Guild Wars 2

Prysin.8542:

why not bump it up to 10 v 10? or do you need it to be 8v8 so there can be 2x spectator/commentor?

just askin.

It is for the referee and shoutcasters, also pvp arenas lag in 10v10

Hello Guys
This week i have been spending my time establishing a new Competition aimed towards GW2 GvG Community on EU.
The GvG league will have a league table on a website. Weekly fixtures will award 3 points for a win and 1 point for a loss, the winner will be the team with the most points at the end of the season, just like any football league around the world.
(Premiership/Bundesliga/La liga)

Since it is impossible to establish a GvG League or Tournament with the original 20v20/15v15 GvG matches that happen in the obsidian sanctum, this this tournament will be happening in PvP Arenas. Even Though the matches will happen in a PvP Arena, the original GvG Deathmatch rules will still apply.

Since i have made a couple of posts on the unofficial and official WvW forums, there has been quite alot of interest for the GvG League, and some Top EU GvG Guilds have already signed up, and even some less known WvW Guilds on EU are taking some interest.
The league fixtures will be streamed by chemsorly (ty chemso), and an experienced GvG player has agreed to shoutcast the matches. (Its not sacrx)

Because my other post was more of an introduction, and originally posted just to see if people would be interested in such a gamemode, people have been asking alot of questions regarding rules and when this thing is going to start. Hopefully i can make some things clear.

Rules
- There is only a few certain rules of the gamemode so far, the remaining rules will be confirmed at the end of the week in a teamspeak meeting with all of the signed up team leaders. Here is what we have so far.

Rule 1 – No more than 2 of the same class in your squad.

Rule 2 – No more than 4 of the same amulet used in your squad.

Rule 3 – Once you are dead, you are dead. (No Respawns) Classic GW2 GvG Rule

Rule 4 – If the map for the tournament is chosen as legacy of foefire, the arena for the fights will have a boundary.
If a member of your team leaves the boundary will mean the round is reset if your team wins the round. Breaking this rule 3 times in one GvG will result in a disqualification.

Rule 5 – The round by the team that eliminates all of the enemy team members. A round can also be won if the enemy team leader calls GG in map chat and surrenders the round.

Rule 6 – No full Ressing. Another classic GvG rule, once you are dead you are dead. Being downed is different, you can ress a downed player.

Rule 7 – The GvG Matches will be Best of 9, which means the first team to win 5 rounds will win.

When will it all start?
- If all goes to plan, the date for the weekly fixtures will be chosen at the meeting this weekend. Most likely going to be 2 weeks from now.

What are the prizes?
1st Place – 2000G/ 2nd Place – 500G/ 3rd Place – 250G/ 4th Place – 100G

Which map will the matches be played on?

Foefire or Courtyard, and it depends on which map the guilds involved would rather play.
(Will be decided at the meeting at the end of this week.)

If you have any other questions regarding this tournament, you can PM me ingame @ El Zingy, or i can reply on this post

You can sign up your guild here – http://goo.gl/forms/P0Hukmd8Ze

The deadline for the signup is saturday, if you sign up i will PM you with details on the meeting on sunday.
Hope to see some more guilds sign up for this, Thanks for all the interest so far.

To be honest, you all are raising some pretty good points but i still think this is a good idea.

8v8 Would be a much better format considering what doiid said about the lag, and the fact that a spectator for streaming would be good.

I still think that there is a GvG scene, i just think its ruined by the fact that there is no way of running a competitive one with the way that matchups work.

As for the mention about pvp maps and there not being enough space for it, foefire has enough space for an 8v8 in at least 3 different places.

As for the unofficial ladders, they are all terrible because there is no structure to it. An imaginary rating on a leaderboard means nothing, placing your guild in a league that is structured actually means a hell of a lot more.

Quite a few EU guilds already showing alot of interest in this
Thanks for the input, ill make an edit to the thread.

