Guild Wars 2

Plok.6145:

There is nothing wrong with the loot in wvw, kill more people.

This I like

Yorric Hunt.8214:

This seems like its going to go on till midnight Friday lol.

Yeh, its been a while since we had a matchup that may be right down to the wire. Its better that way imo, much more exciting. Lets see how this week progresses

Yorric Hunt.8214:

I bet GH were laughing like hell when the RoF zerg attacked ours. Talk about nearly ending the siege for you lol.

There’s been some fun three-ways so far (fnar fnar).

Hi all, I hacked the ArenaNet devs servers and got a hold of the new map layouts that will be upcoming:

http://camelot.allakhazam.com/Maps/Hibernia/frontier/overview/overview-newfrontier.jpg

Get ‘em while they’re hot.

SteepledHat.1345:

Lol, you mean zerglets? Running with the horde is overrated. You don’t realize it, but you need those solo/small group folks.

Small groups are great… when they coordinate with the overall team. Otherwise, nah, they are just a mini zerg. Don’t have much time for them. If they accidently contribute then great but lets not get overexcited about what they contribute.

Gunnars Hold beat larger numbers, turtles too. Its what we’ve been forced to do.

Post our tactics here? Get with the Lol.

Taras.4367:

Other than us not putting up a fight in resent weeks are we done as wvw server? looking at the ranks we will kiss tier 1 goodbye in few weeks here. seems like people stooped doing wvw on our server. it bugs we worked hard to get to tier 1 and i kind of want to stay there

Losing for a few weeks and whining about it makes a person in my book a fairweather friend.

rofl alliance.

If you are red you are dead. I may respect enemies but they’re still dog tucker if they’re moving in my field of vision. I expect the same in return.

If you want to ally with Gunnars Hold, migrate to our server and fight for us. Otherwise, get lost.

Duellists are roadkill for people that actually play WvW.

Smoke me a kipper, a few closer personal friends will be back for breakfast.

1) Honour badges should be redeemable at Burger King.

2) Damage output should be directly proportional to the sense of entitlement of the wielder. I’ve always wondered what mushroom clouds would look like over Stonemist.

3) AoE should have no upper limit to targets and castable while pressing the power button as you switch on your PC.

Every player on Gunnars Hold has a family member stand on their roof and shout messages to other players.

If you want to intercept our comms, just climb up on your roof and wait.

Krosan.2890:

Looks like GH has their insane numbers again for reset.

Training manouevers. Nothing too threatening I hope.

Red. Dead. No redemption.

This old chestnut. This came up again and again in DAoC and WAR.

Short version: no.

Long version: Hell no.

Subtitles for the hard of thinking: NO.

Zen buddhist answer: Yes and no. Without the yes.

James Bond answer: Doctor No.

Beastie Boys answer: No sleep til… NO

Kim Kardashian answer: No. Oooh that much money. Ok yes. But I want the media rights. I can’t? Ok NO.

Morse code answer: DASH DOT DASH DASH DASH

FuManchu answer: No. Also, you just drank poisoned tea Mr. Smith. fiendish laughter

Peter Jackson answer: Part 1: “N”, Christmas 2013 Part 2: “O” and Christmas 2014 Part 3: “!”

Apple answer: We’ve copyrighted duelling, so NO.

Globetrotters. Its not a guild. Its not any individual player. Its a concept. Man it cost enemies.

Amusing alliance. Its really working out well for RoS right now. Clearly RoF aren’t doing much to benefit their ‘allies’. I’m guessing you guys got suckered.

We had the Gunnars Globetrotters out again tonight, people from various guilds who sign up to go do stuff together from the community at gunnars-hold.eu – usually some kind of mischief but just running with the larger force when needed.

