Guild Wars 2

perry.9645:

Best matchup so far from the perspective of a solo roamer I had some really awesome and challengeing duells and 1vX fights this week

I have to agree.

Said it before but it needs to be said again.

I’d like to thank AM’s and FR’s roamers for some really good fights this week. I’ve had a ton of fun thanks to you guys.

Eirh.1439:

[SC] is inviting everyone to participate in the Great Firework Party tomorrow (Thursday) at 22:30 GMT+1 on Fort Ranik Borderlands. It will start on the Island south of the ruins and will take as long as its fun for everyone. We are bringing enough Firework for everyone, just come and have fun. We want it to remain peaceful, and ask everyone not to attack, and just take Firework. We will just peacefully run around on the Border as long as it is still fun for us.

Join us, to end the week on a high note.

It’s for things like this that I just can’t bring myself to mock AM …. great sports about it.

It’s been a good week and i’d like to thank AM and FR for the fights this week. I’d really like to thank AM’s and FR’s roamers for keeping my scouting job interesting.

Although i’d be really grateful to AM if you could tell CARE to leave our bloody Yaks alone :P

This is the internet ….. logic has no place here.

I refute all logic with made up statistics and self bias.

I thought i’d bring a plate of cheese to go with all this whine.

So, we’re losing to Desolation, a lot of us saw it coming. Regardless of the reason and setting excuses aside i’d like to thank them for the fights we have had so far. Had some pretty interesting scuffles and the amount of loot bags they have left me the past few days is incredibly generous.

Joking aside, yes Desolation have more coverage than us, so do other servers (Gandara and Abaddons come to mind, they seem to have good numbers round the clock).

No reason to complain about it. The coverage subject has been around since we first set our little cotton socks in WvW and it’s hardly the fault of Desolation that we haven’t recruited any guilds that could help us with our coverage issue.

I say yes with a “but”.

Points for kills should only start counting near objectives when the “defense” timer is ticking.

That may lower some of the spawn camping and may encourage people to defend more. Also may stop teams from roaming the field in a huge group just to hunt kills.

Might also stop some folk with tunnel vision on the gate when attacking. They may turn and fight when the defending zerg turns up instead of licking the gate and dying.

There is no “world ranking”.

There is NA ranking and EU ranking.

Until HoD face Viznah they will not be viewed as “world number 1” by folks in the EU.

Points mean sod all when you are putting them ahead of teams they haven’t even faced.

I love it when people say “use the other entrance” like that one isn’t covered as well.

Had this done to us at all exits so we were basically stuck there.

As I remember, when Underworld had Arborstone and we said the exact same thing we were told by the top servers to “suck it up and recruit a night shift”.

Forgive me if I now laugh for a little while and tell you to suck it up and recruit a night shift.

That’s not hacking.

That’s logging off when they are losing.

Depends who you ask.

Some say it makes very little difference while others say it makes a big difference.

From what i’ve seen gear and level do make a difference.

Levelled my warrior purely in WvW and it felt pretty squishy against the “bigger” guys. Now it’s 80 and fully geared for tough/vit and I can sit back and giggle at most people trying to kill me …. especially thieves trying to do it solo. I don’t do nowhere near the amount of damage some of the “glass cannons” produce but I can soak up a spanking and ask for seconds which is great when trying to push through a stalemate standoff or a guarded choke point.

What you need to remember is while you may get a bit of a boost in stats it is only an “average” boost. It doesn’t compare to those 80’s that are geared up with full traits, runes and sigils.

You can be still be useful no matter what level you are and you will still get kills as long as you don’t go charging head first into a mob of folk.

Davion.8754:

Way to take 2 orcs in ~10mins lolol.

Those poor orcs.

Why does nobody ever think of the orcs?

It’s working as intended.

It even says it in the upgrades section “will repair damaged gates when completed”.

Just to further this, and to top off all accusations.

18:50 today.

Whiteside Ridge, Wariance guild … speedhackers.

Fraps footage sent to A’net.

Catapults knock people away from the door. Makes it harder to kill them.

5 Engi’s with flamethrowers … now that’s a fun thing to sing Baby Light My Fire to while toasting people at the gate.

I won’t play as much as I do now.

Nothing to do with Gw2 there are just other games coming out i’ve been waiting for that i’ll be off to play.

Fortunately there is no sub here so I don’t feel the need to log in whenever possible and can take extended breaks to dabble in other things without missing out.

