Guild Wars 2

Runehand.9368:

Grieve.1432:

So I wasn’t there, but I heard about it on our TS last night from a few of my guildies.Yak’s Bend did you guys really have to use those Super Adventure Boxes enmasse on your attempt on hills. I mean funny, but really why? You just made the fight one big lag fest or at least it appeared to be an attempt to cause a ton of lag.

Uh, we thought it was YOU guys who used the Super Adventure Box! We were all like ‘Well, this is a first – defending south outer hills with… Boxes.’ It definitely wasn’t part of any greater strategy on whoever did it, but for some reason we thought you guys were throwing a party inside the gate judging by how congregated you were when we hit the south gate.

Guess someone was trolling both of us… Either way that had to of been a very awkward fight and not benefitting either team due to the global effects of lag.

In the end I’d just say have everyone bug report it to get the kitten things out of WvW.

Xsorus.2507:

Calsifer.6079:

Crystal Desert (T4) is putting up a tough fight against Yak’s Bend (T3) and Kaineng (T3).

All scores are within 1500 points of each other. CD seems to be second during NA and second during Oceanic/SEA.

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/map/731

CD is already losing by 4k and the weekend isn’t even over..

Its bloody obvious CD is going to lose that matchup

We may not win, but we are definitely not backing down. Our SEA/Oceanic are holding their own, I think our EU contingent is actually giving us a tick lead and we seem to be competing pretty well with YB’s NA crew. I wouldn’t be surprised is we sneak up on YB’s point lead over the next couple days.

So I wasn’t there, but I heard about it on our TS last night from a few of my guildies.Yak’s Bend did you guys really have to use those Super Adventure Boxes enmasse on your attempt on hills. I mean funny, but really why? You just made the fight one big lag fest or at least it appeared to be an attempt to cause a ton of lag.

Oh, and per usual there should be a fight night tonight, 6pm Server Time, on SBI BL at the usual location.

Well, I guess even the most civil of WvW match threads can manage to be closed.

Let’s keep the good fight going.

So I guess since you couldn’t throw money at the problem to fix it anymore you’re just going to pack it in and transfer now. Great attitude, really that is just top notch. I mean what was it like week ago that you tried to pay for an entire NA community to transfer. Wow, didn’t know you were that desperate. Good thing we turned you down.

Ethics.4519:

Gravy.7589:

Had some funs in SoS BL, once again running with Kiwi + pugs. At one point against a SoS zerg we had, what I would call a mock GvG battle just north of hero’s lodge, across the bridge. Both Zergs saw each other, stopped and applied blast finishers and charged in. We veiled twice and pretty much rolled over the SoS party. Many other battles around the map with both CD and SoS. Great open field fun. Good job Sojoo.

As part of SoS, I was on the map for that, but don’t believe I was part of that zerg. You guys were definitely on top of things. We were trying to react but you were already two steps ahead. Although we had some good fights and good defense, I applaud you.

I’m not making excuses, but in all fairness around 9-10eastern time our TS3 server went down and we were left without voice communication. It was very frustrating. Yesterday or the day before we were hitting CD hard, and all SoS got booted from the map and couldn’t rejoin, so we went to SBI. Somebody in CD is very very good at hacking. I kid, I kid.

Funny you should mention that because I’m pretty sure it wasn’t CD messing with your TS as we had similar problems this weekend with an apparent DDoS attempt on our TS server.

SBI, looking at you now. :P

(I honestly don’t care who is causing it as it’s mainly a nuisance.)

Go Nats! Natitude ya! Oh, wait wrong game…

So how’s the match-up been?

JudgeD,
I just noticed your sig and thank you for the laugh today. “Too poor to transfer” really? Might want to talk to your money bags server community who was willing to try and buy out the entire CD NA-side WvW community this past weekend. Also, just so there is no confusion for anyone CD rejected the offer as we love our home and well that would just be rude to our new family members in KWBH.

But ya 2 TS servers for a community because a couple guilds are paranoid about spies and trolls. Someone takes this kitten too seriously. I mean doing that will split and fracture your server I’ve seen it twice before in just my personal experience in this game and ya not pretty.