So for the first hour we had were zerged to hell and back, figured it would be grim wherever. We switched to the Surmia borderland, at that time pretty much all green except for a couple of pieces of property. Warmed up on a couple of suppy camps then went for the north supply camp. Which was full of ze Germans. Well I guess the Germans got hit from behind while we were fighting them because the next thing we know instead of being outnumbered by ze Germans, the camp has flipped and we are outnumbered by Surmia. So we pull back to the archway and see that even more Germans are incoming. We’re sandwiched between Surmia coming from the supply camp, and Germans heading into the archway that leads to the suppy camp.

…Light bolb

We pull back alongside the wall to the cliff face pursued by the Surmia guys and now when the Germans hit the camp, its Surmia getting hit from behind, not us. We have the cliff behind us, a wall to our left and only 2 points an enemy can come from. What followed was fairly epic. Killed lots and lots of enemies but sheer numbers ran us over.

Giggled lots. Went to get some beer then came back for some more fun.

As always, much respect to the Surmia guys.

I like downed state. Its significantly different from other MMOs. Yeh, it may need a bit of tweakage but basically it adds an interesting dynamic. Also, given there is little to no healing in this game it gives you some kind of chance against drooling idiots that just want to steamroll without paying attention.

I don’t really recall getting anything awesome in WvW. Got one of the Christmas recipes tonight which was nice.

Tbh though I’m there to rip off enemy heads and wee down their throats. So long as I can pay for the bits and pieces I need to make my enemies miserable not too fussed about shiny itamz.

Most common reason I’ve seen is people hating the zerg-keep circlejerk of PvDoor-When-Nobody-Is-Around-To-Fight, move on to next empty keep. Recruit players that play when the bulk of players are not around for maximum make-benefit and win via poorly designed point scoring system. Combine this with a league system that allows players to jolly-hop like crazy things to servers edging ahead and you’ve got an epic fail in a system which is promoted as skill-based. When it clearly is not.

In a game which is meant to build team competitiveness there’s no incentive to stay on a side that loses for even a short period. And then the spiral kicks in.

Basic WvW design: (flawed, but) good. Scoring system and Meta: appalling.

I think the damage is already done with the Free Transfers. My guess is that they won’t end it (if at all) until the Feb WvW patch.

Bear in mind I don’t speak for everyone and this is just my opinion but I think many of the remaining WvW guilds/players on Gunnars Hold are waiting to see what that patch brings and what meta decisionmaking ArenaNet come up with. It will likely be make or break for a lot of players. As I’ve already said in other threads, WvW is fundamentally sound, just some misguided choices by ArenaNet have led to problems for quite some number of players. The ability for players to take advantage of glitched geometry etc is also playing merry havoc with the gaming experience of many, leading to a lot of frustration; the quality of their code needs to be tightened further.

Realistically though, unless there is a change to the points system, the winning server will always be the one with the strongest nightcapping / off-hours team. Thats not skill, not even necessarily organisation, its just having people from somewhere else on the planet hit doors when there is nobody around to fight them. Not my idea of a well designed system. Once again, I think ArenaNet should refer back to how Mythic handled this in WAR (Mythic’s coding was inept, but they had solid ideas about how to handle this kind of thing).

To ECL GM: Can you get your mesmers out of the wall at bay atm. Cheers. They are hiding in there atm.

EDIT 1: Never mind, they legged it. Also someone with an “IL” guild tag.

EDIT 2: Screenshotted and reported to ArenaNet. Can’t believe I can now see 4 Dzagonur players currently hiding in the geometry right now as I type this. ECL, IL and more.

While an inconvenience rather than a showstopper, this would be a welcome fix.

Fishbait.6723:

Downed mist form is only of any use, when next to a keep.
Anywhere else in WvWs & especially in normal zones, downed mist form is next to useless.

Pretty much this.

90% of the time, downed mist form is a minor irritation to the enemies that are killing the Elementalist. Hey look, he took a jump to the left. I know it doesn’t bother me much when I’m killing enemy elementalists.

UnicornViolet.3081:

Didn’t fight anyone, and didn’t really gain experience or anything. Does the PVP in this game get better, or am I doing it wrong? Cause I really missing Arathi Basin and Arenas right now after this experience!! Please tell me there is something else to do, lol!

