Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure they’re mad about transfers at all, so I dunno how they could be calling anything black.

They moved because the servers they usually fight have lost their best guilds…busting a blob can be fun, but it gets boring if it’s all you do. You want to mix it up with more organized opposition every now and then too.

TC hasn’t been recruiting in a while. We can’t even agree on what to put in a recruitment thread. We’ve been considering making one for all of three weeks now, but we can’t decide what to put in it.

I’m not even sure becoming a T1 is still a goal of ours. I don’t think it’s been like that for a while. Most people interested in it have probably bandwagonned off our server. We just want fights. =3

The guilds who have moved to us recently (AGNY, Syn, GF, etc.) have all made the decision on their own, with no funding from us to help them come over even. =S

According to a couple GF people I talked to, they did it so they could hunt down the Mag and other guilds who had wagonned off T3 to the T1s during the Leagues. =P

Hey, did you guys love my attempt to recreate the T1 experience for y’all in SMC earlier? Threeway lag!

Luvpie.8350:

RoT mesmer at briar SoSbl. Seriously? your guild is good enough but you personally so lazy can’t ram a paper door? instead you get rezzed through gate to cap a tower.

I sincerely apologize for that. It’s definitely uncalled for in a match up that’s really just devolved into karma training at this point.

Talked with our leader and the Mesmer involved and we’ll definitely go save that sort of kittenry for when we meet the T1 crews that do it to our server all the time themselves.

EDIT: Oh, and GOTL, sorry about running over that minion master zerg thing you were doing. We realized afterwards it was probably some sort of event you guys were doing, but we were kinda tunnelvisioned on guild training tonight. _ We’ve left the BL now!

Abstraction.3019:

Goodfights in EBG tonight. [ING] was running with around 20 people, give or take. Good to see the massive TC zergs were up and running tonight.

Sorry to the RoT who wanted us to be in DBBL

Yeah, EBG was sadly all militia zergs on our side all during NA Prime. And no worries, the Chuck Norris crew gave us plenty of fights on SoSBL last night. =3

Although I did hop over to EBG by my lonesome to see how things were for a bit and dodged around Jerrifer’s lord room with a few other folks when you guys rushed into the tower, waiting for the inevitable TC blob to roll on by. =P So I at least got my bags from all y’all once.

I’m not against voicecomms, but I definitely see where grave is coming from, and I find the same issue with TC. It’s an awesome offensive tool, but it certainly has some drawbacks for defense.

We’re definitely trying to get more of our people into our voice comms. Part of it is that, it makes it more enjoyable to be on one when you’re eating a T1 beat down and such.

Thing is, I doubt that, not matter how much we push it, the times when more people will be in comms than otherwise will be an exception, not the rule, especially on a server like ours which is so PvE and RP heavy. And Commanders who rely heavily on voice comms and forget to type or have stuff typed for them…well, they end up finding people being the much raged at “rallybot” more often. =S

Yeah, the weekends were much better performances from WAR and GOTL…Our guild leader really likes to dive in without regard for anything around him, haha. At least, it feels like that some times. We didn’t call PINK in…they basically started watching for us to engage and jump in after us…

Not that I blame them, they were backline heavy and that night, we were somewhat tilted towards the frontline in our numbers.

Liked those fights. I don’t even think it’s Berserker gear. It’s all that bloodlust our militia seem obsessed with keeping for some reason.

I just dunno what it was about last night. It started off well when we wiped at Bay, but after that, we had to dive ridiculously deep into the north to get them, and even then, it wasn’t the consistent pressing we got the day before.

Not quite sure what map zerg you mean though. We’ve only been running DBBL the last few days because it was the only map that didn’t go queued during NA Prime. =S

Abstraction.3019:

Caroline.4987:

Abstraction.3019:

Thanks.

[Crit] and [ING] run separately but we were in the same area sometimes. We’re in good relations with [Crit] which probably explains why we work well together when were in the same area. But for the most part, we’re in different areas and usually fight by ourselves.

We had less than than 15 at the end there when we fought you at Hyleks. We started with 25ish in the beginning of the night.

Hope to see you guys out there again.

Are you guys gonna be back in DBBL tomorrow? We miss fighting you like yesterday! Bring EA back over too!

TG and GOTL and…I forgot the third guild…was it WAR? It just wasn’t the same.

It really depends on the situation. Last night, our members, including me were already investing time in our towers/keep in EBG so we went there when the raid started.

