Guild Wars 2

To the [RE] Guild in Kaineng, I have great admiration for the coordination and organization you guys always put together. The best experience and fighting I get in Eternal Battlegrounds is from your Guild hands down. I wish it were so easy on Maguuma to say that I had a full “Guild Zerg” running around bulldozing things but for us Maguumas, our zerg when you fight it consists of at best a 50-50 diffrerence between pugs and the mixture of WvW Guilds. I hope that you still enjoy the fights. I would have to say that Saturday (5/4) in the mid-afternoon before we abandoned Eternal Battlegrounds to take East Keep, we had a very healthy even exchange of wins – losses but you guys seemed to really get kitten off and leave after we beat you at the grub. Also, thank you to JudgeD for the compliments, that was me and the Maguuman Army! I look forward to fighting you more in the future, I have been working diligently to get the non-guild players or new-guild players to work on their coordination, builds, etc.

To the [RAM] and [CL] Guilds of Yaks Bend. I also want to say that you are my second favorite opponent in Eternal Battlegrounds. We had an epic 10-15 minute battle last night at umberglade camp, I was so stoked when we held it (since it was fully upgraded) haha it was the best victory in weeks! You guys also do really good things with your zergs, even splitting them sometimes to do dual-pronged attacks. Very nice play I hope we can have more battles with the same intensity down the road, or join Maguuma so I have more Eternal Battlegrounds-based guilds to work with and wreck others with. On a side note, yesterdays exchanges versus you were more lopsided in our favor, it was very funny how you guys sat on that rock between umber and bravost expecting me to attack. I just ran my zerg back and forth and you guys sat there for at least 10 minutes watching. It seems that after you guys lost battle after battle you eventually all booked it out of Eternal Battlegrounds because it immediately became outmanned. I wish you would have stayed just for the epic fights. Nice job catching us off-guard at Mendons I asked for a scout, turned around and was like “INC!!!” but there wasnt time for my pugs to move, so it was an inevitable loss (but I did survive, yay). I hope you stick around longer next time just for the fun we could have in even more Zerg verus Zerg battles. Take care!

Final thoughts, great jobs [RE], [RAM], and [CL] Guilds you’re my favorite to battle. Stop bashing your own community those of you who speak for Eternal Battlegrounds but are never in it… and stop with this arrow cart nonsense we all use them! But seriously East Keep was near impossible to take yesterday.

Cheers! [WäR]Zero Xcel, Main Eternal Battlegrounds Commander – Maguuma

First, let me introduce myself, I am [WäR]Zero Xcel from the Guild Wärband of Absolute Retribution. My current rank in WvW is that of a “Maguuma Veteran”. As of the past three and 1/2 months, I have spent my time as the main Eternal Battlegrounds Commander for Maguuma. So I am going to clear up a lot of fallacies about this thread right now.

The idea that Eternal Battlegrounds in Maguuma has 90% pugs is false. I would estimate the number to be between 50-70% pugs in most situations. Obviously the primetime hours are different, the key thing to remember is… it just DEPENDS. Even so, unlike Kaineng or Yaks Bend, I never have a moment where I can rely on/command what I call “Guild Zergs.” Im not complaining, im pointing out the current situation on Eternal Battlegrounds. Maguuma’s zerg during its peak hours generally consists of a mixture of many WvW Guilds and pugs. With the pugs outnumbering us by varying degrees but not to levels that “generally” cannot be overcome with good communication and morale boosting. Also, the fact that I consistently see in these threads my own Maguuma allies saying that Eternal Battlegrounds has no skill and this and that is so ridiculous.