Hey All! It’s that day of the week again. Fight Night tonight 6pm Server time on SBI BL at our usual location. Lets get some fresh bodies there tonight and maybe even some SBI could show up for some fun dueling.

SK, you should try to get some of your guys to show up. I know Ghed wouldn’t mind seeing fresh faces to fight.

Ghedoriah.4290:

Good. I’ll be looking forward to seeing how good they actually are.

I’ll try and get some of them to fight night for you to liven things up.

KWBH only began their move as of last night so just keep an eye out you’ll see them popping up.

Gravy.7589:

Something important happen, that warrants creating this thread? Sorry, not seeing it. :P

I could say that your just so jelly of us.

But, in reality, this is a big thing for our server’s community as we have mainly over the previous 5-6 months suffered multiple guild loses and a major community reorganization due to almost everything being pulled put from under us back in January. I think the fact that we have come to together and shown that we are still strong and that another reasonably sized guild also sees that is a big turning point for our server’s community.

Anyways, Gravy I’m sure you’ll enjoy new people to fight.

(Typing from my smartphone so please excuse any horrible auto-corrects or typos.)

I just wanted to hop on here and give a warm welcome to Crystal Desert’s newest addition, Kingswood Brotherhood [KWBH]. Thank you for choosing us as your new home. We hope you will kick back and stay awhile as I’m sure many of our community members will be looking forward to meeting and running with all of you in WvW, PvE, & s/tPvP. Our community is proud to have such a great addition win or lose and looks forward to forming many great friendships and gaming memories alongside you, our new servermates.

Again, SmilingKnight and KWBH thank you for choosing Crystal Desert! I know it was a difficult decision.

Luvpie.8350:

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/map/697. If you haven’t seen this yet. It is AMAZING!

I gotta admit that is pretty kitten awesome. That site just get better and better.

Any chance of a score update for those of us at the office and not able to log in game?

Also, LoM had some great fights last night against both SoS and SBI at SBI BL’s SW camp. It was quite enjoyable. Hope you guys had as much fun as we did.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Grieve.1432:

Rising Dusk,
I am not sure what you are referring to because the big pish I was a apart of was during NA primetime 8-11pm EST. I do know you guys started push hard per usual a bit after during more late evening PST. You must have a lot of Californians compared to us either that or more young college age players in WvW.

Sorry, full time employee here, and 6AM mornings don’t agree with my WvWing at 11PM.

Ah, ya I know the feeling I just tend to be a little sleep deprived and more caffeine driven.

Rising Dusk,
I am not sure what you are referring to because the big pish I was a apart of was during NA primetime 8-11pm EST. I do know you guys started push hard per usual a bit after during more late evening PST. You must have a lot of Californians compared to us either that or more young college age players in WvW.

It was just a good night. I know my guild had a couple old officers who we never see log hop on last night after a month or 2 of absense so we were in full force having a good time on SoS BL and apparently we had a small group that pushed SBI BL. Our initial successes and word of my guild having some well known community members logging in probably stirred up a bunch or guilds and more casual WvW players and I think it just snowballed from there. I think both SoS & SBI were lacking numbers a bit more than usual last night as well at least from my perspective, which probably added to the outcome of the push.

Oh, and who’s up for a fight night tonight?

But ya, we were definitely having a good time

Gravy.7589:

I say we have a race to take SOS keep in their borderlands. CD take one side, while SBI takes another side. Stay to your side of the pond. MUST turn everything your color on your side. Then hit their garrison from your side and have some fun three ways in SOS lords room. North supply is not in the equation.

Looking at BL’s map, start from Spawn tower/camp on your side, then Hills/Bay then NW/NE camp, NW/NE towers and then Garrison three way kittening. Bored as hell in WvW so all for this Berm.

So Gravy, did CD win the race tonight? We didn’t know if it was on or not so we just took everything.

I mean if SoS really wanted to make the start interesting and uphill for their Oceanics. They could just take the night off and let their tick go to 0 until their Oceanic primetime hits and the majority of SBI and CD are sleeping. It would be like a server challenge for you guys or a sort of experiment. :P

Don’t forget Fight Night tonight at 6pm Server Time by the SBI windmill.

