Guild Wars 2

Mayhem.1935:

etrigan.4213:

Yougottawanna.7420:

And if a zerg comes across a roaming group of course we kill them. We don’t stop to have a philosophical debate about it first. This is WvW for kitten’s sake.

No dude they’d rather complain about it.

Its like this is their first pvp game…

Haha, listen it isnt that you guys have numbers, its that if we actually to catch you guys (in my experience) with equals or 1v1, even 2v3 or w/e they just run. They dont even TRY to fight just beeline to the nearest tower, zerg, etc. To make it worse the inevitable zerg will roll through and then #emotespam if they happen to catch you. You like to spam 111111 in a zerg? Ok play as you want but dont be a kitten about it if you happen to blob over 3 guys. Its bad sportsmanship, its cowardice, and its rude. So yea, im going to say something about it.

Maybe they don’t want to die? People know NA is good at roaming. That is what you guys do. You are very good at it and I’m sure 8 times out of 10 you win an even fight. Sure, many people will keep on trying to fight you and trying to win, but many would rather not.

You seem to have a very low tolerance for anything not suited to your playstyle. Either people run away and not fight or they are zergers who blob over you.

I would like to extend you an offer to gather up 20 of your buddies and actually try zerg fighting. Maybe you will realize its not all about spamming 1. Maybe your opinions will stay the same. I don’t know.

Anyways, people are probably going to spam emotes as long as the game exists. So just move on and go roflstomp other players in a small-sided fight after you respawn.

CRAIG.9862:

CORE, don’t lie about having a GvG with us. If we did then neither of our 3 leaders OR our entire guild knew about it. Stop making kitten up. And not showing for a GvG? Mind telling me the story behind that one? As the GvG driver for DIE I’d like to hear this fascinating story of where my team arranged a fight, and didn’t follow through with it.

Nox you need to go take your medication, cause the kitten you’re spewing is all lies. Recruit off of FA? We aren’t even recruiting off ebay. And FA blobs worse then BG ever did. Or any T1 blob for that matter, difference is your blobs are absolute trash

Yes, I responded to the GvG post about Monday. Then our leader scheduled a GvG for Thursday at 7pm server with you. We waited and messaged any member of DIE online that we could find and did not get an answer from anyone. A response would have been nice, but alas, none of your members could take the time to respond. After that, I’m not sure if we will GvG with you. It’s up to our driver.

rmprodigy.4679:

A lot of posts from [CORE] about this that and another thing. When are we going to get the most esteemed priveledge of fighting you guys?

You can join RAM, RET, and ATK , GLOB and a few others on there 100 man blob crusade…as they become loot bags . Or you can do a guild to guild, we accept either. Thanks for the great footage for the video today guys.

Love,
Legends Never[DIE]

We had a GvG team ready last week Thursday ready to face you. You didn’t show, which seems pretty common from what I hear. Why waste another two hours waiting for you?

Kagato.4061:

To the steamrolling servers commenting here claiming that it’s about the fight, and not the points – go away. You win constantly, so you never have people leaving the borderlands. When it becomes difficult to even muster up a force of 20 people in Eternal Battleground, and then it immediately gets rolled by the enemy zerg, that isn’t fun. The only thing we can even do is make small groups to take camps, MAYBE take a tower if we can do it fast enough without the mega-zerg noticing.

Try joining a server that has been getting stomped for four weeks in a row, and then come back here, and we’ll see if you’re singing the same tune.

I have been on both sides thank you. When you stop caring and just focus on fighting you will have a better time. People aren’t just saying it because its something to say. Its true for those who have gone through it.

Kagato.4061:

Bucket Lips.5017:

Kagato.4061:

I’m getting so sick and tired of being steamrolled… I think this is our fifth week in a row of getting massacred by servers that just outnumber us so significantly that no matter what we do, we’ll just get stomped.

FA please be gentle, we’re still a bit sore from the beating we took last week…

We know the feeling bro, FA was stomped week after week after week in Tier 1. All I can say is keep fighting hard and don’t give up. The worst thing a server can lose is it’s confidence and wiliness to fight.

Don’t give up? We don’t need to give up, you already won. There’s nothing left to give up, you’ve taken it all.

I’m done with this week at any rate, I’ll let the other poor members of my server attempt to do something.

Just so you know, that’s kinda what he was talking about.

