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Well that just makes everything all better now don’kitten Shucks I’m sorry fellas. I didn’t realize ya’ll was on the short bus.

WvW is the short bus of PvP.

People keep saying this, but somehow I think that a game mode with 0 build diversity whose entire goal is to sit on a point longer than someone else and has a mediocre following can’t really claim supremacy. Then there’s that whole eSport thing that imploded spectacularly and still has ANet feebly trying to promote it. ANet has finally decided to throw sPvP a bone by creating more match types. I guess over a year late is better than never?

WvW GvGs were pulling in 1k-2k viewers fairly consistently for the top guilds and 200-1k for the smaller guilds. That’s not a small number of viewers by any means, and they were happening almost every day of every week. I do agree that the vast majority of it is unskilled pugs who probably wouldn’t know what the terms synergy or optimization mean. However, I think people are remiss to ignore that entire side of the game because they drink the ANet kool-aid a little too heavily.

Anyways, back on topic: full cleric’s is bad in PvE and also very bad in WvW. In terms of PvE, you should be running full Berserker and learning how to dodge. As for WvW, you have zero vitality, low power, zero crit chance, and zero crit damage. You could easily drop down to 500 – 800 Healing Power and sit safely at 3.1k Armor, 1.9k-2k power, 20-30% crit chance, 60% crit damage, and 20k or so health. Healing power is a very good stat, but people tend to over-invest at the detriment of other stats.

Edit: I’d also like to know which server this Melody person is on. Judging by the use of the term Havoc, I’d guess one of the T1 blobfests.

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Really need a Mace/Shield build.....

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Well, you’re asking for two separate things. If you want to use a mace/shield combo, you’re going to have to use a tanky build. If you want to use a greatsword, you might as well go full glass cannon if that’s all you’re going to be doing.

This is the build that I’m currently using. It utilizes the healing capabilities and boon duration that the Guardian comes with. http://www.gw2db.com/skill-builds/2287-dungeon-tank-healing-support-shouter

For WvW however, you will need to use another build. I suggest a berserker type build. Something like this. http://www.gw2db.com/skill-builds/263-shadow-knight-zanede

Though that build lacks the capabilities to heal yourself efficiently, it makes up for it by utilizing boons and really shows how good the Guardian’s Dps can actually be.

Hope this helps

Im kinda liking this build you got set out here, what gear are you using (mace/shield, armor ?) .Primarily what i need this build for is dungeon running and some wvw but all of you are telling me there isnt a build that is balanced for both. What i want this build to have is primarily a shield. B

X/Shield can be as viable as X/Focus in terms of PvE DPS, so that problem can be easily resolved. However, I wouldn’t particularly recommend shield in WvW outside of roaming. Even then, I would argue that the 3x block+burst from focus 5 and blind/cleanse on the 5 would be much better. Even in zerg play, Mace+Shield/Staff is a very specialized build that requires a lot of fiddling to get right in terms of gear loadout and trait distribution. It’s good, but I’m more partial to something along the lines of the following:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-7;4NFk40J3NGF90;9;54TT4;435A18A;16wl0U;1CqNYCqNY20kW0-k7;3jVp0t1yY3_950uVIF310;9;9;9;9;9;9;04-6X

That’s the bones of what I run, minus the optimization. You can easily eek out 200+ more Healing Power and still maintain almost the exact same Vitality, Toughness, Power, and Precision. You’ll also notice that I don’t have much more than 20% crit chance. In a zerg or group setting, you should have access to perma-fury, so a combined 50% chance is usually enough in a defensive frontline role. Even for DPS, I wouldn’t recommend venturing north of 35%-40%, because you’re often sacrificing lots of stats to hit those numbers.

Something I’ve noticed a lot on this forum is the underutilization of Celestial accessories. They’re extremely powerful in defensive builds to set a high baseline on which you can easily build your stats. What I mean is that they can provide phenomenal offensive stats (crit damage, crit chance, power) with very little, if no, loss to defensive stats (toughness, vitality, healing power). Healing power is also often ignored by people, even though a core functionality of our class, while specced defensively, revolves around passive and active healing.

Keep in mind that this is all for group WvW play. I wouldn’t use this kind of build for solo roaming because of the lack of gap closers and reliance on perma-fury. That said, I don’t enjoy Guardian roaming and tend to use my Mesmer for that side of the game.

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Really need a Mace/Shield build.....

