Good way to cap the week off. Bit of fun tearing up places. Creases to iron out, but still fun to know we can do it if we want to ;>
Good fights in every border today
We did our part in the borders, but it wasn’t just us there defending. Our guild has been responsible for a great deal of the upgrades though, and certainly involved greatly with defence (organisation, allocation of resources and scouting). But defending has been a combined effort across a number of guilds and individuals
Next week should be a big change though :/
Don’t think our leaders are planning on moving away from WSR quite yet, but I’m sure they’ll have read this
If this is the cap I’m thinking of, then I can confirm that neither the group nor the commander had any idea that the siege/defense had been taken down by a glitcher (though this does help to explain why the cap was easier than we were expecting).
To second Roo, we frown on this behaviour and will always call people out for it when we see it. On this occasion it seems to have been a rogue individual.
We’d defended the Keep against 4 golems the night before vs RoF, door didn’t go beyond 60% health
Its a shame it happened. But ho hum, a sad end to the week for me. Its been really competitive and fair, and both our opponents have conducted themselves wonderfully well imo with some fantastic encounters.
I won’t have the pressure of defence to worry about next week, I don’t think we’ll be anywhere near as competitive however :// So apologies in advance (gives me chance to reach the level cap though lolol).
Congrats to GH
You’ve just rolled in with four golems on the back of this dude glitching. All our siege def had gone, canons gone from the inner wall… Too right I’m gonna tar you. Especially after reporting it on here and you STILL go mob handed into there, after I report one of your servers players glitching in repeatedly. How much less honourable do you want to get??
He was spotted by other players doing it, I had a ranger/necro/thief fighting alongside him on the wall side. One of them was in a recognised guild (the name of which escapes me now so I’ll save the names ).
Just sickened. I knew Hills would be on the cards for someone tonight. But to take it like that is just garbage.
It’s not necessarily that people don’t care it’s more you can’t expect decent numbers outside of primetime due to the fact we have a pretty low pop server and few dedicated WvW guilds.
It would be fair to assume the numbers wouldn’t take a sudden nose dive two evenings on the bounce when we were running in a healthy second place though and would be fair to assume when there are more than enough people to defend a fully upgraded garrison from a group of 10-15, that they don’t care, when they sit farming kills at Dreaming Bay (with an outside wall at 80%) when there was ample time to WP to the garr three times before the attackers eventually breached :s It was perfectly possible to defend the Garrison, and put up a fight at Dreaming Bay. Even if both would have eventually been lost to sheer weight of numbers (I doubt we’d have actually lost the garrison if it had been defended properly) it was poor giving it away like that, “it wasn’t primetime” isn’t a reasonable excuse. It was poor allocation of resources, and poor play as individuals for being distracted at the dreaming bay gates Its things to learn from, if people do take lessons from the defeats.
I’m not sure what you were expectibg really we (rddt amongst others) managed to keep our borderlands mostly red throughout primetime.When i and a number of other guildies logged at half 10 GMT after about 4 hours of (very fun thanks cry havoc) wvw we had everything in our BL.
Inevitably outside of primetime we cant get the same numbers and things will get capped its unfortunate but its the nature of the beast.
I was expecting us to keep hold of the upgraded keep and garrison. Like we’d done on the days previous to Tues/Weds (especially after kind souls had again upgraded them) It had been a struggle at times, but we did it before, and everyone involved in keeping it all red had worked manfully at all hours to keep it that way. The last two days have just been a capitulation.
Inevitability doesn’t mean people should accept poor performances. We’ve given away the bl garrison with no contest thrice in two days now. If its acceptable to suddenly stop caring about defending things like fully upgraded keeps, then wsr do belong in the bottom tier
We (Cry Havoc) after capping Garrison if indeed it was not capped again logged off straight after capping. The cap was not to hold it but simply keep it for the tick. There was a small search for mesmers without luck, so i would presume it was the gates being knocked down. Either way Garrison was only capped to get rid of the upgrades on the garrison and reasons posted earlier in the comment
I think we’ve given up upgrading the garr now, cos it certainly seems like we’ve stopped defending it
I was one of the 3/4 who responded to the first call for help…. (Once you’d already made it to the inside door LOL fml). We could have easily defended it instead of kittening up defending DB AGAIN!! I called wp open countless times. No def arrived. I can’t tell you how much I love giving away upgraded keeps to CHvc
The evening turned into a repeat of the previous, the vultures both got scent of a smelly rotten carcass again, and tore our BL asunder. Numbers were better tonight, but still woefully outmanned in the places which mattered. I staunchly refused again to lose EH while I was online, and we put up enough siege to bankrupt an army.