Tried this type of stuff before on foefire, did some scrims against deso guilds with VnT and wasn’t too bad at all.
If 10v10 is tested out to be super laggy, maybe 8v8 is an option?
Never had problems with 8v8 in pvp before

Hello People.
I am thinking about establishing a 8v8 league for EU GvG.
This league would be structured just like any football or sports league and would have weekly fixtures, This is something that is impossible to do with anything other than 10v10 or Smaller Sized GvG because of the way that GW2 WvW Matchups Work.
There would be 1 match for each team every week. Once every guild has fought eacother twice the League will end and the top team will win the prize pool.
If there is enough interest, i will pay to make a website and create a league table and a sign up sheet for the leauge. I Will Also start a prize pool for the top guild at the end of the League.
There will be rules to the 10v10 Gamemode, all of which can be discussed by leaders of guilds who are interested . I Will set up a date to talk about the rules on teamspeak.
Since this would be a competition to take place in one of the PvP Maps, i will also need to have some kind of meeting with guild leaders to discuss which part of the PvP maps is best suited to GvGing.
I am looking for at least 8 guilds before i start doing this, I Will leave the sign up open for a week before i close it.
http://goo.gl/forms/L1Ccu7xG4h

Heads up, 2k gold first place prize if i get 8 or more teams

I would like to know when you will release the team size for stronghold.
I do not want to speculate because i do not want to run the risk of forming a roster that is too big for the game mode. A lot of people have said its an 8v8 game mode, but i have not seen any information confirming this at all.
Really interested in this game mode, would appreciate any feedback at all

Wouldn’t ruin the boat idea by covering it in siege. Just a cool boat that you can travel on. Siege on a boat would be massively stupid.
Super cool boat is not super cool when you have a boat cannoning your open field fights against other guilds.

So i have been playing WvW for ages now, Somewhere around 6000 hours.
Spending my time in a hardcore gvg guild, roaming the borderlands from 4-5 hours every day of my life for the past 2 years.

I honestly believe that WvW is lacking visual updates on the maps.
The last big change to the maps was the ruins, and it was cool because the PPT players had a new place to get points, and the Guilds had a new place to fight.
It was refreshing to see something new, and it made me want to play the game more.
I think a lot of players would agree with me when i say that it would be nice to see something new on the maps.

Anyways i have some suggestions for you anet developers who made the ruins.

Suggestion 1 – Super cool scouting tower at the center of the map.
The center of the map is completely unused at the moment, pretty much a place where nothing ever happens and people just walk through it.
The scouting tower would be a huge tall tower like the ones in EOTM. would be able to be captured by a server and a scout could go to the top of the tower and use a telescope to see various points of the map. Would be a really valuable thing for any of the servers to have, and would provide a new place to fight for players on the game.

Suggestion 2 – Get rid of the ruins and put the lake back. This time the lake has a super cool boat/ship that can moves across the center of the lake between two different docks. Would be a fast way to travel across the center of the map, and players can fight on the boat while it is moving.
Think about it, it would be awesome to have a boat in WvW, nobody would hate you for making that, people love boats. [appart from weird people with boat phobias]

Suggestion 3 – Make new maps.
I know i would love to have a change in terrain in the borderlands. I know just about everything there is to know about the current borderlands, and it would be nice to experience a new map. There is nothing wrong with the current maps, just they are the same as when the game was released and i find it boring.
Desert map would be super cool, endless possibilities for Aladdin role-play.

Suggestion 4 – Change the themes of the map to the time of the year.
Lions arch gets an update for Halloween and Christmas, but i would like to see some festive coolness in my borderlands when it is Christmas time. Imagine all the shiny decorations you could put in a keep, would be awesome.

Suggestion 5 – Switch around bay and hills. This one would just be funny to see. Imagine if you just flipped the entire design of the map. Bay would be on hills, and hills would be on Bay. Everything would be the wrong way around, would be hilarious.
[This one is a joke, please don’t do it.]

Ok, thats all of my suggestions. Hopefully a nice developer will read this and consider at least one of my suggestions.

Goodbye guys – From zingy on desolation

Hey guys,
I have been playing wvw for the past 2 years in the best guilds in the game, but recently i have shifted my focus to tpvp. I am looking for a team with people who are strong players that want to aim for the top.

I am rank 150 in tpvp with 65% win rate, i have 134 wins and 70 losses.
I play warrior, i have 5500 hours played on the class and know everything about it.

