Guild Wars 2

Folks in SoS just need to get in the habit of leaving TS on and being in the appropriate channel whether they are roaming or following a zerg.
Luvpie gets tired of spamming all day long for people to log in (and to their credit, a lot of people do) only for people to get selective amnesia and not log back in the next time they WvW.

As the official commander for SoS’s “Happy Hour” (3 drink minimum) ; I’d appreciate it as well.

There is a predatory element to Tier 1 right now, as evidenced by how JQ is focusing SoR in their moment of weakness.
If SoR loses to TC this week, look for BG and JQ to be less than kind to SoR in the following week.
By the time they realize they are risking destabilizing T1 and creating a stink sandwich for a few months, it will be too late.

So are things are as bad as they look for SoR (TW disbanded, IRON left, behind TC in score), or is this just blatant 2v1 when they are having a bad week?

Insane Pancakez.9182:

What happened to EP? They are now runnign 30-40, still can be wiped pretty easily as I saw tonight on EBG, and have to depend on the other SoS zerg with FANG in it to wipe hahaha. Why not just run 15-20, that’s what you run away with after losing 15 players.

Ahh, someone did someone end up in a EP/Fang sandwich? We’ll put a little band-aid on your boo-boo and you can go back out to play.

For the record, I didn’t see EP wipe and they were beastmode all night long.

Were you INC? We figured you guys ragequit or something when you suddenly vanished. Mag lost their backbone then and it was a bloodbath farm.

I’d probably go with TC since they are polite whether they are winning or losing. They are definitely the Mr. Congeniality of NA WvW

This must be a new YB. The old YB wouldn’t leave AC range without a signicant numbers advantage.
Now they can 2v1 stronger foes and have really done a good job from a scoring POV this weekend (and it’s not even over). I’m looking forward to seeing you guys postseason.

Though some communication has improved constructively as late, there does need to be some more active back and forth.
They have made four moves that have drastically upset any chance at balance in this game.
They should not have announced the end of free transfers as it created a rush to stack.
They need to base server transfer costs on WvW population not total home population.
RnG is ok but has too great a variation at times (as much as 600 rank point between opponents in extreme cases)
Lastly the season in NA,was a disaster from most points of view. Bronze was decided by sandbagging, Silver was decided by sandbagging and the destruction of a previously growing and resurgent WvW community, and Gold was settled by EU players that were not here before the season.

With viable competition the device team is the only thing that can keep their product ( sole product for their company and only successful product the broader parent company has) viable and successful for years to come.

The season has had the unexpected effect of shaking up a lot of servers. A lot got transfers and a lot lost people.
This season seems to have been ultimately harmful to long-time/hardcore players’ morale.
There is going to be an uncomfortable meeting where the devs will have to talk about the huge drop in participation following the season.

If this was the TC of 3 months ago, I’d say SoR was in trouble, but TC is pretty anemic in Oceanic and SEA these days. Even SoR’s small forces at that time hold them off unless TC’s and JQ’s NA stay up late and pressure them, and JQ’s SEA focuses SoR as it appears they have been doing.

The question is how will all this play out on SoR, the only top 3 server (in any league) that has taken it so much on the chin during this.

AoI last night, is that how you greet old friends!?

Using the Anet Dev as newb bait was dirty trickery as well. We had people diving in to try and gank him instead of dodging your hammer train.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

That might have been me… =P

I recently started to get back into WvW. I have been playing on Blackgate this last week, but like others, I often move around.

I thin Isaw you running with that AoI group (unless more than one on BG, no idea). It was a great idea because some people would try to suicide into the group to try and “kill the anet guy” and just added to the kill count.

Reverence.6915:

Yeah… no.

Organised 2v1s are just in bad form.

I get that servers get stomped on and that’s not fun, but this really isn’t the answer.

It’s funny that someone from the server at the top of the leaderboard feels this way.

2v1’s are a great idea, but the only 4 servers that I’ve seen that have the discipline to do this are SoR, BG (oh the irony), Mag, and SoS.

nerovergil.5408:

While half of the JQs transferring to Maguma to force Beastgate 2nd place or 3rd place. SoR should defeat JQs once and for all so we can help you force JQs get bronze dolyak finisher this season in week 7.

