Guild Wars 2

Some screenshots of the Dolyak Counterstrike:

Of course, it’s FA that ruins the Dolyak walk. Hope you guys are ready for the repercussions.

Fun times. Stayed up till early morning for our retaliation strikes after the emote kitten spam from [KH] on TCBL. Seems we might have overdone it though.

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You guys(TC) are upset b/c for the first time in a month you are having to deal with what YB, CD and FA has had to deal with the entire time. We have all had both opposing servers in our backyard for the last 3.5 weeks. Its easy to talk about superior defense when no one is attacking your shizz, not so easy now is it? Get used to it, I’m gunning for you TC. Before you say it, no its not because I want to move up a tier, its b/c of all the mess you have been talking on the forums the past few weeks. Look forward to seeing you and all that superior defense, I imagine I will be wiping that smug smile off the bottom of my boot.

Who said we’re upset? Still in first, survived a 2v1 alliance with minimal point loss, reinforcing lessons for the ground troops, and got loads of badges. Got over 130+ last night.

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Maniac.5163

So, [NAGA] from CD marched a couple golems at Hills in FA BL while we were in TC BL. This made people in my guild mad, they took Bay in an awkward long siege in CD BL then took it even a step further to CD in EB taking towers and at one point hit their water gate at CD overlook. Now they log off and CD’s peak force logs on who has every right to demolish FA who is outmanned. I hope you wipe us off all the maps, tbh. Pretty disillusioned right now.. haha.

I don’t know what you guys did to them, but you pissed CD off real bad. As in this bad:

wombat.6123

I’m confident in saying TC are legit on this, we’ve seen their mesmers using a very good hiding spot within inner SMC that only a few of us seem to catch. It’s up top and a quick run around the upper area, just scanning the top as you do a lap, will not spot them.

Thank you. Rather then making baseless claims, nice to see someone realize what was going on from past experience. It was highly amusing that SM kept flipping between FA and TC 6-7 times. Then CD finally stepped in again and took it. They found the mesmer. SM stopped the rapid flipping. Of course, that apparently wasn’t noticed, and that’s much easier to spot then a good mesmer.

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Edit: Doh. Beaten to it. Last time I quick reply without checking beforehand >< Oh well, more recent.

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Maniac.5163

Out of curiosity, what are TC queues like? FA actually had a queue on every single map in prime time which was awesome, the first time I’ve seen it. Instant entry/no queue for the last few hours in all maps at the moment though.

Only thing with regular queues is EB. On Friday nights some of the BLs may get queues if they have any action on them.

Also, FA, wow at Askalion Hills. That was ugly.

Not gonna deny poorly executed golem rushes are silly, but I can chalk that up to a fascination with golems/roleplaying. Point is, you have to vary things up a bit, regardless of team.

Cogbyrn.7283

We’ll see what the future has in store for FA. However, instead of conforming, I’d rather see innovative new aggressive strategies be devised to see if we can really play to our strengths more effectively than in the past. Innovation can only take place when we have the marbles to test new tactics.

I can’t tell you how many times in team chat I’ve heard: Catas at west hills wall/Catas in Greenbriar tunnel/Trebs at Bluevale again!?

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Was a little bored and made this just for humor’s sake- no offense intended, hence the satirical names and obvious stereotypes.

At the Fort Aspenwood Citadel, Fort Aspenwood Borderlands-

UnNerfable the Enormous, warrior among warriors, glowered in the dimly lit confines of the meeting room of the Council of Overplayed and Abused Classes. He had called this meeting hastily after the affront of the Tarnished Coast and Yak’s Bend heathens refusing to kneel before the might of his massive army’s Black Citadel forged steel boots.

“You all know why I called you here tonight…” UnNerfable growled.

“Oh I know, you just missed me didn’t you?” Fotm, the elementalist winked as she fiddled with her pair of twin daggers while grinning seductively.

“Silence wench! Cease your siren’s call. We all know that despite your ample bosom and proportional lack of clothing that there are no women in this realm!” UnNerfable snapped as he banged his gauntlet fist on the council table.

“Milord, clearly this meeting pertains to the failures of our offensives and the recent invasion of our homela…” squeaked Neglected the Engineer as he cautiously raised his Asuran head over the tabletop.

“Invasion my kitten, Neglected!” UnNerfable interrupted. “We all know that we are the superior force. Our combined omnipotent powers are only being thwarted by the combined secret alliance of the heretics worshipping the evil demon Golem god and the mechanical abomination Bender. By the six gods, even their deities are similar!”

“But my lord, clearly our wooden fortifications and lack of defenders are insufficient! They would be prime targets for both forces regardless of alliance…” Neglected countered.

