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Commanders and the return of "Warbands"? More?

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This is how it should have been from the beginning.

My guild runs as a “warband”, 15-30 people usually. The Commander status is very lackluster for it’s pricetag. Since we’re on comms, /squad is redundant and the only thing Commander does is make it easier for the new recruits to follow the warband.

From my perspective I would add some points the commander needs:
- streamlined user interface to see and organize parties in a warband (25 people?)
- Ability to see warband supplies without having to type /squadinfo every time.
- Ability to make the warband “private”, sometimes you don’t want pugs following you.

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Blacktide

2/11 - Blacktide vs Elona Reach vs Riverside

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Can’t say I’m very impressed with this match-up. Elona and Riverside seem to have some internal problems, possibly why even during EU prime-time they only make a marginal dent in Blacktide’s lead.

It seems we will be advancing up into T1, I’m not too happy about it because I reckon we could do with another week of T2 practicing our teamplay with the newcomers.

I would be very happy with a 2nd place in T1, it will be nice to meet Vizhuna who has been no 1 server since release and I’m sure Desolation has improved a lot since we last faced them.

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Blacktide

Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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After reading your posts about removing arrowcarts and PVP, I don’t think you’ll fit in with the mentality on Blacktide.

Seafarer’s Rest might be a better option for you.

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Blacktide

Please Keep timezones separated

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Theres nothing wrong with dropping a tier or two, or losing a match-up or two. You can learn a lot more from one defeat then from ten wins.

We learned a lot from NUG and GF while they were still on FS.

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Blacktide

Please Keep timezones separated

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WvW is a 24/7 game. Adapt or drop down in tiers, simple as that. There’s no shame in being in T5-T6 with the rest of the “prime-time only” servers.

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Blacktide

Please remove arrow carts from wvw

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In your 500 vs 100 scenario, yes its not balanced but tough cookie. That server will get moved up and your server will face an opponent more closer to your activity/population.

Ofcourse player skill matters. You can argue that 5 players should be able to destroy 50 players, but remember that those 50 players are NOT static scripted PVE mobs you can “outsmart” by tapping dodge once. Numbers win in the long run, always. That’s balanced, and there’s no way to make it “more balanced” to give the losers a fighting chance so they can feel good. Why? Because players are people not AI scripts.

Removing stuff from the game and dumbing it down further isn’t the solution.

What are arrowcarts? Anti-personnel siege weapons. You charge into 5-10 of anti-personnel siege weapons, what do you expect will happen? That you’ll leap across 6 buildings skillfully stabbing 345 players like in Assassin’s Creed and destroy the siege weapons with barely a scratch or two?

Further, assuming ANet makes it all like that, whats fun for the 345 players setting up a choke-point with arrowcarts if 1 guy can just waltz through and destroy all their efforts?

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Blacktide

Desolation Battle Report

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Good propaganda effort, good way of demoralizing French pugs and making Desolation’s match easier. Words cuts deeper then swords.

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Blacktide

Portal Bombing

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Question: How to deal with portals?

1 Answer: Whine until ANet removes an entire skill-set from a class that destroys unorganized zergs.
2 Answer: Teach your guardians to drop a sanctuary on top of portals.

Unfortunately whiners always win in MMO’s.

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Blacktide

Please remove arrow carts from wvw

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No. Arrowcarts are one of the easiest counters to stacks.

You get gear with karma not gold. You get siege weapons with badges not gold. 1 arrowcart will pay for itself in badges no problem.

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Blacktide

2/11 - Blacktide vs Elona Reach vs Riverside

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XAOC is the main strength and one of the most important guilds of Blacktide. Without XAOC, we would just be another server strong in EU prime time and non-existent in the other timezones.

Not to say any other WvW guilds aren’t important, it’s a symbiotic relationship where XAOC benefits from our late EU work and we benefit from their early EU work. We play as a server across 4 different zones, and we play as best as we’re all able to. Where we end up with that is completely up to us.

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Blacktide

Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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In light of our history with CHAOS in other games, we have decided that Blacktide can be renamed to Redtide.

Post edited by a moderator as it was going against one of the rules of our Code of Conduct (reason: post partially not written in English)

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Blacktide

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Camp War 2

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Sure you can. Instead of going around as a blob of 100, split up into 5 20-man groups, assign 2-3 to defense and 2-3 to attack, problem solved.

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Blacktide

Invitation to Piken Square, From Gunnars Hold

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Good luck with your match-up and with recruiting more guilds for GH from Piken.

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Blacktide

2/11 - Blacktide vs Elona Reach vs Riverside

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Blacktide has enough quantity and quality now to be a competitive WvW server. More transfers would be counter-productive.