Try using PVT armor. Its all around a better armor set in WvW.

That’s what we normally do as well. It just that this past reset someone placed a BLM in the center of the portal and then personal golem bankers or party boxes on either side preventing full acces to the portal. The only prompt people recieved was Talk or Interact. Not Travel.

Shonie.5297:

Bucket Lips.5017:

Shonie.5297:

Bucket Lips.5017:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Some of our commanders are actually looking into a slight alliance…at least so FA can lose for one week.

EDIT: Though judging from the score…that’s already happening.

Lol, how is that alliance thing working out for ya, and did you wanna edit your post again about FA losing?

Wow, way to overcome the odds

SBI said the exact same thing in our last match with you guys, “FA is losing” or “gonna lose” and we all know what happened. FA are typically slow starters on reset night but once we get rolling, nothing can stop us.

I suggest you don’t “count your chickens………..” because we all know FA is going to destroy SBI again in week 7. Gratz on 2nd place

If we get second, so be it. It’s not like winning is a grand accomplishment.
It all comes down to playing a fun game-mode with friends and others who you enjoy playing with, playing on a server that fits yours needs in WvW. “Winning” comes down to which server has more people and better coverage, nothing more, nothing less. No need for rubbing it in, or claiming skill priority, because it’s irrelevant.
Any server can proclaim they will destroy another but it doesn’t mean they are any better skill-wise. Across all servers, I’m pretty sure the average mean skill level is pretty equal when you factor in everyone who plays WvW. It would be nearly impossible to prove skill-wise who is better.
For instance, this week with FA facing Ehmry Bay and CD. I can guarantee that FA has a lot more skilled players than Ehmry Bay and CD.
I can also guarantee that FA has a lot more poor players than Ehmry Bay and CD. Where the concentration of these players is at any given time is a toss-up. Sometimes you’ll come across a skilled group, sometimes you’ll come across [Core]. Lol had to throw that in for the ‘drama’. <3 [Core]
As for the FA/SBI matchup in a few weeks. It’ll probably go down the same way.
We’ll be fairly even in NA and Oceanic time. Dragonbrand will hurt our PPT during Sea where I think we have slightly superior coverage, and FA will dominate in EU time because of coverage. At some point, similar to the last matchup, the result will become inevitable due to FA high PPT during euro time, and less SBI will login midweek, and FA will pull ahead to a seemingly rather large victory.
If you want to ‘chest-thump’ over something so easily predictable, then go ahead I suppose. Anybody can join the winning team if they want, it only costs a few gold or gems. This isn’t like real sports or real competitions where there are rules in place to create somewhat even playing fields for the competitors.
It just makes you look silly when you gloat over something so uneven. If for whatever reason SBI manages to beat FA in week 7, it’ll only be because of coverage. If that does happen by whatever miracle, I would hope my server mates don’t proclaim it to be some great accomplishment of skill.
Any boasts of one servers superiority over another is just “we have more people than you”. And that unfortunately, isn’t very boast-worthy.
When/if GVG’s get introduced, that’ll be the time certain guilds can boast, and even then, it’s not relevant to who wins WvW matches.

U wot m8? Come at me bro!

Julie Yann.5379:

Tibstrike.2974:

Wait. We are supposed to inform people wish to fight them? In WvW? Lolwut?

We can see any other class coming and that is the problem. Thieves aresenal is full of cheap shots and have zero respect for players choosing that playstyle and abusing those mechanics. Personally, I think that stealth cheapens the game and should have never been implemented the way it was.

Dude. Read the kittening game description of thieves. The point is to be an unseeable enemy who jumps people. Why the kitten would they make a profession based around stealth if not to allow them to catch people unawares.

We had this issue on IoJ Sepiroth. Maybe you don’t remember.

Wait. We are supposed to inform people wish to fight them? In WvW? Lolwut?

Buns, necros are easily the most popular caster at the moment in WvW. Wellmancers are THE damage of a zerg. Even condibombers are useful to pick off people with low health.

My suggestion is to wait to use your fear mark. And anytime a thief goes stealth on you count to three and dodge. Or use your elite and blind spam them.

As a thief I have hated fighting necros for ages due to your DS. While it has been nerfed it still acts as a second health pool that absorbs a ton of damage. Necros are some of the most powerful zergers and roamers atm. Thieves are the other one. So you are just going to have to deal with it.

