Guild Wars 2

I banish people every day (most fun thing to do with a hammer) on towers and cliffs. If there is no edge on the wall they fall off just fine…

If you’re defending, don’t stand on the edge of the wall for too long or you will risk getting pulled off by a mesmer. Or you can use stability, which also cancels the knockback btw… Maybe that’s why they didn’t fall off.

D W.5179:

This is what happens when you spread information around using random blogs and interviews, and pretty much any forum except the one legit one: the official GW2 forums. Seems the GW2 forums are the worst place to get GW2 news LOL

I agree. It happens so often that I cant find the info here, but have to google to visit random blogs and sh…tuff to find it. And then I still don’t know how reliable they are

So it’s fair to expect it tomorrow? If not, no biggie.

Aeneasx.1589:

Have they released any information on the leaderboards we are supposed to be getting this week?

Are they going to be viewable in-game, or is it going to be a webpage?

Dragon.4165:

Post your source that they are coming this week?

They said in some interview on a livestream that they would probably not release it with the previous patch, because they are doing some final testing. But they will release it as soon as testing is finished and they are sure it works correctly. So it could be today, tomorrow, next week, dunno but pretty soon atleast.

Eolehyene.9084:

Centrix.4065:

Unfortunately I can’t finish the raid with my guild today, I have to stop early. But our new commander was doing a pretty fine job today and I wish him gl the rest of the evening

You had a little technical help this evening, AR’s TS was down. Still good job guys

Explains the lack of AR players in their home border today. But Riverside gave us enough to do.

Zajo.5946:

RS I don’t care if you blob or zerg or what ever. I really don’t. But know this, using 7-8 golems to take keeps are not good tactic or great knowledge. It shows lack of skill.

It’s one thing to use as last resort, it’s another to abuse as first.

Anet, there needs to be a golem cap, or a golem nerf. There is no reason why a fully upgraded keep should be allowed to be rushed in less then 1 minute.

Lower skilled servers will abuse this fact to cap keeps/towers.

Hey I remember you. We were at hills together (was on my newbie Mesmer)

That Golem rush was ridiculous indeed. I agree that it shouldn’t be possible for a fully upgraded keep with lots of defensive siege to be capped in 50 sec. Although, our server has also done this, so it’s not entirely fair to blame it on RS.

Unfortunately I can’t finish the raid with my guild today, I have to stop early. But our new commander was doing a pretty fine job today and I wish him gl the rest of the evening

Don’t know yet which map Nug will be going to today, probably the one with the least amount of blue :P (piken color)

- edit

We’re on AR border

Victory.2879:

Quote: creating maps is our most labor intensive process

And yet endless Jump Puzzle 2 instalments are made for each event, even the newest one is just a jump puzzle thinly disguised as a platform game for 4 year olds- as can be attested by my neighbour’s 4 year old playing it after I showed it to them.

If you can design a map for an event then you can design one for wvw – oh wait, terrain without jump puzzles in it must be a lot MORE difficult to design than one with……

Would be great to get something more than hot air in interviews with ‘promises’ – it’s been 7-8 months now.

I just got an image of ANet’s dev team’s office in my head- the part time wvw dev is stuck in a corner at the bottom of the room, which looks like a vertical jump puzzle with all the other devs having fun and enjoying themselves, but the poor wvw dev has no legs and can’t come play so the other kids jump around and make fun of him.

That’s kind of what it feels like with wvw.

Jumping puzzles are a lot different than huge wvw maps that need to be balanced so every team has equal opportunities on the map. Thats why the borders are copied. It’s an imbalanced map, and giving all servers the same homemap gives each server the exact same opportunities. EB is not perfectly balanced, but more than the borders.

True story, but some servers do tend to use the “tactic” more than others. Still, people should stop complaining about it, especially towards people on other servers, because their own server zergs as well, and yet they don’t complain about that.

If you want to complain so badly, complain at ArenaNet :P

Grav.3568:

XII.9401:

I’m on T1 and there is no small group action.

I found your problem.

Small group action and T1 don’t go together.

