Guild Wars 2

When does Prime time start its getting late and we are still in the lead at 9 pm.

I have to log off soon.

pedrst.3127:

Veles.5289:

The reality of W3 is that ArenaNet failed on an epic level. Soon there will be maybe 3 servers in Europe filled with delusional people, who somehow manage to tell themselves how pro regarding organization they are (HOD from US anyone?).

losed arenas we will humbly invite you guys for some scrims, does that sound good? No night/morning capping, 5v5. How does that sound broseph.

You are aware that its mass pvp?

spvp is the forum above.

If you want us we are in WvW come get us. Guild versus guild in an open environment, you way as well have challenged us to a timed dungeon run.

I assume you didnt blag about getting us in WvW because you would get rofl stomped?

I do like that no one has any substantive replies though, you know I speak the truth.

Seafairers is failing not just because you cant organise but because you dont recognise its you that has the problem.

WvW is what it is, it may change, I hope it does. At the moment its 24/7, wake up to that.

The fact you want a mini tournament shows how little you understand the concept of mass pvp.

@pedrst

You should also remember I faced you guild a number of times, you got your fair share of losses. I seem to recall a duel with Veles that lasted an hour or so it seemed.

I already speak french it would be easy to transfer.

I love you false dichotomy. Moving to another server to build a community there is the same as having people move to your to build one.

The game is 24/7 and it allows server transfers for free.

Facts are such inconvenient things arent they.

“when in even numbers at prime-time (even when you have all zones for yourselfs from Xaoc and fully upgraded) you still get stomped.”

You really miss the irony in that you are posting about doing what you whine about others doing , arent you.

You only win when blacktides population is low. Last night what time was it when you took the lead? 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm,9pm….

On Searfaresr does prime time only start when you go +5 points and end when you go -5.

Last week primes time was from 8.34 to 9.15 on days beginning with a T or S, that also fall on an even number date?(Please reference the Seafarers almanac for the rules for leap years)

Perhaps you use a different metric, I prefer a simple one, winning and losing.

One last fact we go up you go down.

I will be home soon come and get me I shall be in a fully fortified keep sipping chilled vodka(I mix with tears for taht salty bite).

Na zdorovje

You desolation boys seem to be doing well thsi wekk.

I like the open approach, the more Americans, aussies and Asians the better.

It adds to the flavour of a server.

Cunnart.6519:

Highlet send over some prospects to the server and just check out the action for yourselves. As snort said some of the other major servers are going to 24/7, you can read the forums to see that, so we are trying to position ourselves for that as well. I was originally on a US server but made the transfer as the EU competition is a lot better. Unfortunately you still get the whiners and people that try to highjack your thread..

Highlet if any of your guys need a place to hang out if you come over to look, your welcome to join one of our groups.

Epoch.5396:

Snort you are right m8. We need to go down a few tiers. We had no teams for PvD but we held our own quite well without it and beat many night capping servers without it. where we made our way to T2 without night cappers. What did you guys do?

Thats why T2 was hard for us. It was 24 hour scoring and they were also great in primetime. I just cant wait to see your next tier scores to be honest.

What we did was see things as they were. We looked at the system saw it was 24/7, ditched the whiners, manned up and started the process to create a server that can compete as the game exists. This involves a lot of sacrifice and coordination.

We don’t hold on desperately to arbitrary and relative terms such as ‘prime time’ . It serves only as a crutch to those who are not willing to work.

I would suggest some people look up two words relative and arbitrary.

You attitude is not that off someone who plays to win, your too fast to the excuses. Reminds me of my employees who come to me with the problems rather than the solutions.

http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.html

As for how we will do in the next tier worst case scenario is we crash and burn just as you guys did. However if we do we will just look at fixing the reasons for failure rather than deny we failed. We will then attempt to rectify those faults.

Our attitude is that of Beckett.

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

However what if you guys keep falling and failing?

Whine better?

Veles.5289:

Scribbles.7493:

pedrst.3127

Funny that Desolation and Blacktide both got spanked by us before getting a massive influx of guilds from different time-zones. And you guys want to discuss about prime-time? Plz.

