Guild Wars 2

well, there is one thing that could help a little ….sometimes when commanders aren’t on…it’s hard to tell where the zerg is at …..

It would be nice to have some option to join a zerg without a commander …

Ie – there would be an option in join party section ….Zerg A – Zerg B – Zerg C

each zerg group can have say a max of 30 members ..this way when there are no commanders on – we can at least form some sort of organized group – this would certainly help the lower populated servers that wouldn’t bother spending 100g in a low tier wvw match.

This is also my problem with having commander zerglings ….. when you see 3 commanders in one keep fighting together ..that is a mis-message that the entire server should be at that location ……this is a horrible tactic as you cover your kittens and leave your face wide open.

An Option to join zerg a b or c would counter this logistical flaw – brought about by the human nature of wanting to show off your commander status than actually perform like a capable commander.

i’ve been on both sides of this also – it wasn’t fun when i had to stop wvw to go out and farm stuff in a pve area of the game to have money for repairs.

I die more than ever now but we also push to cap as much as we can, so I still make a profit. Now in worse case scenarios , some nights i make less than others, other nights i’m making a killing -pun intended-

so I am torn on this as I know how hard it can be to not even have a chance to sustain repairs in an unbalanced war …. but the RP side of me accepts that in real life scenarios …thats what it would be like if you were fighting for a poor country – so on a strategic level – I accept it …..not that i like it ….but for tactical reasons – as much as I love my country …if they are getting pounded and can’t afford to fight back …i’d move. :/

according to some of the complaints in this thread “Finish Him” is a distasteful act lol.

reminder – it’s a game.

I was in your same boat, didn’t know anyone. I just kept roaming around the game randomly joining groups and supporting them, at time running solo missions. At times doing my share of making tactical suggestions in chat of how the battle should unfold.

I’ve gone through about 6 guilds meeting people randomly – each guild had it’s own focus and feel …and some were simply not my flavor, they weren’t bad ..but farming jormag got a little old for my tastes.

I finally ended up in a guild that I’m very happy with, and I always find one of my guildies in somewhere I find interesting.

My advice is just have fun, play your best, at low levels, try to avoid roaming the grounds alone …and find any formed zergs to run with if you want to fight. eventually you will be invited to the right guild – expect to go through a few of them before you find one that’s right for you. I got to the point that I simply looked at the whole server as my own guild…that alone landed me in the right server and now I feel at home with the right server and the right guild. Took a minute though and was frustrating for a while.

it would work by forming uncanny alliances with other servers. other than that the game mechanics are simply different and some things you can get away with eve are considered exploits and violations in GW2. you can’t play checkers in a chess kind of way but you can have a poker face in either. In the end, it’s all about how we interact with each other with the given mechanics. IE – agreeing to have an alliance with an opposing server to take out a common enemy, then suddenly flipping the script and taking their property when they help, but in the end that would backfire because they would then inadvertently ally with your enemy by wanting revenge and focusing their attacks on you along with the enemy.

United we stand, divided YOU fall….. cuz darkhaven gonna be all over you like white on rice!! O.o

your truth is appreciated and further embellished with, thats why we had a slow start. Some people wanted to pve for a while first and at start up, we were infested with bots more than any other server. It’s cleaner now and we are level 80. We are not a guild, we are like minded people who love to pvp. ( I watched other forums while we were in beta and was looking for where pvp lovers were going to test it at lol )

I’m mainly pointing this out also because I would love to see it stay that way. Some servers like pve…some servers are desperate to win with big guilds and jump around from server to server….and our server has fun people that love it all and fight with a passion. I’m pointing it out so the core of darkhaven stay together and hopefully we can get a balanced team for future wvw by pointing it out to other like minded players to help keep these epic battles going.

which btw, this is a screen cap from a w/e beta event in wvw with darkhaven. our core players are Hard Core and i’m proud of them.

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/teranoxghost/Guildwars/gw186.png

well imo, this is the perfect chance to form a great pvp server and find like minded people to play with. The core of Darkhaven way back from beta have been hard core pvp’rs …so don’t expect the core Darkhaven players to transfer any time soon. Besides, Darkhaven is such a cool name / theme for people who like the RP aspect of mmo rpgs ( like me)!! It’s a Dark haven for people who love to fight.