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Blacktide

NA rating vs EU rating

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They should merge the rankings and make it global, right after they remove the free 24h transfers.

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Blacktide

2/11 - Blacktide vs Elona Reach vs Riverside

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Nice fights in Blacktide borderlands, CIR & ThUn were there for the most part. Looking forward to even better and greater fights when we wake up tomorrow.

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Blacktide

Why Orb Removal Will be Very Bad for WvW

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It was never about winning 1 fight, 1 siege, or 1 zone. It’s about consistently winning as much as possible during 24 hours over 7 days, its what separates the losers from the winners.

They should cut the US & EU separate ranking tables and make one global ranking table, that would shake things up quite nicely.

Orbs will make a comeback when the mechanic gets reworked. ANet has the very ungrateful job of making it rewarding enough for winners to bother with, but not too rewarding so losers don’t complain too much.

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Blacktide

Aurora Glade - Which Guilds Are Staying?

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Reason why they’re asking you (and everyone else they can think of) is because GH has been bleeding WvW players ever since the WvW guilds that pulled GH into T3-T4 left the server. A lot of their WvW players transfer over to Blacktide and apply to join either ThUn, DkR, or CIR.

For example, we (the WvW guilds that left GH) have a mumble for leaders and we never bothered to change the password. Every few days we get [KISS]Rhea Metalworker connecting to our WvW mumble to check things out.

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Blacktide

Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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Blacktide has seen an influx of several EU guilds who might or might not stay full time on our server, but currently as things are only a few US guilds with a quality WvW presence would be enough to solve all our TZ problems.

Blacktide would become a truly 24/7 server.

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Blacktide

26/10 Blacktide vs Far Shiverpeaks vs Elona's Reach

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A lot of big guilds on Blacktide passed up FSP territory today, if not outright ignored FSP groups. We did this out of respect for the great skill of FSP guilds, who do not deserve to go down to T3. You guys belong in T2 just as much as we do.

We will continue to monitor http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/ for developments.

Thanks to NUG, GF, VcY, and other FSP guilds for teaching us many valuable WvW lessons in this match-up, next week will be interesting.

Good fighting and fly safe FSP brosefs, don’t doomsday your own server by transferring.
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Blacktide

EU TOP 6

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I salute you for being able to say kind words about other servers, too many PVP players fall into the same pattern of boosting their own ego by belittling and insulting their opponents.

I’d love to be able to say a few words about my experiences with Vizhuna & Arborstone, unfortunately they haven’t yet fought Blacktide since my guild (CIR) transferred over.

The other servers you have in your list, suffice to say WvW is never boring or one-sided when fighting against them. Quality stuff, best fights for sure.

Good luck to all the top 6 EU servers!

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Blacktide

26/10 Blacktide vs Far Shiverpeaks vs Elona's Reach

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I am happy that Blacktide is on its way to securing 2nd place and keeping in T2. Speaking for CIR, I’m pretty sure it’s a shared sentiment in our guild that a lot of guilds (GF, NUG, VcY, others) from FSP earned a lot of respect in this match-up, fighting tooth and nail despite knowing that it’ll all be gone when they log in the next day.

This week was by far the best WvW experience so far, yesterday Red Guard transferred over to check Blacktide out, they’re a great guild and will be a very important addition to our prime-time force if they decide to stay. Also, all the existing guilds on Blacktide have learned some valuable lessons and I think we all gained a lot of experience from this match-up.

Thanks to both Elona and FS for this great week of fighting, and thanks for all the lessons. Blacktide will fight even harder in the future because of you.

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Blacktide

We should be able to buy blue prints with karma

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Running with my guild-group of ~20-30 people gets me average ~200 badges on a slow night, 250+ on a good night. I use them all to buy siege, and currently I have 750+ badges (3 stacks and some change basically) sitting in my bank for alts that might need gear. My engineer is about to hit 80 and I’m sure I’ll need a few pieces that karma can’t buy.

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Blacktide

WvW isn't even fun anymore // Score Update: SoR/TC/? Lmao

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I agree and we should cancel our subs over this travesty.

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Blacktide

26/10 Blacktide vs Far Shiverpeaks vs Elona's Reach

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As I said before I would be very happy if we (Blacktide) managed to get 2nd place in this match-up. I think we have a lot to learn from Elona and Far Shiverpeaks, and in the long run we will be a lot stronger after this match-up.

Most people learn nothing when on a winning streak, the hard fun fights we’ve had in this match-up are definitely a learning experience for all of us. Our T2 match-up vs Elona & FS is on an entirely different level then the lower tiers, we must rise to this challenge together.