What do you mean, “It just wasn’t the same.”?

Well…for some reason, they all disappeared like an hour before we finished our run, and we really got only one open field battle…unlike with you guys, where we kept getting fights the whole run on a single BL. We didn’t have to go to SoS and look for CNB to finish up on. =S

I’m guessing people are having to sleep early for school and midterms and work and stuff more, huh? sigh

Abstraction.3019:

Thanks.

[Crit] and [ING] run separately but we were in the same area sometimes. We’re in good relations with [Crit] which probably explains why we work well together when were in the same area. But for the most part, we’re in different areas and usually fight by ourselves.

We had less than than 15 at the end there when we fought you at Hyleks. We started with 25ish in the beginning of the night.

Hope to see you guys out there again.

Are you guys gonna be back in DBBL tomorrow? We miss fighting you like yesterday! Bring EA back over too!

TG and GOTL and…I forgot the third guild…was it WAR? It just wasn’t the same.

Too many heavies will still always fold to a more balanced composition, if skill levels are equal, really. Warriors like me are still going to melt if we don’t have support and I’m not talking about guardians being with us. Their shout cooldowns are long, and there’s only so many books…

Against overly heavy reliant groups, you just gotta make sure you avoid the initial bullrush or two.

(And of course, the stupid bloodlust buffs being equal too…They kinda make what onl looks OP to actually be OP with the situation.)

Well, there is one…but only on players, which is a thief stacking poison on downeds and stuff with venom. It’s really their biggest contribution to the zerg, heh, preventing the zombie in open field.

It doesn’t work on NPCs though, is why it still allows the suicidal Banner runs.

Lenador.1436:

Caroline.4987:

Hexin.5603:

Actually, when we fight T1 servers, we have literally no queue times, but I guess that’s why we get classed as 1.5. But yes, I imagine the JQ, BG, SoR may have queue times. I recon I saw a bandwagon to JQ write up a post about how he had to wait for 4 hours and still couldn’t get in on a non reset night. Everyone looked and saw his signature was JQ, and said – “oh that’s your problem right there”

So, it has already begun. I’d imagine there will be some more moves over the next week as the time closes in and people race to make some $$ to transfer. So it’s a bad to worse situation for them

He wasn’t a JQ bandwagonner. It was actually his home server from the very start…

I’m not sure how I would feel if I ever saw TC get that stacked. =S

Full of pride

Hard to display pride in having to wait out a 4 hour queue. >_> TC’s my home server and I started out as a PvEr and RPer six months back. I only started playing WvW like three months ago to work on map completion.

Ended up never wanting to leave…and thus, my map completion is still stuck at 69%. >_<

BTW, SoS in TCBL Bay, nice job baiting me kitten ing about in my random omega. =3 Happily, the prices on the dumb things have dropped by 50% in the last few hours, so it’s much easier to continue fueling my obsession with the shiny buckets of bolts.

Hexin.5603:

Actually, when we fight T1 servers, we have literally no queue times, but I guess that’s why we get classed as 1.5. But yes, I imagine the JQ, BG, SoR may have queue times. I recon I saw a bandwagon to JQ write up a post about how he had to wait for 4 hours and still couldn’t get in on a non reset night. Everyone looked and saw his signature was JQ, and said – “oh that’s your problem right there”

So, it has already begun. I’d imagine there will be some more moves over the next week as the time closes in and people race to make some $$ to transfer. So it’s a bad to worse situation for them

He wasn’t a JQ bandwagonner. It was actually his home server from the very start…

I’m not sure how I would feel if I ever saw TC get that stacked. =S

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

Chris.3290:

urak.4863:

grave of hearts.7830:

bandwagoneers.

:O? We got some bandwagoneers?!?!?! Why weren’t we informed?!

Of course you didn’t; you went from tier 4 to tier 1.5 purely due to a fluctuation in the Earth’s gravity that cause bull dung to be more naturally buoyant.

10/10 troll bait successful. I didnt know that it took 10 months for bandwaggons to get that far, especially given that DB pulled it off in a month, and then QUICKLY fell apart. To a lesser degree you could look at kaineng for basically the same thing. No, TC has never been the “bandwaggon”, and we’ve never gotten influxes of guilds in a short time. Just over the last 2 weeks tier 1 servers have gotten more guilds than I can count on a single hand. HELL TC has even LOST some guilds recently.

please be more mad.

