Guild Wars 2

YB got pushed up, and TC tanked to T2, and even as dead as the game is atm, I’m still thankful for that. I complain about TC sieging up and running behind walls, and then I remember what it was like to “fight” YB, and I thank god for having TC and DB to fight. At least TC comes out to play from time to time

Reset on Friday please. Also, rotate alpine borderlands. No need to completely scrap a map that was fully functional and preferred by a majority of the player base

Jski.6180:

Kasteros.9847:

Emmm long time? 5 secs is long time? Also u could easly take it off with wells / cb etc. Yeah they are meel and they can’t do anything now. This shouldn’t be like that. Why they can’t do anything? Cos of AOE CC SPAM. Agian Short cd? – if 50 cd skill that give u 5 sec boon is long duration skill then what is short duration? 1 sec? Again u don’t play warrior u don’t understand a thing, simple as that. 3/4 of ppl qqing here about new stabs are MEELE, since they can’t play meele at all now. So tell me if range is disadvantage for meele then stabil changes are ven greater since they can’t meele now cos of lack of it – they lose ALL stacks in less than 1 sec when going in. Yesterday our comm stopped going melee totally cos of too many ccs on his way – he wasn’t brainlessly rushing in though all ccs, he w8ed till they throwed it then rushed by other side and…they had even more ccs to put…THAT is the point. But again if u don’t play meele wariror now afetr changes u don’t understand a thing.

Yes 5 sec IS a long time in a pvp game that is min to min 5 sec can be every thing that and most ppl have some level of boon duration + so that 5 sec on stab realty more of a 6 to 8 sec stab.

Wells do not prioritize stab they must eat though every other boon 1 boon per sekittenil they get to stab so you can run cover boons and if you have a gurd in your pt you have cover boons. Also Wells are only from one class there the mez boon strip on aoe but that 2 classes that realy do not have the line hard cc like a gurd or ele the main hard cc in the meta.

But 24-30 sec IS a short cd for the gurd the main stab ppl are talking about and often the same class that is with the War who has there own stabs blocks leaps etc.. to avoid line hard cc that stuns you for less then 1 sec most of the time. Though there is war aoe hard cc i guess you could say that is a good way to stop melee too but then you would have melee countering melee not this ranges only native that your trying to shove on ppl.

If you start at a ranges then ranges classes should be at an advantages from melee that IS the ideal behind being a ranges class once that melee is on the ranges the melee tend to knock the ranges arone well unless the melee have no boon removal but there is always the stab changes so the caster too cant have endless stab.

Look it takes 6 gards to counter 1 gurds stab one time but it dose not end there the gards lines are on a 32 sec at best cd where the 1 gurds stab is on a 30 sec cd at worst. That is if the one gurad is bad enofe to just run on the other garud lines or simply run into the other sides sword and kill them self on it.

War is still usable as a melee they are just not as OP as they use to be. Ranges are also effect by the stab changes and are weak to hard cc from classes with out boon removal becuse of this changes too.

Jskip, I respect your opinion on ele, but with that said, you really have no perspective on how these stab changes have affected the front-line. I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m a bad guardian, but I’ve played in the backline with you so I’ll leave my play up to your judgement. Last night, I wasn’t at all surprised that Gregor rage quit during raid, because I was getting pretty close to doing the same thing myself. To have all of my stab burn out literally the instant I used it, and then getting melted by damage and condi’s was just not fun. Period. Forget trying to learn better play, this new meta is completely unforgiving for ANY melee class. A single mistake, and you’re dead, that’s it. Kaput! Given that our guild tends to run very low on melee already, last night’s raid just made me not want to play any melee class ever again. And having played ele backline in our raids, I can guarantee you that ranged classes have a much easier time trying to escape blobs. As an ele, if I ever got caught in the middle of an enemy zerg, all I’d have to do is mistform out and teleport with my highly spammable and aoe based lightning flash. Zoel is generally very good at positioning anyway, so you rarely get into that position as a backcaster. But as a Guardian, you literally have none of those options. I was having to burn every single out I had on the first just to avoid getting caught in CC constantly being dropped on my head. And now, I’m also expected to sit in the frontline and soak up damage? It was a kitten show man, and this meta has simply ruined the frontline. Full stop. Roll a warrior or guard, and see for yourself. Having played both front and backline, I can tell you that no new player is going to be running frontline in WvW anytime soon.

Hi! Please visit http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/

We have many active guilds recruiting on our forums and one of the most active community websites in the game!

Please Arenanet, stop trying to break the game by taking skill out of the players hands.

-Sincerely,
8+ Years Gw1 + Gw2 Player

Just ignore this guy and maybe he’ll go away

1. Using siege is god aweful boring
2. Sitting with siege equipment, waiting for people to show up is god aweful boring
3. By making siege the end all be all of wvw tactics (which they are, don’t deny it) you are taking player skill completely out of the equation an build crafting utterly worthless
4. Siege should absolute, 100% of the time be used as supplemental tools, instead we have people throwing arrow carts up in the middle of a field because because 3 guys with one arrow cart can take out a group of 10+
5. A war of attrition is NOT FUN. It’s a videogame for Christs’ sake it DOESN’T HAVE TO BE REALISTIC!

