Guild Wars 2

I don’t mean to imply GvG = WvW, I’m just saying that there is now a very small amount of players, like Wales compared to Russia, that play GvG’s because AN are not feeding them anything, literally NOTHING since game relase except for a big arena.

May I point out, the game name is GUILD WARS. Seriously? No Guild v Guild features at all? Come on AN.

I understand PvE maps as WvW maps would be an enormous update + take a lot of work. I also understand that they’re losing revenue, but thats why it’s even more crucial to developed more big features. Plus they’re hitting Asian Countries which they usually do well on so hire some minions and get something done!

Hey,

Ok basically I wanted to target two points here.

1) The fact that WvW has a TINY player base compared to PvE, especially real WvW (which is fights>PPT) – which then results in a lot of patches ignoring that loyal WvW playerbase and giving living world or sPvP rewards/patches. I mean, the last big patch we had was ranks + the lake removal in borderlands resulting in the destruction of the quaggan population residing there!!!
I think you can literally count on two hands the amount of good WvW guilds out there, most, if not all, in the gold/silver league such as TA / Dius / DF / TuP etc.

2) The fact that a lot of people, unless they’re focusing on world completion, don’t actually make the most of what are incredibly designed maps. I mean, stunning views are being missed completely because a LOT of players just want to skip the grind and get to gaming as a level 80. Some people don’t even see a lot of the maps because they can never afford to buy legendary and WvW/sPvP their way up, or even craft.

WHY is PvE and WvW like a world apart, why can they not be more entwined to balance out the player-bases as, lets face it, WvWvW is pretty unique, and was, I thought, Gw2’s trump card. Hell, I only play the game because of WvW.

I’d like to mention edge of the mists was a good idea in my opinion but handled in the wrong way. What I mean by this is that I believe AN should have made Edge of the Mists use the current WvW maps + bring WvW to Krytan, to Divinities Reach, to Burnign steppes etc. how AWESOME would it be not just to have different opponents every week but to have different maps too! Think about all the unused space! Think about Divinities reach being split into 3 sections + being fought over, or 3 abandoned castles in far shiverpeaks suddenly being used and fought over etc.

I just think by introducing more maps (in the form of EoTM) you#’re just making the gap between PvE and WvW/sPvP even bigger.

I also believe, as does most of my guild, that the concept of GvG’s are dying. You brought us the big arena in Obsidian Sanctum which is great but thats it! GvG has existed since the game release and thats all we have so far! If you look at the amount of guilds that wanted to GvG closer to game release and now, there has been a huge decrease, lots of guilds disbanded + interest lost.

Please try and remember the little guys!
Thanks!
Hawkeii – Gandara EU

Hmm well, it was an Asura from TEO with a commander tag :P

It’s a very good point, and I agree in a sense. but points are ponts no matter if they come from the weaker server or the strongest server. so i suppose a certain commander may think, ok…well…its clear we arent going to win this week, i think ill focus on the weakest server to stop their gain completely and put as many points between us and then to make our server rank points stay the same, if not, gain a bit more. If the weakest server has 30k points to 200k and 300k, even if they were bottom tier for a month, they would NOT gain points, neither would he 1st and 2nd place servers lose any.

But I suppose what I was getting at was perhaps the commanders picking on he weakest shouldn’t be called cowardly or idiots on forums, just informed of the post above sooner :P

The issue that you have is that there is never any truce between servers, neither should there be. Another problem, that I can see happening is that during the reset, it’s anyone’s game. But later during the week when it’s clear who is winning, the weakest server will often focus on the server in 2nd place in the hope of taking it off them. Whilst the strongest server will also hit the server in second place because they are he biggest threat. So I suppose it’s not hard for a commander to decide if they are getting focused, they need to scrape as man points as the can. It depends on the situation and what numbers you have in comparison to theirs.

Apologies to the TEO commander/leader I tea bagged yesterday in white side keep on EB. I just spotted you were attacking it and managed to zerg you at keep lord just n time. saw u were low of guildies, mainly relying on randoms, but then again, so were we! Was more of a hello from ICON if anything :P

Was a good night night for us and we ended up claiming 95% of EB whilst upgrading our territory to the max.

I read the 1st post and just felt I had to post this. I agree that 100g is, probably unintentionally, too easy to acquire, so its now not unusual to see 8 commanders on one borderland….The 100g doesn’t reflect commander skills sadly, and there has been one occasion where my guild decided to spend a while scouting all the different commanders on our server.

