Guild Wars 2

Same… Here… blah wanted to play before work

Same thing here. I’m on dragonbrand theirs no way it’s full.

I never said we would get anywhere in T2. But I will say b4 Mag bought 2 of the biggest guilds on SBI, DB managed to fight them and Stay second place in t3. We deserve to move up and have been working for it very very hard.

I see a big problem on the design of WvW here. And thats ANETS fault. Not DB. You all complain that DB doesnt deserve to go into gold? Yes DB does as a DB players since launch I know for a fact that we have had our ups and downs and we have been matched up against some of the best. Yet we did lose our fair share we have been working really hard as a community to push for higher teirs. You’d be suprised if you were actually on Dragonbrand and knew the half of it. We do deserve to move up and publicly bashing a whole server just because you might get kicked out of GOLD League its kittening immature. Get a life and try harder. We didnt ask 2 have 3 weeks of the most boring matches of our WvW life. We want to move up so we don’t have to deal with dead servers everyweek for the next 9 weeks. Silver will be boring and will kill off most server because of that. Atleast in Gold we can make mistakes and Learn from them.

So complain all you want but don’t go bashing my server until you have been on it as long as the majority of the players on DB have. We are one of the few servers that doesnt BUY guilds to move to the top. We keep working with what we have the old fashioned way. If we get moved up, GREAT JOB DB! If we dont then we will keep working harder and harder for it.

So Ill say it one more time. Do your kittening research first. Then come and talk.

Noizy/Skigoboom/Ovi Bell
Royal Dragon of [KING]

I want the hide hobo sack option ASAP.

Thats nice I wish i woulda took a screenshot of the gate and walls. To bad I didnt. But they wernt even smudged.

I mean porting straight to lords room on a fortified untouch tower is suprt legit! !!!

GJ YB on taking a Fully upgraded Sunny hill with no siege at all meaning you didnt drop the gate or any walls. Appriciate your contribution to a hack free game play.

To bad there isnt a Hacking option when reporting players.

MF doesn’t effect a build or character in away that it will hurt the so called “team” Stop whining and get better lol

Air.6452:

Easy solution, what I think is fair anyways:

No autoloot, that kind of ruins a lot of aspects.

Instead, badges should be awarded for kills and regarded as a form of currency like karma, gems, or money, and loot should be separate.

Bam.

What this guy said~!

World Polish – Other
Items
Visual effects on some legendary weapons have been polished:
Eternity: Fixed a bug that caused the Sunrise effects to play on the Twilight version of the sword.
The Moot: Added visual-effects polish and footfalls.
Kamohoali’i Kotaki: Added visual-effects polish.
Frenzy: Added visual-effects polish.
Kraitkin: Added visual-effects polish.
Quip: Added visual-effects polish and footfalls.
The Predator: Added visual-effects polish and footfalls; updated projectile and hit effects to match the weapon’s look.
Howler: Added visual-effects polish and footfalls.
The Dreamer: Updated the projectile effect.

What about the focus legendary Im making. As far as ive seen it has hardly any effects at all. BUT the Howler gets prints? What a rip off.

Awesome guild! Working its way for the title of Ehmry Bay’s finest! Growing everyday. Big WvW Presence as well.

If you strive for Organized WvW where you win by out smarting the other guy then this is the guild for you!

Esoteric.5490:

Blackgate just took a +475 to your +55 over there at Dragonbrand.

Did you not notice we don’t have a morning crew? So enjoy passing us for a few while you can.

=)

Vorpal.4683:

I’m thinking the idea to allow server transfers between battling servers was a huge mistake, as was the decision to not show the names of enemy players.

Now, ,when one person exploits, the entire server gets tarred with the same brush, because there is no way to tell who they really are. And everyone is paranoid about swarms of enemy spies dumping their supply (which really does happen).

It definitely allows a few bad apples to poison the atmosphere and ruin the match for three whole servers.

