Guild Wars 2

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A long time ago a player named Appledainty of Crystal Desert decided to walk the entire borderland circle, from camp to camp, as a yak. Appledainty invited players from Fort Aspenwood and Tarnished Coast to join in on the fun. Everything was going well until a player from Fort Aspenwood, under the spell of bloodlust, started attacking the yaks and killing them. Many others joined in on the killing, turning the streets into a morgue. It was innocent enough. The FA culprit didn’t get the memo about the parade and, like a bull seeing red, decided to charge.

Furious with this turn of events, Commander Jadon of TC swore to take revenge upon FA and proceeded to take all of FA’s held objectives.

Since that day, TC held their own yak parade in memory of the fallen Appledainty, until eventually TC became a T1 server and would no longer face Fort Aspenwood in the Mist Wars. The yak parade faded into memory.

Until now…

Fluffball.8307:

FA — the 2-year-long beaten stepchild of T2 — fairweathers and complainers? That’s a new one.

Exactly, we have a core group of veterans on the server who have played for a very long time in a 2nd to 3rd place position and learned a long time ago that WvWvW matches are the best when there is a good mix of fights, ppt, and roaming/havoc. The “play for fights” style originated on FA. It was brought to SoS and many other servers originally by Fort Aspenwood players transferring.

But I digress…
Maguuma wasn’t able to roll a T3 match pre-season so they’re stuck in T2 due to the tournament league divisions. It sucks not only for them, but also for servers playing against them. It messes with the 3-way match-up.

I killed a dev tonight. How come no precursor dropped?

This is starting in 3minutes! Join us!!!!!!! Be a part of the WvWvW LIVING STORY!

OCX/SEA players need their own datacenter. Having their population concentrated on a few random NA servers with the way the scoring currently works destroys match-ups across tiers.

OCX/SEA players should always end up in a match-up with another server that also has a similar OCX/SEA population. There’s no way to do that currently.

Given the current scoring system, split OCX/SEA players off to their own set of servers.

Devs on TC, FA, and Mag,
Now is your chance to experience the LIVING STORY one of the greatest rivalries in the history of WvWvW: a real yak parade! (Made possible by the tournament.)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/TC-Yak-Parade-9-24-14-9pm-EST-6pm-PST

For history see – http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/14u07l/death_of_a_dolyak_love_and_tragedy_in_wvw/

Veteran players will remember one of the greatest rivalries in the history of WvW: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/14u07l/death_of_a_dolyak_love_and_tragedy_in_wvw/

Thanks to the Fall WvWvW Tournament, TC and FA are once again in a match together and it is incumbent upon TC to hold a yak parade (and FA to troll it)! Grab a ruminant or endless dolyak tonic and meet at the windmill area on MagBL (if there’s queues another map will be announced) at 9pm EST/6pm PST on Wednesday, Sept. 24th.

All Mag, FA, and TC players are encouraged to contact “ethan mccloud.3218” for more information!

Thanks for the recommendations for Fort Aspenwood!

@Caffeine, if you’re dropping those superior acs so you can farm enemy bags in a target-rich environment, FA is probably for you. We have a relatively good EU presence and I personally play late nights myself. We have two PST guilds that work well together responding to call outs and coordinating.

nirvana.8245:

Ive only played about 2-3 hours of WvW since the patch and have 2. Both from tower keep lords. I suspect magic find will give you a better chance of having one drop. I don’t have the collectable spoon box yet, so you don’t need it to unlock the possibility of having a spoon drop.

That’s my point. I’ve been playing WvWvW every day for 2-4 hours since the patch and still nothing. My magic find is over 100%. The loot drop rate isn’t THAT bad for the spoons is it?

I put this on the Fort Aspenwood community calendar in case we face SoS that week.

Honestly, I think it’s bugged. Another guildmate who hardly ever goes into WvW said he got the WvW spoon as a drop off a camp guard before he activated the collection. I still have yet to receive a spoon drop in WvW.

That’s the confusing part. My guildmates said they hadn’t activated that box yet. I picked one up today so we’ll see if any spoons start dropping.

The patch has been out for a week. I play WvW every day, leading a guild and militia and capping many objectives. I see players complaining about getting these spoon drops constantly. I have yet to receive a single spoon. Is there something bugged with the drops?

This guy posted this same message in the WvW forum. Not sure if troll TBH.

Nightshade.2570:

No, I was commander attacking stonemist that night…

Sounds like you may have a spy in your midst

So this is a thing on other servers as well I see.

Nightshade.2570:

John Corpening.9847:

Colin and I were having lunch a short while ago. During lunch we were sharing experiences from Adopt-a-Dev. He started talking about this amazing moment he had while on scouting duty where he spotted an attack on Stone Mist castle that was happening from the inside and was able to call in reinforcements in time to thwart it. Halfway through I stopped him and cursed his name. He was confused at my reaction until I told him that the attack he stopped was the one from my guild, DmD and I was part of that attack. He correctly guessed that we snuck a mesmer into the castle after IOJ took down one of their walls.

We would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for them darned kids scout!

sighs oh lord help me.
I shall laugh about this for a while and possibly cry as well.

Which part made you laugh? The fact of scouting duty or when they compare the loot gained from their respective activities? Or perhaps just the “freshness” of something routine?

Hamster.4861:

If you want to prevent Spawn camping, Give us the Vigil Megalaser from Teq and put two of em at the end of every spawn, facing the EB keep. Give it the range, and double the damage of a regular cannon.

enemy player walks over to your spawn, shoot with laser. enemy dies.

Or have the legendary defenders patrol the area instead of just standing there.

