Guild Wars 2

Genesis.8572:

ninjambo.3784:

Oh kitten You guys brought 50 people and killed 30 people who were caught off gaurd. Nice!

So it’s only worth bragging about when FA guilds do the same?

Just let it go, friend. :-)

Krakah.3582:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Any and all feed back is much appreciated, thank you.

A lot of the above advice is good, but the one thing that helps bring all the concepts together will be commander ride-a-longs.

Get on comms with other guilds then just soak up communication style and tactics. You may even want to consider ride-a-longs on other servers if you have a good repoire with strong guilds elsewhere.

Yeah. Get in one of pink’s WvW channels (the big TC mumble server) and run along with their zerg. They’ll appreciate the help, and you’ll learn a LOT. That is probably true for a lot of commanders and guilds though. I know I came away from a ride-along with pink with a lot of new ideas.

Anyone have an update?

Slamz.5376:

Sounds like a bug/oversight.

No other “on hit” trait works with siege weapons. Can’t imagine they made this one work differently on purpose.

Yeah, it’s gotta be a mistake.

JaironKalach.4938:

sazaw.1347:

A good commanders also make food and feed his/her army :P

You seem to think you jest, but I’ve been seeing this lately and I think it’s a boost. The more general principle applies also to having your own siege available. Yes, it’s ridiculously expensive at times. However, if you’re serious about winning, making sure that everyone in your zerg has a food buff up is an extra advantage.

Care to recommend a good food to plop down?

SquirtyMagoo.8321:

The only thing i don’t like about TC is how much they abuse perma stealth and mesmers to ninja keeps/SMC. On reset night it happened at least twice, where they would port their whole zerg straight into SMC and take it in seconds.

I’m sure organising something like that takes skill to pull off, but it feels so cheap and doesn’t make me think very highly of TC at all (although I may be jaded from the amount of time I spend chasing kitten thieves in SMC).

Apart from that great matchup as usual. FA even started dropping some rares for me!

Haha, this is one of my favorite things about TC. I’ve run a couple stealth “missions” as a mesmer with duel thieves keeping us invisible. It’s very tense, and very fun.

I wouldn’t call it “cheap,” simply because it takes a significant amount of skill to pull of. It’s very mobile (often running RIGHT by enemies multiple times without their knowing), and requires heavy coordination between the group, as well as continual, well timed ability usage to keep the group stealthed. If you can keep a group of three running around and stealthed for 5 minutes or more…you deserve that piece of property, imho. And some people go for a lot longer than five minutes.

It’s certainly a lot more impressive than bashing a door down with a golem and taking something with a zerg…

etrigan.4213:

Score update for those of us stuck at work….

Holy cripes! TC brought it this morning! That seems…highly unusual for this time of day. Usually FA/KN are Pwning everything right about now.

Also, great job to the FA crews over the weekend. You peeps brought it like a tornado, passing us by 9-10k. GODS was -everywhere-.

Of course War Machine was -everywhere- as well. My face still hurts.

Of course I have to do this: Go Toast!

JaironKalach.4938:

You, sir, as a commander are about to enter into the entertainment business.

Best. Quote. Ever. (and quite true…)

This is why Cmdr Jadon and Odinzu gain such a dedicated following. They do things with flair, a good attitude, and a ceaseless stream of experience and karma.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Wow! All of this feedback is great. Thank you. I will definitely check out the TC forums and get on our server mumble. I recently joined a large WvW guild and will start learning from them as much as possible. I’ll also check out that book.

Most importantly, thank you for sharing your experiences as commanders and players, good and bad. These examples and openness are great insights as to what to look for, to do, and not to do.

Which guild? /me is curious.

Also, don’t be afraid to pop that tag if there are no other commanders on the map. If nothing else it will bring cohesion to whatever you’re doing, and give you a group of people large enough to actually get something done if you need to. The only way to learn is gonna be experience. Like I said earlier, I led for the first time yesterday, and I already feel a lot more confident about my next attempt.

IRSyKo.5843:

Is everybody having as much fun in TC BL as we are?

