Guild Wars 2

From ANets point of view, I think they would rather these blackout practices happen than outright stopping it. Guilds and people stuck on a server they hate and couldnt transfer out to a full one that they really want before paid transfers come may just quit the game altogether.

Everyone’s wvw experience is different and I would like to hear about the memorable events from other wvw participants in other servers. Let’s just briefly talk about something amazing or funny that you’ve experienced while wvwing? Something like that SoR pre-transfers matchup that was a 3 way tie till the end , or some random guild worshipping a flame ram at a supply camp, or the Maguuma Alamo vs SoS .

1000 hour engi here, please chuck me an invite

I nominate SoR as the favourite server to fight against. The SoS v SoR v IoJ rotations were the best when SoS was going up and I recall staying up till 5am with guildies to stop CRS + ND from hitting the borderlands to maintain the ppt. Their NA crew is actually better than t1 at the moment but they just dont have the coverage to stop the weekday nightcapping. Fighting them was my second most memorable WvW experience aside from the MERC vs Pink golem duel months ago ( that one is pure troll :>).

Over 500+ hours here on my engi , spread over 35% PvE , 50% WvW and then 15% sPvP. I’ll just quickly summarize my views based on what I experienced. If you really want to roll an engi, you need to put in over 60 hours at the minimum to understand how everything works (engi spells are weird as hell , aka slick shoes…)plus get yourself used to the high speed spamming.

The engineer’s individual spells are kitten weak and laughable, but with so many toggle-able kits with no cooldown unlike ele, the sky is the limit. How strong you can be is not limited by at what timing you pop your cooldowns but also by how fast you can nail the spells ( in Starcraft this is called mechanics ) since most spells come with very low cooldowns ( Rifle 2 = 8/10s , Rifle 4 = 15/20s , Grenade 2= 4/5s , Grenade 4 =15/20s , Medkit spells etc ). Then comes the mixing and matching of dozens of spells to adapt to your opponent which you will learn through experience or talking to one of the vet engies.

For WvW/sPvP :
As for balance, it sucks for Engineer. All that effort and learning to get used to the fancy kit-swapping and spamming ( Grenade kit = carpal tunnel kit)will only get you on a competitive level with other classes ( opinion, feel free to disagree ). But when you win a duel of some sort with engi, it feels immensely rewarding and no one can discredit it since you were the underdog to begin with. Its like you brought a cloth hangar to a sword fight and still wiped the floor with your kendo training.

If you want to roll an engi, be prepared to put in effort and get stomped on early on. Its a continous learning process and even now I’m still seeing lolwtf builds being experimented on. Once you played like 100 hours you gain an appreciation for the addictive playstyle the engineer provides.

One of my minor breakthrough in optimizing engi is I retain the classic glass cannon grenadier build, but I take in kit refinement and grab an elixir gun and basically swap elix → super elix for healing goodness . Its decent heal but I barely lost any of my dps as a tradeoff!

Is this like a siegetank push in broodwar/sc2? I used to think its a viable tactic, then mesmer portals started becoming popular , now i think its only marginally effective. Money wise its not bad, just a couple dozen silver but supply wise I think there are better ways to spend it.

In RTS the concept is viable because you would have the artillery in the back with cheap stuff at the front and it works because the opponent would trade badly. But Mesmer portals + rendering issue + low hp pool of anything that isnt catapult/ram makes such a strategy a supply sink.

Not that I’ve seen many of these besides the sieging of towers from Ruins.

Looking at the scores, it seems even though SoS is leading, it isnt leading enough to warrant a point increase…. and BG’s point is rising too so the gap for SoS to qualify for t1 is widening

IoJ looking like a champion today

Velron.3729:

It’s true it’s rare though, so rare that I swear Engi’s random whisper each other if they see another good one out lol

omg i do this all the time!

Bit unfair to the other SoS guilds to say that PRX carried an entire server.

Anyways , talks about individual skill levels are anecdotal at best and should be dismissed. I’m sure there are players in all 3 servers than can make your day go real bad.

Good luck , TC is the king of t3 atm and with a night presence i think FA can challenge that.

IoJ holding onto that SM for awhile now

I play thief and specifically backstab build in spvp, broken as hell. Maybe when this backstab build finally gets nerfed we might see less thieves in 8v8s. Thieves have a few weapon sets that are underpowered right now, those should be buffed.

Take care in nerfing so that the other builds dont get crippled.

Would like score update, comp broke

Pretty sure we going to get ganked after all the kittenflinging , doubt we will win the rotation but at least there will be bodies to kill

cant you just lower the revive rate and cap revivers at 1

I’m more curious as to what happened on the IoJ side lol

The next time we cross paths again, there will be bigger fish to fry . Top 4 server seems to be playing on another level and T2 will just be SoS and SoR getting destroyed.

