Guild Wars 2

All the gold is hiding in the Centaurs’ saddlebags at their camp in the North East corner of the map. They don’t like parting with it though. Eventually their boss shows up and you have to kill him off too.

Also… if you can’t afford siege just use badges of honor to purchase them. 6 badges will get you an arrow cart or a flame ram.

Some people will run around WvW naked to avoid armor repairs. Yes it works. Make sure you take off your breather mask too. Weapons do not take damage.

There’s 2 ways to combat that.
1. Everyone stacks together and aoe’s the heck out of the stack of people. Eventually you hit and kill the thief because he has to hit someone to remain in stealth.
2. Go to the edge of the circle and have a mesmer pull them out. I don’t know exactly how the mesmer trick works but I’ve been told by mesmers that this works.

I’ve been playing WvW a lot less this week because the matchup is uneven. Part of this is due to guilds leaving one server and joining another one. I am hopeful that 1 x weekly server transfers will make some sort of difference or at least slow down bandwagoning somewhat.

As a side note, while I’m sure it’s not SoR as a whole that is doing this, you should be concerned that the guys hacking into TC Citadel are giving your server a bad reputation. Because of this, a lot of the casual WvW’ers who were going to continue to play out this week have decided not to anymore. Why should you care? Well, you’ll get points for what you have but you’ll see a lot fewer battles.

TC doesn’t give up but we also don’t play with cheaters and hackers.

I want a speed booster that transforms you into a yak while out of combat. I would pay gems for this.

If you are defending a keep that has a hacked orb in it, that means you are condoning the behavior. It makes you just as guilty of hacking as the person who did it even if you claim you report these people. Your behavior speaks louder than your words.

How can you not love Quaggans? They are adorable. And the baby quaggans are so squee!

Blackgate might win the match but they seem to have lost the respect of their peers.

Most people on TC are currently fighting the Mad King in the mini dungeon. I wouldn’t expect too much from us now that the event is in full swing.

You guys are going to have to be bored until the Halloween event is over. I heard that you all are mainly dedicated WvW.. is anyone on your server doing the holiday events?

Just because people are not in the area you are playing in does not mean the server has a low population.

They still would go grab them if they made the orbs be worth as many points or even almost as many points as say the castle. Which may be a much better idea than the way it currently is with the orbs giving OP stat bonuses. It might also help prevent one server from completely running away with the match leading to overall boredom for everyone.

ET is pretty much a no show so far during this match so I don’t think there is any way there could be any sort of an alliance. I honestly haven’t even seen one person from ET yet.

Yes it’s frustrating to be either the overly winning team or the overly losing team.

Those of us who are True to the Coast will continue to fight. We will be the dogs nipping at your heals, occasionally taking your towers, and making you pay again for new upgrades.

We didn’t give up when we got stomped by Tier 1 Blackgate, and we won’t give up while fighting SoR.

And as an additional point, even when TC was winning, we were still complaining that the orb bonuses and the outmanned buffs should be changed. We as a whole, believe the orb bonuses are entirely too OP whether you are winning or losing. It gives one side an unfair advantage over the other. If you are already owning the map, why do you need a bonus to make you even more powerful? This is just one of many broken mechanics in WvW and everyone knows it.

Welcome to Blackgate 2.0.

TC will be around to annoy you as much as possible.

Well I sort of enjoy it when I’m scouting and get killed, they dance on my corpse and then my zerg, which I naturally informed of their location, wipes them out and rezzes me.

It would be great if each commander could dye their icons a different color. It would make it so much easier to follow them if you could easily tell them apart on the map. Battlegrounds would then be able to set up color specific teams to follow their commanders around the map to complete objectives. It would also lessen the amount of confusion when you have multiple commander icons on a map.

Yeah sorry that’s what happens when you dominate your map 24/7.

I would like to see an end to free server transfers before WvW is extended to 2 week matches.

As people have said before, all they really need to do is flip the stats for orb with the one for outmanned and vice versa. Maybe give the orbs an extra coin bonus as well. Most servers with 3 orbs on the winning end get bored because fights become less challenging when you are so ridiculously buffed.

As people on TC have said in /team chat. We are already winning the map. Do we really need that buff?

On the other hand… the orbs are so shiny. Must have.

Must haves the precioussss

Most players in WvW quickly learn which Commanders are worth following and which ones are not. I’m still of the opinion that each commander should have a different color when on the map to make it easier for groups to follow their commander and not get confused. It would be a lot easier to find my Pink commander, for example, if his icon was pink instead of blue like the other 3 commanders running around.

Dreaming Bay at Dragonbrand BL has been contested all afternoon because enemy Orb Protectors are spawning around the orb. There have been enemy NPC’s spawning in other places as well. I was killing the random spawns at the Hills keep when TC had it earler.

Looks like TC has quit playing WvW for the Halloween event. Hopefully the points we got so far will carry us through until reset. So far today we’ve lost all orbs, the castle and TCG. I think when I left a few minutes ago all we had were a few camps and a couple towers. We might have a couple keeps too. Dragonbrand and Fort Aspenwood are currently kicking our absent butts.

Now I must go to the store and buy some candy corn. Darn you Anet for making me crave it!

Wonderful thread. I’d also like to add that people shouldn’t be afraid to go into WvW at a low level. Even at level 1 you can join and participate. Low levels can man siege equipment, repair structures, run supply and participate in zerg runs.

I just wanted to give a hearty congratulations to Dragonbrand for capturing their garrison. You guys saw the opportunity and went after it. Well done.

Just don’t get too comfy in there. You know TC is gonna be workin’ hard to get it back.

