Guild Wars 2

Luvpie.8350:

Nuzt.7894:

I wouldn’t want to be the Dev’s if the account bound is pertaining to weapons instead of Wxp, or if there is none of the WvW based updates we’ve been waiting for. If they release all this stuff and ignore the two things we have asked for they forums are going to light up, it will make our worst days look like sunshine and rainbows.

if they added account bound legendaries and dyes and no wxp… grab your popcorn!

Exactly, forums bans will incresase 1000% that day.

I wouldn’t want to be the Dev’s if the account bound is pertaining to weapons instead of Wxp, or if there is none of the WvW based updates we’ve been waiting for. If they release all this stuff and ignore the two things we have asked for they forums are going to light up, it will make our worst days look like sunshine and rainbows.

Xenesis.6389:

One features release patch on the 15th, they will be discussing parts of it in their ready up every week until then. I don’t see mentions of commander tag or account wxp, and if they are coming in that patch but holding back announcing those at this point they’re skitten.

They give a date for each Blog entry so we will know more within the next week or so.

Could be, I’m just guessing what each one is, I have no solid proof of anything. I can say though if its Dyes and we dont see Comm changes they are going to have a riot on their hands.

sminkiottone.6972:

Nuzt.7894:

Keep in mind that is when they release the Blog not the content.

ArenaNet is excited to announce our first release that focuses exclusively on in-game features: the April 2014 Feature Pack, which hits Guild Wars 2 on April 15!

Missed that part, good to know. This is Anet though so does that mean they will start releasing on the 15th or release everything on the 15th ? Looks like if its everything which it seems how it is worded we will see Accound Bound Wxp and Comm Changes during Season 2.

Keep in mind that is when they release the Blog not the content.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-april-2014-feature-pack/

While the traits look like a warm welcome, I see down the list A Colorful Outlook (assuming Commander Tag) and Account Bound (assuming Wxp) which means we won’t see them in the near future. So to answer all the questions, the reason they haven’t implemented either is because they wanted to save it for this “Feature Pack” so they can make the Pack look Beefy.

It’s my opinion that this just might be to little to late, time will tell.

I’m assuming they are saving it for the Featured content starting in april, account bound is mid way down the list so I’m assuming thats our Wxp which means not until after season 2.

Some of the featured updates look interesting, but many of them should have already been implemented. I’m thinking its going to be a case of to little to late for Anet.

Love our GoM friends, we will see you guys on the field.

Great people on GoM, can’t wait to get a crack at you during seasons the battles will be glorious for all.

You need to complete all the Jumping puzzles available outside of WvW to earn entry, there is a time limit though if you cannot do each one in under 2 min you have to start over.

Then perhaps you should re-read the thread, it has been pointed out That AR has some Oceanic coverage, ET has large coverage, HoD has coverage, DR has coverage, SBI has coverage, CD has coverage, GoM has coverage.

No it is not normal to try and poach from the lower tiers. As said, blame the guild throwing your server’s name around not the people who are upset by it, your just confirming the mindset of CD. I realize its hard for some who have never hit the bottom ranks and had to rebuild to understand why this is not looked upon kindly.

Anyone who has been in the position of the low ranked servers would probably understand why we do not appreciate these actions, and wouldn’t wish it upon anyone. I’m not just speaking on behalf of AR, I’m pretty sure none of the ranks 20-24 would appreciate people trying to take away what little we have, but they can disagree if they see fit. That’s my rant I hope it makes it a little easier to understand the hostility.

All the server’s listed have at one point posted here that they have some form of Oceanic coverage.

Could use some more people/guilds for all time slots, Oceanic/Sea would really help us out.

Shanks.8793:

MOVE TO ET!

don’t mind people that say we stay behind towers and refuse to fight “common sense to build siege and stay in towers when its 10vs40 PvDooring as they say we do”

WE DO JUMP TO FIGHT WHEN ITS EQUAL NUMBERS

As a commander in ET I enjoy commanding ET troops even without TS coordination they do pretty well.

and for whoever says we nightcap when the other servers are sleeping, Hello night crew people like WvWvW and they want to play it? Do you want us to not go to WvWvW cause you guys are sleeping? NOPE that will never work in any server!

Also there is the server pride, the reason we pushed against AR that week when we were 30k points behind you and still won is because people were stressed about losing that guild we lost and wanted to prove its not only that guild that carried the server, we can do it, we rallied our server to get 1st, night crew were part of it and did their best to keep PPT up.

