Guild Wars 2

Not all commanders are able to lead in WvW, It’s not as straightforward as taking a zerg through a PvE event train (like Modniir or an Orr temple).

I can’t speak to the circumstances on Crystal Desert, but I could recommend that you look at VII for a WvW guild if there is a frequently a lack of a commander.

Best of luck to you and your server, I hope some folks step up to the plate for you

I know several people in game who play on T1 servers with alt accounts in timezones when my server is reallly REALLY lacking coverage or competition

bump

Everyone who wants people to bow to your Ktrain wishes, can go kitten off.

If a team of people want to defend then they will defend and have a kitten good time doing it. EoTM is an extension of WvW, not Queensdale 2.0 with cooler terrain.

I can bring my guild into EoTM to annihilate the Ktrains, We think it’s fun. but it’s TOTALLY spoiling the fun for the other sides. do we care? Nope. We’ll ram our way into a structure just so that we can get to the zerg on the other side. That’s my ultimate dominator title half AFKing at the gate on an uplevel. Think the zerg is gonna protect ya? nope.

for all the “fun we’re spoiling” we get tons of laughter, loot and stories. We always leave one uplevel alive to run away. He gets to tell the story.

for me, if I see that it’s a fairly even fight, i’ll normally let the 1v1 continue. but if my ally is clearly the better player (There’s a lot of good roamers on my server) I’ll normally tag the enemy and go on my way. If my ally is loosing, I’ll probably drop a burst on the enemy and let him do the rest.

That is how i would treat a 1v1 in EBG. however, If you’re by the windmill on any of the borderlands doing a 1v1, I’ll probably fly a guild kite and run circles around your dead body.

Which server are you on?

daggers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely you needed those for green BL. the Blue one is probably paper

I’m curious, I’ve been doing more and more PvP lately, (gotta get that dragon rank)

For those of you who watch twitch streamers, spectate on PvP matches and such, What is the number of players in the match that you think keeps you the most engaged?

(not specific to T/SPvP, just in general)

5v5?
10v10?
15v15?
25v25?

Hey Taras! http://core-ioj.shivtr.com/
=D

Reborn.2934:

X T D.6458:

new maps might stretch out the wvw player base too much and demand more coverage, which is already to stressful for many servers

definitely new and EXTRA maps will create huge problems now …. all are asking for replacement maps of the existent with new design and game mechanisms .

personal i asked for merge of the existent home borders to one like eb in my old thread 4 months ago

check this map : https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/138329/new_map11.JPG

and i full agree of chris’s post under mine

As much as one map would be nice, Anet has made it clear that LARGER maps are not possible with current technologies.

I hear matchups with Maguuma change your builds forever

If you’re looking to join a T3 zergbusting guild and face down blobs of both organized and unorganized groups be sure to check out IoJ!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/The-Official-Isle-of-Janthir-Thread/first

Also, have a look at 5 min of bags and decent sustain inside a blob-fested Stonemist!
http://www.tinyurl.com/SMCfight

Fluffball.8307:

Straegen.2938:

As for FA, they have gotten significantly stronger these last few weeks. They have good coverage, good population and several strong guilds. The will likely lay waste to DB and probably beat Mags now.

We really haven’t gotten stronger, we’re just back to our pre-tourney levels (maybe even slightly below.) Tons of people, including me, got bored out of our minds with the tourney and effectively stopped playing WvW.

There will once again be 4 T2 servers and FA and someone else will take turns annihilating IoJ and SBI.

yaaay i get to meet new people!

Buffy.9246:

FA always came in last in t2. They have the “play for fights only” attitude which is why they always fall.

Whether they rise or fall is not important. because they’re having a blast.

duh.

I put forward an idea similar to this last week: I outlined what a strategically unbalanced map might entail, I think it’s a fabulous idea to bring in maps, as long as we know WHO has the advantage, and the match making system gives the advantage to the right server.

If anyone cares to read my wall of text suggestions for unbalanced maps, or refine them you can check it out here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Proposal-PvP-Map-Rotation-for-Borderlands/first#post4124210

By all means keep discussion going on this thread though.

shiri.4257:

[Vale], [Zero], on CD run late NA a bit. Also us [VII], but we are looking for necro strippers currently. would be willing to take a guardian in, but you’re in a line for the gvg group or will get a shot as a sub if someone can’t make it. can check out www.crystal-desert.com for other guilds and info to inquire. otherwise in silver, there aren’t too many late NA guilds. Think IOJ has [Wolf]?

for late NA EST, IoJ has, most notably, [CORE], [TEST], [WolF] and [Lost]

There’s others as well, you can find out more at http://isleofjanthir.net/forum/forum.php

Need terrormancer build, otherwise you’ll just fear them off. You need to damage them for tags as well to lock them in combat so they die when they fall. Otherwise they can WP before they plunge to their death.

Chaba.5410:

Really we gotta make an excuse for why FA didn’t pull all-nighters regularly during the tournament like other servers? We hate the tournaments. Why would we want to sacrifice our sanity by staying up all day er’day?

well that is clearly a silly, healthy idea.

chaba why would you want to do the healthy thing for your mind and body. There’s a tournament to win.

