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If you were leading a guild devoted to competitive WvW, would you honestly try to persuade your guild to stay on a server that will never be competitive due to its lack of Oceanic players? If you can honestly answer “YES” then you simply have a difference of opinion with PRO, that is all.

Curious. is that confirmation of at least looking? or is all of it hogwash?

Its not hogwash…Protocol [PRO] and [GASM] have folks on Dragonbrand as of today. With a current member of PRO confirming the guild is moving.

oh, Boy. This is disheartening.

So much to say, but none of it would be able to fix anything in a few short hours. Where ever you go Pro, please do not attempt to assume a seat of power. Go where you go, and just be part of the server, understand and do that. You’ll all end up in a much better place than you have set DR up to be in by the 28th.

I understand your decision to move, I do. I really do. I am in your exact same position. Except I gave up on you, Pro. Before you gave up on DR. I left last night to look around because While I saw a desire to improve DR, I felt that the only help any of you wanted was grunt work and people to obey. that’s not what we needed. You had the ability to make positive change and you squandered it.

Your first mistake was a “community forum” that hand picked it’s members. Only commander and whomever you deemed privileged to gain access. Such narrow-mindedness and at the same time, it’s the perfect metaphor to describe the kind of help you wanted. Only the Help you wanted.

You could have been assisted. It’s your fault for not being able to recognize who could help and who could only talk about helping. You have nobody to blame for your inability to organize this server but yourselves. Multiple people came to me looking for what I have been preaching and I spoke of your plans. I had your back, I was helping you without your knowledge it seems, obviously, without you asking, I was helping because I saw you needed it.

Don’t go and lead. You can’t. Go be the guild of good hearted people I still believe you to be, you will help any server you choose by assisting and doing what you are asked much more than you will attempting to rally people to listen while you ignore what they say.

I sincerely hope you have learned something because if you haven’t you are really a lost lot.

I don’t expect a response, and I honestly don’t want one. I hate excuses and I know that’s what I’ll be fed.

Please know this. While you are justifying this decision, you did ditch a bunch of people you made a promise to, myself included. So, when people get kitten do not attempt to pass blame off and understand you abandoned a server you elbowed your way into and took over. and Very much like Locusts you have left it a mess.

To all the Pro Dred fans; he laid these tracks for them, do not fool yourselves into thinking Eyan wrecked this train. He was only the conductor who wasn’t prepared to take over, and lacked the staff to slow it down before a single sharp turn derailed the whole thing.

one word? Horrible.

Good luck, and if you start listening to strangers anytime soon, take a few notes from above.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

1-11-13 Maguuma vs. Borlis Pass/Devona's Rest

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If you were leading a guild devoted to competitive WvW, would you honestly try to persuade your guild to stay on a server that will never be competitive due to its lack of Oceanic players? If you can honestly answer “YES” then you simply have a difference of opinion with PRO, that is all.

Curious. is that confirmation of at least looking? or is all of it hogwash?

Its not hogwash…Protocol [PRO] and [GASM] have folks on Dragonbrand as of today. With a current member of PRO confirming the guild is moving.

man…

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
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Based on your post its pretty obvious you dont know the “we’re never leaving DR” history of the current PRO members and its current leadership. I dont have an issue with transfers, nothing wrong with it. But when you tell an entire server you’re not going anywhere publicly..then up and transfer on the sly is lame as heck. Kitten, even Drednyte would have posted in forums if he was going to move PRO to another server. And if folks didnt like it so what, I’ll give him props for that kinda of open honesty and upfront stance. Not this lame 2-faced PRO we’re seeing now. Kinda funny Drednyte posted a joke about PRO transfering last week which triggered all the kitten inside of PRO. From current posts PROs current leadership got mad at him about it, backstabbed him hard when he was offline, and all of a sudden a week later —- PRO’s transfering servers!! I mean, COME ON!

I don’t know about Dred getting back stabbed at all. Anyone with an open eye could see that he was constantly trying to start trouble be it aggressive or passive. With no inside information I could see that even members were sick of it internally. His Post about the move was not a joke at all,. To me it seemed like he was trying to strong arm the move and lost. I still don’t think that was the final straw to be honest. I think that there was some internal stuff happening before and after that. Multiple Pro members have already said they were not willing to air their dirty laundry on the forums. I think that’s a decent indication there are happenings outsiders are not aware of.

