Guild Wars 2

It’s power/precision/magic find, I don’t care how hard you hit if you’re rolling with those 3 stats in Wv3 you’re going to get 2 shot by everyone.

It has magic find, if players want to chuck toughness or vitality for an extra 5 power/precision and magic find, please do. I will be happy to 2 shot you.

People stealing my thunder. Thought I was the only person to buy commander to lead grub strike teams...

Having spent the entire week playing on Gunnar’s Hold with a few friends, I noticed something that really astonished me.

Gunnar’s Hold is a Tier 6 European server, we came from Sanctum of Rall a Tier 2 US server. Yet I will say that the average player on GH is significantly better than the average player on SoR.

I have to imagine it’s because you guys are a lower pop server with a numbers disadvantage that you’ve had to develope skill in order to survive, but you’re not going to find that same skill level on the more populated US servers. We can’t get people on Teamspeak or Mumble, we can’t get them to carry supply, we can’t get them to build siege, they just want to hack on walls with swords.

I really think a week from now you’re going to want to transfer back. I know we are considering staying here.

Yah so anyway, moving servers for the week was a really stupid idea. They’ve thrown in the towel for the week and we’re like the only 3 people on the map.

Can’t wait to comeback!

I somewhat disagree with you.

I would be all for removing commander icons from Lion’s Arch but the icon works wonders in lesser known zones for getting people to rally to you for DEs.

Not to my knowledge.

All of it should come with game experience tho.

Good suggestion, should probably go into the suggestions forum tho.

Increase map size, remove battle markers, remove portals...

Guys, you’re going the wrong way. Let’s not head back to the early 21st century and make all the casual players disappear...

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with zerging, it’s a great introduction into Wv3 for less experienced players. It starts them down the path to being a more knowledgeable PvP player and once they understand the basics, you can take them into your small strike teams and teach them the other aspects of the game.

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

Full servers, Outmanned Buff in every map.

How is this happening? What is so exciting about grinding cursed shore or dungeons for hours as opposed to WvW?

Same issue on Sanctum of Rall except no one is doing Cursed Shore and there are very few people doing dungeons. It’s mainly bots, now that they can not transfer every day they are forced to stay on one server so they need more of them.

When was the last time you were in Gendarren Fields? Go look now, you’ll find no less than 60 bots there.

Lopez.7369:

Not really. I honestly can’t tell the difference between a good or a bad one because they all seem to do the exact same thing. It probably doesn’t help they’re not visible so much of the average 1v1.

I agree

I can’t tell the difference between good and bad thiefs/mesmers because I can never see them.

This is the 3rd week in the past month that Sanctum of Rall has been paired against Sea of Sorrows. SoS is the unofficial Oceanic server and thus outnumbers us 3-1 or greater during Oceanic prime which happens to be the time frame that I play in being an American that works graveyard.

It’s not so much the being outnumbered that bothers me, it’s that there is no reason to defend. We show up to defend our keeps and towers against their numbers, we lay down siege, we upgrade keeps, we hold for as long as possible. But after 6 hours, they’ve taken the entire map and with it have gained 20k+ karma, 30 badges, 4-5 skill points, 1gp and have enjoyed themselves. We, on the other hand, have gained little to no karma, badges or skill points, have spent 5gp, and have had no fun at all being repeatedly overrun in every tower defense.

Right now the game is tilted so strongly towards the offensive side that to defend is actually detrimental to your side. You’re better off abandoning your defense and attempting a base trade than to stay and defend.

That issue alone ruins the entire mental aspect of Wv3 in this game.

As I said, if you made them 1 month long. People would just quit, they’re not going to stay fighting on a server they’re not enjoying.

Server transfers are not the problem, they never have been.

You can’t expect people to stay in a situation they are not enjoying. People will either transfer away or they will quit.

Staff elementalist is extremely weak in open world combat. The only way you’d ever down someone is if you caught them completely off guard, hence the reason they are better in round 2.

Staff is group oriented, Dagger is solo oriented, and Scepter is a middle ground.

Silvannas, you and I play during the same times and our paths have crossed before. I don’t need to explain to you what it’s like playing against Sea of Sorrows in the early AM hours but I would like an explanation from you as to why you find it to be enjoyable...

They steamroll us the entire night during Oceanic prime, pushing us right back to our citadel where we pretty much stay until the early morning when more Americans start to log on. Once we finally have the numbers to push back, all of SoS just logs off and we PvDoor the rest of the morning.

I don’t find that to be even the least bit fun, hence the reason I and a few friends have transferred off for the week. We love the community on SoR and I feel a bit ashamed and remorseful for abandoning you guys for the week. But I’d much rather fight a 10v10 battle than fight a series of 10v30 battles until 8 AM EST when it instantly becomes a 30v0 battle.

