Guild Wars 2

wow we are up against maguuma, i hear a lot of disturbing things about you guys, JQ returned to t1 after fighting you guys they seem to lost something, one JQ was even in a strapped jacket mumbling maguuma. my friend also returned after fighting your roaming guys he spent 5 hours in the shower shaking and crying.

looking forward to fighting you guys.

Lanimal.6541:

This has probably been bought up many times before in various forms but I wanted to get this suggestion off my chest as I feel that on the whole it is a lot less demanding for the developers than some of the larger requests to fix WvWvW. I think if such a change is implemented it would be stage one of making WvWvW a more organized environment and to a certain extent less zergy if utilized properly.

When a commander decides to pop their tag they get three options; Public, Guild and Party.

PUBLIC COMMANDER TAG

A public commander tag would be typically utilized by the map commander, militia commander or mixed group commander. This tag is viewable by anyone on the map. Anyone who opens up their map, whether they be militia or players from other guilds can see this tag. There should be no color changes / image changes for the public commander tag. It should stay as the current default blue dorito icon. Diversity in this tag would lead to a lot of confusion for the masses.

GUILD COMMANDER TAG

A guild commander tag would be gold/brown in color and have the guild TAG over them. This icon can only be viewed by OTHER COMMANDERS as well as your fellow guildies on the map. This allows for the militia commander to easily keep track of friendly guild groups and coordinate with them easier. It also gives the option for the guild groups (that currently use ctrl+T) to run by themselves but still avoid attracting the masses.

There should be no color or image changes for this icon either but it should definitely have the tag on display to differentiate between the various guilds. Here is a quick sample of such an ICON.

http://i.imgur.com/QgzXr0N.jpg

If the tag being displayed above the icon could lead to making the map extra cluttered, I would recommend instead to display the guild when you hover over the icon. For .e.g currently it shows up as Commander Theongreyjoy but for the guild tag it would simply show up as [ZN]Theongreyjoy when another commander hovers over the icon.

PARTY COMMANDER TAG

Again people might ask why does a 5 man group need a commander tag. The primary benefit of this is not for the five map party but for the main commander on the map trying to delegate tasks among various parties. This especially applies very much so to home borderland maps where lot of tasks have to be done by various individuals and parties to keep a smoothly functioning map. Zerging is often detrimental in this map. Having party tags will improve the macro-managing skills of the main commander. He/She can keep track of any experienced havoc squads and experienced camp flipping parties simply by opening their map. Instead of the commander always having to ask “Whose that at Lake tower? Is that us or server Y?” he can simply pop his tag and see that a havoc group is behind enemy lines trying to ninja that tower.

The only restriction should be that the party commander option is only allowed if the party is full at five members. Otherwise there is the potential of many people running their tags aimlessly with just one or two other people in their party. This would also encourage people to party more and work together.

The party commander tag should have a little bit more variety since parties often consist of members from various guilds etc it wouldn’t make that much sense to treat them like guild commander tags. I would suggest to have a completely separate icon as compared to the guild and blue Dorito.

CONCLUSION

Providng the commanders and the guilds tools to delegate easier in the form of diverse commander tags should over time lead to less dependency on the single blue dorito and therefore less zerging and blobbing. I expect initially people to actually be inefficient if/when this feature is implemented like any video game community to go crazy trying out the various tags and actually not helping the main commander at all.

However, when the ‘newness’ of such a feature is done quite a few servers will start applying them properly; for better macro-organization, better inter guild coordination, better party delegation which should lead to less zerging/blobbing meta.

i would suggest it would be best if the commander tag can be bought + and some random hard quest to be completed before it can be bought. problem is a lot of people has money and just buys it, then on WVW they just freaking trolls around.

JoePhuket.8045:

What people don’t understand is that MERC can now actually run as a proper guild (tagless etc) because they don’t need to send 20 scouts to every towers,keeps on every BLs. BG is too obsessed with ppt which make MERC become a “float team” for BG which is basically a train with bunch of rallybots (pugs) who stay up for wexp (because their guilds can’t take any thing from JQ or SoR).

