Guild Wars 2

RUIN 2.0 as in large guild coming to the EU side since they “beat the US” so then they’ll “beat EU”
That was basically what they said on some other forum, no?

Don’t get me wrong, i have absolutely no problem with EU playing on US and US playing on EU, just find the reasons they give for coming over to EU pretty funny.

He’s not calling you a child, he’s calling WvW “the red headed step child”, it’s an expression, meaning WvW pretty much gets ignored/treated badly by ANet

He’s agreeing that WvW needs more

Quite a lot of guilds are taking a break this week, i’ve heard Xaoc needs to restock gold, for example, and the holidays are coming up, along with exams now and after the holidays for those of us who are students (ohai).

With PRX having transfered to SFR, they’re probably the next nr 1, since they won’t have the problem where alarmclockers and night shifts need breaks from that at times too.
Guess they’re RUIN 2.0 /shrug

Wonder how long they’ll stay after getting to nr 1

Select, press p, invite

Huh, just realised SFR got some american guild, hope they didnt come here to kick RUIN kitten barely any of them left by now.
(Yes i’m behind on news, in my defense, i’ve been busy)

Out of curiousity, where did you decide on? :o

oh, hey, we’ll actually need a new matchup thread finally.

There’s nothing to do anymore.
I like some variation, there’s 0 variation in any part of the game, even FOTM is pretty much “Well, ive gotten up to lvl 14…. zzzzzzzz, cba anymore” (easy money though)

You’re not working towards something (especially now i’ve got my elgendary, dem flowers), quite a few people are on a break atm and i log on, see 2 people online, 1 maybe in WvW, and there’s simply no reason for me to stay online, being an elitist kitten who prefers guild groups and there being nothing else to do.

First time i see him, granted, i was bored and clicking random threads in the forums, normally the title has to grab my attention somehow.

Though considering the post right above me, i see what you mean.

As far as im aware transfering is still free?

The other option is getting some people together and hope your server’s zerg distracts them enough so you can sneak-cap stuff

But there’s absolutely no reason to do that, and tactics, planning and positioning is just as much skill as pressing buttons is, jsut a different type of skill.
I can press buttons quite well, or so i believe, but i couldn’t lead my way out of a paper bag.

2 of our Mesmers are currently playing Warriors most of the time, and feeling useful

Vizunah’s taken breaks before as well, don’t pretend they havent /snort

He’s equating unorganised zergs with monkeys with automatic weapons and organised guild groups with whatever highly trained small force who work together you want them to be.
I thought it was pretty obvious…..

His point was as well that the monkeys (more fun to call them that than unorganised zergs) aren’t going to be as effective as people working together, and that it is in fact very possible to kill 30 monkeys with less than that.

Things irrelevant in your arguement:
- Downed state: Monkeys dont/rarely res each other, and with all the damage flying around will drop faster than they can come back up
- AoE cap: Relying on AoE in this game is silly due to this cap, to be fair, relying on AoE is silly regardless of caps, while of course there’s going to be AoE, there’s also going to be tons of other skills used (healing, buffs, knockbacks, bla bla, the works) which matter a lot more.

Things which you ignore completely for some reason:
- Movement within and around a group: Standing still or just running in Braveheart style will get you killed, move around within and around the large enemy group, kitten up their los, evade…. It’s funny how little people actually evade in WvW, it’s surprisingly useful.
- Surprise: Or maybe SURPRIIIIIISE! Nuff said

We’re not saying it’s possible every time, monkeys can get lucky, we can fumble something, or we can meet an organised group (rhinos?!), but it is possible in this game, and i repeat, if you haven’t had the pleasure to win such odds, i feel sorry for you.

Steelo.4597:

look all this trolling stuff is just lame excuses. if people troll there is nothing the server can do about it except report and thats walking a thin line. if you cant take trolling then get off the internet. when KISS left to ehmry, there werent words about trolling. They came back a week later and got trolled a bit? Wow the wonders.. now they take this as a excuse to make their leaving better. Fact is they leave for the same reason they left for ehmry and thats they just cant lose and they get no recognition from the server because they dont work together with the server. They kitten of good guilds like that and in the end left themselves after we kept dropping. Not after writing something about “gunnar’s not working together”, i found that the best words, the irony! There is bad blood and its because of KISS leader being a great pretender and not man enough to say they are leaving because we are losing. instead he tries to make gunnars look bad and drive off other guilds from gunnars, making shallow words about friendship while stabbing the server in the back.. just an utter kitten.

for the record im not in any guild, this is all my impression as a lone player from various forum posts and ingame chat.

