Guild Wars 2

Yep I think you are right, now that SoS started Nightcapping, even if they don’t have to population ti face FC during the peak hour, they will dominate during day and night.

You are no longer my underdog Kaineng, you might even kick our kitten once you get to our tier, since we don’t have a night capping time ether. :P

I don’t see any issue there! :P

P.S : I know server are not all up to date, and I only wanted to post this cause it’s funny how all the income are so one sided.

P.S 2 : Oh my god Kaineng is really coming back!

Ahaha I hope not, I prefer to be outmanned, at least if we lose we can use the number as an excuse. :P

To be honest, We have been a victime once of a hack that was a major factor in our week fight. It was vs NSP I think, and we had a really good fight defending the Bay where we had our orb. Every big guild was there to defend and we were holding it. Sadly, a fly hacker came in, took the orb, and brang it back to NSP.

The moral of our biggests guilds felt down. When they had put so much effort/ressources just to be hacked, they weren’t really happy. Most of them stopped joining WvW. We lost a lot of player, and one of those guild even transfered.

So yeah, hacking can have a major effect on the outcome of the battle. It’s the moral effect that is the worse, not the orb itself. We need to keep our player in WvW, but they don’t want to play vs hacker.

But this is not the case this week. I don’t think the hacking we heard about had any effect on the fight. But I still hate it.

I disagree about being the server fault for using exploit and hacks. Can’t judge a server over 2-3 players acts.

I think SF has good coordination and team work, but it would be a lie to say population doesn’t have anything to do with it. We can’t put any good number in more then 1 borderland, and everytime I try to get a group in SF BL, we are, when lucky, like 5-6 players vs 20 players.

I should frap some video, to show that I’m not making this up. This weeks, except monday that we had a good amount of player ( !!???), I always have a permanent outmanned buff except in our Borderland.

Until we find a solution for Rez/Downed State, bigger zerg will always have an advantage, as you can’t outlast them since they can instant rez any lost.

I repeat, I think SF is a great server and have good tactics. But we have been in this tier since release, and every server that got pushed down in our tier, was outmanning us. It’s not different with you. There seems to be a big population gapse between this tier and the others ahead.

@Bunzy Yeah I just cheked the ranking, and well yes you are rank #19.

It’s true that our number change a lot during the week. Monday we owned the map during the day, and could hold it during the evening. Now, except in our BL, I always get the outmanned buff.

But that’s how I like it. First I was getting bored, but now I know that’s what I want. I don’t want Anvil Rock to be a top tier server, I want Anvil Rock to be competitive in our tier. I don’t mind being 2nd place, as long as we have a good fight like this week. This is the first week that we are competitive (well not that much but still).

I don’t want mass transfer like JQ FOTM and have queue time. We don’t need numbers to become stronger. We just need to fight until the end.

Good post follow Anvil Rocker!

WoW Sniffy you really have a chip on your shoulder or something.

What happened between you and Kaineng? Is it personal?

You can recruite too, it’s part of the game.

“But but, we want to keep our number advantage, so don’t recruite anymore”.

What…. the…. hell…

Get over it.

AKA : I will use this exploit until I’m told to stop.

Nothing again you Niim, but do you really think it’s acceptable? Do you really think that they thought that they should put one point in the whole map where you could use an ability to by pass the wall? It’s the only place where you can do this, and it’s only availaible to one class (or maybe elem like someone said).

I don’t know how you can think it’s intended. And If I remember, they already adressed the AoE catapult on the door thing, and said they couldn’t stop it right now, so it was accepted. It’s more a mechanic then an exploit, and I’m sure you can do the difference. Every AoE work like that in this game.

Byh the way, good fight yesterday SF in eternal battleground. Was some back and forth war, but we were lacking any form of supply. Starting with no camp at all, it was hard to get any siege going on.

We nearly got back our keep, trying to siege it while you were sieging our only tower. We got inside, but got kitten by your mass AoE Cart inside, and then your zerg came in.

Been fun fight overall! But even if we had good number, we had the outmanned buff most of the time.

Nabarue.3290:

I gotta say, from a Devona’s Rest player, this is impressive to see.

But I speak for many people in our match-up when i say: quit announcing your accomplishments and let them speak for themselves. We on Devona’s have had many great victories as we’ve finally found some footing in the last few weeks, but you will rarely, if ever, see a post saying how great we are when we are in the last bracket. Everyone loves an underdog, but no one likes one without humility.

