Guild Wars 2

The problem we have here is that the proverbial carrot simply doesn’t exist. Anet went to all this trouble to make this amazing new dungeon and in their haste to get it released forgot a key component: Rewards.

A month or so ago, an anet representative posted that their dungeon loot was “dismal.” I’m sorry, but fractals drop the most generic rares/exotics really doesn’t change the fact that the loot is still kitten. Halloween, a once a year event, came loaded with all kinds of shiny little knick-knacks so it’s clear you have the capability.

We put in a lot of time and effort to defeat difficulty scale 30 and, as much fun as the journey was, it was depressing to find we had nothing tangible to mark our milestone. Not too mention, our incentive to delve deeper has been hindered because what’s the point? Give me a unique piece of armor, a title, a kittening achievement. Something. Anything.

Been awhile since an update so here you go.

Albane.8367:

We need to get a solid Oceanic presence on JQ, because right now SB is winning solely on their ninja skills at 2am-5am.

SBI is also winning during east coast prime time, west coast prime time, after hours and pretty much… yeah, pretty much just winning charlie sheen style with tiger blood and all that jazz.

Granted, I have seen maps turn from completely green to blue within a few hours. But to proclaim you guys are beating us 21 hours out of the day is laughable.

Anyhow, keep the good fights coming.

Blade.9317:

I think we at BG are one step beyond that. Not only are we queue-less on every map we are also out-manned on 3/4 maps. I wish the out-manned buff did something beneficial to help even the odds rather than signal our opponents that we are weak and now is the time to crush us.

So true. It’s like chum in the water. I never really understood where anet was going with the outmanned buff.

Cover Girl.2580:

Lofty.8759:

it’s official, BG is dead. Few major guilds just left, including HB in their Euro timezone.

Great, we killed “Beastgate” (

I think they shed more tears than blood. Maybe it’s a good thing.

Arbacus.8296:

where do you get this misinformation most of bg is not wv3ing or quit the game temporarily or permanently due to rl circumstances or being friends or guildmate sof those with rl circumstances and not wanted to play unless everyones playing kinda thing
there is also the whole thing of comming into t1 and meeting the most disgusting no moral hacking exploiting spying quantity over quality zerg we have ever seen in mmo gaming

Wow, this is one heck of a sentence. I’m not 100% certain, but I think he’s trying to congratulate SBI and JQ on a terrific week of fights so far. Just another stand-up Blackgate member representing his server with all the class and candor we’ve come to expect.

I’m all for 2v1ing blackgate if it gets them out of the tier 1 thread. Let’s face it, if things continue to look bleak for BG the bandwagon is going to jump ship. In a few weeks Beastgate will be duking it out with henge in tier 37. And i mean no disrespect to Henge, as we still have seen nothing like what they were in the tier 1 bracket since their demise.

Try and be a bit more humble. Proclaiming yourself “Beastgate” definitely didn’t win you any fans.

Great change. Possibly a little late, but still a great move. Hopefully we can get them back in the game with a more reasonable buff.

Obviously giving the winning team a combat buff was just silly. Maybe it’s as easy as just switching the outmanned buff with the orbs. Can’t wait to see some much needed WvW fixes.

Another wonderful week of fights. Once again, SBI seems to have weathered the early onslaught and I’m really interested to see if BG has an answer.
The bunker tactics that were so dominant in the beginning of the week are having less and less of an impact. Though, when executed skillfully, it can still present quite an obstacle.
Finally, it would be nice if we could get some new material from all the complainers. The 2v1 stuff is really getting old. Maybe work the “Stormbluff, diplomatic geniuses” angle a little more?

great post, bahaness. Thanks to WM for sticking with SBI and I look forward to the future of our server.

And already this has devolved into the incessant complaining that is the tier 1 wvw thread.

lol, best timing for patch ever

What a great week. Really can’t say much more than that. Kudos to everyone involved and thanks for all the fun fights.

jq – 200,807
sbi – 198,766
ioj – 152,175

Such a great match-up this week! Now close the free transfers so we don’t have to watch another round of servers imploding.

Also, congratulations to IoJ for showing that they’re more than capable of hanging with the top tier. We had some amazing fights with TL. Hopefully you guys can remain in the tier 1 bracket.

lmfao, these conspiracies are getting more and more entertaining. It’s like the Romney debate tactic; just make it up and hope it sticks.

btw, how do all these guilds transfer to SBI when it’s been full 24/7 for quite awhile now?

Yep, my entire guild was suffering from the same issue. A few more details, some of us experienced our own characters going invisible and wouldn’t fix until relogging. While character rendering has always been slow, this is definitely a new issue. Where as in the past the opponents would be slow to load, now they just aren’t loading. Period.

Another symptom of the issue was severe ability lag. I also noticed that the memory space allocated to gw2 nearly doubled in size (from about 1.5gigs to almost 3gigs of memory) during these big wvw events.

Hopefully it won’t take long to at least get things back to how they were prior to the patch.