Get more butthurt.

Committee was an obnoxiously loud troll guild in Warhammer Online, and I see things haven’t changed a bit.

Why so mad brah?

No worries we are not doing any WvW so we will not farm you again.

@veles
I still love the committee, hey Veles.

Get over to Blacktide, leave those worthless lootbags behind, they are not up to your standards.

@sarcx sorry mate dont quite know what you asking, is it when is riversides primetime?

@Grox Simple question, what is Prime Time?

Finally what is the score at the moment, I hope to have a plush keep to put my feet up in this evening, something with a mountain view perhaps?

Epoch.5396:

I think the pvd stuff is just something everyone has to accept but converting your server pride to smack talk because of winning in that manner is kinda silly
Bring on T2 for you guys. Bet half of you vanish off the forums pretty quickly :P

And when you guys go down a tier you will all be still here?

btw Fort Rannik in the tier below have night cappers, og noes, oh noes.

/dramatic waving of hands and rushing about hither and thither

Running alts when it is quiet is a good move. keeps people interested.

Also echo the call out yo Gabrrr and would say thanks to Excellence for his help too.

Without negligence we would not have taken Seafairers Hills keep yesterday evening, both times.

Both good commanders

@seafairers Mesmers have portals!

Grok.6714:

Im am sure SFR ( without a PvD crew ) got to T2 by sucking…

How did they leave it?

Triffek.9268:

@up

We had same situation when we fighted against Desolation, and nobody from our server cried. So please, more dignity!!

Desolation are a whole standard above these guys, I wouldn’t compare the two. We faced some serious fights last week from Desolation. I am sure there are some adequate guilds on SF but they are propably in a different borderland.

It says it all that Desolation are in a tier above Seafarers.

Seafarers are only close to Riverside because we were worried about the Germans and priortised them yesterday. Some of those riverside guilds have showed some good moves btw, well played to you.

This week my biggest worry is getting bigger bags so I can hold all the loot (Mirdo where are my bags btw).

As for carrying other guilds, there is a nice level of communication and cooperation between the many guilds on cooperation on Blacktide. This is build on mutual respect. it is a perfect advert for international cooperation!

let the scores have the final word.

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/

I was wondering if you guys had considered a move for your guild?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post502738

Highlet.8039:

US guild considering transfer. I’m curious as to number of players during US peak time. Basically, will we have anyone to fight or will it be a lot of roaming and taking undefended objectives?

The server and community sounds interesting and like it would be a good fit, but we are concerned about numbers and whether we will have any actual player competition since our play time is typically GMT 17:00 – 02:00.

We can have a chat if you eant and I can try and answer you questions.

In the bracket we are you will have some very decent fights, the top servers are all evolving towards 24/7 fights.

I have screen shot for a lot of the period you mention and its still busy now at 11.00gmt.

The time period you mention is near perfect for our needs and yours.

And yet without a single good player we are on an upward spiral, better to be lucky than to be good,

Joking aside the level of cooperation and coordination is superb.

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/

Dominating at this stage of the weekly match up.

I had a similar experience. Have you considered a move to the EU?

Moving wasnt so bad, i did a small right up about it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post497094

The best advice I can share is to go and try out a server. You are welcome on ours.

Mate,

I moved and it was the right move.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post497094

Its only night capping if its at night. WvWvW is 24/7. less excuses deal with it, we had to.

I would like to introduce you to a concept.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Recruit more Americans!

Blacktide.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post490828

Dredj.4025:

I would say it’s a combination of things that has killed Seafarer’s.

Hacking during the Deso/Kodash match up culled a lot of WvW presence. Before that the hours upon hours of queueing culled guilds, my guild fell victim to this. Oct 7th patch also culled guilds from doing WvW. And of course getting higher in the ranks means we face more Nightcapping servers which cannot be competed against, so people again don’t WvW due to it being pointless.. we all know the Nightcapping song and dance routine. And lastly the free transfers means that those who still want to WvW will move to a server still capable.

