Guild Wars 2

FS is dead, long live the Zerg.

excellent vid’s, very well played tbh.
Great to see solo players, especially when taking on more than 1 enemy and winning.

who says rangers are kittened!?

Would love to know spec & item build.

Gotta say, been the most boring week so far.

Kodash & Piken don’t seem to run groups with less than 50 players in.
Getting any decent fights is near impossible.

Bring on the Frenchies next week, maybe it’ll be better?…

Simple answer is, don’t bother.

Run 10 minimum.

Cant kill squat, at least on our server as every other server runs 50 man.
Small scale is dead from the start unless you enjoy flipping supply camps.

I’ll take that back about Kodash, WoR & AoA or whatever abusing the mesmer portal culling crap with 30v5 lol

Drexciyian.9453:

Xanthian.3025:

30man!? Booo.. Give us some 5/10 man Katie

The game isn’t balanced towards small man groups, its not as bad as WH was but still anet missed the boat :/

O hi btw i was in Eva Vix but i joined Boonies for GW2

I beg to differ, there’s nothing a 5man cant do that a zerg can (apart from fight other zergs).

Its down to player choice/skill.

Its ultimately easier to follow around a large force farming tokens than it is to run small scale where winning requires more on skill.

We managed it in Warhammer despite guilds like KDS trying otherwise, and it was mostly a success.

As we drop through the tiers the small scale becomes better and better, was great 2 weeks ago v’s Kodash and another server I cant remember.

30man!? Booo.. Give us some 5/10 man Katie

Decent start from Piken, was expecting a walk over with it being the “unofficial rp server”

Saw some huge guilds presence there, was impressive to see so few guilds but in such large force. Something that FSP lacks..

I noticed an old enemy from my Warhammer days, Boon Control, lets hope some of you guys settle in here and split that zerg as the week goes on so we can get some really good roaming pvp going.

Lets make this a good week.

No zerging and some good fights! (yeah right)

so’k we took your keep regardless

The SFR in Riverside BG right now.. (20:11 GMT) why the hell are you a 50+ zerg lol, there’s 10 of us from FS and about 5 RS here.

Split up and lets get some decent fights.

Would be helpful if people said what country and isp you used.

Yea same here.
In the UK on Sky broadband, never had any problems, even in the events, started yesterday with players jumping all over the place mainly in wvwvw

rebooted router etc..

Glad we (FSP) are getting destroyed this week.

The previous tier was a ball, the 2 enemy servers were all about enjoying the game and fighting (reasonably) fair.
As soon as you rise up through the tiers you come across those that sacrifice skill and fun for the sake of winning – more commonly known as zerging.
Unsure how anyone can find running in packs of 50+ chasing soloers/small groups 3/4 across the zones.. Maybe they are that bad it makes them feel good?

Anyway hopefully this will see the end of our nightcappers on FSP and allow us to drop the tiers again for some REAL pvp.

Now I’m in a small guild, so I don’t have 250 people behind me to go take the main keeps, but on the other-hand i don’t really want 250 people behind me as that is just not fun in my eyes.

Coming from DAoC where the emphasis on PvP came from 8v8 and fighting similarly skilled opponents, I’m finding the PvP here frustrating for a number of reasons, and my guild/friends share the same views as I’m sure a lot of other ‘skilled’ players do.
My groups currently run around avoiding keeps like the plague and occasionally take over a supply camp only to be run over by 50+ people.

SPvP is all well and good, but arena fighting isn’t the same as roaming around a large open space looking for a jump on a group where the element of surprise adds to the adrenaline of the fights.

So I have a few suggestions on what could be done to improve the current WvWvW state for other

• Remove or increase the 5 person max target on AOE so smaller groups can compete v’s large groups (this is a major issue currently when zergs are stacking on top of 1 person to “exploit” this feature)

• Add PvP ranks, Im sure this has been requested 1000’s of times, but people like to have something to aim for.

• In addition to a rank system, reduce the amount of rank points gained from a target for each person that hits the target above 10 people, this way running around as a blob would not be the fastest way to level (but still viable as you will kill many more people)

• Add titles/achievements for smaller scale PvPers, for example: 100,1000,10000 solo kills – this would encourage people to actually run around alone (granted it would be mostly Thieves but soloing takes a great amount of skill and there is no reason to do this currently.

