Guild Wars 2

Good thing this is optional and not needed for the mini, eh? But, even though I have the mini I’m still going for it… I think I’m in the 1700s now. At least we’re grinding at something that’s fun (imo).

Achilles.2197:

ok ok.. so i’ve heard about the great DB sandwiches and beer… but I heard on the jq/fa/db thread that you guys are missing women? sounds like a sausage fest.

No no no… sandwiches bad. People go for sandwiches… and… NEVER… come… back…

Tobias Steele.2071:

Fuzzion.2504:

JQ would love to have you

Jq would take anything with a pulse. I would be surprised if gw2 has a guild that hasn’t been asked to join jq at some point.

If there is, please pass on the information and give me a point of contact.

Primernova.5791:

Yeesh! I give them credit for showing all gameplay footage, but my god that resolution and graphics settings.

China will snap it up and make Anet and NCsoft a lot of money, but it will do the same thing there as it did here. Quick adoption, fast leveling/gearing and then a tail off.

Tail off? Servers are starting to hit Full again after they bumped up the cap. Growth != Tailing off.

CrimsonProject.7980:

Word. Send me a mail in-game and we can set up a time to talk about Dragonbrand’s specialty sandwich made by 100% all natural [FIRE] ingredients and maybe about the game and DB too but…. sandwiches and beer mostly.

Sandwiches Crimson? Really?

We’ve seen what sandwiches can do.

You all had a typo in that link… let me fix that for you.

http//www.fort-aspenwood.com

/waves hand

I forgot about dueling.

After many years in the original Guild Wars I can say with complete conviction that yes, to me this is the spiritual successor to the original. Yes, game play is different, but the heart is the same. Plus, you caught me the very day after I found Gwen’s grave for the first time. I still have that broken flute in the original.

Make those cumulative for all the people with the yak.

Champion Dolyak ftw.

WyldKat.4712:

VOLKON.1290:

There’s no “quit” in The Quarry.

Although… looking at it… there is “Quart”.

It comes in pints?

Only the Norn.

There’s no “quit” in The Quarry.

Although… looking at it… there is “Quart”. Considering that’s how a lot of them drink their beer that’s fitting. Also a “rath”… you never want to face the wrath of the Quarry because it’s spelled wrong. There’s even a “hurry”. But no quit. Definitely no quit.

Oh my. “artery” and “urethra”. I think I need a quart now.

Before fully dismissing T1, please take a moment to consider Jade Quarry. We’re kind of, at the moment, more like Tier 1.5… not hyper-stacked like BG and SoR but still a bit ahead of the “T2” servers, and the community is great and a lot of fun. The JQ recruitment thread is on these forums and may be helpful if you’re interested in at least gathering information on us. Regardless, good luck on your search!

I’ve seen enough ACs on inner Bay to make it nearly impenetrable. I’ve also seen a single trebuchet erase them all. ACs are fine as long as you remember that catching the arrows with your face is not one of the counters.

WyldKat.4712:

VOLKON.1290:

That’s where the loot bags come from.

So, that bit about the birds and the bees with the stork staring at them all in a cabbage patch is just smoke and mirrors?

Instead of birds and bees, we’ve found you can quite efficiently extract loot bags from FA with a large quantity of rats.

I’m not biased or anything, but personally I highly recommend JQ. I spent some time on DB after being on JQ… I went back to JQ for the WvW. Personally I found the experience on DB to be rather frustrating, especially in comparison. Don’t get me wrong… great people on both servers without a doubt. Both servers have players that really know how to fight. However JQ also has that little extra when it comes down to knowing how to win as well (from my defensively minded perspective).

So if it’s only the fights themselves, JQ or DB are both good choices. If you like that extra attention to detail that is required to win as well, JQ is definitely the choice.

BG is too bloated at this time to recommend to anyone, as is SoR.

Sir William PD.9615:

Rama.6439:

I gotta Give my fellow TC members props, I think we could have beat JQ this week if FA would have showed any kind of aggression this week towards them, only times I would see FA and JQ fight it out was when JQ would get the in their Towers and Keeps, other than that FA just tried capping our stuff while we were busy with JQ. Well done FA, Well done, I guess.

