Guild Wars 2

Well it seems that RUN have jumped ship and left to SoR, after convincing several guilds to come to SOS they leave them all high and dry because the world didnt fall into their laps within 4 days on the server.

Stay clear of this guild, theyre special thats for sure and their leader (if you can call him that) is dragging people around like puppets looking for his glory with no regard for anyone or anything.

Thumbs up to this thread.
We are one of the smaller guilds who transferred to SoS recently, and theres definitely a lot of skill and teamwork there and a great community to go with it.

As the Op said, we just dont have enough in the euro/NA timezone to have a force on every map, maybe 2 of the 4, which is why we sit mid pack (though we were leading our game until yesterday). Our oceanic is definitely strong, usually a +500 minimum when i log on each morning.

Well theres at least 400 of us NA WvW players just Transferred to SoS and formed a new alliance together. Things are really good on SoS…instant NA queues, great community, all commanders on the same page, lots of skill and effort.

Our aussies absolutely dominate the 4-5 bracket, even if they lost a guild or 2 to ET, looks like a couple others replaced them.

NA time is more competitive now with the transfers, usually holding 150-250 points for the aussies to build on, which from what i hear is a lot better than it used to be.

We are definitely holding our own and actually getting the upper hand in the maps which we go to, the problem is that we can only hold down a presence in a couple of maps which leaves a couple of maps with plenty of room. Just need a couple more big guilds to come on over to hold the opposite maps to us.

Want your guild to play together? Instant queues? Very strong overnight pop?

SOS is the place to be, follow what we did and get over here to be the force in them couple maps which we cant enforce.

Just get rid of the invisible zerg rushing, please.
I’d much rather settle for a DAOC style incoming lag than this

xgalaxy.7402:

Hey,

I’m on Fort Aspenwood here.
And yes, we are currently matched up.

From my perspective, it is really disappointing to go to bed, being up 4k points on both SoS and Mag, and then waking up to see SoS at a 10k point lead. That is a 14k point swing, in the middle of the night.

It makes wanting to take objectives and upgrade them feel pointless.

So your offering of joining SoS sounds real tempting because I’m getting tired of being nightcapped. Sigh.

Well…. TC got off to a flying start, but we soon started pegging them back. I guess that flying start is what gives you the impression that SoS only got our points overnight when this is not the case.

as i said we just started slow, but by 9pm Central we were the top points on potential, and stayed there until i went to bed at 11.30pm Central. I guess the aussies just kept that going and improved on it.

SoS definitely can compete in NA hours now, but we are still short a map of players at least.

Gindorf give SoS a thought, strong overnight usually between +400 and upwards, insta queues in NA prime. Quite a few of us just transferred there, real nice place to play.

Mablung.3519:

I respect that you are trying to get a NA presence on SoS, but honestly, Tarnished Coast is the server on the upswing. Oceanic players and guilds should move to TC. Proof below.

Hope you enjoyed that slap in the face tonight then when we showed you a glimpse of whats to come with the new NA playerbase on Sea of Sorrows, capping it off by taking your Orb and THEN taking a keep to put it in.

gtfo, looking forward to our next matchup.

HUG came out with us tonight and had a blast, especially at the end when we took Tarnished Coast’s Orb and THEN a keep to put it in lol

good times

highest hp
highest armor
ability to wear full dps set due to the above
highest burst damage in both melee and ranged

sounds balanced to me

Sea of Sorrows is my recommendation, its actually them who do the nightcapping but have instant queues in usa time

What most people dont realise is that you can spec so that youre pretty much guaranteed a crit kill shot which can fire off at double speed and leave you at 2 bars of adrenaline only needing to gain 1 more.

Friend of mine gets 14k crits regularly and only has about 15 secs downtime max between his shots.

sounds like gorgewall is just mad at sos for some reason.
But yeah as the OP says, the aussies on SoS for example have been smashing Tarnished Coast this week but losing it all through the usa daytime and evening.

2 days ago our 50 man guild and another 200 man guild transferred to SoS, and yeah the queues are instant, we were able to fill a map on our own pretty much. The current SoS NA playerbase seems very solid and skilled even though short in numbers, and worked really well with us new guys to get a very moral victory over TC last night in their border, taking 3 towers and a keep from them. The atmosphere on SoS seems really good too, not once did i hear people flaming at each other.

Couple more decent guilds and SoS could really flourish

Just do it, too many WvW spots are taken by these idiots who just stand in there all day
Hell if you want puzzles, make a puzzle pve/pvp map that doesnt affect the scores so that the real WvW players can actually get in

who left and where to?

Vzur.7123:

Psy

Axe 2 isnt really bad. It channels a lot faster than dagger 2 and has a real short cooldown.

Got a rare axe drop my level a bit ago, decided to give it another chance.. and bah, still can’t stand it. Feels like even dagger #1 has higher DPS. I guess it’s meant to get a boost from all those stacks of vuln, but even with 10 stacks on a mob, I don’t really see a difference in damage.