Hey SoS!

Took you long enough to get NE Tower back on your Borderland. We loved all of those tasty badges. I heard one our guys made almost 100 badges and like 4-5g from you tonight.

Still great back and forth fights. You definitely earned the wxp & loot from our dead bodies.

Great fights this weekend SoS & SBI! Though I think some of my guildies backs are sore from all the badges and loot we farmed. :P

Also, SoS great defence on your BL last night. Ghed, you should feel proud my guildies saw your little Asuran Guardian as well last night and knew who needed to die first.

Chris.3290:

Toggles.1783
Interesting… I think I might understand your point of view a little better. It seems to me like you play more around CD’s dead time.

Thanks to my work schedule and traffic, I don’t even get home until about 6PST and usually have to take care of some stuff before then. I worked very late last night and didn’t get on until about 9PST last night so I missed even my regular time. I checked in on WvW and you guys had just pushed our guys out of the Hills keep and roflstomped the survivors at lowlands. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to stay and play. I have high hopes for the weekend proper.

The pattern has typically been that CD comes out strong on the weekends, and then SBI nudges ahead late in the week.
I shouldn’t make sweeping judgements, because I know some guilds are really going strong (I see a lot of RTGC in SoS Bl) and you guys have never thrown in the towel completely, so I’ve been a little out of line.

Well, there you go. That’s why you don’t see a lot of us that much a few of our NA WvW guilds are primarily East Coast NA so by the time you log on we’re for the most part winding down or wrapping up dailies cuz all of us government worker types gotta be up even earlier.

Ghedoriah.4290:

Sorry for the double-post, but did want to enquire if you folks from CD were planning on another Fight Night tonight?

Yup, there will be a Fight Night as usual at 6pm Server Time (9pm EST), but feel free to show up and start earlier. We’re thinking SBI BL for a change, but still by the windmill.

DHK.8406:

So it seems as if quite a lot of the time Anet releases new patches it requires 1-2 extra patches to get it all sort of working correctly. Im wondering exactly how they test.

Little Background: I work in the development of model based test automation solutions, mostly utilized in telecom and safety critical systems (cars, planes and trains) . There is a lot of great testing technology available and im just curious why more companies like Anet do not adopt more advanced testing procedures.

So I know I’m a bit late to the party here, but I mean if you truly wanted to help Anet with their testing, apparently they have a few open QA positions. :P

Found it after our trek ended but still should be in this general vicinity… (matches hint picture)

Source of Lament – east of Skyheight Heading WP in Frostgorge Sound

Well, since I haven’t seen a thread about this yet and there are 30 new locations, let’s start getting them out there to help others.

My guild found…

OreCart Hoist – Part of jumping puzzle in Fireheart Rise
Dwayna’s Fount – in Divinity’s Reach by vista in the Southwest

EDIT: Also, willing to help find locations just need the hint/picture

Honestly, the best thing for this tier at the moment, as far as balancing goes, would be for an increase in Oceanics for CD/SBI or a decrease in Oceanics for SOS. I mean this is assuming all 3 servers enjoy the tier and SOS is not dead set on moving up a tier.

Just my 2 cents.

Also, hope I didn’t miss any amazing fights while I was gone this weekend.

Ragnar.4257:

I approve of this change in theory, but it should have come at the same time as an end to the bollocks that is tower to tower trebbing, particularly garrison -> bay and SM -> friggineverything

If the enemy has a treb, you should have to go, and should be able to go, and kill it.

You do realize that countering garrison to bay trebs is pretty easy right? I mean the method for countering it has been out there for a few months now.

Had some good duels at Fight Night tonight. Thanks [SoV] from SoS for coming out to have a little fun.

So who’s up for fight night tonight 6pm server time (9pm EDT) SoS BL by the windmill

Here’s a nostalgic reference from GW1…

Frenzy Heal [Sig]

You might actually want to look at tiers 4-6 on NA since there is a lot of roaming and smaller group fights that go on at the BLs. I mean you’ll run into zergs, but most won’t be larger than 20-30 players, which could actually be a fun challenge for your havoc teams. Well, just some food for thought for you.