If we see people camping spawn points we do ask them to stop and try to redirect them into doing something more productive. I even pointed out in team chat that camping was akin to cheating. Unfortunately we can’t control everyone. For those of you that did experience that, you have my sincere apology for that happening to you.

Awesome fight with DB and FA in the DB BL this evening. We almost lost the entire map in a matter of just a few hours! At one point we only had one keep that wasn’t contested. And you guys had taken all of our supply camps. I think you guys have some sort of 6th sense as to when our commanders log off because honestly that is typically when we are at our weakest. We are getting better about that, though.

PiNK’s star is now displayed over DB Garrison. We declare this land to be the Garnished Toast Butterlands! XD

They could do like Rift did and make you martyrs for the opposing team when you outnumber them. Personally, I’m glad they don’t as those people just end up sabotaging whoever they are assigned to.

TJV: That’s the spirit! If TC is better at WvW now it’s only because we learned things during our matchup against Blackgate. If everyone goes into this with the mindset of learning new tactics and improving your game play in WvW, you will enjoy it alot more. Focusing on not having the lead is so frustrating. Remember, it’s about fun. Never give up, never surrender!

I understand how you feel but doing so would prevent some people from being able to play in wvw if their only time to play was during the night.

I don’t really see them doing this. If they wanted to keep it “even” they would have it so each world had the same number of people in each map as every other world. I do think they will probably give a better outmanned buff and maybe do some other things to help out. After suffering through Blackgate last week (I’m on TC), I would have to say that I’d like to see them change the orb bonus to give a bonus to karma, xp and magic find and have the outmanned buff give bonus to toughness, vitality and healing power. I think that right there would help quite a bit.

For TC, I think a lot of it is that we just came from getting stomped pretty hard by Blackgate. We learned some new tactics fighting them even though they hit us pretty hard every day. We didn’t give up and we battled it out for second place. I think it made us better as a team.

TC is still hard at work turning Dragonbrand Borderlands into the Garnished Toast Butterlands. We will succeed!

Thank you to both FA and DB for giving a lot of fun fights so far. Keep it up!

For the Toast!

Sadly had to report a couple of Blackgate cheaters for exploiting some terrain bug where they were able to remain in the camp unseen and preventing us from capping it. We finally killed the two thieves that were doing it. I don’t know if it’s some sort of render/ stealth problem or what. But several of us reported them for exploiting.

AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

The game will not fail. They already sold way more copies of the game than they had even set as a goal for themselves. Plus they are releasing their first major content update on the 22nd (just a few days away). Considering GW1 ran for 7 years, I’m sure this game will be running for at least that long.

No point in arguing about how well BG can play now that they have half of the top tier guilds transferred over to their server. We will find out soon enough how well they fair in the tier two bracket coming up in just a few hours.

I’m really looking forward to the next match-up. I think if the predictions are correct and we get matched up with FA and DB, it will be a fun fight for everyone.

This game has spoiled me and I can no longer play other MMO’s.

I’ve noticed that BG is not dominating 24/7 like they were. I think they are getting bored. That’s ok though. I like capping stuff and getting karma.

If they actually do want a challenge. They’ll let the entire maps go to FA and TC including all the orbs, keeps and castle. And then try to get them all back during our prime time. Taking it back when TC and FA is sleeping would be too easy.

If you get close enough, you can see other teammates on the map. Those are the green dots moving around.

And of course the sad thing is that the Outmanned buff is completely useless. Why do I need a bonus to karma, xp and magic find when I’m outnumbered 10 – 1? I’d trade that for a 10% boost to vitality, toughness and healing power any day of the week. It’d probably make fights a lot more enjoyable for both sides if they would fix these bonuses.

It’s the most awesome word filter ever! Go ahead and make a post with a bunch of swear words in it and watch the filter go to work turning those words into harmless kittens!

I’ve never been able to get very many badges in WvW at all. I try to tag all the mobs I can see and hope for the best. For my Ranger, I ended up just farming karma and getting one of the cathedral sets in Orr. If you aren’t getting badges, just get Karma armor.

I would imagine using an exploit like this and getting caught would get you banned for a few days. I’m sure it will be fixed soon.

Whenever someone says “I’m going crazy (or insane in your case)”, I always reply with “you can’t go where you already are.” Just kidding of course.

I’d second the suggestion to try mesmer. They have quite a few control abilities… especially if you want to WvW or PvP.

Stuff like the upcoming Halloween update will be free.

Expansion packs you will have to purchase. Whether they make them available for purchase with gems will be entirely up to Anet. Considering how many gems it would take to upgrade a regular game to deluxe, you can bet it will cost a small fortune in gems to purchase an expansion pack that way.

Tarnished Coast is definitely lacking in Oceanic pop. We mostly have people active in WvW from about 5pm to midnight CST.

TC is also the unofficial NA RP server so we will always have a high/full population. You may not be able to get in at all.

successfully counter the mesmer portal zerg? Is there anything that works to combat this mechanic? We are struggling against it over here on TC and could use a few suggestions of what works to combat it.

There is no way to counter entire zergs using a single mesmer portal to wipe out a group in a matter of seconds. This problem needs to be addressed.

There’s a rumor floating around that Blackgate recruits people to go over to TC server and just sit in our BL doing nothing but taking up space. I don’t know if that’s true but it’s a possibility.

It does get frustrating going up against BG. When I get tired of them smashing our toys on TC, I ask people to start a small sniper group to run over into BG’s BL to smash their toys for a bit. With the server transfer, you guys are just out of our league and everyone knows it. For now I just play for camp tipping and yak slapping karma.

40 and I’ve been having fun playing the game since head start. Currently working on leveling my second character to 80, this time through WvW.