Guild Wars 2

Opening bags/Salvaging?

Just makin’ sure. I love working the market but my hands take a beating opening bags by the thousands if it’s worth it to buy/open/sell.

Just found out about auto clickers and makin’ sure it’s kosher. Lots of other games look down on 3rd party stuff n’ all.

Early this year, we had an exodus. It sucked. Life sucked for a while as we went on a downward spiral through the tiers and morale tended to sink.

Somewhere between here and the left turn at Albuquerque, we started finding our way again. Long story short, here’s some of the highlights, right now.

• Strong oceanic coverage with enthusiastic WvW’ers(often considered a luxury in most servers).

• A strong, growing WvW community that’s recently taken in several strong WvW guilds from other servers (who out of respect will remain nameless) in the last few weeks.

• A very active MeatSpeak (Teamspeak 3) that stays drama free 95+% of the time.

• Superior Siege that’s publicly funded for ALL our commanders as much as physically possible. Granted I have to get off my butt more, but our last siege drive included almost 2 full stacks of sup. ballistas, 2 full stacks of sup carts, 80+ sup. trebs, 50+ sup catas, 75+ sup rams, 50 alphas and about 20 omegas within 40 minutes. And that’s just what I saw myself. Other people grabbed all our blue siege and just turned it into purple seige so I’m not exactly sure what those #‘s were, but we had several stacks of everything. It’s a LOT, OKAY?!

• Can you lead? We pay for your tag. Show us you can we’ll put you on the qeue for the next tag. We’ve paid for 6-7 of the last WvW commander tags almost exclusively out of public server donations. Monowrath got his tag a few days ago and after proving he’s ready for one, we went from 0-100 gold in 35 minutes. New record <3

• A strong emphasis on Defensive play that revolves around the pug. Pug’s a broad term but generally anyone not doing a specific guild-focused team is a pug, so that includes tons of active WvW guildies anyway. THUS, we put a ton of emphasis on hero players making hero moves. You’re all the vertebrae in our backbone. We put a huge huge emphasis on scouting, clutch siege placement (SUPERIOR siege is a huge emphasis on IoJ) and good siege gunning.

• A very very strong emphasis on keeping our borderlands clean. Even when there’s very few people in there

• Strong emphasis on camp defense. This includes siege, all the way up to a superior ballista meat grinder. And we enjoy placement that encourages them to actually come INTO the camp, giving everyone more action and more kills once in ballista range.

• Emphasis on not letting supply rot. Got extra supply in the EB keep? Let’s manufacture some golems and stage ’em!

There are just some of the examples of our play style that’s helped us grow. It centers around the Pug, and frankly we like it that way. We have some GvG action, not a whole lot but some, and yes some of us do fight clubs.

This week is an easy matchup for us, so i’ll have lots of downtime if you have general questions. Whisper me (nom x 5) or hit us up on teamspeak @ voice.isleofjanthir.net:9988

Thanks for puttin’ up with my paragraphs.

To Craig/Bummkin: I’m referring to DR, not ET. Sorry I didn’t clarify that above. Apoligies to ET, I don’t know enough about you guys or how your guilds are doing or whatnot. I’m pretty much done with this thread/matchup in general but, props for a fun reset night, at least, from all 3 servers <3

Yes, someone wanted someone to say it: Roaming guilds, roaming-focused servers WILL dominate pound-for-pound in the field. It’s obvious. It won’t matter what server tag you have. But IoJ as a whole doesn’t typically fight in the field when we can fight somewhere else that suits us better. You fight your way, we fight ours. Each way has it’s advantages. Both makes for cool videos, one just needs different camera work than the other.

Seeya at the end of the week.

Gab Superstar.4059:

Great. But you are speaking from the perspective of a PPT zergling. I couldn’t care less if DR rebuilds to become the leetest PPT proz of all time. I couldn’t care less if we lose guilds left and right.

Sounds like you don’t care at all. But if you don’t care at all, what’s firing you up to the point where you need to tell everyone (or me) you don’t care? Clearly you do care, ‘cause you feel the need to tell people about it. Put that same energy into your server and watch it grow, man. We’ve been workin’ on this for months. It’s nice to finally see it recover the way it is. We really need to be in a higher tier, ‘cause this matchup right now is just…ugh. Doubt anyone’s really enjoying it at this point.

The forum warrioring is strong with this matchup.

The reason there’s so much “lol IoJ players suck” on the forums right now is ‘cause right now, that’s all the servers that are losing have to fall back on. Said servers have smack talked their way into the position they’re in, losing guilds to both their attitudes and their playstyle that doesn’t cater to a rebuilding population as a whole.

