Guild Wars 2

destoyer of lives.7963:

Good job TC taking your bay back………but i have one question…….how do you use an ac to hit lords room from outside north inner gate?……good thing everyone took screenshots of it.

I’m guessing it’s the 1st AC mastery skill, increased range, combined with 3-screen FoV.

Cottage Pie.6215:

that’s a hideous idea.

+1

Valtrex.2895:

Unfortunately.5940:

Eh.. I don’t think that’s a glitch as you can get a really wide FoV if you’re using a 3 monitor setup. You can also play in windowed mode to get a wider FoV.

So your justifying it’s fair game? to arrow cart everything inside a tower from inside a tunnel then outside keep walls? cause you can increase FoV?

The issue is not the FoV it’s the fact that arrows from ACs don’t behave like actual physical projectiles. You wouldn’t need LoS for an AC to hit behind a wall but you definitely would need an unobstructed path.

Eh.. I don’t think that’s a glitch as you can get a really wide FoV if you’re using a 3 monitor setup. You can also play in windowed mode to get a wider FoV.
The bigger issue is that the increased range from AC mastery’s 1st step seems way over the top to me. It’s only a bit shorter than a catapult’s range using that.

Thrumdi.9216:

We’ve been over this a million times in every thread QQ’ing about the nerf.

The problem with Confusion is not that it punishes bad players, but that it punishes good players. It makes them stop playing.

In an action MMO like GW2 you cannot have skills that make it so you can’t attack. This is why there is no long duration crowd control in the game.

Confusion shouldn’t have been in the sPvP or WvW side of the game in the first place. But Anet had the ideology of a “perfect game” where PvE and WvW were seamless, instead of one that worked in practice. Thankfully they are moving to the practical side of the ledger.

Are we playing the same game or have you really never been stun-locked to death?

I would like to see no limit on the amount of targets but reduced damage the further away you are from the casting point/original target.

Rhongomyniad.5081:

Could NNK / TFV / rE – clarify their position regarding the SAB zoom out glitch? Everytime there’s a Lord Room battle going on, we end up being at the end of the SAB zoom out glitch.

There’s an intense rivalry built up over months between TC and FA, and a lot of strong emotions between the two servers, but honestly, at least FA doesn’t repeatedly resort to these shenanigans.

Pretty sure anyone who uses multiple monitors or even just runs in windowed mode can get a similar FoV effect.

Same here, can´t enter CM no matter what I try: relogging, char select, complete restart..

Karykarywook.2481:

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..FA is filled with nice and friendly people.

It really is. We have our quirks (48+ hour Quaggan ALL THE THINGS in Lion’s Arch comes to mind) but we´re a great community.

etrigan.4213:

Faeryll.1673:

Sab.5291:

DB has done a very good job in attracting new guilds to their server, As well as FA. They seem to have better coverage now.Although DB seems to have a stronger presence in all the maps more consistently.
TC has not reported for duty it seems this week. Yes we do have our NA prime time, but our off hours is lacking greatly.
The EB battles have been well fought! and none of the servers have taken the upper hand for long.
But as you said it is a long week ahead!

Curious to know this influx of new guilds to FA. Only really heard of a few individual transfers here and there, nothing massive like DB or TC has gotten in the past few weeks.

Yah…people are confused. We have gotten some individual players, but no new guilds in weeks.

Our net gain vs loss is probably the same in any case. ZN bandwagonned to TC, and we probably gained about as many players as they fielded.

I think we got 1 or 2 small guilds recently, with about 15 people max each. And DPS/Fallen Deaf Ears has been doing an awesome job recruiting individual players for our SEA slot over the last month or so iirc.

I Deschain I.4623:

Unfortunately.5940:

I Deschain I.4623:

Poor Maguuma and Yak’s Bend, I guess that wasn’t fun at all against those numbers and zergballs.

Lol anyone else find this incredibly ironic coming from a TC-er?

Yes, ’cause we were constantly ticking with over 500. Sure.

Evalana.5480:

I Deschain I.4623:

Poor Maguuma and Yak’s Bend, I guess that wasn’t fun at all against those numbers and zergballs.

