BG is good, probably the best fight [KBD] has had in 6 weeks. EB was a struggle through primtime tonight, something new. Normally don’t post in these threads, but had to tip hat to BG. Looks like darkfall beta will have to go to the back burner for the week.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
axe + horn with power/crit build is a great but you do not really need to build for those weapon increases. they are fast enough and depending on gear hit hard enough without having to waste traits. But swapping into axe/warhorn from staff with a sigil that grants might is even better than starting a fight or having axe/warhorn as primary. with range of staff it easy to get down the aoe before they are in range and swapping. i fought not using axe in my swap weapons for using a dagger + horn. but after a few weeks i could not deny that axe +horn is just better and can be used in so many situations, especially pvp. tpvp for me on necro is all about buying time. being able to get off well of darkness and unholy feast on a thief/warrior on initial group contact is priceless and in 1v1 situations is insta-win.
Run 30-20-20. And mostly run the same abilities, may swap well of darkness to spectral walk if the melee on the opposing team is bad. With warhorn locust swarm and spectral walk you always have swiftness on demand. But with build and well of darkness adding chill to blind really screws baddies up, lol.
seems the trendy new thing is to run bunker/tank spec on your necro, but still love power/crit build and rely on movement to stay alive while melting faces
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
After much debate, we have transfered to Tarnished Coast for better WvW. Competitive matchups is a big thing with [KBD], TC gave us the best option for great matchups each week.
So come join in! always looking for pvp focused players
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Tarnished Coast is good times, transfered from Gate of Madness and night 1 has been a blast. This server will have good matchups for a long time to come
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Been a great time on TC. Never say die attitude is good times in night 1 of this matchup. For [KBD] EB was roller coaster tonight, lost it got it back. Non-stop fights. Started ugly but now TC its holding its own on all maps. See what its like when the dust settles in the morning on Saturday.
Thanks to all that helped out this crusty transfer commander.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
LOL, sorry if my eyes see 5-8 players wipe 30+ in open combat. Its called CC locking, having heals, and aoe rezs. Should never happen. It’s embarassing.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Thursday will work, and we can do it again Friday and Saturday until we have a good idea of which guild and players are going to try to make this organized and what system we use for communication.
No offense but Yak’s is pretty bad 5 of us have taken towers from 30+ players
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Not trying to be a downer but pretty sure Saturday was the last time many of the GoM WvW crowd gave their last effort until the next matchup. It was a great 12 hour stretch. But with the many now gone and many looking to move. The population is not in a state to support any alliance system.
Theory crafting and alliances has nothing to do with WvW. Not sure how much time you have spent in WvW since launch. Its about population, population from 3am EST until 3pm EST plain and simple. Can have the best commanders and the best strats, but unless you have a 3 map full que population at 5am the score will never be in our favor.
GoM has been a great WvW server from launch and done amazing things as the underdog and has shown many that numbers will not dictate the outcome of individual battles, but it means nothing to the scoring system in GW2 WvW.
Being commander for me has become more a job and not been fun this week. Just like those before me that have lost faith. Its not lost faith in server but in the system.
Best of luck, hopefully next week brings new life to GoM and a better matchup.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
[PRO] was not the only WvW guild on the server and them leaving will not change GoM. GoM has had population problems with and without many WvW guilds.
Yesterday was a prime example, we were very organized in Eternal and basically took 75% of the map in 12 hours highly out numbered. Everyone worked together and stonemist defense over night was great fun. But we don’t have the population to sustain what we capture. So one guild leaving or one guild joining no matter the size will not fix or add to the problems on GoM.
We need population and commanders who are willing to teach. None of us want to be a zerg or we would have transfered off already. Keep the faith and continue to join WvW, there is going to be good weeks and bad weeks.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Proud of GoM. Saturday was awesome. Don’t care about score or crying about zergs. Outnumbered and out supplied we took Eternal over with non-stop organization and teamwork. Starting at 10am EST with not owning anything on any map to 11pm EST when we took Stone mist. By far the most fun with GW2 for me. There are many of us that are not leaving GoM and going to keep putting in effort in WvW. Lucky to be part of it.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
From one map to another GoM is night and day. Can be in Eternal and its a well oiled machine with many working together. Jump over to GoM border and its noobsville with every comment in team/map having to do with graphics problems and people running around like chickens with their heads cut off. We also have a problem with commanders disappearing after a small setback. Most like the challenge but some are just there for a kitten ego contest.
But it does not matter, its only been a few days. With luck GoM will hit its stride during the week and make a run.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Don’t forget about the GoM groups using noclip hacks to clear out garrisons at 4 AM EST every night. They have nothing to do with your success, nope.
Do some people actually believe what they type or are they just mad?
So what happen tonight from about 8pm till 3am before the magical hack fairy came at 4am? The answer is GoM was sitting on your chest. Going to start wearing a hard hat at the computer there is so much work being done by GoM in WvW. Again nice work by Lyghtning in EB.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
To bring a summary of page 3 of this thread. [PRO] is Pro.
No but really there are the same people out in WvW on GoM since launch and its good times.
Also its not a huge influx of new players on GoM, we are just that good. hehe
Most of the new names are from the server and just new to WvW. The only place that transfers have filled in is off hours like late PST into morning EST.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
And since my entire post was deleted , will try again just shorter.