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You’re going to need two different gear sets no matter how you slice it. One for PvE (preferrably full berserker w/ Scholar runes, or you can go with training wheels Soldier/Zerk mix) and one for WvW. The two game types are fundamentally different, and so are their metas. Also, you’ll spec differently for roaming play than you would for zergplay, so there’s even a split in that regard.

What, specifically, do you intend to do?

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Havoc Squad and Militia are both awful euphemisms. People need to stop using them. Better alternatives would be “Booty Poppers” and “Headless Pugtrain.”

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kitten son, 4 posts in a row. You must be mad.

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I love the fact that mag would rather lose gold league so they can get better fights then potentially winning silver

Hi, welcome to Maguuma. We’ve been this way for many, many, many months.

Got out mah rosary, prayin 2 da bb jesus that we stay rank 6.

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6. Maguuma 1 778.063 70.755 8 2

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

Oop, razgerb already posted it. Awko taco to the max.

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Oh god I love this thread

+1 lol
On a side note, mag playing for PPT? oh god is that flying pig I am seeing outside my window?

pls dnt judge, we r still same maguuma at heart, i promise.

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Oop, Ark got called non-factors. Time to disband and move back to FC :*(

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Oops, took that garri you sieged so well ! ! !

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Nice try on garrison Zerguuma, I hope you noticed we took hills, so you lose. Keep spamming emotes at me, I will destroy you with my superior siege.
My siege will always be better than your zerg.

LOL – Okay, Zergury Bay <3 – Your siege requires so much skill. I don’t know how we will ever defeat the great and powerful Razgerb.

I am laughing sooo hard right now.

Do you know how ignorant you sound right now? Do you even what WvW is? I can defend the keep if I want to, while you guys just sit here and troll, you know who wins? OUR SERVER DOES, Next time think of something better to say, and once again, my superior arrow carts will always be better than your garbage Karma train, keep calling me bad, Ehmry won. Troll better please.
All you guys are on my block list, keep trying for garrison, I got more arrow carts than you imagine. For Ehmry Bay.

Never seen someone take so much pride in being skill-less and spamming siege to defend a single keep. If you wanna get into this kind of argument, the PPT says that Mag is out-peforming EBay. Except PPT is kind of a useless metric for server skill, so whatever.

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Nice try on garrison Zerguuma, I hope you noticed we took hills, so you lose. Keep spamming emotes at me, I will destroy you with my superior siege.
My siege will always be better than your zerg.

I don’t think he realizes that everyone is laughing right now.

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I haven’t been paying very close attention to things, does having three leagues instead of two mean Maguuma is going to be near the top instead of the bottom?

If we stayed where we are, we would be 2nd of the middle league. A lot of us think we’re too big for that, so we’re pushing to get ranked 6th so we can be bottom of the top league.

Rather be outmanned than to outman.

We’d also end up with absolutely awful matches for 7 full weeks if we were stuck in Silver League. I’d probably either find another game or xfer servers if that ends up happening.

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I’m mad that anet is forcing Mag to care about ppt. Hopefully we don’t have to do this for long, cuz it’s real dirty n gooey.

I stayed up until 2 AM Mountain running supply and upgrading keeps on Mag BL. It felt dirty :*(

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i predicted this implosion months ago go me

Everyone did. Bandwagon servers always implode spectacularly. One of the big reasons why Mag doesn’t want to be bandwagoned.

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Why, why? Why. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Why.

Edit:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-vs-world-season-1-begins-october-18/

“In the case of North America, the top six worlds will comprise the gold league and will battle each other in a clash of titans over a seven week period.”

So, as of October 18th, Maguuma is doomed to have garbage matchups for an entire seven weeks. I’m so excited and definitely looking forwards to seasons, wow. WvW is in a phenomenal place right now and I am definitely not contemplating xferring servers/going to another MMO. Not one bit.

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Looking for Guardian WvW commander advice

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As a Guardian commander, you’re using your tag to guide MELEE around. The backliners’ job is essentially to maintain pressure on the enemy, stomp enemy backliners, apply long-range support, and survive. No where in that does it say that they should be on the commander’s tag pushing into the enemy’s lines. That’s bad practise and will get them killed. So, yes, you’ll be at the front of pushes the vast majority of the time.