Also, VotF, you need to make a thread about all the ridiculous siege changes, taking a keep or tower is just not fun anymore, and if it wasn’t for my awesome guild, I would have quit lready. I honestly on’t know how much more of this bullkitten I can handle

What do you o to protect siege now? Any siege like cats and trebs on high ground will AlWAYS have a better range than if you’re attacking from above, so what are you supposed to do except have a siege battle to see who can build siege faster and faster as each piece goes down? It’s my understanding that Arenanet wants to make WvW one dimensional an static with this game patch, so what do we do now to take anything?

Props to [agg] just now on TCBL Briar. We had you outnumbered, but you came at us full force anyway. I felt like you were one veil away from a successful hook maneuver, definitely gonna steal that for later :p

Using swirling winds was certainly incredibly boring, no doubt about that, but the utility of it was unquestionable. I disagree with the Arenanet philosophy that siege should be the end all be all of WvW play. It creates a very static game play and turns the chess match into a game of checkers. This basically ruins the use of open-field cats and trebs to attack walls, and equally guarantees that bay wall will be down 100% of the time, making an already tough keep even worse to defend.

Everyone whining about this or that being OP are just UT. Under Thinking. Adapt to the game, improve yourself, and stop complaining that what the other guy over there is doing and that’s not fair. That’s how evolution works fyi, you either adapt, or die, clean and simple. And kitten bring some kitten condition cleansing with you if you can’t deal with it, if you didn’t know, ALL classes have it.

I’m sorry about your loss mesmers, as a swirling winds ele, I know half of our playbook using siege to take a tower or keep is now shot right own the drain. Time to go stack up on rams and repair canisters I guess.

Barack Obama.9257:

Nope. A warrior named Lord Bellsouth

I also have a lvl 3 sylvari ranger named Grassh Ketchum

Mr. President, it is an honor and a pleasure to have you on our humble little server! Salute

Bad reset is bad reset. HOPE fielded all of 10 people on Friday, and EB didn’t have a queue for the first half hour of reset, with RET being the ONLY Guild there for most of the night. It’s obvious that most of our WvW community are professionals who have real world problems to deal with before videogames, and there’s no helping that. With T1-T3 being shaken up this week, we’re going to bunker down and weather the storm. FA is here to stay like it or not, and we’re as strong as ever. Can your server say the same?

Arkanfel.8403:

heheh… I’m entirely too competitive for that! I mean, obviously I’m still having enough fun to keep playing the game, but I won’t be happy with WvW as long as my server is thousands and thousands of points behind with zero prospect of catching up, much less even staying in the same tier.

It’s one thing when you’re just a PuG, this kind of thing didn’t bother me as much when I was solo running back in the day. But now I’m in a huge guild and I often command 6 or 7 hours every day, so it’s inevitable that I’ll become emotionally invested in the score. Weeks of having all the progress I made during my command undone within an hour or two of leaving has made me a grumpy charr.

Lol, welcome to FA SEA prime. Although I think our server has a bomer for DPS for sticking it out in the mud everyday.

Most servers have their own private forums that are an easy google search away. If you find them, announce your intent in the form of a thread post, you’ll get responses and get a feel for the character of a server, and I encourage you to talk to guild leaders from each of those servers. I’m from Fort Aspenwood, and in general, we really focus on quality over quantity in our WvW players. We recently acquired two dedicated Guilds that field no more than 10~20 a night, and having played with/against them before, we really look forward to their contribution to the server.

We DO NOT have a kind of central command structure, and we believe it works to our advantage because our Guilds are diverse, but also coordinate well together on a map-by-map basis. Right off the bat, I can tell you some of the “small” Guilds we have contribute a huge part of WvW for us, so definitely look into talking to FIST, AoN, Shh, and others.

[HOPE] has a structured, and clear path through promotion, so if you’re looking to grow and be a leading member of the Guild, you will know exactly what you have to do.

This week, we held a solid 2nd place spot in Tier 2. I joined FA and [HOPE] right around the time many of our fellow IoJ brethren joined our push for the top. At the time I had no idea what kind of server Fort Aspenwood was, I just knew I wanted to WvW with the best of them.

Fortune favors the blind, because I came onto server full to the brim, with the most loyal, dedicated, hard-working, kitten machines a guy could ask for. This week, for the first week, we finally overcame our long standing rivals, Tarnished Coast, in the WvW standings.

This lead didn’t come free of charge, and we shed a lot of blood and many wipes to even get this far. From our opponents, we learned how to play like a top-tier in WvW server. TC has players that will fight tooth and nail to hold on to what they own, and the resilience to break the will of many groups out of sheer frustration. Kudos to them, who taught us to play the meta-game, we as a collective server have learned how to bunker down and hold our own after facing you.

