Guild Wars 2

Sinester.3572:

bye bye nsp u tried

Smugged a little too soon, bud.

Yep that’s me PVE’in. No shame here.

Devon.9061:

GavinGoodrich.1382:

This is a naaaaasty 3-way. I love it. One team makes a move on somebody, the 3rd team is just WAITING to pounce. Had no idea HoD was so oceanic-heavy (or has a ton of 4thmeal late nighters).

4th Mealers… We had people on TS going.. Welp gonna go take a nap and prepare for tonight…

The winners in this war are the 24 hour food joints…“yess yess my pretties…flock to meeeeeeee!”

This is a naaaaasty 3-way. I love it. One team makes a move on somebody, the 3rd team is just WAITING to pounce. Had no idea HoD was so oceanic-heavy (or has a ton of 4thmeal late nighters).

Can’t blame ya for not staying on our BL, y’all had a castle to take, and frankly I wouldn’t stay on our BL either. Hopefully it gets fixed sometime soon. I’d love to set up a permanent trade post at a south tower like a scrooge mcduck money bin or something goofy like that, but hnnnnnnnng…running from a keep waypoint to a tower a buncha times after DC’s?? That’s effort, man! 1st world problems!

BlazeQ.1095:

NOOOOOO Mellinium match map is down!!! This better be a good patch. Flash building is going to be a whole new game.

tbh i’m a lil’ dissapointed. flash building a treb is an achievement of it’s own, particularly when you barely have enough people to do it, and no +5 supply buff laying around

Edit: The white team got everything. Think they can catch up in time? We’ll see…

The NSP groups++ we were fighting last night on IOJ’s map over all the camps were exceptionally good. Think it was a mix of PB, XoXo, and some others.

Fun fights…at one point when you guys flipped Vale, I tried to draw you into Bay’s cannon range to skirmish there.

“Two cannons ought to do the trick, right?”

wrong.

You guys have some sick bunker builds, lemme tell ya. And you still got a few of our newer guys. GF’s all around.

nobody else wants to share their beggest kitten ? I sad.

I hear ya on the support side of things, but you’ll also get more bags overall if you win the fight. Support helps wins fights, so there you go!

Yeah the zerker, dps, aoe nuts will get more loot, but you’re the clutch player makin’ stuff happen. You get the glory.

to the top with ye!

Watching newer commanders make the same mistakes I made when I first started, like going off some of the steeper cliffs near your north towers in the borderlands map makes for some tasty nostalgia.

I think my best record is around 30 koreans/oceanics, all off the stairs of the water gate in garrison, right after we took it. Seemed pretty anti climactic. YAY we finally got it after a 2 hour fi—splasplasplasplsasplsaplspalspslaspslpspla…splat.

Care to share yours?

Flappybob.1950:

IoJ Borderlands is completely untouchable due to the massive amounts of lag and disconnecting that occurs on that map in particular. No problems in other maps though. :/

Lucky IoJ

Nah, not untouchable. NSP proved otherwise earlier today.

Too many IoJ’ers went into this week going “meh…” including myself. I focused more on trading and leveling my guard than anything. We’re sure paying for it now. Honestly we knew ET would be spunky but we didn’t expect the kind of long-term focus on us (most of the time) instead of playing for 2nd.

I think most servers in general have finally shifted away from “play for 2nd” since they realize it’s a myth to begin with, and despite ET’s low score they’ve been a major factor, stepping up with fewer people when IoJ as a whole mainly dismissed them.

We have a kitten for fighting DR, and it shows. ET were able to take full advantage of that all week. It’s 8 hours till the reset and DR as it stands now, going into IOJ’s weakest timezone will take 1st place within a few hours. We’re dealing with some tasty internal drama after last night too, so the real question is will we rally enough people in our weakest timezone against 2 servers gunning for us? The odds aren’t in our favor at this point. And I’m just as guilty as the next guy, woot.

I really shoulda done the math in my head when I listened to someone at random saying “Yeah even if the +695 the rest of the match we’ll still get 1st.” Really shoulda just double checked that last night before fooking off…woops.

In fairness to the IoJ’ers, we’re used to being underdogs, and being put in with the most overall people and steamrolling EB on oceanic time just didn’t seem…natural to many of us. It turned into “well you guys got this wrapped up, seeya when it’s challenging again.” By the middle of the week, we just plain got lazy.

Thanks guys

15sylvari

Well in the last;…at least month or so it hasn’t changed from around 3.7 gold for 100 gems. It’s shifted a lil bit but….seems to be pretty stable as of late.

They’re on sale for high prices, but not in gem store or anything.

What’d I miss?

I wanna the permanent BLTC contract thingy, but was wondering if there was an alternative way to get it?