I am the only commander who pulled an all-nighter to take back everything Kaineng had taken from us after RESET night. We had +10 at one point and when I got on we held only NW tower of our Borderlands and NN camp. If it wasnt for me, and the dedicated Maguumans who followed me yesterday (Saturday 5/4) we would not have taken back our borderlands, especially East Keep (yes that was me in that omega golem knocking down the walls) and we would not have reclaimed all of our things in Eternal Battlegrounds, to include Stonemist (I was so delighted to take that waypoint from you Kaineng!). I am annoyed up to the highest levels with the borderlands bashing their Eternal Battlegrounds force. Why don’t you guys get it right, since I didnt see any main commanders from the Borderlands doing what they should have done to help out yesterday at all so I could focus on Eternal Battlegrounds or help them in Maguuma Borderlands and then move over after we reclaimed everything (and if you were you didn’t communicate it to anyone in the community Mumble…). Additionally, most of the active players yesterday were from Eternal Battlegrounds not Maguuma Borderlands, especially in the early part of the day when we needed it most. The only commander I can give credit to yesterday is [PYRO]Sabrina As Sorcerer, kitten Stealth Snake, [iLL]Apeqx Predator, [TyE]Theiving Sob, and a few others (I apologize for not remembering) who I asked not to turn their tags on who are Eternal Battlegrounds commanders. Thank you for working with me and coordinating all day so we could restore the waypoints @ Garrison, East Keep, and West Keep, and the commanders who were in mumble who I asked not to turn their tags on. (None of the above commanders were online when I reclaimed Eternal Battlegrounds and me and my fellow Maguumans restored Eternal’s Keep, and took Stonemist), at that point it was just me and the die hard Maguumans. In summation, the purpose for this whole section is to say that those of you who are die hard Borderlands veterans shouldnt bash on part of your own community of players, were all a team and sometimes we pick up the slack for you.

I think you’ll be fine in tier 2, but that’s why I told Raw Noodles I thought they played phenomenal even though we won the battles (2 of the 3, first at NW Tower then at North gate of East Keep, but they won the third battle inside EK outer when they dropped traps at northwest portal door and we pushed inside) somehow all those RE guys maintained discipline when it was 2 to 1 odds (referring to the NW Tower battle), (after a portion of their guys died, probably their puggies) and RE survived for like 5 minutes and stayed very well bunched up on the commander. I was impressed it reminded me of watching a pro GvG group from GW1. Had RE jumped off NW Tower cliff towards WK they probably would have survived. My hats off to your guilds micro and coordination.

EnRohbi.2187:

deracs.1762:

Calvin.5380:

deracs.1762:

Thursday a.m. pretty much sums up T3 for the last 2 months. DB owns 95% of the maps, and yet they still have 30+ in EB, with 15+ siege, camping the spawn point. This is what T3 is right now, and is simply sad

You should login around 7-11PM EST, if possible. You’ll see lots of exciting, even matches during that time.

This was true for a while. Now sadly even this is no longer true. Logged into EB at 9pm EST last night and we had the outmanned buff. It used to be as you said, good fights, even numbers on a couple maps, but I think at least for YB people have just given up for now.
Going from the occasional EB que during our prime time to having the outmanned buff every night now, kind of tells the tale

I wish this wasn’t the reality of the situation.
This is one of the reasons why tiers become imbalanced,
People on the losing servers just resign themselves to a loss and don’t even bother trying.

Then the first place servers wins by a more inflated margin every week because the other servers don’t put out their full forces ever, and less over time.

The reason EBG had outmanned was because I took everyone from EBG to MAG BL to take our stuff back and once we recovered in EBG we came back, you logged in at an unlucky time, our MAG BL Maguumans called for aid because the RE and WAR guilds from DB were hitting East Keep ( and other areas ).

Yes maguuma dominance is from 6PM EST- 3AM EST, after that all our base belong to DB

FalconOSeven.2364:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

FalconOSeven.2364:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

povV.5681:

score update 10:30 pst

Haha you may have destroyed some golems intended for DB Keep but you didn’t show the forums the picture of your entire Zerg getting wiped in the process. What a misleading image at least show multiple images to tell the whole story, by the way thanks for all the loot it was fun killing you and DB multiple times in a 3 way battle near golanta, it was an epic 30 mins of battle.

