Guild Wars 2

join DR

we’re looking to really expand that time slot

could always join DR

you’d never have a lack of enemies to fight

or use TS

/15 char

BevR is pretty cool and has a kitten logo :P

sephiroth.4217:

El Cid is ghay and lost a quaggan race to RISE….
And our [RISE] vs [TBT] Golem vs Golem showdown I’m pretty sure he cheated!

<3

0_o

I lost the quaggan race sure, but that golem boxing match was fair.

Best of luck solovic

1. #firstguildtomove
2. I love how mad this is making you
3. This is hilarious after all the talk of your “20 straight wins” and how you guys had 0 transfers and were kicking the crap out of everyone in bronze during seasons (the egos were real)
4. You’re cute when you’re mad… a/s/l?

50 NA + 15? sounds pretty blobby :/

Good luck guys! /bump

Best wvw video

Second best

Looking to round out the front with 2 more guards and 1 warrior
also looking for about one more necro
have a thick skin and if you aren’t that great just be willing to learn

good luck taras!

hey, you title pirates!

Anyway, DH has been a pleasure to fight. Wish most of these guilds came to DR but hey, what can you do… wish you guys the best

absentsanity.3125:

how active are you at 1230 am EST? when i log on.. and for how long does the fun go nightly after that time?.. I did read the post but you know how sometimes towards the end of the night numbers dwindle in some groups.

also, we do accept newer players as long as they’re willing to learn and can accept constructive criticism

lots of players have the potential to do great things as long as they’re willing to work to achieve those goals

Welcome guys

Glad to have you here

Andrew Clear.1750:

ykyk.2740:

Andrew Clear.1750:

Handin.4032:

Laylie.5703:

If all we get are the two traits that were already data mined then a lot of guilds will be leaving. Wvw as a whole is already on the verge of destroying quite a few guilds.

I’d say this. A decent chunk of my old guild (which was disbanded following seasons) left GW2 to go play Archeage. Why? Well, its free and has new content they can actually play, and new kinds of pvp they can play. It seems like gw2 is bleeding players and guilds in WvW, and my guess is all it will do is let anet actually use the excuse “Well theres so few of you, we can’t put out a lot of updates”

Players always come and go. They moved on to try a different game. Nothing anet does will keep every gw2 player playing gw2.

Does everyone that played EQ, WoW, FFXI, SWTOR, Rift, etc, still play those games? Nope. A core group does though, but a lot have moved on to other games. That is just how the industry goes.

Anet cannot produce enough content to keep everyone satisfied, fast enough. Also, WvW is about the fights, the battles, the community. What content is really going to make a world of difference in wvw? They aren’t going to change fundamental game mechanics (like map population, ppt related stuff, etc). They can add maps, and other abilities, maybe WvW traits that can be unlocked, but that wont be enough for the forum warriors. It will be more than enough for the people who are actually playing the game, every day, and having fun.

Natural attrition from people moving on is different from bleeding players because the game as it is sucks and nothing is done about it for 2 years.

Add in empty promises, “we’re discussing this internally” posts with no sign of action, silencing of dissent and stifling of discussion and you can’t be surprised people are just not caring about this game mode anymore.

Higher tiers, where it is only about winning, might be bleeding players, but the lower tiers are more casual. Our numbers will fluctuate each night, because people do WvW, sPvP, and PvE content. We have fun in the game, and we aren’t working in WvW. When we burn out of WvW, we do something else in the game.

Look at YB, for example. During the season, they had a good population, season is over, population drops. They aren’t bleeding players. When the next season starts, YB will have a good population again in WvW. That is how non t1 servers are.

Hell, SBI is unpredictable every day. We might have a lot on, or we might not. Just depends on how our casuals want to play the game that day. We have a core that shows up, because they find killing people in WvW is fun. We don’t push hard every week to win every match. It is about fun.