Also I wouldn’t say there is a “main guild” on Blacktide, all of us – CIR, ThUn, DkR, HRSY, INT, XAOC, WIC, HP, RUN, and others – benefit off each others strenghts and weaknesses. For example, I’d never put myself and CIR in charge of keep defense as we’re more likely to jump off the wall to kill a bunch of people then to do the sensible thing and build up lots of siege. Our main gripe with siege is that we can’t sit on a catapult and launch ourselves at the enemy.

Good fights so far, really hope it keeps up. Respect to GF / NUG / VcY / other notable guilds from FS, haven’t seen many Elona guilds stand out as much as their outstanding collective server organization.

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Blacktide

26/10 Blacktide vs Far Shiverpeaks vs Elona's Reach

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This match-up is very tough and the fights are very enjoyable. We definitely have to step up our game, our 15-20 man groups were sufficient in the lower tiers but in T2 we need to bring 30-40 man groups to the table to compete.

As I’ve said before this match-up, I would be very happy if Blacktide made it to 2nd place. Realistically we still have a lot of room for improving and growing.

Elona is a very organized and active WvW server, and the FS big dog guilds like GF, NUG, and VcY definitely make GW2 a very enjoyable game worth playing. Best match-up since release!

Xaoc members whining about Elona and FS coalition. Does CIR agree with them?

No. Our newer members that we picked up in GW2 might be prone to theorycrafting, but the big core of CIR that comes from EVE Online and similar sandbox games, quite simply doesn’t care about server-coalitions.

Bottom line is with or without server-coalitions we got people to kill, which is a luxury considering we (CIR) used to spend 6-7 hours roaming empty zones and getting maybe 2-3 kills for our time.

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Blacktide

[Blacktide] Battle reports

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http://pevepe.net/gw2forum/viewforum/1723100/m/6083582

SFR own progress reports are like this:

20th – 04:15 CEThttp://pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewthread/4630182-20-oct-2012
21st – ~21:30 CEThttp://pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewthread/4642805-21-oct-2012
22nd – 02:20 CEThttp://pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewthread/4648728-22-oct-2012
23rd – 01:30 CEThttp://pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewthread/4660985-23-oct-2012
24th – 18:45 CET (80 points behind BT) – http://pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewthread/4670570-24-oct-2012

Ergo, consistently throughout the week BT loses everything after ~23:00 CET when most of BT working EU players go to bed, SFR US guilds (Apollo & co) that recently transferred over PvD and cap everything for a few hours until XAOC comes in the morning, reconquers everything and the cycle repeats until again, the BT EU players go to bed.

BT’s main weak spot is lack of US timezone guilds on our server. Any guild that transferred over would benefit from having covered OC/EU timezones, and wouldn’t have any queues whatsoever. When US plays, both the Russians and the EU are already long asleep.

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Blacktide

9/10 - Seafarer's Rest - Riverside - Blacktide: The Revengening

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Most of CIR have been playing on alts since the weekend, my engineer went up from L30 to L62 which I’m very happy about. No point in playing on fully geared toons with 500k karma in the bank when the match-up is already won, might as well have some fun on different classes.

The fights have definitely been a lot more harder (and thus a lot more fun which is what it’s all about!). Respect to the SFR guys who fight hard every day and don’t have the luxury of enough time to whine on the forums, and thanks for the PM’s.

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Blacktide

Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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Next week we will be going up against Far Shiverpeaks (big russian presence on that server) whose prime-time should match ours, and against Desolation who have a huge US prime-time presence where we are still sorely lacking.

I would be very happy with 2nd place in this match-up looking at it on paper, but we’ll see how player-skill translates to the point situation in the field.

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Blacktide

Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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I think that is definitely the best way to get the information you need to make such an important decision Highlet, look forward to seeing you in-game.

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Blacktide

9/10 - Seafarer's Rest - Riverside - Blacktide: The Revengening

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Lets connect the dots;

1. Match-up weekend beginning, Blacktide take the lead and focus on Seafarer’s Rest objectives letting Riverside capture things unchecked. Posts start popping up that SFR is giving up in WvW.
2. Riverside closes to 15k points by end of weekend, orders given to swap full focus on Riverside. By today Riverside is 50k+ points behind. Riverside has completely given up on all accounts.
3. After troll-posts from Seafarer’s that we ignored for two days how they own us in prime-time, we swap full focus back on Seafarer’s Rest. By 23:00 CET (I took screenshots every hour, will post them up) we maintain point advantage over Seafarer’s Rest.
4. We go to bed, hope you do the honorable thing Seafarer’s and don’t night-cap us, but it’s ok if you do because what goes around XAOC comes around.
5. Until end of match-up we will be focusing on all SFR objectives, ignoring Riverside.

