Guild Wars 2

Abstraction.3019:

Goodfights in EBG tonight. [ING] was running with around 20 people, give or take. Good to see the massive TC zergs were up and running tonight.

Sorry to the RoT who wanted us to be in DBBL

Indeed.. there was several times when tc and sos decided to run from us with superior numbers… i was like.. COME BACK AND PLAY WIF US!!!!!

hehehe Good fights guys!

Oh and nice job Crit i was following you for a little bit before ING got online for our raid and we stomped the crap out of them out near brovast and durios.. that was epic!

Best part about having bandwagon guilds leave…. is you have less lag, for the most part, which im really enjoying.. IT DOESNT TAKE 20 seconds to hit a button now!!! THE JOY!!!

Thats an issue with DB, we have a large pve population that doesnt get involved with wvw that much, otherwise we would have a monster wvw population.

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

Chris.3290:

urak.4863:

grave of hearts.7830:

bandwagoneers.

:O? We got some bandwagoneers?!?!?! Why weren’t we informed?!

Of course you didn’t; you went from tier 4 to tier 1.5 purely due to a fluctuation in the Earth’s gravity that cause bull dung to be more naturally buoyant.

10/10 troll bait successful. I didnt know that it took 10 months for bandwaggons to get that far, especially given that DB pulled it off in a month, and then QUICKLY fell apart. To a lesser degree you could look at kaineng for basically the same thing. No, TC has never been the “bandwaggon”, and we’ve never gotten influxes of guilds in a short time. Just over the last 2 weeks tier 1 servers have gotten more guilds than I can count on a single hand. HELL TC has even LOST some guilds recently.

please be more mad.

Ive been on DB since day 1 and what ive seen is we have hovered in T2 since about the 3rd month of the game. Yes we have had influxes of people, we lost some after the initial release to SoS and other servers and then we were pretty solid wvw population wise for a while. Then we did get more people joining about ehh.. 3 months back and then they all just left with many more this time for the league crap.

There are many many people who bandwagon because they want to win easy without a fight or any level of difficulty. Its just a sad fact of the greedy mentality of todays world.. quick and easy.

I do know that TC did lose guilds to the T1 craze as well even though they still have many players and yes I remember those months were DB fought the hell out of FA and TC for weeks on end with pretty close match ups.

Now… DB has lost tons of people and TC at least has retained some wvw population. I wouldnt be surprised if DB gets put in the silver league after our rating has tanked. TC… i kinda feel bad for you guys, you gota face the never ending blob zergs of T1.. that massive skill lag and long ques.

I do have to say i did really enjoy that fight last night though at ogres camp on EB. That was one hell of a fight and both sides really went at it!! We were on team speak having a blast, so thanks for the great fight!

Embur.6042:

Great fight at Orgath TC, RIP <3!!!!

You guys fought hard TC… but in the end…. we got ya.

kitten good job Crit and ING!!!!!!

Alt F4, is for COWARDS.

Its quite sad when people are so scared to lose a fight, that they quit the game so they think they got the upper hand somehow…. dont be a sorry pile of kitten,

DIE LIKE A SPARTAN.

SPAI CHECK!!!!

I think on DB we have become semi paranoid to the spy thing…. seriously you will be destroyed if we catch you.

Oh.. and for some good laughs, watch this video for the Pyro if you have not seen it.. quite epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I

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As you all im sure have seen before, the lag in wvw is becoming worse every patch. Nothing, and i mean nothing, is wrong on my end, not a single game i play has the lag that I get in Guild Wars 2, none. Its mainly when you get into zerg combat, obviously, but its only gotten worse lately.

I cant even react in game, at all, and if i move, it rubber bands me and everyone else back to their place 10 to 20 seconds after the fact, at that point you are already dead even though you are not on your screen and then it catches up, on top of that, it takes FOREVER for the skills to activate and work. Weapon swaps? forget it… takes longer.