I have to say I am very disappointed in some of the responses from the SoR players. We burn through 42 gp in upgrades/siege last week and not so much as a ’thank you’ but we take the courtesy to let you know that we are moving off for the week and the rage hits the fans.

We were losing interest in the game quickly having to play at a severe numbers disadvantage for the 3rd time in 4 weeks. Life on Gunnars Hold this week has been awesome, but we still do consider SoR home. We’ll be back next week even if you don’t want us back.

Diashame.6328:

Still been a good match but am very surprised to see SoR die off the pace so quickly, even in prime time USA.

After speaking to a bunch of people on the SoR teamspeak early, apparently I am not the only one to move away for the week. None of us want to play against SoS’s oceanic population. It’s so frustrating to spend gold on upgrades and siege that get lost during the night in undefended keeps.

Nobody is going to complain about night capping, by all means you guys have just as much right to play the game as we do, but we’re not going to play against you. A lot of us have moved to Gunnar’s Hold until SoR is moved away from SoS.

Transfered off for the week. Playing against the same servers is stall and boring. Cya next week SoR!

Mesmer / Thief / DnD Ele

I would take those 3 over any 5 man team without them.

Desolation for EU, Sea of Sorrows for US

I know there’s been a lot of complaining about Desolation on the EU ladder. Just wait till Sea of Sorrows cracks tier 1 on the US ladder when JQ/SBI realize they are going to be outnumbered 5-1 during Oceanic prime.

The issue you’re having is traveling with a zerg vs traveling with a small group.

Every downed player only gives a certain number of badges, dividing by 30 gives you a much smaller chance than dividing by 5.

I want to apologize to the SoS guilds for the hostility from SoR. Please understand that we are a bit discouraged by our numbers.

Our server has been locked at ’Full’ for 6 days now. While our NA prime numbers are excellent our server has only 50-75 active players during Oceanic prime. Due to tranfers being switched from 1 day to 7 days alot of bots have moved in and made SoR their permanrnt home.

SoR continues to sit at ’Full’ despite us having less than 100 players on the entire server during off hours.

Something has to be wrong with the system.

Golem piloting skills required

Trying to get our pugs on VOIP is like pulling teeth, we can’t even get half of them on.

I am also trying to figure out how our server is listed as ’Full’. We have no one in Lions Arch or Cursed Shore and have the ’outmanned’ buff in 3 of the 4 BLs. Half of our server must be bots.

As an Elementalist, I can abuse the rendering mechanic on mist form and can get the supervisor to fight me 1v1 outside of the camp.

Once the supervisor is dead, I can kill all the guards/scouts at once using a lesser earth to tank, 2 hounds to dps, and dagger/dagger AoE.

Start to finish it takes me about 3 minutes to take a fully upgraded undefended camp.

It’s on roughly a 24 hour respawn. The respawn timer does not run while you are still in Obsidian Sanctum or in Mistwrought Vaults, this is to prevent people from camping those areas but people still do so (at their own expense).

You can not receive upgraded equipment, atleast I never have and I have done well over 50 of each.

Shinji.2063:

And here SOR was warning the T1 servers to watch out. Got to make it through t2 boys lol. We might face off again next week less beastgeate gets smashed and that look like it might happen.

lol

You know I had 3 people send me hate mail in game because of that one comment.

Ask SoS about their 29 alpha and 1 omega golem rush that killed by 1 oil 3 weeks ago.

World completion is meant to be a herculean feat, not only should it require you to get all the WvW nodes it should also require you to clear all explorable dungeons (but it doesn’t).

Jumping puzzles are located through out the game thus their existance in WvW borderlands, the argument that it removes resources from the war effort is silly as WvW is not meant to have structure. If you wanted structured PvP without PvE elements included, play sPvP.

LoL

Last night in the early AMs when SoR has its lowest pop and IoJ/SoS have their oceanics, you guys pushed us out of every BL except our home world and in that we only held Garrison.

Did you see anyone from SoR crying about that double teaming or night capping? No

I see this same thread every day...it’s getting obnoxious.

3 of the top 4 European servers are either [FR] or [DE}.
That alone proves there is no problem.

SoR just finished a matchup against TC. Tarnished Coast being the unofficial RP server probably has the most original and fun players to compete against. We saw large packs of candy men beating on towers this week in WvW. We saw naked supply camp rushes, as well as other fun quirks. Now of course we saw the occasional alt+f4 downed player and a few thieves exploiting rendering to hold supply camps but I am not about to hold an entire server responsible for the actions of the few.

