It’s quite common to have a squad of heavy hitters pick squishy targets and kill them in GvGs. It’s also very common in small scale fights to pick a single target to kill first.
Just in general blob battles it doesn’t really happen that much as you’ll need to be in a party that’s willing and effective at this particular tactic. This isn’t likely to happen unless you’re in a group of friends / guildies that work together frequently.
Aren’t there some modules lying about online to parse json in vba (something like this , haven’t personally checked it)? You’d think it would be a common enough problem. In the end you can make anything in VBA that you can make in any other programming language, so it should be entirely possible to do it in excel.
As with making any custom tool, it’ll require some programming knowledge though.
Im just returning to the game.
I never got into wvw, and I am trying now.I have a guardian with full exotic, a zerker set and a soldier set.
full zerker trinkets.I never found wvw rewarding enough, I am not sure what I can do to get more bags, and feel my time in there is worth it.
please help.
Skills, Gear, Weapon, and playtype would help me a lot.
Thanks.
You don’t play WvW for rewards. That’s all.
Age: 3,175 hours
Deaths: 1,958
Kills: 56,908
AP: 7,445
notable WvW Drops: Dusk, Zap
The mini dolly is awesome
The rewards were far beyond my expectations at least
Wxp should primarily go to the character you farmed it on. Professions each play differently, if you want to benefit one you should need to level it the same way you level regular xp. Given how easy it is to get wxp I don’t even understand the point of these arguments, it’s like people won’t be happy until GW2 finally becomes so casual that it fully transitions to an amusement park.
I find the issue mainly lies with the defense against guards line being so insanely good, making it a must-have for any character, while costing a big chunk of points. I don’t find the wxp levels very fast when playing solo or in a small group, where they actually matter most.
It makes me not want to play my alts as my main has the important trait lines (and thus on a competitive level with the enemies I encounter) and is now just gathering more levels that aren’t useful to him at all.
My computer can’t handle zerging as a solution to farm wxp fast and I do enjoy WvW very much in the way I play it, just the wxp thing I’d rather see gone than implemented in the way it currently is. At the moment I’m just slowly gathering up the flasks and stuff of wxp until i have enough for 130 levels and dump those on my alt.
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Thanks [NR] for the fun GvGs!
Also thanks to the guilds we fought afterwards in the borderland, was a good night
Sorry for joining in on that fight XxX
I miss the days we didn’t have queues.
Oh and remember, we are a friendly guild so we will say HAI to any other guilds we come across in WvW… be sure to typo the friendly guild names accordingly to ensure no spam protection occurs.
This was not a bad matchup at all, apparently when people can’t complain about blobs it becomes about tanking or whatever. Had quite a bit of fun with our necro event last night, was definitely…. interesting
Thanks for the intense fights EXG, wasn’t too pleased with the amount of immobilize but ah well, definitely a very exciting match. Sure beats roaming around green (? forget what our colour is) maps.
It’s been a weird day/night even though I’ve only been on during the evening, but we could all notice the little resistance today and then we had that new build with mesmers doing insane damage just by jumping off stuff, which I’m sure everyone has been doing so we shouldn’t be pointing fingers towards each other.
It turns out we’ve been running Karma trains for most of the day apart from the early evening, which is by no means something we enjoy nor want to do every day/night. Hopefully the leagues there will be a more ‘competitive’ matchups that last the week even with all the pugs..
As for the mesmers I’m with you, some people need to find their sense of humour, its just some light entertainment for the few people left in WvW the evening of new content release. I’d be far more worried about the removal of the ICD on Leg Specialist, when combined with Warrior Sword and certain traits in their Arms line, its basically 100% immobilize up time while they maintain 100% fury up time.
Please tell me this is a joke. I keep reading more and more very odd changes in this patch
Well, I see this might turn out to be a thread full of lovely drama. Have a good week.
Cheers to [NA] for the gvg today
Quite a few guilds around on vizunah, quite some fun
Was nice to not have queues after the last week… in day time had a lot of fun fighting smaller groups.
