Guild Wars 2

I’m talking about SBI coming in full force on every BL, and ignoring JQ.
JQ taking anything they can take, and happily backstab from the other side, without having to worry about their stuff being hit by SBI ever until it turns Red.

Saying, that they don’t attack you, so you don’t attack them.
What exactly would you call that?

When you say SBI is being able to spare 15 man to go trash 20 JQs while still outmanning BG that just shows your W3 weekly coverage in numbers is stronger than BG.

This issue is actually less present in EB.
Even though we’r being double teamed there the whole week
Which frankly enough is a normal thing to happen if you play on the red side, due to map layout.
I think EB has a que (big or small) most of the time so SBI or BG doesn’t actually gain huge number advantage of players over the other

Anyway still plenty of fun fights.
And the week isn’t over yet.

At this point even JQ could still end up 1st

Calling a whole server "hack"gate just shows how narrow-minded you are.
As hackers have been spotted through out every match-up and including your server.
While you take every rumor and assumption of hacks as true facts without ever getting proof or even seen what actually happened and never once look in the mirror.
And then label a whole server for something they didn’t ask/want or could do anything about and what might have been possibly the same individual in every rumored case

That vid + voice was great fun <3

Every 1/3 person I get to kill on SBI seems to have a commander tag, fun stuff

Anyway, don’t go making excuses. You are double teaming and have been since the end of the weekend.
When you basically have JQ/SBI zergs run past each other waving hello and charging like bulls into anything that’s red.
Or have JQ defend SBI keeps.
Or SBI not touching anything green until it turns red.

JQ, seems to enjoy their free ride, now that they can’t outman SBI and don’t dare to touch anything that’s blue.
Just chasing anything that’s red and not in the way of SBI.

Still enjoying my fights tho, better than fighting ghost servers.
Can’t complain that there isn’t anything to fight.
Just interesting to see over the course of this week how SBI actually is dirty enough to fight outside the game rather than inside.
Acting like the nice guys they supposedly are and how they have been set up with the bad guys (BG, ye we’r the bad guys, get the pun?) and have to deal with us.

As for the US East Coast players, I hope you and your families are doing allright.
It really is noticeable what Sandy did to the player-base of those hours.

^
Siege weapons
No target limited aoes (yes there are, go figure out for yourself which ones, yes there are ranged ones too)

@OP
Let me explain to what most likely happened.
I’ve seen this happen in Lion’s Arch quite a lot when costume brawl just came out.

When you are in the middle part near the Mystic Forge of LA, with everyone fighting right there, and you go up the stairs just besides it.
Everyone in the middle part dissapears and simply does not load, you do not load for them either.
It is as if the servers have loading nodes at certain points which simply do not load anything past the area.
(Probably due to whatever it has to load in the new area you enter)

Now I assume you ran to somewhere that had npcs/other players there, which might cause the same effect

@Decrypter
Actually I do remember people crying about Dragonbrand/mesmer portal tactics.
That’s why this one is so obvious, it’s exactly same thing happening but on the other side and much bigger scale.

People cry when they ain’t winning.
Because people seem to expect to always win.

I think JQ and SBI expected to roll over BG like they did with IoJ.
BG turned out to be a bigger force than they expected so something/someone has to be blamed for the loss.
Oh guess what, BG hacked 5 orbs! And they are so bad they can use a highly coordinated group tactic. And they do not admit that they hacked the orbs and are all hackers.

Geez…
Your WM commander story up there, telling he saw 5 of the orbs being hacked, just tells enough.
How was this guy near every supposedly hacked orb to see 5 all 5 of them?

Oh and the assumption that Anet gave us an orb, because it is sitting bugged on an altar which nor we nor you touched?

You guys pull out new stories out of your sleeve every second.

BG has never admitted to hack those orbs as neither of us has seen it happen and from the lack of any screenshot other than mouth to mouth stories from SBI/JQ there isn’t any proof of those orbs being stolen by hacks and not bugs/quaggans or other game mechanics.

That is also the reason why BG says, we would report, but frankly enough this so called hacker is so good that he can do all of this without us seing it.
Did it ever occured to you that there might be more bugs to the orbs?
We had the altar break and the orb timer dissapear/reappear, full health altar explode and drop the orb yet the altar being whole and working etc.