JQ, awesome fights, would like to have you and another T1 server, cause I think you all would not be focused on us the whole time, and then we would have more of a chance and you would have more pressure on you. I hope this happens soon, either way, I’m sure we will see each other again.

LOL man this particular whine from people never gets old. I’m not even going to entertain a counter argument with you.

Yup, we held hands with JQ all week and even went out on a date to grab a bite to eat. JQ how come you didn’t call us back after?

As for the Dolyak Parade. If you have one, we will come try to kill it. My only regret from yesterday is that ONE dolyak made it into Cliffside safely. We almost had you all this time.

By the way, that was a lovely choice of wine, my new little snuggle-buddy. We’ll call, just want to build the anticipation a little.

Ahka.6705:

elitegamerz.4965:

electriette.8952:

This thread has been great. Don’t ruin it now please.

Share the words of Jedsus Chris/Charr Jezus/whoever FA’s deity is.

FA has no deity, we just really like loot bags (and quaggen…)

And dying repeatedly.

That’s where the loot bags come from.

Heh… this thread contains so much why I love me some Jade Quarry.

More of a magitech collides with steampunk into something that’s a hybridization of the two. I’ve noticed GW2 isn’t bound by absolutes or hard definitions. I kind of like it that way too.

When you get a +5 from a camp, one point lets you do the full fifteen in five hits. That’s come in very handy when trying to solo build a treb in a tower for example.

Batman?

Who’d have thunk those ’zerker guardians would be so fragile?

Asbrandr.6324:

Wilco.1458:

Asbrandr.6324:

Seigfried.5938:

Dog.1472:

Good try TC and FA, but you were no match for the might of RATS.

Ain’t that funny, a guy named dog in a guild named rats :P

Yes, it’s a shame that he didn’t link the parts of the stream where we wiped them at least twice in open field on TCBL. :P

It was fun though, they got us a few times, including that Hills three-way. And then there was the three-way in front of Bay; good times.

I could post every fight, but that would require a lot of effort. I just linked the unanimously chosen best fight of the map (voted by everyone in teamspeak and approved by the Pope).

If you want to go through the raw footage: here! http://www.twitch.tv/drwilco/b/435410544

Plus if you notice I’m level 24 or something .. many of us are upleveled or not geared and definitely not on our main. This was the third? time I played necro. And godkitten does Corrupt Boon/Epidemic wreck your command group.

Yeah, I noticed all the conditions and figured you guys were running something along those lines, since I also main Necro. Unfortunately, it never seems like we have enough condition cleanses in our groups, but this is partially due to the fact that TC’s big on militias and we don’t really require people to take certain things in order to stack the group. For example, there will be times when the commander calls out for veils and portals from Mesmers and we don’t get any; the same can be said for static fields from Eles.

I also noticed the up-levels and was surprised that the bags I was getting were of lower quality.

You guys just had so many early on in our fights that it was difficult for our group of 30 or so to fight you. Eventually, we got some reinforcements which made things go smoother though.

Were you there for that prolonged fight at North Camp? FA was there, TC was there and I think we survived for a good five waves of respawns from Citadel. That was insanely fun.

Yeah… when those were announced, quite the uproar about these “useless” additions… Build Mastery and Defense Mastery iirc… now c’mon, admit it… you all have at least one point in each, don’t cha? You can admit it… hell, my first two points on a character go there now.

TheFiendishFiend.4057:

Thank you for the consideration. But I had enough of t1 back when we were on SBI

Can’t blame an Asura for trying. Best of luck to you!

Zikory.6871:

VOLKON.1290:

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Cod on Cod.3694:

So wait, “yes” as in SoR was only the 4th best? Then this rating here https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw must be the irrelevant part, and not the tiers? But you say tiers ARE irrelevant, as in my exact point.

Gosh Mr…. I must thank you for taking time to teach, but them big words and comparisons confuse me!

Sorry, I can’t put my sarcasm font on.

Fascinating, it’s almost as if, excluding RNG matches, servers are matched up by their rating and ordered from highest to lowest… As if they are in… tiers.

The line of demarcation is when the point where the numbers went from being definitive as to your next match to being more randomized. Some interesting rolls of the dice could have both BG and SoR fall out of “tier 1”… does that mean neither is T1?

No, It would mean two Tier 1 rated servers are in the tier 2 match up. If you look at the leader boards Cod posted JQ is rated for Tier 1 but they are in the Tier 2 match up.