Naturally when the fight is over things go back to normal, but i dont remember this much horrible skill lag when in wvw. Of all things, our skills shouldnt lag like that! I know its a ton of stress on servers for that many people on a map, but seriously… fix it. Whats the point of playing WvW if you cannot do anything in a fight, nothing, you just die to the group that has more people auto swinging everything to death… its very frustrating!

If you were on DB borderlands last night, good fights up at the north supply camp! There was like 5 or 6 of us defending it and we got hit about 7 or 8 times by similar numbers, had some really good fights, was a lot of fun! Sometimes that zerg crap gets old, more fun when you have smaller groups going at it, you get to test your skills more.

Of course though we must have made someone angry, we ended up getting hammered by a 25+ zerg…. hah!

bjchase.3074:

ActionCat.4162:

Trust me… DB has been there. Try going against T1 servers.. its horrible.

I believe it. And we will get that try..in October…..ugh…… [sarcasm]Sure can’t wait for league play![/sarcasm]

Well what sucks is, its all zergggg this zerg that, 10000 of people non stop, no small size combat or what not. I cant imagine how bad the que was on t1 servers, soooo many people, made DB look like a deserted wasteland in comparison.

Even in that situation though.. quality of the toon over quantity will win 90% of the time, sometimes though throwing countless worthless toons can do the red wave of doom and win… lol

I know.. i wish they made a dye that gave the glow effect to armor pieces. ..course then you would have 1000 toons running around with so much bloom effects it would blind everyone! It would make it complete though! Something else i noticed was how shoulder items when you color them with dye it is different than other armor pieces, i had the nightmare shoulders and they never colored the same as the other pieces of gear, so i got the cultural tier 3 ones and they worked even better!

8/10

You got that creepy likes dead things look going on. I tried for the more of a angelic warrior of awesomeness! bahahaha!

Trust me… DB has been there. Try going against T1 servers.. its horrible.

I honestly wasnt trying to be, that said, i also didnt realize they were running a wxp train. When i am in WVW i am there to capture and hold towers for points to win, not farm experience. I hate farming, i prefer to have an actual fight, good competition. Yes DB has more people and its not a fair match up.

We actually had about half of that zerg manpower wise last night and it was semi difficult to muster them all together to counter but I was in wvw mode, not wxp train mode. Thus is why i was like.. why are they not stacking.. why are they leaving these towers and keeps undefended.

Also… eithinan, DB has a huge pve side. When new content comes out WVW is secondary and many do it vs wvw due to greater rewards and such. Youll have up and down days, nothing to get worried over.

Yeh, kitten auto type correction! And honestly, that was the biggest zerg ive seen in about a month, had to be 80+ at one point. I saw that first at overlook as i got up there and it was a huge blob of red name tags. We used to do the whole wxp train stuff but that was looong ago, ive never been on another server and i remember when DB was getting farmed bad after about 4 or 5 large guilds jumped servers when it was free to do so.

Honestly though, the whole zerg thing can be fun but i find it far more fun when you go after 2 or 3 people with yourself or another person with yah to test their skills in open combat, either being prepared or not for either side. ….plus less lag. lol!

Thought id say good fights last night in EBG. Might I give some pointers to you guys on Yaks and Kaineng.

Yaks.. you guys had a MONSTER zerg last night.. why did you take towers and your keep back yet you abandon it for nothing? You left everything you took defenseless and we recaped them in no time. With the numbers you had you could have done a lot more, the golem rushes were pretty good but you guys didnt use mesmer portals to speed them up very well, we were able to pick them off fairly easy. When it comes to your zerg, you all scatter to the 4 winds when you meet resistance, try to stack up, share buffs and stability when you charge in, several times I took a group half as big and destroyed the integrity of your zerg due to that. You all had a hell of a zerg, just got to learn how to control it!

