Guild Wars 2

I just wish it was slightly louder.

@Spica.9308 IoM/DI had a large, coordinated, and skilled guild group that substantially added to our PPT. That is a 100% fact. However, they did not protect us from internal drama and a small minority of their members in conjunction with the equally small minority of “regular” ET’ers substantially added to server drama as they fed off each other. I’ve heard rumors that one of their biggest “drama queens” left their guild, however so kudos to them for that. IMPORTANT NOTE: Guardian did a fantastic job in fine tuning ET’s TeamSpeak and web site and he, and the majority of his guild, were pretty awesome people and many of us were sad to see them go. Lots of them were pretty classy folks.

AKD had a lot of great people too and I think the vast majority of ET respected them and appreciated their efforts. It was my understanding that it was becoming more and more difficult for them to find a challenge in our opposing servers and this was the reason they decided to move. I was even told so by several of their members. It’s been my experience that they were always very honest so I take their reasoning as an honest truth. After they left, there was some anger. Some because folks felt “abandoned”. Some from former AKD guild members that had been booted at the last second and/or left behind when the core of the guild transferred. That is internal guild stuff and it isn’t really any of my business, so it doesn’t color my memories of them in any negative way.

BoM provided insanely good coverage during times of the day when most of ET was checking out the inside of their eyelids. You only have to go as far as the PPT charts to see how much awesomeness they contributed to our server’s success, either with extra manpower during our “on” times or nearly all of our manpower during our “off” times. With that being said, there was a substantial amount of hostility going around between several BoM and several ET when they departed. It’s my belief that some of the hostility was justified, but it’s all really irrelevant at this point so it’s not worth getting into specifics.

BS is full of great people too and their small group tactics are pretty darned unparalleled from what I’ve seen. Personally, I’ve only ever had an issue with one of their members, who no longer plays GW2 afaik, but even that was a fairly respectful conversation as far as I remember. There are lots of former BS still on ET and several who have transferred back to ET. I’m glad many of them stayed and many of them returned. I think ET is a better place because of it.

@Warlord.8430 The mention of IoM/DI initially came from Kolbane, who seems like he doesn’t even play on ET any more, so I’m not sure why he even thought it relevant to post his thoughts. Berk rose to the occasion to defend ET, and I can’t fault him for that at all. (Thanks, Berk!). But more importantly, how are you, brother? I miss a bunch of you guys.

In closing, I’d just like to say that ET (and every server) is mostly the sum of its parts. There is not one guild or one person who is 100% responsible for a server’s success. It’s a team effort. Every single person who comes to this server makes a difference. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. My hope is that you have as much of a positive experience on Eredon Terrace that I have had and I will do anything in my power to make sure you do so. I am both a TeamSpeak and Web Site admin for ET so if anyone has any questions I’ll gladly and truthfully answer them. Feel free to PM me any time! ?
<3 ET. <3 ET’s people.

(Is this the longest post ever, or what? Holy Moly!) haha.

tl;dr (yes it’s first): You should never judge a server by a tiny minority of bad experiences. It would be a disservice to the server and to yourself. I like ET but more importantly I love the people of ET. I’ve always felt welcomed here and not only do my wife and I both play for this server, my kids have recently started playing as well. I 100% MOST CERTAINLY would not be introducing my children to a toxic environment, of any sort. Great community. Great home. Period.

Kolbane.2495:

…I no longer play GW2…

In my opinion, this right here really harms the validity of your post, especially so since you’re citing ET’s T1 history (which was over a year ago I think?) as evidence of our potential. We readers have no way to really know the age or accuracy of your information. It’s my recent experience that most of the things you’ve said are one side of the story, second-hand information, and/or old information. I think most of the readers on this forum will recognize that, but just in case, I’d like to address some of the things you’ve said:

There are not “toxic” admins on TeamSpeak and there haven’t been in some time. You’ve hinted at two, so I’ll have to make some educated guesses about who they may be: one moved servers and the other no longer plays the game as far as I know.