BG isn’t to blame for bugs that occur with the game, Anet is, so go vent it on the right target and not on us.
We came here to fight with the top servers, not point fingers back and forth.

I’ve seen Quaggan thunder happen and instant shouts of hacking all around.
You people just too easily assume stuff is hacked, because it is convenient to link it to the the fact that you aren’t winning.

And it is much easier to point the finger at the newcomer, as hey it would be strange if the same 2 servers that met each other 5+ times suddenly would behave different, so it is the new guy.

Did it ever cross your minds that there simply isn’t anything for BG to appologize for?

We came to tier 1 expecting amazing 3 way fights with awesome tactics which can’t be pulled off in lower tiers.
We brought our A game tactics and organization to fight for this.

There isn’t any guild on BG that would tolerate hacking to win this matchup, as winning wasn’t the reason we striven to fight in tier 1, the awesome fights are.

What we got from our enemies though, was nothing new.
Just huge numbers, but by no means any new tactics or anything we haven’t seen lower tier servers do equally good or better.
We expected the fights to be hard, everywhere and between everyone.
Yet the opposing servers look for every excuse to blame for their loss.
Turtle tactic, being cheat.
Server hacking orbs on a hourly basis.
Bad sportsmanship and bladiebladieblah.

Guess what SBI and JQ
Look at what you’r doing yourself before you point fingers.

The only thing I dislike of what BG has been doing this matchup, is shouting how awesomesauce our server is.

BG is an awesome server to be on for W3, no matter which type playstyle you have, there’s a suitable guild(s) for everyone.
But no need to shout it in everyone’s face as frankly they will deny or just not care.

So thank you especially JQ for keeping the fights going on everywhere.
And SBI get over yourselves, you really becoming to look like bots running from spawn to our tower all day long never even bothering to look in the other direction.

Just an additional note, all the people talking/representing servers on here including me, probably don’t even represent 10% of W3 population.
So stop thinking that you know exactly what and why people think, as frankly enough the majority of W3 players probably doesn’t even read or care about this forum(section) and will just keep on fighting when there are fights to be fought.

And especially not about all this crying about bugs/exploits and other excuses for stuff that doesn’t go according to your imagination.

@kidbs
So what exactly do you do when 40+ non stacked enemies come to your door?
You run into them and manage to kill them all?
You don’t use siege to shoot them?

40 non stacked enemies are much more mobile than a stack.

The fact that you fail at counter just means your group is less organized, there is no buts.
Your server attempted turtle tactic with your supposed strongest guild WM, and they got wiped.
Oh yes turtle tactic is so easy, yet when you do it you die?
And when we do it, we’r invincible?

Just stop fooling yourself already and learn to adapt like the groups that succeed in countering do.

And if you got no time/resources to set up siege, it means you’r either outmanned/outplayed.
That is not because the enemy stacked up, but because your side is lacking.

The problem with the guys whining about turtle is that the ones making the turtle are organized on voice communication, while the randoms are just getting wiped by them.

Then the randoms come and QQ on the forum about it.

While actual organized counter turtle teams have proven to do a great job against the turtle.
But only the ones that didn’t assume that the turtle is a bain/skilless bunch of players like these forum whiners accuse them to be, because the ones that did just died as easily as the randoms.

People get wiped by an organized team, and then they cry that it’s cheat/hax/exploit, because their bunch of randoms couldn’t organize a counter fast enough through chat vs voice communication and solid leadership

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a. Read my post before yours.
b. Show me 1 screenshot/name of any hacker? We will gladly report hackers when we see them, but guess what, unlike the paranoid minds that you have we don’t see the so called hackers everywhere. According to you 9/10 of us is a hacker, you sir are just plain insane.
c. You guys report every hacker on your server? So you got eyes on every individual in your BGs? That’s pretty amazing, show us how you do that, we would gladly learn how to supervise every individual so we can report them if they hack.

It’s amazing, so much crying about BG hacking, while the people weren’t even there or don’t know what the heck they are talking about in the 1st place.