New maps is just an aesthetic patch, and most of what they add as content doesn’t change the fundamentals of wvw. So, not adding content doesn’t affect it, and adding content isn’t going to make things better for people who are complaining here.

don’t lie to yourself or make it seem like t8 isn’t a complete ghost town

that’s one of the major reasons why I moved off t8 – it’s sad that the t2 zergs are the size t6 were last summer

all bs aside it does feel like more people are burning out /less are logging in

Orpheal.8263:

@ Tyler:

May I bring you onto looking into the idea of adding first a Trapping Mastery WvW Skill Line first, before you add more new Traps, which is also something which I suggested a long time before, before anyone else has spoken about them getting expanded now.

Trapping Mastery

1) Reduces Supply Cost of Traps by 2 – 5 RP
2) Reduces Supply Cost of Traps by additional 3 – 15 RP
3) You gain Stability, while laying a Trap – 25 RP
4) Gain Stealth, while laying a Trap. – 50 RP
5) Gain Protection while laying a Trap – 75 RP
6) Raises the radius of your Traps by 25% – 105 RP
7) Your Traps deal now 25% more Damage – 135 RP
8) Unlocks access to more Traps for you at the Trap Seller NPC – 170 RP
9) Unlocks access to more Traps for you at the Trap Seller NPC – 205 – RP
10) Unlock access to more Traps for you at the Trap Seller NPC – 250 RP
——-

Trap Suggestions:

Time Rift Trap – Warps up to 20 Players that run into the area of effect of that Trap back to their Spawn Area.
Unlocked with R10 Trapping Mastery – very cost intensive.

Disruptor Trap – Disables for 3 Minutes for up to 20 Players the usage of Utility and Elite-Skills. The Effect gets removed, if the foe dies earlier.
Unlocked with R10 Trapping Mastery

Acid Trap – Created at an area of effect an Acid Rain, that lets all up to 50 players that are affected by that trap suffer on damage over time – a degeneration of health, that can’t be removed by condition removers, which also ignores Boons like Retaliation and Protection and which adds every 5 seconds a random condition
Unlocked with R9 Trapping Mastery

Nature’s Wrath Trap – Lets 1 of 4 random natural catastrophes happen.
1) Sandstorm – A Sandstorm appears that cripples periodically foes and bleeds them.
2) Tidal Wave – A huge circular water wave appears and launches all foes wide away.
3) Hurricane – A huge Hurricane whirls around damaging foes, stunning foes and causes randomly Vulnerability, Weakness or Torment.
4) Volcanic Inferno – A huge pillar of fire from magma appears, causing it to rain magma in a large area of affect, which will knockdown and burn foes, that get hit by the falling down magma rocks
Unlocked with R9 Trapping Mastery

Thick Mist Trap – Creates a large Mist Field, in which trapped Foes can’t see anything anymore as long they are standing in the Mist Field. Attacks from foes have a 50% chance to miss their targets as long the Mist Field ist active. allies are not affected by the Trap and can clearly see everything and don’t get affected by the mist at all.
Unlocked by Rank 8 of Trapping Mastery

Doom Trap – Removes from up to 50 foes in the area of effect of that trap all Boons and disables those foes to receive within the next 2 minutes any new Boons, unless the foe dies earlier.
Unlocked with R8 Trapping Mastery

those don’t seem overpowered at all

Redxon.6832:

They are always so competitive to where it’s extremely annoying.

I had surgery yesterday and as soon as I said it they were all like “eh, i’ve had surgery 5 times.”

“meh, I had it 8 times.”

“well, I’ve had a double bipass…”

And its like they have to 1up you on EVERY little thing.

easy solution

step 1. gquit your guild
step 2. create ambiguous forum post whining about old guild
step 2. create forum post detailing what you could contribute / look for in a guild
step 3. profit

Liza.2758:

Eotm ?

There is nothing you can do with wvw…. you can’t control it. it’s not esport.

and tbh wvw is more like a place where pve er come to get some fight though like hot join in spvp.

imo gvg could be esport

with some tweaking it has a lot of potential

MadBomber.3719:

El Cid – TBT (NA)

y u no spel nam rite?

Helzy.4036:

Perfect fit for anyone who wants to run organized and work as a team.

Great people to play with, if your looking for a guild that is willing to fight any amount of numbers and likely win then TBT is the guild for you. We are not for the thin skinned, while we do not mind training new players we have expectations that those players work with us.

