Guild Wars 2

I logged on today and hopped into southsun survival for the daily achievement. While in there I discovered that I was passively healing. In fact I was healing FASTER than the hunger hits. This made me all but unbeatable.

I believe this is directly related to the PVP build I had since I was using Runes of the Dolyak. I went and changed my PVP runes and lost the healing effect. Then I changed BACK to Dolyak to check and it did indeed restore my healing.

Craig.2403:

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Granted, there are people like you who think running away and fighting on siege just to make points tick for your server and make you guys win is fun. That type of thinking is fine, as long as you realize it’s not what EVERYONE thinks. Just some food for thought.

Thought I’d chuck my two cents in the ring. A lot depends on what you are after. I don’t regularly engage [BS] outside of keeps because of a level of respect for them. Me and my shiny disco mace have been wrecked a few times already. Now if I was to gather equal numbers to face them… It would likely be an amount of PUGs. Now if I was to face an organized guild, likely on guild chat, with a pick up group… It would be an easy wipe for you guys. No fun there.

Now I could get an organized group, train for several weeks and then we would become a fair fight. Buuuuuut, that’s a little to much effort for a WvW casual player like myself. I just find it a lot more entertaining to throw myself at enemy hordes, leading a charge into enemy forces. Win or lose, that’s how I get my rush.

As for getting the PPT people, I feel that they get the thrill of “winning” in a battle. A victory is determined not by the quality of fights but by how far ahead your server is. And winning is a thrill in and of itself. Just depends what you are after.

Just want to thank everyone on all the servers for making this one of the closest matches I’ve ever seen! Kudos all around, have yourself an omnombar. It’s a tight match and those are the best!

Looking forward to seeing everyone on the battlefield!

I agree. I look forward to seeing some more of you AR guys. Maybe we’ll get lucky and get a 3rd server that doesn’t dominate the numbers game. That would be a great week. Possibly the best I’ve seen in a long long time!

I’m actually quite flattered that you think we have BP numbers. Shows how hard we fight. I actually visited their forums during the match with them and our conclusion was that though we both had our fair share of tricks, none of it was worth anything when we were outnumbered by 3 to 1 in just about every fight.

Neither here nor there though. Got to say fights have been (for the most part) rather fun and enjoyable. I first started WvW when we were fighting DH oh so long ago. Brings me back to just hitting lvl 80…. Good times good times.

It’s not a challenge if you can be interrupted. Why show up if every solo fight you’re in gets interrupted? It’s not a solo fight then so there’s no reason to show.
It’s a “safe” environment in the fact that you can have your solo fight without a likely interruption. Safe as in not dying? Not happening.

Edit: Also I never said you were ganking everyone. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just a bit of whining. I’m not accusing anyone of anything it’s more of a warning of what could happen.

It’s cause and effect. A chain of events. Logic series of events.

1. Fight night is considered crashed by some people unrelated to fight night.
This leads too:
2. People spread word that fight night is no longer safe or fun.
This leads too:
3. Fewer people show up to fight night.
This leads too:
4. Boredom at fight night due to less challengers.
This leads too:
5. Even Fewer numbers and eventually abandonment of the night.

Will this happen this time? Probably not. Could it? It may have started, judging from earlier comments on this thread.

Any other time or place than fight night I expect to get ganked killed, zerged and other good times. Honestly, it would be great if Anet added a 1v1 arena as opposed to the open PvP maps. I like to think people are respectful enough to not break it. Do I think it was as bad as people are making it out? No. I think it’s honestly probably just a trivial thing in the long term of things.

Unrelated note, we’re all on HoD. It’s always good to get different opinions.

I agree entirely.
Maturity is what allows the agreements to meet on certain times for certain purposes.

Since we know that it isn’t competitive we rely on maturity to have our fun in other ways.

I wasn’t at fight night this time, so I don’t know what happened, I don’t blame anyone or I am not throwing accusations. I am just worried that whatever happened for whatever reason may have longer lasting effects that might hinder one of the more enjoyable things I do in WvW.

Jscull.2514:

News flash saint, we get zerged down everyday. Gentlemens agreement. Where did arena net find their customers? Good god…. This is literally a starter mmo.

True, a gentleman’s agreement requires gentlemen doesn’t it? Heaven forbid an MMO have a more mature crowd.

Believe it or not… Some people enjoy fight night, the challenge of 1v1 from another server. Sometimes they look forward to it all week due to server imbalance.

It’s kind of like running around in a 5 man group, I hear some people enjoy that. Like PAXA for example. How would you like it if there was a good 5v5 and a zerg just Roflstomps you?

