Guild Wars 2

I feel like you’re getting a lot of response from players who prefer the game’s more open format (and I myself enjoy it) but I did want to chime in just to say that I’ve struggled very hard to get friends of mine from other games to stick with GW2 precisely due to the issues you’re describing. Many MMO players are used to a more structured quest/gearing/gathering system, and out of the 8-10 or so friends I tried to pull here from my previous MMO, only 1 stuck it out. =/

So I do think you make some valid points. Obviously, there’s a huge community of players who enjoy GW2’s approach to liberating players from such structured play, but from my experience, the game has lost at least several in my own sphere of friends who just don’t like the “figure it out” / explore aspects, and want to be guided more through their gameplay.

Yes, this keeps happening to me as well, and only post-update. Client freezes and I have to force close the game.

Great thread idea!

I’d invite:
-Professor Gorr from the personal story to handle research/development.
-Galina and Snarl, also from the personal story, who were hilarious and kicked a**.
-Malyck, who if it were up to my character, would’ve been FOUND during the HoT storyline – I would’ve torn up every leaf in that jungle looking for him.
-Canach – I love his snarky humor and he’s also a great fighter.
-Countess Anise for OP mesmer power without Kas’s whiny quality.
-For some Norn representation, Fibharr Ygosson from the personal story since I can’t bring Forgal back from the dead…
-Of the current members, I’d keep Rytlock and Rox for sure, and would consider Taimi if she was a little less of a constant presence, and more of an assistant to Gorr. I like Taimi, but it’s been a bit overkill on her in nearly every story step lately.

Tara.4812:

So does Taimi actually know what the Deep Sea Dragon’s name is? She seemed to almost reveal it for a moment, if not for the “supposed” brain malfunction. It would be interesting if she does actually know and if so, we might find out what bubbles’s true name is later on in living world season 3.

Her dialogue line about that did make me laugh, but what’s weird to me is that as far as I know, there’s no possible way she could know the dragon’s full name. The last we know from the Priory, is that the document that contains the names of the dragons – Scroll (or Tome, I think it’s called in some instances) of the Five True Gods does not reveal Bubbles’ real name. The listing was completely damaged and lost. So how does Taimi magically have this information? Unless she was joking around about the “brain malfunction” and really doesn’t know. I just hope that if the name does come out, there’s some reasonable explanation as to how in light of that damaged document being our only source previously.

Likewise for myself and who I’m playing with.

Giving a bump for our amazing guild, [TYRS]. I joined a few months ago, and give it the highest praise. Amazing community of folks, mostly more mature gamers. Relaxed, welcoming, and easy-going – you won’t be tripping over egos in [TYRS]. We group up nightly for Teqqie at 8:00 PM EST and then usually hang out for dungeons/fractals/open world/pvp/wvw afterwards, whatever everyone’s in the mood for.

We’re working on building up our guild hall and want to continue bringing active and fun Tyrians into our mix! Feel free to mail me in game or message me here with questions.

Check us out at: http://tyrspaladium.shivtr.com

Hi Atma — I do sympathize with your frustrations regarding HoT as I believe many of us went through similar issues as well.

But I have to echo what many have said, I’m REALLY happy with the level of challenge HoT offers; it keeps me sharp, keeps me thinking about my build, and has improved me as a player. The maps are very difficult to navigate and I logged a ton of deaths figuring things out.

Definitely consider adapting your build for playing on your own. Wells are a huge mistake when looking at fighting individual jungle mobs. Take a ranged weapon and some glamours and personal stunbreaks, and even consider running more stealth if you’re struggling.

It sounds silly, but I took things back in my mind to when I started playing the game at launch as a little baby clueless engineer, in level 5 blue gear, fighting level 16-18 centaurs in Kessex Hills. I got rekt! But I learned to become more aware of what was around me, avoided taking on more than 1 mob at a time until I got better, learned how to avoid and counterplay certain attacks (projectile versus pbaoe, melee knockdown mobs versus ranged casters/archers, etc.) and slot utilities that helped with these things.

