Guild Wars 2

King Amadaeus.8619:

Umm you should have at least 2 at all times on every map…And sometimes 3…Running around in one big blob (as opposed to 2-3 medium ones) is a poor tactic that can leave you vulnerable if you ever come across a server with decent communication.

This is true and not true at the same time.

If your commander group numbers 35 and another commander group on your side numbers 35. Yes split up.

However if you are trying to defend against those two groups with only 40 people on the map… DO NO SPLIT. You are playing defense for awhile and need the numbers. Against each one of those groups. If you split into 2 groups of 20, each will get wiped by the enemy’s groups.

SOR – Sanctum of Rallybots

Paying to transfer a guild = buying

Assisting in the transfer cost = buying

Now… if they are coming ANYWAY and you are just speeding the process… thats fair. But so far I have known about 2 guilds that got assistance in their move. Both guilds came on… then were gone again cause some other server “assisted” with their move.

It shows a deep mercenary mentality for a guild to accept that in 90% of the cases. They are very likely to leave again when someone else gives them a good offer for assistance.

If you are wholely buying the guild (some of the T1 servers) then I personally consider it match manipulation and should be banned by Anet.

Just tossing it up since you are still looking.

[City] is recruiting currently. We are a WvW focused guild, but since you are newish to the game if you are looking to venture out and learn more about it we can help. We only require rep when in WvW so if you find a fun PvE guild you can keep it. We run WvW raids 3-4 times a week and can pretty much be found in lions arch or in WvW. We run commanders as well as small ops and are more then willing to help teach the WvW game mode.

Along with disrupting supply and slowing down people in general, and getting in the way of merc camps…

The stupid mobs are causing swords to pop on keeps. At least on garrison. I was watching it for hours tonight and 2 different times the mobs popped at the NE corner of garrison. When you got near the walls you got the prompt for the event.

We had to have a group take them out so it would stop looking like garrison was getting hit. This is just stupid.

This might be OP is it was more common with what the first guy is getting at

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tome_of_Knowledge

shagworth.5017:

My favorite is the 10-15 man “roaming group” perpetually patrolling the bloodlust area for hours on a fully green JQBL every morning when I log on. I guess it’s just one of those t1 strategies that my feeble brain doesn’t understand.

If it makes you feel better its not just on JQBL… that roaming group tactic is on SoSBL and I can assume MAG bl as well.

JQ roaming = 10+

The lag isnt even about you being in a zerg fight anymore.

My guild was running havoc. 5 man, we came across 2 enemies at a camp = 1sec+ of skill lag.

that is just crazy bad network code.

Congrats… you blobbed your way to success just as Devon Carver designed it.

I have heard this exact statement.

“I am scouting Hills keep will keep you updated” = Scout
“TY!” – Commander
60 minutes later
“15 XX at S gate, 2 rams down” – scout
“We are hitting bay, will get it back later” – Commander
“We have a t2 hills and I have spent the last hour upgrading and spending my own supply building siege!” – scout
“We are hitting bay, will get it back later, get more rewards” – Commander

This is seriously f’ed up and completely destroys the whole concept of the game mode. These defenders and scouts are getting shafted and that is why a year ago we had 5-6 scouts per keep/tower and now we MIGHT get one dedicated enough to do it!

I think he means so he and his friends can easily kill you

Basicly there are a few ways you can go but the total armor you should be shooting for is 3k like Zinrae said.

If you are an altruistic healing build then you need healing power around 1k at least. Once you hit those marks you can play with other stats to your liking.

Talyn.3295:

It dosen’t matter how much you QQ over the fact Ascended gear is in the game. Its here to stay and alot of us like it and use it. Just because you refuse to do the work to get it doesn’t mean those who do shouldn’t be able to use it. You have no one to blame for yourself, and before you throw that out again, I dont’ champ farm. I play the game.

keep saying that when Transcended makes its appearence to fill the gap between Ascended and legendary lol

BlackDevil.9268:

Okay, that seems fair. Because it’s as easy as it sounds right? Let’s just move to another server!

But wait… Once your guild moves there, they will be facing bad guilds, unorganised pug blobs of 50 guys max which is equal to boring raids.
For guilds like Scnd there’s not much to be found in lower tiers, because there’s no competition to find there.
However in higher tiers, there is a huge amount of enemies to face. Fighting organised pug blobs of 60-80 man is fun to fight, IF you have no lag.
Now this is a pretty big problem.
So basicly to sum it up, ’’hardcore’’ guilds in WvW get bored fast because:

• In lower tiers it’s boring because of no competition
• In higher tiers there’s competition, that gets destroyed by insane lag

You do realize the fact of the matter is…

If all the “elite” guilds seperated into other servers… then more tjhen just 3 servers would actually be competitive and thus more unique fights and different strats to test yourself against?

