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No roses please, they don’t really smell that great and mostly look somewhat dull. Also, am not a damsel (however this weekend is my debutant ball).

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leery smellsss

Really? [insane bad matchup]

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Come back to us Chaba-desu~~~~!

We have Furries too now!

Any SoS Roaming Guilds?

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Hey there! I invite you to come down to http://www.sosgw2.com/ and some say gday! There are a range of guilds that hang out there you can talk to and find new friends :>

It’s true, Oceanic players these days are pretty light on, what what server isn’t? (except JQ of course, but you can’t tell them they are more stacked than BG right? :P) I recently saw a ~20 man PuG groups in EB over the weekend, and I was quite surprised! I hadn’t seen that many people in one place since TS and BEAR unfortunately moved on maybe 6 months ago now (wow time really flies, we still pester them from time to time semi-seriously to come home, but they seem happy where they are now).

As an Oceanic player myself, there are consistently far better plays I can roam alongside than what I come up against during American hours, on the occasion I get the chance, but I digress. I wish I could play more with my American friends, there are always tons of people looking for roaming action any map, which is good for me, as I prefer that style of play. Whether it is players from established WvW guilds getting small scale play in between guild raids to keep sharp, or the regular faces and tags that pop up all over the place, you can find something going on somewhere! (Despite what those 2 negative nancys might say about us)

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Breath of fresh air this week, along with renewed focus and organisation in our off hours revitalising the WvW players. Glicko won’t hold us down, and neither will any bandwagons keep us from our rightful spot in T2.

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We have beavers and cat gifs!

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Now with cable internet, I can build forts 5x faster and 10x more glorious!*

*No Leerys allowed.

solution to dead servers in WvW?

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I just returned to play after 2 years and I don’t know what happened but my server Sorrow’s Furnace is dead in WvW, I can never find a big group and most of the time I have the bonus buff because we are outnumbered, its really pathetic the state of WvW here. So why not merge the T8 servers or give free transfers or something, I don’t even find myself motivated to play WvW because its so boring atm, and I don’t think its fair to pay $20 just to transfer to other server so I can have some fun.

Sounds like you already are completely reliant on everyone else to have fun anyway, so what difference does it make? Pay the 1800 gems, or make your own fun. All the tools and opportunities are there for the taking.

What are the top 9 EU servers ?

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Lets not turn this into a pointless and subjective kitten about who is better than who.

All Fuzzion wanted to know is the top servers, or which servers are most likely going to be in Gold League for S4 data collection. That’s it. Put your rulers away and get over yourselves.

Siege Trolling

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Like take for example today, we had someone (most likely from FA since they do like to do this)

What a strange post….yb doing this to fa today. Spend every keep’s supply on trebs!
Don’t like it when its done to you but you don’t mind other others…Oh yb.

I can assure you that it’s news to most of YB’s WvW community so don’t think that it’s indicative of how we like to play or anything we condone or support.

Ok mate.

WvW players is mean?

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Compare with this “finisher” an FA player received: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmNI-OpMvc

It took me about 3 minutes to be convinced those [gggg] guys are Mag transfers the first time we were matched up against IoJ.

Spawn camping at it's worst

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always turns into a 2v1 conversation.

It’s the new meta, didn’t you know?

UPLEVEL!? GO AWAY SPY!!!!OFN!#F*(!#@&!@#F#

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LF people who are better at building forts than Leery is.

Spawn camping at it's worst

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You have such a salty kitten for FA it’s actually quite sad. This is the server that has been T2 for almost 2 years now.

I have no problem with any particular server. Only problems I see if you actually do want balance is extreme recruitment and collusion with enemy commanders. But doing both at the same time jeez, now that is actually quite sad.

Collusion? We’re just focusing YB. If DB and SoS don’t want to hit us, that’s not our fault. Where is your solid, hard evidence that any collusion at all is happening? We’ve been trying to recruit OCX and SEA for the past year and the half, we weren’t actively looking for NA guilds, they just decided to come on their own.

The proof is commanders and guild leaders admitting it openly on the private forums.

I agree tho that DB and SoS don’t want to hit you. They do the same to YB.

It all comes down to who are the preferred servers to be matched up again the most, what your servers rating is, and what your opponents rating is. make no mistake, FA and SoS are fierce rivals. It had always been and always will be like this. I know the general sentiment from camp SoS is, FA are the preferred matchups in the current T2 environment. YB offers nothing as opponents and would prefer not being matched up with them.