My best advice is to take things slow; the great thing about GW2 is you’re not in some crazy gear race where if you don’t maximize your day you’ve fallen behind. Learn the HoT mobs and their attack types and carry utilities that help you counter them. Start with a mix of cavalier/valk/knights gear or rabid/dire if you’re running condi until you get the hang of things. Try these and give yourself at minimum of a month to get used to playing in the new maps and the hugely different terrain and fighting styles required.

To me it’s an amazingly fun challenge, and I really hope all future expansions follow a similar model, and with maps containing the same incredible depth of detail! Good luck.

I’m very glad that reward tracks were added to WvW – I think that’s a great step in the right direction. However, I would like to see these tracks worked on a bit more to have a bit better rewards. The one thing that stands out to me is the ability to obtain a WvW-specific legendary backpiece. I don’t feel it’s right that it can be obtained through sPvP and PvE but not WvW.

I agree with a lot of what you have said. My opinion on the story has been largely positive as well.

I very much enjoy my guild in the story (DE 2.0), as it was mentioned, because I’ve been with these characters since the Living World updates when they were added (especially Taimi! Ever since Dry Top in Season 2, when the Inquest were going for her… and I was like “oh HELL no!” I feel very protective over her!). I love their voice acting and dialogue; they’re very well done.

I think my only real major issue with how the story in HoT is playing out is that I have a lot of mixed reactions about actually KILLING Mordremoth and Zhaitan. I remember some extended dialogue with Ogden Stonehealer in Season 2 (after the Glint’s Lair bit) where he talks with you more extensively about the dragons. And my sense from that dialogue was that the dragons serve a very important purpose; as we know, they absorb magic and seem to act as a balance for certain types of energies and magics (corresponding to their spheres of influence). Allowed to grow without a natural check like that, won’t there be some intense consequences? I’m no lore buff, so perhaps there’s good answers to these problems in Tyria’s history somewhere.

I guess I’m seeing things in a bit more of a big picture way than perhaps my character is. DE 2.0 is just consumed with fury and the need to kill Mordremoth (for understandable reasons) but is that truly the most desirable outcome? I’m hoping the Living World story that progresses from this point takes these things into consideration.

I’m really loving the HoT maps, side events and stories. I appreciate ANet’s great work on this expansion that I’m continuing to enjoy.

For that mission, I switched to more survivable gear (celestial on ele) but the #1 thing was having traits and utility skills that provided extra mobility to stay out of the traps. Speed and a bit of tankiness was the name of the game for me in that one.

I’m frustrated as well…

I tried doing this fight a week or so after the xpac launched, and it was horrendous… so I left it for awhile (and have been away from game a lot too, as I hate the new WvW desert BL and mechanics there… but that’s another story!) hoping it would be tweaked to change some of the ridiculous parts.

But still the penalty box is there, and the insanely buggy updraft/launch thing, which is bad enough trying to stay airborne, but then YOU HAVE ROCKS BEING FLUNG AT YOU TOO… and yeah, I do okay until the rock flinging, get knocked out of the air every time (as these things are so huge, and are really hard for me to dodge), and insta-die.

I SO wish they would either remove the penalty box, and make it so the boss wouldn’t reset on death (like many story dungeons, where if the NPCs are up still, they will “hold” it for a bit until you get back), OR change the glider mechanic so it’s a bit easier, removing the rock throwing.

This was really interesting to read, and of course really sad… definitely turns me off to the scribe thing. Sounds like something that would be completely out of reach for your average small group guild. I hope this system gets looked at.

Land of Cheese.2584:

“If Mordremoth can attack the Mother Tree in the Grove, it can attack anywhere!”

This guy SO needs to die! And the dude near him (maybe the same dude?) who says: “I will not let fear poison my heart. Not even in this forsaken wasteland.” gtfo! punts!

I’m finding the mentor tags annoying in most cases. I can both agree and disagree here, though. I think there’s some people with them who genuinely want to help (the person described above who led a thoughtful and detailed walkthrough on hero points in Maguuma for example) but it seems like most maps I’m in now are just covered with these tags, and I just find it’s incredibly cluttered and distracting. A majority of the time they’re not speaking either (perhaps just to their guild or group?). I think a select few are trying to use the tags to be helpful, but most are just putting it up to flaunt it or something?

