Guild Wars 2

Jaxs.5830:

The manifesto of a blobber.

It’s all lies. The blob hasn’t implemented even half of these features a year later.

dreztina.4820:

Still needing to know the tags of the good guilds from JQ.

Here they are:

Tjizn.5834:

plz need more hamers ty

I know I’m looking forward to seeing the buffs to hammer warriors in the next patch!

Player Character.9467:

GJ JQ, trading a waypointed keep for a paper tower that somebody else can breakout on. T1 tactics?

Welp. Now we’ll lose for sure.

Kiff.8157:

Gaile Gray

No need to go all Godwin about it.

Azure Prower.8701:

Good game JQ. You fought well to win this week’s match up!

We’ve overcome the odds yet again!! Way to pull off the upset!!

Darkjoy.3092:

To all the new JQ transfers complaining about the 2v1 I present to you BG Bane. Respect to the legacy guilds and players on JQ and SOR that know our tier history

It’s so rare that someone actually posts a funny picture in these threads, well done sir and/or madam, well done.

Why does this matchup ever have to end? I think us three (and all the other servers) would rather we stayed matched up with each other forever.

If Anet really wants a six team league to work they need to make transfers to the 5 and 6 team free and implement a real guild transfer. I’m sure many of us would be happy with six viable teams but we’re not gonna pay for it.

Also, this was the only competitive matchup in the entire league system this week in NA. Ah off to a great start.

Gordok.2146:

2-1 happens all the time, two servers trying to spawn camp while flipping the lone paper tower and ignoring each other for 20 hours though is something else. Especially when they are getting wiped over and over because they are not the superior force but still come back holding hands, heck bg even waited for sor’s longer run back to our spawn to push each time. This also happened across all borderlands and eb at the same time. So congrats on the propaganda and to the SOR, BG alliance. Atleast we know who takes it in that alliance for future reference.

So troll this post how ever you want so that you can convince yourself otherwise but you made a joke out of your selves that will allways be remembered by all watching this season how ever it turns out. JQ did’nt choose the schedule but your two servers chose how you wanted to react to it. GG JQ and way to keep fighting regardless as allways.

“Always.”

BG and BG Jr. will “always” be remembered as jokes who traded in their self respect for a PPT lead and still lost every open field fight in the process, causing them to be so scared they wouldn’t engage JQ without the other server there to back them up. And JQ will continue to keep fighting as “always.”

Not “allways.”

Korbaal.6402:

I must say, this week has been epic! I don’t care what position we end up in Friday night I would accept 3rd place gladly every week without hesitation if it meant being in this matchup every week. 1st place really could have gone to anyone, and trolling aside great job everyone!!

Yeah, if only we had some sort of system where the weekly matchup was based on, oh I dunno, coverage and blob size or how competitive servers are against each other or…geez crazy far out there ideas I know, but hey I can dream.

But no, much better that we have this matchup once every two months or so and fight a bunch of servers that are essentially trash mobs due to lack of coverage in between.

OH I get it, it’s like a dungeon now. Gotta grind through the easy stuff to get to the end boss. Well at least we’ll get a lot of achievements along the way, maybe even some ascended gear since obviously that’s what we’re all here for. grabs whatever is lying around to throw at Anet

Slayer Lord.5023:

I was on JQBL during reset night and weekend. They double teamed too rough. Woke up real sore. No one likes that.

I did.

Zigman.7950:

Why are you all kittening about a 2v1? It happens every match

It’s their way of saying “Waaaah I died waaaaaaah.”

Kistenian.2083:

Scarlet like Harley Quinn … she is nothing without Joker. but where is Joker here?

Trahearne.

Same here on JQ in WvW and PvE.

Crashes whether I click “More” on the daily list in the upper left, or whether I go to the daily tab in the hero panel.

Game freezes and becomes unresponsive and eventually crashes.

I love any steps towards player housing, no matter how small.

