Let’s just be clear on a few things… BP hasn’t had any last-minute-scramble transfers yet. I promise, we will tell you if we do. [BURN] Seraphim Martyrs has been here forever, and if I was them, I’d be a little insulted that you only noticed them now. They are one of our biggest guilds, if not the biggest and incredibly dedicated to teh server. [Thug] Corporate Thugs aren’t new either. They have had a small handful of players (maybe 5) in here for ages, but they are mostly seen in PvE. If they are raising their WvW profile and recruiting, awesomesauce.
Our night crew is made up of a handful of Aussies and some narcoleptic EU and NA players. The folks you fight at night are the folks you fight during NA prime-time, sans sleep. This was something we started doing for survival against Dragonbrand. We couldn’t sustain it, and if you go back and look at the scores during that match up, you will see the exact moment when all the coffee, tea, and Red Bull wore off and we collectively passed out. We woke up that Tuesday to find ourselves in a hole we couldn’t climb out of and we basically rolled over and went back to sleep. Our biggest guild at the time, [KREW], left the next day for Dragonbrand, our first defection. That was an emotional blow we are only now recovering from.
We have not been playing to our full strength in the last 2-3 weeks. We queued EB and BP BL at reset, but that was the last queue we’ve seen since. There have been many times when we were trying to defend BP BL with only 10 people on the entire map, which in reality equates to about five players scrambling to try and see everything at once, three navel-gazing in the citadel, one guy screaming at us because we suck and never learn, and one asking for a mesmer to come to the jumping puzzle because he keeps falling.
Borlis lost around 400 players to other servers while in T5, but it seems we lost almost that much again do to burnout (see above lack of sleep) and frustration. People got tired of the constant pounding by T4 servers and others saw the drop to T6 as failure, and not the intentional withdrawal from T5 that it was. Still others decided that the only reason we were losing to Maguuma, et al, was because the PuGs couldn’t be trained and we were a waste of their time. These people assumed that if they stopped playing, we would be smashed and learn our place. We’ll this isn’t the thrashing they expected, and it seems our place is right where we are.
If you see our population suddenly swell, it is because those folks that threw their hands up and went to grind ascended rings might have heard that WvW is fun again.
The fact that WvW is fun again is a direct result of this match up. If you get frustrated that our numbers seem to confuse you, flipping erratically from minimal to whoa, you only have yourselves to blame. Stop being awesome, and they will probably go away again.
Losing guilds creates chaos, frustration, and despair, but from where I stand, it can also mean a fresh start. None of the teams in this tier are going to start spiraling down to T8. Not gonna happen. We’re probably not going to explode up the tiers anytime soon, either. I think we’re all pretty stable. We’re not good enough to draw bandwagoners, and not bad enough to draw mercenaries.
That means BP/AR/NSP are going to be eyeball-to-eyeball for a while, so let’s just have fun.
