Guild Wars 2

As part of HoD’s SEA/Oceanic crew, I’d just like to point out that our SEA/Oceanic numbers haven’t really grown from, say, six months ago.

It’s still the same people I see around the same time, so I’m actually pretty baffled as to the allusions that HoD’s morning crew is larger/OP/etc.

So, just curious about the other servers – did you guys lose a big chunk of your SEA/Oceanic population before the league started?

Assassin X.8573:

Is [Dx] a transfer guild? Good guild synergy. You guys are annoying.

Nah we’re just a small guild made of 100% SEA HoDians who decided to actually fight instead of kitten around.

I assume you’re referring to the Bay fights in DH BL earlier? We take it as a compliment that you guys sent a total of 8 omegas to try oust the 9 of us.

And we only gave up eventually because it was 4am for the most of us .

Keep coming though, we had insane fun! =D

I upgraded HoD BL’s garrison before the patch, now that the game is back, it doesn’t upgrade.

Workers are standing still, I can’t buy other upgrades. So we’re stuck with an unupgraded garrison until our enemies come.

Hmm. I wonder what happened here.

So, the NW tower in the HoD BL is missing a gate.

It’s not showing, but we can’t run though it either. Might be a problem if we can see enemy siege and vice versa.

Anyone else has this problem?

Good example of a fail would be HoD’s Titan Alliance back when the game began.

So, by that logic – my former server has an excellent Oceanic/EU crew, but our NA primetime crew keeps losing our upgrades.

Does this mean that the BL should be locked down during the Oceanic’s/EU’s overnight?

Hi, guardian here.

I tend to win 1v1s vs thieves in about 6 out of 10 times, which means the run-of-the-mill stealth-and-hit varieties aren’t usually a problem with me.

I use a scepter/shield & hammer with a signet build (19k hp, 3.2k toughness, 3k attack w/ 15% dmg reduction). The trick is to make them pay to get near you, mainly by using scepter/shield and the Honor I trait (Aegis gives retaliation on removal).

Start by using scepter skill 2 (Smite – AOE) on yourself, so the thief will have to take damage when going in to hit. Smite ignores Blindness, so that’s the biggest thing in our favour.

Assuming you have aegis going into the fight, the thief’s first hit will be blocked and the subsequent ones will damage him 300+ per hit. Assuming your Smite gets half the hits in, you’ve dealt more than 5k damage to the thief already.

At this point, the thief will go into stealth to recover. You can spot which area he has gone into (they have telltale signs like smoke) – blast skill 4 (Shield of Judgement – cone blast), and that deals about 1k damage.

If they go into Shadow Refuge (big red circle on the ground), go into the middle of it and use skill 5 (Shield of Absorption), which pushes them out of stealth). I’ll then swap to my hammer and jump on them with Mighty Blow when they unstealth.

Most burst-y thieves should be down by now – if they aren’t, Smite has a 6s CD, so use it on yourself again and stand where he is. Use Skill 3 (Chains of Light) to force him to use a stun breaker.

If he attacks, pop “Stand Your Ground” for protection and more retaliation. At the end of it, pop Virtue of Courage for more aegis and retaliation, and of course, use Smite on yourself.

And if you find the attacks painful, use Renewed Focus to stay immune to the burst, then pop Virtue of Courage again, for even more aegis and retaliation.

The Shield skills should have cooled down, so try to blast them out of stealth once more.

By now, the thief is usually dead or running away. Don’t chase him – surviving an encounter with a thief is considered a win in anyone’s book.

Note: If your HP goes below half, use Signet of Resolve to heal or the Heartseeker is going to hurt.

I’m looking for a WvW-centric server to join because I’m sick and tired of the PvEers mucking up in WvW at my current server.

Just want to ask what’s the Oceanic coverage for BP like? Are there any major Oceanic WvW guilds?

If it helps, I spend 98-100% of my in-game time in WvW.

tocos.7453:

One of the bottom six servers.

… except for SF.

Only a WvW player would bookmark http://mos.millenium.org/na/ as one of his/her home pages.

As someone who frequently roams in small groups in the lower tiers, allow me to add to Spets’ excellent post.

HoD has a lot of small (3-5 men) roamers who LOVE to kill, which comes at a cost as we tend to chase enemies and forget about the WvW objective of capping the tower and such. -.-

ET is a sinking ship – they have had a lot of guilds leaving recently, so if you’re looking to start fresh, go there.

FC has a decent numbers but they tend to zerg around – haven’t seen a roamer squads when fighting them.

DH/GoM are reaching T5 status in terms of their numbers – we’ve always been outnumbered by them last time out.

As for NSP, they’ve had a few good small-man teams in the past, one of which joined us in HoD. But looking at this week’s match-up, they’ve been holding off SF (who are T5 calibre). Kudos to them though.

That being said, you should join a server who will fight us (HoD) frequently

And yes, you’re right in saying that lower tier=less zergy. Probably a T7/8 server.

That’s incredibly selfish and narrow-minded. What about people from other time zones (SEA, Pacific)? What about people who do shift work and can only log on to play at odd hours? So we can’t play during our regular hours because of this?

Ah, thanks! Would you happen to know the figures that affect each signet? I tried checking but the numbers in the attribute doesn’t seem to change.

Apparently this has been going on for a long time.

I tried running a 0/30/20/20/0 trait line but Guardian’s XII Radiance skill ‘Perfect Inscription’ (which is supposed to help improve passive signet skills) does absolutely nothing.