I’d start trying in T4

So, will we be able to see what the ranks are of our own allies? As of now, we can only see the titles of our enemies (<servername> Raider)…

But personally, and I think a lot of people would agree with me, it’s more interesting to see the ranks/titles of our allies than of my enemies (since we don’t know who they are anyways, every Raider/Invader/whatever is the same person to me)

People probably already suggested this, but I’ll post it anyways

Who drew the moogle lol

I really wouldn’t expect any significant (or even insignificant) new features to wvw for ATLEAST another 6 months. If it took them months to add a few NPCs with armor that already exist to the wvw maps (which basically is just make a new NPC-ID with a list with the ITEM-IDs it needs to sell, price, and some more additional info, done), then it’ll take a lot more time to make an entire new map. Especially since making a map takes a lot more effort than adding an NPC or even the rankings.

Look how long it took them to remove the banks from the border waypoints when months before they already said they wanted to remove them…

If WvW is at the bottom of their priority list, fine, but don’t tell us you’re working on something GREAT for 7 months and then come with something that looks like 1 or 2 weeks worth of work + maybe another month testing.

Not to sound hateful or anything, I really appreciate the game and enjoy it every day, but honestly, to me it seems like you started working on the rankings in february (maybe late january), then at the end you noticed you need a little more time and delayed it to march. It honestly doesn’t look like months of work, meetings and testing included.

It’s best to just report the hackers to ArenaNet. Posting these on the forums does more harm than good. ANet doesn’t read them on the forums, only players do, who can’t do anything about it anyways. It only increases the chance of flamewars.

DevonCarver.5370:

Bedstain.6735:

Why is it that my precursor hasn’t dropped yet? Is it because of the time I TPed ArenaNet headquarters for not fixing culling in beta?

Let me check our secret list of people we don’t drop precursors for…

Yep, that’s why. Also, if you look really closely you’ll notice you slowly lose copper every day. Don’t mess with the HQ.

Oh kitten the borg is coming!

Resistance is futile.

Would be really funny if some ppl really lose some copper every day because some ANET employee takes it from you XD

Oh lol that kinda sucks =/

I didnt know even ANET doesnt know whats happening to their queues…. sounds like they need to re-make the whole thing, because i can’t imagine how they can fix it if they still can’t find it after so long…

Colly.4073:

Augury + Riverside Teaming up again today, Is that the only way you can get things done? Should be ashamed of yourselves.

Stop with the childish behaviour already, you’re making yourself and the entire server’s pouplation look like crybabies.

hrkljus.1243:

Once again, I can’t speak on behalf of anyone but myself, but I’d like to apologize to the respectable members of AR and RS for having to endure such amounts of QQ.

Please don’t take any of it seriously, and from what I’ve seen so far, none of it is coming from long time Pikeys or respecatble guild members.

Good luck, have fun, and cya on the battlefield!

I’m with you on this one. So much QQ from which seems to be a very small group of Piken. The majority is still enjoying the matchup and even if our opponents outnumber us, most of us seem to view it as a nice challenge. It only makes the victories more satisfying.

GG RS and AR keep up the fights.

Oh wow that’s great news!

Also, I like how you post more, even if it is from home. It’s nice to see you take some of your personal time to answer some of the threads here.

Instead of keeping us completely in the dark, not knowing if you guys even read our suggestions and feedback, you atleast tell us that our ideas are being taken into consideration. Much appreciated

DevonCarver.5370:

I feel confident saying this is the most awesome thing I’ve read all day. Although the thought of being killed by a 6 year old is discomfiting. Please give them both a high five on my behalf.

I don’t like the idea of getting killed by a 6 year old either LOL

But dang, gamers are getting younger and younger XD

The report function needs to be updated. You only get a few options to choose which 99% of the time don’t even relate to why you’re actually reporting someone.

Atleast put an “other” option which a textarea where you can explain why you’re reporting someone.

Why did this turn into a cat thread… lol

Victory.2879:

Backing off when the commander says ‘charge’ will almost always result in you dying anyway, and will certainly result in the attack failing and a lot of cheesed off dead people on our side. Remember combo fields can be very powerful in wvw and standing in a bunch might actually help you live longer.

Yes!

Do NOT stay behind when the commander says charge. Whatever the situation is. If you are one of the few that stay behind, what do you think will happen? The enemy (who also charges) will end up on your location with full force and you will die. If you charge with your commander and allies you get boons, condition removal, heals and protection from the Max-5 aoe-limit. Charging together is the best option and you shouldn’t think twice about it when your commander tells you to go.

I’ve seen it happen countless times before, especially when pugs follow a guildraid. The entire guild charges, downs many enemies, but because some pugs stay behind, they get killed, rallying the opponents again, leaving the guildraid with an even harder challenge.