I totally agree with you on this. I hate when I see a speed hacker or something and I cant see there name. If I could see there name I wouldn’t have to try and click report in the split second they run by.

I mean why cover the names if we cant communicate to them in the first place? Its pointless.

Red names are dead ;p

SherlockBrolmes.4725:

Hey guys. I’m trying to compile a list of reasons why we have such consistent disparity over time in WvWvW matches. Some of them aren’t things that need to be or ought to be fixed, others might warrant some attention. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Night Capping – All is fair in love and war. Gotta fight that much harder during the hours you ARE on.

Population disparity – Being outmanned is never fun. Being outmanned because you guys aren’t participating is aggravating. Being outmanned because you just don’t have many players period is the worst.

Orbs – It’s great to have a system with a clear objective. Orbs provide a very significant bonus, and they’re spread over multiple borderlands. They are highly contested, and not always easy to obtain. I’m a big fan. I would recommend, however, that the bonus be lowered slightly, and that the orbs reset every 1-3 days. (perhaps even on a random timer to keep things interesting).

Server Bonuses – They’re great aren’t they? They actually aren’t all that hard to accrue, which makes it a fairly weak incentive. Still, having pvp glory translate to pve quality of life improvements is great! Unfortunately, however, (much like orbs) these bonuses further slant towards winning teams. If we don’t want a system that drives players away, we need to prevent a “snowballing” effect where the best teams just get better with orbs and bonuses.

Bugs/Glitching/Hacking – Will be fixed in due time. (Please be quick!)

Transferring/Supply Dumping – We know you guys are looking into this. Hopefully we can make some more improvements to prevent this from happening.

(Please let me know if I forgot anything!)
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Generally speaking, (and I come from a server that usually does the destroying), the losing team has to contend with, "Well darn, not only are they clearly better than we are, but also:

1. We can’t get a foothold.
2. They have the orbs for an extra 150 to all stats.
3. They have more health and endurance from the server perks.
4. There’s just more of them.
5. They have a huge supply advantage.

If you don’t want players to give up, these are the things that need to be addressed.

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Recommended solutions:

1. Reset the maps to the respective thirds twice during the week. Winning teams will have more DEs to complete, so it’s less boring for them, and struggling teams will be able to retake a minimal base of operations, without being humiliated by 10 ballistas pointing at their spawn…

2. Reset the orbs (perhaps with the map resets). Again, the orbs are often the most exciting part of the weekly matches. The more orb fighting there is, the better. Orb fighting isn’t exciting when the guys with the orbs control the whole map.

3. Provide some sort of stacking buff to losing teams based on a point ratio. There’s no reason that the clearly dominant team should have extra health, endurance, and stat boosts after the first few days. There should be stacking buffs that grant extra stats, health, endurance (only within WvWvW), as well as stacking siege buffs. Something like 100,200,300 to stats and 1.5x, 2x, 3x siege damage, as well as 1.5x, 2x, 3x NPC effectiveness depending on the scenario. As servers start to close the point gap, these buffs go away, and the winning team can reassert their dominance. (Naturally this needs to be balanced to where winning teams don’t just take a break and give up until the score gaps close… not that this is so terrible a thing).

4. Mistwrought buff. Some sort of increased chance to get siege plans when your team is way outmanned/outscored.

5. 3 day to week long lockout on server transfers to competing servers. I’m sorry, but if you haven’t been able to transfer to play with your friends at this point, and they just so happen to be on the server you were just randomly matched up with, then you can just wait a few days. If you really can’t wait, perhaps there can be some sort of expedited server transfer ticketing system, with a history where players who abuse transfers can be identified and appropriately punished.

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Lastly, and despite all this, I’m really enjoying WvWvW. It’s the most fun I’ve had pvping in a long long time. Keep up the great work, and hopefully this helps shed some light on the current state of WvWvW from a player’s perspective.