@allstarpro.4610 <3 what you and Sovereign Union are doing and I’m thrilled that you decided to call ET your home.

@NonToxic.9815 You’re spot on. The server, as a whole, is not creating drama or attacking any guild. HOWEVER, when we see a huge recruiting uptick by guilds, who then leave the server a few days later, I think we have a right to be upset. Sometimes people lash out after the information comes to light, but I can’t say their anger is entirely unjustified.

(con’t in next post)

Johje Holan.4607:

Shademehr.1397:

Berk.8561:

What I as suggesting was a version of map chat that would only be seen by people on a map who belong to your server. So anything you said in Wayfarer Foothills in server chat would only be seen by people in Wafare Foothills that were from your server.

I really like this idea.

One of the problem I have with the “mega server” and /m chat is that things like big WvW events can’t be coordinated. If we’re spamming the map of a highly populated area with “Join us at 8pm EST for a BIG push on Kaineng in WvW”, then it’s entirely possible that we will have a giant KN zerg waiting for us at spawn as we all come out.

That actually might not be a bad thing. Get all three servers to get more people out in WvW. We could start organizing fights between actual players and not just doors.

Well, since we’re already outnumbered, the hope is to at least get comparable numbers. The enemy doesn’t need any more prompting or prodding.

When you have a 10-15 man “zerg” that has to split themselves amongst 4 maps, it’s tough to get back to a keep before a 10 golem group can take it. Heck, they’re through one gate before you even see swords or the WP is contested. Assuming you’ve actually been able to build a waypoint, ofc.

mango.9267:

2) Why would anyone transfer to 20-24 when 13-15 are free? If anything, it promotes transferring off the 20-24 servers to the 13-15 servers, which is what happened.

I’m not one of those “tin foil hat” guys or anything, but this is really has me scratching my head.

I have to wonder if it’s intent was to just move all of the lower rank WvW’ers off the bottom tiers. Megaservers, imo, are already pushing us more into zero server loyalty/community. The only means left to be part of a server is through WvW. If everyone transferred off the bottom servers, could they just shut them all down and no one would complain?

All of the trait changes and additions will certainly affect us and cause a little bit of excitement as we tinker with new builds.

Also, account bound WXP.

Those are all pretty amazing in my book and I’m happy.

Berk.8561:

What I as suggesting was a version of map chat that would only be seen by people on a map who belong to your server. So anything you said in Wayfarer Foothills in server chat would only be seen by people in Wafare Foothills that were from your server.

I really like this idea.

One of the problem I have with the “mega server” and /m chat is that things like big WvW events can’t be coordinated. If we’re spamming the map of a highly populated area with “Join us at 8pm EST for a BIG push on Kaineng in WvW”, then it’s entirely possible that we will have a giant KN zerg waiting for us at spawn as we all come out.

Once I accepted that “World vs. World” was really another way of saying “Coverage Wars”, I found that my own patience grew immensely.

Matches are decided by who has the most coverage at any given time. Kaineng and Ehmry Bay have more people than Eredon Terrace. Kaineng even has a “night crew” that reduces both of our servers to 15ppt at various times.

We on ET can recruit our PvE players, we can spend more time in WvW on an individual level, and we can do a few other things. At the end of the day though, you can’t squeeze blood from a turnip. It is what it is and I suspect our WvW population may continue to decline the further we get into the season as we are matched against servers that outnumber us much more than KN and Ebay and the frustration level continues to rise.

If you’re on Eredon Terrace and you expect, at least in the short term, to consistently be #1, then you’re going to have a bad time. Savor and enjoy the fights when numbers are equal. Enjoy the Community and camaraderie. Get on TeamSpeak and have a good laugh, or cry, with us.

I can assure you of one thing, though: There are many of we “hardcore” ET’ers that subscribe to the “never say die” philosophy. We’ll be out there every day doing everything we can. With such a small fighting force, every single person makes a difference. Every. Single. One. As an example, we took an opponents Bay yesterday with 3 people. THREE people.

