Guild Wars 2

Please don’t boycott WvW. As a long suffering Blacktide member I would like to make some points regarding the recent rise of Blacktide. I will leave it to people to draw their own conclusions.
We all know that cheating apart WvW is a numbers game., especially at the lower tiers. Up to a month ago whenever I went to EB we were nearly always out numbered. I have lost count of the number of times I have spent looking at our own keep from the outside and being unable to capture it as we only had a few members playing. However things have changed. Last Friday was the first week for over a year when we had a queue to join EB. There are members of my guild who did not know there was a queuing system. In the past I could log on and there would be no commanders tagged up or maybe one if we were lucky. This week there were three from the beginning. All this obviously has a knock on affect in the borders lands with many more people in their form the beginning including me.

There have been at least one new WvW guild join blacktide from a higher tier. This has not only lead to more players, but better understanding of what can be achieved and how to do it (for instance placement of siege). I am sure this is exactly what Areanet would like to try and balance worlds a little and get better play at the lower end.

Blacktide have also been targeting particular worlds ( Fissure of Woe) and guilds as we know that to win these were the keys. This should be seen only as a compliment to those guild especially.

Regarding Hacking and cheating in general. This is obviously unacceptable. However I do not believe that many situation put down to hacking are. Players are two willing to blame hacking for unexplained events and not willing to put it down to good play. Even though we have been winning I hear people from my guild complain that X occurred because of hacking. Blacktide has been improving for at least a month. Can you put this down to more and better players, or the hackers improving?

One final point last night we took 14 players took down underworld garrison and two keeps in i’m guessing around 7 minutes. We could have done it faster if we had split in 3 groups. There was nobody there to defend them. WvW is about numbers. Blacktide did badly because nobody was playing. now there are people playing it is likely to do better at the expense of others.