We got put in the same position, but our server’s culture centered around the pug, and siege, and infrastructure, upgrades, siege, defense, etc etc, versus “l33t pvp roaming ownsauce open field combat” that doesn’t help rebuild a server as a whole.

We’ve recovered, we have a nice infrastructure that brings lots of new blood into the fold quickly (for you to happily own and make videos about, enjoy) while we can rebuild and grow. We’ve had another 3 commanders get new tags all publicly funded by the server’s donations in the last week. Plus the new guilds that have transferred. Meatspeak is busier than ever. Smaller guilds are taking on bigger objectives on reset nights and doing fine. ALL our commanders get server funded superior siege without having to pay for it. All that results in a higher morale and a higher PPT while you guys are struggling to even maintain the guilds you even have.

We were dissapointed when we ended up matched with you. I’m gonna be mostly PVE’ing all week until we get an opponent worth fighting. Enjoy losing guilds left and right while you beat your chest over “l33t pvp” ‘cause I could care less. We’ve put a lot of effort into rebuilding and we’re happy with the community we have, and where we’re going.

Xom.9264:

I might of been drunk, but we died so im sure you did something unfair.

Man this is the greatest quote in all of WvW’dom! JOIN US!!!!!!

I like this whole overgeneralizing thing, Savannah. Seems fun, can I try?

I drink coffee, thus my server drinks coffee. My server drinks coffee, thus, the majority of wvw as a whole drinks coffee.

Whoo this is fun!

IoJ likes Parties per tick and objectives. Ideally we like to have at least 4 keeps so we can have enough space for all the parties per tick to happen at once without getting too crowded. Sometimes the parties are a bit too big and we need to expand the party over to another keep or the castle, but it’s usually temporary.

Usually stuff gets broken during said parties, but then again, during the ‘multi team’ parties when everyone else comes over to party with us, our stuff gets broken too, so it’s kind of an unspoken rule that whoever moves back in picks up the tab on the new drapes and carpets and such.

But yeah…parties. mmmmmm….

Tried to find a Gif to represent how overgeneralizing is bad…left dissapointed. Obviously we Jantharians need improvement in this area

^dish ish good dude or dudette

Thanks guys. Yeah selecting that and simply checking the “run in compatible mode” for windows vista worked just fine right away! <3

edit not to mention this sped it up really fast, too. Delays were a lot shorter in the trade post when pulling data <3

To the 3 SPCA guys that just whuped on us in IOJ: nice. Would like to see your setup. Took 3x our #’s to get ya, but we got ya <3

No problem with fight clubs or fight night but…just not on my map (nawt in mah backyard…hyuck!) Again EB jump puzzle gets suggested over and over and for some reason i never get a response. Never a yes, or a no, or a screw off, or an explanation why not, or anything! It’s strange. It’s like that on other threads when I’ve mentioned it, too.

So…how come you guys don’t use the EB JP? It’s even siege locked <3

Aww man my scubadog post got deleted. I consider that relevant, as he was properly geared up to defend the river area of the south camp of our BL. Anyway, GF’s to that O’s and XO group that’s in our BL…tnx for makin’ it fun. You’re obviously a lil’ better than us in the skirmish, but we now how to even the odds <3

mtpelion.4562:

Make sure your firewall is not blocking the “awesonium” process. The BLTC uses its own executable file.

Hmm it’s already allowing the whole of GW2.exe through there. Can’t seem to find what you’re looking for…unless this is just a troll. The unobtanium is already included in GW2 ;D

Dear God I couldn’t stop watching those nods…kitten u birdy. +1 for AR

Just wondering what’s causing this on my end. I love to trade, and often. Finally invested in a personal permanent trader (squeeeeeee) but now i cna’t tell what’s sold and it’s bee this way for about two months now. Really wanna get this fixed but don’t know how.

Once in a while it’ll work for…maybe a day or two. But that’s it.

Tarage.8632:

Hey IoJ.

What happened to your keep on EB? =)

Nice Ninja.

So…how about that white team, eh?

Wonder if they can hold onto everything for the tick. If so…Anet’s gonna have a loooooooooot of explaining to do.

(see also: mos millennium pre-patch)

BlazeQ.1095:

Banzie.5248:

BlazeQ.1095:

Banzie.5248:

THE Dentist.5960:

Yawn……. More transfers…….. One thing is consistent, NSPers definitely the most loyal and we hardly ever get transfers, unless its the singles looking to better themselves….

