Guild Wars 2

I just want to be able to change my color. I built the blue one but after seeing it on my character with in game lighting I really wish I had the red one instead. Red would fit my character better. Right now in order to change color I have to start over from scratch.

Qaelyn.7612:

I’m pretty sure Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War”, not “The Art of Running Away and Hiding”.

I think the philosopher you’re looking for is this guy. :P

I don’t think you’ve read Sun Tzu.

“If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. " – Sun Tzu

Everyone loves a good fight but EotM isn’t good for fights. Any semi organized guild can go there are roflstomp unorganized randoms running around in small groups. But is that a good fight? Is there any challenge in it? The best fights have always been the close ones fought over a major objective where it all comes down to the commander and team making the right moves at crucial times to tip the balance in their favor against a skilled and evenly matched enemy. Those are intense, close, and exciting. You don’t get that in EotM. You just get even more mindless zerging and scattered, disorganized chaos where groups collapse in the first engagement. Or just capping undefended towers. Yeah that happens in EotM too. Maybe even more than in regular WvW.

So SoR quit to EotM because BG was stacked. Then JQ gains SoR guilds. Now BG quits because JQ is stacked. So JQ will pick up BG guilds. Season 2 is a lock for JQ already.

Everyone I saw who planned on leaving for ESO returned within hours and uninstalled the beta. Doesn’t sound promising.

I’m not even going to look at the achievements or the score in season 2 if I can avoid it. Both are meaningless. I’ll just play WvW like normal and forget the seasons even exist because there’s no point to them.

To stop the PvD wars you have to stop giving points for taking empty towers and holding them against no resistance. Holding towers on an empty map when no enemies are around should be worth 0 PPT, or at most a tiny fraction of normal PPT. Full PPT should only be given when all 3 servers have full or nearly full maps. There’s no skill in holding down empty towers when no enemies around and it shouldn’t be worth points.

It’s kind of a joke when a server can top the scoreboard during times when everyone has full maps due to their skill alone. But then wind up losing the match because they don’t have anyone awake at 4am to hold their towers.

1 green per week. That’s what Anet thinks your time is worth if you play WvW. This isn’t just disappointing it’s frankly insulting. I would actually rather not have any greens at all. Just give me the mini dolyak and be done with it. Greens is just a joke.

Gilgamesh.7364:

robocafaz.9017:

Shunt.6254:

In this situation red = most skilled, blue/green = most blobs.

Quoted for truth.

You’re right, true winners play for 3rd place!

True winners feel proud of about ‘winning’ while the other team isn’t logged in to defend their towers.

I think everyone should stop letting the PPT discourage you. It’s a meaningless measure of population rather than skill. I don’t want to see a good server like SoR give up over something as silly as an arbitrary number based on how many off-hours PvD players someone else has. These last few months in T1 have been the most balanced and fun fighting T1 has ever experienced since the beginning of the game. JQ, BG and SoR are the three most evenly matched servers in WvW history. I’ve been on JQ since the beginning and we’ve been in T1 longer than anybody and let me tell you most of the history of T1 has been one server blowing out two smaller servers every week and it was boring every day of the week except the weekends. These days we have a great distribution of quality guilds and leaders across three competitive servers and it’s been fun. Anyone who really wants to see SoR implode and return to the unbalanced days of old T1 is out of their minds. You would all be bored silly without JQ, BG and SoR all showing up to the fights. So don’t decide whether to play based on PPT. Just get in WvW and fight like we always do. The quality fights are why we all play WvW anyway, not the meaningless PPT numbers that change based on population fluxes that are out of our control.

Then give us something besides doors to Pv. We can’t fight anything else with you hiding in the forums.

Jaxs.5830:

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

kerona.3465:

mag #1 most hated server lets b real

Sorry, that would be SoR, by a LONG shot.

Haven’t played SoR in awhile, but I find it hard to picture a server worse then JQ and TC.

