Guild Wars 2

Here is the proof – Aurora and Far Shiverpeaks collaborate – you can clearly see a flying mesmer commander of both teams (blue and red) scouting an AM Tower

Yip Yip^^

the funny thing is -and i know it from Gandara, since i played there for a couple of months- that they really want to gather up to a so called “Blob” but their ppl just don’t listen to the commanders, resulting in a maybe 30-35 ppl “Blob” max while the rest of them is crafting, idling, farming flowers or whatever…but instead of working on their community and cooperation, they blame and badmouth the opponent that -even though it has a much smaller population size- does it better in this context.

You can call it “Blob” or whatever you want, but for me it’s just a sign of a way more “healthy” community – and this “one community” is a big goal in this game and Abaddon shouldn’t be ashamed of that, but be proud of it!

i can somehow understand Gandara – since i played on that server for several months.
They actually have a few decent wvw guilds but they lack of support from casual wvw players.
For example: the unselfish jobs like guarding objectives, escorting “bessies”, tapping siege,
upgrading objectives and so on are kinda neglected on that server.
They wanna roam around with their guildgroups and encounter opponents (but preferrably
less or the same size tho) – but its more like “closed community”. There is (or better was) no one
“in duty” to motivate the casuals.

Abaddon is different:
- wvw community (incl. commanders) always welcome new players and casuals and let them be involved into the
action – our wvw guilds know that they are a very important force.
- even casuals do the unselfish jobs of guarding, escorting and such since we see the wvw community as a whole
- there are 400+ ppl on TS3 at reset weekend with musicbots and lots of nonsense too XD it’s more like a big and often hilarious party!
- running in a big group can be really funny – despite the lag that occurs now and then…and we just play for fun!
- last but not least: we dont take it too serious if we get wiped or lost important objectives…
we try to learn from it but we dont blame others for that (we will strike back instead

Abaddon is a middle populated server but my rough guess is, that almost every 2nd Player on there is at least
a casual WvW Player. And this is what makes the difference in style of play. You chose the way of
“closed community” and we have chosen the way of “everyone is welcome” – makes it harder for the commanders concerning tactical gameplay,
but the the benefit of having a big force and all the fun that comes along with this style more than compensate for this.

My suggestion: at least try it once to recruit and integrate casual wvw players and stop blaming
others for their more broad community biased style – its a Win-Win…believe it or not!

yup, would be funny, huh? Like this scenario:

You are knocking at our keeps door and shouting “hey, how many ppl in there? we got only 30 here”
we count ppl and shout back “50 ppl here and 5 arrow carts”
then we gotta make sure to get rid of 20 ppl and to make sure they wont take the advantage of siege and the castellation to have an even fight after letting you in (too bad we cant help with smashing the door or wall to get you in faster).

Concerning Skill Lag: Maybe with a little luck you will find the correct recipient one day

maybe you dont know it, but skill lags affects almost everyone – on both sides.
WvWvW is a strategical and tactical game – its about taking and defending objectives and not just about a clash of playergroups on an open field (which is more of an accompaniment).
Using the advantage of siege, organized groups, knowing when and where to hit the opponent is just the challenge for you to break this and vice versa – but it seems there are ppl here only for boring zerg vs. zerg fights on an open field (guess what? WvW would be dead already if this was the main challenge of this game)

exactly thats what i meant – stop whining about the opponents playstyle, use the “sore point” of their playstyle to your advantage…thats how a learning process begins – not by whining and accusations

and again the whining about the size of raidgroups
- always the same …like “we are the skilled ppl and you just have more ppl”
hmmm…maybe its just pure envy?
If thats not enough you can add statements like “all exploiters, hackers, cheaters”
Reminds me of the Counterstrike Newbies on Public Servers – same behaviour!
We never claimed to have the perfect style of playing – but obviously you do, right? you are just
lacking the opponent in size and skill to prove it…ironic, isnt it?
If you are that good – prove it!
Instead of being flexible enough to find a way to counter the opponents way of playing you are whining, insulting, accusing.
that is a really tacky way to handle it.

(btw: this is adressed to the Aurora backstabbers and the other whining posts only)