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20/9 - SoS vs. CD vs. BP

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Not complaining about siege building. You guys nailed me at that hills fight. I do take exception to video involving the Briar Choke point though. Seriously. Youtube is full to bursting with videos of zergs getting wiped at Briar.

As for bragging about using Siegerazer, hell yeah. Siegerazer is the ONLY way to get an equal sized force out of the Briar Choke. I would argue that in Devons deranged brain, that choke point is the entire reason Siege Razer even bothers to walk into the tower. realizing this is proof of competency. Believe me, I know. Any commander that tries to take a defended Briar without Siegerazer is asking for a wipe. Having defended that same choke point with just 5 people, I am fully aware of how lethal it is, and at this point, am not impressed with the gazillion videos people post about it.

So please, lets have videos NOT involving briar, they are more fun to discuss. Because every Briar fight boils down to LOL Arrowcarts! or LOL Siegerazer!

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20/9 - SoS vs. CD vs. BP

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Oh well, more Youtube pleasure of EPIC DEFENSE OF BRIAR

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20/9 - SoS vs. CD vs. BP

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Thanks to BP/CD guilds that keep on fighting till Thursday! Here are the highlights from SoS defense yesterday.

ooooo! Movie Reviews, I love these! And I remember some of these fights, as I was commanding for a few of them. Mind if I give the blow by blow from the opposing side? Of course you don’t :P

Anyway, first scene actually was not from Thursday, that was Wednesday. Rolling up to hills, I was expecting significant resistance and at least 1 scrub on the inner cannon able to destroy all my rams. So I built an Omega. Of course, you guys had a metric butt load of Arrow Carts on the wall, so we were in a pickle when your zerg came up from behind us. I bailed to the right when you went for the omega and we tried to use that as the focus for our fire. Sadly, too many people on our side did not move fast enough and got downed on that first push. We skirted the perimiter of your attack for a bit but in the end I called it and we waypointed out. Manly tears were shed. Only myself and about 10 other people were up by that point.

Second third, and fourth fight in the video, no idea. Not my work and was not there, thank god :P Of course, they all involved the briar tower, which everyone knows is the hardest tower in the game to capture from defenders. Well, everyone as in anyone who plays WvW enough knows this. Honestly, not really impressed. Holding the Briar choke is basic stuff. If you can’t do that you need to go to tier 8.

I’m sad, you got anymore video? Preferably video NOT defending Briar….or even better, do you got video of when I took Briar from you? And I know you do, I recognize the tags. I watched those tags melt one step at a time as I pried you out of Briar inch by inch. You can’t forget it either. I know you remember. Siegerazer leading the charge and those Borlis noobs sticking tight behind him, not running int your chokes, ranging your arrow carts and gently guiding razer into your zerg ball every step of the way. You got that video. I know you do.

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20/9 - SoS vs. CD vs. BP

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Not quite, but keep thinking that. I love the blatant shock that happens when I collect bags in the field. Its like you guys believe I won’t come at you….

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20/9 - SoS vs. CD vs. BP

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Good fights in SoS and BPBL tonight. As always, the Briar Tower provided the most entertainment. Desperately trying to get position, clear siege and then our most famed Commander Siegerazer leading the charge up the ramp! You really don’t appreciate just how strong he is until he crashes into an entire zerg, stacked in a choke point with all its utility skills set for Crowd Control. Ouch. He’s one mean kitty.

Thanks for that btw. For months now I’ve been wondering what would happen if a Briar fight lasted long enough for Siegerazer to enter the mosh pit. I now know the answer. Nothing good for the defenders

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20/9 - SoS vs. CD vs. BP

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This has actually been a fun match up. It really does feel like World War Z sometimes though. Garrison still stands however, going on 2 days now despite the best efforts of SoS to PvDoor it. Kudos to its brave defenders.