Did anyone but me see the images he intentionally put up so that if you read the chat box, you could see another guild member talking to him directly about a transfer? That was put up on purpose. I chose to say nothing then because I knew he wanted that to get mentioned.

Pro moving or not, I do not know. But I will say this. The effort Eyan and a few of his members put into smoothing things out with me and my group was nothing short of sincere. and after my talk with Eyan, and being able to hear him speak, I heard a nice guy talking to me with a whole lot of kitten that got dropped on him. He did mention that he wanted to fix DR, and he spoke about a lot of things that I agreed with. Ideas. Ideals. and a Scope of a less hostile internal environment. I don’t feel he was insincere with me, and I consider myself pretty accurate with reading personality.

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Yak’s Bend.

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If you were leading a guild devoted to competitive WvW, would you honestly try to persuade your guild to stay on a server that will never be competitive due to its lack of Oceanic players? If you can honestly answer “YES” then you simply have a difference of opinion with PRO, that is all.

Curious. is that confirmation of at least looking? or is all of it hogwash?

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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I for one am glad to be privy to this context-free post that most of us probably don’t care about anyway.

I do now.

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1-11-13 Maguuma vs. Borlis Pass/Devona's Rest

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Speak for yourself. I’m usually hiding behind a tree.

I have wondered on more than one occasion, “How does he get such fantastic footage and live.”

Trees.
man.. I feel dumb

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I also can’t think of a reason anyone should transfer to Maguuma because I don’t know anything about that server or anyone on it.

Anyone who loves Star Wars will be attracted to the Double U. Personally, I am also quite fond of the letter U. I find it to be the most powerful of Vowels and the only one capable of replacing any of the others in almost any word. When there is a letter shortage, you would all be wise to get rid of A,E,I, and O first. Debate Y

If that’s not reason enough for a unknowing random I don’t know what is.

Religion, on the other hand. psh.. they have an odd worship system.

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That’s 60 silver!

Hows that work? does the first ram just create a domino effect on the rest of the rams and knock people back into the door they are trying to get out? If you really think you have skill, use that domino chain of rams to nail some wood over that gate so we run into it as we come out the other side.

Perhaps if you are all a bit nicer, we can cut a hole about 1/3 the way up with a key hole saw and get another glorious line started from the base of the hole back.

I love you, this thread wouldn’t nearly be as fun if someone didn’t take the bait! <3

I love you too, Random citizen!

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I’m still waiting to see those better guilds, though. I’ve never seen OG turn down a fight, even if they weren’t sure they’d win, unlike certain other guilds.

I don’t know what you are implying, pal. But there isn’t a single or even a pair of old women I wont throw down against. One time Walking out of Sears, some old lady got lippy with me cause I was blocking her from being able to watch the TV through the window.

She was all like, “Move I can’t see Matlock”
and I was all like, “It’s a commercial anyway”
and she was like, “Don’t talk to your elders that way”
and I was like, “Shut up, hag. I’m an air drummer, probably the best on my server. and even all of T5”
she was like, “what?”
and I was like, “Enough with this, lady” /sock to the jaw

I heard the sliding door open behind me and the squeak of a walker wheel. I knew she had back up. I swung around and strafed left. Luckily, for her, she had he sister with her who was much more agile. The one in the walker moved like she was a keyboard turner lawl.

I kited her around, jumping over her elderly bingo partner while I fought her sister. Thats right, 3 old ladies. I got the nimble one down as the walker got Bingo lady up. I finished the nimble one and snared the walker lady by .. picking up her walker and throwing it out into the parking lot. bingo lady jumped on my back. I got real lucky cause when I went to swing to get her off, I crushed the walker lady in the face with my elbow and sent her down. without her walker she was a defenseless as a downed ranger, so I left her there to struggle while I barely finished off mrs. Bingo. It took so long, that I had to run. I ran pretty hard.

I’m ptolly gunna go back to Sears in a while and see if she’s still there.

