Guild Wars 2

" I refuse to be relegated to swirling winds duty,"

Hmm, you’re happy with the swirling winds nerf, then, and how it is now mostly useless in WvW?

Hmm. there was a thread posted a couple of hours ago from a JQ guild. Are you sure that you’re world first?

Yeah, we (Absolute Legends [AL]), started queuing it today, we’ll run it on Friday. No rush to push into it, as long as we get our commendations/merits for the current week. Saves us ~1000g on influence, too, not having to speed it up.

When Zergs Collide [CERN]

Dingle.2743:

ThiBash.5634:

Wasn’t there a rune that increased the effectiveness of swiftness slightly?

Superior Rune of Speed; + 25/50/90 vitality, 20% swiftness duration, 5% chance to gain swiftness for 30 seconds when hit, 5% increased speed during swiftness.

I’m not sure if 38% movement speed is worth it, but it exists.

it’s actually +39.7% movement speed (33%*1.05) if it’s working as advertised.

Aytrix.4059:

Atrophied.8725:

Hey FA… you, um, have a lot of superior ACs in there, huh? I think I counted 17 total? Ow.

Kn Hills belongs to HL… that is their doing. They are FA’s exclusive siege masters.

I am honestly surprised you made it through… lol.

Yeah… mist form, lightning flash, spamming heal, and then vapor form when I was downed got me to the top of the stairs. So many carts. I think I was the only one to make it through the wall breach, but we wanted to get a decent count of the siege there. We stopped pushing on that breach immediately.

Hey FA… you, um, have a lot of superior ACs in there, huh? I think I counted 17 total? Ow.

Best commander I’ve played with is Nightlight [CERN] (TC) – yes, I’M CERN, but this would be true even if I wasn’t – closely followed by Blankspace [PTX] (retired, ET/NSP)

Channel of When Zergs Collide – [CERN]
Featuring some hefty zerg-crushing videos

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyF6G4B58xGFB9Sr_XnrSQw/videos

Score update with my new shiny trident. <3

Vespirisa.1497:

Usually it’s TC who destroys our BL at this time…

Sorry, we were vacationing in our summer borderland. FABL is cozy this time of night.

Score update for us suckers who have to be at work?

To be fair, sometimes the commander is looking at the map, coordinating with other commanders on other maps or directing via voice comms. Just ‘cause they’re standing there doesn’t mean they’re doing nothing.
(Note: This may not be true in all cases, I’m not saying that all stationary commanders are active, just that you shouldn’t be too quick to judge.)

Any chance of re-binding the move and action keys to be something sensible? I’d love W-A-S-D (movement), Shift-/ for jump-attack

Sigh

Late nights at work.

I’ll be back on in ~3.5 hours after I leave work at midnight. Hopefully there will be some decent sized groups to roll against this evening after last night’s slim pickings for a few hours.

xTiMeBoMBx.2863:

Almost all the guilds in FA are skilled and can go toe to toes against even numbers. Imagine what they can do when they have coverage like TC.

We’d have really even fights again like we did when coverage was about equal?

I just want the option to be able to show myself as any rank of my choice up to the rank I have. I’d rather be an Assaulter than a Squire.

Sunspots.9861:

Speaking of trebs…here’s a little hot treb action from KNBL last night. People always ask why most of my videos feature us killing FA, and I have looked back and found to my surprise, it’s true. Must be some cosmic coincidence. Enjoy us killing some of our friends on Kaineng for a change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi1P-z4So1E

Oh dear, that portal was beautiful.

IRSykO of FA is really good, from what I remember, and Alaric of VK is good and scary to run into.

On my current server of TC: Azel, Kittaen and Nightlight are all very, very good at what they do, and they all have their own specialties as to how and where they command best.

Our zerg-balls have learned how not to die, mostly. After countless times saying “get on your commander or die alone”, they’re finally starting to pick up on it when we run into a WM, VK, BT, Meow or RET ball and are stacking up nice and tight.

In addition to that, CERN had over 100 people in our mumble channel the other night when we were defending KN garrison; that has to help, too.

Ahh, I get it now. Thanks for the explanation of your server’s current mentality. I really do hope it picks up again for you guys. The fights over the past month or so have been hard fought, but amazing fun.