Sigh, this is why I don’t post on the forums very much. When someone calls a group of 10~ a zerg and chase them all the way across the map with 40+ and says we got wiped at golanta I just facepalm.

That’s a complete fallacy I’d agree that we had around 50 people in our Zerg + or – 5, but you (YB) also had 50 + people on the rock in between golanta and klovan, you’re Zerg rushed the golems, destroyed most of them and then you all got killed, please do not fabricate what actually happened.

There are like 15 people in the picture I took so I’m done here. That’s how many we had so have fun with whatever you think in your own mind.

Yes because there were people higher up on the rock (outside the photo).. You must not have been there or you’d have known that.

Loki.4139:

Maguuma can only play mesmer? haha XD

Awe this must be your way of saying you admire our portal bombing skills.

FalconOSeven.2364:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

povV.5681:

score update 10:30 pst

Haha you may have destroyed some golems intended for DB Keep but you didn’t show the forums the picture of your entire Zerg getting wiped in the process. What a misleading image at least show multiple images to tell the whole story, by the way thanks for all the loot it was fun killing you and DB multiple times in a 3 way battle near golanta, it was an epic 30 mins of battle.

Sigh, this is why I don’t post on the forums very much. When someone calls a group of 10~ a zerg and chase them all the way across the map with 40+ and says we got wiped at golanta I just facepalm.

That’s a complete fallacy I’d agree that we had around 50 people in our Zerg + or – 5, but you (YB) also had 40 + people on the rock in between golanta and klovan, you’re Zerg rushed the golems, destroyed most of them and then you all got killed, please do not fabricate what actually happened. That was pretty crazy that you guys intercepted us like that we really wanted DB keep, me (Zero Xcel) and Sabrina as Sorcerer were like darn Yaks ruined the golem rush!

Slomoshun.6317:

Pendragon.8735:

Icelut.3509:

Looking forward to next week’s matchup. Had enough of DB zergs. I am a member of a small roaming guild and when our group (3 – 5) people take a camp we get swarmed by 30+ DB its ridiculous. How is it fun to run with a zerg button mashing just trying to get a hit in before the target dies. I would like to see more DB roaming groups so we could get some good fights going. zerg vs 5 can’t be fun for either side.

Eager to see if Kaineng’s PvDoor crew could be any worse than DBs. Doubtful. Last few days is keep trading at its worst. DB doesn’t sweep anything, nor defend anything. Entire zergs run right out doors past opponent siege left over in eyesight of their walls, not a single person looks down the wall to see it. I guess confident in running the stuff back over when it gets ninjaed behind them. Not sure why they even bother to fight upon seeing the opponent, might as well just wave and pass on by to continue the muscial keep trading.

WvW loses any semblance of PvP at that point, reminds me of Warhammer at its worst. So yeah, we can hope next week brings improvement.

Once we get a comfortable 100k lead, whats the point of defending..

Plus, everyone is eager to get those much needed ranks(sarcasm). They would rather run with a zerg than set up and defend or wait for attackers.

I agree with you ^ that’s why we just try to Zerg battle you DB guys, the race for first was over as of Sunday haha.

Strippling.3524:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

mrstealth.6701:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

The only time YB & DB find success against us in EBG is when they hold a numbers advantage too great to overcome in almost all cases. I also find it comical that these two servers are so interconnected that they double team us constantly, infiltrate our voice communication software (mumble), and they still can’t dominate us in EBG until we all log off. Keep up the noob work and cheating..

I’ll have to start reading these threads more often….don’t want to miss anything this entertaining.

I don’t recall any secret alliances with DB, nor any info leaking into our comms from yours. Same with that “numbers advantage”…I find myself thinking that pretty much every time I see your [WaR] fight us. Far larger numbers hitting us while we are sieging something or distracted with DB.