I never flee .. for long,
or without a good excuse.
or because I am awesome.
I forget.

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That’s 60 silver!

Hows that work? does the first ram just create a domino effect on the rest of the rams and knock people back into the door they are trying to get out? If you really think you have skill, use that domino chain of rams to nail some wood over that gate so we run into it as we come out the other side.

Perhaps if you are all a bit nicer, we can cut a hole about 1/3 the way up with a key hole saw and get another glorious line started from the base of the hole back.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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jeez, your post could be about anyone! hows about some initials, profession? Does he Craft? I really think it’s me but I ..

text me, if this is .. you-know-who.

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1-11-13 Maguuma vs. Borlis Pass/Devona's Rest

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Get over yourself, d/d e.

Nobody in AD claims to be the best at anything. Unlike some others in this teir.

I am pretty unstoppable at air drums. I often mimic aggressive beats with lots of double base. I almost always don’t never miss none of my cymbal hits. and I can do that fill that you play at the end of a bad joke in double time.

dumdumtish~

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SO.. you guys only want massive oceanic guilds? preferably one’s that do not speak english?

Maguuma’s Allied Alliance of Allies has been working to extend our hands to our new Aboriginal transfers. Our translation team has been dutifully working to translate all of our command phrasebook such as “htfu on flame rams at grub” into all 27 Aboriginal language families. Once this is complete we will be seeking to extend our Hmong division as well!

The MAAoA is working on ESL so that the Nubs who ST over to M A G are able to R E A D? Pretty intense. outsource or are the scrubs on map duty doing the grunt work?

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I can’t imagine how clean all your bathrooms must be with such elitist requirements. The simple fact you are have a Transfer Embargo simply means no common riff raff has access to your gold plated toilet paper rolls. I bet the lack of a purple glow from a black light in any of your keeps rest rooms would bring a tear to my eye, and perhaps inspire a nice waxy BM.

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SO.. you guys only want massive oceanic guilds? preferably one’s that do not speak english?

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1-11-13 Maguuma vs. Borlis Pass/Devona's Rest

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The funny thing about OG is that there’s no leader, no strategy, no coordination, no voice chat, and yet also no one in this tier or the next that can beat them in a straight up fight.

There was so much trash talk last week that I was really excited to get some challenging fights when I came back this week. But wow, what a disappointment.

LARP? Couple good players, but we beat them 5v5 and the general comment afterwards was ‘wait, did anyone take damage?’ Bsty? Lol. First day back and 2v4’ed them easy. I’ll hand it to that thief in white/black though, he’s kitten good at running away from a fight. NoQQ? Well their ele is good, can’t say much for the rest of them. AD? Hard to find AD unless they outnumber you 2:1, but when ya do, it’s not much of a fight. That poor little Asura thief probably needs stitches by now.

The competition just really didn’t live up to the expectations I had from last weeks thread.

Pics or it didn’t happen, bro. And by pics, I mean video, because pics can be doctored. And by video, I mean live stream, because video can be doctored.

it’s 2013, man.

If you cant watch via Remote Desktop, it’s doctored.

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Anyone else appalled by all the recruiting?

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Enjoy Coca Cola. WvW more. On Gunnars Hold. In Nikes.

Nikes, in a war zone? Gunnars Hold obviously knows nothing about foot ware. I bet you all have Velcro ties on those Nikes.

Fight for Devona’s Rest, home of the extra medium buffalo Yak wrap. Transfer now and save a fee, win a free T-Shirt, and get a two way radio to communicate to your new friends without having to worry about a provider. .. And we don’t wear basketball shoes when killing people.

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A well matched tier is more important than moving up to a higher tier, imo. What I think people are failing to realize is that they a win on T7 is as much of a win as a win on T3; the only difference is que times. I’d rather be in T7 with 2 evenly matched servers on the other side (and low que times) than in T3 with one server stomping the other 2 (I’ve been on both sides of this, and neither is fun), not to mention having to wait 35 minutes just to get on the same map as my guild.

A little bird told me that your guild moves to a new map every time you say you are loading into their current one.

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Doesn’t bother me at all. Nobody logs in and set’s their sights on losing. Winning will always be an underlying factor to recruitment. I see people looking for more as dedication than simply about more numbers.