I can say this because I was a MERC and the reason Amarathy quit commanding was because of BG. One night we ran tagless with MERC only and it was so much fun. After that he got so much complains about not tagging up to lead useless rallybots to farm their wexp. After that they i’ve never seen Amarathy commanded again.

GG – keep the hate flowing.

really? you blame Bg just for a night? and now your saying bg is a train pugs and rally bots, mind you that everyone tries to contribute what they can, you talk like your better than them when in fact you are not.

oh wait your former bg merc and now to FA. i understand.

Luna.8691:

In BG’s greatest hour of need getting banged by 2 servers and 40k points deficit, you decide to take a break ?

Exactly what your guild did when Kaineng lost WM guild and your guild was the first to pack its bags and transfer.

well to tell you the truth we really need dedicated and experienced WvWers, BG is not the BG in S1 we lost a lot of veteran players. you can see that in BLs queues are little to non, RISE is a GvG guild they are not WvW guild, you can hardly see them in WVW. them being back in BG for WvW or just to hibernate and retire does not make any real difference or impact now.

my fondest memory of RISE is when they recruited me, i joined them on one raid and they charged head on to an enemy zerg, no stacking, no buffing, no food, no nourishment 14 of us or less i cant remember exactly, against an RG zerg and later an IRON led Zerg, one dude was shouting on TS BALLSSSS DEEPPPP. we just literally handed them our bags, so i said to my self kitten this kitten im leaving that same day i joined.

Evilek.5690:

Rayya.2591:

So what can you do when you face 1 of the best thieves eu ? (with legendary , second legendary in progress, high fractal lvl , mediocre sPvP lvl , “major” rank , leaderboard top 200 ) , considering that he is angry cause you just killed him, and he want to lick his wounds ?
It is lame to drag the fight away from his “black powder” ?
find the answer below , after 40 minutes of trolling

Make me day.
BTW Tokinatus is pro Thief he solo captured supply camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MpMKAhDCE =)

seriously? that makes a pro thief?

i am not sure why this buying guilds and stacking, coverage is being used as an excuse by trolls here? all T1 server knew that the league was coming, JQ did prepare, SOR did as well, guilds transfers, BG did the same thing. we did OT, we did check our coverage same as all others, each of the three servers did want to win just as much as everyone else. so there is no one left to blame but the server itself for the results.

in EU, they are dedicated no matter how many times the get destroyed their morale is high, they have guilds who run raids almost everyday, less egos, more drunks on ts ( someone was so drunk he was singing wrecking ball on TS ), they show up with numbers always. GVG they are more into it than NA, using siege in open field is not honorable to some, rangers are a nono, use a rally bot/uplevel you get flamed in 12 different languages, they barely res down players, roaming is less, they got Kid inkk on a daily basis.

in NA, not all servers are dedicated to wvw. morale is low on some servers, raids are not consistent, more egos, less drunks on ts, use what ever you want on open fields, GVG is like monthly period, rarely happens, use whatever char you want and talk smack still, rangers to zerk glass, no man gets left behind they res you no matter what, roaming wise NA has more and skills they tbag you and try to party you to talk crap NA got kid inkk only for seasons.

anything else all blob eu to na.
same warrior meta, you throw a stone you hit 5 warriors.

MagisterEpic.2340:

For everyone that wants to see this is the video of our Golem vs Golem fight in BG BL Bay

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

ty for watching

wow that was awesome…

Rafahil.2857:

JonPeters.5630:

Thief:

• Trickery IV – Flanking Strikes. Move to Master tier.

This is just mean. We already had our burst builds nerfed with Mug, now we no longer have access to Flanking Strikes and have our burst again……lowered….a 5% increase in damage for a Master tier is too little, at least change it to 10% to be more in line.

