Guild Wars 2

I don’t want ArenaNet to do anything about off-peak capping. NA overnight/early morning is my prime time, and I don’t really mind being outnumbered because I’m actually valued more than an average peak hour NA player putting in work amongst a few others trying to maintain a decent PPT while everyone is sleeping. We will just continue to recruit more Oceanic/Euro/Asian guilds.

Until then, the more populated server will beat us and that’s how it should be IMHO. They were either lucky enough to have more people in those timezones roll on their servers or they put in the hard yards recruiting them like we have been. Either way, I don’t want to be worth less as a player. The 24/7 battle adds an interesting dynamic to the community and things will balance better over time when people are seeking real fights not PvDoor.

And we are recognising we can’t match YB’s Oceanic/Asian/Euro forces. Nuff said. Still skirmishes to be had, and fortified stuff for our peak forces to hit later on. Morale will be down but I know some PRO, ULTD, UK will be up late – adding GODS, PTX, Echo etc for primetime to cause trouble. Shout out to all of ya to give em’ hell. See ya on the battlefield.

Like I said, I’m Aussie. I still refer to it as “night capping” just like Yak’s did against Crystal Desert in their last thread. “Off-peak” capping would be more accurate, the former just a commonly used term in forums. I’m just explaining why I have no team to cap larger objectives with, and why Fort Aspenwood had a larger PPT earlier on. There’s no “sooking” here, I fully understand this is a 24/7 war – it’s just a discussion of player distribution in regards to timezones. If that is having a cry about it, what would you rather have me discuss, the dolyak/supply camp flips a 5-10 man team on borderlands can manage?

Regarding Eredon Tce, they suffered a loss of dedicated WvWers after RUIN left which snowballed into everybody leaving. Only the most determined have stayed until they find their footing again, probably at the bottom tiers. See “Henge of Denravi” and Titan Alliance as a reference.

Just pretend your least upgraded keeps in borderlands, and SMC have the orb. It’s probably where the enemy is likely to hit.

@jayderyu.3751

“It’s not likely that a massive zerg could effectively use some kind of difficult jumping based entry anyways.”

Mesmers would like to have a word with you regarding their portals.

The European WvWvW servers are hosted in Dallas as well. I’m Australian on the West Coast. I don’t really understand what you are trying to achieve here – we already realise our Achilles heel is our off-peak population base which snowballs into a low morale and turnout for the week. That’s why we have been recruiting directly for this time slot. That doesn’t mean that people aren’t allowed to confirm that is our weakness in comparison to other servers without being labeled as ignorant (it is in fact, the opposite.)

Cheers

.. Isn’t that his point? 10pm Eastern Australia = 7am Eastern US. Everyone who was burning midnight oil has gone to bed. Don’t really know how that could be interpreted as complaining really – it’s just stating the facts, jack. We have Outmanned in every map. I’ve got no problem with it personally, we (FA) are quite obviously a Tier 4 server.

Well, I think this match is in the bag for Yak’s Bend – you guys have an overnight force big enough to propel you to tier 3 and I wish you guys the best there. This doesn’t mean we will give you the win easily. See you on the battlefield.

Well said!
I also hope we can field the numbers for next match up. I agree we don’t belong in this bracket, the next tiers are very tough and require a large overnight presence which is our Achilles heel trust me, we want the close matches just as badly as you do.

Dragonbrand is a force to be reckoned with, I don’t really understand the timezone their zerg hits – it’s like a peak Euro time, it’s always past my bedtime in Oceanic but too early for NA ..

Maguuma is determined and well coordinated. You can’t take your eyes off them or they WILL sneak up on you. I’m quite envious because I feel perhaps we give up a little easier than our opponents, especially in this match where Mag & DB have continued to upgrade and construct siege defenses even though they know they can only delay our forces. I can only hope this match will help with our server morale for when times are tougher.

And we miss you, ULTD! Hope all is well and you get your power up soon so you can come kick butt again

I can do that. Dragonbrand did impressive damage to map in the “Euro” peak timezone, shout out to those guys – we just couldn’t hold those numbers back at all. Starting to slowly get it back now.

Psy.6153:

There are Koreans and Australians on our NA servers who cant speak english, and they play here just fine. Go join an English speaking server, your guild chat doesnt magically turn to english

Sorry mate, most of us Aussies speak English pretty fluently. :P

On topic: Yes, international alliances will probably be superior in the LONG run. That’s just the way the world works. Open your arms and welcome them or push them away and suffer the consequences, basically. The servers are not region locked and if that isn’t going to happen, then that is how the system is going to work (even that can be circumvented if desired).