Call us kitten all you want, we cared about the matchup we won, same for DR matchup last week we were 40k behind and lost with only 3k points behind!

It only shows that ET cares about the PPT and cares about winning matchups ( I guess its the same for everyserver )

And eh, I see tons of you behind towers when we are outmanned by them, same banana but i wont act like that and say "hey guys dont move to X server they hide! "
cause that just reflects something about your servers community kind of attitude.

ET fellas! we already got tons of transfers and they are enjoying it!

AR is a scrappy server, it’s what makes us AR. I’ll say the same as I have said for the other server’s, Good Luck with your transfers we can all use them. Looking forward to seeing you guys on the field come Seasons.

kRAVen.4195:

Helzy.4036:

That is the worst logic I have ever seen, when mid range servers come to lower servers to advertise for their server it shows a complete lack of character. They know our populations are suffering and we’re in need of transfers yet they are ignorant enough to come and try and poach what we do have. Yes it is very much skin off all our backs down here. If I were to transfer I wouldn’t even consider CD after seeing them advertising on lower tiers, HoD at least shows some class in this regard.

The worst logic like taking something that happened and applying it to all across CD and everybody in it? Somebody pulled the best troll ever on you. Calm down and step away from the keyboard. People in here telling you its a single action not server certified. Listen…….

One guild or the whole server doesn’t really matter at this point. They came recruiting and unfortunately for the rest of CD they started throwing around your Server name. It has reflected poorly on CD as a whole because of it, blame the guild that was responsible not they people who were upset by it.

CD needs to stop coming down to the servers that also have free transfers available to vulture our people and guilds. Very bad form [DNA] your making your server look bad.

Welcome new Guilds, sharpen your sword we’re going pillaging !

Bumping and Welcome to our new guilds.

That’s assuming we actually get account bound Wxp sometime in the next 10 years.

By all means join ET if you want to be bored to death, they don’t come out and play if they actually have to work for it, PvD or nothing, Keep that in mind.

No thank you, sitting on a siege and pushing 1-3 while using no skill what so ever would be extremely boring imo. I would rather take out 2x our numbers by out playing them with players not siege.

Yes and no, its a good thing because it really does pull PvE population into WvW which on the lower tiers is a good thing because the matchup become more competative and closer to balanced. No because those players often either complete the achieves and dissapear, or they stick around for the season and once it ends they vanish leaving some servers to free fall in rank again which in turn demoralizes the WvW population. Also you have the Guilds that join X server for the season and then they leave once its done, there is no retention for the fair weather players.

Its fun while it lasts (talking lower tiers) but the numbers we have during seasons are nothing more then an illusion of what could be come the end of the season.

You guys are just players and have no idea what your talking about, Anet knows best … they have Devon.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

As much as I hate Thieves I feel so sorely for this profession sometimes… They’re trolly and annoying but they don’t deserve most of the hate they get.
OP’s post isn’t really hate but it’s still complaining… Thieves have extremely low base health and it’s still low even if they’re geared for survival and not damage. Which means that a heal that might return them 5k vitality will seem like a lot on a small health bar. Where as say a 5k vitality return on a Necromancer might seem insignificant.
He was probably a condition build with a lot of on crit sigils and using that heal, the name escapes me at the moment but, the one where using it will break stun, roll backwards evading attacks and heal them.
Anyway, Thieves are butter if you can make them stand still for 2 seconds. It’s getting them to stay still that’s the tricky part, but if you have access to any CC’s such as, and ideally, immobilize, they’re pretty much a sitting duck.

They get the hate because the mechanic is crap, not their fault but really Anet gave a high damage class the ability to Vanish every couple seconds. Other games have made Vanish an O kitten button for a reason, not a use at will ability. The entire class is annoying, the fact that they can reset a fight multiple times and just run away when things get tough is probably the biggest complaint.

Ya their beatable but I have better things to do then spend the next hour trying to find and catch them just to have them stab me every few seconds and vanish again. Terrible design, players can’t be blamed, its natural for people to abuse a cheesy mechanic, see perplex runes.