I am not trying to be a troll or belittle the accomplishments of a server that spent so long in the shadow of larger servers, but do your entire server a favor and have some class.

Tales are never told by those who do heroic deeds, but by those who witness them.

I disagree,

I love reading Kaineng Tales, everybody love the underdog.

If they didn’t annonce their accomplishments, who would have done it? It rarely happen that an ennemy will make a psot about something incredible the other team did.

And there is a way to do it. And I think he did it the good way, not being disrespecful to other server.

CC Eva, by passing by, could you confirm us if thief using Inkjet to bypass Bay Outter Wall is “working as intended” ?

Personally, I would have killed you right away. And I don’t think that something bad for the community.

Can you tell his name and guild? I hate those kitten spy that take advantage of being invul and free transfer.

And we have our share of spy too, I’m just too lazy to take their name. :P

I have this website too, but the score date of 11 hours ago :P

I hope we won’t rematch, not that I don’t like SF, but it’s get boring the fight the same server

Anyone can get the current score and post it?

What happened yesterday? I had outmanned buff in every borderland except AR BL. Did every guild in SF woke up and was affraid we could do a comeback?

Oh well, 2 of the BL I joined, when I called to know who was online. I had no answer, or maybe once i got one. And I couldn’t see anyone roaming around. We really lack number, I don’t think we had more then 5 people in SF and BP BL yesterday.

I heard some people say both Green and Red pushed us yesterday, causing our fall. But it might have been bullkitten, I wasn’t there during the turn over.

Niim you won’t get banned for it, but it’s sure is an issue and is not there on purpose.

Yeah maybe you alone, you aren’t a big deal, but imagine a guild of 10-15 thieves, that enter and go rampage inside. We all know a flanked ennemy panic, and you could turn over the fight.

Niim, I’m sure this wasn’t mean to be like that.

It’s not because you have the ability to do it, that you can do it. Early on, I can’t remember what it was, but people could use a npc merchant to get item cheaper. You had the ability to do it, but people still got banned for that.

1 skill of one class, in the entire map, can pass a whole wall to attack the ennemy line. People no longer stock the orb in that keep except low level tier like us.

Once the tricks will be well known, a group of 5-10 thief will be able to enter and just flank and destroy the people on the wall. It’s unbalanced, and it shouldn’t happen.

Do it if you want, but if I see you, I will report for sure.

Not a legit use of skill.

Thief can exploit a skill to enter West keep.

That’s Karma for you man. L:)

Major help for now, but they will lose once and flee to another server.

Grenadier sure does a lot of damage in pve, but it’s a whole different story in pvp.

They are pretty good too, but hitting a target in a 1v1 that keep moving around is a challenge.You will miss half of them, so the dps is on par wit the difficulties.

Other kit need some love. Hells even the bomb kit, it does as much damage as my grenade, but I can’t throw them and they delay before exploding.

Tool kit only have 2 viable abilities + the toolbelt.

Flamethrower lack of damage and bugs aren’t viable for pvp. Sure flaming a pvp group is fun, but the autoattack as a very low damage output, and it’s our only viable dps source. (and the aiming is bad, miss miss miss)

Elexir gun isn’t bad, didn’t test it enought to be sure. I used it before lvl 80, didn’t try it again. I has a nice slow, but very low damage output. But since it’s more a support kit, it’s hard to judge.

Turret… oooh turret. I wanted to be a turret engineer, I really wanted. But I just cant do it. They are underpowered in every aspect. The only use I have, is the rocket turret overload that stun. And the rifle turret toolbelt for instant damage. Otherwise, how annoying to see smoene AoE and kill in 1-2 hits all your turret. Or the fight move around and you can’t cast them for 15-45 sec.

Well for once, not only do I see number for Anvil Rock, but I see number in your server too. Borliss Pass are having a really great week, and we had some awesome fight with you.

When we stole your orb yesterday, we learned fast that BP isn’t done yet. Our keep didn’t hold the orb for long!

Well seems like you have Ruin coming for you! But beware, they have a reputation of jumping from server to server! :P

So I wasn’t wrong

I think thats pretty much the same on a lot of server. I saw this all of time vs NSP and DH. They always go to this spot, and bot farm all day.

And we always pass there to farm them.