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20/9 - SoS vs. CD vs. BP

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So yeah. SoS, you have not improved since last we clashed. Your zergs turn into loot as fast as ever. You give up the moment the lightest of resistance rears its ugly head to interrupt your karma training, and you lose your entire borderlands to 40 people. Hope you had as much fun tonight as we did.

You are hilarious, keep it up.

I can do it all week if you want

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Reset Saturday Night instead of Friday?

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Just going to throw this out there. Friday Nights, particularly in North America are "Lets go out on the town, have fun with friends, and so on. I really hate choosing between the two loves of my week. Reset Night or Friday Night. Is this just me, or is this a thing for other people?

Saturday Night would be so much better. After all, Saturday Nights are all about chilling at home after a day of doing whatever on Saturday.

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Tequatl can be defeated...

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You just gotta change the mentality. This is what we asked for. A World boss you can’t just “Zerg”. Rather, he’s a boss that requires thinking. Every person fighting him needs a role. Using the cannon. Guarding a cannon. Clearing adds and tendrels, and fighting the dragon itself. Also, you can’t just sit in place and fight. The fight actually utilizes GW2 combat mechanics. You have to jump, dodge, and use blast finishers to stay alive. Teamspeak is probably also a must.

While my own attempts failed, it was painfully obvious why the attempt failed. People were trying to zerg it, and 40 dead bodies piled up around the dragon and just sat their being useless rather then paying the 1 silver to Waypoint back to the fight. The cannon gunners were kitten too and were not stipping the boon. In essence, in these fights people are doing everything wrong and not approaching it as it is intended. Treat the boss as a BOSS and then maybe you can kill it.

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harathi hinterlands does not scale properly

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Well, its been almost 3 months. This problem STILL has not been fixed. Necro bumping this thread to remind Anet that the Harathi Hinterlands chain does not scale properly and cannot be done if there are too many people. Not done as in difficult, but rather, as in CANNOT be done purely from a game mechanic point of view.

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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Well, I had a blast tonight SBI. Never seen so many people willing to run to their deaths over and over again for 6 hours straight. Your persistence is something that I am honestly in awe over. We should do this again sometime. Hope those few times you spent in our hills were suitably entertaining

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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150 heavy loot bags so far….

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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Go to bed SBI. I can’t sleep until you do. How many times must I serve the eviction notice?

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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Why is SBI so bad? Discuss.

Borlis Pass: 3 493
Yak’s Bend: 3 507
Stormbluff Isle: 4 745

Why is BP currently losing to a bad server? Discuss.

I am reminded of when we first met. The SBI zombie horde was so amazing. I felt like I was in an episode of the walking dead. Still kinda do.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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I rather enjoy WvW, and in my mind, winning means having the highest score at the end of the week. How you get there is really not important.

Must be easy, riding on the backs of a faceless collective to validate yourself with some utterly meaningless point score. Meanwhile, I’m killing the silly little weaklings who have forgotten their zerg; I know I can fight. Can you?

I should transfer to BP someday just to watch people crap their pants in surprise when they see the words “Borlis Pass” come hopping down off a wall.

Yes, because maguuma clearly does not rely on the faceless masses running everywhere in large numbers. At least I’m honest about how things work around here. Don’t know what game you are playing, but its clearly not WvW. Its some mythical pie in the sky game where everyone duels each other and zergs are non existent things that never happen ever. We should probably chat once your hallucination is over. Drugs are bad, mmkay?

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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You play the game you have, not the game you wish you had. If you don’t like it, don’t play it

No one is telling you not to play the game the way you want.

For god’s sake please sit on ACs all day if that’s what you desire.

Just don’t be shocked when ppl call you out on it and/or laugh at you. Man up about it y’know?

