Guild Wars 2

First things first: thanks A LOT to those players who made this league possible. To be honest it ended up being much funnier than I expected. A huge THANK YOU and all the respect to those who still support open-World PvP and cavalierly kept the spirit high. Many of us wouldn’t play but for you. Again, thank you.

Please, PLEASE Anet: do NOT implement more achievements to WvW. Dedicated players do not want nor need them.

I thought I would write a lot more than I did but I think all is already said and done. I expect a better second league.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

Excuse the double posting, but, as it was stated few posts before, Baruch has no South American guild. In fact, appart from [WAR] and [Run] they have absolutely no non-Spanish guild. It is true that we tried to bring them in the past but they decided to stay at their servers. We don’t have any and we have NEVER had them. Those who do not agree will have to prove me wrong with sufficient evidence. Any other attitude is pure false speculation.

Kind regards,

Karnage, [siN].

Belma.3986:

…Finally you got what you wanted. But dont expect our respect for your server.

Ps: we were 10 players….

That’s Anet’s fault: siege damage is too kitten high. That’s why 10 people (You said 10? 5 could do so) are capable of stopping a huge zerg. Don’t you think that you are particularly good or witty or anything else for hiding behind siege .

And if you think you are good enough come fight [siN], [BULL], [imp] or [RNV] instead of bragging for repelling a group of randoms. They’ll teach you the respect you admit not to have.

Kind regards,

Karnage, [siN].

kittenerKoenig.7895:

rainmakercano.3152:

AR’s inability to put actual pressure on Kodash throughout the weekend has led to current score. I’m sure BB will come round at some point during the week and I hope Kodash strives to hinder us.

Well, AR’s inability to put pressure on you during your nightshifts leads to your current and future score. Sometimes I wonder what still motivates us to fight during weekends when one or two nights from that everything is gone again. We all seem to have a little Sisyphus in us.

WvW server tendencies are shifty. Until Anet doesn’t truly decide to widen the amount of people fitting on WvW maps this is going to be the rule. Accepting that is essential to the dedicated player ‘maturity’. Strive, strive and keep on striving to improve your server’s performance until that makes you exhausted and you wind up raging against what you used to love. GW2 is the only game I happen to know that has worn its avid stalwarts off this quick. Sad but true.

Congratulations to those effortful. Your attitude is honestly admirable.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

AR’s inability to put actual pressure on Kodash throughout the weekend has led to current score. I’m sure BB will come round at some point during the week and I hope Kodash strives to hinder us.

Not such a bad run yesterday afternoon: we got to tear down Kodash’s Bay WP at AR’s borderlands as well as a T3 turret stuffed with siege just like a Thanksgiving turkey. It all ended up in a blobbing extravaganzza with 3 Kodash guilds plus Siegerazer harassing two smaller BB cohorts with a couple of superior acs. Way weird but fun to witness.

Have fun this week!

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN]

Great fights at Piken’s BL for [siN] this week. I’m having a lot of fun. Both PS’s and ER’s playstyles are much more fun to play against that those we faced last week. On behalf of [siN] a huge THANK YOU to every guild or random raid which clashes us or any other willing BB’s guild: you make this game better.

Great defense of Piken’s garri last afternoon. We could reset a couple of forts, but in the end Piken were just too many for us to take them out of their garri. And a very spcial thank you to the guy who whispered our RL and congratulated us for our job. Respect is the word!

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN]

Ash.9463:

(btw that’s why I joined no guild, they’re mostly a bunch of wounded egos ranting about each other. This forum is so much better

Nuff said; you just unveiled yourself. You are worth of ZERO attention. BB!

I get everyone’s points if they’re reasonable enough. Thing is it is not just me who watches a plot: several fellow commanders report having witnessed that same behaviour many MANY times this week. Strategy could be used as an argument if such a thing had happened once, twice or three times. There is even a post on Spanish GW2 official forum started by a person I just do not know and many MANY reports on BB’s forum. I don’t want to continue on a sterile argument. I just expressed what I felt. I know our French guilds at BB may not agree with us and respect their opinions. Needless to say I don’t post in a forum just to rage. I ain’t kitten: WvW isn’t a particularly ‘fair’ game. That was just my point of view and I think I stated it in a more than respectful fancy. Do not fuel fires unnecesarily.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

@Kingface.Empyre being on BB… does it make any difference? For sure it does not.