This leads on to the rating situation. Since the full blown S3 bandwagon (and still pushing recruitment might I add, all the while calling FA pathetic for trying to keep a stable OCE+SEA player base) YB has had a huge amount of rating banked, and the most to gain from ppt focus. If SoS wants to continue having a high chance to match up against FA then it is their best interest to squeeze rating from YB. You cry about a 2v1 last week, but there was nothing of the sort (not to mention to mention I could say the exact thing happened to SoS a few weeks back with YB/DB matchup and again this week but as you put, you and DB were just being “opportunistic”(Oh, and the proof from the other forums of several certain commanders and guilds from YB and DB putting 100% focus on SoS)). It wasn’t too difficult really, using basic map politics to cap all of YB corner of the maps and have most the server log out surprisingly fast, leaving SoS and FA to freely to actually have some good hard solid fights.

Don’t think for a second SoS and FA are friends. They are competitors, but just can provide (at least from a SoS p.o.v.) offer far better competition than YB could ever offer. Stop being so bitter and salty. You’re desperate attempts to shift blame from yourself is painfully obvious.

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Yeah pretty obvious what server the OP must be from

No way what gave it away.

May i ask what server bought your guild ?

BEAR didn’t get bought. It says BG in quoted sig. Also, it says BG in Revs sign. Also, OP could have well been from any of the top 7 servers, at least top 3. Sounds like guilds transferred off your server and you are still upset they didn’t want anything to do with you anymore.

What are you talking about ? I’m from TC .

So you are just bitter then? Gotchya. Explains why you can’t read a sig or blatant sarcasm. I’m pretty sure TC helped facilitate several guilds transfer costs as well, so it is pretty stupid to be crying about anyone else doing it. You obviously don’t seem to know a whole lot outside your little world so I shouldn’t expect much.

SoS Ocx and DB Sea will never leave even if they are thrown into the depths of hell.

So the tourney will be even more boring for T3 because even if the NA timezone is somewhat balanced that one single timezone of SoS or DB will ruin it for everyone.

SoS has barely any OCX left, as it had been for a long time, so that is a moot point. Game was dead since almost a year ago and they have since transferred off/quit. They would have had none but they only just got a small guild (>15 players) that was bored to death bashing doors in T8, giving them a grand total of 1 guild to add to their handful of roamers.

Regardless of any non-NA player base altogether, T3 has always been 1 server with a proportionately huge NA compared to the other 2 servers. FA in S1, HoD in S2, YB in S3. Having OCE or SEA doesn’t wreck the game for anyone, if anything it is forcing those players to be in T3 with nothing to do is wrecking it for them.

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Yeah pretty obvious what server the OP must be from

No way what gave it away.

May i ask what server bought your guild ?

BEAR didn’t get bought. It says BG in quoted sig. Also, it says BG in Revs sign. Also, OP could have well been from any of the top 7 servers, at least top 3. Sounds like guilds transferred off your server and you are still upset they didn’t want anything to do with you anymore.

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Do you like to fight many red mens on the borderlands? So do we. We thrive in a fighting environment alongside like-minded mates.

Also looking for fort building enthusiasts.

[GH] Grindhouse Gaming - SoS NA PvX

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These guys are loads of fun. They also have cat gifs.

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I am Dhomei Ventus. Thank you.

No, thank you.

T3 NA completely broken

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The notion of a race in T2 to tank pre S2 was absolutely absurd. The servers and people in T2 since before Oct 2013 all wanted to be in T2. They transferred to servers that were already in T2, and in the event any of the said servers moved they just jumped to the next T2 server. Agg post S1 is a prime example, among many many others, and it is still going on to this day.

There is no difference in opinion. There is no misunderstanding of occurrences. If you think at any time people and servers wanted to tank out of T2 then you are just plain wrong. Say what you want about CD, NSP, GoM, whoever the hell else I don’t care, you are wrong about T2.

Why is it always people from upper tier servers that suggest closing down lower tier servers? Please kitten off and stop trying to ruin the game for us.

Why is it always people from lower tier servers always carry on about tanking for seasons? Why is it always the lower tier servers always complaining about guilds transferring up to higher tiers? Why is it always the lower tier servers always complaining how big the coverage gap is even though match up never roll more than a few ranks apart?

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Organised EU groups and SEA commanders.

Fort building exp optional.

WvW Politics Parallels

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Guilds and guild members need to be able to do guild activities together so they can actually identify as being a guild entity. A bunch of like minded people working towards a goal the point if being in a guild in the first place. If anyone can join in any time there what good does being in a guild do? It is just x random people all with their own agendas with the sole purpose of personal gain.