Anyone who knows my commanding style knows that I rarely hide on walls. I do however love to build an AC ontop of said wall and then jump down to kill the skill group that seems to think they can wipe my forces with said AC up on the wall raining death on them. I think I did this to you a couple weeks ago Jinks :P

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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You play the game you have, not the game you wish you had. If you don’t like it, don’t play it. This idea that we should somehow not use siege, towers, keeps, etc to our maximum advantage is silly. WvW is a game of capture the castle. If you want a game where the goal is to rack up a body count, go play games where that is objective, like call of duty rather then GW2 WvW. I think by now it should be abundantly clear that is was the dev’s vision of WvW is. More to the point, that’s entirely what its been since day 1 and every add on to WvW has been to encourage the dynamic of capture the castle over racking up a kill streak. I’m not going to cry tears into my beer over the lack of 1 on 1 fights and not getting rewards for wiping zergs. I rather enjoy WvW, and in my mind, winning means having the highest score at the end of the week. How you get there is really not important.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Played a little tonight. Remembered why I hadn’t all week – there is nothing impressive out there. Some group from BP – Borlis Savers guild – actually sat on a wall for ten solid minutes and refused a duel. Other players are downright disappointing.

We don’t teach our people to duel. In fact, exactly the opposite, I tell them to not chase random people at all in WvW. That is not to say we don’t have members that don’t look for these kinds of fights, but as an organized group we prioritize taking and holding towers over random fighting.

how much do you love siege on a scale of 1-10

11. Because it works. If you hate taking arrow carts to the face, then WvW is not for you. I am absolutely unashamed at utilizing whatever the game gives me to win. If you want to be l33t and not use certain game mechanics, by all means. Different strokes and all that.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Played a little tonight. Remembered why I hadn’t all week – there is nothing impressive out there. Some group from BP – Borlis Savers guild – actually sat on a wall for ten solid minutes and refused a duel. Other players are downright disappointing.

We don’t teach our people to duel. In fact, exactly the opposite, I tell them to not chase random people at all in WvW. That is not to say we don’t have members that don’t look for these kinds of fights, but as an organized group we prioritize taking and holding towers over random fighting.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Amazing campaign in EBG tonight. I had originally just planned to bring my guildies onto the map to practice our open field combat. Somehow, it morphed into a server force plowing through qued maps of Ehmry and Maguuma. Very strange all things considered, because at the start of the evening I only had 15 people with tbh, it was a refreshing change of pace, considering its usually been the other way round for us. I noticed Mag in particular did not quite seem to know what to make of it. You guys had an almost sadomasochistic desire to get SM back from us. While I admit our cap of it was kinda, well, evil (like Ninja) you should not have let rage drive you to such suicidal battles! Though they too, were alot of fun.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Dear Kalkz and Company,

While your efforts for defense were indeed valourous, I love all you folk turning into loot bags for us burn and mags peeps. We sure do appreciate it. Any chance next time you can drop a precursor or two? We’d appreciate it.

Thank you,

Your new map management, maguuma

This post prompted me to take over. I usually don’t command Monday nights due to work, but well, I love a challenge like this. An overrun borderland is like a virgin field, waiting to be plowed anew :P Was alot of fun fighting you guys tonight. We won some fights, and lost some, but you never did get Garrison or Bay back from us after we got them back. I think that was okay with PYRO though, they seemed to just be rolling around looking for fights towards the end.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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That Hills fight just now. I can only assume Maguuma feels the warbanner trait is hopelessly broken atm. Can’t say I disagree though. That was pretty cheap how we chain warbannered that for 5 minutes while we rallied defenders :P

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Good fights in BPBL today. That was a monster Zerg you guys brought Mag.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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I miss AR… =(

June 8, 2013. Nevar forget.

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9/6 Ehmry Bay/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Definitely. Especially that 3 way at Briar. Shame we skill lagged out in it.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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It’s two leagues for North America

I suppose this is a little better. But yeah, between Clockwork nonsense and the announcement of these leagues, its been tough to get people into WvW. I’ve noticed its really only our WvW guilds playing. The presence of random people playing WvW has definitely dropped off considerably.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Actually a lot of SBI are praising BP and saying thanx for the fights. Then you come in with your kitten y remarks and inability to say anything positive about an opposing server.

