Guild Wars 2

We had a situation where the enemy attempted to take Garrison and blew a hole in the wall but unfortunately could not get their forces through the gap due to being funneled through the gauntlet of our mass AOE and siege defense. Their only viable option was to sneak a mesmer in and up to the battlements to portal sufficient numbers in otherwise we would have been there all night at a stalemate there’s no fun in that, be better to have a good fight defending it, lose it and have more fun re-taking it making the night that more enjoyable for all party’s involved than have people beating on doors and walls all night with no success.

This leaves us as portal monkeys in WvW go make a portal then stand over there out of the way till needed for another and if we don’t want to roll that way there is little contribution we can offer, people are lobbying portals to be nerfed too so that leaves us no option but to re-roll.

Solution is don’t change portals there only targeted as a means for people to express their frustration about WvW in general and without portal the same people will only come back here moaning about something that they don’t like that has developed from a lack of portals it’s a no win situation.

Without portals the whole system everyone is used to in WvW will change many will not thank you for that and it very well could tip the balance towards ruining WvW for those who don’t run zergs.

Raincrow.1840:

Axle.5182:

WvW doesn’t pay the bills and as mentioned above it’s population is only a fraction of the games total member base.

I don’t believe that this is true.

People interested in WvW is actually a large number, but unless there is a focus to keep it interesting, they will never capture that audience to it’s full potential.

Don’t get me wrong im a WvW focused player in a WvW guild but because we PVPers dont use the gems store or for a better word can’t for any real benefit were free loaders who don’t contribute financially.

Is it right no but you only have to see the system values PVE we cannot compete with the rewards offered by PVE content and WvW apparently is just a place to spend all the currency you gain from your daily PVE farming. Until they improve the reward gained from WvW those of us that focus on that play style are forced to run around Orr for a few hrs each day to prep ourselves for battle and for many that want to just pvp that just isn’t always possible or acceptable.

Personally we have very little problems with mesmers we run with our own team of mesmers me included, our commander controls where and how we deploy portals and he is a guardian and when we take an objective the mesmer team itself does the sweep as we know the hiding spots and are the best choice for doing so.

Our primary function in WvW is siege and tower infiltration and countering other mesmer without this there would simply be no way to break a stalemate in this game and many people would moan that they can’t get through a zerg v zerg situation.

would you much prefer to spend an evening standing outside a wall trying to get inside getting cut down wave after wave by siege defense it would be fun for the defenders but not for the attackers or have the option of a Trojan Horse to give you a fighting chance?

Diligent players can deal with a portal our mesmers call out our’s if it’s not called out it’s not friendly and so it’s AOE bombed and 9 times out of 10 infiltration fails.

Any time you have been infiltrated by a portal mesmer has more than likely been down to a lack of awareness or spread of panic upon seeing the pink circle a competent commander should be able to keep it together not “oh kitten portal… fall back to the lord room”.

If highly active commanders leaves the game because of portals that proves they can’t field and utilise their own mesmers efficiently or simply not at all.

To remove portals or water them down so they can’t function in the way they currently are you are changing how 90% of how WvW currently rolls for the majority of servers.

And i do not think the majority will thank you for it in the long term.

They spent 5 years and millions of dollars on a game that you can play for a one off payment The financial return for them is not from WvW it’s PVE and the gem store nothing you can buy there effects PVP so why wouldn’t they focus on PVE content first.

WvW doesn’t pay the bills and as mentioned above it’s population is only a fraction of the games total member base.

By the way cheers for the epic fight at the garrison on your BL Riverside we both fought long and hard over that hole in the wall lol

Iv seen all crazy things but one thing is apparent there are still environment conflict bugs with certain mesmer abilities like phased retreat that results in the mesmer at times getting stuck below the ground or stuck between walls etc but it’s not intentional as you can’t predict where and if it will glitch not to mention i don’t know if this is related to what you saw.

But one thing i will say is good mesmers are skilled through practice infiltrating keeps etc it in itself is their main tactical function paired with providing portals within a guild in WvW

I also find it hilarious when im killed and a loot bag drops from my corpse and my foe dosn’t claim it and i can pick it up on my return for free loot lol

Zerg would refer to a disorganized rabble on BT however for the most part that is not the case, guild leaders of guilds of all sizes actively communicate with each other through voice com’s im actually impressed that on BT there is very little elitism when it comes to guilds and everyone has an input no matter how small,. That is one factor in why some disliked the idea of a certain guild joining us on BT and disrupting the harmony.