We might not always express it properly, but TC really does like fighting vs FA and KN, despite the antagonism – from all sides, including us; no fingers pointed, no blame given.

ghtchill.7613:

I have to say, there was much more fun and challenge when BG was here and we were number 2 for 3 weeks. At least there was a point then, and it was more fun that way. Not much point in playing for first in T2 all the time.

Honestly I am amazed JQ keeps it going as number 1 in T1 for all this time.

Is it more fun and a challenge now that you’re 2nd for a week and 3rd for 2 weeks? Or are you looking to drop into T3, win every week, get bored, and then stop playing entirely?

Eh, we failed a T3 on Saturday, because we got 3 of the randomly spawning ones at once (Sotzz, Mayana and the Rat catcher) plus a pre-scouted Wildman. That combination is rough, but do-able, I think, if you dedicate enough people to each zone. We didn’t have enough people for it, ’cause people all jumped on the first fights linked in /g, instead of continuing to scout where they were supposed to be.
Proper communication means you should be able to take out each boss with 5 people per zone for the hard-to finds, with a roaming band of ~10 to jump in on the actual kills (this grows as each boss is downed and more people are freed up)

I use correct grammar and punctuation when I can. But, like many, I often don’t have time during a pitched battle to write in complete sentences. That doesn’t mean I misspell things, but I’ll skip on pleasantries, punctuation, adjectives and adverbs to save a fraction of a second if I can.

Why are arrows not projectiles? Swirling winds should destroy those inc arrow waves.

Arkanfel.8403:

The problem isn’t so much response time as it is participation in general. I don’t think a lot of players have actually left the server, but we’re clearly not WvWing as much anymore. It used to be that you could go to other maps and ask for help, but now everything except KBL and EB are outmanned 90% of the time, and getting players to leave EB is like pulling teeth (especially since it’s about the only map where we tend to do well).

This is sad to hear. C’mon Kaineng. We <3 you. Come back and play WvW!
I want a solid Tier 2 with good fights every week, like it was a month ago. A server dropping just ‘cause they had a single bad week and the fairweathers decide that it’s not worth playing any more is not cool. Fight back! Show us your server pride.

It’s since the culling fix, and I believe it’s when your PC is trying to get server information on, and rerender 50+ character models at once as a force enters the water and switches from helm to aquabreather, and skills switch to underwater ones. I may be totally wrong about this, but it makes sense to me.

Furiousbeard.7602:

I already predicted last week that Kain and FA would fight for second, but TC seems to be doing us a favour by always turning KN BL green.

Well, to be fair, it’s a heck of a lot easier to turn their BL green than yours. Your response times are much better, and you actually do mesmer sweeps if we do manage to take something. KN apparently doesn’t even sweep SMC for mesmers; Slashy hid in there and got us into inner literally 15 minutes after KN capped it.

What if I’m on a treb/ac/ballista for 45 minutes-1 hour? I get kicked? Bad proposal is bad.

If we can get some transfers so that people like Paulus (and his power of disco) get some sleep before 6am each night, then I’m happy with that. Covering Oceanic/SEA with NA players is hard work when we East-coasters/Euros have jobs to be at in the morning. Sleep is important to reduce burnout, and I know some people have been experiencing this burnout and have started playing less as a result of pulling all-nighters to hold positions.

AoN, BT and VK are three FA tags that definitely make me sit up and take notice when I see them in WvW. Their players are good, they’re coordinated, and they like to wipe the unaware/unprepared. Love fighting you guys. <3

Luvpie.8350:

DevonCarver.5370:

Tracked it down and we are working on it. Thanks for the info.

Awesome!. I actually dodge away from Doliaks instead of killing them when carrying 15

You can still kill them, just don’t pick up their loot!

Is there a reason you don’t rally off killing a yak, though?

Ok. I need to see the screenshots of TC’s commander zerg last night on KNBL. Who has them? Stop hogging them! (So much fun… “Stack on the Commander!”)

target the person → invite them to party → after 1-2 seconds their character name pops up → add them to your friends list → hover over to see the account name.

I really hope WM comes back out to play, and KN are a force to be reckoned with again.

GL to all, may your badges drop like candy and exotics fill your loot bags.

In my opinion, all capture events should reward a chest. Camps guarantee 1 green, towers 2 greens or a rare, keeps at least 1 rare, SMC an exotic. Would this unbalance the economy? Would it ruin WvW with people rushing to each keep capture for the chest? Would it push zerging to an absurd level? I don’t know, but rewards in wvw definitely need something done.