We might be deterred once, twice, or ten times. But we’re a tenacious bunch. We’ll keep coming back no matter what.

<3 ET.
<3 its people.

I’m amazed that people are this enraged over a joke that will only last 24hours… Perhaps consider taking the day off and do some spring cleaning, go to the library, volunteer at a school, catch up on sleep. Whatever. Then come back tomorrow when it’s all over.

I’m upset that I’m at work and can’t enjoy it! haha

My experience was that Eredon Terrace had homeland and EB sporadically queued for a very small window of about 45mins-1hour on reset night. The highest I saw was between 10-15 and it didn’t last for long.

Zero queues since then, afaik.

Omne.4603:

Who can we pm to get more information about ET?

Hello, Omne!

If you still need information about Eredon Terrace, please PM me or /w me in-game. We can even get together on TeamSpeak, if you’d like.

There have been several tranfers to ET from NSP already. We’d certainly welcome you as well.

Edit: Last night we had a WvW class for those that are interested in WvW as well as a separate “training” zerg of folks on our server that had little to no WvW experience but were interested in finding out more about it. Kudos to everyone who participated including the trainers, Commanders, organizers, WvW “regulars”, and most importantly: the brave souls who decided to give WvW a try for the first time.

If you are WvW-curious, please also consider Eredon Terrace. We have many people on the server who would love to spend time with you and answer all your questions and help get you started. Hope to see you soon!

#groundhogday

The death screams of my crushed enemies, their howls as they are driven before me, and the wails of their women, deep in their lamentations

#adapted

or just my friends on TeamSpeak.

ET has had one WvW-focused guild leave during the free transfer period afaik. Two left several weeks ago. I’ve heard rumors of a large PvE-focused guild leaving (or left?) but have no confirmation. We’ve received several transfers consisting of individuals and some small guilds.

Overall, it’s hard to say if we broke even or not in WvW. Overall, I’d say the server itself probably has fewer people.

I can say, our “regulars” are still here and going strong. With that being said, we’ve been trying to get the rest of the server involved more with WvW. We had a training event yesterday as well as a “come try WvW for the first time” event in the hope of drawing more people into WvW. Folks are working hard to get more people involved and I feel like I’m seeing progress. (Great job everyone!)

I’m feeling pretty positive that we’ll do better this season than last. ::thumbsup::

Omne.4603:

Who can we pm to get more information about ET?

Hello, Omne!

If you still need information about Eredon Terrace, please PM me or /w me in-game. We can even get together on TeamSpeak, if you’d like.

There have been several tranfers to ET from NSP already. We’d certainly welcome you as well.

Edit: Last night we had a WvW class for those that are interested in WvW as well as a separate “training” zerg of folks on our server that had little to no WvW experience but were interested in finding out more about it. Kudos to everyone who participated including the trainers, Commanders, organizers, WvW “regulars”, and most importantly: the brave souls who decided to give WvW a try for the first time.

If you are WvW-curious, please also consider Eredon Terrace. We have many people on the server who would love to spend time with you and answer all your questions and help get you started. Hope to see you soon!

Just a couple of days left for free transfers to Eredon Terrace!

Wanze.8410:

58 comments, half of them from you or other people doubl posting. With the new wardrobe, you can scratch the people that commented here and wanted to buy a hood for one of their alts and already had one on another char.

Well, FWIW, I’ll replace one of those that was scratched off the list. With the recent announcement of the Account Wardrobe, I am 100% committed to buying this hood. I wasn’t too impressed with it when I first saw it on the trading post, but having seen it “in the wild”, I’ve grown to like it. The wardrobe sealed the deal.

I’m anxiously anticipating it going on sale this month as one of the “specials”.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE CHANGES!!!!!!

(caps intended).

