Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
hehe maybe we can manipulate the new glicko system to permanently all three stay in t4.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Less than 10k separates 1st from 3rd. It’s the closes score between all tier matches. Hoping we get to keep this match up however unlikely for next week but if not here is hoping we all come together again.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
This hole in coverage for us blows. Go strong for 17 hours a day only to loosen up a bit in Euro/early American primetime. Good job taking your keep back JQ and taking a nice lead.
Relax SoR is the real deal dont get caught up in all the ppt changes. It’s a long week of back and forth so just enjoy the ride is my advice. This is the strongest 1vs2 we have faced on JQ. Even going back to Hod / ET days. But even then ET focused on HoD 100% if the time not us. It feels good to have a challenge from both servers.
The game has been out months. Complaining about coverage gaps, especially in t1, is just a waste of time.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Can I have a show of hands of who has
playedsat in the queue a crazy amount of hours this week to help fight in wvwvw??raises hand
Yeah me too. I am hearing about it from my wife. heh
I know how you feel. We have a huge master bedroom so I was able to sneak my gaming pc into our bedroom but those days are numbered. Ive been defending the forced moved down into the basement but I think I am about to lose.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
This is what gw2 WvW tiers should be. Close ppt’s and constant back and forth pressure from each other on all three sides. We may get tossed around the ladder but I am sure all three servers will see each other again.
SoS good to see you pick yourself off the mat from last week back to full force.
SoR you guys knew you could hang here and have proven it.
All three servers have queues over the weekend it seems. The queus vs map population may be broken as well.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
When SoS decides to focus on BG BL, SoS BL ends up turning into blue and red.
When BG decides to focus on SoS BL, BG BL ends up turning into blue and green.
When JQ decides to focus on SoS BL or BG BL, JQ BL still looks blue all round.
Insert conclusion here
First time in mmorpg history guilds and players transferred to a second place server over a 1st place server.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Good luck SoS and welcome SoR to t1.
Also JQ’ers dont forget to register on our new Jade Quarry community site
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
yes HoD were strong at release, but the game was very young, guilds and players have evolved, and they would have been beaten eventually as the skill cap evened out because all servers had full maps.
HoD was beaten eventually and all servers have the potential to have full maps 24/7 It’s up each individual server player base to enter WvW. All I know is for two months straight SoS were out in force with 40+ man groups on every map I was on steam rolling. Numbers get a little even, push comes to shove, 1vs2 finally happens, and SoS folded.
Fair weather WvW players are the bane of t1 servers.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
and why would anyone come out to fight… save it for when it means something…
It’s fun?
If you like PVP’ing why would you not come out and fight?
He is saying we controlled the entire map. No one was coming out to fight so deploying siege was a waste.
I was responding to the part I quoted.
“and why would anyone come out to fight… save it for when it means something…”
And the answer is because it’s fun.
There is no deep meaning to having a higher score than another server.
But no one was coming out to fight thus no fun thus a waste of siege.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
and why would anyone come out to fight… save it for when it means something…
It’s fun?
If you like PVP’ing why would you not come out and fight?
He is saying we controlled the entire map. No one was coming out to fight so deploying siege was a waste.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Nobody has been as stacked as JQ is now. That last transfer caused panic in all the number watchers and induced a mass exodus.
There are WvW threatening problems now, one is that with such an overwhelming force people will quit trying to fight it. JQ has the numbers but now nobody can or wants fight. Winning because of lack of competition is more corrosive than losing.
The second problem is, nobody is going to pay $20 to transfer to a weaker server, so the problem keeps compounding, balance is the least of peoples worries they just want to be on the “winning” side.It seems that Anet bought the cart before the horse on this one. We shot ourselves in the foot and Anet handed us the gun. I hope WvWers are smart enough to balance this out on their own, but hoping people to do the right thing is about as useful as teets on a turtle.
