Dude, I totally want to know the numbers. I know we were rocking a measly 30 to 40 man group, but they were out numbering us 3 to 1 at the very least. Oh and to encourage all my fellow rangers out there. Ran a trapper CTP geared build surrounded by many and stayed alive the whole fight downing players left and right. Contrary to popular belief, you aren’t useless guys.
3:1 would be impossible. Maybe 2:1, but TC prob had more like 50-60.
Also, rangers rock! My first commander icon was on a ranger. I prefer it for militia commanding, but warrior is a must for guild leading. =(
Amazing fights last night against IRON, FEAR, CERN, NOPE. That crazy 35 v 80 fight vs TC was probably the highlight of the week. Excited to see whats to come Pre-League!
Wisper/mail me for skirmishes
I don’t think TCBL has seen 80 people in one spot during this match up. The most we had yesterday was when we took bay, which was maybe ~50 (42 was the highest supplyinfo I got) and that was after sitting around in citadel for three minutes and making people rally, but we didn’t get any fights with that group and it disbanded after bay was taken because I had to go grab food.
When we were fighting the SoR super zerg (FEAR, Hel, HL, and GSCH) between bay and Garrison, we had no more than 40, probably less, mostly militia with maybe 10 STUN, and maybe 12 between WL and FBA.
Super excited for the league, and I’m from TC. I kinda wish a few of our guilds didn’t jump ship to T1, but whatevz. I’m having a blast in the T1 match ups we’ve been having. It’s sooo much better than accidentally stomping CD and Ebay into the floor.
There are always fights and things to do. Plus, our “fairweathers” are getting used to T1 and showing up more. I think most of the server is actually looking forward to this.
As for the ruins, I don’t really bother with them unless we having nothing else to do. Don’t really notice much of a difference when running into a triple bl group. Organization, composition, and numbers are still king, and it’s not even close.
The only place this is really an issue is wvw. You can’t wvw in rare gear, and you certainly won’t be able to wvw in Ascended, ESPECIALLY after armor comes out, but even with just weapons.
Anet needs to fix this immediately because it’s almost game(type?)-breaking, tbh. It’s also completely imbalanced. Eles need one weapon. Warrior? You’re looking at 4-5-6 weapons needed. That’s insane. Then rangers take an even greater damage nerf because their pet damage isn’t scaling up as well. It’s ridiculous.
I have like 1500 hours logged on my ranger, which is my only lvl 80 toon. I do pretty well in wvw, and rarely die in zerg fights, 1v1s, or small group fights. I also command on it. I have like 33000 kills in about three months of wvw.
And I run a pvt build with no bm. Lb and axe/wh. The only things I’d like to see changed would be less susceptibility to retaliation, i.e., fewer ticks for barrage and hunter’s call, the ability to cast barrage while moving, and better pet controls/ai or the option to ditch the pet for a different f2.
Muddy terrain is invaluable as a soft ckittenil boons are stripped and barrage is also good bc of decent damage and cripple. Between barrage, hunters call, and rapid shot, I can drop almost 15k damage in a few seconds wth good survivability.
To be fair even TC is not showing up as much as could be expected. I hope it’s just because of the crown pavillion/farm :x
I know why I’m not in there, and it has nothing to do with the pavilion, it’s because when we hold everything and are beating the crap out of everyone, they dont show up, and that gets boring real fast. I try and try to tell the commanders to back off and let the other servers cap and hold for awhile but they dont listen and next thing you know DB and MAG arent on the map and everyone else is leaving cause there is no one to fight.
You all need to learn how to share, this isn’t all about winning, if we beat the hell out of these 2 we will probably be up against BG, SoR, or JQ or some mix of those 3, I doubt we will have it this easy next week. So, I am done for the week since everyone just wants to beat on these 2 and I’ll see you all on reset.
GL DB and MAG, enjoy the rest of your week, and GL next week.
If beating down DB and Mag means we get to face SoR/BG/JQ, then I’m all for it. There’s no reason to tank our rating by letting them cap stuff. We’ve been doing that enough by allowing Mag to reset TCBL every.single.day. T1 was funner to me than this is, honestly. :/
Props to Mag. You guys are showing more fight than DB was earlier, with fewer numbers. Took back your garri and hills almost as soon as we hopped off. Keep it up, guys. Respect. I sincerely hope you manage to come in 2nd this week.
I prefer facing SoR and BG over FA and DB. We get rolled by SoR and BG less than we roll FA and DB. This match up is actually closer. As for JQ, I think TC’s about on par, with better overall coverage, but JQ has a massive coverage advantage for about 5 hours, where they get a crapload of points.
I’m pretty sure TC can stay competitive with and beat JQ with a couple weeks of practice. Our last matchup was close and wasn’t a faceroll by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone saying that is silly.
On that note, TC is more competitive in T1 than JQ was in its last week in T1. Just sayin’. We’re at 115k. You were at 105k at this time when you were last in T1.
Not to condone or defend these actions, but I have seen commanders ask their force to /wave, /dance, /sleep, etc. So if it was a large group, it may have just been one of those instances.
It was one player while we were taking back our Garrison on TCBL. SoR Veteran. Didn’t see his tag, so I don’t know what guild. He kept spamming surprised.
