Guild Wars 2

Kinda off topic, but hopefully HoT will bring some new OCX players to the game. I doubt they’ll be too interested in WvW/GvG though, considering the biggest draw for the expansion is PvE content.

Supporting a fights culture in OCX in general is a good idea, but honestly it seems very late as most of the fights focused guilds and players in the timezone have long quit the game. No disrespect to the guilds like LATE, BEAR or Envy but moving to lower tiers would do more harm than good as transfers kill guilds – and moving to tiers where there are very few fights outside of the guilds you’ve transferred with seems very shortsighted, unless you only plan on fighting one guild every night over and over.

My opinion is that you should wait it out until HoT and see how the populations and guild hall attendance in OCX are before a lot of players commit to moving down to T3-T8 servers.

Anyways, good luck with whatever you guys choose to do

The only really viable elite for guards in WvW and sPvP is renewed focus, as the support tome doesn’t really have enough utility as the heals aren’t really worth the cost to the player. As someone who runs a burst set-up, seeing someone drop a tome usually means that they are going to drop like a sack of kitten within a few seconds, as the player has no stunbreaks and has to rely on only dodges and the blind which has a channeled effect.

Also to be honest, any serious DPS guard won’t use tome, as it doesn’t do more damage than a standard medi set-up. Renewed is an ok "oh kitten " button but at least it has a use.

That’s a weird bug, but yeah you can still eat another realms dropped food.

The commander is never offlimits, but the idea of having a dedicated 10 man gank team for the driver just shows that the force using it obviously needs a crutch. I remember once when fighting DAWNs map blob in OCX being moaed, boon corrupt, pulled into the melee train and sniped by a bunch of rangers. This kinda stuff is common as hell in T1 nowdays, and there isn’t much you can do about it – and there is no point complaining about it either as its mostly the pugs (not guilds) now doing it.

It sucks, but you just have to adapt by not overextending as a driver, having backups in case you get sniped hardcore and running some defensive utilities like reflective walls in your comp. Your team shouldn’t fold if you drop because of snipe anyways.

Going to keep this short and to the point; recently I have been considering getting back into commanding a guild force in PST NA or OCX prime. If any PST or Oceanic guild is in need of a secondary/backup commander feel free to send me a tell in-game.
At this stage I really don’t care what server I’d go to, just as long as there were fights to be had. The reason why I specify JQ, TC or BG is that is where a majority of the fights in oceanic prime are, as I have been told that T2 OCX has a lot of population imbalance.

What I can offer is a great deal of experience leading both guilded and unguilded forces in a primarily fights-oriented style. I know how to lead a large force, but also not afraid to engage with less numbers. What you shouldn’t expect is for me to start drama, as I just play to enjoy the game now and also don’t expect me to run the old hours I used to back in the BG/JQ/SoR days.

Will probably make a decision at the end of the week.

Good luck with recruitment.

Rombus.2910:

Need to put a zerg destroyer dragon on the WvW map.

No

Probably the strongest pound for pound guild on TC in OCX/SEA atm. Good luck with recruitment.

Nokaru.7831:

Just don’t go to sleep.

^legit

Romek.4201:

vaalix.4913:

My guard had 2 sets of armor about a year ago I think one was the draconic zerker gear and the other gear I can’t recall off hand but It was from melandru event karma npc? Full set.. Looked awesome don’t really recall the stats on it.

there is your problem …. zerker gear dont work in wvw^^

I’m sure a lot of eles, necros, guards and warriors would say otherwise.

Adding more PvE to WvW is never a good thing. So no, its a bad idea.

This would be a horrible idea and is funny considering that the OP came from Blackgate but recently transferred to JQ (look at the post history, and I also remember him from MERC on BG).

This threads going to get locked so kitten quick lol.

Siege trolling by random players happens to most servers at some point, and currently there is no way to get these guys to stop other than waiting it out and hoping they get bored. There is a precedent to get these guys banned (i.e. Manual-breathing got banned after a ANet staff member was contacted) as what they are doing breaches the ToS (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/).

