Guild Wars 2

IMO tier 4/5/6 is your best bet.

We tried tier 8 looking for small man action. The RvR population at T8 was so low, we found little action small man action (unless zergin solos is your thing).

Most “randoms” just banded together in zergish groups (not fun to be outnumbered 3:1 or 4:1 especially with current broken RvR mechanics) or we have same realm nuthuggers following us around (blah). This was a 10-12 weeks back, maybe things have changed.

We are on DR and after 10 days, I would say where happy most of the time. There are zergs (20|+), but these are often manageable because they are composed of random guilds or/and poorly lead.

jazzllanna.1278:

:( Well looks like a dull week of wvw.

Recently arriving from Mag, this server is a breath of fresh air …

There aren’t two or three 30+ man, ultra culling, CPU draging Zergs on each Map

From what I gathered over the past few days the standard roaming zerg is 8-13 and rarely there is +20 person zerg (prime-time last night). There are a good many solos, duos and trios running around.

The population level on this match-up really caters to our guild’s small man skirmishing play-style.

For me this match-up is anything but boring!

Acelerion.6820:

What the hell is with all these ballsy thieves that insist on running into my duo…Were running away because we arnt interested in ganking solos, it would be a better idea to not chase

Well some people take longer to learn thank others….

dreztina.4820:

Munkee.3542:

dreztina.4820:

We’ll see. If you solo much I’m sure we’ll run into each other again.

Looks like you’re in the same life boat as Bunzy with you showing off that signature of yours. God help you guys the next time you’re matched up with Yak’s.

What boat is that? Being a target? You can’t send more people or chase any longer than people already do.

Lawls

I use to live for DAoC small man, and 8 man action (the DAoC guild, Caustic)

True, GW2 is the only platform since DAoC which has shown any promise for this style of game play (small man, 5 v 5).

However, we all know game mechanics (down state, AOE cap etc.), technical issues (culling, small maps), ANET currents priorities (sPvP and PvE) and not to mention the pervasive zerg fest enjoyed by an absolute majority of players at all tiers, only just serve to limit this possibility.

ANET just teases us with WvWvW, and only provides a brief glimpse of it’s true potential.

Open world, competitive, skill based and most importantly non-static PvP.

Let’s just hope the upcoming WvW patch doesn’t completely flop, like most IRC DAoC eight mans …

I really don’t care if we win the match.. it’s all about the small man

Taking on greater numbers… fun and challenging, win or lose.

dreztina.4820:

DarthBenedict.3410:

Solo roaming doesn’t really achieve much as far as the WvW scoreboard is concerned (unless you’re scouting for your own zergballs + killing dolyaks) so I don’t get why competitive players would do it. High level competition in WvW consists of smashing doors while the opposition is at work.

Hopefully we can get a regular fight club going this week for some decent fights.

They do it, or at least should, because roaming is a far more interesting form of pvp than stale arena style battles which have zero unknown factors. In spvp, you know the exact where, what, when, who, how, and why before the timer even finishes counting down. In roaming, you don’t know any of that. Every fight is different. Takes a lot longer for roaming to get boring than spvp.

And I’ve given up on duels. It’s always the same story. 20+ Mag and two or three people from the other servers.

D/D elementalist in [RISE] who runs the Blessings, pm me…

OINK … OINK …

more drama please…

really hoping for tier 4, what are our chances…

Fighting greater numbers with success that’s fun in any PvP game, I do not understand the hate on this thread. I have pug’ed with OG, they are fearless and solid players.

Personally, I like to see more small roaming groups in WvWvW. Zerging ftr… yawn

Great video, we have to do some more when the kids get back from X-mas….