Guild Wars 2

Bunzy.8674:

Cain.9724:

Bunzy.8674:

Cain.9724:

Bunzy.8674:

So you admit you need numbers to beat us? That’s all I needed thanks. I will remember this for future engagements.

Also we have yet to find a challenging guild that gives us a run for our money I guess the closest have been FTF (ebay), but is there anyone else?

No, we need more numbers to catch you because you run spvp specs in WvW and your guild is constantly running away to reset a fight when you lose.. like i said.. your always-stealthing-always-ride-the-lightning-away is way too amazing for us to handle alone. You guys can barely take a supply camp but yet you’re making videos about wvw ownage.. it’s just silly.

Are you challenging us to a 5v5? I will record it.

What would be the point? You still can barely take a supply camp.. meanwhile we are off getting props from the yak’s bend commander for our efforts on their map last night.. just focus on what your good at, running around our spawn area trying to find people to fight you, so you can show them how amazing you are.

It’s actually harder to find people to fight then you think, considering as soon as they see the guild tag they run away, but i guess nothing we can do about that.

Maybe you guys should focus on wv3 POINTS for ur server than coming to this thread – posting the way you are – causing thread drama – Risking the mods locking the thread. Sweet you guys can put together a 5man and roll around. You know what we did last night? Took our server from +150 points → to +320 point gain in 2 hours. Dropped about 15 trebs you guys had hitting SM and rolled 3/4 of ur map.

ParaldaWind:
Don’t want to discuss it in the forums in case i get yet ANOTHER infraction from the mod – you can msg me in game

Throwing this out there:
As much as we are able to… Yaks bend will have active people in our keeps on the boarderlands with fraps running/ready to start. Don’t mind losing keeps – Hate losing keeps when we are still fighting on the outer walls.

LOL not many of you guys played Aion (before the Sin fix) or Warhammer (before the WE fix) did you?

Aion I had a 30(?I think)sec stealth on a 2min cooldown and a 5min stealth on a 3min cooldown. I could roam around PERMA STEALTHED and kill whoever I wanted. IN a second. YOU COULD DO NOTHING. You would be stunned, in the air and getting killed so fast – all you could do was alt tab and go to the forums and complain.

Warhammer – my WE rr70 (before it was easy.. in the first 3months) I had a long stealth (can’t remember how long exactly) and with the venoms? Forget about it – you were done for.

In those games, I could see how you guys could complain. Aion no stun breaks + long perma stealth. Warhammer – Stuns and venoms with long stealth. This game? 3seconds of stealth – you all act like this is your first MMO.
With culling – yes that does come out to about 4 maybe 5 but there are counters.

Some of them rely on your skill (dd eles are very hard counters) Some of them require you to use ur brain.

Beat culling: Angle the camera somewhat downwards and press tab you can’t SEE the thief but you can target him and see the red kinda circle where he is.
beat backstab: DODGE! Some of you people don’t even TRY to avoid the first hit. You stand there. Activate a Shield skill, wait 1/2 a sec and cast something that does AOE blind something.

Like the guy said above me: The Thief has been nerfed 3 times. Deal with it.

Wow what a weekend!

I am the CIC in Eternal for Yaks bend – Played a SOLID 40hours this weekend.
First off – good show yaks! I am proud of you guys. Despite the fact that for 1/2 the weekend we could not lay siege and had to use golems to knock on gates instead of rams I think we did rather well. Held SM for quite a long time (I even got some sleep somewhere in there after my wife told me I was no longer making sense cause I was too drunk) wake up Saturday to Maguuma holding SM. Having 40 some odd golems at my disposal we pushed into SM and took it (with a feint push with 5 golems to blue lands to draw off 30-40 SM defenders) In retaliation to Maguuma for taking SM while I was sleeping we took and flipped blue keep.

The Sunday fighting was insane – CRAZY fights in SM lord room – Crazy fights over keeps – Flipping SM back and forth for 3 hours !!!! SOOO much fun.