You dun get transfers cause you guys tell ppl to not transfer >.>

We do? who the heck told you that?

The people from NSP in world recruiting telling people not to transfer when people have them on their consideration list.

I must have missed that post….

I don’t get it. Telling ’em not to transfer to NSP?

MegaManExpert.8413:

Please note how all your belongings have conveniently ended up in IoJ Garrison.

As well as any people in your possession. Shackles and chains are located near the outside of the inner water gate, next to my personal trader while I scout it and make money

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on a more serious note, any joining guilds are required to choose someone to sing Don’t Stop Believin’ on meatspeak for Friday’s reset. Your choice who it is.

Kukchi.6173:

GavinGoodrich.1382:

Kukchi.6173:

The funny thing is that the fight clubbers didn’t cap anything, he just came and built a ballista and started trolling with his zerg.

If you’re doing a fight club in siege range of a camp, perhaps the location needs changing.

You placed a ballista at the rear of the camp to get in range of the windmill. Listen you don’t need to justify yourself with lies here. You even had people from your own server telling you off. Anyways GL and HF ill find you in the battlefield cheers.

K tell me when you kill me so I know it’s you. You wouldn’t BELIEVE how many people kill me every day. Some nice guy from Gifs of Madness sent me a letter thanking me for the Fixer Upper my corpse apparently had on it that he conveniently scooped up. I mean if I had all this crap on me I should be selling it…

Kukchi.6173:

The funny thing is that the fight clubbers didn’t cap anything, he just came and built a ballista and started trolling with his zerg.

Your fight club was a lot more tight with less people breaking off slapping yaks n’ such…but that’s almost never the case. In fact this is only the first time I’ve seen a fight club as tight as yours. Every other time there’s been people breaking off to slap yaks/sentries all over that area. All with builds I’d expect to see for a fight club.

After your fight club, a second fight club “let out” after it was done, and we had about 3 seperate sets of people running around flipping camps and slapping yaks afterward, from the fight club.

I’ll give props to your fight club, most of the time though it ain’t the case. Ballis in camps are common when I’m tagged up and I’m encouraging the server as a whole to do it as often as possible, ‘cause it’s effective. If you’re doing a fight club in siege range of a camp, perhaps the location needs changing.

I always suggest the JP in EB, and I never hear a reason why it shouldn’t be used. it’s easiest for all 3 teams to get to most of the time, and out of the way of everything. Is there a reason for not using it I don’t know about?

I’m really not trying to start kitten here, but if I’m tagged up and I deal with the fallout from fight clubs, then yes, expect me to do something about it before it even escalates in the first place. And by escalate I mean a fight club “letting out” and suddenly two teams have multiple groups running around causing trouble to the point where I can’t keep track of it all, while we’re trying to upgrade. Ain’t happening while I’m tagged up.

Sorry bout breaking up the fightclub on IoJ’s map…i’m just a biiiig advocate of not having it on a map that I’m proactively defending/upgrading in the south/patrolling/blah blah blah…..

nothin’ personal, guys <3

mexay.3902:

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I’ve actually had a decent amount of fun this week and everything has been reasonably competitive. It’s been a close match. Probably one of the better ones I’ve experienced in the past while.

Had to clean up mah desk. Coffee everywhar.

N1!

Epic fight for SM just now. GF GF GG 07 m8, SF. Mega close fight, went two rounds ’cause you beat us the first time.

Nick cage is one creepy dude when he wants to be.

Thanks for the laugh on this one

or is that considered “grey market”

GG GF…myself and a lot of other IoJ commanders gave it our all. Our people fought like lions all week. But DH’s #‘s attrition just plain wore us out by Wednesday/Thursday. What an epic week. We’re just outta steam on defense and tryin’ to recoup a lil’ before next week.

Stayed up till the sun came up many mornings this week. It was totally worth it but…whooo time to get back to resetting a real life schedule

Great match, DH, FC.

What an amazing battle for Aldon just now. Wow.

holds up mini red flag for FC woooooo hang in there guys…lol our own stuff depends on it too, hahaha.

1-2 Months ago it was DH with massive #‘s. Now it’s DH with massive #‘s and the ability to hit you in two spots at once if they’re coordinating with other guilds (SE/Abyss/PD/etc) very dangerous combo.

I brewed another pot of coffee and called off my volunteer gig for these fights against DH. yum.

Miss Firesss.3704:

I knew it was only a matter of time before IoJ wanted to “ally” themselves with the other server LOL.

