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6/28 HoD/AR/DH

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DH BL #1 DH BL#2 DHBL#3 and DHBL #4

It is easy to take things once the other servers have mostly gone to sleep.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

6/28 HoD/AR/DH

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as for the guy who spotted our “zerg” in the skritt caves, it’s called a karma train.. your players do get personal WvW points for that y’know?

i completely agree with Dovgan.. the only thing i’ll miss of [als] is the money they spent on upgrades.. our server just needs to reconstitute itself

and apologies to my fellow tyrians.. i’ve been spending less time on this game now that staff elem is So broken and irrelevant at this point

You might be surprised, but the “World” of World versus World isn’t meant to describe the game world and its npcs. It is meant to describe servers fighting each other. So if you have a 30-man zerg capping two supply camps and killing centaurs and skritt in a time-span of 30+ minutes, they are doing something quite wrong. Especially since their BL had been fully captured. Instead of going to a different map to kill npcs, they could have taken back some of their holdings.

As for you thinking that the staff ele is broken and irrelevant, I can only say that it is best that you have been absent. Best for your team that is, as it would be detrimental to their success if you were to give them advice on builds and class make-up.

Aza
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Suggestion: How to subdue camping at OS

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Are you from ET or SF?

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6/21: HoD/SF/ET

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It’s most likely the case that they accidentally glitched through the gate. That bug has been around for a while.

When that happens though, it is best to jump right back out, as not doing so is taking advantage of a bug that a-net can’t seem to fix.

Aza
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6/21: HoD/SF/ET

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lol… commenting =/= crying

Someone else was. Not you, don’t worry. :p

Aza
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6/21: HoD/SF/ET

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Hey I just wanted to say, even though it still isn’t completely balanced. This has been a much more competitive match up than previous weeks.

I’m having a great time, and I hope ET continues to come on out and play.

Whenever another server posts nice things about us..

During the last match-up, we would often have to hop BL’s 4-5 times a night, just to try and find fights. I remember one instance where different guilds were actually competing to find the enemy zerg before the others. We all wanted to fight and were looking for the enemy zergs. Once guilds from the same server have to compete for enemies to fight, you know things are bad.

This is why I believe that many of us on HoD are happy that ET has had a bigger presence than last week. It is not an insult in any way whatsoever so don’t worry. :p

Aza
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FC/ET/HoD 6/14

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If you don’t want to fight at fight night then don’t whine about being forced into a fight. If you don’t like it, you can go sit safely in lions arch.

Unless of course you were only there to fight people you know you were guaranteed to beat. Or if some of you BS guys were there to sneakily give your teammates passive bonuses again. Like healing mist and occasionally popping guard virtues to give them the edge.

Oh, but it’s okay if you guys cheat and randomly attack people right, because it’s only you guys “messing around.” rolls eyes

Aza
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FC/ET/HoD 6/14

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Not normally one to boast, but a friend and I have just spent the passed hour in ET’s BL, fighting this group of about 5+ ET’s and wiping them constantly. They finally managed to kill us when we separated since I was talking to a nice ET ele that wanted build advice. It was a fun night, I wish we had those fights recorded.

After that I fought this ET necro who proceeded to destroy me with her condition/fear build. Very well played, I knew there was no way I was winning that fight. Condition continue to be my downfall, no matter what character or set-up I’m using.

And, by the slight chance the ele I was talking to reads the forums, I hope you figure out a set up you like and I can’t wait to fight you again once you do. ~ And I hope my advice helped.

Lemongrass food and the condi removal skills of the ele should be more than enough.

Aza
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Opening up EBG as a map.

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Take out Quentin Lake and Klovan. Put a tower where the hylek are. Take out Wildcreek and Anzalias. Put a tower in the dredge cave. Take out Ogrewatch and Durios. Put a tower at the ogre camp. Take away all those npcs and you’ve created new interesting siege areas. Additionally, the map is now less clogged.

Now since not every side can have an even number of towers, they’ll have to fight over those middle towers, creating more pushes on the sides that cannot be decided by who holds stonemist.

