Guild Wars 2

Instead of skill or stat advantages, how bout economic ones in game?…like rank x discounts your repair bill by rank y, or your siege vendors charge x% less per rank, or PvE travel costs are reduced by x%. I disagree with stat/armor/skill upgrades at end game just because some people have more time to play than others.

I did the vanilla WoW GM grind, and gaining almost 2 million honor a week and having to maintain pace and rank for x weeks to receive special stuff that was eventually given away via an expansion patch killed it for me, and I hope that never happens here, as I learned that lesson the hard way.

The rewards of being better should not always go to those who have more time and less skill vs. those who have less time and more skill. It invites more opportunists, more zerging, and inhibits the smaller guilds from being successful even more, as numbers almost always win, except in fortified and well defended areas.

I like this game because it’s W3 does involve some skill, timing, attention to detail about your opponents strategies and about the battlefield conditions, and its more like playing chess as one of the pieces than WoW ever was since the old vanillaTarren Mill days.

Also, if any of this was ever implemented in any way, in any form, (monetary, skill, stat, crafting, etc.) I’d suggest that anyone who transfers servers get these advantages reset, so that the decision to transfer will be a conscious one, not one made on a whim or to gain a tactical advantage by spying on another server.

OP,
you are doing the same exact thing you were doing in /T in game. you keep putting down the players who consistently hold their own during their “Shift”. The confusion you created directly led to losing some of the points we owned while the arguments econtinued, because the name-calling spam could not be ignored for the sake of commands to move as directed by ANYONE including yourself. the decision to follow the “others” as you put it had nothing to do with PR, it had everything to do with your lack of maturity and constant self endorsement to anyone that would listen.

Those guilds you keep flaming, organize through voice chat, and can move much quicker than through typing. You were even invited to join a voice chat and declined, or maybe you missed it in all the spam.

A true leader learns how to follow humbly before he leads.

I even complimented what you did during your time as a leader, but whining about losing your “leadership” and blaming the bigger guilds is just ridiculous. After you quieted down, they moved forward and recaptured the lost areas.

As far as public assassination, you have publicly assassinated some unnamed guild and some unnamed individuals all the while making yourself look less and less mature in this matter, i I do not recall a mass call for blocking you, only the statement of one saying that HE was blocking you.

As I said I wish you no ill will, but perhaps your quest for YOUR OWN lemmings to follow you is better served on your new server. You did have some success as a leader, but it seems it fed your ego more than your senses.

Honestly, good luck, and I hope you endeavor to enjoy the game again.

Hey in case you may have forgotten, perhaps THIS pic is part of the reason most people go with what they know, and left you when they came on.

OP,

I have run with you and have had very successful raiding runs while you were commanding troops. The problem it seems is when those bigger guilds’ leaders came on, and their members who had previously been following you switched to following their mates again, you had issues.
Instead of giving a turnover on what you’d done, what was happening, your insights to tkittenb and flow of the current battles, you complained and ridiculed their leadership and pointed the finger at yourself for what YOU had accomplished in their absence. Of, course this was all done during the transition to prime-time players. You planted a seed of discontent and confusion, forcing them to put you on ignore after your repeated insults and derogatory comments.

I was the one who tried to make light of it all by talking up donuts, lol.

Anyway, had you just followed and helped, our success would have been swifter, instead it was a major distraction to the overall plan, as you created confusion and unnecessary extra message traffic in chat..

I have no ill will against you, but I was an objective third party who has been led by you and others.

I hope that when you run into the same issue of someone usurping your leadership on your new server, you do not resort to another “jump” to another server.

Fair winds and following seas to you.

I fondly remember the epic hunter quest for my hunter bow in the vanilla version of “Panda-fu”. I’d like to see something along that line, with significant difficulty, and mixed with crafting that would yield something powerful and memorable. How many people toted that thing with pride after completing it without cheesing some of the quest parts?

If ANET did something like that, along with a storyline, for each of its legendary weapon types or classes it would be pretty cool.