Guild Wars 2

ChocPudding.6128:

Handin.4032:

The FIRST SEA Cross-Server Dolyak Parade
So, after much consideration and after many many requests, I have decided to host an SEA Dolyak Parade! Now all of our friends down under can join in on the fun that they have been missing! (The time is listed below. If it is not the best SEA time, LET ME KNOW ASAP!)

For those who do not know, the Dolyak parade is a time where we get together and just have fun, and of course, parade around as dolyaks around the borderlands! Of course, you do not have to be a dolyak if you do not wish to be. In the past, everything from griffons to snowmen to elementals have flocked to our parade. So come out and celebrate the dolyaks, who sacrifice much for our endless war!

Information

• Where: WvW borderlands. The exact one will be chosen ~1 hr beforehand
• When: Friday (9/27) at 6 AM Server Time.
• Who: Anyone is willing to participate! If you come and need a tonic, just ask a friendly DOLY representative and we can give you some to join in!
• How: If you choose to become a dolyak, there are 2 ways: a Ruminant Tonic, and a Dolyak Tincture (feel free to wiki these). Of course any other kind of tonic is welcome, or even none at all if you just want to run along!

PS: I have never done SEA stuff. I chose that time because it is 9 AM my time which is optimal. I can push it to 7 AM Server time, and probably as early at 4-5 AM Server Time. Please, if you are an SEA person, let me know if what time would be optimal! Since it is the first time, it might be a bit funky…

OMG!!! Thank youuuuuuu~~~

I believe the times are perfect. 11PM for East Australian, just an hr before they log off. And 9pm for West Australia and majority of Sea players is like an hr after where they all login!

This is perfect!

<3

Choc

I will be there. Thank you so much for making the event.

Oh how do we know where will it be? I will put my [love] tag on so u know its me

Tarkus.4109:

FA and JQ would be a pretty interesting matchup as I want to see unreal aussies[UA] in action.

FA vs JQ would be boring. As much as i have respect for FA , they are no match for us.

I would like before the league

JQ vs SoR vs BG one last time to see which mega server will win. A match to end all matches.

Kimhyuna.1035:

There was 1 question pertaining to wvw, nothing really big as it focused more on PvE and the Living Story….

My thoughts as well

Here it is , now.

akamon.2769:

Fuzzion.2504:

Thats new york right? EIther way? can we have a TC SEA dolyak parade. I dont think next week we will be matched again

A SEA timezone TC RP DolyYAK Party …. Just imagine, 70 JQ Dolyaks , 80 BG dolyaks and 50 TC Dolyaks all in one big picture before the league.

Fuzz, everytime i’ve had the honor of being in a match up with TC, i’ve always wanted an SEA Dolyak parade. make it happennnn!!!!!11

I sent a msg to them. Hopefully someone will reply and post the details here on the time

Score update

urak.4863:

Fuzzion.2504:

style.6173:

Jet.4795:

To the TC in EB…would you be interested in hitting BG? The constant pressure on us is getting tiring and we cannot go to the dolyak parade if we are tired.

Fear not! The parade is tomorrow. Get a lot of rest and be ready for some marching.

Can we have a second parade at 8 pm SEA time? Los Angeles 8 am (exact 12 hour opposite)

8pm SEA time is server time 5am, Sir.

Thats new york right? EIther way? can we have a TC SEA dolyak parade. I dont think next week we will be matched again

A SEA timezone TC RP DolyYAK Party …. Just imagine, 70 JQ Dolyaks , 80 BG dolyaks and 50 TC Dolyaks all in one big picture before the league.

GvG is a future implementation. Expect 15v15 on gem paid matches soon.

I was sent the new leaked notes today. But i cant afford another 1 day ban. So All I can is “get ready”

PvP is not WvW

WvWvW is (PvPvP + Keeps +yaks + towers + ruins + blobs)

style.6173:

Jet.4795:

To the TC in EB…would you be interested in hitting BG? The constant pressure on us is getting tiring and we cannot go to the dolyak parade if we are tired.

Fear not! The parade is tomorrow. Get a lot of rest and be ready for some marching.