Originally, players got rewarded for escort duty but it was abused by bots and ArenaNet removed the rewards. Generally, dolyak escorting is only valuable if there is enough people coordinating to win a map. I think you did something that is potentially very useful to the team but not something that is personally rewarding. On GH, we have great respect for the people that have the patience to guard dollies. Again though I must stress its not worth it unless your team has a coherent plan to win/retain a map.

Heh, got my badges quite fast, hardly ever do JPs.

Cataclysm.6210:

Our guild saw a lot of false claims of cheating lately. We, in ECL, do not cheat/hack/use exploits.

I’ve witnessed several of these myself and reported them. I’m quite prepared to believe you don’t condone this and try to discourage this – but we’re still seeing it happen. The only exploit I’ve not personally witnessed is the Dzagonur Luftwaffe but I’ve been online when people are going berzerk with frustration on comms upon seeing Germans flying through the air. I don’t know which guild was doing this, it might not be ECL.

I really hope ArenaNet ban the cheaters pronto. Combined with far superior numbers, the cheating issue is having an extreme negative effect on GH. Why bother fighting when your opponents can easily zerg you to death and then top it off with cheating? (This last comment is not specifically directed at ECL, just cheating in general).

Siege blueprints should be account-bound.

Ron.4920:

Look at the rooster in your guild

Anyway, moving on from that – it will be dealt with by ArenaNet.

Great fight at Garrison a few minutes ago. Very determined attack and epic defense right the way into the lord room.

LearnToPlay.1845:

Roo Stercogburn.9671:

To the GM of Eclipse Gaming [DE]:

We spotted a number of your guild glitching into Sunnyhill on our own borderlands a few moments ago. Also warping pets in through doors.

You might want to have a quiet word with your people. We’ve taken numerous screenshots and reported to this to ArenaNet.

I urge anyone that spots people from their own team glitching (i.e. cheating) to kick people from guilds before you become tarnished with the poor behaviour of others.

Hello,

yes some of our people actually glitchet through the tower gate, but thats because some skills, like the Heartseeker of the Thief, result in glitching through the gate(in Sunnyhill only). We heard that sunnyhill was bugged but we didnt know wich skill in particular caused that. At 5% Life remaining of the Tower gat you Guys Destroyed our ram’s. In the result we did just normal weapon dmg on the gate to get the last 5% down and just naturally all classes started spamming there skills, like Heartseeker. But still every Member of [ECL] that got acidentally glitched in immediately left the tower. We didnt got a mesmer in the tower and Portal us in or anything.

I understand some may have accidently ended up in there. However, some were clearly using it to advantage. At one point at least 2 players + pets were fighting inside the keep and killing defenders.

For me its fairly simple – if someone accidently gets in, they run up and out – as a couple did. If they are beating the hell out of someone trying to repair doors etc, then they are abusing weaknesses in the game programming to their own advantage. Poor behaviour in my opinion.

To the GM of Eclipse Gaming [DE]:

We spotted a number of your guild glitching into Sunnyhill on our own borderlands a few moments ago. Also warping pets in through doors.

You might want to have a quiet word with your people. We’ve taken numerous screenshots and reported to this to ArenaNet.

I urge anyone that spots people from their own team glitching (i.e. cheating) to kick people from guilds before you become tarnished with the poor behaviour of others.

So tonight some of our enemies met a bunch of people that are not a guild. Not even a regular group. I know there was ouchness, whether you were WR, DE, or wallhackers (yes a few of you kittens got found). The team you faced won some and lost some. When I say lost I mean they died while you were not where you should have been. Sometimes that panned out, sometimes not.

Much respect to our German opponents tonight. Very effective and fast responses with huge numbers (remember, this is relative – we are few). I am genuinely impressed with how you guys worked as a team.

