To anyone who think BG=Buy to win you forget some kind of players BG has.
Me and my friends do play in league over 10 hours/day (we normally play 2-3 hours/day)
What I do in my 10 hours play.
1. Scouting.
2. Walking Yaks (I main Ele and change to Ranger for “Sick em” to fight Thief yak hunter, yes there is no queue in my time zone.)
3. Get Bloodlust.
4. Run supply to build ACs to defend towers and Keeps.I’m doing these things and get 2 WvW Level/day in 10 hours play, but I’m happy coz there is not only me do this kind of job. I always see BG fellas walk beside me, do these housewife job for server.
Every server has players like you and I am sure each server is pleased to have them. Who knew?
Nah just got the worlds fastest infraction and mod delete lol. .
Infractions are being handled out like candy at present. Some of my posts have been classics but I doubt anyone got time to read them before they vanished
Once upon a time. JQ was the stacked server.
Karma at its finest.
and once upon a time it was HoD, your point?
The karma on JQ is still the best, its the grapes, just saying
So my initial question still lingers, did ‘JQ’ had to spy on BG in EBG in their ‘strong’ SEA timing to wipe us?
Not that I am aware of. We often wonder the same of certain other servers when its clear they know where our pins are but most times we put it down to good scouting
I’m really looking forward to season 2 and hoping ZDs is joining SoR or SoS or TC and we will see what happens.
Relax. ZDs aren’t cheap server hopping guild you normally know. They are dedicated bunch of people who play for the server. They paid well over 2k gold to help recruit guilds to SFR, including a BG NA guild. I guess they transferred due to very long queues (2 hour++) even in their playtime at SFR due to pugs bandwagon.
IMHO they probably will transfer back to SFR if the queue over there reduces rather than go to any other servers.
And about the matchup – JS has some great guilds in SEA time pushing BG hard. Especially EBG JS zerg yesterday farmed us for 4+ hours in SMC. Props to that commander who was able to control the pugs well. We had a huge suspicion that JS is spying our tag. So all the commanders in the map tagged up to confuse the ‘spy’ and take SM at last.
Did you guys really spy?
P.S- I am not in ZDs guild. Just a poor SFR->BG transferred soul looking to get into WvW with less than 1 hour queue
BG are fighting Jade Quarry this week (JQ) and not Jade Sea (JS). I thought you might like to know that. I appreciate it can get confusing…….
That said I played the first time in BG NA timezone today
No disrespect here but this bit amused me. NA prime (evening) is only just starting now. The timezone you played in if you were on BG BL and part of the Hills take down and then defence against us until we finally flipped it (Xeeron did a leading great job there) was EU prime time – I guess that would be afternoon US time spread across your 3 hours timezone range. Anyway, that’s all semantics.
You certainly did a great job on Hills defence, was a tough nut to crack but we finally got it. Hopefully NA prime can hold and push on from there. Nice to see some ZD there as well. That was late for you chaps
On BG BL again tonight. Plan to be there every night this week helping out.
Nice work today BG. Good to see you come back strong like that. Awesome fights on BG BL again tonight, was tough hand to hand up close and personal stuff tonight
SoS, saw you starting to ramp up as I logged, good fighting. Its shaping up to be a good week of fighting this, win or lose this one is going to be fun.
I’m trying to help the guy out. You’ve added nothing constructive to this thread. Please stop posting here or actually start contributing rather than telling us all what you can and cannot do.
I appreciate the advice thanks but given you appeared to read my post and thought I was dying then I am not sure how helpful that advice is as I am not entirely sure the basis of it
Sounds weird, I hardly ever fail gathering.
Maybe your pet is keeping you in combat or something.. keep it on passive and stow when possible and see if that helps.. idk.
Yup tried stowing, it can help except it never stays stowed. Swapping pets when gathering also seems to help which why I think it must be pet related, some sort of increased chance.
Yeah me neither. I just walk up and sit there with everything hitting me, completely ignoring it before running off to the next thing. Consider speccing slightly more defensively when you’re gathering.
I’m pure DPS spec, I don’t think a defensive spec will make a difference.
Yeah but you and him are two different people. If he’s dying as it is, then he needs more survivability. Speccing more defensively could just mean using different pets and utilities, maybe even weapons… but if that doesn’t work, more armor will help keep him alive and no one can argue with that.
Who said I was dying? , I certainly didn’t. I spoke about gathering fails.
My observation is that I get alot more gathering fails on my ranger compared to my other level 80’s and I don’t do anything different apart from having to clear now when am on my ranger to avoid it. There is no death involved here.
I have tried both a bunker and a dps spec and many specs in between with different traits and different pets and still see the same issue. If others are not having the issue then I guess I will have to do more research.
If folks fancy testing this there is a ring of 5 elder wood trees in malchors leap bottom right of map. When the temple point it contested you get thorns spawning on the ground that give bleed and cripple. When I harvest that spot on my ranger with the temple contested I will get around 4-6 gathering fails in total from those 5 trees. Same thing on my other three level 80’s and I hardly ever fail. If would be nice if someone managed to see the same thing so I don’t think its just me and my account
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I have been seeing much higher gathering failures with my ranger compared to my other characters been going on for ages but I thought I would finally post given we have an update coming up. Anyone else seeing this?
With my other characters I don’t have to clear mobs and maybe get one gathering failure every few weeks. With my ranger if I don’t clear I can be sure to get at least one failure every node, sometimes more.
I have tried different pets and trait specs and still get the same result. My guess right now is that its yet another pet disadvantage and the pet increases our chance to fail. Not sure if Necro’s see the same, I don’t have one.
