Guild Wars 2

Also can someone please post a score update.

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Part of the problem is all the BG members coming here with denial, excuses and no word of remorse. It’s all about image, for example SoR had a hacker they got him banned, apologized and showed how they worked to eradicate it. All BG members seem to do is come up with the same poor excuses and it wasnt me QQ posts. they show nothing of what they are doing to combat it. Hence why BG has a bad rep and SoR didnt loose theirs at all.

Where is kitten of map chat asking people not to take portals, to give back keeps, of reporting members. Zero, just some guild leader saying we don’t condone hacking. Poor!

It’s all a shame because what sounded like a great week has been tainted by this issue.

Test from SoR? Hoping that is a typo and you meant IoJ

*worst reputation for hacking - check
*substantial evidence of major hacking and then contribution from community - check
*defensive responses from innocent community members - check
*evidence of attempt to eradicate the problem - uncheck

It’s hard to build a positive image but very easy to fall into a negative one. It’s even harder building a negative image into a positive one. Good luck beastgate at fixing your problem. - My suggstion would be to stop crying wolf and do something about your "problem children".

IoJ building a great W3 community with long standing regular members and starting to build rivalry with SoS and SoR. No ques accept for 2 hours after reset for 20 mins or so. We have good coverage due to being a unofficial Oceanic server and we have a Fun PvE environement as well with lots of PuG groups runnign dungeons every minute announcing in LA at any time of the day.

Im hearing a lot of excuses QQ, bring back the Biff SoR!! You know you can!!!
Who cares if the matchups are the same each week?
Why is it boring? On other games its always the same because all your fighting is the same people on the same server all the time. When IoJ get demoted to Teir 3 we roflstomp and play Zerg v Door the entrie week. I would much prefer to play this same matchup each week then vDoor.

On another note
Why do I die instantly as soon as I face a PRX zerg? I die to metor shower in less than a second and I dont see the graphic of it. That never happens with anyone else and I am sure i dont destroy someone in a split second when I cast the same effect.

Anyone else face this problem? Sorry for my newbness if its a simple explanation.

IoJ is an unofficial Oceanic server so it has a huge community of people playing at the times you say you play. It seems to be an older crowd and mature most of the time, although you wont avoid kitten remarks and trolls in any mmo community these days. Its a heavily PvE oriented server with calls in LA for pugs to do dungeons every 10 seconds throughout a long period of time.

We are a teir 2/3 W3 server and have an active community in W3. We only have short ques on W3 reset because it is oceanic sat morning and friday night US primetime. It last for 2 hours at worst but after that the ques drop away so you can choose what map you want for the reset of the week.

We recently implemented a server wide TS3 server for W3 and have our own forums. isleofjanthir.net to promote discussion for improvement for our community not just w3.

I really beleive we are what you are looking for mate. We have only had one or two major guilds xfer to us ever so our pop has remained steady and the community has formed strong bonds with familiar faces since release.

All the best with your decision.

put the jumping puzzle in an overflow que for people who are waiting. Why the fook is it in a PvP environment anway….

IoJ IS and always was a nominated unofficial Oceanic server, as is SeaofSorrows. We have a huge Oceanic community but you will find a lot of them are very casual /PvE’ers and therfore depending on what season, public holiday and in game PvE event is running our numbers will fluctuate greatly.

Still been a good match but am very surprised to see SoR die off the pace so quickly, even in prime time USA.

PS – btw very suspiciously there was 5 rams built inside SoR borderland Bay just before it was capped. Either way whoever did it was being a pain to drain our supply. Shame on you, whoever it was.

Daish I kind of agree with you but with a little more thought put into it than that and a redesign.

They (anet) should have average W3 pops data by now. So for example at 7pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time) W3 would average 20k players whilst in comparision US CST would have 100k (just for arguement sake)

Then all they would need to do is create a system that dropped the amount of maximum players that can play w3 at certain times however they do this could be thought about to make it streamed line.

Ques would occur during oceanic primetime due to them being on 3 servers only but the W3’ers would just xfer to a more available server and average out the numbers a littl more just like what is happenign now in NA primetime.

Dia

Eternal Battlegrounds for the first 2.5 hours after reset from a IoJ poi.

SoS once again seem very organised and have mini and effective parties all over the map in defence and attack. Always turning up at the right time in numbers to stop a Supply from being capped before tick. SoS and SoR have been at it a bit more than usual even though IoJ took SM Castle first which is weird. SoS although dominated with points early on once again took the lead with very intellegent Dolyak and capture point snipping along with the smart" Flip on Tick" supply camp capping stratergy they emply so well. SoS seem to work so well together and it is a shame they didnt get their shot at Teir 1 where I believe they would get beat but only at the expense of learning and beign back bigger and stronger next time. SoS has very solid defensive technique and it feels like with 6 or 7 defenders they can hold off a zerg of 30+ for a long periods of time. Once again they were into their favourite techniwue of trebbing anything in thier line of sight for easy caps on tick and constant applying of pressure to not allow a keep to be upgraded.

