Is there any chance of getting new WvW maps in the future? Almost a year of the same maps with out variation becomes bland. WvW is the end game in GW2. Please focus more attention on it. PvE patch every two weeks with 1 new wvw ability is pretty lame. I’m sure I’m not the only person that keeps their fingers crossed every 2 weeks for some huge WvW update but is always let down.
@DevonCarver thank you for your hard work and communication. You can’t please everyone, but a majority of the community is excited to fight some new opponents.
What surprised me last night than anything else Fannwong last night was that all of SoR was centralised on SoR bl, and content to fight 30 guys (who stayed on that map for the very reason that even if we were overwhelmed in terms of numbers, that if you stay on one map we can take the rest of SoR’s ground with the other oceanics who log in). This is not trolling, but I’ve always been curious why SoR runs a full map float in oceanic, because we stopped doing that a while ago for the reasons that is hurting your current ppt.
That is that once you zerg a map to oblivion, you leave all of the rest of your assests completely undefended and often without defensive seige, and if we hit garrison when you are on another map, you can’t do it in halves as it seems to be an all-or nothing tactic.
A SoR commander who used to be on SoS with us PM’ed me last night to ask if I was commanding when the who lake thing happened, and their response is that they weren’t in it for the ppt, which is at odds with a lot of the NA staying up late (I often see a lot of TW and Choo hanging around in the OCX/HIRE blob, and yes I understand they are not technically the full force, just nightowls).
A lot of respect for some of the guys in SoR (a little less for one certain commander who I butted heads with when I was on SoR previously), but I can’t see how you think the fights are fun if you are literally sitting in a massive blob all the time and not achieving a whole lot. Regardless, we’ll you guys on the field.
tl;dr version: Running in a massive blob won’t win you the match
Come on Tarkus did you not ready the above posts? HIRE and friends would rather farm you guys than go for ppt. Much respect for the fights though. As for the NA’s that “stay up late” there is a few NA that actually don’t play until oceanic time. As for the “blobbing” well I guess when you wipe so much all the red looks like a blob when they run over your body.
Some KN guilds (3 to 5) gonna transfert over BG or SoR very soon :p
Good to hear! Our Oceanic/Sea coverage on SoR has been decreasing significantly lately. Burn out + same stale matches over and over leads to a decreased WvW population I suppose.
I think all sea eu guilds should leave NA servers and go play with even numbers on a EU server. I wouldn’t hold it against you guys if you wanted to go enjoy real fights with dozens of strong guilds on a EU server.
So you guys don’t want OCX and AFS?
You are a fail troll lol. Please just stop posting on the forums. You make JQ look terrible.
1) JQ, you guys have better coverage than us. We only have NA coverage. It’s not fair.
OCX and AFS , two large wvw guilds, transfer to SOR to add to an already strong off peak coverage (Most of SBI oceanic/asian guilds transferred to SOR).
2) JQ, you guys have a better SEA coverage than us. It’s not fair.
-On a Saturday, it was JQ zerg vs SOR zerg towards the end of SEA time zone. SOR zerg got wiped repeatedly.
3) JQ, you guys have FOO. FOO should not participate in the match this week. It’s not fair.
-uhhhh.. what?
You obviously don’t play during Oceanic or SEA lol. You outnumber us on SoR 10-1 easily. Don’t make an inaccurate list like this unless you have facts to back it up.
Ruprect I was just kidding about being spawn trapped. I have a lot of respect for you guys in TC. My main point is that matches become stale and people become bored fighting the same people day in and day out. I was just stirring the pot to see if anyone else had ideas about ways to keep the WvW community entertained. Fighting servers a tier below or above your current server seems like it would be fun…for at least a short time.
With the current glicko ratings, the current volatility of T2 and BG slowly losing their rating in T1 I don’t think you have to worry about being spawn trapped. After a few more weeks of fighting the same servers and guilds maybe you will change your mind. Guilds and even the fair weather WvWers get bored fighting the same servers every week. Slowly but surely people will lose interest if there is not some sort of variation week in and week out.
I am on SoR and I can tell you that during our Oceanic/Sea/EU we can hold 2 out of the 4 maps with a floating force between both. BG has the same dilemma. JQ’s SEA and EU coverage is unreal with an 80 man zerg on every map. We know TC had some recent guilds transfer as well so I wouldn’t be knocking your own server.
SoR and BG need to double team JQ. JQ thinks numbers=skills.
