Guild Wars 2

Coming from SoS (yes its not just SoR that replies in this thread) we don’t feel like everything is going our way. Most fights have been very tough and no server is just giving up.

I feel a bit sorry for SoR when one of their guilds turn tail and bail on you when they are needed most. Thats poor form and when you are asking for more guilds why would they want to join a server when you see this kind of defeatist attitude.

I am most impressed with IoJ who have turned things around from the previous week, they are turning up in numbers and have been giving us a great fight on EB.

people aren’t going to like this but I love the way legendaries are legendary. Everytime I see one in WvW I stop and check them out. When I played wow legendaries were everywhere.

don’t change a thing. a legendary should be a long term commitment.

PRX have been mainly in SoR BL this week but will switch over to other BL’s if they have cleaned out the map or another commander comes in and starts trying to run things. Other guilds have been assigned to EB, IoJ BL, and SoS BL. I also see good guilds like Sexy and TSym come into SoR BL and operate on their own helping split forces, and rush to defend. You would often see on map chat “TYsm will deal with this” and its good to know attacks/defenses aren’t ignored.

There have been no queue times for any BL this week except EB where SoS have a few solid guilds but also a lot of puggers.

To think one guild has carried is crazy talk, PRX are kitten good but can not win this on their own. They seem to work well with other guilds which is why things seem to be working atm. If only that Daish guy would stop trying to interfere all the time, and questioning everyones calls.

STOP TALKING ABOUT P2P or B2P OR WHATEVER… START THINKING OF IDEAS TO REWARD OR IMPROVE WvW…

Kuthos.9623:

Throw in some “Ranks” with armor sets that have a rank emblem on them that look really sweet. People can then pick out “Oh that guy’s a centurion” or whatever.

I agree some ranks would be nice, make them like the Battlefield 2 ranks. easy at first to get them scaling up to very hard (time wise) I would hate to see them introduce ranks only to see the top rank appear a couple of weeks in.

I also think so better communication system for commanders would be good, like raid calls from wow. If you spam them then you get cut off but if used correctly they would help. Sometimes the commander messages gets lost in the rest of the map spam.

perhaps commanders should be able to control the npcs the team takes over as well.

I would also like to see a better graph, table, data of the server vs server info and also leaderboard showing all servers. for example right now SoS in tier 2 are trying to get into Tier 1 and can only do this if they outscore Blackgate who is in tier 1. I would like to see this progression ingame and not from a 3rd party website.

Finally WvW is probably the best gaming experrience I’ve had in ages, and from what I see (large queue times) a few people agree with me. Anet would be foolish not to build on it.

Seren.6850:

Agree on the tanks, healing spec guardians are beasts and I have a very tanky healing warrior. Charging into a zerg to break a stalemate is a good tactic as long as people follow. Ive had pretty good luck with it on SoS, though in giant zergs were it’s all about culling im not sure

Tbh we could do with a few more people like you on our team, against ‘most’ opponents that’s all you need to force a retreat and you end up hammering them in the back and wiping most of the fleeing team. Its when you face a group that holds their ground and doesn’t run at the first sign of the enemy charging is when you get in trouble.

But more often than not I see a tactic like yours working. Pick your targets though, if its a solid guild group you’re likely to die, against a group of randoms watch them flee in terror and pick up loot bags on the way

I find all this crying about portal bombing amusing. We on SoS use it to help break through larger teams to get behind them while they are focused on the door, or to take out siege. If you are not aware of what is happening its basically bad communication and bad defense of your siege weapons.

I’ve also been on the receiving end of a portal bomb gone wrong against IoJ. They were quick enough to respond to the appearance of a portal and laid down massive amounts of AoE on the portal and blew us all up. Then they finished off the rest and took the keep with ease. I’ve also been in a group that smashed a portal bomb because once we saw the BIG PINK CIRCLE appear on the ground we know what is is about to happen and drop reflection fields and massive amounts of AoE, we don’t have to see the people appearing to know they are there, and they get stomped.

portal bombs can work and also work against you depending on how the other team deals with it.

the perma thief cap blocking is an issue on the other hand and I don’t like people using that either on our team or on the enemy team. Having one person block a group of 20 capping a point is a bit silly.

Imperious.3940:

SoS for the second time today took upgraded garrison with in 15 seconds of 1st hitting water gate, can a Dev look into this for a possible WG exploit. Its starting to be pointless to try to keep it.

lol all I can say is its no exploit, I was there and yes we get into your garrison quickly and it was hardly 15 seconds. But we did hit the walls fast and didn’t muck around getting through the 2nd gate. You just failed to respond quickly enough. no exploit.

obiemvy.5632:

This was one of the most anti-climactic events I’ve done in the game. You have this massive boss, with tons of HP, that takes FOREVER to kill! … and no chest at the end.