Aza
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FC/ET/HoD 6/14

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Uh it WAS a fun night in FC BL but we didn’t come out to play, we had the same number of people we always have, about 15 on the entire map most of the time, maybe 20 at times.

Except that 60 person FC zerg that KoM fought for a while.

Dunno what time that was, but I was on from about 8 Pacific to about 11 30 Pacific and we never had more than 20 on BL. When I left it was more like 10. Unless these guys ported in from BL briefly.

It was about 9pm EST. Most of the FC then moved over to EB where we chased after them.

Aza
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WvW thieves

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In my experience, I rarely come across good thieves in spvp or in wvw. Most of the time, they are equally bad. On occasion though, I come across solid thieves. That is based on the player her/himself though and not on the game-mode.

Aza
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FC/ET/HoD 6/14

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Hey guys. Does anyone want to 1v1? You can bring your friends along to watch if you want.

I might get the feeling that they may want to attack me though so I may run and fully reset. It won’t have anything to do with my health being low and it won’t matter that they’ve been standing there watching me for a while, because they might randomly decide to gank me just as their teammate is winning. / rolls eyes

Aza
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FC/ET/HoD 6/14

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We had a lot of fun fights on FC BL tonight against the various FC zergs. Even the 40+ ones. Thanks. Hope to get some more good fights in before the week is done.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

FC & [Deth] HOD crushers.

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Ergh, I’ll try one last time.

In the video, your zerg kills even numbers with a keep at their back or zerg smaller groups.
Why brag about that, as it isn’t something brag-worthy.

Try and explain what my words above mention.

Aza
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FC & [Deth] HOD crushers.

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I am guessing your from HOD and I understand that your upset that your server is in the vid getting smashed but no worries, I feel ya, If you feel that we are so weak feel free to GvG us or just find us in wvw at anytime and just mash us off lol.

If by “mash us off” you mean kill you, then no worries it is what we generally do.

It would be nice if you explained yourself and the video however. What are you trying to show and achieve by posting it? That you take part in zerg fights and zerg people? If so, the text you provided alongside it is rather misleading.

Aza
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Gems rewarded to winning server?

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So everyone jumps onto servers that are more likely to win and A-net gets less money from people buying gems. Doesn’t sound like it would work too well.

Aza
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FC & [Deth] HOD crushers.

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I am quite perplexed to be honest. You mention your guild being “zerg crushers” and that regardless of numbers, you will come out on top. I looked through the whole video and only found you running in a big zerg. At one point, you guys even zerged less than 5 guys with 20. Why would you even record that and then try to brag about it?

Your ability to 20v5 so easily must mean you’re elite.

Aza
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FC/ET/HoD 6/14

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i’m afraid i’m gonna have to agree too. if you don’t outnumber PAXA, you need to be very focused on VERY tight small group tactics and player killing as fast as humanly possible

no just run moar guards

Or necros to counter their guards.

Aza
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FC/ET/HoD 6/14

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Eh, sorry ET and FC. Looks like Arenanet through us into this match-up again. If not much changed since last time, we clearly outnumber you and will have a higher ppt because of it.

So let’s try to focus on getting good fights instead of caring about that other nonsense. To the battlefield!

Aza
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HoD/DR/BP

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Oozo dude, you put way too much effort into that. :p

We had 9 in that camp and you had 7. You can’t expect us to know who is and isn’t on voice comms with you, especially if they were sticking that closely with your group. You guys made us run in circles around the camp after you, and while your reason may have been that skills were on cd or something, to us it simply looked like you were trying to avoid a fight, which is why we aggro’d the npcs as bait.

We went straight to your spawn after hoping for another fight, and if you added 2-3 to your group then it would have been great. We weren’t simply going to stand and watch you at the center island just so that you can kill others because you have an advantage over them while avoiding to fight us because you didn’t have a clear advantage over us.