[WaR] has been one of the more difficult to deal with forces from Mag, but that also applies to a few other guilds from both servers that are fielding zergs larger than our on-map forces. However, I would like to have your 3ft leash to keep all of our pug followers glued to us commanders…but that’s much less useful when you are outnumbered to a point where it makes you easier targets instead of abusing the 5-target AoE limit.

Well it’s true that when you start to mobilize a large force I focus your server because its us and you who’s fighting for 2nd place. Also if I’m in your section then your more compelled to defend which is good for us. DB always hits us strategically as we move on you guys though I look at the minimap and it’s like well there go the swords @ Dane and Quentin again .. I get where you’re coming from regarding the pugs, trust me I have to work like crazy to keep the pugs together and I rely on the players who I communicate with over voice to also help manage the pugs, it wouldn’t be possible to manage them without applying those two two things and having good mumble EBG players.

How come you guys in YB are so strong on the reset weekends and then your momentum seems to dwindle along with your overall number of fielded players per map? If you guys were able to maintain your weekend strength I think our scores would stay tighter throughout the week

Fair weathers. If they participated more throughout the week we would be the same server that spanked DB NA crew during DB/SOS/YB matches

That’s too bad, I wish they stayed active it would give us and DB a more realistic portrayal of your actual potential. I enjoy the weekend battles.

mrstealth.6701:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

The only time YB & DB find success against us in EBG is when they hold a numbers advantage too great to overcome in almost all cases. I also find it comical that these two servers are so interconnected that they double team us constantly, infiltrate our voice communication software (mumble), and they still can’t dominate us in EBG until we all log off. Keep up the noob work and cheating..

I’ll have to start reading these threads more often….don’t want to miss anything this entertaining.

I don’t recall any secret alliances with DB, nor any info leaking into our comms from yours. Same with that “numbers advantage”…I find myself thinking that pretty much every time I see your [WaR] fight us. Far larger numbers hitting us while we are sieging something or distracted with DB.

[WaR] has been one of the more difficult to deal with forces from Mag, but that also applies to a few other guilds from both servers that are fielding zergs larger than our on-map forces. However, I would like to have your 3ft leash to keep all of our pug followers glued to us commanders…but that’s much less useful when you are outnumbered to a point where it makes you easier targets instead of abusing the 5-target AoE limit.

Well it’s true that when you start to mobilize a large force I focus your server because its us and you who’s fighting for 2nd place. Also if I’m in your section then your more compelled to defend which is good for us. DB always hits us strategically as we move on you guys though I look at the minimap and it’s like well there go the swords @ Dane and Quentin again .. I get where you’re coming from regarding the pugs, trust me I have to work like crazy to keep the pugs together and I rely on the players who I communicate with over voice to also help manage the pugs, it wouldn’t be possible to manage them without applying those two two things and having good mumble EBG players.

How come you guys in YB are so strong on the reset weekends and then your momentum seems to dwindle along with your overall number of fielded players per map? If you guys were able to maintain your weekend strength I think our scores would stay tighter throughout the week

GabGar.4962:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

I know DB felt some pain tonight from the EBG maguuma crew haha, what did you think!?

Not at all, you wiped over and over and do nothing in the map, so no

The purpose was to defeat you in Zerg versus Zerg your server (DB) will always PvD during Maguuma downtime so I have accepted this as the nature of the matchup. I only would work diligently on those things if it was worthwhile. We kept your forward-most towers paper I think that’s good enough. Our concern is placing 2nd.

I know DB felt some pain tonight from the EBG maguuma crew haha, what did you think!?

jaycatano.6738:

Not adding to what Momento is saying since I (and most others in our guild) do not go into EB, I just want to say that we have nothing against any other guild and definitely nothing against Warsworn. We do however attack any other WAR guilds on sight no matter what server they are on, we have done it multiple times and sometimes will run through zergs in a fight to get to the WAR members, it gives us something to do lol. Its all in good fun, good fights all around though i’m enjoying the duels i’m having with yaks and db, hope we can get a fight club going tomorrow night.

I agree jay. Much better said than how I stated it. It’s a for fun thing not vendetta based.