…… aaaaand breathe
;)

Sorry mOlder, its an annoying habit of mine. I do agree with you though
<3

I’m on a t1 server, we’ve been nr 1 for a few weeks, having had to fight our kitten of to stay there against an extremely dedicated nr 2, the old champions.
Now we’re taking a break, and the world isn’t ending.
SURPRISE!

Taknig a break doesn’t make us “mundane” or “common”, it simply knowing that sometimes, people ahve other kitten to do.
I’m pertty sure the French will need to take a break soon too, we’ve had it a bit easier than them because we have a large group of Russians and even we needed a break.
If you are willing to jeopardise your health for something like this, YOU have a problem.

Regardless of what people say about commitment to other people, this is purely about being on top. Accept you can’t be the top dog at all times and that some things are more important than others.
And this is from a competitive person who takes extreme pleasure from winning.

Somehow, i believe CIR would get a lot less done… :p

To be fair, those monkeys would likely end up taking each other out by accident, in GW2 that isn’t really possible :p

Assassinin.4963:

Syndic.4762:

Planetside 2 is a lackluster freemium game.

Told you so.

You can’t fault a freemium game because no one ‘forced’ or ‘tricked’ you into paying anything for it if you don’t want to, saved for your play time, unlike some supposedly f2p game that charged you $60 upfront with the pretence of delivering what they claimed to but only showed their true color in contrary just 3 months into the game.

This was an answer to Nidhogg saying that he was lucky CIR was mostly in PS2 atm, Syndic explained him we werent, and why, nothing to do with GW2

Logales.5431:

and on forums (less jolwar, more thread like this please):
http://www.grandcross.fr/forum/welcome-mates-!/joy-of-wvw/

More, GIVE ME MOAR!

Also known as:
Lol, nice thread and nice gifs

Accounts which are online at that time.

We managed to get a guild on our full server by having 3 guilds log off a month and half ago.

Common sense also dictates that if you’re heavily outnumbered, you’re not going to jsut stand there with your thumb up your kitten and wait to die.

You can take down groups larger than yours in this game if you’re running around with few people, i’m sorry for you if you’ve never had the pleasure doing that.

That would make perfect sense – if the group of 10 just kinda stood there and tried to outlast the group of 30. Which is down-right idiotic and only gets you killed.

mOlder is a Guardian, though, he’s op :p
But yes, if people work together it’s perfectly possible, do note that he also says “It all comes down to skill and tactic, and the lack of in the opposing team.”

A guild group who know how to work to work together, know how to play thier classes and ave a good leader can take out pug groups several times larger than themselves quite easily.

Just would like to correct a misconception there about Blacktide.

The big guilds do not call the shots, the old Blacktide guilds work really well together and anyone who is willing to work together to arrange everything to win in the best way is listened to and offered access to commander voice coms and forums.

What we do tend to do is look down on guilds and people we’ve never seen before coming in to scream at us we’re doing it wrong and we should listen to them and shouldn’t play in the way we usually do. (which does happen, funnily enough)

We have little to no queues in primetime, normally we have a strong morning team but i think they’re taking a break atm, this combined with SFR coming up the rankings might make us lose some of the bandwagoners hopefully.

The old system mostly seemed to work fine for me, except on reset nights, those were always bad.
The new system though for me has allies phasing in and out without enemies necessarily popping up faster, people not being able to see the person they’re supposed to follow, we’ve had a few guildies who have the problem at times that they can’t see anyone, friendly or enemy, and more of the like.

It’s pretty annoying

Looks like with a lot of people on breaks, getting ready for the holidays and writing/preparing for exams, we will lose the top spot this week.
And thats without DF:UW being out, i’m sure we’ll lose a fair amount of people to that one too…

I’m still proud that we’ve managed to stay on top for the time we have, and look forward to more good fights.

