zerg which I summoned from map chat in EB.

And as you can tell by this screenshot, so far our garrison and bay, and for that matter almost all of the keeps in every single borderland are still looking very red. Anvil Rock does not sleep.

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Our victory dance from last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XISYks0ZEGY

To see the dolyak party. Start at the 43 min part and enjoy the show.

http://www.twitch.tv/komvendetta/b/481126127

Haha very nice. For the record though, when you hit us at veloka we were in so much shock that we didn’t even try to fight back. I honestly just didn’t know what to do seeing all those dolyaks, and I didn’t really want to kill you and ruin the fun. I kinda felt bad lol. I just told everyone to run and waypoint back.

I was commanding when you guys did your dolyak march. I kinda had an obsession with veloka tonight, and had been trying to take it for awhile. Usually we got counter-sieged repeatedly and ran out of supply and had to waypoint. I thought for sure id finally get it that time, then your dolyaks came.

You had more numbers than us as it was. You didn’t even need that unnecessary advantage of summoning a great dolyak army. After this, I have come to the conclusion that GoM plays unfairly. They had a much larger zerg than us, and they still used the unstoppable ungodly power of dolyaks to stampede us. Just relentlessly unfair.

I havn’t had much luck roaming the BL’s alone looking for some good duels/small group fights. I have to say HoD are the absolute worst people for me to play against considering what I want are small duels. I havn’t been able to find any single HoD roaming alone, or with less than 5 people. Even when I bow, every single HoD I can find refuses to fight me 1 on 1 or even 2 on 1. So I decided to follow around small groups, hoping one or two would break off and I could find myself a nice fight. Instead, the entire group would turn around and all try to kill me every time.

The smallest HoD group I could find that wouldn’t run away from me was a group of 3, so I picked a fight with them, and died after downing only one of them. They proceeded to dance on my corpse like winning a 3v1 was a huge accomplishment. So frustrating. Maybe I need to go to spvp when we are against HoD since they all seem too scared to duel.

As far as Darkhaven, I have had a few good fights from you guys. Look forward to playing you again soon.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

We haven’t gotten transfers. GoM has always had a HUGE PvE population. When most of our WvW guilds left, we couldn’t really attract any outside interest because our server carried max transfer cost 24/7 even while in T8 (as opposed to much larger WvW servers like Mag/DB/FA that would occasionally dip into “high” population during off-peak hours).

What you’re seeing are the achievement hunters finally dipping their toes into WvW content for the first time. Tons upon tons of fresh commanders and full armies that are on the field, learning how to use siege, how camp buffs work, why you shouldn’t chase enemies into their spawn, why charging face-first into a full line of AR ballistas on the lord room bridge at Mendon’s is a terrible idea, etc…

Hopefully, we’ll be able to convert some of those numbers. Several of our core guilds have been working with the new players to train them on how to fight and how to modify their builds for WvW survivability. So far the response has been very positive.

Hopefully, AR/DR can retain some of their new players as well.

Haha, that was us on the bridge at mendons yesterday with the line of ballistas bolstered by arrow carts. You guys sure did walk right into that one. Was really fun though.

Also, my guild and I had some really fun fights with both GoM and DR a few hours ago tonight over Redbriar in GoM bl. We held out against superior numbers for awhile, but it was only a matter of time. Good fight guys!

Just tried defending Quentin Lake with less than 10 guildies against a big HoD zerg and a bigger ET zerg simultaneously. Held out for a pretty long time and killed a surprising amount of you guys. Most fun I’ve had in wvw in a long time.

Avelos.6798:

How the heck do you have 30 FPS in zergs? It takes a huge overclock on an intel i7 3930K to get 30 FPS in a zerg. Unless the zerg is small I think you’re blowing smoke there.

Well I am on anvil rock so its probably a little smaller than what your used to. But not too small.

I have an Fx-8150 with only a small factory overclock, 16G RAM, and a single AMD Radeon 6970 (MSI Twin Frozr II Series)

I can run the game almost everywhere at 40-65fps in the highest possible detail, and run at about 30fps in zergs. I pretty much have no problems. Not sure what you guys are complaining about.

I have been suffering on Anvil Rock for a long time, and can attest to this situation. I loved wvw in beta and for a couple months afterwards, in fact it is what drew me to the game. Now it is just miserable. We have permanent outmanned in Eternal Battlegrounds, and sometimes cannot even leave the waypoint area. God knows we will never get into stonemist, so I will never have 100% completion for Eternal Battlegrounds. I now try to stay in PVE.

I think the obvious fix to this problem is that ANet needs to stop being so greedy, and simply place a discount on transfers to lower tier, underhanded, and underpopulated servers. If they reduced the price for transfers based on a very simple formula factoring in the tier of the server, the population, and other factors, it would balance out quickly. There are many ways to do this, and I am sure I am not thinking of all the important factors. So just as an example, transfer prices could go as follows:

Tier 1-3 servers with very high population and less than 3 consecutive losses can stay at 1800 gems.
Being tier 4 should remove 100 from the transfer price. Making it 1700 gems base rate.
Being tier 5 should remove another 100. Making it 1600 base rate.
Being tier 6 should remove another 200. Making it 1400 base rate.
Being tier 7 should remove another 300. Making it 1100 base rate.
Being tier 8 should remove another 300. Making it 800 base rate.

A transfer to a server that has a “high” population rather than “very high” should remove yet another 100 gems from the transfer price.
There are none on the American servers, but a server with “medium” population should remove yet another 100 gems from the transfer price.

A transfer to a server that has lost 3 consecutive rounds in wvw should remove another 100 gems from the price. Another 100 should be removed by each consecutive loss after 3.

If the server that you are transferring FROM qualifies for a base transfer rate of 1800, it should remove another 100 gems from the transfer price.

So for example, based on this system, if you were to transfer from Blackgate to Anvil Rock it would go as follows:
1100 gem base transfer rate. (Anvil is tier 7 currently)
-200 gems for having 4 consecutive losses.
-100 gems for leaving a very high population, tier 1 server which qualifies for a base rate of 1800.
Final Transfer Price from Blackgate to Anvil Rock:
800 gems.