Guild Wars 2

Oh, Deniara again, so great at dodging challenges and telling fairytales on the internet… I was waiting the entire week for you to reply to my challenge – nothing. Clever tactics to wait til close to reset before posting crap about Buka again… pathetic.

@ Ajaxx:

We field two fulltime mesmers (one of them just rejoined this week after having break from zerging on lower pop server). The others are just twinks.

You 5 man was heavily missed, Ajaxx (no joke). Start reactivating/recruiting, please.

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Thanks for bringing this up, Chiolas. Borderland jumping blobs are (imo) one of the main causes for zergy gameplay and karmatrain meta. People stop caring and upgrading their borderlands because the superior server will just merge all people available to build an unbeatable deathball and roll the maps step by step (hello vizunah and elona).

As soon as one borderland is recolored the deathball will move on, leaving a deserted borderland behind, nobody will stay behind to defend or upgrade, i mean its easier to stay with the blob and jump back one hour later and do the same again.

It just sucks out all the fun for servers who can`t compete numberwise and completely destroys any chance to at least defend one borderland properly. The fact alone that it gives huge advantages to the superior server should be reason enough to rethink this mechanic. Another zerg-favoring implementation that works against people splitting onto their borderlands somewhat equally.

Best regards.

@ Deniara:

Looking forward to the result of the discussion.

Your guild officer did indeed contact me and clarified that your opinion is neither representing the guilds official position, nor the opinion of their members, including him.

I highly respect his efforts to clean up your mess and there`s no feelings hurt on our side. I`d appreciate if you could stay on facts in future and keep your frustration and assumptions for yourself.

Thank you in advance and best regards.

All I see is a forum warrior trying to dodge my challenge…

Who is this mysterious Desolation player that knows exactly what gear we are wearing? Must`ve been a [TLA] player, I don`t know them, never see them, but apparently they know everything and give us beatings everyday…

No back up, just words on the forum, you`re a brave and great hero, Deniara!

Hua!

Deniara, I don`t know in what world you live in, but nobody except our shatter mesmers is running gc or berserker gear at all… where do you got your information from? I haven`t seen any [TLA] tag ever in this matchup, so either you just die before I notice or you are flat out spitting nonsense.

We die easily in small numbers? Against your blobs, maybe…

I challenge you to find some friends and have a 5vs5 (i mean, you [TLA] guys seem to be super awesome players and we die easily when we`re low on numbers, right?) vs [Buka] to prove your big mouth is backed up by skill and that you`re not just a kittenhurt forum warrior crying… Feel free to contact me.

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I do happily invite you to address me on the Kodash forums directly to discuss whatever you think is important to discuss.

Why do you think the public matchup thread is the place for your complaints? Do you really think Deso or Elona are interested in our internal issues, anyways?

And you really think, this is the place to discuss your issues? How old are you, dude?

The people who left were arguing on the same level as you do, they put themself with their whining in a position with no backup, so they desperately chose to take the easy way out.

End of story.

You are a funny little man, Dominik.

By the way, who are you? What`s your problem? Is your problem addressing me or the guild in general?

Tell me, who is it, that`s hurting your feelings, mate? It seems you feel hurt quite a lot, at least anough to backstab me on the forum and pull generalizations out of your kitten.

In case you have complaints about me or my guild why don`t you contact us directly, since we`re on the same server? How would you like me being as smart as you and pulling your guild through dirt just because I don`t like you?

Bring it on, bad boy.

@ MagnusLL:

Why do you act as if this was a phenomenon solely concerning Deso? Ask some Kodash BL commanders about their feelings, i`m confident you would identify similarities pretty soon.

But it seems I was right, your way past the point where you would consider not proving to anybody that you are the kid who got hurt the most. It`s ok, have fun complaining…

@ Deniara:

Thanks for lighting up the mood. I`m actually with you with most of your (always well-worded) complains, but it`s just too much.

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Pathetic attitude, MagnusLL. We are not in the same situation, never doubted that, but we are indeed in a similar situation: Mass exodus of guilds due to being locked for months as the weakest contender in unwinnable matchups…

But it`s ok, oh so poor Deso is a special little princess that deserves to cry the loudest. Please don`t bother arguing with me, you seem to feel very comfortable playing the victim, no point in discussing with such people.

True Deso fighting spirit! Hua!

I`m enjoying this matchup already a lot more than last week`s. A lot of roamers and people who like to fight, Piken was somewhat different, they prefer running and waiting for the odds being in their favor before considering to fight.

But please, could someone ask this Deniara guy to stop venting his frustration in each and every thread around? Kodash has been in quite a similar situation, past matchup information is accessible for anyone interested, but I don`t read nearly as much crying from the entire Kodash server compared to Deniara alone.