SoR started points well kepeing up with the lead but seem to loose their way about 45 mins into battle, they took and held pangs with large numbers very often and committed a lot of men to this cause. They took Veloka very briefly for one tick of points but lost it fairly quickly. Although this tactic of camping Pangs seemed to help SoS more than themselves as it drew our men away from SoS raids and onto defence. They made little very profit out of this time. Maybe they are playing for the long run in mind and stopping IoJ upgrades to veloka and Ogre. I noticed yellow swords around the border of SoS and SoR fairly often which wasnt seen to often last week. Maybe SoR has realised that they need to hit SoS to have a chance of winning this week. Giving them free run over IoJ helped SoS take their lead with constant attacks on AnZ and Mendons occuring thought the week with huge numbers. SoR has lost a little bit of early ground this week, their superior Euro Crew will get them back in it I am sure.

IoJ has had a push for better communications over the past 2 weeks, holding meetings and trying to work out a system to best utilise our Malitia (PuG’s) You see we have a huge pop of casual players that just enjoy a beat out every now and then. This is a work in progress but pushes should see us to improve tactically over the next months. Okay onto our strat. We had a few crews on defence a little more comms and we pushed into SoS territory regular to apply pressure to them since they kept hitting SM with Trebs, at all times they were up to the task wiping out wave of wave of IoJ’eans We defended Speldans often and realised we needed to escort Yaks to get upgrades. SoR was a constant pain in our bottom with attacks on Pangs being litterly every tick. They sucked up a lot of our resources trying to get these back because they had seige up in there making it very difficult to win back without large numbers comitting.

After falling into second place eventually our borderlands won back what we theirs and we took a points lead over SoR and SoS for the first time in 2 weeks . A solid 200 over SoS and 700 over SoR. Nothing at this stage in the game. But this is no coincidence, we have much better comms now and hopefully this will be the renewal of IoJ we on IoJ having been hoping and working for all week.

Rally really looking forward to the rest of the week guys, enjoy it all and may the team that has the most fun win. (in their minds at least.)

Dia – IsleofJanthir

PS – SoS took the SM Castle off us at this point and slowly clawed back to the lead but its at the 3 hour mark where they took over.

SoS all class this week, dont care what guilds are doing well or not, who cares what people say about PRX. Pretty much all your timezones are organised and do well even when you have low numbers. Also SoR very tidy NA primetime team. Props to you guys, I have even seen you guys improve in organisation from the begging of this week until the last couple of days (late NA primetime)

I am an IoJ’er and its a shame but we have been missing in action since Halloween. We lost a lot of people to W3 and I believe its a combination of a lot of things, but mainly because we are terribly unorganised and its just not fun being in W3 when you are not part of a organsised guild. I did an experiment this week to see what it would be like to play as a PuG or even do some out of guild primetime W3’ing and it was a terrible experience.

This week has seen some progress for ioJ hoever and we finally have some unity starting to occur. Unofortunately next week will prob be 2 weeks too early for a competitve IoJ in a rematch. But in 2 weeks I see us being a T2 strong competitor with occasional T1 visits again.

People are starting to agree on things and communication is on the improve.

Looking forward to next week again anway and hopefully we can have an even closer matchup.

Dia

One persons QQ does not represent an entire server, you look even worse than the QQ’er when you accuse the entire server based on their opinion.

IoJ are loosing because SoS and SoR are better communicators and therfore better tactically, simple as. NA Primetime on a saturday night and no queue for EB, seems you already broke our pugs spirits so now we are queueless and clueless.

Congratulations you win at the internet. Give yourself a skippy badge!

Dia – IoJ

Keep the score and battle upates coming, this weeks T1 looks amazing so far so close by the looks of things. Wish I was a traitor and could come enjoy it. Alas i am not a server hoping scum i will stick it out on IoJ and hope we can implement the imporvements we are planning and make a come back shortly.

Can’t wait for both these matchups. I want to see if BG can dominate early like they did last time and if they can adapt to whatever it was that turned the tide. Also IoJ (where I am from) will wake a little I am sure but how much I am as interested to know as anyone else.

Wow the absolute worst post I have read on here since release.
Terrible ideas, must be a troll or something i am not aloud to say without getting banned.

Dia

IoJ has a huge casual W3 pop. We are only starting to see some hardcore W3 guids start to emerge now. You can think whatever you want about this weeks performance of a server you have absolutely no knowledge of. I am only interested to see if your server and you have the same opinion come end of next matchup. Bring it.

