Guild Wars 2

I got an infraction for raising this issue. GG Anet

Kaleygh.1524:

Sird.4536:

..bla..
Had a great /laugh xD

He who laughs last…
:)

Collects lootbags?

FYI don’t worry about the Arrow Carts post I made earlier, Arenanet made sure it was dealt with…..by giving me an infraction. Way to deal with the issue

I guess this needs some sort of dramatic title for them to even pay attention =/

Yeah it’s not zoom hack at all it’s just manipulating aspect ratio.

It’d be nice for Arenanet to actually acknowledge this, no clue how they’d fix it though!

Qla.1347:

Lots of Words

We have beaten the blob more than we’ve lost against it, especially the last few weeks, but mostly it’s pretty close primarily due a combination of the downed mechanic and/or some random person appearing from our side who is wearing zerker gear and rallys’ 30 people in one go…. =/

Fun though and we’ll continue to plough head first to ours or yours destruction

Arenanet you need to look at your windowed mode and stop this.

Place an arrow cart, either defending or attacking doesn’t matter.

Put your screen into windowed mode, drag it as wide as it’ll go, make it as shallow as it you want it and all of a sudden you can see (therefore attack) parts of the tower you shouldn’t be able too.

It’s not hack it’s just exploiting the tools Arenanet gave us which makes defending towers next to impossible when it’s being used all the time.

Plug the hole Arenanet

FR stands for ‘Fast Runners’ /fact

http://www.twitch.tv/hammernaut always outnumbered never outgunned…or something ^^

233 – FR 229 – RoS

1-0 to the Arsenal

someplace, someday, somewhere.

walk out t’door

Henry the Worm’s

The Velocity Corporation

STOP PRESS: Velocity Corporation reporting an increase in the number of people they’re killing versus the number of people they’re employing.

According to rumours the Velocity Corporation has claimed today that despite sometimes running with as few people as 10 or 15 they’ve managed to take down many more their number using a combination of teamwork and human resources.

Supporters of Blacktide claim this as heresy and/or witchcraft and declined to comment further.

ENDS

Song
Frontline Reporter in Chief
The Velocity Corporation Press Office

lordkrall.7241:

coughhypocritescough

coughgetsomesleepcough

It has come to our attention that our fierce rivals and competitors in World vs World vs World combat have taken it upon themselves to divert attention from their excessive scouting abilities and drive us into making a statement regarding the state of the current marketplace and economy.

Whilst we endeavor to keep our global performance predictions to our investors and shareholders alone in this one instance, to alleviate any tension in the current economy and to provide some brief respite from the general mileu of back and forth negotiations, we will now provide you with an early analysis of the week so far.

In short:

Underworld are well staffed and diligent in their attempts to rebrand each and every territory they enter.

Ruins of Surmia are at times understaffed or overstaffed and disorganised despite many attempts to merge various entities into the corporate way of behaving.

Whiteside Ridge are the risers and fallers in the current climber and we predict a downward trend for them this week.

Communication Ends

Department of Fiscal Opportunity

The Velocity Corporation would like to confirm that it neither condones or abhors the aforementioned ‘blob’ style of gameplay and will continue to run as a Corporation in Borderlands and the Eternal Battlegrounds until late in the evenings when we are generally down to around 15 loyal employees.

Furthermore we’d like to thank our employees and though normally we would reward them with some kind of financial recompense this week has seen an increase in bounty to allow for us to forgo dipping into our own Corporate funds.

This message bought to you by the Department for Social Justice

Song
C.E.O of Social Justice
The Velocity Corporation

Totally agree.

When do the smaller groups (we run with 20 that’s small!) get thrown a bone?!

Dont’ get me wrong we wipe huge huge zergs but there’s numerous occassions where you just can’t finish off the downed and they all get back up and you’re back to fighting overwhelming odds again, the game is geared towards rewarding zergs at the moment there must be something you can put in place to change that.

DaoC had in combat rezzes for dead people and you used them tactically, the downed state is hugely flawed in WvWvW.