Most of the “hate” posts so far are coming from people who seem to be having reading comprehension issues or are complaining about duplicate legendary “skins” while completely ignoring the fact that they have the highest (ascended) stats in the game with the ability to change their prefix at will. (out of combat, ofc.)

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I have Celestial on both my ele and my mes at this time. When I log onto my ele, Celestial now becomes account bound and available to all of my characters. When I log onto my mes, Celestial is already known and cannot be added again to my account bound colors. To compensate, I will get a free unidentified dye. If I had Celestial on say my necro, I would get another unidentified dye, since I already have that color in my palette.

This. This right here ^^^^

I don’t think there is an easier way to explain it. Kudos, Lanfear.

skyhawk.5149:

Meow Rip ET i guess. Now we have no nightcrew, no daycrew, so…… 24/7 outmanned, outgunned, outkittened. What can you do? Why transfer over and help

Sounds like a challenge, to me.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!! Go ET!

I think it sounds like a pretty awesome adventure if you ask me. We’re all facing the same obstacle. It’s not like “Server A” is going to have their traits reset while “Server B” gets to keep all of theirs. This will affect everyone equally.

Think of it like the Thunderdome. It’s all one big fist fight. Then half-way through, they lower the chainsaws and things REALLY get interesting.

Isn’t all of this just a fancy schmancy rock-paper-scissors anyway? With each patch/update certain builds grow in strength while others lose. It’s kind of the cycle of life.

Something will always lose to something else.

Welcome! to all of the people that have joined Eredon Terrace in the past few days.

We still have plenty of room for more in our ET family.

Nothing for 10 days? I’ll be sleeping my kitten off so I can get ready for the WvW Tournament!

Once it starts, I’ll be soooo sleep deprived.

Welcome to ET, Cylocx! Please let me know if you need anything on the ET forums or in TS.

SniffyCube.6107:

nah just when you compliment a server and try to prop them up after their main wvw guild leaves & commanders beg you from /w chat to get off their bls and then they turn around and delete your threads / post how bad your guild is you realize why you left that server in the first place

Ah, so it sounds like you have a personal concern with a specific situation. If you recall correctly, I thought yours and my exchanges were pretty hospitable, from both sides. It’s a shame really to judge an entire server based on a few personal interactions. You have history with ET. I get that. Keep in mind, that we’re only seeing your side of the story. There are always (at least) two.

At any rate, this thread is about oceanic coverage. It’s not really one of the old-school craptastic matchup threads. Lets try not to ruin it any more than we have.

I get to reallocate my World Ability Points. Call me “easy to please”, but that makes me happy.

I can continue to wait for the other stuff. No biggie. I’m still having lots of fun in WvW exactly how it is. The other updates will get here if/when they get here.

The prices are too high in my opinion. It’s even worse when you don’t use the whole skin, since I tend to mix-n-match.

The ONLY way I would be “happy” with paying their current price would be if they unlocked the skin for use multiple times across various characters like the achievement skins.

NOW is the time to join a great server and a great community!

skyhawk.5149:

Free Bronze league server with Oceanic coverage?!?!?!?! Are we seriously not gonna put Eredon Terrace on the list?

You took the words right out of my mouth. Was just getting ready to post something like this.

We’ve had a lot of successes so far this year. We’ve won 6 of 11 matchups so far and have placed 2nd place or better in 10 of 11. That’s pretty darned respectable by any measure.

Take a look at what we’ve been able to accomplish:
Week1 – 3rd place (Match included servers that were 2 and 4 ranks ahead)
Week2 – 1st place
Week3 – 1st place
Week4 – 1st place
Week5 – 1st place
Week6 – 1st place
Week7 – 2nd place
Week8 – 1st place
Week9 – 2nd place
Week10 – 2nd place
Week11 (current week) – currently 2nd place

As our current coverage stands, our afternoon crew and early night crews (EST) have their hands full trying to hold the line until we can hand the reins over to our night and morning crew. I think this is mostly due to our opponents (sometimes drastically) better coverage during these times. For example, it’s not unheard of to be defending against two or three 20+ player enemy groups in our homeland, with only 20ish defenders. We’re tough. We’re agile. We win in more of these situations than we lose.

