Guild Wars 2

People were awesome.

Sunspots.9861:

You already know [PiNK] likes taking Garrisons, but what you don’t know, is we really enjoy having our pictures taken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iS4yNizpB4

LOL, I didn’t realize how stupid I looked at the top left of the screen from 0:01-1:08. I ignored the photo shoot to go play with some FA. An FA Mesmer wasn’t being nice and was attacking me the whole time while the other FA just sat/emoted me or with me. Then when the giant ball came at me… I ran into them and used GS #4 + #2 before running for my life.

Saweth You Him.9047:

Rawr.5930:

Everyone is going to get 2v1ed at some point, that’s the nature of a 3 way contest.

Considering fa and tc history it’s no surprise both servers are going to be on the receiving end of a diuble team, kain isnt stupid and they play for the ppt.

Havent we grown out of whining about it by now?

Sheesh.

We have not grown out of bringing to light the truth. The truth being it requires two servers to hold us in check because of what we are capable of when our reserves can go on the attack. The necessity of double teaming FA is an unfortunate one for us. Being double teamed by the megazerg server and the off hours server is tough to counter. We persevere but we obviously can’t win against impossible. If you look at the numbers it is very clear that it is impossible to win against this nonsense. Dismissing the manifestation of unsavory war ethics and a lack of confidence on the part of the other two servers to fight 1v1v1 as whining is an evasive retreat to craven ppt play. That is the majesty of FA. We can make two stacked servers desperately thrash away at us to keep their confidence up.

… I hope this was just a well written satire and not something serious.

We’re Blue! I think…

We had like 15-20 people DC in our first engagement at Garrison in FABL.

Let’s see how this reset goes! Have fun everyone!

Servers have their own private websites.

My biggest gripe with WvW is the community on the Forums complaining about everything instead of making the best of what they have and giving positive critique on issues that can be improved upon.

Other than that, WvW is incredibly fun!

This week has been a truly amazing week for our server!

MrHaze.3690:

Zen.8497:

Matt Witter.6982:

The tool tip for the second tier of the Cannon Mastery and Ballista Mastery abilities shows the wrong percent increase. The tool tip for both of these should say that it increases damage by 25%

Honestly it doesn’t make no sense by comparison with the defensive stats against siege weapons increase (25% vs 5%) unless those are wrong as well. They should balance each other out offense and defense.

5% reduced damage from all types of siege – Rams, Catapults, Trebuchets, Ballistae, Arrow Carts, Golems, Burning Oil, Cannons, Mortars.
vs.
25% increased damage from ballistae or cannons.

Seems fine to me.

So, basically 45% reduced damage from Siege if you take them all into account. That seems reasonable to me.

Yes.

15 Charr walk into a bar.

Stormcrow.7513:

In all honesty, after 4 months of labor it seems that the culling fix made performance worse for a majority of people playing WvW.
Even people with high end systems are having issues with Low/Low settings.
Why should people have to overclock their computers to run this part of the game at a decent level?

My friend has a piece of crap computer and couldn’t participate in ANYTHING larger than 30v30. Now with the new culling he can play in 90v90 with MORE FPS and actually be able to do something.

I have a medium-high end PC and I was able to tone down the culling settings and turn up my other graphics to levels where I normally couldn’t have gone to BEFORE this patch.

Please, know what you’re talking about.

Skill Lag has NOTHING to do with Culling or the new Culling change. Skill Lag has ALWAYS been there, but you think it’s due to this change when it’s not.

ET phone home?

ET PHONE HOME!?

pot.6805:

Rooting for TC! Also was going through my screenshots and found this from last time I was in T2. Some Kaineng…ahem….doing things to my corpse.

Now imagine if some TC girls got their hands on you?

BobbyT.7192:

this can’t be that fun for you tc, aren’t you lagging everywhere?

Actually, people with bad computers who would lag super hard with Culling are now seeing a HUGE increase in FPS when setting their culling options to the right levels. People who’s computers used to freeze up can now participate in the fights, this is an incredible change, they’re much more useful in fights now.

kevinskyrider.3271:

Keep it up, TC!

