Guild Wars 2

tiramisu.8706:

It’s not poking eyes out. Does being called bad or dumpster make you feel terrible about yourself? I hope it doesn’t. It’s just words from a forum. A game forum. If anyone really does get affected by such words, please take a break from this thread.

Well said. People take the forums and the game way to seriously. I take comfort in knowing that for many of the forum trolls, if I met them in real life, it would be as they cleared my table or took my keys to park my car so why begrudge a little electronic gloating.

KStudios.2850:

Dio.2394:

Archer.1658:

Dio.2394:

Archer.1658:

They are invisible of course that’s the only possible explanation. Surely you aren’t accusing ebay of something like this, when BP is known to glitch into towers/keeps?

You always say this yet I have never seen a screen shot or details of an actual instance from you or anyone else and I have never read of anyone else accusing BP of this. (Much less never heard of anyone on BP admitting to this or having knowledge of someone on BP doing this.)

I think its only well-known in your mind. Put up some evidence.

You can’t post it on the forums, or you’ll get a ban for character assassination. I already sent in multiple screenshots of Kalkz doing it with his mesmer “buddy” who took off his guild tag. This happened like two weeks ago. All I got from the support was “we’ll look into it”. Feel free to believe what you like, BP has known glitchers.

In fact, a perfect example was when servers went down like 5 weeks ago, and BP capped hills in a matter of seconds, when we had just recapped it before servers went down. Considering there was no mesmer inside ofc due to the server kicking everyone out, BP clearly glitched inside.

I can’t speak to the Kaltz accusation, so i won’t.

The second item sounds fishy. Let me check my understanding of what happened. The servers went down, was that the BG servers or the world servers? How long were they down for?

Everyone was kicked: everyone ended up in Lion’s Arch or everyone was kicked out of the game?

What I want to get at is:
a) how do you know everyone was kicked? I have been in bgs where large numbers of players were kicked but not everyone.
b) how do you know everyone came up at the same time. Is it possible BP players were able to enter the BGs a few minutes before EB players?
c) Since Ebay had “just capped” hills, how do you know the “re-capping” wasn’t simply a roll back to before EBay had capped?
d) If it did happen in “seconds” then it would seem like someone would have had to hack there way into the lords room and then instantly kill everyone with a hack as well as solo player, even glitching thru walls, would not have enough time to run back, glitch thru, run to the lords room and kill everything in a matter of seconds. Is that sort of hacking even possible?

My memory of the incident was that it was a NA-wide WvW drop due to an upgrade patch being uploaded. It admittedly could have been “roll-back” related. As to my knowledge we really have no notion of just when the servers “save” their current settings prior to patch implementation. It could be seconds, it could conceivably be minutes (though one would certainly hope this is not the case). In which case it could just be chalked up to horrible luck on our end.

That “when does the pre-patch save occur?” is the key question that would need to be answered before anything could be proven or disproven conclusively. Who knows, maybe from now on, just prior to patch implementation we should all just meet somewhere and merely kick back for a few minutes. Seeing as it’s quite possible anything taken or retaken just minutes prior to the “big boot” may not even be accounted for.

The inner-workings and hidden mechanisms of the servers are a great mystery. The patching here is a little different than in other games I have played in that the patching seems to sometimes be a roll-over event for the servers and sometimes only for the clients. I know that I have gotten that little reboot countdown message and been kicked when the time expires, but I have also simply shut down and restarted my client when the message first comes up and gotten back in before the timer would have expired. I would love to know how it all works under the hood.

Archer.1658:

Dio.2394:

Archer.1658:

They are invisible of course that’s the only possible explanation. Surely you aren’t accusing ebay of something like this, when BP is known to glitch into towers/keeps?

You always say this yet I have never seen a screen shot or details of an actual instance from you or anyone else and I have never read of anyone else accusing BP of this. (Much less never heard of anyone on BP admitting to this or having knowledge of someone on BP doing this.)

I think its only well-known in your mind. Put up some evidence.

You can’t post it on the forums, or you’ll get a ban for character assassination. I already sent in multiple screenshots of Kalkz doing it with his mesmer “buddy” who took off his guild tag. This happened like two weeks ago. All I got from the support was “we’ll look into it”. Feel free to believe what you like, BP has known glitchers.