Thanks.

That’s a sexy ET/DR sammish tonight. Wanna see more of that plz.

Perkysaurus.2630:

Fun is different for everyone though if I were on Ioj i doubt i would be all that excited about the matchup this week, but to each his own.

Wasn’t that excited about it, tbh.

Not that DR and ET are bad servers, just the population and the timezone coverage is a bit lopsided. It’s not making IOJ any stronger, tbh we’re getting pretty sloppy the last couple of days, haha. It’s a good chance for some of our newer commanders to step up and not feel the pressure quite as much, ’cause we just dropped a buncha gold on a few new tags this week.

Havin’ a good time levelin’ my guardian, kitten these things are fun in wvw.

+1 to OP

15 asura

buuuuuump. wtb tasty wvw anet gossips!

I can say this much, as a server ET is fighting—they know how to hit servers that are busy with bigger fish. Like IoJ and DR this week. You guys keep doing all these ninja strikes when we’re thinking your’e licking your wounds in your corner. Frankly, we like it <3

Warrior was good pre-trait balance, and is even better (slightly) at “tagging” targets as they have quite a lot of CC in their builds.

Swordhorn or sword/anything + ranged weapon will make it difficult, at best, for tagged targets to get away from a war that’s CC built and tagging/holding for a group.

Reccomend bulls charge, Fear or stomp, sword in main hand, whatever you want in off (horn for me, everything’s decent) with traits into horn/longbow/weapon swap/revenge/run speed/tank. This is also a decent build for a commander that’s about to leap into an enemy zerg first and roll/horn his way to the rear of his lines, drawing tons of fire and hopefully not dying.

TL;DR
The sword auto attack is pretty kitten decent at both bleeding and rapid crippling, plus the #2 leap has a cripple now, too. Add in a few CC traits and you have a good tagging build for wars.

Just lookin’ for some tasty gossip on what you’re workin’ on next!

Natar.3671:

its nice to see NSP winning after such a long time. good fights to everyone. heres a picture of me and some others trying to treb DH citadel down. it didnt work sadly

Flame boat still gets pic of the week. Or was that last week?

edit wow i went through like 100 superior arrow carts this week…jaysus time to reload…

zTales.4392:

You’ll only have to worry about IoJ doing that. NSP focused you because you were the biggest threat, not because we were in some alliance. Take it as a compliment. :P

That’s exactly why there was all this hubbub of an “alliance” in the first place. If you want us to come out and say NSP never “agreed” to anything then fine, NSP never agreed to anything and just focused on DH until moday. edit IoJ got what we wanted out of it which was a much closer, exciting matchup. Like mentioned ^^above, GG and grats on the win.

MrFluffy.9307:

well the week is just about over and IoJ came in third, not much I can say about that other then things did not quite go as planned this week Anyways DH you guys are fun to fight as always and NSP although this was my first time facing you guys I had a blast! Enjoy your win and have a fun reset night :-)

~Fluffy

We’re glad the week was much more interesting than DH hitting what they wanted while dominating, and us slapfighting for 2nd like so many other matchups. Thanks for making it an exciting week.

We didn’t want NSP to get 1st or even 2nd, but you guys earned it. GG.

So how’s this goin’ post-patch? IoJ people are saying we’;re getting yaks to QL again from dan…how bout u guys?

Didn’t see it in the patch notes or anything, just the traps they were fixing before yaks got bugged,.

Know what else is funny? Our kitten talking tends to come based on timezones too. IoJ DOMINATED page 17 but NSP are kicking the crap out of us on page 18.

/curls into little ball

How many gems are your rocket boots?

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zTales.4392:

Banzie.5248:

I would like to clear some things up with the NSP people. It was not 3 pugs trying to flip our map, It was a 30+ Zerg with Omega golems on our map trying to flip garrison, Which we almost lost. NSP is the backstabber here, Not IoJ.

This is where you people are getting ridiculous.

It’s NOT backstabbing. The vast majority of NSP commanders either A] aren’t aware of the IoJ/NSP “alliance,” or B] never agreed to the “alliance” in the first place. As far as I can tell, Rob is the only NSP commander who agreed to it at all.

It’s not backstabbing if there was never an agreement in the first place. Most of NSP doesn’t care for politics.

I’d disagree with you there. Why? When we realized we were fighting each other again, right out the door we were all pretty much flinging handbags at each other, throwing chairs, old saloon brawl kinda stuff. DH was playing the piano at the time while happily zerging away at our under-manned, paper stuff.

