Guild Wars 2

flasbang.5102:

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw
Well according to this FA is still T2. So I don’t get it , didn’t we score the best outta SOS,YB last week?

Here’s a good post explaining it. Just terrible RNG https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Fort-Aspenwood-WvW-Matchup/first#post4751582

flasbang.5102:

Can anyone explain to me why people are raging at FA? I haven’t paid much attention to wvw lately.

We have exponentially more numbers and coverage compared to IoJ and NSP. It’s not fair and the two servers are relatively helpless in comparison.

coglin.1867:

eureka.3069:

When the tier 1 guilds transferred, they brought their heavy siege style gameplay and it’s slowly being adapted into T2. One of the main problem guilds recently transferred back to tier 1, yet the playstyle they brought is still here.

I feel like T2 has never been about PPT except for the last few months. We understand siege is a great mechanic to secure victory especially with smaller numbers, but that doesn’t change the fact that using it and having it used against you is dull.

You appear to be having a bit of difficulty discerning the difference between subjective opinion, and objective fact. You, personally may not enjoy it. That doesn’t mean that others do not enjoy the war like tactic’s, and strategy in fighting beyond that of herding a zerg alone.

There are differences between ‘herding a zerg’ and ‘fighting with your class and synergizing with your group’. There is also a difference between sieging a keep to defend it and building arrow carts in open field fights. Perhaps myself and everyone I associate with ingame is wrong, but is it not more rewarding to work with a group to achieve your results instead of alternating between the buttons 1, 2 and 3?

The issue is that T2 didn’t do this before recently, but this isn’t the topic of the thread. Topic here is stacking two servers against one server, which happened as recently as last week. It’s too hard to maintain and without everyone on board it doesn’t work. It’s not that easy to fix.

It’s not so much that T2 hates one specific server, it’s that before guilds transferred to YB from tier 1 there was barely any siege being built. I transferred from Blackgate to FA back in 2013 because I was tired of fighting with and losing against siege.

When the tier 1 guilds transferred, they brought their heavy siege style gameplay and it’s slowly being adapted into T2. One of the main problem guilds recently transferred back to tier 1, yet the playstyle they brought is still here.

I feel like T2 has never been about PPT except for the last few months. We understand siege is a great mechanic to secure victory especially with smaller numbers, but that doesn’t change the fact that using it and having it used against you is dull.

As for your solution, this has been tried multiple times already. My server (Fort Aspenwood) was the highest Glicko server in tier 2, but instead of us staying in tier 2 we were moved down by freak chance to tier 3. We are not having fun, tier 3 is not having fun. There are clear number advantages not to mention coverage. IoJ and NSP aren’t showing up, meaning that there aren’t fights. I feel like the situation will truly defuse itself when the new leagues are starting, people will transfer to get first place rewards and hopefully that will cause the servers to balance themselves out. Patience is key here, underhanded tactics such as focusing one server have been tried and tried again. It won’t solve anything, and definitely will not stabilize overnight.

MeanPi.6025:

Unless I’m missing something today is May 15. May is a 31 day month. You do the math.

That solves nothing, since I don’t fully understand how the system works…

Hey, I stopped playing GW2 back in August and recently returned to the game. I joined up with a guild on another server with a WvW focus and am ready to transfer to their server. However, I read that I would not be able to participate in WvW mode for that server for at least a week. I also read that this season of WvW is almost over on May 30th, and was wondering if the rule about not being able to partake in WvW will carry over until after the season is over as well? Obviously I’d like to save my money on gems to transfer, but if it is not going to make a difference then I think that I would rather transfer now and pay a bit more to get in a week sooner.

Thanks for your time.

I wish Arenanet would stop fixing what isn’t broken, and then breaking it. It’s getting annoying.

Clockradio.3257:

eureka.3069:

Blaec.8617:

that 200 000man RISE zerg…..

Fun fact about RISE that seems to go unnoticed, we don’t have 200,000 members. We also had 35 people on for reset tonight.

Guild cap is only 500 anyway… And there are only a few guilds who have sister-guilds under same leadership. GSCH being the only one that I can think of off the top of my head. On top of that BG is anything like SoR on reset night (and I’m sure it’s more similar than it is different), you’re lucky to get 35 players in anyway..

One of the many reasons there are starting to be quite a few guilds sitting out on reset night.

Exactly this, we have over 100 members but not even a third of them show up for reset nights, and then out of the ones that do, about 25 actually stay on until the guild signs off.

Blaec.8617:

that 200 000man RISE zerg…..

Fun fact about RISE that seems to go unnoticed, we don’t have 200,000 members. We also had 35 people on for reset tonight.

After three more tries it finally progressed

I’ve encountered a bug twice now, and everytime I restart the instance and redo it, nothing happens. I cannot talk to the Pale Tree even when selecting her after she says ‘With unity even impossible things can be achieved’ or some buddha junk like that. Instead it just permafocuses on trahearne and I can’t progress in the quest.

Level 55 story quest

Level 70 human guardian on Blackgate server.

It’s times like these that I’m proud to be apart of RISE, good job guys keep it up!

Tonight was the first time I’ve had fun in WvW in a long long time. I’m glad to see you guys at Tarnished Coast, I feel this is probably the most fair matchup possible as of current day. I’m really looking forward to this week!

RISE or die!

Johje Holan.4607:

At least title the thing so we can actually tell who is fighting.

Blackgate, Jade Quarry, and Dragonbrand.

MagiKarp.8201:

VOLKON.1290:

So much JQ hate it makes me sad. Here’s the skinny on JQ though. We “work” our posteriors off most of the time and have a lot of great, dedicated people that really enjoy the WvW experience and try to get the most out of it. Like I said earlier, everyone is welcome to our community, excepting of course the ram-troll. So feel free to contact someone on JQ just for a chat if you’re interested to get a feel of who we are and what we do (which you should consider doing before going to any server).

Wherever you go, best of luck. Just remember, the sun never sets in the Quarry.

Except for last Friday.

OoOo Burn! :P

I never did post that thread on Reddit that I mentioned after we took their keep at 5AM. (IGN: Ikiya)

I’m not here to make a speech on why you should join us on Blackgate, you’re always welcome but all the reasons why you should join us have been presented. I am here however, with a plea. Please, for the love of the game. Do not join Jade Quarry. They already have insane coverage. It would honestly ruin the game if Jade Quarry was stacked with 300 new active SEA WvW players. We struggle to find openings and instead go at SoR because quite frankly, if JQ isn’t in the map then they’re in another one. Joining JQ would completely ruin the game for every other server, I’m not stupid. I know that JQ is already extremely strong and if they gained even more coverage they would honestly be unbeatable.

If you really want to make it show that your guild is the reason why a specific server gained the upper hand, I’d suggest one of the tier 2 servers. Kaineng shows a lot of promise and at the rate they’re climbing look to move to tier 1 within weeks. Who knows? It might be fun to mitigate that by going to a rival T2 server.

Again, you’re welcome in Blackgate but please please please, cross JQ out of your list.