Is it me, or is Ruin switching server each week? I might be wrong, but didn’t you start on AR or something liek that, then switched to another, and then now switch to Europe?

If thats the case, you might want to stick to a server longer. The WvW dynamic change a lot, give your server some time before leaving it again.

Feel free to go for SF first thou :P

Metalripper.5406:

Engineers- I almost didn’t want to mention them, but they can spec for Permaswiftness,, and their grenade build is great for tower/keep defenses, but they are noticeably lackluster in Zerg vs Zerg combat and Offensive Sieges, they are also somewhat ineffective in skirmishes and roaming.

It really depend of the engineer build, because a Grenader will be awesome for offensive sieges, and even zerg vs zerg. 1500 range AoE Grenade + Grenade barage = Dead player/siege on the wall. Grenader is a bit less effective in zerg vs zerg, because people are moving around, but we can still do a lot of AoE damage.

What kill me most of the time, is when I get bursted down. Once you catch me, I will go down fast since rifle/Grenade don’t have the shield block abilities ( I miss them alot). But it’s all balance!

Might be some transfer, but It’s the first week that we have some kind fo day crew during work time?

I hate thief, not because they are so strong ( most of them are really bad at playing thief, HS HS HS). One dodge and one stunt breaker and they are done for, most of the time. Sadly, I’m rarely able to finish them. They can just invis and run away each time.

Mesmer, this is the class I fear the most. They hit like a truck, they have mass illusion around, and a lot of defensive field to protect them. My friend started to play one (he had a guardian) and said WvW experience is so much better now. He rarely ever die, and kill most people. A Skilled mesmer is the class I fear the most.

Bunker Guardian are a pain, always blocking, always reflecting. I have 3-4 big aoe attack, when they block them, it make it a lot harder to kill them. But overall they are a good fight.

Other class it depends a lot of the player, Ranger can hit really hard with some gear, but should fall fast. I hate fighting other Engineer but only because we use the same skills.

Ibaaaaaaankaiiii!

Commander of the week!

Chewie.1249:

Is there a guild in anvil that has the tag [AE] or [EA] ? On numerous occasions there was a person in SF by the name of LadyLethal and had that guild tag, whenever we would call out where we were going, anvil would be there immediately, when going from one side of the map to another changing strategies completely. And saw LadyLethal being ignored in some cases by invaders.

I am sure there are spies all over the place, but this one was pretty obvious lol.

Hmmm I don’t think so. Or it might be a little guild that I don’t know. No major guild for sure.

Anyway, I fought in 2 Borderland all night yesterday, and didn’t get any tips in chats about us having a spy on your side. But it is still possible!

Seems like sending spies is a new trend lol. kitten Free transfer.

Stonehenge.7830:

Kardiamond, that ability for a downed warrior is called Vengence. It is like a 30sec “I am gonna kick your butt before I die completely” skill. I believe there is a trait that allows for vengence to rally a player if you kill something though but not positive.

Thanks man, I hate that ability with pation

I personnaly hate the Downed State in pvp.

1- Make Zerging the only option. You can insta rrez people in a Zerg. And if you think it’s hard to do, just bring a decent guardian with you. Rez with immune shield on you = profit.

2- The balance between class downed state abilities is just awful. Seriously, I know when I’m fighting a thief,warrior,guardian or mesmer, I’m going to fight twice. Once to down him, and another time to finish him. Thief aren’t the worse, but kitten I hate mesmer. Hit like a truck, and can port when you try to finish them.

I never played warrior, but their auto attack downedstate hit even harder then mesmer. And when you can’t finish them right away, they can get back up? Can somoene explain me this ability? They rez all of suddent with 50% hp, but sometime they seems to die shortly after? I don’t know this one but I hate it too.

Guardian, those guy has an AoE pushback as 2nd skill? Come on ahahah. Engineer got the same thing on 3rd skill, they have to wait like 10 sec to use it.

On the other end, when I fight necro,elem or engineer, I know it won’t be hard.

I wouldn’t remove the downed state, but at least balance the kitten thing. Why does some class are so much better in downed state then other? Not like they have weakness making up for it during the fights. Mesmer thief and Guardian are prolly the FOTM class at the moment.

Funny to see all those people from HoD posting about WvW not balanced. We have been talking about it since launch, and you guys didn’t say a word until now. Oh wait, it’s because now you are on the under end, you are losing.

