Guild Wars 2

Josh P.1296:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Josh P.1296:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Magiofdeath.2745:

Crimedawg.8954:

Much respect to both FA and Kain. You all fight hard. SoS will continue to battle until they turn out the lights on us.

/salute

You guys are definitely doing really well against everything that has happened. If you don’t stay in tier 2, I have a feeling you will be back eventually. I’ve come to respect SoS once the fat has been shaved so to speak – the bandwagon fat. Those that stayed are the guilds that are the truly respectable ones. Keep it up guys!

Well we lost another two guilds today, and not small ones either. Bleh, just keeps getting worse.

Which ones?

Oceanix, zero negative.

I see. At least OCX is going to SoR.

Taking the road less travelled, props to them.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

Stanley.3295:

So how did [Hire] of SoR manage to get to inner gate of JQ garrison without breaking the water gate? With absolutely no swords up?

if you are talking about red swords they made it so its 25 people with the new patch so that might be the reason why

It is not red swords, there was absolutely no swords up, not white, orange or red lol. I was watching the water gate which is up and no swords on garrison when i turn around and saw a Hire zerg of 40 with 3 golems on inner gate.

Unless this is something new in the patch that i am unaware of…

So how did [Hire] of SoR manage to get to inner gate of JQ garrison without breaking the water gate? With absolutely no swords up?

Swirling wind makes zerging even more appealing, stack ele and you get constant ranged and siege protection. Taking it out will make defending against zergs a much better experience.

With BG moving up and SoS going down eventually, there will be bigger coverage gap between tier 1 and 2. It will make tier 1 more competitive at least. The servers may change but the pool of players remain much the same.

In the longer run, it will be better for Kaineng and SoS as they don’t have to worry about european coverage anymore. A more balanced matchup is actually coming for tier 2 once BG moves up.

I am visiting some friends on Kaineng, and i see scouts from SoS wvw guilds on Blackgate side. Agg is not the only one. Would not wish SoS to go the same way as SBI to be honest.

Looks like BG and SoS are in a race to drop to tier 2

Dear Anet,

We have already endured weeks and months of mismatched match-ups. And now we are getting closer to balanced tiers with the end of free transfers. I looked up at the projected match-ups and it is already getting better. A reset at this point would screw us up again. Please don’t kill your game…

Mike, your CS folks would ban people if they transferred gold to guild mates to buy commander titles. If your CS is truly thorough and diligent, we would not have such issues arising.

Tsitsaron.6854:

Transferring to Tier 1 servers (JQ,SoS,BG & SOR) is near impossible right now. If your planning to transfer a guild of your size with ease to a competitive WvW server, Kaineng is on the way up

All servers are not at full status right now. Transferring now is not a problem, the four servers you listed above will probably fill up faster.

Ohai.8346:

Some interesting moves. GoF to Blackgate, and asian guild Carnage to JQ to cover their total lack of asians

Carnage is asian guild? from what server?

In the time TC was at full status since the guesting announcement. Fort Aspenwood, Dragonbrand and Maguuma rose from very high pop to full… Kaineng from high to very high. That’s a lot of movement just below tier 2. Expect a big shakeup in the coming weeks.

Stanley.3295:

Henrik.7560:

Nah man Mag will easilly beat DB with all their transfers, even TC with their natural strength, I don’t think FA will push to tier 2, TC is still better than them I’m sure.

TC is better than FA, no doubt here. But there are 2 major tides against TC, TC is full and FA is very high… With a looming deadline, guilds will have to make a choice. And the second thing is coverage -asia/oceanic.

Fort Aspenwood got a good chunk of IOJ oceanics and any NA guilds on the fence will likely bypass TC in favor of FA or Mag.

A prediction thread, hmm

Tier 1:SoS-JQ-SoR
Tier 2:BG-Kain-FA
Tier 3:DB-Mag-TC
Tier 4:CD-YB-EB
Tier 5:DR-AR-BP
Tier 6:HOD-NS-SBI
Tier 7:DH-IOJ-GOM
Tier 8:SF-ET-FC

Anet should hire someone to play the game fulltime, this way you will know what are real issues WvW face and not just decisions on some “complaints” about aoe from a dying spvp scene.

Desterion.6407:

CD is going to be feeling the wrath of IoJ+FA as well as their new opponents. I can assure you those who transfered to FA are looking for CD blood. It’s not going to just be next week either. CD will never make it to tier 2 because the best they’l get is 2nd place in tier 3 from now on until FA moves up and frankly they deserve it. CD may very well end up like IoJ is now before the week is over and free transfers are locked.

Okay… You guys and gals who transferred to FA from IOJ, leaving it hanging from life support, will fight harder than ever before for the glory of your new server. It’s all CD fault that IOJ fractured right?

I hope you see the irony of your own message…

Zerging in WvW is already bad enough, this will only encourage the return of stacking again. Another pve change that have deep impact in pvp.

Don’t change what is not broken…

Kerithlan.1659:

Naznin.2584:

6.30 am NY / 7.30 pm HK score update:

Look at TC night capping, those dirty exploiters.