Dagger 1 is more dps than Axe 1. But Axe 1 has range, dagger does not.
Axe 2 is more dps than Dagger 2, simply because it channels faster and has a talented 6 sec cooldown. Mine does 4.5k, thats 9k every 12 secs compared to my guardians 6.5k every 12 secs. Think of damage to cooldown time, not just the 1 number you see.

Axe 3, with power build, is ridiculously good too. It does a steady aoe damage off the bat followed by a long duration retaliation if you hit multiples, which scales heavy with power.

Axe really isnt bad, its only bad to the noobs who like to see a big number in 1 hit.

Come to Isle of Janthir, weve had instant queue pops the past 2 days and still are giving ET a run for their money
also speak to Grimaldi ingame, hes putting together a new solid foundation of an alliance away from the trash who like to scream over each other.

Axe 2 isnt really bad. It channels a lot faster than dagger 2 and has a real short cooldown. 4k damage every 6 secs isnt bad, aswell as being able to give yourself retaliation off the Axe 3, which scales with power.
The short cooldown on Axe 2 also helps a lot paired with a spectral build to gain life force back.

And as another poster said, your burst comes from Death Shroud as a power build. Spamming 3.5k crits non stop hurts, you know? Use the Axe/Dagger combo to chip at them then burst the rest with Dagger 4 (you should have at least 1 cond by now) Axe 2 and DS spam.

That screenshot 5 posts up just gave everyone on the enemy teams a ts3 server their server uses, smart!

Well thats why you keep transfers free and open to the low pop servers, and lock the rest

If they would only allow guild perks to transfer with them, i bet there would be a few of us who would consider it

I agree WvW would be a better and more exciting experience without a scoreboard, and also without a potential points indicator.
Just announce the scores and winners at the end of the games

Is it me or can ET simply not hold their own? How high would they be without their alliances with other servers? It makes you wonder if this is actually how they got to the top and how false their ranking actually is

Ive come to the conclusion that either Eredon Terrace have been upto their usual tricks and did transfers to talk to Crystal Desert and have them play for 2nd place, or Crystal Desert are just plain stupid.

They are blatantly double teaming IoJ in the ET borderlands all day, both pushing in on Bluebriar and then blatantly leaving each other alone when they meet and going their seperate ways

Had this twice now tonight with suddenly 40 rushing ET players loading on top of us while we attack a gate.
Its ridiculous and to be honest i will not be spending any more money on gem store or plan to play this game long term while its like this.

So much for the massive multiplayer game Anet, may aswell have 100 30 player maps so we can at least see who we are fighting

this
game
lacks
any
purpose
to
WvW

WTB progression RvR before we all get bored and move on to games which will offer us that “carrot on a stick” incentive to keep playing.

As it stands, this is looking very very bad for Anet and they could be on the verge of making history for the biggest MMO collapse of all time if they dont give us a reason to keep playing.

WvW “for the fun of it” just doesnt cut it, this is an MMO with a different crowd with different needs , not call of duty or GW1.

Tzash.5748:

So two situations off the top of my head:
1) you hold an objective for 11 hrs 55 mins and then lose it. You get no points.
2) people don’t bother fighting until an hour or so before your ticks because its meaningless.

In short, no thanks.

Isnt this the purpose?
to 1) It will give people a chance to get a competitive score instead of getting the bulk of their score when there is no defenders.
to 2) Maybe this will help queues too? And if they log on an hour beforehand, theyre gonna be up against some nasty defence, so no this would not happen.

Maybe, just maybe, this could counter the heavy nightcapping happening to give worlds that huge huge lead they are getting?

Tick 1 – Noon PST
Tick 2 – Midnight PST
(oops and of course euro have their own times based on GMT)

Gives people a chance to do something about the night cap before the score is registered.

Whatcha think?

and yet we’ll all be bored of this game within 2 month when the luxury of alts wears off and theres no more progression to do.
the wvw isnt exactly thrilling right now is it, you either have everything or you have nothing.
sadly gw2 is just turning into another filler game until the next big thing

Really, the servers should have been Global and not regional right from the start.
It was obvious that the big alliances were going to give a heavy focus on off-peak dominance to get the edge in games, now if the servers were all Global ones this wouldnt have been so much of an issue because it would have always been prime time somewhere.

Is it too late to revert to this? If so, what are peoples feelings on making WvW rankings and matchups Global? This would pit the strong 24/7 servers of both regions against each other and maybe stop this 1 server domination which is happening on both sides of the water.

Trait Inner Fire
supposed to give Fury when set on fire, instead it is giving a 1 stack of Might

Please fix.

still not fixed

in addition to this, the trait to reduce scepter cooldowns by 20% is also not working on the #2 ability, it reduces by 0%

I went through every single server worldwide before the 24 hr transfer.
There was no npc on any server for the skill point.

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This has gone on far too long now and im really frustrated at it.

Mesmer scepter #1 ability Ether Bolt.
- Supposed to: 3rd attack on it is supposed to confuse the target and summon a clone which casts ether bolt.
- Actual: No confusion effect, and summons a clone which melees with their scepter for 8 damage.