Not bad for Blacktide that allegedly loses 9/10 fights.

Good fights and good luck in next match-up!

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Blacktide

9/10 - Seafarer's Rest - Riverside - Blacktide: The Revengening

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You can imagine our great lulz in CIR, DkR and ThUn when we slap an entire borderland in evening, then pretty much right when we start logging off for work everyone crawls out of the woodwork and starts capping stuff.

Still, all’s fair in love and war they say. Thanks to our russian comrades, we can log off every night with a smile knowing that what comes around goes around.

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Blacktide

[Blacktide] Battle reports

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Due to the one-sided nature of fights during prime-time, as of yesterday CIR has decided to start running alt-groups in WvW. This has provided us with a greater challenge and overall more fun battles and experience in WvW.

Yesterday we were also deployed in Riverside borderland, in line with the general consensus that Riverside is the main competition in this match and must be our primary target.

I believe it is good news that SR seized the opportunity and closed the gap while we were ignoring them, the final days of the match-up should prove to be a very interesting and memorable experience as all three servers fight hard and good for the 1st place.

Also big thanks and respect to Gabrrr from XAOC for helping coordinate the three-pronged attacks, his presence was vital in preserving Bay and Garrison until we all went to bed.

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Blacktide

Seafarer's Rest: has wvw died already?

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A lot of the WvW guilds on BT are focusing on Riverside objectives to secure mathematical 1st place.

You guys can push up and fight for 2nd place.

Good fights all around this pairing, very entertaining!

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Blacktide

Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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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.

You will have no lack of opposition. As Snort said, the top tier servers are evolving toward 24/7 coverage, PvDoor is what happens in lower tiers. For example next week we will be up against Desolation, where Ruin (NA guild, you guys probably heard of them) are playing, and Far Shiverpeaks who have been advertising for NA players for a very long time now.

It should be a very good fight.

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Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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CIR has now been on Blacktide for almost two weeks, here is our experience with queues so far:

GMT +0 06:00 – No queues
GMT +0 08:00 – No queues in 3/4 borderlands/EB.
GMT +0 12:00 (Noon) – No queues in 2/4 borderlands/EB.
GMT +0 16:00 – No queues in 1/4 borderlands/EB.
GMT +0 20:00 – 5-10 minute queues in all zones.
GMT +0 00:00 – No queues in 2/4 borderlands/EB.
GMT +0 04:00 – No queues.

As we have deducted so far, there is overlapping of two-three communities on Blacktide;

EU Prime community

These are the guilds that transferred from Gunnar’s Hold, usually focusing on 1-2 borderlands because while we can do a lot individually, being in the same zone allows us to have 3-4 forces to push and defend simultaneously due to leaders being in mumble comms.

There are also “native” BT guilds like WIC, HoM, HP, XAOC Int that play heavily during EU prime time and work together with the others. Due to nature of WvW, we sometimes play in same zones sometimes we spread out as the score dictates.

RUS prime community

Russia is a big country, by definition their country is across 9 timezones so their “prime-time” is hard to gauge, but looking at major population centers they peak around GMT 19:00 and start falling off.

XAOC community

XAOC (or CHAOS in english) is one of the biggest Russian multigaming communities, and have enough manpower to call daily CTA (Call to Arms) operations that hit EU servers at their traditionally weakest spots – the Australian/US West Coast timezones.

Currently the weakspot on Blacktide is the time between the main EU guilds logging off roughly 00:00 GMT +0 or 01:00 GMT +0, and the XAOC CTA logging on between 05:00 GMT +0 and 08:00 GMT +0.

From our pre-move research, we have confirmed that queues are VERY negligible and only really happen during the ~1 hour window where all three communities overlap, roughly around 19:00 GMT +0. Even during this time, the queues have to date not been longer then 15 minutes.

What does all of that mean?

It means that Blacktide could benefit from having ~1 EU WvW guild that can field ~20 guys ever day, and 2-3 US WvW guilds that can field 20-30 guys.

How does it benefit you?

You play during YOUR prime-time. No alarmclocking (unless you really feel like it), and you’re coming to a really no-drama server. The heavy majority of Blacktide is focused on winning together in WvW, not mudflinging whose fault it is X got lost.

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Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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Cannot really speak about Ruin because by the time they log on, most of CIR is already in bed for work in the morning.

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Blacktide

Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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Personally I think 1 strong EU guild that can field 20-30 players, and ~2 US guilds that can put out around 20 players would be ideal for Blacktide.

