Guild Wars 2

There is nothing wrong with the skill. You can’t instantly trigger the pull as ANET put a delay on it. As it is you should already be watching for pulls when you’re on the wall, between that and the delay there is ample opportunity to dodge the pull or hit stability.

bob.8632:

Offair.2563:

Get rid of PvD – or nerf it into the ground esp on reinforced gates so people actually have to put siege down and pour supplies into it.

Get rid of siege, make players actually fight players instead of doors.

Get rid of players, make npcs actually fight doors!

SF? What are you talkin about? Most of the people in that video are from our svedish geeld [BUGA]

PattyCakeChamp.5268:

axe.5621:

Good job BG. If ill decide to transfer to NA ill transfer to your server. Its always more interesting to play spartan than persian.

Hi. History lesson. Sparta was part of a coalition of city states that fought off the Persians. Therefore your analogy would be more correct in stating that JQ/TC is your coalition of city states (you can decide which one is Sparta, although I’d recommend JQ, TC is more like the Athenians) and they just wrecked the Persian Empire.

LOOOOOOOOOOL omg laughing so hard bahahahahaa

There were 3 legendaries dropped in week 8 by BG obtained by JQ, and those are just the ones I know about. A tooth of frostfang (SFer in EB), The Legend (SFer on JQBL) and one of the greatswords, can’t remember for who. Whats your point?

New WvW?

/15asura

I honestly don’t for a second think you’ll listen to anything I have to say, but you asked for constructive feedback so here it is.

If you want to improve seasons you will not ever do them again. WvW is inherently taxing on time because numbers are ultimately the final decider. You can’t do anything without people. To coincide with that you have numerous holes on all servers, even T1, that benefit from even 1 or 2 more people being online. That translates to people playing longer than they should, maybe 30 minutes, maybe 3 hours depending on how dedicated they are and how much they want it. This is relatively fine because one week your server can push, the next they can take a break and everythings cool. You throw hardcore competitiveness into it and you end up with people playing 15 hours a day multiple days a week at weird times. People are lucky if they can even do one stint like that let alone an entire weeks worth. The end result is they don’t really want to play anymore because the fun is gone and nothing remains but pain. Now put it into the context of a season, especially a season in which you do not know when you can take breaks. Now you have MONTHS of people pulling ridiculous hours, burning themselves out because they want to win. Granted its their decision to play those kind of hours, but people are inherently competitive and will do this. Entire servers will do this. What you have left at the end of the season are a winner who is satisfied they won, but burned out and may not even come back to the game after they’re recharged and every other server who is not satisfied, is also burned out and may not come back to the game after they are recharged.

World versus World is taxing enough on those who try and go the extra mile for the win. Seasons make it worse. If you really are listening and care at all about your playerbase at large, you won’t do seasons ever again. Seasons are not a success. They never were. This is not me being bitter. My server was 2nd the first time and 1st this time. This is me trying to salvage a game mode I love.

Rock.7324:

Does anyone know when exactly (time wise) is the end of season 2?
It’s today if I’m not mistaking, but just don’t know the time =/

CET time would be lovely

Thank you in advance!

Season 2 will never end so long as you keep it within your heart.

If they say anything besides “We’re sorry, we’re never doing seasons again” then its not worth watching.

This was after season one. We don’t normally get to go to EB but we got a night off and got to do reset there. We were in the middle of your basic SM lord room fight when our commander died and had to port to spawn and run back. None of our other regular commanders had gotten in and the one who had died was our backup. He called for someone to tag up until he got back, and nobody could/would. At this time our Lord and Savior, Jedsus Chris, started shouting orders. Directing the zerg about the lord room. A few minutes later the losing battle we had been fighting was over, but with us having pushed them out and defended SM.

The kicker? Jed commanded the whole thing from LA.

The best improvement to seasonal play would be to never, ever, do seasons again.

I don’t care if he was pouring scalding hot coffee down his pants or if he was in a meditative state, thats a freaking amazing shot.

bob.8632:

SFShinigami.2015:

A large motivation for many for the 2v1 was to try and get BG to come to the realization that seasons are bad. All the other servers realized it last season and it was kind of just a pill that had to be force fed to BG. Last night on JQ there were numerous people expressing distaste for the 2v1, but that they also felt it was a necessary evil for the long term good of T1. So lets hope that cause is advanced further and nobody feels they have to resort to this style of play again.

If that is the case then JQ should let TC win….I mean if it really does not matter…So far we have heard a ton of reasons why the 2v1 occurred, but at the end of the day JQ will win S2 and you expect us to believe that you could care less???

At least BG won and we all knew they were ppt’ers that wanted to win, for the sake of well…“winning”….Sorry JQ, you can’t manipulate things to your favor and then expect everyone to believe you are the hero of the story….Take the win and move on, but do not expect people to flock to you for slaying the “mighty BG”….No one on any other tier cared if BG won, and you guys claim apparently that you did not either (“seasons are bad”), so the real reason for the 2v1 was to win S2 for JQ, and TC just bought a #2 finish from you along the way for their help.