Most of your so called “hacks” were all bugs not triggered on purpose and are 100% to blame on ArenaNet leaving so many of them in W3.

Let me give an example, we were fighting in JQ BL for a long time when suddenly our orb altar in hills broke.
Okay, we look at the map, assume that Quaggans did it, and take the orb to Bay altar instead.
The orb makes it safe to there, is placed on the altar and everything looks fine.
Then suddenly the altar explodes and the orb is dropped again, the strange thing the altar was still full health.
We could place the orb back on it, which we did.
Then SBI and JQ double team Bay, we hold off JQ at inner, while SBI gets in before JQ and takes Bay.
They defend their Bay and kill all the JQ, never touching the Altar, which at that point is still BGs.
In fact SBI never did anything to the altar/orb and that’s how we were having the orb buff during that time.
Then we took the Bay back again and heck I don’t know how it looked at that point but I guess the orb bugged out to show on map at all, but it actually never ever been moved from bay anymore.

Now how’s this example in any way the fault of BG?
We place orb on altar, loose keep, enemy never touches orb, orb bugs out on map at some point, we take back keep, orb never ever moved/changed hands.

Let me give another example where BG gets accused of hacking.
When orb carrier gets killed and another one takes the orb, the orb disappears on map.
How’s this BGs fault?
We try to run orb 1 dies, other picks it up.
Are we supposed to leave it there on the floor?
Once again ArenaNet and bugs.

Another example, SBI altar in BG BL breaks from quaggan lightning.
Orb timer runs out, so it resets in the north of BG.
BG gets accused of hacking…

Seriously…
You guys especially from SBI, accuse anything you see of hacking.
You guys are so paranoid that you see hacks in everything when you loose.

I guess you’r not used to loose this often, I understand.
But guess what, you’r loosing legit, and your brain is just not comprehending it.

It’s amazing, so much crying about BG hacking, while the people weren’t even there or don’t know what the heck they are talking about in the 1st place.

Most of your so called “hacks” were all bugs not triggered on purpose and are 100% to blame on ArenaNet leaving so many of them in W3.

Let me give an example, we were fighting in JQ BL for a long time when suddenly our orb altar in hills broke.
Okay, we look at the map, assume that Quaggans did it, and take the orb to Bay altar instead.
The orb makes it safe to there, is placed on the altar and everything looks fine.
Then suddenly the altar explodes and the orb is dropped again, the strange thing the altar was still full health.
We could place the orb back on it, which we did.
Then SBI and JQ double team Bay, we hold off JQ at inner, while SBI gets in before JQ and takes Bay.
They defend their Bay and kill all the JQ, never touching the Altar, which at that point is still BGs.
In fact SBI never did anything to the altar/orb and that’s how we were having the orb buff during that time.
Then we took the Bay back again and heck I don’t know how it looked at that point but I guess the orb bugged out to show on map at all, but it actually never ever been moved from bay anymore.

Now how’s this example in any way the fault of BG?
We place orb on altar, loose keep, enemy never touches orb, orb bugs out on map at some point, we take back keep, orb never ever moved/changed hands.

Let me give another example where BG gets accused of hacking.
When orb carrier gets killed and another one takes the orb, the orb disappears on map.
How’s this BGs fault?
We try to run orb 1 dies, other picks it up.
Are we supposed to leave it there on the floor?
Once again ArenaNet and bugs.

Another example, SBI altar in BG BL breaks from quaggan lightning.
Orb timer runs out, so it resets in the north of BG.
BG gets accused of hacking…

Seriously…
You guys especially from SBI, accuse anything you see of hacking.
You guys are so paranoid that you see hacks in everything when you loose.

I guess you’r not used to loose this often, I understand.
But guess what, you’r loosing legit, and your brain is just not comprehending it.

Yep stun breakers remove fear too
And stability > fear

Ye IoJ, what’s this?
Shouting you’r tier 1 material, while loosing hard in tier 2?

Joined a good stacking team
Saw it work
Saw it being beat too

Has its uses, isn’t unbeatable.

Exploit? No.
Cheap? Maybe.