Eventually free transfers will be a thing of the past and hopefully by then we would have attracted the best of the best from the various servers we fought along the way.

i’ve been on both sides of that! one minute i’m cringing at the smashing someone is about to get…me! ..and the next minute I’m avoiding repair costs in a losing battle lol. Real fights are simply lively. I’m over it, now i just charge anyways lol..it’s a self challenge to see how much damage i can do before they drop me, it’s how i gauge of how much of a threat they are. sometimes they run! hahaha!!

In the RPG world, I am a Drow…we give respect when due – we cause fear when necessary.

Feature request, after a finishing move, the victims head gets placed on a stick till they finally decide to stop spying.

i look kinda cute when i do it though, – lets face it, if you try to break into our house and we chase off your zerg, not only will i dance and laugh, but I’ll stand there finishing off the rest of your hostile crew right over your dead body. I don’t do that when i go hunting though. I wish those guys well – I would even res them if i could! -wipes tear-

-cringes- yall cost me a fortune in repairs…fortunately we get it back after we take you down!!!

I know, it’s the perfect storm for a darkhaven talent scout like me!

can’t wait till we join forces to smash blackgate!! I pity the 3rd party in that match up!

well there’s the solution, we just all join one server with some ill tactic, night capping, portal bombing, beer chugging bastages, …that’s top tier material…#justsaying

i had to laugh, epic battles in game and on forum. the one server match that is having a blast in wvw is rioting everywhere. -smh-

grinding is part of any rpg mmo – you build your character, you build your stuff, you earn your respect from fighting countless battles. The real value is about being able to brag about it lol. “Son, i had to walk fifteen miles through wildcreek, while dodging arrows just to get a plank of wood!!”

so, I’m not sure if pointing out the grind is right, because in general winning is a grind…what I think is a more effective word is …Taxing. somethings feel taxing, and being taxed is not fun. Grinding your opponents to the ground in wvw on the other hand IS fun.

lol.. :p got milk ?

actually, i think the issue was in the presentation – had there been something for everyone to have at the start to remember the first halloween, it would have been a nice bonus to be able to gamble for a rare skin after. Obviously everyone wants the first holiday item put out.

and while I’m there , is it possible to make the Anet hat we got useable in wvw ? I really like it.

if everything went perfect, it would be boring – it’s the crazy little mistakes and antics that we remember with a smile. Every server should make time to stop and smell the grub – you might lose a castle, but you will gain an adventure worth telling.

i have to say, I’m really happy with the cooperation I’ve been seeing in Darkhaven wvw lately – there have been times no commanders at all have been on – and everyone is simply starting work together helping each others objectives. A team of 5 goes to cap a supply camp, they spot a zerg of 20 – they announce it in chat, all other similar teams group up in support then run off together. Very cool to be a part of and watch happen! The commander symbol to “me” is a symbol of a strong offensive underway, simply because at a glance …the blue icon is the quick answer to the question “Where’s the zerg at ?”

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

it would have been nice to have a skin to remember our first holiday together in GW2, but I have the best stats on my gear, so it’s all good.. Nice decoration work btw!!

the best way to make a profit is to find your own mats, buying mats from TP will only yield as mentioned 10-20 silver …and even then there is always someone making them in bulk to outbid you. Other than that you can watch for trends – like what happened with mystic coins, and act on them as fast as you can before everyone else does it.

Thank You, Glad you enjoyed it!!

here’s another -

well before everyone goes on to paint DH with one massive brush, we have many new users that transferred over – I’ve never heard of any exploits on DH before this match.

So don’t confuse the core DH members with the bandwagon jumpers. Everyone I have rolled with on the field fights hard and loves honest good clean brutal fun.

i have to hand it to darkhaven, the field is complete madness, epic battles left right and center!! Strangely enough, based on war tactics, we have a variety of players that do things that completely defy logic. I was on just before ankittenep hearing the benny hill song while I watch how the fights go on and the grub gets conquered and a 1 hp wall manages to keep out a zerg of 40! we are just one big chaotic blast of omg, what just happened ?

we all actually work quite well together in a really strange way, no one goes unresed!!