Seafarer’s may be the pioneering server in what happens if GW2 doesn’t get fast changes. Time will tell, just watch each week as Seafarer’s fall further down the rankings, where she stops nobody knows!

Is That Dredj from Warhammer?

Come over to Blacktide man we moved here with the Unnamed and CIR.

Its awesome.

Here are some of our experiences of it.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post490828

Cunnart.6519:

I am a US player and recently transferred, I can not say enough good things about running on this server.
Almost all of the text is in english (98%) and the WVW chat is all in english. The organization in WVW is second to none and the alliance cooperation is outstanding, even PUG groups are organized (even without a commander online), and manage to get a lot of things accomplished in an efficient manner. Que times as an American are very low as most of the time I am queuing up at EU non peak times.

I would like to highly suggest other organized American or latin american groups come over and join us. Be willing to work as an alliance and give it your best effort and you will see the returns.

I originally transferred to this server because the server I was on was just not WVW orientated and was always getting blown out of the water. When I transferred I looked at the rankings and saw that BT might not always win but the battles are always close and hard fought. As a player this is the only thing I ever wanted out of WVW but instead I have gotten to team up with and learn from some fantastic people.

As others have said send over some reps, hit me up and I would be happy to show you around.

We need more players like Cunnart.

Grok.6714:

Just a small request to Blacktide/Xaoc:

Could you please NOT post screenshots from 07:00, 08:00 AM in the morning?
Post some prime-time reports, when you actually have competition. Thank you!

prime time is a relative thing.

prime time is when ever you are on.

XAOS are well disciplined and organise to hit the enemy , steal everything and fortify. they do this in what is outside prime time for players such as myself and other western Europeans because they are spread accoss 5 time zones with at least 3 hours difference from mine.

One of the great benefits of our move to Blacktide is the way our guild, the Unnamed can log on in our play period and have a fighting chase when when out numbered accross the maps.

I would like to applaud the cooperation over the weekend, we have had a good result from the first few days and this is down to a lot of people working together.

The best bit is there is still room for improvement.

We moved and it was a success, i would recommend a move.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post475550

Brunners.7251:

I just wanted to say congrats to ThUn (did I capitalise the correct bits?) on teaching me the effective way to use mesmer portals.

You guys royally messed with us numerous times this past week solely due to a conveniently placed portal.

Congrats and GG Blacktide. You’re honourable and a good fight.

I still hate you all for another few hours though, until server reset

We are working on a few new tricks, we have some room for improvement.

Just though I would throw in a bit of lateral thinking here.

Would you guys be interested in a transfer over here, other uS guilds have transfer to EU.

We have a similar issue to you that you guys would Address for us.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post475550

The issue is not that we have too many server transfers but too few.

For better or for worse WvWvW is 24/7.

The best way to be successful in the face of this fact is for there to me massive transfers.

Keeping transfers open will build pvp not destroy it.

if you have a time period that you are weak in see if you can encourage other guilds into.

or indeed do as we did, the reverse, find a server with a hole in its coverage and Plug it.

I have tried this and it works, I moved to Blacktide on Monday when it was 60k points behind because I saw it as a server with potential and it was not possible to recruit on to our previous server.

Consolidate or die.

So far it is delivering on this with some awesome fights.

This is the reason they have left server transfer open.

We moved to Blacktide to address this very issue, it has been a good move.

The secret is to be proactive. our guild looked at situation and moved to Blacktide, now we have good allies on our server and competent enemies.

Moving to a server with a real pvp focus helps.

I wonder if the issue that some people are having is more to do with the server they are on. We moved server to Blacktide and it was a huge improvement.

perhaps a move to the EU if you a re US based might liven things up.

The quality of the fights has been very high indeed.

At certain times, all 3 servers were very close on point gain.

Xandax.1753:

Syndic.4762:

<snip>
Our only regret is that we didn’t roll on Blacktide in the first place. The community is very much “no fuss, no drama, no ego” and the main focus is winning in WvW. If stuff doesn’t get done, we stand together and work our kitten off to get it done instead of mudflinging blame at each other.
<snip>

Sounds fun, and was what I had hoped G.H. would be based on the period leading up to launch.