Ebay: How many darn trebs do you guys have??? When I logged last night… you had 5 at overlook wall and 4 on the wall near SM. Every time I bring the zerg, blow up trebs and move on you set up 3-4 more! You have some REAL dedicated individuals who seem happy to lob rocks for hours.

Maguuma: As annoying as Ebay is with trebs hitting SM – The ONE dude you have consistently taking our keep – keeping it contested makes that upgrade completely useless. And your Dolyak killers are top notch as well. One thing to note: I notice that I killed quite a few GOONS this weekend – which brings a smile to my face. I get to kill goons in Eve Online for 6 or 7 years, Move to GW2 and get to keep doing it.

This is sooo annoying – we can’t drop siege in EB :/

So about that siege cap – we can’t even place a freking RAM on a gate… this is fantastic.

What I would like to see – is a “welfare” legendary for the wv3ers. A huge group of us don’t CARE what the weapon looks like – we just want to be on the same basic footing as some PVE’er who ran plinx for 3months non stop to buy his legendary that is soon to be better than my exotics. He will be hitting harder, able to take more damage (cause he also runs fractals and has all this pink gear :/ ). Make the ‘extended gear grind" badge and karma related gives us the stats that the other “legendaries/pink gear” have – just not ’look as nice’.

Good vids

I think I played Aion with you on newSiel…

Subtle (same name in aion as well – I was in BadWolf)

As a commander on tier 3 yaks bend, I go through 20g without even blinking. There needs to be more ways to make money in PVP – it is hard enough to get PVERs to wv3.

There was a time last week – someone actually had to SEND me money to repair :/

As a thief, I am glad they are doing this. Its too easy to hold a point for ~5mins while waiting for the zerg.

Any chance for a score update + SS of map for those of us at work..

Thanks.

wait.. what? that was 40 golems you dropped on that gate? serious? LOL you guys are insane.

Sooo.. Umm.. about those 15 golems you just ran into the oil on south SM. How did that work out for you?

Quick notes (cause i am at work…)
This guild has the least amount drama ever.

There is both PVE and PVP groups within -OF-
There is a commander in the guild.
There are quite a few of each class who are willing to help you out if required.
There are people always looking for dungeon runs.
There is a Friday night group event for WvW.
No kids in the guild.
And.. last but not least.. TS is very active, and very entertaining.

So – in YBBL – Holy kitten cat (lol) TC, my lord you guys zerg – Rolling around in map population size group??? I am confused as hell as to what you guys are doing – you just ran buy longview.. ran in circles for a few mins.. then dropped a treb that got off 2 shots (in the open field at that…) before it got hit by our 4 + a cata…. I think ur commander is drunk.

If they nerf thieves to the ground, we have to call out all thieves to roll rifle warriors…

LOL WOW that is insane… how are people NOT screaming for nerfs:

“24k + 13k + 17k”

12k kills, full invaders and i go through about 3-400 badges a week in siege… maybe just unlucky?

I have to admit.. I do miss having Pooka on the server.. Fun fellow to chill with – WHEN SOBER – You get about 15-20 beers in him and… well I saw him make the one of the most calm person i have ever met on the internet rage.

Fort Aspenwood -204 081- Rating: 1 607.816 Projected: 1 649.900
Yak’s Bend -259 090- Rating: 1 573.730 Projected:1 674.446
They are currently projected to be only 25! points behind Yaks.

If FA makes serious pushes tonight/tomorrow before reset its FA fighting TC and CD.

Interesting…

Guys, look at some of the guilds that round out Yaks bend’s population:
Mine: OF: EVERYONE is over 25.
OTG/TOG – OLDER gamers – theses guys are people who have played games together for YEARS and YEARS which means they are mostly over 25 if not 30.
Quite a few of the commanders on Yaks are over 30.

