Guild Wars 2

FKwrong.9104:

guild tag was something like [FTB]… started with “f”, 3 letters, and word “Badges” in the guild name.
porting in is not necessarily a crime indeed, but climbing up the wall, throwing a portal and bringing a ton of people in to capture without breaking gates or wall is quite nasty imho…

Agreed, if the Mesmer can stow away in a keep after a take and you guys fail to mesmer sweep then Shame on you. If they are glitching the terrain or hacking into the keep shame on them.

We try to take keeps fair and square and have a zero tolerance policy towards cheating and glitching. If you can manage to get a screen shot of this person doing this we will deal with it as quickly as possible.

Some of the guilds on the server are not part of the YB alliance so we have no say on them, but if it is one of the guilds involved in the YB alliance then they will be dealt with.

FKwrong.9104:

yak mesmers are glitching up the tower walls and inside towers..
clap-clap.. pathetic.

Please try and get some screen shots. As a whole YB does not condone players glitching to get into keeps. If we can figure out who they are either as a server or as a guild we will deal with them.

We have been having to deal with enemy Mesmer dying at gates only to be rezed from the other side and placing portals right on the inside and having players use the portals

Why do people play WvW?

There are so many reasons it’s hard to know where to start.

1. PvE is boring, so bloody boring. The first time you do a Dungeon okay it might be fun the second time might be as fun as the first time but as of the third time doing the same old song and dance it get’s dull. It might be for some people and if your doing it for a reward your playing the game for the wrong reason.

2. The community. There is nothing funner in game then having a case of beer next to your PC on a Friday night reset, and killing people with a bunch of buddies. Telling Jokes having fun and simply enjoying the game.

3. Most WvW players don’t need a reward to have to play. Your fun is your reward. If your not having fun go do something else I have never heard a WvW player on my server kitten someone out for going to run a dungeon or log off.

4. Lack of commitment. Sure when I was younger I could go and raid every night of the week in WOW, but when your not there the other 24 or 9 people are looking for someone to fill your spot. If I don’t log into WvW for one night no one cares. They might ask where I am if anyone knows but they aren’t cussing my name because I didn’t show up.

5. The complaint that you don’t make money doing WvW doesn’t hold water with me. I on average make 1-2 gold a night in a 4 hour play session, and if your a true WvW player once you get your gear (from Orr or Badges) you don’t need gold for anything else other then the occasional siege. I could care less that I normally have less then 20 gold. Gold to me is useless if and when I get a large amount either I go spend it on siege or I go buy another commander book.
If I still have 20-100 pieces of siege in my bag I don’t care if I have 2 gold. Gold means nothing to most of us in WvW

6. The people are nicer. I have never seen a PvE player send gold to another PvE player on the trust that you will use it for the better of the server. I have seen commanders get 20-30 gold in donations because they asked for it on the map just so they can take care of upgrades and buy siege.
PvE players are so selfish it can be disgusting, WvW players on average are very non selfish.
We drop plates of food for our whole server to make sure we have buffs. We play as a group and form a community we set up road markers to get around quicker. If I ask for a ram on a door I can get one instantly no one cares that it costs the 4s even if it gets destroyed.

Simply In My Humble Opinion the majority of WvW players are more fun to play.

MosesZD.7428:

earendil.1290:

Bannok.3152:

Saturday afternoon, took 25 minutes to get 10 people to start break out in EB for SBI. After finally getting the Mendons with about 14 people, we were met with about 50 from Yaks Bend. Looks like its going to be a bad week to WvWvW. They really need to let us drop faster.

Dropping faster will not improve much the situation.

SBI is just not generating the number of player*hours required for coverage. And in this tier it is no longer about the opposition being suffocating. Whenever we have a half decent number of people on a map we are doing fine.

The number of people still doing WvW in SBI is finite. Good, even great people but not that many. We either ask these people to do extra hours (something I’m totally against) or we try to lure more into a WvW environment that has little appeal right now. When WvW rewards will kick in, a lot of casuals will be back and we will be ready. Maybe not for climbing back to T1, but at least to have a gratifying WvW experience. Which we do have now IMO.

And I honestly appreciate the quality of the opponents we faced since T2. TC back then, YB and CD – all great servers with people who do WvW for the right reasons.

Grats to all.

I think most of your point is sound. However, I disagree vis the ‘numbers’ issue.

Yaks isn’t winning because they’re ‘good.’ They’re winning because they can run multiple huge zergs for most of the day. They are, according to the population indicator (which I’ve been lead to believe accurately ranks by logged-in players) the 4th most populous server as I write this message (11:50AM, CST). Crystal Desert is 3rd.

SBI is 19th.

Both are at “Very High.” Later in the day, they will be ‘Full.’ We’ll make it to ‘Very High.’

So, this has been our day since the population migrations:

First comes the huge waves of Yak’s Benders. When the evening rolls around and we finally get some population, we take back. But then the huge CD zergs start showing up late at night. And we go out, 15 against 60 and die. And respawn. And die. And respawn. And die.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

I wouldn’t off of the general population YB is very PVE heavy for the majority of its player base. Yes we can pull good numbers from time to time. Especially on reset night’s, but as a server it can be hard to pull the general population away from thier 10000 AC run or their Rank 50 Fractal runs.

I know alot of us Yak’s would love to be able to face the CD prime time to truly see who would come out on top. I am sure it would be an amazing fight.

Either way its been fun playing against CD. Even tho the scoring can get frustrating.

SBI, you guys are bad kitten you hit above your weight and I am always glad to see you on the map.

As a YB commander I just wanted to put my 2cents in.

As far as servers go I enjoy playing against both Mag and EB. Both servers seem willing to fight most of the time even if they are outnumbered. Which is better then the general population of YB. As soon as YB gets out numbered or we get stuck far back in 3rd place I see most of our WvW population stops logging in.

A little note on the subject of double teaming. As a commander I play off of opportunity. If Mag is beating on an EB keep ill run my forces into the opposite wall because you know it’s always better in a 3way, and if I can make Mag do most of the work for me to take a keep its a win in my books. (edit) For the record if it was EB attacking Mag I would throw my forces at them like lemmings over a cliff. To me I don’t differentiate between servers if your name is red to me it should be dead.

Either way keep up the good fights and I will see you on the battlefield hopefully with me standing over your corpses.

Joocer

YB is suffering from Ego’s and infighting, there are more then a few guilds who just refuse to work together, it makes organizing a group to actually assault a map very difficult. I was hoping that YB might have a decent group of players but until these guild leaders get off of their high horses and put away some of their difference and ego’s I cannot see YB turning around.

You can barely get guilds that are in an alliance on the same VOIP server so we end up with people typing back and forth to each other and fighting over who should be leading.

Until YB can get their heads out of their collective a**’s we will continue to failcade.

Another note is tho we do have some great commanders it is just hard to get people to follow them when every a large number of guilds refuse to work together. Friday night was the first time I have seem a map work together and then it all broke apart Saturday/Sunday.

Concerned YB player