Love loot ?
Love destroying the enemy ?
Love fighting superior numbers ?
Love working as a team ?
Love winning ?

TBT provides all of the above.

Join us on DR and come see why whether they love us or hate us, every guild & server in Bronze knows the initials TBT.

Thanks svid! Gotta love DR so far

you know, I didn’t really think much about posts like this. I always attributed them to people wearing tin foil hats.

But I have to give it to them… they were right. WvW has been on a decline from ~6 months ago and it’s very noticeable. T8 is a ghost town and guilds are moving up at a rapid rate. There’s zero incentive to play on an empty server… and, because of this, a snowball effect has occurred where most guilds end up moving up in tiers to be around other players… so the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. The icing on the cake was to allow players to go to a silver tier for seasons. This bled the remaining players out of the tier 8 servers, leaving very few. The players that did stay in t8 and emptier servers ended up staying in the servers mostly due to the community. They would see the same players over and over on a daily basis and would be able to communicate in map chats or run some sort of server only event. That was destroyed with megaservers. Now, a lot of guilds (even in silver) have a very tough time recruiting while players just get bored and end up leaving. This whittles everyone down and causes them to “panic transfer” to servers with a large population. The issue with this is a lot of players are in well established guilds on said servers, and the incoming guild’s core isn’t as large because of people quitting and lack of recruits and they end up falling apart. There are some success stories, but they’re becoming rare. It’s a cycle that bleeds out players.

All in all, stagnation has also taken effect. I’ve had a lot of friends in other guilds / guild leaders who have just gotten bored of the game mode and quit. What happens to the players? A lot of them disperse but most of them end up quitting the game.

Not that anyone cares. It’s not like this will be read by any movers or shakers.

TBT is looking for active players to join its roster. We are currently looking for:
guards / warriors / necros / mesmers / engies / eles

We are a semi hardcore to hardcore guild who raids almost every night from 10-11 pm est to 1-2 am est.

Requirements :
must be able to listen and get on voice chat (mic recommended but not required)
must be able to represent 100% minus guild bank
must run guild approved build(s) – no rallybots

We do have a few spots open for newer players and pve players who we mentor and show the ropes to.

Daily wvw run footage can be found below. It is the best indicator of how our guild operates and how we act / what we talk about in voip.
youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuelP4cuvhm8BfWJomLKbBQ
fan videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLpmaVWDQio

What can we offer you?
Feasts / sharpening stones / mountains of bags and loot / a friendly environment / gearing funds / and muffin’s first born son / a great time

No egos please. This guild is founded on the principle that everyone is self accountable. We have theory crafting sessions and get together to constantly improve and work on becoming better players.

TBT is looking for active players to join its roster. We are currently looking for:
guards / warriors / necros / mesmers / engies / eles

We are a semi hardcore to hardcore guild who raids almost every night from 10-11 pm est to 1-2 am est.

Requirements :
must be able to listen and get on voice chat (mic recommended but not required)
must be able to represent 100% minus guild bank
must run guild approved build(s) – no rallybots

We do have a few spots open for newer players and pve players who we mentor and show the ropes to.

Daily wvw run footage can be found below. It is the best indicator of how our guild operates and how we act / what we talk about in voip.
youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuelP4cuvhm8BfWJomLKbBQ
fan videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLpmaVWDQio

What can we offer you?
Feasts / sharpening stones / mountains of bags and loot / a friendly environment / gearing funds / and muffin’s first born son / a great time

No egos please. This guild is founded on the principle that everyone is self accountable. We have theory crafting sessions and get together to constantly improve and work on becoming better players.

Undertaker.2731:

Well im on Blacktide EU atm, left my previsous guild couse difrent views on the future of the guild so i have nothing to do anymore on BT.

The beauty is that there are quite a few to guilds to choose from. If you go into the DR TS or map chat you’ll see a lot of joking around / people having fun. I think that’s the most telling sign of a healthy server.

I think you’ll enjoy it here.