Here’s to new fights and new strategies, for many more weeks to come!

We also have a dedicated group of testers whose job is to test the limits of fall damage. Sometimes, they also do WvW

We’re currently building a daily WvW core, and aiming to stand at the top of Fort Aspenwood PvP. The officers are very laid back and Drigan doesn’t lead us off too many cliffs. But some times man…some times…

bump bumpbump bump bump bumpbump (Guess the reference, win a cookie)
Limited time offer: We will give you…that’s right, GIVE YOU…IRSyko’s soul. FOR FREE!!

As a side note, our SEA time Guilds are growing fast. DPS has gotten 20 new recruits within the last week or two, So if you feel lonely playing all by your lonesome self, join FA, it’s grrrrreaat!

HermanVanderpoop.6743:

Did someone say tower farm?

I nominate Quenta as our celebrity endorsement

FA is full of guys and gals who like loot bags

Hot dam, we might be competing for the same population, but I gotta give you guys a bump after that speech. Good luck to SoR, keep rockin it!

Swampy.1359:

moved here last week from EU, gotta admit the community is amazing.

The militia or “pugs” on here are far more organized than what im used to on EU which makes things even better.

Any EU guilds from dying servers should really think about coming here, you wont regret it.

TBH i think it’s time for a British invasion, so all British guilds should move here…NOW!!!!
im lonely :’(

Join our forums, meet some of our members, get in touch with the players already here
http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/

Also gonna bump [HOPE] because we’re awesome!
http://www.gw2hope.com/home

tagnut.8621:

Still hasn’t grasped that NA servers – of whatever tier – are not an attractive option for EU players.

No-one is coming dude.

I’m a glass half-full kind of guy, so I’ll keep [HOPE]ing . Thanks for the bump!

As you can see, FA can hold it’s own in T2: http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

We’re currently leading SoS and keeping it tight with KN. However, as of 10:42 EST on 3/3/13, Kaineng has a 480 ppt, SoS 140 ppt, and FA 95 ppt.

As well as we work during NA prime time, and however hard we try to compensate for our SEA/EU prime time, Kaineng just seems to have endless coverage, and we still have a huge gap in a 4-6 hour span.

If you’re a SEA/EU guild reading this and you had some doubt about FA’s ability to stay in T2, let me put that fear to rest. I can confidently say (and I’m sure my entire server will back me on this) FA is a T2 server, and we are here to stay.

FA is fully committed to the fight and we want all day coverage. Our NA Guilds hand off upgraded keeps/towers with plenty of siege to our Oceanics, and our Oceanics do work and bring the pain, but have no one to hand off to when they go to sleep.

If your Guild likes a healthy, competitive atmosphere, and wants to join a stable server managed by a conglomerate of guilds that have good relations with each other, there’s no better place than FA. We learn from each other and learn from our enemies, and we know how to handle internal disputes like adults (not that there are any, we’re a bunch of happy go lucky cookie monsters after all )

Join FA, help us fill our coverage gap, help us bring it every second of every day, and enjoy loot bags a plenty.

Guy’s we’re way behind on the forum wars, just look at TC/DB/Mag, but then again, I’m enjoying the show, so I can’t complain.

The thing I love about FA: we’re competitive, we’re ambitious, and we’re driven. We had our taste of T2, and it was hard punch, but that’s all we craved for the last 3 weeks.

Don’t underestimate us, or do, and we’ll take you by surprise.

Ninein.4782:

With BG heading to T1, T2 doesn’t need to be unbalanced by bandwagoning to Kaineng. TC, FA and even SOS if they stick around T2 could use people to balance out Kaineng.

You’re right, FA would be a great place to transfer to, especially if your Guild runs in the SEA/EU prime time. For more information, see: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Fort-aspenwood-needs-your-SEA-EU-guilds/page/3#post1532335

Join Fort Aspenwood, and we’ll let you into our “Golem AA meetings”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzubW9d2XRI&feature=player_embedded

It was one of our officer’s birthday, so everyone decided to get shwasted together on Saturday night. This is what TS was like on our end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzubW9d2XRI

I’m not going to turn this into a flame fest, so I humbly apologize if my comment offended anyone. The reason I made the comment is because I enjoy facing off against the likes of Krew and AoN. They have sophisticated strategies and would make for great allies. Admittedly, I would be peeved if people were trying to poach Guilds from my server as well, but that’s the nature of competition, and the Dragonbrand guilds we face off against regularly are the ones we’re most familiar with. We have a better understanding of their playstyle, they ours, and we know what they bring to the table.

Again, I apologize, I didn’t mean to offend, my intent was the extend an olive branch, but I’ll leave it at that.

Any Dragonbrand guilds wanting to move up to T2 with us? We’re prepared to swallow our pride if you’re prepared to face the challenge.