Everything said here is perfect imho. ANET take a lesson from this dude.

Kam.8109:

Yeah DB loves to exploit the whole rendering thing. Mesmer makes a portal in the middle of battle and BAM! Invisible army ports in and destroys everything. They’re not really better players, they just know how to abuse the system.

Sigh again. Someone who is mad they didn’t think to make the strat first and use it b4 anyone else thought about it. Stop smashing on DB just because you don’t have any of the facts about why the rendering problem happens.

The rendering problem has nothing to do with the LEGIT tactic using mesmer portals. The rendering problem doesn’t only happen when people stack and is not the cause of it. As the rendering problem can happen with a fully spread out 100 man zerg.

Its hardware issue on the servers end and has nothing to do with any of these so called exploits.

As for the fly/speed hacker… Well I hope they get banned for good. Each server has that one or 2 cheaters on it. Its something we have to put up with until ANET does something about it.

Yerffejy.6538:

The solution is simple: Event Scaling

A huge component of all DE’s in PvE is the scaling involved in it. If you have 30 players, that event scales up, creating harder enemies that take longer to kill. So far, this has been a great system that works well in PvE, with little or no possibility of griefing whatsoever.

When I walk into range of any obtainable point on the WvW map, I get a notification that there is a new event in the area. When I complete a capture or defense event, I get exp, karma, and moneyz for completion (or failure) of said event. So if it looks and acts like a Dynamic Event, why is it not scaled the same as one?

When 50 people start smashing a gate with multiple rams put up in seconds, they can easily break into a tower within a few minutes. Hours of spent holding said tower, spending tons of player-earned money on upgrading the tower, and it can be taken in minutes because an entire server came to hit it so fast, the defenders have little time to react and defend. So I ask, why are these events not scaled? If there are 50 players hitting the gate, why is that gate not scaled upwards? Why does getting a huge attacking force give such a huge advantage. That being said, having the 50 players will not cause you to lose, it will slow you down, nothing more. To be clear, the idea is to scale taking objectives according to the number of players present.

When any of the major wars weve had in the past happened. DID they scale for the guy losing his kitten to fast? No. Id rather stick with logic and real life like features then some carebear, dumbed down game like wow.

If theres a hacker on DB its no different then the hackers on FA or BG or any of the other servers. Lets hope ANET bans them and we all move on with our Life in Tyria.

Kaine.3501:

Dragonbrand just sounds cooler

Welcome to Dragonbrand. Hope you enjoy your stay. And get ready for week 3 match ups. Looks like we are going to be fighting RUIN Gaming/ET. Going to be even more fun then stomping BG over and over.

@ Smitten: The filters are a bit extreme.

Back on topic. Stop throwing hate around this thread. Its for update son how the battle is going and anything else remotely related to playing this match. NOT smashing guilds.

Soutalgon.3827:

Dude is pretty dumb, no offense.

Even by saying no offence your belittling another person on this community for your own pleasure. I hope someone reports you for this behavior.

Soutalgon.3827:

Hate to break it to you, but there are far more many leaders/factors on who is leading us to victory. Tacsym is a large guild, sure, but the leadership is very lacking in terms of intelligence.

TSym yes is a big guild. NOT as big as most DB guild I see in WvWvW doing absolutely nothing all day and night. Right now how it stands is Prime time is ran by TSym and a few smaller guild like ENat and DoP and some TWin here and there.

As for night time guilds it would have to be a big presence from TWin and a okay presence for a few smaller ones as well.

With that being said. I’m sure TSym would love to step back and watch you lead us to victory or one of the other 20 idiots who bought a commander book just to stand out in PvE!!!!. Logged into Orr yesterday and there was 5 commanders standing around.

Until you have a reason or any proof of Coron being dumb or stupid or what ever. Don’t come on here smashing him and TSym with your idiotic comments.

