Guild Wars 2

Not to sound rude, but people like you jumping ship has led us to fall in organization and #s.

I’ll be thurr. Any set times?

Pinko.2076:

CrassBippy.4619:

I was there last night, noone else was. Fought a few maguma 1v1, they weren’t really Pvp types so it was pretty lopsided fights

That’s interesting because kitten and OG were there last night and I think I counted 2 losses from 30ish matches. The score really doesn’t matter because we want Fight Club to be inclusive, but you should come around in prime time for good fights. If you’re on now, I think a bunch of WaR is there.

Fought a asura necro from kitten and won on maguuma bl, was 2v1 at the end with a low level. Invited the commander and talked a bit, then got murder ganked. Ya I’m at work right now, makin bread yo. I’ll check bls south camp tonight for fights

Pinko.2076:

Mach Me.6520:

So to recap… some yaks are better than some maguuma and some maguuma are better than some yaks… so lets put our money where our mouth is how about we get pvp matches going since ive always wanted to see two golems go at it… sorry ioj i have only seen 3 of you this week

Mag has been doing fight nights every night this week. Sometimes 24 hours at a time. It’s mostly the IoJ guys that show up. Getting yaks to show up is like pulling teeth – mostly it’s just triggerless that comes.

We did two golems vs triggerless when we were exceptionally bored, but I think that one ended in a draw.

I was there last night, noone else was. Fought a few maguma 1v1, they weren’t really Pvp types so it was pretty lopsided fights

check out this mad skillz by zerguuma. mostly [ILL] [ME] and some others. I miss old maguuma

http://postimage.org/delete/tf4az2vz0/

new name, zerguuma? fight club?

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

Upgrade Emerald Pendant to Ascended Knight Amulet.
Upgrade Ruby Pendant to Ascended Beserker Amulet.
Upgrade Sapphire Pendant to Ascended Shamens Amulet.

Upgrade Triforge to a uniquly named Ascended Celestial Amulet. (That shouldn’t be obtainable elsewhere easily).

I want to know whats going to happen to weapons like Foefires Essence and Volcanus, as these require a lot of resources to make and would be tedious if they stayed as exotic. IMO these should be easily upgradable to Ascended.

Just copy the skin…. you knew things like this were coming

TYRIA TREMBLES!!!!! people will forget about you after one day, welcome to the Internet!

Prestige won’t be retroactive. I don’t think it should be, and I’ve been wvw’n for a long time

Lahm.7056:

This thread is directed to whoever is thinking in joining a T1 server or a server with big potential of reaching T1 before transfer fees are implemented, then seriously reconsider it first. Here is my story for anyone interested to know fundamental facts and experiences that might serve for you to decide otherwise in this situation.

I play WvW 90% of the time I’m logged and I have helped and witnessed my server (Seafarer’s Rest) raising from low-mid tiers to tier 2 with a medium populated server, organization and tactical thinking was the key to success, it was quality over quantity considering most of the servers we went against were normally bigger in numbers but even still we managed to hold our grounds and slowly rise to top tiers, when we eventually reached T2.

Our WvW community was aware of how difficult it would be from there on, so like any other server in ascension was doing at the time, we resorted to recruiting in other servers, including NA servers, after a few days we had a large influx of guilds who were able to give the server a nearly 24h coverage which made the fight in T2 much more easy, thus we won and it was finally the time to meet the big ‘sharks’, the top tier and holy grail of WvW, but it wasn’t really that, no.

It was an utter disappointment, everything I thought T1 would be, just backfired miserably when you see enemy zergs so large and clustered that they sweep anything on their way without contest because the culling and skill lag makes it very difficult to act, anything you’d try to achieve with smaller numbers and tactics would just be blown out by the endless zerging which is the main aspect and defines T1 – Zerging.

Honestly, I hated the fact that this server was corrupted by the need of resorting to outside help to reach this state, I find myself having a lot difficulties having fun whenever I try to do anything alone or with my guild group, everything is easily undone by the zerg, it’s a powerless feeling and the lack of satisfaction that I’m actually not contributing a nickel when I used to think otherwise in the past when it mattered what you’d to raise potential points.

Bottom line is, if you want to have fun, don’t think that high tiers will be more entertaining or more competitive, there is nothing competitive about being in T1 other than who has the bigger zerg and outlags the other server to death, guerrila tactics do not apply here, the zerg tactic prevails in every possible way.