Haha, you guys are staging an impressive battle there this week. You guys held CS for a LONG time yesterday… We had a lack of regular commanders in there for a few hours, and you took great advantage of that opportunity. [BT] tags everywhere! Some noob/pug in our map chat was even saying “I miss T3…” during that little battle. I had to laugh to myself and think: “You do? This is -great-!”

Let me just say that I REALLY hope this matchup stays for a long time. These three servers are a great match for each other, and we can all learn a lot from one another. Once we solve the interpersonal “issues” that a lot of people have between some of our servers, we’re gonna be a matchup made in heaven. T2 FTW.

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

To be a good commander—find 5 guys who will follow you (hardest part). Turn on your icon, and attempt it.

Leadership is a skill only learned by attempting. Attempt. Fail. And try again. Never stop trying.

This is a good point as well. Don’t get discouraged if you wipe your group occasionally. Just learn from it. Every group wipes from time to time. Even the BEST commanders end up with wiped groups every once in a while.

I wiped my group yesterday once because I tried to take a fully upgraded tower (full of supply) with five regular catapults. We dropped it about 30% after hammering for three minutes, then KN entered it and started repairing the wall. It was stupid. I’ll never do something like that again. facepalm

If you head over to www.tcgw2.com and register there, You can get access to the TC WvW forum. All the major commanders are on there all the time, and they’re very friendly and helpful.

Also, You should get yourself into a good WvW guild that already has commanders. Get in mumble with them and let them teach you.

Jairon’s list up there is very good from the “attributes” department, but it doesn’t contain any real “strategy” for the different BL and EB. For that you just need to get in with commanders and talk to them.

I just commanded for the first time yesterday, being actively coached by some long-time WvWers, and we did pretty well. Mostly played defense, which is a good place to start. I can’t stress enough how important being in mumble is with several members of the “squad.” I noticed that it’s very easy to become self conscious about every decision you make. It helps to remember what it’s like to follow a commander. Unless you make outright stupid decisions on a regular basis, you’re probably going to do fine, and people will trust you.

My favorite point that Jairon made was that you should always plan several steps ahead, and always be ready to trash the plans to run somewhere you didn’t know you’d have to. That’s an area I plan on working on a lot, and I think that’s what separates the good commanders from the bad. If you always know what your next step is, those following you will gain trust.

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” – Winston Churchill

I’ve tried out other MMOs in small fits of GW2 annoyance as well…

I always realize how bad and clunky they feel, then turn around and re-engaged in GW2, glad for what I actually have.

Also, I think ANet makes more money off of me and my guild than Blizzard does off of all of WoW. I jest, but seriously, we spend so much money in the gem store. It’s ridiculous.

sparklevision.8109:

People, people, people.. Sure, we may have our disagreements here and there, but just remember -

IiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiii will always love, youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Best post. Right here.

iCryptik.1496:

Yarr Hickeroar, just remember this be ‘da slow time ’fer TC, ye will receive some backups soon enough, but just ye be rememberin, there be a lot o’ TC that be doing other things.

We be not able ‘ta close ’da point gap with KA, ’n FA be not able ’ta beat us in points ’ta win 2nd, so a lot o’ people be galavantin, drinkin ale, ‘n playin with FA’s wenches.

Don’t worry lubber, ’da action be startin again around 7 est.

xD TSP doing WvW? Haven’t seen any of you guys in ages.

I think what they know is that if they can maintain a 400:100 (or better) lead on us for the next five hours before reset…they’re gonna take back the 2nd place spot. They’re probably a little more than enraged over the trash talking imparted in this thread this week, and looking for blood. If they manage, or almost manage to take it back…they’re gonna rub our noses in it.

And they’d deserve to. :-P

AmIAnnoyingNow.2903:

TC has a tendency to go for our territory whenever we try to go after FA in EB, so were probably just going after them to make sure they have better things to retake in their territory.