Fine, Bring it on!! A Halloween Death Match!! whomever holds SM at an agreed time by all servers is the winner of the match – regardless of the score!!

i’ll settle this! – it’s a game and we are having fun bashing each others brains out, if scores didn’t matter – maybe we should make a date to have epic battles with most attendees.

let’s not forget we are all fun loving people that really just want epic battles.

i use to think that Darkhaven was all about the fighting spirit, till I realized, the core pvp population of this server is just flat out insane, and we like it <3 large population servers mean more for us to kill, it’s nice. -twitch- you could almost hear their bones crunch when you shoot a mirror blade into a zerg and watch the enemies eyes fall out their sockets when you shatter your illusions. i get all warm and fuzzy thinking about it. -shudders-

there are things that need to be done in wvw that any level can help, building sieges, running the sieges in times of defense. being a scout for zergs and informing your map where the zergs are so they can respond quickly, taking out yaks, repairing walls while your level 80’s fend off zergs, keeping an eye on the map and letting your server know when important locations have been capped and suggesting strategies.. ….all these are important things to do that is not the best job for a level 80 who is needed on the battlefield. There are tons of things you can do while you level up to help your server immensely. Doing this will also train you to be a great leader as you play the support role and gain understanding of what is needed in battle when you get there.

or make your character soulbound to the server you wvw with – npc’s, will not honor a character thats not soulbound in wvw, they won’t be able to build sieges, get karma, cash or xp for capping and can not use chat. “your character must be soulbound to do this”

once soulbound, if the player wants to change servers, he must delete his old characters, forget about the past and start new lives with new characters in a new server.

“you, build the siege golem under the hot oil pot,… you, make sure you keep those 1 hp castle walls up and drain our supplies while they relentlessly treb it, the rest come with me, we have a grub to kill!! We Got This!!”

win or lose we love the rush of battle,
whether they come or go, we love fighting.

i’m not enjoying the heavy population, it means bigger ques and zergling commanders…

and when the weak jump ship to the next server they want to try …

we will still have won 3 orbs, a battle while styling an outmanned buff in our history..

we simply love to fight – winning just gives us a reason to drink the fancy stuff lol

so yeah….

come at me bro!! -shakes fist and smiles-

bring money for repairs, cuz we don’t quit.
-darkhaven

The commander title should work like this imho -

3 commanders max per map – 1 to cover each server.

the commander with the highest achievements in, kills, capturing towers and castles gets priority….so if a lesser commander is on, their icon gets disabled and the more experienced commander gets enabled. It would work like a server commander ranking – based on what they achieved in battle, not purchased in gold.

@ThyOwnage – I respectfully disagree.

I can see where a guild can want to have ‘guild’ commanders for their guild….so the blue icon can be something seen by only ‘their’ guild.

Anet should add requirements and achievements to this before it’s presented to the entire map and further limit the amount of commanders on one map at anyone time to 3 – based on their highest achievement ranks. People should not be flashing commander icons when they are following 1 commander already like a zergling. If within 3 years everyone in pvp can easily afford a commander title – what will it do to wvw if the entire map is filled with commanders ?

a commander following another commander as a zergling has no right to use the mark of a leader.

I agree also, there should be some minimum requirements to getting commander title – like having 1,500 kills in wvw, captured 20 towers and 20 castles. We should also have the option to select who we recognize as a commander…… when you have 5 commanders fighting as one zerg …it’s time to stop recognizing a few of them as leaders.