Rising Dusk.2408:

MrKnieves.4162:

Well to be honest, several times I’ve seen SoS and SbI run away from our minuscule 15-man(woman) zerg even tho they outnumbers us.

Oftentimes players mistake “We have more important things to do” for “We are running away from your group”. Because it’s a 3-way server war, sometimes you need to just avoid an engagement with one enemy that isn’t threatening at the moment to handle a more pressing attack by the other.

Grieve.1432:

Also, are there any SoS or SBI that would be interested in a fight night tomorrow night, myself and a few guildies are itching for some 1v1s and haven’t had an organized fight night since SoS moved down.

I would be down depending on the time. Thursdays are better for me personally because Wednesdays are my guild’s mission nights.

Ya, we’ve normally run it around 6pm Server Time on Thursdays. The BL is normally decided just prior. Hopefully, we can get some participation from SoS :P

I actually much prefer the BL since there is more open roaming and small team fights. Oh, and a lower chance of hitting a massive zergball. It does feel quite nice when you 5-man a keep, fully upgraded or not, though.

Also, are there any SoS or SBI that would be interested in a fight night tomorrow night, myself and a few guildies are itching for some 1v1s and haven’t had an organized fight night since SoS moved down.

Annatar.2907:

The trouble I have with your statement is on the most populated Tiers/Servers those West Coast people previously got home only to waste most of their evening sitting in queue while listening to their East Coast friends and Guildmates playing in WvW on Reset until those people were done for the night – leaving “Reset sloppy seconds” as it were for West Coast players.

This way at least most everybody in NA has a chance to play during the most exciting 2-3 hours immediately following Reset.

And also Oceanics were able to get on at Reset (8am AUS/10am SEA Saturday) till this past week (6am AUS/8am SEA Saturday).

Someone give this man a medal for actually getting the point unlike most people in the thread :P The new times are the fairest for NA. Hands down. No argument. There is no fairer time slot they could have picked that allows the most NA players to have a chance to get in on reset.

Not everyone always gets what they want, so while it’s a little inconvenient that CST/EST times moved up (I’m CST myself), at least PST folks can actually join in at reset now. Guess what, PST being able to actually play in WvW at all on reset evening wins over the slight inconvenience of EST playing a little less.

You know what I find funny about view here is that now all of NA will be fighting to hop on right at reset, so guess what you could easily still be in a queue and since even more people will be vying for those WvW spots your queue might be even longer. Oh, and how about the East Coast NA players who because of the increased number of reset players end up getting stuck in queue and never get a chance to hop on that night because by the time they get in they are about ready to pass out making their entire night a waste.

I mean yes it’s nice that the West Coast NA players can hop on right at reset, but I’m just waiting for the raging about excessive queue times, that will be even more pronounced now, and East Coast players raging at not having a chance to get on at reset night at a reasonable hour due to those increased queue times. (Please note this issue is primarily for the top tier servers.)

On the upside, maybe this will cause some guilds to finally shift from those high tiers that are overly stacked. I mean not that it will truly affect me considering my current server barely has queues to begin with.

Chris.3290:

“Eternalight.4708: I’m honestly not sure what can be done to fix situations like this. We could easily tie the scoring to current WvW participation but we’d still have outmanned servers fighting larger forces day in and day out. Rough spot to be in.”

There are two options really:

1. Wait for us (SoS) to go away and pray we don’t come back.
2. Join us

I’m not trying to be a smart-aleck or show any disrespect for CD or SBI in this regard. It’s simply that we retained some of our NA WvW strength and we remain the unofficial Oceanic server.

I’m sure that if you’ve stayed with your server through the ups and downs, that you have a lot of server pride as we do; but the green spot of T4 will be filled with either a server with significant night presence (SoS, Maguuma, Kaineng) or with a large NA zerg like Yak’s Bend.

As far as option 1; you can either keep being frustrated for 1-2 more weeks until YB brings a whole new frustration to the game or you can roll over.