Shortly after, Bird offers a truce, with conditions (just SM on EB) which IOJ pretty much publicly agreed to on the forums. Corners got hit on EB, but nobody really seemed to care, so nobody said anything

For about two whole weekend days, IOJ and NSP’s borderlands would only go green, and only for a short time while DH would get pushed out. DH had enough real estate to cover anyway. Aside from maybe a tower and your usual camp flip loops, those 2 BL’s were PACIFIED.

Then “someone” threw the first punch, stepped on a twig, whatever, and we’re back to the saloon brawl, while DH goes back to the piano and bartends to flying patrons, who use said drinks to smash opposing server’s heads.

You can’t tell me an entire saturday/sunday of two mostly peaceful borderlands meant NSP didn’t care about the “treaty” or whatever. It shows a lot louder than what you guys say on the forums.

edit to bri you just mentioned you guys are welcome to do what you want, so you can’t exactly ask our guys to back off the forums if they wanna troll you, now can you

@ agnes, yeah i’m a huge advocate of “if you want the ppt, go to a borderland”

EB has it’s own benefits, but I probably agree much more than disagree with you on that.

EB is just so much kitten FUN most of the time though it’s hard to get away, haha

zTales.4392:

Banzie.5248:

I would like to clear some things up with the NSP people. It was not 3 pugs trying to flip our map, It was a 30+ Zerg with Omega golems on our map trying to flip garrison, Which we almost lost. NSP is the backstabber here, Not IoJ.

This is where you people are getting ridiculous.

It’s NOT backstabbing. The vast majority of NSP commanders either A] aren’t aware of the IoJ/NSP “alliance,” or B] never agreed to the “alliance” in the first place. As far as I can tell, Rob is the only NSP commander who agreed to it at all.

It’s not backstabbing if there was never an agreement in the first place. Most of NSP doesn’t care for politics.

K. Back to NSP’s BL we-a-go!

Neither side really has a leg to stand on here.

Bird’s original conditions, which ioj commanders agreed to was SM was no-man’s land. That didn’t include either EB corner, but hey both sides hit it anyway. There was some chest thumping about “we’ll do what we want” on both sides, and in the end, SOMEONE threw the first punch.

At this point, who cares. It’s already too late.

edit while it wasn’t as long as I’d hoped for, it still was long enough to make the weekend fabulous for just about everybody. DH, much as they freely admit, needed a dose of getting outzerged so they could step up their own game, and they’re back for more and man they are NOT happy xD

The “can’t see if another server is outmanned” plays hugely into this matchup now, too.
It doesn’t really apply to DH since they’re not getting the odds tipped vs. 2 servers, but for IOJ and NSP, it applies a LOT.

Both servers have enough people to put large zergs on 1-2 maps, but which maps are they on? Often we won’t know till we’ve lost something. We’re gonna see a LOT more offense until every server gets used to doing a lot more scouting to save their own BL. It’s the same boat as when orange swords got put to +25 fighting. Everyone will kitten and cry at first (including me last night) but we’ll all become stronger servers, with more clutch players and scouts in the end.

Welp…didn’t last as long as I’d hoped. Was hoping we’d have a nice chaotic 3-way by wednesday where the point totals made it anyone’s game. I’ve made a few too many dumb predictions in the last couple months, but DH should be able to take advantage of the resuming 3-way all over to push back into 1st by the end of the week.

Had this lasted to tues or wed, it woulda been a lot closer. Oh well. Let’s go kick each other’s kitten.

It’s been civil for like 3 days and neither server’s really done any damage to either side’s BL, and the 3-ways continue on DH and EB. What’s up with all the sudden kitten? This is what both servers wanted.

At what point did either server say they were actually better? We just have diff. play styles that didn’t jive well with the whole DH scenario last week. And besides, it’s almost impossible to tell who’s really the “best” server when there’s always a 3rd server getting mixed up in what’s goin’ on.

We still have 4 days to go, and there’s no way any team is just gonna let another team walk away with the win. The last few days are gonna be pure chaos.

Lovin’ the flameboat. One should never have an option to leave such a marvel of the…moat. Thingy.

We have no idea how we still have SM.

huff..huff…

edit in all seriousness though DH really needed to keep the pressure up, but every time they kept going for the same paper tower over and over that we’d gladly just reflip with 4-5 people…the time spent on that were the small windows we needed to get precious breathing room. A yak here, a few repairs there…2-3 minutes to take out a treb up north without losing any ground down south…etc.

Epic night, and though the mixed tactics from abys and friends was effective (choking camps, ninja’ing towers, contesting keeps, keeping us distracted or cut off at times), it wasn’t the full-out nutcrushing double-team that a fully upgraded SM should get.

The fight with DH at Jerrifer, Jerrifer, and Jerrifer was a lotta fun (at least the few jerrifer fights I was at) Probably around 80-100 people in the area between both teams, as well as a few cows being flung from the keep @ jerri.