Speaking of which, TC does have a new guild to welcome to the server, which is a welcome change after the sad departure of some of our other guilds. I swear we should actually try and get a recruitment message up in the forums before the Season gets here. >_< Anyways, you guys in SOS might be more familiar with our newest transfers from Ehmry Bay though.

Looking forward to seeing more Good Fights [GF] on the Coast. =3

Actually…there’s really not “some others”. That’s just about it. The rest of the crew in SEA right now is militia.

Oh, and [lion], sorry about going overkill on your tower farm in TCBL, but I had to one and done that tower so I could tag down after and get the laundry done. When you’re a micless militiamander…there’s really very few ways to get that done cheap, heh.

#paytowin mode this morning on Briar, and I freely admit it.

Nah, most of our militia don’t really emote like that unless they’ve really been kitten ed off by this thief or that ranger roamer or whatever. If it’s being spammed a lot, it’s definitely from one of our silly WvW guilds.

Don’t approve of it…but as you said…you can’t tell other people how to play.

grave of hearts.7830:

On sidenotes is that pack of EP thieves on eb going only for the uplevels at spawn part of a strategy or its just the low IQ part of the guild?

Wouldn’t teaching people not to bring uplevels into WvW be a valuable educational service? You should thank them!

Now if only we could get people to do that to our uplevels, sigh

Chris: Well, if it is one of our guys, we certainly strongly frown upon TS kittenbaggery…but I have no idea if someone does do it. I mean, our server doesn’t even use TS coz we’re too cheap to buy a TS server.

As for SoRs issues, the rumours I’ve heard over in TC from a few folks who have transferred down is that it’s BG who always does it to SoR’s TS. Whether true or not, I have no idea. That’s just what some SoR transfers told me.

azizul.8469:

giant grub is a good source of fun…

try taking it down using omega golem, and take turns among guildmates… would be fun…

We tried taking it down with 30 omegas once….That was fun!

Whoa…VII…Seventh Legion? From Piken Square? In BG…? Or are those copy tags?

Ugh…why does this happen on the days when I can’t be on for EU prime? ;-;

I wanna run into those blob fights and just corpse watch them.

Saki.2896:

The PPT/score more or less represented the Number/Coverage of one server but not defined
Just dont take that PPT/score so serious, and just enjory the fight and most Important…have a good sleeping
may i ask, do BG has a Hawaii wvw guild?

Well…TC sorta has a Hawaii timezone’d guild with KH…They’re actually NA, but they start their runs at like, 9 PM Server and keep going until like 2 AM Server or some.

I believe the current highest offer T1s have for them is 5k gold + transfer costs, btw, in case you guys are considering buying. (They rejected that, btw).

ykyk.2740:

Vash.9183:

LaMisT.1863:

Where’s all my chest thumping server mates at? even though bg and jq are not fielding much ppl my server mates just disappears.

Not trying to be insulting, but that is one fair-weathered wvw population.

Don’t think anyone on TC takes that as an insult, most servers have fair-weather players and we know it.

I think part of what makes the T1 servers so consistent is that they are matched with each other almost all the time and there are no “easy” match-ups to accumulate fair-weathers. Most other servers don’t have that luxury – a few weeks of mind-numbing steamroll match-ups where you can do whatever you want, followed by a smack in the face against T1 every few weeks while you are still carrying the fair-weathers and just get rolled over. Hardly ideal for building a consistent WvW population =/

Yeah. We got a load of False Coverage during our easy matches, to poach a term from the [KH] crew. On an easy Saturday night, we run three maps queued on NA, with the third nearabouts…. And in a match like this, we almost never queue.

And I imagine the difference is exacerbated by the appearance of what fair weathers the T1s do have. I doubt JQ and BG (or SoR a couple weeks back) normally run with this many up levels. It’s probably why the chest thumpers on our server like to denigrate the performance of T1s when they see them on the field for fights too, coz we see amazing numbers, but, by the sheer nature of the week as an easy week, rarely your best performances…

Jet.4795:

Good fights tonight in TCBL! Was a lot of good fights with ICoa, PLX, and Im going brain dead been along night I apologize for not recognizing the TC guilds. Keep the fights coming!

There wasn’t a full on actual sizable independent guild group from TC running on the map all night, as far as I could remember, so I would be surprised if you did actually recognize any specific guilds. Some havoc guilds, maybe.

