Guild Wars 2

Le Rooster.8715:

The Illuminati got to you, that’s my theory.

The Illuminati fight in the Fusang Projects.

Had fun last night in SoR BL holding CD Supply Camp. Man there were a few good ol’ zergs run through that place last night heh.

Stonesolid.2706:

You don’t understand our spirit of competition. You can not try to talk us into not attacking TC. It’s not an option. If we see strong opponents on the battlefield we will gun for them no matter what (we can’t help it – we racka disciprine). We will take the biggest threat on the map, draw them out, murder them, and eat their souls. The stronger the opponents the tastier the souls (that’s how it works). Plus, my blades are always begging me for blood! They’re insatiable and I don’t like giving ’em mine so I have to keep them fed with the likes of you.

That is a perfectly valid viewpoint to have! It’s just annoying when people that are doing that then complain about losing out overall to people actually making strategic decisions instead of getting into the fastest fight, and try to label them with all manner of conspiracy theories.

If you’re the one drinking and yelling KAMIKAZE!! and making suicide attacks in RISK*, it may be great fun while it lasts (arguable more fun than everyone else if having), but you probably aren’t going to win the game. Don’t accuse the other players of Kingmaking, or say that they shouldn’t be playing “hardcore”.

*not to imply that RISK is really a game of grand strategy lol. It’s really more like a weekend long Yahtzee tournament.

TC probably does do a bit more zerging than some other realms. It’s been mentioned before that the mass of puggers in TC is sort of like a militia. Left on their own they tend to mill around the bridges around the Briars and not do much.

As soon as a Commander (or forceful personality in /team) shows up to take charge however they turn into a rampaging beast. Judging from what I see people from other realms saying (I haven’t played on any other ones – so this is just conjecture) it seems that after the first few weeks in WvW the pugs pretty much respect all the Commanders and we tend to not have as much “chat wars” in our own faction.

Also there is that “Morale” advantage that keeps getting mentioned. I think TC tends to retain player interest throughout the week better, so while other servers may start fielding less people TC stays fairly full, adding to the “zerginess”.

Kasei.8726:

You want a challenge.
You don’t think FA is a challenge.
You think YB is a challenge.
So you continue to focus your attacks on FA.
Nice logic right there.

There’s a difference between seeking a challenge and committing suicide.

Since FA is so offensive (zing!) if we actually tried to properly siege YB, FA’d come in from behind and just mop us up (and then we’d have to come on here and accuse you all of a 2-1 alliance!).

By buzzing around us like angry hornets all the time, you basically ensure we can’t concentrate long enough to actually focus on YB. You keep distracting us.

I seem to recall someone was making an ERP-WvW guild. The Pillow Society or something like that?

WvW is srz bznz, enjoying pvp while jumping is right out.

Some people will get angry about anything they aren’t directly controlling, no matter what.

I see no problem with doing the jumping puzzle. Even if there is a queue. The only time it would be a real issue if there’s like 20 people flailing around there failing like fools. Let’s be honest, 4 or 5 people aren’t going to be missed.

Likewise I see no problems with camping the jumping puzzles. It’s a pvp zone people, not a freebie that you’re entitled to get merely by logging on. Not only are the people camping it stopping the other teams, but they safeguard the route for their own forces. Again, I’m talking about like 5 people, when you get 20 camping it, it’s a bit excessive.

I see people getting yelled at for trying to finish their maps. I mean really people, loosen up, it’s a game and a few people doing their own thing isn’t going to make us lose. Hell, if you want to yell at someone, yell at the 3-6 people I see idle just inside the camp every game.

Kso.6458:

Because this game caters to bads. Its watered down pvp lite for babies. A pointless carebear kittenfest.

Well certainly allowing anyone that can faceroll onto their AOE button to kill everyone in a group would be catering only to the most skilled of players.

An exciting night of escorting Dolyaks in YB BL.

Of course, remove the Thiefs ability to harass supply camps and they’re pretty much useless in WvW. Turns into bringing a sub-par Ranger with a scorpion wire.