Is this idiocy? All of JQ could xfer to Maguuma and they wouldn’t beat BG since BG beat all of JQ. (FTR I haven’t seen any JQ on Mag yet).
Not to mention that this isn’t reflected in the scores and that both SoS and Mags would have to beat BG for JQ just to pull even.

This is the least intelligent post I’ve seen.

Hydrobutter.9172:

deathTouch.9706:

Chris.3290:

deathTouch.9706:

Hexin.5603:

Chris is on SoS and referring to next week.

Oh, right, of course… <.<

Did you lose your sig due to infractions Chris? I swore you had one earlier…

I just recently got mine back

I’ve never used a sig.

What a PvF scrub.

i’m really hoping his rl name isn’t Chris. that’d be the best

The funny part is that Deathtouch’s name is Chris; just to add confusion.

Of course my name isn’t Chris; it’s Chico Hernandez.

The only thing that scares me at this point is if TC were to start beating SoR. TC’s body is not ready and lord knows what would happen is SoR were to scatter.

Condolences to SoR. I’ve been hearing from back channels about their internal problems with some of their key guilds, but this is the first I’ve heard about IRON.

In referencing what Smokee said, I don’t know how JQ EU will match up with BG sans ZDs, SoR sans IRON, and TC’s respectable (relative to Tier 2) daytime coverage. If the top 4 end up with balanced coverage I would go as far as to beg any EU groups to avoid those servers to prevent a vicious unbalancing.
If someone is looking to send EU towards T2 servers, SoS could use a group and FA is pretty anemic there too. As for Mags, they have a decent EU group that is unreliable in participation however.

deathTouch.9706:

Hexin.5603:

Chris is on SoS and referring to next week.

Oh, right, of course… <.<

Did you lose your sig due to infractions Chris? I swore you had one earlier…

I just recently got mine back

I’ve never used a sig.

So Mag, can we blatantly 2v1 BG so that there will be at least a small chance that this coming week will not be a blobbed out crapsack?

Renny.6571:

This thread was surprisingly tame. I’m neutral.

Considering how this could have turned out, I’m amazed that we hit 14 pages + all the ones from the deleted thread.
The only negative posters were someone who’s unhappy whatever server they are on, and some morons who thought SoS is now swimming in bribe money (seriously, I’m upset you didn’t try to bribe us, my bank is empty!)

Season 2 while the current massive population differences that exist even within tiers is not a winning idea. (I’d argue that Season 1 wasn’t a good idea, but I guess you need to fail before you can learn from it).

The differences between #5 and #4, #9 and #8 (the worst examples in NA) alone should make such an idea a “no sell”.

Winzzy.9435:

NargofWoV.4267:

Really? You wish to know why? Try this, I got into EB on Friday start of the season.. Ran to our Commander moved out had to wheel around to fight BOTH BG and SOS off of our Spawn keep… Oddly enough, neither was fighting the other. BG broke the door down, charged in, got wiped, SoS then charged in and got wiped, BG then took their turn… Then SoS.

As the evening progressed all we got was SoS blocking our attempts at going after BG, SoS did nothing but Circle the castle, didn’t try to take it from BG, just kept us from trying to take it.

Don’t come here and complain about how JQ is treating you now that you finally decide you want to fight BG.

You do realize that waiting on an attacking force to do all the work and then coming in behind them after they have been weakened makes a ton of sense don’t you? What you are trying to describe as collusion is merely sound strategic thinking. Your paranoia and hysteria are getting the better of you i think.

You just described playing for 2nd, which is what he was trying to say in an analytical way.
The only chance JQ had in winning was to take a very aggressive posture over the weekend to keep their PPT high in regards to BG. By keeping SoS territory swapping hands you forced a situation where we were stuck in a defensive posture and you were left to face BG’s superior coverage in a 1 on 1 situation.