If you follow a guildraid, please try to follow 100% or don’t follow at all. It sounds harsh, but not doing so does more harm than good. It’s also one of the reasons why many guildraids now turn off their commander icon. If you think you’re unable to follow and can’t think of anything to do, ask the commander how you could be of assistance in another way. I’m sure they’ll be glad to give you something fun to do if they see you’re really trying to help.

Dalure.4691:

Ye game on tonight …..FG will go to RS border meet ya there.

/Salute

Was a good run so far, good luck the rest of the evening

Deff.7903:

welcome to you FG, you seem to be respectful and less arrogant than the usual piken guilds. We are not a big guild but i will be happy to fight (and die ^^) against you when you will come on EB

I think harsh posts are often just the result of people being annoyed by other people. If someone from server A says something incorrect or accuses someone from server B of something, then ofcourse they will reply to that. Also don’t forget that it’s impossible for everyone in the world to share the same opinion on everything. So sometimes heated discussions occur.

The back-and-forth hate on these forums is actually normal human behaviour: “Us vs Them”, even when the 2 sides are actually the same. You can see it everywhere in human history, even now. It’s stupid and irrational, but it can’t be changed overnight. Admitting to ones mistakes is also one of these “flaws”. You see people here accusing other servers of doing X and Y, when every server does this, even their own. Again, pointing fingers and the “us vs them” mentality.

It’s gonna take a while before they implement new maps if it took them 6 months to do this…. :S

Wouldn’t count on new stuff for wvw for a while. And if they do get new stuff, great, but if you don’t expect it you can’t be disappointed either (or less…) :P

Objectives could give less rewards the more people do it. I think this is one of the possibilities against zerging.

If it’s more profitable to do objectives with a group of around 20 than with 80, even if it takes a little bit longer to complete, people will start to avoid being in the zerg. They will most likely even leave if the group gets too large and create their own new group.

But you could just transfer early in the morning…when its medium..

Not sure if it’s the same person with the same guild I read in another thread, but if it is, he said they already tried that (at 4am or something it was?), and the status was still HIGH.

It’s obvious that when the status hits HIGH the free transfers stop, but I wonder if ANet realised in advance that if guilds transfer, half of them might get stuck. And if they did, why they didn’t think of something to prevent the hate.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Centrix.4065:

But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

I don’t think they meant to trade one bottom of the bucket server for another. Now the ones that this was an issue with before will be alright but the problems will just be given to other servers instead. It’s like taking the “kick me” sticker off one person’s back and sticking it to another’s.

Yeah what I meant was, that was their intention. It doesnt seem to be working well. There are more issues now. Even guilds are getting torn apart because half of them manage to transfer while the others aren’t able to (server status turns to HIGH).

But it has been done, we’ll just have to live with it I guess

But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

Daniel.3059:

Talking with brain-damaged people is like talking against a wall.

We’ve got so much bags. We’ve got currently so much +value.
Who cares xD

Peace out

Do you have DID/MPD?

Cactus.2710:

ANet has already stated that players pop from the queue at random … there is no first-in/first-out system that would generate a number for wait time. It’s stupid as hell, but it is what it is and given ANet’s track record on fixing dumb decisions I wouldn’t expect anything to change.

FIFO and FIRO have nothing to do with the ability to show how many people are in the queue. And it’s not something that would take long to make, most likely less than 30 minutes of actual work (+ weeks of deciding whether they will put it in or not). They already have the queue system, which internally knows which characters are in the queue. Just add a few lines of code that counts how many people are in the queue and show it.

If you know there are 5 people in the queue or 500, it will make it possible for you to estimate your odds of getting in the map.

pixelslayer.6280:

Piken Square = home of the losers.

If saying that after getting wiped makes you feel better, that’s fine.

Dalure.4691:

Hi all:)

First of all i wanna thanks Piken for your warm welcome….FG feels really at home with you all…….and on the match up …lol that was alot of fun….fighting double and sometimes triple our numbers……..RS and AR thank you for the fun….will see you all soon on the battlefield.

/Salute

Welcome to Piken. Hope you’ll enjoy your stay

I also met some from [NoE] yesterday (they also transfered) and they seem like very nice people. I won’t be that active ingame till tuesday, but I’m sure we’ll meet ^^

Daniel.3059:

You’re a boring troll.
I meant the total score not the current +value.
RS won the last matchup so get the facts straight.