Well just imagine an 80 man zerg chasing down one upleveled roamer in the open field far away from any objectives, slaughtering him with spam, then doing /sit on his face having all 80 people spam /laugh in chat then bragging about it on the forums. That’s SoR’s idea of a good fight. And yes this really happens.

MagiKarp.8201:

It was the first super-stack of T1, prior to this queues didn’t really exist, maybe the map that MERC/FOO/WM was on but that was it, not anymore ;P the good ole days.

What? Have we all forgotten the greatest stack of all time, HoD? Nothing in T1 since then was anywhere near the stacking levels of that. They had 24/7 queues that lasted for over 6 hours every day in all timezones during a time when the rest of T1 had almost no EU or SEA coverage. But I guess that was before the time of SBI and SoS joining JQ in T1. HoD was finally defeated by a JQ and ET double team. Then all the guilds on HoD transferred or quit the game.

Being paid to temporarily transfer to BG is the new gold making meta. Btw BG my new guild with a classified number of members (from whichever timezone you want us to be) will transfer today for just 2,000g. We’ll even stay for a whole week if you tip us an extra 20%.

SleepingDragon.1596:

Shifty.4985:

Hai ladies just came in to well, uhh say hi

But also poping thw questing on why JQ didnt buy ZDs as your lacking EU guilds!!

LOL. There’s no way any server could afford to challenge that huge war chest that BG has. Their propaganda machine has been crying “wolf” even before the season starts. They would lie about how JQ and or SOR is stacked and BG lack coverage in all timezones. They purposely tanked the scores on their match-ups leading into the season to justify their claims. Come to think of it, didn’t they lie to SOR to ask them to make sure the previous match-up they keep JQ at 3rd place? Good luck on your match SOR. Looks like BG are masters of manipulations. At least the matches with Mag, they don’t lie. They are found on the forums instead of in-game.

And BG is at it again this week. They’re in their matchup forum thread begging SoR to stop winning because it’s bad for their “anti-JQ alliance”. And of course all that means is BG is manipulating SoR again. The sad thing is it seems to work. BG’s forum warriors lead SoR around like sheep.

Krashner.6275:

Liza.2758:

Avenge.1478:

Night Hawk Ix.7360:

Aurust.8961:

TC so close to BG, keep it up TC…… i know you guys can get 2nd place…….. Don’t forget all the guilds BG lured away with gold from you…..

WoW SoR rlly going there? Ok what guilds are you talking about? BTW your 2vs1 tactic didnt go unnoticed. Get TC to push BG more with no chance to win the matchup, while you push BG at the same time and try to get some extra points for SoR?

Sadly 2vs1 will never work with TC in the mix (no offence TC) but they’re not JQ and dont have the numbers to successfully 2vs1 all week. Can’t see TC falling for your tactic SoR, But you carry on trying to get TC on your side SoR while you take their stuff LOL

We don’t need TC on our side to demolish you. It hasnt even been 24 hours since reset and youre 6,000 points down already.

It’s quite remarkable to see what happens when papa JQ isnt holding your hand against us. All BG is good for is their naievety in thinking that they can win this thing, when all along the reason they won last matchup is due to JQ realizing we’re the bigger threat than you.

pats on head

clam down bro… some of us were at bar celebrating victory, chilling , relaxing etc…

cant sit in front of computer 2 weeks straight …

They feel they have something to prove this week, it’s hard for some of them to get over a defeat. All the animosity is unnecessary and counterproductive, the more we hate each other the easier it will be for JQ in week 7.

Can’t blame them. BG stabbed SoR in the back last week while working against JQ. Now BG is getting a taste of their own medicine with TC and SoR working together.

What I learned from reading this thread:
- The closest T1 matchup in history means “JQ is stacked”
- Random JQ pugs are too OP for for the organized 1337 pro MLG guilds (Anet pls nerf pugs)
- Noodles is a supply-wasting troll sabotaging BG

Same problem for me. Can’t sell anything without getting the error message.

