Guild Wars 2

That Minion Mancer Meta

Boonprot.6274:

Would be nice if Odinzu could control his guildies when they’re spectating GvGs. Every single time there’s at least one or two thieves ganking spectators and several other members joining in when we finally retaliate. Yet EP wants to be taken seriously as a guild.

That would make it the 4th GvG I’ve seen where EP kills spectators these two matches.

Lenador.1436:

Pinko.2076:

Lenador.1436:

on a non GvG side note where all the solo roamers gone

Because you either face zero enemies or overwhelming force. Roaming on TCBL is a running joke at this point, because you’ll get all the camps you want for free, and the first resistance you face is a 10-15 man group. Then they backcap the camps as 10-15 and you get tired of it and leave.

>.> mag has done the same thing more times than not but yes TC is worse idk how DB is im sure they in between tc and mag but ofc i never fight myself so idk

I’m not saying Mag doesn’t do this sometimes, it’s just the reason you see less roaming, and it’s a circular thing.

Server A crushes all 5 mans from Server B with 10-15. Server B gets tired of it and roams with 10 only now, and crushes Server C 5 mans. Server C joins in, now server A is bringing 20 to crush server B/C’s 10 mans. Suddenly all camp groups are 15-20.

I get just as annoyed by guilds that are 15-20 gvg’ers running with 30-40 in open world. It’s like there’s this difference between people that want to PvP and people that want to Not Die, as if not dying is some noble thing in a pixel world.

Lenador.1436:

on a non GvG side note where all the solo roamers gone

Because you either face zero enemies or overwhelming force. Roaming on TCBL is a running joke at this point, because you’ll get all the camps you want for free, and the first resistance you face is a 10-15 man group. Then they backcap the camps as 10-15 and you get tired of it and leave.

I guess this is what happens when we lack good inter-server bickering. Agg getting all the PvF aimed at them this week.

Further proof that NA GvG guilds should abandon the cesspoll of t1 and relocate to t2/t3.

kartek.6428:

aggreshun build open field ac gvg RE with arrow cart agg win gvg all time with open field ac yes aggreshun cheat a lot arrow carts

More evidence.

Which server has the skills of a t1 server?

Jayne.9251:

Comprissent.3856:

Great fights [NS]! It was a pleasure

I’m super proud of our guys

http://i.imgur.com/p1T0R5G.jpg

Scnd so bad? O.o

moonlight = rekka = ex ME, now scnd

Perplexity is too strong by any measure.

Also, ele’s don’t have the cleanses that people here think they do. It’s REALLY easy to con overload an ele. The OP is a better player than 99% of WvW posters, so it’s funny to see people say l2p.

That said, 1v1 should never be the goal of balancing. Ideally they should aim for somewhere between 5v5-10v10 balance, but I doubt they’re even balancing for WvW ruleset.

Alternating 1 week by rating, 1 week by winner up loser down. Each month you’ll get two matches in your above/below tier, and two in your tier by rating.

Basically I agree with the OP since it would work out roughly similar, with some odd weeks being different.

Interference can also mean two unguilded hacking glass thieves that are just as much hated by the winning side as the losing, such as the kitten vs RE practice matches. This won’t be an uncommon thing, but it should probably be considered a void round.

Xom.9264:

Well done Everything Purple, would one of you be so kind as to mail me a link to the vid of the GvG when its ready.

Proof that any motivated guild has chance at winning any given day, and a reminder to stay humble and friendly with the GvGs.

/signed all the low tier GvGers.

The low tier gvg’ers should join the t3/t2 mix.

People need to be careful about adding too many rules to this stuff. The GvG scene is still very young, and newer guilds are less likely to get involved with older guilds if there’s too much silly entry barriers.

I understand that people want to be competitive about it, but adding too many niche rules will potentially scare people off.

You can tell which server it is based on their group composition.

Aeros.2046:

jacobo.8240:

Hmm, we all know that your feelings have been hurt by SoS oceanics, don’t worry you’ll get over it some day.

Someday, true. Perhaps one day we’ll have coverage 24/7. But in a way, I don’t think I want that because then we’ll end up outside the middle tier. I kinda like where we are, with a wide menu of options to fight. Incidentally, good chance we’ll be fighting this friday

Don’t need 24/7 to break out of mid-tier.

PoweredByRice.3517:

Sadly yes. I heard there is drama on this thread so I came. Plus I miss #MagSwag troll posts.

saiyr.3071:

PoweredByRice.3517:

Yes please. grabs popcorn

Halo.8976:

Can we get back to Agg spying on DB’s teamspeak drama? That was pretty good one.

JQ thread too short for you this week?

We only troll servers that refuse to fight, and JQ was the last one we faced that fit that criteria.

RE: 40% food

The calculations make reduction food strictly better than duration food because of how they do their math. A reduction on minus duration food would only be with the intention of making it balanced compared to plus duration food.

I only bring this up because a lot of people aren’t aware how much stronger minus duration is than plus duration. It’s kind of silly when you get to warrior with melandru, dogged march, lemongrass effectively ignoring soft cc’s.