You can also look into the sqlite file stored in the gw2cache cookies folder. Dunno how you’d rank that, but seems quite harmless.
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Hey i’ll take a 10 v 15 as well :P
Lets hope gandaras numbers dwindle during the week… this is awful in the morning
Well, had some awesome fun so far today in quite small scale (around 5-8 or so). Hope this can stay like this all week
Well, let’s hope something good comes out of this matchup.
Lol, problem much BB guys?:p
Happens to me alot when they lose or run in a 1v1: They die or run, calling u bad names in weird-to-alien English..Oh, that one… is a known troll in lion’s arch, I got him blocked. You should do the same XD Don’t measure BB skills with the measure of that guy, BB has better to offer
Yeah, always trolls around everywhere, trying to make the community look bad. Silly kittens.
Looking quite fun so far, keep it up
Oh well, another wonderful week ahead.
not a very exciting matchup, I find it very hard to find good fights. Seems we either outnumber the enemy heavily or are heavily outnumbered by abbaddon.. Some nice fights tho and majority of gandara can give good fights.
thanks for the fun
There’s a really simple fix you can attempt to prevent badly outnumbering your enemy. I’ve heard people saying it works and that it can lead to finding good fights, but if I were you I’d test it out first, they might have be lieing.
step 1: run smaller groups.
step 2: fight bigger groups.
step 3: make sure your router is well plugged in. or is that step 1?
Pfft, that’s rich coming from the tchu tchu blob
PS loved them engineer pulls of death when running with you guys for a bit ^^
I’m pretty sure [TDS] still has spots open for recruits from any server for people interested in the single player lifestyle in wvw. Of course it’s more fun to meet single roamers out in the field, rather than arranging a spot, but I think most of the single roamers are out during non prime time, as they’ll generally run with a guild otherwise.
I must admit during this weekend I’ve seen more emote spamming from our side more then ever before. Bumped into few randoms that were in trouble, jumped into help them and after we had pew’d the enemy, my lovely servermates started to spam /laugh. Even after pointing out that it was pretty rude as they did not even kill these dudes on their own the spam continued. On the other hand, I’ve been on the receiving end this weekend as well, got emoticon spammed from both AM and Deso, so I suppose all the servers containts some of the jerkiest jerks to ever jerkinate a jerk.
However! You don’t have to sit and suck it up, you can turn the tables around and make the best out of this rude behaviour. A little back up story for our lovely Desolation people:
http://youtu.be/0NEMMKWs0ysFor whatever reason I get teabagged a lot. I don’t provoke people with dancing or anything because I find it rude, but it still happens to me. My guildmates can go on weeks or even months without this happening to them, but it happens to me pretty much in daily basis. So! One day I just couldn’t take it anymore, this rude [lion] dudero from FSP was getting on my nerves so I decided to hunt him down, dance on his dead corpse, throw a ram to please the Great Lord Flame Ram and pray for less teabagging. Teabagging still happened, but so the Great Lion Hunt had started. First it was a silly guild activity, then it spread and other guilds in Gandara joined us. Later on it spread across the servers, people from Aurora Glade joined the cause and so lions were rammed in match ups we weren’t even part of. Our dear friends, FSV, donated hundreds of rams for this cause <3
Sadly, the Great Lion Hunt came to it’s end when [lion] moved to NA servers, and I felt like I had no reason to get up in the morning. No reason to put pants on anymore. No hope in the darkness. But then, we got this match up and I thought I’m going mental when I saw… a [Lion]. Reincarnated version! As arrogant, as obnoxious, as teabaglicious as ever. So brothers and sisters, get your rams ready, because the HUNT IS ON!
If the videos are blocked in your country due the music ’n stoof, proxy yourself with www.hidemyass.com and enjoy!
TL;DR: Prepare to get rammed, The Red Lion [Lion]
Dude, did it ever cross your mind that you are taking this GAME a bit too seriously?!?
You have no idea. This dude will call people names at the drop of a hat over some perceived slight and lives in WvW 24/7 stalking people and praying to some weird deity. It’s frightening really. Had to donate a large amount of rams to keep from being harassed.