I did actually suggest it at the start but it was a non runner.

Its something iI will remember for future games, actively going for a different cultures server.

Thanks for this work.

It was a week some epic fights.

A tougher prospect than our previous bracket was.

Our first full week on the server start on Friday. We will see if the cooperation goes well and how the fights are.

Chewbiduhwa.9756:

Join Blacktide EU its much better we just beat these guys. See i can do it to :P

Thanks

our impressions n a server transfer to Blacktide.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post466802

we were very satisfied

How are things this morning?

Here is one of last nights fights

For a rounded gaming experience, solid oppostion and organised alllies I would suggest you do as I did and move to Blacktide.

Moving was one of the best decisions our guild made in gaming and we were moving from a server we liked.

I lay out a number of the reasons here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post458105

Here is some footage from last night.

@Himitsu

It was very good fun, you nearly had us a few times. I logged into the zone at 6.03 and we had just lost bay. The guilds ran back to south door of bay and a handy memser got us all in onto wall and we rushed the south door. We took the keep back about 5 minutes after we had lost it. We then proceeded to defend it for 4 hours of constant fights from two side.

At one stage on the outer walls ThUn would fight at the south gate against Deso, then leave CIR to hold out there alone , rush to north gate, go out push AR to the sentry below garrison, rush back to the south gate where deso were reorganised, fight there, then rush north again to get AR.

Eventually we were pushed into the inner keep. At one stage I think all 3 inner doors were down, we were in the back of the lord room with AR and Deso were on our inner wall hitting us with seige weapons

We actually started our defence poorly and had to step up our game about half way through. WiC saved our kitten there too, turning up when you had wiped most of us. I enjoy these defensive fights as my gaming style suits that sort of conservative approach. ThUn enjoy being the wall that the waves crash off, as it were.

One of our guys got a little speeded up footage.

Blacktide could really do with 2 US and one more solid EU guild to round out our playtimes. It is however already a very fun server to play on.

Fights like last night make WvW special. it makes the keep feel important with all sides wanting it.

MrPicklez.6473:

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA none of the matchups are exactly going too well, from a fun/competitive perspective.

I would respectively disagree with you. I moved this week to a server that is losing its match up.

Yesterday we were hard pressed during the period I play in.

We also had a lot of fun. Our enemies stepped up their game and we had to to. This lead to many lively fights.

The scores can give a false indication of whats going on. I think others on the Blacktide-Desolation-Augury Rock match up will agree with me.

A Bunker Build Guardian surrounded by 5 other Bunker build Guardian make your warband nigh unkillable.

It is very satisfying.

What ever class you pick spec it to support your group.

The milkshake offer is only valid for transfer after October 16th.

Next time read the small print.

The mismanagement of the Blacktide Shake Emporium reserve the right to screw you over.

Black tide is well known as an Irish server.

That being said we Irish are often hard to understand.

Being serious, I lead the UnNameds warbands in WvW and i spent last night chating for 40 minutes with the leader of the large Russian Guild Chaos to discuss tactics and the server( forums and shared voice comms and the like). We discussed tips, tactics and strategy and the Russians and Polish said if needed theyc ould translate back and forth for the minority without English or with poorer English.

His Gaelic was as good as my Russian so we spoke in English, we were joined by the Polish and UK guilds. English is very much the linga franca(see what I did there)

We have zero communication issues and we though we might. I posted some of my thoughs on the transfer here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Blacktide-Pan-Continental-Alliance-Looking-for-US-and-EU-Guilds/first#post458105

Ill echo that, more servers should do a news report.

just write up a paragraph every know and again.

It makes me hungry to get online.

gah I am not home for another 3 hours, save me some good fights.

The last few days have been awesome.

Guys whats the present status?

PS HRSY guys give me a buzz in game at 6 pm.

Abandon that ship, we have milkshakes over here.

Free Milkshake with every transfer to Blacktide from Desolation.

…. EU and US guilds.

Some US/North American guilds have already moved to the EU. I just want to make the case for more of them coming here and why Blacktide is the destination for them.