Evo Nightcrawler.1902:

[RE] would like to thank all Yaks and Maguuma players for the crazy fights tonight. Keep it up!

Our battle @ NW tower in mag BL was awesome. I was impressed by your organization and survivability. Definitely the most disciplined play I have ever seen in WvW.

povV.5681:

score update 10:30 pst

Haha you may have destroyed some golems intended for DB Keep but you didn’t show the forums the picture of your entire Zerg getting wiped in the process. What a misleading image at least show multiple images to tell the whole story, by the way thanks for all the loot it was fun killing you and DB multiple times in a 3 way battle near golanta, it was an epic 30 mins of battle.

povV.5681:

score update 10:30 pst

Yay thanks for posting a complete picture we actually got it to 395 before I got off. Everyone played well tonight

GabGar.4962:

NA Prime time and DB is winning, for those who say that DB only wins because the oceanic crew.

I like how you don’t show the current potential points which is what we have to refer to at this point, considering we’re in the running for second against YB.

You must understand this WaR vs WAR rivalry is merely based upon the name similarity, not anything else, but of course I’m going to “gun” for your guild when I see your players.

thenoobler.7540:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

thenoobler.7540:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

While that may have been true by a margin of no more than +15 points DB did not have a foothold on EBG or MAG BL in our respective areas. In fact your Zerg kept running into the dredge or towards anzalias because you were afraid to engage us.

I remember holding Quentin Lake against zerg after zerg of MAG’s. from 8:30 to around 9:30 EST last night. 2 walls down, plus the front gate and you guys were still dispensing loot bags and not getting any where near across the bridge to the lords room. Quentin Lake is in MAG’s 1/3’rd of the EB map btw.

I wasn’t on from 8-9:15 EST (NA). I had to run an errand so I cannot speak to that. You guys did treb QL & Durios from SM so I’m inclined to believe you. Well done then you guys have made strong holds inside QL in the past I will give you credit for that. Once you guys put ballistas and arrow carts in QL it’s tough to defeat y’all without portal bombing.

Oh that’s why we held it for an hour against a near constant zerg of MAG’s.

YOU had to take a break.

I shouldda known.

The fake WAR guild would never have held if the real one wasn’t taking a 1 hour break specifically during the exact one hour we held the keep farming MAG loot bags.

Thnxs, I was confused there for a bit.

I never said you wouldn’t have achieved the same results… I was just being honest with you that I wasn’t there so I can’t comment for or against your claim.

Hahahhaha this is so funny, I’m just getting a laugh out of you guys now and no I was referring to the WAR guild in DB. I have no opinion of any others.

thenoobler.7540:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

While that may have been true by a margin of no more than +15 points DB did not have a foothold on EBG or MAG BL in our respective areas. In fact your Zerg kept running into the dredge or towards anzalias because you were afraid to engage us.

I remember holding Quentin Lake against zerg after zerg of MAG’s. from 8:30 to around 9:30 EST last night. 2 walls down, plus the front gate and you guys were still dispensing loot bags and not getting any where near across the bridge to the lords room. Quentin Lake is in MAG’s 1/3’rd of the EB map btw.

I wasn’t on from 8-9:15 EST (NA). I had to run an errand so I cannot speak to that. You guys did treb QL & Durios from SM so I’m inclined to believe you. Well done then you guys have made strong holds inside QL in the past I will give you credit for that. Once you guys put ballistas and arrow carts in QL it’s tough to defeat y’all without portal bombing.

Insulting is not “simply replying” it’s replying with a negative, emotional-based response. Either way I said my piece, what I said was factual, so woohoo! I’m glad you took the conversation in a different direction, this discussion subsequent to my posting was starting to become monotonous (dull, repetitious).

Kubb.9764:

MomentofWeakness.1246:

Oh were the real WäR guild….

I would re read your ‘rethreaded’ post before saying its to get the voices heard lol

It was retreaded because it was posted in the wrong forum thread, not because I feel like repeating myself..