The above poster makes great sense too. Their are tiers for a reason, I hope the transfers help spread more of the population more evenly across the servers.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
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Derby of 2013 Kaineng vs Devona's Rest

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I’m not talking about Dr leaders, I’m speaking of the fail Neo alliance
on Kaineng.

Cool Gotcha, Tyty

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Yah weird don’t know why my amazing post was deleted…anyways. Yorgy you cannot speak of the Great Lord Flame Ram being a heathen from another server. He hath blessed Maguuma for we fought, died,and were rebirthed in his almighty fire! But anyway yah Lilj the guild name was chosen for that exact purpose. Glad to see its working.

One is only a heathen until they learn the ways in which they were never taught.

Maguuma has many enemies now. seeing I see remnants of your ..almost.. amazing post lingering, I think it may have been a personal attack on either you, or your server!

Great Scott! /flippy hair thing.

Whoa. /another flippy hair thing.

But.. who?!
/dramatic stare off into the distance. you can hear the fireplace crackling in the background as the stage slowly dims, and Yorgy fades into darkness.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
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Power vs Condition in WvW

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1. From a general item investment perspective, it’s rarely a good idea to pick up both power and condition damage. The only item set that does this with any efficiency is Carrion, although Rampager comes close but is crit-centric and has no defensive stats.

2. Conditions are generally good for sustained fights whereas Power is good for direct attacks and burst. Given the general context of WvW where you can have over 9000 players attacking the same target, the damage over time of conditions becomes less impactful for killing players.

3. Conditions are still good for suppression, however this is more oriented towards AOE suppression. Conditions that scale to many players (Mesmer Glamours and Necro Epidemic) can be very potent here.

4. Due to the meta, many players stack a lot of Toughness, which is generally smart. However, Conditions bypass this. Hence, Condition damage can still be a coherent strategy, although not as a go-to for most of the population.

For sieging, it is critical to have low cooldown conditions, since AOE cleanses (and light combo fields) happen with a fair frequency.

Good post, thank you.

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You can keep your alliance on the server, I want no part of it so please stop talking to my officers.

Are you implying that DR leaders have already contacted you and/or yours for some type of “understanding”?

May I inquire as to who it was?

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… though just wanted to troll a bit …

but I’m just predicting that there will be people whining about zerg fest and server transfer once again should we dominated the map again. XD

doi.

it’s the number one reason any server not winning is losing. According to some it’s the only way to lose. Besides the night cap, hax, and spies.

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I guess I am trying to nicely ask, how do you keep order without a nazi germany gestapo feel working itself in? Tact is important, but is that all you use?

I still think this is a valid question for you haring Maguumians, despite some insane moderation happening atm.

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Forums are broken for me and I couldn’t get this whole post to land together.

perhaps one day you will repay your insolence, Seregdae, when I over throw your religion to an outdated single Great Lord Flame Ram, and convert people to worship the collective genius of the 7 New Lord Flame Rams of Greatness, Each with different power over elements. Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Bacon, Carbohydrates, Beer, and killing. Sure there are 8, but they vote before they go out and one always stays home.

All will celebrate with full bellies, and a blurry vision of sexy twin Norn females keeping them warm at night.

PS I didn’t report that. I enjoy having fun with peeps on the forums.

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Just to give you a little insight into the structure of WVW on Maguuma. We have a tiered system to determine who is tasked with offense, defense, roaming, commanding zergs, commanding strike forces, etc its all very organized thanks to a couple of ex-Seal GOONs. If you transfer over you can take a look at the Organization Structure and Culture document on the public file server.

Anyway….

Our server initiates are tasked to only watch the map and report what’s happening in Mumble the instant they suspect anything. If you’re new to the server and do not prove your fighting abilities or if you mess up in front of JerkJerk you get assigned map duty for a week.

It’s not so bad, Rebel Daughter worked his way up from map duty. Bunzy was on map duty for a long time and now look at him. I personally have never had map duty but that’s because I’m ex-military with 4 tours under my belt.

This is crazy. I think about my map chat and almost want to think you are.. fibbing..