Kain, you guys are unfortunate to not have the numbers we do, you did have a good zerg size bout an hour before i logged off and you pushed on overlook, however you did the same thing as yaks did, scattered, and didnt stack up. Once again we were able to take a smaller group, pierce through your front line and decimate the integrity of the zerg. You also were slow to get the golems going on the gates. Use those mesmer portals, they are your friend! Also keep them together so they move as a group so when they hit the gate they are 10 x more effective.

To kain and yaks, learn how to do defensive tactics, make sure you siege up your towers and especially the keep to defend against attacks. Im sure you were low on supply but yaks, you guys took camp after camp and had a ton of supply yet no defenses. Its good to take stuff but holding it, is much more difficult and if you can hold towers and keeps, you will be far more successful. Also learning siege placements and knowing how to use hit and fade attacks to draw an enemy into a bad position to give you the upper hand is really important.

Lastly, physiological warfare. Holding a zerg in one position while stacked and not moving whilst you watch can be devastating. Then when the zerg dissapears or charges in together tightly packed, it can make people run, and it does, people get scared of a pixel death. Teamwork guys, it works.

Im just making suggestions, there are many different ways of doing things and such and also when you dont have the manpower it limits what you can do. Motivation is everything as well, a non motivated zerg is a weak zerg. Communication is key, if you dont use communication, you will lose. We followed yaks every move last night as they had a huge zerg moving about and defended 2 golem rushes.

oh.. and those two thieves this morning.. nice try, you thought you could get me bahahah! Good fight!

Draygo.9473:

I am apologizing on behalf of kaineng, today we had a Mesmer attempting to port our zergs into objectives in EB, this person was caught in the act, recorded, and reported directly to ArenaNet support.

Kaineng does not tolerate hacking, we do spend extra effort to purge individuals who do this from our ranks.

I think any server doesnt like anyone hacking or attempting to cheat the system. Its the main reason they removed the orbs of power in WVW. I know we jump on people as well on DB for hacking or exploits. Why must the few ruin it for the many… /sigh.

Thought id say great fight with SoS and EB in open field combat there at the end tonight. Some good zerg on zerg fights without horrible lag! Very fun!

And yes, if you saw a snow leopard looking charr with wings bowing at you, that was me, kitten good fight!

I saw the DB keep in EBG set up.. i thought this was pretty cool.

Boonprot.6274:

Another night in WvW, another night being zerged by EA + TB + Hero.

Good fights

You guys are almost as tough to crack as Agg but its so kitten hard when we got random people with us that run at the sight of a fight… uhggggg.

Ghoulina.2976:

x per fection x.2096:

Lenador.1436:

x per fection x.2096:

You give to many

http://youtu.be/qDFc95Lgvuo

As far as the Agg/Ark combo if you wouldn’t run in 50 man groups then it wouldn’t happen, both of us prefer to run on our own. I know there was a DB commander last night who said the fact that DB ended up with a Q’d zerg in a giant ball was a big foolish and that he wished it didn’t always end like that.

If you have premade guilds that are names of your combined guilds you really can’t say anything when we team up.

we go back to the voltron principle how bout we consider the human centipede instead. And, just in my opinion, queued maps of rally bots are in your favor

Name more than 1 DB guild that could beat a full Q of rally bots with 23/25

Other than NS there isn’t one that would even come close.

Hero

ActionCat Approves.

I had quite fun last night, myself and one of my guildies decided to chill out at Lang tower. I kind of lost count how many magumies we picked off as they ran to dane, but to those whom we faced, good fights! That was more fun than ive had in a while, sometimes small group combat is much more fun than mindless uber zergs.

Hate to say it.. but we also saw some of the woof guys, we got them too. muahaha :P

Obby Shards.9365:

ActionCat.4162:

Kudos to everyone on EBG from DB last night and my guildies from Hero! Several times we waded into a monster TC zerg and several times, we obliterated that zerg even though we had less manpower. At one point they did a successful portal bomb on us on the walls of SMC, and we countered it very very well and wiped that group. Great job last night!