That is how it appeared to us and while it may not have been the case then, having come across you guys a few times since then it is a fairly safe assumption to make, that you will only fight us if you have a clear advantage. Perhaps this is due to some words traded on the forums or a matter of pride, but it is a shame regardless as we would have enjoyed squaring off against you guys more often. You guys are tougher than the zerglets running around and it would have made good practice.

ps: don’t take this post in an insulting or trollish manner as it isn’t either.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

HoD/DR/BP

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PS. if I had 10 or 15 or 20 people at my disposal (which i don’t) and fought your 5 man I wouldn’t really care if i zerg’d you. I’m out to kill ya no matter the odds.

Zizanzi (Stylii)
(NoQQ)

Hit us whenever you see us and we’ll hit you whenever we see you. We won’t hold it against you, but we just might come and hit you back in return.

Nice and simple.

ps: You can put your name and guild in your signature

Aza
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HoD/DR/BP

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Ok. You are obviously sore about something, so let me try and figure out why.

Firstly, we are not a roaming group and we do care about our PPT, so the fact that we took your Bay was helping us out a lot and was the first priority for us.. Our original intention was to come to your map to look for some good fights but that changed when it was so easy to take your Bay.

You mentioned that we came out. Yes we did come out, flanked round the back of you, took out your siege and every one of you trying to defend it. Might this be the source of your soreness perhaps? Your long walk back from spawn?

We did retreat back to Bay after that and the fireworks did come out, but thats us just having some fun and not meant as a slight in your direction, which you have obviously taken it as.

I did say in my post that we lost bay to BP so saying it again achieves what? Makes you feel better about the whole thing I guess.

Anyway, VP will defend what we have on a map before going for the fights. That is how we play the game.

Your comment about “elite guild”, we have never proclaimed ourselves to be some kind of elite guild and would never presume to give ourselves any kind of title or tag. It is up to others to make judgements on this kind of thing, but as long as we strive to have a reasonable reputation within the DR community, then thats good enough for us.

The facts of that encounter are these.

You put up siege.
We wipe you and your siege.
We retreat to defend our keep.
You have sore cheeks and decide to have a go at us on the forums.

GG

You know, siege doesn’t count as people, so killing the siege doesn’t count as “wiping” us. You guys downed 1 person who we revived before we got the finish. Maybe if you had bothered focusing your attacks on us, you may have done better considering there were only 4 of us up there at the time you attacked the siege. Instead, you hit the siege and then ran back in having lost a few in the process.

Since you admit to caring more about the ppt, (seriously? DR and HoD are both getting smacked in that department) then what you did was foolish in regards to pve as well. Since we had control of the supply camp and bay had no supply, we could keep hitting. You would have been better off killing us and taking control of the camp, then repairing the wall and setting up defenses.

Since you seem to have trouble with the pvp aspect of wvw as well as the pve aspect of wvw, may I suggest Southsun cove?

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

HoD/DR/BP

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It is beyond mildly embarrassing that we have fought ONE guild under 10 players this week. Graduate from zerg school already, challenge yourselves past relying on 15+ people to stay alive.

We did attempt to engage you tonight but we pulled a lot of others with us.

We aslo did try to stay out of your fights with the AD and NOQQ guys but some of the people following jumped in.

I am sorry for this but sadly, this is the way of things. If they aren’t in the guild and on on TS, it’s hard to stop them.

/salute

I wouldn’t be sorry nor apologize for it Lorek, nor stop them. Pretty much all night my little group only had 4 (1 BSTY/2 NoQQ/1 AD) and at one point got up to 6. Numerous times we would be fighting small unit stuff or against a zerg only to be added in on by KOM and/or PAXA when fighting enemies. They didn’t hesitate to add in so you shouldn’t either. They continue the advocation for small man but no honor of honoring those that are fighting small man on their part so why should anyone honor leaving their small man fights alone on our side when they add in themselves all the time no matter the circumstances.

Zizanzi (Stylii)
(NoQQ) Leader
ADNoQQBsty Alliance

Yeah, our 9 got tired of having to run in circles after you guys, so we weren’t just going to sit on the side while you’re standing in front of us.