It was really annoying, especially because it makes it hard for militia who aren’t in VoIP and don’t know better to see what the commander is saying. Whatever, though. We took it back anyway.
I’m not sure if this would be the solution for every player, but it would certainly help those relying on chat commands to do their job. You could ask them to turn off emotes in their chat. Although I’m always in VOIP, I still have them turned off just so I don’t have to put up with emote spamming trolls.
Yeah, that’s what we did. We also encouraged people to get into VoIP. It wasn’t a big deal, but still pretty annoying.
Not to condone or defend these actions, but I have seen commanders ask their force to /wave, /dance, /sleep, etc. So if it was a large group, it may have just been one of those instances.
It was one player while we were taking back our Garrison on TCBL. SoR Veteran. Didn’t see his tag, so I don’t know what guild. He kept spamming surprised.
It was really annoying, especially because it makes it hard for militia who aren’t in VoIP and don’t know better to see what the commander is saying. Whatever, though. We took it back anyway.
FA can you push north on TCBL please so we have a chance to reset one keep on TC instead you take the easy tower and defend with 3 acs. Push hills or north towers/camps. We will push as well os we make TC defend.
I’ll hunt you down >:(
What, the idea of being 2v1’d by two servers you regularly defeat that intimidating?
FA, let’s make this happen. You don’t really want to get 2nd by going after us do you? I thought you had this great rivalry with TC.
Intimidating? No, not at all. What that might do, however, is decrease our rating and increase yours, increasing the likelihood of this horrible match ups. Just something to consider, although I doubt a 2v1 will have much effect on the rankings. It can ruin the PPT for the two servers.
Fun 3 way fights at Mag WK last night. I still don’t know how we ended up with it when there were so many SoS and TC left inside.
Haha. It was a mistake. We saw the opportunity to wipe SoS in the corner, but didn’t realize we had no one contesting, so we wiped them, and then realized that you guys capped the keep. We then proceeded to all die horrible deaths vs the buffed lord.
I don’t like it when anyone does it, although at least you guys held the high ground and a choke there. We were literally just waiting around in the lord’s room, and it wasn’t one AC. SoS had at least four, and Mag I think had two normals, one superior, and a ballista. . .for all of fifteen, maybe sixteen people. Granted, I think it was partly due to escalation – once one piece of siege was built, the other side built more, but we just kinda sat there like, “Uhhhhhhhhhh.”
Anyway, you ME guys are pretty good. I was the commander who pushed your zerg out of MagBL Bay while it was WPed and, later, in Vale after we broke the Bay siege. I think we both had about 20 for those engagements. You wiped us a few times and we returned the favor in kind. It was fun.
Meh. It’s nothing personal. You guys are just playing to win and did what you had to do. It’s a combination of being annoyed at everyone trolling TC for being bad at engagements and then getting AC creeped in a keep with 5-15 defenders and no siege by 20-40enemies, especially when we intentionally let both Mag and SoS in for an epic fight andjust being annoyed at the match ups in general. I think a lot are on edge because of how bad the match ups have been. I raided in SoSBL with my guild today, and it was basically a queued map running around capping camps, and we couldn’t get anywhere there was action because everyone and their mother instantly hopped to whatever map wasn’t blue.
Anyway, <3 u guiz for showing up and fighting. Sorry for being grouchy. I was just a little disappointed with how that siege played out. Would’ve done things differently if I thought that’d happen, so it’s really my fault.
It was fun, but I wish you guys didn’t build 4 ACs each and roll them on the lords room. We purposely didn’t build any siege (well, I think the pugs built an AC on the wall), so we could have an epic 3-way fight in the lords room, but then it got turned into an okay 3-way fight at the back of the lords room so we didn’t get our faces ACed off.
And lol @ that cap by mag, though. We were pushing TS and didn’t realize we had no one contesting and poof, capped. Someone was like ‘the lords back up?’ and then we were like X__________X. I saw a lot of you laughing and shrugging like ‘wut.’ It was pretty funny.
Seriously, though. We had all of 16 defenders. The insane use of siege was a little unwarranted and kinda took the fun away, at least for us.
Showing the TC megazerg on SoSBL right now!! Tots outnumber you guys right now
and the after (if I can get it to show up!)
I know it looked like we had alot more but from our point of view your squad looked alot more, always have to remember that especially with a title as long as Sea of Sorrows.
Yeah, I was commanding on SoSBL and TCBL tonight. Anyway, during that fight, I think you guys had more, but not significantly. I think we had a total of 18 and I’d estimate your force at about 25, judging from what I saw and just by counting name plates on the picture.
Either way, it was fun! I haven’t been commanding lately because it’s been a little boring, but I was pleasantly surprised today. Thanks for bringing the fights, SoS ;D. I wish you guys would’ve stayed on TCBL a little longer, but it looks like you hopped to CDBL and did some work there, so good on you for getting that PPT.
Awesome 3-way fight in EB a few hours ago. I was commanding for TC. Was a lot of fun. We’d push one one side out, and then the other would push us, at least until DB decided to attack FA, and we just pushed both.
The fight lasted a good 30 minutes, though, and I was full on inventory within 10
Either way, it was one of the funnest moments in wvw for me. The zergs were large enough to be exciting, but not so huge as to cause massive skill lag. Probably had 25-35 on any given side. I’m sure everyone got a ton of bags, too.