Whiteside, you guys field so few and yet the few are to be feared. Tbh every WR encounter is a treasure. I never know how it will turn out. While the Germans seem to be organised and methodical, you guys have inventiveness and outright evilness at times. Two thumbs way way up. I cannot overstate the respect I have for what you guys do.

Ok so in principle, no repairs while outmanned, even if the details need tuned.

When outmanned, repair costs should be zero.

DC’ing is a symptom of something else that needs to be sorted. I’d be looking at addressing that as a priority.

While I understand (and at times share) the DC frustration, its still the lesser of two weevils. Fortunately its only some pixels that die.

Lives are not in danger. The country is still safe.

(EDIT: Grammar, even worse than usual)

Gutted! Saw thread title and hoped it would be a Christina Hendricks thread.

In principle, the original post is a good idea but I agree it would need some very careful tuning so as not to be abused.

Just fix nightcapping.

Scale the points so that more are earned at a region’s prime time than during the small hours. People who want to play during the night can have still have fun hitting the doors.

This game is supposed to be based on skill but really winning is decided by which server has the most people PvE’ing in WvW when nobody else is around. In terms of healthy competition its a farce.

Played for an hour or so around 10pm -ish last night. Some good fun. Steamrolled by AG numbers in the end.

Nice fight at Briar, proper battling all the way to the lord room. Favour returned at Longview shortly afterwards, no way we could compete with those numbers. As the AG zerg steamed up the ramp I got killed, then rallied long enough to pick up loot, then downed again

Good luck with Operation Trouser Trumpet

Won’t be around. Work, bills to pay, toys to save up for etc.

Also, custard.

If I cease fire its because something is on cool down. Preferably the gently steaming corpse of an enemy.

Maverick.9472:

with fish fingers ???

AFK, Amy Pond moment…

…Ok, I’m better now.

Not been around enough this week to gather any video of the few fights I’ve been in. Highlight though was dropping a stun field right on the portal that KISS were about to exit from. Much confusion as they stepped out. Not really any other gigglesome moments to report yet

magicweaver.2695:

Aurora Glade as a server did not do this to YOU.

Perhaps I’ve missed something but I don’t think any of the comments were aimed at the existing Aurora Glade people, just your recent immigrants.

Regarding KISS members being still on GH, yes I’ve seen them around. Work has for yet another week prevented me from playing as much as I’d like so I can’t say if they’ve been trolling or openly spying etc. I’m not really bothered if they have. The numbers difference is enough of a deciding factor in AG’s favour that if true, its unecessary and a bit sad.

I know that there has been less than subtle trolling from the KISS side on both these forums and the public parts of their own forums. I think it would be fair to say that no side is completely innocent. There has also been miscommunication, tempers have frayed and toys have been lauched from prams.

Also, custard.

The original post shows someone that doesn’t run in organised WvW where the role is more important than indidivudal Pew Pew.

People that are scouting or protecting dollies, etc might do well to have a 1v1 loadout but otherwise I don’t agree with the original post at all.

Corran.4957:

Im hoping that GH will keep up their end of match enemy voicechats.

I hope so, I’m enjoying the weekly washup. Shame nobody from the other servers showed last week but usually there’s been some peeps from our previous matchups to giggle over the week’s fights.

Some very welcome fixes there. Breakout sounds interesting.

If you take my meaning, hoping never to see Breakout but lets be realistic here

Clearly the answer to the original question is the class you have to attend the next day after staying up late playing

But in game for me its hard to say. I’m specced for group play and can’t really kill much 1v1. I herd enemy zergs, I rarely kill anything solo. If I had to pick one nemesis class to my elementalist it is probably Thief.

I S U P E R S I N I.4761:

I am informed, that TDA, BdB CHTK could be leaving gunnars hold in the coming week.
Also further GH guilds are moving to Aurora glade, after this weeks match up.

This trolling is rather beneath you. Or more accurately, until I read this I believed so.

Looking forward to a challenging week. And when I come home from work, I’ll play GW2.