I’m not sure what a good solution is here, but I would like to see these tags rethought a bit.

Have to chime in with my praise. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but I hope the complaints don’t make you guys think you need to backtrack and change a lot. I think the expansion released really well, and I’m happy there’s some systems in place that will take some work – masteries and elites. I have to giggle when I hear complaints of “grind.” HoT is nowhere even close to the grind I’ve experienced in other MMOs. Can’t wait to dig into things more this weekend. Loving it!

I feel like your friend should do some more work in the core game, and then make a more educated call. I have recently brought several of my friends into GW2 who are still pretty new, and even they’ve been at the game 2ish months now, and I still wouldn’t want them to attempt the difficulty of the expansion maps.

I probably would have felt just as frustrated as you and your friend if I had attempted something like Verdant Brink when I was new. I HATED jumping and the like when I started GW2, but after getting more experienced , I really enjoy it. I hope your friend can get to that point too, and give the game another chance. It’s really worth it, IMO!

Nothing wrong with being a casual player, either… imo you can get experienced and knowledgeable enough to excel at the content and really have fun with it even just playing at an easy-going pace. Enjoy & good luck!

I didn’t spend as many hours on DH as I did on Herald this weekend, but here are my thoughts:

- DH feels as though it is in a MUCH better place now. I especially enjoyed how the longbow played and the changes to it.
- I feel that traps seriously need to be able to be casted from range (perhaps add this as a trait option?) as I found placement to be a big issue with these. I wound up not taking them as a result. I also feel that at least one needs to be a stunbreak, whether on placement or trigger.
- I still feel incredibly weird playing the specialization. It just seems SO far outside the core guardian. I understand elite specs should bring something new to a class, but this just isn’t in the same realm, and I don’t see myself ever picking DH as a traitline once HoT drops, despite really liking longbow. The traps and the traitline itself just aren’t nearly as good as what core guard offers.

Overall though, nice changes and was much more fun to play.

It was a bit hard for me to get a good sense of Masteries this BWE, and I felt (for me) that I played a lot. Probably 6 hours a day on Friday-Sunday. I was able to unlock gliding and jumping mushrooms only though; I got perhaps 3/4 through unlocking updraft use, but didn’t finish it.

What made things tricky was finding that (I think?) the discoverable mastery points weren’t obtainable (the ones that look like a “commune” hero point in the main GW2 map) – I found a couple up in hidden spots and after interacting, I didn’t get extra points. I’m sure this was probably already mentioned elsewhere, apologies if so! Also, morale seemed a bit low in the beta maps I was in (after the issues with squad UI/raids) so there didn’t seem to be a big population of folks running events, which made progression feel sluggish to me.

Also, the event chains don’t feel quite as intuitive as say, the Silverwastes meta-event does, but I’m sure that’s just a matter of getting used to the flow of them. I did find myself wandering a lot and trying to figure out what stage the events were at, and where to go to find more. But the maps were really fun to explore, so I don’t see it as boring or annoying at all.

Maybe it’s just me, but I really like that it seems as though masteries will take some time to level up and progress through. I feel as though GW2 really needs a tiered achievement system like this that isn’t immediate-gratification oriented. Sooo many of my friends bail on the game a lot because level 80 is boring for them. For my part, I’m really happy the system is going to take some time and work to ascend through.

My verdict after the BWEs thus far is I’m really happy with masteries. I feel like I have a lot to figure out about them still, but this will be a fun project to work on during the expansion, and definitely something that will keep my friends engaged and playing! <3

Branden Gee.2150:

Sorry all, dust settled. Unfortunately not in the way we hoped. We’re calling it a night. Look towards Guild Wars 2 social media for updates. Thanks for sticking with us!

I know this isn’t the resolution you had hoped for, but I just want to thank the programmers for staying up SO late at night – must have been 2:00 AM or so on the west coast – trying to work this out. You guys rock, and I really appreciate your hard work! <3

Top 3:

1.) Herald. Revenant took a little while to fully interest me, but now I’m at the point where I’m considering making it my new main. So versatile – there’s tons of ways to play it effectively and I really like that.
2.) Chronomancer. I believe that due to it being a class/spec they have wanted to add to the game for many years, and a concept that’s floated around the dev team for awhile, chrono just feels really well polished and fine-tuned, and it just feels smooth and fun to play, and suits the class so well.
3.) Reaper. I had moved away from interest in the necro about a year ago, but this spec really has me interested in necro again. I’ll definitely be rolling one this BWE.

