To be fair it’s not a hollow victory considering up until yesterday our night service paled in comparison to the other servers in this match up so taking advantage of one day over every night? That ain’t really a fair statement :P
Just have to say i doubt this very much, Piken has always had a small night crew right back from when we were a tier 9 server. We always have the outmanned buff on everytime we step anywhere at night. The reason it appears we have more is because we work together so much better at night and can move around with more ease. Take Elona last week we had 5 of us hold off 40-50 man zerg at OL keep for around 4hours, now sure Elona aren’t smart they just use numbers to take stuff so that wasn’t difficult.
Agreed, and to the one saying we outnumber them at night? lol….a couple of days ago we had to put a call out to people in Lion’s Arch just to get a breakout event started in one of the borderlands.
Ahh that explains everything. There was this one time, I saw a new commander on our server get his group wiped through what I thought was a questionable decision at the time, but now the reason is clear! He must have been a spy commander from another server out to sabotage the pug group he was leading.
Thanks for clearing that up.
just a quick heads up to fellow Gandarans,, We seem to have gained 2 new Blue Doritos this week called Blue Commander and Blue defender.. Now whilst it is entirely possible that these 2 idiots could just be Gandarans usiing daddies credit card, the way I have seen them perform so far makes it much more likely that they are from one of our opposing servers (Looking at you Pikeys), anyway, just ignore these 2 guys because they are either criminally stupid or spies sent to lead our random numptys astray.
So we have 2 players that transferred to your server for the week, bought commander tags ( as we have never had commanders called that on our server) just to mislead your pug forces? That’s nothing but amusing if true.
PS. @Sagepoet, every server at some point feels like they’re being double teamed, it’s the nature of a 3 way battle.
lolwut?
Yesterday i have spend several hours in our Gandara map.During that time apart from last 30min-1 hour mark when we have tried to retake our gg and Bay was under attack from north too that spot was openly abused from numerous Piken Square players.Members of [INS],[VAR],[DT],[ASTL](not sure for exact name was something very similar) and many more than enough other players to make our players quite upset and report for exploting all of those Piken Square players.
So Insanesu.3965 please check your facts before posting your lolwut.If you are officer/guild leader of [INS] maybe is good idea to talk with your guild members NOT to use that spot.Same goes for any decent person from [VAR],[DT] etc if you guys care.
Please be more clear, if you’re still talking about the invuln spot in the camp then rofl, leave them in there and go about your day, them being in there has no outcome whatsoever on the course of the match unless people are too stupid to move away and leave them to it. We’ve had a recent influx of guilds to our server who I can’t vouch for, but the very fact you mentioned [DT] and I think you meant [AFTL] as hackers, makes me doubt anything you have to say, you show us indisputable proof or at least describe what you think they’re doing that is so wrong in a clearer way, or you won’t be taken seriously.
Bought the festive hat and some more transmutation stones like 5-6 days ago, they show up on my recent transactions, the gems were taken, but I received no mail with the items? Anyone else having trouble getting gem purchased items?
I have mixed feelings about the event, there are some positives for sure, but I think it definately needs a couple of tweaks.
For example, I think the commanders power needs to be scaled depending on how many of his friendly zone are there. If there aren’t many invaders in the zone then yes, the lord should be very powerful to compensate, but if (as happened to us yesterday) the invaders move to the zone en masse, it’s power should be scaled down, trying to defend against more than twice your number plus the lord is over the top. If more than twice your number can’t take a tower from you without the help of the lord in its current state, then you deserve to keep that tower.
And it isn’t impossible to defend against the commander, it just depends on your preparedness and the quality/quantity of the invaders with the commander
God knows what’s happened to Piken since the reset, it’s like it’s a completely different server. There is no presence from any of the WvW guilds and we are outmatched in every single border. We can’t even muster up 10 people to get the NPC commander going. It’s like I’ve been ported to another server where everyone’s just decided to completely stop playing WvW.
It’s nearing christmas, lot’s of people are doing other things making sizeable guild raids harder to gather. Weekends have also never been our strongest point. Plus our server often gets hit very hard with new events as we don’t really have the numbers to have a buffer if a sizeable chunk of our wvw population takes some time out for one off PvE events. It should hopefully improve during the week, we’ll have to wait and see.