This doesn’t mean that you would have won by any stretch, but SoS, being the underdog, will follow the path of least resistance and would have attacked BG if they saw JQ pressuring BG in other places.

For instance, the JQ group on SoS BL last night. You split off of the attack on the BG held garri to stack up behind my SoS group that was going to attack Hills. Not wanting to be sandwiched we broke off and headed South; and you didn’t get garri or Hills.

If BG maintains it’s coverage advantages going into the post-season, it will be in all of WvW’s best interest if JQ and SoR adapt their tactics and strategies accordingly (in complete absentia this week).

NargofWoV.4267:

Icebot.6103:

wickedkae.4980:

Well BG wins because of 2v1. I have never seen BG fight alone, JQ is always 2v1’d. Terrible win by BG. Boring match watching a BG and SoS zergs just sit there all friendly not fighting each other.

Oh my gosh.

When we logged in Monday, we noticed there was a 2k PPT difference between BG and JQ and we (my guild) decided, “Hey, we can actually make an impact in this match if we push on BG and try to even it out”. Well, we felt some sort of moral obligation to our homeland and decided to get back the North half from BG. So we start pushing on garrison and immediately draw BG and JQ. We try to disengage JQ to say, “hey we are willing to work with you guys”. But instead, JQ chose to cap our NW tower while we were fighting BG.

We wiped, took our NW tower back, wiping JQ. Pushed on Garrison again, JQ came up behind us again and engaged while we were fighting BG, wiped us and took our NW tower again. On our next push, JQ wiped and there was a big battle with BG in the area between NW tower and Garrison, that’s when JQ snuck in Watergate and capped our garrison.

So we came in on Monday ready to work with JQ to push on BG, we really wanted to make Week 7 interesting for BG, JQ and SoR. However, JQ didn’t want to play ball so we did it FFA style, so don’t whine now that it seems like you are getting 2v1’d, you decided you wanted to push on SoS instead of just trying to take PPT from BG, deal with it.

PS. That fight last night at NW camp on JQ BL was awesome, I wish you could have heard our TS when we all shifted counter-clockwise in location.

Really? You wish to know why? Try this, I got into EB on Friday start of the season.. Ran to our Commander moved out had to wheel around to fight BOTH BG and SOS off of our Spawn keep… Oddly enough, neither was fighting the other. BG broke the door down, charged in, got wiped, SoS then charged in and got wiped, BG then took their turn… Then SoS.

As the evening progressed all we got was SoS blocking our attempts at going after BG, SoS did nothing but Circle the castle, didn’t try to take it from BG, just kept us from trying to take it.

Don’t come here and complain about how JQ is treating you now that you finally decide you want to fight BG.

Actually we did take it from BG, and your take on events is merely the result of JQ failing to take advantage of the many openings we attempted to provide early on in the evening Friday.
Blame the complete lack of any offensive posture by your side for the turn of events; as we got wiped by the entire BG zerg at Vale because attempts at Bay never lasted long enough for us to get our 2 small guild groups over there (we had only two guild groups on the map Friday at reset.)

TL;DR and summary: JQ you are hereby asked to take a Remedial class in Map Diplomacy

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Chris.3290:

I respectfully request that Blackgate rolls all engineers for next week’s matchup…just because they can.

We’ve already decided to roll Rangers.

Sorry, the SoS militia has already done that.

wickedkae.4980:

Well BG wins because of 2v1. I have never seen BG fight alone, JQ is always 2v1’d. Terrible win by BG. Boring match watching a BG and SoS zergs just sit there all friendly not fighting each other.

Wow, and I thought they were taking our garrison and taking our towers out of competition; but according to this guy just wanted to give us hugs???

#T1Logic

Mjrnx.2483:

Hickeroar.9734:

Dear Umberglade Police,

We’re watching you.

Love,
The Godfather – Umberglade Mafia

Umberglade Mafia you will know justice!
We’re watching you!

Sincerely,
Umberglade Police dept.

Too many beat cops from that guild, I’ve never ran into so many solo stragglers outside of a CD or Mag matchup.