Undecided:

1.) Druid. While I’ve played healers in other MMOs, and enjoy healing, in GW2 its place is very unclear at this point. Once we see the raid content and what it will require, I think we’ll have a better understanding of this. Until then, as much as I really do love healing, I’m not sure how this spec will fit into the bigger picture. I’ll definitely be trying it this BWE to test the skills and feel of it, though!
2.) Berserker. I feel very meh on this one. I enjoy playing my warrior now, but can’t quite get into this spec. Some of the enhanced burst skills are pretty cool, but I’m uncertain on the torch and the overall feel of it as a damage spec.

At this point, no way:

1.) Tempest. I’m just so sad for ele at the moment, to be honest. Those overload animations just make me want to cry. Recycled and/or ridiculous looking. I really wanted this spec to feel (and look!) much more imposing and strong. I think the changes (especially to Rebound) look promising, but I’m not feeling hopeful at this point.
2.) Dragonhunter. To me, it seems like this spec was created literally as a plot point – to support Braham picking up Eir’s bow to avenge her in the story. It doesn’t seem to support the core class at all, and it annoys me that I think it was developed for that purpose.

Ehecatl.9172:

“GG Anet, you just deleted all condi builds. With the druid’s crazy good regen and resistance uptime they can basically stand in a condi field and STILL BE GAINING HEALTH as they do it! That plus their fully automatic heat-seeking bird that can’t be kited because of their OP Taunt makes the druid completely untouchable to condi builds WHILE STILL PUTTING OUT INSANE DAMAGE. This sort of zero counterplay bullkitten is totally unacceptable. And before anyone says “LOLGGL2P SCRUB KILL THE BIRD” YOU KITTEN CAN’T. If you target the bird THEY JUST CHANGE ASPECTS AND BAM! Bird is full kitten healed! Not to mention that with a glyph build the druid basically has 25 KITTEN SKILLS at any given time PLUS the pet. They are even more versatile than D/D eles and EVEN MORE IMMUNE TO CONDI PRESSURE. I’d rather fight a kitten Diamond Skin D/D ele than a druid. Calling it now, druid is the new D/D ele but with a NO SCOPE ONE HIT KILL UNAVOIDABLE TAUNT PET that it can use every 15 kitten seconds."

Ehecatl, you are a genius… I am in tears…!

And everyone else as well, this thread is just so much win. Thanks for the laughs you guys, bahaha. <3

I remember hearing the sound guys were going to rework the warhorn audio (I feel like this was when they were on Points of Interest? don’t quote me, but think that’s where I heard it) so I’m guessing this is working as intended. =/

This is really surprising as the audio guys do such an awesome job normally. but this is really just godawful. foghorn + out-of-tune brass section + bad gas = new warhorn audio. Please consider re-do’ing!

Hey all~

Apologies if this has been stated elsewhere – I did some searches and couldn’t find anything recent about this issue. Is anyone else noticing that your invisible mode seems to “reset” back to online status a lot the last few days? It’s happening when I log out and back in, and sometimes when I change maps. They had improved it so the mode would persist even after logout.

Anyone heard what might be going on with this?

Hello!

I’m posting on behalf of a few friends of mine who are recently getting into GW2. We have a small guild that we rep mostly as a bank guild/way of staying together, but I’m interested in finding an active PvX guild that’s more PvE, but with some involvement in WvW, preferably based on Henge of Denravi. Would love a group that runs dungeons and is willing to teach new players in them, and that does guild missions on a regular schedule. A flexible rep policy would be best. There would be 2-3 of us joining, with possibly a couple more down the road. I’m on the Tarnished Coast server, so a megaserver-friendly guild would be great.

Please message me in game if you’re recruiting – thank you!