Just out of curiosity, how long are the queues for NA primetime weekdays for SoR?

Its not actually hacking, I’ve seen a DB guy just jump up there from the cliff north of Cragtop. I can’t remember where it is but if you try the suspicious looking ones i think you can find it. Its like a terrain fail, like the one that leads to Hills.

Score update anyone?
A wvw map would be appreciated too, my desktop fried

The NA guys maintaining our points lead! And we still got a friday night push coming!!

The heart or the lungs, which is more important?

“Rich candy corn node north of Ascension Bay”
heh.

Lets not play the blame game until this rotation ends

Lose or win, it is a learning experience. The rotation is not over until Saturday, if we can’t win lets try and get enough points to secure our spot in T2.

I think if the halloween event gets any better, SoS oceanic participation will die lol

Guild tents to enable guild buffs on the battlefield :o

Coming from an engineer with over 400 hours, you will be sorely dissapointed if you are wanting high dps.

Last I checked, SoS is ahead of SoR by a margin of under 10k, potential points is SoS +375-425, SoR +100-200

CD is almost out of the game at about 35k behind

How about this :

The jump puzzle at the side of garrison watergate, allowing you to bypass the first gate and head up the stairs onto the inner watergate. Most classes can jump the distance with their spells. That an intended feature or exploit?

Is it true that BG/HoD guilds came over to SoR for this week?

Deboog.1847:

Night capping is best capping

Sea of Sorrows

words to live by mate

^ LOL, pretty sure it was 17

the awkward moment when you see two servers with MERC tags

Yeah man, lets make a new superserver in another league so they get the unique gw2 experience that is server mismatch.

Queue Wars 2 , hopefully it gets better during the weekdays

Heres a tip: Join JQ, they are always winning so you wont even die! Also, the buffs makes you much more stronger than your opponent so yeah, join them.

( I got nothing against JQ, i just hate the number 1 server by default)

Literally cool story bro. I love reading underdog stories, although server transfers may have tipped the scales in Kaineng for this one. Either way it is still a major achievement for the blokes who stuck with Kaineng as well as the guilds that transferred over from a winning server.

lolwhat, this actually works

daycrew working hard i see ><

Yeah, when a battle is so lopsided that the war is over, just invite them into your party and have a nice chat. I met this engineer in EB , was a Dragonbrand Invader. We proceded to hold 1v1 duels at the underground place north of Dragonbrand Valley with like 10 SoS guys watching. It was funny stuff

Fair nuff. See you guys there again tomorrow ._.

so.bored. How about next oceanic primetime both Dragonbrand and Maguuma hit EB? show us dirty nightcappers how strong you guys are even during our peak aye? .__.

Edit : After further consideration, I think EB is the better choice because of fairness in spawn points etc.

I take out my flamethrower and singlehandedly repels a team of 10 ramming the door. Can i get a hi-5 for engi pride?

Fury.6248:

Funny thing is even after all the transfer’s SoS will still only be tier 3. Only thing server transfers have done is kitten people off an change the names of the servers who are tier 3. You don’t magically get more skill when you transfer did you not get that memo?

If they are that unskilled you wouldn’t want them in Dragonbrand anyways right? Just stop with your insults already all you are doing is give DB a bad reputation.

A large reason for the oceanics clumping in one server is so that we can play with each other in both PvE and WvW during our timezones, I’ve been to predominantly NA servers and sometimes I just cant get a dungeon rolling when I want to. Even if a Oceanic guild transfers together to another NA server, it will be a ghost town there…

That was a commendable defense at Maguuma Garrison (reminds me of Shadaran hills, ETvIoJvSoS good times ), though you gotta admit running your guys into Bay into like 5 balista and 5 arrowcarts is a funny scene lol.

Also, the “Alamo” at Titanpaw is very funny, I liked it. It’s like …. the counterresponse to that flameram video , but with more money to spend.

Also, the ninja rushes for SMC and standing on a single point to utilize the AoE cap, thats like Maguuma’s signature move now lol.

You Maguuma guys sure know how to have fun, even in the face of unbeatable odds. I wish everyone would just accept that this matchup is broken competitive-wise and just try to have fun rather than complain about the server transfers. Whats done is done right?

katniss.6735:

The people we have in internal battlegrounds today are braindead. They’re fighting in front of our spawn, dying, and not making any kills. This has been going on for 2 hours. I left for the borderlands when the queue popped.

Oh hey i was there fighting u guys haha! Yeah, after like 45 minutes of that without any threat to the overlook I gave up too, but its a nice badge farm for both sides

Rally until over 50+ , ram against a gate with no siege. Its as strong as a guerilla I tell you!