Guild Wars 2

In regards to DH players using hacks, I know we have some who do.

But that behavior is not condoned or endorsed by any of our guilds or leaders. Next time you see someone from DH hacking, note their guild tag, and send me a mail in game with the details. Odds are I know their guildleader and or officers. I want them off my server more than you want to never deal with them again.

But be careful about labeling something as a speed hack. With the render issues, bugs, and lag(you getting a lag spike will make players move super fast across your screen sometimes), it makes certainty really hard. I have seen orbs and keeps hacked, with absolute 100% certainty. I have never seen a speed hack that I was 100% sure was a speed hack.

Speaking as one of Darkhaven’s commanders, if I ever see a match-up this lopsided in favor of my server again I will immediately swap to one of the losing servers for the duration of the match-up. I don’t like spawn camping, I don’t like back-capping supply camps and chasing after a few raiders. WvW is utterly boring due to this match-up, and WvW is my main reason for playing this game.

I much prefer to be on the losing side of things. When DH was matched against Yak’s Bend we had a similar situation where YB(TOG and friends) were utterly crushing us. But it was freaking fun to move fast capping camps and looking for the vulnerable tower or keep that we could capture before the inevitable TOG reaction force showed up.

I do have one question for FC and AR. Last friday immediately after the match-up started you guys were both beating DH. You had equal numbers to us, and at least some organization. And then primetime ended and you guys fell apart. I can understand not having a late night force, but your primetime force that beat us on friday never came back. Where did they go? You guys can’t claim that it is just DH numbers beating you. You both had equal numbers to us for a night, they just never came back.

Also, the orb bonuses are ridiculous and need to be removed. The winning side already has momentum, morale and fortified buildings on their side. They do not need a “win-more” mechanic which is what the orbs are currently. Many of my follow Darkhavenites don’t truly recognize that the three orb bonus is what is making FC, and AR players feel so frail and easy to beat in small skirmishes. We are not gods of WvW, and we need to stop thinking like that. We just have the benefit of a ludicrously overpowered buff.

Setis.4390:

Shame that the orb in FC borderlands either was exploited or bugged (intentionally or not, no idea), as right after it was picked up by Darkhaven it completely disappeared from our map, and the next time we saw it it was safely ensconced in Dreaming Bay. We were a little annoyed by that, kept us from making a possible last minute save.

I was the commander of the Darkhaven force that took that orb. Your defenders downed or killed our original orb carrier. When someone else picked up the orb up it disappeared from our map as well as yours. I had to stand at the orb carrier and repeatedly tell my own people that we still had the orb, and to stack on me for the escort run to DB.

A bug certainly, but not one we knew about or intentionally exploited.

DH player here, member of ZZZZ.

Couple things worth pointing out. First, there are hackers on Darkhaven. Four times now I have seen enemy keeps fall before we breached their inner gates/walls. In two of those cases we were already going to take the keeps(IE I was at an inner gate with rams and people and few defenders around). I was close enough to see three green dots capping each keep lord before we could get in. I tried to get in fast enough to spot names or guilds, but they were gone before I could get close. No one has taken credit for hacking the keeps, and no seems to know who it is.

I want to know so I can report them to high heaven and get them off my server. I don’t care about losing, but cheating? I care about that. So to any DH players out there, help me find the scum giving our server a bad name. Two keeps fell to the hackers last night, my guild ZZZZ was in zone with several groups when it happened, and we just decided to leave to another borderlands, rather than defend hacked keeps and perhaps become associated with those cheaters. Not fun.

Second, all the cheating and hacking is annoying, but let us not delude ourselves. The standings and score would still be largely similar regardless of cheating. SoR has pulled out all the stops and is outmanning and out organizing DH at almost all hours. Last night during primetime hours 6-11pm PST, there was zero queue time for any DH wvw map. In many of the borderlands we had the outnumbered buff for almost the entire night. DH wvw has collapsed since our strong showing sunday. To a large extent because our primary commander known to some as “The Half Naked Norn” recieved an IP ban due to language. Rumors fly about SoR and SF reporting him and getting him banned, but I have no idea about the validity of that. But the fact remains that our most active and successful leader is out of the fight for now. To make it worse he is a driving force in DH’s biggest and only real wvw alliance, and that alliance now seems fairly intent on just sitting out the rest of the match-up(with a few exceptions, looking at you commanders W and Y).

And it isn’t just that, we had three DH guilds recently abandoned the server because our daytime wvw presence was lacking. Pah quitters.

Oh well, at least it all makes for good drama.