Guild Wars 2

I would suspect the real reason was using too many man resources on one forum. So instead of increasing resources to it Anet probably decided to close them down to save money. You can t blame them…

Actually I can blame them… I think they should instead have improved their flag and reporting system and let the community moderate itself. Reddit does it perfectly and a lot of new discussions forums do that.

But that also would have required resources…so short answer it probably saved money

“Why would anyone WANT to swap servers to BG?”

The women!…that is all

Wait…the gold finisher for the #1 server has 250 uses only?
Rofl this is like a giant middle finger

I have zero interest in completing any achievements in wvw now…really…no interest. The bandwagon of giving achievements for the purpose of giving achievements I think is gone and players are getting wiser.

I dumped WOW’s achievements a long time ago, they are not the carrot that makes me want to play GW2 or buy gem cards (which I haven t done for 4 months since I don t see the worth when I had to wait hours to enter wvw or join my guild on TQ when he was new).

I would much rather fight wars and gain server pride and contribute to my server via PVE quests, gathering items for the war in wvw etc than silly achievements. Make the whole server participate where wvw plauers become the football team and the pve players are the supporters.

As of right now…no interest whatsoever in season 2 if there is going to be one as long as it is organized and managed like Season 1 has been.

Want to make me excited about S2? tell me that if I complete my achivements I ll be able to wear town clothes in wvw. For that I ll play everyday and even buy gem cards

I participated for 6 hours per day in the first three weeks on my server (blackgate) then had to stop playing the rest of season due to having 21 credit hours this semester.

I came back today after my finals with only half the achievements done for the chest and nothing to show really for the 3 weeks I fought to make sure we would have a lead.

No chest for me is fine I don t really care about gear and those silly rewards but I would have liked a title for having been part of the people who helped. I didn t switch server and I played a lot for just under half the season but I will get nothing but pride for keeping our #1 place rank.

kinda sucks if you ask me that only people who were able to play everyday for hours and complete all the achievements got something. My point is that what makes people who spent more time following a karma train once the season was basically worth worth more than people who thought teeth and nails at the start?

I would hope the Anet looks at their stats. The organization of this season was a disaster. Giving easy weeks to JQ was not acceptable but they still got beaten. There is so much potential for doing some really cool stuff in wvw but you guys seem to want to apply PVE rewards to a WVW game.

I personally do not care about minis and gear or gold. I want something fun like an armory online that would show more server stats and players stats with best wvw players etc. That way guilds could see who are the valuable players. I think you should build server scoreboards for wvw and introduce bounties and merc contracts etc…

Sorry for being off topic. My point is I wish EVERYBODY on the server that participated even if they did not manage to finish all achieves would have something to show for it like a small title.

3 hours queue last night…logged off before getting in
3 hours so far and still counting.

I am done with this.
No game deserves 3 hours + waiting like to be able to play…none

Players Encouraging Niceness In Servers, should be the only guild that people should want to play in during these matchups. Its not hard unless you make it that way.

Once again, the discussion is about JQ having 3 easy weeks thanks to Anet… what is your point? For the thread about the 3 servers you can post in the matchup forum.

Decklan.7540:

Lol Monsoon, no offense to your server, but Blackgate seriously blew it big time in week 1. You are all touting how smart you guys are and how you got 1st, but if you glance at the spreadsheet above you will see why JQ wanted a different outcome in week 1.

The post I made was to show the relevance of the fact which is that JQ HAS it very easy for 3 weeks as shown with the current point difference in their Matchup in just two days. That is all. No claiming any server is better or anything…so please stay on topic.

Not an easy week at all whatsoever…

The question is: Why even fight or push to win when a server known for having Anet’s employees playing on is given three easy wins in a tournament. You go to be kidding…right?

EVEN if that was a total random drawing you should have realized that it was going to show an enormous bias and advantage in a Tier that is very competitive and level the playing field.

This makes the whole league experience a farce…not a joke, a farce. Because you (Anet) could have fixed it to avoid giving the impression of favoritism but instead you decided against.

Why? Because the company has a history of not admitting being wrong and it would have been a bigger disaster to admit the mistake instead of what is happening which is going LALALALALA I can t hear you.

Remember that the way you act will influence how your game expands and is funded. As of tonight I have zero incentive to support the company by buying gem cards and will not spend anymore on the game. Also not interested in spending 3 hours a day queueing starring at a screen. You want to fix the skill lag? I think you found the perfect way: Make players not want to play your game. And if it wasn t true someone from Anet would already have commented on this issue…

Apparently this is happening all over the world

I for one will be sad to see JQ leave for three weeks of easy wins. We had such a good thing going on girl…why must you leave to fight T2 servers? Come back girl, I still love you.

Congrats to all for this week’s fun

Slayer Lord.5023:

We at JQ know you all are teaming us and we will still triumph on the weekdays. Proof we are the real number one.

ZilentNight.5089:

Nice double teaming ofc

Mr Ko Killer.7206:

Ok, here’s a hint: It has something to do with JQ and JQ being the only server that can claim that it has been the most relevant server in all of T1.