3-4 days.

By the 4th day on a server getting completely decimated you really just want it to be over and people stop joining up.

Thankyou Nelona.

I understand it’s frustrating but I do not support cheating in any way, shape or form.

I’ll have a word and find out who was about at that time. We may not be able to do a great deal but we can report and let people know who the cheaters are and anything else “within the rules” we can do to cut it out.

I’d come and look for myself but don’t want it to come across as spying so i’ll do what I can from my end.

Nelona, i’m going to ignore your personal accusations and put it down to your anger. Now moving on.

I offered, in my second post, to try and do something about it.

I’m assuming you are on Whiteside.

Now, instead of throwing a little fit at me when i’m trying to help how about you act with some manners and we’ll see what can be done about it from our end.

Didn’t think about the shot thing, I apologise.

If you have someone who’s willing to “hop” server for a day and whisper me on Gomly or Pisbin then we’ll see what we can do internally until A’net deal with it.

If that isn’t an option then let me know what server you are on and i’ll hop over and speak to you myself.

While not important on the server as such I am part of one of our larger alliances and in a notable guild so we may be able to do “something” about it until a proper solution from A’net crops up.

Like I said, we don’t want cheaters on our server. It’s not good in the spirit of the game and it brings our whole server down. That’s a label we want to avoid so i’ll do what I can.

I’m from Underworld and this is the second time you have accused our server of cheating without any proof shown whatsoever.

The last time was about your orb as well saying a group of ours “teleported in from nowhere” and in that same thread someone showed a screenshot with a group of them and rams up…. Yep, amazing teleportation skills there.

If you are going to keep this up then provide proof. At the moment you are providing empty accusations.

We can’t do anything about these “cheaters” unless we know what’s going on.

No guild names provided and no screenshots. We don’t want cheaters on our server any more than you want to face them but without anything to go off what are you expecting?

I want a clone of me now.

Then at least one other person would listen to my sound tactical advice to stop killing the bloody Moa’s when a RoF zerg is heading for our keep.

Joking aside that is pretty bizarre.

I haven’t seen it myself on anyone I know but i’ll be keeping an eye out now.

@Gibbonici.

I’ve been watching you Whiteside lot since our match up started. You were underdogs going in and I actually wanted you to do well. I don’t like “stomping matches” I like a good fight, it makes it fun for all concerned.

The past couple of days has baffled me though.

You had, more or less, nothing on any of the maps … just setting the scene for you here.

We had Dreaming Bay on your borderlands.

Now we were fighting the entire RoF team at Greenbriar and for 2 days running you’ve spent hours upon hours assaulting Dreaming when the entire right side of your map (which was blue) was undefended.

It took you 3 hours of assaulting Dreaming yesterday to take it and in that time you lost everything else to RoF.

In that time you could have re-capped half your map before going for Dreaming. I’m not trying to put you guys down but from a tactical perspective it makes no sense.

Last night we spent a large chunk of time fighting RoF around SM in EBG. We know you had a team in there we’d just pushed them back from Wildcreek. Now here’s the baffling part, during our prolonged attack on RoF your guys did nothing. Our section of the map and RoF’s was practically up for grabs.

I know you are behind on the points side of things and I know you are a low pop server and don’t have our or RoF’s numbers but you guys need to take advantage of prolonged fights between us and RoF. You could have had quite a few more points on the board.

But I do like you guys. You don’t give up when a lot of folk would have done and you pushed us hard at Dreaming and SM in the fights i’ve been in with your lot. You do have a lot of decent players. Once the numbers stabalise and you organise a bit more I think you will do quite well.

And a quick note to RoF. The last couple of times we’ve gone up against you guys has been, and I don’t mean to sound harsh, a cake walk for us.

This time you have seriously upped your game a hell of a lot. Quite a few people on our server saw you guys at the start after reset and expected an easy match up, me included.

I just want to take the time to thank you for proving us wrong. I also want to thank you for the fights we’ve had. It’s been a pretty good few days in WvW for me at least. I’ve really enjoyed this match up so far. If it wasn’t for a few guilds and a few decent commanders on our part I think the points would have been a lot closer, maybe the other way round to what they have been.

And this is what brings me to the OP.

Now i’m in a guild thats part of the alliance that claimed our borderlands at reset. I ran around like a numpty while things were upgrading and helped get things going.

Do I think the “night capping” is a problem?

Not at all. Not everyone has the same prime time and, in a GW2 sense, it’s war. You take any advantage you can get.

