Guild Wars 2

Pretty sure Retaliation is calculated based off the opponents power, not your own, as they are the one hitting you.

While WvW isn’t a completely new concept, the implementation of it into this style of game with the professions and unique combat system IS new.

They could have BETA tested WvW for years and still not known what it was going to be like when the game was actually launched. My guild is a fairly casual guild and I think that has allowed us to still enjoy WvW as it is because we are only in there around 10 hours a week for events but I certainly understand that for a guild who spends all day every day in there, it could get stale quite quickly.

I think we just need to have faith that the devs are reading the forums and taking notes. WvW has sooooo much potential and quite frankly, i’m glad they are actually spending a substantial amount of time working on it rather than just releasing little things here and there just to keep people happy.

Dear Hunter.8365:

So last night in EB we found out that we can have at least 11 commanders on the map. We thought the limit was 9 but… I guess we’ll have to turn on more and more until we find out. It was incredibly funny with all of us running around. It was a lot of fun. Hope to have some good battles tonight.

Oh my! Quite the chaotic map chat i’m guessing? Haha

Beastgate REPRESENT!

Any recent updates?

Cover Girl.2580:

6-3 all day.

can we add
7. servers that get a huge influx of bandwagon guilds, and think they came up the ranks on their own skill and abilities, and puppy talk how bad they are facerolling everyone.

Hahahaha 7) Big Ol 3 all day long. So much cheese it’s giving me gas!

Raincrow.1840:

Highlet.8039:

That being said, I have no problem making money in w3 or at the very worst, breaking even.

This is SOOOOOOOO missing the point.

The entire game economy, including anything you might want at the gem store is controlled by a large number of PvE players who have mountains of gold, while we pat ourselves on the back for making a bit here or there.

If players spending x number of hours doing one type of game play are making far more gold than players spending x number of hours doing another, it’s not a good system, and goes against what we were told this game would be like.

+1 Couldn’t agree more.

We just had a bit of a guild farming / donation drive to help one of our officers get his commander tag and yep, you guessed it, we had to spend time doing PvE to even get remotely close. The contrast between PvE and WvW is sad at the moment. I personally believe money should have been left out of WvW ENTIRELY right from the beginning and for a currency like Badges of Honor (Assuming they would increase the drop rate to compensate) to be put in place as the currency relating to everything WvW.

Aazo.2841:

What I would suggest would be to allow AOE damage to transmit through portals. This way if you AOE a portal… it damages folks at both sides of it. This would add an element of risk to those using this tactic, and force them to not delay or potentially be aoe’d at the portal entry spot. After all.. if players/golems can go through, why couln’t fireballs, meteor showers, etc.? Just a thought.

We would then see teams of mesmers running into keeps / locations, dropping portals and everyone on the outside spamming AOE to kill everyone at the portal’s end location, thus extending the range of the AOE abilities by a mile.

Jefzor.7145:

Limit portals to 5 people. Problem solved.

The people in that Mesmer’s party.. Still useful for moving teams around. All it means is for a zerg to move around they will need more mesmers and if they are committed enough to run around 10 mesmers simply for portals then good on them

Liquid.9672:

As of 4:39pm West Coast time (PST / GMT -8)

SoR primetime yo!

SoR prime so strong!

pot.6805:

I didn’t see any inflammatory stuff in the last thread to close it, seems kinda bogus. Oh well….

While most people would agree, lets not give them another reason to close ANOTHER one of our score threads

An ingame picture would be nice

Shall we try again? Tone it down a little guys!

Please post current scores below

The players who have left the game because of WvW will probably come back once the updates are in force. They aren’t paying anything to play it so why wouldn’t they come back..?

Once again another fantastic week of battles so far. Had a good laugh on SoR borderlands last night when the IoJ and SoR zergs decided to make themselves present on the map. kitten really hit the fan bahaha

I fear that these Tiers are going to be set in stone for quite some time. Probably not the way Anet intended WvW to be but still fun all the same.

They need to introduce an ‘auto loot on kill’ function to WvW for sure. In the heat of battle, the last thing you should need to worry about is looting the rewards.

dissonance.1673:

Pinkus.2860:

Indo.8629:

Pinkus.2860:

Ecklin.8327:

kaltastic.3146:

Wow, you have us pegged exactly. Now that you have successfully called us out, everyone on BG might as well fess up to other nefarious behavior you might have missed. I’ll start:

When we took your garrison early this week I personally:

• Washed my hands with the decorative soaps in the Garrison bath room

• Repeatedly opened and closed the Water Gate even though it had a sign that said "Keep this gate closed at all times

• Drank the last cup of coffee in the Lord’s Break room without brewing a fresh pot

I will understand if these deeds leave you to outraged to properly compete next week.

Its okay – we have staff that looks after that. Its all part of our friendly concierge service at SOR.

I’m surprised your server can’t afford such perks.

We spend all our moneys on mass golems ^.^ huehuehue

We will one day find the lands where BG keeps their army of Golems and make sure we pour water over their gears so they rust on you.

Though IoJ is a close 2nd I must admit.

I think it was TEST on opening night who used 10 golems to take briar.

We rushed Garrison last night on the SoR borderlands with 10ish golems while they were taking Ascension Bay ^.^

Trade off was worth it because we found 4 empty SoR golems sitting inside hehe.

Yeah that was a nice counter! So fast too!

In the end, you guys didn’t get them all, and we used what was left to take back the Garrison and your upgraded Hills and Greenlake about 30 mins later. 4 Golems for the map and one of your Golems in Woodhaven. Seemed like fitting payback. Fun!