The only thing JQ can claim is having the most egotistic and self centered players commenting on the forum giving the whole server a bad rep. The only server that is relevant! How can you not see the self importance and snobbery in comments like this.

JQ has always believed it was number one and the best server in wvw…3rd place this week? With this attitude you do not deserve anything else than 3rd place

This is what the servers look at the moment and have been for some time.
Thanks for trying…

I was about to post a highly relevant and informative comment but my keyboard rubberbanded and I wasn t able to use any other key than the space bar and as I pressed post-reply I got DC’ed and had to relog.

LagWars is a better title name for the game

The lag is a disaster in T1.

Anet is one competitor away from having a commercial made to poke fun at the fact that in competition pvp people are unable to use basic skills. This is like doing a car race and at 190mph getting to a curve and the screen going black with a message saying “please wait!”.

How the leagues were released when its virtually impossible to use ANY skills whatsoever in fights is mind boggling. This is a total disaster: 2 hours queues, DCs that don t put you in game or in the queue, massive map wide skill lag…even the yaks stop and rubberband.

Utter disaster. The WOW and ESO devs are laughing their * off at the moment.

Sreoom.3690:

SoR and BG love to double team JQ. Makes ’em feel big and bad. :-)

- When JQ wins you claim its because you are not stacked and just better players
- When JQ loses its because the other servers are double teaming and pugs are blocking queues

and in between you look at yourself in the mirror…

Slayer Lord.5023:

We at JQ know you all are teaming us and we will still triumph on the weekdays. Proof we are the real number one.

Yes you are…
Number one at being third place!

1. No more of this blob cr*p that creates skill lag. We have skill lag because some servers only run 70+ people (whole map zerg) to specifically lag everybody so that nobody can use any other skills than 1, no heals, no downed stake skills, nothing. Unless these blobs face another blob its 90% in favor of the blob

2. Instead of 3 exact same maps and EB make 4 different maps so people have actual incentive and fun instead of all same maps. Why not map 1 fire theme, map 2 forest theme, map 3 mountain snow theme and map 4 the current EB. I only do EB because it has the fun of SM…the other 3 maps are boring as hell and exactly the same. Redesign them. Make a mechanic that forces to rotate to another map after a certain time ie you gain extra server points for moving to map 2,3,4 for 45 minutes. If you stay more than 1 hour on the same map you get less server points.

3. Queues are a joke. There should be zero queue time to fight for your server. I see you are introducing a new queue map. That s great but that map needs to also contribute to the score I hope.

4. We need better report tools for griefers and people who waste supplies and blatantly spy. Introduce bounties. Any player can put a bounty on a player. It costs a skill point. Once you get 5 people putting the same bounty then the other servers see the bounties in the name color of the player and can go after that player. You kill the player, your server gains points. A player can only have 5 bounties on self per day. Or something similar to avoid griefing

gebrechen.5643:

It’s not our fault when you joined BG for getting #1 easy and now you have to work for it.

If this isn’t a perfect example of psychological projection then I don t know what it is.

coglin.1867:

As WhiteAndMilky said, Its just lag that occurs when you have to many players and too many particle effects in close proximity. Not much of anything that can be done about it. It happens in every MMO.

no its not about graphics and particle effects at all but about the server being able to handle the amount of data sent to it. This is a software + hardware issue at the server level and not at the player level and does not happen in all mmos. Eve for example can handle several hundred ships.

I find this highly strange that JQ would have it that easy for that long. If there is going to be obvious preferential treatment then what is the point of having leagues?

So seasons start and lag is at the worst level it has been so far. Skill 1 used to fire, now the animation goes through but no hit, nothing…and its not only with blobs but with most fights.

wvw for the purpose of leagues is unplayable and by unplayable I mean that a game that relies on skills and quick responses in fights is not working. It really is time to address this. I don t think adding a overflow map to remove queues is going to do anything to fix this skill lag.

1. Skill Lag due to blobs
2. Saturated queues and Blobs now the only tactic to win in T1. Blobs require blobs which creates problem #1
3. Population imbalance / night capping and did I mention blobs?

Disabling certain actions in wvw is not sufficient.

We saw several months ago that people could abuse siege and waste supplies. Anet’s solution was to impose a refresh cycle on siege and a siege limit.

With trial accounts you don t even need to do anything with siege. One can simply hold a spot on reset night and that would mean wasting a spot on the enemy map. Have 10 people do this and you have a serious problem.

As long as trial accounts are allowed in wvw, their presence is sufficient to be equivalent to wasting a spot. Limiting their abilities will not solve the issue. Not allowing them in wvw in the first place is…or allow them but do not make them count towards map cap and only allow them to repair not build

The last two pages of the thread

Coming soon to a theater near you

In the spirit of friendship let me be the first one to congratulate SoR on a week well played.

Jahn.7019:

It has been confirmed by a couple of his own guildies that he did it to troll IRON and make BG believe VII had xfered over.