Can other guardians confirm this too?

Apparently this has been going on for a long time.

I tried running a 0/30/20/20/0 trait line but Guardian’s XII Radiance skill ‘Perfect Inscription’ (which is supposed to help improve passive signet skills) does absolutely nothing.

Can other guardians confirm this too?

Wanna know Why are HoD so bad at WvW? Here’s an honest assessment.

Other than a core group of us (maybe 5 online at any time, 20 across the day) the rest are here only because of guild WvW events or pugs looking for easy badges.

They treat WvW like PvE and sPvP.

They don’t carry supplies around, don’t help build siege, and chase anything that has a red tag on it like they’re in PvE.

They don’t have any sense of what WvW consists of. All they want is to “get into a zerg” and start running around until they see ONE red tag (doesn’t have to be NSP or SF, might be a kitten moa) and chase it until the ends of the map.

When there are enemies at the gate, they won’t lay down, let alone build, siege. All they do is stand up the wall and try to imagine they’re helping by PvPing. Our keep can have 500 supply and a gate going down fast, but they’ll just stand on the wall and kitten around. I’ve seen 10 of us take 20 minutes trying to get five SFs off the towers simply because they won’t build siege and don’t have the cojones to rush just five of them.

They don’t upgrade our stuff. Only the core few of us go around upgrading it. A keep can have 500 supply all day and people going past it, but nobody gives a rat’s whisker about checking and upgrading. And then they’ll cry about how there’s no WP all the time.

They don’t follow orders. When a camp has just flipped they’ll just rush in and play with the veteran, get hit by the enemy zerg returning and then cry about it.

If you’re wondering why – don’t. Just come and take our towers and keeps. It’s only these bunch of morons defending it 60% of the time.

Even when there’s a commander on, they won’t listen – they’ll just pretend they’re a zerg (that doesn’t even portal bomb) and cheese off the commander.

HoD IS tier 8 calibre now. Even then, ET and FC might trounce us at the rate these knuckleheads are acting.

Edit: 10 of them literally just got trolled by an SF mesmer and an engineer (salute to them). Took them forever because they’re chasing clones instead of focusing on getting the engineer.

And these fishbrains say “I don’t understand how these 2 can fight so long? Do they have constant heal?” When it’s their own idiocy for chasing all the clones. I rest my case.

I think SF deserves credit when it’s due and us HoDs have to take a look at ourselves after this.
Yes, SF’s numbers are astounding, but they know what they’re doing. They move together well, rez their own promptly, know where to put their siege and know when to pull back as a group. That is what it takes to win in a large-scale war scenario.
Compare it to our own HoD zergs.

I’ve seen commanders like Pew Pew, Battlecamp, Aucifer and a few others haemorrhage because their zerg keeps getting glued to PvEing SM castle’s siege instead of taking a camp or lags behind trying to fight and get loot instead of pushing into a keep.

There have been talks last week of HoD being boosted by the transfers and moving up a tier or two but look at us now.

I think SF is an excellent reminder of what the real deal looks like. We’ve been somewhat pampered by the influx of transfers and (to be honest) our tactics in WvW are really sloppy and poor. We clearly need to tighten up our game plan if we want to survive in the higher tiers.

I was there trying to push SF when they had our keep in EB with a similar number to us, but they outfought us. If we were that good as we claimed to be, we would have at least been able to get a camp out of it.
(Shoutout to Lord Kael from [SONG] for that fight yesterday =D)

Now that SF are showing the numbers, I hear a lot of whining about them being all about numbers and see a lot of the numbers just disappear now that we’re not stomping around in WvW. It just proves that we have too many casual WvWers.

Bottom line: Without serious WvWers and a night crew, we won’t get anywhere. We need to stop whining and, perhaps, even start learning from SF.

P/S: I’m the fugly guardian wearing a skull and a grass skirt that makes me look like a shaman.

Edit: Before anyone gets offended, I didn’t mean that we (HoD) suck. We’re good. Just not good enough to be pushing up another tier. Yet.

Well, to be honest, I salute the SF WvWers who stuck around despite the skewed ELO rating system. What I hear from the ET/FC people, SF have been showing up these numbers for a bloody long time. O.O

Fact: Zergs are part of WvW warfare.
Go to Tier 1 = zerg. Tier 6=zerg. It’s part of WvW.
HoD won last week because we had an influx of transfers too. I’ve seen a lot of new names who do nothing but follow the zerg around and do stupid stuff like rush a golem into oil+cannon

Fact: SF is better than Tier 7.
Their night crews are scary.
I haven’t really seen much of tactics from them myself, but that’s only because I haven’t been able to fight them outside an Alamo-style standoff where HoD were horribly outnumbered.
If they do have tactics (like Havvik pointed out) they’re probably good enough to reach Tier 4/5
If not, they’ll learn the hard way when they go up another tier. It’s not for us to judge (because we don’t have the numbers to do so)

The only bone I have to pick is the numbers of green arrows I see in SF zergs, which I think makes up 1/3 of it. I cut them down, they get rescued by the others through sheer numerical superiority. Which makes me feel like training tools for SF as they march on to higher tiers =(

tl;dr: SF is better than Tier7/Zerging is part of WvW

P/S: SF, please pour some misery on NSP too. Share the love =D

Well I know quite a fair bit of players from AZ and NZ in Henge of Denravi (NA server)