Guild Wars 2

Really hoping we get BG/JQ/TC next week. That would be a fun matchup. Sadly I am going to have to miss the rest of this one due to rl stuff…well not so sad I’ll be having fun, just wish it wasn’t this week I was missing who knows when we will see each other again.

Clockradio.3257:

SoR SoR blah blah SoR blah blah blah

Get out.

Coo! Jade Quarry likes you!

SoPP.7034:

JQ has gained all its fair weather players back, that’s contributing to the numbers out there.

Yeah, we don’t have anywhere near this many in the field when we’re losing. I thought JQ had shaken that mentality, but I guess everyone was just hiding.

Thrumdi.9216:

You serious bro?

We’ve been wiping JQ zergs continually.

I think it’s the JQ zerg that needs to up its game. I was expecting more from a T1 server.

Haha you don’t know much about t1 do you? If you think JQ zergs die easy wait til you see SoR and BG’s. xD

FA fights very hard and I have much respect for them even after a day, but numberswise this is not the matchup they really need to be in. You know what I’d like to to see is BG/JQ/TC.

This would be the 2-3-4 servers in total population, but I think all three have fairly similar fighting styles and seem to enjoy open field fighting a lot. I would expect a ton of skirmishing and relentless keep pushes (TC is tenacious in that respect…what JQ could do if everyone we had fought as hard). I think that would be more of a three way.

Not intended as disrespect to FA, you guys are fighting harder than you should be able to pound for pound that’s for sure. =)

Absolutely not. Between all the spam about live events and the right half of my screen being dominated by advertisements for in game stuff we’ve had enough. There should be less of this junk, not more.

Twinbros.5372:

Not even close, TC usually only has enough people to fill TCBL and EB. JQ has enough to fill every map

Outside of reset, JQ hasn’t maxed every map in months. TC is fielding zergs that would compare to BlackGate’s. Not SoR’s, but nobody zergs that hard.

TC and JQ seem pretty even population wise.

CHIPS.6018:

The battle for that 3rd place tier 1 spot has begun.

I hope someone other than JQ or TC wins because I like this matchup. I nominate Dragonbrand stays there (they won reset haha).

Essence Snow.3194:

Wish we had the numbers to make this more interesting. Alas we don’t…oh well.

Trust me, on JQ we know how that feels. Had a lot of fun in TC tonight, you guys field massive numbers, great fights. Lotta respect for FA for doing all they could to be infuriating. Reminds me of us. =)

JQ does not respond to non-animated images.

I do hope you all enjoy the game. lifts wine glass

shortcake.8659:

why would any NA guild switch between t1 servers. welcome to more queues during NA time i guess.

The never ending search for an easier fight. Some people never give it up.

Three threads in one week. WORLD FIRST.

Fun times in BG tonight.

I have to admit I’ve got some cool looking stuff out of the pvp chest. I have actually changed my pvp character’s look, which I never planned on doing before. Nice little way to show us new skins we wouldn’t know to go looking for otherwise.

…of course some of them don’t exist in PvE but we can worry about that later.

renmei.3102:

You know, the sign of a community that is actually strong and not run by temperamental children~

If you will it, it is no dream.

The only thing bugged about this (and the other dungeon runes) is that when you make one in the mystic forge it’s still soulbound. Booooo!

Vash.9183:

pot.6805:

Maybe these forum warriors should start worrying about their own server before lecturing JQ on what they should or shouldn’t do?

Yeah, pretty much.

They are obviously extremely worried about their own server, which is why they are so desperate with the propaganda.

Ozma.1950:

Just want to make a shout out to RATS.
Really respect you guys for taking up arms with JQ in this T1 fight. Its so easy to join the winning team and stomp on the other weaker servers but you guys have not done that and instead, picked the tougher path to take the challenge to SOR/BG in our weakest timeslot.

Kudos to you guys and a very warm welcome to JQ.
As for the rest of JQ, stand strong, stand fast, stand together!

So far RATS is the only guild that has refused my offer of 100g/member if they transfer to SoR instead of JQ. They are tenacious, although I think being high on meth all the time and speaking only Romanian may have played a part in it.

I haven’t seen this much kittening about JQ since we were on a multi month win streak. Whatever we’re doing is obviously right, keep it up!