If you want follow a guild casually then ask them. If you want interaction with a guild then start a dialogue. If they want to do their own thing as a guild then they have zero obligation otherwise.

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lf mates

fort building

will be amazing

small damage from "bolt"

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Yes it is Sceptor 1 clone attack.

Discreet [Dx] WvW Recruitment

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You still cannot play in WvW on a guested server. Guesting is mostly redundant now with the megaserver system. Server “rank” does not determine transfer cost. 1800 gems baseline from ET to JQ.

Dx are a great bunch of people and very skilled in both small havoc play to group raids. Great fun and always a pleasure to come across them on the maps about the place.

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Looking for a Guild [SoS]

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http://www.sosgw2.com/

come down and say hi

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Pushing 60% of total score not from tick, SoS is so far ahead of the “competition” when it comes to fight culture and PPK. Constantly running havocs, small ops, bloodlust teams, or fending off endless PPT door basher blobs by our solid guild groups nightly.

Revel [REV] Blackgate NA Competitive WvW/PvX

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Rev is like sauce; awesome.

server to swap

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Sorry I could have worded it better. I was in a rush and apparently I misunderstood OPs intentions.

EU prime time of NA servers is what I was referring to. OP said they play OCX time so I presumed they were looking to move to NA server, on account of having a bad time on UW currently.

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Anything outside of T1 for OCX and EU is dead.

Server "full" issues

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It isn’t really a point of “getting your pvers in wvw more”. If people don’t want to play WvW then they don’t have to. This isn’t about “omg we are outnumbered all the time fix pls” either.

It is people taking up potential spaces on a servers capacity who never WvW. All those accounts who have either quit, or log in once a fortnight or once a month who still count towards server capacity.

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I think the best way to try and resolve imbalanced matches is instead of glicko rating determining the match ups, use active population. Measure the amount of people logging in over the past week (or 2 weeks?) and at what times and match up servers with similar patterns.

The biggest and the smallest servers will still always be together.

Tiers rankings don’t need to be changed, the fullest servers will continue to be T1.

Bandwagons/implosions can be detected and corrected within a couple of weeks. Instead of taking 3 months to go from where you are to where you should be it could take 3 weeks.

Lopsided coverage would be avoided as much as possible. This mostly only applies to OCX and SEA. Meaning those servers with said player base will be in the top third of the tiers. I think they pretty much all are anyway. Instead of being spread out across 3 or 4 tiers it could be 2 or 3.

This might lead to prolonged periods of identical match ups. You can put in a fail safe after a set amount of weeks that forces a server to go up or down tiers based of points/performance. It might still end up being a blow out match but it will still be corrected the next week.

There can still be a weighted scoring system to put a buffer on possible blow out weeks. If a server doesn’t belong in the tier from coverage there doesn’t have to be 400k-100k-50k score board. The next weeks match up can correct this. Everyone still has a meaningful contribution to their servers performance during the week. Weighted scores would also mean you can still win, or not lose, a match up even if you have less people. Thus, promoting high quality play instead of playing more hours.

Servers can still have their communities. No-one is forced anywhere with anyone. No-one or groups of people are locked out of their match ups with capacity restrictions.

I’m not sure about bad things, I’m sure there is some.

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SoS is “proud” of all the tears caused by PvD. I am speechless.

I guess I should make a meaningful contribution.

If you are interested in an alternative to EoTM, please transfer to SoS where they hit doors all night long. They obviously don’t know what to do when there is resistance since FA has a waypoint in SoS’s Bay (at time of post). I’m sure that will be fixed when enough FA fall asleep that SoS can fight nothing but doors.

That isn’t a meaningful contribution at all. It is just bitterness and self pity. SoS hits doors all night long because Maguuma had a cry and quit and all FA ever does is hide behind said WP on siege. Cry more about hitting doors all night or get off the siege and and come out to fight.

FA humps siege and keeps all night – omg SoS pvd more
Mag doesn’t bother to defend anything or even log in – omg SoS pvd more

His post was truthful and meaningful, why the kitten?

Their post was anecdotal, biased and derailing slander. Since you asked though, why all the kitten about overnight PvD? Those players have to play somewhere, unless you want to pay for their transfers. If you are worried about a bunch of Australians and various SEA players then then kindly take a minute to actually read and take notice. I even took the liberty to bold the important parts for those who are having difficulty.