Plenty of other somewhat underhanded tactics, which we all see though, but would make W3 dull if they weren’t there.
Examples being, hitting through doors with aoe, cata behind doors, siege on hard to reach spots, portals, portals, portals (multiple tactics possible with them), thieves abusing rendering, zergs abusing rendering.

Seen all of this done on any server we faced (as long as they were fighting)

All these surprise/new/different choices of tactics allow for much more colorful fights that can turn out completely different than you expect.

If it’s not a hack and everyone can use it, it’s free game.
And if it’s a huge issue then ArenaNet should get their hands out of their behind and fix it.

Anyone else noticed the piechart score looking like a red pac-man?

^ I like this guy
Happy face smashing to you too

Here’s me chilling with SBI a few hours after match start

It’s sad that even next week in tier 3 HoD ll still probably be crushed

Let this be an awesome week full of steam hot action!
Good luck and most of all lots of fun to all 3 of the servers!

2 way fight between IoJ and SoS unless HoD can muster up some people this time

Believe it or not, but BG is happy not having to deal with you lot anymore either.
We ll rather loose in T1 with actual fights happening than have no fights.

I just hope that if BG drops back to T2 at the end of coming week HoD ll be finally out of there.

I saw server populations during NA semi-prime time.
The following 6 servers were the only ones with full population

JQ/SBI/IoJ/BG/SoS/TC

Why r people telling for BG guilds to move off BG, while we don’t know how BG population stands against the T1 servers SBI/JQ with its current population.

Stop looking at the fake numbers of the empty HoD/ET match.

If BG does dominate SBI/JQ with its population, then there’s reason for complaints, not these baseless assumptions from people that are not on BG, let alone not even in this matchup.

I know costume brawl is all about fun and balance isn’t really too important.
But the Boxing gloves allow for invincibility which lasts longer than the skills cooldown, allowing anyone with boxing gloves to stay invincible while fighting.

As I said costume brawl is for fun, and boxing gloves when abused this way (block spam every time just before invincibility wears off) is anti fun,
Please tweak it just a little bit, to have room for a counter or a moment of weakness with this toy and not permanent invincibility even while fighting.

To HoD and ET complaining about BG still fighting for every camp and bringing large numbers to take them.
Sorry guys, but if we want to move out of tier 2 by reset, we have to keep the point income as high as we can.

Or does HoD want us to stick around in tier 2 for another round?

Riot from LoL eventually did it after enough Dutchies asked for it long enough.
So keep it up and we might get Anet to include iDeal as a payment option for the Netherlands

Yes please!
I wanna fight with my bunny ears on my head

Even in zerg vs zerg melee works.

Flanking, often zergs are focused only 1 way
Using pushing abilities (guardian wall of reflection/mesmer feedback etc. halfway to their zerg, their ranged kill themselves, go finish em off)
Not being a glass cannon, have abilities to heal/block/cleanse/mobility and a good balance of defensive stats
Not being a moron, running straight into the zerg and fighting them 1v20 while being focus fired and expecting to live without having to back off

Oh all these BG haters and their story twisting.

HoD and ET have 20 people total left on their server willing to WvW (not because of BG dropping their morale, but because that’s how many people they have left)
They still sit in tier 2 because they amassed that much points before so they drop way too slow for their own (and their enemies) good

And if you can’t get your achievement it’s really you and not the situation

ET do come out with about 10 of em (which is their whole W3 population, or maybe their whole server population by now) when they bring their hacker to fly around/jump onto walls/move while dead and self rez, which is a perfect time to farm the hacker for achievement as he will rez himself right there for you to kill him again, just be quick as he will fly/port away if you’r not.

HoD tries to bring out camp assaulting teams which sometimes get as big kitten 10 of them, so a few good fights against those could net you a lot of points too.

And if you actually would use the whole map (all 4 BG maps) and see where camps are being taken, you could know where the small enemy forces are active at that point

This is exactly my thought

BG didn’t get to prove anything yet, so until we manage to stomp the current Tier 1 into the ground (which we won’t) people shouldn’t go hatin on BG for fake numbers shown.

Last 2 matchups.
TC/FA, are great servers that kept on fighting, but we did not belong in their tier so they got stomped.