We helped a commander who was in a golem by making a portal from the top of a cliff to the bottom, he then proceeded to walk past it, jump off the cliff, half killing the golem, take the portal back up, jump off again and die in it..
This wasn’t him trolling, after I questioned him, he thought he’d be able to heal it back to full HP after. (quite possibly the funniest moment I’ve had in WvW)

What I propose: Keep the commander system for now, its too late to drastically change it and not upset some folks. But employ a server ranking system for WvW. So have 15 positions available and voted for by the server with a requirement of X amount of WvW achievements; 13 High commanders (Yellow C.ICONs) 2 War councillors + 1 Warlord (Red icons).

I don’t understand the argument about going for the weaker target…
Surely its up to either server who they want to go for. If the gain is 200 / 100 / 20 for example, I don’t see the crime in the 100 gain server finishing off the 20, or focusing on them to scrape as many points as they can. If theres a massive difference in class between servers, thats the matchup system to blame, not the commanders tactics? If theres free points to be won, I know i’d take them lol.

I think ilesyt is complaining because he RoS isn’t getting any slack despite being bottom for an age. But hey, its part of the game. RoF hasn’t been zipping up the ranks since day one either, but we stuck with it too..

Echoing what Darkstorn said, ICON + TEO have wiped each other several times, resulting in a lot of loot for both sides, but we haven’t broadcasted it on forums. But hey, never mind.

But all in all, the only 3 WSR guilds I’ve seen making an impact were TEO, WAR and NE. And some good fights have been seen with said guilds. I think we’ll be saying goodbye only for short while unless we’re lucky enough to keep our heads above the surface in T7. We’ll see, keep it up!

mihopoulas.6307:

Dear RoF, im Really sorry that everytime you put a Waypoint we take your keep the same day, also i dont think we need a garrison with waypoint we are 160k points front xD. And if everytime that we were taking your garrison – bay – hills we posted here it would be the topic with the most posts lol ^^. Cya in 2 weeks

Rubbing salt in wound, but I think this was provoked by Xilius… Xilius…don’t make me slap you or ill get thermid to do it next time you guys meet up! Despite the huge lead UW have, it’s nice to keep a positive atmosphere incase of future meetings, so I’d ask both sides to keep it clean

A shame, I recognise you’re name from previous meetings Herr Der Fried. Nice to see familiar faces who stick to, and contribute to their server. Apologies for the lack of competition – I think we’re trying our best but evidently its not enough to keep you in this tier

With nearly every exploit, its the actions of one player, the server can’t be to be for one of its 1000 members actions. Neither should it be ignored, each server should just report any exploits they see and post on forums to keep an eye out. I think you will be hard pressed to find a server on which none of its players have exploited.

Enjoying some good fights so far from both servers. Highlight was the ICON/Mors/PI zerg that took down bay outer and just spent around an hour fighting as a zerg inside. We wiped XT + WIC a few times until finally we were overcome by a sneaky ballista on the bridge and an organised push from both guilds. What started out as a training session, became a very fun few hours. Both guilds have been seen causing havoc and generally if we’re called to help reinforce a keep, its XT or WIC taking it.

Keep the good fights coming

The alliance was created and formed by guilds interested in WvW which is a form of PvP not PvE, so please do not be offended if you were not approached LOVE. That being said, any guild in ROF which plays a part in WvW no matter how small is more than welcome to join the alliance and share their opinion on upcoming WvW fixtures / tactics etc.

Greetings from Ring of Fire. No, we havent really increased in numbers but we came up with a pretty nice strategy that gave us a good start. ICON (the biggest WvW guild on ROF) recently suffered a big loss of members who wished to start their own WvW guild called NP. Its not nessesarily a bad thing though as both guilds are still in good relations and working together alongside other guilds such as XIII, PI, TaG, NL, BOSS etc. NP, ICON and XIII are probably the guilds you’ll see most often.oi

Great fights, ICON and XIII held AG’s bay for a while and pushed out 3? zergs at the keep lord whilst NP and PI and randoms took over EB. Sadly you eventually finished us off.

Enjoying the matchup so far, keep it interesting!

Eithet way this is a recruitment post so id appreciate keeping it clean and your bias opinions to yourself.