Kyrul.7681:

Legion.1460:

they have the invul buff check the photo

Well, okay. I thought you meant that area was an invuln area, that’s pretty stupid then…

Actually that is a invuln zone unless you exploit jump over the north east side and run past legendary guards next to citadel.

I agree with this.

How is coron a moron? So far hes one of the only commanders that leads us to earn points and keep what we need.

Read this post by a red. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Night-Capping-and-YOU/page/2#post289631

Its been addressed

I support minimap markers for guild mates! make em like idk maybe a bright pink? so they stand out lol

StSickness.4527:

Good match so far. But I’ve noticed some Dragonbranders and Aspies teaming up on us a couple times now, (specifically Godslore in BGBL) whats that about?

DB had 3 orbs. That made BG and FA sorta double team us. BG takes 2 orbs so We showed FA what was up and they leave us alone for the most part now. SO its down to FA and DB Double teaming BG who has 2 orbs. Its all about who has the orbs it seems.

Correction looks like we got our 2nd orb back. So I predict a double team from FA and BG again!

blink.4239:

I love how people are so quick to defend the mesmer portal but won’t acknowledge the obvious rendering glitch, which is the biggest advantage that tactic offers. Once Anet fixes that glitch, the tactic will be far less useful.

Even with the render glitch you can counter this tactic. See that bright pink/purple circle on the ground? START AOE’ing it!. You’ll be suprised that you can damage those invisible enemies and wipe them pretty fast.

Make do with what you have till they fix things. In the mean time complaining in just about every thread wont do a kitten thing about it.

Yes as the hackers seem to be appearing more and more more people are having increased problems with game freezes and what not. Do something please ANET. its been known in every MMO that hacks effect the ppl that arent hacking in various ways like client problems.

In AION when you came across certain cheaters your game would lag a bit and possibly crash.

Midway.2319:

Please put a cap on how many people can use this ability. I just saw 40+ enemy players from Dragonbrand use it to portal past the walls into a keep in one of the borderlands. Sorry but tactics or not, this is way too over powered and needs to be looked at. Now we know how Dragonbrand works, they’re not very good players and use exploits to win any wvw matches. Kinda sad small minds can’t use real tactics and cower down to exploits like this.

I have to say this one more time like everyone that thought of this LEGIT tactic as stated by ANET.

Mad you didnt think of it first?

Dragonbrand. We need more.

Dragonbrand’s NA prime time is around more of CST/EST

Blink your such a child. If you cant get over legit portal tactics then you need to go back to pve and stay out of WvW.

I agree server transfers need to be disabled on the server currently fighting. Also it has been over a month, TURN THEM OFF ANET.

AlexanderFaust.4518:

NoizeMaker.8367:

Another one of these endgame threads? kitten stick to one thread already. Getting old. You Hardcore content killers are getting old. Go back to rift and wow and games like that already.

The mods should not have to babysit these forums..
If you cannot be bothered to read the OP, then please do NOT reply

I did read the OP. theres about 30 duplicate threads of his post A DAY. grow up please.

Instead of getting a legendary. Just add effects to the Sigils and Runes. Glow is big on looks. Like in AION the godstones(Sigils in GW2) would add a visual effect to the weapons. They were also a world drop which made them fun to obtain and farm. Also a good part of the economy. Add effects to the Sigils.

RaZaC.1963:

Aion was in allot of internet adverts, that’s how i found out about the game. Aion sold very well at the beginning so i find it hard to say they failed. What they did fail at was continuing their web presence, i don’t think I’ve seen much advertising anywhere after they went live.

Anyways, you dont need those TV adverts with famous people in them to become a success. WoW didn’t had those adverts when they originally launched… The best advertisement is mouth to mouth something GW2 was very good at stimulating.

Why have famous people? Only WoW did that. And we all know they did that for more money as where RIFT and TOR did actual game play commercials 90% of the time. This actually made me wanna go out and buy the game and play for a good long amount of time.

