Guild Wars 2

Ehmry is at this tier right now because of its evening presence which stems a lot from the community. Everyone is pretty much in their late 20s with jobs and families and the majority of people started on EB for PvE. There isn’t a concentration of hardcore PvPers like what I was accustomed to in WoW, but in exchange you don’t get the ego-tripping Call of Duty ragers on our server; it’s actually the most mature server I’ve ever played in.

We lose everything in WvW overnight and in the morning, but it’s not something I ever really complain about. If we had to pull 18 hour shifts just to move up in tiers or beg for a 500-man Aussie guild to transfer over, I’d rather just stay in Tier 5-6.

It looks like Maguuma is camping whatever upgraded defenses they amassed in the European primetime making our bid for the lead pretty slim. I’m not bitter though; it’s what I’d do to other servers to win. Don’t count out our guild to throw in the towel though; we haven’t in the past 3 match-ups against your server.

Sometimes you’re trying to hold out a camp or tower until the score ticks, but I don’t know when it matters. Is it 00:01 -> 00:00 when it counts it, or is it when you see --:— until it goes back to 14:59? There is a pretty big spread of about 15 some seconds between these two.

Miu Xie.5872:

Congratulations to you! They left.

Then let me extend an invitation to Meow from Ehmry. Our five main guilds have never left, will never leave, and are probably the strongest backbone of any medium WvW server. Honestly, Meow is the only reason NSP is staying at its current ranking. I’m not sure if you guys are appreciated or not over there, but we have a lot of respect for you and the amount of work you put in for your server.

Planetary Assault Cannon.

Keep up the good work SF, you are breaking the morale of people like that poster above which is what any respectable puzzle camper should do. I recommend superior arrow carts at the arena and perhaps an alpha siege golem for that extra troll; the little bit of effort goes a long way for making people cry about free blue prints that can be farmed in 5 minutes.

Building golems and zerging down a door with several defenders that probably only required 3 of them is a great use of skill and tactics. I also give a lot of respect to guilds who build golems to that take over everything in Eternal Borderlands with no plans for an extended strategy to hold it. An excellent sweep of the zone for a total of 1000 points that could have equally been accrued by sitting on wall for 3 hours.

Our early morning presence of 10 players were wiped out by the overwhelming strategic minds of Northern Shiverpeak’s commanders who made plans to turn on their alarm clocks weeks ahead of time. In other news, Ehmry will be taking back 50% of the map for the next 18 hours until they feel it’s safe to come out and duel our gates again.

P.S. Nice trebs by the way.

bombastinator.8965:

so where is this mythical money in wvw?

Your money’s on the dresser.

psychoizchic.3297:

I don’t understand the marketing strategy. When arena can make money from transfers rather than 0 dollars from free.
Majority of the people refuse to pay those outlandish prices for gems. If that is their only way of keeping the game alive..the future looks grim. Sorry arena but a lot of your stuff is junk . Styles can only be worn if you’re not in battle (boring and pointless). Minis..well I’ve only seen a few so the popularity of those are 0. Karma boost doesn’t work as intended and I don’t think the magic find work either since I get the same type of loot with 0-3%. I’ve had 75% and either got 0 or junk loot. I am SURE I am not the only one that has experienced this.
Just in case this post gets deleted. Screen shot is your best friend. And will post it some where else.

Contrary to popular belief, ANet actually makes money hand over fist from these silly sales. People will buy anything. If you’ve ever played WoW, you might have heard that the “Celestial Mount” went on sale and earned Blizzard $2,000,000 in four hours.

Honestly, ANet’s strategy is to focus on keeping the PvE, casual players happy with the transfers since it is their greatest source of incoming by far. PvP in MMOs only account for a small percentage of the population. Until they get guesting in, you can bet your money that WvW will always take the hit and get less priority since our audience isn’t their big money-maker.

AsteriskCGY.5931:

Wish someone would contest EB’s stuff on their grounds. Only we have a mosiac going on here.

SF and NSP send about 20-30 guys each every night just to try to take our borderlands. Usually that’s when our guild gets a call for reinforcements, and we come in and suffocate any sort of resistance. We’ve been enjoying the Halloween event and don’t have any interest spawn camping other borderlands, but any time some guys even think about setting foot in EBB, we give invaders at least three repair bills and a feeling of soreness.

That is a valid point though. You don’t have to put any limit on the number of server transfers, but make it so you’re locked completely out of WvW for a week when you do. Let’s the PvE casuals play with their friends and slap traitors in the face.

7 days is pretty much perfect as long as you make it so it’s no longer free. What’s the point of keeping it free anyway? All it’s good for is giving lazy players free WvW exploration and allowing free reign to the roaming bot armies. Start charging.

Please charge an obscene amount of gems for team-hopping while you’re at it.