Thanks for feedback and big lol at the whiteside post. We make a stupid amount of golems cuz its funny and we’re a wealthy guild and as for the D- in fighting, we are currently sending all of you to the last tier and it wasny via diplomacy

Please stop pointing fingers, there are bugs everywhere and as someone earlier said its not the server planning to set it up in a bug zone – its a few individuals. We don’t blame you for using it if some kitten set it up, but please discourage it best you can and report it because some day another server might use it against you.

It is really a great place to have fun and do some seriously organisrd WvW at the same time…..what are you waiting for????

Errr 5-6 i believe….

Watch this guild recruitment video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BDmCNfyrbHE

That is all…

I believe it was ALRM that left ROF for whiteside, they were only a small guild. Looking forward to facing whiteside again for reset

We haven’t lost our garrison because ICON is THE WvW guild in Ring of Fire. Whilst its a pleasure owning and commanding the largest pure WvW guild on Ring of Fire, its still quite upsetting that when we muster a small zerg 50% randoms 50% ICON, we have to keep hopping between worlds to oppose say 2 large Underworld zergs.

So not only do you have twice the numbers you always have a big zerg covering 24/7 which we cannot match. IE we need more members not only in ICON, but on Ring of Fire EU server.

Ps. It will never happen ROS :P

Greetings from ring of fire. Yeah that was us behind the garrison golem attack – we then proceeded to take bay off ur hands so I figured the 500 supply was worth getting rid of 2 waypoints..plus seen as u hadnt played us before i doubt you weee expecting ut. I think it will be a close week if not you may take it by a small margin but ICON can guarentee ROF a 2nd place im sure.

See you on the battlefield
Hawkeii – ICON Guild Leader and Commander

Lol they arent that bad they still have numbers in randoms on constantly..you need to up your game ROS

WvW are obviously a pain when they have numbers… another thorn in our foot is MDA…just appeared out of nowhere!! Well the weekend has ended and we all know what that means!!! ROF comeback people!!!!

Keep it clean and best of luck in the upcoming week. ICON over at Ring of Fire are looking forward to topping the current 8 golems killed at the same time record, keep them coming people!

Hawkeii
ICON Commander + Guild Leader
RING OF FIRE EU

Ring of Fire EU – destroying and creating golem rushes. record 1 omega and 17 alphas on a single tower

Hey,

A now renowned Ad on our server: Are you a WvW orientated player? Do you press B, look at the pie chart and vomit all over your user interface? Join ICON…make a difference…

With 3 very active commandees, Full upgrades, a guild and public teamspeak; ICON are currently the biggest and most influential WvW guild on Ring of Fire.

Our ranks go as such: Field marshall – Commander – Captain – Officer – Elite squad – soldier – footsoldier…

There are 6 captains each leading a squad (alpha-mesmer)(bravo-melee A)(charlie (range A)(delta melee(echo range(foxtrot thieves) each captain has an XO chosen by himself and senior officers and between them both they select and manage their members. The A and B teams are decided on skill. If you are a very skilled player you will most likely qualify to move from a B team to the A team for example delta»bravo melee
we host weekly meetings on fridays where promotions and annoucements are given. we also have training sessions after followed by the reset.
We have a strict 50% guild activity rule where if there are 50 guild members with only 20 active…5 inactives are kicked.

We have a very friendly atmosphere with about 10 females (RECORD!) and a lot of seriohs players with great senses of humour and a high level of tolerance for my sometimes questionable methods and antics…for example chasing a mini golem around for 15 minutes…putting down 1 omega and 16 alpha golems for Bay and jumping off cliffs screaming with laughter until the grissley end because i have a zerg on their way down with me. Apart from the mad moments again we contribute massively to ROF WvW and arecovering every map 24/7 with an excellent night squad.

This is an ad for not only ICON but the ring of fire server itself. At the minute ring of fire has had a steady deline down the ranks in WvW. But no longer. we are currently 20th and about to slowly make our way back up. ICON – the biggest and most influential guild on the server, with help from LC have set up a public teamspeak for ring of fire to use for better organisation. With 3 commanders, full upgrades, teamspeak and active members; we play a massive role in ROF WvW.

We have squad commanders ( ie range/melee/mesmers/thieves) and xos chosen by the captain. 3 commanders soon to be 4 to cover the maps 24/7. we also employ a 50% guild activity policy monitered by the attendace officers. for example; if we have 50 guild members and during the week i see no more than 25 people on, the inactives who havent let us know about them not being on, are kicked.