I’m having a blast! LOTS of fun!

Me too. Yet though. Zerging gets boring real quick and I haven’t seen anything else from DB. Although they put up a real good scout work, kudos for that. Always having at least one person somewhere to scream ROLE PLAYERS INC.

Again, lol. Something about a pot and a kettle.

I Deschain I.4623:

Poor Maguuma and Yak’s Bend, I guess that wasn’t fun at all against those numbers and zergballs.

Lol anyone else find this incredibly ironic coming from a TC-er?

Also don’t forget there is a huge gap in population and coverage between tier 2 and below. Right now I think there are 4 or 5 servers with tier 1 population/coverage: JQ, BG, SoR, TC and, judging by what they’ve shown so far in tier 2, DB. KN & FA have tier 2 population, Mag & YB are tier 3 servers.
I’m going to hazard a guess that we’ll see KN & FA trade places a number of times in the coming month or so, one dominating tier 3 and the other getting dominated in tier 2.

15 characters!!

I’d say you guys are most upset about it judging by the ferocity with which you’re having any mention or discussion of that original image moderated. Just the fact that Tallis went to the trouble to edit his original post with a cropped image pretty much implies that he felt it was something that shouldn’t be seen by the general public. For a lot of us it just confirmed what we already thought about the members of that party.

I’m surprised some of you guys even have time to actually play the game inbetween posts.

Well it would be pretty awesome and probably more balanced than this matchup.

Atrophied.8725:

Score update with my new shiny trident. <3

That´s a nice trident. Shame it´s a trident

Not really that odd considering there’s apparently something like 10 big guilds from various tier 1 servers moving there at the moment.

Lanimal.6541:

Unfortunately.5940:

You so obviously have no clue what you’re talking about.

Also, that’s 2 of my posts that were civil and not trolling that have been infracted and removed while the obviously trolling posts I was responding to are still up. Looks like someone can’t take what they dish out.

Have not reported a single one of your posts. Please do not jump to conclusions. I drool at opportunities to stamp on stupidity and irrational thought why would I report any of your posts.

Me not having a clue about recruitment is what has allowed me to recruit many of the same guilds you guys were unable to with your “inactive – we clearly do not talk to other guilds from other servers and Q.Q when they choose somewhere else to go- recruiting style”

So much anger, so much jumping to conclusions yourself.

Lanimal.6541:

Andy.9137:

Lanimal.6541:

You mean to tell me all 16 guilds that moved from IoJ to FA came to the decision on their own and just gathered their belongings and left IoJ. None of them had any conversations with representatives from BT / RET / HOPE etc? Or that the first IoJ guild to move over from IoJ to FA did not act as a proxy FA representative to convince the others to come on board as well?

Well….they decided to transfer without any coercing from us. Then they probably talked to some FA and I’m guessing we said sure and then….they came.

I think this is getting dragged on a little bit.

If you dug in a little bit and researched the scenario you will realize that my scenario is a lot more likely than yours (fantasy scenario). Guilds do not make a decision to jump servers without giving it lot of thought, in order to get their information they have to talk to the destination servers representatives. Those representatives try their best to convince guilds to choose said server. That ‘convincing’ is known as active recruitment. It does not matter if FA approached IoJ first or if IoJ approached FA first at the end of the day active recruiting does take place.

For the record: In this last instance CD guilds inquired about TC as well. I had talked to them months ago (before paid transfers ended ) but they recently tackled the idea of transferring and contacted us. So yes, its the same situation.

You so obviously have no clue what you’re talking about.

Also, that’s 2 of my posts that were civil and not trolling that have been infracted and removed while the obviously trolling posts I was responding to are still up. Looks like someone can’t take what they dish out.

Whitebeard.5172:

Quick question sir. What do you consider a zerg?

Last night in FABL there was around 15 or so TC trying to hold off 25-30 FA from breaching the inner wall.They got the inner wall down and TC repaired it as FA charged, FA left the map.It wasn’t about a zerg from either side, I’m not sure if you would designate those kind of numbers as a zerg.