What has been confirmed is that:

- people will do anything to win in wvw, even exploiting and glitching
- attacking commanders of other servers anonymously on forums makes people feel good
- claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
- a lot of reto-cranial inversion fills this thread, especially from people not in T1 this week
- great job from spies who queue silly upgrades and waste supplies and spots thanks to guesting and tryouts

Grats to SoR for a good week. I disapprove of the tactic of using a full map blob in EB to win but hey if that is the way to win then be prepared for the same tactic in response. These blobs are skill 1 only fights with 1fps and they are lame imo.

SoR on EB is just…
An army of one…massive gigantic single blob going omnomnom

Good fights yo.

Jet.4795:

Don’t want to ruin your moment here but isn’t when you bandwagon the guild goes to the “winning” server?

Sorry this is a thread for T1 people.
T2 is this way —-——————————→

Congratulation to all…and the scores are in !

From what I heard on TS…

Only about 40% of MERC left, the rest including commanders and many good players remained and are going to form a new guild. Don’t quote me on this but its what it looks like . BG will still manage to get #1 in pve and wvw.

Reasons for this:

The game is not about numbers and blobs or about a single guild or person. It is about the community, good commanders and people having fun playing together wanting to play more. We saw that with Tequatl when Blackgate opened its Teamspeak server to help other servers and also when we guested to those servers to teach people the fight.

Blackgate has an unbelievable group of top commanders and players making up one of the best communities in the game. Some wvw TS channel are so fun to listen to because they match great tactics with some real fun commentaries by people I would personally love to meet in real life.

There are too many great people/guilds I would love to name here but in the end what matters is not being ultra competitive and very tight, it is about the image you project to the community and how you benefit that community. Blackgate has a great community and we seem to focus more on the fun part of the game and the community as a whole than on pure single-minded hardcore competition. that focus on fun helped us become the number one server when others were focusing on numbers and hardcore guilds.

Its the quality of the community as a whole that made Blackgate the number one server in wvw and in pve. This is why guild transferring away for personal reasons are irrelevant as there will always be attrition. As long as the community is made of great people the server will shine and people will want to play on it. That s just my opinion.

“Be excellent to each other” (Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan – 1989)

Should there be a section on the site where it is possible to see one’s characters and members of a guild, gear, weapons etc…

Or would this create a precedent where people would start criticizing players and focusing too much on gear and enchants instead of on the player?

I for one would like to be able to see my characters on the site and see where I can improve them or where they have something missing but I also would like to keep that information private. What do you think?

Score update…….

Fuzzion.2504:

Not many folks know but the J in JQ
stands for Jedi
And the Q stands for Qualified.

So our secret name is

“Jedi Qualified”

On Blackgate JQ is known as JQQ

Latest score update

Make her harder

JJBigs.8456:

Errrr maybe this is a newb question, but this thing has been on the ground for several minutes now with no one in sight. What is causing this?

This is a JQ hope aura.

It means that on this spot a JQ player tried but was killed without even being able to use any downed skills. Sometimes the gas lights up from mixing with Oxygen and other reactive gases from the swamp and it produces a blue flame aura…its rather pretty.

Bammit.4796:

Hi Mon, I’m from JQ and I’ll be right over. XD
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Yes, Blackgate has been helping people from all servers…even SoR and JQ. Feel free to come over to get your achievements…

dwahvel.7356:

Seigfried.5938:

GG JQ, you have successfully over-stacked up the SEA/EU timezones, fielding about 3 times our numbers accross all the borderlands.

What bg can’t coast to a easy victory now?!!? Sorry JQ but looks like the BG trolls have turned on ur server. Enjoy it while it lasts, however they seem to get pretty obsessive.

Sorry, Blackgate is currently busy helping other servers getting their Teq kills and achievements with opening/managing our TS to other servers as well as helping people guesting to us.

Feel free to keep doing these 24 hrs wvw full map pushes and all-nighters JQ… we will be back after we are done helping the GW2 community.

Kiss Kiss
/wave

Update:

The player this post was about got perma banned from the server.

Zero.5034:

I have to admit I’m disappointed in you BG. You used TS to coordinate the teq fight. All the other servers are pugging it like how it was ment to be played. BG may have been the first to beat him, but having the coordination over TS is an unfair advantage over other servers who can’t get so many people in a voice chat. Beat the event with pugs like how all the other servers are playing it and how it was designed to be played and then I’d consider it the actual world first.

Zeke Azul Falcon.5176:

5 guild joined JQ in—-> total<—-

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> Last Tuesday<—
4 guild joined SOR,
6 guild joined BG.

over stacking? pay to win? be honest to yourself

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Are you sure it was 6 guilds that joined BG or 28 cause I heard 6827 people joined BG just today

Hey guyz…how is your evening going?

Achilles.2197:

JQ appears to excel at all aspects of the game… a top NA server with the most “gold medals,” the most top ranked players in tPvP out of T1, and please, keep note of the fact SoR has 2 and BG has none (LOL).

Then there’s the PvE community… well, you see where this is going.

gebrechen.5643:

Don’t take monsoon too serious, he stills thinks wvw ranks are connected to the skill of the player.

Correct, you should not take me too seriously but..
wait…what?