We are an extremely tenacious NEVER SAY DIE group of people on Eredon Terrace. It’s not unheard of for one or two people to repeatedly run in and hold a capture circle over and over again until more forces can amass and repel the attack. More commonly, we fight and WIN against much larger groups consistently and repeatedly.

We are very passionate about our WvW. On rare occasions, our passion may spill over into a tiny few hasty and unnecessary exchanges with each other, but at the end of the day, we all realize we are working towards a common goal. We’re family. We’re brothers and sisters fighting for Eredon Terrace and we are united.

In the past, one of our viewpoints has generally been: “We’ve done so much for so long with so little, we can now do everything with nothing.”

With that being said, each and every person who comes to fight for Eredon Terrace will be making a difference, regardless of what time of day they play. Whether it’s one, five, of fifty, each and every person makes a difference.

YOU will make a difference.

Transfer to Eredon Terrace today!

Unknownhero.6745:

I don’t know how you all do it considering the cost of slots. I have an full 80 for every class. One spare toon I made the other day cause I was getting bored. Although I do appreciate the fun of rolling new toons, I just cant seem to get motivated to level it. Half my guys just sit and collect dust most days, occasionally coming out for a specific event or use. My last slot I just have for random pvp creation moods. Someday hopefully we could see a new race or class, until then Im done.

Sublimatio.6981:

Lara Croft!

And Ridkitten.

edit: lol @ language filter. ummm….aka: Vin Diesel.

Or make it like regular crafting where you can select how many you want to make.

At the very least, keep the materials in the forge instead of throwing them back into inventory after you craft one. That would save a few clicks.

KamikazeGnat.1406:

You can’t compare one class heal to another. Mesmer with a 400hps would of course be overpowered. Because they have so much damage mitigation through clones, blink, stealth etc that aren’t available to warrior. The fact is a warrior is going to soak a lot of damage the mesmer would avoid.

Same with guardian; if you were to run an altruistic healing build with 400hps on top it would be ridiculous, you’re right. But again, warrior doesn’t have access to that kind of healing through traits. Shouts are decent but don’t come close to a guardians ability to self heal through traits.

And again with elementalist; the access to heal though their water atonement on top of self heal provides a lot of self healing; while they also have access to avoidance and damage reduction skills.

Healing signet is nothing on it’s own. If i were to stand in front of any glass class or if i were to build full glass i’d melt in seconds; . It’s when combined with certain builds that allow you to avoid damage though stun lock down or area control that it shines.

I currently run a level 80 Warrior, Mesmer, Guardian, Ranger and Thief and if any are built in the right way they become a nightmare to kill; yes, even the ranger. It’s not the heal it’s how you build around it, how you play, and how you learn to counter other classes. Nothing more.

You get a +1 from me good sir. Well said.

Well, here’s the “incentive” I guess:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready-for-wvw-spring-tournament-2014/

Discounts to transfer to lower tier servers based on ranking and not population in preparation for the WvW Tourny

(March 18th – 27th pricing)
Tier Gem Cost
1-12 2400 gems
13-15 0 gems
16-19 800 gems
20-24 0 gems

Thanks, Rising Dusk and Lilith Ajit

Incentive to transfer to lower population servers is really the best bet I think, whether that be from some sort of transfer fee discount or something else.

Those of us who remain in the lower tier servers do so mostly out of rabid loyalty to our “home” and/or the people we play with each and every day. To a lesser extent, as some have pointed out, people also stay because there is the advantage of zero queues. Heck, some of us just enjoy being underdogs. Maybe some of us are even a little masochistic

So just to make sure I understand correctly: Reset is currently 7pm Eastern (US). Once we “spring forward”, reset will be at 8pm, right?