SmallCat.7413:

wvw reward lower than pve.If Anet do this,more player will leave wvw.

I don’t agree with the OP, but this is completely wrong. Running an RvE zerg train in Tier 1 is better loot per time than anything in Orr these days. It’s why most players zerg. It would be nice if WvW wasn’t the #1 spot for PvE event grinders, but I think the solution is to restore PvE events, not nerf WvW rewards.

SykkoB.9465:

20v20v20 golem war

This is some next level GvG talk right here.

Lots of fun in BG BL tonight! =)

mekkanic.4759:

Just as long as morrigan is in his team, chris g will play….lawl

Watching that MoriDoom team is almost as exciting as watching two zergs fight.

On a related note though, the experiment with no PvE culling in Frostgorge apparently put a huge strain on the servers. Possibly we will see less lag once they turn culling on again there.

Chris.3290:

Where is the limit? At what point do you hit the ceiling (which ANET graciously keeps raising higher to support Gem Sales) and have to face the UTTER HORROR of the reality that you will not be in First Place?

’

Hell is other zerglings.

PariahX.6970:

Please don’t transfer here ever . . .

No really, don’t. Especially not to JQ.

Grimwolf.7163:

Are we all in elementary school? I’m pretty sure the Order of Whispers quest got away with calling it alcohol, so what’s the problem here?

In the personal story you’re only doing it because you’re infiltrating the bad guys, who being bad guys drink booze. In this game you’re going up against friendly traders and other players who, being good guys, would never touch it.

Because when you touch booze you end up blacking out, stealing tanks, driving them around drunk and nearly handing over weapons of mass destruction to the dredge.

Which no hero would ever do.

Ever.

Clockradio.3257:

Wanna stop by your server recruitment thread and say that slothbear?

I’ll report it for trolling since obviously it’s just there to frustrate people who try to get into our completely full server.

Ignore the misinformation, JQ is completely full and cannot accept any more guilds. Please try any other server, especially SoR or BG, thank you.

Israel.7056:

I was friends with my enemies and it completely ruined the experience because I didn’t want them dead anymore.

Weird, I tend to enjoy killing people more when I know them. One of the reasons I wish it showed names in WvW.

I support this so much I can’t even tell you how much I support this.

When I walk into an area and I have the local heart, meta event, local event, live story event, and personal story all clogging up my screen I feel like I’m getting spammed with pop up ads.

No pop up ads in MMOs in 2013.

Free the UI.

renmei.3102:

It really is good to see JQ coming back strong, all the RIPs and calling for TC to be moved up look really stupid now.

Yeah, still waiting on Kaineng to replace BlackGate too.

Monsoon.2589:

Any chances this week for TC to get to T1?

In terms of ranking, none at all. In terms of RNG, yes there’s a chance. There’s always a chance. JQ could draw rank 8 and 14 for all we know.

Hickeroar.9734:

Awesome. I’ve been silently rooting for JQ to get some more NA coverage.

Eh, if its only 20 people I can probably still find an outmanned bonus on any map that isn’t doing a GvG so I guess that’s okay. No more though, server’s full. Try SoR please!

Decrypter.1785:

what counts for Giant slayer ?

Non-Risen Giants.

I put this set on my mesmer’s armor about a month ago thinking how annoying it would be to be a mesmer that turns into mist.

It’s so rare that the 6 piece bonus actually works that it takes me by surprise when it does. The 4-piece bonus seems to be more reliable.

I’ve definitely had it turn me into mist but not make me invulnerable, which is essentially a 6-piece bonus that removes your skillbar. I’ve also had the mist form last anywhere from 2 seconds to what seems like more than 4 seconds.

They really should either fix it or change them all into a different rune set or something.

Grafskopa.9140:

Guild Wars 2 is already a game BUILT ON RANDOMNESS!

And knockbacks. Don’t forget knockbacks.

BobbyStein.2315:

The cinematics team really knocked it out of the park. The June team took some chances with the noir feel, writing style, and design and art choices. Honestly, I wasn’t sure how it would be received. Glad that some folks are “getting” the concept, as it’s not as common in fantasy MMOs.