Not really for me I just wanted the EBG Maguumans to “have their voices heard” and get some credit. They do good things, and I want them to be recognized. Seems as though its working so far.

nightfend.4072:

Mag has always had very strong North American evening coverage. In fact I’d say it is tier 2 level coverage during that time period. The problem Mag has is they just do not have that coverage for the rest of the day.

So does boasting that you are winning battles during your strongest time period really mean anything?

Sure I agree but our EBG is 90% puggies, so yes it does. Many people on here say MAG EBG is horrible when during our main hours we are a force to be reckoned with. It is as you stated “coverage” that is the crux of our server. I have no problem boasting about it I told you I was prideful and your servers also boast their accolades/victories.

Gellor.6497:

I didn’t mean to come off harsh Weakness, just thought you were chest thumping to an old thread. I apologize for being an kitten.

You didn’t man I am saying thank you for pointing me to the correct forum, I am writing from an iPhone and didn’t take note of the title, I just felt compelled to respond. You were a acting as a forum admin, and you directed me to the correct and most current thread. I appreciate it.

Ah, that much we can agree on. It is true that I am only sharing what I observed. I wouldn’t recommend talking out of your (fill in the blank) it causes you to lose credibility. Unfortunately prior to this posting you weren’t just imagining, you were in fact, making false claims. Additionally I’m a prideful Maguuman so expect me to make known your servers weaknesses as you do ours when it is warranted.

Elano.2014 Based on your responses it appears you weren’t even there last night, if you were you would have more insightful responses that actually had bearing to what I am saying.

Elano.2014:

If Mag is focusing on YB, DB can either hit YB as well and take easy points (since YB were focusing on Mag as well), or hit Mag and take easy points (since Mag has little to no defenders). I’d say both tactics are equally adequate and DB can make any choice.

Does it mean you’re afraid of DB when you’re focusing on YB? Probably not. Exactly my point. Plus, why would someone be afraid of something on teh Intrawebz? :O

Edit: No one knows if you’re the real WäR guild lol, and I’ve seen lots of WAR guilds on pretty much every server we’ve faced.

Oh were the real WäR guild…. and to respond to your statement, we were above speldan on the cliff between speldan and mendons and your zerg didnt hit our section you ran back to anzalias/dredge (this happened more than one time in the same night) and didnt attack anything, so yes that warrants being called scared.. now sure if you had hit something in our section that would be a plausible strategic move but simply doing nothing leads me to believe you were indecisive because you lacked the confidence to attack.

Thank you Gellor.6497 for the correction^

Now to rethread my message from 4/12 to this forum, even though it applies to all the weeks..

I dont agree that MAG’s worst map is EBG, when I am in EBG commanding we are able to hold and fortify our section as well as pressure YB & DB. I have stolen SM and adjacent towers numerous times from them and I have even gotten into DB’s keep more than once making them freakout and pull from their BL’s. While I can agree that overall we are severely lacking in EBG because of coverage and few known commanders going in there and leading, during those hours that I am commanding (as well as a very small number of other commanders, for example Xushin) we annihilate YB & DB. I have been told that as soon as I log we lose everything which is unfortunate but that is the nature of this matchup I suppose. Also, in EBG the YB & DB zergs suck at open field combat, they run from our zerg more than they engage us, while some may say who cares cause most puggies go to EBG, this applies for MAG as well so coordinate your puggies better! Almost all voice-communicating MAG players are in the BL. The only time YB & DB find success against us in EBG is when they hold a numbers advantage too great to overcome in almost all cases. I also find it comical that these two servers are so interconnected that they double team us constantly, infiltrate our voice communication software (mumble), and they still can’t dominate us in EBG until we all log off. Keep up the noob work and cheating.. YB & DB I love wiping your zergs and getting all the loot, your lack of skill in combat funds my commanding operations.