As for build, I would go with a 0/5/30/30/5 AH-based build with GS/Staff. Typically, you would want to run the healing book, but, since you’re the commander, Renewed Focus may be the better option. It depends heavily on who you’re fighting. I’d also look into Celestial trinkets. I hit 3.1k Armor, 3k attack (~1.8-1.9k power), 25% crit chance, 65% crit damage, 880 Healing Power (with staff; 600 someodd with GS), and 20k Health with my 0/5/30/30/5 build. Runes of the Soldier, Sigils of Energy. Shelter, SYG, Hold The Line, and misc (I use SY, you might want Sig of Judgment) are your skills. Hold the Line is great for both easy Protection application for damage reduction on pushes and as a cleanse.

One of the biggest mistakes I see in Guardian WvW builds is ignoring Healing Power. Healing Power causes your dodge roll heals to tick for 800-1k HP, AH to give you around 60% of your health bar with a single Empower channel, Shelter to heal for over 5k, Regen to tick even harder, etc… Why you would ignore all this potential is beyond me. Another mistake I see is over-investing into Precision. In a zerg setting, you should have 100% uptime on Fury. If not, your Warriors and Elementalists need to step up their game big time. So, in a more defensive build, and even in most offensive builds, you really only need to hit 25-35% crit chance to really be effective. This is also why I think more than a couple pieces of Knight’s gear is an absolute waste. When I make a build for WvW, I always try and hit around the same ballpark for stats. 3k armor is a must, as is at least 18k-19k HP, 3k attack w/ GS and buffs, 25% crit chance, 800-900 Healing Power with Staff, and then I dump the rest into maximizing my crit damage. Since an AH build is 30 into Valor, you’re getting a free 30% crit damage from the build alone, so there’s a lot of room to min/max. Lastly, don’t forget about group-buff traits. Assume that Strength in Numbers at the least, and hopefully Empower Allies, too, will have 100% uptime on you. That’s another free 150 stat points that you can invest elsewhere.

Just as a bit of validation about my experience; I’m one of the core Guardians in a guild called Ark on Maguuma. We are currently the only guild in NA to take any meaningful number of matches off of GF in a GvG (the site has 2 wins for us officially registered, but we actually took a full 4 off; two were nulled because both sides had DCs, even though the same number of DCs happened for each side), and GF is most likely the second best guild in NA at the moment in the GvG scene. Possibly the best if they ever had a chance to fight against EP before the introduction of Bloodlust and EP’s xfer to T1. I also can count the number of times I die each week whilst raiding on a single hand, and Ark raids nightly. Anyways, I’m not trying to sound arrogant, I just want to say that I have a LOT of experience as a Guardian in an organized WvW setting, so I know what I’m talking about.

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Well played Anet

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If you’re spending any RL money on this game good luck to you, horrible loss of cash

Mom said I could use her credit card because I’m her special little man.

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US Leagues - 4 instead of 2! Please!

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After thinking about it for a while, I’m wholly NOT in favour of a 4-league system. Maguuma’s matchup would be absolute garbage. SoS, Maguuma, EBay, SBI, CD, and BP. CD, BP, and EBay have literally one (maybe two) decent guilds across all three servers. We’ve faced EBay for 3 weeks in a row now and I have never been more bored in WvW in my entire life. SoS has all of 3 people playing during NA times, and would win the entire league by virtue of a 695 PPT for ~8h while everyone is asleep. SBI, no idea; it’s been too long since we’ve faced them. If they have even one guild who plays during Oceanic/SEA, they’ll win against Maguuma handily, because coverage is king. All-in-all, sounds like a terrible set of weeks, enough to potentially make half of Maguuma quit.

I’d rather get my face smashed in by T1/T2 coverage but still have open-field fights that don’t require us to break down a tower or keep first.

Only one? couple days ago on EBG we ran omegas from one tower to another watching ehmry sit inside, waypoint when the wall dropped, and regroup in the next tower. Wasn’t really a surprise when they then lost the gvg yesterday

Well, apparently almost half of GF’s members have stopped logging in to WvW as of last patch, so I guess it’s only at 1 now? DR from BP was fairly enthusiastic about open-field, if nothing else, so I give them a lot of credit for that, too. Most guilds would rather sit in towers/keeps behind “siege superiority” than actually fight.

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Kaineng would have won the match otherwise.

KN is 100% quality v good server. Lots of talent, no hiding in towers/keeps behind siege. V good roaming pop, too. Yesyesyes.

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Why is it that every match is a blowout?

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Yep, 2 nights ago there was one person in the Eternal Battlegrounds channel for our server mumble, and zero in the BLs.

“We had to destroy WvW in order to save it.”

- last dev out before the fall of Anet.

