Guild Wars 2

Cryptik.7298:

A brief tour of EBG – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VBypWQ6nY4&feature=youtu.be

:)

I take no credit for what happened this morning on jq, all of it goes out to the oceanics.

I just so happened to log on and post the current updates at the time. I’ve been as unbiast and
subjective as possible hosting this thread and posting the latest scores.

This entire week there have been equal status updates of sos leading/sor leading/jq leading. Calm your pants forums warriors.

Updates!

waha.4921:

I have a dream .. 4 waypoints

Waha

Give this man a Medal!

Today marks history in Tier 1.

• Just 9 hours ago, JQ barely held on to the only thing they had which was Lowlands Keep with no walls while being pushed by both opposing severs. Since then, EBG has taken a reverse 180!

Outstanding performance!

JQ has successfully Quadripple waypointted and max fortified everything in EBG!

• This has never been done before in T1 history!

Up fresh and early with Foo/EMP/AoS//Omen/EXI/DC/FC/Yaki!

Early morning with our Oceanics!

Heard all the transfers BG is receiving. Can’t wait to fight against BG in T1 again!

As a competitor on JQ, I’m ashamed to see these kinds of malicious attack against a well accredited server like SoS. They have worked very hard to build their community and deserve every right to be in the T1 competition.

But I have high hopes SoS will perspire. With new content in WvW this upcoming month and many founding WvW guilds still around. I’m certain everything will clear up. Just a few road bumps to clear through.

Icoa’s web is pretty slick!

jojojoon.8607:

ISteveI.9732:

If JQ SEA is playing overtime then that means they are playing till 4-5am SEA time especially weekdays.

i doubt so

If the SEA crew plays to 1am or 2am, that’s 5pm or 6pm euro time (London). Or 6pm to 7pm (if based on Rome). Handing over upgraded keeps/towers and playing part of early euro prime do wonders for the euro crew.

If you do not believe me, can you name 1 euro guild in JQ that is as big as votf or hb? Typically, to dominate a time zone, you need 1 good size guild in that slot. WM in SEA for SBI, Foo in SEA for JQ, MERC in oceanic for SOS, etc..

JQ has superior SEA and NA coverage. SOS has superior oceanic and NA coverage (or used to). The difference why JQ has won the last few weeks while SOS has not is all due to motivation and attitude.

Keep in mind there are a variety of International guilds that slot in for NA morning/EU prime. Guilds like EMP/PRX/SF can field pretty much 16+ hrs alone daily within their rosters to make up for dead zones.

2-3 hours of taking/defending a keep= -20s+ from repair jobs, and one event reward.

15 minute dungeon = 40S, 4+ chests, tokens towards exotics.

Cirus.5748:

What the people on Jade Quarry don’t realise, is that your stacked server is destroying the rest of the WvW competition.

It doesn’t effect you because you’re winning by 100k points, right? Wrong.

It’s squeezing the life out of the other tier 1 servers, more people are becoming discouraged because it’s not fun to get steamrolled at your spawn on 4 fronts 24/7. You will come to a realization that you had more fun when the competition was close and epic battles were fought against worthy enemies.

You’ll get bored of spawn camping and PvDooring, then your server will self destruct and top tier WvW will die with you.

Think about it.

Once wvw updates arrive (March) WvW will be allot more competitive! New content drives more players/guilds interested with the new rewards/ranks system!

Think about it.

Good fights today!

All our guilds from NA are still up karma/exp farming events here in jq in celebration for todays hold

On the other side of borders, Aos/sf/prx is taking shots and zerging.

#funnightsonjq

I’ve loved my ranger and have commanded under that profession for months, but with the way field tactics are evolving its not as practical frountlining. As a leader you need to be in front of the group able to route in a specified manner absorbing and sustaining as much damage until you or the other team wipes. I cant tell you how frustrating it was trying to lead when i was dead on the ground as a ranger.

Without a doubt, i recommend running a Warrior/Guardian.

Fun fight today on JQ Borders!