I have been in guilds that are entirely Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Thai guilds etc.. on many games and yeah there were language barriers there – we still coordinated together at a highly functional level in-game and as a bonus we also helped each other learn the basics of our language. It’s basically like saying “businesses that cater to international people will be more successful!” – what did you expect, really?

I think I speak for all of Fort Aspenwood when I say we are looking forward to next week and anticipate a good fight against you, Yak’s. If Eredon Terrace lands in the matchup, it’s unlikely they can field a population for that match but I won’t make assumptions until I see it for my own eyes. Until then!

I would love to see the puzzles and any other PvE content removed from WvW – Removing bots and people there for exploring/puzzles/farming etc is great in my book. I don’t really care about the drop rate for badges, I get enough as it is.

I would like no reward – it would help to alleviate at least SOME of the server bunnies who like to hop to the winning server. Remove PvE exploration from WvWvW while you’re at it. Oh, and anything that botters could profit from.

I would prefer it stay the same purchasing price. I would like the icon to change colour as the commander obtains a mix of more kills/capture objectives/defend objectives.

@Badwrong: Yeah. We had Maguuma knocking on the inner door of Garrison in FA Borderlands earlier, all stacked on cata hitting gate. Only 5 of us inside, we set up a Superior Arrow cart just hidden from view behind wall, and AOE the kitten out of cata. Other 4 players ported through and charged when Maguuma was weak – ended up with 16-20 corpses scattered, haha.

@Kiado: You guys [PANG] sure had us [PRO] outnumbered for the last 8 hours. I got no problem with people saying they are usually outnumbered etc, but just sayin’, we’ve been called a “zerg server” with no tactics in this thread. We did well today with a 10 man team, jumping map to map defending lord room in SMC and more than 4 seperate inner keep breaches.

So, TIL that we need people in the Euro timezone more than any other. We have light coverage for Central Asia/SEA/Oceanic – but it’s midnight in Singapore, 3am here in most of Australia.. but about 5-6pm in Europe right now – and we are getting destroyed (+15 PPT) by a very large Dragonbrand force (rumor has it they have a sizeable German force, I don’t know whether that is valid or not)

EUROPE – FORT KITTEN NEEDS YOU!

Wow. Amazing fights during off-peak. To [PANG] and [GOON] from Maguuma, we [PRO] love you and we’re sorry.

As far as I can tell, HB just have a lot of coordinated skill. They aren’t even the “40 man turtles” you are talking about. In fact, it seems like they only seem to run around with like 10-20 people, lol. It’s honestly like this has never been seen before, you realise even tier 7 servers have been doing this for 2 months? Hell, I know Titan Alliance had videos of them doing it during BWE o.O

We are looking at heading into tier 3 again. There will be 9 competitive servers for the foreseeable future – and we need off-peak reinforcements badly to keep our upgrades as best as we can.
My random predictions for next fortnight or so:
T1 : BG/SoS/JQ
T2 : SoR/IoJ/SBI
T3: TC/FA/CD

With TC constantly in our crosshairs, we will continue to bounce between T3 and T4 until we can maintain a decent off-peak force. We generally experience a queue on the opening reset weekend of up to an hour during peak NA time, but instant entry during off-peak time. This however, does not indicate we are a “ghost town” during off-peak, I’m aussie myself, we generally run guerrilla tactics at these times in all maps OR concentrate on holding one map united together as we just need more manpower to field a larger scale opposition.

Some selling points: Our server is a very balanced mix of PVE/PvP, chat is actively LFG and doing halloween activities. People are generally well-mannered and mature with the occasional rotten egg. Our dedicated WvW guilds are resolute in the face of adversity (even against “Beastgate”) and we keep fighting and taking objectives successfully while outmanned or experiencing a disappointing overnight PPT drop. /team chat is used widely across all maps with many of the guilds offering TS / raidcall services.

We have a NA force to be reckoned with and have shown the ability to come out on top in PPT with SM and 2-3 orbs consistently during the 8 hours after matchups reset. Plenty of tactics to bring to the table (and some strong opponents / very skilled small scale guild transfers teaching us some new ones) with a non-elitist attitude. I encourage WvW focused Asian/Aussie/Kiwi/Euro individuals and small to medium sized guilds to consider our server as your new home for the long term.