Pretty obvious this week that Vizunah is focusing on us and AS mostly seems to stick to their borderlands, havent been there yet but each time i see AS somewhere else they have the outmanned buff

Legendary weapons aren’t “the best” though, jsut have more fancy effects than all the others. I should know, people keep telling me im kitten flowers.

Sure, they’ll get automatically upgraded to ascended stats once those weapons come out, but i doubt it will be as time-consuming to get those as it is to get a legendary.
On top of that, what about the people who are purely into WvW, WvW only and nothing but WvW?

It’s perfectly possible to get it all if you really want it, regardless of your server, though it might not happen tomorrow – neither will the rest of the legendary

About needing “pvp” to finish it: If you make the conscious decision you don’t want to play part of the game, i don’t consider that getting screwed over.

It’s still derailing the matchup thread, you know.

Also, /snicker

It’s not too high and i’ve rarely lagged despite being on Blacktide, one of the monster servers. Even though we’re not at our population peak anymore, i even almost never lagged when we were.

I’ve had lag with the new culling patch, but thats pretty much it, just when they put in something which affects wvw – couple of days to a week and then it stabilises.

Actually, in the early days, world completionists could switch to one of the horribly outmatching superservers, get all the stuff they needed and immediatly transfer back.

I freely admit that’s how my Ranger got world completion – jumped over to Eredon Terrace when it had 99% wvw map domination :p

How my Necro did it is by joining our server’s morning zerg one morning, which gave me all the tower and keep pois and vistas in every area – i just need to run around some to get the skillpoints, pois and vistas outside common areas once i’m a bit higher level and can stand on my own, and then i’m good.

So yeah, see if you ahve any group going for off-hour stuff, or try to organise a few on your own. If the large zergs are occupied with each other at some keep battle, take a few friends for that tower in a corner of the map, nobobdy will notice.
Stuff like that

The culling patch seems to have restored some older bugs.
People not seeing anyone, lag, etc etc.

On top of that, people sometimes can’t see leaders of warbands, making it a pain to follow them.

I’m curious about the february patch, but itll likely be too little too late, i’m currently working on my 2nd legendary just to get the feel i’m actually working towards something/achieving something.
While i still have fun in WvW, the whole “Yeah! Let’s do this!:D” isn’t really there anymore.

Thurbleton.5841:

I support your post whole heartily. Very often I’m asking folks to use the most out of their profession and support but sadly I see the masses just wanting to auto/afk on a door in my tier.

first I want to say I’m a mesmer and I have no problem with portal bombing and I’ve never used it. My issue is when a ton of people stack up one one point two issues happen

#They don’t all load due to culling (ANet is working to fix this issue currently)
#We can only damage 5 out of the X players that are on that spot.

• Currently ANet has no fix to the 5 player limit not only on player abilities but siege as well, furthermore they’ve limited the amount of siege you can place in close proximity.
• If this was remedied either with the cap removed on everyone or just siege I think we’d see a drop in ‘turtle defense’ and ‘portal bomb’ strats cause we could just aoe that one spot and get a TON of kills (furthermore a smart guardian could just run to the portal exit and use his ‘no one can leave this circle’ ability to trap them)

In other words people are abusing portals as a way to exploit the game, rather then fix the symptom by nerfing mesmers I’d like to see the real issue dealt with. I’m all for working together and ‘grouping up’ but that doesn’t mean we need to stack on top of each other.

Turtling has been “fixed” with the heal cap, siege never had the target limit skills have and anyone who stays on top of a portal after going through is an idiot. A dead one.

Dear god, can’t you jsut put this in 1 of the other 5 million posts about portals around atm? >_<

There are no massive queues in higher tiers.
As the only English T1 EU server, Blacktide has around 15-20 mins at most, the only time we do get longer queues is around reset afaik (though i’ve enver been in those, i’ve heard they’re usually longer than normal hours)

Those long queues people heard and complained about were from over a month ago.

No, it’s nice that you don’t have to be a large group to still be useful in WvW

Looks like this’ll be the last matchup where we get to use this nice ANet-tagged thread.
Let’s make it a good one

It’s getting closer to Christmas too, december is generally a pretty busy month for a lot of people

I, for example, haven’t been able to play this week at all, and next week i’ll be really busy until i go visit my parents for a while for christmas celebration, then coming back home for new years, and a week after new years i have a huge deadline for something related to my studies… You get the idea.

