Guild Wars 2

I believe that TC will do ok in T2. We won’t win the tier, but I don’t think we are going to end up with 0 ppt at any point like what happened when SoR and BG were on their way up the tiers. There are a couple of reasons for this, first being that there are no orb bonuses any longer. Second is that we have learned a lot since then.

I foresee a 3rd place finish, but I am hoping that we do well enough that we don’t drop back into T3 the following week. While TC is a full server, I doubt we have the WvW around the clock coverage that BG and SoR has.

The part that I’m worried about is how lax TC has gotten over the last few weeks. It’s been pretty easy, no offense to FA and CD, their populations just aren’t there to challenge us a majority of the day. We’ve gotten to where no one is watching enemy movements and no one’s staying at keeps and towers watching out. There have been several times lately that I’ll walk into a tower of ours and there isn’t a single piece of siege placed. We’ve been able to get away with it these last few matches, but that won’t work in T2. We can’t just zerg around and take any objective we wish and go on our merry way, we’ll have to take an objective and make sure we can hold it against all odds before we move on. We’ll have to starve enemy supply before we take a keep or tower. We’ll have to make sure our keeps and towers are getting supply. All of this has been low on our priority list recently, and hopefully we remember how to do it right next week.

Hmm, I need to have a talk with them then, because my waffles this morning were awful.

Stonesolid.2706:

I’m okay with being the bad guys as long as we can keep up the absolutely amazing fights night after night. We’ve found a great place together as enemies in T3.

Bring it on TC you dirty roleplaying pirate carebears and YB you third-rate smelly dog-mule supply running beasts of burden.

Best post ever! I wish I could send a message now every time someone killed me in WvW that said, “You just killed a dirty roleplaying pirate carebear from TC.”

Hey CD, after last week, I think it is apparent that we don’t need an alliance to deal with you. Good luck in your T4 matchup next week. Don’t get too bored PvDooring everything during your peak hours, I’m sure it’ll be more fun and you won’t have to come up with any conspiracy theories as to why you are losing.

I’m really tired of hearing people complain about the jump puzzles being camped. I mean, really? The jump puzzles are located on a PvP map, what did you think would happen? If you aren’t prepared and willing to fight your way and perhaps even die trying, you shouldn’t even be there. Complaining about people fighting for dominance over the chest is like complaining that the other team is defending their keep instead of letting you flip it. I mean, if there’s no risk in trying to get what’s in the chest, ANet might as well just send it to you for free, right?

I had this same problem with the 310.33 beta driver, so I rolled back to the 306.23. It hasn’t happened since I rolled back.

Well, I’ll admit, several weeks ago I posted in the WvW forums about how frustrated I was about spawn camping. I was new to WvW and didn’t know a lot about it. As I’ve played more and learned more, I’ve come to the conclusion that while it is frustrating to have siege set up right outside your spawn area, there are many ways to overcome it.

Phantom’s advice is sound, when faced with overwhelming force, use some tactics. If worse comes to worse and you don’t have enough people to do it, go elsewhere, there are 4 maps to play on. Try to find the one with the most people on.

I have to admit hearing all this complaining about orb bonuses, spawn camping, server transfers, server rankings, and theives and mesmers are OMG OP WTF!!!???? is getting ridiculous. SoR is playing the same game we are, just much much better. We should be giving props where they are due, we got outplayed, plain and simple. Good luck to SoR in T2!

For TC, it’s looking like TC/HoD/CD matchup for us next. Somehow, we are moving up a rank to be the top 3rd tier server even though we are being beat pretty handily by SoR. Of course, HoD is fairing just as well at ET is currently, so it’ll be another 1v1 match between us and CD. If server strengths stay as they are, it’s looking like TC might be bouncing in between T3 and T2.

Props to SoR, you guys are tough. I hope that we can learn some valuable lessons from the strategies you all have used against us for our future matches. Good luck in T2, I’m pretty sure you’ll have a much bigger challenge there and I’m interested to see how you do.

ET, I hope you guys can get something going again, even if it’s in the lower tiers. I can imagine that losing a vast majority of your coverage and WvW population has made playing at these upper tiers to be less than enjoyable. Major props to those of you who are still on the field taking what you can.

I’m very disappointed about having to form a group to finish my PERSONAL story mission as well. If I wanted to run dungeons, I’d have done more than 1 of them at this point.

No, FA won’t willfully give up the orb. They don’t care that it was hacked. They are defending it like they earned it.

I think the downed state is a good mechanic that just needs a little work. Mostly, when dead, your health should decline if no one is there to rez you, just as Slamz.5376 stated earlier. Dead should be, well, mostly dead.

I’m sure Metalripper.5406 would still be on the battlefield if his team were losing like TC and FA, so cut him some slack…

Maderas.9741:

You may have trouble recruiting new players; TC has been consistently full every time I’ve checked over the past two days, even during American and Euro off hours.

What Maderas is trying to say is that the server is full, not the queues. I have a couple friends who can’t transfer over to TC, they’ve been trying day and night for a few days now, because it’s full. It’d be doubtful that an entire WvW guild, let alone 2 or 3 of them, would be able to come over at this point.

If you go about the effort of sacking a keep or a tower, then you had better be able to defend it while it is not upgraded. If you can’t do that, then you really shouldn’t complain about this tactic being used against you.

Props to my TC brothers and sisters who held it.

So, here’s the two things that supposedly have possibly occurred in this match:

1) A single person calls for an alliance, and two servers are wholly complicit for the destruction of another.

OR

2) Absolutely no alliance, it’s simple strategy to go after the team with the most points in this early stage of the game.

Now, my question to EB is this. What are you going to do about it? It really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things which of the above are true. And truthfully, neither scenario is likely 100% accurate. But, how you handle your present situation is what really matters.

Maybe if EB didn’t spend so much time in this thread throwing out conspiracy theories and more time in W3….

I’ll admit that I am not running W3 with a guild. However, when I get into the map, I ask “What’s the plan?” I look for a group of people to run around with and do my best to not get caught out alone. However, tonight, there didn’t seem to be much of a centralized plan, and there seemed to be few people on my team. We were simply outnumbered and there was little we could do about it.

I have loved playing GW2 since the 3rd BWE. It has been an amazing change of pace from WoW and SWTOR for me.

I’ve had fun running AC a couple times, though the first time was with quite a lot of dying. But I came out of that first run still feeling like I accomplished something. It was a hard run, but it wasn’t like a WoW raid where you can spend weeks beating your head against the wall trying to beat a HM boss. I can’t wait to run CM and the dungeons that follow it.

So, I’ve done several nights worth of W3 as well. Overall, the experience has been enjoyable. However, after tonight, I suspect I won’t be queuing up for it until the next round starts. I really tried to stick with it tonight, but no matter where I turned, I ran into a wall of enemies. My team was so outnumbered that it was ridiculous . I managed to log a single kill tonight. Tonight ranked at about the worst MMO experience I’ve ever had.

I’m not going to sit here and say, “The other team(s) are cheating!” or “Population balance sucks!” or “Fix your stupid game, ANet!” because that’s not my goal here. My goal is to simply let ANet know that tonight, while playing their game, I told myself, “I’m not doing this again.”