Guild Wars 2

I think Fort Aspenwood will win silver.

Ruins of Surmia wins week #1 in a close match. And right now the main contenders for 1st place in bronze leage are Ruins of Surmia, Dzagonur, Miller’s Sound, and Arborstone.

Blacktide and Vabbi seem to be fighting for 5th place or the last 300 tickets for a Mistforged Hero’s Weapon. Fissure of Woe, Whiteside Ridge, and Underworld will probably be 7th, 8th, and 9th.

Another thing about unified guild chapters (with the possible exception of NA/EU split) is the handling of Art of War upgrades for different worlds. Are the +5 supply, power, precision , toughness, fort swiftness and magic find, and other buffs going to be activated on every world?

The economy upgrades like +10% magic find, karma, gold sounds like it will apply to all megaserver instances which is great but got to wonder about the War upgrades also the guild golems and guild catapults.

Also, it seems like to guesting function won’t be needed at all with the new megaservers. BUT maybe they could allow guesting between NA and EU that would be great.

Whining about current situation will do no good. Now it’s time to start planning for the megaserver change.

Iavra.8510:

Blacktide might still make a comeback as soon as their achievement hunters make room for the WvW guilds.

Since you see 5 servers contesting for 1st play, might as well add a 6th to it ^^

Blacktide is doing fairly well at the moment and so is Fissure of Woe which is still giving Vabbi some trouble even though Vabbi has a 90k lead. But Dzagonur and Vabbi could be saving their energy for reset now that their matches are basically over. They’ll have to fight with the winner of the hotly contested Tier 7 match.

Well the good thing is they’re finally going to combine guild influence and upgrades across worlds into one. But there may still be a EU and NA split because they said they were still splitting EU and NA for megaservers.

With guilds no longer having to worry about rebuilding guild upgrades on a new server, that might encourage a few more world transfers.

However, many guilds were transferring because of PVE issues as well which won’t be an issue anymore with the new megaserver system.

So as a whole, it seems that people are going to pick servers based on 1) name or 2) WvW performance or community.

Gem prices for world transfers also might go up or down.

Yes today’s blog about WvW didn’t provide much information at all.

Extremely close score for tier 7 EU
Miller’s Sound 190 385
Arborstone 190 761
Ruins of Surmia 190 350

Looks like they, Dzagonur, and possibly Vabbi will be fighting hard for first place in bronze league

European server Gandara.

This megaserver change sounds pretty bad. It seems like its going to ruin world boss event hopping. Also they still have EU vs US restrictions bad bad bad. Also, guilds still have to build influence and upgrades on only one server.

I don’t see this working well for world vs world either. As someone mentioned earlier, you can’t hop in Lion’s Arch/Gendarren Fields anymore to ask for help because everyone will be in the megaserver instead of your home world. They should leave the 5 main cities alone. Good thing their initial rollout is only restricted to the level 1-15 zones.

Help help! What am I supposed to do with all these extra dragonite, empyreal, and bloodstone!

For full ascended armor set you need 15 refined of each, correct?

So I currently have 9 alts that’s 135 of each…

And then you need 5 each per weapon. Suppose I gave each of my alts 3 weapons that’s another 135… so I guess I’ll need to bank about 270. What should I do with the rest? Craft ascended backpieces?

Are there any other ascended crafting materials with daily limits besides these 4?

Glob of Elder Spirit Residue
Spool of Silk Weaving Thread
Lump of Mithrillium
Spool of Thick Elonian Cord

I have a bunch of unused instant repair canisters, are they going to useless after the patch?

Forgot to mention elementalist is great for destroying siege which is another reason why I think it is more useful than necro in WvW.

you are kicked for inactivity in WvW much faster than in PVE zones

Are you kidding me? The boulder trap is not working! Shame Shame!

You can have 1 day matches like they did at the start of the game or 3 day matches but I think ArenaNet has already decided against these. But then again, this will just favor servers that can queue the most at reset times.

There are 2 big problems with Obsidian Sanctum.

1) Waypoints to Borderlands and Eternal Battlegrounds do not work
2) Bloodlust bonus is not applied to Obsidian Sanctum.

Suppose you only had 5 character slots and had to limit yourself to playing 5 professions.

What do you think are the top 5 useful professions in WvW?

My top 5 in no particular order
-Elementalist: Can be squishy but also very deadly in zerg fights.
-Mesmer: for portals and time warps, also helps a bit in zerg fights but not as good as ele
-Guardian: For group buffs, healing swiftness, etc
-Warrior: To lead the charge and for Warbanners ^^

Last spot in top 5 hard to say but it’s between necro, engineer, and thief.
I personally would prefer the versatile engineer to round out top 5 but necro is also very good in zerg fights and thief is very good partner with Mesmer to ninja keeps and being sneaky. ^^

Bottom spot sorry to say is for ranger. Entangle is pretty good but only affects so many targets. Ranger still ok but not as indispensable as the others..

I would not play this game if there was a subscription fee.

Everyone has opportunity to transfer to server with high chance of winning tournament. People with business acumen did it before the sale ended.

Now you will have to pay a lot of gem if you want the Mistforged weapons so badly. I took a look at the skins and they aren’t that impressive but if you want the skin so much then come on over to Seafarer’s Rest or any other of the winning servers. If not, then you still get some consolation prize 200 tickets to the loser servers.