“Ring around the Rosie” gets quite boring.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

HoD/DR/BP

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[VP] had an enjoyable evening in HoD BL yesterday. We didn’t have many on, 7-8 of us and we were just out to see if we could pick some fights that didn’t involve a 30 man BP group for a change. SoCo were out causing trouble for HoD too and are always a welcome sight for us.

Defended it against a reasonable amount (10-12 maybe ?) of HoD at south gate for a while. Managed to flank and take out their siege on top of the roof of the camp, but there was no supply in Bay so we were not planning on keeping it.

There were 8 of us and a non-guildy that was following us. That was your chance at an even numbers fight and not a 30-man zerg. Maybe next time you’ll actually come fight us… or were you just looking for roamers to gank or something?

I’m sorry, but I do not know who KOM are and I do not remember seeing you at all. I may be wrong but I have asked the guys.. and they don’t rmember you either.. Unless that was you guys failing at south bay gate? Where you there or are you wanting us to come find you or something?

With regard to your “just looking for roamers to gank” remark, you obviously have no idea who we are either.

I will be sure to look out for your guild tag from now on and say hi when we see you.

/salute

I have a very good idea of who you are. Yesterday we pushed onto you at the sentry point with 8 guys and your 7-8 guys bolted to bay and then sat there. We were hoping for a good fight so we tried to coax you out by building a catapult. You came out alright, but only to hit the siege then run right back into bay.

You wanted to play keep-defender instead of getting an even-number fight and still lost bay 5 minutes later. We had a good laugh about that.

So don’t go around saying you wanted to fight something that wasn’t a 30-man BP zerg, because you had the opportunity but decided to turtle instead. So if you don’t want to fight a zerg and you don’t want to fight even numbers, you only have ganking roamers left.

You must truly be an elite guild then, zerging those sentry points and the occasional underlevelled ranger.

Aza
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HoD/DR/BP

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[VP] had an enjoyable evening in HoD BL yesterday. We didn’t have many on, 7-8 of us and we were just out to see if we could pick some fights that didn’t involve a 30 man BP group for a change. SoCo were out causing trouble for HoD too and are always a welcome sight for us.

Defended it against a reasonable amount (10-12 maybe ?) of HoD at south gate for a while. Managed to flank and take out their siege on top of the roof of the camp, but there was no supply in Bay so we were not planning on keeping it.

There were 8 of us and a non-guildy that was following us. That was your chance at an even numbers fight and not a 30-man zerg. Maybe next time you’ll actually come fight us… or were you just looking for roamers to gank or something?

Aza
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Imagine a WvWvW guild full of Tpvp players

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You guys are all so cute. Spvp and WvW players are equally bad. In both, the players will try to get a numbers advantage because they can’t cut it by themselves.

how are people supposed to ‘cut it by themselves’ vs a zerg?

zergs are the predominant group org in WvW, its only natural to fight fire with fire.

lol.

You want to try that again?

My post states that in spvp and wvw, most people will try to get the numbers advantage on you instead of beating you with even numbers, as players in both realms are equally bad.

Aza
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HoD/DR/BP

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Listen to this man. BP picked up so many tricks and strategies from Ehmry Bay during our long slog with them. Last night we were using everything we had learned. This your chance to see those same tricks and in turn use em on someone else.

Tricks? You mean like bring a 25-man to fight a 12-man and when they’re losing, have another 25-man flank that 12-man? Yeah, good tricks. How about this, come out on your own and let me gang bang you with 3 friends and then you can “learn tricks” too.

Attitudes like this don’t do you much credit. Watch this video. This is who have been beating on us for the last 2 months, and we have taken their lessons to heart (just don’t tell em)

I’m sorry you thought you were outnumbered. But if you saw some crazy sylvari necromancer coming in at the head of people with [BS] tags, there were only about 15 of them. I would be willing to bet there was no time in your borderlands you had the outmanned buff until you gave up.