Also, a perma stealth thief is built entirely around it, so your comparison of having to out 30 trait points into something to even use it is a bad argument.

When WvW resets there is approximately one second where the interface is reloading. If you are at a portal you can hit F and start loading into WvW right away. In servers like FA that one second loadtime can mean the difference of getting in or sitting in a queue for hours.

Yeah, tonight was particularly bad in FA. We had merchants placed in every portal so that people were unable to get the prompt to enter. Can we just get a range around these portals so stuff like that cannot be placed. I’m sure people wouldn’t be too upset just to ban placement on the raised dias where the WvW portals are.

Ansilon.6230:

Joey.2769:

vincecontix.1264:

Well its been a fun week got lots of great footage of my hybrid thief. CORE been disappointed in you’re skill lvl I thought you’d be better owell on the plus side few of you made into my next wvw pwnage video.

I love how all of these players are calling a guild out that has absolutely roflstomped the IoJ server all week. Maybe when IoJ finally drops out of Silver at the end of this season you guys won’t be so bitter, sad and pathetic. Who knows maybe then you guys might PvF less and actually PvP. I doubt it, but hoping one day the IoJ server as a whole isn’t a server full of baddies

CORE doesn’t have strength in their build attributes but in their numbers.
And the same goes for FA.

IoJ wouldn’t QQ as much if FA didn’t /laugh /sit on every IoJ opponent and then come to forums to boast about superior “skill”. You have no skill. You have numbers.

And I will reference this post as well when it comes back to second league and FA is QQing because they don’t even have their keep most of the week. We all know how it works on the bottom of Gold, Silver, and Bronze league. X server has a mass exodus from (1) the guilds that server hoped for an easy win (which includes CORE), and (2) guilds that don’t want to be ROFL stomped by JQ and BG.

I’ve said this like twelve times but people seem to be just stuck inside their heads. We left because 1) we didn’t want to be pressured to carry a server and 2) because FA is a fairly WvW centric server and has lots of WvW guilds. We never picked FA because it was going to be an easy win. If you don’t remember just 5 weeks ago, people were saying SBI was going to roflstomp everyone, including FA.

And secondly. CORE will never complain about not holding a keep against JQ, BG, and SOR because we haven’t cared about holding anything for quite some time because even when we were on IoJ we couldn’t rely on people to hold onto a keep unless our opponents had no presence on Patch Tuesdays.

I will reference your post however when you are roflstomping over the bronze league servers and are QQing about people saying you lack skill and just zerg.

K thanks. Bye

So let me get this straight. You want to nerf a skill with a 24 second cooldown because its “spammable”? And you want to make CC even more ridiculous than it already is?

Stability uptime in a actual battle featuring two well decent zergs will have an average time of around 2 seconds if people are working their boon-stripping. Most stability is gone by the time you clash as its mainly used to bridge the gap to the opponent. I used to run a full support but I don’t anymore due to all the long-term boons I was giving out were gone in a couple seconds

Lets not get started on the travesty that is immobilize at the moment. Even with condi-cleanses its still the last one to go most of the time. I can’t tell how many times I’ve been rooted for upwards of ten seconds as theives running venom share can distribute immobilize throughout the zerg.

Chris.3290:

Tibstrike.2974:

Because people like winning.

Obviously, since FA wailed on Ebay and IoJ so much that they PPT’d their way into 6th place, ahead of Maguuma which should have gained points just by showing up.

Never thought we’d be going into week 5 saying that Tier 1 have been better sports about things than Tier 3.

We did? Had no idea. I’m pretty sure we didn’t even try too, unless I’ve been out of the loop. I’m sorry we took your coveted 6th place spot. Maybe we will give it a better go.

Well can you blame us? You guys are most likely the only ones on the map. While it would be nice for everyone to selflessly step back and let the fights be even, it’s not going to happen when everyone has been jonesing for a fight all week. Many of us are locked on a map with queues on the maps that have fights so we take what we can find. I wish Ebay and IoJ had large zergs to fight all the time like SBI. But you don’t. But I’m not going to stop playing just to make things more even for you.

For the future, if you’d like more even fights while roaming about, try to message guild leaders of the guilds you see. But just roaming about and then complaining about getting steam rolled by a zerg is just what happens. Most groups don’t draw our attention unless they are over 10, the rest are speedbumps or funny targets.