Sorry if my sarcasm came off badly. It wasn’t meant that way. I have huge respect for VK. You guys are really good at what you do (also; using your militia as bait to pull our zerg through a choke, and rolling us from behind was genius, and we fell for it the other night on EB. It hurt. A lot.)

I was on FA as part of PTX before they jumped to SoS and started going in a direction I wasn’t happy with. I ran with commanders like Bit, IrSyKo, iBludgeon and you, Alaric. I have no ill feelings towards you, and love this matchup. Trash talk is part of the game, though, and guild/server pride is something that I hope we all have.

I think a few matchups have stabilised enough for this, but not all/ TC/FA/KN could totally start doing 2-week matchups, imho.

Also, mad props to VK and alaric, your grouping for water blasts is INSANELY tight. Well done, really good coordination. Shame you didn’t keep fighting in that one where you started losing people fast (round 3) – you’ll note we always fought to the last?

Yes, I’m part of CERN. No I wasn’t there (I work 50-60 hours/week and couldn’t make it). Yes I’ve seen vids posted both by Alaric and the one from HOPE (not sure who was recording that one) and CERN has altered their playstyle and group composition in wvw accordingly. Learning from these awesome GvGs is pretty handy in knowing what kind of group compositions you’re liable to be facing throughout the week – and then figuring out how best to destroy those compositions.

Haldunius.7864:

I just honestly don’t believe this about TC. KN has some good guilds and have provided some good GvG’s. TC barely GvG’s. The few times they have it has gone very poorly. These are times when numbers are even. You can’t hide behind walls or show up with twice the numbers and brag about steam rolling a few guys. It’s about who’s “better” because the baddies die. If you are genuinely curious and believe a certain group is “competent”, then put it to the test.
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Usual excuse is usual excuse. Easy reply is unless you can code something for me I can’t fit 20 people per side in sPvP. If you want to claim you’re guild is good at combat then we have a wide open field to test that theory. As of now, I haven’t seen anything impressive from TC.

Please prove me wrong. And no, walls are text, straw men, and dissembling is not proof.

Edit to add – No it doesn’t have to be 20 for those of you rushing to that excuse. That was a somewhat arbitrary figure.

CERN has fielded some GvG fights, ask VK (Brother Alaric even recorded a few) (switching people out between fights depending on what you see from us during GvGs? Not cool, btw. Run with what you bring.)

I can run in naked, contest a keep and die, then be back before the 3 minute timer’s up, even running from spawn across EB, 100% solo. As long as I get that hit in, I’ve done my job.
Me dying? Whatever, I don’t care as long as your zerg has to run from spawn back to SMC or wherever you’re trying to defend, instead of porting from your keep.

I have a 3-minute timer set up next to my PC to make sure I’m contesting right as it’s expiring. GG.

neruson.4978:

It wasn’t for the entire day tbh it was more like 3 to 5 hours at most its nothing compare to that Fa Thief which contest keeps every single day. I’m sure ppl from the match up in WvW notice who that thief is.

Yeah, I gotta say getting inside SMC to hit that treb without any walls/gates being down was very impressive on your part. I have screenshots sent to ANet to make sure that it’s intended and not an exploit. glhf.

Edit: I had to be very fast to get that party invite sent to catch your name, you were speedy at rejecting it, too. You’re a very good thief and it was a lot of fun trying to catch you, but please stop getting into places you shouldn’t.

Aurust.8961:

TC was never competitive with SOR… the first week with sbi in tier 2, which is the week i believe you are referring to ( SOR received large transfers the week after)… TC lost to SOR by 74k points….

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/history/17#NA

I think they were referring to the 2 weeks prior to that when SoR and TC had close scores.

Score update. I’m sad that FA gave up the fight.

Oh dear, please no. With all the confusion and particle effects on the main screen, I navigate using the minimap during large-scale fights, staying tight on top of your commander is vital. (Also, huge props to commanders who can actually navigate properly through huge zerg v. zerg fights, keeping their team alive.)

Let ’em have it, you know how much Kaineng love their Stonemist.

Ouch.

Roll on Monday, so we can catch up. I’ll be back on and fighting soon! Contest!

Recent score update from anyone? Work means I can check the fora, but not the game.