If it makes you feel any better, if you roll anything below your tier you’ll get entire map queues of fairweathers. Also, TC is busy doing Tequatl, so that hasn’t helped things, either.

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Oh my god yes.

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Who would you like to face next week?

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PLEASE NOT EBAY. I’ll cry if we have them for the 4th week in a row.

Some mixture of T1/T2 servers would be best.

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wvw loot bags

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Most important thing to players is there LOOT.

You sure you’re not talking about PvE?

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After thinking about it for a while, I’m wholly NOT in favour of a 4-league system. Maguuma’s matchup would be absolute garbage. SoS, Maguuma, EBay, SBI, CD, and BP. CD, BP, and EBay have literally one (maybe two) decent guilds across all three servers. We’ve faced EBay for 3 weeks in a row now and I have never been more bored in WvW in my entire life. SoS has all of 3 people playing during NA times, and would win the entire league by virtue of a 695 PPT for ~8h while everyone is asleep. SBI, no idea; it’s been too long since we’ve faced them. If they have even one guild who plays during Oceanic/SEA, they’ll win against Maguuma handily, because coverage is king. All-in-all, sounds like a terrible set of weeks, enough to potentially make half of Maguuma quit.

I’d rather get my face smashed in by T1/T2 coverage but still have open-field fights that don’t require us to break down a tower or keep first.

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I notice that the “we don’t PPT” features a lot when Mags loses a fight or match, but you don’t see it much when they win a fight.

The only folks that I’ve seen that hold true to that motto all the time are Ark.

I promise you that the only PPT play Mag sees is its Karma Train. However, our main Karma Train commander hasn’t been on all week, so we haven’t even had that. Apparently the fellow is obsessed with FFXIV, although I have no idea why.

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I don’t think you should be proud of beating Yak’s Bend. It’s like saying that you beat a paraplegic at a footrace. Not impressive at all against a server who loses 50% of its population once Monday rolls around.

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Nice screenshot, shows all the uber elite guilds in there.

I remember a few months back we had a long discussion in matchup threads on ACs in open field fights. How things have changed on Maguuma !

Now you’re trying too hard to troll.

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Self praise is no praise.

Fact is no major WvW guilds have transferred to Magumma in months. People are being kind when they say we did considered Magumma BUT NO GO.

I mean, admittedly, they were here for less than a month, but we did have Agg transfer over.

Before that, BURN/GOAT I think were the most recent. Worm and aZn are relatively new, too, I think.

But we don’t really recruit. A few other guilds have talked to me about transferring over, but generally we want them to transfer to servers around us so we can fight them, not superstack.

I do seem to recall a solid ‘Dont come to Maguuma’ thread when free xfers were ending. Im pretty sure that thread landed you a fair amount of xfers anyways but I dig your style.

Mag didn’t want to get bandwagoned up like a lot of other servers. I think that post worked spectacularly.

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Self praise is no praise.

Fact is no major WvW guilds have transferred to Magumma in months. People are being kind when they say we did considered Magumma BUT NO GO.

As opposed to KN, who got bandwagoned up and then collapsed spectacularly. How many transfers do you have now?

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Can this matchup please end? We haven’t run our karma train once this week. Bored out of my mindddddddd.

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Have we tried recruiting these guys yet? They look promising.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/Oceanics-looking-for-a-stable-server

“If you want a challenge and a never ending fight, come take a look at SOR. Whisper me in game or here and we can set up a meeting in TS.”

“The Singaporeans themselves have a dedicated team at our timeslot (evenings), led by three HoD commanders who have transferred back after studying with some of the best guilds in tier2. "

“An example of a recent testimonial of Stormbluff Isle reads :”

I knew what Duck did, but oh my god this thread is gold.

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Wait… y’all are in hs??? I am so old…

Evalana confirmed for grandmother of maguuma

Not THAT old. Holy kitten. Lol

im 12, what is this?

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Sol is right, FA and DB have moved on from t3 with superior skill and organization. Maguuma is just sitting in mumble playing dating simulators all day on their welfare checks.

I thought the guild formerly know as Mag All Stars but now go by Mag Zerg Stars were the only ones doing this…..

Apparently Ark is a small-man roaming guild now.

Wow that 1st week of Ebay vs Mag was detrimental to Mag….not only did GF sweep GvG, but they chased off Agg and broke up Ark

Wow.

It happens.

Ark ded guild on ded server. RIP in peace; it was nice while it lasted. We should have never left Ferguson’s Crossing.