Some have worked very hard on gaining GoM a 24/7 population. The same player base who got it done against larger numbers in previous matchups is still here and not going anyplace. So when we do bounce back to top tiers population and night capping will not be an issue. Organization has only got better.
[PRO] has not hacked in our presence, nor does anyone believe they do.
The last night of last weeks matchup has been a turning point for some and brought faith to many in GoM player base that have been out in WvW since launch. 8+ hours holding north EB against both server zergs was talked about spread across server. The new numbers have come mostly from players already on the server. Say what you will about respect, but respect in pvp especially mmo pvp means nothing.
Many are doing work out in WvW on GoM, no reason to take away from it.
shout out to the EST AM morning crew!
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
I noticed PRO and some coincidental GoM zergs on the Orb respawn rate as soon as the orbs were hacked, funny it happened on all three Borderlands within just a few minutes. While it may not be the majority of their server, it sure kitten off my server enough to blindly focus on them at the expense of our other fronts in many battles.
I feel bad for GoM, but as long as so many people coordinate to use hacks, I can’t see it being easy to rebuild their reputation until Anet really counters the hacking problem.
Got to love posts like the one above. Priceless and totally clueless.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Wait what? You finished SO STRONG you dropped down TWO tiers?
Because the last night for 12 hours we held EB against both servers zergs severely outnumbered. It translated into a bunch of new blood and now leading our current matchup. Can look through the matchup threads since launch, GoM has won our fights in primtime against larger numbers non-stop because of organization. We are finally able to have population during off hours this week like we did during the first few eeks after launch. We will bounce right back.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
This past week and weekend has seen a huge influx of WvW players to Gate of Madness. We ended our last matchup strong and started the current matchup even stronger and holding the lead.
Come join the fun.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Such a joke that some fourm warrior guild leader who is never out in WvW cries hacks that effected the entire day/night and week of fighting has to come to the fourms. Your making a fool of yourself if you think and entire server is hacking and that even if hacking is going on it can drastically effect a score in this WvW system.
When you make the statement everyone saw it means you did not see anything yourself. Que up and fight and learn to play.
Spend every morning EST on GoM in WvW and see hard fought battles. The rest of [KBD] is out every night busting kitten fighting with the rest of the server. To taint the work being done by GoM’s guilds 24/7 with the complaints of hacks is bogus.
Those on all 3 servers who are actually out there fighting in WvW day in and day out know the truth and that a few supposed hackers can not effect this scoring system.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Looking for more Oceanic timezone, Late Night West Coast players, and East Coast early morning players. If you are a PvP player focused on WvW Gate of Madness should be your transfer server.
Gate of Madness has managed to stay in the top half of WvW rankings by being better with less players. GoM is the underdog server with less population that still gets wins. But recently GoM has moved down from the top 10 only because of population. We have organized groups and experienced commanders that get the job done against much larger numbers every week. But we don’t have the 24/7 population right now to hold what we gain each day/night so our score does not reflect our skill level. Just need a few more dedicated players to keep the server in the mix among the best top tier servers. We have beat many of the so called “best” servers in the first few months already.
So if you are looking for a better WvW playing experience than your current ghost town borderlands or battlegrounds transfer to Gate of Madness. Also if your tired of running with the zerg and using max range abilities hoping to get a hit in and seeing 10 players finishing off one player and would rather use your skill and class knowledge to smack around the zerg servers, transfer to Gate of Madness.
We have organized groups and experienced commanders that get the job done against much larger numbers every week.
What happened this week? I mean, you can say it was a population thing in terms of coverage but if the argument is that you’re still outplaying people with your small numbers, the results speak louder than the words.
We had a hell of a week. Like tonight in Eternal, with half the numbers we took and held the north side of the map against two huge zergs from both servers for 8+ hours. Quick responses and good intel thanks to leadership combined with heavy use of properly placed siege equipment showed GoM’s true colors again. Score can be whatever and we still win battle after battle during our primetime. The servers we fight can not deny it. Not going to cry about scoring system, those that WvW on GoM know we can take the pepsi challenge against any server when we are online.
The point of this thread was to get more players, because if we had a 24/7 presence this server would be dangerous
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
Not sure what this above post has to do with anything. Titan Alliance being on GoM for beta made more guilds not look at GoM for launch. GoM had a bunch of flash in the pan guilds at launch because of BETA and wanting to ride coat tails of TA. It was pretty evident where Reddit guilds were going from the million posts across multiple websites. Most large reddit guilds were on Darkhaven through the betas and finally in BWE3 they got smashed by GoM. Why they would have turned around a week later and choose the server that most reddit guilds called enemy makes no sense. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/y4kqb/a_bwe3_retrospective_titan_alliance_vs/
But now that the dust is beginning to settle over the past few weeks its the same guilds/crew/players in WvW for GoM. We do extremely well against the zerg and would just need a bit more population to stay in the top half week in and week out while competing each week for wins. Have a lot of very good players that work well together. Anyone who has faced GoM can not deny that.
Raist Delirium | [KBD] Killed by Death | Tarnished Coast
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia http://failmore.enjin.com