Oh right, because having the outmanned buff means that I am not actually outnumbered but that it is simply all in my head right? You would know better than the outnumbered buff, seeing as how you’re such an elite hero right?

In case you want to respond appropriately, read what I wrote again and respond to what I said instead of responding to some imaginary concoction of yours.

Aza
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Imagine a WvWvW guild full of Tpvp players

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You guys are all so cute. Spvp and WvW players are equally bad. In both, the players will try to get a numbers advantage because they can’t cut it by themselves.

Aza
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5/31 - SF - ET - HoD

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Yawn. Fight Clubs use to be interesting, but alas dueling thieves, guardians and mesmers all day gets a little tiresome.

Come on! Where my super engis, necros, warriors and rangers at! Come show these OP 1v1 professions how to play!

Engineers and necros are pretty powerful against thieves and guardians. Against mesmers too depending on the mesmer build.

Aza
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5/31 - SF - ET - HoD

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heck Anet would have to add forum server space if I was going to post just the times KoM and PAXA have spiked me.

Whenever we run into [BS], we first look for the bald human necro and target him. Nothing personal, but you’re their biggest threat. :p

Aza
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5/31 - SF - ET - HoD

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Fun fights on ET BL tonight. We enjoyed clashing against the ET and SF zergs, even though they were sometimes a bit too large for us. :p

Aza
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-98% Condition Time WVW builds?!

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ugh…i shouldnt have used p/d as an example. and i do die to classes other than thieve plenty of times. its not a kill all build. but any build thats offensive based should have a chance at some lvl to kill another. it shouldnt be a HARD COUNTER. ok let me switch to my necro. or my engineer. very condition heavy and reliant classes but also not great (perhaps some engi builds) in the 1 v 1 department. how do they deal with this?we all know that cripple/ice is a necros friend…..immobilize is an engineers lbest friend. why should they have a hard counter?

it doenst matter if you have +500% condition dmg….it wont mean diddly :P like i said the -40% cond dur is MUCH stronger than the +40% they are not equal.

The trait on ele and warriors is -33% immobilize, chill and cripple duration. This doesn’t effect other conditions.

You are right about the -40% condi duration being more powerful than the +40% condi duration but it seems you didn’t explain it clearly.

For starters, +% condi duration isn’t cumulative. It only seems to affect the base number. So lets say you have your base condi is 10 seconds and you have +30% duration from runes, +30% from traits and +40% from food. It wont add the +30% ones to 17 seconds and then apply the +40% to the 17 seconds, but instead the 10 seconds. The -% condi duration stacks on each other however.

Additionally, -% condi duration is applied after your total condi duration is applied. Let’s say your base condi is 10 seconds and you only add the food to give you 14 seconds. -40% would then put the condi at 8.4 seconds.

Aza
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-98% Condition Time WVW builds?!

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warriors can have it too. I don t know, i rarely have a problem with conditions on my ele and I certainly need the buffood to spice up my crappy dmg, not my cond removal

warriors don’t have the mobility that an Ele does…

Warriors actually have superior mobility. The great sword and bulls charge allows a warrior to cover ground faster. If the ele calls in the fiery great sword, they have the same mobility for that duration.

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T8: 5/24/13 HoD-FC-ET

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I, for one, am looking forward to being done with HoD…at least for a few weeks. While I have only been on FC for about a month now I have come to dislike HoD more than any other server I have faced in WvW. I have never faced a server that mistakes their coverage and numbers for skill and superiority so much like HoD does. I have never seen a server run so much from even or fair fights out in the open like HoD does. I have never seen a server go out of there way so much to chase down a smaller force (even 1 to 2 people) like HoD does. I have never seen a server emote so much like HoD does…of course this is normally after they have ran from a fair fight to the safety of guards/tower/etc or after they have ran down a group they outnumbered 4 to 1.

Prior to moving to FC I had been on SoR since the headstart. When ANet announced free transfers to lower population servers several weeks ago HoD was actually my top choice to transfer to. This was based on reading over the forums and the respect HoD was given there by their opponents. I am so glad I didn’t though. I don’t know if the make up of HoD changed because of the free transfers or because of their fall to Tier 8 or if this is how it has always been on there.