JQ just beat him.

JQ just got him down to 1-2% with the night crew at 4am. We were so close.

Going to miss Raw and Christina but this decision was made by them unilaterally with no input from the majority of players in the guild. I didn’t hear a single word about it until after they had moved. They expected everyone to follow without giving us any time to consider. That’s where I think the disappointment and sense of betrayal comes from. And that’s why the majority of people chose to stay on JQ. This server is a great community, with many dedicated leaders and players, and most of us don’t want to leave it. We have something great right where we are and while I’m sure the people on DB are great too, JQ is our home. I wish this had been discussed in the guild openly before decisions were made so everyone could put in their own arguments for and against moving. Logging in one day to see so many people missing without a trace isn’t pleasant. Things would have been very different if everyone had been open from the beginning. Backdoor deals and rash decisions are not good policy for any guild.

Thank you everyone on JQ and the leaders of EMP for stepping up when this guild and the server needed you most. JQ is the best community I’ve found on any of the servers, and EMP has a fantastic core of awesome people. I for one am here to stay with JQ and EMP regardless of what happened this week. Whether we were crushing HoD or getting our butts kicked for months by SoS, this community has been resilient, strong, and friendly. I wouldn’t trade JQ for anything.

JQ tick leading all night in NA primetime yet again, but that can’t be possible can it? Surely the forum warriors told us that never happens.

Azaruil.3406:

kuora.5402:

I see an EMP commander saying it wasn’t an even numbered fight. Until he can clarify that CDS won fair and square, I don’t think you should be bragging on the forums.

Yes he could be mad because he lost, but he didn’t do that when EMP lost against VoTF, TW, etc.

No. Watch the video again. The CDS commander did a supply count which showed 14 people around him and if you look at the map, there is one more green dot a bit farther away.

Therefore, the numbers were even and the EMP commander was simply making excuses for the loss.

That only shows living players. It doesn’t include the other half of their guild that was killed.

This is a great matchup. WvW is so much better when it’s close.

Every server builds in that spot. I’d be surprised if anyone who WvWs regularly hadn’t seen it a hundred times by now.

Good thing bag slots are on sale today. Choo keeps leaving bags all over the map.

Edit: Just friendly banter guys. You know I love you Choo. Good fights as always.

Depends who’s buying them. It could very well be gold hoarders buying up low priced Dusks just to flip them at a higher price later. If that’s the case, the prices will only continue to rise and people who actually want them for Legendaries will have a harder time acquiring one. Just speculation on my part, but I’m certain that at least some of the sales of Dusk are solely for the purpose of making money.

What Anet should do is what Valve did to fix TF2’s rng when people were going weeks without getting any drops in that game, they put a maximum cap on how long a person could go before a drop would happen. So if you hit the max time cap, you were guaranteed a drop. This cut down on those examples of people who were getting extremely unlucky, which happens in every rng system. There will always be that unfortunate outlier who gets screwed. If Anet did something similar it would really help so someone unlucky doesn’t go and dump 10,000 gold in the mystic forge and just quit the game forever.

It shouldn’t even be possible for someone to spend that much money and time and not receive a precursor. People who work hard in the game shouldn’t go home empty handed. There needs to be a guaranteed way to receive a precursor, even if it’s expensive and time consuming. Legendaries should be a guaranteed reward.

It culls more friendlies and renders more enemies. I like this way better but it’s not perfect. Only way to tell how many friendlies there are is by glancing at the minimap. But at least I can see the enemy now.

JQ and BG both climbing in the ranks now that they’re focusing on SoS as priority. Makes good sense. SoS has the most points for the other servers to split between them.

Strategically it would make more sense for second and third place to team up against the first place server. Third place server helping the first place server pull further ahead only hurts the third place server more. If #2 and #3 team up, they could push into #1 and #2 respectively and drop #1 down to #3. It’s a smarter team up. Never understand why more servers didn’t do that.

