Guild Wars 2

ErlendR.6107:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Did SF empty all BLs to take back Lake in ET bl? Srsly, how many people did you have?

Also had a blast defending our north tower from the mighty zerg as well, at least we held you off there.

15v100

im countin 30+ -.-

Backed up against the keep lords room.. there are 16 (15 plus me). For the whole fight, yeah we had more, probably 50 or so, but those that stayed alive and did a last ditch effort after 20 minutes of SF laying siege… That is what my “15v100” was pointing out, we even held out for a short period of time until the shear numbers overran our ability to AoE/CC.

Been really fun in T8 this week, peaked a lot of interest in old guildmates and has lit a fire under ones that stuck it out thru culling/no-progression. WvW isn’t all about the score, it’s about the fights, stories and the “OMG did that really just happen?!” moments that bring us back day after day.

Did SF empty all BLs to take back Lake in ET bl? Srsly, how many people did you have?

Also had a blast defending our north tower from the mighty zerg as well, at least we held you off there.

15v100

Loken.9724:

Sorry, I had trouble counting who was FoE and who wasn’t. I ran up the ramp, saw nothing but FoE and was like ‘well. This is going to hurt.’

So much red tags. I got a video coming. you guys were wild with numbers. Both of you atleast from my PoV that is.

We will NOT be staying on FC. We have never been anything but up front about that. Came to have some fun. we have definitly had fun, but at some point the vacation must end, and back to 123254546 Pink zergs and 24351234123 WM zergs to wipe

the lag ah, the lag. I have not missed the.

That’s funny you say that, our commander specified that FoE would hold the stairs leading up to the Lords room, so we stayed there and formed a big wall of AoE and CC and let the militia finish everyone off. I’d love to see that video to share it with my FoE brothers and sisters! Please shoot me a PM with a link after it is uploaded.

That’s no fun hate to see you guys go back but at least let’s try and fight a couple times before y’all leave.

Loken.9724:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Loken.9724:

We had fun harrassing you guys in EB today with our 15 man squad.

Are you talking bout next to Langor? Omg FoE was in there like, screw it, let VK kill SF when they are trying to push in. We just sat back and held the hole in the wall for about 30 minutes from the hordes of SF trying to cap it. Our scout was like “VK to the left, now right.. under the bridge… pushing into SF.”

You guys looked organized which is very nice to see across the firing lines. Major props for coming head-on into a 50v40 with considerable less numbers.

we had 15 with me that were VK. 1 that was MAV. I think that was about it. maybe 2-3 randoms that you guys just wasted right away :P

We tried to push into langor 2 times if you didn’t remember (I was a bit ambitious, fine I’ll admit it had no idea you had like 40-50 FoE just sitting in there., than the second time, well I figured why not try again) after realizing FoE was farming, we left you guys alone and hit anything that looked like it might drop us juicy loot. Was so fun.

If we had 40-50 FoE, I’ve been transported back to November on Sea of Sorrows, but in all seriousness we had 12 or so FoE with a couple other guilds with commanders as well, but mainly a militia force. We were outmanned when we loaded into EB but quickly rolled into NA primetime which resulted in the main force you saw.

Haha, yeah someone said “SF never stops pouring in” so we decided to set up 4 arrow carts and left the wall down for that whole fight to see how long it’d take for SF to stop pouring in. I hope you guys stay on FC, nice to see good guilds down here.

Loken.9724:

We had fun harrassing you guys in EB today with our 15 man squad.

Are you talking bout next to Langor? Omg FoE was in there like, screw it, let VK kill SF when they are trying to push in. We just sat back and held the hole in the wall for about 30 minutes from the hordes of SF trying to cap it. Our scout was like “VK to the left, now right.. under the bridge… pushing into SF.”

You guys looked organized which is very nice to see across the firing lines. Major props for coming head-on into a 50v40 with considerable less numbers.

To disprove some misinformation flying around…

1) FoE is here to stay, we played on ET after the Asc Alliance days and we loved it. We are here for the smaller fights and that is exactly what we’ve been getting. Please do not spread misinformation and blatant lies about FoE’s intentions.

2) FoE currently fields under 15 on a weekday night and 40 on reset… if there is any “zerg” it is more than likely run BY FoE and not completely consisting of ALL FoE.

As new members of ET, we love seeing SF and FC troops, y’all always come for a fight and we love it!

So great running with our ET brethren! Starting to like what we got going on here.

The part where half my guild got stuck on 1 server and the other half is on the new server, that part is horrible.

Server went HIGH after 13 of us xferred over and now the rest of the 50 are stuck on T1 server still, forcing us to pay to transfer when we were under the impression it wold be free..

yeah, that part… very poorly implemented.