Oozo.7856:

Tibstrike.2974:

Cool video. I’m glad some of us could make your highlight video. We aren’t the greatest small teams guild. So shoot us. We are working on it.

Nothing wrong with that. CORE also has some good individual players that I’ve run across. Same with the other zerg guilds.

Basically, every blob guild has some good players in it. They are typically the ones who go out and roam solo/duo/small when not zerging. But, if all you ever do is run with large numbers the chances are that you are not a very good player.

Eh. That’s a bold statement to make. Probably fairly true, but I look at it a bit differently. I’d say most successful roamers are just people who have practice at it. If that’s all they do, they will be good at it, most of the time. To me, most of the small scale fights/duels are just about who can get their rotation off first.

You could say I’m a zergling, but its mainly because I don’t find fights with under 10 people very exciting. I like the chaos of a big fight and the movements needed to flank larger groups. The ebb and flow of a big fight is fun to me. Nothing is better than getting pushed back by the other group, having a successful regroup and then pushing back and get the enemy backpedaling.

And I’ve learned a lot about fighting while running with my guild. Especially over the last few weeks I’ve felt my play step up a ton. And none of it happened while roaming.

Oozo.7856:

msbehnke.3960:

IoJ lacks the coverage, but we do have a large number of skilled groups and players.

A large number? Can you list them for me?

As for CORE, they win their 20v5s against us but don’t do so well with even numbers or slightly more than even numbers. But, that makes them no different than all of the zerg guilds in this matchup.

I forget, who are you again?

Sororita.3465:

Oh yes forum drama, it sustains me.

Dear [CORE], i’m very disappointed. First off, you guys are no fun, I try to have a boombox party and you bring your whole guild to kill me, very unsportsmanlike. Secondly, you guys are too easy to spike when alone! I want a challenge but i get lower than pug level skill, at least i get to look at a nice explosion though, thats if you dont high tail it out of the situation! Thirdly, the worst of it, ive had over 6 different members of [CORE] just up and vanish when fighting them, non stealth classes at that, you guys pulling the plug because you dont want to be capped by the [BUNS]?

also i have this little gem from this week >;}

I’m sorry we didn’t live up to your expectations. First, while not necessarily a valid excuse, many of the CORE you see running about may be trying to get back to the group. We are first and foremost team players, so we do not have the right builds for many small-scale fights, especially against the roaming duo of the Bunses. We try to make it to the fight clubs with our dueling builds and attitudes. In my personal experience, if I am running back across a map for some reason and a necro jumps me I tend to let them just kill me as its too much a hassle and time waster on my guardian.

I would love to fight the Bunses sometime, both singly or in a 2v2. I’m sure we can find the fights you are looking for. We are always looking for ways to improve.

On your second point, I’m not sure who would be doing that, but we do not encourage it in the slightest. I’m sorry for any experiences you had with that, but there are other explanations as well. Queue popping and the sort.

And about the boomboxing. While I am glad you are trying to have a party with us, you are one of the more famous IoJers and thus will get smashed just like anyone else. We do not discriminate with our wipes.

vincecontix.1264:

Visirale.6097:

vincecontix.1264:

Well its been a fun week got lots of great footage of my hybrid thief. CORE been disappointed in you’re skill lvl I thought you’d be better owell on the plus side few of you made into my next wvw pwnage video.

Spend less time witch hunting us and spend more time teaching that baddie second child how to thief plz.

Why you gotta pick on second? and hunting you guys down is alot of fun its was a shame I didn’t get to run into more of you.

I’ve been watching my back the entire match. I be scerred of FT thieves.

Because people like winning.

Darkothe.1253:

Joey.2769:

vincecontix.1264:

Well its been a fun week got lots of great footage of my hybrid thief. CORE been disappointed in you’re skill lvl I thought you’d be better owell on the plus side few of you made into my next wvw pwnage video.

I love how all of these players are calling a guild out that has absolutely roflstomped the IoJ server all week. Maybe when IoJ finally drops out of Silver at the end of this season you guys won’t be so bitter, sad and pathetic. Who knows maybe then you guys might PvF less and actually PvP. I doubt it, but hoping one day the IoJ server as a whole isn’t a server full of baddies

LOL. Says the commander of a server who won the week on coverage alone. Try some new material there bubba – you won the week through the might of the zombie blob and fair weather transfers…certainly not skill.