Can we have a second parade at 8 pm SEA time? Los Angeles 8 am (exact 12 hour opposite)

Handin.4032:

Weekly Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade
Yes that time of the week is very near! That glorious time when players of all races come to celebrate the dolyaks and their selfless sacrifices for us! This week will be interesting with the new borderlands look! I know both JQ and BG LOVE us TC dolyaks, so I have high hopes that there will be so many dolyaks in the Borderlands we cause a dolyocalypse!

For those who do not know, the Dolyak parade is a time where we get together and just have fun, and of course, parade around as dolyaks around the borderlands! Of course, you do not have to be a dolyak if you do not wish to be. In the past, everything from griffons to snowmen to elementals have flocked to our parade. So come out and celebrate the dolyaks, who sacrifice much for our endless war!

Information

• Where: WvW borderlands. The exact one will be chosen ~1 hr beforehand
• When: Thursday (9/27) at 7 PM Server Time
• Who: Anyone is willing to participate! If you come and need a tonic, just ask a friendly DOLY representative and we can give you some to join in!
• How: If you choose to become a dolyak, there are 2 ways: a Ruminant Tonic, and a Dolyak Tincture (feel free to wiki these). Of course any other kind of tonic is welcome, or even none at all if you just want to run along!

If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, or good dolyak jokes, feel free to send me a message!

PS: Any guild leaders/commanders that are going to have GvG’s on that day and around that time, let me know! I try to plan the parade around GvG’s as best as possible, to avoid meeting up at the same place, or the parade running through a GvG on accident. (I won’t divulge when/where the GvGs are to anyone else, I just want to try to make sure there are no cross-event mishaps!)

Why does all the fun stuff happen when i am either at work or at sleep

CAn we have a SEA time YAK party??? Pleaseee….

CuddleStrike.8215:

Score Update!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chilling in TC DR, you guys are such a fun bunch!

<3 much love TC <3 I wish I ran into you guys more on the battlefield though

We are connected by love or chewing gum. COuld be both.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

Fuzzion.2504:

You never know that anet may pull a fast one and select 12 random teams vs 12 random teams (which would ideal). 1 more week to go

Ideal for anybody in T1. I would QQ so hard if ET had to go against JQ. We have no coverage in comparison and you guys would be so bored.

My mama once said, “when bored, fetch yerself a bong”

PLayers on smaller servers need not worry when the league kicks in.

Dear friends who send me random tells in game. I luv u all but i for the love of god do not know half of yall. Sorry in advance

Also for those that asked me earlier, I have yet to edit the list of newcomers to JQ. Its too early to add them to the recruitment thread.

Anyway, had fun, heres a score update

It would be awesome if they did

Seigfried.5938:

Quick.3504:

So I have read all day how JQ is going to PvD now that MERC made there way over and this is what PvD looks like I guess.

Its just laughable how some can be so blind

Do you know what a time zone is?

Its 4 hours before i get on a kick some kitten.

pot.6805:

Thanks for all the fun fights tonight in JQ BL.

Nice keybinds.

Because attunements proc,cast and are usually rotated.

Only 100 more achievements points for the white gloves. God im soo lazy

I think you are right.

600 is a nice good all-rounder to have

Im finding 650~ is a sweet spot. I tried 1150 with bloodlust bonus but found no benefit

Kimhyuna.1035:

Fuzzion.2504:

Zhrek.9781:

Does this mean BG, hates JQ more than SoR now?

The relationship between BG and JQ is very complicated.

When SoR overstacked a few months ago, BG and JQ buddied up to buckle down SoR.

When BG overstacked and took everyone in , JQ buddied with SoR. The relationship between SoR and JQ was sour during SEA time but good during NA. While during that SEA time, BG was in good terms with JQ.

In the end, JQ chooses who to bed while BG and SoR have old history dating back to the dinosaurs.

But now JQ are overstacked. Kinda like when they closed of free transfers the first time.

JQ worked very hard before free transfers. It was because we had an almost perfect track record before free transfers.

Evalana.5480:

OMG! You had me at Bribery! ♥

LMFAO at the 2 copper attached!!

Bribery Pie
*Decreased inhibitions for 30 minutes

Zhrek.9781:

Does this mean BG, hates JQ more than SoR now?

The relationship between BG and JQ is very complicated.