Can’t wait for reset tonight on our new server! Come join us!

[FoE] is always recruiting active PvP’ers

Boulderbolg.3460:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Boulderbolg.3460:

Burl.9567:

So Riot, Agg and FoE are all leaving?

Woah woah woah! I am not sure where that rumor came from. Yeah, we’ve been QQ’ing here and there about the T1 zergs, but RIOT currently has no intentions of even thinking about moving off of Blackgate. We’ve worked hard to get to know the other great small guilds on this server (Invi, oPP, AAO, etc), as well as the larger guilds. We would definitely prefer it if BG drops to T2, but we aren’t going to back down from no T1 guilds!

:)

The rumor probably came from one of your GMs posting a topic looking for medium pop servers to show him “what they offered”. I even personally talked to him about the move.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Attention-medium-pop-servers

EDIT: not sure if GM but someone who has ties to [RIOT], simple look at his post history shows “see more [riot] vids here”.. so yeah

Ah ha! Well, this person was in our guild for about 2 weeks and left a few weeks ago. Thanks for pointing that out to me though.

Not a problem. I’m well aware of the effect of rumors and misinformation/misrepresentation of guilds. Glad to help.

Boulderbolg.3460:

Burl.9567:

So Riot, Agg and FoE are all leaving?

Woah woah woah! I am not sure where that rumor came from. Yeah, we’ve been QQ’ing here and there about the T1 zergs, but RIOT currently has no intentions of even thinking about moving off of Blackgate. We’ve worked hard to get to know the other great small guilds on this server (Invi, oPP, AAO, etc), as well as the larger guilds. We would definitely prefer it if BG drops to T2, but we aren’t going to back down from no T1 guilds!

:)

The rumor probably came from one of your GMs posting a topic looking for medium pop servers to show him “what they offered”. I even personally talked to him about the move.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Attention-medium-pop-servers

EDIT: not sure if GM but someone who has ties to [RIOT], simple look at his post history shows “see more [riot] vids here”.. so yeah

SilencingMachine.5049:

JQ tier 1 super secret zerg steam roller strategy…..Commander calls “food” and “eat up”….people drop food, everyone eats that needs it…Commander calls out “cast boons” or “boon up”….everyone casts so most everyone gets boons….then charge the other zerg. Not too complicated.

It is completely different when you are talking to people were meta changes aren’t forced upon them. Not to degrade any tier or server, but T1 is the most “adapt or die” tier. Calling “boon up” to someone who doesn’t have group boons or boon duration is pointless in a group fight. Simply put: the meta outside of T1/2 is worlds away from the meta in other tiers, especially T8.

From what I’ve seen so far in T8 is full glass cannon, small ops roaming groups then when a tower/keep is attacked, they group up. For example we held 4 major pushes of at least 70-80 SF last night with 15-20 at Bravost in EB. It isn’t as simple as “stack up and win”, builds, rotations, boons, CC and damage output all play an important part. You can’t just stack 80 people in 1 spot and expect to win if you don’t look at it on the micro and macro scale.

Advice: take a look at what you want to accomplish and organize your team to best suit what is needed. Also, guilds from T1/2 aren’t just going to say “here this is what you need to win”, we’ve all spent way too much time theorycrafting builds to just give away war secrets but put in the time and you will be rewarded.

Smokey offered a good and typical zerg v zerg attack sequence but that is only possible with great coordination, the right builds and the right classes.

Had a blast tonight, T8 looks like fun. Can’t wait for reset tomorrow

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Shoutout to ALL of the amazing guild members and commander we’ve been working with so far on Blackgate. FoE is also able to run guild missions for those awesome Ascended Trinkets, which contribute to the war effort by allowing us to spend way too many hours theorycrafting and tweeking those tactics to demolish teams on the battlefield.

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Thundar.3910:

Monsoon.2589:

I think it is really funny that two servers have to double team in order to fight Blackgate. Tonight I saw in EB first hand that you guys are communicating and organizing mutual defense/offenses.

The fact that you are double teaming to beat BG is rather pathetic.

Everyone take a shot!

He said it twice, isn’t that 2?

I deleted my local.dat file, never had the sound bug since (going on 2 months clean)

Everyone just need to guest on lower pop servers. I guest on ET and I’ve never had an issue with too many people, lag or any of the crazy stuff that people say happens.

ComeAndSee.1356:

Wow, Anet fix the serious lag on the JQ map. JQ just lost hills because of horrendous skill lag (takes 10 seconds to cast one skill) and the Waypoint timer is off by 30 seconds.

Now the entire map is lagging up. Good time to log off for the night.