Fought Abyss a few times @ hills, but ya got the best of us and why-did-i-not-put-17-carts-down-like-i-normally-do-i’ll-never-know but t’was a good push.

Not even sure why ya went for bay. I can see hills no problem, but a thickened waypointed loaded keep vs. a paper hills is a whoooooole different ballgame

And I shoulda just gone for your catas instead of siegin’ up briar’s lord’s room. Whoever got that pull on my cart gunners on the rear off the back did a real clutch play. I was thinkin’ to myself “man…I can see this going really badly but i’ll just take the chance.” Good thing the tower was just paper at least. Real clutch pull though. All those /bows you saw from us was out of respect though tonight

Didn’t run into much NSP today, cept a few usual headbutts in EB and once in DH. When i first logged in we had to stop mid-golem rush on Stoney(with mesmers n’ stuff) ’cause NSP beat us to it.

zTales.4392:

torridstoic.7492:

Can someone go back and quote the super elitist post about NSP’s “server philosophy” and how they will never team up with another server? Thanks much.

We’re still hitting IoJ in EB. Frankly, not everyone cares about what people say on the forums. Can’t blame ’em, either.

We had a nice setup at golanta and klovan facing green and NSP just rolled right through it. No big deal. Was all my sup. siege in there too.

^yeah it’s bound to happen.

Why don’t we just make this a lot less stressful now and just call DH a free-for-all land of fun and happiness and rainbows, so nobody gets the wrong idea, and nobody can pull a callout later on. No hits on borderlands is already plenty fine.

edit but @ cold beer—when we start leaving things open to interpretation (i.e. the condition we agreed to was only SM) then things start gettin’ out of hand. Let’s stick with what we agree to, keep it fairly simple, and leave it at that, so nothing gets out of hand.

I really don’t want to have to make 2 public apologies in 2 weeks…that’d be like…some kind of record for me. Let’s just stick with 1 for last week, k? Nerdrage sucks.

Crimson Magdelana.9024:

I’m down for NSP and IoJ staying out of each others BL respectively. It worked out fine when we had these agreements in the past (minus the random pug camp flippers that no one can control).

But only having 1 BL to fight over (DH in this case), and 1 corner (DH) + SM on EB….it might get a little bit boring.

We’re gonna bump heads….a lot.

There’s also the factor of DH having the ability and most times the people to go on offense to pull us back to our own BL’s. They’re just as good at a nice sucker punch to the genitals as either of us, especially when we’re not paying attention for a looooong time.

Just an hour ago I watched IoJ’s map rapidly go green then rapidly turn back to blue…so yeah we’ll be PLENTY busy

And hey if it gets TOO boring (which I really doubt) we can just expand EB to a full-out free for all. But let’s wait and see. Weekends are chaotic enough as it is. And that’s never a bad thing.

Crimson Magdelana.9024:

Rob.7624:

I support this thread being used too.
Commanders please read below

Wait. Is this official?

Need more specifics. BL’s left alone? EB free for all? Not sure what the terms are other than we fight over SM, which will happen anyhow.

Basically BL’s left alone, EB left alone, SM free for all.

DH has enough people to handle both our servers

hyjaxxx.1584:

hahah..I love it week after week people get puffy in the chest because they beat us on reset….its because we are toiling in the kitchen getting your meals ready for the mon-fri push…and oh yes! its served ala cart baby!

We’re still debating which one of us is Rowhan and which one’s Gondor. A lot hinges on a pre-battle speech, you know. And we’re sorting out which server has the most Charr-mounted asuran cavalry for backup at Hills Deep.

Works for me, Bird.

We’ll spread the word

Dear god there’s a family guy reference in there SOMEWHERE………….hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……….

They’re about the size of my backpack.

Assemble the charr, and get the asuran cavalry mounted!

zTales.4392:

echo.2053:

Dang….. think i might be delusional. how epic it would be if we could get all 3 servers to stop fighting for a day to reenact a seige scene from lotr. lol anet would be kitten ed at us but we would be immortal servers !!!!!!

Omg yes. xD

But that’ll never happen. :<

How good is your pre-charge speech, Bri? You wanna be Rohan or Gondor?

echo.2053:

Dang….. think i might be delusional. how epic it would be if we could get all 3 servers to stop fighting for a day to reenact a seige scene from lotr. lol anet would be kitten ed at us but we would be immortal servers !!!!!!

IoJ could be Gondor, and NSP could be Rohan. Or vice versa. Either’s fun. I guess it depends who can do the best pre-charge speech and who’s best at running around tapping spears beforehand.

Either way, hills would be the best Helm’s Deep, eh?

The drums…

15 orcs