Not sure if you know this but the maps per WvW are capped equally between servers. What this means is no one server can have more than the other in WvW
Is it any one server’s fault for having the numbers and population for WvW but not logging in. Most servers have the population to have a constant WvW 24/presence. Why the server you are on isnt constantly in WvW isnt an issue we have an answer for.
SoS is still a power house when running at full steam. Hopefully a few of the commanders that quit last week return, holiday/natural disasters etc in AuS bring back the standard SoS presence, and this week off for training, break etc has SoS threatening for top dog again. It’s not how often you hit the mat but how many times you get back up that counts.
BG you guys have a complete new attitude this time around in t1. Less kitten talking, less quitting, and more respectable fighting.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Oh I forgot when we defeated SoS in early January it was because of New Years and this week it’s because JQ has 24/7 coverage.
SoS was the original HoD 2.0. JQ cant be HoD redux since we survived the O.G. HoD power house.
The best part of all this of course is how we heard for months from SoS leaders on how SoS was superior due to guild organization and tactical skill on the field.
You can’t really say you dethroned SoS by transferring 2000 players to your server when at best SoS outnumbered you 9:8 previously…lol.
That entire premise, HoD redux, was what SoS was attempting to avoid when free transfers were announced.
It is a pity that JQ did not.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Jade Quarry has been in T1 for as long as I can remember, so I’m sure you’ve won plenty of matches. Careful though, the #1 server tends to implode the fastest over time compared to the lower ranking servers. Just like NSP, HoD, SBI, and apparently SoS seeing how kittenty they have been playing this week. It gets lonely at the top especially when the servers in your tier don’t offer much of a challenge.
I think we’ve placed first 3 times in T1.
I’m pretty sure we’ll have plenty of challenges.
We don’t implode because we don’t have a fluctuating Morale. We all enjoy WvW and each other, win or lose.
We’ve been in T1 this long because we love to play.
Thanks for the ‘advice’ but we’ll manage just fine.
Well, for people to abandon your server now they will literally have to pay. So being one of the strongest (if not the strongest) servers at the end of the free transfer cut off is a great luxury to have.
Most, if not all, servers are safe from imploding (or at least far more resilient) now that you can’t just walk away.
I can’t predict the future (especially with the unknown strength of some transferred servers and a full force SoS server – this week is not indicative of their strength in comparison to the new JQ, but I do expect JQ to be considerably stronger than SoS ever was regardless of what SoS does next week) but I can read the current score board and the posts about transfers that went to JQ at the end of the free transfers. I can also see the minimum of 1,000 gems to transfer NA servers (1,800 for a high population one – expect Kaineng to be this soon, there are currently no 500 gem servers). It’s possible we will see big migrations even with paid transfers, but it’s undeniable that JQ’s current position enjoys a privileged stability that no-one else was given prior to the 28th. I think we would still see SBI in tier one (or at least two) had WM been forced to either pay or stay.
Do you think SBI, or any other server which was destroyed by free transfers, loved WvW less than you? Almost all transfers are done for WvW reasons, everyone bandwagons does so to play WvW. Was JQ server loyalty ever tested by being in a low tier for an extended period of time? Loyalty is only tested when things go poorly for you for the foreseeable future, I don’t remember that ever happening to JQ. Nothing like SBI faced after WM left.
Maybe the servers will even out in a couple of months, but I think JQ won the lotto by being the last bandwagon server before the gates closed.
Good points.. I am sure people forget or dont know the entire JQ history so let me address the loyalty / tested statement.
1-JQ had huge queues as many servers did at release. We were the first full server. After HoD shed TA leaving JQ victorious, still with one day transfer limits, JQ swelled even more leaving us at 3-4 hour queues at times. It tested our community with the result losing some of our leaders, guilds, and players.