Because people stacked… THAT is why as you say all the organized guilds are… but should you never have stacked… then more or the servers would have that organization.

I just find this funny as hell. You warn others about the “qq” (a negative turn for someone who whines) on the forums once the achievements come out… then you whine on the forums… lol

SpehssMehreen.5897:

Im just gonig to say this now, there will be a ton of QQ when the WvW achivements come out, remember the kite in the Eb jp? or the map completion req. for the wvw maps? imagine that QQ but on a much larger scale, ranging from anet “forcing” players to do wvw for their achivements to complaints about Quees and not being able to do achivements cuz people keep killing them.

The WvW forums will be a messy place for awhile

I started on JQ. I left when they started stacking to be “the best” when they started poaching and buying guilds.

You took advantage of this to stay on the “winning” side, I was proactive and left because I disagreed with the stacking.

Anet said when the season starts… the top tier will have trouble getting in, you were warned and give discounts to move OFF those servers… now you complain cause you cannot play??

I am not the troll here.

No. Transfer off your stacked server. Anet warned you.

Zerker can work if you are running havoc or small group tactics. 5-10 maybe even up to 15 in zerker is okay since you are going to be steamrolled by the 40+ zerg anyway so your gear doesnt matter… in that case being able to kill faster and then move on is a good idea.

However if you are in one of those 40+ zergs facing off against 4-5 ACs raining fire on you, or facing another 40+ zerg in open field… your zerker gear is rally bait. So either you go down to fast and thus are missing potential numbers to mitigate more damage from the others or you are avoiding combat and staying away from the enemy, thus also not providing as much as you could in tankier gear.

But the new players that want to just follow the zerg… unless you already outnumber the enemy, get some tanky gear, or go down like a brick.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Warriors are OP as crud. Their high HP makes them even more tankier than Guardians, their damage is insane, they can remove conditions just as well as Guardians on themselves, and can also chain-stun you to stupid.

I don’t even know how did Anet let the class become like that. WvW may as well stand for Warrior vs Warrior at the moment.

Just putting it out there. As a front line/havoc group built warrior and guardian. NO the warrior is not tankier then the guardian with insane damage. Its an either or.

My warrior is tough and does hit hard, but he sacrificed some of the tankiness that my guardian has. My guardian can usually handle 4-5 people for 20-30 seconds if I get all my skills off, up to a minute if the enemy never CCs me. But I am not taking anyone down with me. The warrior can take on up to 2 usually, 3 if they are not very good but its a toss of the coin if I can stomp one of them before I go down.

What you see is a product of 2 heavy vs 3 medium and 3 light classes. Everyone that wants to play melee in a fantasy game needs the toughness to survive right? Most people play a melee to get that feeling of the knight or soldier… that only leaves them 2 choices.

say 900 people are playing. Lets split them up evenly.

300 go to a light class
300 go to a medium class
300 go to a heavy class.

That breaks down to
100 Mesmers
100 necros
100 Eles

100 Thiefs
100 Engies
100 Rangers

150 Guardians
150 Warriors

So now you see… OMG there are more warriors and guardians then any other class right??

Well… no… its just that playstyle is consolidated.

Be on the most stacked server in GW2…
Complain about queues….

What a shocker.

Cameron, while I think people on SoS would liek to have FA its not going to happen.

And Magummybears are doing decent against the current FA right now arent they?

Maguuma 231891
Fort Aspenwood 206315
Crystal Desert 126 048

Now FA could be tanking hard but from what I heard its because they lost a lot of guilds.

Frankly… any server that doesnt have its leadership cow-tow to a T1 I would be okay with… and if its SBI then so be it… but they definitely are not earning their Gold league status so they will be smashed to bits if they stay there.

Seriously Korbaal? The evidence is right in front of you on multiple posts. This is not a single guild or single server issues… this is SOR and SBI match-manipulating. Everytime SoS comes out to play you guys stop messing with eachother and tag team on SoS. Even spawn camping to let SBI take SoS stuff nearly undefended and I see some IRON tags there doing in.

I actually understand why SoR does it… its SBI that are the vultures and hyena’s in all this. Those SBI folks that do not participate or approve of this, you guys have my respect, the rest can go suck an egg.