Ofc I don’t want to start any personal quarrell but, as I said twice, is ppl denying reality what get me on my nerves. As some ppl stated in BB’s most prominent forum: me/my fun > my guild > my server > everything else. I see no pun in other servers doubleteaming. It’s refusing reality what annoys me. I do care more about my guild than I do about the server. I take no particular pride on being on BB or any other server. Does it make any difference? I just want to play and dig pvpesque-gvgesque style. That’s pretty much all I do care about. Sharing a language doesn’t mean I have to swear allegiance and stalwartly defend any server, whether it is BB or any other.

Ofc, I don’t mean VS and JS are permaholding their hands but it is obvious that big brother fill small brother’s bag with candy sometimes. Too many ‘casualities’ in a row elicit my most skeptical vein, you know.

In the end, I hope we get our well-deserved 2nd place in this matchup. We’re striving to get it.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

I smell the rage, Empyre. Despite being focused by 2 servers on different doors (I tore down 20+ omega golems and countless catas in only 2 hours; no number adulteration) and being largely outnumbered our T3 stood still for more or less 16 hours. Double focus exist and this is no joke. I’ve seen and felt it more than once.

This morning again: VS takes our garrison with their huge number superiority (outnumbered buff in our home BL wtf?) and Jade takes it in front of said VS without the latter doing a single thing to defend it. And that 4 mins before the points ticked. You do want us not to believe what we just have before our very eyes? The word is BLATANT. And don’t call ‘good commanders’ or any other stuff. Both VS and JS were annihilated every single time we clashed (and I’m speaking of random players, not guildies). But oh! surprise! We wipe VS, there’s jade with golems attacking the opposite door. We kill JS and VS is back. Seriously, there is no discussion possible. It was what it was. Don’t try to make me look like I have seen Nessie or the Yeti. It was what it was xD.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

Well, I was commanding yesterday at Jade Sea’s BL. Despite the fact VS and JS would attack simoultaneously our T3 Bay for more than 3 hours I watched their zergs stumble across each other and act as if they were just not met… ignoring each other. Paradoxically, there were several JS’s structures up which were less defended than our siege-crammed fort. As somebody said before, do not deny the blatantly obvious. I don’t say that such a thing is ‘illegal’, ‘immoral’ or anything else. What it really drives me up the wall is so many people trying to deny it. Rain would’nt fall downwards but upwards, as everyone may appreciate.

I must admit I used to think JS was a better server overall than BB. Not a huge gap but I trusted its guilds. After these days I am utterly convinced that BB’s potential may overcome that of JS, which, in turn, ends up making me happy.

Queues just [insert your ‘kitten’ here]. Many many MANY good players just can’t stand this for much longer. 3-4+h queue is just a shame for the game.

Kind regards,

Karange [siN].

Many thanks to all Piken and AR guilds and groups who willingly clash against us and respect us when we roam or duel. Facing [Mya] in particular was much fun and rewarding. I’m EAGER to face our excolleagues from [DsD] in a fair (no pugs, open field, same roster size) condition. I’m personally having the greatest fun in weeks!

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN]

PS: I forgot to welcome [WAR] to BB. I think they’d fit perfectly in our timetable, which has a couple of nearly-complete blanks.

As a PvP/WvW hardcoresque player all I have to say is a couple of things:

a) As soon as there is another viable MMORPG option I’ll quit GW2. Unfortunately there is none nowadays and that keeps A LOT of people playing it, specially the most hardcore and dedicated ones . But that will not last forever. A ton of old betatesters refusing to test future GW2 content should be a moar than obvious hint on where all this is going.

b) I will never buy an Anet product again and I’ll disrecommend them to all of my MMO-thirsty friends. Too many promises broken and too many disappointments in a row to trust any single word from devs.