We are doing well in our matchups, but we are hoping we can find players and guilds who play in the mid-to-late EU time zones and early North American timeslots, as this is a very active time with our opponents and we simply do not have enough hands to collect all the loot.

If you actually read the post rather than coming here to complain, you would see that I have specifically mentioned that anyone from OCX or SEA would get bored in our T2 matchups. We feel no need to over stack already strong time zones.

I’d go as far as to encourage people looking to transfer in those times to consider your server.

However, wanting an end to PvD I also would like to see the EU and early NA PvD against us end as well; which is why I have specifically asked for people interested in playing during timezones where we run lighter than our main competitor.

If this is still unclear then I would recommend airing out your grievances over at the other forums with arrogant pretentious nobodies with doorknob IQ levels. You sound exactly like them, you would fit in well.

http://www.gw2wvw.net/.

Thank you for bringing up this untouched subject. If you have more questions regarding SoS recruitment aims, please don’t hesitate to approach the listed representatives. I would also kindly ask that this thread be kept free from grudges and past bitterness.

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Even with “Full” status at certain times, there is still several hours of other parts of the day where it is not including during various peak hours.

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tldr: Same old stereotypes and claims are boring, SoS is the cause of its own problems. Looks to blame external agents, when all of its issues are internal.

I could reverse everything you said and it would hold the same amount of weight behind it. You are basing “truths” on stereotypes and lies while denying your own.

BTW gratz on making gold league this season, it only took til S3 and 2 imploding servers to do it.

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None of the guilds on SoS, even the ppt guilds, take resets remotely seriously. Whereas you see multiple map queues of FA humping tower and keeps all night all weekend. It has nothing to do with skill or balance.

I’ve seen screenshots on the PvF forums and elsewhere (none of my own) of SoS having 2-3 queues on reset for the first hour at least on reset. FA hasn’t had more than one queue at any point in the week for over a month. Usually just FABL when there’s a call-out, or when the fights are all concentrated there.

Before Mag’s collapse, the SoS and Mag fight guilds would consistently go to FABL because they knew there’d be good fights there, so FABL tended to get a queue then too.

Now though? One queue at the very peak of NA for a few minutes in FABL, usually leading to Outnumbered in EB.

SoS is just inefficient due to blobbing with their numbers in NA, I assume due to lack of pugmanders and concentrations of pugs on those few tags displayed, as I stated previously.

If you actually believe what people say there then you are as stupid as the idiots who pretend to be important and make kitten up for the “lolz”. Most of it is Mag crying about everything because that’s what they do and randoms pretending to be SoS dribbling off whatever people want to hear.

Before Mag’s collapse, all FA would do run completely avoid any sort on confrontation with Mag/Nacho and constantly try for easy caps and back cap all the Nachos hard work at the first possible time. Nacho got kitteny and started to hammer FA keeps and it just flowed into prime time from there. There would be good fights there because you had to call in all the guilds and players you could because you couldn’t handle the heat Nacho brought.

All afternoon while SoS Americans were at work there would be FA blobs running around hitting doors like a bunch of kids in a candy shop. As soon as guilds logged in and rallied up to wipe them once or twice they vanished. I’m sure it was just getting too late for them and they couldn’t stay up for any longer.

Besides it being a few hours of bad ppt for 3 map queues (which were about 10 each and not the 50 you seem to be trying to make it out as) the 1st night of reset isn’t normal. Reset night isn’t a ppt night and all this “inefficient blobbing” is just the first night of reset pugs because it is purely all about going out of a Friday night and having a bit of fun. The difference is FA does it on normal raid night and they are probably better at it because they use their guilds to do it.

Oh, and it wasn’t all that long ago that FA had 4 map queues on reset. It seems FA has done more “imploding” recently then SoS has. Keep crowing about all these guilds are leaving SoS, but all it comes down to is that no-one wanted to stay in a broken tier with a rotting corpse on one side and a massive disappointment on the other. Make up your minds if you want balance, don’t go acting like a bunch of bitter juveniles when a few guilds transfer off.

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FA have always been the biggest weekend server in comparison to the SoS/Mag/FA days. Even went toe-to-toe with TC. FA pugs ride the ppt as hard or harder then TC when they were in T2. Reset is a terrible time to measure balance of the 2 servers. Friday nights for America is always more favourable for FA due to the sheer amount of casuals and PvEers compared to SoS. None of the guilds on SoS, even the ppt guilds, take resets remotely seriously. Whereas you see multiple map queues of FA humping tower and keeps all night all weekend. It has nothing to do with skill or balance. It is purely the time of week and time of day for players. The usual Oceanic+SEA week day player base doesn’t play resets because it happens at 10am Saturdays. You can’t just take away the SoS numbers advantage and leave FA’s there, and then look at the first 5 hours of a match to base any sort of state of the tier picture. Some FA commander telling SoS to de-blob? Lol’d.