The Velocity Corporation denies any involvement in anything resembling fun, entertainment, mirth and/or hilarity.

We take a hardline when it comes to enjoyment as this is a serious corporation.

We look forward to taking you seriously in a borderland shortly.

This message was bought to you by the Department for Serious Business.

Song
CEO Serious Business Division
Velocity Corporation

The whole point of the mesmer class is that you’re not meant to easily be able to tell which one is which.

As part of our Help in the Community program we will offer these sage words of advice, the character who dodge rolls and/or moves unlike a clone is the mesmer.

This informative message was bought to you by the Velocity Corporation.

Song
Director of Communications
The Velocity Corporation

Azzido.5061:

really? laughing?
very sportsmanlike
I´m getting tired of wvw because of this behaviour

http://s1.directupload.net/images/130717/n4oks97l.jpg

The Velocity Corporation takes matters of laughing and general humour very seriously.

As a serious Corporation we frown on both the usage of humour and sarcasm as a means to communicate with our competitors. Should you feel that any of our employees have behaved in a manner that provides them with any mirth or hilarity please visit our website at www.velocityeugaming.com and complete form #A124145FZ-Q89a8 and we will ensure it gets dealt with promptly.

Many thanks

Song
Director of Serious Business
The Velocity Corporation

Not really asking for much but Arenanet seem to be shooting themselves in the foot continually with half answers, dropping into threads with comments such as ’we’re looking at that’ and ’it’s coming’ but never any clear direction to give to the community as a whole.

Unless that clear direction is ‘yay you can spend laurels in WvWvW’ now.

Would it be difficult to at least give us some sort of a list of issues you’re genuinely looking at with dates we can expect them to appear. Engage in the community some more and give us, the avid WvWvW players something to look forward to, engage with etc I mean you did it with sPvP and PvE, why are we the ginger haired stepchild of your development team!!

Or is the intention to run WvWvW into the ground so you can write it off as a ‘good experiment’. All the early promise and PR pre-launch has evaporated into the usual MMO mis/dis information practise we’ve come to know and love from MMO developers.

I thought you were different.

The VcY corporation would like to express their thanks to the Underworld server in netting us excellent profits way above our projected revenue targets for this week.

In future, should we meet again, can you please ensure to bunch up tight and keep mashing that 1 button, we approve.

Yours Sincerely

Song Weasel
Director of Corporate Relations

Why Arenanet?

Look at the tick 675 at primetime….

/joke

Notation from HR Department VcY – A12041UJJA-002

We are recruiting like minded corporate monkeys to join us in our endeavours in WvWvW.

An ability to press keyboard and mouse simultaneously or at random moments is a must.

Visit us at www.velocityeugaming.com or chat to one of us in game about your promotion prospects.

END NOTATION

So when are the actual WvWvW changes coming in then?

You know the ones they promised back in January, so far all we’ve had are bug fixes and more PvE content.

Is there any chance this will ever really be ‘GUILD’ wars? or are we destined to see massive blobs forever?!

C’mon ANET this is probably one of the most active parts of your game at the moment, the community has been crying out for real change for ages and you don’t even throw us a few bones to tide us over nope you make arrowcarts insane and just screw WvWvW completely.

Still no response from ANet, there’s a surprise.

So much promise at the outset of GW2 with developers doing all their video shoots and eulogising about the game, the gameplay etc communicating with the community etc now they’ve disappeared back down their rabbit hole and are sticking their fingers in their ears going ‘la la la have some arrow carts that’ll fix it la la la’.

Come on Anet we thought you were better than that….

Some sort of comment from ANet would be a miracle. They invite the ‘best’ sPvP players to consult on the state of sPvP why have they never consulted the ‘best’ WvWvW guilds?

Instead they make arrow carts flavour of the month, that’s a new one….

Jackie.1829:

Paxus.6543:

Snip cause my post is too long with yours.