That video is painful to watch. Dragonbrand really needed to fearbomb/updraft/siege/feedback/temporal curtain/anything that stack.

@Kat: We can hold our own in tactics, I assure you. Besides, you haven’t seen a zerg until you’ve fought Blackgate 2.0 – we did, the match before last and they were literally beating down our gates with auto attack.

Needs to be a WvW lockout for a fortnight.

However, it MAY actually make Quaggan lightning hit the Golem more often than the Altar of Power. Still, not worth the cash.

If the altar is destroyed already, then it is bugged.

I don’t really understand why people thinking no aoe cap would just destroy entire armies. We would never get into lord rooms if that was the case – siege has no AOE cap and arrow carts have like a 4 second cooldown with more damage than the Ranger Barrage. Someone please clarify how 5 people could stop a whole army who knew what they were doing eg. invulnerability, portals, blocks, evades, feedback, retaliation etc.

Well, you won’t be as coordinated as you could be. If you wish to go in solo I would suggest asking around to find out who the GOOD commanders are or if you have an open voice communication for your server. You can be more effective than most of the random people simply by communicating in /team on enemy sightings (numbers/location/future destination) doing supply runs for repairs or siege construction, manning siege, flipping supply camps, cutting enemy supply or creating diversions. At level 55, I would suggest not roaming alone – try to gather a small 3-5 man party up and you will be more effective.

Well, that would bring back nostalgia of another MMORPG I used to play called Silkroad Online [SRO]. Everyone was either a thief, a trader or a guard – you could change these jobs by wearing different suits. They would put you in a combat mode and basically the traders would load up camels and transport goods across the entire world map, selling the goods to NPCs upon reaching their destination safely. They could make a fine profit doing so however other players wearing the thief suit could scout these traders out and kill them for their goods, and sell them on the black market. So traders would pay other strong PVP players to wear the guard suit, and protect them from thieves.

Totally agree with Wulfe, the “overnight presence” sticks out like a sore thumb when you are thinking about fortifying a keep.

In addition, some servers were really tight with siege for quite a while when gold was scarce. Also, particular servers in the really low tiers were unlikely have any decent WvW guilds or coordinated strategy at all in the first month or so after release. These things solve themselves over time – I think with some fine tuning from ANet and about six months we should have 9 – 12 very competitive servers vying for the top spot.

I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of the transfers are just morons who want to bask in the glory of a win. Funny thing is, you actually earn less karma / badges / XP that way.

Haven’t you guys ever heard of siege weapons? You guys know what a superior ballista, or even just a couple arrow carts can DO to a stack of players like that?

@Kong
We never underestimate Maguuma and their ability to form a defensive siege or a ninja on a keep. I think we have found the best way to take Maguuma down is to break their forces by attacking multiple objectives – otherwise they just turtle up and hold us at a bottleneck. Don’t think Fort Aspenwood has taken any objectives easily though – they all come at a cost somewhere else (weakened forces somewhere else), or we face heavy defenses. No PvDoor in this match at all. Well done to the Dragonbrand guys portal bombing all over the place in Maguuma borderlands too, and the offensive (sneaky!) Maguuma hits on eastern keep and garrison. It was pretty devastating to have Maguuma beating on two doors to get their garrison back, while simultaneously DB was destroying our southern towers and camps before moving on to hit western keep.

When there’s 7 orange swords on the map, and the winning team gets an outmanned buff here and there, you know it’s a good match. I would like to stress this game CAN still be won by anyone. I hope that Fort Aspenwood doesn’t get slack in the lead because I get the feeling these two servers will strike quickly at any sign of weakness.

Oh, please. Everybody has their “spawn camping” moments. I even made you a pretty screenshot.

Good match. Keep it up all.

True dedication/loyalty right there – a leap of faith off a cliff, death before dishonor! Or maybe just being silly. Either way, I expect no less from goons.

Dat goon heart. I wish we could play you guys every week. I love the organization you guys have – I really hope you guys don’t get stacked with the next mass transfer, for your own sake.

DB – Now you see the almighty power of our fairweather server. Ghost town one week, zergfest the next. I’m not gonna pretend that “we all keep fighting forever” like TC does. Sure we have a whole bunch of people who keep on goin’ when the scores are bad – just not even close to our “winning” zergfest.