Excuse me! I’ll have you guys know, we at Darkhaven have been in wvw for over 15 years, back in the day when Zhaitan was just a lizard, ya’ll better recognize!

an interesting solution to this just came to mind….it’s a bit extreme but seems like interesting for the roleplay aspect.

the option to make your character soulbound to the server. Once soulbound, in order to go wvw in another server, you’d have to delete any soulbound characters first and start over.

if you make a character and play in wvw, it’s soulbound in loyalty to that server. otherwise your character goes last in the que and gets least priority to go into wvw.

or maybe they are in for a treat when we show them how we can team up with honest servers to keep the game fair and balanced. ^.^

win or lose, anyone we fight will eventually side with us, we fight our foes so they can become fun loving friends.

saiyr.3071:

malixor.8417:

portal bombing and other shady tactics

You are in for a treat when you move to a higher tier. Portal bombing is about as standard of a tactic as it gets.

let’s settle this once and for all, here’s a pic for the ‘commentators’ , notice our 3 orbs AND an outnumbered buff.

nuff said.

yeah, and in our last fight, we were trying to work out truces with Ebay vs NSP – we all had fun and didn’t take anything personally – it’s no different now that NSP is working with us …it’s all in fun and if any one server has or takes an advantage over the other 2, I think that it’s only fair that an alliance is formed to protect the interests of keeping the overall wvw game interesting and fair.

It doesn’t mean the alliance will last, especially if they start attacking our keeps -arches brow at NSP-

but if Maguuma thinks they are going to take advantage of certain scenarios and expect DH and NSP to sit back and just cry …you’ve got another thing coming

as much as DH and NSP go at each other’s throats, we are both servers that love a fair and fun game even if we have to team up to make it happen!

I make music and do some graphics. I started my own indie music production co and called it AniRhythm. I wanted to find a way to look interesting on youtube so i could promote new tracks, about 2 years ago I started learning animation..

I now have a new love for making 3D art / renders and animating. – I’ve been gaming since mmo’s came online, it’s my favorite way to relax and give my ears a break. Anet has been a huge inspiration to me because the music is great, the artwork is spectacular, its a mix of all my favorite things – plus I get to hang out with fun people!! I totally feel at home here!!

this is one picture I created that was inspired by Guildwars 2 / Anet artists which are a huge inspiration to me, much respect! The pic has light nudity so I just posted a link

https://twitter.com/AniRhythm/status/200004761846693889/photo/1/large

here’s one of my latest singles on beatport –
http://www.beatport.com/track/glorious-original-mix/3818997

and here’s one of my latest projects with a very talented new artist I started working with http://soundcloud.com/anirhythm/vicious-anirhythm-mix

see you in game!!

Cheers!

btw, don’t go blaming the whole DH server for breaking the truce, I personally called it off – I am no leader of a guild or commander, I am simply a dedicated player to my server and guild, that saw for myself NSP hitting our camps over and over relentlessly taking advantage of our unprotected areas while we were attacking maguma. Our sites were not taken 1nce or 2wice, but 3 times including an attack of about 20-30 players against our keep. If the alliances to be can’t make a good effort to inform the rest of their players to honor the truce, you can be kitten sure I’ll be a MAJOR influential factor at pushing my server to strike back.

so all your alliance talk mean NOTHING to me if you do not honor any truces, we weren’t touching you and the server even went further to say “leave them alone” until we saw a push from NS to take our properties ….I DO have a way with words, I need no blue dot over my head to get things done.

“Respect my authoritah!” – I’m watching you and I don’t care what people ’talk about or agree to" actions speak louder than words and your actions were a call for war. K ?

so we’ll try this again with a simple rule “Don’t start none, won’t be none”

Jadeite.4093:

So Darkhaven… ’bout dat truce?

we had a truce with You, it’s the rest of your server that were hitting our camps, taking our towers and attempting to hit our keep that we went after.

i think cross server alliances should be allowed, it’s considered politics – adds to the story line and hopefully no one draws first blood before time! -arches brow-

nope, won’t work. people will just use that to spy, waste supplies building flame rams on roofs and giving mis-information just to win matches. to them this is not a game lol.

there i was…100 to 1…nowhere to run…no escape, i thought I was going to die, i was cut, bleeding in and out of consciousness …almost dead …but we got him good!! /roar

ebay may have not won the numbers, but they certainly won in honor and respect of which that value is greater than any number any scoreboard can present!

I know it’s a long shot ..but the thought came to mind and may as well hear a no than assume a no. It would be nice if the crew we fought at Ebay this week joined us in Darkhaven to help balance both our numbers.