We’ve done the same thing to RoF 2 days on the trot when they held a lot of territory.

Would be a bit hypocritical of me to call others when i’ve stayed up until the early hours to take some objectives from RoF and Whiteside.

Sorry for the long winded post….

80 Ranger – 80 Warrior and 24 Engi … 10/10

Although I can’t seem to stick with one character. I level one then have to try something else.

I gave up with the turrets.

They are about as much use as a chocolate fire guard.

If any guilds want to come onto our server and claim keeps and towers then feel free.

While they are claiming stuff it means we hold them and the other servers don’t.

You are in the wrong place.

WvW is team based, it has little to do with “skill” (still amuses me that people think a game takes skill … “hey, look how stylishly I can press buttons”, skill mykitten).

You want SPvP not WvW.

I wouldn’t mind larger maps.

I remember back DAoC going on scouting trips in the lakes.

Not really the room to do that here.

I wouldn’t mind if they added dueling in the mists but NOT in WvW.

We already have enough people chasing grubs, bouncing around jumping puzzles, gathering, face planting at SM for no reason, wandering around aimlessly and generally being useless.

Add in dueling and we’ve lost people that have the slightest inkling what they are doing to standing at the spawn spanking each other.

So yeah, dueling in the SPvP mists but keep it out of WvW. We need people to focus there.

Power, crit and crit damage.

Orb buff.

Welcome to the downed state if a thief gets behind you.

Exotics mean nothing if you haven’t got the right stats for that kind of thing. If your stats are for pure damage then you could be wearing level 1 whites for all the good it will do you against attacks like that.

Toughness and vitality … thats what you want if you want to live long enough to poke your tongue out at those sneaky buggers.

Your damage output will take a hit but that’s the joy of WvW, you aint going 1v1 you are in a team. A slight drop in your damage isn’t going to mean much in the grand scheme of things. The damage you lost will be made up for by surviving longer. Doing say 20k damage before you die in 3 seconds compared to 50k by living a bit longer (numbers pulled out of mykittenjust for arguments sake).

And one bit of advise I will give to anyone in WvW …. never go anywhere alone. Thieves thrive on picking off stragglers. If you die, don’t just go stomping out of your spawn, wait until a couple more of you appear then go as a small group. Unless you are travelling to a close tower/keep then you are okay.

I levelled my Warrior and Ranger mainly in WvW.

It’s pretty easy if you play it smart.

Either support or DPS from range, they less you get noticed the more chance of surviving you have.

Man seige equipment, raid supply camps and avoid trying to 1v1 the big guys with the massive armour.

It’s been said before but i’ll say it again for the people at the back of the class not paying attention…

Your “off peak” is someone else’s prime time.

The world, as shown by a big plastic thing on my fire place, is round. It revolves around a shiny ball of fire we call the sun. When that shiny ball of fire is pointing at you it’s leaving other people in the dark, that would be their “off peak” in which you are stealing their keeps/towers and vice versa.

Long story short, there is no “off peak” in a 24 hour map.

262 hours (i’m on the sick at the minute and my wife works long hours … I have little else to do).

80 – Ranger.
80 – Warrior.
13 – Elementalist.
14 – Engineer.
2 – Necromancer.

Tried Thief and Mesmer but i’m saving those for last. Unsure about rolling a Guardian.

In WvW.

Me and another fella were stood on Ogrewatch walls, invaders had been seen and we were keeping our eye’s on the place.

The fella next to me said “blue to the left” I said “green to the right” and we both said “here I am, stuck in the middle with you” at the same time.

That led to us watching blue and green fighting outside Ogre while we sang Steelers Wheel – Stuck in the middle with you in /s.

That was during headstart and it still makes me giggle. Granted i’m easily amused.

I also like bumping into NPC’s having random conversations. You don’t see that in many MMO’s and makes it feel a bit more “alive” if you will.

I like the Vista’s too. I hate jumping up to get to them, i’m absolutely kitten at platforming but some of the views are fantastic.

The sad thing is, they haven’t stopped the botters. It reminds me of Ubisofts naive attempts to stop piracy by using terrible DRM.

No matter how hard they try it never works and just annoys the legitimate player base.

Now roll something that isn’t guardian, a class widely known for being GW2’s answer to the Terminator.

Can’t shut borderlands off.

Some people prefer them more plus your servers borderlands is “your territory” so to speak.