I’m fascinated by what you posted above, but How are you able to accomplish a military styled internal tiered ranking and not have groups of people get jerked and decide to buck? Your structure is obvious, but how do you maintain the balance? You have forum personalities that appear to be more.. free spirited than a military structure would allow itself to be flexible with.

I guess I am trying to nicely ask, how do you keep order without a nazi germany gestapo feel working itself in? Tact is important, but is that all you use?

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It was a long time coming but after months of hard work, they finally let me clean the toilets in East Keep. The ones with the mahogany seats and gold plated toilet roll holders.

psh. Gold plated. I bet the mahogany stain on the seats rubs off on contact as well. Grats on your fancy bathroom even if it is only skin deep.

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Well DR you came through! Thanks for the fights! I came in halfway through you guys taking Garrison back. Walked through a door you where there, walked out the door you where there. Died, escaped revived by a NPC. Then got killed in the Lords room died again.
Then it was pretty much a fight across the map from SE keep up to North camp. We finally got some numbers together and started hitting hardcore. But I would say it was fairly even all night. I think we all spent some coin on repairs tonight for sure.

What was up with you guys guarding the north camp so hard though? Man there was probably 20-30 people there when we hit it and failed. Then we would have had it the second time if your spawn was not there it would have been Green.

Truly though Good Luck DR I hope we see you guys again! With less Drama in the forums though
I won’t get to spank on you guys tomorrow night though, I start college at 35. Talk about a procrastinator geez
Good Luck DR, Yorgy nice to chat with you. BP hope you guys pull it together also and you guys become competitive again.

It was nice to chat/play with you as well!

Sadly, I wasn’t in DRB for long last night i got caught up in a fractal from the 7th gate of hell and ended up in bed shortly after. I am falling sick and I have reason to believe it was from one of the cows you Maguumians trebbed down on us one day this week.

I firmly believe that Mag is sneezing, coughing and hacking all over these diseased dead cows to make us sick if it doesn’t kill us. I’m almost positive I saw a 30man portal bomb appear near a treb. Everyone coughed, hacked, farted and sneezed on it then jumped off and proceeded to exploit culling while they excaped.

on a serious note. TL;DR – Thanks.

I really do appreciate the advice and help members of Maguuma have given us. Little pieces of useful information across the board that we can really benefit from. You’ve shared with us a lot of things that offer you an advantage in your week(s) against us and I see that as an incredibly selfless thing to do. Lot’s of servers, including my own, myself included, probably wouldn’t give that information away on a public forum, especially to their/our/my competition.

I think that a lot of people reading these forums, from my server, are willing to accept your advice and many accept it simply as information and advise. It isn’t coming off as a “know it all” trying to show how smart he is over anybodies “collective stupidity” , but because you are kicking our kitten it’s reasons behind why. I feel that because most of your information appears to be void of “ego” it’s better received. I like to think that people at all heights of our “DR ladder” are taking this information in.

I’m not saying that DR leaders appear “Holier than thou” That is defiantly not what I am saying , but I feel many times people are less willing to listen to someone they are unfamiliar with, Commoners and Commanders alike. This could be a lesson in taking advice just as much as a lesson on WvW warfare. You have displayed amazing communication on the forums and in the game. This is a very large part of any servers success and I think you helped to drive that home. Thank you.

In the last two weeks I have received a fairly decent amount of email here on the forums from players looking to work with me, my guild, and all of DR. It’s something that people are working on and I hope to be able to help move that along over days to come. There are lot’s of people who want to pull in the same direction and not everyone knows what that direction is. There are people, dedicated people, working on getting that foundation setup. We are a little behind in organization, but I believe that the fact we got to Tier 5 in our current condition should say that if we clean ourselves up some more, Tier 4 isn’t something that’s out of our reach.

On a video game forum, from a stranger disguised as a troll, Thank you.
Maguuma – You guys are great, even your trolls are like able. I’m not too sure of the value my Respect holds on the Black Lion, but You guys have it. As a Gamer, As a Internet Warfare nerd, as a community member, and a person who still holds value in how people treat people. In a place that makes it very easy to be as big a jerk as you like, so many of you have shined at being the complete opposite of a stereotype.