Is it too much to ask that you brand them with a white-flag desertion icon in place of the star as well?

Where is the cake? I was told there would be cake.

The cake is a lie.

Zulubeast.8519:

Man I wish I could of seen the look on Hannibal’s face when the Roman army portal bombed his elephants…

In Soviet Borderlands, Yak rides you.

Apparently everyone just blocks siege projectiles with their face!

I’ve heard abilities have very odd rules when they’re used against siege, so can anyone else give some definite insight on any from experience? Does the “block” mechanic not work against balistas and catapults for example? I’ll start off a few of what I’ve noticed.

[Thief] Dagger Storm: Reflects balista.
[Guardian] Shield of Absorption: Blocks cannons, does not block catapults.

The time it’ll take you to get any title in WvW makes it ludicrous. I was extrapolating the time it would take me to get Ultimate Dominator, and it would literally take me 15000 hours… are you kidding me? Don’t even ask me to show you the calculations for something obscure like Ultimate Liberator. No one who does nothing but play this game for the next 8 years is going to get this title.

Give them all an embarrassing traitor icon in place of the explorer star – like a facepalm. Seriously, just embarrass them.

I’m going to have to respond to these threads I always avoid and reinforce Plutonium.1308’s comment. I accept defeat graciously and let my opponents do the same, but if you’re going to throw a fit about how you outplay us in equal-number engagements, you clearly have delusions of grandeur.

Borlis Pass completely filled Ehmry Bay Borderlands on Friday night, and we denied you everything. Throughout the week, we went into Borlis Pass Borderlands and met resistance with only pugs willing to defend and a few devoted, smaller guilds. Among them I saw [BURN] and [Krew], but no one from your guild. Any sort of strategy you had obviously fell short, because all borderlands were filled by all servers in the first few hours of Friday and you had clearly quit the field once you fell behind. If Borlis Pass had maintained a lead until the onset of Sunday evening, I would have respected your statement, but you obviously lacked the ability for it. Blaming losses on numbers is routine, but saying you’re better than someone without any show of strength just makes it appear as if you’re consoling yourself.

Plus you’d have a lot more mention of shenanigans and good fights. Troll wars are also good. Still wish we had server specific forums like WoW.

The majority of the player base finds the orb mechanic asinine. The orb makes fighting outmanned implausible and belittles any accomplishment you do as the winning side. Just keep thumbings up posts that ask to remove the stat bonuses and keep posting on here and reddit, especially if there is an AMA session.

Pretty simple fix:

Allow any guild to claim. If no influence buffs are present for any span of 5 minutes, remove their claim.

Orichalcum axes…

Lots of orichalcum axes.

What’s the maximum number of players a Full capacity server in GW2 can hold? Just out of curiosity.

Winning Team:
“Good effort, (losing server)! Please keep putting up a fight*!” * so I can farm you
“I respect (losing server)’s tenacity!”* * I actually don’t respect them

Losing Team:
“We lost because both servers ganged up on us.”
“(tl;dr) nightcapping (tl;dr).”

Dead horse, but more of a recommendation.

- 25 points will still make it a worthy objective of contention on competitive match-ups.
- Easy to program and balance.
- For one-sided match-ups, only score is an issue rather than overwhelming power.
- General consensus is no one enjoys fighting 3 orb players.
- Shut out servers can have a fighting chance.

“Is the jumping puzzle fixed yet?”

That marine marauder medic ball.

Lilun.8732:

I must point out, EB borderlands had some wait time around Monday 6-7-ish PST. It was a wtf moment, but, we were dominating EB borderlands at that time.

On another note: Eternal last night, we were in and out of the outmanned buff as we worked to sap supply from SM keep… on the off-chance that we could ninja it from Darkhaven’s hands… but yea, it got pretty late… and don’t know what came of it.

Our guild, “Shadowmoon”, and “All or Nothing” fielded about 25 members Tuesday night mostly to scrimmage some new recruits at WvW. The queue for the home borderlands was full because morale was high after winning several fights and the server wanted to stay.

We’ve definitely lost our temp army from when we got our free rank against Borlis and Fergerson, but what remains is our best. Once you start seeing the same tags in a borderland with even numbers, you can bet traditional strategies against us are out the window.

Uh, if the orb didn’t fly away and was lying on the ground in front of you guys for 15 minutes… most likely it was quaggan damage over time. If it was a hacker who just hit your altar and left, the chances of it being from Ehmry are pretty much nothing since we’ve never had a hacker in the past nor do we have any reason at this point to do it. You guys have a 90k lead on us and took back the zone against our outmanned defense at 6 AM EST like you did all week, so being in an uproar is excessive.

When I checked our forum this morning, our guys were just happy to have intercepted the NSP group playing around with the orb, so everyone wasn’t even aware there was foul play involved.

