Guild Wars 2

To the DR guarding their jumping puzzle, hope you enjoyed the chase. I know I did

Jordy.2184:

Just gonna leave this here to

Soooooo, you are trying to say you can cap everything while the other servers are getting themselves ready for the next matchup. Cool.

Stay classy and don’t pull a muscle on the victory lap

Mepheles.2087:

Dang, only one chance to find and kill bandito in this entire league

And even then you might only kill his stunt double

gotem.5284:

Colt.9051:

Kinda overkill with only 5 or so defenders… don’tcha think? Go to sleep like the rest of us ET… -.-

In that SS I see you don’t have an outnumbered buff on you.

Don’t you guys have people who hang around in home BL just to use the crafting stations?

clint.5681:

We were totally being awesome these last few hours

Just remember to sweep for warriors and eles

Draygo.9473:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Serenity.8246:

Great job to GoM these past two days! I wish you guys would have played like this all week!

We sincerely would have liked to. Unfortunately, every time we’d settle in for a push against YB, we’d have to leave to go chase some vultures out of our yard.

And every time we went to yaks bl, gom ran to ours. Its how the game is being played. Sometimes when you push a bl the other server joins in, but not always. For the weekdays it seemed like everytime X attacked Y’s BL – Z would attack X’s BL. (case in point, YB attacked kain’s BL early in the week and GoM attacked YBBL instead of joining YB on kainbl).

Frankly, GoM has always been about putting pressure on the first place server. Most of the time we hit Kain was to spread the attention and get what points we could. I in fact remember on more than a few occasions Kain hitting YB, then we (GoM) making a move to other side of the map to use the distraction to hit YB. As to your example, the answer is simple: YB was in first. GoM plays for first. Makes the choice easy for us.

I do kind of think it funny that you turn the double team talk back on GoM… considering both YB and Kain were in GoM in full force in the opening min of the matchup. You thought us weak and easy pickings. You now know better.

styx.7294:

To be fair, we spend most of our time on enemy borderlands.

Very true, but I was speaking of our own bl. Just didn’t enumerate that in my post, lol. Nothing like seeing a YB hydra-zerg and realizing we have only 4 active people on the map.

Wreckdum.8367:

Somehow I think the words higher tier and higher pop are being mixed and matched. YB is not a high WvW pop server. For some reason I think it’s a psychological thing where every server in this game thinks they are outnumbered. How is that possible?! Because what else could it be?! I can’t ever say someone is better than me at a game. The table must be rigged! I was cheated!

Constructive criticism. YB does it too but not to the extent I’ve seen Kain and GoM when tabbing through zerg targets. Stop bringing alts to WvW… I haven’t seen so many upleveled free kills in a loooooong time. Not saying that’s the main reason you’re losing but it sure doesn’t help when 50% of your zerg is dead from 2 hits. lol

Well I don’t know about you, but we’ve been having the outmanned buff a lot more than we haven’t. That’s not an embellishment. About alts… well people can play how they want to play, and to be honest, I’ve seen a lot of uplevels from GoM throwing down pretty well. Hell even my 68-72 engi was able to win 1v1 and 1v2’s with full 80s, but that’s neither here or there.

Basically having outmanned being an almost all day thing justifies saying we are outnumbered in WvW. However as stated before, fun fights so far this week.

Shiver.5903:

The disturbance in the Force created by this thread awoke an old power from the depths of GoM…

Yeah sometimes ARM scares me. While we were squaring off with [BS], ARM managed to activate my rez banner from his downed state. Then went on to finish two of his dance partners. Scary indeed.

Russou Pagan, Charr necro

As a player on GoM, I’m enjoying this story and can’t wait to read more. I could almost picture people I’ve seen on GoM in your descriptions. Fun stuff.

Avalanche.5321:

I love this forum, everyone on GoM is raging hard because they got called out, then flattened by the same thing by about 10 or 20 FC.

Hilarious. You guys are just the greatest. Half the fun of WvW is coming here, and seeing you guys Q.Q when you’re WINNING.

QQ? I’m just having a grand time. I always enjoy watching as someone jumps the line of chest thumping and goes straight into beating the kitten outta themselves. But in all seriousness, we are a friendly community and would be glad to help ya with your problem.