Thank you for your understanding and good luck & have fun.

Best regards

Unfortunately, for me personally, this has been one of the saddest weeks smallscale wise for some months. I expected a lot going into this, having fond memories of beautiful fights vs the tiptop smallscale Pikeneers from last year. TUP, Necr and the likes gave me the wvw experience I am (still) looking for.

Same for Augury Rock, after Arborstone crashed, Kodash had the pleasure to fight you guys and it was amzing. You had at least three very potent 5-10 mans roaming the maps, avoiding zergs, just looking for pvp-action. PRD (former Arborstone smallscale guild) leading the way with exceptional individual player quality.

This week totally lacked that, every attemp to find smallscale primetime is negated by massive lags, off primetime people just leave entire borderlands, instead merge into the biggest borderland jumping karmatrain possible and crush doors or smallscale groups stupid enough standing in their way. Ten minutes later the newly colored borderland will be completely deserted again, due to the jumping blob leaving to another borderland.

On the contrary, I want to show my utmost respect to the only exception to this serverwide phenomenon. To the piken guild called [TNTD] or something similar (apologize, i`m really bad with tags and names): You guys rock, you gave us amazing fights whenever we met you, you played smart but did not wait for and rely on overwhelming reinforcements – it was awesome.

My summary of this week:
Where did all the smallscalers go?

Best regards

Oh no, pikes prove they are pikes again… zerg the kitten out of the borderlands, then come to the forums and cry as loud as possible about the terrible, terrible blobbing of others.

Sorry to break it to you, piken square is just another zerg server. The special flavour piken had is long gone. The only thing left is a few diehard deniers who live in their own dreamworld and try as hard as possible to compensate with forum wars.

It`s been a long time since I`ve met a server with such low individual player quality as seen tonight. But I have to say, you guys are pretty good at running. The only exception tonight was GH, but thats not roaming, that`s monotag zergs crushing pugs. Well done.

On the contrary, Augury roamers seemed to have something called fighting spirit and actually tried to engage even against the odds.

Come on, Dawdler, keep on bragging…

Just passing by to express my appreciation for the exciting matchup we just had. I had tons of fun, met great and respectful players from both opposing servers and roaming action didn`t come short at all, surprisingly.

Here`s hope we`ll meet again someday, have fun and good luck!

You should face your own server, Junkpile. I`m confident it would make you eat your own words and cry for a change, national server or not.

I`m actually enjoying this matchup a lot, mainly thanks to BB fighting spirit and roaming groups.

Best regards

Shoutout to the power necro from BuLL, beautiful control, great player.

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Sorry Blackwyn, I cannot take you serious. Kodash has lots of decent roaming guilds with players willing to engage into almost any situation (FB, WdR, GC, NSG, Bots, Buka and I`m confident, there`s many more) if you would roam a lot on borderlands (EB is different) as you are saying, you would`ve met them already and I bet your tone would be entirely different.

So either you don`t roam a lot or you just picked the one incident were you happened to meet some world completionists, fair weather wvw`ers or simply bad players. During the past weeks was plenty of opportunity to meet the challenging guys. As I cannot find any of your posts mentioning this I`m still assuming you`re just talking crap.

You playing thief makes it also very easy for non-veteran players to just not feel able coping with your class. If you have mastered thief in wvw you shouldn`t die to anything below three experienced players. You can always hide and run if the fight does not go your way (I mained thief myself for a long time).

Keep us updated about the borderland you visit, I will make sure you won`t be disappointed in finding proper fights.

You`re pretty good at telling stories on the forum, Blackwyn. Would you mind adding your guild tag and class to the signature, so we can identify you and your fabulous achievements for SFR?

Eagerly awaiting to experience your heroic deeds first hand…

You are pretty good at making new friends, Knox, ha? No wonder, you seem to be all sunshine and roses.

You miss out on good roaming action, Wolfheart. I know, it may sound crazy, but this is the most intense matchup smallscale-wise for weeks at least.

Love your latest post, maeggle.

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I have to say, you guys from siN have shown the most honorable behaviour ingame of any guilds I have witnessed so far. Glad, that didn`t change since I met you guys last time. And I am not talking about GvG, just overall very sporty dudes.

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Well, they`re camping Kodash spawn on SFR BL`s. We don`t deserve your revenge, dudes.

Wow, BB spawncamping SFR BL with entire borderland pop and siege. Haven`t seen such a sad thing in a while. You [MMO] guys are brave heroes, indeed.

@ Sevenn:

You should learn reading german, today`s contributions to the german version of the matchup thread are quite enjoyable. Definitely worth a read, Zumy did a great job.