With that said… it is still good to be in the fight again compared to the lower tiers so I am still happy overall at all the bags we are getting when we do not get double teamed.

Thank you Sor for the fight at your hills. We had fun with that from SoS… just wish the mongrels from SBI would have had the guts to actually play smart and take the chance to go cap something else for themselves (who had a whole 2 camps and 2 sentries on all maps for themselves) or even tag team SoR who doubled each of our numbers… SBI keeps hitting us from behind and then running away whenever SoR came out.

At one point you guys were IN hills chilling when we came to ninja wall and started hitting the inner wall with catas again… then wait until SoR attacked from the front to attack from behind then run away again… seriously… weak sauce guys. Didnt even kill us we slaughtered you constantly but gave up because of the annoyingness of it. SO congrats… you saved SoR’s hills…

Being from a Tier 1, going to a tier 8 and now to t2 facing the T1 here is my perspective.

Organized and dedicated WvW players… no matter the tier are hard and good. Pugs are bad, lazy and easy to drop.

So what is the perspective difference? There are more pugs in Tier one riding the coat tails of those hardcore guilds. The percentage of dedicated player compared to pug is the difference.

Take t1 dedicated players. probably 50 of the 100 in the EB are dedicated full time WvW players. These guys are tough and good at fighting.

Take t8 dedicated players. Probably 30 of the 40 people in EB are dedicated WVW players.

There are more dedicated WvW players in t1 thats for sure… but there are also more PUG players that go down easy.

Run across a dedicated t8 guild group and you face 20 people though… an 70 man zerg can still take them. Run across a t1 guild group and you face 50 people… a 70 man zerg is dogmeat to them.

This is a great change.

Organized groups SHOULD get the boons first before the people just following. It should have ALWAYS been this way.

You can still pug or follow without a group, you do however need to be more self reliant. This change does not mean you will NEVER get the buff… only that the people actually working together get the first shot at receiving the buff.

The idea that you can be in a group, try to grant stability to your friends, and have that stability go to some guy not actually working together with the group so he can make the push and then die later on because he did not know the organized group was trying to do a feint and now because their key member of the tactic got stunned or immobilized that group tactic just flew out the window…

sorry pug… and I was and still do pug plenty… this is an absolute GREAT change.

Raw, PH, PWN, KA all very recently. Most of these were kain guilds before it became bandwagons. KA was the last pure WvW guild and the smallest of the WvW guilds and we just moved tonight.

That leaves Myth as the largest PvX that does WVW, CHR great group but small and AI also a great group but small. There are a few up and comers like NIIX but its going to take a complete server restructure at this point to get organized again.

That would be NSP Sean. With the system and matchs in place, it does not matter what NSP do or do not do… play or not play this week… they are losing ratings thus keeping kain from closing the difference. Unless HOD scores some massive plays to raise in ranks…

Unkitten th the servers NSP are playing just up and leave WvW…. its game over. Mr Carver WILL get his achievments

styx.7294:

Also, somehow the perfect storm is closing the gap between Northern Shiverpeaks and Kaineng?

How do you figure. With a matchup similar to the last 2 weeks NSP was gaining ranks and Kaineng was losing ranks. Kaineng losing 80+ while NSP was gaining 15+? That ment it would be nearly impossible for NSP to not overtake Kaineng. Then, as many of us saw coming, then only way for NSP to stay in bronze was if 2 things happened.

1. Kain would have to face not even matches where it would still lose massive points, but a heavy difference in at least one of the pairings. Low and behold… EBay. Ok RNG sucks, so toss that up there as it makes it harder but NSP is still climbing in ranks.

2. NSP has to have a situation where no matter what they do, play or not play… they will be FORCED to lose points in the glicko system. Put them against 1 even and 1 low and they may still gain points… only way to be sure they will lose points and stay in bronze… face them against the 2 LOWEST servers. 7 and 8 ranks away! This has never before happened in the game… the odds are very very hard to come by… and it JUST so happens that NSP got that lottery ticket in the clutch moment, on a server with a Dev that made the point to say

“I will be on NSP and I WILL be getting my achievements!”

You can add the ‘no matter the cost’ finish to that if you wish… I did.

Hate to say it but any truly famous players PvP wise… moved away from GW2 last year.

I am sorry to the NSP players. I do not want you to suffer… but if there is ANY chance for mr Carver to truly want to change the imbalances, he has to be force to deal with them.