Gileed.7509:

Just though I’d post it here, there is a GvG tournament that includes 4 guilds from each server in NA T2. It is starting in a week. More info in this spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sElOhnBtDiITLFdi8oyl4caua8ciaS8039BaFxT8E60/edit#gid=1845799049 If you really want rPvP to be a thing that ANET supports show your support for this!

Awesome!! I will definitely be tuning into the streams for this.

Bumping for my most awesome fellow TC’er, Rai and [GG] – I’m an NA player and don’t get to run with Rai as much as I’d like, but him and his crew are seasoned, skilled, and friendly WvW’ers who can help show the ropes to newbies, or offer a great group to run with for the seasoned vet.

If you play during OCX, and are looking for a WvW guild on TC (or considering transferring! <3) definitely look Rai and [GG] up. You won’t be sorry!

Odinzu.9645:

Introducing an official format of larger scale pvp, you will see a significant group of people return to play consistently once news has reached them- as well as a population boom to the existing community from other areas of the game. It’s pretty hard not to enjoy team-work in PvP.

+1 to the OP, and many of the ideas suggested. I encourage the community to keep this discussion active. Excellent post above by Odinzu, and I quote this section especially because I personally know of at least 20 friends who have left the game in annoyance at the lack of support we’ve (the WvW/GvG community) received, but would come back to GW2 right away if ArenaNet would lend its support to the MASSIVE section of its community that prefers GvG and WvW as its favorite game mode.

I do respect players that prefer sPvP, and I’m glad that it’s grown and changed so much over the years, but in my case, I don’t like dueling or the 5v5 model, and vastly prefer the larger group dynamics that occur in a 15v15 – GW2’s combat mechanics are SO suited to it!

We have wanted support of GvG/15v15+ for years… PLEASE consider implementing at minimum a proper instanced map for us, and additionally I would love seeing tournaments and rewards as well.

Thank you to the sPvP players, PvE players, and roamers/1v1’ers that have come to this thread to show support of the OP as well <3

I go to EOTM to either wind down/chill out, or to level my lowbies. I love WvW, and don’t want to level in PvE! So I do like that guilds like [EotM] exist to backcap/ktrain the map. That being said, I’d never want there to be NO fights, it’s most fun when it’s a mixture of backcaps AND fights. The one thing I hate in there is when a side takes defending wayyyy overly seriously. Just doesn’t make sense to me when there’s zero point to it (besides getting a supply drop in home BL) and everything resets so quickly.

No doubt this is a YMMV situation as noted above. It’s really about what personally appears to you about the quirks of each race. If the “smallness” of weapons bothers you about Asura, I think Sebrent’s points above are important ones to take into consideration before you invest a lot of time into leveling one – as it might bug you more and more.

Personally – my mesmer is Asura and I absolutely love her. I use light Twilight Arbor armor skins on her and with the dye combos I have, she looks all spiked-out and sharp, like a porcupine you wouldn’t want to mess with! I just love Asura in general – their attitude, their story (although I seriously hate the experimenting on live Sylvari thing that came out in our backstory in Season 2), and their look, despite the sized-down weapons, armor, and backpieces.

As a TC’er who has played with Ace and [INVC] week after week, I have come to admire them and their against-all-odds attitude as they brought the pain to heavy-SEA coverage servers time after time. [INVC] is one of Tarnished Coast’s greatest assets and they’re an absolute joy to raid with in Mumble – tons of good times and laughs to be had. If you’re a SEA-based player looking for a new guild and home, look no further than Tarnished Coast and Invictus Imperium – you won’t be disappointed!

Yeah seems totally random. About 700 ranks collectively over my toons, and I received 1 ascended ring at around rank 40 on an alt. Maybe 1 or 2 rares besides this, otherwise 100% blue/green.

Chris.3290:

TC has long been a very worthy opponent and frequently gracious in victory and/or in defeat.

The people who were like that, the people who built TC’s reputation for never-say-die (no matter numbers, coverage, or whatever); are keeping very quiet these days.

Being an old-time TC’er, and I like to hope one of the folks who’s helped us along the way, I can say that we’re not quiet because of “no one being in VOIP” (not true) and “no cooperation” (also not true) — I can’t speak for other old time TC’ers, but I’m “quiet” because a vast majority of the stuff on the WvW forums has been complete and utter garbage to read for a long, long time. It practically makes my head hurt to process it, I don’t know how you PvF’ers do it, but if it’s fun for you, hey! Go for it!