2-Constantly getting ran down by HoD for weeks, bitter fierce fights vs SBI, and finally the surge from SoS came close to finally pushing JQ to t2 permanent status. When we were were boarder line third place about to fall into t2 we came to a consensus on our community forum that we would fight to the end to remain in t1 rather than take an easy week in t2. It was another test of the community. Some servers milk t2 to regroup, reequip, and get a breather. We agreed if your not fighting for t1 and to be the best week in and week out than you might as well pack your bags for the lower tiers.
3- Drama; Like all online communities drama will happen. We had serious drama over miss understandings with regards to alliances, use of team speak, attempted power grabs by leaders or guilds over the community. We are talking about weeks of arguments internally.
Unique to all other GW 2 servers JQ has lost good guilds and players not because of losing but because of winning. We have weathered the storm against HoD, SBI, and SoS at their prime as well as dethroned each. We have been tested and will be tested again.
One thing to note almost all the servers have players that can fill coverage 24/7 it’s just for whatever reason the player base on said servers do not engage in WvW as consistently as the top tier servers do. I know this will be doubted by outsiders but prior to the new transfers last week we hadnt had queues since late October. How we managed to stay in t1 with what limited NA forces we had and no one server leader or large guild alliance is remarkable. FoO and others helped keep us there as well day in and day out always doing what they could to help the NA fighters.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
SoS is still the server that has set the bar for WvW. It’s healthy for the WvW game that JQ has challenged them beating them twice as well as pushing them with in a few thousand for number one two other weeks. SoS will be back stronger next week make no doubt. JQ and BG have knocked SoS down a peg this week but all of us expect SoS to come back hard on reset.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Defeated players should get automatic ports back to spawn point. It’s redicilious a player can be defeated but reenter the battle so quickly, stay there spying, or wall/door resurrected. What’s the point of winning a fight if the opponent can be brought back up from defeated ?
The changes that have came to WvW mostly have aided the Zerg groups. Port back to spawn on defeated would help balance small/individual vs the many.
Heck I would even support a timer on the defeated state before the straight ride back to spawn as a compromise.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Lot’s of over reacting here. Read it again
We expect several weeks of volatility while the ratings settle down but we believe that it will ultimately yield a more correct result more quickly than letting the current ratings persist.
You have had several servers in particular reaping huge glicko gains, in a sense manipulating the scoring system, over the last month. Clean slate for everyone was needed.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Lets see now. Looking at the first time SoS won in T1, to now; SoS has won 9 of the 10 matches. And now because we are trying to even things up, it’s “bad” for wvw.
Is that an accurate summary Ohai? What did I miss?
When SoS wins it’s all strategy and organization curb stomping everyone the last two months plus. When they lose it’s because of the holidays, lack of 24/7 coverage, getting 2vs1, spies, and ghost tonics
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
No thanks, id rather win via skill than caving in to the JQ tactic of using numbers to hide their weakness in gaming.
BUT SoS had a lot more people than JQ…was that ok? because if you think they were winning because they were obliterating opponents…you are delusional.
Absolutely not brother. I even posted in the JQ recruitment thread when it first went up to encourage a few guilds to go to the server saying i had much respect for them.
That has gone out the window with the recruiting overkill as they dont seem to have the sportsmanship which we do in trying to get tier 1 a level playing field.
hah hehe dude please just stop.
On another note it’s been another intense week of fighting but no where near the end. We know SoS never gives up and Blackgate are fighting for their lives.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Ohai, I just wanted to thank you personally for making JQ a far more attractive home than SoS. Thank you very much.
Ques are here and there but not always there. Usually 5 mins or less and can be 20 to 30+ on prime weekend. Anyone who lived on JQ back the first few months would have killed for 30 min or less queues.
Do not let this thread trick you into thinking JQ need more players.
They now have a stacked server with long queues on every map, and are trying to get to an “invincible” state of the server via outnumbering everyone after being outplayed for so many months.
They do not need more guilds or players, look at the scoreboard.
If you want competition, look to another server.Quit making it sound like Sea of Sorrows doesn’t have the numbers. Now that we’re on the equal footing when it comes to numbers/coverage, I don’t see you guys saying “good fight, JQ” anymore now that you guys are losing.