Ehmry Bay had nothing this morning at 10AM EST, but our outmanned team eventually took Garrison which gave our dedicated PvPers incentive to join. After 3 hours of hard work, we retook our home borderland only to face a 60 NSP blitz team that was capturing every zone. We had half the numbers to NSP but managed to survive an Alpha Siege Golem push to our garrison, and eventually starved them out of our home.

Thanks again to all the Ehmry players who were there despite the score and not giving up on our server. Keep proving to them we’re not weak.

My guild normally goes to the home borderlands on reset and finds it to be the most difficult borderlands of all four. It just seems that in an equal number/equal skill fight, the Hills Keep side normally wins and secures the orb.

We actually retrieve the orb either by ganking their carrier or allowing Bay Keep to take it to easily get it back. It’s just after we keep the orb in Garrison, there is a huge 2v1 push, and we can’t stop both servers on two fronts. We have to wait until 3-4AM to reconquer the zone when the enemy thins outs.

I almost wonder if it’s wiser to just surrender the orb to Bay Keep to make them not 2v1, and just wait until our waypoint is finished to take the orb.

Watching the other borderlands is almost comical because the same exact thing happens against the other teams.

We broke into Etheron to find this little surprise from Dark Haven. Quite the effort. This army eventually became 10 Alphas and 3 Omegas that stormed our garrison. I’d like to complain about it but having 50 guilded players pouring the same resources into this strategy is the way to break conventional defense.

I’m just surprised that Dark Haven is somehow in our bracket despite having only 10% pugs in our borderland on Friday.

Don’t think we’re unorganized or don’t have people that care about PvP either. This is how our night team operates despite having only a few dozen in each borderland. If we can fill even one borderland overnight regularly, we’d definitely move up two divisions.

Message me by letter or whisper (Jamaz), and I can give you any details about our situation and what you can expect if you come over.

We have a good amount of organization, and overall, our player base deserves higher than the bracket it’s in going pound for pound. We’ve taken the lead every opener on Friday evening when we’re able to fill all four borderlands fighting 1:1 odds. The attachment includes the score on Saturday morning this match up. We fall off once our player base goes to sleep or goes to work.

Our player base is mature and willing to follow directions. Team chat is filled only with key objectives and requests for help rather than banter or spam. There is also no ego, no conflict between the large PvP guilds, and a lot of loyalty on our server. We also have no reputation for playing unfair with hacks, spies, etc.

We have a 256 slot Teamspeak 3 server that we use to coordinate and our own public forums. If you are an oceanic guild, you will be welcome, and you won’t be alone since my guild, Shadowmoon, are usually on during the night trying to fend off night cappers. We do a decent job, but we can only do so much against a full borderland and outmanned buff. The impact of having only 20 more dedicated players on during the night would catapult us over mid-tier.

Simple fix is to just make the Keep Lord act at the Orb Champion. There is an invulnerable shield around the altar until he dies. Pretty simple.

The Ehmry Bay orb hacked shortly after the orb in Sorrow’s Furnace was hacked. Our altar in our garrison was broken, and since they had no where to put it, the hacker thought it’d be funny to fly it around in the puzzle. You can say “a mesmer did it”, but there was zero foothold in our borderlands, the gates were 100%, and it’s ignorant to claim someone could walk to the puzzle out of the garrison with the orb.

Our orb in Etheron went into Dreaming Bay immediately as GoM took the Bay Keep. This was followed up by a 50 man organized zerg that was repelled later on.

Contrary to your assumption, “everyone hacks, even you guys”, Ehmry has not hacked any of the orbs. I was the commander present when we secured our Garrison orb after taking it back from GoM in a 4 hour siege of Askalion Hills Friday night. I was also there for Sorrow’s Furnace orb when we got into GoM’s Dreaming Bay, wiped, but destroyed the altar and won the fight for it north.

Whereas Yak’s Bend had a hacker do the same thing to us last week, their guild leader made a formal apology, and offered to give the orb back to us. They also reported the person who placed it on their altar. In this instance, GoM remained silent and assumed it was the best time to take everything in a blitz on the map.

Ehmry worked for about 12 hours to secure 2 of the orbs (the other one was glitched to give Gates of Madness a free orb all week), and they were just fly hacked at 2:00 PM EST. At the same time, a 5 Alpha Siege Golem army arrived simultaneously to take Etheron from us. We were not happy. This is how Ehmry treats those that disrespect us.

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If the person realizes that he is a “Squad Commander” and not an “Army Commander”. It’s easy to lead a zerg into an obvious objective. What sets a commander apart is if he serves as an example for other groups to follow.

-A squad commander will defend supply depots and upgrade them.
-A squad commander will escort dolyaks if a keep is starving for it.
-A squad commander will install siege for defense of newly acquired territory.
-A squad commander will raid enemy supply camps and bring the supplies back to his keep for more siege.
-A squad commander will build siege for other people to use in key locations.
-A squad commander will lead his group for flanking enemy siege.
-A squad commander will show his group how to harass trebs, mortars, and arrow carts that are in difficult locations.