GW2 could do the same to pull in the other 50% of people on this earth. See where Im going with this?

If more people demand the game from advertisements they see. The Shops will start stocking more of the game on their walls. Get where im going? K good. Now. If you buy the game it comes with a neat little instruction manual that I can tell you I know half of the purchasers will read because its more user friendly then any other manual out there. Isnt the point of getting a new game to figure it out and have fun playing it?

Word of mouth only goes so far. And I think people are missing that.

Amadeus.5687:

I actually think they have a done a quite good marketing job aswell, like Gabi says.

But that said, Anet simply can’t trow the amount of money after marketing as Blizzard ect. It’s quite expensive to make that extreme amount of marketing to everyone. (Also, it ain’t necessary to make so broad and global marketing as Blizzard does for a game after my opinion. Most gamer’s will find out about the games they want, they don’t need to see the game in TV)

What amount of money? TRION Worlds was brand new. Rift being their first game ever. But they had a million or more air’ings on TV’s globaly with their 3-4 spiffy commercials. Why can’t ANET do that for GW2 especially with NCsoft backing their every move.

Gabi.5264:

Seriously?

GW2 marketing department is the SOLE reason for the games success. They are actually the only ones who have done their job in my honest opinion.

While they did do quite a good job. It wasn’t spectacular like RIFT or WoW or SWTOR. They all 3 ran awesome amazing mind blowing come play our game commercials. GW2 lacks in that.

I agree with OP. My local GameStop in the states where I live is about everything but GW2. I’d like to see them features it rather then it collecting dust. And face it most servers pve zones are clearing out as people get higher and are farming constantly or just getting bored and going else where.

Get some awesome commercials running global please =)

instead of worrying about the gem shop. How about get the alliance system finished and get rid of multi guilding.

No Leaf Clover.4893:

Weapon swapping. Now that’s a blast. Truly, I’m expressing the way I feel things, which seems to bother you for some kind of unknown reason, Gilandrer.
I’ll elaborate. Be cautious not to jump at my throat after this, this would be unappropriate. I still have a right to express a point of view, right?
So. I note you didn’t mention the part about class personality, which is, for me, the worst of all.
What, to me, makes a class’ personality in this game? Weapon skills. Most of them (except warrior, guardian and thief -though it’s arguable-) seem to be.. flavorless? I mean, engineer rifle VS warrior rifle, as an example, or ranger longbow, or thief P/P, what the hell? This doesn’t feel like they’re the skill they should have.
TO ME.
I feel kind of forced to precise this, because I’m afraid peaople will overreact.
Then, with all those misplaced weapon skills, which reach an astounding number of five per weapon (minus swapping) at level 3 max, what do I have left?
Five skill slots, minus one reserved for healing, and one for Elite.
So three skill slots, three choices to make among the number of skills unlockable. Which I feel, really, could have been higher, or at least all INTERESTING. (Engineer turrets, from the top of my head). Don’t serve me the “game’s been out a month blah blah” stuff, it’s not polished. the skills system is, TO ME, kinda poor.
So yeah I feel this is all restricting.
I come from a world where people used to sell finished products, before the Internet could make up for game flaws.

Also, the way I remember GW1 (long time though, could be wrong), is that it made me feel like I had a huge deck of spells in hand, but was authorized to pick a few.
In GW2, I feel like I have a few spells at hand, and have to play those who were designed to be selected by eliminating the few useless ones.

The reason they did this is for balancing issues. They gave you the best of the best for various situations and got rid of the worst. Enjoy it or not it was a brilliant idea. Go Anet!

Its to the point ill have to say if your going to complain about player personality then your doing something wring. Personality isn’t part of your skill sit has to do with how you play those skills in the game and not on the forums like you just have.

Also personality include many more types of the game like cosmetics and such.

If skills make you that mad just leave already. Go back to the crappy system gw1 used that created numerous events of QQ all over their forums and ingame. Its your choice. Now pick.