P.S. I extend an offer to any developer working on wvw willing to do so, to come run with our guild one night on EU, to see the game and how we play it from our perspective. I genuinely believe that devon’s approach of wvw is so disconnected from how WvW is played because at best all I see is developer’s running in pug zergs than I remember steam rolling back when I played against SoR on NA. When the developers balance Spvp, they ask the good players and play with the good players. When I played GW1 the devs there did the same and I have played with Isiah before and discussed the game based on what he saw playing with us. But the current dev approach to wvw is so casual and there is no hands on experience of how wvw should be played aside from some ideology that they have in their heads which is flawed.

WHS ^^

We’ll gladly run with a developer too, stop running with PuG zergs developers and run with organised guilds. You know the title of your game is guild wars right?!

There’s so little focus on ‘Guilds’ at the moment you seriously need to start putting some of that in and pay attention to us, the players, who have started and run successful guilds.

1. Arrow Carts
2. Arrow Carts
3. Arrow Carts

The VcY corporation would like to thank Gunnars Hold for their hospitality in the Mines of Danelon. They put on a good spread and were very accommodating to our 10 board members.

We’re looking forward to resuming our midnight meeting later on today.

Song
Official Official of Official Things
VcY Corporation™

Moturdrn.2837:

Cameirus.8407:

Roo Stercogburn.9671:

iorlas.6721:

Hule.8794:

Oh so you are that erotic store owning that phone line, Iorlas.

that’s correct Sir, where you the one asking about Blow up Sheep?

Exploding Sheep. One of the few things from WoW that I’d love to see in this game.

From worms

From Cannon Fodder.

Needless to say there’s lots of games out now with explosive animals. I, for one, welcome our new volatile overlords.

First time last night of actually logging in for this match (oops!) but really enjoyed it so far. Especially the persistence of VcY

Why have they never made an updated version of Cannon Fodder that was such a great game! /offtopic

Dear Mr Moss,

Having reviewed your case it appears that not only are several facts pertaining to your claim either incomplete or incorrect you have also failed to pay the last 6 instalments of your VcY Dolyak Protection Insurance (DPI).

On the night in question there were actually no Dolyaks within range of the said tower, in fact what you’ll find is that VcY threw Milkz from the tower. Whilst Milkz may appear on the outside to be a rather large dolyak with teeth, he is in fact a charr and his whirling axe of death and destruction should of given that away.

In future should you wish to make further claims may we suggest :

a) maintain your monthly instalments.
b) whilst a big furry animal is leaping at you, keep your eyes open.

We look forward to your early settlement of outstanding bills.

Many thanks

Song
Chief Underwriter of DPI and MRI (Monkey Related Injuries)
VcY Corporation – Insurance Division

Make a claim today

Korsbaek.9803:

you say that they are a part of our communety but where they not also a part of the communety on there old server?

they moved from one server to another and there is nothing stopping them from doing it agien tho im not saying they will but you still dont know if they are going to stay or not for the long run so please dont state that.

tho else there has been alot of good fights still and love the attack on rof bay early and i defendly see that ros is doing alot of wich i would like to see RoF doing but that might be my wishefull thinking

To clarify what my colleague from the Human Resources Department of [VcY] said I will reiterate that we sent a fully staffed project management team over to Ruins of Surmia a full 7 days before I transfer, we also sent teams out to Whiteside, Gunnars Hold and a couple of others. Despite numerous requests we denied Rmyr his trip to Vabbi however.

Having weighed up the pros and cons for us both as a Serious Corporation™ and taking into account the wider server environment and working practices of Seafarers Rest it was with a heavy heart that we decided to leave our homeland and embark on a new adventure.

Upon receipt of the reports back from the various teams we decided upon RoS as the ideal fit and proceeded to integrate ourselves with the community as a whole and embrace the culture and spirit that prevails.

We intend to be here for the long run, we have no desire whatsoever to return to T1 where usage of keys 2-9 is forbidden/impossible.

Many thanks for your interest.

Song
Core Co-Ordinator Project Management Division

ThomasKreshant.6572:

pcpsong.3850:

What is tier 1 playstyle?