Considering half the week was spent without map drivers of course its kittening won by coverage alone. We also have more numbers.

BTW. Next time we face IoJ I’ll duel you. I wanna see if you are as good as you say you are.

eithinan.9841:

Tibstrike.2974:

eithinan.9841:

thief only has the dagger storm stability on a 180 cd. I dont think 3 mins is on demand…

Venoms with Lyssa runes. 5 seconds of stability every 40 seconds or less.

do you REALLY want to play venom share??? And the post said stability was on demand for all those classes. dedicating a 6 piece rune set immediately disqualifies itself from the “on demand” point

I do. Cuz that’s what I felt contributed most to the zerg. When I’m roaming? Hell no.

Ansilon.6230:

lawl @ CORE and their emotes.
I hear you guys upgraded from masterwork to rares? :O

Psh. Keep up. We are on Exotics now. The ascended stuff is next.

rmprodigy.4679:

LOL so bored at work . I love u all <3 just thought id make everyone laugh for old times sake : }

NO LAUGHTER, ONLY TEARS!!

sephiroth.4217:

How do you know if FA is in karma train mode?

If they let you 4 man their hills and garrison…..

We don’t do things by halves.

eithinan.9841:

thief only has the dagger storm stability on a 180 cd. I dont think 3 mins is on demand…

Venoms with Lyssa runes. 5 seconds of stability every 40 seconds or less.

rmprodigy.4679:

our videos are titled fighting zergs , fighting blobs. Nobody is called out . Its a statement of whats the video content

Right, but who seriously posts videos like that without the intention to basically say “You guys are bad and should feel bad.” I’m fairly certain something was said to that effect earlier. Videos like that aren’t really impressive when there have been RG ones out for months. The only video I have been impressed with of fights in EB was one of SPCA of NSP fighting around 20 people with 5. That was pretty cool.

Banzie.5248:

Tibstrike.2974:

Banzie.5248:

Visirale.6097:

Natronix.9827:

Funny to see people turn into trolls after giving so many excuses before and after leaving IoJ on their own forums, trying to sound as friendly as possible.

You dont see me trash talking my old server Vis, dissapoined really.

lol, k. I’m super srs if you couldn’t tell, Second Child/Unct is my reference.

Me 2 M8. Supr srsmode in this thread.

(So many rage wars started from me and core trollin’)

Dont be h8ing karnswallow. CORE spr srs all time.

M8 1v1 me. Cleric guard with medi rek you all dey. Undefeated in 1v1.

Nah dude. Sw/Sw dueling mesmer. Deal wit it.

Banzie.5248:

Visirale.6097:

Natronix.9827:

Funny to see people turn into trolls after giving so many excuses before and after leaving IoJ on their own forums, trying to sound as friendly as possible.

You dont see me trash talking my old server Vis, dissapoined really.

lol, k. I’m super srs if you couldn’t tell, Second Child/Unct is my reference.

Me 2 M8. Supr srsmode in this thread.

(So many rage wars started from me and core trollin’)

Dont be h8ing karnswallow. CORE spr srs all time.

rmprodigy.4679:

Its sad its all the newer players and guilds on FA that act silly. The FA veterans are still classy.

You may or may not have caught us on a bad week. I mean IoJ is our old server, so we have been acting a bit more silly than usual. Dropping siege, emote spamming, and heckling Flappersomethegreat.

Not trying to point fingers ( I am), but its not like DIE is any better. You guys came in pretty brash and calling out baddies with your videos. It happens, I get it. But don’t call out people straight up when you have been doing the same thing. Now, you will probably say you haven’t been doing that, but it is what it appears to be to myself and others.

That all said, I am sad we haven’t fought DIE more this week. I’m sure we will have more chances in the future.

Natronix.9827:

grabemx.9836:

Natronix.9827:

But blobs are so fun. Most split right where your group charges in.

The large scale fights without skill lag is just sexy.

I spiked TE last night. None of them were you. Stop hiding! I went from cheesi condi necro to power/retal/DS

It was fun jumping into your blobs last night. Sorry to the two thieves who practically killed themselves by attacking me. No hard feelings yo.

I noticed you dont log on earlier like you use to, I dont play late at nights so havent clashed into you yet :p

Wonder what made Alaric quit. Lol

Too many care bears!