There was a BG zerg, SoR zerg and JQ defender zerg.. if you can figure out how to NOT lag in that situation, you’d be rich.

Pure RNG, I avg 20 rares a night doing Metas, last night 38 globs, tonight 18. Avg 22 Globs/night this week.

To the seemingly endless amounts of JQ that kept pushing into Redlake on JQ BL, thanks for making us learn new ways of defending! This is what T1 is about, y’all brought the heat!

But srsly… how many were there?? Due to culling, we never saw the full force.

Ari Kagura.9182:

LilMcGinley.3890:

12 in a BL
Non-commanders need not apply.

Got another screenshot of 14 commanders in a BL.. I wonder if there is a limit?

I honestly would like to know what Tier this was on. This seems to be like an extreme case of the Yo-Dawg Syndrome.

Tier 1. When we were on SoS, we had FoE and Agg commanders just hop to an outmanned BL, throw up our tags and started taking stuff. We took hills with 15 people, 12 commanders

Only 7?

10.
Hanging in LA as snowmen

12 in a BL
Non-commanders need not apply.

Got another screenshot of 14 commanders in a BL.. I wonder if there is a limit?

Furienify.5738:

WANTED: GUY PICTURED BELOW
THIEF
BLACKGATE
[FoE] TAG
LAST SPOTTED ON KAINENG BORDERLAND FIVE MINUTES AGO

PLEASE CAPTURE
INTERROGATE HIM UNTIL HE REVEALS WHAT OUTFIT HE’S WEARING
PICTURES OPTIONAL IF IT’S NOT TOO CREEPY
RETURN THIS INFORMATION TO ME
RECEIVE BOUNTY
THANK YOU

Haha that’s my friend, getting him to link it to me. One minute…

He said it the GW1 HoM armor.

Spent tonight testing some stuff. Guested to GoM and ET, home was BG

3 events – Same char, same event, different server – 1st event = chest, 2nd event = no chest
3 events (same as first character) – Different character on different servers – chest on all 3.

“These items are mainly earned through guild content, we included them on the laurels vendor to give players the opportunity to earn them if they are not in a guild but they are priced high to encourage players to try and accomplish them via the guild content.”

Red post..

Does seem kind of fishy that the 1st day after “updated drop tables from large chests” go live… an item that wasn’t in game for almost 7 months would be found…

Caught my eye and others as well..

The now famous quote:“Those aren’t the exact odds, but if my math is correct, 10 players running the event every day might expect one staff to drop after about 7 months. (And we haven’t been out that long.)”

and this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Shadow-Behemoth-didn-t-drop-a-chest/first#post1479639

Might be a stretch but if SB only drops 1 chest a day, and Red post states “farming once a day” this might be the event to farm?

Dondarrion.2748:

But every time you do Jormag, Shatterer, Grenth or similar each day you get a chest every time, right?

So is the Shadow Behemoth unique in this regard in that the chest only spawns once per character per day? Is it because the contents of the chest could be something very rare? (leading into all the theory around FR)

That’s interesting, considering the latest Red Post talked about 10 people with 1 chest per day in 7 months yadda yadda… If SB only spawns 1 chest a day, that could mean that FR comes from this chest. No?

GekoHayate.2451:

Miiaah.5416:

As long as JQ has a distinct advantage of 24/7, it would take 2 servers to barely ( BG needs some Hawaiians and Figi to step up) reorganize and T1 and T2 would be 100% fair fights

I try, but I think hawaii players are rare. Have only met a few =/

To be fair.. if I lived in Hawaii, I wouldn’t be playing Guild Wars….

As an avid PvPer, I find this thread amazing. I check it probably 10 times a day looking at what people discover as well as if someone has looted this thing.

The part I don’t understand, from a game design standpoint, is how a level 80 item, with a specific spawn, could not be in a level 80 zone. And if it isn’t, at least give us SOME idea of where the dang thing is…

I agree with Nurse is that it has to be from a chest that:
1) isn’t farmed a lot
2) when it is farmed, isn’t by level 80s

SOMEONE PLEASE FIND THIS THING!!!

Quick edit: Since precursors drop in WvW… would this thing be on that same loot table?

Critical chance on crafting only gives extra exp.
Gathering bonuses don’t mean anything seeing how you can guest to 2 other servers and gather.
Gold only counts from DROPS, not events.

Failing to see where this “massive gap” occurs

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Having a BLAST on Blackgate so far! Can’t wait until we get a fresh reset tomorrow night! Looking forward to heading to battle with our new Blackgate brothers and sisters.