For about an hour now, many players cannot get stable connection to ArenaNet servers and it appears to be issue with Level3.net servers. Does anyone have any more information on this and how soon it can be resolved?

Did you try asking those guilds to move to Obsidian Sanctum?

OK was able to play without problem for about half an hour now the problem is happening again!

Think issue is finally resolved now.

Seems to be issue with level3.net

It’s all business and nothing personal. People want those mistforged weapons so much they’re going to get them by abandoning servers that don’t stand much of a chance.

No Bertrand, xenophobic attitude is what will hurt Gandara. You should be happy so many players have decide to reward Gandara with their presence.

I heard some talk tonight about Underworld “invading” Gandara please be more welcoming of new arrivals. We are here to assist you to get top spot in silver league.

Welcome to Gandara! Did you log off for the night? Hope to fight alongside you again. We got those 2 thieves at Golanta.

Pick Gandara EU server it’s free transfer until March 27. I highly recommend it unless you are scared of queue queues (I’m not). It has a great chance of winning silver league in tournament. Other servers with good chances of doing well their leagues: Devona’s Rest (Free Transfer bronze league NA) and Vabbi (Free Transfer bronze league EU). Gandara is better for more organized WvW though.

As far as I know, Gandara still has plenty of room for transfers and there are many many times when it has no queues (like right now 10:30pm Eastern Time US).

And no, they’re not going to sit in Queensdale if they can’t enter EBG or a borderlands map. there’s always edge of the mists to do battle in while u wait in the queue.

I’m still encouraging some players to transfer to Gandara. Those measurements I took only represent a portion of the day or the week and there are still times when Gandara does not have queues on any map. It would be reasonable to fill in those gaps and make Gandara a Full server like the Tier 1 NA servers (Full of a high % of WvW players preferably) .

I can verify Gandara is pretty full atm 8:26 pm GMT

87 queued for Eternal Battlegrounds
35 Millers Sound Borderlands
22 Fort Ranik Borderlands
no queue Gandara Borderlands

Just transferred here yesterday.

I think you should consider looking for a guild that has events (raids, guild missions, etc. that suits your schedule well). If playtimes don’t really matter, then you have so many options.

If you’ve been burnt out by large NA guilds or players in general then yes of course, try EU for a change. I went on Vabbi on EU for a week and had a blast with my small guild there. And if queues are a concern for you, yes try one of the lower tiers. They are sometimes optimal for karma training (lol). If queues are not a concern, come to Gandara on EU.

Devona’s Rest or Gates of Madness for 1st.

You can disguise your ascended armor with starter gear now. Happy hunting the badges.

HoD sounds like a Henge of Denravi guild just saying.

1st place: Arborstone seems stable

2nd place: Ruins of Surmia seems stable

3rd place: Blacktide, winning current match by small margin

4th place: Vabbi, looks like they received the benefit of the free transfers.

5th place: Miller’s Sound, they are taking quite a beating from Gandara atm lol.

6th place: Dzagonur, losing current match by small margin

7th place: Whiteside Ridge, lost several guilds to other servers

8th place: Fissure of Woe, lost several guilds to Gandara and Vabbi

9th place: Underworld, lost several guilds to Gandara

I think any of my top 6 has a reasonable chance of winning the league. Vabbi remains untested outside tier 9 so they could win big or flop big against higher tiers. I think the more stable servers Blacktide, Arborstone, and Ruins of Surmia have a better chance at 1st place though. Miller’s Sound well let’s just say it better recover from the beating this week or else it’s less than 300 tickets for them. Dzagonur, while losing to Blacktide this week seems to still have a shot for top 3 in the bronze league but current performance indicates it will score closer to 5th or 6th.

Whiteside Ridge, Fissure of Woe, and Underworld have all suffered a lot because of the free transfers and they are likely to end up as the new tier 9 after the tournament.

Maybe just a tiny bit harder. Right now, the Lord can be soloed by a thief but I wouldn’t make it too hard cuz of all the warbanners and signet rezzees that defenders could use.

Vabbi is a very fun server

Looks like Underworld got so empty even their recruiters deleted their recruitment posts. ;(

They took out the fun when siege placement was removed. Also when you could only get the chest once per day.

Is this list of servers with free transfers correct?

EU
Vabbi
Abaddon’s Mouth
Miller’s Sound
Whiteside Ridge
Fort Ranik
Blacktide
Gandara
Fissure of Woe
Underworld

NA
Crystal Desert
Kaineng
Ehmry Bay
Anvil Rock
Eredon Terrace
Devona’s Rest
Northern Shiverpeaks
Henge of Denravi

Well I just transferred to T9 Euro server Vabbi to see how things are here. The WvW is pretty good actually but the PVE areas like Gendarran Fields Vigil quite are VERY empty. I only saw 1 other person next to the bank. Compare this to T1 Euro Server Seafarer’s Rest. At least 10 people near the bank area on the same map same time (I guested).

This bug has been here for ages!

Add another bug to your list. You cannot rally off of a supply dolyak kill.

I think Rangers excel at shooting people from a long distance. Longbow Rangers are great for shooting cowards that try to run away! Hahahaha!

I’m transferring to Crystal Desert because it costs 0 gems to go there!

I need to turn in everything now or else they’ll become junk?