Strong presences from CERN and NOPE under Commander^2 Jadon and Co. guiding us, but no actual separate guild runs. That was all militia you fought there, heh.

Vash.9183:

Just wanted to pop in here to give a shout-out to [KH] from Tarnished Coast. You guys have really improved from the last time I saw you in WvW. Keep it up!

Yeah…just awesome to watch those guys. I’m so glad they let me follow them around as long as I don’t rally bot too much and take notes when I feel like staying up late.

Wiping JQ’s Zerg after they just captured Klovan in that tower’s Lord’s room inspite of a righteously indignant claimer and arrow carts? Thing of beauty. So sad I had to log after that.

Awesome fights tonight all around! Look forward to more this week.

just wait for the Oct 4 season thing. Probly make it happen at some point, ha.

Besides, Agg is on JQ now. So they can have round 5 or 6 or whatever…

Fun times in EBG and especially BGBL tonight. Excited for a week with no queues for once!

I do keep forgetting about the stomping though. So used to DPSing down…which is silly since I’m a warrior who’s all melee anyways…and has the Drill, Explosion and Laser finishers, heh.

Whew, wow…mostly awesome fights last night on EB and TCBL! Was running with my own guild, then followed the ever awesome KH after our heavy East Coast line up went to bed before me like they always do, and saw all sorts of SoR and SoS guild groups and uh…multiguild groups. Blobs are just such an impolite term.

I can’t say they were all awesome though. Just…a note to the Choo guild…you guys might feel blue about certain things last night, but you, uh…aren’t Blue. =( I’m kinda sad I only got to watch that at something of a distance coz I was happily stomping the downed folks left behind. =S

Gates are so OP!

Florgknight.1589:

So you guys finally got SMC back after wiping for three hours against our backup commander by using 15 Omegas against 30 left in the borderland. I respect your persistance. Really fun hold we had there, you guys sure wanted that Castle.

23 Omegas, actually.

Insane Pancakez.9182:

Well, I had a kitten good time tonight with my guild [INC] and the CD community.

Btw EP, the other night I posted about you guys always running 30+ of your own members and with a zerg, well ignore that haha. I was just heated at my own guild at the time thinking about all of our inactives, but tonight we did a lot more focus and training.

TC you put up a kitten tough fight on our keep in EBG. I think it took us like 1-2 hours to get it back! I know one time EP came out and stomped us hardcore.

Yeah, dunno what possessed us in Memento Mori to bunker up and prep those EBG keeps so hard. We saw the SEA guilds had taken those keeps when one of our Aussie players in MM had taken over EBG commanding, as the rest of our main group of EU playing people logged on…

Just wanted an OL waypoint, coz. Then, CD fought like hell during EU Prime to penetrate FAs third…things quickly degenerated into wanting to pettily waypoint CD’s keep as well because they kept stalling the OL waypoint. >_> Before we knew it, our guild had basically been running and organizing map takeover and lockdown defense for twelve straight hours. Sheer insanity caused by momentum. Nothing pre planned at all.

Definitely didn’t help me get more WXP ranks coz the fights were so few and far between and I always happened to be guarding the quiet spots. Drove us nearly out of our minds doing all that yak walking. Shouldn’t happen again the rest of the match…you won’t see MM out in force too often for so long a time like it was today from late SEA Prime to mid NA Prime. Almost like an end of summer romp for us.

Hope for a return to normalcy tomorrow in EBG. Keep up the fun fight, y’all!

Kaiser.9873:

The saddest part of all this is we are getting rolled hard, and still gain points. That’s just wrong on any number of fronts.
They truly need to work on their randomization, because week after week of this will lead to the outnumbered servers either A. Losing guilds or B. Losing hope and participation.
Adjust the volatility of the matches at least. PvD cannot be that fun for the bigger server. The middle server has to take points where they can get them, and the smallest server has to deal with; well, this.

Yeah, it’s painful. As a very fresh newbie commander…I try to learn from these “easier” matches…but it’s hard when we basically ping pong between Extreme mode and Easy mode.

It has its moments, but it can be so rare. Breaking down that T2 Mendon’s during EU Prime definitely had me working…and paying in siege…but I doubt I’ll get the chance to lead something like that again any time soon. Plain old PvDooring doesn’t teach you anything at all. >_<

Yeah, there’s no reason to gloat about this. Honestly, what’s happening in EBG right now? The crazy thing is, Arenanet needs us to tick that hard to even have a shot at positive point gain from this match up. Is that really something to celebrate? Doing all that work to siege up to literally break even on our rating?