Your server, however, it is not the few. The abusers of the rendering issues, the downed player quitters, the turtlers, the mesmer portal bomb abuse, it’s all the norm for ’Beastgate’. The respectable players on your server are the exception, they are the minority.

Even you, OP, condone the acts of turtling/stacking. You will never see anyone on Sanctum of Rall use that tactic because it’s poor sportsmanship. I happen to agree that it’s clever use of game mechanics and not an exploit but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s lame and if you’re going to use it, you’re lame.

By all means if you wish to continue to push the envelope and bend the rules of the game to the extreme do it. But don’t expect the rest of us to herald you as the champion server. It’s like flopping in basketball, yes it works and it will get what you want, but eventually someone is going to hit you in the face with an elbow and the rest of us are going to stand up and cheer.

Gotta be honest here, if you’re on Stackgate this brings me great amounts of joy.

Sigh, I see 2 commanders in that video. They took my job

I would be okay with removing downed state if some classes had their damage output severely reduced. Going from full health to downed in under 3 seconds is ludicrous if you can’t revive a teammate.

TC, it’s been a pleasure.

Thank you for continuing to put up a fight despite knowing you were outnumbered. I was expecting to spend this entire week in PvE but I’ve had to answer a few calls to battle in your BL and EB during the early hours. The battles that were fought were extremely competitive and only shifted our way once the numbers did.

I wish you the best of luck against Crystal Desert, you guys are winners in my book.

Greetings from SoR,

I know we are still a few weeks away from our matchup, but I thought Id issue you guys a fair warning. Our server is full of hungry, hungry hippos and we have no problems with eatting turtles, bunnies, or whatever else you want to throw at us.

Enjoy your ’soft’ competition while you have it because we are coming.

Haralin.1473:

Peetee.9406:

Server titles are just basic guidelines to direct players where to go if they are unsure of a good destination. Every server is hosted in Austin, Texas so there’s no advantage on being on one server over another.

EU Server are not in Texas.

Yes they are, every server is in Texas.

I don’t see an issue here

You have two choices, you can play on your native language server with no ’night’ crew or you can move to an english speaking server and have a ’night’ crew.

I understand that those are not the choices you want, but what you’re asking for is unfair to most. The vast majority of players playing this game do speak English and not allowing them to freely move where they choose to keep the game ’fair’ for your small contingent of non-English speaking players is selfish and greedy.

Server titles are just basic guidelines to direct players where to go if they are unsure of a good destination. Every server is hosted in Austin, Texas so there’s no advantage on being on one server over another.

Why can’t you bring your friends with you?

Every one of you that has posted thus far on this thread speaks nearly perfect English.
What is preventing you from transferring to an English server that has a ’night’ population?

I don’t mean to sound rude but you could be proactive and move your guild if this is as big of a concern as you make it. You could be German and play on the English server there is nothing stopping you, only your Commander needs to be able to communicate in English and even that is not a big concern.

Most of our off hours guilds on Sanctum of Rall (US) are of Taiwanese and Malaysian descent, they don’t speak a lick of English beyond ’yes, no, come, go’ but that’s enough to get by.

Being an SoR commander, I want to say that most of the commanders on our server do discourage spawn camping. We will ask nicely for any players to not do so but beyond that there is nothing we can do.

Our server has taken a massive amount of fair weather players this week, as I noted in an earlier post, I went into TC BL earlier to retake a couple of camps after you guys had done your morning stomp and there were 4 commanders on the map I had never seen before with guilds upon guilds I have also never seen before.

I’d happily welcome any player to this server that wants to make it their permanent home but chances are the ones spawn camping are not here to stay for the long run. Coincidentally, the group that was doing our orb hacking last week has also moved on to another server.

iCryptik.1496:

Really. TC Logging in on Sunday morning and seeing this outside our spawn on EBG. Several people outside camping with a ballista, more that were back behind them but weren’t rendering until I went much closer. I know Sanctum owns most of the maps, but this is low.

I also logged on this morning and went to TC BL to help retake a couple of camps. There were 4 commanders on the map I have never seen before, I laughed and just logged on an alt.

Want a good laugh, ask Sea of Sorrows about the 29 alphas + 1 omega they portaled under an oil last week.

Modniir Dagger - Forward Scout Greta, 510 karma, Harathi Hinterlands

I like the idea of a 2 day match Friday 8 PM EST till Sunday 8 PM EST when almost all servers are full and queued.

What you do during the week, I don’t much care.

I have no problems with using golems to take the overlook, but trebbing their spawn is ridiculous. Let’s not fall to ’Beastgate’ level here.