…I don’t see the problem, alliance or not.

Looks like she did sort it out “Cannot find topic with that permalink” :p
The conversation earlier was silly but hardly warranted a CC note… Ah well /shrug

What are you guys even doing? You’re jsut talking past each other

Let me know if you’re ever involved in development of a game, particularly widespread pvp aspects.
It will tell me to avoid it.

Let’s see:
- There’s the lag problem that’s been stated already.
- The “borderlands” would basically be 1v1 due to that impassable fort idea
- Because we need more pve in WvW(vW)! Yeah!

You basically want to take the 3 servers out of it all and have everything be 1v1, with a healthy(?) chunk of pve.

I care about the people i play with, not the server i play on.

naphack.9346:

Btw I really wanna see a team “fake portal bomb”.
So you bust in a portal in the middle of their formation, they all go “oh shi-” and spam their rings of warding, feedback bubbles, wells, meteor showers, frost fields and marks on it…
…And then the opponent simply runs in from the flank and all the nice AoE stuff is on cooldown.

That sounds pretty hilarious, would need a suicidal mesmer though.

Personally I like portal bombs, one of the things which forces you to pay attention to your surroundings, if you do, you wipe them out, if you don’t, you die.
You also can’t just go through and stand there anymore, because then you die. And even if you do move, you might still die.

Portal bombs aren’t the “Press to win” button a lot of people seem to think it is, and add a fun aspect to WvW.
(See? I read some posts, and realised some people thought it wasn’t fun)

Last night was pretty epic! Let’s keep it up

That specific case is for her to discuss with you, I copied this to her.

I just used it as one of the examples of what I’m worried about at the moment, especially since I just got my legendary today, and then hear from everywhere that if I would get hacked, I would have all that time lost with no way of getting it back, and the thing which is supposed to protect my account, the e-mail authentification, doesn’t work right at the moment?

My e-mail is entirely secure, but if it seems to me that there’s a large amount of people being hacked, and the e-mail authentification and password change notification warnings aren’t working (no matter how secure my e-mail is, if i don’t get an e-mail, then i can’t stop it) right with a high chance of not getting any restoration should I somehow be amongst the “unlucky” ones… I’m sure you understand I could be worried.

Copy-pasted from a post I made since I hadn’t realised this thread was for e-mail authentification too
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Security-issue/first#post894107

Hej,

Today, 2 of my guildmembers got hacked, one lost all characters and legendary, the other “just” lost all of his stuff. Neither got an e-mail about anyone else trying to access their account, 1 got told it was done from her IP (Couldn’t have happened), 1 is waiting for an answer from support atm since he was out all day and only just checked.

This made me and some others paranoid and change our passwords. None of us got an e-mail our passwords were changed, when the first guildmate’s password got changed by ANet, even though she’d already changed it, she got no e-mail about it either, just sudden password change.

We all have the correct e-mail adresses linked to our accounts.

This really makes me worry about security, the fact that apparently people can log in despite e-mail authentication (and i don’t have a smartphone so can’t get a mobile one) and change passwords without anyone finding out until they log in again, get into our accounts, whatever.

Is the e-mail system still active? Has there been a security breach somewhere on ArenaNet’s side?

Thank you,
Gen

Hej,

Today, 2 of my guildmembers got hacked, one lost all characters and legendary, the other “just” lost all of his stuff. Neither got an e-mail about anyone else trying to access their account, 1 got told it was done from her IP (Couldn’t have happened.), 1 is waiting for an answer from support atm since he was out all day and only just checked.

This made me and some others paranoid and change our passwords. None of us got an e-mail our passwords were changed, when the first guildmate’s password got changed by ANet, even though she’d already changed it, she got no e-mail about it either, just sudden password change.

We all have the correct e-mail adresses linked to our accounts.

This really makes me worry about security, the fact that apparently people can log in despite e-mail authentication (and i don’t have a smartphone so can’t get a mobile one) and change passwords without anyone finding out until they log in again, get into our accounts, whatever.

Is the e-mail system still active? Has there been a security breach somewhere on ArenaNet’s side?

Thank you,
Gen

… You’re just not making sense o.O

Basically, i’m going to put it like this “I don’t believe a word you’re saying because you refuse to give me proof and I know it’s not my guild”.
There.