On SoR a majority of our commanders try to push JQ, but as soon as we do BG decides its a good idea to back door instead of double team JQ. As a result of BG’s action we proceed to push BG and JQ does the same. That’s the nature of a 3 way fight I suppose.
Edit: Forgot to add that BG crying about being double teamed fuels the fire even more. So stop whining and push JQ already.
Maybe for the lower tiers. But there is such a huge discrepancy between the coverage of T1/T2/T3 that the matches would be blowouts. Mixing and matching even T1/T2 would not be a fun match. We have been stuck with a T1 server before for many weeks and they just dominate with their 24 hour coverage.
Would it not be fun and challenging to be matched up against a T1 server? Or even for the fun fights against different guilds and players in your respective time zone? Like a couple posts above, it actually helps out the glicko rating. By the way, the only server with true 24 hour coverage is JQ so no reason to be scared.
Ok, then maybe the match-ups should be randomized by every 2 tiers (1-2, 3-4, etc.)? Or am I wrong in thinking that fighting different guilds/servers every week would be a good change of pace for the WvW community?
I suggest rotating the match-ups within the top 1-3 tiers, 4-6 tiers, etc. Playing the same two servers every week gets a little repetitive. Even if a tier 2 server gets smashed by JQ the glicko rating won’t be affected that much and I can guarantee there will be a lot more active WvWers in all the tiers knowing that they get to match up against a variety of new guilds/servers. I think it will spark a lot more interest not knowing exactly who you will be matched up against every single week.
If you are coming back for the WvW patch in a couple days, or you are looking for a fun and competitive WvW community, join us on Sanctum of Rall! If you are coming over solo, HIRE and OCX are recruiting!
WvW is about coverage. SoR does not have it. Seems a lot of people get off on beating down empty tower doors on other servers. Maybe in the near future SoR will receive an influx of EU/SEA/Oceanic players so we can blue ball those that get off on doors. Then again maybe it’s time to form Kaineng of Rall.
I get the point you’re trying to make, but saying players on JQ and BG are fighting doors is false.There are plenty of fights to be had during Oceanic/SEA primetime in T1, and it’s not like SoR doesn’t have any players online during this time, you simply do not have as many as your opponents on average right now.
Maybe SoR presents the illusion that we have a decent amount of players some times. We have the outmanned buff on all borderlands and EB every night. We have the HIRE/Rallian zerg and OCX hopping between borderlands to try to save our undefended towers and keeps. After a couple hours the late night NA log off and we don’t have nearly enough Oceanics to hold even one borderland, let alone disperse between multiple borderlands. Of course we will fight and try to hold what we can, but in the end it becomes PvDoor.
WvW is about coverage. SoR does not have it. Seems a lot of people get off on beating down empty tower doors on other servers. Maybe in the near future SoR will receive an influx of EU/SEA/Oceanic players so we can blue ball those that get off on doors. Then again maybe it’s time to form Kaineng of Rall.
I approve of this. If I remember correctly the Devs said this update should bring something that will make it more valuable to be in first place in what time zone you are in. I will try to find the source.
I am not in Choo, but was present for the “ghost buster Zerg” and we definitely hit JQ just as hard as we hit you. The incident you are speaking of we didn’t even see JQ.
I hope JQ and BG know that SoR’s WvW community does not condone FEAR’s action. How anyone in an organized WvW guild could argue that they did not know it was the unofficial GvG area is beyond me. I cannot speak for individual guilds on SoR, but I know a lot of people are pretty embarrassed by this incident.
Imagine if half of the SoS guilds that transferred to BG went to SoR. That would be 24 hour action. I guess people enjoy PvDooring or golem rushing with 10 or less people defending to get that satisfaction of capping something. Oh well, enjoy our doors.
All Oceanic guilds play in NA ladder
All Asian guilds play in NA ladder.
Several EU guilds play in NA ladder.
Does anyone know NA guild playin in EU ladder that have more than 30 active players?
You really need more? Instead why don’t you come over to EU ladder?
Most of the guilds you speak of are on the same two NA servers. If more EU guilds came over they would experience the intended 24 hour non-stop war.
Anet screwed up by splitting NA/EU. If they wanted balanced WvW they would’ve had merged servers. Now all we have is imbalanced WvW and qqing all the time.
If SoR had more Oceanic/EU players T1 would actually be a good match. Until that happens SoR has no chance of keeping a competitive score against the two super servers.