<3

I believe the 26 march will live tomorrow.

I’m not sure if our threads started to behave better, or if the trolls have been banned from the forums.

I hope it’s not the latter, because so far I’m loving how our threads started behaving.

Aleks.6319:

Here is an album of our naked zerg + golems + 18 commanders taking over FABL in the last two hours.

http://imgur.com/a/LtF4G

Was lots of fun.

Rain, sleet or shine, TC always comes out to play.

This was fantastic!

Naked Zerg in FABL currently happening. Come see us Naked TCers.

Come join us, we’re roaming Naked.

Vagrant.1094:

Congratulations to FA on securing 2nd place this week. It’s an important milestone for your server, and well deserved.

~Nyari Cil, Queen of EB

I was anxiously waiting for someone to whip that out, I’m glad it was you and in such light.

Congratulations for defeating Tarnished Coast after so many battles with us. Take heed, we’re coined the Zombie Coast for a reason… and the battles aren’t cooling down any. We’re going to keep the fights pouring, just you watch.

Sanctuary is incredible in tPvP and WvWvW.

Especially in well organized guild groups.

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Our Oceanic, EU, and Sea times have been picking up the pace, their momentum is building, but we need need more of you Oceanic, EU, and SEA people to come here and help us out! There’s something brewing for those time slots, but we can’t share it here! Consider joining, fun fights, great leaders, and one of the most voted communities by the GW2 community (NA) for “best reputation” which is only a glimpse from the outside. We’ll embrace you well and show you that there’s much more for us to offer within our Server’s WvWvW infrastructure, be it small or large guilds! Even individual player transfers help bolster our server’s strength, you won’t go unheard!

We also have something that no other server has in such large quantities, but that’s another secret for another time.

Will we break through this week once again!?

Most likely!

SugarCayne.3098:

Ketharius.9018:

Of course, there’s many, MANY, more variables to that, but it helps drastically when being able to treat WvWvW as ONE giant kitten map

I love you so hard.

Well, the point that’s being ignored is that KN doesn’t determine FULLY who is in 2nd. There’s the tactic of counter pressuring.

EXAMPLE (only an example) would be if FA is focusing TCBL’s Hills. TC is trying to defend Hills, but KN comes and pressures Bay. FA then takes Hills, or KN takes Bay, or they both take each keep. So now it’ll be a 2v1 at Garrison. (Keep in mind, this can happen to ANY server, not just TC.) Do we stay and defend it? Or do we attack the lesser defended Keeps/towers in other BLs? Of course, the latter. Bait one server to go back to defend their BL, swap back to our BL and take that side’s Keep on our own BL. Jump over to the other server’s BL and take their lesser defended Nodes swiftly. Resistance? Jump back to ours and take another keep.

Of course, there’s many, MANY, more variables to that, but it helps drastically when being able to treat WvWvW as ONE giant kitten map instead of 4 separate maps. Once you develop a great web of communication it changes your perspective of WvWvW and encompasses more guilds and militia into your strategies.

Score update. Good job TC militia of our off hours for getting the map setup for NA!

Here’s to hoping TC makes another comeback this week just as last week. I’m sure we will, we’re TC.

Condi Remove + Dodge Roll = ?

Works for me every time.

This is was buried, nice save, Jayne!

TC’s and FA’s rivalry for each other allows Kain to more easily read our tactics and attack where it benefits them most.

I don’t care, this is a fun matchup.

My vote goes to BG and Kaineng.

Kill or be killed, this is PvP. Kill for the reward or be denied the reward through death.

Yeah, the last fight wasn’t worthy of continuing >.<

PooHBooT.4590:

Since you came to their defense, they are innocent.
Let me climb back into my peanut gallery shall I.

Contact the individuals that can handle that situation, not make a big deal about it on the Forums. Provide Screenshots, Videos, etc to both Arena Net and the respective members of that Guild or other major guilds of that server.

This goes for all hackusations, not just ones directed at TC. FA, KN, and TC should all abide to this instead of flinging hackusations blindly and wildly around here. That’ll just cause people to rile up for no reason.