There really isn’t a way currently to report these people, as filling a garrison full of ballistas and rams whilst emptying the supply doesn’t fall under botting, spamming, verbal abuse or scamming.

Here’s an example (http://imgur.com/a/8VCrm ) of a person who decided to fill BG garrison with useless paper siege recently after he got called out by a well known commander for making racist slurs. I’m not going to add the name up here as it will likely get this post deleted.

This isn’t a complaint thread about one server in particular, but more to the underlying issue that there is no other way other than contacting an Anet employee directly to get these guys to stop. Including a function to report griefers would be easy to include into the report UI and would probably fix the issue.

Good luck DI, going to miss you in T1.

Really solid change, its good when feedback actually turns into results

There are some decent fights in T2 with Mag/DB/SoS, but yeah I’d recommend Mag as they generaly have more guilds so would be more stable than the ones with the fighting guilds (such as Agg) who might move off if they want other people to fight. Shout out to VR and PYRO, as they are solid guilds.

But if you are after more EU action I think SoS’s Lion are a good choice as well, as they seem very balanced in their play-style and do well with the numbers they have.

AW (JQ) – Most annoying guild NA; They must have an epic amount of guild catapaults stored up.

Ranger is a good 1v1 class, sometimes a good 1v2 class when your opponents are both melee and also just poor players. May be an unpopular view but I don’t mind rangers, and most of the complaints about rangers should be addressed to individual players being terrible. Rangers can be decent anti periphery if the player has good positioning, they are generally pretty dodgy when it comes to the melee (low stab, low CC, low damage), and they don’t offer enough AoE damage to be decent in the midline. Most of the time rangers that try to do both of these roles just end up as rally-bait and thats why commanders like to give them grief.

Take away is though, if you die all the time as a ranger don’t play the class – if you know your role and your positioning isn’t horrible there isn’t really anything wrong with it.

Manual Breathing, best commander NA.

But seriously, Jang Gun (WM) is still probably the most competent commander I’ve followed on NA servers.

Deal with it, people have complained about this ever since launch and overly self entitled whiners will likely to keep on complaining.

Midnight server time = 5pm aest (where most of the Oceanic players are based)

That would be really prone to abuse and trolling to be honest.

Deli.1302:

blackgatewvw.com

This is a discussion to be had on your own server forum.

^This

If you haven’t registered yet dont be shy, just contact an admin and they’ll set you up.

Its a legit tactic as often as not as it often means that enemy commanders need to get more scouts to figure out what is being legitamately hit. An example is tapping garrisonand hills while committing your force on bay.

Yeah had some issues with this today when ANets servers were DDos’ed by #DERP-trolling, in addition to a patchy internet connection I DCed a fair amount when I was playing today in ranked/solo queue. I came back a few hours later and was penalised w/ a 2.5 day debuff which is kinda nuts considering that it was a documented attack on the client server.

No offense but anyone who has played WvW for a long time really couldn’t give a jack about a 2v1 for ppt.

Grumpdogg.6910:

[SG] expoiting ftw

You’re kidding right……. thats not an exploit.

LetoII.3782:

JaredKincade.9761:

What they don’t understand, is our fighting here makes them $$$.

Server transfers, rivalries, calling out another server, and community effort gets galvanized from these forums.

Have we decided where we are moving?

Gw2wvw registering new accounts, eventually.
Gw2guru still dead..

I don’t think guru will ever come back, as the moderation on that forum was way too tight, you could say boo and then have your post taken down for overly aggressive language.

Slomo.1029:

We had that once already. Siege (except golems) couldnt be deployed. IMO best day in WvW since release.

Strangely enough the absence of ACs meant that people PvP’ed in a PvP mode instead of spamming 1 on top of a t3 wall, who’d have thunk it.