Awwww dang it! We actually all logged off for the night after we did this Should have stayed around by the looks of it hahaha

Indo.8629:

Pinkus.2860:

Ecklin.8327:

kaltastic.3146:

Wow, you have us pegged exactly. Now that you have successfully called us out, everyone on BG might as well fess up to other nefarious behavior you might have missed. I’ll start:

When we took your garrison early this week I personally:

• Washed my hands with the decorative soaps in the Garrison bath room

• Repeatedly opened and closed the Water Gate even though it had a sign that said "Keep this gate closed at all times

• Drank the last cup of coffee in the Lord’s Break room without brewing a fresh pot

I will understand if these deeds leave you to outraged to properly compete next week.

Its okay – we have staff that looks after that. Its all part of our friendly concierge service at SOR.

I’m surprised your server can’t afford such perks.

We spend all our moneys on mass golems ^.^ huehuehue

We will one day find the lands where BG keeps their army of Golems and make sure we pour water over their gears so they rust on you.

Though IoJ is a close 2nd I must admit.

I think it was TEST on opening night who used 10 golems to take briar.

We rushed Garrison last night on the SoR borderlands with 10ish golems while they were taking Ascension Bay ^.^

Trade off was worth it because we found 4 empty SoR golems sitting inside hehe.

Ecklin.8327:

kaltastic.3146:

Wow, you have us pegged exactly. Now that you have successfully called us out, everyone on BG might as well fess up to other nefarious behavior you might have missed. I’ll start:

When we took your garrison early this week I personally:

• Washed my hands with the decorative soaps in the Garrison bath room

• Repeatedly opened and closed the Water Gate even though it had a sign that said "Keep this gate closed at all times

• Drank the last cup of coffee in the Lord’s Break room without brewing a fresh pot

I will understand if these deeds leave you to outraged to properly compete next week.

Its okay – we have staff that looks after that. Its all part of our friendly concierge service at SOR.

I’m surprised your server can’t afford such perks.

We spend all our moneys on mass golems ^.^ huehuehue

The thing I find most hilarious is that they are forcing up the prices of t6 materials through Ascended gear needing 250+ of all kinds of things but they haven’t introduced any ways of people either a) getting more of these materials from farming or b) giving players more ways of making money so they can afford the inflated materials.

It just seems like they realised they made a big mistake making the Legendaries so easily obtainable at the beginning of the game and now people who got left behind are now even FURTHER behind because of everything that’s changed sinse then.

Azaruil.3406:

I saw Blackgate, IoJ and SoR triple teaming the Kraitt. I have videos to prove it.

NOOOOOO!!! Not the Kraitt!!!!

So my message was deleted because i was apparently ‘trolling’ so i’ll try and reword the point i was making.

99.9% of Blackgate would in no way support the actions of ICoa. With that said though, there is no real way for us to control them without reporting the player/s when we see the action taking place, or for the evidence to be sent directly to Arenanet to be looked at.

It’s a shame that this stuff is taking place but I think we should focus on the positives that have come from this week and for me personally, there have been some INSANE battles between all servers which I am thankful for

Liquid.9672:

Playing when you don’t really want to only lasts so long.

People want to participate in WvW but as discussed several times before, alot of people are waiting for the WvW changes to take place before they invest outrageous amounts of time there. Fractals is without a doubt a decent distraction while they get the WvW patch completed.

I personally have enjoyed WvW right from the beginning but I think there were some serious design flaws in it right from the get go which people are starting to realise now that the honeymoon phase of the game is over.

I must say regarding this week’s match up (As an oceanic player) our guild has had an absolute blast! This thread is the perfect example of what the WvW community should be like which is such a contrast to some of the other matchup threads on here.

Keep up the good fight all!

Burl.9567:

SOR WTB Aussies/EU

Will pay in cookies, pie and other assorted desserts.

Cupcakes?

Has Beastgate finally awoken this week? GO TEAM GO!

Personally i’m loving seeing a strong Oceanic force on the other servers because it means we have people to fight!! IoJ doing work during Aus time zone had a great time last night

Evil.7529:

There is no other event in the game, or dungeon that offers such rewards or even a chance remotely close. That is the issue.

This

I can see alot of people leaving the game off the back of this kittening bullkitten event

Score update? Been a great week of WvW Had a blast!

The inclusion of magic find alone proves they are somewhat in favour of farming

Pinkus agrees with Phrozen in that commander tag should be something obtained through the guild but Pinkus also thinks that to weild the commander tag you need to have x amount of progression in terms of WvW achievements. Hybrid the ideas and it will mean that commanders are meaningful and the players using them have a pretty solid understanding of the battlefield.

“How about limiting NA players to NA servers and EU players to EU servers?”

The major night capping issue is coming from SEA so where do they go?

Things need to be implemented into the WvW maps that almost force the zergs to split up otherwise they will take a severe loss.

Something as simple as a really important dynamic event that spawns somewhere in the lake at a random time and once the objective is completed, that team is rewarded. You could get extremely creative with this but this is just a bare bones idea that could help promote strategic play rather than zergfest.

Hyperhypo.1249:

Why can’t they just add peak hour points and a daily reset when peak hours hit?

What is your definition of peak hour? I’m from Australia and I would argue that my peak hour is alot different to yours. This is a global game and needs to be treated as such.

They have let the free transfers go on for far too long already. They need to lock the servers that have already reached a particular number of accounts on them and only allow transfers to the others. It’s the only way this mess will be sorted because while guilds in the high tier servers ARE moving to lower ranked ones, they are only going to Tier 2 Tier 3 servers and nothing lower.

If they introduced an incentive for players to go join the low ranked servers, i’m sure people would flock there, helping with the balance of things.