Oooh ooh! even better idea. Why dont you stop, avoid or jump over the fear wall instead of running through it?

situational awareness dude. get some

or you could carry a stunbreak

Why don’t you carry stability like the rest of us.

Swamurabi.7890:

I don’t think that the WvW dev team isn’t listening, I just think that they are “outmanned” by the stacked PvE team and the PvP team.

YES! +1 X10000000000000000

When you’re staring down your nose at 3 guilds, with a 4th around the corner,

do you hold? or do you flee?

image from our raid with our friends in [HARD]

HARD/CORE still undefeated

Thanks for the epic fights [Wake] [INC] [APS] and [oT]* not pictured

ThunderCat.8395:

EOTM is designed for guild groups to farm Ultimate Dominator titles off of upleveled karma trains so stupid that 90% of the mindless zombies in the 50 man blobs will CONTINUE SPAMMING 1 AT THE DOOR as they get slaughtered by a guild group a quarter of their size.

This too. lol.

For me,

WvW is about fighting better, dancing with a melee train, and then dropping a meteornado on their head and watching em drop. You’re pitted against other players who are trying almost everything they can to stop you, and you need to use misdirection and tactical opportunity to your advantage.

It’s incredibly satisfying to take advantage of a distraction, like a fight inside SMC to swoop in and paper a fully fortified tower that the enemy server spent hours defending and upgrading, especially if you’re outnumbered or “outskilled” by your opponent.

I’ll bait enemy servers into killboxes, and I have the satisfaction of tricking 50 players into filling my bags.

WvW is a place to practice your synergy between your players in an open environment against organized groups. For me it has absolutely nothing to do with who wins or who looses, but a place to practice your weaknesses and capitalize on your strengths in any way possible.

thx mango for this nugget ^^^^^

EoTM is a Karma train. In comparison, it’s MIND-NUMBINGLY boring. Once I was in EOTM for a whole 3 hour match. I was so bored at the end of it i actually had to take a nap. it was like 1 in the afternoon.
anyhwoo, thats my 2cents.

Bump =D

PLZ dont turn off whispers to other server players in WvW

how else am i supposed to organize scrimmages with my guild and another guild? or an enemy commander?

20v20 militia battles are a lot of fun when you organize them with an enemy commander. uplevels crushing each other it’s like a white t-shirt mud-wrestling match.

RIGHT NACHO?!?!

grifflyman.8102:

I guess they better get started on a new borderland map, because if they wait any longer there wont be a WvW community.

Yeah… this

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I don’t understand the whole server swapping thing. I mean, I chose IoJ and regardless of how outnumbered we are, it’s my “home”. I would never consider transferring to get a skin or any other “shiny”. I don’t know why ANet allows this sort of thing?!

That’s the right attitude to have -

WvW is challenging because it requires you to have social skills to CONVINCE your allies to play. Once you’ve got them into your zerg it’s a WHOLE NOTHER BALL GAME to get them to zerg well.

This is typically very hard to do as well, because not many players like being talked into changing their builds, EVEN if you know that they will perform better. This takes even better social skills than getting them into the zerg.

Easily half the fun i’ve had in Gw2 has been training militia on IoJ, When I started playing the game a year ago, IoJ was rank 17, and through the cumulative efforts of our WvW community we’ve come up to rank 9 (for the moment).

At the end of the day however, Arenanet will not change how they deal with transfers and the seasons because NCSoft needs to deliver dividends to their shareholders. Such is the price we pay for a Free to Play game.

Props to FA for how well they’ve stacked themselves for T2. I’ll miss them because they’re my favorite way to improve (looking at you INC, oT, DI, BOMB, APS and Wake)

Being on the other side of this thread, I can agree, it’s not very fun.

The skill groups have scared away everyone but the WvW guilds, basically leaving a skeleton crew in their place. I still come online and play for 3-4 hours every day, but the scale of how outnumbered we are is pretty intense. I’d love to put up a fight but everyone seemed to have kicked the can by sunday morning…

What are you doing on page 3!? Live thread! live!!!!!

Yeah, what Kishter said. When you channel a skill for damage, with scepter air 1 and mesmer GS, those are the best examples,

The auto attack hits again before the damage ticker resets.

that he has reached almost 200k damage on this giant indicates that he has been auto attacking this giant for a very long time…..

Thank you for your perspective zolton,

You’ve stumbledupon the frustration that all WvW regulars feel.

Welcome to the club

I tend to do D/D.

for me S/D is too single-target based to be good when roaming. I tend to roam alone, so if more than two people come to fight me, having S/D instead of D/D is a guaranteed loose.

Company of the Red Elite is now recruiting active WvWders!

About [CORE] Company of the Red Elite
Company of the Red Elite is a hardcore WvW and GvG guild with its roots on IoJ. We are here to collect bags and help IoJ develop steady WvW coverage in the NA -> Ocx timezones.

Company of the Red Elite’s focus is foremost to have and support a positive and fun environment and to make sure that our players excel in World vs World. We have an array of skilled and well known commanders who play in all NA time zones, and oceanic commanders as well.