In fact, a perfect example was when servers went down like 5 weeks ago, and BP capped hills in a matter of seconds, when we had just recapped it before servers went down. Considering there was no mesmer inside ofc due to the server kicking everyone out, BP clearly glitched inside.

I can’t speak to the Kaltz accusation, so i won’t.

The second item sounds fishy. Let me check my understanding of what happened. The servers went down, was that the BG servers or the world servers? How long were they down for?

Everyone was kicked: everyone ended up in Lion’s Arch or everyone was kicked out of the game?

What I want to get at is:
a) how do you know everyone was kicked? I have been in bgs where large numbers of players were kicked but not everyone.
b) how do you know everyone came up at the same time. Is it possible BP players were able to enter the BGs a few minutes before EB players?
c) Since Ebay had “just capped” hills, how do you know the “re-capping” wasn’t simply a roll back to before EBay had capped?
d) If it did happen in “seconds” then it would seem like someone would have had to hack there way into the lords room and then instantly kill everyone with a hack as well as solo player, even glitching thru walls, would not have enough time to run back, glitch thru, run to the lords room and kill everything in a matter of seconds. Is that sort of hacking even possible?

Archer.1658:

They are invisible of course that’s the only possible explanation. Surely you aren’t accusing ebay of something like this, when BP is known to glitch into towers/keeps?

You always say this yet I have never seen a screen shot or details of an actual instance from you or anyone else and I have never read of anyone else accusing BP of this. (Much less never heard of anyone on BP admitting to this or having knowledge of someone on BP doing this.)

I think its only well-known in your mind. Put up some evidence.

runeblade.7514:

I believe it is in Anvil Rock and Borlis Pass’s best interest to break the alliance.

Here is why:

WvW casuals will have a better time in WvW. Sometimes, it is fun to fight challenging fights. But when adversary are way over the top too powerful, WvW becomes less fun. Casuals will less and less play WvW and play PvE more.

Anvil Rock and Borlis Pass are both good match together. However, neither are good matches against Ehmry Bay even combined.

Every small victory against Ehmry Bay comes with a terrible price. Usually with Ehmry Bay dismantling both Borderlands to pieces. This will devastate the WvW casual and cause them to rage quit.

tl;dr: You guys will have more fun and loot if you guys fight each other instead of being steamrolled to death by Ehmry Bay.

You guys will even have more fun if you transfer to Ehmry Bay.

We had A LOT of fun last reset night doing the opposite of getting steam rolled by Ehmry. The lesson for this week should not be, “EBay won, so the alliance didn’t work”, but rather “The alliance worked when it was in full force, we have to keep it up all week (and not all go play in Southsun Cove)”

Khayoss.2019:

Dio.2394:

nothing.7941:

Ralathar.7236:

Also, I do believe you managed to rustle your own jimmies.

Is this some British thing or what? Never heard it before viewing tier 5 match threads.

verb (used with object)
4.
to move or stir so as to cause a rustling sound: The wind rustled the leaves.
5.
to move, bring, or get by energetic action: I’ll go rustle some supper.
6.
to steal (livestock, especially cattle).

Jimmies: slang for a man’s equipment.

I think somewhere along the lines firing up people in the “This is SPARTA” style went off in a bold, but not entirely unexpected, direction.

The complete history of jimmy rustling

I hadn’t seen that very amusing video, thank you. But, I was aware of the meme. Nevertheless, I still suspect Spartacus is involved at the root.

nothing.7941:

Ralathar.7236:

Also, I do believe you managed to rustle your own jimmies.

Is this some British thing or what? Never heard it before viewing tier 5 match threads.

verb (used with object)
4.
to move or stir so as to cause a rustling sound: The wind rustled the leaves.
5.
to move, bring, or get by energetic action: I’ll go rustle some supper.
6.
to steal (livestock, especially cattle).

Jimmies: slang for a man’s equipment.

I think somewhere along the lines firing up people in the “This is SPARTA” style went off in a bold, but not entirely unexpected, direction.

Jinks.2057:

Dio.2394:

RyuDragnier.9476:

It’s simple Dio…there’s a cap for how many players each side can have. So if AR and BP are both ganging up on us, and assuming AR is at half capacity and BP is at full capacity, you’re outnumbering us by 50%.