-Commander Zero Xcel, WäR Guild

P.S. the DB “WAR” guild is not impressive I hope you like getting destroyed by the real WäR Guild

Note: Granted I am the only constant EBG commander. When MAG is smashing you from 7-12 EST (NA) that’s me. I’ve went from recruit to colonel just from killing you two over and over.

I will see you tonight, looking forward to it..

Not really^ you know were engaging YB so its a perfect time to hit us while were focusing YB, its just being afraid to do so. I am aware that its a 3 server game.

While that may have been true by a margin of no more than +15 points DB did not have a foothold on EBG or MAG BL in our respective areas. In fact your Zerg kept running into the dredge or towards anzalias because you were afraid to engage us.

YB will lose again to us in MAG just like they have every other week. Once we start to pull ahead they never seem to be able to recover. YB is very strong on reset weekend but from Monday forward they slowly decline. I hope you guys from YB & DB liked getting owned in EBG last night in Zerg versus Zerg battles from 8-12 EST (NA). Especially you YB, does Mendons ring a bell?!?! Thanks again for all the loot.

-Commander Zero Xcel, WaR Guild

GW2 is supposed to be about options and flexibility to play your own way. This principle should apply to the daily and monthly achievements which are a core part of GW2 currently.

I have seen numerous interviews where GW2 employees explain that they want the game to be something where we can spend hours upon end in the game or log-in as we please/are able to and still share near-similar experiences. Obviously time in = things earned but for certain things I know that GW2 focused on minimizing this truth. For instance, there are always events going on in GW2 which allows people to log on and instantaneously be able to participate with others in an event. The same is true for WvW, PvP, and many other features in GW2. Sure certain things like legendary items require extensive time in the game but rightfully so. To return to my premise for this whole posting I think that the GW2 daily achievements should be based upon a different model than the current one. The Daily should not require players to log in every day. This goes against the very fundamentals the game was built upon. By forcing players to get online daily to earn their laurels they take away the opportunity from people who cannot log in every day to earn the same amount of laurels in a months time as people who are able to get on every day. This ruins the experience for people like myself who wish they could put the time in to earn their laurels when they are able to game (like the weekend for instance). But, in order to earn these currently I have to log in every single day. For many people this is not only not possible, it is not plausible, I myself am an active duty military member, a full time college student, and a man with a family. I cannot devote that much time to my games during the week. Even so, I love GW2 and I put many hours into the game. So whats the solution? If it were up to me I would use a different model for daily’s almost altogether. Here’s how I would do it. First if we used April which has 30 days in it as the example, I would take the current requirement of 5 daily achievements for one laurel and multiply that by the number of days in the month. So for April this comes out to 30 days x 5 achievements per day = 150 achievements total. So in order to earn all 30 laurels I have to do 150 daily achievements for the month of April. This is true in the current system. So how would I change it? Rather than force a daily log-on process to earn the 30 laurels I think it should just give you 1 laurel per 5 daily achievements completed. This way if a person who gets less time in per week wants to earn all their laurels they can, they just have to put in the equal amount of work that someone who spread it out during the week did in a more condensed fashion. This creates greater balance for all players in the game and further promotes accessibility to the Daily achievement model. So where does the monthly come in? To be honest I am surprised at how easy it is to earn monthly achievements currently. Rather than use the current system I would require each player to do all the daily achievements for the month in order to earn the monthly achievement. This makes more sense anyways if you think about it, how can you log-in 4 times in a month and get a monthly when you hardly did the daily achievements? Finally, I would keep the monthly achievements at 10. So if we used April as an example, you would earn 1 laurel per 5 daily achievements completed and you would earn 10 laurels for your monthly achievement. The amount of daily achievements is based upon how many days there are in that particular month and in order to earn the monthly achievement you must earn all the daily achievements necessary for full completion for that particular month. This would allow for a minimum of 38 laurels per month to a maximum of 41 laurels per month. What do you guys think about this idea?

Part II.