I agree this guy needs a chest to drop at the end. as do other boss fights.

I actually had this problem yesterday in mount maelstrom. It was in the last stage of the fight and the three guns needed to be active. So I see this on the map when I spawn and think “cool perfect timing I can head over and help out!” When I get there the place is empty and the npc’s are dead so I start helping them thinking other players are going to arrive. I was there for perhaps 20 minutes farming the destroyers until I gave up when I knew no one was going to come along.

It was kind of sad really. I have never experrienced a MAIN event (not just a normal DE) where no one is there. Maybe if Anet reduced the travel cost people might head to zones to see if events have started. At the moment the 2 silver costs from LA puts people off.

perhaps the chance of super rare drops from the chest might encourage people to visit these places? I don’t really have a solution for the problem.

It seems like during a 24hr period IoJ have a small period when they dominate with numbers, then later SoR and finally SoS. Its how long you can hold your territory during the switch in dominance that seems to be the deciding factor.

I had the pleasure of running around with the PRX team last night and I have to admit these guys are kittening good. Even when they were giving up territory it was all intentional. They seem to plan out a massive strat to take out the map and not just a keep or garrison. Whether or not SoS is a T1 server those guys are a T1 guild.

Duv.1603:

Dear SoS at SM,

Portal lag bombs are not fun and make players fight rendering rather than other players. Please stop abusing them as your “defense.”

Sincerely,
New Owners of Stonemist

The New Owners of Stonemist? Are you SoS?

Pure white certainly like their golems, I always see them with heaps of them. Its like PW are the rich guys in SoS and have all the toys, mix that with maybe the tactics of PRX then those golems wouldn’t be wasted so much.

But tbh everytime I see PW in golems they seem to been having a lot of fun.

this week so far has not been a disappointment, IoJ still fight hard no matter what people are saying here and SoR are pretty much everywhere in force. It took us ages today to get a foothold into both SoR and IoJ territory in EB today, and most the time they kicked us out again shortly after with huge numbers.

looking forward to the next 5-6 days

I’m looking forward to matching up against SoR next week. They have done well this week and will be seeking revenge for SoS beating them at the last minute last week.

Its going to be good.

should of just put the orbs in a room with a long corridor underneath each castle with the only one way in and out and have legendary defenders lining the walls. Have some nasty beast holding the orb.

I do agree that making the winning team stronger was a bad idea, the orbs buff and the outmanned buff should of been switched around.

the amount of people defending thieves is laughable. Anet have admitted its a problem with all burst damage classes. So stop comparing warrior and thieves, all heavy spike classes will be adjusted and compensated.

Now we will get nice skilled fights and none of this instant 1-shot dribble. If you are good at playing a thief you shouldn’t worry about this Anet post, if you are it just shows how worried you are about not having 1-shot abilities anymore.

allowing a class to one-shot another class is a terrible design. What other class can oneshot another? You can see a warrior approaching you for his 100 blades, thieves approach from stealth. Its over before you can even see them.

That’s a bad design.

Its not like people haven’t worked out already that a thieves burst is insane. Just look at all the threads about them with 17k-20k crits. What’s even funnier is all the people who play thieves trying to defend their class, “you should of dodged the stealthed thief! L2P!”

I don’t mind fighting when there is one mesmer in say a group of 4. But when its 4v4 and they have 3+ mesmers all of a sudden you are fighting 12 players and it gets kittenin confusing.

Maybe when they fix the camera so I can zoom out more and change my FoV things will be better but atm its very hard to find the real one.

I really enjoyed pvp in WoW for the most part. The classes were horribly imbalanced, bots ruined a lot of the BG’s but slowly died off the further you got into an expansion. I hear right now you can have 9 bots on your 10 man team – that made me laugh. I liked arena (2v2) because it was causal fun.

I loved Arithi Basin which was a good 15v15, good sized map, good visibility of flags. The other maps I wasn’t a fan of especially ones with gimmicks in them (which gw2 has – hate the treb)

GW2 should have an arena type game, small teams, small map, with objects to LoS. Due to the no healer you won’t get the horrible WoW 45min games trying to kill OP healers.

They need a spectator mode. Sometimes I would like to watch top teams battle it out.

Better designed match making with better sPvP maps with perhaps larger teams. more maps is a must. The ones they have now get real boring after a while yet I could play AB for hours and not get bored.

But with all my complaints WvW is the most fun I’ve had in a PvP setting with an MMO.

great news, done the rest now its time to join the party!!