I’m not losing my mind that we’re often outmatched by SoS now. I think it’s great that we’ve got a solid T2! And I remember the days of having TCBL full capped by both BG and SoR, on their respective climbs into T1, when we couldn’t even get outside our spawns. And there’s tons of us left from those days too, and we’ll keep coming out regardless of the blobs, the coverage gaps, or the odds. Bring on the fights!

Nina… wow, just… wow. I really sympathize. Rogoth too. I don’t consider you whining/crying at all. There really needs to be a means of reporting this accurately and actions need to be taken. It’s negatively effecting dozens and dozens of folks’ gameplay. We’ve had that happen on Tarnished Coast a couple of times but nothing quite like that treb picture. Unreal.

Bump for [ZN] – I played alongside them during their time on TC and they were some of the best and nicest players I’ve known in WvW and I miss them terribly here. If you’re on BG and looking for a guild, check these guys out, you won’t be disappointed.

Need an officer/contact from the Maguuma guild [EVOH] to PM me/mail me in game please, thanks.

edit: Heard from EVOH, thank you. <33

Tyrion.5764:

Like i say last week im goin to let you win this match TC Remember im let you win

Good to know that you’re the one and only deciding factor on FA whether or not TC is “allowed” to win.

Big thanks to [GWAM], [uA], [NV], [HOPE], and [RET] especially for the fights – I know we don’t field many a night (usually 15-20) but we’ve had a blast. Also thanks to [PYRO] and [Ark] – haven’t been online for many fights with Mags but always great practice getting to go head to head with you guys. Have a great rest of the matchup guys!

Tyrion.5764:

[CERN] who are you ? oh wait i remember dont you are the guys who try to treb our trebs in SMC and die over and over again ? xD, and by the time CERN got to EB, BOMB was in half of our forces ^^ . You just need to ask STUN what happen to them the entire night

We died, and ran, and died some more. To be clear though – our guild commander was doing number checks the whole night and had at most 38 on him at peak (including militia) with only about 15 guildies among the 38. The map was queue’ed for about the first hour but no queue after that (until CERN mapped in). We had a bad guild/overall turnout and it was at times a discouraging night for us – but we did our best and held our third together.

Good luck FA and Mags – hope it’s a fun match for all.

Much respect to [lion] from SoS. I was one of the handful of sentries trying to hold TCBL together from this early morning NA until now. You guys are great at being annoying! Really though, nice havoc you guys run. Had us chasing you around like mad.

Looking forward to some fun fights this week Mags!

Good luck all.

From this TC’er, just want to say it’s nice to see BG again. <3 Already had some nice 1v1’s (I don’t pretend to be an amazing pvp’er but it’s fun practice) with you guys and nearly always there’s a /bow or /salute if I get stomped. I know there’s bad on every server (us included) but your player base remains respectful and enjoyable for me to play against (yeah, yeah, I know, I do like things to be nice lol). No offense to SoR, but just bad memories of being spawn camped and sat on after dying, but of course this was many months ago. Here’s to good fights with you too.

Looking forward to a good matchup!

Absolutely – wonderful idea – I really hope the WvW team looks at this and implements…

Sista.1925:

One day TC, I hope you own up to your spawn camping tendencies, we all do it at times. Just you seem to enjoy it every day, guess a huge lead in points isn’t enough for ya. Are there other exits, of course, we know they exist. Just saying, be honest with yourselves.

Oh but again this must be 30+ pugs I’m watching…apologies.

~From a concerned person.

I dunno. Everyone on TC seems to have their own take. Personally, I hate spawn camping, because I’ve been spawn camped, and had my BL 100% enemy capped, and I know how crappy it feels. So it’s not something I think is cool and if it’s being done, I won’t participate. From this TC’er anyway, sorry you’re stuck at the sucky end of this. Hoping you guys have a more fun match next week. Best of luck FA and KN.