Most people carry their own food, but most use some form of -condi duration. Depends on who we are facing too. Against most its usually Poultry and Leek but against say Maguuma, most use Roasted Lotus Root as it seems as soon as we load up a map that we are getting hit with stun fields. Mags! Why so many eles? :P

What are your reasons against those foods?

Darkothe.1253:

Basedgod.7328:

Flashypants typed 8 words. And you people spend a good moment to write paragraphs responding to his post? lol

The amount of effort involved replying to an 8 word post smells like insecurity to me.

Instead of spending time replying to 8 word posts that took flashy seconds to type, go out, look for fights, prove yourselves and kick some kitten .
______________

Anyway, came here to give shoutouts to the cool guys that I fought outside of Ebay spawn in FABL, I was the Ele running around with a Focus. Got some good practice fighting some really good Necros, really helped me alot and I thank you strangers!

Well, since I’m at work currently, and I enjoy trolling people who have no business attempting to write prose in the english language…much less try to trade verbal barbs with me…I’ll have to pass. But last night went something like this:

:Enter WvWvW: Look around for some fights. Get steamrolled by FA blob zombies

:Re-spawn & dust self off: Look around for some fights. Take two of encounter with FA blob zombies – complete this time with “tea bagging” emotes and laughs

:Re-spawn & re-fill cup of tea: Look around for some fights and then run like hell when the FA blob zombies crest the hill and start gunning for the lone engineer.

what next? You guessed it!

:Re-spawn and decide to log out and watch “Golden Girls” – as watching Bea Arthur and the rest of the girls get into another zany situation was less painful than feeding the lemming hordes of FA.:

Telling someone from IoJ to essentially buck up and try again in this match up is like telling someone to douse themselves in zebra blood and then to go play with the nice lion. Pretty soon…it’s just not worth the trouble.

I mean, as much as I give MEND kitten for not fighting outside the AC range of a tower, at least they don’t seem to whine about playing WvW like you do. Why don’t you buy yourself a commander tag and rally the troops on IoJ Bl. Flappymcflapperson had more people on the IoJ BL map last night than FA did – at least concentrated in one area.

If FA is so bad, then you should be able to kill all of us no problem right? Flappers even said they would take a on 40 CORE members versus 20 of MEND. Granted, those 20 MEND would probably have 30 militia on them but hey! It’s only really the people with a WvW tag that matters innit?

Anyways, all I want to do is make Flapprageous more angry. Mission accomplished last night.

Darkothe.1253:

Tibstrike.2974:

Darkothe.1253:

Bwa-ha-ha-ha. /sniff Oh lord…that’s rich. I mean, you FA guys are producing pure comedy gold. Hilarious…I mean your delivery is just spot on. And your comedic styling? Fantastic!!

I…/blink wait…all of this chest thumping about beating another server with only a fraction of your WvWvW population and coverage is not a joke? Wait, wait…you mean you all are honestly getting all worked up in the jiggly-bits over your “abilities” to steam roll a foe that can’t possibly match your numbers? And…wait for it…you’re calling this “skill”? Am I right?

/snicker I’m sorry…I couldn’t keep a straight face trying to pull that off.

Nah. I refuse to believe that any of you from FA – including the coat-tail riding, server jumping, blob humping, karma-train luving no talent former IoJ transfers that have polluted your WvWvW population base – could possibly take that seriously.

I mean…really? Guys? Hello?

crickets

Yeesh.

slow clap That right there was fantastic. I felt like Ralphy listening to his dad fix the furnace in A Christmas Story. Truly a masterpiece!

Thank you! /bows

I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to try the salmon and to tip your waitress!

So…when FA loses its luster and isn’t “living up to your expectations”…are the glory hounds all going to jump to Gold League? Seems the natural progression for “those who love the easy win.” Inquiring minds want to know…

Nope. We are on FA to stay. Can’t wait to farm the noobs in Gold and face guilds that will fight us in the open field more often!

Darkothe.1253:

Bwa-ha-ha-ha. /sniff Oh lord…that’s rich. I mean, you FA guys are producing pure comedy gold. Hilarious…I mean your delivery is just spot on. And your comedic styling? Fantastic!!