Anyways, welcome to the new guilds to what we all call home!
Wow this guy is actually so deluded he thinks theres equal numbers lol, we dont have our own server players posting in our recruitment thread about being stuck in queues like this JQ thread.
JQ – full 4 maps
SoS – full 2 maps, outmanned 1 map, half empty 4th map.Do the math my friend.
and…..Just a note, JQ currently has Queues on all maps for much of the day, we have by far the largest and strongest NA contingent in T1, and our EU and Oceanic coverage zones are getting stronger every day.
Point is, JQ is no longer in need of more Bodies in WvW, if your guild is thinking of transferring to a new home in T1, i would recommend Blackgate, Sea of Sorrows, Kaineng or Sanctum of Rall. All of them have solid communities, and a great organizational structure.
The above is from your own server player from EMP guild, you know, your guildie.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
TC is a server full of great guilds and players. From a far it looks like you guys have the WvW population, maybe not complete 24/7 coverage, but enough to be a challenge.
We are very lucky and humble good guilds and players choose our home moving forward. We have a great community, established history, and environment that’s been nurtured since release. Blackgate and Tarnished Coast are two other servers I would recommend as well. Both are different in what they can offer but great places with great players and guilds.
JPoint is, JQ is no longer in need of more Bodies in WvW, if your guild is thinking of transferring to a new home in T1, i would recommend Blackgate, Sea of Sorrows, Kaineng or Sanctum of Rall. All of them have solid communities, and a great organizational structure.
Translated: Now that we’re assured of staying the #1 WvW server into perpetuity and have recruited away more guilds than most of the other servers combined, we’re done. (J/K — I envy your recruitment efforts – you got some great guilds).
BTW, Tarnished Coast. We’re that server sitting at #5 right now desperately trying to add some competition to T2 and fighting our hearts out against the mega-serve du jour. It’s like we’re invisible or something.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
@Ohai – Ruin wvw in what way? I wasn’t aware being #1 for weeks was ruining wvw, which HoD was doing at launch.
You might as well say Maguuma is ruining WvW for Tier 4 since they own every single objective, and the same with Kaineng in Tier 5.
No offense dude, but you whine a lot.
Well, purposely mass recruiting the biggest and best wvw guilds from around the globe to stack a server to guarantee flawless victories each week kinda does ruin the competition of the tier. It forces the competition to also try to mass recruit, which then effects the lower tiers, catch my drift?
ppl need to drop their egos and records and just play the game, you know?
Practice what you preach. You have a high ego yourself. Pot meet kettle.
I also like how everyone’s posts get modded except Ohai’s.
He or she is too busy clicking report posts to reply.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
@Ohai – Ruin wvw in what way? I wasn’t aware being #1 for weeks was ruining wvw, which HoD was doing at launch.
You might as well say Maguuma is ruining WvW for Tier 4 since they own every single objective, and the same with Kaineng in Tier 5.
No offense dude, but you whine a lot.
Well, purposely mass recruiting the biggest and best wvw guilds from around the globe to stack a server to guarantee flawless victories each week kinda does ruin the competition of the tier. It forces the competition to also try to mass recruit, which then effects the lower tiers, catch my drift?
ppl need to drop their egos and records and just play the game, you know?
Here is some tissue …
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Seeing a well known jq guild spamming in overflows for more guilds to join up. -_- stay classy guys, its not necessary. You have the numbers to beat sos now, time will tell if it if and when it happens again. Next week is going to be amazing. Good luck to all involved!
You mean after SoS beating JQ in their downtime they can’t ask for more players to even playingfields? It’s not like VOTF was an addition to your strong playtime.
Be realistic, it’s legit.
Who said they were trying to even the playingfield? Most of jade quarrys new guilds are in already strong time zones. You dont see us recruiting Na or oceanic guilds but you see jade quarry spamming the SEA guild recruitment threads half to death.