Late PST time period is probably the most important ppt period in wvw. Every server’s progression/regression would very well be decided here. Servers that have guilds that run in this period are servers that are winning.

Xsorus.2507:

covenn.7165:

This will give players a progression path where they earn new WvW-only abilities and bonuses

Yeap..Realm Rank system finally coming to W3..Sweet

Wonder if they’ll do it character based or account based.

To stretch the longevity of the game, i am guessing character based and probably class specific.

How about a mesmer? Portals are always useful… No need to shout around looking for mesmers when you need them.

Matt Witter.6982:

Matt Witter.6982:

Draygo.9473:

Waypoints are currently the most powerful upgrade in the game but there are a few issues.

They are only inactive when the defense quest is active, are you guys planning on disabling them slightly longer than the defense quest to allow attackers to keep the defenders from spawning there just as the defense quest lapses?

For example under the current system I can count down on voip the defense quest and spawn in everyone right as it hits zero and before attackers can reflag the keep.

This is definitely a bug. I’ll see about leaving the rally points disabled for a few extra seconds after the event has completed. That way it just stays disabled if the event starts back up.

Just to calm nerves I wanted to bring this up again.
This is something that we would like to adjust, but doing so could remove one of the larger advantages of having the waypoint upgrade. With my mentioned adjustment it would also mean that one player would be able to lock down a location indefinitely. Changes to how this system works will need to be thoroughly designed and tested and as such will require time. I would not expect to see changes to how this works soon.

Why is so easy to make a waypoint to be contested? A mere hit on door would trigger contested, that’s too easy. Make it a percentage of door health to trigger it.

Fuzzion.2504:

The more important question is " Who is going to replace BG in 2 weeks time"

Looking at how tier 2 is going, probably SoR. Will it be better? Nope. Asian/Oceanics are still on IOJ, Dragonbrand, Kaineng and Crystal Desert. You don’t find sizable A/O guilds on TC and SoR, so progressing to tier 1 will be a death sentence for them.

This is a great video, showing the potential of gvg within a wvw context. Esports is a dead idea in the first place. The best part of guild wars is essential gvg, why did they not carry on this aspect is beyond most older gw1 players.

They left out the best part of the game and chase the Esports dream…

People complaining about full maps? You should be grateful that your server still have an active wvw population instead.

Sacrx.6721:

Being blunt. Was almost sick in my mouth watching that. Seriously tempted right now to transfer RG this Friday to Jade Quarry. Seems Yanks are eating up your propaganda guild.

There will be an endless tide of SoS zergs and portal bomb galore. Imagine the badges of honor you will be getting!

While i do believe “guard” is not working as intended, i feel sorry for rangers in general. They are just not very useful in wvw.

If there was no split, the germans and french would complain to no ends… Just look at Eu tier 1.

Why would they worry about any consequences? Anet has proven that it is not going to take any action against such abuses.

No surprise here… and WvW population will continue to drop.

So is SFR so desparate to win, that they condone spying? It is one thing to call other servers hacks and cheats. But another to do nothing on your own end.

Clean up your own house SFR….

If Anet put in as much effort in getting rid of bots in the game as the same for exploits and hacks. I would not be suggesting they disable portal entre for the time being.

The community reports but exploiters remain free, the abuses will eventually escalate, just like what happen to the dolyak and orb.

My main is a mesmer and i feel its necessary to disable portal from wvw. The reasons are simple, portals are often abused by unscrupulous people who exploit into towers and keeps via the use of 3rd party programs or simply poor programming on Anet part which allow bypass of obstacles.

Dolyaks are disabled due to abuse

Orbs are disabled due abuse and hacks

Portals are facing the same problems associated with the above two.

If you Anet cant stop hacks and terrain exploits from happening, at the very least disable portals for now until you can.

Please revert back the culling trial asap, my latency during zerg fight in wvw shot up and it is totally unplayable for me.

Its a total failure, and you should run this trial under test conditions, not live play, this is not a beta.

I hope Anet pays more attention and allocate more resources to WvW. So far there is a lack of dev posts on WvW changes.

Blackgate have a very good chance of winning this week matchup, excellent coverage and new tactics courtesy of Euro imports. So enjoy the new transfers as they will keep coming…

As for server reputation and attitude since the influx, well i leave it to the native BG people to judge and see whether is it better or not in the long run.

JQ is still the top choice of bandwagoneers guilds btw. OES, a US-based wvw guild from Crystal Desert just transfered there, and Foo, a TW guild from ET also went to JQ.

Foo is the ultimate bandwagoon guild, JQ must be like their fifth server they transfer to.

Just take a look at various match-ups of different tiers. Free transfer is killing any semblance of balance via rankings. HOD and ET have both hollowed out and guilds leaving in droves. It’s a vicious cycle and soon old timers at JQ will feel the forbidding sense of boredom…

Is this healthy for wvw in the long run? Just search within.

Expecting players to balance the game for Anet is simply ludicrous.

Exploits, exploits and more exploits, now dragonband players are glitching to water gate of dreaming gate again. Nice guild of exploiters – Little Lovable Butchers. Reported and shamed