I’m embarrassed by the attitude displayed on this last page. Flashypants, that video really sucks and for what it’s worth, I’m sorry. I know the commander involved apologized, but the people who took advantage of the mesmer portal aren’t entirely “PUGS” or militia, but are people from some guilds on TC who should know better. Very sorry you guys had to deal with that and the spawn camping that came after. Feeling pretty ashamed of some of the reactions displayed here too. I know in the heat of the moment you wouldn’t think to “perfectly” report the right people – you were just irritated and did what you could.

Speaking for myself, I have tons of fun in WvW that doesn’t involve zergballs. There are many, many others here who do as well. It’s certainly not “the TC version of wvw fun.”

KSQK.3485:

Even so, Kaineng is still considered to be the worst WvW server because we kinda lack effective strategy dealing with zergs that greatly outnumber us, the lack of people participating in Kaineng WvW, the inability to control our own borderland (heck our kittening garrison got captured numerous times), commanders who have no kittening idea what they are doing or the priorities of controlling important locations (if the garrison or the main EB keep is captured, retaking it is the highest priority no matter what); and of course, Ajax Blue.

I’m planning to transfer away from Kaineng because Kaineng makes it really difficult to do WvW map exploration which I really need for 100% map completion for one character. And considering that Kaineng is stuck on the color red like three to four times in a row, it kinda shows how much fail Kaineng is in WvW.

I’d never say Kaineng was the worst, not by a long stretch. Not sure if you were around earlier today (maybe 6 or 7 hours ago) but wowww…. we were trying HARD to take KN’s keep in EB – probably for about 2 hours, but your players weren’t having any of it. We trebbed, and trebbed, and trebbed some more, made 3 or 4 pushes in to wipe AC’s in inner around the lord’s room (wiping over and over) and pushed several more times just to get obliterated by you guys. Bravo, very good show. I think FA had taken your garrison in KNBL at that point and quite a bit of your BL, so your militia was hanging on with everything they had. I remember getting steamrolled by your little Asura commander several times.

Anyway, definitely something to be proud of. Up to you if you’re not happy where you are, but afaik, with the new matchup system, colors are definitely random since a server can land anywhere in that grouping. For example against SoS and CD, TC was blue, not green.

Definitely cool seeing I was the 3rd post in this thread way back at launch.

She’s grown up a bit since then! Figured I’d repost as she looks now. Some cool looking characters on these pages!

Furiousbeard.7602:

I hope RE on Kain are also turning siege around, wasting supply in towers and keeps, dropping trebs and golems at gates, giving weakness reports to TC, not using anything other than the #1 skill and running away from all fights.

This would make the most sense.

lolol. Love your posts. <3

@alcopaul: All I’ll say is from what I know, [RE] members left on KN have been catching flak in WvW chats, getting nasty pm’s, and have overall been treated pretty poorly before this match and during. So it’s really not a shock to me that they have failed to have a presence during your last couple matchups. I’m sorry if this match sucks for you and some of your server mates. But regardless, tons of your WvW’ers are bringing a lot to the table this week and making it a fun match imo.

Missed yooouuu FA! <3 Fun as always!

Good luck next week SoS and CD. I’ve read the posts about spawn camping and feeling steamrolled, and I really am sorry if this week has sucked for you guys. I’ve been WvW’ing for TC for a long time and trust me, I’ve been in the same position. I know how rotten it can feel. I also admire that you guys don’t want pity and I respect that – I’m not offering pity at all, just saying I’ve totally been there. Some of the negativity in this thread has sucked, and I just want to say I hope both of you get a match that is much more fun and balanced next week. From my end it’s been a pleasure facing you! Best of luck.

I miss FA. Though I’ll miss SoS a lot if we part ways next week. And I’m dying to try facing JQ. So ideally:

TC/FA/JQ

Would also enjoy TC/DB/JQ or TC/FA/DB. Thanks SoS for these last couple weeks. /respect.

Keep it up SOS! You, much like FA, have some very good small 2-5 person havoc squads that were very effective on TCBL this morning. I suicided into more camp-capping-rings than I’d like to count! I’ve not had a chance to log hours in EB so far this matchup, but your EB guilds/militia deserve massive props – you guys seem to be consistently dug into your 1/3. /salute to both SOS and FA. =)