People are still angry about the cheating accusations the last time you fought us. Respect is a two way street

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Man, BP really don’t like losing to SBI do they?
Blaming it on transfers? Grow up. All servers get transfers, look at the amount of transfers BP have gotten over the past months.
BP, you could have came back, or at least gave us a challenge with the numbers you are able to field, but you choose not to then complain on the forums.
And yes, Buffy, its so kittening obvious we are going to target BP this match up because you are the biggest threat to us, use some common sense instead of making yourself look like a kitten on the forums.

Other than that, good job this week SBI, DDLG are proud to be here.

I do not care if we lose. But the way sbi are acting is immature and childish. Last time it was sbi vs bp. Bp won fair and square cause you guys focused on sm too much. Now that you have gotten alot of guilds to transfer, your winning and think your high and mighty till you face maguuma and dragonbrand and lose badly. Then your transfers will leave ya. It is about guilds cause you guys were always terrible before this week. I am using common sense make sure you are cause what I said is true and people know it.

SBI wont rise to hit DB and Mag, and if we do, we will most likely lose but at least give a fight. To me, what your trying to point out is that your mad because you cant get easy wins over SBI anymore.

You really should read the blog posts. Anet is planning on creating a 3 “Leagues” to “even things out”. They will run for a “season” and you are stuck with the options within your league. Since there are only going to be 3 leagues (Gold, Silver, Bronze) That means anyone who has the horrid misfortune of being the Rank 9 server at the point of impact will be subjugated to 3 months of an alternating beatdown by Dragonbrand, Blackgate and Sanctum of Rall. While this would indeed be “interesting” for the server with the misfortune to roll 9th position in a couple of weeks, the knowledge of this has had the sad effect of creating a chilling effect amongst servers, like BP, that are on the border between the Gold and Silver leagues.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Most of BP’s commanders have not been playing for a myriad of reasons. Myself, i’ve barely played GW2 since reset night due to my anal retentive professors. I think the bigger problem though is the new league match ups Devon has announced.

Fact is, BP enjoys being a mid tier server and getting facerolled by Dragonbrand and Blackgate just does not sound like fun at all. Our desire to excel has subsequently crashed through the basement. Since the only “reward” waiting for us for going balls to wall is the assured promise of a 3 month long butt kitten , most folks here on BP have pretty much stopped playing and are doing the PvE side of the house.

Can’t really explain it. I subscribe to the school of thought to always play to win, but I can’t really preach much since I have not played at all since Friday. I did not even have time to do my Sunday temple run. Sad panda is sad. Good work to SBI for integrating your new transfers though, well done. Enjoy being in the “Gold League” and being Dragonbrands chew toy

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Thanks for the good fights tonight SBI. Shoutout especially to STAR PLAYER or whatever your account name is. Your crowing in my private message before the battle was over was hilarious. “Thank you for the bags?” When you had not even wiped us yet. Over confidence is a very dangerous thing. We were not running away. We were reorganizing, or in the words of Major General Oliver P. Smith, we were attacking in another direction. your failure to realize this led to your untimely demise in the SW camp of our borderlands. also, lol at having 40 people.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Alas, Anet turns the word I-T-S into kittens under certain circumstances that remain obtuse to me. Apparently such a very critical contraction in the english language is too close to a dirty verb that means “to defecate”, so their auto-net-nanny will kitten it on a whim if the contraction is not grammatically placed in the appropriate manner as dictated by the oxford manual of the queens english, in accordance to the most holy and serene standards of English teachers everywhere to whom Anet apparently holds the highest of regard. I am in fact, in awe of their dedication to insure that even the very threat of a naughty word is met with kittens, to the point that Anets net nanny serves the use of the red pen of doom that is the despair of any student attempting to write coherent prose. Their fastidiousness in enforcing the laws of grammar and proper talk are a testament to their dedication, and give great credit upon themselves and her majesties spoken words.

