Guild Wars 2

Alfven, consider thinking a bit forward. And not only about pve part of the community.

Having, as you stated, 30 min queue might be normal for you, while you play some pve or something. I payed for game for WvW, only. So it turns out to be “stuck at pc not to miss a queue” thing for me. And more people coming, longer you wait. 30 mins is too much already, welcome each and everyone and have what you deserve: eternal queulands, low tier, lack of coordination and constant LA overflow. And, eventually, loosing all those precious [irony]roleplayers[/irony] you found with transfer – since whey will grind gold to get out of a dead server. Moreover, as roleplayer, you might like doing dungeons, right? The best place to get yourself a party is LA. oh no, wait, its constat overflow! And since there’s multiple oflow instances of LA, your chances of finding Piken players willing to do a dungeon are even worse.

As for guild raids, its much worse than for a single player, since you need to get as much of your guys as possible, since you do feel bad for those who werent able to queue an hour before the raid start and are stuck not only being unable to enjoy the game but watching fellow guildies having fun.

With guesting you have 2 options:
a) Having overflow of pve guys who came for the free karma in wvw and free bonuses from wvw, with whom you can do that low level pve. And having none of the guilds that made Piken renown for its battle spirit on these forums.
b) Guest on the world which is pve orientated to do a dungeon if you cant find party here. And have Piken being Piken, not a Pikentide*.

And its way too doubtful that we will get even 1% of roleplayers with these transfers, since they are completely related with paid transfers coming soon.

*not an insult, i do feel sorry for you guys with all that hopping ruining your server

It was about 15-20 mins ago. Appears to be the thing that happens when tally countdown is in “—-” state, cause i’ve seen it earlier, though that was golden times without queues, so it didnt matter much. Not this time huh

Heya there, ANet! Dont think its an intended behavior:
1) Wait in queue for 40 min
2) ITS OVER! Press “travel”
3) Get message “wvw updated” thing
4) Get thrown off queue.
Isnt it?

I kindly ask Gandara to name all the brand new guild tags they’ve seen upon reset (all the countless Blacktide warbands).
For instance, guilds present in PS BL upon reset were Heresy [HRSY] and Champions of the Gods [COTG] both being Piken. And friendlies.

Why ppl tend to write before reading?
BTW, "Yep, im prob going to be trolled and flamed, but tbh atm I really dont care, all thats happened on Piken is some of T1 guilds bailed out of Blacktide and transfered freely to PS. "
Oh that over9k* RG army. Aside RG and siN, Every. Freaking. Guild. Running. Raid. Upon. Reset. Steamrolling. You. To. Death. Is Piken.
http://youtu.be/FZJuMjUTNCQ?t=10m44s

*You do count foes not by their exact numbers but based on numbers of your nontag friendlies they can steamroll? Thats it, over9k

And still, i feel a bit bad about all that shizz on the forums – there are awesome players and guilds on both AR and Gandara for whom i have great respect. It was fun playing with you guys.

Reset is basically Piken strong side. Especially this week when we had our WvW guilds finally back from holidays in full force and hungry for action (they brought us to T3 being outnumbered, so they do hit like a truck), having siN (you already met them previous week) and RG back to Piken today. In fact, majority of our players in EB were organised and experienced guild raids, couldnt call it a “zerg” since its not a random blob of 50+ players (which we’ve seen fighting ER, even offpeak). Nontag friendlies tend to leave wvw if there’s no karma train going, especially when facing multiple organised mediocre in size raids. Its just 1 man leaving wvw, another one, things get even worse and bah! There’s no one around. Thats what we suffered of in our first 2 matchups with you guys. Gandara just havent seen Piken in full force earlier
ZvW guild is a guild required to split into 3 guilds since they hit 500ppl limit (i know at least one such guild).