As for option 2; we are always welcoming to individual transferring players and even entire guilds who want to join our active community. We have regained our footing in WvW, without neglecting the desire for PvE and even SPvP.

Ball is in your court.

Chris,
There is a 3rd option. I just think you wouldn’t like the sound of it. Send some SoS oceanics over to SBI and possibly CD to balance this tier out. I mean aside from your massive Oceanic crew, this tier would be pretty kitten even. Also, I doubt anyone in this tier would join SoS, either out of server pride or to get away from the imbalance/loses. Also, though our Oceanics struggle to keep up, fighting your NAs is so much better than Mag or YB. (Mag did enjoy a good fight club though.) So basically, instead of trying to exacerbate the imbalance, help to fix it and send SBI and maybe even CD some oceanics. Don’t try and tear apart our servers even more.

Good fights tonight on SBI & SoS BLs. [LoM] & Others enjoyed the good back and forth pushes. SBI nice defense at the keeps, but your counter-trebbing at bay could use some work. :P

Also, SoS when you guys see us trying to push bay on SBI BL next time, don’t go and back cap us. We didn’t appreciate it, as you probably figured out after we flipped and reset all objectives on your BL.

Still great night everyone look forward to the next night of fights.

On a side note, would any SoS or SBI players be interested in a fight night tomorrow evening?

Great fights tonight on SoS BL. My guild is still out there having fun right now. Keep sending your zergs.

Man, so few posts. Everyone must actually be too busy fighting in game to come here to fight.

Great match so far though.

Fight Night 6pm Server Time (9pm EDT), Mag BL usual spot

Doggie.3184:

You don’t have to recollect ones you already got do you? Can you run through more than once to get missed ones or not?

If you are referring to the baubles, then yes you have to recollect them. Otherwise, no you do not have to, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be heading for some of those hidden rooms anyways since they have baubles in there.

Hssrak.8041:

If it’s zone 1 you’re talking about, then here’s a hint;
leave no ‘tree’ unturned

on a side note, gratz to the OP! Just need to avoid them plants in zone 3 then i’ll have the title myself. Cheers!

Thank you! For that one, just have a friend run ahead and burn it all with the candle for you. It works wonders though you still have to avoid hitting the center of the flytraps.

Munkeytoto.8763:

What title did you unlock? Also, where is the last hidden room/shop in zone 3?
I have 5/6 right now, can you describe where you found all of them please?

I unlocked “Distinction in Applied Jumping” and if you got stuck where I did, look under the carpet. :P

Easy Fight solo or otherwise.
1. Obtain the Whip
2. Approach Queen Bee Dog.
3. Attack with the Whip.
4. Attack with the Stick.
5. Repeat 3 & 4.
6. Win.

Day Trooper.3605:

On baubles – I’m doing zone 1 atm – do you need to get ones in the shopkeeper’s area? (i.e. in pots and such)? How about the ones in hidden rooms?

No and Yes, respectively.

Graybes.8251:

Do the collecting baubles achievements include the baubles you get from the chests you need to open with a key?

I do not know since I never skipped those chests. I always made sure to grab them. I’m sure someone will try that eventually and have an answer though.

Motawaa.6547:

Zackrio.5901:

Guys, me and my brother were in the shop under the water fall (in front of the lilly pad) and i threw a bomb on the floor and it opened up one of the secret rooms. In there you can buy stuff like 50 baubles for 25 baubles.

im in the shop but my bombs do nothing to the ground.?

april fools?

As mentioned above, use the candle/light to burn the carpet in the shop first.

Niila Nuppunen.9875:

Grieve.1432:

Overall Zone 3 was annoying. The worst of the Zone 3 achievements was probably the baubles due to all of the jumping/bouncing involved. (Thank god there was no fall damage.)

Do you get that bauble achievement credit before the toad boss-fight? IIRC there is no chest after the toad, so it should be possible, right?

Nope, it pops after because part of that achievement is “completing” Zone 3 so basically try to insure you’ve scoured every last corner for baubles before you head to that last fight.