Ayrilana.1396:

Deli.1302:

A combination of SoR/JQ dropping the ball, BG playing to win by putting in massive overtime, BG collaborating with SoS (was kinda funny hearing about SoS spawn camping SoR lol) and the purchase of ZDs (ZDs only paid 3k of their own gold, rest was funded by BG).

Care to cite your sources for the last two items (SoS and ZD)?

The first of the items was an understanding, from those that followed forums, that SoS intended to put the 2v1 on SoR at the very first opportunity it had and that’s what happened Friday night through Monday that match. The remainder of that match was played straight and this current week has been played straight.
We’ve been just as eager to go after BG as we have JQ.

If it seems we’ve been gaining more ground against JQ, it’s because BG frankly has better scouting and internal comms (speaking as an opponent), even though JQ typically has a better avg. skill level across their ranks.

I respectfully request that Blackgate rolls all engineers for next week’s matchup…just because they can.

Hexin.5603:

Mr Ko Killer.7206:

Krakah.3582:

I’m not arguing for which server is stronger or weaker. It’s possible for both JQ and SoR to work it out to end week 7 with 25 points each.

End of Week 6 JQ@19 +5 gets to 24 points, SoR@17 +3 gets 20 points.
End of Week 7 JQ@24 +1 gets to 25 points, SoR@20 +5 gets to 25 points

The question is are JQ and SoR willing to work it out for the next 2 weeks?

This also gives TC 3rd seat.

To quote an excerpt:

XacTactX.6709:

Week 5 JQ first, BG second. Week 7 will start at 28 for BG and 26 for JQ. If BG then gets second, JQ and BG will both get 31 and tie.

I don’t think I have to say it, but the reason why we wouldn’t tie for 2nd with SoR is most probably the same reason why BG would not tank their score for the remainder of this current week to allow a tie for 1st with JQ. Some people fight for rewards, others fight for gloating, some fight to fight. I can say all servers have an equal amount of all 3 types of players, but the server as a whole is going for pride, if anything else.

^^ This along with what Chris said, is why TC will try there hardest to come 2nd next week versus SoR & JQ, and 1st in the final week. It’s all we can do, and we’ll take it one day at a time.

Mostly for server morale is what we’re pushing for. To prove after WvW went to JQ, after EP to SoS, and KH to Mags, we’re fighting hard and hoping to show everyone that guilds come and go, but we still get better. And hope to have good fights along the way, learn some things, identify weaker areas to work on. I’m very impressed with how well TC has done against the big 3, hell I may as well say this season.

About now our server feels if we press hard and are able to tie SoR, it’s a huge win in itself, and a real testament to the server. Maybe a pipe dream accomplishment, but whatever … it is a goal which we aim for to give our WvW core more grounds to stand on, while still be the fun loving Coast you guys all know.

~X [STUN], TC

When I ERP, I may look like a dirtnapper, but really I’m just getting into position ;-P

Let me translate this into terms the good gentleman from TC refrains from using:

“Let’s blatantly double-team SoR so shamelessly that their heads will explode.”

As someone who has no skin in that matchup, I think it should be done because SoR will not lose a thing other than pride; and I think a little humility will go a long way towards fixing the giant “what went wrong” in regards to their performance during this season.

Plus it will be incredibly hilarious.

Serkz.3140:

Jedbacca.6297:

As a commander on JQ that has avoided WvW until last week to brush up on game play, I am glad that BG came out to play. I have field respect for all the teams on BG for one main reason. When they run, it’s not every engagement, there is an actual reasoning why they have to run. BG will actually fight and tussle with you, this is regardless if they outnumber you, equal in numbers, or even lower in numbers. They give just about as many F’s as we do when it comes to the open field play. I hope this week shows an example to the other educating team leads as myself on JQ that the words I preached in regards to educating the masses that it is a maintain thing, not just an every so often thing

Thank you guys for making the game exciting for myself and my squad. We were scraping anything we could for fights the last few weeks, even running our own internal sPvP tournaments to get some good PvP in. Expect to see me out tonight on a random Bordlerland. If you see Jedbacca.6297 online in your buddy lists, I’ll be running whoever follows me in to the largest teams you guys got, including SoS so I can call out people that are rallybots and to go uninstall as usual.