I say “allowed in” because fight night only keeps up as long as we trust each other.
If the trust of fight night is broken the other servers may either:
A. Break and run as soon as any HoD show.
B. Gang up and spike all HoD immediately.
Either way there will be no duels and no fun to be had.

This is a delicate balance easily broken.

Indeed. When a group ruins a gentleman’s agreement (Which fight night is) regardless of reasons or justification, the agreement falls apart and may never be remade. This might very well be the last fight night, ever, that HoD is allowed in.

That would be the 2+ hour fight sir. Props. Major props.

Shout out to the ET defending their bay keep earlier. That was a hard fought battle all around and you guys defended brilliantly.

BTW Good fun to everyone behind the windmill! Had a blast in the night that shouldn’t be named. or talked about.

Evilzara.6378:

Saint of Virtue.8329:

If nothing else… I’d say let’s organize some: 5v5, 10v10 and maybe even 20v20 battles between servers. It would still keep the fun up and possibly bring more people out from us smaller servers.

Sounds fun. Visit our site (in my signature) and post in our WvW forum asking for some GvGs. I’m sure a lot of guilds would love to participate.

I’ll post something on there. Maybe we could even get an area set up for Group vs group.

Anyways since this match has all but been decided already I propose we extend Fight night across the entire week.
1. Because I like fight night
2. Because I like fight night.
3. Because EB will get bored stomping us and it gives em something to do.
4. Because fight night is fun…

Those are legit reasons I swear!

Right. When I was there it was basically 1 group of 20 HoD running around trying to counter. 1 group of about 10 trying to get siege and counter BP attackers and another group of 5-10 flipping camps back or joining with the 20 man squad.

Our 20 man group would fight one of your 2, 30 man groups. Then run to fight the next one which had taken a keep or tower while we were fighting the other. Not terribly effective I’m sure but it was the best we could do.

Making yourself look big to wipe zergs much bigger than yours? It must have confused you when a smaller zerg hit you. I won’t say we won every time, but we won quite often. Good times.

Smack talk aside, it’s kind of a shame we’ll never see that level of fight again.

Still good fun though. I don’t think the rest of the week will be very interesting though. I can say that HoD will come out but don’t expect a reset night numbers again. maybe 20 at max.

Looking forward to fight night though. Should see some good match ups.

You mean you only had about 40 people in our BL? I could have sworn there was more…
Darn mesmers look like 4… :P

lol Our BL was a fun fight though. I have noticed that the other side always appears bigger than your own. As an example,when about 15-20 of us wiped near a tower We thought it was great that we had managed to take down 30+ of you. I’m sure on your side you were wondering where the 30-35 of us came from.

If we clear 50k this week I’m calling that a WIN for HoD. See if we can beat Devona if nothing else. I’d say double team BP but I think we’d still be outnumbered 2 or 3 to one. At least it’s a target rich environment.

If nothing else… I’d say let’s organize some: 5v5, 10v10 and maybe even 20v20 battles between servers. It would still keep the fun up and possibly bring more people out from us smaller servers.

I’ve played more WvW this week than most previous weeks combined. It’s been a lot of fun, so kudos to everyone that has been coming out.

BTW, I’ve been noticing more ET lately, Have you guys been getting a few more people coming out? Because that would be awesome.

Edited: That video of the “greatest player” is hilarious.

Kanthar Turambar.9164:

I feel like a number of things happened in our final week against SF before the matchup changes this week. A combination of completely crushed morale, some server drama, and some guilds jumping ship wound up hitting HOD’s WvW population pretty hard.

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Fellow Hengies, if you feel like anything I said wasn’t a fair representation (or have anything to add), feel free to correct me. Odds are you’re closer to the situation than I am

I agree. There was so much Bickering going on that I didn’t go to WvW, not because we were losing but because we had so many big commanders yelling at each other. That crushing week was actually great for us. We lost a lot of the guilds that were big and screaming at everyone in map and that ended up making WvW less fun for the others.

Since then, WvW has been rather pleasant, somewhat organized and even… Fun. Heck I think we’re doing better against SF now than we did before the bigger guilds left. (Get on Server! has become a running joke now.) This is a direct result of that “Quitting” week we had. I feel that we lost a lot of ego and now it’s mostly people just having fun and we come out in numbers because of it.

Shout out to all the SF on EB, Monday night. It was a blast besieging your castle and then defending AP from the counter attack, then besieging the castle again, then defending…

It was one heck of a fight.

For everyone that showed up to Thursday night fights on the 23rd.

It was a blast for my first time and while I didn’t win any, I didn’t lose many and learned a lot about 1v1. Namely that my support specs aren’t great for it but they aren’t bad for it either. Hope to be able to do this again with the new matchups.