I wouldn´t consider that kind of numbers a zerg, especially if it´s mostly 1 or 2 guilds. Double that maybe. While a large part of what I consider a zerg is a numbers issue more important is the way they behave. A large force that executes strategic maneuvers, pincers, coordinates, uses tactics, is a thing of beauty and can be exhilarating to be a part of, a large force that just blindly bashes into everything it runs into until it drops is just plain boring and the lowest form of tactics imo. Also please note i´m not talking about any particular server here as i´ve seen all of us do it. I kinda blame rezzing mechanics and the zerg-favoring implementation of wxp.

When Guild Wars 2 becomes Zerg Wars 2 it just becomes boring. I’m personally not interested in running in a huge zergball just so you won´t be insta-gibbed by the other huge zergballs, so when that starts to happen i´m out, and the point where that becomes the only viable strategy has been coming sooner every day. It´s also a large part of the reason i never really play reset nights.

I don’t think it’s a secret that a large portion of your server’s wvw population would rather have KN in this tier than us. It’s also evidenced by you guys pushing us on both EB and our BL while leaving all of KN’s holdings alone. Except of course when they do something you can’t ignore like trying to take the big shiney castle from you guys.

azizul.8469:

well.. looks like we are heading for T3 next week.. at least, a tier where it would be fair to our NA crew, and the Oceanics would not have to worry about PPT game…..

Not sure about next week, but i’m pretty sure you won’t be in tier 3 long if you go there. Also TC is doing their utmost best to keep you here. Which is kind of hilarious.

capmasterflash.5690:

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Another great battle on FABL was the taking of North camp. Must have been no more than 10 of us against a perpetual wave of FA zergs and ballistas. Great night last night FA .

If this is the battle I think it was there was a LOT more than 10 of you. That ZN & EP group of about 10 also came back for more and tried to flank somewhere during the fight.
Fun times by the west wall trying to pull & pick off people from the group , from both sides :p

Unless things have changed drastically DB will have a very rough time in tier 2 whereas any of our servers that drop to tier 3 will have a week of steamroll.

This tier is currently the closest NA matchup in point-spread with less than 10k difference between 1st and 3rd. I’d say this tier is still the most competitive.

TC zerglings gloating from the safety of the zerg when they’re winning… why am I not surprised.
Stay classy, TC.

So much TL; DR in this thread.

Cazanova.7845:

I usually read the matchup thread every day but never post in it I thought I would pop in and thank everyone on all 3 servers. Myself and two really good friends from another game moved to TC the first week of this match up and it has been a blast we were starting to loose interest in GW2 but the community on TC fits our personalitys making us enjoy our time in pve and pvp and the skill level and tenacity of FA and KN have made for some really fun times in WvW. So thank you no matter what server you are on for helping the three of us enjoy the game again and best of luck to all of you in this coming weeks match.
~Cazper [TSV] asura eng

This is a nice post. Can we get more of these in next week’s matchup thread? I mean, we all know we’re awesome and always right while the other servers suck and lie so there’s really no need to go over it all again.

Hickeroar.9734:

I think it’s been kinda ugly lately with TC-v-FA largely due to that widely circulated FA forum post about the “hogs” of TC. While I’m sure it doesn’t reflect the views of all of FA, it was “liked” by many of the FA community, and was a really low, immature, deluded, prideful, and non-factual post.
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That was also only posted on our server’s forums where you have no business being.

I was going to post something about the transfer thing but then i remembered i don’t care.

This thread has too much trolling and not enough chest thumping.

Andy.9137:

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Although please refrain from spamming /laugh as it comes across as quite hurtful.

Turn of emotes in your chat window. It also helps in seeing actual information over some idiot spamming /laugh.

My contribution to the chestthumping-to-trolling ratio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0BJF1SYXdg

Zergballing is currently one of the more effective metas, all servers do it. I’m hoping it dies down when the novelty of wxp wears off.

Redscope.6215:

Actually the funny part is that he’s not realizing how TC’s score shot way up immediately after the update and FA was crushed this week.

He’s like the sniper on your team in Battlefield with a 10-0 K/D sniping out of uncap spawn and claiming he’s won the game when clearly he’s bieng spawncamped.