Anyway good luck versus your new opponents on Friday HoD, please don’t be in a hurry to return to Tier 8.

I am sorry to tell you this, but you’re acting irrational. I expect that this is because someone zerged you and then emoted you.

I generally have people from ET and FC running from even numbered fights and turtling when they have more. Commanders emoting me because they weren’t able to zerg me while I was alone etc..

Does this mean that everyone on ET and FC is like that? No, because generalizing everyone according to where they are from is something I believe to be wrong. In fact, I learned that at the same time that I learned why racism was a bad thing. Although in all fairness, I guess it is foolish of me to think that everyone believes in that same value.

In any case, if you were being rational right now, you would not have claimed the mistaking numbers for skill issue, as if you really had been on SoR since the beginning, you would have remembered fighting BG in t2.

Aza
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T8: 5/24/13 HoD-FC-ET

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Haha, that’s hilarious. Ungood is so riled up over us that he makes a post about us on a separate forum because he was banned from this one. Great stuff.

actually… he’s LOLing pretty hard. but whateva. hopefully see you on the field this evening.

We both know that isn’t true. :p

Aza
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Patchnotes regarding WvW, May 28th

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I do guild missions (2 hours a week maybe), I do fractals ( 2 hours a week maybe), I farm people for badges (like 40 hours a week), I do dailies ( wait no I don’t, it just happens without trying).

How can you, who bottlenecks himself into one part of the game ask for the same gear in the SAME time frame as someone who takes advantage of all the aspects of the game?

Read it.

A big draw to GW2 was when they mentioned that one wouldn’t have to PVE to keep on equal footing, gear-wise. That is a big reason why players came to this game. Even with this update, it is FAR easier to obtain items doing fractals, guild stuff etc..

Aza
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Patchnotes regarding WvW, May 28th

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With these prices, it costs 150 laurels to outfit ONE character with ONE stat set.

30 per month in dailies and 10 for the monthly means it takes 3 months and 20 days for ONE character to have ONE build with ascended jewelry. It takes 1 month for a pve player to do the same.

It shouldn’t take almost 4 times the amount of time for a wvw player to get the same gear as a pve player.

You want it to remain balanced? Sure. Make it cost 10 laurels (on average) and 2-3 times the amount of badges. This way, it will take just over a month to get full ascended one a single character for a single build. This would put it on par with the pve experience.

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Patchnotes regarding WvW, May 28th

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Excuse me, but I AM the WvW player there for the PvP. I have both accessories, two rings and an amulet already that are ascended. It isn’t hard if you allow yourself a little diversity as intended. If you’re single-focused on one and only one aspect of something, if you’re intentionally pigeon-holing your self in the game then ascended items likely won’t be for you. If you only want to kill people and can’t be bothered to take down a yak or throw together some superior ACs, then it’s time for you to address the real issue which lies in the mirror over there.

I think you tried to say something witty there, but it looks more to me as if though you are spewing nonsense.

You get one laurel a day for pvp’ing. You get one laurel a day for pve’ing. You also get the other ascended gear from doing fractals and guild stuff. So in essence, the pve’er will get ascended gear more easily than a pvp’er.

You actually want to bring up the word diversity in this instance? So tell me then, do you have all-ascended gear on 2-3 characters? Average cost of 35 laurels and 5 pieces. That is 175 per character. 525 laurels for 3 characters. Max 40 laurels per month. So you mean it would just take 13 months to get ascended gear on those 3 characters? That doesn’t even include different build sets on those characters?

Oh, but now THANKFULLY we have these awesome new additions to wvw. It will only take 11 months now to gear my characters with ascended jewelry. That still, with only one build option.