Well, not sure what to say about this matchup. This should be as interesting as the previous.
Welcome FSV! Hope you have fun on our server
Also thanks to BSF for all the GvGs we had this week. We both had to compromise to make something work (15 isn’t ideal for you or us sadly) but they were some very tense and close fights. Sorry for making you wait so long for us to find some replacements for the people DCing, TS was a constant spammage of users dropping in and out.
This matchup provided quite a bit more fun towards the end of the week than I expected; we generally had at least a couple of fun fights each evening.
Lucky for you, both servers tend to follow us troughout the whole map if needed xD
That’s because you’re a pain in the kitten

And thanks BSF, was interesting to try 15v15
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I really wonder why gandara is doing so well to be honest. Where the hell are these points coming from :P
The best of luck to UW in this matchup, you were fun opponents last week!
We also have balls when we’re sober, but we’re a bit more shy and don’t show them as much :O
HAI Gandara, seems like you have the same problems we have too
I prayed to the matchup gods to get matched with you tonight^^ We’ll see, have fun at the last day
Greetz Ega
We’d love to be fighting some ponies again!
Was quite the interesting night, started ofkittenda boring, but managed some great fights later on in RoF borderland. Thanks for the great fun! Was DEX the only group from UW there? kinda squeezed in between the larger forces of Gandara and RoF? You seemed to be doing very well for such a small group
Was an epic struggle in the area close to NW camp where the minotaurs spawn. That fight lasted forever
Like yourself; I would rather play a game were the most skilled warriors are the wealthiest rather than the day traders who play spreadsheets.
The only time the “most skilled warriors” are the wealthiest members of a given society is when those warriors kill people and take their wealth. Since GW2 doesn’t allow player killing or taking of a player’s inventory, your ideal anarchy state isn’t feasible (or desireable, really).
You see, there is very little economic value to killing. In fact, I would argue that it normally results in a net economic loss since killers produce nothing of value and are essentially “stealing” to survive. By killing producers, the killers harm the economy as a whole.
I look at it like a racing game.
Would you provide the most wealth to the best car drivers or a bunch of mediocre drivers buying and selling beer and hot-dogs?
I’ll take the beer and hot-dogs mmmmm
Lag was too horrible for us, hope Anet fixes this soon or it’s gonna be a PvE week. At least I got my fractals to 10 now
AA didn’t really field much today, so it was small AA + pugs. Did TDA run with 25+ today? I think you managed to make crosswords, or maybe it was some of the other zergs running around.
I have to say, got a bit annoyed today when I tried to take a somehow reinforced bay, beat up the first guild zerg that comes out, but then another one comes from the left and a third one comes from the right. Even if you’re all running around with 15, that’s still 45 ppl we have to kill :s.
Hehe, we did create swords near the worm at bay at one point, think TDA + AA + pugs just added up to 25 as we really struggle to get to 15 most nights and tonight was no exception. We ran with 13 most of the night and that’s with one trusty follower from HSPN and denial (forget the guild tag :P).
It’s true that you need to get through 45 people if there’s three guild groups around, but some of the guilds do try and keep things even as much as possible (unless the enemy breached a wall and is inside a lords room for example) and wait to add in until the previous guild is wiping. Obviously this leaves the enemy guild with many skills on cooldown, but fair fights are only gotten with GvG :P
And at times one might get anxious for a fight and guilds will add in prematurely (happened when we were fighting XxX for example
), but I still feel it’s better than just one massive blob moving around, fighting more or less 3 × 15 is better than fighting 1 × 45 I’d say
The system works wonderfully when the opposing servers have similar numbers and guilds, but obviously gandara has way more people so things kinda suck at times.
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rotfl…mid/small roaming guilds…tell that to 60+ blob in UW.
JDGE, YARR, TDA, Dius and also I saw BORD fielding like 6 players today, TKT, Tchu and sometimes FRI is also fielding small groups(I know I forgot some). Sure, now that we have an uneven matchup to our favour there’s PvE pugs joining the blue shiny thing on the minimap, but if you’re looking for a decent fight there’s alot to have
Hope to see you! I saw a RoF blob aswell, doesn’t mean I have to go cry on forums.
