Guild Wars 2

It wouldn’t be a decent farewell without your comment, Vekko.

And it wouldn’t be a decent farewell without a sentimental goodbye video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRm02oESVLY

To honour one of the last match-up threads and to wish you all cozy happy holidays, I thought I might as well leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Yo0RfGs-c
Hope you enjoy!

Not from this match-up, but still an advertisement for portal bombs. Bring them back! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpmCv0ly98c

Congratulations Piken (my old love) and thanks to both Piken and Augury for the nice fights. Here is an impression of yesterday’s raid. Hope you enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzyrk1tw68

I’m enjoying this match-up so far and we had a very nice reset, so I made a video. Bit silly, but hey, that’s how we roll. Hope you enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygjfsiI0H1A

This looks like a promising match-up. I for one had a blast on yesterday’s reset (part of the footage can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cc6kpqq90 ). So have a fun week y’all!

Yesterday, we visited the Eternal Battlegrounds. I still have a weak spot for this map, so I made a video. Hope you enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9MEqDmRh6Q

Hey,
since we are again matched up against Augury (yay!), I thought I may as well put it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQInIx7e7e4
Enjoy and thanks for the fights!

All the GvGs, all the scrims. This matchup is nice!

Video with 3 rounds of the Scnd vs VoTF GvG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajQczN5igE

On yeah, and have some RP (at least an attempt of it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2HQjHGugOk

Hope you enjoy!

Good day for WvW yesterday. So much fun. Tough battle. So I made a video. Have fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VXSO51lPc

Btw, thanks WAR for the nice fights! So much fun. You made today a good day for WvW too.

This thread is too short, so have a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ8GL8mG6Jw

Dear Vizunah,
it would be awefully nice if you could tell your rangers and necros not to exploit the game mechanics to get pets and minions into the keep of BB on Eternal Battlegrounds to destroy siege (happened half an hour ago). Seemes kinda unfair. Just saying.

Oh, the horror, the horror! All is fair in love and war they say. But convincing the local wild life to attack Bravost is just too much, Deso and Vizu. Oh, the horror!
http://imgur.com/UoND7Nl
http://imgur.com/lPHZwKS
http://imgur.com/fjA8XZ2

Spiuk.8421:

Lisellen.7048:

a) The assumption that WvW is meant for defending and attacking towers etc. is too hasty for my taste. Obviously it’s a big part, but considering the fact that the maps are designed with open fields in between objectives it’s fair to assume that open battles are also a huge part of this aspect of GW2.

World vs. World (WvW) is PvP combat that involves hundred of players. Three huge teams —each representing a server, or world—battle for control over objectives on four massive maps in week-long matches.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/pvp/

Is says ‘PvP combat’ which means that the intention also is to fight each other.

Yeah, this thread has turned a little messy and I don’t want to add fuel to the fire, but what I will say is not meant to be offensive, though it will be critizism nevertheless.

a) The assumption that WvW is meant for defending and attacking towers etc. is too hasty for my taste. Obviously it’s a big part, but considering the fact that the maps are designed with open fields in between objectives it’s fair to assume that open battles are also a huge part of this aspect of GW2.

b) Since all of us have the option to form a WvW oriented guild or to join one I think it’s also fair to assume that WvW is not all about blobs. Furthermore, when looking at the character trait system ANet is using in GW2, you can see that there are a lot of traits that are meant to benefit players who are fighting at your side, same applies to a lot of utilities. These synergy effects become somewhat pointless if you fight in a group with more than 50 people, because a) you don’t need them if you have the quanitity on your side and b) the effect is restricted to a few players. Don’t take me wrong: I don’t say that someone should be in a WvW oriented guild when fighting in WvW. I know that there are servers that don’t have big guilds, want to do good pointwise nevertheless and are therefore ‘forced’ to join the main force (aka ‘blob up’). Of course for a person like myself who is mostly running around WvW in a guild group with 25 people, it is often frustrating to get trampled over with only being able to use ‘1’. But that’s mainly the fault of the weak technical circumstances that ANet provides. Guilds have (some people seem to forget that) a huge advantage on their side because they can rely on the synergy effects, which a ‚blob‘ can’t.

c) It all depends on what you identify with. Do you identify more with the server? Or do you identify more with a guild? Please note that I say ‚more‘ not ‚absolutely‘ because the normal case is that you identify with both to a certain degree. From the standpoint of the latter, it seems kind of odd that a guild would mingle with another guild when it is not necessary (as it has been said in this threat and I agree that it sometimes is necessary to work together when important objectives have to be protected), as one would assume that an organized WvW guild has trained together and balanced their classes etc. and therefore doesn’t have to rely on superior numbers.

In general I don’t understand why people in this thread say that somebody complained about blobbing. Nobody complained about blobbing, but some have expressed their incomprehension about the fact that guilds mingled together when it wasn’t necessary. That are two different things.

ice ice baby.6083:

Maybe in BB case this isn’t on purpose and is 2 guilds coming together which is unavoidable sometimes. (Also happens on SFR) 1 of your guilds didn’t run away why would ours?

Of course it isn’t always possible to avoid another guild group when you’re running on the same map. However, a lot of guilds don’t engage when two other guilds fight each other. In the matchup between Piken, Augury and Baruch a few weeks ago it was normal. And why would you engage in a ‘guild fight’ (especially in an open field situation where it’s not about a tower attack or defence)? If you are in an organized, fairly big guild, I think the main purpose is to have challenging and nice fights, not to trample the enemy like a stampede. For that you don’t need an organized guild.

Anyways, salutations go out to Option [Opt]. You are kitten brave!

Just had a nice duel with a d/d ele from [VVV] (Augury), which was unfortunately interrupted by another player. Just wanted to give probs where they are due and say how much I enjoy this matchup.