Funny how people are quick to blame population balances when it goes against them, but never mention it when it works in their favor. SoS’s higher WvW pop has benefited them for many weeks now. But only when JQ has the advantage do they start complaining about it on the forums. Just human nature I guess. I encourage SoS to keep fighting; JQ always does even when outmanned. It’s just what we do because we love WvW.

I think the guy complaining about JP camping is probably a PVE player who only wants his quick badges. He doesn’t seem to realize that all servers have camped the JP when it was convenient. It’s a fast way to get siege for your team when you have a mesmer in there. Just today I saw an SoS treb in the JP. Not really sure what good it was doing, but if SoS wants to put all their supply into siege in the JP and not on their towers, I won’t complain.

Siege despawning in WvW due to inactivity can really hurt a team when they most need it. How about adding an icon above the siege to indicate that it will be despawning soon? That way teams can refresh the siege when it needs it. Right now there’s no way to tell which siege has been refreshed and which hasn’t.

Snort.3698:

Well played to desolation hope you get to tier one.

Too many bad losers in WvWvW.

What are Far Shiverpeaks like, I have never played them and they will be in our next match up.

What are there play times, who are the guilds to watch for.

btw Blacktide is still looking for EU and US guilds.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/page/2#post534506

I think you will do well against them. Blacktide was a much stronger server and had better tactics than FSP and your players don’t give up as easily. When I saw how Blacktide never gave up I had high hopes for the EU, I was hoping all servers would keep fighting as strongly throughout the week. WvW is no fun when your enemy surrenders after two days. Fighting Blacktide was some of the best fights I’ve seen in WvW. You guys have a chance at becoming the top server in tier 2.

It is not an exploit to play on an EU server.

I’m not accusing the whole server of cheating of course. I am merely stating the fact that I have personally seen far more speedhacks on FSP than on any other server. I’ve seen only one before in the US and since two days ago I’ve seen three on FSP including one just about an hour ago at the FSP spawn. I simply report and move on. I don’t believe FSP condones this behavior. But it does appear to be a bigger problem on your server than I’ve seen before. Not that there’s much you players can do about it. If hackers choose to join your server you’re powerless to prevent it.

Every server realized night capping was a problem. Every server kept begging the Asians to join them. Ruin was simply the first guild to realize it wasn’t going to happen. It’s not reasonable to expect Asians to come to every server to act as your personal night cappers. So Ruin got proactive and did what no one else was willing to do. It was a smart move and it worked magnificently as the scores show.

I think, if FSP guilds can’t be successful in WvW, they go the forums. You can’t die in the forums.

Yesterday our zerg came across two enemy players by themselves. We caught one and the other ran, but then the runner turned around and came back for his friend. Not sure if he was noble, or stupid, or had really bad rendering issues and couldn’t see the other 30 of us, but I /saluted him on the assumption that he was being a good friend. On the other hand if I’m in a small group and we wipe a big group I will /laugh because that’s just funny.

I for one am glad we didn’t go to FSP. After seeing the angry hostile community on that server fall apart and start attacking Americans on the forums, even demanding that Americans be banned from the game entirely, or removed from the EU servers, I really don’t feel welcome on FSP. They’ve been very hostile towards Americans this entire week. Plus I’ve seen many speedhackers on FSP zooming around the map at dozens of times the normal run speed. It just doesn’t seem like the kind of community that would be fun to be around. As an American, Desolation has been the ideal server for me. The Brits have been nothing but welcoming, friendly and helpful.

That’s kind of my point. FSP has been very hostile and angry about all this when they should just relax. Deso is just passing through on the way to the top. Your tier will go back to normal balance in a couple of weeks. There’s no need to get so aggressive on the forums and get so angry at the players of our server. This is a temporary imbalance that will be corrected soon enough. And this morning we had FSP players using speedhacks against us which is clearly uncalled for and it wasn’t very effective. Don’t stoop to cheating and slander. Just get your chin up and fight on like Kodash and Blacktide do. Complaining doesn’t fix anything and it doesn’t win games.