Proof Maguuma worst server NA.

Jscull.2514:

Think its funny how guys are talkin mad game when they have 14 other team mates to help them and rely on…or 19 others. lol, don’t ever call yourselves hardcore. There are soloers that are better than most of those 15 or 20.

Not to mention real 5 man teams.

A guppy in a puddle.

Mag is practically the polite server this thread !!

those are minions necros y’all bad

Taking all voice chat 1v1’s please contact iAmTheDuke.6201

This thread is turning into the twilight zone. Mag is happy with the massive nightly zergs, DB and TC complaining.

We’re spending most of our time making [Agg] joke guilds. Look for some new ones this week!

Noobles.4325:

a mag thread is normally 10 pages by now :O they probably all busy pveing

It’s a pretty fun matchup.

Yeah, no kitten or PYRO would jump into a GvG unless stuff has officially already popped off and it dissolves into a Everyone vs Everyone fight.

Windmill is always the best when it dissolves to that point, though.

DB’s RE merged with into FIRE I thought.

Why is everyone transferring to Maguuma in this thread?

Also hello CNB!

We’re nice people please don’t discriminate!

I think too many people are still assuming that it’s either the old way or this way. There’s definitely different systems that could be used that would give more consistent matches. Many posted in this very thread!

That’s not how you private message someone.

Furiousbeard.7602:

I want to trade spots with Maguuma

Maybe FA and DB could try to not phone it in this week and get their rating back.

Vena.8436:

ParaldaWind.4523:

GvG is open field combat…

GvG is structured combat in the open field. Semantics to a degree but not quite the same thing.

Even if “Open field combat” was random groups vs random groups, a stat bonus would still make that diluted and even more meaningless.

joric.1042:

Really hoping to get a more competitive match-up. We don’t match up well to any server T3 and above. They seems to hand us our hats in an efficient manner.

Getting handed a hat isn’t so bad. TC/DB/Mag is one of the more fun matches we’ve had.

JudgeD.5673:

Don’t y’all on Maguuma think you have enough trebs here? I’m assuming the “There is no kill like overkill” effect is in play here.

Please don’t question Great Successor’s leadership.

So what happened to DB’s SEA? Just taking a week off?

Tricare is Saiyr’s alt account.

-con duration traits, food, and runes are way more valuable point for point than + con duration, and it’s entirely because the formula is done oddly. The -con duration is done at the end of calculation, meaning it’s always more valuable than + con duration. This leads to a kind of screwed up WvW meta if you are hoping to focus on soft cc and conditions.

I’d recommend either changing the formula to normalize the + and – before deciding on duration (If I have 1 second base duration, +90% duration, my target has -90% duration, it applies 1 second) or changing -duration things in game to reflect that it is more valuable point for point. An example would be Lemongrass becomes 30% vs pizza’s 40% instead of 40% vs 40%.

x per fection x.2096:

We didn’t get a GvG tonight but still lots of loot bags, so much for that TC/Mag working together thing. Really good fights though, TSL and FIRE just kept coming back over and over.

http://youtu.be/UOqtNAmb1fM

Combat Merchant Spotted

yesfourme.8906:

What I learn this week:

For the 2nd time in a row in 1 month, TC and Mag are working together (many times, TC and Mag were found together in the same buildings just waiting). While I will not be there to witness the gore feast, we are not stupid and every server know what is coming up.

This coming friday, TC will make sure DB is dead last by, as usual, not attacking Mag BL. And Mag will do the same. Mag will coordinate all their efforts on Friday to wipe all DB structures and, both servers will camp on the res waypoint of DB. Mark my words. It will happen again.
But you know what? Even if you wipe DB wvw to nothing, the rank of all the servers may not even change again. So… here is my take: WHATEVER!

It couldn’t be the obvious answer, that Mag/TC have a stronger timeslot than DB. We took every waypoint TC had off the map today while DB did their normal huddle in a corner and wonder why SEA isn’t carrying them approach. Strange teamwork we have.

Going to bump so this keeps getting attention. Please don’t add anything that buffs player stats match wide, or even map wide.

Lenador.1436:

When ppl goona complain bout double team? i need more reading material

You can take all our things we aren’t really attached to them.

Dontcare Aboutnames.9284:

Thanks for the improptu GvG @ hills PYRO next time lets try even numbers! 15 Yumm vs 40 PYRO isn’t fair no matter who wins!!

Nice counting. I saw at least 70 Yumm running from 20 PYRO before you were caught.

Can we focus the drama on Mag? Feeling like the 3rd wheel here.

Dontcare Aboutnames.9284:

We don’t even have 5 Yumm online :/ nice try though!

Almost like that time you said 10 AoN.

Niim.9260:

I got an infraction for saying my own guild was bad

You wait until Connie hears about this!

Can we please all hug.

I want to roleplay as the dolyak.

Devon I just want to echo caution in any stat buffing bonus. A lot of veteran players get their kicks on arranging fights in WvW, and having orbs that change that could be a huge hit to that entire scene.