I would recommend to any guild considering transfers to send a few guys over, take full advantage of the free 24h transfers, and get your own perspective of Blacktide. It’s really the best and only way to make such a big decision.

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Blacktide

19/10 Blacktide vs Seafarer's vs Riverside

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The player-loading was quite horrible in Seafarer’s Rest borderlands. It was quite obvious that we couldn’t see them and they couldn’t see us, both sides probing with AOE spam for numbers before carpet-bombing the area.

Had some good fights with RISE guild, their golem-rush at Cliffside was very fun, XAOC almost made it to the tower before it fell.

Blacktide’s battle plan seems to be working, we’ll see how it matches up in EU primetime but its looking to be a very promising fight and very fun experience.

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Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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CIR worked together with WIC in Augury Rock borderlands, together with ThUn we defended the Bay lord room for 2 hours against both servers. Very nice italian guild, easy to work with. We hit it off from the get-go, taking turns at supply runs and helping each other’s flank.

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Blacktide

[Blacktide] Battle reports

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Deso’s scheduled events didn’t escape our attention, we were steadily gaining 10-15k points per day and at that pace we could have challenged you for 1st place. You guys upped your game and stalled us in some timezones, overtaking us in others, enough to make it a clear victory for Desolation. Congratulations guys, you definitely earned it. Much respect to IRON, GoD and LoR for putting up great fights during EU prime.

The general sentiment in CIR (one of the WvW guilds from Gunnar’s Hold) is that it’s a shame we missed the weekend ramp-up to the matchup. We definitely look forward to our next match-up against Riverside and Seafarer’s Rest, been hearing some good stuff about the WvW guilds on Seafarer’s so the WvW should be VERY juicy and challenging.

Big thanks to all the Blacktide guilds (not just XAOC) who accepted us wholeheartedly to Blacktide, you guys made us feel like we are home.

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WvWvW has been a complete, total, comprehensive failure

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I’ve gotten ~500 hours of PvP fun for 60$. There’s no sub, and there’s no pay-to-win, WvW is great fun. Not saying its perfect, just saying I’m not paying 15$ a month while waiting for fixes so I’m perfectly happy to wait for them.

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Project Blacktide - Pan Continental Alliance Looking for US and EU Guilds

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As guild leader of CIR, it’s my responsibility to provide the best atmosphere for my members to enjoy WvW and GW2.

On our previous server we were growing frustrated and drifting away from GW2 because we didn’t feel the server we chose shared our passion and dedication to WvW. We were spinning in the endless loop of capturing everything when we were online, only to lose everything during the night when we all log off.

We had many concerns with Blacktide, indeed we heard many rumors and unconfirmed “facts”. If we had taken that information for granted, we would never have migrated. Instead we transferred for 1 day, checked it out for ourselves and by the next day our entire guild was transferred over.

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.

Blacktide is also not a “russian only” server. There are italian guilds, polish guilds, UK guilds, international guilds… XAOC is the biggest russian community here, but there are many other cultures working together for a better WvW enviroment.

The only “downside” is that the PVE areas are pretty much deserted. Blacktide is a WvW server, so if any NA guilds want to play with like-minded people it’s the perfect place to transfer and call home.

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Blacktide

Desolation - Augury Rock - Blacktide

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Thx to GoD and all opponents from Deso & Augury rock for today’s most enjoyable WvW experience in Augury Rock borderlands. Thoroughly enjoyed the Bay keep defense.

Respect to WIC for being awesome italians from Blacktide.

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Blacktide

Desolation - Augury Rock - Blacktide

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Syndic.4762

@ Raab

I was putting the trebs down, you can take them out with ballista just gotta have the “sweet spot” rather then just plop down a ballista at the CP and go to town.

Alternative is to try what you guys tried, build treb on W side of Garrison and counter-treb ours.

Good fights all around, great fun!

[CIR]
Blacktide

Desolation - Augury Rock - Blacktide

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Posted by: Syndic.4762

Syndic.4762

CIR, ThUn, DkR and 7-8 other smaller WvW guilds transferred over to Blacktide from Gunnar’s Hold on Sunday.

Speaking for CIR, I’m very happy with the good fights we’ve been getting from Desolation and Augury Rock. IRON seems like the most organized opposition, playing against you in Desolation borderlands and Augury Rock borderlands was very fun and rewarding.

Blacktide’s only weak-point is the NA east-coast timezone, between the EU prime crew going to bed and the XAOC swarm descending upon our unsuspecting and often slumbering enemies.

We’ll do our best to give you a run for your money, shame we didn’t transfer before the match-up started so we missed the whole weekend feeding frenzy. Hope to see you again in a few match-ups.

[CIR]
Blacktide