Let me make this clear right now.
Every guild, regardless of size, timezone, or server they left, that came to JQ this week has nothing to prove to SoS or to you. They dont have to apologize to SoS for transferring to JQ.
The vast majority of the guilds that moved to JQ this week have have won in WvW before, have held the #1 position on their collective old servers, and have dominated pvp/rvr in past MMORPGS.
The free people of Jade Quarry welcome all our new friends. I know it wasnt easy with the full status, the black outs, the insults and attacks from other servers attacking your decisions, the inner guild drama brought on by change.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Good game SoS/BG this week. We had lots of fun over on the JQ side. This kind of week is what makes t1 so special.
Blackgate mad respect to your pugs and guilds. I know it isnt easy with the numbers Sos and JQ bring out but when all things equal you hang with both of us easily.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Holy kitten do I feel old. Been watching SoS twitch live WvW streams all day and night ( we dont video stream our kitten on the honey badger server ). These kids are half my age. At least I have been laid and can buy beer.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Bitter much ?
If i were a betting man id say JQ will win this game. Taking advantage of SoS’ lack of euro timezone then turtling up behind their walls through NA. Took them 7 guild xfers, but i think theyve got this one if it continues.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Thanks for working to improve the one aspect of your game many of us love
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
TC is a great server. One of the best communities in gw2
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
How are badges useless? They buy PVT gear which is highly sought after.
And siege of course.
I dont think anyone is going to disagree with me that the best WvW armor/weapons is from dungeon rewards from tokens, bought by karma, or crafted/drop.
Far as siege equipment JP is free to complete to get some.
We should take a poll on how many badges people have stacked in their bank
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
They should allow badges to be spent on anything bought with tokens. Badges are practically worthless currently
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
FoE and Tysm brought it last night on SoS bl. Two large groups working well together. Once bay fell it was a relentless and all we could do to barely hang on to briar, eventually falling from multi trebs coming out of a locked down vale. GG FoE/Tysm.
On a more personal note I stumble across your posts Ohai all the time on Guru and here. I just wanted to thank you. Your post are always bitter, hostile, and raged targeted, not just at JQ but I’ve seen you call BG teribad and worse. So thank you for making SoS look like kitten. I appreciate it since it aided greatly in many guild leaders choosing JQ over SoS.
I hear your PPT needs attention during NA primetime. Might want to quit your forum warrior day job and go back to delivering me loot bags.
Considering right after you made this post (around 7.30pm pacific, you know, NA prime) FoE and Tsym wiped your guild and PRX off the SoS map, then drop your servers PPT to 35, i find this hilarious.
Must be nice taking over a 400 ppt from euro, turtling up, then bragging. Shame what happened huh?
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Second place in t1 is the white cream in an Oreo cookie.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
We are just happy to be there in t1 fighting against the best week in and week out. Number one seed in all of NA is great and all, been there, done that four times over five months or so, but it’s the 24/7 endless fight against challenging coverage, organized guilds, and skilled players that fuels our passion.
SoS, BG, the old SBI, and soon to be SoR all are worthy of the #1 seed. SoS has worked hard on keeping it over the last few months.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Good points, I think over all we just like to play to have fun. No idea what was going on in EB but it sounds like we were on our heels and struggling to do anything right. Maybe they are new players enjoying the game as well. Sometimes I bring an alt in to wvw solo if I dont have a group to pull a geared 80 into. Not really all worked up about getting smacked down by a lv 80 geared.
GG last night to SoS/BG. You both brought the hammers out. We were doing all we could to just survive.
Had some fun last night in EBG.
Tsym, you guys are impressive. It seems you are very well coordinated with AoE placement and knowing where people are going to go. Every few minutes in TS I’d hear “Tsym scout”. You guys play very well and made us react fast. I tip my hat off to you guys.