I meant to say …Whatever floats your boat. IT IS not a sprint, its a marathon.

Also, kitten is a proper anglo saxon word. its those barbarian normans in 1066 with their effite language that turned a proper verb like kitten into something vulgar. Anet continues to perpetuate the oppression of the true sons of Albion with their kitten net nanny.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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WFD was definitely waiting for death tonight, and they didnt want to wait very long, musta been pretty impatient.

Whatever floats your boakittens not a sprint, its a marathon

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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I look foreword to further accusations about our cheating ways.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Let it not be said that BP rolled over and died this week. We gave as good as we got.

That said, we’ll need more people before another rematch with Dragonbrand :P

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Champ Zergs Killing Dynamic Events

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I too find that the kind of person who farms is usually also someone who is both rude, irritable and will freak out at the slightest provocation, real or otherwise perceived. I suppose it goes with the psychological profile of someone willing to do the same thing, over, and over, and over again for hours and hours and hours on end.

I have tried farming. Farming Karka, Farming Champs, even these living story farms. I get bored within 1 hour and go do something else. I like the sense of accomplishment more then seeing my gold counter up. besides, now that I have my legendary, gold is really just something I accumulate. I really have no idea what to spend it on. Its kinda like my WvW badges of honor. Its just sitting there in wallet, slowly increasing in size.

Maybe I should collect minis?

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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This is how I feel when reading this thread: http://imgur.com/gallery/gjhrO

Every server zergs, every server has karma trains, every server is outnumbered at times, you’re all pretty, so please, shut the kitten up. Let’s get back to smackin each other with swords.

SHH, we are so close to page 20, Just go back to being productive and let the PvF players work their magic.

Somebody should accuse an entire server in this match up of being zoom hack cheats. Should do the job.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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rB had a guild mission night and a review of AGGs WvW rules. Most of the guild is up to speed on what Jericho expects from us, but we do have rebels. Our next actually WvW night is Thursday. Hump day Spvp tomorrow. See ya around!

They really did make a list of rules? Let me guess…

1) We expect full access to your TS.
2) When the GVG doesn’t go our way, we will keep calling zergs from other maps until it does go our way.
3) We will only post excellently edited video’s showing that it goes our way.
4) Even when we lose, we expect to maintain #1 NA guild status.
5) If anything to the contrary shows up anywhere, we will lie about it then transfer servers.
6) If we transfer to your server, do not expect us to cap anything.
7) We will only contribute as much to WvW as the PvErs do.
8) We don’t fight sentrys, take camps/towers/etc as the NPC’s have yet to adhere to our rules.
9) Do not, under any circumstances, involve Dekar. That guy is an kitten hole.
10) 15v15? Are you cray cray?

Sums it up beautifully.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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What just happened? Is Dragonbrand taking the day off now? Don’t just leave us all alone DB! I mean, sure, you are winning by ridiculous points, but thats no excuse to do clockwork chaos!

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Thread started to suck but now picking up steam!!

Number 1 Thread NA

You jinxed it, everyone start QQ’ing about server pops!

I wish Mags and the other server would start recruiting so we can have a competitive match. The populations are too low for us.

I’ve actually been saying that it would be better for people to transfer down rather then up. That way we get more variety of fights. Alas, front loading seems to be here to stay. Woke up to seeing everything capped by Dragonbrand this morning. We set to work capping it all back. The uplevel zerg came back briefly, but after a couple of wipes at Garrison they must have logged off and either gone to sleep or clockwork because the recapture of Hills, Bay and Overlook was essentially just PvDoor.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a zerg running somewhere 24/7, but, that would mean moving higher in the tiers which IMO is not really a good thing. Being mid tier is fun. Sometimes you get a kittened hard week like this, and other times you get to give a nice relaxing face stomp.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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During our off hours, we make sure they can survive even determined attacks. But this also depends on not losing them during those off hours.