ActionCat

I wiped you 6 times lastnight farmed you in your keep for 40 mins then one last time at anz, either way good fights

I wasn’t on for that, it was prior to that when we ran around smc for a bit.

Oh, and so you know, there is no I in Team. You dont wipe anything, your guild and server does. Leadership by example my friend, give credit to everyone that helped and worked together. Its good for the community and it is a matter of respect, which is what i was giving to those on my server.

Sovereign.1093:

db cuteness. <3

Kudos to everyone on EBG from DB last night and my guildies from Hero! Several times we waded into a monster TC zerg and several times, we obliterated that zerg even though we had less manpower. At one point they did a successful portal bomb on us on the walls of SMC, and we countered it very very well and wiped that group. Great job last night!

ActionCat

I swear last night commanding on DB, there was so few people on i couldnt almost anything but try our best at defensive strategies which only worked so well vs monster zergs. At one point we got sandwiched between mag and tc… i was like, yep, were dead. Seriously though, are people that play so oblivious to doing keep and tower defense that they just run off and leave them completely undefended? I spent an hour last night re sieging up half our area and keep after getting hammered by tc.

Also… has DB lost people? I feel as though we are far weaker during the EST times lately.

Somehow I knew someone would make a Charr guild, and it was going to be on good ol Dragonbrand.

..and im THE Charr. ActionCat.

muahahaah

shagworth.5017:

Slomoshun.6317:

15-20 of us proceed to beat on gate at Redbriar
50-60+ Mag roll up and we live a lot longer than we should have
Mag starts a /laugh taunt

Just so you know Mag, each time you /laugh after wiping a group when you have triple numbers you kill a puppy.

If it makes you feel any better, I spent an hour or so watching my fellow Maguumans get wiped up by equal numbers. It seems a month or so of PvDing against weak servers has made a good portion of my comrades lazy, supercilious and terrible at open field combat.

I felt on the opposite end today, as myself, being from dragonbrand, am use to fighting in open combat much of the time, especially in the last 5 weeks vs TC and FA. It felt weird today attacking Woodhaven on Magumas borderland, and whilst they put up a hell of a fight, eventually after exhausting supply and siege we broke down the gate with PvDoor… lots… of pvdoor….. uhgggg

kitten good fight though!

Jayne.9251:

Eviator.9746:

The anti-DB sentiment seems high thanks to a few DB chest thumpers and a few DB QQers. It’s too bad some people take those few bad apples to make it seem like the entirety of DB is evil. That sentiment seems to be translating to the battlefield, at least a little bit. Things will mix up when the matchups change, so hopefully some of that unearned animosity goes away. Of course, those that perpetuate that animosity have to gain some perspective too.

I’ve always said what happens on the forums often translates in game. People were skeptical about that, but it’s human nature to want to “show them” … particularly if there was a lot of bragging and belittling of the other servers involved. It’s a motivating factor really and even for those who don’t frequent the forums, that info is often relayed in map chat so everyone knows. It becomes a rallying cry of sorts.

It’s why I get so dismayed when our trolls come out, cos I know TC is better than that. I’m sure you feel the same way about your server.

Doesn’t matter what server, theres always people whom think they are special or feel the need to degrade others if they suddenly lose one time or what not. Its unfortunate but if you have someone that starts in on you ignore them and report um. I was in EB this morning and i had someone from TC decide i was the worst person in the world because i defeated him. Trolls are gonna be trolls though, nothing you can do about that cept move on.

How can you click too fast? It should respond, this has just started since the last patch, I didnt have this problem prior to it. I dont know if its skill lag or what, but its very very annoying in wvw when at pivotal moments your skills fail to work.

It does trigger the cd, and then nothing happens, then I usually rage and go what the crap!!!! It happens to me mostly on 100b, whirlwind, bladetrail, rush, volley, rifle butt, and brutal shot.