I always come out ahead in cash in WvW, storm a keep get gold. Kill a player get items (sell for gold), npcs (more gold)… don’t play dumb and die a lot helps (which I used to do by over extending and finding myself surrounded by enemy players)

I remember getting rolled by IoJ when we(SoS) had no NA presence. We had great battles against the ND guild, they were everywhere. What happened? did some guilds leave IoJ or perhaps its the halloween event… something has changed from a few weeks ago and its not just our influx of NA guilds.

LOCO.1785:

Looks like an exciting tight match.

The balancing of servers is working amazingly.

in the middle of a special event, transfers – hardly a balancing issue. As long as there is free transfers a few mismatches are bound to happen surely you can understand this is the reason.

mangarrage.1062:

Fact is you will find tons of wowbabies in every game. You can’t really help that. I personally havent seen it and would never do it, but I understand the boundless quantities of immaturity people have

lol I do this all the time and you’re the perfect person to do it to. I’ll jump and laugh at them when they have spent the last few minutes trying to run away like a little girl. If they are a thief I’ll stop what I doing just to jump on them even if I wasn’t the person that killed them.

Its part of the game, and its funny.

Kohai.2571:

For the xfer guilds from HoD: wellcome to SoR. Now that we’re going for T1 we need every help we can get.

After the halloween patch we started our comeback and we’re maintaining our potential points, let’s keep the good work guys.

score update for those who asked:

wow that was only two hours ago? I just left the game now and PRX went on a rampage in EB’s and capped nearly everything, MERC is struggling to take the last keep SoR has on the SoS BL.

the scores look very different atm. SoR are still holding their own BL quite nicely though.

PRXKV.1296:

And then frankly, the non-NAs kitten it all away for candy corn.

So much this I can’t be bothered playing WvW until the event is over. I play during the non NA primetimes and the lust for candy corn over fighting has made me rage.

5 SoR guys attacked a Supply post and we had 8 guys + defenders and they all ran off to mine the candy corn 50ft back from the SP while they attacked. When I was killed it was only then I realised I was alone and that’s where they were – mining kittening candy! Then they returned in smaller groups of one or twos only to get jumped on by the 5 SoR guys.

Why Anet thought is was a good idea to put candy in WvW, it has no place being there.

SoR have a few bots, its ok for me. They farm the npc’s, I farm the bots.

unfortunately its not going to stop them farming. Unfortunately only Anet can do this and from what I hear they do it in waves so SoR are going to have a few bots denying real players entry into the BL’s. That’s a shame.

Daish.6139:

Daish is almost up to 800k Karma / 248 Skill points

I’m from SoS and the only reason people can’t stand you is all this third person speak. cut it out!! I sieged a keep with you once and I thought this commander is ok, and has some smart tactics. then you do this third person rubbish and it suddenly feels like I’m following some fool around the map.

Do yourself a favour and stop talking like a nutcase. The only thing you will be remembered for is the idiot that talks like this.

Tortoished.7986:

Nevermind…just forget it. Thanks for reminding me why I don’t frequent gamer forums. Every reply is an attempt to prove me wrong. My experience must be unique to me. Feel free to delete this thread, I’m over the negativity.

2 million people / 8 classes. How are you supposed to feel unique?

You do by the weapons you use and the look you have. I saw a guardian in bright pink armour today and I remembered seeing him around the WvW zones. Hard to forget.

Spacedad.2841:

There’s a storm coming.

lol wut?! that’s a bit random

have you been fiddling with quaggan’s?

Trav.6208:

swapping the Orb and Outmanned buffs would at least make it more enjoyable.

I second this idea.

ImProVocateur.5189:

Spawn camping is one type of play that draws a line between these groups. The first group loves it. It is an epic finish for them. The second group hates it, but will participate for a short time if it is given as the only play option.

On your servers borderland how do you camp a place that sits in the middle of the map with exits roughly 270 degrees, even the other borderland server have multiple exits that can’t be camped by just one force.

if they are camping you in all those places and completely surround your homebase in your servers borderland then your server sux and is in desperate need of leadership and some decent PvP players.

Arforyon.1746:

I think we have a record today, they took it just now. After the longest time, quite the amount of siege wasted and soo many sos badges lol. quite the accomplishment for Sos, they even brought fireworks. Well played.

That was a great fight. Although it was annoying having to return and empty out my bags from all the Mag people jumping off the walls into the SoS main force, or trying to fight on the wall only to get blown up by AoE. I probably picked up about 40 badges from that one siege. You had no siege weapons up defending the outta walls at all – cunning Mag tactics?