Take more chances like this please. Even if it isn’t good, it can’t be worse than boring.

morastarna.6294:

My personal opinion. Fighting BG and SOR for months in T1 is like playing in the Pro’s of any one sport. We may win or we may lose. The fact is We push each other and we are becoming so much better for having played each other. No other server will ever be able to beat any of the T1 servers.

It would be like a college team playing against the pro’s. I don’t mean to put any other server down. It’s just the fact. When you play against top notch servers constantly you become better.

We used to say in basketball, if you play with scrubs all the time you become a scrub. Some server in some other tier may have a lot of talent. But if they are playing scrubs constantly they become scrubs.

I am just getting bored playing BG and SOR. Would love some new match ups.

The only thing BG/JQ/SoR are good at is having a lot of players online a lot of the time. There is no difference in skill of the player between the tiers, just how many of them there are. Tiers go by points, points 100% about coverage. In fact, if anything, you could probably argue that the tier 1 servers are worse on average due to relying on zergs all the time. I think if you put a lot of players from Tier 1 in an even numbers fighting they’d be flummoxed as to why running around spamming guardian staff 1 didn’t lead to a lot of bags like normal.

Smoke.8510:

Oh, let us get that for you SoR, no need to thank us.

Well this screenshot is a superb example of how terrible the game’s UI is.

Exosferatu.2961:

“No names. I was never here.”

Followed almost immediately by “LADY KASMEER!?!?!?”

Way to be discrete Logan.

But yeah, that cut scene ruled.

aspirine.6852:

Ok, but make it ffa instead of teams.

Now this would be awesome.

I’m not sure why the maps even need to be balanced. Just give the easiest to defend map to the lowest ranked server in the matchup, and the hardest to defend to the highest ranked server. Should make things more interesting at least if you have to delve through a bunch of easily defended narrow cave tunnels to dig out the low ranked server but the higher ranked one is like, one tower made of marshmallows. Or something in between I dunno.

Mattargul.9235:

Retaliation – don’t fight
Torment – don’t move
Confusion – don’t do anything
? – don’t even show your face around here

Giving Torment to thieves is this ArenaNet’s way of saying don’t bother trying to catch them when they run away? Seriously if you want to solo roam I’m not seeing the reason to play any other class anymore. Oh well. Had to level the thief eventually I suppose.

MasterYoda.8563:

stof.9341:

New maps are a nice idea, until you notice that there’s no server out there short of 2-3 that can field a decent enough force on all 4 current maps already. Adding more maps won’t help that, at all.

Well if Anet does make new make maps they could add them in map rotation changing them weekly or monthly.

That would be nice, so you have random servers on random maps and there is actually some difference.

I’m very bored of the borderlands. New maps please.

Best cutscene out of anything released since launch imo. Please, please, more of this and less of the press F 100 times stuff!!!!

Kaimick.5109:

Not really even if this is the case ( which it isn’t as I have it and can’t shot over a wall like that) lets humour the fact it is. This creates a un fair advatage to the people that do not have this ability, then again I have eyefinity and it still doesn’t alow me to do that. Although like I said nothign you can do about it, cause A Net will not punish them as the Dev’s supposedly play on that server so what have you. Way to go Arena Net

I thought I was seeing an oddly high number of 5 signet warriors in SoR’s zergs …

There really should be a Dolyak festival. These guys are the most helpful race in Tyria. They do all the work and never complain.

Dedlaw.9130:

foofad.5162:

Whack/light/activate 100 objects is the new kill 10 rats.

I’m missing the reference here?

Early MMOs were criticized for having the same dull, boring, quests that usually started with some guy asking you to kill ten rats.

Every MMO that’s come out recently has promised it won’t make you do this, and then turns around and makes you do exactly that. This is simply GW2’s version of it. Prior to launch they had this whole “Manifesto” about how players wouldn’t have to suffer through the exact sort of content that they’re releasing on a monthly basis now.

I’d rather not see any monthly content if it’s all going to be stuff like this and see that dev time put into making stuff that’s actually fun or, god forbid, bug fixes.

Hoots.9564:

Start sending all guilds that approach you to JQ.

No. Don’t. In fact, tell them I said they look like jerks.

I would love to go back and replay missions, even for no reward at all.