At OP

ALienwar are pos. Im running a AMD q-core Phenom. With a crappy gfx card and I get more fps then you.

Get rid of multi-guilding and put in GW1 alliance system. And don’t tell us it can’t be done cause of the code.

Igolbug.7295: kittenololol

Im thinking dragonbrand got demoted because we simply have a lack of players compared to CD and JQ.

Either way this will be a good close match up!

The hell with commanders and give us raid groups.

One trick pony? I have yet to see Tsym do only one tactic. If you only knew the the minds behind our strats your heads would explode from to much knowledge.

blink.4239:

Zierk.4289:

NoizeMaker.8367:

Zierk.4289:

I shall simply attach a screenshot of my server holding 100% of WvW maps and leave it at that. We are very organized and very efficiently lead. Ignorance is bliss.

Oh and Ignorant: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorant

SO because your server has 5 times as many people active in WvW you think your good and organized. Your commanders and pugs have already admitted to being very unorganized in WvW. All you have is numbers and yes while that is a legit tactic, its a poor one and wont win you any points against the tier 1 servers that have numbers and organization. Either way JQ will end up QQin for their lives once week 3 is set in place. Enjoy the out zerg by the big servers.

As for CD and DB. Good job guys. Ive seen CD actually try and stay organized and it was awesome. You were a much better fight then JQ was when I was in WvW these last few days. Enjoyed it much better then porting into a JQ zerg of about 150 and just demolishing them.

The only tactic you guys seem capable of is using trebs in your citadel to siege towers.

The original comment I made was in reference to JQ being outnumbered 3-1 and both CD and DB seem to disengage as soon as you start to lose people. I’m not sure how we have 5 times as many players then you. Nor have I ever seen a 150 man zerg on any team. Your comment would mean that you only have 33 people on the map which I know is false.

But yes I will enjoy fighting week 3’s match up and I hope you enjoy trebbing people from your citadels. Win or lose isn’t really important, but at least I know next week’s lineup will not run away and use exploits.

Yeah I’d really like to hear this noizetard account for the treb exploit.

I dont even use trebs. Unless we put them on redbriar and shoot friggin AB gate. YOU CAN DESTROY THE TREB THERE. Start accusing DB’s only guild [TSym] Thats worth a kitten in wvw about exploiting. Go ahead. Just makes you look even more like an idiot. GO play the big boys in tier 1 and see how fast youll get rocked.

blink.4239:

mangarrage.1062:

8-10 you trying to be funny you mean 80-100
if any 10 of you faced 5 of us you would be respawning and then come back with 40
Go play in the zerg tier and see how you do

You’re complaining because the opposing team has better organization and knows where to direct its forces?

Another kitten I see..

Azure Prower.8701:

Zabatakis.3571:

Last week sucked. I don’t think we stood up to ET in numbers at any point besides prime time, where we would eek out what points we could from taking what few fully fortified defenses possible. Our oceanic hours are good, but not capacity and it felt like ET was always at 100%. Also does not help most of the Aussie guilds REFUSE to leave spawn until they have everyone in. So as they are taking the shift we are usually down 20-30 players and at a disadvantage.

It really did not help us last week that SoS decided to all but ignore ET due to cowardice and constantly attack us whenever we were on the offensive in an attempt to get second. Rumor was it was a bunch of ET xfering to really give us the screws but I don’t know about that. All the more pleasure gained from rocking their kitten this week.

I don’t really think SoS was trying this week. After the ET griefing our server’s WvW and siphoning players off to their server. SoS doesn’t really want to face them again. They’re not fun to play against. So we made sure we lost so your server gets the honors. Enjoy!

I thought SoS was some sort of Super PVP server.. Weird I must of heard wrong.

Well apparently I cant edit my post. Anyways I ment that post to “Mog” not you Slyther. Simply my eyes made me copy the wrong name.