I know there’s a ton of people who would disagree and do enjoy they content. No problem with them. But believe me, no single game has hyped me so much just to disappoint me so hard. It’s like watching your hero becoming more and more evil, little by little.

MRA.4758:

rainmakercano.3152:

I don’t like to say that, but ZERO respect for IF, […]

rainmakercano.3152:

Such a behaviour […]: no honor, no respect for the rival, no skill at all.

(boldface by me)

Seriously, guys like you crack me up!

~MRA

Aw, come on, you know it’s not the same situation ^^.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

Bamjam.2046:

@ [Scnd],

I had alot of respect for you guys but i lost it all today after seeing you guys blob it up with [IF] and all your pugs in Deso bl.
I mean i know [IF] isnt the greatest guild around but do they really need there hand holding from big daddy Scnd? really sad….
I also saw 2 more guilds running in your zone blob wich i cant remember the names off, do you really need 4 guilds to take down a Deso pug zerg? I bet you can take our full pug zerg out alone…. bahhhhhh

It’s not just that. We tried to face IF a ton of times while they were close to our respawn point and natural tower. They’d just run and regroup some meters away every single time we tried to face’em off. To my surprise, they charged straight to us once… just to see how Scnd swooped on us after a couple of perfect veils. That would repeat several times and not just with Scnd. I don’t like to say that, but ZERO respect for IF, who’d only fight if there’s at least another 30+ ppl guild around. Yes, you could call that strategy… until you discover IF is camping BB’s respawn out of prime time, gorging on lowies and smaller guilds. Such a behaviour perfectly pictures the attitude of a school bully: no honor, no respect for the rival, no skill at all. Worst guild of this matchup, no doubt.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

Nice reset night!

We had a whale of a time this afternoon-night. Congratulations to RS [ZORN] and the pickups accompanying them for proving they have true guts and not refusing to fight. On behalf of the whole of [siN] we sincerely thank you. We would like to encourage the rest of guilds to behave as they did today.

Do not relax: we’ll be there!

See you this week!

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN]

quote =“Myrmidone”.btw………….right now i see BB whole zone blobbing our Home, so dont blame others for same stuff^^

That’s just people farming karma and levelling; 80% are lowies; many of the rest not even main characters, which wouldn’t have charge weapons, guard defense or food/oil buffs. Do you call that a blob? :s I don’t. They’d blow out like a mine. KT.

BTW, very proud to see this is the first morning we’re capable of organizing things in 2-3 maps server-wide (including KT). I hope this doesn’t blur in the near future.

First off, I want to thank players for engaging in WvW discussion in a mature and non-disparaging way. When all arguments consists only of a non-paraprhased ‘kitten blobs’ or ‘kitten those who dislike blob’ discussing becomes meaningless.

@Myrmidone: Thanks a lot for your kind words on [siN]. Much appreciated. Garrison wasn’t exactly the place I meant but Hills fort. We kept assaulting it while blob just moved time and time again to camps and garri to refill their supplies, fully repair every single damaged structure and planting more and more siege. Supply-stealing trebs are the most annoying and disheartening inventions EVER. What’s the point on having a siege engine constantly bombing a door stealing enemy supplies? Is that ‘fair’? Is that fun? Not at all. After one hour and a half we could reach the bridge leading to lord’s hall. And then the blob plus 4 arrowcarts plus another treb. Again, how fun is that? Well, it could be, but since GW2’s PVP most unbalancing factor is NUMBER rather than skill or planning this comes down to stubborning. As I said, little fun and much dispiriting. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want siege to disappear from WvW. It makes a massive PvP scenario look tastier and more alive. Fighting under AC’s fire is more challenging than doing it the old way. But man, being unable to use a casted skill just because siege damage erases you in a couple of seconds is no fun. It makes 50% of your skills barely useless. It makes light armor professions just useless for that. How long can an engi, ele or ranger stand under 4 AC’s arrows? Few seconds. I mean, scenario is so poorly designed for most playstyles that siege is just meta. And that’s boring. Besides that, raid composition has changed SO little since the beginning of the game that you feel eve this isn’t a flavour-of-the-month approach to WvW as GW was.