HoD/ET in their current state, have less W3 population than Kaeineng and whatever other servers are at the bottom, that’s not the fault of BG.
Belive me next week HoD and ET will still get stomped by whichever servers they have to face, as they simply did not drop far enough yet.

Until now while HoD was the lead server tier 1~2 looked like this.
HoD dominates Tier1.
JQ/SBI/ET take turns switching between Tier1~2
JQ/SBI/ET would have been an even match, which could never happen as HoD would ALWAYS sit in #1
Whenever either JQ/SBI/ET would drop to tier 2, they would instazergdestroywthpwn anything they were up against for a week and come back to loose to HoD

The situation now however is totally different and if BG proves to be somewhat on equal footing with JQ/SBI/IoJ we will have some awesome battles ahead of us.
Tier 2 will gain IoJ/SoS/SoR and TC? right behind them
IoJ/SBI/JQ already proven that they can have a great fight
Before transfers happened BG was on par with pre-transfers IoJ, which gives some indication of BG strength
SoS and SoR had transfers happen to them too, so guess what, if all of these servers are close together with population spread to cover high/max W3 population at all times, then we will have awesome fights whether you’r in Tier1 or dropped out of Tier 1 to Tier 2

/rant

Lets have an awesome fight next week
And we ll see the real new tier1~2 the week after

Until you see BG dominate tier1, kitten about BG.
If you see BG dominate tier 1 like HoD used to do, that’s when you can complain.

SBI/JQ/BG match next week would be perfect to see where BG stands right now.
So pretty please IoJ, you guys got to test yourself against them, now let BG have a go.

As you might have noticed from the thousands of complaints about the Halloween skins/chests, I hope you guys don’t want to cause this kind of commotion every time.

Here’s a suggestion which basically is just as profitable, but a lot less upsetting compared to what you did now.
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The idea comes from Ragnarok online. Another mmo which has been running for many years, probably longer than ArenaNet altogether.
About a year or maybe 2 ago, Ragnarok made a move from p2p to f2p, which in turn led to the cash shop model being introduced.
Ragnarok like GW2 is a game which is a lot about vanity/fashion and has countless of items to pick from.

A lot of the new items which Ragnarok introduced after they started the cash shop model, came from lottery boxes.
Don’t get me wrong, Ragnarok as it is now, is too cash shop heavy, there isn’t much beyond their lottery boxes which you have to look at, but the way they handle their lottery boxes was many times better and caused a lot less commotion.
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This is how lottery chests were handled in RO which ArenaNet should consider.

Every event related chest, dropped only event related items.
When people open event chests they expect event related items, not the same old stuff

There were multiple tiers of event item rarity in those chests.
(with the highest tier super rare item being at a drop rate of around 0,1%)
This way the really rare stuff is still just as hard to get, but people get other cool event items from their chests and not the same old junk

An npc which exchanged event items for points based on the rarity of the event item.
This included every item dropped from the event chest.
These points could in turn be exchanged for new chests or some specific (event)item.
Unlike now, you didn’t get set up with stuff that is junk to you as you just recycle it

Always a list with pictures of each new item and which rarity tier it is in posted
This way people knew which item they wanted to hunt for, and which one not
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People still buy many chests, as the super rare item drop rate is low.
People don’t feel cheated by the useless items which they already always could get from those chests.
People have a fast way (other than TP) to get rid of their unwanted event items and get another chance at getting the thing they wanted

Filling up my 9th folder atm

Always carry a staff and sceptre/focus with me
As sceptre is the only actual ranged weapon, you might have to bring it out sometimes and it’s best paired with a focus imo

My lvl 80 full tank spec Guardian has 30 points in the vit trait and some vit from my gear and yes it only reaches 15,4k hp

A lvl 80 war with no points added in vit sits at like 18k+ hp

The guardian hp is pretty effective, as in guardian can have more long term sustain, but when it comes down to taking burst damage, a full tank warrior with their 28k+ hp and longer invincibility/block times just outperforms guardian by miles

In fact I think that the only class with less hp than guardian is probably the thief

“Camp their spawn!
I gotta farm centaurs in peace.”