I agree with Cakoluchiam’s idea a bit. Locking off other maps until certain criteria is met could work for lower pop servers but I can’t see it working for higher pop ones.

Imagine the uproar over queue’s if people were waiting to get onto 1 map.

Giving some sort of reward, especially badges, would probably motivate people more.

Anything that gives me more of those shiny badges is a good thing.

I also like to roleplay in WvW.

Why just a few minutes ago I roleplayed embedding my sword in someones face … much fun was had.

We’ve gone up against Piken a couple of times and it’s quite sad that’s happening. They have some pretty decent players and i’ve been in some good fights against them but that’s usually later in the evening.

During the day we’re pretty much sat around waiting for something to happen.

@ nidwin.

I’m not saying you guys are working together (although that has been subject to discussion in team chat on multiple occasion due to how some fights turned out).

Arborstone hit our Overlook on the first day of the match up and you guys hit it the same time from another gate. When Arbor took it your guys backed off. It did look a bit “fishy”.

I’m in Underworld Battalion <WvW> and we’ve tried, oh god have we tried, to get people to stop attacking anything blue and focus on green especially when green hold nearly everything on all 4 maps.

The problem we have is folk don’t listen …. at all.

Arbor had Mendons, Speldon and Anza which we could have taken quite easily (and needed the supply camp most of all) due to them being in our “territory” so to speak. Then the “mindless zerg” rushed to Durios for reason still unknown to anyone else who was there that day.

I will admit that it does sometimes feel like a 2 on 1 match up but that may be down to the people that do try to work together being in the wrong place at the wrong time when your guys and Arbor are “hitting it off”.

I did think you 2 had a bit of co-operation going on, as I said about our Overlook, but I sit corrected and apologise for the accusation.

Seems we just need to try and focus out guys more. Helps if people would stop trying to kill the grub, zerg SM when it’s heavily defended and we have nothing else, stopping to gather, afk at spawn and trying to zerg Bravost/Durios when we have none of our own territory.

@ vrgadin.

It’s our fault?

So we matched ourselves up against 2 French servers?

A lot of us on Underworld are British. We go to sleep, wake up and the French have capped everything .. literally, we have nothing in the mornings .. and set up seige on our spawn points.

We get out of our spawn and hit a keep/tower and have 2 French teams to fight.

We sure did kick ourselves in the teeth when we begged and pleaded for this match up didn’t we.

mcl.9240:

The problem with that is that a lot of people define “fun” as “winning”, and will tell you that being on the losing team isn’t fun.

Not really. Fun is an even(ish) match up. Fun is not being sat at 40.000 points while the steamroll team is sat on 250.000.

When you jump into EBG and find the leading team has set up 9 ballista, 12 arrow carts, 2 cata’s and a treb facing your spawn point.

Yeah, tons of fun were had that day.

This is one thing I can agree with.

I wouldn’t mind if they flung a few more badges our way.

It doesn’t need to be a vast increase just the odd 1 or 2 thrown in for various other objectives.

I also wouldn’t mind if they gave them for defended an objective X amount of times. Mainly because quite a few folks on Underworld refuse to defend because, and I quote, it doesn’t reward enough.

As far as i’m aware you can only queue for one map at a time which is why the last one you queue for is the one that pops.

I really do love reading posts like this.

“I played this older game and then came to this game. This game isn’t like the older game … why?”

I was just about to start working towards the legendary short bow for my ranger.

I think i’ll pass.

On my Human Ranger, some of my story quests took far longer than I felt they needed to finish.

Due to the insane damage some of the mobs did in them (pet dying instantly, support characters the same) I spent 20 minutes running round in circles waiting for the mobs to die from the traps I was dropping behind me.

I’m all for challenging but that is a bit beyond that. Running round in circles dropping traps is not exactly my idea of fun so I just gave up on the personal story side of things. My Ranger is now 80 with my story still being around level 40.

You want to see bad match making?

Underworld is currently up against 2 French servers … guess what happened to us.

Stick with it.

Hopefully things will get better and this is coming from an Underworld player currently being slapped senseless in our spawn points.

PvP happening in a PvP area … well imagine that.

It’s not griefing. Griefing would be stopping you from doing something in a zone or area where there are rules in place for that …. There are no rules in WvW.

If you step foot in any of those maps then expect to be killed, that’s the idea behind them. They are not for folks to go skipping on their merry way doing jumping puzzles while the other 2 realms wave at them.