Funny how to turn out

Underdog need something to stay competitive during the week, and it will be really hard to balance. Can’t be too strong, but it has to be effective to keep player in WvW.

Wow, like I said elsewhere, since when do we have a morning crew? It’s wonderful to see

I thought SF was going away with an easy win, but it’s seems like we are doing a comeback during the week! Borliss too is showing some good number and siege strat!

It’s starting to be a 3 way fight, and it’s a lot of fun.

Yesterday after the restard, we tried to rush the orb in BP BL. We got the keep, we nearly missed the orb then finally got it. But keeping 3 orbs was too much for us, as Borliss brang in some fire power north, and SF attacked us from south. We lost it to Borliss Pass, good job guys! We tried to be too big!

Nice fight with SF in their borderland yesterday too. I came late to help defend the bay that was falling, but we had some great number so we finally pushed you back.

What was weird was that 1-2 players tried to misdirect our army? Giving direction in chat about attacking tower on the other side of the map, when our bay was getting sieged. They kept calling for that kind of thing or sayign the bay was Ok when it wasn’t at all. I gotta say I’m starting to think they were spy from the evil SFurnace

Good Fight guys! It’s going to be a great week!

And Plok, each time I see a post from you, you are crying about Anvil Rock attacking you. Sorry man, if it’s a war and we sometime have to attack you. You attack us too, we just don’t feel like crying each time.

Just get over it! and have fun!

Wow what happened during the day?

Last time I cheked we were batteling for the third place with Borliss Pass? Do we have a day crew now?

P.S : Sorry to Hijack your post, I just don’t understand!

That would explain the wave of HIV we have right now.

I’d say if you could do something in between!

but

“Man you guys put up a great fight! I enjoyed it much!”

That sentence sound so fake coming from you, I prefer the other one. :P

I hope we will be paired in the same tier again in the future, we might lose again, but I will have the pleasure to kill your Half naked norm once again.

What the freaking hell happened to you iii.

I want the hold iii back, the one I didn’t like that much, but wasn’t talking like a cross over between a carebear and an over sensitive fat woman.

Forget anything I said about your attitude on the forum previously, I want it back!!!

Going the same direction as Kamahl.

I change build every 2-3 days, and the two best I found for WvW are :

P.S : My gear sucks, your damage might be higher with better gear.

Rifle + Grenade + bomb 30/20/0/0/20 : Jump on somoene (3-4k crit), blunder (2-3k), net shot, Big Ol Bomb (you have to be very fast, you can always use personal ram to win some time), grenade barage (that and big ol bomb should hit about the same time for like 4k each if crits.). That’s about 10-15k damage in a very short time. But you won’t pull it off each time, and you won’t always crit. Still, if they aren’t dead yet, you have overcharge shot to get some space, a third utility skill, youre elite, blunder low cooldown and grenade/bombs.

And WvW with grenade = so much more option. 1500 range grenade = siege ownage.

Pistol + Shield (10/30/0/0/30) Elec Bolt tool belt. You need the electrobolt on tool belt traits for this one. This one is less burst, it’s more about AoE/consistant damage. I use rifle turret, toolkit and I prefer Battering ram as third. They have really short cd tolbelt kit, and are direct damage toolbelt (target AoE toolbelt doesn’t work well with electr bolt, tho Grenade barage is so strong you might want to use it).

Just unload your your toolbelt on them, use static shot. If they close range, use poison shot then use a knockback (shield or battering ram). If they stay range, time your 4 shield ability when they use a strong skill to trow it back in their face (thats the shield best attack, that’s how I win or lose fight).

Toolbelts are back, use them again and continu to kit around. If they come to melee range and you don’t have any knockback, use toolkit prybar and block and run away. Prybar can crit really hard.

This build is really good in team fight, as it does a lot of bouncing in people, and you can keep a good range.

I also tried to find a good Flametrower build for WvW, it’s a lot of fun but still meh compared to my 2 other build. Auto Attack damage are just too weak for being melee and having to stay 5 second on the target ( and missing for no reason). And since auto attack is the only consistant damage tool you have in this keep, it’s hard to build a good dps.

@dirtyklingon @Plok -> Good to see that you guys are stilling accusing us of focusing on you. Sorry if we can’t control our pug. And we all know your pug never attack us.

PuGs will attack everything, or people will karma train in what ever map. Don’t be angry about that. It happens for us, it happens for you.