Shonex.5327:

Would love if we would be able to fight against NA servers, that would be awesome, fighting same servers all the time becomes boring

When it comes to servers I would like to fight next week, that would be: Baruch Bay and Ruins of Surmia :P

To be honest EU prime in NA is a bit like off peak in EU, where there are not many guilds out so there isn’t much competition. If you were looking for fights you’d have to log in early for fights against SEA or stay up late for fights against EST NA as most guilds like HB/IRON/Coin have complained about boredom for the most-part. I think it would be pretty underwhelming for both sides, PvD for the NA servers in their prime and PvD for the EU’s in their prime.

SFShinigami.2015:

Serious question for everyone before I go to bread. Does it seem like the dynamics have shifted a bit? Whereas before people would try to constantly hold their north + their corners of enemy BL, now it seems more like everyone locks down their home BL instead.

OMG GO TO BREAD CUDDLES

Just a symptom of less players playing in that timezone, as commanders from all three servers log those following either log as well, go to eb or consolidate on another maps pin. Makes sense to consolidate on home bl as floating with low pop tends to make it more of a karma train than a float as you generally dont have the manpower for scouts.

Not a bad guild, scyp is a baddie though

Nakoor.1980:

I’ll lead it with him. Tarkus and Pryan togeder for karma trains.

Totally wouldn’t try to farm the other train the entire time

magikfox.9658:

I demand a karma train.

lol, no

Mordecai.6318:

[RET]’s force during our guild prime time two nights ago. This is what it looks like every night. Goo bai.

Just 10v10 in OS and get it over and done with

Taldeer.6720:

RPing in SoR BL spawn. We even smuggled Tarkus into our spawn to witness it! See, 100% proof Tarkus is a pro RPer.

(Completely realistic art effects made by Tati)

oh god

Tajz.9826:

Waha is such a strong pillar of JQ’s SEA. It would be sad for us, BG SEA to see him quit. But seriously he played this game in Laptop not PC? Cant believe he able to pull these tight actions off with the laptop.

When he was active. We used to yell, “get that kitten bald guy kill now now now!” and he got rezzed like 8 times consecutively by his necro/warrior friends. That was some good o’memory

Anyway all servers get attendance drop across the board lately due to the game being stall after the league hype. Now it’s like the same o’friend every week so i’m sure ppl might get bored to do something else. But the good thing of GW2 is that it’s buy once and play forever, so if there is any new hype from Anet, WvW will start to live again. At least until Wildstar out.

JQ is one of the most resilient servers in the game, I mean they’ve been in t1 since launch and while Waha quitting sucks because he is legitimately an awesome commander the server will go on. I still think Wildstar will flop due to the subscription model, in that people will play the free month then quit but we’ll have to see.

SFShinigami.2015:

SF/HzH/HGBQ vs OnS/GoF vs Choo/TW

so fun!

Fun fight, dat choo melee train

dat patch timing, troll level 100

Righteous.4307:

Remind me again… whats the logical argument for why WvW should be less rewarding than PvE?

That wasn’t the argument I was making, it was more that people are getting rewarded for something that they previously didn’t and then are complaining that the rewards weren’t what they wanted (some people were even suggesting a reward of ~100 gold per player). We’re used to playing without rewards for winning the matchup, as soon as its introduced people complain about it not meeting their top level expectations. Sure it’d be great if PvP got awarded similar rewards to PvE – but it doesn’t and is unlikely to ever do so due to the fact that it is PvP. A analogy would be winning a 100m sprint and then complaining all you got was a medal when the medal wasn’t the reason why you tried to win the race anyway.

I hear hello kitty online rewards their PvP with high tier PvE rewards, maybe try that out if you want to complain about getting something as a reward rather than nothing like usual. Saying something was unacceptable basically only means that you hyped up your expectations too high and they were dashed. That’s not Anets problem, it’s on the people complaining. (edit: grammar OP)

akamon.2769:

i am semi-one of those types of Guards, so i was quite intrigued. though after hearing the details, i thougth maybe not so much. guess i’ll have to wait and test. easy to counter though, no? heard it has a tell like other heals, even though it’s a meditation. so you could soft / hard CC chain or kite me then i’ve wasted a tiny heal.