Know what that means? REAL LIFE gets in the way. Jobs, kids, hockey practice, swimming lessions, walking dogs, shoveling driveways. REAL LIFE. Of course Monday to Thursdays we are a little lean on leadership and population. I know for the wife and I we are pretty tired when we actually have the time to sit down and play.

We as a server have to deal with that – be happy that with the leadership we do have, with the population we do have – that we were able to bump us up from tier 6/5 to a tier 4/3 server.

Or just tell the guy to talk to his commander who will then explain it to him.
OR if you have to.. you can direct him to me:

/w Subtle

Sorry about his ignorance.

I frequently PM people by getting the name via the report function – you are more than welcome to get them to speak to any commander on the map to get them sorted out.

I am currently in a match up AGAINST Fort Aspen – if FA gets these kind of numbers active off peak USTZ you will for sure see them move up a few spots in the ranking. USprime is a strong team…

I am a thief, and I for one would appreciate some of those FA Ele’s go and post in the thief forums and show people how to beat us.

This weekend was the first weekend, since release, where I actually (embarassingly) had to run away from a D/D Ele. I figured something was up when i crit backstabbed for less 4k. You guys have some SKILLED Ele’s there – and thank you for the link to the vids – I will be posting them on guild and alliance forums.

Guys, just now, we took craigs and we took Garrison at the same time.

Now – about craigs – we were on the gate.. and a portal appeared besides us – on habit we took the portal. We had NO mezmers inside. The only thing we can think of was a bug where one of YOUR mez dropped it… and for some reason we could use it.

Go take Craig back.

REALLY good job guys.. Sending over people to waste supplies at DB while you are trying to take it… Can’t win in prime time so you have to play like idiots eh?

@Braxxus – we did the same thing to them a few hours later when we were defending Garrison on the same map. And yes, the Culling issues need to get fixed.

Quite the fight in FABL for garrison. ET it sucks that RUIN did what they did to you.

Actually – I have seen AT MOST 10 ET in the last 2.5 hours.
Its not that you are getting double teamed you don’t seem to even be here.

Why should you get that supply camp if you had 50 people who were being stupid?

THE ONLY way a thief can stay cloaked is via CnD. Group up, AOE ground – thief appears in 4sec… or gets gibbed by the AOE. Now keep whining and get my backstab nerfed so I can adapt to the changes and continue to roll people who don’t understand game mechanics.

A quick few points:

We don’t want server hoppers or fairweather players.
We don’t want disruptive, smartKITTEN, commanders.
We don’t want commanders/guilds who will not work with the community/alliance that we have worked hard for.
We don’t want hackers or exploiters.

If you come to the server and fall into the above.. You WILL be outed by the community – The people of the server know what to expect from commanders and players.

The system is flawed, yes – if you don’t use it correctly.
You get your server to work together. You get your commanders to talk and get things moving in ONE direction. When get you get on a WvW map – JOIN the commander (who you like) squad – get your guild mates to join too. The Commander icon was meant to be spammed across the map. Yes eventually there will be 100’s of commanders – One for each guild but you have to learn which commanders are good – and which commanders are bad.

This, in my opinion, should be how it is:

Imagine, your commanders are organized – They log into WvW and join predefined coms with the other say 4 commanders on the map. There is ONLY those 5 in there. They jump to their map, and get their squad together. Say, each commander has 25 people in his squad – each commander is communicating via voice and relaying the plan (through /squad) to the people in his squad on what their duties are. ALL of this is done without /team or /map. Why? Because they are using /squad – the members of this squad know their duty. For those 125 people (5commanders 25per squad) the only thing that matters is WHAT their commander says. Map chat has no meaning.

As time goes on, a brand new Credit card commander joins the map, looking all cool with his blue tag and says “everyone follow me to Stonemist!” No one follows him. Your map commanders PM this guy and try to get him on board (either by turning off his tag and joining a squad OR by creating a new squad and working with the other commanders). If the commander turns out to be a kitten (we all know that type right?) then the commanders advise their respective squads, the people in the squads take note, and life moves on.