Sunday morning, we started with a 2 man group that grew up a lot, and took over EB one by one. SF was sleeping prolly( I found your weakness SF! The only time we can dominate is during Week end morning! :P). We even got SM, and it doesn’t happen often for our server.

We started taking more camp/tower near green spawn. We encountered the BP army, made some gesture, and they went their way. Nice job there.

Sadly, another group of BP built a trebuchet and started raining fire on our SM. Green woke up and did the same thing from the other side.

But no bad feeling here, it’s SM everyone want it, I won’t accuse BP of anything cause this thing happen!

This week is great! We have some great fight and we had some organisation this week end. More commander started to pop up, which is a good thing.

We won’t finish first, but the 2nd and 3rd place might be clsoe this week. It’s going to be fun!

Let’s continu like this everyone!

So true about the downed state. I just hate killing a mesmer, it’s a never ending run with a mindblast that hit so hard.

Same time for last priority, they are just oto annoying to kill.

Well if people want to keep it, then I think it should be nerfed or at least rebalanced.

I know when I kill a mesmer or a guardian, It won’t be easy to finish. Other like Elem, engi or I think necro? not much they can do. Warrior auto attack while downed hit like a truck too, is it really ok?

And to add more, it make zerging even better. If you have a good team, you can always revive people so fast the ennemies don’t have the time finish the downed player.

Revive, go back, heal, come back. That’s why zerg are really hard to finish.

I Agree on this, I hate the downed stat.

Maybe becuase I’m playing an engineer and our downed stats are really weak (IMO), but I can’t stand it.

Like previous poster said, when you are 1v2-3 and you kill one of them, it’s nearly impossible to finish him. Most class can at least interrupt once the finisher. Other can do it twice or even worse. That so annoying, and if you try to finish him with damage, his ally can rez him faster.

And I,m not even counting to glass cannon that hit like a truck even when downed.

I once fought a Mesmer, he was prolly outgearing me because he was hiting so hard and had good exp. But with some dodge and CC, I got him dead with 7k hp left. He went down and started hiting me. But he was hitting like a truck, I cheked combat log after, he was hiting for 1.5k with “mind blast” (don’t know, must be the downed state auto attack) each shot. So what ever I try to go for the finish. But he just port out of the wait and continu hiting me.

I finally died to a downed oponnent when I still gad 7k HP.

I don’t think you should be able to hit for 1.5k in downed state, and I heard even bigger number on the forum.

I really hate down state, and I hope it get removed. Would help when you fight outnumbered!

I’ m using the pistol and shield weapon with an unusuable build.

I got
10 bomb,
30 firearm,
30 tools.

I focused low cd toolbelt skill to mainly damage with electric bolt.

I know I know, this build is best suited for the rifle. I was using the rifle before, and it was good. But I just missed my shield so much. Man I love to reflect attack on people with Skill 4, and the stun of 5.

I just love the shield for pvp, rifle is good but it lack defensive tool again ranged oponent.

The sad thing is, that build mostly use power and crit damage, and the gun/shield is more about condition damage.

My gear right now is kitten, only have some exotic. But I get half power, half condition with some thoughtness. Will see how it will turn out.

I did some spvp to test it, and I win most 1 v 1 I did. If you can time right the shield reflection, it just ownage. Must have in pvp.

Didn’t do a lot of PVE, so I’m happy to see it really effective.

The only sad thing is, My pistol is a lot better then my shield (Exotic vs unique). So when I equip my shield, I actually lose damage. I might be newb, but it seems that the game do the average between the gun and the shield for the final damage?

That match up looks fantastic ahah! Keep up the WAR!

I think in this match up NSP was the underdog! They stomped us at our tier last week and they were doing pretty well. If you forget the orb hack 1 or 2 player from them did, they are doing a good come back.

Lets go North Shiverpeaks! Make us proud for losing to you!

Really good idea, but I’m not sure about posting it on the forum Might get people you don’t want in there!

Hood idea iii I respect your qualities as a commander, but you have a strange way to communicate :P

And Crawford what a useful post! If at least we coudl see name I could find you and prove you that without a zerg, you die as fast as anyone1 :P

I think they made it that big so the defending server had a least a bit of an advantage in their own borderland.

I don’t remember, can you build siege weapon in invul arena? I thought we couldn’t?