Good matchup all!

I’ll take you up on your offer as it sounds like a lot of fun!!! You seem to have a cool attitude…but please go easy on the rallybots especially if they’re condi build long bow ranger uplevels. Poor things have feelings too but get no love.

I think everyone gets to the point where you have that “one guy”. Not on VOIP, running uplevel despite you repeatedly asking them not to, and going into the biggest brawls with all zerker gear…
Sometimes the kick button can serve as a wake-up call (I’ve never done it for said reasons, but I could see it happening when you have some essentially trolling his/her own guild).

Archon Trieste.3109:

Seriously, who didn’t know BG was going to win before this whole thing even started? I admit I got a bit worried when a few of our guilds transferred, but not that worried.

As a BG not-in-huge-wvw-guild person it’s always been the community that makes BG great to me. Whether it’s Teq or seasons or whatever, BG always has certain things going for it.

To whit:
1. Not a lot of kitten. People actually submit to the will of the commanders and do what they’re told. If they don’t or if a certain commander is a kitten we’ll all ignore him/her because politeness is important on BG.

2. Politeness. Not very many commanders flip out and yell at pugs. I know they want to, badly, but they don’t. They just sigh, adjust their tactics and move on. I’ve seen it umpteen times on EBG, I know commanders wanted to yell at me a time or two and I’ve certainly deserved it, but no yelling, just sigh and adjust tactics.

3. Coordination. If we’re lacking bloodlust, for instance, someone on the ebg channel will ask the borderland maps to please obtain it. Voila, it’s done. Map assignments, which I can’t see cuz i’m a pug, are done weekly and everyone on the BWC knows who goes where at what time/day and BGers know what the objectives are because we’re given them every week.

4. We’re rich. Maybe not everyone on BG is rich but dear god in heaven people, how many twilights are on this server? Now, ask yourself why we’re rich? The answer is the above 3 points.

So, hope I haven’t given any of our secrets away, but like in any workplace/community/country it’s the culture that’s important above anything else. When you get your culture together anything is possible.

This, again, is the view of someone who is not in a big guild or makes any decisions about anything for BG, but I feel the effects every day and it makes me love BG and put in 15 hour days in wvw. If the above things weren’t true, I’d have transferred already.

Step 1. Get Legendary
Step 2. Join BG
Step 3. ????
Step 4. Profit

Actually given what I’ve seen from some people I know:
Step 1. Get Legendary
Step 2. Go to BG
Step 3. Get gold medal
Step 4. Uninstall and pray that ESO is all you think it will be despite having the intellect and wisdom to know better.

Zikory.6871:

@Chris Assuming Blackgate wins this week and clinches the win, the best out come would be JQ 2nd SoR/TC tie for 3rd and SoS/Mag tie for 4th. At least to maximize rewards across the board.

That would require SoS to take 3rd in either week 6 or 7 while mag takes 2nd (In 1 of those matches). JQ to beat SoR next week and SoR to get 3rd in week 7.

Match manipulation would most likely be required but who knows maybe not.

There is no prize for 4th so we’re going for the gusto in week 7. If we still have the same folks in week7 as we do now, I think we might have a slim chance on putting a lot of pressure on TC.
I don’t think we are at the point where we can beat them, but even before the season we proved we could get the upper-hand if/when they blinked.
You take try-hard PPT Maguuma out of the picture (I think they just wanted to prove that they could beat us at least once) and it could be a very interesting week for the T2 grouping.

It’s kinda sad that the #1 spot is being decided this week, but that’s just how it plays out I guess.

Sounds like someone has faced YB recently :P

Samhayn.2385:

Well at least we can say leagues have cemented the glaring flaws in the current wvw scoring systems. Maybe this is what was needed for Anet to get the info they need to proceed with making something better.

in the mean time I will be waiting for edge of the mist and when it comes out I will spend my time there and let someone who cares more for PPT take my spot in the borderlands.

