Guild Wars 2

Currently on FA:

[APS] Silo. Rolls with the punches, keeps a clear head.
[DPS] Fallen. Though he’ll say “be right back” and be gone for the rest of the day.
[BOMB] Tyryon. Willing to be a militia commander for long hours.
[TK] Delune. Much the same reason, but also for his golem rushes.
[PRO] Wombat. Lovable Aussie.
[CL] Cenarius Neguile (sp?). No one else on FA yolo’s like CL. Crazy chilenos.
[ACE] Deibos. Clever, but importantly will listen to reasonable ideas.
[NERF/TLC] Chaba. Get to the Chaba!!

I think simply reducing the length would solve the issues and let ANet get their gem sales boosts from the transferring. 4-5 weeks down from 9 would keep it competitive, as it’d be much closer in terms of points and much less time to invest. Don’t really know why they insist on 9 weeks to be honest. The longer of their living stories last for no more than 4 weeks usually.

For that matter, an elimination tournament might be better than Swiss style, with brackets and all.

WDring.4703:

… with an outnumbered pug group we were wiping FA guild groups all morning.

Yeah, this is straight wrong. First, only DPS was running this morning, with max 15. Second, HoD’s been running with a group of at least 30-40 in FABL and at least 50 in EB for the past 5 hours straight. Meanwhile, we’ve had a total of 35 on both maps. Wave after wave of HoD, led by a KoMe tag each time, has been pushing FABL Gari for the past 3 hours. I must say that I’m impressed that after six consecutive wipes, the HoD keep coming back. It only took seven tries with better numbers to finally take it.

Mercabre.7123:

Basch.1347:

Chuckling to myself at all the posted screen shots of FA ticking 0 or 5. Perhaps I should record today’s prime time coverage and show the wipes we’re inflicting upon you. Sure, HoD has some quality skill groups. A few. But FA guilds are continually steamrolling HoD groups during NA primetime.

Then stop generalizing our server because all the horrible bandwagon whores came over. Real HoD know what we’re doing and all the transfer trash will leave after the season just like last time. They’re here for an hour and besmirch our name.

Yeah, I’m sorry, but without those free transfers, you wouldn’t have stood a chance. You should be thanking those “trash transfers” for coming.

Chuckling to myself at all the posted screen shots of FA ticking 0 or 5. Perhaps I should record today’s prime time coverage and show the wipes we’re inflicting upon you. Sure, HoD has some quality skill groups. A few. But FA guilds are continually steamrolling HoD groups during NA primetime.

The prime time tick is skewed. Blackjack is spot on in his explanations. Their towers and keeps are all T3 and they hide inside them until we paper them. I can’t even count the times that I’ve seen a HoD zerg run despite having much larger numbers than the group I’m running. I’d counsel civility within the thread, but HoD seems content to brag about their OCX time period when they have outrageous coverage on multiple maps. FA had a 5-man queue on EB and HodBL for about an hour yesterday. No other queues existed.

So please, HoD. Continue bragging about your off-hour coverage. We’ll continue farming you for bags when we’re actually online.

Chris.3290:

It’s impressive to see HoD doing well. If they beat FA they’ll come to T2, where bandwagons go to die so we’ll see if they improve enough to hold their own in the post-season.

HoD has much to learn, to be honest, before they can rightly compete in T2. At this point, they have the off-hour presence that gives them the point boost they need. During EU/NA prime time, they may tick around 300 for some of the ticks, but on the whole, they tick at 150-200 and lose the majority of even fights. T2 has the coverage to match HoD and the talent to manage it well, so that HoD will have a rude awakening unless they learn quickly and well during the season. I don’t doubt that it’s possible, but the lack of organization in HoD will lead to many disheartening weeks for them if they don’t manage it.

It seems to me to be a rather strange idea that after one dies, they can still see their surroundings, effectively acting as a scout for as long as they choose (as long as they interact with their equipped items). It does not matter in PvE, as the mobs aren’t competing against the users, but in WvW, it seems as if it is an oversight that allows for dead players to spy on enemy numbers as long as they don’t respawn.