• Add some notoriety to enemy players, again in addition to ranks allow the rank to be shown as the name rather than “xxx server invader” more like “xxx server <rank name>”, atm everyone is anonymous, nobody cares who you killed and kills just don’t have any satisfaction.

I could go on, but id rather play than read forums.
I’m sure this will get overlooked and I’m sure I’ll get flamed for being elitist or something.

Please.. Why do we have to stoop this low? Only the scrub servers pull this crap.
I’m on FS and would prefer not to have a clueless American zerg.
Happy for the server to drop a few tiers and get some good fights.
Having to queue for Borderlands sucked, its great how it is now with no queues

Deso = Waste of space server.
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Stop the non US players migrating to EU servers, this time zone crap is ruining the fun in WvWvW.

Late night should be for small scale pvp, not fighting vs American zergs who happened to have transferred because they cant win v’s players (not npc’s)on their own servers.

Well, like i said EU only.
Going to take a look at this week’s rankings & queue times (if they are posted) and make a decision then.

Most likely Vabbi/Ring of Fire/Piken Square looking at last week ranks.

Were EU time :P and not nolifers, so eu servers only

Stuck on FSP with 2hour Borderlands queues and even then its zergfest and night capping.
We’d like to move to a semi low pop for minimal queue time and decent PvP

…………… But we have all the upgrades and don’t want to start fresh as majority of the guild has already quit so it will take a lot longer to get them all again!

Please allow guilds to transfer as a whole unit – players & upgrades included!

Lets hope we (FSP) get moved down a bracket so the snail eaters can play together at 6am.

Canadians should play on US servers.
End of.

The Yanks would be going apesquat if 500 Euros moved to an American server and ruined WvW night after night.

Ah yes, tar everyone with the same brush..
gg.

I think you will find what they are doing is not exploiting, but poor game mechanics.

Same thing happens when the 50+ strong French zerg hits you.

Please don’t attack us when we are trying to help you fight the late night French door PvE’rs on your keep!

/signed Far Shiverpeaks player

About time we teamed up to stop them walking over these zones ?

• Give the guards of a claimed keep/camp the claiming guild’s emblem on chest/weapons

• Show the claimed keep/camp guild name on mini map mouse over

• Give upgraded guards better looking armor, rather than the level 20 junk they wear as default

• Allow enemy siege equipment to be broken down for supplies

• Allow siege equipment to be moved at the cost of a few supplies (frustrating to place a ballista only to have it rendered useless by the edge of keep walls)

• Controversial one maybe – Allow guild members of claimed keep to kick people off cannon/mortar spots

Just tried again.

Locke.1680:

He could be hiding somewhere inside.

We have killed him twice and he returns, so no.

Twice in the last hour the same player from Desolation (EU) has taken the Orb out of Dreadfall Bay without any doors being damaged.
I can only deduce he/she is using some bug in the map to gain entry by other means or is using the commonly reported ‘teleport/flying’ hack.

Is there anything being done to stop this?
Does anyone know the person responsible & want to give his name up so he can be made to pay for his cheating.

Afaik all classes have some form of stability, some even have group based ones (Warrior/Guardian)

lethlora.1320:

No LFP ever. Verbally seeking members for a party is not that difficult.

Not difficult.
A frustrating time sink.

I personally have limited time to play the game, I don’t want to spend 10% of my game time stood outside an instance spamming “LF1M – xxx” whatever.
The GW1 system was great, you said it once and it was tracked.
We don’t want an all singing all dancing thing like wow has, there’s no need, just something where you can find 4 other players that want to join your group.

The fact that you cant talk outside your zone currently is a major limiting factor for finding a group.
Even an LFG channel would be a major step in the right direct, but it will just be spammed to high heaven.

If you know the fights include this mechanic, why don’t you equip a stability skill?

The skill bars are meant to be swapped around, sticking with the same spec for everything just doesn’t cut it.

uller.6528:

You don’t need a Lfp function I’m sorry if actually talking to others is annoying for you since Lfp would port you to the instance which is not what they want. MMoms should be fun and they all don’t need to conform to wow.

Why would LFP port you to the instance? all it needs to be is a group making tool.
The current setup ports you there if you are in the same zone anyway.

Its tiresome and ‘so 1990’ spamming map chat for 30mins to get a 5th player.
I hate WoW and all that it stands for in the MMO community, but a dungeon finder/group helper whatever you want to call it, is an absolute must for any new MMO.