The problem with that is BP at full capacity. Reset night, yeah, maybe, but over the 24 hour day, 7 days a week, do you think BP + AR > EB. I honestly don’t. I started doing WvW 2 months ago. I do it at least 2 hours a day at least 5 days a week and have been queued exactly twice over that time period.

Ebay doesn’t have queues during the week either…….

We’re not some server that is busting at the seams w/ people believe it or not

I believe you and that detracts from the theory that EBay is full, BP is full, and AR is at half therefore EBay is outnumbered. I would guess that over it is more like BP is 60-70% of EBay and AR is 50% of EBay, but I don’t have any way to verify that. And that would mean that BP + AR > EBay in numbers, but it would also mean that EBay is outnumbered less by the tag team than AR and BP are outnumbered when not teamed.

RyuDragnier.9476:

It’s simple Dio…there’s a cap for how many players each side can have. So if AR and BP are both ganging up on us, and assuming AR is at half capacity and BP is at full capacity, you’re outnumbering us by 50%.

The problem with that is BP at full capacity. Reset night, yeah, maybe, but over the 24 hour day, 7 days a week, do you think BP + AR > EB. I honestly don’t. I started doing WvW 2 months ago. I do it at least 2 hours a day at least 5 days a week and have been queued exactly twice over that time period.

Straegen.2938:

I am still not sure why EBay believes they have more skill than everyone else in T5. They do excel at zerging in T5, but get rolled in T4 and have zero chance in T3. Are T4+ servers more skillful? Maybe I should transfer back to T3 so I would have more skill.

Well, we don’t know how they would do now in T4 as it has been awhile since they have been there and they have improved in several areas while here so I wouldn’t assume they will automatically get rolled. EBay has a lot of good players and commanders and they definitely use more and varied tactics than BP. They are extremely well organized.

EBay’s big blind spot is that they don’t understand (or want to admit) that the numeric advantage affects more than just the size of the zerg. Having a significant numeric advantage makes it easier to scout, defend everything, create specialized groups like their great thief/mesmer combos, and use more advanced tactics.

I never see BP run 20 people at one objective in order to draw people away from another that they hit with 30-40. We don’t do a lot of pincer movements or feints and we should, but then again we rarely have enough people to field a feint large enough to be considered a credible threat while still fielding a main force with enough people to take the primary objective.

I think that overall, EBay is better than BP or AR, but by no where near the margin that they think they are.

Khayoss.2019:

Dio.2394:

last night Southsun Cove was queued the entire time I was there from 6pm server time until I logged at 11pm.

Serious question, what’s Southsun Cove? I saw it mentioned after the patch a few times but I have no idea what it’s supposed to be. New zone? New dungeon? Do I have to go there to get ascended gear now?

It’s not a new zone, it has been around for awhile. But it is a level 80 zone with no hearts and lots of events and lots of tough mobs.

The patch released a new part of the living story where the refugees are being relocated to Southsun and mayhem ensues.

There are a couple of backpack pieces (you may have seen the tentacles) available for completing the achievements and one of them, the tentacles, can be transmuted to an ascended version via the forge and lots of items you farm in the zone.

There is also a hot blonde woman in a bikini mini available as drop.

Noice.8730:

Kalkz.5297:

Excuse ? …….. lmfao

You keep blaming it on numbers, coverage…and now pve content? lmao

[The rest of the rant deleted]

It’s fairly uncommon to get a queue for anything on Borlis and almost unheard of Monday-Thursday. But, last night Southsun Cove was queued the entire time I was there from 6pm server time until I logged at 11pm. I don’t know how much longer it remained queued.

I would think that someone of at least average intelligence would realize that a small server with a low percentage of PVP players vs. total population would be adversely affected by new PVE content the first few days after the patch. Your laughing off the idea calls into question your credibility.

Nak.8315:

testpig.5018:

Question.. who are the BIG 4 zerg guilds holding ebay together? i would think it’s GH(guard house)? FTF? SEkz(transfer guild) and who else?

The forth you are thinking of is probably Player Killerz[PK].

Whats your deal with the hate on transfer guilds.

Is Pk the guild that has turned your night coverage from a weakness to a strength?

Jinks.2057:

You are forgetting that AR+BP numbers are greater than our own.

How do you know that and by what margin? I am unaware of the ability to gauge populations outside of Anet’s classification of High, Med, Low, etc.

It feels like EBay has at least twice as many active WvWer’s as many as either BP or AR.