Guild Wars 2

Chris.3290:

Yes, SEA guilds please consider FA, ( what happened to UA and your OCX?)

From what I’ve heard uA’s members are now in either Sern or Meow.
And since all (or most) of SBI’s sea are thinking of leaving, might as well go to FA and balance out T2. SUPR already went to EU though.

No where did Anet EVER say that server population measure active player base. They’ve ALWAYS said that it measures the number of accounts tied to the server.

I’m planning on killing as many pve achievement hunters as I possibly can.

15-20 organized group vs a 30-40 organized group…. you have little chance no matter what you do. If the numbers are more equal then: dodging the melee train and dropping mass null fields and wells gets the job done.

If you think tier 2 is balanced… wow. The guilds haven’t even fully arrived yet.

Luvpie.8350:

SoS is not looking for any guilds right now for NA/Ocx.

Yet you proceeded to recruit One. GG

Doubt this is going to make T2 any more balanced. It was more balanced last week after one of FA’s off-peak guilds went inactive. The combination might change things considerably.

Comprissent.3856:

Chris.3290:

GH is a well-respected guild from anyone who’s ever played on or against Ehmry Bay. Kinda hard to slip under the radar there.

GH is amongst the biggest tower/siege huggers of a guild i’ve ever seen why would you say this

Because he’s in SoS??

Dayra.7405:

Match-Making cannot help. It’s just that there are 4 T2 servers and only 3 fit T2.

Wrong. There are 3 T2 servers and 3 T3 servers. However, one of the T3 servers is stuck in a tier 4 matchup (Dragonbrand). Until Dragonbrand gets enough rating to be paired up with SBI/Mag, Yak’s Bend (a tier 4 server) will have to endure fighting two Tier 3 servers. YB could help themselves by tanking their rating too.

For zerging: Guardian, Warrior, Ele, Necro
For roaming/small group: Warrior, Mesmer, Thief, Engineer
Rangers are really good for small group stuff too but the player needs to be good.

What part of random don’t you understand? Random means being red 7 times is entirely possible. Random also means that it won’t stay that way forever.

They’re working on spvp stuff. The wvw team is a subset of the spvp team.

I hear there’s more to come tomorrow!

Account bound wxp isn’t even a feature. It’s a fix. Why delay it?

Vladican.9620:

@Deli The AOE limit to 5 people (of most skills) is what I am referencing. I don’t believe this limit was in place right after launch which is the reason there were long, drawn out fights without always having a decisive victor.

Also, I don’t think voice coordination has really added any “strategy” to WvW in terms of head to head fighting. There is no way to get the zerg in any kind of military formation. From my experience it is always just blob warfare nowadays (mainly because of the 5 target limit of the AOE spells imo).

The aoe limit was in place since before launch. Those long, drawn out fights were a result of player stupidity due to inexperience. It is also quite clear that you haven’t even tried using your server’s voice-coms for WvW. I suggest you give it a try before you make more erroneous statements.

The difference between launch and now is that people have (on average) gotten better and more coordinated. Those zerg fights that lasted ages back during the first few months? Those were uncoordinated and were just a bunch of clueless people on both ends flinging stuff at each other. There were no commanders leading them, they weren’t on teamspeak to coordinate their attacks and everyone was in it for themselves. It was mindless.

Now? Coordinated, on voice-coms and people working as a team. Naturally, it means fights are more intense and fast paced making them end much quicker. You also get more bags now as a result. If I had to choose between the two, I pick the second (what it is now) because I get very fun, intense fights at a higher frequency.

I also have absolutely no idea what aoe changes you are talking about. The only one I know off is when they implemented the 5 target limit to several healing traits and warrior banners…. which helped discourage the stacking phenomenon at that time.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Sea of Sorrows has ALWAYS been the unofficial oceanic server – ever since before launch (don’t know what these others are saying)
We have a massive oceanic user base and there are a lot of guilds running around with the tag AUST or AUNZ. So definitely Sea of Sorrows. See you in game!

Majority of Oceanics from SoS have spread across other servers. A gigantic amount left and moved to Blackgate in Feb-March last year and a steady stream have been migrating to JQ and SoR since. SoS still has a big oceanic population, but not the biggest so I don’t know why they still call themselves the unofficial oceanic server. At least 2 other servers have bigger oceanic populations.

Nuzt.7894:

hurting the lower ranked servers that could use the lighter transfer costs.

Transfer cost isn’t the only reason why those servers don’t get transfers.

Q: Why are SoR guilds moving to JQ instead of strengthening a T2 server and bringing them up? NA is gonna end up having two Tier 1 servers with a rotating set of T2 servers getting blown out and having BG win by default no matter what. T1 is fun/balanced when there are three T1 servers, after all.

Blackgate has the biggest oceanic population but it’s full. Jade Quarry is the next biggest. Lots of people 24/7.

You need to transfer off BG, it’s as simple as it. Plenty of other, better servers out there. Unless you want to just freeload and karma train in WvW or something?

Try bottom tier servers. Mainly zergs in the servers ranked #1-18.