All eyes will be on you. You will literally have 10-20 players see what you’re doing and learn from it. A glory-hound commander that charges into Stonemist and takes credit for it is worthless.

I’m certain you don’t see the blue arrow ofcourse, but do you see “You are a commander” buff on them?

Once free server transfer are over, maintain free transfers for smaller servers, and allow guild upgrades to carry over in special deals.

Further, offer an undermanned buff that actually gives statistical boosts to the smaller server. Do not SHOW the buff because just having it demoralizes people from playing and is an invitation from other servers to crush you.

Mass Invisibility, Blink, and Portal.

Mass invisible everyone, blink in, double evade forward, take a left, and set the portal. You will definitely get the portal off, but you may die in the process. Regardless, that forces the carts to target where your portal is, and it allows more players to storm the front.

The best counter is to convince everyone to double evade forward though when going in… which no one ever does. Everyone in my guild gets in past the siege spam, but usually everyone dies behind us.

This is easily the most defensible keep in the entire game. My squad loves holding this keep as invaders, and we are utterly at a loss figuring out how to conquer it in our home borderlands. We simply can’t figure out a way to take it against a server that fields as many people as us.

You can’t expect to siege it from Foghaven due to mortars and unreachable counter trebs (height advantage).
You can’t cut of reinforcements from Redlake because they can treb you from the keep (height advantage).
You can’t attack the obvious north entrance because 3-4 defenders with arrow carts and a catapult at the door can stop you.
You can’t attack the south because their spawn is behind you, and there are unreachable arrow carts.
If you get in, you will be swarmed by reinforcements from their closer spawn.
Once you get in the lord room, they have 10 arrow carts and 2 balistas waiting. (Counterable with mesmer).
I’ve seen guild groups put up two catapults on the cliffs on the west in an attempt to break the wall covertly, but we killed them 10/10 times. Counterable with a single mortar too.

Aside from waiting defenders to go to bed so you can outnumber them 2:1, how the hell do you take this keep?

Do orange swords appear in these scenarios?

(1) Five players attacking a gate. No defenders.
(2) Three players fighting Three players. Both sides do not have a group of five.

I have spoken to all the commanders on Ehmry Bay, and we respect our players and other guilds enough to send whispers and request help. Even if another commander makes tactical mistakes or is inherently hostile, I am still inclined to work with them and foster comradery.

You do not transfer to another server and suddenly tell their players to “Obey” you as a commander. That is simply the worst thing you can possibly do and was the only time I’ve lost all respect for someone in this game. As a commander, you treat the player base with respect and act as someone who can teach them overtime how to become better. You don’t claim you’re the reason they won, ever. The victory is theirs unless you fielded 90% of the players. If I suddenly claimed in team chat that I alone was the reason we’re winning while your own guild selflessly helped achieve objectives without spamming team chat, I’d assure you that you’d lose respect for me.

Judas.5432:

I just want commanders to be more commander-esque. I guess they could cost 500-1000 badges or something since those can’t be shared and are only gained through personal achievement in WvWvW.

Whatever the case, commanders need to act the role. They shouldn’t be fighting at all unless the kitten is hitting the fan. You don’t see Sun Tsu or Alexander The Great leaping into the fray and shouting orders between kills…

I wouldn’t respect a commander that sits on a wall all day shouting orders and taking credit for any objective taken by other players. Contrary to your belief of what the role should be, this is a video game where an officer is not exposed to actual death. He can command as a corpse if he wanted to.

Moreover, players will simply not respect you unless you demonstrate you’re a good player who can win a fight. Would you follow someone who gets beaten by an upleveled level 30? This is a video game, and you only get respect if its due. Can you assume simply asking players to go in front of you to die as you run away will make them ever follow you again?

P.S. Sun Tzu was not a military officer. He was a philosopher.

Sharpclaw.7510, you mention that us taking the lead early is some kind of strategic act from our server and a tactical mistake. You’re over-analyzing it. It’s as simple as us having the population to fill all borderlands on Friday when can play, and then only fill 1-2 borderlands the rest of the week – morale or any other factors aside. This is what occurred last week and isn’t some grand scheme.

Kyrul.7681, you have pictures of [Kaon] hacking the orb all week, but you make the assumption that last night EB hacked your orb. I can guarantee you that we did it the normal way since some of our guys broke through the outer and inner gate earlier and then wiped. A mesmer in our guild said he managed to hide in the vista and was speaking in our voice chat about how happy he was overlooked. 15 minutes later, he dropped down and ganked the orb. You’re welcome to trash talk all you want, but do not accuse our server of any wrongdoing where it’s not due.