Blackgate ~

I dislike the skill choices you present, but I’m fully in support of mainhand pistol for mesmers

I made a suggestion about it earlier and I’m sure others did before, but I really hope Anet will add mainhand pistol to mesmer someday

Yes it reflects aoe
Yes it’s based on your own power (13,4power = 1 retaliaton dmg) (gw2 wiki)

None of the classes if there wasn’t the rendering issue

Thief as it is now.
Even though I don’t die to them.
Killing them is usually impossible as they are invisible pretty much the whole fight due to the rendering issue
(If you don’t kill them, they will keep coming back again and again to try and kill you)
Once their burst fails it’s just impossible to punish them for the fail attempt as they can port/stealth away and come back to retry.

This basically leads to thieves being a total pest, as they can keep on trying (even with many other team members around you) without ever being punished for their fail attempts

Example would be
Having a thief hang around a supply camp for ages killing anyone that comes there, or just run away, wait for his skills/ini, come back and try again over and over even when 3~8 people chase him is just BS
In this particular case it took 6 people spamming all CC/movement skills they had to chase down a thief over the span of 1/4 of the map before he went down after he blew up all his initiative earlier on fail ganks

How’s that working properly?
All the thieves cry fail ganks cost us our life, while in reality, fail ganks just mean you as a thief port away recover and try again.
As a thief you only die when you as a player fail, not from a failed initial kill attempt.
Which leads to skilled thieves that abuse the rendering issue be utter annoyance beyond the capability of any other class.

Now when/if the rendering issue is ever gone (there will be a lot less thieves) the actually skilled thieves now that never die will be comparable to the current baddies that sometimes die in a gank attempt

But autistic polarbears ARE real!

Dungeons used to be hard, until they took a nerfbat to the knee

Warrior simply has the tools to cover any needs you can have in game
There’s a weapon/skill for any occasion on this class
Any type of event or other situation the warrior has the best or close to the best tool for it
Aoe, damage, survivability, mobility, support, tank, range, melee, anything can be done by war

You sound like you won’t like either of the two proffesions

From what you’r saying I’d say go play warrior instead of torturing yourself

GS projectile has no travel time, the GS itself is slow
Sceptre is decent attack rate, but very slow projectile travel speed

Right now the mesmer really lacks a 3rd option for main hand weapons
It’s either sceptre or sword
Let alone it has no fast hitting ranged weapons (GS is slow hitting, Sceptre projectile slow travel time)
And then there’s just the fact that pistols+illusion bullets are just awesome looking

Pretty please add the main hand pistol to the Mesmer kit

SBI just shouldn’t have been paired with the 2 servers it is paired against atm.
SBI is too stronk for us and has way more W3 guilds.
IoJ and BG are somewhat comparable in strength, but SBI belongs in higher tier (shows when you drop from Tier 1 against #6)

So yes, like in all matches where 1 side is dominating you get empty maps on the other 2 sides.
Bad matchup leads to no fun fights.

Last week BG vs Fort Aspenwood vs Dragonbrand, the points were within 10k of each side for the 1st half of the week, the maps were almost always full until BG became dominant and took over full map, then you only had a few organized guilds and some pugs come in now and then to stir things up and leave

It’s not the game, but the people

Basically, the gap between top 4 servers and anything below is too big, and as #4 always ends up vs #5 and 6 you get this roflstomp scenario

Ya can put a cost cap on legendaries.
Just sell those weapons needed for 300~500g at an npc

I play Guardian with Greatsword
I use 3 (leap) to get in, and 1 (basic attack) everything to death

All u have to do is leap and kill, leap and kill, stop worrying about the rest
This build got buffed so hard, 5seconds reduction on the leap just makes me so much stronger

Guardian got buffed YO, whatcha all talking, what nerf?

This issue is server wide, not just WvWvW.
It’s ridiculous seeing models of players load only within like 300 range

(Total overkill self made gaming rig here, with cpu/gpu/memory load below 25% at any time. So please fix this on your end Anet as you did screw it up there this time)

Inside WvWvW, Eternal BG map, the Mystic Portal which is inside Red Overlook keep, leads into an infinite loading screen.
No clue what the portal is for in the 1st place but don’t think that’s what it should do.