Akkarrin, answering your question on the screenshot. If i got you correct its AR BL bay, we attacked 2 gates at inner, one with golem and other with rams, the golem one took too long (switched to cata due golly loss actually). So when our guys appeared inside i was bit surprised myself and then found that wide open gate to walk through

Akkarrin.3406:

PaGaNiNi.6978:

GL & HF guys lets have a good 1

When all the WvW guilds hop to the same server to beat up teir4 servers and unsurpriseingly take over all 4 maps within 10 minutes its kinda impossible for those poor sods left behind to HF and GL wont do much good either… thanks anyway though ¬_¬

Its RG back to Piken this week and siN new and welcome previous week. Both not being 100500 players huge. All the other steamrolling same tagged warbands are our friends back from holidays slack.

If so, my apologize. It’s rather late, bit sleepy. Touchy for obvious reason than I’m more than sure none of our wvw guilds would do that. At least if being aware of a hacking involved. With this particular cap it’s rather stupid to hack since we had both numbers and coordination to take upgraded garrison. Video you provided definitely shows a guild absolutely aware of a Mesmer going to jump like an antigravity ragdoll – and this is not our case, isn’t it?

And by guild I mean a living community, not a band of 2.5 cheaters jumping between servers. Every server can catch some of these someday.

/bow to a mesmer from AR [Baka] guild. Had a great long fight just now, ending both downed, gf!

As Harm stated in the corresponding topic in the open part of our forum, its more about commanders not leading attacks against each other. So the (dis)honor is all about the guys who agreed to focus Gandara. Whoever starts a fight against “ally” (not being the one of the involved commanders) – there’s nothing bad about it. And if something is painfully lost – dont sleep on your watch lol.

Strategy wise its a good decision, since i’ve seen Gandara outnumber us badly during offpeak. Guess its the major reason for teaming up at the first place, since we climbed up to t3 being always outmanned offpeak.

And hey, if you dont care following that badge / want to rp a honorable knight not willing to cease fire with foe while having common enemy at your door / whatever else – its up to you, go kill some AR guys. And vice versa. When some Augry guys took Golanta and tried to ninjacata Klovan i took some Pikens and capped Danelon. Dont mess with the inquest thing :) Harass their camps, start a breakout – have fun. At least it made this half-asleep (Piken side at least) matchup a bit more fun. And its always nice not to be doubleteamed for a change.

At some point the “screw u doubleteaming us” posts remind me of “<class_name_here> op qq” things – its game mechanics, WvWvW is designed to be so, and the teaming up against larger threat fits the conception perfectly. As focusing 2nd scoring server by both 1st and 3rd.

And please, dont take it that serious – its a game.

We all can recall some roflstomping action against opponents, such as:
- running through Kodash camp and luring its 4 defenders out, kiting ’em till they split and winnig 3 1v2 fights with third fight being the return of the first two ppl and wiping up to 7-8 defenders there with 2-3 ppl;
- wiping Elona breakout with at least 2.5v1 only with 4 ac and 1 bali at hand (hell, inner was literally covered with the red downed triangles).
But it works vice versa too:
- charging out of that camp too far, dying and loosing all npcs and the camp itself ’cause supervisor was already unbuffed, so it was impossible to res and get back in time;
- catching heavy portal bomb in that tower being completely unprepared for it.

You make errors, we make errors. I know it’s kinda hard to /bow instead of /laugh when you have such a win, especially after being heavily outnumbered all this week*, but i try to rember the vice versa part too. /wave. Hopefully i’ll give some hell (or at least annoyance) to your defenders in the off-peak hours.

*(since im ill, i play rather much in the off-peak hours for last 3 weeks, so i know what im talking about)

Motivation wise, seeing Kodash off-peak numbers makes me sure that we’re already the highest lower population server, so no need to tear ourselfes apart to score second place in this tier, so less “must” and more “fun” for me. Cheers ;)

Downed is just ridiculous. Getting necro downed 3 times in ~30 sec and still he was revived faster than a stomp+1sec