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I didn’t really read through most of the posts, but what I can tell you is that you’re most likely playing your ele wrong. Ele, while very powerful at support, is also extremely important for applying constant pressure and bombing down clumps. If you over-invest into defense, you’re missing the point by a mile. The same goes for Guardians and Warriors. You don’t need to be 100% Soldier’s gear to survive and be effective. That said, you should strive for a minimum of 3k armor and around 20k HP, but you can hit those stats and still have over 60% crit damage, 30% crit chance (all that’s necessary due to perma fury uptime in zergs), 2900-3100 attack, etc…

Also, full Cleric’s is never, ever the solution.

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You cannot compare Mag to T1 servers. It has stagnated at T3 . Population, forum activity, recruitment efforts should be compared to other T3 servers as benchmark.

Kaineng posters active on Anet forums have always their own viewpoints and are not afraid to post their thoughts if different from mine. They are individuals that can think. Compare this to some forum zergball that charge in blindly to win at all costs.

So because many of us on Mag think T1 is lame, PPT sucks, and give no kittens about how our current rank will exclude us from the upcoming reindeer games that will ultimately decide which of the Tier 1 servers get to guide Anet’s sleigh as it brings us a new siege mastery in the middle of night, we’re not individuals that can think?

Are you telling me that you’d rather tank from 4th to 15th, than to stick at 8th?

For those who don’t know or don’t remember Sol, I really recommend not actually trying to have a rational argument with him. You will go insane trying to win against full kitten.

He’s a real Simple Jack.

T1, pls teech us. Teech us the majesty of being a Carverite, hiding behind siege, and playing for dat sweet, sweet ppt.

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I would go along the lines of : " It’s not as good as the other server choices at the moment " Look at the leaderboards and analyse the upcoming league system.

I disabled cookies tracking ; they are bad.

Idk, I think Mag is a good choice. We’ve performed extremely consistently in WvW over the past 6 months and our community is very solid. The only thing we lack is SEA/Oceanic.

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Check back the last six months of matchup posts Mag is in. Notice the competitive fight over who starts matchup thread first and efforts to derail other forum threads.

Notice the girl " allowed " to start matchup threads this week.

r u high

Also, where is Chips? Did he xfer? Or am I high as a kite, too, and he was on TC or something?

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I’m starting to accept that Kaineng is the common denominator in slow matchup threads.

It’s because there’s nobody left on Kaineng. Pls come to Maguuma

Why would anyone wanna go Maguuma at this time ? It’s not as famous as FA for GvG skilled groups and is languishing at 8th spot for months. You get more action in WvW and socializing on BG, TC which has extraordinary coordination among guilds (e.g. Teq kills) . Maguuma is at a terrible spot for the upcoming league system. It will probably be in the gold/premier league as the weakest link : meaning get prepared to be schooled hard by the Tier 1 and 2 servers.

Kaineng has fallen ranks due to transfers out but new commanders has stepped up to lead the casual players , more often in karma trains ( very profitable easy stuff choo choo ). There are also some veterans and small guild groups that enjoy doing heavy lifting work and craving out reputations for their guilds. There is no pressure to perform and we get hard, we get easy matches which will continue in the silver league as we are not the lowest server.

Such is the life of a bandwagon server! Also, your FA comment is incredibly wrong. Don’t know what kind of crap you were smoking. TC is also known as “zombie coast.” This is because all TC does is throw bodies at doors over and over again.

What fantasy world are you living in?

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I mean maybe you were mistaken for emote-heavy Kyra but I have no idea what your mesmer looks like (you have a mesmer?)

Right? She was actually my second char I made (319 days old right now), but I haven’t played her since January or so. Picked her back up over the weekend because roaming on Mesmer is pretty stupid.

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sounds more like kyra if you ask me

Naw, razi and I were roaming this morning. Spent most of it getting zerged to kitten.

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Could be the case, tbh. I think it’s fantastic that EBay’s karma train has peeled off of PvDing Quentin to come wipe myself and another Ark roamer… when we were killing people in front of SM near Durios. GG.

If you were the Asuaran mesmer sorry about that. I was after that bad human mesmer from Ark next you. I kept killing her 1v1 a few days ago and when she finally managed to kill me with the help of 5 others Mags she danced on my body. Wanted to return the favour

No, I’d be the human mesmer, and I don’t remember 1v1ing anyone from GH. I don’t dance on people’s bodies or jump on them unless that person had spent all day hiding in a zerg/zerging me down. idk, help me remember, who are you?