I think it’s just because TC is the unofficial RP server that everyone assumes we’ve used our social powerz and engaged in backdoor diplomacy with the other servers. When really we’re all just bumbling around attacking whoever is in front of us at the time.

Well at least there’s no /spit

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Whereas for us Commander Fel types so much stuff that he spends half the match suppressed.!

YB BL last night was crazy. YB had that place fortified up and seemed anywhere we went we’d fight off a zerg and then the other teams zerg would roll in and mop what we had left up.

My experience has been that YB is all about the defence, with defensive siege and people guarding supply camps making it rough to try to ninja things, and requiring a full force to take anything. Whereas FA is all about the offence and hits the shock and awe attacks with portal bombs and focus numbers. TC is kind of split, doing both but not to the extent. Jack of all trades, master of none kinda deal.

/won’t be on an uplevelled toon next time
//so hopefully won’t have to spend so much time on guard duty on the treb at Greenbriar

Boy YB sure do love defensive siege in their supply camps. It’s like storming Normandy trying to get in there last night on the FA BL

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Then they shouldn’t take the slot of your Elite skill, and everyone should have an additional Racial slot. Because there’s no reason to take one over your Elite aside from RP.

Also personally, I wished they would actually turn you into the animal, not a were-form. But I guess that’s minor.

We didn’t want it to seem like camping the Yak spawn last night in CDBL, but man any time we got like 20’ away from Red Briar they’d jump all over it again. so we had to extend the perimeter. Persistent buggers.

I think we had a three way fight going on at Godslore at one point? Mass hysteria!

See a character in a spot you don’t know how to reach? Must be exploiting or hacking.

Attacked by 2 different sides on the entire map? Must be collusion.

Enemies send a bigger force than you have? Must be mindless zergers that fear 1 on 1 with you.

Do you want her with a Norn title or a non-Norn engineering title?

/once had a dwarf from an engineer clan named Nutpuncher

Just some random dragons huh?

I figured it was karma for asura being able to see the other jumping puzzles easier.

Perhaps you just need to become more familiar with the maps, because if it takes you 10 minutes to get to the other side of a map, well, you may be doing it wrong.

Agreed. While in WvWvW zones Commanders with an active icon should have their posting allotment increased before getting the flooded treatment.

I don’t know about the others, but the Wold Lodge does have someone teaching parables. Every once and a while the kids meet up by the shrine and a storyteller starts telling stories about Wolf.

I would like to see more stuff going on inside the lodges and other buildings, but I actually prefer hanging out in Hoelbrak to a lot of the other towns. Just wish there were more people there sometimes.

Oh and less “Take Heed!”

Seems like every piece of light armour I find is backless. Which is good for seeing the tattoos.

Let’s just chill with all the accusations of exploiting and stuff. Anet has made it clear they don’t want to see it in threads, the accused side will deny it, the accusers will get all flustered and it goes nowhere. Please chafe your kitten somewhere else.

We actually came across a lone ET invader in the SoR BL last night. We were going to let him go but some puggers with us got him. Made us feel sad.

The problem TC has is that we’re a 3.5 server. Tier 3 can be a little too hardcore, Tier 4 is a little too soft. We’ll probably just keep bouncing around.

[BGV] was in the south of SoR BL last night and at least from our perspective things went pretty well. Constant fighting back and forth. Though I notice SoR seems more willing to drop the siege for defense.

Draganfuil.3546:

I agree that every server does have that ilk of player; I only make mention of it re: TC because I have seen several masses of several guilds doing it, not a mish mash of pug guilds. Don’t recall the names of the guilds but tags such as MF, PINK, and another one that escapes me, are ones that I see doing this quite a lot. Maybe they are transfer guilds and not native TC folks, and maybe I’m guilty of generalizing, but it is aggravating to see and I felt a need to address it.

I know some TC Commanders have actively been trying to get people to stop spawn camping both in /map and tells. But sometimes that just makes them more stubborn about it…

But no fatties.