Yeah, EB does seem to be about TC vs KN for the most part. I’ve seen SOME FA there, but they mostly stick to their corner. BL is where FA really shines…

TC guys: This is what happens when you troll the forums. Learn to keep your mouths shut and do the rest of your server a favor.

KN is pushing ONLY TC right now and basically spawn camping EB.

FA is making TC look like fools on our own BL.

Good job, TC trolls. You deserve this. The rest (read: the vast majority) of us do not, but you earned it for us anwyay. Thanks.

Vayne.8563:

Hey OP, can you list all the AAA MMOs that had an LFG at launch. Cause I’m having trouble thinking of any.

Did Rift? I can’t remember…

Fair point, well taken.

I think the rings should yield either a max of 3 or a max of 5 ectos, and chunk of Ori or something. Kinda like Rares/Exotics already do.

No point in getting shards, etc. I already have a pile of useless ones sitting in the bank.

I get the picture ANet didn’t think some of this through very well. :P

Vagrant.1094:

ghtchill.7613:

Haha. Keep trying. We will have that OL! We like it, it seems cool to have. We neeed it. TC are bad decorators….TC needs to give it up to our superior Kaineng designs.

<stares hard at TC>

No >.>

Queen Nyari and Zebra Charr Odinzu and everyone else in EB for the past 2 hours likes the shoddy interior decorating job we have done on our own keep

Both you and FA hitting us constantly, and then both of you trying to take OL keep this evening was very…micro management intensive.

Good play

~Nyari Cil, Queen of EB (and defense)

Yeah there were like 4 consecutive FA and KN attempts on OL. I still can’t believe they didn’t manage to take it. It was VERY close for a while there. That gate came down a bunch of times.

I honestly think we were saved by the fact that both KN and FA were trying to take it at the same time. They ended up fighting it out as well, and it weakened both of their fronts.

Impressive drive through our north gate though by both of them, and impressive bearing of arms by TC. Very fun fight.

Sunspots.9861:

Anyone ever notice that most of the claims of 2v1’s, from all matchups, come from EB? Sometimes I think EB is just its own little mini-verse that makes people paranoid and anti-social.

What’s weird about EB is that it’s seemed to be TC vs KN for most of the matchup. FA has been mostly left alone (or held their own admirably) there. The TC/KN quadrant has been this back and forth swath of green and red for most of the week. I haven’t seen a big push from FA (while I’ve been playing), but they are also not giving up ground…

style.6173:

This thread makes me laugh. Here is how I look at the servers.

FA: omg, treat us with respect. seriously, we are good. no, I mean we are really good. just give us respect already! stop diminishing us!
TC: wait, fa? have you ever beaten us? stop talking. seriously. beat us then you get respect.
Kain: kids, stop fighting. mommy and daddy are trying to wvw. seriously hush children.

It’s a game. Have fun. All three servers are really good and the scores show that.

xD

I lolled.

I think the matchup has been great, and I’d really like to see the sportsmanship improve next time around. The amount of trash talking in this thread is ridiculous.

TC guys: Most of you I love dearly. Others of you I’m ashamed to be on the same team with. You’re stooping really low here. This is not TC behavior. Regardless of what you feel like you need to say, I’ve seen nothing but good sportsmanship in-game from both teams. I hate to come out here and see a lot of our guys frankly acting like buffoons.

FA & KN guys: I love you guys as opponents. Let’s be honest, we’re all really good and we’re a really good matchup. Once we can all resolve these petty issues, I think we could be a great long-term setup, assuming SoR and KN don’t switch up next time around. :-O

ScrubieSouce.3724:

CHIPS.6018:

Secret.6813:

Why is Kaineng holding TC hand? I have now watched Kaineng zerg run right by a TC zerg to ensure they took FA towers.

Kaineng hold TC hand………………………………………………..

Fact 1: TC hates FA, b/c of the Yak Massacre.
Fact 2: Kain hates FA, b/c they got a lot of trolls.

So what do you expect would happen? TC and Kain didn’t really team up. They just both happen to hate FA. TC and Kain do fight, but they just fight FA more.