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

the tourny date is approaching…better have a statement or something ready real soon

They won’t, all MMO’s have technical issues and bugs thats a given but none have a complete lack of respect for their players base and has so little passion towards the mode of the game they are in charge of as the WvW team. I would be embarassed if I had these guys working for me, it seems Anet has yet to realize the action (or lack there of) of a few reflect on the many. Anet’s neame is being dragged through the mud, 5 years from now some people will remember the name Devon Carver but everyone will remember the name Anet.

Welcome to the game and Anvil Rock, glad to have you !

Lotta anger here, clearly T1 is a friendly place to be.

Dovgan.8605:

What a lot of other tiers are not aware of is the population imbalances in the lower tiers are extreme. Many of the servers in the bottom 3 tiers have plenty of manpower but lack the basic tools to do well outside the tier they are in. We have seen servers with well above the population we saw in T5 in T6-T8, but they are generally players who want to feel better about their ability by avoiding the PvP in WvW until they greatly outnumber. Not saying it’s the wrong way to win vs. lower populations, it works fine. It just becomes a stumbling block when these groups run into servers with numbers to match.

You don’t have that on Anvil Rock(for the most part). Most players and guilds here will actively seek out fights, enjoy the challenge of holding off and/or beating greater numbers(we have been doing it since the BP/EB campaign) and take pride in doing so.

If you are a guild or player looking to make a jump, you like to mix it up, are looking for more than just yourself to charge headlong into insane odds, then this is the place for you. If you want to make a name for yourself or your guild, this is the place for you. If you are looking for a zerg to hide behind and a free ride, there are other options out there.

I would argue that we have been doing for a much longer time then the BP/EB campaign, lets not forget BP/GoM & BP/NSP not to mention the other servers that we came against while battling BP. We’ve been outnumbered from day 1 and while at the time BP was outnumbered by EB its fair to say that BP has always outnumbered us and yet has been our most fought enemy over time.

I’ve also heard rumors that some of the BP guilds plan to migrate down for whatever reason, I would like to invite our brothers in arms to join us. You know what AR is all about, you know we are stubborn and refuse to give up, and there is plenty of opposing servers with small – large groups to smack around.

Come home friends, we have Beer and Pizza.

No ET just whine, stop hiding in towers and learn to fight without letting your night crew get all your points via PvD.

Virtute.8251:

Nuzt.7894:

Virtute.8251:

Nuzt.7894:

Reverence.6915:

Most guilds out there playing hard for their server won’t transfer down. Especially if they’re not based in NA on NA servers. I’d rather deal with short queues during seasons (no queues any other time) than have to deal with pvdoor and losing everyone in the guild due to boredom

Your presuming that low tiers are dead, the reality is there is always fights in low tiers of all sizes, the difference is you don’t have to fight with 50 other guilds on your home server to figure out who’s turn it is to fight the other servers.

Instead, you loiter and jog around for hours as a thief, or maybe a frontline staff elementalist.

GJ you found a video of a guild that has transfered up …… Irony.

Ok then. Fine. Be that way. :P

TBH I don’t even know who that first video is, never seen them before, Second wouldn’t load and the third is fights so I’m not really sure what your trying to point out, considering the argument was trhere is fights in the lower tiers. I commend you for going hunting for AR video’s though.

Virtute.8251:

Nuzt.7894:

Reverence.6915:

Most guilds out there playing hard for their server won’t transfer down. Especially if they’re not based in NA on NA servers. I’d rather deal with short queues during seasons (no queues any other time) than have to deal with pvdoor and losing everyone in the guild due to boredom

Your presuming that low tiers are dead, the reality is there is always fights in low tiers of all sizes, the difference is you don’t have to fight with 50 other guilds on your home server to figure out who’s turn it is to fight the other servers.

Instead, you loiter and jog around for hours as a thief, or maybe a frontline staff elementalist.

GJ you found a video of a guild that has transfered up …… Irony.

Reverence.6915:

Most guilds out there playing hard for their server won’t transfer down. Especially if they’re not based in NA on NA servers. I’d rather deal with short queues during seasons (no queues any other time) than have to deal with pvdoor and losing everyone in the guild due to boredom

Your presuming that low tiers are dead, the reality is there is always fights in low tiers of all sizes, the difference is you don’t have to fight with 50 other guilds on your home server to figure out who’s turn it is to fight the other servers.

azizul.8469:

yeah…we need body block in WvW….. introduce them now please…..