Ive been on SFR since day one. I had fought the masses of the xaoc night cappers when our offpeak was at about 40 people across all bg all spread out
That’s funny because you’ve also posted this:
“Ive played on EBay and moved back to Sea Farers Rest [EU]
I loved the way EBay played. If they moved over to SFR we would be good to go to T1”
Why place such a heavy dependence on the score? Elona have far greater coverage, we from Piken knew this and never expected to win on points, we’re just going to enjoy the fights that hopefully such a populous server will provide. (atm it’s looking good, they actually rush out of their keeps/towers every now and then without having to spend 2-3 hours digging them out like some german servers we’ve met who defended very well and were nearly impossible to entice out)
It was far easier, actually did it on first attempt albeit with only like 200 hp left, but it was nevertheless a fun puzzle, it was far less hectic than the clocktower one.
I agree with people suggesting Gunnar’s Hold (I’m from Piken), they were great opponents when we faced them, although they have now lost quite alot of their players they still give their best but most importantly they still come out and fight no matter what situation they’re in (unlike some servers that shall remain nameless, that sit inside towers all day with more siege than people to man it) Gunnar’s had great spirit and your numbers could very possibly be the thing to help them kickstart a recovery.
Very amused when you said this:
“We are not looking for ‘easy wins’ or to hop on the bandwagon T1 rush.”
But then said you were mainly thinking of Seafarers Rest or Blacktide lol.
How can you be so amused, do you always feel amused when people ask for help or information?
Anyway, ill try to stand above your tone and give a mature answer:
We have gotten the feeling that the gameplay we search is coupled with the ‘T1 rush’ ‘easy wint’ ‘bandwagon’ servers. Which makes sense since most players are looking for the gameplay described above. But we are trying to find a balans between them which will make all our players happy. This is why I ask for help and not randomly join a T1 server.
I am very happy with all replies informing us about their server. We appreciate it a lot and will look into every options. I’ve to discuss a lot with my team and will contact people for more information if possible
Thanks tichai.4351, Hengis.5417, Wrex.6798 and others.
You say you don’t want to join the bandwagon T1 rush or get easy wins, but your main choices are Blacktide, the server that is currently at the top of tier 1 and has been for a while, and Seafarer’s Rest which is currently the biggest bandwagon server gunning for T1 and is currently stomping it’s opposition in T2. Your main choices directly contradict what you said you are looking for, that’s what is amusing.
I think I speak for most of our server (Piken) when I say that if your prime time is from around 6-11 gmt or something similar then you’re NOT going to be very welcome here.
EDIT: aww reaping beat me to it.
Very amused when you said this:
“We are not looking for ‘easy wins’ or to hop on the bandwagon T1 rush.”
But then said you were mainly thinking of Seafarers Rest or Blacktide lol.
It’s currently doing too much damage to people
It constantly hits me for 5-7k each hit and that is with around ~1700 armor.
I don’t think any abilities should be able to constantly hit this much, especially spammable ones.
If you run around with 1700 armor then you deserve to be hit for stupidly high amounts.
I don’t know what profession you are, but I happen to have light armor. Every single one of my gear stats has toughness on it. I can’t stack anymore armor then I have right now without going 30 into the toughness tree, which only increases it to around ~1900
Then you mean 1700 toughness, as if you have 1700 armor you can’t really have any toughness whatsoever.
It’s currently doing too much damage to people
It constantly hits me for 5-7k each hit and that is with around ~1700 armor.
I don’t think any abilities should be able to constantly hit this much, especially spammable ones.
If you run around with 1700 armor then you deserve to be hit for stupidly high amounts.
Thief, although not for the reasons people have listed on this thread.
Thieves are probably the most unforgiving class to go up against as a new player. I’ve seen groups of 5-10 new players go down to a skilled thief. If you’re not level 80/have a decent build, the thief wins almost every time. Maybe it’s me, but I have a really hard time killing thieves until I’m fully leveled up.
So for a good 79 levels or so, the thief is probably the most irritating thing you can run across in WvW. After that, the profession is balanced. It’s a shame really.
If you’re struggling to destroy any sub 80 char with an 80 in decent gear, no matter the profession, you’re doing something wrong, not just thieves.