If there are still people having a tantrum over who killed the tier, blame it on the American guilds on SoS that had no interest on moving to T1 when they had the chance, and probably should have taken it. It was a choice between a rock and a hard place, and all the GvG transfers with no server loyalty decided they had more of a right to be on the server then the people who got it there. The GvG scene killed the GvG scene. The Australian and to a lesser extent the SEA guilds have had seldom anyone to fight or even anything to cap at all in the last 4+ weeks prior to Mags implosion.

Ironically, half of those very guilds have since moved to T1 or quit anyway, and the post PST tryhards who waited until 11pm to golem rush everything for weeks on end don’t even do that anymore. Since the implosion word has gotten out and mindless zerglings have appeared to take advantage of the situation. Soon, they are going to come up against some stiff resistance and they will all go back to FGS after the first couple of days of T1. It happened with FA after HoD imploded and they had blowout scores every week, then subsequently went disappeared after a couple of shorts weeks against SoS.

SoS imploding?

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SoS isn’t imploding, just a few guilds moving to T1 because T2 doesn’t offer what they want currently.

problem is SoS as been going too well. when we are getting to +650 every night at the start of oceanic time little to do then.

i’m looking forward to seeing how SoS goes against TC/BG/JQ. We have been stuck in this same matchup too long.

It will be just the same as last season.
All your pugs will go to eotm or pve for the week and come out with kittens for t2 week. Sos is just a 100% fairweather server. Tc/jq/bg know that and why you think they don’t want you guys on t1?

That isn’t even what happened. SoS didn’t have any less of a turn out during T1 weeks of S2. It just didn’t look like it on the scorecard because they were still a fair way off being the right size to compete for T1. Added to most of the guilds weren’t even actively ppting during T1 weeks because it was a fruitless endeavour. As far as “fairweathering out” goes, isn’t that what 95% of the player base of your precious server did?

I’m sure JQ wouldn’t really care less if SoS did end up going into T1 post S2. TC were too busy in damage control to stop from falling apart (even if they wouldn’t have fallen far anyway), and BG was too busy with playing big brother and focusing JQ because they didn’t want 2 T1.5 servers kicking about i.e TC and SoS. Which would have put us into a far worse of a situation then we are in now.

Best time to transfer for tournament?

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I hope the 1800 gems is worth the extra Empyrean Shards and Bloodstone Dust.

Recommend server with Oceanic coverage.

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hi, what timezone are u from?

I think OCX if the 8 times it was mentioned is accurate.

I’ll never understand the OCX player who considers transferring to another server with best-in-tier OCX coverage, especially when looking to defend/havoc.

My recommendation is to scope out the average PPT of a server during your timezone and find a match that has relatively even PPT during it.

I’m confused Chaba-san, are you not an advocate of players leaving SoS and being active on other servers? IoJ doesn’t exactly have spikes in ppt, take a look at the last few weeks of match ups.

Oceanic T1 + T2 Questions

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lol I wasn’t being serious that guy doesn’t do anything but cry about SoS.

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Didn’t know there’s ocx in t2 beside stacked sorrows

Sorrow’s Furnace isn’t in T2 dummy.

What's happening to T2 guilds?

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Every time anyone says anything about their bunch of Australians it just seems so dam sour.

If you mean “they only win coz of the ocx” then yes, that is what a healthy balance of militia and guilds is.

Win is such a relative term. SoS is right in line with FA and Mag most of NA prime. They make up most of their big leads during non-NA prime. SoS isn’t some juggernaut they just do a lot more PvDoor than the other two servers in the tier. I am not casting any judgement on the server as they have several skilled players and guilds but that 2x score lead is almost entirely from PvD.

Mag on the other hand really doesn’t give a crap about PPT… most of us prefer open field fights and get bored running from one PvE unmanned objective to the next. I would quit the game rather than play on OCX SoS… that has to be the most boring events outside of EotM.

Winning in terms of the scoreboard was what I meant and what I presumed you meant. Winning certainly is relative, it all depends on what your goals are when you set out. I’m not denying none of what happens for the OCX guys has zero effect on the score at all either. It has a huge impact. Though, it never really became this bad until FA had its second pre-season hiccup. Everyone PvDs a little bit, but I think that was a real turning point when it became almost nothing but.
It was more to the point that they kept them around all this time which is why today they still have that player base there today. I do wish the population imbalance isn’t like the way it is at all, but trying to solve it is a whole different matter.