PLease stop with the body block talk, worst mechanic ever that can and will cause lag, and don’t use the “but its been around for ever so surely they can implement a lag free version” because raid parties have been around foreve, LoS restrictions have been around forever, Pet AI has been around forever, bug fixes have been around forever ….. you see where I’m going with this ?

I’m pretty sure none of this matter, the original question was asking who plans on moving.

Gotta agree with styx about the “hardcore” guilds part, in most cases these “hardcore guilds” transfer because they believe they are hardcore. Upon reaching their destination server they lose 1/2 their members to truly “hardcore guilds” and end up becoming just another failed attempt thus realizing just how “Hardcore” they actually are not.

I’ve seen it happen on several occasions throughout my journey’s, that’s not to say it happens to every guild though just the truly blind ones that believe they are “Hardcore” yet couldn’t win a match or fight against half their numbers.

Its all about AoE, you need to tag as many people as possible during the fights. If yor hitting single targets you will be dissapointed with the amount of loot you receive.

lol, what just happened. Stop hurting my brain please, it’s done nothing to you sir.

Jdawg.4257:

Don’t know too many people from AR, but I have had the pleasure to see the server rise up in WvW. Hope to have some good match-ups with you guys in this upcoming season.

Oh, and most importantly…. Bump!

Can’t wait to see you guys out there again, FC/SF are always fun matchups, I think its safe to say all three servers are glutans for punishment and quite literally beat the kitten out of each other for 7 days.

Bumping for AR

Have to agree, changing the color isn’t going to do anything. You can’t follow me because my tag is orange and that means its for my guild only ….

Ya that will work wonders and not cause any inter /map chat wars.

That I agree with, he seemed to be suggesting some servers were tanking currently. Missunderstood.

I’m not sure which servers your saying are “trying to tank” ? Ranking looks about what they have been looking like for the last couple months with the exception of Ebay whom I would say is suffering what many of us have already expierenced which is a mass exodus.

In that case it would be totally server dependant, in many cases in the lower tiers we don’t have the luxury of “equal fights” we have to be prepared to fight larger numbers. If people add in on the fight so be it. I played DAoC for years and the 8 man mentality is a completely different senario then GW2. Again this is why I brought up OS and small mans ect, if you want even uninterupted fights you have OS to do that in.

I think part of the fun of fighting superior numbers is when they just keep adding and you still come out on top. Red is dead, bags are bags.

Indeed, I really don’t want to win because of transfers. When AR fights SF and FC we have a great time the battles are epic for all sides but we just can’t keep up with the PPT/Coverage. I would like to have enough to make these matches a down to the wire in all aspects. Let’s face it even if you guys enjoy the fighting spirit we have, you know your going to beat us in the point game.

Three large guild is 40+ each, add in 25-100 Pugs, that means on the low end of things thats a difference of 145 active players in WvW (keep in mind that the low end using only 40 from three guilds and 25 pugs) thats a significant number down here at the bottom. We have fought your servers so we are well aware of the population difference.

Its a mystery, part of it is PvE make them money but that could be fixed by adding more WvW oriented items to the cash shop. I don’t know if its stubborn Dev’s who think they know best and thus the players should just like what they want, or if the higher ups have tied their hands. It does seem the the WvW Dev team is not as passionate about WvW as they should be, they should be fighting tooth and nail to make WvW the best it can be.

Kain is good people and are in serious need of more. For what they have, they seem to do a pretty good job even though they are outnumbered everytime they log in. I’m cheering for you guys, hope the free transfers work out for all in the bottom tiers.

I agree to a point, I don’t want to pull a Kain and storm up to T2 or where ever it was they crashed and burned. I would like to see some more numbers to get to T5-T4 where we once were. I found those Tiers were the sweet spot, not to zergy (other then reset) not a whole lotta night capping, and usually all around fun/relatively even match ups.

Let me rephrase that, I understand what they are attempting to do, I do not understand the logic of opening the free transfers at the same time. The truth of the matter is most if not all free transfers will go to 13-15 because people already believe everything in bronze is a ghost town. I don’t think 20-24 will see many transfers at all, most are already against moving down whether its free or not, 20-24 are going to need significant transfers to put them on par with the top of bronze.

I don’t understand the logic behind this, the Rank 20-24 makes sense for free transfers but why give 13-15 free transfers ? All I see this accomplishing is giving 13-15 more people while the bottom ranks who truly need the transfers get ignored by most which leaves them in the same position they are in now.