All i want is a team and the chance to get into tpvp

Zepidel.5349:

You have been playing 5k hours and don’t have 4 friends on your list to play with?

I don’t understand OP

Haven’t always got 4 guys online that i want to play with, thats why the solo queue was invented :’)

Starcraft style league system is being used in alot of games, all of which are being really successful with little amounts of complaints from players… i honestly believe anet should follow suit, but it’s upto them to put the effort in.

AlbertoUlkesh.4517:

I mean sure, you can usually tell who is new. Double-capping and such things.

However PvE-level is no indicator whatsoever. Many people have several PvP-only characters at Level 2, because they only do PvP.

Again… if someone has under 500 achievement points and very low level, its obviously their first character and they are new to the game…

AlbertoUlkesh.4517:

jakpwnsall.7864:

Today i was matched with 3 players with below 500 achievement points, both below level 10!
…
Before entering solo queue tourney, you must be a level 80 character.

APs? PvE-Level?

Obviously if someone is under 500 achi points and below level 10, they are not experienced enough at the game to be playing with someone @ 5000 hours played on his character.

I find myself to be a good spvp player, lots of experience in this game and over 5k hours on my warrior (the only character that i bring to spvp). Queuing solo in guild wars 2 is the worst experience i ever had in a game. For example – Today i was matched with 3 players with below 500 achievement points, both below level 10! I Was doomed to lose from the start, and all of this affects a rating of-course. Ofcourse, this happens both ways, and other players are stuck with people with 0 experience in solo queue and i beat them because of it. Sometimes i feel like that is a victory that i shoulden’t deserve, but again.. still affects rankings. Solo queue ranking at the moment are not a measurement of skill, but a measurement of how lucky you have been so far.

I Do understand that there is not enough players in spvp to always have an equally balanced match all the time, but it would be a great joy to know that people know what they are doing.
The least that anet could do is make a few requirements for entering tournement queue games…
for example:
Before entering solo queue tourney, you must be a level 80 character.
Before entering solo queue tourney, you must be at least level 20 in pvp rank.
Before entering solo queue tourney, you must have won 50 hotjoins.

I Have no idea why there isn’t already a cap on which players can join pvp, in nearly every other game i have played there is a cap to stop people with no idea from joining ranked games. (League of Legends, WoW etc..)

With most of our core players returning to the game and wanting to play hardcore again, One Pulse is Making a Comeback.

[OP] is a hardcore wvw guild on piken square.
We are looking for players with the following requirements:
– Exceptional Players of any class (Excluding ranger)
– Players with lots of GvG and raiding experience.
– Players who can attend 4-5 raids a week.

We are looking to start raiding again by the 17th February,
If you are interested in joining our ranks, Apply at http://one-pulse.eu

warriorjrd.8695:

Quite surprising when OP came from a guild that was fully comprised of these so called “rally bots”. You would think that they would show sympathy knowing what it’s like.

Cmon Jarrod, Thats abit mean

As the guild leader of One Pulse [OP] I Thought i should reply to this thread.
We are a guild who wants to run alone, we run 25-30 players and would like to keep it that way. Having 15 Pugs following us makes us a blob.
Most of the time we are outnumbered and cannot do with pugs dying allover the place, this is just going to rally the enemy and ruin it for us.
When there is a commander on the map, we ask people nicely to move to the commander, but you have to understand that when 20 pugs follow us in every raid, we are gunna get kitten ed off. Today we had members of the piken square community telling pugs to actually move to us instead of the commander on the map…. and you expect us to be happy with this?

As for not ressing people we are walking past, and helping downed players.
There is alot of players in guild wars 2 who manage to die in world vs world. We are not going to stop for every single person on a borderland to ress them up.
There is only one solution to this problem which you have, Stop Dying.

1. Skill lag
2. Skill lag
3. Skill lag

Skill lag is making WvW impossible to play. Anet seem to be doing absolutely nothing about skill lag. The community has asked thousands of times for a fix on skill lag but it seems like they just don’t care. The new seasons have been hell for me and my server. i am playing on piken square and the skill lag has been unbearable. If this carries on, the WvW community on this server will eventually just give up and quit playing this game.

Just taken the lead at 0:500am, Seems desolation can still kick some ass:) goodjob guys!