Everyone is bringing their A game!

tkalamba.2541:

Burl.9567:

tkalamba.2541:

MarMaster.6241:

What would happen to scoring if NOBODY captured camps, towers, keeps, or SM? ALL week long. Nothing but hide and seek, open field battles, skirmishes and running about. Interesting to think about.

I’d support this. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Better yet. The entire map is one giant JP.

Jumping puzzles I can’t do. I suck horribly at them, but if we did a week of just slaughtering each other and not worry about points, or capping, I think it’d be pretty entertaining.

JP is the best way to get free siege!

MarMaster.6241:

What would happen to scoring if NOBODY captured camps, towers, keeps, or SM? ALL week long. Nothing but hide and seek, open field battles, skirmishes and running about. Interesting to think about.

Interesting concept, sounds like Open world PvP.

Please remember: To keep this thread civil!

Also: Post any cool photos/vids of the T1 competition!

www.osguild.us

^Crazy cool sound effects!

Some guild competition on the T1 WvW field!

EMP vs Choo Video

Let the week’s Tier 1 endeavor begin. Good luck ladies and gentlemen!

May the tick be forever in your (servers’s) favor.

• Answer = Current updated score

Reminence of hope is todays spotlight!

Keep posting your awesome guild websites!

joocheese.6314:

SkeletalLlama.5381:

Good thing bag slots are on sale today. Choo keeps leaving bags all over the map.

I don’t recall seeing any posts from SoR deriding EMP when they we’re leaving bags all over the map. Sad how some have to make themselves feel better by putting others down. Keep it classy JQ!

P.S. Keep up the great fights everyone!

You are aware that one post doesn’t necessarily represent the entirety of a guild let alone the server.

Nevertheless, we had a fun week! We enjoy the challenges SoR’s NA has brought to the table!

Doing a few GvG’s tomorrow before reset! Msg me if you are interested!

may the tick be forever in your favor

Score update

Fear clan’s layout is siick!

love the icons

Few guilds credentials updated!

Thanks!

Tijgertje.7461:

Still active recruiting, so if you are looking for a ACTIVE guild. Emperium is the place to be.
Contact our Leadership for more information!

We have over 100 player spots reserved ! Check us out before we lockdown recruitment!

I really like the design of DF!

Vaash.8956:

EMP, we had a blast fighting you guys last night from SOS! glad to hear you guys stick to the real game and not stoop to spawn camping. but yea, you guys gave us a great run, had some epic battles. see you on the field!

Likewise! Its been great fighting against AFS!

Some guild videos of 25v25s:

EMP v TSYM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43H28yWnkI

EMP v HB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjvRRI9u9oU

EMP v VoTF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYNNGpC5fe8

When it comes down to the wire, it’s hard to measure a guilds aptitude with so many variables in context. Defending, pushing, etc. I would agree VoTF has superb field mechanics, yet we excel mostly on defensive objectives and tend to succeed in countering when we have one on hand.

HB is a very well rounded guild and are very defensive out on the field.

TSYM in my opinion is a very well rounded large sized guild and the tides can change drastically depending on what numbers they can field.

I’ve seen many guilds either wipe or get wiped in so many scenarios. All these guilds are up to par with some of the best competition because they have qualities that distinguish them from the rest.

GvG’s are fun to see how guilds stack up with even numbers, but lets remember this is WvW not GvG gw1.

It’s a whole entire game mode.

IDarko.4709:

Nice try to advertise your guild.

Seriously, this is a pointless thread that does not belong in this subforum. And if you are so interested in nice looking guild websites, why are only WvW guilds allowed to post?

Edited! Im sure like our guild, there are many fantastic web designers putting in hard hours promoting their guilds! Just a nice way to give notice to those distinguishable.

Seeing as there are allot of amazing guilds within the gw2 community, I would like to create a thread representing those guilds specificity with bomb-tastic websites.

Let the posting begin! Top guild web = current answer

EMP – Empërium
Link

EMP founder here!

We take these sort of actions very seriously in our guild and stress the importance on maintaining a positive reputation while abiding to WvW etiquette. None of us were aware of this situation until fellow leaders/officers notified us directly.(from opposing servers)

Thank you to those that have notified me directly. These members have been dealt with and this issue has been disclosed.