DarksunG.9537:

Astralporing.1957:

If i wanted to do a summary why she’s such a cartoonish cliche villain and why it would be better to just forget about her, i couldn’t have done it better. Thank you OP.

Agreed. The Back story just helped to cement how utterly ridiculous & Sue this character is. it’s not surprising that some MMO players like her, she’s the epitome of the teenage Deviant Art style character who is awesome at everything, has the stupid modern-stlye annoying sassy character that is incongruent with the setting & “bucks the system” for some “i’m great & unique” reason like every teen does in their half-informed wisdom.

Yup. “Scarlet was too pretty and awesome and smart so society hated her, but they couldn’t kill her cuz she was too pretty and awesome and smart.”

I’m just glad that JQ managed to overcome all of the odds and make it into gold league, despite not having anywhere near the numbers, skill, or coordination of any other server! Way to go, JQ, the little server that could!

No but seriously lets end this in an exact three way tie to screw over Anet’s dumb league system.

MoS.5970:

Only saw a person comment on the trapped Hylek behind the barrier, but there’s also trapped humans. After carefully inching forward because the barrier keeps bouncing you back, talking to them says this:

Same as they used to say. It was for the quaggan heart in the NW part of the lake.

lordkrall.7241:

Thobek.1730:

(just look how a few things have sparked more interest than scarlet ever could).

Oh?
I am quite sure there were MASSIVE amount of interest around Scarlet before The Queens Speech.

Yeah, when she was promising to stop time and reveal that our world is built on fog, and Anet was hinting there would be a major, game changing announcement. Overhyped and no delivery at all, after we saw how lame she was everyone stopped caring except for champ farming.

This is the opposite, no hype at all, let’s hope it wildly over delivers in awesome content.

Exosferatu.2961:

Has anyone seen Kari? She is AUX-1’s mistress. Kari was last seen heading southwest from Marjory Delaqua’s camp. Maddox sent out a search party but could not locate Kari.

I went looking but didn’t see anything.

Kill Shot is a highly telegraphed channel. It’s fine.

Warrior ability to shrug off all conditions and dash/charge away while passively regaining all their health and immune to CC is what needs nerfed.

I think they should make it a daily.

On the last day of the event.

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Killing people isn’t that bad.

On this point we differ.

If they buff the blood witch on the same scale they buffed Tequatl it might be game over for the surface dwellers.

And it doesn’t reset on daily either. Looks like its just one pair of gloves overall this year.

LinkR.6190:

He skinned people alive. I don’t care how crazy you are, that’s pretty twisted.

Yeah, if you read the flavor text from the scavenger hunt last year, the Mad King was all sorts of evil. I ended up genuinely disliking the guy after all the things he did. Here are a few I remember.

- Poisoned his girlfriend’s horse causing it to trample her to death (her last memory was him smiling as she died)
- Tricked his rather decent older brother into being eaten by a giant spider.
- Assassinated his brother’s girlfriend when she saw through his lies.
- Beat his brother’s girlfriend’s servant to death so she couldn’t warn her of his plot to have her assassinated.
- Beheaded Lord Faren’s ancestor for (rightfully) accusing him of murdering his father
- Cut off the hands of all peasants accused of theft (accused of mind you, not guilty of)
- Kidnapped the father of an Istani princess, used that as blackmail to force her to marry him, and then killed her too.
- Put his next wife into a coffin filled with rats and dumped it in the sea.
- Put his son Edrick into a coffin while still alive and stuffed his mouth with candy corn.

And that’s just some of what we’ve learned so far. The guy is evil, and not in a wacky harmless Scarlet sort of way, legitimately evil.

They drop pretty often in the Labyrinth.