I just had a vision of the future. EoM queued for 5 hours on Maguuma, no queues elsewhere; FA has queues on all maps but EoM.

I haven’t seen any devs in the top 6 servers in WvW. I’ve seen one hang around LA on SoS for weeks on end, and I know of active ones on SBI and NS.

I think they are probably getting good data from those two (higher pop Silver League server, lower pop Silver League) and probably can compare notes if they care to.

High Tier servers don’t get the gravy because the devs. It’s because they get the transfers and make the money. It’s accounting, not development, driving those decisions.

The warrior is probably the most balanced class at the moment so it all goes down to skill.

I have always had the hardest time against mesmers who are very mobile and make good use of all their skills.
Glass thieves are pretty painful to face, especially if they get a lucky break (well-timed dodged, etc).

The only “build” I’ve faced that felt really OP’d against my warrior was a guardian with full 25 stacks of healing, with high power/armor (no crit or condition, med vitality).

The Hammer/s-w build is a zerg build. You can only kill the worst players with it in 1 on 1 and is exponentially better when teamed with a group of 12 or more.
The point is to have multiple hammer warriors in a group to pile on stuns on a single point (preferably a clump of enemies) and for your ranged members to pile on as much spike damage AoE onto that spot as possible.

You will need a lot of defense (vitality and toughness) reduced condition duration food, etc.
You should run soldier’s runes for the increased defense and the ability to remove conditions when you get too much stacked on you.

Use the sw-wh to get in and out of the fights.

The rest you can tweak yourself but 20 in defense is the bare minimum (Merciless Hammer) and you can tweak the rest as you want (most people go tactics and discipline.)

Krakah.3582:

So is JQ going to be nice and let SoR tie for second seat in the next 2 matches?

One would argue that if SoR is so weakened that JQ could manipulate the match to such a degree to allow TC to surpass them, then maybe they should (not that I approve of such measures, but I think you are grossly overestimating JQ and underestimating SoR)

Zenyatoo.4059:

Butter.3024:

Shouldn’t SoR and Mag 2v1 TC to push TC into 3rd place?

Pffft why would we do that.

Clearly the SoR goal is to have there be a tie for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in Gold league.

If JQ beats BG who beats SoS
and
SoR beats TC who beats Mag

Then next match

JQ beats SoR who beats TC
BG beats SoS who beats Mag

Then the final match

JQ beats BG who beats SoR
TC beats Mag who beats SoS

JQ and BG will tie for overall first
SoR and TC will tie for overall second
SoS and Mag will tie for overall third

But that would mean that Mag would have to PPT…I would laugh if they were the only server not to place.

Wow, the crying got strong after things went South.

It’s not like this is the first time that BG outcoveraged JQ to win. Is the Golden Dolyak finisher really worth the embarrassing spectacle?
Is it worth anymore than the Dolyak finishers you’ll see from FA or HoD players? (not that we’re likely to see HoD anytime soon)

Maybe being on a server that had no expectations going into this was a boon; but I don’t see how the gloating and/or complaining is worth the dignity of either BG or JQ. (with full knowledge that the posters do not represent either as a whole)

It’s time to think about where you want to be in the post-season. Do you want to be part of the only server in the upper tiers that significantly increased it’s population during the Season; a community that brings the fight against any server, no matter the population?

The poster apparently hasn’t given a rip about WvW until the season started and seems to be a SoR fanboy with little insight on the realities of how Gold League is laid out and how much a difference coverage makes.

BTW: SoS was not bought off, unless you can prove that; in which case I got to find out what they did with my cut.

I can’t help but worry we are moving towards a pure condition meta like we saw at the end of GW1 regarding curses.
I also wonder at how both the Soldier classes are slowly siding towards becoming purely support classes. We’ll see if the trend continues.

The greatest irony will be if BG drops like a rock to 3rd after the season ends and ZDs goes back to EU.

It’s little things like this that are making/have made the season such a destructive force of nature.