If you’re considering moving, scout us out and you’ll see that this thread isn’t a bunch of bs

sometimes the grass really is greener

Nuzt.7894:

DR is a great server, very friendly bunch of folks. They hold numerous events throughout the week for their Community, and always are positive which is refreshing, do not see that on very many servers.

Also a very dedicated server to not only their community but also their match ups, I couldn’t be happier with the decision to join DR.

You could message anyone in TBT and they’d tell you the same thing. If you’re looking for a server on the up, then this is the place for you.

BHo.6234:

Helicopter!! How do you like DR so far Cid… Is it everything you ever wanted?

I’m happy we made the move. There are a lot of wvw events that DR runs to keep people from getting burnt out and you can always count on the map commanders to have your back. The server lets us run however we want to without getting on our case about anything. The players have been overall friendly and welcoming.

Dr was on the short list of servers to move to and I’m glad we chose it. Always respected the server’s tenacity when we were matched against them.

BHo.6234:

Hands of Divinity [HoD] on Devona’s Rest is currently recruiting for WvW!!

HoD is an established and very active PvX guild that has a primary focus of WvW. We have recently cleaned out some of the inactive and are currently at 380 members.

-WvW

HoD is a NA prime time guild that runs from late SEA to early OCX everyday/night. Looking to add to the already dominant field presence of HoD to be able to fully dominate 2 maps(or more) by its self. We pride ourselves on our combat skills and are always looking for a brawl. We use TeamSpeak for pinpoint accurate movement and striking. We collaborate with and assist other guilds in WvW with capturing and defending. HoD has roughly 5-7 commanders that sigil up regularly and 10 more in training. We teach and train all different WvW tactics from open field combat to defense tactics and sieging.

-PvE

HoD does all Guild Events weekly and has every available guild buff unlocked. We have Dungeon Masters and Fractal professionals.

Hands of Divinity is a devoted and loyal Devona’s Rest guild that started on DR and will always be on DR.

If you are interested please msg me in game.

stay sexy!

TBT moved to DR 2-3 weeks ago. From the minute we got there, guilds were welcoming on TS and in map chat. It’s a low drama environment which is a far cry from where we came from. DR players are just out to have fun. There’s no feel of “carrying” anything or being out there alone. Svid / silent or the other commanders are always communicative and supportive and let us know where the fights are :P

So far, it’s been a great decision. I recommend it for anyone looking for a change of scenery (for whatever reason) because sometimes the grass really is greener.

#TBTbestgrubcommandersNA

works pretty well for valve… they make hand over fist with this model, and doing this in an mmo would be pretty innovative

This is a business and like any good business you care about your bottom line, right? However, you don’t want to spend x amount of man hours designing new gem store items.

So why not open it up to the community? I suggest anet implement a community based design section so that players can design different armor skins and then the developers can approve / disapprove the skins. The designer gets maybe 5% of whatever is made off of the purchases for greater incentive.

I also suggest that the gem store have an online component where you can log into guildwars2.com and browse skins / gem store items and make the purchases here so that they will be sent via in game mail to your mailbox.

Just a thought.

Since you went the route of mad king, is it possible we can get the phantom hood in the gem store as well as some of the other skins? I would love to get some of the older town clothes.

Max Lexandre.6279:

You’re certainly not the only one who is having trouble adapting to the game since the 15h, on my case it’s because the World Bosses (i will not even talk about RP) and their timings that only caused massive zergs of lag (event worse than WvW fps drops) on meta-events that pretty much destroyed how challenging events could be.

And on our guild the impact it had on Guild Missions, starting from it was impossible to put all our guild together on the mission map (70 members) that led to people not able to get their commendations, to the fact when we reach there, another guild had started the Missions, end up failing ours and need to start it again.

The not so bad is that Tequatl and Wurm are not MegaServers yet, or this would be a complete nightmare to organize, as the dedicated guilds that do this events are already under pressure to handle Teq/Wurm and only have 1 try at it, with minutes between them to organize the wurm.