We are very active in World Vs. World, and we want to help you learn how to make the most of your time there. We will do our best to help you understand the flow of ZvZ combat, We have skilled players in every class who can tutor you in your class’s roll in the zerg, and how to optimize you for competitive play.

http://www.tinyurl.com/coreweek6
Our most active time zones are NA and OCX

Recruitment Information
_________________________________________
As a member of CORE you can expect:
A WvW focused environment – We raid every day at approx-6 PM Pst, and when we aren’t raiding, we’re out havoking on enemy Borderlands, forming gank teams to assist the map commanders, as well as scouting and upgrading our own borderlands. We also participate in S and TPvP. In CORE you will always have someone to ask all of your WvW related questions.

Guild Teamspeak

Generous amounts of sarcasm

A skill building environment

Frequent trainings, both individual and team, to help you build your individual skill set and develop a cohesion within the group.

open and approachable guild leadership.

Troll build Tuesdays!

EOTM blob farming!

We’re scouting for GvG and scrimmage opportunities in order to give all of our members a chance to try their hand in GvG!

CORE conditions:
Represent us in WvW!
Join us in Teamspeak during raids!

participate in WvW Raids when available (Lvl 80s requested, but not required if you have 0 level 80s)

Use CORE WvW builds during raids or GvGs

( Our builds are made to synergize, Everyone is traited in such a way that they keep their party, and the whole team alive, and our group synergy is what helps us dominate in the field)

Patience, and a commitment to developing your personal skill and teamwork in game.

To find out more send in game mail to Primefactor.7621, Hamster.4861, or Sassenach.1590 (NA) in OCX, contact Jak.9247, or Downskee.2650

Apply by registering at our website or contacting us in game!
http://core-ioj.shivtr.com/

Jet.4795:

Obviously KoMe has a reputation, but coming to their recruitment message to troll them is just sad. Come on guys.

I’ve got to agree with Ben here guys. It’s fair to grief in game and on matchup threads but [KoME] don’t deserve to get it here.

When KoME comes out onto the field they effectively control map politics, They are impossible to ignore, and a formidable presence on any map. Even if I love to kitten with them with open field trebs and stuff

Here’s some small team destruction from the PoV of IoJ’s number 1 Fieldbot.

Break into SMC and farm those defenders! http://www.tinyurl.com/SMCfight

CORE is looking for more friends to destroy blobs with =D
Join us for shenanigans and destruction!

+1 I need to be able to go to maps and ask for help when my server is getting whomped, when half the people receiving the message are from other servers, this tactic is effectively nullified.

and It’s very difficult to recruit and build a WvW guild when the megaserver lumps you in with everyone else.

World chat would be a great solution.
PLEASE ANET. PUHLEAAAAAASEEEEEEEEEEE

Red I like your suggestions.

The question now is:

Would this system prevent the 14 weeks of stagnation that some servers like SF/ET/FC, EBay/AR/BP or BG/JQ/SoR have all experienced?

A more general question, What do people want more? Varied matchups, purposefully imbalanced maps to give underdogs an advantage? Just new ground to fight on and new keeps to siege?

I think there’s some combination of those three things that WvW has been craving.

In this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/How-hard-would-extra-maps-be/page/2#post4118673

We have feedback on how difficult it is to create a map from scratch – but, what about re-skinning the existing maps, and altering the topography to fit the new skins a little better?

We appreciate that developing new maps is very difficult, but we’re basically crying for some change. Is there a "Map Design " toolkit that you could opensource to us like in Starcraft?

It isn’t a perfect solution, but it could be a great place to start.

Once when i sat down to take YB`s garrison, i had to destroy 9 assorted super and regular AC around the N inner gate alone. That wasnt including the three trebs they had on top of the lords room with more ACs etc… it took me about three hours, but i finally broke a YB T3 keep. Siege is like cocaine to them.

Come at me storm blob.

also. I think you just mad cause you were stuck on FA BL and no1 hit it.

In b4lock

8/10

I like your Phoenix/Flamekissed look, I think you could do more to punch up your contrast though. The Blues in your chest and shoulder pieces don’t really blend with the color and luminosity of the flamekissed stuff.

18 CORE + 15 assorted Militia take on the 45 man [KoME] blob in the borderlands!
(always fun KoME)

Fun fight, and gives our drivers opportunities to give you feedback on how to keep YOU alive in a ZvZ fight, and improve our takedowns of larger Zergs.

Check it out: http://youtu.be/VuDO7D6BHZg?t=2m11s

Thanks Mark and Jessica.

This thread has SOOOO MANY views….

Helly.2597:

When I read the title I thought here’s an interesting idea, rewarding servers with low points by increasing drops. Then I read the post and realized he was saying the opposite and I banged my head against a wall.

lololol same…

Chaba.5410:

Yes. We have Tyrion on soundboard too.

OMG SHARE.

I’ll leave this here: (kinda related)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Proposal-PvP-Map-Rotation-for-Borderlands/first#post4115098

I’m happy you’re at least seriously considering the issue devon, cause we all want WvW to be more fun.
Also, thanks for the guestimate on production time.