I appreciate that I finally got the chance to work a bit on my A Pack Dolyak’s Best Friend achievement, but honestly, it’s a bit disturbing that we have to do this to reduce the chances of this matchup happening again for Crystal Desert and Tarnished Coast together.

Was running this game fine yesterday, somewhat. A few more disconnections than normal, but otherwise…

Anyways, this morning, I wake up, and I’ve tried to boot up the game five times. My computer’s crashed every single time before I can even get to the character select screen. I dunno if it’s me, or if it’s the game that I should uninstall and reinstall or something…

urak.4863:

Witnessed in EBG:

walks yak from Speldan to SMC
2 [Ge] come and snipe it!

“Hey we need help walking yaks!”

party of 4 walks yak from Speldan to SMC
5 [Ge] come and snipe it! $&*(&(

“We need help! REALLY NOW!”

group of 8 walks yak from Pangloss to SMC
Same 5 [Ge] comes and tries to snipe, we kill them! Yak makes it into SMC /cheer

“Hmm, yaks from Pangloss seem easier.. Let’s give up Speldan yaks”
“OK.”

Same group of 8 walks yak from Pangloss
“HOLY kitten RUN THE ZERG IS HERE!!”

Yak dies, JQ invader laughs. Gg.

;_;

Eh…I don’t quite understand how the dolyaks get in at a much better rate when we don’t walk them…

But that’s just what they did for an hour after you left. =\

I swear, I’m still gonna walk one of the things in an omega one of these days. Just to find out which goes faster, hee. =P

BTW, whoever’s repairing Wildcreek’s walls like a madman. Pls. keep doing it. I’ve farmed 500 WXP trebbing and counting in like twenty minutes. Whoo!

fragmented.9854:

wow wtf, TC leading in ppt during SEA primetime?

It was only a brief flicker for like one tick, but yeah, that did happen, lol. =P Part of it was FA hitting JQ’s undefended stuff at the same time to drop them a little.

Happens when the server that’s on prime tunnel visions on SMC. =S

Awesome last minute ninja on SMC, EBay! Props to y’all. =3 Fun week again, whoo!

That was amazing, Maguuma! Using SMC as a decoy and all, wow!

Now I know why I barely got touched when I went and threw down that Warbanner on the Lord there, hah. Was basically crawling with all the lag. I knew there had to be a reason. Awesome last few hours. Good luck with the reset!

Merendel.7128:

Caroline.4987:

zastari.1730:

MrSilver.5269:

Someone please explain why the server that will end up losing by 200,000 points talks the most smack, and acts like 13 year old basement dwellers in game?

please explain why tc has spent the past 3 hours flipping our camps, running into about 20 supply traps each time, then bailing out to go skirmish with sos in eb. they had an excellent attempt on wildcreek once where they dropped some rams and ran/died. it was a good show imo.

It’s because ANet figured out how to balance the Eternal Battlegrounds map by zapping one of the two Danelon and Umber Yaks for the past 8 hours, making it thrice as hard for TC to upgrade SMC, Durios or Quentin Lake.

Anet isnt targeting you. It seems like yak events in question are buging out for the blue team on a number of matchups. Theres a couple threads about it in general WVW discussion.

I didn’t say ANet was targetting us. I’m saying it’s made the map more balanced!

I actually dunno how long the bug’s been going on. I just happened to notice about 8 hours ago. I know the last time it was working that I was on for was about 24 hours ago, so TC could have been playing on severely reduced to nonexistent supplies for as long as that. =P

EDIT: It means only the yaks that go to our inner towers/keep exist. The other yaks don’t pop up.

zastari.1730:

MrSilver.5269:

Someone please explain why the server that will end up losing by 200,000 points talks the most smack, and acts like 13 year old basement dwellers in game?

please explain why tc has spent the past 3 hours flipping our camps, running into about 20 supply traps each time, then bailing out to go skirmish with sos in eb. they had an excellent attempt on wildcreek once where they dropped some rams and ran/died. it was a good show imo.

It’s because ANet figured out how to balance the Eternal Battlegrounds map by zapping one of the two Danelon and Umber Yaks for the past 8 hours, making it thrice as hard for TC to upgrade SMC, Durios or Quentin Lake.