3. Greater Quantity of Skills- Even if ArenaNet wants to hold off on the first two (2) features, they should add more skills to each character class. Currently if you choose a weapon type you are limited to the skills within that weapon type. In Guild Wars 1 there was a lot of flexibility with skill selection and having this variety absent from Guild Wars 2 just sucks. ArenaNet could vastly revive Guild Wars 2 with a whole host of new skills. This would improve competition, allow for new builds and provide more variety in PvE, PvP, and WvW. After all, at the core of this game is the combat and your skill selection. While I do like the Skill Point design which causes players to have to earn their Utility Skills, there should be more of them and every weapon should have double their current skill selection. Obviously this would be a time consuming project and a complete overhaul of the current game but it is probably the easiest thing they could add to the game in terms of the overall idea. Every main-handed single hand weapon should have six (6) skills not three (3), every off handed weapon should have four (4) skills not two (2), and every two handed weapon should have ten (10) skills not five (5). Also, since you can place a sigil on the main hand and off hand weapon and gain your stacks twice (2x) as fast, two handed weapons should be allowed to have two (2) sigils as well to balance the game, currently if you use a one hand, off hand combination you get your stacks in twelve point five (12.5) kills versus a player using a two handed weapon having to kill twenty five (25) enemies to achieve the same stack count. This same principle would apply for healing skills so for your heal skill there should be eight (8), not four. For utility skills there should be twice (2x) as many for each utility skill type, so instead of twenty two (22) total skills there should be fourty-four (44). Finally, there should be twelve (12) elite skills not six (6). This kind of innovation would take a long time for ArenaNet and if they were to undertake this kind of project we as a community should be patient but they could also release this kind of project out in chunks. For example, they could do all the weapons skills additions for each class first and then add the new utility skills second. This way people can have a little taste of what ArenaNets overall implementation is going to be in segmented sections and it gives ArenaNet the ability to release things in smaller chunks, reducing the immediate workload and allowing for greater focus on each section of the project.

These are my current thoughts on features that should be in the game from Guild Wars 1, into Guild Wars 2, I hope someone in ArenaNet sees this….

Part I.

Guild Wars 2 has many new innovations and overall I enjoy the game. The things I miss the most from Guild Wars 1 are Guild Halls, Guild versus Guild (GvG), and the greater quantity of skills that were available to each profession within the game.

1. Guild Halls- Guild Halls were such an important feature in Guild Wars 1, they allowed for a greater sense of communitu within guilds and the game in general. Guild Halls also allowed Guilds to have a place to rally at for events and other things. After all, the name of the game is Guild Wars, but in Guild Wars 2 there are no Guild Halls, or Guilds having a war with one another, at least not in the direct and illustrated way they were in Guild Wars 1. I can understand ArenaNet taking their time with things, I am sure they are very busy but this should be a priority for them since the game doesnt really fit the description without having Guild Halls and overwhelming Guild-based features.

2. Guild versus Guild (GvG)- This was the pinnacle of Guild Wars 1 and it fueled this games eSports presence in the past. Not having Guild versus Guild in Guild Wars 2 is just wrong. It may take time to create and polish but it should be in the game by the end of 2013. It is too bad that we do not have the ability to watch matches that were taking place between Guilds like in Guild Wars 1, it was a great way to learn new builds, watch epic battles and even approach Guilds to become a member. Additionally, as far as implementation goes, all ArenaNet needs to do is create a match-list where Guilds can play against any other Guild from another server in a Guild versus Guild matchup, and keep the game modes the same as Guild Wars 1. I do not agree with what some other people have said in the past that we need to have a massive server sized guild to accomplish Guild versus Guild in Guild Wars 2, we just need every Guild that is created (on any server) to have the ability to access a cross-server match-list that any Guild can have their members Player versus Player (PvP) in through a Guild versus Guild (GvG) style matchup, and if two Guilds are part of the same server, they cannot play each other but rather, they can play against any guild from any other server. As for scoring, you could tally up points based on Guild versus Guild activity and Wins versus Losses, or some other variant.