I find it a shame that after playing in this server since the start to see myself with the need of changing because of this frustrating situation.

Not to burst your bubble but no server has “rose to the top” with lesser #s. don’t know why servers always want to claim this

These fixes are pointless. Ok sooooo a Zerg can’t use aoe then? Would you prefer a Zerg aoes a door and you cannot go through anymore due to their sheer numbers? Removing a cap won’t solve anything besides make a lot more people die since aoe does high damage

katniss.6735:

crem.2615:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007yGL2Ps_U

y for the fodder maguuma.

Looks like fun. Those are the pubbies, though. Uplevels. Go to the boarderlands if you want to fight our roamers. Decent music.

Ugh no one likes to watch thieves just spam CnD.

I wish the 10 people in attendance luck

Legendaries don’t inspire awe to anyone who sees them. So if you want to mindless grind/buy gold go for it. But only do it for yourself cause the rest of us don’t care

just don’t worry about it, you don’t NEED the legendary. if its unobtainable then don’t bother. Not really an issue here

If anything this shows you just how abusive stealth can be

Queuing to a dif BL will kill you if in combat

It’s going to suck be be in top tier servers with all the people jumping ship there. Queues are going to be awful

Ugh grind house? You mean the group of 4 that do nothing but abuse thief stealth? Mad skilllz

Greenery.2580:

Altie.4571:

I feel bad for the IoJ people that are left. The ones that bailed were mostly the ones that continuously talked about how hard core the players were and how much server pride they had. Those types of personalities usually rank very low on my list.

Think of it this way though, the people that are left truly do care. You are lucky to weed out anything bad now. We had the same happen at CD when SoR and SoS roflstomped us. Since then we have slowly recovered and have a decent WvW population that is here to stay. That is invaluable. The ones you gain from now on are going to be there for the long haul.

Good luck.

The deal with why our dedicated WvW guilds left IoJ is because we had enough of the constant losses that it had reached to its breaking point. For the past several weeks, IoJ had managed to control only two borderlands (IoJ border and EBG) at a time and even with two borderlands on our hands, if we even bother to try to invade third border, we had risks of losing our own borderland as we don’t have enough people.

Some guilds tried to recruit our very own server to come and assist us in WvW, even one guild dared to reached out to other servers and recruit for IoJ but not fruitful enough. Some of our active WvW players even offered to teach those who are new to WvW but the response we get from IoJ are very low. Most of us are tired already, we’ve been burned out so many times but yet we still remain in IoJ up till now.

If server lockdown is delayed after the WvW upcoming updates in February, some of those guild might still be staying at IoJ. Perhaps the February updates will entice IoJ PvE players if the rewards for WvW are appealing to them.

Can’t beat EM? Join EM! I don’t see how this would make anyone feel ok…. How is that fun? If anything it’s fun to fight for wins, not just join an already winning server and pvdoor

zastari.1730:

Pretty Pixie.8603:

russia.9057:

Pretty Pixie.8603:

To people looking for an explanation to Yak’s poor opener: There was overconfidence, followed by a lot of new militia who are still finding their feet. The large Militia numbers were because of a recent PvE engagement drive, and possibly individual transfers of people looking for community first.

So the reason YB is losing is because YB beat themselves? I think the real reason Yaks had a poor opener is because Yaks’ lack of skill in the face of even numbers has been completely and utterly exposed.

If that explanation appeals more to your ego, go with that. Its quite revisionist considering Yak’s earlier matches against Maguuma and other higher tiered servers, but your demonstrated attitude leads me to believe that that won’t deter you.

Which matches? The ones where you rolled us because your population was much higher? Maybe the one where we won because your server didn’t understand how to cope against Dragonbrand?

As someone who has been on YB for quite some time, I dont remember ANY of our commanders lately, there is no set WVW guilds that I ever see in decent numbers besides (hell) and (CL). We dont even put up trebs on our garrison mountain tops to treb dreaming bay or hills anymore. My only explanation is that we lost alot of our wvwvw focused people. Sadly I feel like we are a mindless zerg server, minus the large zerg numbers of some other servers.