We can defend our things against everything! Except when we can’t!

Such is the nature of war. You win until you lose.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Oh, I know. Mag also has more people round the clock then we do. We get evenly matched during the prime time, and thats honestly when things are the most interesting, but Borlis more often has to fight outmanned. its how we’ve gotten so high up already. I remember the first time we met SBI back in June. We would be outmanned in eternal 24/7.

I would not say “siege is a crutch”. Its more a “force multiplyer”. And honestly, all of us have gotten really good at placing Arrow Carts and trebuchets inside keeps and towers. Lacking a significant number of skilled Guild Groups and a persistent WvW presence that form a solid force on any map 24/7, we’ve had to resort to alternative strategies people in higher tiers tend to disdain. I know Ehmry Bay had kittens about us “hiding in towers”. Of course, given the opportunity you should always use a tower to your advantage :P

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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I think a big reason for the lack of much drama in this thread is that the outcome of this week was never really in doubt.

Hmm, I recall hearing some BP thinking they were ready to face Maguuma besides, that’s hardly an excuse. Everyone knew the outcome when we faced JQ but that didn’t stop us from having an epic thread that week

PS your forums are awesome

Oh, we were ready. Thing is, part of BP’s “Grand Strategy” is not letting our keeps get papered with all the siege we use to defend them destroyed. We have a very defensively minded strategy based around our 4 keeps, but Garrison and Overlook specifically. During our off hours, we make sure they can survive even determined attacks. But this also depends on not losing them during those off hours.

Fact is, the 30 odd people who WvW around 6 AM US Eastern Time simply were not enough to keep Dragonbrand out of our keeps during the early morning, and when Maguuma woke up they always were able to capitalize on capping behind Dragonbrand before we could even fix the doors.

Which is why I really hope we will get to fight Mag again, preferably with a more evenly matched third wheel for us like Yaks Bend.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Aeros.2046

I think a big reason for the lack of much drama in this thread is that the outcome of this week was never really in doubt. Dragonbrand Wins, Mag in second, Borlis in third. Most people are just playing to enjoy the fights and make sure that the scores don’t get too too kittened.

I do say though, that I hope we get to fight Maguuma again, preferably without Dragonbrand ROFLStomping us both so we can see how we both stand in relation to each other on a more even footing.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Instead, I follow the mantras of two of the best American military leaders. Nathan Bedford Forrest…

Great role model indeed…

I’m not interested in what he managed to do with himself after the war. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan were also great military leaders and horrible people who did horrible things.

Incidentally, I do admire the power of a guild skill group and hope at some point to develop one for my guild so we can be like the Macedonians going through a zerg of Persians.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Aeros.2046

Unlike most commanders, I am not really interested in the idea of epic battles of 1 on 1 skill. GvG, 15 vs. 15, with samurai swords at dawn. Instead, I follow the mantras of two of the best American military leaders. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Douglas MaCarthur. They give two, very witty but poignent words of wisdom for any aspiring military leaders.

When asked about how he managed to beat the Union so much, Forrest responded simply. “I gets thar firstest with the mostest”.

When asked how to drive the Japanese from the South Pacific, MaCarthur proclaimed “Hit them where they ain’t.”

If I am on the field, I am not trying to test my 1 on 1 PvP skills. I am trying to beat you. That means taking towers, holding them, and wiping your zergs utilizing whatever resources I have at my disposal.