And? Everything I wrote still applies and what you said is still false. But oh! mr Riverside won a matchup, he is so proud now he gets blinded by joy, how cute!!

Big whoopty doo. You’re only replying to my comment about the income value rather than the overall score (which is really insignificant and the least important part of my post), because you know everything else I said is true.

Everyone thinking and saying their server is the best really need to think again, because they’re not. It only makes you look shwag when doing so.

Even with the leaderboards, it’s kinda pointless. Since the ranking is characterbound, you’ll just see characternames on the leaderboard. And that means it won’t mean anything which ranks you have, because you would have so many different ranks it’s hard to determine who is actually better/more experienced/etc. The players who play on 1 character only will have a higher rank (thus a better score on the leaderboard) than those who play on 8.

The only thing I can think of right now that would solve the issue I mentioned above is if the leaderboard actually combines all your character ranks and shows which ACCOUNT is where on the leaderboard. Not the characters. I couldn’t care less if PlayerA is rank 37, 156, 2731, 2810, 5203, 8629, 13375 and 22103 all at the same time. So meaningless.

Graybes.8251:

Ya know you have a really good point. Ranks/titles are kind of supposed to be a bragging rights thing but right now the only person who knows that you have a specific rank is yourself. Even with these new titles you are still just a nameless enemy. A big aspect of bragging/showing off is people knowing WHO accomplished something. Right now that doesn’t happen

The new titles are not completely pointless though. At least you will have an idea of how experienced a player you may choose to fight could be. The higher the rank the more time they have spent in WvW and they COULD be more experienced/skilled. But other than that the whole bragging rights thing just doesn’t really exist.

Would be true if they had this since the launch of the game.

Example: Player A plays 3 hours a day since the launch. Player B plays 6 hours a day since the wvw ranking was implemented. Right of the bat, Player B will have a higher ranking than player A, when Player A obviously has more experience with the game.

Daniel.3059:

Centrix.4065:

I don’t know who you’re fighting then lol. You sure it’s not just a dream you had after dying so much? It is understood that dreams often contain fragments of the previous day so you learn/get better at what you were doing. Sounds like you wanted to win in WvW so badly that you possibly came up with such a crazy dream.

Lets check who is really dreaming.
Start the game. Log in with ur character. Push B
See the score and cry like a baby

Lmao, you’re a funny man. I don’t even have to try to diss you. You diss yourself for me. Just check any of the recorded raids (check signature for link) for proof of your ignorance.

Im not home, so I can’t check the score, but Piken has +320 and RS +175. So why would I cry? Why would I cry even if our score is worse than yours? I’m not like you that I would cry over something so meaningless.

You obviously haven’t fought Nugos and many other guilds on Piken. Every day we face groups of much higher numbers and always fight. Saying we run away is literally a lie. We even jump in zergs of 60 when we only have 15-20 ppl to see how long we can survive. We know we’ll most likely die, but we want to try anyways. What I just described and what you described contradict eachother. 1 of them is wrong. I have the daily recorded livestream to backup my end, what do you have?

Isaac.6041:

If you’re looking for answers from a Euro server, you know most of them don’t even post at this forum. (There are very few Euro server threads compared to NA threads).

L M A O

sorry dude, just sorry…

B Rad.5416:

Any non-rp, WvW, NA guilds on Piken?

Lol that’s very specific query . It’s basically all yes, except for the NA part.

Daniel.3059:

xD
The only lootbags Piken are getting from RS are from holiday schoolkid random Zerg’s. Congratulations for that u whiny trolls. We’ve got many many new PVE-Player’s which wanne try out new WvW functions.

In the last days I’m always seeing Piken instantly running away
from our real Raid-Zergs.

Our last Matchup Enemys had some Balls at least and fight like men.
But you guys are just ridiculous.

I prefer fights with AR. These fights are more exciting. Too bad that they are often giving up so fast and changing to a different homeland.

Cry me a river Piken!

I don’t know who you’re fighting then lol. You sure it’s not just a dream you had after dying so much? It is understood that dreams often contain fragments of the previous day so you learn/get better at what you were doing. Sounds like you wanted to win in WvW so badly that you possibly came up with such a crazy dream.