Why not blacken the screen to give them no field of vision? They can still be resurrected by others, and they can still see their own location via the map, but they can’t see enemy numbers/objectives/etc (except for their downed on the map).

I doubt there’ll be a change to this, but I thought I’d put the idea out there for discussion/contemplation.

Tom.8029:

Fa is being double teamed by HoD and YB. How is that automatically grounds for an implosion?

Yeah, this is just kitten. There’s no double-teaming occurring at all. In truth, HoD and FA are focusing each other intensely to the point where YB is generally ignored within the match-up, with the exception of opportunistic grabs in EB and when HoD has queues on the relevant EB, FABL, and HoDBL maps, leading some to spill into YBBL.

Troll thread is a troll thread though. In an attempt to balance the troll, I’ll tip my hat to both HoD and YB for quite the exciting and nail-biting week so far. YB’s efforts on reset night were little short of amazing, considering the level of organization and coordination that they displayed. I’ve also noticed the same HoD commanders leading the HoD groups the past few days and have to tip my hat to them as well for the extra hours. Having done the same extra hours commanding in S1, I feel their pain, though I shirk such hours these days. There are a few of our own commanders doing the same, but on the whole, NA isn’t pushing themselves too hard. Perhaps at the end of the week, as the match-up draws to an end.

However the week turns out, it’s been a solid week full of bags and endless fights (points at Bay in HoDBL for two nights we’ve managed to WP it) that almost have me pulling those same aforementioned extra hours for pure enjoyment. I can only hope that the rest of the season offers such competition and challenge.

Also, in before lock.

Kill Momma.6127:

Two things about us at HOD… First there was a long period of time where there was no tag in our BL from what I heard, so it was people Map Chatting telling where we were getting hit. Secondly, as I logged off I heard over TS “They are on our keep, get to the keep!!” and I thought we were gone, as that is all we had left. Logged in this morning and we caught up to you guys. What happened, did you go to sleep on us?

We held your (HoD) Gari in your own BL for about three hours, wiping several zergs that tried to retake it, both YB and HoD both. Eventually though, NA logged, and we had to pull back to Bay. HoD’s coverage is simply better for OCX and SEA. We dominate all other time zones though.

Seriously, Hordes of Denravi. FA has pretty good coverage OCX/SEA, but HoD has insane coverage. A WPed Bay in HoDBL held out for about 6 hours of endless waves of HoD zergs twice our number though (40+). I was waiting for the time when they’d break, but they just kept coming. Props to TUNE for keeping morale enough to continue pushing us wipe after wipe. Finally lost it though, even after GLOB (with 10) wiped the HoD zergs (plural intended) at least ten times. We’d be running back and forth from N gate outer to S gate outer wiping group after group. Interestingly enough, no BL Gari is WPed in any of the BLs. Only YB’s hills in HoDBL is.

In sum, I think FA and YB can kick HoD’s teeth in time after time during EU/EST/PST, but HoD will gain their points big time in OCX/SEA. Might be a close match-up, but I don’t expect HoD’s numbers to keep up as much after getting wiped so many times. Loving the endless supply of bags though.

Just an idea for ANet to munch on. Why not have the option to pick which color your tag will be? Not at the outset, when you buy it, but merely having the option to choose the color each time you pop it. It’ll allow better coordination and organization among guild groups or within GvGs, and seems like it’d be very easy to code in. Personally, I prefer running 2-3 tags on a map at a time, since zerg blobbing is boring and inefficient, so having multiple colored tags on map would definitely be an improvement.

Andrew Clear.1750:

We have a 14k lead over IoJ, and we just have to maintain that (but some of our leaders, like Juggs, will continue to push to increase it).

To be honest, the reason why SBI is well above IoJ is because we arbitrarily decided to run on IoJBL yesterday, so that IoJ was ticking well below 150 for most of the day. Having said that though, I’m glad IoJ and SBI have been putting up a good fight. Granted, it’s near to impossible to find good, organized 20-25 man fights, since they tend to run with larger militia groups, but it’s still better than nothing. Nevertheless, I hope they keep up the competition so it’s not too dull for us.