Walhalla.5473:

Yes the Dredge and Flame Legion are xenophobic, but it isn’t unlikely fot them, to build the Molten Alliance under Scarlet. It was a dire situation for them when they founded it. ( Dredge Moletariat facing a revolution, and some very important persons dead. Flame Legion facing war against an enemy too powerful. Even Gaheron as a god couldn’t win it. )

But the Krait. They are xenophobic to the extreme. They kill, eat and sacrifice every non Krait they see. It’s impossible for Scarlet to work with them, they would just attack her on sight. Perhaps this one is a prelude to another Living Story Arc that will come after the Scarlet Arc.

I really like it how Anet changed Kessex. Little or big changes, foreshadowing events are a good way to make this world more living and less static. I wish you could do that more frequently Anet

You are correct in everything you say. Still doesn’t meant they aren’t gonna Scarlet this one up. Yes, Scarlet is a verb, it means to make something awful out of something that should have been good.

Fingers crossed they won’t though. Hopefully this involves the wizard’s tower as well (if there even is a wizard up there, I don’t think he’d take too kindly to a krait obelisk in his backyard), Kessex Hills is filled with great stuff, it’s one of my favorite zones before all this. When the rain falls over the fields it is very beautiful. I’m glad it seems like more players will see the zone now that it is becoming a focus. I suspect the majority never see anything outside of the centaur chain event.

This is awesome. The sort of lore heavy foreshadowing that should come before something big and lets us sort of put the pieces together. The krait are one of the few truly threatening species out there for Tyria. This could be really cool!

…unless it ends up involving Scarlet.

Doesn’t seem to work anywhere.

Lord Kuru.3685:

All the leagues are pointless. When winning is determined by coverage, it means nothing.

Yuuuup.

While the league system is poorly thought out, the basic problem is how score is kept in the first place, which needs to be fixed before leagues or whatever are even realistically considered.

The grawl were the smart ones all along. Even before the Consortium were revealed they were talking about how the strangers smiles don’t reach their eyes. See how smart they are when they aren’t worshiping some rock? (Badazar excepted, Badazar rules).

Harm. Power Creep. Grind. Character Bound. All bad.

Super Kruegs.8967:

3. Roamers are generally bad, but have good builds. I feel like this is a big thing most servers ignore when talking kitten on T1 servers. T1 knows builds for W3. They will be tanky, they will try to res downed players, and worst of all are all they are 75% warriors and guardians. Be prepared for a lots of resets in battle as almost no T1 roamers will go down without at least trying to run and reset the fight.

I had to chuckle at reading this from an FA player.

The first time we fought you guys was one of those wtf rng matchups it was us, you and TC. We’d never fought either before that I can remember (or if we had it had been awhile).

TC despite having a huge number advantage over FA were all zerker specced and ran in one group and died by the truckload. It was like a rain of bags for almost no work. You could tell they were used to steamrolling with karma trains over outmatched foes and could almost sense the confusion when they ran into an equal sized group. So it was all “yay they’re all zerker zergers free loot! YAY!”

Then me and a few guildies broke off from our zerg and we ran into an equal number of FA and thought it would be the same so charged in heedlessly. It was all “OH GOD THEY’RE ALL PVT AND KNOW HOW TO PLAY! PULL UP! PULL UP!!!” Haha. And I’ve noticed that every time we’ve fought FA since, they can’t even come close in numbers or coverage but pound for pound they are the toughest server I’ve ever fought overall. So, yeah, /salute and all that.

But back to the topic at hand….skill lag in tier 1 is awful, there could be a zerg fighting somewhere in your general vicinity (yeah the above posters are right its usually the SoR zerg but not always) and you’ll find yourself wondering when/if your button presses will go off. If you’re playing a class that lives or dies depending on if you dodge at the right time it is inconvenient to say the least.

JQ queues are really dumb because when we’re losing to SoR / BG half the maps are outmanned. I’ve spent a lot of time in SoR border and seen five other JQ all night. On the other hand when we’re winning or fighting smaller serves every map is queued. Kinda gives you an idea of what t1 is all about.