SoS did an amazing job of keeping their Australian (of course not forgetting their benevolent S-E Asians) crew because they weren’t forced into being told what to do and how to play.

Not really sure what this means. I’m pretty sure FA didn’t tell their OCX what to do and how to play. It’s depressing to OCX players to log in and find they don’t own anything on a map and have to rebuild rather than finding good fights.

No I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. FA did a great job of catering to a large variety of players which is why they are in a far better place then what Mag currently is. It was fairly similar for SoS for several months trying to drag themselves up through T3 and into T2, so we can relate. It sucks.

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Yes, yes! The rest of t2 is totally sour about SoS’ PPT lead. I cut myself just thinking about it.

Perhaps you don’t, perhaps your little circles of friends don’t. I didn’t say you or all of T2 are. There are people all over the place commenting on it more often then not and it just sounds so bitter across the board.

What's happening to T2 guilds?

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Ya know with all these GvG craze going on in your tier, has anyone ever wondered the health of each server’s militias? Guilds come and go to greener pastures for its own health and well being. That is a fact, the militias however are the ones that will always be left behind.
This T2 “project” was bound to fail from the get go. :p A competitive WvW server needs a healthy balance of militias and guilds in order for it to be sustainable.

This is why there is one clear scoreboard winner of tier 2 every week: because there is only one tier 2 server that innately followed your advice.

This server has an overnight presence that is the only reason they are a clear scoreboard winner.

Every time anyone says anything about their bunch of Australians it just seems so dam sour.

If you mean “they only win coz of the ocx” then yes, that is what a healthy balance of militia and guilds is.
SoS did an amazing job of keeping their Australian (of course not forgetting their benevolent S-E Asians) crew because they weren’t forced into being told what to do and how to play. They catered to their play styles, let them come and go as they please and didn’t osctracise them week in and week out. That kept them from falling too far down the tiers and put them in a very strong position to be able to rebuild – which they did. They recognised militia was important and used them as a base to attract guilds who were able to completely focus on themselves, so they didn’t have to carry the entire burden of the server. They let guilds be guilds and pug be pugs. They provided a healthy mix of militia and guilds to sustain the server and that is why there is 1 clear scoreboard winner every week.

Oceanic T1 + T2 Questions

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Que? Isn’t that Spanish or something?

Resume for World v World Guild (SoS)

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http://www.sosgw2.com/

Please come on down and say hi. I’m not exactly sure about how your times will match up, but our folks in [PAIN] would love to hear from you I’m sure!

Which server to stack on for wvw tourny??

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We should make a vote, 1 NA server and 1 EU server to be the designated free transfer bandwagons. Maybe we could pick a name out of a hat? It just doesn’t entirely feel like a WvW season with the token bandwagon.

What's happening to T2 guilds?

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Closet blobbers with delusions of roam skills slowly fill up tier.
Toss in shameless PvDoor force on one of three servers.
t2 now t1 with less people.

oo a guessing game this looks like fun!

Closet blobbers

Is it FA? No wait..

delusions of roam skills

ooo It is Mag right? hmm hang on a second…

shameless PvDoor force on one of three servers.

I guess by elimination that leaves SoS.

TC-FA-SoS post S1 T2 matchups were fine until Mag and BG destroyed more then half of FA’s OCX+SEA, but I’m sure that is somehow SoS’ fault. It always is. So tell us, when are Australians supposed to play if it isn’t during the evening Australian time? Failing that, are you willing to pay for all the transfers to compensate for Mag’s and FA’s, shall we say, shortcomings? I didn’t think anyone would get so salty after spending 2 weeks on a server 5 months ago. Although funny how some SoR guy, TW no less, is complaining about blobbing, terrible roaming, and shameless PvD.

What is happening in T2 is a whole bunch of GvG only players wanted something out of this game that wasn’t possible. They wanted to stay in high ranked servers with a spread of coverage outside of NA but didn’t want to contribute themselves. They wanted everyone to play like they did, and couldn’t handle it when it didn’t go their way. They wanted to eat their cake.
Add that to the terrible score system, terrible matchmaking system, horribly stale matchup, and a horrendously stale game mode, people have just had enough. The biggest news for new and improved WvW in a year has been coloured tags and a Siege Trick. That is depressing and dissapointing as hell.