Since it looks like the outcome has become/is becoming a forgone conclusion I think it’s safe to begin the autopsy on this fiasco.

scootshoot.6583:

Hickeroar.9734:

Chris.3290:

gebrechen.5643:

I’m really looking forward to season 2 and hoping ZDs is joining SoR or SoS or TC and we will see what happens.

ZDs joining SoR will create a giant snorefest for everyone and would break the game.

ZDs joining TC would probably put TC ahead of SoR. Already having anemic Oceanic and SEA, ZDs would start the day with everything in enemy hands and would spend their entire time doing PvD. If they like that kind of thing, then bless them.

ZDs joining SoS probably would have us take TC’s place (not enough to go T1 most likely) and they would be even more bored since we typically lead in T2 at the end of SEA. If we faced T3 or T4 they’d become expert spawncampers and/or catch up on their PvE.

The best thing for ZDs would be to head back when the season is over, since there is no where they can go that doesn’t unbalance NA.

It’d be interesting to raise SoS to the TC bar. TC has kinda been in that cliche “T1.5” position for a while and it’d be cool to give them some company there…as long as our NA queues didn’t start looking like theirs. /me shudders.

That said, I really love the relaxed culture and unique playstyle here on SoS, and anything that threatened that wouldn’t be welcome from my POV.

The next huge player purge will come 1st quarter 2014 when that other big name MMO releases. Won’t be surprised to see server tiers flip flop and drastically change hands when that time comes and it could be you SOS as the top dawg!

I know people who were in on the beta for said “undisclosed” MMO title; and I was not impressed with the looks or the execution.
Did you know that MLB Hall of Fame recipient Nolan Ryan is on the board of directors of the company producing that title (do not mistake it for the company that produced other “similar” titles)?
If the game included spitballs I’d be impressed.

Nah, something might take the place of this game and maybe some sort of PvP experience will come to compare; but for right now I’m hoping this game mode is improved upon and provides a great deal of entertainment for a long time to come.

Given that GW1 managed to keep my interest for many years, I’ll be very disappointed if this installment falls flat in less than 2.

gebrechen.5643:

I’m really looking forward to season 2 and hoping ZDs is joining SoR or SoS or TC and we will see what happens.

ZDs joining SoR will create a giant snorefest for everyone and would break the game.

ZDs joining TC would probably put TC ahead of SoR. Already having anemic Oceanic and SEA, ZDs would start the day with everything in enemy hands and would spend their entire time doing PvD. If they like that kind of thing, then bless them.

ZDs joining SoS probably would have us take TC’s place (not enough to go T1 most likely) and they would be even more bored since we typically lead in T2 at the end of SEA. If we faced T3 or T4 they’d become expert spawncampers and/or catch up on their PvE.

The best thing for ZDs would be to head back when the season is over, since there is no where they can go that doesn’t unbalance NA.

Maybe they miscalculated and were trying to have the thread down when BG passed JQ (just happened) to prevent PPT rage.

I don’t understand what sets off the triggers here. I’ve gotten deep in it for complimenting people (not snidely or condescendingly either) and guilds.

Silver league is way too top heavy. FA and SBI clearly belonged in the same fight club as the T2 servers but there was just no way to make that happen.

I just hope that they do not repeat this disaster because it’s clear we need time for things to shake out and the transfer madness to shake out.

I’m really looking forward to the post season and I think FA and SBI are going to lose a gear or two when they are forced to downshift.

Unfortunately I don’t see Maguuma and SoS tying unless Maguuma brings back it’s tryhard efforts from the preseason and week 1.

I don’t mind replacing existing creatures Living Story enemies (ie replace the Minotaurs with Toxics) but this addition doesn’t fit either the Living Story or the WvW framework.
There is no reason to go after centaurs and skritt in the borderlands; and the merc camps in EBG are high traffic attack routes, it’s just a frustration to have it there.

Kysin.6349:

Week 6 on roster for BG SoS and Mag… I have been ignoring the thought of it for some time now.

Something you might consider is what JQ did for giggles and made things interesting, have everyone go zerker.

I also recommend that you have an entire zerg on Mag BL, after reset of course, go solo roam across the entire map, just for giggles.