Edit: Also, I’ll come 1v1 you in a heartbeat. Keep in mind I’ve been playing my Mesmer for all of 3 days now, soooooooo.

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Wow so glad EBay is in this matchup. I rly like getting zerged down 10+ vs 2 while roaming.

Prob mistook you for a door :P

Could be the case, tbh. I think it’s fantastic that EBay’s karma train has peeled off of PvDing Quentin to come wipe myself and another Ark roamer… when we were killing people in front of SM near Durios. GG.

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Wow so glad EBay is in this matchup. I rly like getting zerged down 10+ vs 2 while roaming.

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Sorry for the all the garbage that went on Hawk. Hope it doesn’t discourage you from doing it again sometime in a more secluded setting.

I assume Maguuma tried to hold all three bloodlusts and then Mag bystanders interfered in the GVG as per usual? Was’t there but could it really be any other way….

The vast majority of the Mag wvw community has massive respect for GvGs, so I don’t quite understand your comment? We have 5 competitive and active GvGing guilds. That’s more than most servers in NA.

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ty for EBay garrison farm. Booty booty pop pop.

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I was up til 12:30ish roaming with Saiyr, & a couple of fellow zerg dogs. Had fun! Back to srs bzns raiding tonight though! Happy I found some roaming buddies since my las buddy abandoned me for JQ. Sadface.

u cna roam wit me, gril

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Same thing is happening here some nights. To us a 15+ man group is a zerg. There doesn’t seem to be many people interested in running 15 man hammer trains on EBay from what I can see. My suggestion would be to move to T1 where you will find a lot of guilds that run that meta but with the upcoming league system you are kind of kittened no matter what you do.

You cannot be serious with the T1 comment.

Edit: there’s also a LOT of misunderstanding around what a hammertrain actually is. The presence of hammer wars doesn’t mean you’re running a hammertrain. Agg runs a hammertrain because they are very frontline heavy.

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We purposely avoid pugs/randoms, and you don’t even remember what BL it was? Come on, you can do better PvF than that.

There are zerglings in every BL, you can’t expect me to keep tabs on who zergs where at all times.

I only brought it up because you said EB never goes open field unless they have a map queue behind him, something I found funny because I have only ever seen Ark zerg themselves. Interestingly enough I actually saw an Ark roaming duo shortly after my first post. I chuckled when I realised they were both running perplexity engi cheese.

Did you not see our guild screenshot, it would take 3x the size of our guild to queue a map rofl

Roflmao XDXDXD hahaha.

Protip: One thing does not exclude the other.

The fault is on me though, I know I shouldn’t stick my quotes in crazy.

Except one DOES exclude the other, and unless you have screens of us zerging with pubs to double our size you’re crazy.

Should have heard your GH friends from ebay streaming last night, they thought we had 40 people in kaineng bl when we had that group of 16 hahaha. You guys need to work on your counting skills before you bring them to PvF

There was no GH raid last night. The only raid which was happening is a karma train group which is all PuGs. If you heard that, it wasn’t GH. Also, if you had to resort to stream-sniping to figure out where a large karma train is, then I suggest you learn to watch maps better. Such actions are only showing your own flaws (especially since a majority of the streamers from Ehmry run with a delay.

We actually didn’t find out about the stream until we finished raiding for the night. Watched the archived stream out of curiosity and to see what you guys were doing. I get that it was probably a karma train, Mag has one, too. You’ll see it flipping entire maps during EU time this week. Not the point.

Also, we lose matches against T2 servers because of coverage. Mag has exactly 0 SEA/Oceanic/EU guilds. We have one oceanic commander who doesn’t play on weekends and usually gets only 15-30 people. Our NA is more than enough to deal with T2 servers. Although, pretty sure there isn’t a single soul on Mag who actually cares about PPT, because a good open-field fight is worth far more than an extra keep flip just in time for the point tick.

Anyways, I encourage any guild to fight us open-field with something smaller than a queue blob or a voltron blob, because that’s where the fun is. I promise you that Ark won’t quit after getting wiped a couple times.

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When did Maguuma become a server that whines about things that everyone has to deal with no matter what server they are on?

idk, personally I’m annoyed that we’ve been forced into crappy matchups for 3 weeks in a row. Also annoyed that, every single night, we have to resort to sieging something to force EBay out to play. I’m honestly just bored out of my mind and a bit bitter, I guess.

Also, I’ve yet to find a good roamer outside of GF.

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