For better or worse WvWvW is a 24/7 fight. Blacktide is one of the few English language servers that has coverage over 10 time zones, from the West coast of Ireland to the east of Siberia.

The main weakness that Blacktide needs to address to take us to the next tier is to cover the timezones of the North American continent.

Some of you may have already known that Blacktide is both the official Russian server and the official Irish server. (This is not to forget out Polish contingent.) This may seem a very strange mix. However to create a 24/7 server we need a broad spectrum of guilds.

To other EU guilds and our American Cousins does this sound familiar to you.

‘We are actually dying right now and there’s been a huge drop in activity in the past week or so, especially in the WvW. This is due to the fact that our server’s performance in WvW isn’t good enough for us as a guild’

Is it disheartening for your members to login before prime time and see that all our hard work that you put into the WvW is gone. Could this be your guild? Are you playing well when your on and losing out when your at work or study?

To counter this we trying to build a WvWvW 24/7 community based on cooperation and good fights.

We on Blacktide are building a playing field where when any of us log on we can go straight into a fight with out being severely disadvantaged because we have to work, study, eat or sleep.

From my own gaming perspective I log on at 6pm and try to be off line at 11pm so I am not too tired at work. I play hard when I am on but hate to see my hard work go for naught when I am offline. Since moving I know when I come home the server is in a state where:

1. We are not trailing the other servers
2. I can make a real contribution to making the score is positive for us
3. I can have great fights that keep the moral of the guild high and our player base engaged and logging on

As a guild, The Unnamed, looked at the reasons Blacktide was a good fit for us.

We would have a night time presence on Blacktide. No one would fully take back all of our objectives while we’re sleeping and get ahead of us in points. We would have a positive impact on Blacktide’s performance. With us on at our prime time, we would easily be able to compete We knew that we were wanted on the server.

Blacktide is primarily English speaking. Hardly anyone speaks in another language, and from the screenshots and trials we have ran there, we haven’t witnessed anything but English.

There were a number of reservations we had too.

We would have to mass transfer. This could be a problem for us, as Blacktide shows up as ‘Full’ at times. If we were to transfer in one go, we’re not sure what would happen and we may find members having to wait around.In the end transfer over to Blacktide was ok, we have most of our guys on and while some had to wait an hour or two we have the transfer sorted. It was far less painful than we imagined.

Our presence on the server could increase the queue times of Blacktide during our prime-time, by how much, we’re not entirely sure. In the end we have shorter queues than previously (this was a very pleasant surprise)

There was a worry that we would end up being subordinate to others (although anyone familiar with my colossal level of self aggrandisement would have known that was a non runner ) but in the end it has been easy to coordinate with the many guilds and cultures on the server.

Focusing on winning is the common language.

We try to keep people who are offline up to date with the Blacktide reports so even if you are in the office you get to know how the best battles are going, http://www.gw2guilds.org/guilds/eu/blacktide

The fights are often fun https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Desolation-Augury-Rock-Blacktide/page/6#post457692

Project Blacktide is a work in progress but its work that is worth persevering with. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side but sometimes it is. Blacktide already has existing cooperation between its original guilds and its new immigrants.

This guys says it well https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/North-American-WvW-guilds-should-move-to-Europe

Come join our WvWvW Adventure.

Snort

edit:

The server is in Austin Texas, so there is no latency

The Unnamed – ThUn

Thanks i was proud of it, I love trying new tactics in WvW. It worked well as it made you guys move from being proactive in defence to being reactive to our presence where you didnt expect it.

The Mesmer worked his kitten off to stay alive and the guys moved well to get to south wall teleport point as fast as possible. A lot of out moves are just communication and speed and lots and lots of shouting.

I think it was the sheer numbers that crashed it.

I was right at back when you hit our line. I saw nothing. Then i was dead. When I looked around we were bunched you were pushing us and CiR were hitting you in the rear.

Then bye bye server.

Interestingly my voice coms crashed too, some sort of packet issue perhaps?

On a different matter, Blacktide has an opening for an EU guild and a lareg US contingent, Iron and Ruin are welcome to transfer over.