JQ… I know you’ve been in T1 all this time, but there is one thing that makes me scratch my head. Why on earth do a majority of your zergs, at least last night in EBG, feel it’s necessary to level an alt on RESET day. I’d yell at members in my guild if I saw a majority of them on their alts trying to hit 80. I also do not get why you guys sat on the bridge outside your keep (that we owned) without ever attacking a different door. We were basically farming badges.
I’m not hating, but I just don’t get how people at this point in the game can be WvWing and not be 80 and think it’s a good time to level an alt. I was able to down multiple people on my own as a level 80 warrior in full exotics in a tank spec with about 2-3 hammer swings. Just some friendly advice, bring your “A” game.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
First time we have had queues in a long time were last Friday night. Every one was hyper to get some BG action. Since last Friday night they have died back down. I am sure we will have queues this weekend at times but they are never long. During the week at any given time day or night we can have out manned buffs. During NA eves when I play especially I see out manned buffs on the BL’s. It’s remarkable we have stayed in t1 as long as we have. I am sure there is going to be some craziness over the next few weeks but things will settle down.
I honestly don’t see how JQ NA can support that many primetime players. When we were there, we had 3-4 hour queues during primetime. Yes, we left, but that gap was filled by other primetime guilds. Did the smaller/non-guilded players just stop playing in WvW or something?
I have a feeling the NA primetime queues are going to be ridiculous again, someone messed up on their math somewhere. PRX takes up a full BL on their own, and SF takes up half of a BL from what I saw(if they came with allies, then probably the whole BL as well).
Good pickups by JQ regardless if queues aren’t an issue. Wish our old server the best of luck to that #1 spot.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
BG can stay in t1 a long time if they show the determination they showed this week. Especially if SoS and JQ are beating each other up. A solid server with decent 24/7 coverage can survive in t1 for a long time as we have proven.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
That will keep you guys there long term once there. It’s what our success is.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Got ya I see the confusion…not sure I remember Syndicate Alliance on JQ either but I am sure they will be an asset on SoR. GG on filling in your coverage. Just a matter of time or server collapse before SoR is up in t1.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
All servers have positives. The next week or so there will be changes to the landscape but if you have been playing mmorpgs as long as I have you will know how much can change in a matter of three weeks.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Not sure it matters but [SYN] was most recently on SBI following HoD and the collapse of TA. So was NYS etc. Great pick ups for SoR but if they were playing on JQ they were not doing so publicly and no one I know remembers seeing them there. Not sure why it’s being said their alliance left JQ to drop down a tier. Maybe I am wrong but I remember fighting ex TA/HoD [SYN] on SBI not seeing them on JQ ever.
Good pick up for SoR’s week coverage. From the sounds of it we will being seeing you in a few weeks. Hopefully its in t1 not t2.
You guys have missed the point of my post. Bandwagon has a definition. Good reasons or not if you choose to go to a matchup and pick the side with more points, that is bandwagoning.
No I think you are missing the point of my post and at least the post of one other person. Anyway you look at it, calling these guilds bandwagoners is wrong.
SOR is currently ranked 5th overall and 2nd in tier. This is where SOR was both when they decided to transfer here and when they actually transferred here. One guild transferred down over all rank and same rank in tier. One guild transferred down rank in tier and up rank overall.
Bandwagon in this case? Absolutely not. There is no way you can honestly describe either as such. If you want a true example of bandwagon, take a look at what nine dragons did. At the time of their transfer, they went from #2 to #1 in tier and #5 to #4 overall. Not only that, they did it in the middle of the match up. That my friend is the definition of bandwagon.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Great community knocking on the door of t1
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Great thread Rawnoodles thanks for creating it.
In addition to the above guilds of various sizes and time zones there are smaller guilds fielding a group or two roaming along side the maps along side the commanders and larger guilds.