When SoR overstacked a few months ago, BG and JQ buddied up to buckle down SoR.

When BG overstacked and took everyone in , JQ buddied with SoR. The relationship between SoR and JQ was sour during SEA time but good during NA. While during that SEA time, BG was in good terms with JQ.

In the end, JQ chooses who to bed while BG and SoR have old history dating back to the dinosaurs.

FrouFrou.4958:

What is love?

Depends on whose paying

Tam.3146:

Tiesto.9084:

Tam.3146:

Dear JQ,
On behalf of NYS/SONG/SAHP, I am asking for 100k gold, otherwhiles we will join JQ.

JQ only recruit elite. sorry Nys. Sahp. Song

Learn to read pls
We are not asking you to recruit us. We are asking $$$ for staying in SoR
or u will PVD every nightDDDDDD

I have consulted our financial minister from greece and have been adviced that we will simply ask BG for a bail-out, i mean , pay out because without NYS and SONG, who will give JQ our loot bags?

Avatar of Belle.9623:

Yay! AR got a silver badge. /cheer

I don’t know if WvW servers in general are degrading or if everyone is migrating upward in ranks. The lowest 9 servers have gotten smaller in terms of WvW population in general. I believe ET has grown. It does make the T8/T7 matchups more fun for me since roaming is way more prevalent.

Yay to AR as well. And that was a very very close score difference.

Yes there is alot of migration upwards, but we really dont have much info on the league as of yet. You never know that anet may pull a fast one and select 12 random teams vs 12 random teams (which would ideal). 1 more week to go

PF website is http://phalanxformation.guildlaunch.com/

I have yet to recieve GD info, but will post asap when its known

The 150 stats issue will be , without a shadow of a doubt, be reduced.

Anet prefers to start either low or high. Note that i do not use the the word “very”.

I will say playing my DnD ele has now forced me to go even more bunker with the new stat builds. Warrs are insane when they get all 3 buffs.

DnD build btw 0/10/0/30/30

This is what im running at with.

SOme modifications from last week

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.1g.h8.8.1k.h1h.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.71h.1n.71h.1n.71g.1n.71g.1n.b1g.1n.b1g|211.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.3v.d1b|0.a1.0.u53b.u56b|15.1|1n.1u.1t.1v.0|e

0 10 0 30 30 still works fine

Not many folks know but the J in JQ
stands for Jedi
And the Q stands for Qualified.

So our secret name is

“Jedi Qualified”

TC, i will try my best to help you against Stackgate. Also its nice to see you guys again. Love those yak parades /hugs

Updated. Congrats to AR on getting your first silver.

/Hugs

gebrechen.5643:

What happened to the thread?

Not really sure. But if beats page 22 before reset, we will have set a new world record.

Before conquering the tower , we did some deep meditation.

Esoteric.5490:

KnT had a blast in EB tonight. Thanks to both our opponents for bringing their best.

What is Gee Vee Gee? Is it a new WvW feature they added while I was away?

As grand general of blackgate , you should know :P

My elementalist is soo hot i dont even need to post a pic of her

zencow.3651:

GG Fresh Air burst nerfed. Our only lifeline left to spvp has been lost.

You mean folks bothered with fresh air build Come back and join your dnd brothers

Harmonizer.4210:

Stormleaf.1769:

Regardless of that… So many people in WvW don’t use food or other such bonuses, despite the fact that they can. Plenty still run around in rares or exotics, when others are using ascended.

Please continue to dig that hole…

/popcorn

It is becoming more rare to see players in rare Armour. wvw is way more challenging than say, 3 months ago.

Me me me me. Where do i sign up??

Nice bait thread ;P

Esqi.8496:

Kiff.8157:

Esqi.8496:

Kiff.8157:

Esqi.8496:

Kiff.8157:

Doomdesire.9365:

And so the super stacking begins. This surpasses a new level of stacking.

First of all, I think JQ needed recruiting, but now that they have NS, AGG, GD, all they need is a medium sized oceanic guild – that’s it.

For BG, if you really did recruit RB and some other guilds, all I have to say is lol. You’re in first place, you don’t need anymore guilds.