No it’s not over. In time more players will slowly (keyword: slowly) make their way from pve to wvw so the numbers will eventually grow again like what happened to Anvil Rock. They were where Kaineng is now but managed to pick themselves up. What you need is good leadership and cooperation.

By the way, BG and JQ desperately want you. They will pay for your transfer and more.

selan.8354:

lol u really dont know what its like to be a mesmer in wvw. veilbot. all of u talking about utilities. yeah its veil,tw, mayyyybe feedback which is useless in the current meta. all u do is put veil down and then afk while GWEN goes at it.
we got barely any aoe or any strong attacks that could make us useful in an actual zergfight, apart from veil. the only reason u got a mesmer with u is veil and tw and veil and veil again and veil.

This thread is not about how useful a mesmer is. It’s about mesmers being unable to tag as many people (read: nothing to do with their damage) as other classes. Which is stupid because if you trait for confusion/blind on glamours, your mesmer becomes a tag machine as well as fire sigil on gs like others have already stated.

There aren’t enough oceanic players to warrant Anet spending all that money on oceanic servers. Oceanic numbers are also the first to dry up in every online game so even if they did have it at launch, it would be pointless to have by now.

Maguuma cares about the score now?

Your fault for dropping down to Tier 5…..

Server A has 30+ people willing to do the night shift.
Server B has no one willing to do the night shift.
Server B gets night capped by Server A.
Whose fault is it?

WvW is extremely profitable. I get on average 1 exotic and 5 rares a day along with a crap load of blues/greens which gives a lot of mithril/silk/elder wood. The key is not dying and to be on voice coms.

The colours are assigned randomly. Just wait until Blackgate is given the colour that you need.

Seems legit to me. Guardians have access to a lot of condi removals and regen. When specced/geared correctly scepter does do a lot of damage. Your gear could use some work though.

They target the person with the highest armor.

Time for a new T1 server to rise imo.

SFR has the strongest morning crew in EU. Morning in Europe = oceanic prime time. Bare in mind that these players aren’t actually from oceanic countries, just early bird euros.
Desolation will be good for pve related things. They have some actual oceanic players. Don’t expect much during wvw, though they do have an Australian commander.

Not until April. They are intentionally delaying these updates according to this article: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2

Yak’s Bend… not surprised

All T1 servers get a steady stream of recruits. That’s why T1 is such a good place for guilds hoping to get big or get recruits to combat attrition. This isn’t specific to the current T1 servers. Back when it was SoS/SBI/JQ, all three got steady individual recruits as well.

I’m also pretty sure JQ is doing pretty darn good right now compared to what it was like during leagues.

Just buy the kitten dye from the Trading Post… god…

Mag and EP you mean.

FEAR has always been variable in their numbers. Sometimes 15-20. Sometimes 30-40.

albotelho.2931:

Yes we still have some great wvw focused guilds and they keep us pushing and having good fights, I am not sure about TW just heard they had some internal issues some weeks ago

I’m sure your guilds will get bored of the karma training at some point. When that happens, things will certainly be changing. Too bad Fannwong succumbed to his role playing fetish and moved to the dark side.

Reslinal.2359:

I heard Choo is also thinking about leaving, maybe to JQ…If that happens it would be best for SoR to drop tiers and rebuild.

That would be the most kittened move ever. If any of the SoR guilds are looking to move, they should be moving to a Tier 2 server that can rise up and replace SoR in T1. NA would be pretty kitten if there were only two T1 servers.

If there are no other commanders available and you’re the only one there willing to tag up, then they shouldn’t be complaining that you can’t use teamspeak.

However, if there is a commander capable of leading on teamspeak, you should let him/her take charge as it would allow your server to perform much, much better especially in open field fights (assuming the commander is competent).

King xiuras.3615:

3)I noticed that since the first league started TS became very popular (everyone wants to win, i can understand that). But it is going to have a negative point for me: when the season league is over, people are used to have TS and this fact causes that i lose my commander-imperium and Team-chat is about to die in the future (second league season etc.)

You should be embracing the fact that your server is becoming more organized and effective in WvW.

Mochann.5298:

I kill about 50 people a day

There’s your problem.

Don’t die. It’s just that simple.

Necromancer or Engineer. Warriors have a lot of damage and CC. Necro/Engi has lots of conditions. Both have great survivability and movement. Deadly combination imo.

Would you rather a blowout where your server has no chance?

What happened to Evennia??

Are either of you even on SoR lol. In order for SoR to drop out of Tier 1, it needs to shed it’s oceanic/sea guilds. That hasn’t happened yet. As long as their off-peak guilds remain, they’ll stay T1.

And of course BG will go full first. Long been established that it is the most populated server overall.

Even if Anet agrees, they won’t change it. They have too much pride to ever admit to a mistake.

In low tiers, EB is the only map that has action.

Tajz.9826:

Please come and have a tour at NA again I still remember a thrill of them when they were on JQ.

Who would want to play where they won’t get many (if at all) gvgs and will only be fighting pug blobs?

Seems like you’re already getting what you wanted. Those five servers are the ones you’ve fought most recently.