I actually agree with you here. That’s why I think personally the tiers have much less meaning now than when they did prior. They exist, sure, for people that seem to need them to exist.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Cod on Cod.3694:

So wait, “yes” as in SoR was only the 4th best? Then this rating here https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw must be the irrelevant part, and not the tiers? But you say tiers ARE irrelevant, as in my exact point.

Gosh Mr…. I must thank you for taking time to teach, but them big words and comparisons confuse me!

Sorry, I can’t put my sarcasm font on.

Fascinating, it’s almost as if, excluding RNG matches, servers are matched up by their rating and ordered from highest to lowest… As if they are in… tiers.

The line of demarcation is when the point where the numbers went from being definitive as to your next match to being more randomized. Some interesting rolls of the dice could have both BG and SoR fall out of “tier 1”… does that mean neither is T1?

Asbrandr.6324:

Wotah.2975:

Asbrandr.6324:

Seigfried.5938:

Dog.1472:

Good try TC and FA, but you were no match for the might of RATS.

Ain’t that funny, a guy named dog in a guild named rats :P

Yes, it’s a shame that he didn’t link the parts of the stream where we wiped them at least twice in open field on TCBL. :P

It was fun though, they got us a few times, including that Hills three-way. And then there was the three-way in front of Bay; good times.

Aaaah you’re so mean! RATS are only learning. Most haven’t reached true age of maturity yet, and you’re going around killing them and boasting about it. That just screams big meanie to me!

Like they aren’t boasting about wiping us. Lol.

But like I said, it was fun, we certainly had to learn how to counter the mega-zerg. Our commander was more or less shouting directions over Mumble non-stop for the entire fight and trying to type commands for the militia with us too, which usually were pretty kitten short due to the need for urgency.

He’s right you know… most of RATS are brand new alts people made specifically for this. Our homework last week was to level up.

cesmode.4257:

Thank you very much, very informative.

Story still lacks cohesion. It is not your abbreviation of it, but it just seems like it lacks cohesion..a fluidity from one arc to the next. Things just “happen”.

Take a look around you at life. Notice something?

The only thing this proves is that elementalists need stealth.

ArkAngel.7940:

VOLKON.1290:

One trap at a time may be active.

Does that apply even if they are different traps?

Yes, only one trap, period.

One trap at a time may be active.

etrigan.4213:

JQ leave them alone. You guys already have enough people to dominate Tier2 in this matchup, and be competitive in Tier 1.

I’m certainly not speaking for No Dice(they are legit btw!), but most small roaming guilds don’t want anything to do with Tier 1. :P

It would be dishonest and… well, hurtful and shameful to not offer someone alternatives for possibly improving their WvW experience. I do this for the greater good, for the benefit of all things Quarry and those that now and in the future call it home. I do it out of love.

Wotah.2975:

Seigfried.5938:

Dog.1472:

Good try TC and FA, but you were no match for the might of RATS.

Ain’t that funny, a guy named dog in a guild named rats :P

I thought that same thing. Maybe he’s a dograt? I mean there was a Catdog, right?

Dog, Rat… my first thoughts were the Chinese zodiac or whatever that is.

OK, here we go. One sec… ok, ready.

ANet… Thanks. You are the wind beneath my shattered dragon wings.

See? Even I couldn’t stop with thanks. But… I really do appreciate the work going into this great game. It’s been great fun so far with no sign of slowing down.

I ran that image through my ultra-high definition microscopic viewing program and noticed a lot of those prints have a “swoosh” in them, which verifies they’re centaurs. Centaurs are into sports attire.

Everyone knows that.

Jeda.5209:

Amazing of how many people fail at reading and compehension even after op takes the time to reiterate what he is referring to.

To the op I would suggest to send this to the bug section if what you stated is true.

Reading is for the timid. Real forum warriors jump in blindly.

Contiguous.1345:

Sometimes they vanish a lot quicker. It depends where you leave it.

That’s because if you leave it in the wrong place some pug decides to take it for a joyride off a tall cliff.

ArkAngel.7940:

Never noticed this. I always thought WXP resets when you die, not go down. Are you sure you’re not stomping the same bad ele over and over again?