BTW would an AC be a good present for your first zerg kill. They grow up so fast!

Avalanche.5321:

Avalanche.5321:

Hey GoM, what happened at the FC EB Keep there?

Arrowson’s Crossing.

Thanks for all the bags! Wiped a zerg force of GoM that was at least four times the size of our defending group. With Siege, Tactics, and Open Combat.

Proof is in the pudding, boys, FC = All the skill.

Well grats man! Its always great to strive to accomplish new things. Killing fields are always fun!

ThunderPanda.1872:

styx.7294:

Some quality arrow cart action by Anvil Rock.

From your screenies, how is that a hack/exploit?
You do know if you trait AC, you do get ac radius increase?

I picked a bad day to stop drinking

Dovgan.8605:

styx.7294:

Some quality arrow cart action by Anvil Rock.

Please, tell me that you think this is some form of hack. (Because it would totally make my night.)

sigh See Styx. This is why you can’t pay anyone a compliment.

Aeonblade.8709:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Announcing this correction with so little warning feels a bit like throwing GoM under the bus… how about making the ratings bump a bit more public and waiting till next week so servers have a chance to prepare.

How is this throwing GoM under the bus? I’m just curious, because even if they normalize t8, you still have a week to not come in third place again. Either show up or don’t and fall to t8, pretty clean cut.

I think this can easily give that impression when you couple an artificial drop to t8 with the free transfers this week, which many have pointed to as being partially responsible to this weeks matchup imbalance. Having both of these happen in the same week may make people feel like they have been tossed under a large motorized vehicle, despite the reality of any intentions or effects.

If GoM drops to t8 tonight, then we will fight our way out. If we have a week to escape the drop, then we will fight our way out. Either way our destination is through mountains of enemy corpses. Changes little for us.

Devon.9061:

What I’ve noticed is GoM has completely vanished after getting Green for a week. They just Poofed! Leading me to believe they are more PvE server. Anyways about the evenness of the teams before transfers. If you noticed way back when (like two weeks ago) HoD would usually take a commanding lead during the weekend (before transfers) We didn’t have the weekday players to hold that lead while you guys did. If the same players who played Friday – Sunday could put in the hours we did during the weekend or half of those hours we would have still held the lead. It was the fact that during the week the Outmanned buffed lived in HoD. I remember going in during the day and having maybe if we were lucky 15 people spread through all the maps. Now we simply have a week day force. Yes our weekend force got buffed. Yes our primetime force got buffed. But we would win during those times before that. The only that that has really changed is the fact that we have people on through the WHOLE week and not just the weekend.

I am in no way defending that the transfers didn’t help us. I am just saying we were outmanned and it was during the week that GoM and NSP were able to catch up to us because of that reason. Once again I would like to say Ive seen less GoM in WvW. Come back I miss you guys< Stop PvEing and more WvWing. You have a month to get those shiny backpacks!!!!!!

Love,
Kill

I think you are selling the weekday crew you’ve had the past month a little short. Every week we had to fight tooth and nail against very spirited defenses from both servers, and victory was never a sure thing. I don’t think anyone who brings up transfers is saying you guys couldn’t hold your own before the numbers, but are lamenting on the destruction of a matchup where each server had their strengths, the fight could go to any server each given week , and felt like every fight mattered.

As for GoM vanishing…
Well us Gates wvw’ers have come to bemoan new pve content. It tends to hit like a ton of bricks.

This is just a random idea, but what if killing a enemy player in WvW would count for something like 1 point towards your server’s score. The only reason I bring this up is that I’ve seen many small groups (5-10) take on larger numbers (20 -40) and win multiple times in the open field and defending towers. I know one of the concerns would be kill farming becoming more of goal ( ie. spawn camping ), but it would also help defenders, who put up a valiant defense actually do more good than delaying a zerg. Maybe only 1 point per 5 kills? I don’t think it should be the main source of points, but maybe a way to offset the points the attacker would gain for 15-45 min ( using an example where 8 players held a breached tower against about 30-ish enemy, getting at least 30+ kills during the 15min stretch ) The goal I think is to make defending and skirmishing against larger opponents a little more worth while, even though its fun enough to hunt down players. Just trying to think of something to reward people for doing well in tough situations and make people feel like they can directly contribute outside a zerg. Thoughts?