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To add something more positive, I`m absolutely enjoying this matchup so far, smallscale wise. Maybe it was just me getting lucky, finally, but I had tons of enjoyable smallscale engagements since saturday morning against both, BB and SFR.

Keep it up, guys, lovin it!

Yeah, sorry, I`m just a clueless pug and bought my game yesterday…

You could post more videos to make me understand all the subtile, but genius parts that make your play the skillful firework it is.

Hua!

Hmm, how to word it?

I`ve played BB many times since september, you had somewhat built up a server identity (lots of players, strong nightshift, gc gear, not as coordinated but very aggressive and very akin to the never give up, never surrender philosophy) that made you very likeable.

It seems since certain guilds came back to your server, Baruchos on the forum have a very flawed view of their own servers performance and/or try to belittle others just because they (the others) didn`t have the luck/opportunity to attract premade-guild groups.

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Right… same story for every server:" But…but we hate blobbing, we were just forced to by the other evil servers…"

I remember you guys from Blobbers Bay are pretty known for zerging, too. The only thing that changed are 2-3 mercenary guilds switching (back) to your server and suddenly every Barucho seems to think he evolved to a highly coordinated elite server…

Seriously?

I remember Sin being the humble and very friendly nightshift of BB when you startet, it seems you have succesfully catched up in being arrogant and spoiled brats bragging and insulting. Post more epic videos and press more “1” please, kursk. You might want to show this guild how real skills look like, ha?

You did impressively well, at least loving 50% of your tools and huge probs for highlighting the need for diversified wvw roles and identities apart from class and build. I seriously hope many people read this and just understand the shallowness of what we have now, compared to the endless depth through additional tools and progressing you scratched on.

My point about your reasoning was, that I feel changes to matchmaking and/or ingame tools won`t ever be able to handle the constant fluctuation of population (= server strength) enough to be sufficiently reliable. I agree, some of the tools you listed would certainly help and improve the wvw longterm experience hugely.

However, I feel, to manage matchup imbalances properly there is also need to implemented weighted point ticks according to the number of players active at that particular time.

I am an off-prime time player myself and I wouldn`t feel that my achievements are diminished, just because points are ticking slower, when there are less people online. I mean, it just is so much easier to cap and decap at night/off-primetime because even in (former) EU T1 there`s empty/almost empty borderlands. Why should my time spent at odd times playing have so much more impact in comparison (looking at the 1 week cycle), when I have literally less resistance.

Additionally, the splitting of WXP is just not handled correctly for any PvP Setting. I won`t go into this, but your first paragraph made it sound as if these issues were somewhat non-legit complaints.

Hope, I made my point a bit more clear. No offense, I`m still a big fan of your tool suggestions.

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Thank you for the honest, well worded reply, Snowstorm. Your perspective makes sense, I guess I just don`t enjoy enough being part of a big group to pull your excitement and feeling of challenge out of it.

See you on the battlefield, good luck & have fun!

Yeah, same issue here with you guys, I got hunted down and emoted at a few times (when fighting and dying outnumbered). Decided to let you taste your own medicine.

Usually we are known to heavily promote 1vs1 and sportmanship, it seems your guild tag and class was somewhat hindering you to get first hand experience. Feel free to signalize your concern ingame with /salute or simple jumping and Buka will usually sit down and watch the fight.

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@ Truebanana:

Well, your guild is a special case. After having discussions with one of your guildies my poor solo-roaming necro got hunted down, jumped on and laughed at by you guys 3vs1, 5vs1 for two consecutive days. Call it payback…

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@ Dominik:

Because the bland conquest mode of tpvp with almost 50% of the maps sucking heavily is just not what I expect from PvP. It is appealing, but not as much as Open-World-PvP with all the beautiful tactical options offered by open terrain and focus on actually killing enemy players…

I have absolutely no issues with big armies, with defending, point playing, etc. I love strategy. But I have issues with brain afk monotag zergers demanding everyone to cater to their style of play and hanging to the illusion it would be o-so-skillful PvP they are doing.

You`ll never find most of these guys in smaller groups where they have to actually prove their mechanical abilities, but you will find them here on the forums, crying about pugs, blobs, arrowcarts and whatever they feel the need to cry about if people choose to play the game differently (o the irony).

In what world do you live, where 20vs20 is considered smallscale? It is about a fourth of your own servers map population, thats not small by any means. The group control and ae restrictions suggest, that 5 mans is the optimal minimum setup (hint: minimum setup = small scale). However, combining these groups is absolutely legit, but not smallscale anymore, sorry.