YB feels very different then it did a couple weeks ago. Oh well

Pinko.2076:

It’s funny to see people say we’re a mindless zerg when we took your entire borderland in 15 (10?) minutes on reset and both our servers were in a queue there.

yes because you whipe entire BL’s with small numbers…. obvs. and how do you know we had a queue on our BL?

dreztina.4820:

Two weeks away and I forgot how much I hated Yak’s Bend. The numbers might not be there anymore, but the mentality hasn’t changed a bit. Still the most unpleasant zerg server I’ve ever had the misfortune of being matched against.

uhhh? haha ok…. clearly we are the zerg server, our bad

PS jesus what a zerg server you are now haha. i dont recognize any of the guilds. At least things should settle once xfers cost money i guess

Well Maguuma, I’ll call you guys a “Zerg server” now, but honestly youre one of the like 2 servers I respected from previous fights since you guys usually had some organized guild groups in wvwvw. whenever i fougt CD or dragonbrand noone really stood out to me, but your server always had some good players that did.

But now youre just a zerg server! SO HAH! !!!!1!1!1111!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hint: it’s not fun, which is why a lot of people don’t care
About it.

Lady Vireo.5189:

Every time this topic comes up, I just have to post in support of removing WvW from map completion.

Anytime PvE and PvP/WvW achievements are combined this way, it makes a lot of players unhappy.

It’s not that we can’t complete the achievement, it’s that we don’t enjoy the activity required to complete it. It’s not fun. Anytime the game forces you to do something you wouldn’t have chosen to do, just to get from point A to point B, it’s grindy.

Also, guesting is coming on the 28th and you will no longer be able to switch servers to finish map completion, without paying for it in gems.This will make it a lot more difficult.

I know it’s often argued that map completion is optional. But I think it’s important to acknowledge it’s an achievement designed to appeal to PvE players, so it’s counter-intuitive to force them to PvP to do it. Not being able to finish something robs players of satisfaction. That’s true of a lot of things right now, as the game stands. Take the personal storyline, designed for people who like to solo. Oh, guess what, you can’t actually finish it by yourself. You have to PUG a dungeon! If this is an attempt by Anet to encourage players to branch out of their chosen playstyle and cooperate, it’s not working for everyone. In many cases, it just makes people frustrated.

The major formats of the game—PvP, PvE, WvW—should not be interwoven that closely, IMO. We should always get to choose which one we want to participate in.

I absolutely support separate achievements for WvW, along the lines of suggestions that have already been made here on the forums many times. Good badge rewards for completing WvW POIs and vistas, instead of counting toward map completion, separate daily/monthly for WvW, etc.

Edit: I just wanted to add, I am okay with the pursuit of a legendary requiring WvW. That’s the point of a legendary, to show mastery of the whole game. Not so with world completion…I feel like the whole point of that achievement caters toward the lore-oriented, smell-the-roses explorer type of player who may or may not enjoy beating up fellow players.

I LOVE these responses. You do realize that this is how every single “Pvp” minded person has bad to deal with for every game right? Now you know how we feel. Pvp is jus monsters that are smart… a lot more fun then endlessly grinding for a shiny back piece that spews fake snow.

I look forward to effortlessly killing you in wvw!

it hasn’t changed, it just sometimes won’t remove cripple AND another cond. depends on what order the cond are in. Sometimes removed both, sometimes doesnt

Esoteric.5490:

Tekren.4580:

They won’t do that just like how daoc added titles people that had a million kills didn’t get there points grandfathered in. They had to start from 0 like everyone else. Which in my opinion is the right thing to do.

I disagree. Players who have busted their tail for months would be on the same level as someone who abandoned the game or has never WvW’d before. That’s nonsense. I spend countless hours in WvW daily and all of us would have nothing to show for that. ANet would have to add it retroactively if it isn’t original design because I promise you that there would be an uproar.

You have badges, everyone should start at 0. Can’t complain since you were wvwin for fun right?

nalenb.1425:

8:30 am MST

DB 195572 – 545
YB 116382 – 45
EB 99664 – 105

Lol can’t wait till DB leaves this tier. lousy YB having jobs and working! IT WILL BE OUR DOWNFALL

Of course it is. Burn the witch!