“That’s hogwash, pipsqueak. Nothing gets through my perma stealth cheese.” Scapegoat of the Forums, the Master Thief interjected.

“Kitten off, Neglected.” Portals the mesmer hastily added. “My portals make such offenses easy to counter anyhow. By Balthazar ‘s hounds, just shut that pint sized mouth of yours. We all know you don’t belong here and just got added that night UnNerfable got wasted after getting rejected for the fift…”

“WE AGREED WE WOULDN’T BRING THAT UP AGAIN!” UnNerfable roared.

“Yes, yes, anyway…” Portals said after sighing heavily. “…Can we all agree that this isn’t the fault of our massive combined army of awesomeness and just a conspiracy against us?”

“I’m telling you, there’s no alliance!” Neglected squealed once again.

“Kitten it Neglected, I’m tired of your insolence. Smashy? Slashy? Take the runt outside for a hammer beating and greatsword slashing by our heavy armor classes.” UnNerfable hissed.

“Milord, my punishment could properly be done by just one…”

“KITTEN IT NEGLECTED! THAT’S NOT OUR WAY! Why do with a few what we can do with a kitten ton!? You just don’t get it.” UnNerfable roared.

“Milord, one of my scouts has just informed me of something that requires the council’s attention…” Scapegoat of the Fourms said as silently rematerialized next to UnNerfable.

“GUH, I wish you would cut that out. What’s so important?”

5 Minutes Later, The Spiritholme Supply Camp, Fort Aspenwood Borderlands-

“What in the name of Grenth’s genitals is this?” UnNerfable shrieked as he paced over the bodies of villagers and supply dolyak body parts. “There was nearly 250 barrels worth of supply here! This is a stone’s throw away from our citadel! How could this have happened!? Also, what is the meaning of this phallic shaped object!?”

“Milord, the sentries have stated that defense is boring and nonprofitable, and I believe that’s a flame ram, something the enemy places to waste our supply and obscure the vision of our spie…” a bruised and battered Neglected explained before being backhanded by UnNerfable’s iron fist.

“Flame ram!? Flame ram my kitten! This is clearly trying to overcompensate for something!”

It was then that UnNerfable noticed the gathered council forces exchanging glances between each other and his greatsword, Twilight.

“What!?” UnNerfable growled.

Pendragon.8725

FA seem to zerg around more, going for things like quick map takeovers. This is good for short gain, but they can often be taken back quickly as well as their locust swarm moves on and they don’t defend/upgrade as they go.

Bingo. Case in point when FA pushed TC out of their bls late last night. We just made sure it was as painful and expensive as possible, took the time to clear our bls, and came back 20 min later to recap everything that was taken with a skeleton crew.

Also, regarding nicknames, I must suggest “Benders” after the awesome Futurama robot for YB.

Yeah, will agree with you there about the increase in commanders. 100 gold doesn’t make a commander. Getting results and reputation does. Quite honestly, I’ve seen a bunch of poor commanders wonder where everyone went when they make some incredibly stupid mistakes, not realizing that people simply stop following you when you make poor decisions. Ex. When FA turned the tide in their BL last night.

Nice comeback though FA, looking to be another close week.

FA garrison 0_o This is like a mini version of SM.

Fun start to the match. Score roughly 2 and 1/2 hours in:

Why make a new thread when there’s a perfectly good thread here for discussing what’s occurring during this match? It’s on topic.

Odaman.8359

2 Smaller guilds working together wasn’t the cause for losing our own BL. If it was then our server has more issues than us choosing to attack a BL that YB seems to be afraid of. Either way this sounds more like you being frustrated that none of the mesmers you had there seem to understand the concept of using stealth and portal to destroy a few trebs.

Frustrated? I had a blast. Got lots of badges. Had fun. Not sure why you assume we don’t know how to portal bomb. See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/11-16-TC-FA-YB/page/7#post821020

Edit: Post about portal bombs.

Nah, not trying to gloat, my apologies if I came off that way. Just the first time I’ve seen since release that I’ve seen a server focus so hard on one point to the exclusion of all the other maps. Our keep was a hard take, and your cap was well earned.

Dear FA,

While you were taking the bay in TC borderlands with your zerg and 8 trebs, your own borderlands seems to be a bit…. non blue. Fun times. Hope it was worth it.

Edit: Added map.

Dear FA,

I was aghast to note you have a bot problem. Fear not however, for I took care of it for you.

Suddenly when the Lost Shore event is finally over… <sigh> lol

Same here please.

It would be a nice gesture given the incredible debacle this has become.

Waited on overflow for the LA event. Never happened. Event moves on. Go figure.