I keep running into this weird effect that happens once or twice in about a 5 minute period were when I go to attack someone and I use my #3 skill for rifle or my 100b or any skill for either weapon and you hit the button but it activates and nothing happens and the character sits there doing nothing. Im not lagging the #1 skill works but when I go to use other ones it kind of freaks out and does nothing, no confusion or blinded or whatever. Has this happened to anyone else running a warrior? I find it really frustrating when you are in a fight vs someone and at that key moment you use your skill to melt your foe and it FAILS to work, ultimately leading to your own demise.

For Charr only… 50 Cal. M2 HAND HELD CANNON OF DEATH…

i can dream right?

I wonder if we get to keep SMC after I do believe everyone getting kicked from guild wars 2 with that login crazyness! /sigh

Ok so last night im in EB, we have a zerg running around and I got caught up in a skirmish and got left, i was at the vista point up top just watching for a second and a charr warrior (TC i think, had twilight) whom i fought with earlier saw me and came up to fight me.

Well.. I dont know who you were, but that was one hell of an epic battle, felt like eternity i think it didnt stop for a good 5 mins just 1v1. In the end I got the upper hand even though it was lagging and barely won the fight, but mad props whoever you were, gave me a run for my money!

It is really sad when people remove you from the group in a FoTM run just as you get to the maw and for unworthy reasons. We were running the fractals one by one, no problems, got to the maw, and then they booted me. (they being random people, a pug, I put together, no one knew each other)

Have some people got to the point were they have no respect for their fellow players online in which they dont care about the time you are using to have fun? I dont know why those others in the group felt the need to remove me at the very last part and for no reason, but really, are some so quick to just click a remove button they dont even care?

Not much you can do about people acting like fools or what not, but man, it sure sucks when you get that far only to be removed by the others in the group and there really being no way of preventing people from doing so. WTB my one hour of life back… lol :P

I would like to shout out to all those DB defenders whom defended the Quentin Lake tower tonight. I have never seen such awesome defense since ive started playing. We were doomed to be swarmed at one point, but we made both servers pay for every step they made into that tower. That was an amazing fight, and man did I get motivated! No matter who won, that was the most fun ive had in a while! Gj guys!

Ok so I run dual 6970’s in crossfire on 3 24" screens in eyefinity. On a single 6970 performance is awesome for guild wars 2. In fact, it runs better with a single card in eyefinity mode at 5760X1080 than two do. When I enable crossfire, the game goes to crap. (running a Z68 FTW Evga motherboard and a i7 2600k, 8 gb gskill ram, C300 SSD hd, Corsair HX1000 powersource, cpu liquid cooled)

Another thing, when I run it in fullscreen mode, 20 fps, when I run it in Windowed Fullscreen mode i get 40 to 60 smooth at the 560X1080 resolution.

When I run this game on a single screen at 1900X1080 in crossfire I get the same as a single card, runs perfect. Heres the thing that is crazy. Crossfire does not enable unless you are in fullscreen mode, I get better performance with a single card vs 2 in a windowed fullscreen mode. I know it says that crossfire/sli is not fully supported but if a single card can push this game at the 5760X1080 resolution and the dual version cant even eek out even close to what the single card can, something is wrong.

Is there going to be crossfire support in the future? I would love so because then with the two cards working together for eyefinity it should be faster than with just 1 card. If not… perhaps its time to sell the two and get a liquid cooled single gpu.

Bit.2519:

An exploit to move the lord? Not only does that sound impossible, he runs around and attacks stuff randomly, but I would never have anyone “exploit a lord” or use any other kinds of tactics as such, nor would ibludgeon. Above post confuses me.

I didnt know anything of it until last night, we got inside garrison and everyone started wondering.. were the hell was the keep lord at! All the npc’s were like gone in the main part of the garrison were they usually are.

Anyway its not the servers fault, you cant control individuals but I would suggest trying to keep people from doing such things, because it did happen. Not good for server integrity no matter how many or few you have. Hope you guys shun the hell out of those using exploits or hacks and reporting them. I know we do.