This has probably been my favorite week of WvW since Launch. I’ve made new friends on DR, and met a lot of people who want to see DR succeed. People who want to help.
I honestly am going to end this week out Thankful.

I too shall forever remember the Great Lord Flame Ram.

Thanks peeps!

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Yorgy step away from the panther!!!!

They only say that out of jealousy. Never for the panthers well being. ..

I will when I’m done, woman!

See we are all having fun it gets all serious again! See you there ! Ill make make sure to wear my kitten kicking boots:) I’m asuran but hung like a Norn

Haha! Oh my I’m hiding behind Yorgy!!!

Considering some of the company we keep. I’m not sure how safe a place that would be.

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However, this matchup was already decided the moment we transferred over to Maguuma. There’s never been any reason for anyone to spy on anyone during this matchup.

I think it was decided before the transfer.

Fight Club? I don’t want to attract more mag!

..eer yes! sounds great. take all your fight clubbers to Borlis and Mag maps. we will send our fight clubbers there. Now, don’t go sending people looking for the fight clubbers. stay put and wait. we’ll be there.. later.. be ready and abundant. but most importantly, don’t leave.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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Yorgy step away from the panther!!!!

They only say that out of jealousy. Never for the panthers well being. ..

I will when I’m done, woman!

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Ill make sure to be in your BL tonight, bring the panther!

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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I hope for a repeat tonight! I was the asuran ele that kept mist forming in to burn down your siege. It got intense there for awhile we where so out numbered. Good job taking the keep though. By the way tell that ranger that was with you I’m calling the humane society. How many times do I have to kittenis poor panther?

Me too! Hey man, I don’t want to be too graphic, but we gang kitten that panther when we are bored just for the exercise.

It was a fantastic time. multiple pushes back and forth across the bridge. little side scraps kicking up to the S, SE and SW directly on top of us. The thing I enjoyed the most was seeing all these other mates just start popping up from the water to help, or seeing your numbers trickle out of the overlook steadily.

I give credit to Morningstar as well. If the man did nothing right except one thing, his communication internally is outstanding. Sure lj was throwing out info to him while he was up north working on bay, but there were plenty of times I saw his icon head south before a call even went out. he reminds me of Lord Varys. He’s got little birds watching everything and they feed him information. I notice it in EB when I am there. There is always an AOD member silently running around with most groups. Sure sometimes it feels like spies, and I’m sure sometimes they are. But watching his zerg roll up behind your growing zerg a few times was just really rewarding to witness.

It’s been a positive week for growth on DR, that much is obvious. We aren’t done learning and perfecting, that too is obvious but members of my community win or lose have plenty to be happy with from these two weeks passed.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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Like people stated earlier do your best to lose as slowly as possible. For the ones who are fighting through the night capping try to take key points at the 5 minute mark of the point tally. You’d be surprised how coordinated 2-3 man teams can gain a decent amount of points by simultaneously flipping 3-5 supply camps at the same time to get that extra 15-25 PPT.

Mag has this to a science. and it’s a big contributor to why they have such a nice lead. I’m so happy that a Maguumian pointed it out. this is killer advice peeps. killer.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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Had another awesome evening of WvW. DR felt more alive last night with some good coordination of attacks and defense. Thanks for the fun!

Hell yea, man. Saw some Gasm down South with us last night as well. Lot’s of fun. for weeks to come!

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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Feel so sorry for BP and DR, getting stomped 4 weeks in a row :/

It’s only been two weeks for DR. and don’t feel bad at all. We stomped for a long stretch. We had some in house cleaning happen and the server grew a bit in week number two. DR has nothing to hang it’s head over. Provided we continue to make efforts to better ourselves and accept ownership of our mistakes we can continue to grow.

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Yorgy you are correct. I don’t post often on these forums and I am one of the mumble commanders for Maguuma. One thing we have is indeed amazing communication. Not just that, but despite the forum antics of some, we also don’t pull out our peakitten chests when someone needs help in another borderlands. What you all are seeing, during off-peak time, isn’t a consistent zerg across all borderlands but instead each time a major objective is under siege and we feel we need more to repel we have someone hop into each borderland channel and do a “risk assessment” of the situation there and then relay the information to them about our predicament. One thing we are definitely good at is knowing how many to send and how many to keep.