“Yeh yeh my K/D boi! Wut wut!” … have fun when people start ragequitting FA and you have to spend 1000 gems to xfer again and bring your team down.

Less than 30k points difference and our place in tier 2 is secure, I wouldn’t call that ‘crushed’. Also I think our history has proven we don’t ragequit. At most we take well deserved breaks.

Meh… golem-rushing is so last month. Mega-zergs auto-attacking gates down is what it’s all about now!

Gab Superstar.4059:

You get four times as much WXP for killing the Veteran Warg or Harpy than killing a Dolyak.

Am I the only one who thinks this is silly?

^ this. Doing a fairly quick round of all the pve events in a borderland gets you about 750 wxp, not counting any supply camps you flip along the way. I guess the current influx of pve’ers in wvw are happy.

Liking the culling changes from the patch but the way wxp works at the moment just favors zerging and pve-ing in wvw, and boy does it show. Zergballs everywhere.

Pretty kitten terrible week for FA since sunday. I have no idea where our wvw population has disappeared to but I hope they start showing up again when the danger of being bumped down to tier 3 becomes apparent. If we continue the way we have been the last few days that might be before the week is over.

Hexin.5603:

Kain’s greatest player is known as the greatest player as he self proclaimed it … (kinda reminds me of kids racing to the car, and one calling shotgun for front seat… he was first)

and most of us are absolutely fine with that. Adds to map chat … now visiting FA seems like an odd choice, because he holds ties to the roots of kaineng, and tbh … likely has had a positive impact on many players across the months, while providing some funny banter for commanders. It’s a perception thing, don’t take things personal, but rather openly. His criticisms often very light hearted with a inflated boost, but in the end, wants to be sure what makes sense when is happening, or why not be doing ‘x’.

To THE FA commanders, please do not feel threatened at any kickbacks. It can be perceived as a troll, or it can be light humor chat. Choice is in the eye of the beholder.

In the end I think he actually wants people to be better, faster to his own self perceived perfection.

I think that guy might have broken a record for most people to block him within the shortest time after reading his map chat spam.

SilverWF.4789:

MikeFerguson.8921:

We are planning to add more stat sets and appearance options that can be purchased with badges in the March update.

With the current Badges of Honor I hope?

If it’s with a different currency i’ll be buying 5.5k badges worth of seige soon

Server accomplishment! First recruitment thread to get bumped by a moderator!

Can we lose the Q/A format for the next matchup thread, seeing as the Answer part isn’t being updated?

Can we get a score update pls? MOS is like 8 hours old..

Murderin.8269:

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

Looks like T1 and T2 are the best choice based on score, any players from those servers have an opinion on how sporadic the population is?

T2 is a fairly awesome matchup at the moment; pretty much even with each server having their own peak time. As for sporadic population, FA & TC have a coverage gap in SEA time but there’s still action all the time. Speaking for FA, there’s barely any queues outside of NA prime, and even then they’re short and only on 1 map usually.

kurtosis.9526:

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Again, respect to FA for bringing it up till the very end last match. Battles like these will ultimately only make both sides stronger, and the real objective is to be able to contend with T1. Keep it up guys.

I would argue that the real objective is to have fun and great fights, and tier 2 is well balanced for that at the moment

Sunspots.9861:

And now, for your humor:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Alt-F4-not-working/first

This made me LOL.

Sorry but this is pretty boring to watch until the 9th fight. I’m sure it was great fun to take part in and to watch in-game but the person recording is too far from any action to see anything beyond a mess of particle effects. 9th fight is fun to watch, and it says a lot about both guilds that they were able to get this set up and keep it going through 9 fights

Sev.5769:

But…Last I heard FA was less about points and more about gudfites in WvW. Surely you won’t begrude our server for trying it out just once.

The 15-20 FA in KN BL capping keeps while no one’s home makes us sad pandas. What was the term you guys keep using for that again….PvDooring, was it?

Just once every day I guess
On a serious note, i can’t help but wonder if the considerable Kaineng SEA population doesn’t get seriously bored fighting servers with little or no SEA presence. I know I get bored in a hurry when all we do is flip objectives with little or no resistance (like in tier 3).