Well I guess it is fair, because it takes PVE players that long too right? Except that even if they just run 1 fractal at level 10 every night. Gain 6 guild commendations every week. Then they would have 3 characters fully geared in less than 3 months

Less than 3 months and 11 months is a big difference.

ps: don’t get me started on random chance of a ring. I don’t want healing power and magic find on a condi necro.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

Patchnotes regarding WvW, May 28th

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•Added a laurel merchant selling Ascended items: •Ascended rings can be purchased for 25 laurels and 250 badges of honor.
•Ascended amulets can be purchased for 20 laurels and 250 badges of honor.
•Ascended accessories can be purchased for 40 laurels and 50 globs of ectoplasm.
•WvW-specific infusions have been added and can be purchased for 5 laurels and 125 badges of honor. •Offensive infusions provide players with +1% damage to guards and lords.
•Defensive infusions provide players with -1% damage to guards and lords.

I can’t tell if the Arena-net employees responsible for this are intentionally trolling us or completely oblivious to what WvW players want.

25 laurels for a ring? Because it takes 25 days for someone doing fractals to get a ring right?

edit: Oh wow, we have a small chance to randomly get a ring that wouldn’t work on our characters build, giving us useless stats? How awesome. rolls eyes

This is completely in line with the whole ascended philosophy so far as I see it. The easiest place to get rings has always been Fractals. The easiest way to get amulets has always been dailies. Accessories have always been most cost-effective by doing guild events. This doesn’t change, and they actually did a good job sticking to that philosophy while allowing options outside the intended. Plus, they added rings to the WvW level chests, adding an additional avenue.

Step back, look at it as a whole. It fits nicely, it keeps ascended items relatively gated (intended to take a certain period of time to obtain) and they’ve actually made it a little easier to accomplish. Plus, pre-cursors in the WvW chests! Can’t hate that.

Here is an idea, step back and look at it as a WvW player who is there for the pvp.

It fits nicely with what a PVE player wants. Not what WvW players want. A big draw to GW2 was when they mentioned that one wouldn’t have to PVE to keep on equal footing, gear-wise. That is a big reason why players came to this game. Even with this update, it is FAR easier to obtain items doing fractals, guild stuff etc..

So yes, they are following their philosophy of pve grinding for gear. It is also something they said they wouldn’t do.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

Patchnotes regarding WvW, May 28th

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Azaruil.3406

•Added a laurel merchant selling Ascended items: •Ascended rings can be purchased for 25 laurels and 250 badges of honor.
•Ascended amulets can be purchased for 20 laurels and 250 badges of honor.
•Ascended accessories can be purchased for 40 laurels and 50 globs of ectoplasm.
•WvW-specific infusions have been added and can be purchased for 5 laurels and 125 badges of honor. •Offensive infusions provide players with +1% damage to guards and lords.
•Defensive infusions provide players with -1% damage to guards and lords.

I can’t tell if the Arena-net employees responsible for this are intentionally trolling us or completely oblivious to what WvW players want.

25 laurels for a ring? Because it takes 25 days for someone doing fractals to get a ring right?

edit: Oh wow, we have a small chance to randomly get a ring that wouldn’t work on our characters build, giving us useless stats? How awesome. rolls eyes

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

T8: 5/24/13 HoD-FC-ET

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When all else fails… PvWall!!!

You have even numbers, why are you sitting behind the walls?

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

T8: 5/24/13 HoD-FC-ET

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Fun fights in ET BL tonight ET.

Uh, you guys wouldn’t happened to have fraps’d some of those fights, such as the one in the jumping puzzle entrance, NW supply camp or center south island? We have a bad habit of forgetting.

Also, I smell nice.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

How am I supposed to counter stealth?

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I think your main problem there is that you’re running all elixirs and dual pistols. That in addition with your chosen stats, you don’t have a lot of burst, cc nor the ability to condition stacks. Any of those 3 would help with killing the thief. Burst because he cannot run if he is dead. CC because he cannot run and stealth as much if you are denying him that chance and stacking conditions because it could finish him even if he manages to stealth and runs away.

