Guild Wars 2

BG BL.

We owned the orb in hills with never even our outer walls ever breached, and our orb ends up in BG garrison? Anet can you explain this series of events? Is there a secret quaggin spy that will swap orbS in keeps for your team for 100 badges?

SBI Borderlands:

Awesome wvw tonight! We had our backs the wall but pushed through to take a majority of the map! Highlight of the night was the 12 golem ninja on AH to take our orb back. Thanks to all the guilds that organized and worked together to cause mayhem all over SBI BL; Calm, Sent, DA, and of course SF.

Special thanks to Keg for financing most of the golems. :-)

Crazy night of mayhem in Red (Blackgate) Border Lands! FYI, played and written from SBI perspective.

Nothing much happening early in the night except some trebs at BG Garrison aiming for DB and some supply camp swapping. Then the servers went down for the update. SBI rushed back rushed back online and attacked Garrison water gate. With little opposition, Zaff lead the charge to steal the orb. Half the zerg escorted the orb without incident to DB while the other half easily dispatched the remaining BG for control of the Garrison.

BG countered by placing a treb on the nearest wall aiming at NE Garrison. This treb was easily attackable from the ground, however, BG’s ground forces kept SBI at bay for good 30+mins. A field skirmish ensued with failed ground siege attempts by both sides yawing back and forth between CS and Garrison. Finally SBI dispatched the treb. It was around this time that everyone went invisible. Only commanders, pets, downed allies, and occasionally a target marker would show for an enemy. And then BG and IoJ attacked.

I don’t even remember exactly where the attack started on the garrison, but the NE gate and water gates were destroyed in a manner of minutes. BG golemed from the north, and IoJ from the south. SBI knew we were going to lose the keep. But, with our backs to the wall, we gathered what forces we had remaining and converged on the lords room. And then began the battle that I hope will only be remembered. IoJ, BG and SBI were all invisible. No one could see the other. Again, only commanders, pets, downed allies, and occasionally a target marker would show for an enemy. At least that was my experience. So 3 armies who were blind more or less, began to pummel each-other in the lords room, from the ring to, to the corners, to the scaffolding and catwalks. SBI was nearly wiped in a matter of minute. However, with IoJ and BG in the lords room, the keep could not find a new lord. SBI quickly scrambled back to the lords room. and then began to blindly defend the keep. Bringing supplies, and luck, SBI built arrow carts at the roofs top and bombarded the center ring. As an staff ele, my lighting attacks seemed to find the enemy the best. That and dropping aoe bombs to root out the enemy. I then began in one corner of the room and methodically searched for any hiding enemy, dispatched them and quickly revived any downed allies. The gates were repaired and broken down multiple times as all armies were respawning and returning to the battle. Since no one could see each other, there was no one to oppose their path to reinforce the lords room. Finally, after I thought was ages, SBI closed the north inner gate, and then the south gate pushing out all the defenders. In hindsight, the battle was surreal. It was as if I entered a new game where time had slowed down, and the enermy behaved very catiously and timid. If two opposing players found each other they would either stand still and see who could out dmg the other, or they would run in circles doing anything to escape being targeted. Such a unique battle. If only I would have recorded that one. Without the invisible glitch, SBI would have not been able to hold the lords room for sure. Kudos to SBI and whoever was in that amazingly awkward battle.

Yet, the night was not over. As I was gathering supply for the garrison, word was that someone was attacking NW DB gate. Being close by, I scouted the gate and quickly discovered BG had built up 4 rams and had the gate to 80% already. A quick response from SBI barely saved DB and the newly acquired orb from being swarmed. I believe SBI WP’d in or ran from garrison and zerg repaired the gate from 10% to 50%.

After surviving an invisible 3-way lords room attack, and narrowly escaping a catastrophic DB attack, SBI looked up to the map and found little green real estate left. IoJ and BG had taken everything SBI except DB and the garrison. And now the garrison was again under attack by BG.

SBI abandoned the garrison and retook GB and then GV from IoJ, with all armies still invisible. Soon, AH and VL fell to the hand of SBI back to essentially a map reset prior to when the servers were updated.

The last thing to report, 1-2 BG players somehow got into the the lords room of DB and took the orb, and broke SBI’s altar. Suspicious of cheating were discussed, but someone said the quaggans reset the orb or maybe lightning? Who knows? Doesn’t really matter imo. Another epic night from GW2. Thanks ANET + SBI + BG + IoJ.