How about this FC? How about your server and our server both hit IoJ? I mean, after their Oceanic presence, we were only ahead by 2k pts, right?

The main reason we wanna not hit FC and go for the big dog (that’d be you, DH) is ‘cause it’s just a way more exciting week for everybody.

Life has been sooooooooooooo much better this way for everyone involved.

Intense night on IoJ’s map. When I got on, garri had already been ninja’d, so it was a weak underbelleh.

Huge map being huge, it was tough to maintain scouts everywhere, so garri flipped again pretty quickly within about an hour. Lots of battles for bay and hills, along with multiple attempts to retake garri all were deflected by both teams. Towers changed hands often but Bay/hills held on strong for hours.

But attrition is what it is, and Abyss’/SE’s/friends’ combined attacks, over and over, eventually ground it into dust. Well done. We shifted our strategy a bit based on you guys and the whole timezone thing. Should be an interesting last few hours until Oceanic timezone.

Literally just trying to hold you off until you run out of gas is a thrill in and of itself. You can sense the urgency on both teams <3

We intercepted a DH spy en route to his base with the briefcase containing our commander’s meeting this week. But not before he had already broadcast it for everyone to see. IoJ officials have asked our people to disregard the broadcast, but you cannot unsee what you have seen…

Edit yay for short meetings, for once!

The meta has changed in the last few weeks. Siege is extremely commonplace, cheap, extremely effective. IoJ is used to using it against massive WvW servers (by comparison, anyway) in order to hold our own.

If we use a method that is effective (more often than not, anyway), helps us manipulate where you will/will not go, keeps our borderland mostly clean, then we’re gonna keep doin’ it.

The meta of “you have this many, thus you should do xyz” is bad and you should feel a little silly for having let yourself fall into the same old routine.

I left another game (eve online) ‘cause risk adversion over cheap ships you can actually lose permanently was preventing a lot of fun from being had. Even with the slight risk adversion/counter tactics in this game, all teams still have way way way way WAY more fun on an hourly basis. Life is good here. edit can’t believe I haven’t even touched the Eve launcher in over two months…was hooked kitten that for four YEARS.

GG anet.

Tiglie.5834:

GavinGoodrich.1382:

Tiglie.5834:

I have never seen a zergier 1 spam blob matchup then this. These two servers represent everything that is wrong with GW2.

Happy to make your wvw experience just a little more aggravating

You can and will zerg yourself into a dead game once ANY viable alternative is available.

See also: sPvP. And fight clubs in areas that the locals don’t mind you being there. etc etc.

Tiglie.5834:

I have never seen a zergier 1 spam blob matchup then this. These two servers represent everything that is wrong with GW2.

Happy to make your wvw experience just a little more aggravating

There’s ways to beat you with and without siege in that situation. No disrespect intended, but this is the 2nd conversation in 2 pages where we’ve been challenged to “not use siege” in a game where siege is edit literally part of the game. Sorry but it’s not gonna happen.

^regarding the 2 omegas at redlake the other day, it was one of the other commanders ragebuilding an hour before that and bringing ’em down for the helluvit, after the fact.

But frankly, omegas in a more static fight do REALLY well. Frankly they do well vs. “infantry” in a slugfest fight. That’s what they were designed for. We had ‘em, they weren’t doing anything, figured “oh well.” They made good bait when you guys went after ‘em on the intersection and left the tower. You guys had to pull back quick And their price these days makes them worth the risk, provided they don’t just get kitten ed for no reason

Your CC setup is quite frankly, amazing. I’m a lil’ bit jealous with mass #‘s of guardians doing CC. Been preaching CC since like…day 3 of WvW and many DR teams seem to have it down. Which forces us to escalate to siege in places like indestructible stairways which you’re just waiting for us to come up

GF, GF, can’t wait to do it again.

Snow Ghost.6817:

GavinGoodrich.1382:

Grats on the tower ninjas, DR. Kind of a coincidence how your attack was timed with CORE’s attack on your map at the same time. Like two swordsman passing each other and landing, then spontaneously bleeding out and /plop.

Yeah.. erm… We did some ninja stuff.. your not telling me CORE did some too?

Didn’t think CORE did small team stuff.

Looked through the screenshots I took last night and I can’t see any of our keeps gone around the time we were on GoM, sooooo …. I dunno what you mean really.

Not much that our numbers could have done against the crazy blob CORE can run anyway.

Ninja doesn’t have to be small team. It just has to be fast enough for the other team to react.