@ Snowstorm:

But don`t you minimize the chances for fair/amazing fights the bigger your group gets? Not only because of the limitations of personal impact but also the (key-) point of finding proper groups to fight? Isn`t it illusionary to demand every matchup to provide a wide variety of equally sized guilds? Why not breaking up your monotag ball if there`s just nothing equal to fight (keep in mind 20 man is probably 1/4th of one servers whole borderland population)?

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After reading your first paragraph I disagreed with almost each of your reasons for putting up the list of tools. But as much as I dislike your reasons, I love the list of tools and the amount of thought that is put into.

Great list of additions, especially the part about diversified roles for experienced players according to their playstyle. Something like that was what I imagined will come, when they announced WXP Ranks. Sadly, they couldn`t afford you and implemented this zerg favouring monstrosity.

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Then our definition seems to differ quite a lot, at least our taste in movies does. Be like water, my friend.

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I was really impressed this morning with BB, I`ve met more people actually willing to fight smallscale than during the past 4 weeks with SFR. Less bragging, less hiding in big groups, but very aggressive – kudos!

You never see the so called pro SFR guilds run with less than 5 people, they just never dare to. Even off prime time, if their guild zerg is not raiding, they just merge into the largest blob possible on eternal brackets most of the time.

Special mentions to the BB engineer from [MMO], you know how to play, good show.

@ kursk: I watched it, but how is pressing 1 during every fight for minutes and either steamrolling or getting steamrolled considered “epic”?

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Funny seeing how Baruch evolved from most zergy server ever to tightly coordinated group of amazing megaskillers, all it needs is a few devoted forum warriors from beloved monotag-zergers to spit their nonsense everywhere…

Press more 1 please!!!

Hua!

I sincerely hope meeting you guys again, we certainly enjoyed the action.

Best regards

Don`t let me down, Wamgor. You were held in high regards on Kodash (and my guild), not just because of your play, even moreso because you didn`t rely on generalizations and insults just out of frustration. Well, it seems that changed in the meanwhile…

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I guess part of what Atoss meant, was that the vast majority of challenges tied to 25 man raids are organizational ones. Class & build setup, etc pp. But the executional part is very limited due to the number of participants involved (25 vs 25 = 50 people) in the fight and strict movement patterns to mitigate ae incoming (comparing it to smaller scale fights).

Thus, the challenge for the leader is quite huge, but it is very top down and less demanding for the ordinary footman, because the number of actions that need to be performed to win the fight is not as high as in fights with less people involved (constant re-priorization of focus targets, cd management, interrupts, blocks, stunbreakers, traveling skills, etc.).

I do admire potent raid leaders for their ability to plan and organize so many guys into a well coordinated team but as I said before, I feel like these are the same organizational challenges PvE-raids are facing. The individual player`s mechanics, apm and overall decisionmaking capabilites are not as important, even if they still make a difference.

Anyways, have fun and good luck!

The guys from this certain guild do this since the Elona matchup, have been reported and flamed like almost every day by the whole map population of Kodash as they do cheat very openly. That they haven`t been banned yet, is solely Anets fault, don`t blame the server, we`re reporting this guild like every day…

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…Damage…
…More Damage…
…Vashury…

Hahaha!

You forgot to add the ultimate one, mate:

…Mojo Monkey Man…

Yeah, I wasn`t serious, well the part about PRD was, probably some of the best players I`ve met in GW2. It was more about countering his backstabbing while not even knowing the class I am playing now.

No, I was just responding in the same way you did, immature and insulting. See what I did there?

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Yeah, I am quite sure the top elite uber hardcore zergers from option can tell crazy stories about skill, bring it on I am eagerly awaiting your insights, Imacop.

Just yesterday I was visiting SFR forum and accidentially stumbled upon your recruitment thread – how many times did you use the word “hardcore” to describe your guilds agenda? Was it five or six times? I had a good laugh…

If you want learn something about playerskill, try to recruit some of the french PRD guys, they actually could teach you guys to be a bit more hardcore.

I play necro, but nice try, Junkpile. Do you need some attention or just business as usual, empty words without backup?

Thanks for the mature reply, Aikanaro. No sarcasm.

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To sum up Aikanaro:

-I am so stronk because I always walk with my 24 guild buddies!
-I am so stronk because I can tell 24 people to stay close to me!
-I am so stronk because we actually manage to stack might and classes!

Dude, you don`t know what fun you miss out on, just riding the zerg wave… and yeah… RG… what can I say, well coordinated zerging guild but match them vs any decent small scalers and they will fall like flies (equal numbers given)… been there, seen it numerous times when they happened to be on servers Kodash fought against.

Again, no insult, just my personal observation.

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