That was freaking great guys thanks for organizing it and thanks for everyone that joined in. Wasnt able to join myself but love seeing the video

thats the point Ulion. We want Devon Carver (Dev for WvW who said he will be playing on NSP and thinks servers that are outmanned should just try harder) to see what the population imbalances truly are like.

If NSP is at the top of bronze… he will claim its all fine as they win that match… in theory MAYBE we can get some changes done if he is force to for 7 weeks deal with every match a complete steamroll.

oh its going to happen. Last night kaineng had a memser inside garrison after it was taken.

Our main zerg of 25+ came to do an easy reclaim. We got to watergate… mesmer ready…. everyone HIT THE GATE! mesmer port down…. everyone HIT THE GATE! 5 of us teleported in… the rest… HIT THE GATE!

Seriously?? Yeah Kaineng is gonna push NSP into silver… no problem..

TCDJ.5378:

Thanks for forgetting about, you know, your guild leader! v.v
Pulled a queue in EB today, commanded from 9:30 to 17:30 my time (0:30 to 8:30 server) and had over 70 people in the zerg before switching maps.

Opps… to be fair my capitán, I am never on at those times so I do not get to see your glory hehe.

scootshoot.6583:

Some of the Anet guys are straight from Blizzard so are veterans to the MMO genre so would assume they have some common sense with their ideas before following through on them in game, hah!

If you are talking about the founders of Anet. Only one is left Mike Obrian that was from Blizzard. The other founders left GW2 right around or soon after its release. They all left Blizzard before it made WoW anyway. They were with Blizzard back on Warcraft the RTS game days.

The Anet we have now… is NOT the Anet from GW1 days. The Anet we have now are from korean MMO cash shop hell mmos.

There is only one commander on KN that brings that many of the fairweathers together.

You are looking at the Prince zerg!

back on track.

NSP is not facing people lower in ranking then they did last week.. and NSP is doing nothing in points.

Either a bunch jumped ship like what happened with kaineng… or they are tanking to stay out of the silver league now.

and those stats are wrong. It is not taking in the base damage increase of the weapon.

clint.5681:

The higher in rankings you go the higher the population is.

lol zergs are bigger than 25 in bronze[/quote]

Thats only when one large guild is doing a public run or when a zerg commander (not an insult, but a commander the zergs flock to) is running a karma train.

nightly zergs in bronze are not usually that large.

stop that spooky… bad commander! Unless you got a partner to command the melee folk, then its okay

Depends on the server and size of the groups you run with and what classes they bring.

Guardians are always useful but only ina few situations are the required.

Mesmers however are VERY much in demand, but only need like 1 in 10 people. With a good run you only need one in 20 to be super effective

But if your server has a few good ones already… you might find yourself with a waste and not doing much yourself

I started on JQ… had good friends there and all my guild.

Queues were bad. guild could not play with each other… small guild of PvP players broke up or moved. I moved to Kaineng because if I just sat there and complained about the Queues without doing anything about it… i would be hypocritical.

Move to a lower tier server… that is all you can do. Blame Anet for letting free transfers exist for so long… and blame players because they want to stack for easy wins.

No debate here fellas. Its the truth and fact and been proven again and again in mmos for years.

See ya at the expansion that adds lvl 90 gear that you get to start all over with grinding for…

Thats the problem. If you allow once… it will continue to go on. A small increase is okay? Why not a smaller one over that… and that? Thats the point.

Its to late for GW2 to be what it could have been… best to just bide your time and keep an eye on other games coming out. GW2 had the chance to be something unique… they turned it into the same ol same ol but people saying "A few trinkets are not a big deal’

They got rid of the “no farming” way of thinking the minute they announced Ascended trinkets. It was the breach that brought on the stat creep. It is to late to stop because everyone allowed them to do the first step.

Keep in mind Rackhir… the whole reason they dropped the original tiers was because the big three were complaining all they ever faced was themselves.

Anet catered and added the random matchups, which then caused the major blowouts and the incentive to stack to the big three.

If they go back to the big three facing eachother, they will just start complaining about “boring” matchups again. Anet will not do this.

Oh I noticed it. I am sure others did.

Love his “and I WILL be getting all the achievements” part… gotta love it. Going to the largest of the league and then saying he will get all the rewards… nice way to rub it in and say “you too can be a winner, juck stack!”

Devona’s Rest

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Gold 6 servers
Silver 9 servers
Bronze 9 servers

Math is hard hehe edited to make it add up correctly.

Mark my words. Dungeons will be redesigned for the Ascended stats. Possibly first first one for when Armor comes out.