I expect them to still fight when running into each other in the field. Its sad that the score is as close as it is between TC and FA with both servers focused on FA all week. There has been many times I’ve been attacked by both TC and Kain and when I would go down instead of fighting each other they would both go different ways with out ever taking a swing at one another…. Ya they are not working together at all. Everyone in T2 right now knows whats going on.

sigh Just last night KN stormed a FA tower, waltzed on in to take it, and our commander cleverly timed our approach to follow them right inside, wipe their zerg, and steal the cap right out from under their noses. That doesn’t sound like “working together” to me.

KN has also repeatedly taken back SM from TC (or repelled our attacks). If we were working together, they would have just let us keep it.

There is no alliance, and whatever you think you saw…you didn’t. You’re either sore and making things up, the fight moved out of your view, or one zerg bolted due to the size of the other (most likely, tactical retreat. This happens all the time…).

PooHBooT.4590:

Tarnished Coast Field Medics !!! why do you exploit your way into Anzalias Post to flip it, I know it takes no skill to do it proper but at least try!!
I was I there for 5 minutes after it flipped so dont say you had someone in there stealthed the whole time.

Unless you got an actual name or screens to report them….I call bull. TCFM are not the exploiting type.

The problem with removing the limit is that it would make most assaults impossible. Two or three people could easily wipe a whole assaulting group just by dropping a few AOEs outside the things they were defending. Imagine three zerker mesmers all launching a single illusory beserker each, then a warden. The entire enemy group would be instantly downed, and the wardens would finish them off along side the mesmers themselves. Throw in a clone each, hit shatter….and you have guaranteed 3 vs 60 wins.

The limit is needed or you’d go from stagnant to stalemate as everyone is afraid to actually launch an attack against an opponent.

The silly thing about breakout is that it really doesn’t work as intended anyway. I’ve seen a bunch of breakout events happen. I’ve only seen one of them succeed.

Baa.4582:

Just lost lots of respect for kaineng. If a mesmer doesn’t even try to hide that he’s glitching into a tower, fine that’s just 1 loser. The problem is when the whole zerg takes the portal: do none of them even think about how the mesmer got in when we’ve had the tower for a whole day? That whole zerg is guilty.

It probably wasn’t something most of the people even thought about. A lot of times people will just hop in a portal because it’s there. It’s why Cmdrs go crazy telling people DO NOT TAKE THE PORTAL when they are trying to transport golems. Don’t blame a whole server for something one mesmer did.

TC, for instance, is very committed among their ranks to reporting anyone they see glitching like that. One glitcher does not a server of glitchers make.

Also, to the other person talking about KN and TC zergs just running by each other…I can assure you there’s no vast anti-FA conspiracy.

Culling and not paying attention are to blame for that. I’ve come upon zergs many times that had me dead before I even realized our zerg had intersected theirs…

Got an update for ya. 10:48am CST.

Alisgale.6381:

Well its been a great match up so far but to all the TC naysayers and chest thumping don’t forget it wasn’t but two days ago we were ahead by 10K. If anything FA is more inspired than ever. Get ready for some intense battles these next two days.

:-D Good.

Lanimal.6541:

You guys are clearly so much better than TC at PVP its why during every NA prime-time you guys lose ground to us in overall score, PPT and structures. Its why all the hard work that your IoJ guilds do in oceanic time are erased. Don’t be delusional. You are in T2 because you are carried by your oceanic. Your NA has beaten us once during primetime and that was on the Saturday this week, we beat you on reset, on Sunday, on Monday and o boy did we beat you yesterday.

P.S We are going to beat you tonight as well.

Have a little class. Yes, we’re (TC) better at WvW at this point… Let him maintain his point of view, and let the battlefield show him your point of view. TC is supposed to be known for the great community and really decent people. Please don’t make strides to ruin that image for the rest of us.

Harrish.8743:

nibbles.2408:

I think it is really a difference in play styles that contributes to TC’s open-field problems.

I don’t accept the premise that TC has problems fighting open-field battles. Take a look at some of the comments from Kain and BG during the time we were all in T2.