Also tier 1 is probably the only tier where players dislike winning because it just means more fair weather transfers come in and you have a hard time even getting on the map to play. Not to say everyone who comes to tier 1 is just looking to zerg and be carried, but let’s be honest most are.

If you look at the matchups there are two other groupings of servers that should be really good mathcuhps with each other – Sea of Sorrows / Fort Aspenwood / Maguuma / Stormbluff Isle and Ehmry Bay / Yak’s Bend / Borlis Pass / Crystal Desert / Isle of Janthir. I would look at some of those servers if you want close competition and good fights. T1 maps feel very crowded.

Honestly the best fights I’ve had in terms of opposing player skill have been against Fort Aspenwood and Sea of Sorrows. Blackgate has some good roamers too but its rare I actually get to finish a fight against them without one zerg or another interrupting.

Every server is going to tell you that they run 5 mans and only care about having fun and that the other servers blob and buy guilds and are neckbeard dwelling losers.

And they’re all right.

Honestly it sounds like you are looking for a guild more than a server. All of the other things you mention (dungeons, etc) you can do from anywhere with guesting and such. As far as WvW goes you may as well roll a die if you are just looking at the top three servers. Over time there is really no difference between the three. They’re all packed with blobby fair weather zerglings but with a hard crunchy core of good roamers.

The Mad King is not the king of madness, he is a king who is mad.

The Bloody Prince is not the king of blood, he is a prince who is bloody.

Make sense now?

styx.7294:

Buy ranks with laurels so you can do dailies to get laurels.

It’s a self-sustaining economy!!!

Best

1) Super Adventure Box (Part 1). Wonderfully made, great design, a lot of fun, and references that made me smile. Did a very good job of bringing back the feel of classic games like Mario, Sonic, Zelda, etc., while keeping my connection with my character. Wonderful release.

2) Labyrinthine Cliffs. The most fun I’ve ever had just jumping around a zone looking for things. I spent most of this release here and doing Sprint. Truly fun and new level design, and the quartz instance was the first step towards actually having a home instance that matters we’ve seen.

3) Mad King. New pvp minigames, a fun, meaningful quest with a good story (I really truly hated the Mad King by the end of it) for a cool looking back item (my first character still wears it, nothing since has topped it), and all sorts of fun monsters and events and a quick little mini dungeon. All around awesome! Unfortunately for Anet, it set the bar pretty high and all of the live events since have seemed weak in comparison.

Honorable Mentions: Molten Facility was a fun dungeon, although it wasn’t around long enough and came after a month of pounding signs and chain knockback periscopes. Fractals of the Mist also gets a mention, although nearly a year later it still has the same yawn fest dredge instance. If that got removed I’d spent a lot more time there.

Worst

1) Clockwork Chaos. Scarlet. Anything to do with Scarlet. Lamest villain ever (maybe she’ll fight the lamest hero ever Traherane and we won’t ever have to deal with either again?). Made worse by the set up with talk about a huge, earth shattering event for Tyria (there was all sorts of hype) and then it just delivered nothing. Bringing all the farmers out of Cof1 and into the open world to grind champions just made the quality of the community plummet. Terrible design all around.

2) Dragon Bash. Everything wrong about live updates. Even the one thing that they got right (the dragon ball mini game) was ruined by making it a grind achievement that filled it with AFKers. The story was lame, the achievements were grindy and dumb, and there was just no point to a huge party while the very reason for the party still represents a massive threat to Tyria. Only other silver lining was it led to the awesome Noir cut scene.

3) Super Adventure Box (Part 2). Where the first release brought back good feelings of classic games like Mario, Sonic, and Zelda, this release brought back the feeling of classic games like Daikatana. “Josh Foreman’s About to Make You His Kitten” should have been the release note. I never finished it not because of any challenge, but because I didn’t have the time to grind through such long repetitive levels more than a few times looking for achievements.