The problem with Mesmers though is our swiftness buff from Focus doesn’t stack with other profession’s swiftness buffs, which I think is a bug.
Not a bug, it was changed quite a while ago to stop people running through the line multiple times and stacking 1m+ swiftness by themselves in a couple of seconds.
Probably been suggested before but oh well:
As most will tell you, mind stab is kinda crappy as it is, my suggestion is quite simple, make it a blast finisher, it’s animation is even kind of blast like with the crystals exploding out of the ground around the crystal sword. This would make it far more useful without increasing it’s aoe radius. Plus it would make the current gs after the berserker nerf more viable as correct me if I’m wrong but it would be the mesmers
only blast finisher?
Edit: ah, apart from torch.
I don’t know whats happened to Piken this week but my god you are not the same server as last week, sending 40+ players to chase a 3 player GH strike team all over AM bl & louse a tower in the process, then when GH gets some numbers 20ish & we attack lake you send your whole force to lake & louse 2 more towers, Garrison & as I right this now you are also lousing Bay!!
Sorry to say this coz you have some really good guilds on Piken but if you play in the higher tiers like you are playing this week & you will get hammered.
I know you are having a high tic right now but that is really due to the lack of fight in WvW this week, GH we just don’t have the numbers to hold anything for long & I know that makes us an easy target but you wont learn anything fighting the weaker of the two server’s.
I will still fight this week no matter the odds & I’m not asking you to hold back on us I just don’t want Piken to go the way we did after having a loss & having guys jump ship, as we on GH are going through a bad time right now & its hitting us hard. I would not wish on anyone what we are going through right now.
I don’t think alot of us would mind if we did lose so some of the fairweather pvp guilds/people, with no backbone, that have joined us recently leave us again. Plus, you said it yourself, it may well have been that they weren’t on our server last week.
Couldn’t help a grin breaking across my face at that. Oh, people like you, with the delusion that because you’re on a higher ranked server you’re better players, are comical.
You know, just because to you everything seems the same, and “all people are created equal”, doesn’t mean others who notice the differences are delusional. Maybe they just have eyes. To the blind man, everything is black. Others, they see colors, and they’re not equally represented.
LOL. Seems you’re the one that’s blind here my friend if you consider T1 to be the most competitive, and therefore where the majority of good players are.
As you seem to base your assumption of competitiveness on ranking, and thereby points, then t1 is in fact one of the least competitive matchups as Blacktide are steamrolling their opposition compared to others that have a far closer scoreline and thereby a much more competitive matchup. T8 is far more competitive than T1 as those servers have far closer scores, any of them could win without anything too outlandish happening, whereas Blacktide have almost guaranteed the win unless they all quit.
Know why your servers are T1? Coverage, nothing more, yes you may have a fair amount of good players/guilds amongst the masses but to assume being in the higher tiers means you have a higher average skill level is indeed delusional.
Servers at the top have better players on average. That’s because better players gravitate towards the competitive positions.
Couldn’t help a grin breaking across my face at that. Oh, people like you, with the delusion that because you’re on a higher ranked server you’re better players, are comical.
Sighhh why all the transfers? I hear we had an ex-Gunnar commander running about in EB telling us how he still had access to Gunnar’s “secret forums”. It’s like the new kid in school who thinks he’s gonna make friends giving out candy.
Please have some server pride and stick with your home, guys.
This.
Piken doesn’t need any extra prime time forces, and if you’re thinking of making it your home because it’s suddenly doing quite well, don’t be surprised if you don’t get too warm a welcome. You’re not needed to compliment our prime time forces and guilds that jump ship because they were losing are certainly not wanted.
Not necessarily, your colour is determined by your ranking within the servers you’re facing.
green is the highest ranked of the 3
blue is the middle
red is lowest
It was much closer in points at the start of the week but my understanding is that Piken got an influx of Russians? So thats the nightshift sorted and it really shows in the points score as Piken rapidly rocketed ahead of us (I am not downplaying the quality of fights at prime time, its just an observation that the difference in scores accelerated).
Well actually, Russian time is GMT + so they usually go to bed earlier than the more western Europeans and so actually contribute less during the night, they are more of a morning shift.
We have no dedicated “night shift” we just have a group of dedicated players and guilds such as TNTD/GG (I know there are more but these are the first that came to mind) who have been staying up late.