Sorry for any inconvience, see you on the battlefield!

-Raw

EMP founder here!
We take these sort of actions very seriously in our guild and stress the importance on maintaining a positive reputation while abiding to WvW etiquette. None of us were aware of this situation until fellow leaders/officers notified us directly.(from opposing servers)

Thank you to those that have notified me directly. These members have been dealt with and this issue has been disclosed.
Sorry for any inconvience, see you on the battlefield!

-Raw

PsychoticWaltz.1768:

Rawnoodles.1398:

Well said VoTF Leader!

Don’t make Aneu mad

Fixed,

EMP had a blast running in EBG for reset! First time fighting Choo in full force!

May the tick be forever in your favor.

JQ PPT: 335+ 37,015
SoS PPT: 175+ 29,610
SoR PPT: 185+ 23,176

Jackie.1829:

salluks.6017:

didnt EMP lose 5-0 against Votf?

proof here
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/80025-tier-1-gvg-emptsym-hb-votf/

Meh. EMP is a very good guild at what they do, which is defending. You can argue siege bla bla, but we still have the most hassle when attempting to take a keep off EMP than any other guild, at least in NA t1.

Most good guilds have already been named, so I would have nothing new to add to the list.

I will say one thing though, stop bring up GW1 GvG. Unless any of you here was actually a top 10 player in GW1 for more than just 1 month, then comparing GW1 GvG to what we have here is an insult.

The open field battles here are interesting and certainly have their own gameplay, but its only just a case of initiating, hitting all your skills and dodging. What you should keep in mind that being “good and skillful” doesnt just mean having good micro with your class. GW1 GvG was so much more than just hitting your buttons, it had map objectives which required intelligence and thought which far exceeds anything GW2 wvw or GvG has to offer.

And thats why dictating who the best guild is based solely on who wipes who more is stupid, because even in GW1 this wasnt the case, smarter players always outplayed players with good class micro, because in real pvp, brains matter more than who hits the keyboard harder.

Well said VoTF!

There are so many dynamics to WvW, some guilds focus primarily on fielding/pushing while other guilds, like ourselves (EMP), focus on the PPT and withholding and innovating our siege/fort defences.

Having the ability to play against strong fielding guilds like : HB, TSYM,TW,VoTF,Choo has not only changed the way we operate on the field, but revolutionize how both elements can play into effect.

In my opinion, a good guild is one that can adapt to change and from what I’ve seen operating with my guild, a guild that has the best response time with a strong objective usually pulls through with great presence. It’s hard to categorize which guilds reigns supreme, but i can list a breakdown of the prime elements.

T1

Best Open Field

• RG
• VoTF
• TW
• FEAR
• Choo
• Agg

Best Defense

• Merc
• One
• Fire

Well rounded

• Foo
• EMP
• PRX
• SF
• TSYM
• CDS
• OES
• AoS

-EMP leader
Raw

Our new and improved website is up!

Check it out at http://www.empgaming.net

Kissbel.3475:

Darkrider.7461:

I don’t know that i would say EMP or even JQ is the best at open field combat. pound for pound the best i have fought so far would be MERC, and a long way back War-machine.

Tonight we had some great fights and defense from all partys in JQB. ill tip my hat to you all for fliping our garrison well played.

i guess i wont mention the fact we held it off for over 2 hours with a handful of pugs very little supply and like 3 arrow carts and two omega golems.

Good game tho thats pro stuff …….right ?

Nitejack the EMP portal Beetoch

lol was you the one with the great idiot idea of porting golems back and forward lol what i waste lol did you guys learn anything from it?

Prevented you from building siege for 5 hours. Kinda worked

Eagle.5174:

Most boring night i have ever had in W3, and this was suppose to be this “T1” epic defending tactics of EMP?

Boring? How was fighting against a double keep defense boring?

Don’t think you guys weren’t frustrated when FEAR deployed +6 omegas against our 2 that were up nearly all day.

It was a fun fight nevertheless, it was EMP’s 1st time in full fighting force against old friends of JQ(TW) and we are humble enough to say you guys definitely diserverd at NA’s end result.