I Sincerely appreciate that you did. How your people move screams to me that you guys keep a very open line of communication across a good number of commanders, co-commanders (respectively) and hard working troops. I can tell that you are using numbers instead of blanketed “all on me” , “Zerg @”, “Need Help NOW” types of feedback.

Watching the out manned buff is a pretty good indication that you have response coming in from other maps and you are evaluating pro’s and con’s for movement on more than a single objective. It’s fascinating to watch to be honest. You have eyes everywhere and on top of it all your server does a fantastic job of padding their point spread just before the cycle restarts. This is all with balance, which I admire. Hands Down, Mag has been the smartest enemy we have had to face. I personally have had a fantastic time experiencing this.

I watched multiple mag players on multiple occasions sacrifice themselves to get in a position so corpse could report numbers, siege count, and placement. Then watched Mag respond in force, in smart waves, from multiple directions to eradicate our seemingly equal numbers. + or – it was a superb battle at Astral a few nights ago.

The announcement of the paid transfers has shied me from checking out Mag next week. I know you guys are moving up, and you are in for a battle. I wanted to watch how you do it under extreme pressure. I have enjoined seeing your servers overall positive outlook and team-team attitude on the forums. You have had members of your community post with logic, facts, information, and for the most part I would say without an air of arrogance.

I walk away from any stretch with a server appreciating my competition, even K after all this time. But Mag should be a learning experience for many of us on DR on the next level. And how to use previous methods with new methods. If not, we have probably met our wall and if things continue status quo, for both our servers, this could very well be our last meeting.

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Yak’s Bend.

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Last night was the most Fun I have had in a long time.

I was lucky enough to be part of the south western (Green) Tower and Camp for most of the late evening. We had a few RED with us, I Saw Ewok with us and a few stragglers from other guilds as well. Lot’s of fun guys. Some small back and forth over the bridge and Yes! Yes! above poster, I think it did get to about 50 Vs. 50.

I saw some kitten and some OG there, some QQ sowed up at one point as well.. quite a few people got in the mix and it was a fun time. Exactly what we set out for. The Laughter and friendly kitten talk we had going on in TS between my group of peeps was something I haven’t enjoyed in a week or two.

Thanks much to those who got a punch in.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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A few Mag players above have said a few things about how they communicate. And Anyone watching them would see how well they do indeed communicate. They are fantastic. Not only do they communicate well across their map, they also appear to communicate across the different maps just as well. I do no’t believe all the force we see Mag stop us with is response from only the map , but I think people come from other maps depending on what the feed back is from around the entire “globe”

I have seen videos with them working together through common practice and understanding. They build siege at great speed as well. Our server isn’t there yet. It’s not. Anyone who has had to ask more than one time for a piece of siege to be built would see this. I will say that we have a lot of new “newbie” WvW blood, and it’s a great time to get into the practice of better habits.

Even if Mag was cheating, and I am absolutely not implying this, but if they were; it can not be the reason we are not winning. Communication is poor and team work, while improving over the last week, is lackluster. We have a tremendous amount of talent and looking for excuses to make our loss more palatable is a waste of it all.

I am willing to bet there are Borlis Members who think they have seen DR and Mag cheat, just as I am sure Mag has seen players in Borlis and DR appear to cheat. It’s as tired an argument as population related battle loss.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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I don’t get why everyone is getting bent by this Jessy Cox, sucker. Sure he prematurely objected to how Goon was handling their junk. It’s not like what he spit out all over youtube was more than a mouthful anyhow. He laid it on a bit thick, I agree but im sure once he got it off his chest he knew he probably blew an opportunity to turn around and take it back. I say hands off, and let him shake it out on his own.

I have to admit I went rigid when I first heard his rants, proceeding to shake my fist and unload on everybody. However, after a few minutes I had a smoke and relaxed , falling limply into self assurance that everything will be ok. To be sure, it’s quite a mess, but I am sure Jessy will have no problem sucking it up, and making things right.