An inside peek to just one slice of Jade Quarry and it’s early history began when Ahmril from Nordvegr [Nord] led the effort to rally a collection of older guilds from WHO (Phoenix Throne, Ostermark & others), DAOC (Guinevere etc), & Shadowbane (Death server etc)
He formed GW 2 Relics back in June of 2012 in an effort to try to collect WHO/DAOC guilds together. Of course we were only a faction of the total player base from those games but many of us knew each other or at the very least were from a similar attitude or guild mind set. Together many of the guilds that gathered on GW2 Relics by vast majority voted to move to Jade Quarry at release to help create the type of community we wanted to be a part of.
From there Aleister Malefic from Opposition [OPSN] along with others created our Jade Quarry Site with Silent Warriors [SWG] donating for free a community team speak open to all. By far our greatest strength as a community is our open VOIP and forum. I believe it led to our early success in WvW providing us with a tool only servers with large alliances had access to. I still remember the pre-release Team Speak meeting we had with over 100+ players from over 30 guilds. The picture and recording are here
So much has happen with friends coming and going with new transfers entering over the months. Guilds leaving, breaking up, reforming, transferring in, drama, defeat, victory you name it, as all servers have experienced, but the heart of Jade Quarry remains beating.
We are not perfect on JQ. We occasionally point fingers at each other. We have drama at times like any collection of mmorpg players would have. We lose sometimes. We have the out manned buff across maps here and there as well as oddly queus at times but, and I am sure our steady flow of 24/7 coverage plays a huge part as well in our success, we scratch and claw week in and out in t1 regardless of the color of our WvW seed.
We tried having large alliances work on several occasions but it’s just not who we are on JQ. We have leaders but they are not self appointed. They simply just lead.
Special thanks to a few of the original guilds that have long moved on to other servers due to ques and wishing to seek new challenges, such as Tempest Wolves (moved to SoR) and Legion (who moved to Emery Bay then BG and now are in DF). We missed both of you and appreciate your role in our early history.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
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Great match this week. SoS, all bull kitten aside, you guys are worthy of the number one seed flexing not only the numbers with coverage but solid leadership and organization.
Blackgate you guys fight none stop into the last day like we do. I personally respect that and know JQ and BG could easily be switching colors this week or even next. You guys entering t1 made it a new challenge.
Anyway looking forward to next week regardless of the out come
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Every single change ArenaNet introduces only caters further and further to the zerg playstyle. They don’t want guilds or smaller groups trying to take on higher numbers, they want massively culled zergs fighting blindly.
Agreed, we were just talking about this on vent over the weekend and finally came to accept it. It is what it is though and we will continue to be out there in our smaller groups roaming, poking, sometimes running, and always getting back up off the floor.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
I wouldnt stress out. ET survived the crash Ruin/TL created. It will survive this server rush phase as well. All the servers have something to offer. After transfers give it a few weeks for things to settle down. For the lower tier servers just be patient, regroup, work with what you got, and dont get caught up in all the hype.
There is going to be a lot of chatter back and forth as leaders from servers reach out to many as possible to transfer asap but it’s all white noise. It becomes a popularity context but really it’s all just hyperbole excitement. As long as you have your few friends, guildies, and mates it doesnt matter what server your on.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
As a small group roamer leader I find it rewarding to see our commanders lead everyone including randoms. Sure we get beaten down sometimes, have the out manned buff, have drama on occasions but we collectively over come it. JQ has become one of those special servers in my long MMORPG history that I will be talking about years from now.
A few mmorpgs down the road I will be talking about “remember that one time back on jq” stories.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
Servers will adapt, new leaders will emerge, guilds will reform. Sorry to hear about IoJ struggling but give it time. All you can really hope for in WvW is a good fight anyway.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
JQ Quote of the day
Let every server know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of Jade Quarry.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”
It will be like the days HOD fell apart and ET splintered. Chances are only a small % of guilds will move but it will be all drama and excitement and egos.
Kurthos “When Jade Quarry awakens, they will ask themselves, when were we ever asleep?”