Can we start posting something other than QQ about blobs? It’s getting lame, boring and immature. Few people from piken complaining about blobs while the other servers give lame excuses and reasons, and complain about the complainers. Infinite loop. It’s just going back and forth and the same things are repeated in every post.

The blobs were already there, you just couldn’t see them. It’s not like the max limit of players in WvW has been increased.

World vs World vs World

16:15 / 4:15pm CET

Get ready for the point of no return

I doubt it’ll ever be available for wvw. Doesn’t seem like something that could work properly with how the game mechanics are set up.

It would be nice though to have some sort of free-roaming camera or even making your character invisible on your own screen (just like hide UI CTRH+SHIFT+H) so people can actually make some decent machinima.

Yet another fun raid today

http://www.twitch.tv/censtudios/b/381766034
http://www.twitch.tv/censtudios/b/381788544

We got wiped near the end due to very low vs very high numbers XD but still fun.

GG last night on Riverside borderlands. gj everyone that was there

Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/censtudios/b/381319216

Cool, can’t wait to see how you guys have changed/grown

thihihi.9451:

Rofl. Mad we come together with some people to defend a keep/tower? And by the way we don’t get a queue on gbl before 7p.m. gmt.

Lmao you really don’t get it, do you? You’re (dunno if it’s you personally or someone else, not in the mood to check) the one complaining about us zerging, we couldn’t care less if you do or don’t. We will adapt to the situation either way and have our fun, but don’t complain when WE occasionally blob together as well.

And we’re not angry at Gandara or anything, dunno how you got that idea. We have our fun, trust me. Lootbag galore and enough winning fights. I can;t imagine how you have your fun winning fights from smaller groups than you, but for us its fun to fight larger groups. If you haven’t noticed, we jump into any fight, big or small.

MorkZe.4321:

Centrix.4065:

We were jumping between the maps pretty frequently so I don’t really remember which moment you’re referring to.

When you were clearing the lord room of AR’s Bay, we came in and got the perfect opportunity to engage on you and we managed to steal the cap. You still had time to come in again though and I think Necr portaled you into inner where we then got wiped on the wall. I guess you got called elsewhere after that.

Centrix.4065:

And who are these destroyer ppl you’re talking about?

I referred to this hilarious post by Bethryn, go read the rest of it :P

Oh yeah I remember that one. When that happened I thought u guys were just hiding really well, but apparently it was just lucky timing :P We got through the outer walls just in time, but indeed got portaled in to the inner walls.

http://www.twitch.tv/censtudios/b/380080625 @ 1:26:30

I thought u guys would come back after that wipe though, but you didn’t o:

thihihi.9451:

These nug on that picture only run 15 so not that many, oh and another 15 SPRT next to them and 15 SJFR 5 seconds away. Oh and also a non-guild group consisting of 15 scnd+tntd+… At least they don’t run more than 15 each.

You will see us move and take objectives seperate 90% of the time
We will see you move and take objectives zerging 90% of the time

If you guys didn’t outman us most of the time we wouldn’t have to be cautious attacking a keep with just 15. So obviously, we get some reinforcements. And with all the siege you have we could use a hand… It’s really not that weird to get reinforcements on an objective that is well-guarded. Just sounds more like QQ to me tbh.

Missy.7356:

So basically your saying, you liked the queues in Piken before some left and you enjoyed playing in the upper tiers with mega blobs? Thankfully most of Gandara WvW guilds hate playing in big groups

Ahaha good joke

Or were you serious?

MorkZe.4321:

Even Nug&co. paid a brief visit to the map, probably escaping the horrors of our Branded Risen Destroyer friends.

We were jumping between the maps pretty frequently so I don’t really remember which moment you’re referring to. And who are these destroyer ppl you’re talking about?

Dont forget bob!

Endemonadia.8593:

IDarko.4709:

I wanna face Aurora Glade again. So close to T4! Piken has some nice guilds tho but having played a few times in the last weeks, i got more and more demotivated and angry at this format. It’s weird how much more fun the other tier was and i doubt anything has changed

FYI the final week we (Piken) were in T2 against SFR and JS we scored a total of about 25k and SFR about 350k… now thats called being utterly dominated and destroyed to the point of despair…

If u guys r having trouble with little Piken now and u wanna go up a tier then u got a whole world of pain to look forward to up there I can assure u

But from what I understand some of the main guilds didn’t raid that week either.

I barely have skill lag, culling occurs more frequently than skillag so for me culling is more annoying.