Sorry as much as i respect WM and what they can do, I have been on the recieving end of two WM Portal bombs and this was done BEFORE the Blackgate matchup so to say you dont do it is rubbish. I dont think it was unfair or wrong, just the fact your claiming WM didnt and dont use Portal bombing/turtling when they clearly do in some circumstances.

You dont get better gear but your level is upgraded to level 80 in W3. I am pretty sure this has not changed.

Whoever dissed IoJ, I wonder if they really are on our server. One person with a rude response does not represent the entire server. In fact I have had the complete opposite response from people, where if you take the time to explain and send them to our forums they are thankful. Actually the best thing we have going for our server is the people that are willing to be educated. The problem is we just have not done it well yet (educate). Its being worked on right now by the guild W3 leader community and a post will be up soon on our forums.

We have had a major problem with communication but it has been improving and it is comming, people are working on that. I spoke to one guy that is writting a script to automatically announce in /map in LA inviting people to IoJ.net forums / TS.

We do not have ques, we only had ques once that I know of and that was when we were promoted to tier1 and only at the start of the matchup. We have good coverage accross the board although we lack the Euro time slot guild which would be nice.

IoJ needs work but we are not a lost cause as some people here have described us. It would be an excellent option for a guild looking for a great PvE community as well as a strongly developing W3 community. Regardless of how we made it, we made T1 and held our own for the first 4 / 5 days.

The problem is we have a huge percentage of casual W3’ers so educating is taking longer than the top servers (where we have always remained). Its happening as I have said and IoJ would be a great location for any W3 dedicated guild to move to as we still need a little more coverage outsdie of east cost NA primetime.

What would be good for IoJ would be:
100 more regular USA Westcoast players
50 more Eastcoast Aussies W3’ers
150 more Asian timezone
500 more Euro timezone

Diashame – IsleofJanthir

IoJ and SoS in T2 this week. GL and hopefully it can be a fun week just like this week was for both of us.

What a terrible time to go on holidays for a week!!! Played the first 2 days where it was the best W3 to date, IoJ was playing its best since the server started and we still have aloooooooooooooot to learn and improve. We will be back I guarantee it!!

Well done everyone on what is safe to say the best w3 matchup to date and gratz SBI on the comeback win.
WM – I have so much respect for your guild and the way you play the game. The pressure you apply to your opposition is amazing and when in even numbers fights you always steamroll. Hats off!!

Matches should be seperated into two completley different ranking systems:
3 day (weekend) Normal Friday reset for 72 hours
4 day (weekday) Monday reset until Friday reset

Two completely independant ranking and matchups.

Brilliant first 10 hours of battle. The scores couldnt be much closer, will be interesting to see how the scores end up after Asia prime time. I believe SB and JQQ have a solid community at this time whilst IoJ only has a medium pop. Will see….

AgreeAgree, one day matches. I think the biggest problem with w3 is people and there lack of stamina when loosing.
When you (Anet)get a point system that works and mechanics that stops people quitting W3 until the next week starts I dont think 1 week matches are very healthy.

Things need to be implemented to help the loosing sides to catchup and prevent Champagne gamers only playing when their teams are winning.

• Give people some form of Karma for playing during bad times so everyone gets incentives to get in there and stick with it.
• Agree on orbs role change, they should be for PvE stat improvements not to buff combat ability.
• There should be extra tasks triggerable for winning server to help drain the numbers from W3 battle.
• Remove all mechanics that punish you for playing when loosing, like cash syncs.
• Greatly increase the rewards for defending a keep when you are outmanned. So atleast people will get in their and give it a go to defend.

Dia

Everquest is not dead, they just released expansion pack 19. I have stopped playing it because they have changed the game to be MORE like todays games. It lasted 7 years as the number one MMO game. It offends me you put it on the death of list :P

Was and will always be the best ever MMO, GW2 is the next best imo.

I am an Aussie living in NA time zone and think that a lot of these shut W3 down outside my play time are incredibly selfish. The QQ’ing is completly pathetic. I read one response that said the servers are in NA so they should be cattered for NA’s only. Did the guy who wrote that read it again later then off himself because he realised how stupid it was? All the threats of leaving and statements of w3 being dead are rubbish. W3 is in a very healthy state, the servers are full with queues on the top 6 servers and a healthy battle rages almost 24 hours a day.

This comes down to one single issue, the me generation wanting to win or not play. How about just enjoying the time you have in the game and trying to dominate during your time and forget about the point system. Some weeks you will be out manned in night shifts but eventually the server ranking system will see the servers with the so called unfair advantage pitted against each other most weeks. There is a very very simple solution to all those that are highly competitive and have to win to enjoy the game. Server transfer to a winning server that can backup your hard work during the day. Believe me its not going to hurt your server because you will find your only 1 of 1000 people out of 3 million that actually give a kitten about winning so much.

Dia