I rarely ever have any problems fighting thieves on my engi and only on occasion do they manage to get away, but that might be because I have decent burst, cc and condition stacking. (good survivability too)

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

T8: 5/17/13: FC/ HoD/ ET

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I think Ima take a break from the forums.

So you came onto here, decided to insult a whole server and cannot handle when it is thrown back at you?

Btw. I heard about you being forced to change your name. Perhaps instead of Mr. Moobs, Mr. Loobs would be a better fit.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

Small man/Havoc Crew Tier Consolidation?

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^ No, that’s just him.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

NA T8 Matchup 5/10/13: HoD, FC, ET

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holy kitten, the 8 year old thing is so tired already. mortars arent the only piece of siege. stop harping on 1 anecdote about your cute lil kitten
not even a lot of gamers whove been playing realm v realm for 10 years will spontaneously think to check for a blind spot and place a counter weapon. or better, refuse to reveal a covered spot until you start building something to counter something else. those are the people worth fighting. not your 8 year old who happened to shoot into a zerg that got stupid and wiped against your zerg.

Sorry that I responded to your comment about manning mortars taking skill? haha. You made a comment about mortars, I made a response about mortars. If I make a comment suggesting that placing a square block into a square hole is hard, I wouldn’t expect someone to make a retort saying that golf is an easy sport. Well, unless they were a little special.

If you don’t get the ridiculous analogy – you made a comment about manning mortars taking skill, I’m not going to assume that you mean every aspect of siege in general takes skill.

you dont get that im just giving an example of a tool in the arsenal. manning a mortar is the equivalent of your 5 man capping a sentry. do you always do it? well, you have a good chance of drawing pve noobs to it. so maybe you would for a few easy kills. would you always? maybe youre running a couple camps to help out a larger group. stopping at a sentry might slow you too much.

but lol my 8 yr old kill a sentry las week lol y wud u evar cap a sentry wen sum incompetent scrub cud do dat competently?

come on man. dont be an kitten . i dont sit on mortars waiting for a zerg to walk into range. you dont cap sentries all day.

No one ever claimed that taking a sentry with 5 people required any skill whatsoever, as it doesn’t. You had previously claimed that using a mortar required skill.

You have now, by your own admission said that manning a mortar doesn’t require skill. Thank you for ending the argument. It is much appreciated.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

NA T8 Matchup 5/10/13: HoD, FC, ET

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Had one of the most fun fights in GW2 yesterday on HoD BL. Oink and BS fighting Invi +2/3 randoms I believe. We saw the fight and decided to jump in.

It ended up being a non-stop 15 minute 3-way fight. It was kittening kitten kitten sexy kitten super kittening awesome.

Yeah that was fun it was just free for all we kept trying to make sure we hit the back of Oink/BS while they were hitting you because we thought they had more people but then we would push to far and be stuck in-between all of you lol.

They had a few more than us, as we had 5, but we kept pulling back to the bridge if we saw we were about to get squished, trying to get you two to fight then jump back in. Also always tried to hit whatever side had more players up at the time. It was a chaotic cluster kitten and very enjoyable.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

NA T8 Matchup 5/10/13: HoD, FC, ET

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Seriously 5v5 does not require the amount of skill you say it does, it requires the correct builds and the ability to press CTRL+T.

Maybe that line of thinking is why you do not excel in group v group play? :p

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

NSP-Serious WorldvsWorld Guild

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If you feel that you keep getting ganked in world v world and that you keep losing 1v1’s against underlevelled rangers, [MoB] is the guild for you. With sheer numbers, they will make you feel as if though you are actually worth something and you’ll soon forget that you’re a terrible player as your guild-mates pat each other on the back for successfully winning a 20v5, with only 8 casualties.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”

NA T8 Matchup 5/10/13: HoD, FC, ET

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Had one of the most fun fights in GW2 yesterday on HoD BL. Oink and BS fighting Invi +2/3 randoms I believe. We saw the fight and decided to jump in.

It ended up being a non-stop 15 minute 3-way fight. It was kittening kitten kitten sexy kitten super kittening awesome.

Aza
“I smell like pomegranate.”