It’s going to take a stiff upper lip, but I think you hit it right on the spot.

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I don’t really care for Stiffler. but I liked the movie Goon for some reason.

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he sounds pretty casual and misinformed

goon also has like a total of 10 active wvw participants.

I don’t get why everyone is getting bent by this Jessy Cox, sucker. Sure he prematurely objected to how Goon was handling their junk. It’s not like what he spit out all over youtube was more than a mouthful anyhow. He laid it on a bit thick, I agree but im sure once he got it off his chest he knew he probably blew an opportunity to turn around and take it back. I say hands off, and let him shake it out on his own.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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Sadly there is no clear timeline presented. They’ve been promising a lot of that since launch and it still hasn’t happened.

I’m pretty happy with everything they have done as far as “extras” since launch. Much more than I expected for a BTP game.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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Just a question for everyone? I run iTunes while I play all the time. But I’m gonna set up vent this week for server reset since my guild uses it. Can I still run iTunes and hear people talk over it ? Or am I stuck listening to people talk strategy and ramble all night?

I think Ventrilo is great for mixing with itunes tbh.

Newer TS and Ventrilo Clients allow you to tweak each users volume in addition to multiple in and out level adjustments. I keep in game sound on (included music very low) iTunes, and Teamspeak and I can hear everything after a little tweaking. Commander volume goes up, people who talk nonsense usually get turned down a little. Music drowns them out, when it’s time to gab I will adjust iTunes a bit softer.

IF you run into an issue where you can not talk while in game, you will need to run Vent “as an Admin”.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
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This Thread makes you wonder how much and how often Stephen King has gotten flack over his ideas in the realm of entertainment.

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Had a blast at Astral last night.

“The Stompah” got a group dug into Astral for quite some time last night and the final and overwhelming push from Mag to kick us out was a wild one. Most of us knew what was coming after the spy lay dead in the middle of camp for what seemed .. forever!

Shortly after, madness. I honestly can’t tell if two groups came in, one from the West entrance and another from the South East shortly after, but all I can remember is standing on a rock and suddenly a thief appears in the middle of us and died while I watched players start to scramble around the Upgrade Claimer. By the time we were halfway down the hill it was like a scene out of Braveheart. A slew of red names running over team mates, wrecking siege, and thieves vanishing all over the place like some evil blinky light show you would see done to trans siberian orchestra.

respawn run back and join the fray again. At one point it looked like we had Mag cleared out, but their forces eventually overran the camp. All I remember thinking is that it was one of the coolest fights I have ever been a part of, over a camp.

fun.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
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DR is no where to be found

I sure hope you aren’t blameshifting here because that’s probably how DR felt about you all day yesterday

It Kinda is. lol
I think most of us imagine you guys are getting squeezed like we are.

There are still peeps out there, but for one reason or another people tend to get their kitten handed to them for shorter periods of time before they take a break to regrow their backside.

I’ll respawn many times over. but once it feels like I’m just respawning to go get slain again and only that. I go watch some TV.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
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Man, I really hope all the new members you have on Mag translates into a surprise for your step up next week. You guys may be every where and then a few more places than that, but you are still using tactics as often as you can. Very smart. Very persistent.

I can’t begrudge the overwhelming numbers you guys have, DR had it just a few weeks ago as well, peeps wanting to RvR would go to the red map just to cap north camp if it was all that there was to take. But it doesn’t make it not frustrating nonetheless. lol

Still getting into nice little scraps here and there at camps, or out in a field win some lose some, still fun if it’s a nice match.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
Yak’s Bend.

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HooOoly!! Mag everywhere! I went afk to go Bio, and one jumped out of my shower at me! I sprayed him with chloraseptic, he went down and before I could finish him He went mist form and escaped out my sink. I honestly have zero idea where he is.

Mag attack on Garrison was awesome. It was a 6-10 golem attack, that began on the water gate. It was awesome! Not too sure what happened at one point, but nobody was able to spot the golems. There were a few rogue attackers on a few different doors that would result in false positives. I don’t want to say hysteria, but there was a wild sense of confusion. lot’s of great little fights here and there. Fun night so far, peeps.

Yorgy/Rumblestrip
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