Earlier in the week RoF numbers were maybe 1/4 of what they are now in WSR bl. Earlier in the week WSR numbers were approximately double what they are now in WSR bl. GH have had persistent numbers here, except the SM battle evening. Beaten to a soggy third by sheer weight of numbers, disappointing end to the week
Now you were wrong twice Sir.
First we had to push back WSR from inner gate of our hills, so it’s hardly lack of any action.
Later, [TaG], [HxH] and [NaZ] had a pretty successful campaign on WSR border that ended up on taking over half of it, including bay and garrison, which we stole from GH.
So no, it wasn’t just ICON playing (ofc, I appreciate all the work they did
You owe GH a small thanks for your hills save tbh
Just as we thought we’d seen the last of GH in our own borders the few RoF we had there turned into a lot, so we reasoned losing the DB outer gate would be fine as we would be much more capable of defending the inner. Which proved impossible when you got reinforced, at that point it was more about making Hills impregnable, which we achieved, and turning the rest of the BL red again, which we also achieved eventually [NaZ] were the RoFs I saw the most, and [RUS].
I had a peak at the south entrance last night. You really had an impressive amount of Balista and Arrow carts up :
Just needed bodies to drive them really haha
The inside of the walls was all set to grind you to meat paste too :s
I look forward to venturing outside my own borderlands one day home defence is so much less attractive than being in a rampaging zerg smashing skulls in the oppositions back garden, drawback of being the little guy of the server matchup me thinks, less people willing to keep our own garden tidy lol.
When we saw that your Hills still have over 1k supply, we decided no to siege it, but to go EB instead, where we were pushed by GH. But I have to admit it that it was fun in WSR BL last evening, and we had a little payback for you guys regularly stalking our Hills
Hehe it would have taken about the same force you had down at DB to have got into the Hills last night even with the skeleton crew arranged to defend it. With the help of [OS] (Forzaaaaa Italiaaaaaa), we’d setup more siege than you could shake a commander at, lot harder to get in, and much more prepared to dig in there unlike the bay.
My evening was spent fire fighting more than enjoying the proceedings After GH arrived in numbers into WSR bl. I knew something was happening, asked for vigilance and people to keep a proper track of the CHvc group, keep map aware. I went for 10mins for my dinner, came back to a blue garrison :/ what followed was an evening of trying to find commanders and bodies to stop the vultures picking at the carcass.
We had a few commanders come and go along the evening, halting/stalling progress. But there just weren’t enough people online for once to secure anything :s we got outmanned about 4-1 at Dreaming Bay and I just started setting up for a last stand at Etheron Hills (My guilds claim).
We had enough of a setup to keep RoF out of Etheron thankfully, and Enjiru Witch [WAR] had come online by that point. Between the 10 or so of us we managed to outmanoeuvre the remaining RoF in our borderlands to retake the map at the cost of EB keep.
Was quite depressing seeing so many towers/keeps that I’d spent hours defending, sometimes solo, and spent a fortune upgrading get flipped with no effort. Disappointing to be so thoroughly outmanned completely out of the blue too :/ We’ve been outmanned before. But last night we just had no numbers at all Good fights though
Between the lord resses, skill lag and RoF deciding to join back in with the fun, It became a bit of a forgone conclusion we wouldn’t be able to take SM. But the damage caused will take some repairing.
For me, once I realised SM wasn’t going to happen I returned to border defence. Glad I did, I had to do a lot of repairs on our Garr and Longview tower after [CORE] paid a visit. Glad I had [Zzzz] there to react quickly to my cries for immediate help
CHvc take a mad zerg to stop. Trying to stop our people running blindly into the meat grinder (portal bombs) is very difficult too
WSR pov… Yesterday was fun. Lot of defending in our own BL. Taking a lot of organising to stay on top at times there Definitely felt like the weakest server in the matchup at times though >.<
My work is going to start suffering if you don’t all start going to bed before 2am :// Please, why won’t you let me sleeeeeeep :s