The only people that seem to think we have open-field problems are FA (or at least a small number of vocal FA forum warriors). Until I see some evidence that FA guilds are routinely rolling TC guilds (please don’t post some video of BT beating up on a militia group), I’d take all these comments with a big grain of salt (preferably followed up by a frozen margarita).

I followed Odin around EB for a long time yesterday and we got facerolled by KN several times in open field combat. We played havok with their property, and they seemed to have every bit as many people as we did, but in the field…we just didn’t do so hot.

A lot of our wins on the “Capturing” front were due to some truly ballsy and impressive stuff by Odin, as well as impressive communication by scouts and defense. I can’t give the guy enough credit. He’s fantastic.

Squibbles.8724:

So, do you guys literally have people who sit back in the keeps, receiving scouting reports, watching the maps and timers in all 4 BLs, keep tabs on which guild groups are active in what BLs, and are in charge of allocating and directing your forces from on high?

Cuz…that’d be pretty freaking amazing. Maybe boring, since you don’t get to fight, but incredibly effective in terms of PPT. I know we tend to tunnel vision on the field.

I see the commanders chatter with them all them all the time. There’s a LOT of communication going on, and I have several times seen commanders lead whole huge groups over from various BLs to EB (or the like) to defend in a pinch, or for a particularly big push.

It’s weird because there’s a decent sized crew of people who like to defend keeps, etc, and then those who love to follow the commander on the offensive.

I can’t imagine sitting around a keep playing defense and stuff, but that’s apparently some people’s cup of tea…and I’m thankful for them.

Raf.1078:

And its okay! This is one of best matches I’ve played to date. Forum Trolling aside, there are not 3 servers so closely matched.

I’ve been saying the same thing. This is a great matchup. I hope the 3rd place guys stay strong and don’t let themselves drop to T2.

As far as I can figure, KN has a substantial and talented late-night/morning crew. TC doesn’t really have much of a the same. TC gets beat to bits late at night and early in the morning.

TC has a substantial and talented afternoon/evening crew. KN’s is unpredictable (maybe?) as evidenced by the smacking around TC gave them yesterday.

I’m on TC and I’ve actually been very impressed by KN. They seem to be good sports, have great team cohesion/talent. It’s been really fun playing a battle of wits with them this week. Can’t wait to see how things go next time around.

FA seems to be very good at brute-force attacks, but their tactics seem…predictable. Or maybe clumsy is the right word. I mean it’s not ALL bad, they’re still Tier 2, so you don’t “suck” and get to T2. They just aren’t creative in what they do…at least in my experience.

A previous poster did have a point about the open-field battle. TC is very good at “getting the job done,” but we tend to struggle when we meet outside the bounds of the job, on the open field. Cmdr Odin was giving some minor general pointers to players yesterday as he led us around EB, and things seem to have improved in the subsequent encounters.

I know we all like to win all the time, but unless we’re honest about our weaknesses, we can’t really get better.

Yeah, I work hard to make gold and I’m lucky if I break 4g a day. Today was a great day. I made 6.

OK, looks like it started working now! (try again)

lol looks like someone derped.

What server are you on? Tarnished Coast here.

I was on my main in CS when the patch just hit. Now it just sits forever at the loading screen for CS. My alts work fine in other zones.

It was smooth in the grand scheme of MMO launches. The biggest problem were the plethora of broken events and stuff in the world. Server stability was pretty fantastic IIRC.

Most (not all) of the broken stuff has been fixed by now.

The servers were packed on launch too. It was not a case of “few players.”

I have all-but quit running fractals after getting to the 40s. The changes they made to scaling so anyone can run any level have ruined most of the fun for me. The experience level of fellow players in the 30s went through the floor, and it’s nearly impossible to find a group that can successfully complete lvl 40+. Too many noobs or undergeared players running fractals they’re not really ready for.

The loot is “OK,” if there was a way to actually complete the things without pulling your hair out anymore. They should have left the scaling as it was. As it is….it’s horrible.