Im from Heresy and although were small possibly 10-15 max and the majority of our foes either haven’t seen us or heard of us our name is always mentioned by our larger brothers for our commitment and dedication to the fight sometimes we are tasked to scout other times we are re-tasked to support a push or defend our function is always in constant flux and dictated by the battleground.

The one thing i cannot stress enough is the sense of community and feeling of worth on BT there is in fact a lack of mindless zergs on BT mostly every guild has their job to do there are massive guilds and there are small guilds but the key is we communicate with each other and link up immediately with the commander assigned to a BL at any given time on entering and take up orders rather than roam about mindlessly.

Im not saying zergs don’t occur as i believe any server that claims that is fooling themselves there are many casuals who enter WvW from time to time and they tend to just tag along with the biggest group they find and that simply cannot be helped but for the most part BT is organised.

Good luck with that unfortunately were only given the ability to report someone we can target and not given any character name as a backup

I know it’s hard to watch allies when your focused on killing the red tags but the community really needs to keep an eye on the enemy within as much as the one in red.

They will only spoil the reputation of those legit players and guilds that are putting the effort in if i was these guilds i would be now looking into who the perpetrators are or let them pull the guilds reputation through the dirt.

I too have had this problem being not at cap and lacking a good mix of major traits there is very little we can do but avoid thief’s like the plaque.

However many suggest carrying a main hand sword on swap and using #2 Blurred frenzy gives you vital distortion and timed right can break a thief’s opener giving you time to use decoy, but i still against a high level and skilled thief it’s a case of only prolonging our inevitable death.

Someone else may have better advice though.

BT doesn’t need the help to stay in T1 forever we need the challenge of getting knocked down in order to learn and better ourselves there is always room for improvement.

Being propped up indefinably we learn nothing were a competitive server and we wish to learn from our mistakes and adapt to our competition, without challenges there is no fun to be had if all we can do is face roll everything, you can see from the majority of our threads we thrive on fierce fights even ones we lose horribly.

what exactly is the definition of EU prime time NA has no problem it spans across multiple time zones and facilitates a 24/7 coverage on a server on the other hand EU itself is fragmented all over the place with multiple regions French server having french speaking Canadians etc.

WvW is like as mentioned 24/7 this is a tricky flaw that supports cross region participation the problem is unlike the NA population they are all united in some sense on the other hand some EU regional servers and people who have completely different cultures are very discriminating towards guilds and people who do not fit into their region iv seen it many times being kicked from matches like BF3 on a German server just because im from the UK and not Germany etc.

Not to mention the language barriers we have to cross in order to co-operate with guilds from other EU regions to offer sufficient coverage for 24/7 WvW .

Were a tricky lot to understand and appease us Europeans are, most of the time were like chalk and cheese lol

I must educate the person who made the following comment:

“Blacktide has a “never give up, never bow down” attitude that will carry us to the top.”
Haha kind of funny that server hopper say this. One bad week and you probably change server again.

Those that transferred from Gunners Hold did so not to have a chance of success we where already putting up a good fight against blacktide when we where matched and gave them a good fight when we met in battle, we where recognised for our tenacity and offered the opportunity to work together to fill a void we have no intention of jumping ship we are here and will continue to be as this is where the challenging fun is.

I think i speak for the majority of us so called server hoppers when i say we moved from a misguided and wrongly selected first choice mainly UK regional server that left us vulnerable off peak to one we fit into and should have been in from the start.

Anyway it’s not like were forcing guilds to join our servers they are making the choice themselves

Guys people can moan about server hopping till the cows come home but the reality of it is it’s essential to maintain coverage in a persistence WvW environment.

No one want’s to be face rolled by another server due to time coverage, everyone started off playing on regional servers and then realised that servers needed to be very much international in order to be competitive.

Every server will at some point be attempting to plug gaps in coverage im sure everyone would agree it is nice to have epic fights during your prime time and feel safe in the knowledge that others are picking up and continuing that fight in their prime time.

There is no need for abusing each other over who has zergs and at what time and who transferred where. Elona may very well have better coverage something every server should inspire to achieve, and that means transferring guilds from one server in another timezone to another to create a balanced server in the long run.

BlackTide is trying to achieve the above and many other servers that are serious WvW orientated are doing the same, the fact were being critised for this is purely down to the fact were in the spotlight over it due to our openness on the issue and many others are not.

Any truly competitive WvW server that claims their all from the same region and timezone and play 24/7 is kidding themselves