Guild Wars 2

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

FC YOU HAD SECOND

You go and send a 30 man squad to take briar in our borderlands, and then lose it 5 minutes later

Meanwhile youre losing Hills and Bay and your borderlands? You guys dont deserve second, goodjob DR!

2nd is just the first loser.

I would just like to chime in here.

When Character bound world xp related upgrades were first announced I assumed that gaining ranks and abilities wouldn’t take too much time. What we have is absolutely bonkers.

I know a few players on my server who have said “I’d really like to play on a different character but I’d lose my abilities or chance to rank up.” Whoever made the decision to set the bar so high to gain abilities AND character bound I hope you reconsider.

Account bound would allow players to “play how the want!” isn’t that part of your guys manifesto? Don’t punish players for having alts.

Please change the system over to an account bound system.

mexay.3902:

Also, this is completely off-topic from my post, but I’d like to commend the FC guy (and his guild) who jumped on IoJ’s TS on reset night and said hi and said how much he enjoyed reset and such. This is made me feel like FC are, whilst not the greatest at WvW, respectable opponents. Kudos to you and your guild, I look forward to seeing you guys on the battle-field some more.

Was the “whist not the greatest at WvW” really necessary? I feel like I’ve been kissed on the cheek and then slapped on that cheek and finally given a little pat on the head. Its a weird mixed bag of emotions man ^^.

Anyways, we’re having great fun fighting you guys (IoJ and DR), even had a que in EB at one time tonight (gasp). Thanks for the good times this weekend.

Moronic Idiot Chest Thumping American here had a lot of fun tonight. Hoping we can quit talking about lame stuff like “coverage” and more about the “fights” or maybe even get some score updates.

Since we are generalizing whole populations I think everyone needs to go watch the documentary called Idiocracy. Despite taking place in America I believe it insinuates that the entire world is basically the same in their own special ways. After all the do bring up the UN who UNdid the kitten’s and their dinosaurs.

I had a lot of fun fighting DR and IoJ last night. I’m used to fighting the same people for months on end (ET I miss you and for some reason i feel dirty without you) so it is interesting to see how different each server plays.

DR thanks for the battle at our Hills last night. Tough siege.

Sure got ugly in here.

I don’t mind HoD; sure I find their propaganda about how big ol’ FC constantly outnumbers them mildly annoying, but I also find it funny. Yes the amount of thieves frolicking about, permastealthing, and back stabbing me gets a bit irksome. And yea I hate how they always get their crap upgraded asap.

However the emoting isn’t a big deal. Everyone does it. Hell I’ve been apart of the mass Lukian Dance Party caps before. If the emoting feels like an insult that’s a personal problem. Lighten up, lets be honest, it’s the losing and dieing that really kitten es us off not the emoting.

Each server hides behind walls, and sits on AC’s. I can’t knock HoD for something I myself have done. Fight the battle you want, not the one your enemy wants. It’s certainly worked for them.

Plus when you actually talk to the people on either server, ET and HoD, they are alright. Most of us are all trying to do the same thing afterall. Having a good time PvPing.

So with those earthshattering revelations can stop the snickerdoodling around and be cordial for the last couple days we’re stuck together?

Devon.9061:

Sooooooo still miss HoD?

Just glad you guys are done playing possum. How was Southsun?

KyoHanakaze.8145:

From what I can tell,. FC actually has the highest WvW pop of all three servers fighting in T8.

Hahaha, classic HoD.

I know that the people who post on the forums aren’t always indicative of a servers WvW population but I’m really disappointed in what I am seeing from HoD as of late. In the beginning it was all rainbows and sunshine when you guys were winning. Then things started going south. Que QQ, Que recruiting thread. Why aren’t you guys just bringing out those dominating numbers we all saw in the first two weeks? Not that I am complaining crushing the enemies morale is a valid military tactic. Which may be part of your guys frustration with the obstinate stubbornness when facing hard times you get from FC and ET

Atomicjellybean, I’d watch your words man. HoD is currently in last place this week on the bottom tier. That is the sort of thing that can quite embarrassingly bite you in the romp.

Anyways, I personally believe that HoD will come out of the gates next week swinging and swinging hard. Looking forward to it.

Yea, but the lost Zombie Land before they even dropped down, and they still won those first 2 weeks.

With a fair margin at that.

You guys have a rough time in T8 for one week and already are looking to recruit guilds? From what I could gather these last three weeks HoD has plenty of numbers to be competitive in T8.

Did you guys lose a bunch of guilds or something in the last week?

Strange, because the hour and a half I spent in WvW last night I was defending FC BL from an ET incursion.

The double team talk makes me giggle. FC and ET couldn’t even work together when we were getting stomped by SF for months. HoD wins a couple weeks and now FC and ET have managed to form a working relationship?

Believe it or not all the people from the old Glicko Ghetto didn’t like each other one bit. After SF left some people took to calling us brothers but most of us remain vigilant in our single minded goal of killing each other.

Anyways, conspire away.

@ Dawdler: An hour not spent trebbing a tower is an hour I’ve wasted. Holding the number 2 key down is basically a laugh riot of a good time It’s basically my third favorite thing to do after watching paint dry and grass grow.

@ VOLKON: Seriously man, the time it would take to build a treb to take out all the siege the place would soon be filled to the brim with defenders. kitten if you do, kitten if you don’t. I appreciate the critique though, super.