Grats on the tower ninjas, DR. Kind of a coincidence how your attack was timed with CORE’s attack on your map at the same time. Like two swordsman passing each other and landing, then spontaneously bleeding out and /plop.

Buddy.7563:

Hey IoJ, I think you forgot something.

Yeah i’m under the strong SHUSHPISHIONSH that my wife is a GoM shpai…sshe asks for some cuddlin’, no just a few more minutes pleeeeease “ok fiiiiine” 10 minutes later…i get back and boom, orange swords on quentin and it flips.

Hmmm…….yeah…definately a spai.

gasp wheeze GoM your population is just exhausting sometimes…I mean i know you saw us build those omegas ahead of time n’ all but…the ability to defend your garrison, AND hold EB AND attack AR’s map at the dame time…that’s a lotta people…yeesh! You managed to keep pourin’ people in when we were capped out at about 25’ish attackin’ garri on your map last night.

Fortunately some of you guys went to bed and #‘s wise it was pretty even for a while. We had to go back and save hills on our map from AR (I kid you not AR, that was maybe 1-2 seconds time to spare…if we didn’t get that ballista up you’d have nailed us, superior siege = time!) then rush back to GoM’s map.

Fancy work on the lord’s room. We figured we could hold ya off after that 1st ballista went down, once you committed a little deeper in the hallway…guess not. You know how to push your guys through a lot deeper than most servers, well done! We shoulda held that for longer Good fights, good fights.

Lightsbane.9012:

well, we all know IOJ has great night coverage. too bad i’m not from Australia or the like so i can’t enjoy it.

Yeah but…you have great everything-else coverage

A training run originally scheduled for GoM’s map, that had to be moved to AR’s map due to it being way to hot at the time..wound up escalating into ^that.

But yeah…IoJ it’s not doing us any good being there. Let’s focus on the big dog, and let AR enjoy some guerrilla warfare

So apparently hatescream is selling his spying services to the highest bidder, or something like that. He’s on EB at our keep waypoint, just reading chat and most likely doing a livestream again. Haven’t confirmed today, but we’ve confirmed it in the past.

TBH this is exactly where most of IoJ perfers to be. With our backs against the wall, holding off a massive enemy (GoM). It’s just…what we’re used to. When we outnumbered other servers a lot of us were like “meh…gonna go level an alt” or wait till next week, or something.

Despite the #’s, GoM had scouts just about everywhere on reset night, which is often hard to maintain. Finally…FINALLY managed to find an opening on stonemist…after about 3-4 tries…your reaction time is pretty insane.

I’ve stared at that “knights” loop about 7,000 times now. The curse of two monitors O.o

EB yak escorts are semi-exciting, and having to choose between “do i want my yak alive” and “do i want fat yaks” is actually a valid decision on the first upgrade. Sometimes you get a double ambush + a hostile sentry and that yak is dead without a hostile player even hitting it.

PLEASE add this to borderlands! It was a nice addition to EB, please make it happen on borderlands!

We’re in the same boat as you, Fisthammer. How are we supposed to investigate? Just go on a witch hunt? You realize every server gets accusations of cheating..oh..probably a couple times a week? With hardly any evidence to go on, if any? And it’s already over and done with, after the fact, and this isn’t CSI…there’s no real evidence trail to follow, and we’re not privvy to Anet’s logs or anything, as to who-did-what. Don’t you think you’re asking a bit much of the average casual gamer?

We’re not asking any of you to do that, so please don’t drop a steaming pile of crap on our desks, either.

Kanthar Turambar.9164:

Basically, I’m just tired of everyone we face (and yes us, at times) following up what someone did and decided to post about with a “yeah but” kind of comment. Cool, you did something awesome, now here are things that were awesome we did! I know that’s pretty carebear, and kind of kills the forum warrioring we tend to enjoy at work, but it’s a heck of a lot more respectful. I’m as guilty of this as the next guy, but finding reasons to dismiss what a group did (unless it’s abusing hacks/glitches) outside of countering with your own awesome and/or better escapades… I just don’t get the point.

That will never end, just about 99% of the time, as the match goes on. As we get to the midnight hour of reset time…people will be more cordial, until then it’s everyone trying to get the last word in as if what they say WILL BE THE LAST WORD AND THAT IS IT SO HELP ME JEEBUS. Then they’ll sit back, smug or sure as can be, until someone launches with their opinion or whatnot, and fires ’em back up, and it all starts up again.

Golem rushes aside, it’s been a fun week.

Well folks I think we can at least agree on one thing…

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