On separate guild raids… well, I think I get you. As a guild [siN] has always been very close to [ScnD] and we’ve worked together several times (as well as with many other BB guilds) when situation got so tricky or challenging that we had no other option. Collaborations with another guilds are fun but being the norm is pointless. Why not having a single guild per frontier then? [WvWBB] [WvWRS]? Please do not. I must admit BB is such an inmature server for collaborations due to inner struggling (and lack of intelligence) that it discourages many of us from willing to collaborate closely. But that’s another story. The point is that I don’t want to spent a whole hour resupplying and repelling enemies with siege while stuffed at a fort. Sorry but I crave true action.

On the discussion of roamers I have something to add. No free flattering intended, but [Ods] at BB is, at least to me, the PERFECT example on how roaming has to be. They communicate with guilds, they take camps, scout and so. Roamers complain about zergging in central ruins. I do agree with that. But MANY RS roamers just try to catch that last player of a zerg who missed swiftness buff or just got a phone call and is some meters away from his/her zerg. That’s equally despicable. I won’t let that happen and have no problem in launching a whole zerg against them. So if any of them is here and dares to complain, you just earned it by lowblowing. Simple.

RS being happy with their playstyle doesn’t mean everybody has to agree with that ^^.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN].

Riverside is the best living proof that WvW is not about PvP any longer. 80+ players together plus 4+ arrowcarts and always covered by a supply-taking treb. Once. Twice. Time and time again. Only split pushing allowed BB to be able to get through a sea of pseudo-NPC just standing still while tapping their 600/1200-range weapon 1st skill. Don’t want to use ill sounding words but this is… frustrating. As a PvP-oriented player Anet’s swerve to unpvpization is making the game dull, little rewarding and boring.

Just to answer potential future comments on this: I don’t want a FULL pvp farming. I’m sick of zerking zerg farming. I want a bit of competition relying on skill and strategy but human factor is progressively getting less and less relevant. And again: Riverside is the worst server to play against for my favourite playstyle.

On people laughing, mocking and emoting on downed players: no matter which server you come from. All of you are utterly despicable.

And last but not least congratulations to Votf for the greatest fun of the week. I hope we can clash again before the reset.

Kind regards,

Karnage [siN]

¡Hi!
Thanks a lot to INVI for the greatest fun in the whole of the week. As a member of siN I must admit I’m not used to getting beaten up and a bit of that is not just fair but necessary to wake up and shake lazyness off. We just didn’t do a single thing well that night. Our regroups were terrible; our stacking and tracking just dreadful; our regular roster was decimated by absences. Our TS channel was silent in true shame. So congratulations on that, INVI, you woke us up and thus I’m EAGER to play some rematches against you once my confidence and that of my guildies is restored. We just tried our best today and had an awesome raid after a little (and again necessary) sermon from our RL.

Kind regards,

Karnage, guardian from [siN].

PS: your YT channel just got another subscriber.

As a player from siN I must say that, as many of my guildies do for sure, I sincerely appreciate all your kinds words for us. It is amazing to see how rivals and allies appreciate our playstyle and performance. Thank you all, mates.

On the other hand, I have to admit I didn’t personally enjoy this matchup. No disrespect meant at all, but as a player of a guild which focus is mainly zerg fighting, clashing and structure invading in apparently unfavorable conditions the week has developed a bit boring. The difficult scenario on Baruch Bay makes it even less fun: some midcard and/or uppercard guilds have recently migrated (including Scnd, DsD and CS), some of the ‘classic’ ones have just disbanded (e.g. VLK, Nuke) and most population on the server is just PVE pop, casual for WvW or simply do not impact enough our score. Consequently, the server went down from second position to where is now and we have to strive to get it to gold division. Otherwise we will stick (or ‘stagnate’, as one colleague player named it before), consequently making people just scatter in non-dedicated guilds, ‘casualling’ and blobbing. Blobbing sucks, btw.

Karnage, [siN].