It’s not just T1 that has seen the meta change. I play on a T8 server, we don’t have large numbers to play with. It’s basically become a “Hey they are attacking ET, lets try and take a fortified tower while they are gone.” Then as our massive 20 man zerg PvD’s while we frantically lookout for people trying to get in, cries of “Don’t let anyone in!” echo out of our TS.

The gate is down to 30%

One guy gets through, grabs an AC. “Ok lets leave and grab a camp.”

Yay… fun.

If an uplevel is smart they’ll know this and purposefully try to make their characters as tough or annoying to kill as possible. I leveled 5 characters predominately through WvW this way and was often picked out of the group with my green arrow but I offered no free meals.

In certain circumstances, like being upleveled, we need to play smarter.

The AC patch is bad

Almost unanimously the people I’ve spoken with are irritated or downright angry about the arrow cart changes.

For me the worst part is that is has made WvW less fun and slow. If something is making your game unfun for the community (majority) I’d rather not be given the finger and told to adjust my tactics.

Surely there were better ways to break up the zerg (if that was the goal) than just motivating people not to play.

Yea some of the achievements are pretty stupid ridiculous… but then i remember the hell it was to get my combat healer title.

obastable.5231:

i’m sorry our numbers are more than you were expecting, but you’ll get no apologies for having us in your tier, especially after you begged for it for so long.

We dealt with SF for months buddy, you dealt with them for what 2 weeks and you think we are care about the numbers you field?

Nah.

Welcome to T8

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

As for T7, we’re counting on you guys to represent it well and keep SF from moving up. Broken ratings systems or not, they’re sitting in a spot they didn’t earn, and all we want is a chance to get back there and fight them for it.

After the many weeks I spent fighting SF I can tell you, they earned their spot in T7. The nudge by Anet was a correction in the Glicko ratings not a free pass. The way the system was working, or not working, SF was never going to leave and another week of threads complaining about t8 and mega blowouts would continue.

Seems like a well balanced match so far to me.

I don’t think most of those people are from FC though. Although I am sure there are some. As far as tying up population slots… how dare they tie up 30 slots. LOL. Seriously, that’s such a ridiculous complaint to lobby at VK.

Anyways how does the saying go… teach a man to fish (or something).

SniffyCube.6107:

As far as Vk’s comments on glassy, I have a similar stance as the poster of the glassy comment: I threw out an honest opinion … and don’t want to get into this drama

Ofc no offense to anyone, including yourself… we all know they have the population but why keep bringing it up? Anet has said they are working on it (for how much or little faith people have in that statement). It isn’t their fault they’re here.

It’s impossible to make these forums flame-free, but we can try to make them more enjoyable for people (and I’m guilty of the flaming as well).

Hey, as an FC player I can say VK’s comments to SF and ET were gentle and cuddly. They’re really getting on our kitten and seriously, they friggen rock for it.

Tough love is still love.

Alchemist.3692:

Some people don’t seem to understand that during reset the population in WvW is equal… your people stop showing up afterward, that doesnt make it our problem. I guess common sense seldom trumps self pity

I don’t post on the forums very often and I (hopefully) realize you’re just trolling for kittens and giggles but the population is not equal on reset nights. I do not have any self pity; I enjoy the uphill battles.

The populations are not balanced and saying nut-uh everyone on FC and ET just suck is ridiculous. Don’t flatter yourself.

Jeknar.6184:

+200ppt woot? How long it will last?!

Haha, yea thanks in some small way to the awesome defending FC was doing at Bay and Hills. Two 25+ SF zergs hitting both.

Was good fun.

The reason 80’s don’t go to lower level regions has nothing to do with challenge or lack there of. It’s old content, they’ve already been through it and there is little to no reward for doing it. Sure it’s an easy way to get some blue gear that they have no use for but that’s about it.

I think you’re right, but I’m insignificant.

If it makes you feel better.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

The high cost is to discourage players from transferring to servers which are already overpopulated.

Then they should just stop server transfers.

The high cost is to generate a source of income.

Yea… i seriously hope this wasn’t their idea of “motivating” players to get back into the world.

We’ll have to spend more time in the world because it’ll take more time to kill stuff. YAY FUN!

Hopefully this isn’t as designed and will get removed or tweaked.

Paradox Xion.1038:

I have to agree that something has to be done about this situation. As things are right now, players on servers that are serverely outmanned will never be able to finish map completion. Having to participate in WvW to get 100% mapping is absurd. I am being punished because my server has a lower population of WvW players and cant control the map. So to get map completion Ill have leave my guild and my friends and switch to another server? Thats not right.

But now you can pay for the privilege. Isn’t that better?

I agree, it’s a bothersome bother. If we can guest onto other servers and go into WvW ‘Havent read up on that’ then i take back my snarky remarks because then it’s much better than what we have now.

The only problem i have with the nerfs is that there seems to be a disproportionate amount of nerfs as compared to buffs. And when there is a buff that buff is soon nerfed.

Also like others have said nerfs aren’t fun.

When I see a nerf i see something I’m not going to be doing.
When I see a buff i see something I can do and might want to do.

For those who don’t want to duel or receive duel request why not simply put in an option for players not to receive the request in the first place. If they so choose.

I think the lack of a duel option is a rather large and glaring hole in GW2.