(…and as a pug zerg player you learn WHICH commanders are good and which commanders you should stay away from. Soon enough those bad commanders will turn off the tag and fade into the background because they don’t like playing alone.)

I am glad that the commander skill book is ONLY 100g (personally does not bother me if there was a badge requirement or a ‘time spent in wv3’ requirement – all I do is pvp so meh) if the bar were higher we might miss out on some good commanders. We even had one commander on our server – we pretty much promised him we would not make fun of him for doing Gems → gold to get his. WHY? because he is a good commander – we needed the icon.

TL;DR: Get organized. Use the tools provided properly. Don’t follow/encourage bad commanders. Join commander Squads. Use Squad chat. (cuts down on spies too :P)

Commander Subtle from Yaksbend.

Other items of note:

We have a 1000man+ mumble available for use.
A community website with active forums (just don’t touch the Pooka)
Speaking of Pooka, we have quite the number of fun personalities on the server. (Drunk pooka is funny as hell)
Organized server commander meetings – where we discuss tactics and share knowledge (hold hands, sing songs ect)
We have no issues holding our own in US Prime, Just need a bit of help on the Oceanic side.

Thanks for considering…

Subtle

Actually – The halloween stuff more than likely worked in YaksBend’s favor. With the coverage that CD has and the fact that mostly the only people who are WvW this week are the major PvPers on the server (less of a zerg) – Reduces the (bandwagon) server transfers off the server. This is going to allow us to be strong next week after the MK stuff is over.

Ya – I have to Admit – NA Prime time is hot for PVP. We fill a map with YAKs and CD (no idea where DH is… ) and just pvp. Who cares if we are losing – They are a tier 3/2 server, the fact that we can hold our own means we are doing well. NA prime is coming to an end.. we are +200-250 in score all evening.

Spetrix.3859:

Whichever guild from CD that set up the East Keep defense on Yak’s borderland with the orb yesterday

Superior arrow carts galore, triple catas on both inner and outer gates, double defensive trebs assaulting courtyard and multiple superior ballistas holding down the bridge.

We want that guild. Well played fellas

-A YB Commander

Ya, that was insane. Was a LONG siege – was up at 8am… Off an on throughout the day, logged at about 10pm and we STILL did not get that keep.

Well, as a commander of YB – you have a freking strong off peak group which can match us at full strength.

Deathcarlyle.6075:

Im still waiting on Yaks to take it back since its claimed we only have the map due to night.

Score was +15 when I woke up.. now its +215… so ya… will be fun fights all afternoon/evening – then you can PVD after we go to bed

lol@night crew from CD good job guys
Now we get to take it all back :P

CD: 3252
DH:3039
YB:2815

Its been a good fight so far.
And bunzy – Quit being bitter… YB should not have been in that tier…

Good on you guys.

Subtle has 285 skillpoints
Subtle has every skill unlocked.
Subtle has full invader gear.
Subtle does his best to lead the zerg everynight.
Subtle wishes that he could level a guardian and not have to buy the commander book again.
Subtle also heard if you say Sausagestorm 3 times in the mirror the madking comes and eats you.

I like the time some group of 6 ganked my wife’s mez… after they were done – a necro teabagged my wife’s mez for… well long enough that I ran (with my commander tag on so i had the whole zerg with me :P ) from one of the map to the other – jumped off the cliff, landed with 3k hp left and 100 to 0’ed him. Then the Zerg teabagged him.

lol its cause everyone else was PvEing world bosses…
Good lord you think we have a zerg? You should see those dragons get mugged in 30secs. Wish I could get our zerg to move with such purpose.

“Jealous?

I am not…it is just a blue icon. Real commanders still got to earn the respect of others"

This

A good zerg can quickly tell who is a bad commander vs those who lead.

No, we good – thanks for asking tho..

(tryin to lighten up the thread a little :P )

I would follow you anywhere….

Yes dear…

Don’t tell them we actually co-ordinate we will lose our illusion of being lemmings.