We have tight rules and administration but we still have a very friendly joking atmosphere with several females to keep the conversations alive and full english desert menus for the newcomers! Cheesecake, scones, chocolate penguins you name it!!! I can tell that just sold you!!!

Yup uve had a guild with the commander loghn fernir move from ring of fire to fs because it was greener grass. Muppet

Greetings from ring of fire. Obviously if you were facing gunnars at some point you’ve dropped a little in the table. We’re currently facing you in the ring of fire/drakkar lake/aurora glade fight which im pleased to say has been very closed matched and more of a challenge. Im Hawkeii leader of ICON, and im probably one of the most influential people on Ring of Fire WvW. We have also had guilds leaving for greener grass and after being asked to follow we told them where to go. You should stick with your server and bring it up to scratch as quite frankly, you arent my concern atthe minute. If I wanted to we would have dominated your borderlands from the beginning of the last reset but drakkar was the main concern. You were tough at times but if we wanted to wipe you, we did. Stick with it and you will reap the rewards,see you on the battlefield.

Serious WvW guilds wont bother if its just magic find. They will simply fight ss per usual to get the most points and then when they have a nice100k lead, get the orbs and activate guild upgrade 10%magic find and start farming for drops lol. You need to give the orbs something that aids their fight for points, that was the whole point of them. If anything, a good idea would be to fix the bugs and whichever keep has the orb is instantly given full supply, 2 free upgrades – one from each catagory, and give the bonus the orbs usually give or even buff it to10% stat increase, just to anyone in that keep not the 3 borderlands and EB

When you mailed me i replied saying i have no interest in abandoning a ship which isnt sinking. I am working to improve ring of fire as a server on the WvW front instead of scrounging off a different servers accomplishments.

And for the record you’re doing just as bad with millers sound as ring of fire did on farshiverpeaks. More then likely you’ll be dropping 3 places down to 10th place. Im not calling you as a server as i know MS has improved rapidly but instead of addressing the issues with ring of fire as blos should have donr, you’ve moved to a server which doesnt seem to belong in the single digit tiers shown by the rapid drop from 2nd place to what soon will be 10th.

Different server same problems.

The first thing id like to say is “Miller Sound”. Ive been following the result os different servers and millers sound has caught my attention. Here we have what used to be a low population server which has climbed from rank 23 into possibly 6th place after the next reset.

Ring of Fire EU sadly has deteriorated in WvWand because of the failures over the past 4 weeks the biggest alliance ( TIA Alliance) has broken down. We’ve had the biggest guilds AoA and blos move to different servers and corp disbanded. We are struggling.

But we havent given up.

Im personally a commander and guild leader of ICON, Icon is a 3 week old guild already with 40 members. Ok 40 members isnt a lot right? Thats 40 ACTIVE WvW members. When i log on i see 40/40 in the guild panel instead of 70/400 like some of the bigger guilds who apparently are hardcore wvwers. Along with PI and a few smaller guilds we are striving to become the backbone of ring of fire wvw but ee seriously need more numbers. We need active members who are dedicated to wvw and bringing the server up into the single digit tiers. Millers sound achieved this just through motivation,we can do it too. At the minute we’re against drakkar lake and aurora glade. We didnt have the best start but we had members staying up from 10.30pm after the guild and officrr merting to 6am because they were solely dedicated to the guild and the server. Again, despite not having the best starti would say we are probably yhe favourites to win this week.

Im appealing to current members of ring of fire to stick with us, join a wvw guild if you arent in one jnstead of moving servers and being carried by otherd accomplishments. And im appealing to anyone who likes a challenge to come and join us in our strife to get where we want to be.

I aspire for my guild to bealongside the same standards of RG from piken and the server to be a challenge for servers such as millers sound. Comments welcome

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This isn’t the typical “we offer this and we have this” etc…Icon is a guild on the server ring of fire based solely around world versus world. At the minute, ring of fire is 19th and after reset will be 20th. I think we’ve had 4 losing weeks now, the majority of which havent even been close. TIA alliance, the biggest alliance on the server is becomming smaller by the minute as guilds start to lose faith and move to different servers instead of staying, addressing the issues and working to bring us back in the game.

Through thick and thin ICON ( a 4 week old guild with 50 members, 2 commanders and close to full upgrades) has stuck with it, with at least 1commander on from the hours of 1pm-5am GMT. We’re solely dedicated to bringing ROF’s ranking into the single digit tiers by organisation, dedication, teamwork and administration. Despite being a young fast growing guild we are already noticed by a lot of people and offer a friendly enviroment on teamspeak whilst being incredibly organised.