Just dropping in to +1 this.
I actually was doing this so easily when it first released that I was farming ToT bags from it on my ranger. After sleeping etc, for some reason – whether it be more server load or my internet connection (probably both), latency is causing my character to differ between screen position and actual position – I’ve actually been told I’m rubberbanding all over the puzzle by other people in there. I get teleported out when landing perfect jumps etc. I think if it was instanced it would at least aid my problem a little, with my terrible Australian internet. I guess I will just have to be happy with the single completion and forget about doing it on my alts :P

- Sincerely, Sad Panda.

Yeah, I’m not gonna jump to conclusions. Although if skins are going to be a dime a dozen now and sell for a few silver on TP, I’ll be getting rid of mine. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but I’m not gonna cry all over the forums if it does. It just won’t have a novelty factor anymore.

1. 1200 trap range traited.
2. Fixed Quickening Zephyr speed w/ Shortbow.
3. Faster projectile travel speed for all arrows. Hopefully eventually a fix for “Obstructed!” on clear LOS shots, too.
4. Enhanced Pet AI – (Making contact on moving targets, not standing at a halt 10m in front of you, permanent stow pet, F2 skill response, staying passive when using F2 for buffs/condition removal only, pets should DPS objects we attack too – like quaggan nodes, weapon racks etc)
5. Poison on Shortbow turned into a single target volley with ricochet or ground targeted aoe.
6. Greatsword, Shortbow, Longbow DPS. Possibly shortbow bleeds regardless of angle, like a warriors rifle.
7. More effective condition removal and team support.
8. 1H sword bugs fixed.
9. Making lots of traits less useless. Opening Strike comes to mind at the top of that list..

EDIT: I forgot about Entangle being unaffected by condition damage (bleeds for 42 per tick regardless of cond. dmg even though tooltip shows it calculated with condition dmg..) Needs to be fixed.

I’m allowed to dream

Hey, I know this isn’t representative of TC at all, just posting it FYI.
The blast wave is a treb shot.
EDIT: Dunno why the screenshot turned all weird up the top.

Woah, woah. I don’t hang out for a couple days and my thread gets locked.
The only thing I will post about the topic I completely missed is below.
You may find it.. relevant.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Blackgate-VS-Henge-VS-Eredon/first#post489246

Also, adding a score update.

“Twelve Hour Titans”
“Is the jump puzzle fixed yet?”
“Where is everyone??”
“What happened to the score??”

No queues – instant entry into all maps on Fort Aspenwood since about 5 hours after reset, outmanned buff on all maps for longer than 9 hours usually isn’t a great sign. Seems like we have a whole bunch of fair weather warriors, participation wise. Only the regulars are really using siege weapons or attempting to coordinate in /team. Doesn’t make it any less fun at all though, it’s been amazing! Some frantic defenses against Blackgate at west keep and at the same time TC golem rushing garrison in FA Borderlands today (I think we held Blackgate at the keep lord 3 times!), and then an epic battle for a measly tower in TC borderlands which we built 3 trebs on, TC eventually reclaimed it with a very impressive sized swarm of troops. Can’t wait for more!

Getting stomped everywhere now, sort of grasping at straws trying to keep whatever we can, as we have outmanned and insta queues in every map – FA has never really had an overnight presence at all. TC is either staying up reaaaaally late – or they have a much stronger “night” force than what showed up last match up, haha. Props to TC for the persistent battles, and to the small numbers of NA guys staying up to fight for FA – been great fun.

Score updated as requested.
Getting sandwiched between both teams in FA borderlands – really, really fun though.
No commanders left so it’s a bit of an unorganized rabble.

It is a culling issue. People have been complaining about it for weeks now. It doesn’t really matter how many players are in your vicinity. It can even happen 1v1. Here’s a tip – try stacking on top of each other and spamming aoe. He has to hit cloak and dagger on someone – and it has to be in melee range. Pretty simple – we have people do this to us all the time on FA but we just stack up and AOE. It always helps to learn the mechanics of the other professions if you are struggling.

Bad enough. None of the servers need transfers blowing this match out either :P

Score update please

Score update. Seems like a well-matched one this time as anticipated. Lots of fun.

I’m not in any of these servers and I find myself excited to see the outcome. Good luck to all and it ain’t over til the fat lady sings :P