The only difference between what we did in Tier 1 and what we can do in lower tiers is that we can finally use other buttons on our keyboards like 2 and 3 and hell even 6 which turns out that it heals you!

Don’t intend to return to tier 1 at all loving our new home it’s been lots of fun and the people are v.nice and have been very welcoming

These tiers are more casual and the pvp guilds are pretty small and only account for about a third of the people doing WvW.

Against organised groups like yours after a week or two the casuals will just stop doing WvW tbh and you’ll go back up the tiers whether you want to or not.

We won’t go up tiers we don’t have the coverage for it as a server, nor the numbers. We’re only 20-30 (low twenties mostly) max as a guild as it is.

I think you over estimate our own impact on this server they were doing perfectly fine before we arrived here, like I said we’re happy to be here and happy to help out and long may it continue.

What is tier 1 playstyle?

The only difference between what we did in Tier 1 and what we can do in lower tiers is that we can finally use other buttons on our keyboards like 2 and 3 and hell even 6 which turns out that it heals you!

Don’t intend to return to tier 1 at all loving our new home it’s been lots of fun and the people are v.nice and have been very welcoming

Zeal.1376:

I wonder tho, VCY – Why did you come to tier 8 ? You guys have fought with Red Guard, what brings you to a low bracket like this ?

I hope you guys are in T8 another week.. We could use some practice with our guild against a guild that has fought RG.

Because we get to use the whole of our keyboard instead of just pushing the ‘1’ key over and over. It’s quite the new experience

Magnetron.5823:

Are you Viz really having fun in WvW? Instead of sending a 30 man zerg on a 5 man group you guys don’t think like.. “lets just send 5 too, they want to have fun too”

This way new players who try WvW will never go back again lol, and in the end you have nobody left to fight.

Maybe a good idea to bring some of your Viz zerg to another FR server or EU server to help those ppl out and we all can have fun in WvW without beating the enemy 4 to 1 and always win due to 100% coverage.

Just an idea

Vizunah don’t want to have fun they just want to rack up points to prove they’re the #1 server in Europe.

/truestory

Nothing like eDrama to bring us closer together.

Offski.4897:

You really think we always outnumber u all the time? If you look at the times you score points this is obviously not the case. We did not have 3/4 wvw guilds per border, so yes we often have to organise the individuals on the border in order to get points and compete.

If we had had the number of dedicated wvw guilds Sfr had then maybe we could of done things differently but quite simply we could not do this. We rarely have queue’s yet you guys had long queue’s even before the free transfers, but we somehow still outnumber you.

We probably outnumber you guys in every fight even when we have the outmanned buff.

Is that what I said? All I’m saying is that you asked for respect and I responded that it’s very hard to have any respect at all when the fights are boiled down to pressing the ‘1’ button over and over.

That’s not anyones fault that’s Arenanets fault and something they need to fix.

If we, the collective we, put all the effort and energy we waste on this thread into a considered statement to Arenanet then maybe, just maybe they might get off their kitten and fix something.

As for all the rest, we never had long queues before the transfers opened, at most it was 10/15 minutes and mostly it was straight in. You can quite clearly see that by the amount of organised guild raids that actually got to raid vs the state of the last week or so where we had to stand guilds afk at spawn so we could just get enough people in to do something productive.

Which ironically ends up being counter productive to the server as a whole. For a game that’s meant to be about Guild Wars it does a great job at ensuring that guilds can’t join up together and fight together.

Anyway you can go back to being angry at me if you like we’re really not the problem here, none of us are…

Song
Mesmer – [VcY]

All I know is that Desolation are way better at losing than us

(that was a joke for the more sensitive forum goers)

We run with 20-30 tops, and have been ‘un-commandered’ last 2 weeks so we don’t pick up pugs as we need to work on our own play. When you continually run into 60+ blobs it’s difficult to have any respect because it’s either all over in a flash (Deso) or we win (VZ) .
Again that last statement was tongue in cheek if you feel the need to wear a tinfoil hat and scream ‘OMG SFR SUX’ or something.