Oh and also thanks YARR for the asuraball! Really got the hang of it on the end! There’s vids of it aswell.
Not crying just pointing out ya idea of small/mid roaming groups is a 60+ blob.
None of the above guilds have ever ever had over 25, and the first ones mentioned field 15 as basic. My guild was running 20 on EB until 10:00 uk time, with a few upscales in the mix, seeing as today was supposed to be open ops. Any of this 60 man blobbin from the guilds mentioned is insane, and unless screenshots are provided no one on Gandara will believe you.
Also thnx to TKT for Asuraball today, we got there in the end
Couldn’t find any solo roamers on the opposing 2 servers, so I tagged up again to kill XxX and retake SM, after the first two times they wiped XxX disappeared, obviously those won’t be put in their videos, but at least we have the comfort of knowing they happened. If I wake up in time cyu all tomorrow morning for another day in matchup heaven. Sorry for calling it that but the last 3 matchups we had were Elona, Jade Sea and Kodash… You know not the meaning of blobbing.Still calling me a liar? 2 guilds of 30 is still a 60man blob no matter how you try to explain it.Couldn’t get the rest of the train in the ss.
Read the above posts, we’ve stated that YaK and DYE can run 25-30, those ones were ‘t included in what I was talking about. Either way I’m pretty sure you guys have been called blobbers repeatedly as well :P we’re not trying to blob and the guilds generally run separately from each other, except on the off chance that the other is outmanned and needs help, for the duration of those fights then we’re not really going to stand by and watch them die. In that ss I count 27 DYE, I’ve spoken to DYE leader as recently as today and know from him they have 40 at the most, and generally then they split into 2 groups of 20. Give me a screenshot of a real guild running 60 and then I will indulge you.
Ahh ok i see what you mean now…you’re talking only about the guilds you mentioned and not Gandara as a whole.My mistake sorry…back to ingame fighting..it’s still fun.
Every server blobs, there’s no point denying that
Think the case was simply being made that Gandara does offer quite a few smaller scale guilds that don’t want to participate in the blobbing. Whoever you run into is always luck though. Glad to see you’re having fun
Had quite an entertaining night on Underworld BL tonight, was fun running into XxX. Good fights also from AA and DEX. Then ended the night in a good old fashioned spawn camp scenario on RoF, nice thing about that is the non stop action it brings
The center island is awesome for getting stacks back up as a small group after wiping, there’s also more fighting there than you’d think :P Perhaps because it’s used as a gathering ground before charging into garrison water gate.
Really fun holding Briar on UW BL this afternoon. We finally managed to get in that last dolly for an upgrade with a bit of a diversion ;-)
[crow] are doing a drinking game this evening in WvW, so be gentle if you see one ;-)
Are the TDA buffs still up? :O
They were when I logged. Think UW eventually got it with a bunch of catas when people started to tail off. The buffs as always were a massive help though.
Briar shall rise again!
Really fun holding Briar on UW BL this afternoon. We finally managed to get in that last dolly for an upgrade with a bit of a diversion ;-)
[crow] are doing a drinking game this evening in WvW, so be gentle if you see one ;-)
Are the TDA buffs still up? :O
This is gonna be such a fun thread, it’s off to a great start already
Small/Mid sized roaming guilds
Yeah, YaK does the blobby work usually
On that same borderland was TDA, with 10-12 people on, hence the list of small/mid sized roaming guilds that did not include YaK, but did include TDA, I wonder why…
Plus, underworld has the most blobby guild of all now… XxX
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So… no abbreviation for Gandara?
TKT had their more or less first guild run @ Elona today with 15ish people.. Some fun fights, though we wiped instantly against the first organized group we tried to fight ^^ We’ll practice on it
Looking forward to doing it again o/
HAI TKT!
Practice makes perfect
You have the right spirit! And the right numbers for fun fights
HAI TCHU!!!
Bless you!
lmao, nice one
Looking forward to doing it again o/