JQ has done the #1 thing. We’re past that. We don’t want to deal with the constant need to siphon the health out of lower tiers to maintain our king of the mountain status. We’ll come out and play next week, we may win (don’t underestimate TC) or we may lose. Either way most of JQ will be satisfied with the result.

A large motivation for many for the 2v1 was to try and get BG to come to the realization that seasons are bad. All the other servers realized it last season and it was kind of just a pill that had to be force fed to BG. Last night on JQ there were numerous people expressing distaste for the 2v1, but that they also felt it was a necessary evil for the long term good of T1. So lets hope that cause is advanced further and nobody feels they have to resort to this style of play again.

Not only are they 80 man map blobs, often they’re 80 man map blobs that know how to do more than spam 1 and can dodge.

I respectfully disagree. The ability to use the world around you is far more difficult than a gvg.

warriorjrd.8695:

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

The only guild i have seen running around that still keeps their numbers around 15 and is capable of crushing 30+ is RES on GH.
Heck even Vii is running 30 man blobs nowadays as are all the guilds mentioned in this post.

Im not sure you know what a blob is, or much about guild play for that matter. Besides it’s irrelevant how many they run with on the battlefield because you never judge a guild by wvw, you look at how they GvG.

So what you’re trying to say is that you should judge a guild by how they respond to a battle they know they’re about to have, and that how they respond to terrain, being jumped, how they jump others, is no measure? Thats like judging a basketball team based strictly on their free throw %.

The lesson that should be taken away from Season 1 and in particular Season 2 is that Seasons are a terrible idea and should never happen again. NA Gold had exactly 1 server looking forward to it, or at least the actual tournament aspects of it, and everyone else dreading it so much that people teamed up so that the 1 server could understand why its a bad idea too.

This is just speculation, but I would guess that it has to do with it being an overflow and it cant tell which server to pull your active guild buffs from,. That said, ANET has said they’re looking into merging guilds across servers. I suspect at that time claiming in EOTM will work.

Its already been data mined some time ago. Google “gw2 golem mastery” and theres a big reddit list for it that pops up.

Mysteriax.6049:

titanlectro.5029:

For Grape Justice [FGJ]

Haha! Thanks Ninyl, I love the name too!

For Great Jedsus [FGJ]

Peetee.9406:

SFShinigami.2015:

Its a rumor thats probably rooted in the rogue BG players that put accounts on TC with guild names/tags similar to real ones and started doing bad things we can’t talk about here. It was obviously just a few random idiots and I doubt anyone with real power in BG, but it did happen.

To be fair, I have an account on BG that I use to follow KnT and ND around. Nothing makes me happier than getting to stomp some of my guildmates from time to time.

Yeah, thats different. These people were deliberately doing certain “things” to make other servers look bad and using fake tags like [ZZZ] trying to make zombie coast look bad.

I would love to see it from a analytical stand point but from a trollalytical stand point it would end so many “discussions” that we’d all be so bored we’d have o go off and create our own wvw forums.

Its a rumor thats probably rooted in the rogue BG players that put accounts on TC with guild names/tags similar to real ones and started doing bad things we can’t talk about here. It was obviously just a few random idiots and I doubt anyone with real power in BG, but it did happen.

I like to think the few and not often enough opportunities SF gets to go unpinned we can hold our own just dandy. I think the most often we are able to pull off fights that are strictly for fun and not about an objective also, they tend to be vs OnS and DN and maybe 1 or 2 other TC guilds and the fights are always pretty kitten snappy so I’d put them on that list. I’d like to include HB but its more of an estimate because the chances we do get strictly for fights with them they usually have less so its tougher to gauge.

I would like to be invited to these TS meetings between these two servers because they’re certainly news to me. 0_0

On a more serious note…

Blackgate: [KnT]
Jade Quarry: Shadow Gypsies [SG]
Tarnished Coast: [NOPE]
Sea of Sorrows: Night Shift [NS]
Maguuma: [PYRO]
Dragonbrand: Red Essence [RE]
Stormbluff Isle: Select Few [sF] ( I think they’re still around there a lil)
Sanctum of Rall: [GSCH]

Brace yourselves, #Hibergate is coming.

Just saying, there are more than a couple BG who take every opportunity hate on NOPE. Those same people are also just about the biggest idiots around, but for some reason they focus on NOPE 0_o

NOPE has always seemed pretty cool. IDK why BG hates them so much. :|

Two Vs One On [BG]

Ace’s crew on JQ is the best I’ve run into.

Please refrain from citing #Hibegate performances as examples of BGs true coverage, it is disingenuous.

If you really think that JQ and TC have the same coverage as BG then I’ve got some nice ocean front property to sell you in Orr.

Guys Guys Guys! You’re being unfair. He could very well be from IoJ. BG has to buy people from somewhere right?

:D

Couldn’t resist.