There was certainly more activity in the shorter matches. Right now the last few days of the week long matches get light coverage because the losing teams quit. If that continues the two week matches could be painfully dull towards the end. There needs to be a mechanics that allows losing teams to rally and come back. The undermanned bonus doesn’t cut it.

But I was there before 2:00. I was there all day. We were winning as we have been 24/7 for days now. During your own prime time yesterday 10 Desolation players managed to hold off over 50 FSP players in Anzalias with all the walls and the gate down for over 45 minutes. It got so boring that Deso players were /dancing on the walls and auto attacking to afk and type casually in chat and we were still winning. FSP was just running away. The battle didn’t end until the Deso players left to go defend Durios from Kodash. And when we looked back, Kodash had taken Anzalias from under FSP’s noses. It’s like FSP isn’t even 1/4 as good as they’ve claimed. It’s your prime time right now and FSP is being crushed again. This is 24/7 Desolation domination. But really I think has more to do with the strengths of Desolation than the weakness of FSP. Deso is a good server that just needed a few more players to really complete it. And don’t worry in a week’s time we’ll be out of your tier and you can try to fight someone else.

Where is FSP? You guys haven’t really shown up in days. Haven’t seen a big fight with FSP since last saturday. You guys gave up too soon. This could have been a fun fight in prime time even if it wasn’t close in overall points, we still could have had a good fight. Blacktide never gave up against us. Kodash never does either, our first week on Deso we saw Kodash still fighting until the final hour even though they were last in overall points. Those were fun fights. They had real fighting spirit. We expected to see that from FSP but frankly we aren’t. A little disappointed to be honest since you guys talked yourselves up to be the big force of tier 2 but I just don’t see it. Next week will be our final chance to fight FSP before we move on to tier 1. Hope to see you guys on the battlefield and not just the forums this time.

Has to be the Halloween trio of minis from the gem store. 500 gems. Which means if you want this plus the other minis for your collection, you have to buy two sets of them. But Chainsaw the Skeleton is very cool.

Yes the general populace, pubs and smaller guilds have all pulled together on Desolation. There’s a lot of communication and cooperation. This server has big potential.

The EU WvW scene has been a huge improvement over the US. Even when we’re beating them, the players on Kodash, Blacktide and FSP have continued to fight on bravely. The US servers gave up so easily that the matches became very dull, by the end of the week there was either no one to fight or we found ourselves fighting alone against impossible odds. And it’s nice to have allies that are always there when we need them. IRON always has our backs and we’ve got theirs. The Desolation server on the whole has been a welcoming place for us Americans. It’s good to be here.

Since Ruin and their leadership is personally responsible for everything that any player does on Desolation, I must assume the same is true of the Kodash server, their guild leadership is personally responsible for all bugs, exploits, and hacks that occur on their server, as nothing ever happens on any server without the express written approval of top guild leadership. Therefore, I demand reparations from the Kodash server for an arrow cart I lost due to a Mesmer glitching a Berserker through a keep wall. This arrow cart was my close personal friend and I have suffered grievous psychological trauma since I lost him. His name was Jim the Arrow Cart and he will be missed by all who knew him.

So if every player on Kodash could please send 1 copper and an apology to me this should cover the losses both monetary and psychological. I also require that Arenanet ban all Kodash players for at least three days, and erect a memorial on the site that Jim the Arrow Cart died due to hacking (North wall of the Kodash keep, which we have owned for many days). The memorial will be a reminder to everyone that Kodash supports exploiters. For anyone on Desolation who is as traumatized by the loss of Jim as I was, there will be a short memorial ceremony for Jim at the Kodash Keep in Eternal Borderlands (which we still own and will continue to own) tomorrow at 0:00 GMT. RIP, BYOB, QQ.