Thanks! Gonna be hard to apply the “customization” logic to a sword, but I’ll think about this as well. Lots of people could theoretically use the same sword without issue….even if it was customized to a particular person. Hmm.

Ah, interesting alternative. I think I have a couple ideas that can be adapted to that…

Thanks!

I love doing RP in such a way that I don’t have to severely stretch the lore of the game in order to make it work. :-) I’m OK with a little tug here and there to make up for lack of information, but I hate seeing people imbue unreasonable power into game objects or their particular character/profession. No one’s immortal, nothing’s “unstoppable,” yaknow?

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I don’t think such exists in lore. It’s little different than customization in GW1, which was never featured in lore. It’s just a mechanical means to ensure you don’t go selling schtuff. Otherwise how would you explain account binding?

If you want to use lore for that, then it’d be little more than something you would never give up as far as I can tell. At least for me.

Little background: Character had a sword stolen from him. He’s getting a new sword crafted for himself and doesn’t want to take a chance of this one getting stolen as well. Any ideas how that might play out as Soulbinding or a lore-acceptable alternative?

As part of an RP plot (Tarnished Coaster, here), how would one describe something as being “Soulbound?” Is such a concept even allowed in the lore? Is it nothing more than a game mechanic? Would it be lore-destruction to play something like that out in RP?

If it’s “allowed,” how do you imagine that concept would manifest in-RP? I have a few ideas, but I wanted to see what you guys thought.

I have the 8350 and saw a drastic improvement over the 4100 (oc’d to the same clockspeed). Doubled framerate in a lot of places. The bulldozer core was just a piece of crap. The piledriver core is just a better rig all around.

You can’t beat the FX-8350 for the price.

I’ve had this issue since launch. Two different AMD graphics cards and AMD CPUs. Run beta and WHQL drivers with no effect.

No other games I play have this issue.

knight.4379:

Hickeroar.9734:

knight.4379:

Tarnished Coast was supposed to be the ‘unofficial’ RP server and I have been in that server since pre release but sadly it seems it’s nearly non existent. How are the other servers? I mean of course you have those mini group of Rpers you see rarely. But the numbers have dwindled to where you hardly see them ever anymore. What happened?

There’s RP everywhere on TC. I’m not sure how you’re not seeing it. I even encounter it in open world gameplay pretty often. My main and another character were walking across queensdale the other day and came across no less than 9 people in active RP.

It’s pervasive in Divinity’s Reach. You can “overhear” it just about everywhere in the city. Not as much in the other cities. There are a few hotspots in Lion’s Arch.

My guild is all about “adventuring” and RPing outside of hotspots. Open world stuff.

9 RPers in Queensdale is very few in my opinion. And I am trying to diverse away from any tavern RP and talking about the majority of people that RP, you don’t see them in every area. You most likely see them in either Queensdale, divinity’s reach, small part of Lions arch. That itself shows the population drop of Rpers in the game as you only see a handful a day. They are never in many of the other areas in the game or even WvWvW which I thought would be quite a place to RPPvP.

There’s no way you could RP in WvW. You’d just get left behind by the zerg and be useless deadweight.

I should mention that I only saw maybe 20 people playing in the areas of queensdale we were walking through. Nearly half of them actively RP is a significant percentage. I RP a lot…and it still doesn’t add up to half my total in-game time.

knight.4379:

Tarnished Coast was supposed to be the ‘unofficial’ RP server and I have been in that server since pre release but sadly it seems it’s nearly non existent. How are the other servers? I mean of course you have those mini group of Rpers you see rarely. But the numbers have dwindled to where you hardly see them ever anymore. What happened?

There’s RP everywhere on TC. I’m not sure how you’re not seeing it. I even encounter it in open world gameplay pretty often. My main and another character were walking across queensdale the other day and came across no less than 9 people in active RP.

It’s pervasive in Divinity’s Reach. You can “overhear” it just about everywhere in the city. Not as much in the other cities. There are a few hotspots in Lion’s Arch.

My guild is all about “adventuring” and RPing outside of hotspots. Open world stuff.