You MUST have teamspeak and you have to have level 80 and a working mic to be promoted to elite squad. We offer training sessions after the guild and officer meeting at 10:30 on a friday in the form of mesmer portal chaining (our record is 6 portals made in synergy), spvp combat, and small guild zerg co-ordination.

Games like WoW are based around wvw, gw2 is based around pvp, period. You join icon because you are here for WvW. If you have low attendance or activity monitored by our attendance officers, you will be kicked. If you do not represent, again, you will be kicked.

We will always be here, we will always represent our server and we will continue to help our members improve to be more versatile and skilled.

Join ICON, make a difference.

Hawkeii
Guild leader of Icon and ROF commander
Council member of TIA Alliance

Hi,

CORP are one of Ring of Fire’s most active WvW guilds, contributing massively to the success of the server. Currently the guild has 2 commanders, teamspeak and a large amount of players dedicated to WvW. Lee Gregory, the guild leader has a mutual alliance with Kronos Ledaloth (BLOS Commander) and Samasto (TIME Commander) – two other big WvW guilds in Ring of Fire, amongst others.

Despite winning this week against Vabbi and Piken Square by a 150k lead -the server still has a long way to go. And the only way we’re going to improve is via the organisation and alliance of WvW guilds. In CORP we value each player for what they are and all classes are welcome… all we ask is that you be on teamspeak and put in a decent amount of time on WvW. We intend to grow in every aspect from the size of the roster to skill in map tactics and combat tactics. Everyone has a role to play, so come along, join the banter on teamspeak and play the game how it was meant to be played.

See you in game

MonkeyBullet (Hawkeii)

Ok let me just start off by saying that there’s always two sides to an argument, such as the night capping which AN wont do anything about because they view it as a perfectly working system, or the best they can do to please all their paying customers.
Some people think commanders in general are a mistake, some dont. I personally think it isnt at the minute, but it will do eventually and its going to be something AN needs to look at very seriously. But hey, you may disagree

Theres a lot of negative and positives about commanders atm and I think people are overreacting for the wrong reasons. Eventually 100g is not going to be viewed as a lot of money…its inevitable so I pretty such something will eventually be done to prevent there being a map with 20 commanders running around.

Its not a problem at the minute because
1. Commanders usually are in a guild which is in an alliance or is close with another guild. So even though 2 guilds have a commander each, they can agree for one person to switch theirs off.
2.The game is still young and 100g is a lot.

Its been suggested that commanders should be elected by the server, which isn’t a completely original idea, but neither is capture the castle lets face it.

I think to appease those who have actually spent £500 or so on commander, you can’t completely revamp it. I suggest, along with others, to have an election system and to give those in power extra control over the map they are in, ie to manage who is allowed their commander icon turned on in the map and who isnt. But you can only elect those who current have a commander badge and have paid their 100g. Obviously no idea is perfect and there would be flaws but lets face it, WvW isnt perfect, even though its raised the bar of organised PvP to an all new high.

The election idea has worked in other games, so theres so reason it cant work in what must be the next Gen game of MMOs.

I’d also like to see not just one person elected, but several for different positions.
Something along the lines of: The General, followed by 2 field marshalls follow by 6 War councillers…giving other guilds a chance.

Thanks

Hey,

I’d first like to point out I’m just as new to GW2 as the next guy, so I do not claim to know it all.

I’ve seen countless posts complaining about WvW being unbalanced because of night-capping (where a large group of players come on in the early mornings to cap everything while the other 2 servers are sleeping). I’ve read countless solutions being brought forward on these forums in the hope arena net uses them, and I think its gonna be one of those issues they will struggle to fix.

My solution: The matchmaking on launch has placed highly active WvW realms against others and lows V lows, so in all honesty i think its up to us to do the rest.

The whole idea of WvW is teamwork, and Arena net has even given us access to be in multiple guilds at the same time, so if you see 2 large enemy guilds taking everything, what’s stopping you from forming your own alliance, staying up fairly late and meeting them on the field? Oh yes, work/school (or the missus). 80-90% of people have it, myself included. But in all honesty, I’m willing to bet on your whole sever, some of you, like me wont care.

I can run on 3 hours sleep atm because I work full time (Tech Support Advisor) in gap year and heading to uni in about 10 months – . In my situation, I can do it. I’m willing to bet we can get a mass amount of others who can too.