Seriously? I can understand attempting to deal w/ D/D thieves, even if the nerf showed a complete lack of understanding of what the issue was, but this was just uncalled for. Meanwhile, in Warrior land…

Edit: Seems that this doesn’t apply to WvWvW. If so, that’s not too bad. Still, You’re killing our ranged options here…

I would love an option to disable legendary sound effects. In particular, the legendary shortbow The Dreamer’s neighing every time I fire an arrow is quite annoying. Apparently Bolt has a mosquito like buzz too. Yes, I’m aware you can adjust effect volume, but that eliminates all effect sounds, not the specific ones I’m talking about.

Thanks!

Don’t like the new design at all. Couldn’t even figure out how to get a specific number of things made until I read some of the posts above.

Been on my server from day 1 and am not getting the bonuses. Wasn’t even aware until I read this thread.

Let’s assume the last few weeks = 3 weeks. Given what 51 servers or so, that’s less then 2 and half botters per server per day that have been banned. That’s not impressive, that’s subpar. The difference between what players are seeing in game and the so called hard stance on botting are obvious. It’s literally impossible to zone into Cursed Shore without finding a bot, if not a whole horde of naked characters doing terrible things with brown bears.

Human Thief, 80, about 8 hours ><

Been on Tarnished Coast since Day 1, and I think the community and the attitude contribute greatly to our WvW efforts. We have a very friendly community with a good reputation which allows us to keep guilds and players, and attract more. Gotta admit, transfers are a huge problem. Also, even if we’re losing, we keep fighting and trying to have fun. You may think we’re exaggerating, but I still remember getting spanked by RUIN when they were still on North Shiverpeaks and the world rotation was bugged. I mean seriously, for all this complaining about balance how would you like to be smacked around by the TA day in and day out with a broken rotataion? I recall our first weekly match and getting rolled over by Dragonbrand. I recall a very tough match against Crystal Desert. Finally, last week’s Blackgate stomping. In all situations, we were losing, but we tried our best, had fun where we could and learned from it. It’s only benefited us in the long run. How you play is up to you, have fun with your world, and if can’t do that, there’s other things fundamentally wrong there.

Edit: Yeah, all servers have their share of fair weather players, that’s not gonna change. Good point.

So that’s what the 4th server they’re on now? Well, TC warned you guys at SoS. Oh well.

Same, got the keys for two borderlands and can’t open the vault.

Excellent match so far. Quite impressed with CD’s play, definitely learning a thing or too.

The thing about about TC is, yeah we could focus on “easy points,” but what would that achieve for us in the long run? If the choice is between forging our forces by getting them experience against the toughest forces we can fight or fluffing around for second place, it’s a no brainer. We haven’t improved so drastically from the last time we fought DB for no reason after all.

Definitely pleased with TC morale though. Remember TC, given the number of ranks we’ve jumped and the improvements from the first set of weekly matches, we’re still fielding a threat and not getting shut out. Improvement while having fun will pay off sooner or later =)

Happened again huh? Not just the orb hacking I mean, I recall last week a huge zerg magically pressed one of our keeps after we lost the orbs. So I guess the question is, are they still losing despite this?

Psy.6153

Hope you enjoyed that slap in the face tonight then when we showed you a glimpse of whats to come with the new NA playerbase on Sea of Sorrows, capping it off by taking your Orb and THEN taking a keep to put it in.

gtfo, looking forward to our next matchup.

Really? You manage to put up a fight for an hour and that’s a slap in the face? See the attached for post slap results. Hell, GoM grabbed an orb earlier today when their altar broke at garrison, ran it to the orb spawn point, and held it for 5 times as long as you guys did. They did really well defending it for so long. Good fights this week, hope to see you all again.

Spot on regarding the RP community. One of the reasons I rolled here. Also quite pleased at our progress so far. New ranking format shows how we’re seriously on the upswing:

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/10428/NA_Rankings_9-28.JPG

+ Free orbs
+ No queue times
+ Plenty of PvP action

Help take a sentry or supply camp today!

To lighten up the mood for my TC buddies, “roleplayers don’t hack in a fantasy game, it’s ooc!”

Oh hey, we just lost the orb AGAIN in GoM borderlands. Funny stuff. Go from 3 orbs —> none and cost us about 100 points per tick while we deal with the chaos. Hacker(s) has/have broken every kitten altar so even if we get the orb back, we cant use it.

We just lost another orb…. and coincidentally, this coincides with a big push on Dreaming Bay. Let me just say, that regardless of who did it, this pisses people off, and if there is any reason to absolutely ban against a a server and crush them to the point we’re spawn camping, this is it. I do appreciate the people on GoM who are aghast at this, but this kind of behavior will paint a huge target on your server in the future.