Mesmer 20 point Trait Phantasmal Haste
- Supposed to: Phantasms recharge 20% faster
- Actual: Phantasms recharge 0% (yes ZERO) faster

Nekroseth.5186:

God and all forces in the galaxy NO. Defeats the whole point of the game.
The point of fun.
Progression = getting something (with hard work) that others dont have (without hard work). Basically it dephends on time and effort(that needs time).
So who ever has more time to play rox? Thats a stupid concept and i cant agree with it.

On other hand, ok reward players that work hard. Let them Grind and Farm. WE did it in Gw1 and it was fun when we got cool armors and weapons or skills. But they didnt make us powrfull or progress us anyway.

If oyu cant grab the concept of enjoying events and fights or exploring or pvp ing, or showing off your awesome (hard earned) armors and weapons, then i suggest you find another game.

Thats the stupidest comment ive ever heard about an MMO. And yes this is an MMO not GW1, hence how its blew GW1 sales out of the sky.
You think a million MMO players are gonna be happy when they’ve got the best stats their character can have (very easy to get) and theres no further point to progress their character?

Im not saying it has to give an advantage, but something such as a WvW rank which displays on your name could be the grind. Such as Stormbluff Isle Invader/Defender (rank 1), Stormbluff Isle Aggressor/Protector (rank 2) etc etc

This should be a mega grind though, like a year to hit max rank for the average/high player. We MMO players need something to aim for, or the interest fades and youll end up with a 4 server GW1

a guardian friend of mine also confirmed this bug of giving the wrong buff

Psy.6153:

add a free for all Guild v Guild map that doesnt affect the WvW scores.

I still stick by this.

greetings to Fort Aspenwood from nMe and the BP alliance, your map looks nice in green today

BP (joined us on janthir) and PTX (aspenwood) have both just left devona’s now too, at this point its got to be a ghost town and even weaker than kaineng

“When you are set on fire, you gain Fury”

This is not happening. Instead its giving a 1 stack of Might.

Make Orbs give 50 points per score tick and a karma bonus, nothing else.
Give outmanned a stat boost.

This still keeps people interested in the orbs (actually may see the borderland to EB queues even out) because 50 points a tick is a hefty amount

Hello all Guild Wars 2 gamers! I’ll try to keep this short

We, Nemesis, are fully committed to Guild Wars 2 and have been since the first beta.
We have openened up our gaming community to welcome some new members and future friends from Guild Wars 2.

A little about our guild:

Many of our members roots come from the days of Dark Age Of Camelot release, but the guild itself didn’t form together until RIFT where we were the servers #2 guild, and then also formed on SWTOR where we were the #1 guild on our server being the first to clear all content and among the top rated PvP guilds. We hope to continue that success on Guild Wars 2 where we are hitting WvW as a guild with our alliance very successfully.
[B]We will never treat the guild or our members as “hardcore”, we prefer to become one of the top guilds by doing it the right way…. having fun![/B]

All of our members old and new are successful and skilled MMO players, with a great balance of maturity and fun to make our gaming experience as a collective the most enjoyable we can for each other.
We will never demand or expect real life time from our guild mates. Gaming is fun and we will always aim to keep it that way.

If we sound like your kinda people and your kinda guild, then please come along to our website, hit the “apply to this guild” button, and fill in the very short form. Otherwise /whisper to Ohai ingame.

http://nemesis.gaming.shivtr.com/

While having accumulated a reputation for being great guys n girls, we also have a reputation as being a skilled group of players and would like to keep it that way, so please only apply if you are confident in your own abilities.
Our server is Isle of Janthir after we transferred from an overpopulated jade quarry.

We look forward to hearing from you and hopefully playing GW2 together in the future!

Thanks!

disclaimer – elitists, egotistical kitten, and general not nice people need not apply

Please? Just anything to keep the interest whether its WvW ranks or whatever, just gimme something to aim for as i dont really feel theres anything left to aim for now

add a free for all Guild v Guild map that doesnt affect the WvW scores.

Great fight so far between IoJ, SoS and Aspenwood

Very tight and even, this is how wvw should be

An actual alliance to guilds, and an alliance chat…. like daoc…. is what this game lacks severely

No sorry but low servers dont have queues, with Eredons Terrace as the exception

Psy.6153:

Honor of the Waves.
Completed story mode, zoned out, entered explorable mode, 4 of us got in and 1 in their own instance.
Zoned out and restarted client, now 3 got into the same instance and 2 in their own instances.

Just a heads up on how we did a workaround for this.
We all ported to ascalonian catacombs and entered it, we then exited and went back to HotW and it let all 5 of us in.

They are bots.
When we were on Devona’s we came across the NSP bots at the skritts also, about a week ago.
We farmed them for a couple of hours, they all run in a train on a set path, jumping every few steps. They do not attack back or do anything except stay on their path.

Ty for the free exp and badges

Honor of the Waves.
Completed story mode, zoned out, entered explorable mode, 4 of us got in and 1 in their own instance.
Zoned out and restarted client, now 3 got into the same instance and 2 in their own instances.