Yes, we did outnumber AGG and others in most of those fights, freely admitted. Also freely admitted, this was 100% intentional. No commander in his right mind would not utilize a numbers advantage, and any commander that did is not worth his hat.

you should transfer to JQ, you’ll fit right in there

Nah, I like Borlis, more choices. btw, I also love desperate defensive actions. Won’t get that with Jade Quarry. I suppose I’ve just had my hat on too long. I see WvW more as a game of Grand Strategy, akin to something like Europa Universalis 2. Instead of simple pieces on the game map though, its real people I can talk too. Half the time I have my map up rather then actually looking at what is going on in front of my as I plot my next maneuver and where to send the forces following me.

Guild Wars 2 is honestly a very refreshing change for a jaded Real Time Strategy gamer like myself. I don’t see this game as 1 on 1 like Call of Duty. To me, its an RTS where I also get to fight in the battles I help to arrange. Its an amazing change of perspective, and thats the way I like playing it.

Though I have been known to roam on occasion to mix it up, so please look for the red Sylvari Necromancer in white armor. We can fight sometime

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Posted by: Aeros.2046

Aeros.2046

Unlike most commanders, I am not really interested in the idea of epic battles of 1 on 1 skill. GvG, 15 vs. 15, with samurai swords at dawn. Instead, I follow the mantras of two of the best American military leaders. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Douglas MaCarthur. They give two, very witty but poignent words of wisdom for any aspiring military leaders.

When asked about how he managed to beat the Union so much, Forrest responded simply. “I gets thar firstest with the mostest”.

When asked how to drive the Japanese from the South Pacific, MaCarthur proclaimed “Hit them where they ain’t.”

If I am on the field, I am not trying to test my 1 on 1 PvP skills. I am trying to beat you. That means taking towers, holding them, and wiping your zergs utilizing whatever resources I have at my disposal.

Yes, we did outnumber AGG and others in most of those fights, freely admitted. Also freely admitted, this was 100% intentional. No commander in his right mind would not utilize a numbers advantage, and any commander that did is not worth his hat.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Some youtube of the war in Borlis Borderlands on Saturday.

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Aeros.2046

Why does Maguuma attack Borlis Pass only? Never really seen them hit Dragonbrand. Are they scared of that server or something so they pick on a server 4 ranks lower?

It’s a training.
By overcoming challenges Borlis Pass finally can make its way to tier 1.
It’s all for your own good, be grateful.

Well, 13 weeks of getting our face smashed on by Ebay took us from tier 6 to tier 4, so…

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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So, yeah. Tonight. Once again, war was hell. For 7 hours, the brave soldiers of the pass waged brutal combat in our borderlands. The battle ended with the total cleansing of our borderlands and the capture of stonemist. Hats off to Maguuma and Dragonbrand. You are the hardest servers we have fought in months. We know the retaliation for our continued survival will be swift, and fierce. But we take heart in denying DB an upgraded SM, and Maguuma that waypoint in our hills.

Incidentally, people have asked for my picture so they can know when they have killed me. By all means, please. Come at me, I love fights and am here to deliver, even if I die horribly in the process. Here I am, sitting on your scout inside SM’s lords room that we took about 30 minutes ago.

lol you totally ate my great sword 5 on the bridge at east keep and went flying off the edge rip

So that was YOU who threw me off the bridge in the hills fight. Actually, I did not die though. Necromancer death shroud. Makes falling a little easier. Nice try though

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8/23 Dragonbrand/Maguuma/Borlis Pass

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Aeros.2046

So, yeah. Tonight. Once again, war was hell. For 7 hours, the brave soldiers of the pass waged brutal combat in our borderlands. The battle ended with the total cleansing of our borderlands and the capture of stonemist. Hats off to Maguuma and Dragonbrand. You are the hardest servers we have fought in months. We know the retaliation for our continued survival will be swift, and fierce. But we take heart in denying DB an upgraded SM, and Maguuma that waypoint in our hills.

Incidentally, people have asked for my picture so they can know when they have killed me. By all means, please. Come at me, I love fights and am here to deliver, even if I die horribly in the process. Here I am, sitting on your scout inside SM’s lords room that we took about 30 minutes ago.

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