Pretty much, I had the same issue when I used to play my thief a lot and experimented with signet of malice. If they kite you, your healing is pretty much negated and often as not the heal wasn’t comparable to other heals.

akamon.2769:

i’m down for dinner. cept i just had lunch. a dilemma of a conundrum.

so how are them new heals? specifically, i’m interested in hearing any Guards running the new medi heal. :PPP

I hear its good for skirmishing and roaming offensive guardians, but that tbh isn’t the majority of guardians in WvW. I found shelter and signet were still better.

magikfox.9658:

Blade.3456:

Re-Post from prior thread:

Anyone know if [BAM] from SoR are NA or OCE?
Bumped into you guys a few times in EBG.
Sorry we had to leave early to smack our old buddies [XPK] out of bg garrison :P (good to see you guys back in action!)
Nice to see both guilds out rolling as a guild too, and not all stuck to one dot.
Actually I think that’s the one biggest thing I’ve noticed so far this week, guilds rocking around as guilds ‘de-blobbing’ and having fun. It’s refreshing to see.

The blobceanic timezone has been plagued with same old map zerg bs for far too long. Blobstralians, come out from beneath thy flubber and embrace the way of smaller numbers!

mate

Night Hawk Ix.7360:

report from prev thread, the most EPIC season 1 reward chest EVER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXDXeVoWclc

100% win

eithinan.9841:

Zeke Azul Falcon.5176:

Cuddlepie is not talking about balancing servers but how and the manner MERC left.
i read before they left not because they want to balance the servers but rather for soemthing else.

JQ merc wanted to lose the “dead weight”. That’s what Tarkus said when they left.

That was a quote taken out of context by cuds, I said we lost a lot of dead weight and it was a chance to clean the roster; the active members who stayed were not included in that and I’ve said that a few times already. Why are we still talking about this.

Why are we still talking about this crap

CRO.7658:

Cuddlepie.8109:

CuddleStrike.8215:

LOLwut Cirus? Are you kidding me? Just stawp with the MERC stuff already. We’re all kitten friends still. calm down!

Superseriouscyruscirus!

I love you long time mate! And to all my ex guildies I see on the field. I miss you. And maybe one day we’ll be together again! <3

As much as you would like the MERC move ramifications to fade quietly away, I think they’ll keep following the main individuals involved. Potentially for years and across games.

Imo, the only thing in gaming that matters in the long term is your reputation, built through your achievements and actions in game. Everything else is digital detritus.

When you take a move that splits a community, insult those that you left behind, and refuse to acknowledge that there were negative aspects to the move, people remember. Particularly, if you like sunbathing in the forum limelight and can’t keep picking at the scabs.

<shrug> I counselled one of your leadership about this at the time.

MERC moving to JQ was a great thing for the game. Imagine the result if we all stayed on BG.

The only animosity that is still present is from former MERC staying on BG. We on JQ have moved on and are enjoying our game.

And Cirus, seriously dude, expected better from you than to take a jab.

Yeah he has changed a lot, and the comment about a “civil war” was pretty funny as its the myopic overstatement of the century as generally we just play the game with no actual rivalry. Just chill out cirus and cuds, its a game; you bang your pixels against an opponents pixels and get some pixels as a reward, if you die in a game you don’t die IRL. You don’t counter a perceived amount of venom by trash talking yourself, so in all due respect get off our nuts please.

Peetee.9406:

Tarkus.4109:

BG and SoRs rivalry is probably the most vocal one out there

Used to be. But alas, people haved moved on.

It’s hard to be a rivalry when one side clearly dominates the other.

Meh it used to be, and that was kinda my point. Should have said was instead of is, meh.