That was so sad to watch, why did they sit there? Haha. This is why I laugh when people complain about “zergs”

Darkdanjal.3401:

Exiled.6901:

Vol.5241:

Exiled.6901:

ColinJohanson.2394:

However, there are some achievements which are infinitely repeatable currently. It is highly likely so this new system isn’t broken we’ll need to cap those and people who have made insane progress down one of those lines will lose some of their progress to get back to the cap. I wouldn’t recommend anyone go bonkers trying to progress an infinitely repeatable achievement category in anticipation of the release of this system, as you will likely lose some points/progress if you take it to an extreme number.

If that happens at any time of updates, I am instantly quitting gw2. You should make count only done achievements and omit repeatable achievements. Stop taking achieved things from people who spent significant time doing them.

If you’re going to quit the game over a measley achievement system, then perhaps you shouldn’t be playing the game to begin with

Well who are you to tell me what to play this game for? Its obvious different people play for different reasons. I like making achievement points so this thing is important for me.

I think Exiled is right here, people spending so much time on achievement points and then being stripped of them is wrong, there are some players in my guild that didnt miss one daily, and were/are achievement hunters, at least they should be rewarded accordingly.

They did that knowing the points were just a #, so how are they “losing out”. a new system is being made to reward doin things, sounds like they just want a head start

Too everyone asking for pve in wvwvw. Understand that wvwvw is for us pvpers, I agree that people sittin around killing a grub doesn’t really belong. I don’t mind the oak hearts since you can sort of use them, but you have a giant world to fight bosses in. If you don’t want to Pvp, just kill bosses elsewhere

kanikani.2430:

I’m just glad they are updating maps to keep things fresh/interesting and putting such a strong focus on fixing bugs/exploits…..oh wait they are not.

Overall I would say they whole thing is rather disappointing (not just wvw) from the stand point of this being the next six months (thats it really?). But I kind of expected this already so not really disappointed.

I don’t really see any of this keeping the game from dieing like it has been, but oh well other games are coming out soon. And for Colin we all appreciate a couple of pages of investor bs/pr spin/useless hype.

Games not dying, doors that way

Leader boards for most time defending a fort? that’s good…. Stop jumping to conclusions. it’s all good ideas as long as its implemented right

No thanks, it’s already turning into an awful pageant show with glaring back pieces and glittery swords. We don’t need the worlds denizens to turn into some horrible mish mash of armor and crazy looking animals being rode around. Lets try to keep the world reasonable

I actually would like to apologize for dancing on FTF corpses tonight at YBBL, I feel bad, and would like to allow you all to dance on my corpse. [FIST] on YB. dance on us, we deserve it.

-signed, guy with a guilty conscience

Legendaries basically just say “look at how much gems I bought!” To me. But if they were skill based, like say Pvp rewards, people would kitten that they can’t get them

Wizardauz.3761:

You guys keep assuming for ehmry bay like you know something about us?

let me say some of us are very indifferent to the score as of late. we play for the love and the fun

plus ehmry bay is still the server i’ve found to be almost unchallenged in open combat effectiveness. i always see ebay push and successfully slaughter your zergs with significantly lower numbers on a regular basis. Too bad it does nothing for your score.

see you on the battlefield

- FTF

Oh rearry? I see a lot of FTF but they are usually nestled in the grass taking sweet pillowy naps.

zzz waffles zzz puppy’s

Evalana.5480:

Score Update:

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Sigh, this image sums up a lot of things

This game just isn’t for you I think, because your points aren’t true at all for me. and Pvp is fairly balanced

This would not be fun to play, sorry

A WP at max costs like what, 3 sold items you picked up? It’s a very minor cost, go do a COF path 1 run that takes 8 minutes. That’s like 50 waypoint travels right there.

I think more stats is bad. You can already do ridiculous amounts of damage. Don’t need more

Watched the vid, 2nd and third fight are just ugh. Get more vids and edit it down to just good fights. I stopped watching because of how awful the other players were, not that you did anything wrong. As a thief, you’re going to need to get some kitten footage to wow people

I wreck thieves, let people whine. They’ll eventually find ways to counter them. every class can wreck people if built right, so it will always be something

I wreck thieves, let people whine. They’ll eventually find ways to counter them. every class can wreck people if built right, so it will always be something

I main a warrior an the frenzy build is only good for that first burst and that’s it, after that you’re a sitting duck. Fun murdering “zergs” though. Slowly people will realize that a mass of uncoordinated people isn’t as unbeatable as they think