I…/blink wait…all of this chest thumping about beating another server with only a fraction of your WvWvW population and coverage is not a joke? Wait, wait…you mean you all are honestly getting all worked up in the jiggly-bits over your “abilities” to steam roll a foe that can’t possibly match your numbers? And…wait for it…you’re calling this “skill”? Am I right?

/snicker I’m sorry…I couldn’t keep a straight face trying to pull that off.

Nah. I refuse to believe that any of you from FA – including the coat-tail riding, server jumping, blob humping, karma-train luving no talent former IoJ transfers that have polluted your WvWvW population base – could possibly take that seriously.

I mean…really? Guys? Hello?

crickets

Yeesh.

slow clap That right there was fantastic. I felt like Ralphy listening to his dad fix the furnace in A Christmas Story. Truly a masterpiece!

Banzie.5248:

Mend had 25 on tonight, we fought you without siege several times tonight and wiped , core, ram, cL. Yes we have pugs on us, 90% of them drop on first bomb though so we can say we had 30 with us.

Oh wait they got us twice tonight that’s all that matters, once with at least 60 in hills, and once near bay with a ram flank on us.

Think core is just angry they’re getting farmed instead of doing the farming. Maybe you shouldnt have left

I will give you that you wiped us a few times tonight. We must have been really scary with our 15 people tops. Glad you felt you needed to bring out the big guns.

And yeah, no.

And btw Karn. I never remembered you being so trolly before. Flappy must have rubbed off on you since you joined MEND.

Visirale.6097:

Archilese.3218:

Remember that one time MEND got out of the tower to fight FA even when they have more numbers?

I sure don’t

I think it’s safe to say… SHOTS FIRED. My travels are preventing me from getting on tonight, I want some flappy bags.

I do too! Though anytime we try to point out he has around 40 people on him he’s always like “lol your so full of kitten”. Mend only ever has 20 people online. They are obviously super OP.

Yo MEND. Your guild leader has told me you want to fight us! Tell him anywhere any time. He blocked me cuz his fedora was getting a little too tight during our conversation.

eithinan.9841:

bradderzh.2378:

eithinan.9841:

clint.5681:

And then you consider condition duration food/traits/gear and your condition reduction food is usless.

This post does not recognize how the mechanics work. If you max stacked 100% condition duration and applied a base 5 second bleed which with 100% duration, which takes heavy stacking, is 10 seconds. Take -60% condition duration and you get 4 second bleeds.

-condi duration > +condi duration.

While that’s correct math wise, I think people have proven that, in this game at least, 40% inc and a 40% dec cancel each other out.

nope.

It doesn’t cancel out. It works exactly as I described. There are a few builds that have upwards of -90% duration and it is a HARD counter for any condition damage build. I believe there is an ele build and a warrior build for that.

You are correct, but that is probably all those builds do. I imagine they put out crap for damage. Well, maybe not for warrior, but that’s because they can do whatever the hell they want and still have ok damage.

Honestly? That looks like an amazing set up!

Platinum would the same.

Gold would be ridiculous. TC would most likely take it but the other servers would be fairly evenly matched from what I’ve heard. Yaks would get worked though. They keep fighting however, so some guilds may move around to fill out coverage spots and de-stack a bit.

DB still might win just through them being on entirely different schedules than most, but Silver looks solid.

Bronze looks good as well, really depends on how IoJ ends up. They could either be stomping everyone or being competitive.

I would suggest a shorter season though. Perhaps 3 weeks? I’m not sure what the optimum amount of matches are though.

The problem I see is that yeah, while condi cleanses are flying all the time and wiping out 25 stacks of this and that, the fact is is that people have to center their builds around a lot of cleanses. If I didn’t need to run PoV on my guard (granted, many people would say I don’t have to) I would put a ton more into precision. And while runes and such are great and all, that is more pigeonholing into being a cleansing bot.

It just seems silly to me that their is no inherent counter to conditions beside more health. It’d be nice to have the massive health pools of warriors and necros, but alas many professions do not have such luxury.

That said, I don’t really expect a change. The condition meta is what’s happening now and we just have to deal with it.

But kitten perma-immobilize.

Yep. The finisher is quite different. Looks like a trophy and not the normal PvP dolyak finisher.

While I mentioned a guild bank I still don’t really think it’s a good idea. The fees you mention are just way too high to be justifiable.