Would be nice if it was fixed as only gathering is what I am using my ranger for at present You could argue that having a pet should actually be an advantage because its me who wields the gathering tool and not my pet
bolt and howl make a nice combo
I wonder how the matchup thread will look next week. (BG, Mag, and SoR)
For best results, SoR needs to be behind by a big margin after the weekend is up. If Mag is seeing this, you know what to do
Why do you need Mag to help you? Can’t beat SoR on your own? If I was Mag and reading the BG stuff here I know what I would do….
I’d like to request that SoR continue to play like this when you face us. Please? PLEASE?
lol
Mighty nice weather JQ’s having. Good week to come back.
There won’t be anything to come back to. The Season is already doing funny things to guilds… another week of second place might hurt more than you think.
Was more a remark on people being heavy commenters whenever their server is winning with conveniently timed absence during months-long losing streak.
But sure, I’m all beat up about nightcapping issues.. It’s a new thing for us rallians. <,<
Always the way Letoll, some folks only show up here when they are winning. Tumbleweed the rest of the time. Hope you folks get your mojo back. Respect.
Personally I’m actually quite impressed by SoR as a server, their ability to just give up and as server make a decision not to show up to “fight” is amazing.
I have many times when SoS/BG was losing to tell them “just take it easy, give up” been met with “Never give up, never surrender” lines or just generally ignored and we can’t win but keep the margin within 20k.
Whereas SoR just has this ultimate command over their guilds/player who just decide as a collective to quit.
I’d understand that opinion since you’re seeing it from a different side of the fence.
Over here, what I’m seeing is that our fairweathers and militia tend to quit early, yet you still see guilds like TW, Choo, Die sticking it out during late NA.
Our TS was also being DDOSed. It happens every time BG pushes for something or can’t take something from SoR’s grip.
I can’t say much about our OCX and SEA guilds, that’s their decision. Prolly playing Battlefield 4.
We love (and hate
) the old guard still coming out doing their best for the server, the ones truly out for the fights and we have nothing but respect for them especially when moral on the server is low, so please dont take comments like karp’s to be directed at those who are out there trying their hardest
the oceanic guilds like HIRE and OCX are still out there as well as the SEA, but our NA are doing a beast of a job it is just hard for your OCX n SEA guilds as we are able to break their wp’s before they can log in and keep them that way
not sure whats happening to your TS but i hope it gets sorted out asap, no one on BG condones that sort of crap
see you on the field
Yeah, the DDOS pattern has been pretty constant for the past months. I’m glad to hear that the other main guilds are still sticking it out during their times. (Times when I’m knocked out in bed)
The same chap manages both SoR and JQ TS and is a righteous dude. he manages both servers really well and very fairly. For whats its worth JQ has been getting alot of DDoS and troll spamming attacks in the last few weeks as well.
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Good luck to all three servers this week. I appreciate that the points are probably going to go one way and JQ is stacked compared to the other two servers but here is hoping for some good fights
Good post, thanks for this. Regarding Healing Signet, I’ve noticed recently how wildly useful it is against pesky classes who try to tickle and run forever, and to be honest it has been a breath of fresh air. On the flip side, I’m concerned that this is just my relief at not feeling insanely pressured in attrition fights. Perhaps I should feel more pressured, or it shouldn’t be as effective? Or maybe the people I’ve fought have gotten so used to doing so little and spending so much time running that they just aren’t playing up to snuff and I’m deserving more 1on1 encounter wins against classes like Thieves and Mesmers that I didn’t used to get as easily?
And on the other hand, having to sit and wait around outside of a Zerg because I took myself down to half health is very detrimental. I can really see the pros and cons, and I have a hard time justifying the cries of people who have built evasive condition attrition and used to win against a class that used to have minimal sustain. Though I also wonder if I can still dish out too much pressure based on the 1on1 sustain.
Having felt on the back foot for so long, it’s weird considering the possibility that something is too strong. I’ll be curious to see what changes ANet has in store for the Warrior. That being said, all of this post is true.
Well the thing is, warrior concept was originally a class that “became more powerful as the fight went on”. It was supposed to be the class of attrition. Instead, for many months that role was filled by bunker guards, rangers, eles and the dreaded condi bunker mes.
War had such terrible sustain for such a long time that most war players had to adopt the “full zerker all-or-nothing” mindset to try and burst a target down before they died themselves, as that was the only way to have a chance at winning any type of fight. Furthermore, any warrior player who stuck with the class for the 8 or so months it was relatively weak learned every trick about pretty much everything in the game to be able to win fights because, if you didn’t outplay your opponent, you were guaranteed to lose against almost any other class or build.
When healing sig was buffed, we now once again became a class of attrition, and people who have mastered the class through the period of time the class was weak now seem unstoppable. Was the class overcompensated a bit? Perhaps a tiny bit, but not to the degree that everyone who doesn’t play war would have you believe.
The War now is an all-around threat. It doesn’t have the burst that a pure glass engie has, it doesn’t have the pure survivability that a bunker guard has, it doesn’t have the utility that a mesmer or guard or thief or ele or engie has, but what it does bring is an un-ignorable, high-damage yet durable option to the fight.
And I think that’s why we’re seeing so much frustration with people playing against warriors. Wars are doing enough damage to the point where they cannot be ignored in a fight, yet they are durable enough where hard-focusing them over, say, a glass engie or staff ele usually isn’t a sound decision.
And that’s why I think they’re in a pretty perfect place right. They are fulfilling the role they were intended to fill.
Great post, unfortunately the whines have won out
JQ plays to laugh from the safety of their t3 towers while they pelt you with cannonballs.
That reminds me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the French Knights
IF you have not seen that movie, do
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Sanctum of Rall:
Actually MagiKarp it just seems to be people with IRON in their sigs doing the moaning. Let’s not label a whole server due to the tears of a few “childish people” (Spanky’s description of them)
