Guild Wars 2

The worst part of all – now our casual WvW’ers will quit. What was a very close and exciting NA-time match-up (that we were winning) will now be a massacre in YB’s favor. We won’t be able to fill maps, and they’ll have fully upgraded positions. It’ll be interesting to see if the lack of orbs makes it better.

The sad truth is there just aren’t enough EU/SEA/Oceanic players on the NA servers to go around, or even close to it.

Having said that, kudos to YB for a good match thus far. I went to bed at 2:30 a.m. EST and had a lot of fun, you guys played us extremely hard and surprised me with your NA presence. That was one of the more evenly matched resets I have seen, even more surprising due to it being essentially a 1 v 1.

That was pretty ridiculous on Maguuma BL with Maguuma trying to take Hills keep. We had so much siege down for defense waiting for the turtle I had to run all the way to the gate to place more.

The simplest counter to this is a ballista/siege. Have a group of 5+ on voice comm? Drop and insta-build a ballista, at double the range of their stack. They better move or you’re about to get 40 happy sacks.

We (FA) have been receiving the outmanned buff in our own borderlands on and off for a few hours. We have the lowest PPT, and no territory worth mentioning other than in EB right now. Don’t listen to the trolls, we need players that don’t play during NA prime time.

@Winterwolf, if you’re insinuating I’m lying that is fine. I was at Bluevale supply camp, and I bet you I personally got 200ish kills in ~an hour. I was also the only one on the map wearing a commander tag, so if you saw a FA guy there with one around that time, it was me. Pretty sure I died to two TC people, one was a female human thief, and she killed me ~5 times using Steal → CnD → Backstab → HS Spam in the midst of decent sized skirmishes, and the other was a GS guardian that rolled on me in Champion’s/whatever its called on Green BL.

To the rest of TC, I was not insinuating that you didn’t deserve your win or aren’t skilled – you do and I’m sure some of you are. I just found it humorous that someone up there said maybe you guys just outmaneuvered superior numbers throughout this match, when clearly that has not been the case. My message was not supposed to be insulting, I let my frustration get the best of me when I was typing it.

Our server has been a ghost town in WvW and that is on us, not you, but I was venting because I feel the mechanics make the winning win harder. I WvW for the competition and so me and some of my guild will continue queuing, at least for some time, but for non-24/7 coverage servers this is going to continue being a problem.

Praetorian Order [PRO] supports/signs this. We’ll do what we can do make a transition easier and you feel welcome.

Speaking from FA, I can’t remember the last time I played a borderlands and we outnumbered TC. To be fair I don’t play during the day (I work), but last night in FA Borderlands we filled up for about an hour while I was trebbing Garrison from Dawn’s. That is it, and TC was definitely full at this time too. My group then went to TC Borderlands where we had about 6 people on the map. Our group of 9-10 proceeded to kill 100s of TC, I literally got about 40 kills on one sitting of an arrow cart, but in the end it didn’t net us much.

Also, right before this I was on my alt in EB and we were being spawn camped there/at Langor’s. So I definitely don’t think TC is fighting an “uphill battle”.

TC won this matchup fair and square, and you guys aren’t bad, but don’t kid yourselves – it isn’t player skill. The one thing you do better than most servers I’ve played against is have people posted at every location, making it literally impossible to ninja anything. That, and using dead people as spies. I hope they fix that.

It is frustrating because even though my group of 9-10 routinely takes 20+ people with the 3 orb bonus on, it makes no difference. We can’t cap anything aside from a supply camp without dropping 3+ golems, and why would we? Your zerg of 100 people will show up right after we do.

I truly don’t understand ANets’s design mechanic, and I know they’re working on it. But they DESIGNED these matches to be snowball-ish. Why? Why, because you have a night crew, should your day crew be 1.5x as effective? Is it not bad enough that the map gets 100%‘d while I sleep, and they get 8 hours of TOTAL DOMINATION (near 100% map owned, and 600+ PPTs)? That has to extend for the 16 hours when I’m awake, too, via orb buffs and full fortifications?

When I went to bed on Friday night after the reset, FA was winning both in overall points and PPT. Dragonbrand was insanely close in 3rd. I wake up Saturday morning, and the match is effectively over. TC night capped everything, had a 20k lead, had 3 orbs, and fully upgraded towers/keeps/castles. Our casual players beat their heads against buffed-up TC players, and fortified positions for a few hours – and give up. It isn’t an easy fight to come back from. I’m cool with it working this way, but give me 24 or 48 hour matches then. I haven’t had a good WvW fight in a month, and likely won’t next week either. Next week I’ll probably be on the opposite side where we stomp out an opponent, which might even be less fun. Your game is getting really old, really fast ANet. You need to fix it.