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Up on TC

/15 chars

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Playing drunk is almost a requirement on reset night. Taking shots for taking a keep sound good to you? Sure does to us!! I’d love to hear from you.

Kirbyprime.2645:

To be honest, I thought SoR would be weaker than BG and be 3rd place and just fade off in a week. I’m pleasantly surprised and hope for more fun to come!

Really hope the new WvW tier math doesn’t split us up ( for too long ) so we can go at it again.

Most people forget SoR got half of SBI/IoJ, the part that hated JQ, so to say they are weaker than BG is incorrect. SoR already had an outstanding NA crew and by adding SEA/OCX and a little EU coverage they’ve turned out to be the server we see today.

I can’t wait to see the “new math”. I remember post from SoR saying they weren’t ready for T1, I guess they showed themselves wrong. Such great fights everywhere this week… yet to loot my precursor though

Polismassa.6740:

In my opinion, the main reason that Zergs are such a common and viable strategy is more due to the map design of WvW than anything else. With incredibly small and linear feeling maps, there’s really only one, maybe 2 ways to get from one objective to the other, so when players move, they move as a zerg for safety in numbers. Small groups moving the in the vicinity can be easily chased down and killed by the zerg and there is no place to hide.

To add on to this, zergs are common because of 2 things: no handicap for having vast majority of a map’s players in 1 area and lack of knowledge of how to run organized WvW.

First issue, nerf large groups of players. Give them less health, less damage, punish them for trying to steamroll other players by sheer numbers and not by tactics. You want to have 75% of a map in 1 spot? Awesome, here is a 30% health nerf and 30% damage nerf.

Second issue, there is a huge difference between casual WvW’ers and the more hardcore guilds. It’s to the point where the militia or any solo player, will only follow a commander and log off if one isn’t on. If there is only 1 commander on, anyone who isn’t familiar with tactics or is solo, migrates to that 1 person. Give commander’s ability to give out a “captain” tag that will allow another person to direct troops and attack/defend effectively. Breaking up the people is how to break up a zerg.

Also, fix outmanned buff please.

Just my personal opinions.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Issues-with-the-Guild-System-Post-here/first

Been there. Done that. Never got a response and never fixed itself. Best of luck.

Will the matches stay at 1 week long? or will we see the 1 or 3 day matches like we did earlier around release time?

Praise the Lord! Time to remake 5 maps

Jinks.2057:

LilMcGinley.3890:

The best thing about SoS is we are here for each other, moving servers isn’t going to happen.

Cept that y’all already did just that to make SoS 2.0…..

wtf is SoS 2.0…? People’s names for this stuff is just getting on the level of stupid.

The best thing about SoS is we are here for each other, moving servers isn’t going to happen.

I just wanna know how much money ANet is going to make when the WvW guilds from JQ want to move after tomorrow. 2000 gems per person times x number of people per guild times x number of guilds…

Sneaky ANet

FoE created an online, editable map. Feel free to use it.

http://www.zormite.com/v4/

NOTE: Placing siege is currently down sadly. We have a backend problem that has yet to be fixed.

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Learn more about us by viewing our recruitment video!

Hey Gav,

Check out Fist of the Empire [FoE] @ http://www.fistoftheempire.com. We are a 10-year old WvW focused gaming community. We have a 500 slot TS3 server, active forums and a very organized leadership structure. We are a hardcore WvW guild with sPvP and PvE mixed in during the downtime. We are located on Sea of Sorrows, actively work with other guilds, have a commander on almost 24/7 with members active around the clock (although we are NA based) on as well.

We are based on the principle of being a “good dude”, that meaning, we look for people we like to hang out with to be apart of FoE. We have an age restriction of 18+ with most members being mid 20s to 40s. We look for people we want to play games with for a long time.

Learn more about us by viewing our recruitment video!

If you or the gang have any questions, feel free to PM me and we can set up a meeting on our TS server. Hope to hear from you!

~ Lil Mc

If you want hardcore WvW.. FoE is your new home.

Check out Fist of the Empire [FoE] @ http://www.fistoftheempire.com. We are a 10-year old WvW focused gaming community. We have a 500 slot TS3 server, active forums and a very organized leadership structure.

Learn more about us by viewing our recruitment video!

We are on Sea of Sorrows and maintain a strong presence in WvW from 4pm EST to 12am EST daily.

If you want hardcore WvW…

Check out Fist of the Empire [FoE] @ http://www.fistoftheempire.com. We are a 10-year old WvW focused gaming community. We have a 500 slot TS3 server, active forums and a very organized leadership structure.

Learn more about us by viewing our recruitment video!

We are on Sea of Sorrows and WvW is our main focus with a few sPvP groups sprinkled within.