HippoLogic.2519:

Can we swap out DB with YB in that last match up? I think clearly in this league it would be the best match. Id be ok getting rolled as long as there are fights to be had all week cause right now it feels like you got to sit in 1+ hr queues for EB just to find one. Well who knows maybe after leagues we will see that match up.

Hey SE! Glad to see you back on this side of the Atlantic! Can’t wait to face you guys!

Echoing the above post. All my gold already goes to my WvWing be it through upgrades, siege, or regearing or gearing alts. WvW is such a gold sink to many a WvW player. I have even farmed PvE to help pay for my WvWing. I do not want to pay 50 silver to claim a camp so I can use the buffs to get +5 supply. The amount of times my guild claims a camp to do that would leave even our richer players debating whether or not to claim. I mean, an average night of WvW nets most people a couple gold barring any great drops. So 4 camp claims would wipe that out for one person. Unless it takes directly from a guild bank your idea is pretty bad.

Thanks for that Chris. Your opinion is obviously what we needed.

Andrew Clear.1750:

Shonie.5297:

Banzie.5248:

Shonie.5297:

Banzie.5248:

Chris.3290:

Banzie.5248:

Chris.3290:

Andrew Clear.1750:

Straegen.2938:

Imagine being on Mag or SoS right now… they are getting hammered by the heaviest servers with no end in sight.

Leagues exacerbated an already crappy problem (transfers and tier locks). Until they abandon this architecture, I am not sure there is much that can be done sans eliminating leagues altogether.

Mag and SoS wanted in the gold league. A lot of SBI wanted to be in there too. FA tanked to get to silver. The argument for wanting to be in Gold, is that we knew we would get stomped, but there would be plenty of good fights to be had, at all hours of the day.

Argument for silver was that we would stomp people and get the better prizes.

But, stomping isn’t fun, just ask BG, FA, JQ, SBI, HoD, and SF. It gets boring. Less fights all the time.

I imagine that some long-time SBI folks like yourself might have been ready for Gold League, but all those guys who moved there when you were T5 were obviously not excited about the challenge or were simply not up for it.
It’s going to be interesting when the Season ends and you start getting tough matches a majority of the time. 6 weeks straight of karma trains is not going to make the harsh reality awaiting any easier.

Have to agree here, SBI better put their try hard shoes on again or fa will stomp you and so till SoS you may beat mag in coverage but I can promise their EU and NA guilds would wipe the floor with Sbi blood all day with the servers current combat performance. You’re in for another exodus if you all aren’t ready to get hit hard 24/7.

FA will pass Mags quickly to get back into Tier 2. The question is how will FA and SoS matchup now, with both servers looking very different since their last meeting. Also, how will SBI’s alliance hold up when they get into the black pit of Tier 3 where every match is a curbstomp battle (either too easy or too hard).

We’ll see next month.

when SBI is getting stomped T4 numbers, when they do the stomping T2/3 numbers. No doubt FA will work its way back up but a you said in nicer terms. Will SBI find a balanced ground or implode again. 300g on implode for me.

As for SoS and FA, would put my money on SoS winning.

That’s pretty rich, coming from someone who’s server imploded right before leagues started.
How many months has it been since SBI was ‘supposed’ to implode?
Don’t hold your breath, we have a really good community right now.

You’ve yet to be pounded mercilessly for weeks on end I wouldn’t expect an [Abys] member who goes from stomping T6 and would have stomped silver before bandwagoning to SBI to continue to stomp people when they realized they wouldn’t be winning anymore, to understand one bit. However, That my friend, is pretty rich.

Also our server didn’t implode, we lost two large guilds. If our server imploded we’d have lost a lot more than that. Just glad one of then went to a server that completely annihilates SBI. <3

If you mean FA… they hardly annihilate SBI.
We have good fights with them. In our last 2 matchups we’ve both won once.
If you want the definition of annihilate… look at SBI vs. IOJ matchups.

I think you have an unhealthy hatred for SBI based on your posts over the last month.
What did we do to you exactly to make you so angry? <3

I’d like to know that too. They have been hating on us for awhile, and even had a guild transfer to FA just so they could try to beat us for the league, just to get even for something that we have no idea that we did.

The only thing we said when we were transferring was no Bronze league and not SBI. Old history from DR days. The other guilds from SBI are pretty cool. While facing SBI was a bonus of going to FA, it was not our main decision point. Stop flattering yourself.