If this stays then the 25-30-0-0-15 build becomes obsolete….

if this happens we cant kill for jack kitten. just a sad state of thieves. where do anet come up with these ideas? based on QQs of uplevels in the forums i guess. GG anet.

Buzzcrave.6197:

Anyone else come here and just lol’d because it’s mostly PvE?

touche! got me in and i thought it was a crit on wvw on a bunker guardian kitten nnnn.

i think most guys are not giving credit where credit is due, true strength of blackgate is with its militia, blackgate locals, they may be pve/x but they are really committed at times, you will see them roaming and escorting yaks and scouting, most wvw guilds field 15-20 per BL.

ive seen pve people roaming and even owning wvw guilds in 1v1 or group fights.
not to mention most of them tend to roam when map chat calls the quickly gather.

Crimson Riddles.3892:

SmoothHussler.6387:

Irony.5203:

The video has been up on our forums for a day longer than it has been here. The decision to post it here was pushed by the community as a whole.

Anyone else get the feeling that bg likes to think of themselves something along the lines of this???

No way! There’s way too many women on Blackgate to look anything like that…

this guy knows whats up, so many real women in BG every guild has 3-4 or something even in wvw scouting. oh yeah im talking about you bishy baby.

globe.7238:

Kytana.5079:

Mance.5640:

Don’t worry SoR, you are an official T1 server now for life anyhow, as Prx/Ward just bandwagoned over to you!

You can’t say your stacked until that particular group of spineless groupies pays you a visit.

It was this exact type toxic environment that we were trying to get away from on JQ. We did not ever say in public such a thing to prevent any fall out from it but that is the plain and simple truth. It’s one of the major reasons we moved.

I dont typically post on these things because quite frankly I dont care that you or your guild left. But if you’re going to try and say our community was toxic thats only because YOU put that wedge there. YOUR guild was the one going around insulting the casuals or “pugs” calling them “rally trains” and what not. YOUR guild was the one who didnt want anyone other than your guild mates running around with you. YOUR guild were the ones that instead of trying to help improve the server or explain to people things you instead claimed it was a “lost hope”. Oh wait razeth tried to make that guild IC but no one cared…but why? Because YOUR guilds overall egotistical holier than thou attitude is what made people not listen to you in the first place. Odd how it seems the driving force was due to your own doing huh? So please, continue to spew your nonsense of how toxic our community is but don’t forget to paint the whole picture.

/inb4banforspeakingthetruth

it would be an interesting week next week once JQ joins T1 again.

kishter.9578:

So this is? we will be confronting a server who can que the 4 maps in a time when SOR have less than 100 people in wvw over the 4 BL? 25k gaps and is just Monday. What desire give me to start playing WvW starting my week when we already have a clear disadvantage like this?

This is stupid i will level my alts and Spam COF untill this get balanced—-

WvW is only fun when the match is balanced and equal power, but this is far from ridiculous.

Dont lose hope man [ slaps kishter with wet fish ], everyone counts, if you dont have the numbers then go with roamers i hear DB has good ones. Flip camps, and towers use scouts know where the zerg is, go the other side of the map ninja some towers. you also have an advantage being small, They’re big your small, they’re slow, you’re fast, you’ll be coordinated they’re not, or some ballsy move you can chase the zerg’s tail pick them one by one at the back.

hello maguuma, roamed for almost 5 hours, 2 hours in MAG BL saw no one. 3 hours in EB fought VR, iLL, AoN, PYRO, i must say we share common thing we all hit hard.

great fights. thanks MAG.

thanks SOR, glad to see IRON back on its feet.

Fuzzion.2504:

Vash.9183:

Finally the Blackgate teamspeak is up after two hours of being down. We were without a community voice chat, heaven forbid.

BG doesnt need TS. You guys have 6 million players on JQ BL now :P

oh we do need TS, the commander needs to shout THIS IS SPARTAAAAA to rally the BG pugs while taking a tower.