It’s not like mods have asked us repeatedly not to mention specific names or anything. It’s not like they would ever shut down a thread where people keep doing it for some unknown reason or anything.

I suppose in theory there are as many spirits as their are different animals out there, but the Norn as a whole only “worship” the 4 currently listed. I don’t see any problem with individual norn taking another animal spirit as a totem (like Hare as shown in the questing area).

I’m also in a piratical-themed guild though I’ve decided to go more an Air route for blowing sails and all that (being an primarily air attuned elementalist and all). Hell I would have gone for Owl if, you know…

It’s nice to know that getting home 20min late results in sitting in queue for 3 hours. A lot of the co-ordinated guilds and commanders were stuck outside for a good while. I know only abut 1/3 of our forces actually made it in.

As opposed to being a dedicated night crew, it’s likely that it just took that friggen long for a bunch of Commanders to actually get into the Mists in the first place.

But on the other hand, every matchup before we’ve had some other server pounding us in the night shift, so there have been some attempts to shore up that weakness. I guess it’s helping now.

Why would a Commander have to be level 80? They’re there for their skill in leading people, not 1 on 1 fighting.

At certain times the server has been full since launch. There’s been threads on GW2roleplay about how to actually time it to get on for some time now.

I think FA drank some crazy juice tonight!

Hey Mr Silver, you guys operate as pirates IC as well? BGV is also pirate-themed, may be good to do some events together.

/callme

Vondis has some WoW Issues. Just saying.

Attendance to events isn’t mandatory, just wanted if you’re looking to advance in the ranks. Though we do have a monthly guild meeting that probably should be considered mandatory.

How could we force a band of drunken pirates to adhere to a strict schedule anyway?

Now if you could spend gems to force whoever has been in map longest to D/C and you get their spot, well…

Large means more snu snu!

In the FA Borderlands last night the theme of the night was madly rushing to repel attackers. I can’t count the number of times we’d have people frantically call out that the gates to a tower/whatever were at 20%, rush like madmen to get numbers there only to find the gate down and the enemy on the Lord, and then wipe them just in a nick of time. Just in time for another call out.

Was fun while I was there. I see things may not have been as fun over the late night period though!

Fight naked. There’s even some Commanders here that do that.

See, now that’s someone talking about quitting. Lol

Well all the norn thieves are stealthed you see.

Aramanth.1546:

you want to talk out of place? Since when do the brainy asura value something like hitting a person with a blunt object until they’re dead like a caveman? Why would a Silvari, a creature made from wood specialize in fire-based magic, or even poison based attacks like a Necromancer? Magic’s looked down on in the Charr society, why would any of them focus on being a mesmer, elementalist, or necromancer?

Well flesh is flammable too, doesn’t stop humans from being elementalists.

I like to imagine they can hear the screaming of the carrots whenever they harvest them though.

I don’t doubt anything you said Fury, I just said it didn’t sound like he called you quitters is all.

Quite frankly, regardless of server transfers I think every server is going to lose people anyways. GW2 is the new shiny MMO but especially with it’s lack of sub to keep you chained to it, people are going to move on to other games sooner rather than later.

The key is that they’ll always be able to come back and play some WvW whenever they want, but most likely not all at once. So once all the supra-hardcore players migrated to whatever server they’re going to end up on we’ll see things settle population wise. I doubt we’ll see many fights as large as the once the first few weeks of the game unless they drop some servers.

Anyway, enough rambling for now.

Fury.6248:

So you label people as quitters because they disagree with you and know the truth about what happened? So much for civility you claim to have. I have WvW footage of fighting both TC and CD, I am there everyday. So if you want to personally attack people for stating the truth about what happened then it sounds like your desperately trying to seek approval for something that wasn’t really a accomplishment to begin with.

Kinda looked more like it’s you that were calling your server quitters. He said he continued to fight against people after the weekend that you claimed had all the effort in it.

There’s many reasons, be it community, RP or what have you but the crux is that we seem to have a pretty large core of people that won’t transfer off when the going gets bad.

It doesn’t necessarily help us win, but it helps us not lose.