As for SoR, I think we are in a good position. We don’t need anymore recruits but of course guilds will mindlessly flock here for the leagues.

I think it may be time to move to a lower tier if things get out of hand

Lets think in this way, JQ recruit because ATM wants #1 of the league. So they will just recruit till they have enough wvw players (note I mean players not guilds) to crash one particular timezone and be able to defend in less potential timezones. The intention can be observed here, timezone coverage balancing is not what they want when they start recruiting for SEA timezone. They want to dominate that timezone and have ppt on a par in NA/EU/OCX.
But personally I would be okay with that now if they are saying they recruit SEA because their NA/EU/TKG can’t get any potential points from SOR and BG.

oic, when did TKG become a time zone?

You are a timezone in JQ. If i put OCX I can imagine the response I would get, imagine this from ATM “what are you blind or sth? we dont have ocx, u wanna say we have ocx we say you have full maps queued.”

oic! GMT +?

so are you saying you’re going to do the same thing to pretend you guys are not OCX? I get it now.

No not at all. We are Oceanic

Good to have yall back in JQ. Only teamspeak where the word lube , bend over and blast finisher can be used in 1 sentence

WRod.3856:

Hoots.9564:

Mushin Tips.1623:

oh TW one of your guild members was linking his address and fb page on my stream and calling us kids. seems pretty childish to me what he was doing.

Where did the strange man touch you? How is your guild holding up after this freak event? Did you happen to get a name, or was it possibly a rallian/quarrian/blackgatian(?) trying to troll you?

Her name was indo and she touched me in many places.

You should have used the grappling hook technique on indo

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grappling%20hook

DevonCarver.5370:

Fuzzion.2504:

Regarding the changes

In the positive

1. Roaming has become way more fun
2. Adding stat bonus as a reward is a good step forward
3. Added incentive to WvWvW
4. Use of heights as strategy was factored in during the map design
5. Greatly increased the need for everyone on that particular map to work in unison
6. Surprise tactics by rushing on said occupied point creates anticipatory jitters
7. Some use of water combat is still in-play
8. Felt like I was playing in an entirely new map. It was a good feeling for the stalemate feeling we had in the BL.

In the negative

1. Roaming has become harder for duos or singles
2. Stat Bonus is too much. 25 would be better than 50.
3. Increased Lag reported by all players
4. falling off the map into unintended areas ,i.e. map glitch
5. 3 out of 5 cap points should be increased to 4 out of 5 to balance reward and sacrifice

Overall, I think the WvWvW team are heading in the right direction.

-Fuzz

Fuzz, thanks for the feedback. A couple of responses:
1) The lag is an issue we are aware of and a result of a bug we will fix as soon as possible.
2) Please report any and all places you can fall out of the map or get stuck. We will continue to address those as we can.
3) The buff is something we will continue to think about. There are alternative frameworks for the buff that I think we will at least look into.
4) For now, we will stay with 3/5 because it makes it easier to capture and harder to hold. If it turns out that this doesn’t function the way we intend it to, we will re-evaluate it accordingly.
5) Roaming in the middle is absolutely more difficult, however, travelling the edges of the map shouldn’t have become any more difficult. At least that’s how it played for me yesterday.

Again, thanks for the input, and for playing.

Thank you for your reply.

-Fuzz

ptitminou.6489:

Still deciding if the OP is trolling or not, I’ll assume, in good faith, that he is serious.

I fail to see where the added incentive to WvW is? I feel an added incentive to PvE and look at other upcoming games at the moment. Also, isn’t the only use of water to jump from Garrison now?

Isn’t the surprise part due to the fact that adaptation isn’t your strongest suit, which is also why you felt is was an entirely new map?

There are water passages tat can be used to get to the cap points

Its day 1, surprise is sure to sprout from there.

This map change is a welcome change needed to keep WvW moving forward. The question is what is the right stat amount and what number of cap points are necessary.

Look at DAoC RvRvR maps. You will see progression was first hated (NF) but slowly it became accepted.

Heizero.9183:

Since you are on a T1 server fighting on mostly even grounds with BG and SoR, you don’t see the Havoc this wreaks on the other tiers… =/

Whats going on with the other tiers?

ALso let us not forget the league is kicking in soon, not sure what effect this will have.