That’s what I’m thinking… I could be wrong and will need to verify this, but I swear I’ve received wxp from elementalists and others. I can’t say for sure, though.

I’ve also received 0 wxp from every other profession.

Hey Fiendish, have your people transfer over to JQ and you’ll find plenty of folks willing. I’ll be happy to help you get acquainted.

Spiteful prophecy.7130:

VOLKON here is that picture…
I also have been playing ranger for a few months and I love it, now especially that we have a fighting chance rather than always being everyone’s first target to attack.

Ah, that’s the one I like. I’m in your debt.

With the changes, I dusted off my ranger and gave it a go, had a lot of fun. Very nice change ANet, you have the official Volkon Seal of Approval.

Not that that matters outside of my own mind… sigh…

Does anyone have a “not sure if serious” image that would be appropriate here?

Rangers finally get some love in WvW and they’re immediately called for a nerf?

There’s a core of guilds and players on JQ now dedicated to keeping JQ a top server, and even a few idiots like myself that left chasing pipe-dreams of “better fights” or whatever only to come back for the great community and dedication that the Quarry has and always will have. If you want a server to call home, to have some real pride in, Jade Quarry is for you. And if you’re one of those, like myself, that left and found themselves frustrated and disgruntled with insufficient WvW, you can come back baby, Jade Quarry never forgets!

Fror.2163:

snip

- Healing Breeze: sorry but this skill shouldn’t even exist. Everybody should provide his own heal. We all have a heal slot, I see no reason that I should take waste this slot so that people don’t get killed.

snip

Pretty much all I needed to read here.

Yes, of course, because Mist Form has an infinite range and restored the elementalist to a living state with full health, right?

It’s fairly short ranged and when they come out of it they’re still downed. Finish the job, it’s that simple. In the rare cases when you choose to down them right outside a gate and they get inside, well, the trick is to down them further from the gate or tear the gate down and rip them a new one when you get inside. I’ve had my share of elementalists zip through a gate on my and I’ve yet to notice a tear forming. They do what they do, learn to counter.

skullmount.1758:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The Royal Terrace will be a thing, but it’s not the thing you think it is.

Huh, but is it permanent? Or is the Royal Terrace going to be something temporary (something like a festival tent/pavilion thing)?

Something permanent would go a long ways towards livening up Divinity’s Reach, that’s for sure. Plus the rivalry you could start building between DR and LA, there could be stories to be told.

But… why do I expect we may have to worry about stepping in centaur poop in DR soon…?

etrigan.4213:

VOLKON.1290:

Mirsa.1628:

Got to see the RATS in action today. Too bad they couldn’t take our tower.

What is that, Lake? We took that a few times, not sure what you’re going on about.

Yah after our NA went to bed…but that time you rushed it with the two Omegas and full zerg…not so much.

Fun fight though, no disrespect to RATS. You guys are larger than any guild on FA, we have to form like Voltron to compete.

edit: It was good to finally see an equal sized force to counter RE on map, glad you tore them up. We likely had the overall manpower to do so, but we were split up hitting different things. They give good bags though right?!

Maybe, maybe… I don’t remember what time we first flipped it. We were looking for bigger targets than towers, at least initially. RE seems to drop bags similar to how they play… quantity over quality. Got a few rares, nothing better.

(Kidding RE, you all are very not bad indeed. Fun fights! I’ll be your kneecaps are still aching this morning.)

Shout out to the RATS last night, what a blast. To those lesser races that tried to makes themselves look good by running with the Asura… it didn’t work… roll an Asura and you’ll see why next time.

Also a special, warm and loving shout out to RE last night. You all really handed it to us. (And by “it”, I mean all those loot bags. I’ve never had to empty my bags so often.) You’re efforts to assist our training squad was really appreciated, you all are a top notch guild. Thanks again.

What a night though. Mance was on fire (sometimes literally), we were saved once my Jedsus himself, waypoints fell, walls were broken and dolyaks were slain aplenty. I sat up once in bed last night trying to cast a water field and almost succeeded in making my wife “cast” one in surprise.

Til the next run!

Mirsa.1628:

Got to see the RATS in action today. Too bad they couldn’t take our tower.

What is that, Lake? We took that a few times, not sure what you’re going on about.

ACs are fine. The range is a bit short however.