Tonight we retook DB borderlands garrison, and we caught FA using exploits to move the garrison lord to another spot which was behind another gate.

I know we all want to win and have a good match up, but if you want to resort to exploits you need to stop playing, only cowards use such things to advance themselves. Shall we keep it classy FA?

Why must people do things like that? Ive never understood why someone can find it ok to cheat or exploit. So lame…

Its not about professions, its about the gold we spent on siege that gets erased with no warning of an update, and right after a new match, there are better ways of doing things!

You know it really pains me to even think about this. 20 or so minutes after a new server match up, whilst everyone is scrambling to get defenses up, attacking this or that trying to make some gains on the maps in the first push of the night, AND WE GET A SERVER UPDATE erasing all of our siege equipment.

Could you have not done this before the new match up? This wrecked our guilds entire wvw push on one of the maps, all of our siege gone. Then we get steam rolled by two sides with zero defenses because we had nothing up.

Yes it sucks, well get over it, but could that have not been done at a better time than literally just after a new match up?

:(

I have to say last night, one particular battle was truly good defense. The fight was on the dragonbrand borderlands map and it happened at Dawn’s Eyrie. We were outnumbered about 3 to 1 odds whilst defending. The people attacking the fort was one of the guilds that in which used to be on DB server, one of their 35+ zergs. We knew we were going to lose our wall as we had 3 cats hitting one section of wall and we didnt have the supply to build anything to counter it, however we had some serious arrowcart/balista fortifications.

It kind of felt like 300 when the wall was breached, we directed all our fire on that wall as the zerg tried to move in or messmer portal in. It was freaking amazing how effective 4 arrow carts were with a choke point like that wall being breached. We had about 10 people down near the wall doing aoe on top of the carts to hold the line. We decimated that force in about 20 seconds with the combined firepower of the men and women on the ground and the arrow carts. It was an oh so sweet victory!

If you were there, kitten fine job guys!

Ive discovered with my warrior that we do not do well when faced with a very long fight as we are squishy. I use a hit and run or fade tactic to go in, use what i got, then get out to heal. We cant take hits like other classes can but we can deal the damage, ergo glass cannon. Ive tried max defense and abilities and i cant get anything down nor survive well. A lot of it though is knowing when to attack and when to be patient. Chasing after someone usually will result in death as he has his buddies waiting for you. I dont know about you guys but i wreck people in wvw, probably just how each person plays though can change the outcome of a fight.

Ok, i have run this about 6 times now, and i finally got it. I ran into all the problems stated above. The main problem was the second research team not moving. What i noticed was this is directly related to Trahearne NOT DIEING. The part were he is susceptible to dieing is just after searching the first spot to the left before you make the climb up the hill. What you want to do is to kill all the undead in that area before searching that left sight. Once it is clear then search it, kill the undead in that direct area. Then, move to the hill to run up it, but dont. Trahearne and the other npc will attack those new adds at the bottom of the hill and WILL NOT FOLLOW YOU. You have to kill them off before going up the hill, when they are dead he follows you. Keep him alive the rest of the way. How you know you are doing good is when you go inside the cave you will not see bugged out worms freaking out going back and forth.. if you see worms freaking out.. start over. If you do it right, there is only one worm and its normal. As said in an above post, dont go straight to the team! Go around them to the left and kill everything in the tunnel to the exit point. If you have dont this right the exit point is open and not blocked. After clearing the undead in the tunnel go back and kill the big guy and talk to the team. Again as said above.. move SLOWLY to the exit, along the way couple of grubs will pop up they are semi buggy till you attack them. When you get to the bottom, Trahearne will summon the help you need. After that kill everything and you will be good to go. The bug is related to Trahearne and his dialog or the rest of the stuff doesnt happen, if he dies it messes up everything. When you dont do it right worms are bugged in the tunnel it seems. I did this and it worked after 6 tries so you can imagine the time i spent on this. Im sorry for the wall of text but… hope this helps!

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