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.

We do, our TC scout system we have in place across all out BLs is pretty impressive. It’s made up of all sorts of guilds. I especially love the times when on Mumble all we hear is “Everyone, stop fighting in this ZvZ/Tower/Keep/etc and head to xBL to help defend/take this objective.” Everyone just stops what they’re doing and leave, probably leaving our enemies with a “wtf just happened?” face. But if we’re having a ton of fun, we’ll ignore it for selfish reasons, and later try to correct our error if it goes too downhill.

We’re pushing our way back up in T2, a bad start doesn’t stop the Zombie Coast!

Jayne.9251:

nibbles.2408:

Is MOS broken for anyone else…? And on that note, score update? =D

It appears to be a “cake” problem.

*eyes you all suspiciously ….

Cake indeed…

No one has regretted their move to TC.

HermanVanderpoop.6743:

Did someone say tower farm?

Oh, man. That was hilarious.

I communicate with the enemy on a regular basis, lol.

I get multiple Rares a day and rarely get Exotics, it seems fine to me.

Caught with my pants down! What in tarnations is going on in our super secret club excluding Special K, how are people on to us?

Brangien.7462:

Fun fights in EB at reset! RET You give RISE a run for the money!

Let me give an example of our commander on teamspeak

Commander
“Its RET, KITTEN KITTEN LEFT KITTEN BACK KITTEN KITTEN OH KITTEN KITTEN BOMB KITTEN KITTENS DEEP, Guys u awesome I WANT LOVE MAKE WITH MY GUI— OH KITTEN WHERE DID THEY KITTEN KITTEN KITTEN FROM!?!?!?” X.x

my brain melted from intensity at SMC.

I tried translating that and failed :’<

TC defending bay a while ago was immensely fun, I hope that FA had as much fun attacking as we did defending. Not to mention the fun we had at WH.

I’d like to give both servers a round of applause for such a fun time.

More score updates.

Jayne.9251:

As for getting the fairweathers out when things are not so pretty. Here’s what I did all week, while we were winning, and seeing our maps filled to the brim with new bodies:

Every morning at 11 am EST, I would run a short 10-minute WvW clinic — just the basics, but I took the time to answer questions and outline some of the most simple concepts of WvW so that new folks coming in felt more comfy.

I would advertise these clinics about ten minutes before I started them in all the major cities and hubs, and when folks arrived, I’d be patient and actually run them to various spots on the map, so that it wasn’t just a verbal lecture, but a visual one, too.

Over the weekend, I got two people each day. During the week, in the time period that we need more bodies, I was lucky to get 10 or more each day. If we retain even 5% of those new folks into our Tier 2 match, when things are tougher, I will consider it a minor victory. If we don’t, then I got to spend some pleasant time with some nice people.

But the key is organizing, being pleasant, most of all patient, and understanding that the toughest part for a new player coming into a WvW map is that they pretty much feel helpless because they don’t know how things work.

Having a real, live body there to explain and answer is a way to establish not only a welcoming community, but a foundation of people doing WvW the proper way. Fewer mistakes that way, confidence is gained as results are seen, and siege is placed out of the way of enemy aoe, lol.

A more passive learning system for new folks is to have a daily map trivia during “down” times. Have the vets shout out in /map tips and tricks they learned in WvW. Remember to start with the very basics, like the difference between a tower and keep and supply camp on the map and how to distinguish the difference. You’ll laugh, but folks new to WvW won’t have a clue what the difference is and how it can impact WvW.

Just a suggestion for the Mags folks when they hit T4 and start getting their fairweather folks again. Take advantage of the numbers and take time to teach. It’s highly likely you guys are already doing this, but I’m just letting you know what seemed to work well for me this week.

I saw you doing that, it was awesome. I dropped that AC for that person who asked how Siege was dropped, it felt good helping. I’m sure that more people will want to WvW and participated with us after that, it’s always a plus!

I disagree and feel that the no CD on weapon swap to a Kit is much more preferred to have two weapons sets.

Kaineng needs to stop slacking off or we won’t get into T2!

No time for breaks!