I’ve participated in the killing of about 10-12 knights. ONE core is all I’ve received so far.

Seagloom.1263:

ExAstris and lakdav summed it up. This is a graphics issue and not a design choice.

I think I agree.

Astral Projections.7320:

Idk. To me that hair looks like a wig. Do you think she is bald? Maybe there will be an emotional scene later where she tells Marjory this.

Hair has always been weird to me in this game. Whenever I toggle my helmets on/off in the game my hair disappears. For example, my human warrior has long-ish hair. When I toggle his helmet on and position the camera low and behind him, his hair disappears and he’s completely bald.

The witch hat (town clothes) does the same thing to my female characters. FOOGLY.

I’m biased with regards to the heavy eye mascara as I find it super schmexy in real life.

I thought it was a nice touch. I had forgotten about the dialog in previous content where she talked about her hiccup-fits but I just naturally assumed that it was due to her being nervous and/or scared. Heck, there are other references in movies, stories, etc (outside of GW2), where this happens to characters too. It’s not like this little tidbit is not without precedent.

Circling Skies.1872:

THIS over and over again! Last night the zerg drew him down south away from the red lasers. No matter how many times myself and a few others tried to tell the zerg to bring him back north to the RED lasers no one would listen. It was actually quite maddening. How long can people attack and get zeros for dmg and not realize something is amiss?? The answer: approx 20 min or more. When people woke up and finally drug him to the red lasers the fight was over in a matter of minutes.

Wow, did you luck out. We fought him last night and were NEVER able to convince everyone to drag him back up the hill from the beach. How can people miss repeated /s chats from multiple ppl that are STANDING ON TOP OF THE DUDE THEY’RE ATTACKING.

Oh well, I learned just to stay away from that Champ now. These “special mechanic” bosses are a royal pain and it’s not even because they’re difficult. It’s because people don’t pay attention (or don’t care?) and just keep pressing 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.

Same frustration with the mini-holograms. We got the first two down to a sliver of life and moved to the third (they all have to die nearly simultaneously). While we were attacking the third there was a ranger plucking away at one that was on the verge of death. I rez’d her once and tried to explain to her not to attack. When she downed the second time, I left her there.

Just dc’d with a “network error” message on the mini-holograms. I can’t even get back into the game…

This is my fourth attempt at beating this friggin thing. It’s something every time. Hella frustrated right now.

Kanto.1659:

Okay then. I followed the tip, got a 5 man group going and we tackled all three Knights. Got 6 bags from each.

I think this is a pretty definite answer about the loot problem.

It isn’t. I was in a full party of five for my second run and I only received loot from 1 of 3 Knights.

To make matters worse, I heard someone in TeamSpeak last night say that they got him down to 20% and then he glitched into the ground and became invulnerable.

My loot experience so far:
1st time: yes no no
2nd time: no no yes.

The second time, the hologram event bugged out in Scarlet’s drill so I said eff this and went back to WvW where I belong.

I do plenty of damage. It was not a tagging/damage issue.

Yes this is happening. When I port to a WP in my home map, I often get redirected to a completely different WP. There may not be another enemy on the entire map and this still happens. In my case, it has nothing to do with whether or not the WP becomes contested AFTER I click on it.

This has happened to many people on my server. I’ve not noticed it in the last few days, but my time in WvW has been minimal in comparison to how much I normally play (because LS).

And thank goodness too. I primarily WvW so this was a nice bonus! I hope it was intended.

I leveled my D/D Ele from 30ish to 80 doing casual LA runs. Maybe a few “serious” runs at 4-5 hours on the weekend days. Popped XP banners, boosters, 15% XP food, some junk sharpening stones or oil (can’t remember)

I also cashed in my belongings for levels.

It was pretty easy. I even kept upgrading my gear with the PTV gear from the WvW Karma vendor so I could be useful too.

It’s my 8th level 80 and I’m finally finished making characters. 1 of each class now