So yeah we can respect you for having way more than us and it comes down to a numbers game pretty much, there aren’t that many controls you can put in place to manage that numbers vs your lower numbers (this isn’t DaoC sadly), moreso with the downed mechanism. But I’m not sure how anyone can respect anyone for simply being able to push ‘1’ better than anyone else because that’s what the games become when blobs collide.

As for this week, so far it’s been fun, not caring about taking anything, I think some new transfers are actually getting up to speed now and upgrading stuff and doing all the right things but the old long in the tooth SFR folks are just kittening around the maps looking for fights, which we had many of last night in Bay.

You may continue with trolling each other now.

Song
Mesmer – [VcY]

Darkened.4076:

I’m sorry, but I don’t appreciate people twisting my words to form their own arguments. It clearly states in the original post that we wiped you once, and that you wiped us once, that was fact.

The only reason it happened once was that the rest of the time we spent chasing you all over the map because you’re really good at that.

Windrunner is a good name for you.

See you out there.

And for the record not bitter at all just wish more people would have a go and turn round and fight instead of running away the whole time, only time we ever run away is to reposition and go back in for more no matter how many we face it’s the whole point of it isn’t it?

/salute

Song
Velocity [VcY]

Deso are basically the new VZ with the huge Iron blobs that achieve very little when they have people to fight and the guild Coin who are really good at running away.

Still at least the bags keep rolling in, thanks for the exotics today much appreciated.

Song
[VcY]

VZ borderland – unplayable just can’t land any skills at all and we’ve all got our settings down to the bare minimum.

A response would be nice ANet….

Chesire.9043:

Ok so here’s the thing. You want duration but you also want damage. You want a good balance that doesn’t take away from your survivability. For example:

My WvW build has a little above 23k health and a little above 2k toughness but being a glamour build I have found numerous ways to keep up Chaos Armor (which offers protection) for long periods of time (around 10+ seconds on Chaos Armor if need be) so my survivability is as good as it needs to be for those zergs. That being said, with food and sigils, my Condi damage peaks at just over 1.8k (over 2k with might stacks) and my Confusion duration is at 93% with everything else being around 60% or so.

That being said, I consider this a really balanced build that has really great confusion damage output (I’ve seen hit for over 3k per tick and practically instantly melted the person) BUT the other conditions also pack a really good punch.

The point is, you don’t want to solely rely on confusion damage in your confusion build, as odd as that sounds. Bottom line, you’re still a condition build and you can’t apply your other conditions if you’re dead. Bulk up your confusion damage/duration, but don’t sacrifice other areas to do so as confusion is easily countered; especially in WvW.

What on earth is your build?

I’m struggling to get past 1.5k Toughness and running a glamour build with Tough/Prec/Cond damage armour/accessories/rings etc.

Be really interested to see what you’re running and what I’m missing out on, literally have about 8 sets of gear at the moment messing around with stats since day 1!!

Vizunah can’t take a thing on their own border, thanks again for re-opening the mobile outlet of Louis Vuitton, those bags mmhmm can’t get enough.

Thankfully they have Iron guild (desolation) in their pocket to do it for them, they appear to know what numbers 2-8 do on their keyboards.

/golfclap

SFR border at reset -

VZ took bay
Deso took hills
VZ took sunnyhill/longview
Deso took woodhave/dawns erie
Deso starts trebbing SFR Garrison…..

etc etc

Yeah there’s really 2 v 1 going on, killed more desolation players last night than Vizunah which came as something of a surprise as Vizunah players are generally like a mobile outlet of Louis Vuitton the amount of bags you drop.

Good luck all this week, the tears will be delicious.

Song ~ Mesmer
[VcY] Velocity

That SM fight last night (had to log at 2:30am GMT as was whacked) was one of the most epic fights ever. The skill lag partway through was a pain but generally it was awesome both JS and Kodash attacking different entrances, siege going up and down, more holes in the walls than a swiss cheese.

More of that please