I kid you not, Straegen, when I pointed this thread out to a friend, 2 hours ago he replied “signet warrior inc”.

Gaurav.8397:

i am complete amatuer at builds and i dont even know which skills go together

Everybody started that way.

The best advice I can give you is to suggest you take the time to learn the game mechanics. That way you can understand how damage mitigation in this game works differently from having infinite evades in DS2.

rowan.2581:

Lance’s first Fight with TUNE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZibcVP0xVBw&feature=youtu.be
Hope you had fun last night.

What?! No comms? Now it’s just not a TUNE raid without those comms. And where’s the obligatory princess doll tonics and mariner’s horns?

I hope you guys aren’t holding back just because of a special guest. The goal is for devs to “get out of the comfort zones” after all.

So the issue was never really the ranger class, but the player playing it, per se?

Sometimes it is simply due to not having the information at the time or being too busy defending oneself and getting to a better position in order to type more info out. Most people can only manage an “inc” before having to spam 1 again.

Aieo.2815:

I love how SoS went from overstack to imploding(http://www.gw2wvw.net/topic/sos-fa-mag-952014?page=4) and back to overstack again within a week.

They lost a bunch of guilds then went “Full” status. Go figure.

Quick Mouse.7635:

BeatingADeadHorse.gif

Well there’s no point in having a dead horse if it doesn’t get beaten.

rhapsody.3615:

Don’t you earn points for stomps while your server holds ruins/bloodlust?

Yes.

Players can be killed without stomping. They’re asking for points from straight up murder.

Berserk.3071:

retsuya.4708:

bumping, SoS OP

http://i.imgur.com/Inpav56.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/QeE1Oi4.jpg?1

u mad bro?

Clearly he’s jealous over that Eyefinity set up.

rashkin.9530:

Chris.3290:

mid-to-late EU time zones and early North American timeslots

If I may make a suggestion, put that in the title then. Don’t make your readers have to wade through a wall of text to get to the message you are trying to communicate.

Also, consider that other full servers: TC, BG, and JQ don’t have a server recruitment thread on the 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd pages in this subforum. All the T1 recruiting posts are from guilds. I expect DB soon to follow that trend.

More FA veterans are making their way home. Feels like getting the band back together.

Transfers to Fort Aspenwood are only 1400 gems right now.

The GvG scene grew out of GvZ. Didn’t morph nothing…

Sir Arthur.8905:

2. Doing the EXACT same map three times is boring and stupid, and utterly pointless.

Funny, that’s what I said about the 8th time completing Queensdale.

GvG in general has fallen to the wayside. There’s some guilds on other servers that still try it. TeamMicro on TC, oT on FA, Syn on SoS, I think CORE on IoJ maybe. I don’t know who below T2 is GvG-ing these days.

PabbyGaul.9682:

Fluffball.8307:

Did any devs wind up on FA? I think we’re in a rather unique position with the whole T2 thing. Half way between glory and complete misery.

Lol. Even the Dev’s know that yer the only server that has to pay people to like you.

Take it to another thread, HoD.

That’s nothing compared to everyone stopping what they are doing for 10 seconds then fast-forwarding to “live”.

Replace it with a green tag.

John Corpening.9847:

We had far more sign ups than we have devs available.

Hire some more! j/k

BTW, was that Pat squirreling away to get killed by us last night?

Wen Jie.8920:

This thread is 62.5% FA salt, make of that what you will.

How did you figure that? Only one guy from FA posted here. Now I make two.

Deli.1302:

So for NA we got:
6 Devs playing in in T1 and 2 in T2 for a total of 8 in gold league
2 across all silver league
1 in bronze league

Well now this says a lot
I sure hope there are more devs than there appears to be playing in the silver and bronze leagues. So much for spreading themselves out ^__^

Not like any regular WvW player here doesn’t stack into the top servers. :/

Fluffball.8307:

Pat Cavit.9234:

I signed up with Starfleet Dental [SFD] on Maguuma, I hear they’re very professional.

I admire your bravery for joining Mag! Honestly didn’t expect to see you guys even ticking 185 on reset. Hope it keeps up.

Yea I gotta say too that I admire this guy for joining a guild on Mag.

Better rewards/loot in WvW would go a long way towards making more people play WvW over PvE. Did I say making? Sorry, I meant “encouraging”.

If you enjoy fights and are looking for a guild, check these guys out.

Deli.1302:

Chaba.5410:

Look at the EU match rolls this week. Looks RNG.

Nah they weren’t.

Yea, as was pointed out in the Matchup Wishlist thread, MOS gives the appearance of RNG matches due to incorrect final rank listings.

Ah ok. Yea MOS is showing ranks differently.

Snowreap.5174:

oh wait, tomorrow season 3 of tournament play starts, right?

if that’s the case disregard the probabilities, matchups during season play do not use randomness.

-ken

It’s looking like the first match in EU was seeded by RNG.

Look at the EU match rolls this week. Looks RNG.

Bucket Lips.5017:

I don’t normally agree or like 2v1’s, but I think it would be beneficial for both Mags and FA to put aside their differences and join forces for the tournament. At least the T1’s would have something to fight and it would prevent Mags and FA from being spawn camped all day. But unfortunately I don’t think this will become a reality.

2v1s only really work when both weaker servers are at least strong enough to stand on their own. FA’s experience in Silver last season showed this. When the third server is ded, if FA didn’t cap their BL, the green server would, allowing green to bring a lot of focus on our upgraded stuff. If you haven’t noticed, the matches against SoS even now are like that.

inb4 one of the T3 servers roflstomps during season 3.