Yet that doesnt mean it was right of TW to message every one of our leaders/commanders stating how bad we are which clearly isnt the case seeing as we held most of our JQB better then any other NA Prime so far in this bracket.

To bring another point, why do you think we would ever partake in open field combat when we have over 7 fortifications to defend on our own borderlands with stuff we had prebuilt? Sorry but I’d rather have you guys come to us at our defense hence the functionality of forts. Maybe they help hold PPT? Who would have known.

Sometimes its not all about the field fights and flipping faster then other servers. Maybe a defense game is best sometimes.

Swich the odds, lets see SoR start with a fully upgraded map against JQ’s best pushing guilds.

Oh wait, havent seen 3x waypoints ever on SoR during NA, scratch that…..

Nevertheless, we here In EMP had a fun time defendeding against all the SoR NA powerhouse guilds and you guys have every right to be in tier 1, SoR has worked for it. TW,Choo,FEAR,CDS to name a few.

Lets just tone down the illogical, ego boosting, my guild is better then yours, remarks and create a better server to server relationship.

kefro.9312:

This is the kind of kids that made me transfer.. i mean like full server vs full server when it wasnt night time, you know when we capped all jq borderland vs a full server…
If making 500 points per tick during night vs 0 players makes you happy, good for you, you get like what 4 badges all night? Must be great

Whatever makes you sleep at night. Keep talking, you want Full que vs que competition? See you in JQB.

EMP will be in full force starting today with our 17+ hour daily intl coverage.

Unlike others, we find coverage gaps and take advantage hence the scoreboard. Don’t undermine the strength of our guilds and to be quite frankly, most of our NA’s havent been out in full force due to the fact we’ve scheduled around times when your offline, making our job easier when the ques are weaker.

Learn the game mode and start adapting.

Score Update:

Good work JQ INTl guilds & Oceanics!

SuPaSuPau.1904:

WvW is over. All roads lead to getting wiped by JQ.

With free transfers gone they have the numbers to win from here to eternity. gg everyone!

New wvw content = more players = increasing WvW productivity.

Quit wining and do something about it, like we did.

I was one of the 1st founding commanders when the game started and at the time I didn’t need a “blue icon” to lead.

The misconception people have is if there isn’t a commander pin, there isn’t no sence of leading.

I hate to say this is true but don’t let it deter your ways of leading because all you need to do is throw up a “lfg tag” and get people to rally on you. As long as you have a few supporters willing to back you up, it is allot more effective then a icon placeholder.

Its just an icon at the end of the day.

Looks like we’re bringing back the PPT train a few days early…

Orikx.9671:

Thobek.1730:

perhaps we should spread the word and see if we can get this happening?

NEXT WEEK SoS+SoR vs JQ.

Might be quite interesting dynamic working with another server.

I highly doubt you will be able to get this going. SoR is well known for not wanting to team with other servers. In T2 losing week after week to BG players from IoJ purposed a 2v1 several times and got flamed by us for it.

We like our 3 way fights to much.

Agreed, It’s called WvWvW for a reason. Not 2WvW

Despite all the negativity from forums, I can speak for behalf of my guild EMP – Empërium, has enjoyed all rigorous encounters from opposing servers. This week our main objective was to sit down and optimize the transition time between our coverage hours for our triple way point defense.

Shout out to: TSYM,FEAR,TW,NYS,TWL,ONE,MERC and many other guilds for putting up such a fantastic fight.

Our ambitions of Nonagon’ing border waypoints were cut short this morning by 2 waypoints from such a heavy offense. Great fight everyone and keep up the good work!

Also, EMP will be doing GvG’s all friday.

Message me if your guild is interested! We can tell you the matchup details.

We had a blast fighting against some of the best guilds!

Much thanks for those that arranged time out of their day to set up! Many more fights to come!

-Raw

I agree with this man. GvG (golem v golem) is so broken

It was fantastic that we had a chance to officaly GvG. Great fun with TSYM

We will be uploading photo’s and videos. Great work everyone across all three servers. Hope those that were there enjoyed the fight!

Score: EMP – 6 , TSYM – 3

Emperium’s 1st Video Compilation 1:3 ratios