Honorable Mention – Crab Toss. The event it was part of was meh, but Crab Toss is the worst content this game has ever produced. I’ll also throw out an Honorable mention to the WvW leagues even though they haven’t happened yet, and the Bloodlust Buff (let’s give the best server in each matchup more stats! When the best possible result of a WvW update is that it has no effect, you’ve failed badly).

(I didn’t play the Lost Shores or Wintersday so those weren’t considered)

They would fix a lot of what’s wrong with WvW by just making it use spvp items.

Ricky.4706:

getting the exotic backpack is not as easy as running to orr – orr in my server is a dead place …no one goes there anymore since anet – ‘improved it?’ – you have to do the temple event – which can’t be done solo…….and if I hear find a guild one more time!! Arg – i’m was in 5 and each of them was like 5 out of 500 are on and the few that are on farm jormag- many of them transferred to other servers – so just running to orr will get you nothing but frustrated. The logistics are flawed and saying there is a quick and simple solution is just as bad as hearing ‘the check is in the mail’

http://us.gw2stuff.com/en/events/us

Blue dot = open temple.

Currently open on Blackgate.

Doing fractals is just for the ascended backpiece.

You can get exotic items from the temples, if you’ve been doing WvW you’ll have more than enough karma, you just have to run to Orr.

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/28/gw2-new-orr-temple-exotics/

folly dragon.4126:

SAB should be permanent

Steelo.4597:

That is also why nobody cares about PPT except in T1 anymore,

Most of T1 hasn’t cared about PPT in a very long while either.

Cactus.2710:

You really don’t get it, do you. The great majority of WvW’ers … at least the ones that have been playing it since launch … don’t (or at least didn’t) play it for “rewards”. We played it for an enjoyable and entertaining competition against other players in the context of medieval warfare involving equal measures of team strategy and individual player skill. You, or at least ANet, sold the game on that premise … minimal focus on gear and heavy focus on content. The great majority of what ANet has done in the meantime, however, and virtually everything that you (Devon) have personally done, has been contrary to that. You’ve taken the fun, excitement, and entertainment out of WvW and turned it into something to be endured. And you keep doing it over and over again.

Well put.

Added grind. Removed fun.

MrFluffy.9307:

styx.7294:

Fuzzion.2504:

Come to JQ where all your problems are solved in under 3 seconds.

That’s right, Jade Quarry needs people more than Ferguson’s Crossing. I mean, how long can Jade Quarry stand having the 3rd highest population? Let no Guild Wars 2 player rest until that’s fixed.

+1

tired of T1 recruitment posts, they have enough people already T_T

+2

Atlas.9704:

SlothBear.9846:

Agreed. Should be a jamboree instead.

Well if she did host a pancake jamboree I’d enjoy that.
Pancake stacks as high as Divinity’s Reach!

Now we’re on to something. Pancakes are a much better living story drop than kites or tokens.

Not even remotely impressed. Most of them are hideous and I find the special effects obnoxious. To me legendaries are the ultimate “most expensive is best” attitude that leads to people akitteng in Lion’s Arch desperate for someone to be impressed.

I am sometimes impressed by people I see in game, but those who have a cool outfit that actually looks good and is somewhat unique. There are also some achievements that I would be impressed by if they had something attached to them. For example “Dungeon Master” title gets a nod of respect from me.

A legendary though? No, there is nothing difficult about a legendary, just a huge timesink. Either you’ve got too much free time or you’ve got too much spare cash, and whichever you spent your priorities are all out of whack.

Agreed. Should be a jamboree instead.

I would actually use minis if they didn’t autodeposit. Don’t need a slot for them or anything really. As it is, they just go to my bank and I forget about them. Maybe I’d buy the special minis if they didn’t just vanish.

Well…this should be interesting. Was hoping for another round with TC since I missed most of the last one, but a whole new matchup is always welcome too!

Have fun everyone!