I wish ArenaNet at once listens to this issues and does not ignores them, this are actually minor foreseeable things that are causing major problems to specific groups of players.

everything you said + server communities being completely ruined

some of the chats between players who played against each other in wvw are downright nasty in gendarren at this point … just logged into two people flat out going at it

Like I posted in the other thread, everything I complained about is laid out by others here

crappy guild runs
crappy pve
no server community
etc etc

can we please admit we made a mistake here and roll it back? I think most players guested TC or other servers when they wanted a full map anyway (which is why guesting was free) … and it seemed to work great

Is this some kind of ruse to make players think the game is thriving?

I had so many complaints when I came to this forum… but I see almost everyone here has the same ones so I’ll just leave it at +1

your megaserver seriously sucks the fun out of guild wars

Cities were where guildies gathered and wouldn’t get stuck in overflows. It’s where we did stupid stuff like costume brawls, events, recruited, and would see your servermates etc. It was one of the identities of a server and allowed you to get the word across about the server ts and site etc to players who wouldn’t otherwise know from WvW. That said, this whole megaserver update, especially in cities, shoots all those things down.

Morrigan.2809:

tomshreds.1745:

Hax.8701:

Gendarren Fields is now a megaserver. Seriously thinking about quitting. I want a place I can hang out with people only from my server. Bring LA back and don’t make it a megaserver.

Why are you crying? Isn’t a MMO the kind of game where we’re looking forward to see a massive amount of player?

No

no

Hax.8701:

Gendarren Fields is now a megaserver. Seriously thinking about quitting. I want a place I can hang out with people only from my server. Bring LA back and don’t make it a megaserver.

Totally agree

Jdawg.4257:

Dear Anet, I feel as if Server Pride is destroyed. Due to this megaserver, I don’t feel like I belong to the server I have been on for close to 2 years.

Also, Guild recruitment is VERY difficult, especially for those that do not participate in WvW. (this is referring to those that don’t like recruiting cross servers)

Now, Guild Missions are extremely difficult for those that are a part of a large guilds. Very annoying and time consuming process just to taxi members into your same flow… and to find another guild already started with puzzle/rush/bounty/challenge… then having to wait some more.

Please tell me that there are solutions for these problems… Over the past few days I have lost the pride I once had for my server. Hey, I think I forgot which one I was on…

+1

This is so stupid. Can’t do bounties because they’re trolled, takes players at least 30 minutes (for a large guild) to get into overflows… overflows kill bosses faster than some ppls’ computers can load. YOU NEED THE ABILITY TO GO INTO THE MEGASERVER OR NOT… and honestly way to kill the point of GUILD wars if you can’t do anything with your guild or even get together in the cities.

Virtute.8251:

I’ll rephrase, then. Sure, a lot of players would like to see something like what you’re suggesting. They’d also like to see it as a separate map/mode, and I know many of them don’t like their fights being interrupted.

You can not expect the uninterrupted part of that in WvW, because chivalry doesn’t exist there, and I think it’s funny: both that the fights get interrupted, and that the participants complain about it (part of the goal in interrupting those fights!)

I’ll admit it can be fun for the person doing it lol but I don’t think anet had “let’s kitten off as many players as we can” as part of this gamemode… maybe I could be wrong … that dev incident was pretty bs

ICEing.9237:

You clearly have no idea what you’re typing.

rude post with no substance / does not contribute in any way to the discussion

ICEing.9237:

You clearly have no idea what you’re typing.

that’s constructive … care to elaborate?

The concept is great but the application is horrible. To do orr /southsun, we can’t get everyone into the same overflow let alone get players to tag some of the bosses (karka queen I’m looking at you) before they’re killed. Same in the trains queensdale etc because some players’ computers /internets aren’t fast enough, they end up being punished. This is overall decreasing fun for some players … and don’t get me started on how in the world we’re going to be able to do bounties once you cause this megaserver to be all maps.

Please take some consideration and this friendly advice… you should be able to go into the megaserver at will if you are looking for players to play with (a sort-of EOTM for pve) but you should also be able to go into your servers’ individual instance.

In all honesty a lot of players would like to see this and get into the gvg scene uninterrupted etc – right now it’s limited to t2 as the sweet spot so it would be nice dueling from / learning / and getting experience from the other guilds without having to move servers as well as setting up scrims etc without having to wait for people to get done using the OS.

and eotm is flat out terrible