FAs animal control squad got wrecked by our Lord and Savior, Lord Jedsus Chris, who then feasted upon the remains. Jedsus loves the lil yaklings, all the yaklings of the world. Red and yellow black and white they are precious in his sight, Jedsus loves all the yaklings of the world~.

blur.7905:

I don’t think.

I’m paraphrasing here, but I believe I more succinctly summed up your post for you.

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/15asura

Max Fury.4679:

IMO, this is an honest reaction to what certainly feels like an unfair fight. BG has dominated because it has been dominant — we won’t apologize for that any more than you’ll apologize for tag teaming. It was only a matter of time until this happened. I personally don’t care if we win or lose, I would just like to have fun playing and there are days where it just isn’t much fun. So I will still trudge into Wv(W+W) and I’ll enjoy the deluge of bags that comes with this 2 on 1 tactic but it would be nice if there was any solution for this to feel remotely competitive.

Its little things like this that make the rest of the game think the way it does about BG. Whether you mean to or not, when you say BG is dominant, it sounds like you’re saying nobody can match them in skill. That is far from a true statement. For the most part all three T1 servers are pretty equal in the field. Everyone wipes everyone at some point. What BG is dominant in is having more bodies on the maps in certain time zones.

Klonko.8341:

FROM SBI!!!!!!!

KING BANNOK!

THE ONLY COMMANDER WITH A CULT!

ALL HAIL BANNOK WHO SLAY INFIDELS AND LEAD US TO GLORY!

…. You sir have not heard the word of our Lord and Savior, Lord Jedsus Chris. Ironically who also started on SBI. I guess the Storm Bluff Isle is surrounded by kool aid.

JQ has not really had an ego since around the time Noodles left.

dagneyandleo.6378:

SF has the worst eles.

That hurts lyth, that hurts

BG is pretty much the only server that still plays full on PPT. JQ and TC play PPT, but its more of a means to getting fights or the challenge of busting a WP than anything else. Thats why whats happening now is so huge. For a variety of reasons, BG has ticked off JQ and TC so much that they’re both willing to actually PPT pressure BG down. Heck, the main reason you see all the off hour coverage on the T1 servers has more to do with those off hour players wanting people to fight than anything else. If you spread out all the non-NA from all 3 servers across every single server, you’d just have havoc groups roaming around taking undefended keeps.

From what I understand, the reason last weeks attempt for BG to fix the match failed was because someone on SoS figured out that SoS would get a bunch of matches with BG for the rest of the season and many on SoS very strongly did not desire to be in matchups with BG.

In a 1v1 BG would win. Not because of skill but because during NA we do not match their numbers and during EU they can form an entire queue blob and we can barely get a zerg going.

In all honesty, between TC JQ and BG, they all wipe each other about the same. Theres no dominant skill server. Anyone who says different is chest thumping and/or delusional.

1v1 is a terrible idea. With a 1v1v1 coverage gaps are less pronounced because you still have to worry about a second force hitting you. During a 1v1, as seen during many weeks of season 1, the second you hit an area that has a coverage gap for one team and not the other, the score gets lopsided and then stuff gets taken, then upgraded which become harder to take back leaving one server pinned down and the other with a huge lead. (The weeks I’m referring to are when BG was facing JQ or SoR and a T2 server that spent most of the day with nobody on)

Another good example is the time that JQ and BG were in the same matchup as DB last summer. BG racked up a 111k win because JQ had nobody during late NA/OCX and EU of which BG had sizable populations. Normally during those times there would be a combined force for late NA/OCX for SoR and IRON and sometimes TW during EU. Without those forces to help keep BG in check, JQ lost all its stuff to 10 vs 80 fights and when they finally DID have people on, all their stuff was papers and all of BGs was upgraded.

You’re probablly noticing the reseting of the normal bonus HP you get from wvw. As the week goes on you’ll get more and more bonus. As far as arcana goes, theres probably better ways to spend your trait points on a staff ele. The beauty of this new trait system is you can change your traits any time you’re out of combat, so make good use of it and try lots of stuff. Thats where most of the fun is in my opinion anyway.

Well without listing any of my guild ones cuz thats just silly…

Sfeeee cuz fk push
Cloud Fly because nobody can command with no comms like that dude. Wipes organized guild blobs and gvg guilds with his pug blob.
Wen-chan (Wenova) cuz the only thing that can stop him is if the enemy puts a qt asura out in front of them.
A special shout out to Lectel even though he’s SF, his work with EB pugs is fantastic and hes always a riot to follow.
As for off-JQ commanders, its tough to know a lot of em but Malevolent from OnS seems to have a similar outlook on the game as a lot of SF and hes always up for a fight and brings it. Indeva counts too I suppose, currently driver for NS, former driver for TKG. The guy does amazing things with small numbers. (Also former SF >.> and a buddy)

Well Attack was a useless stat in the first place. It displayed two numbers that were summed when the formula used actually multiplies the number.

Thats…actually a pretty serious problem. Where are we supposed to go to say “20 golems garrison watergate” on servers who rely heavily on militia?