Guild Wars 2

George Steel.1804:

I’d be glad to set up a 1v1/1v2/1v3 with numbers in your favor.

Maguuma’s already won those matches, anything less than 1v8 is old news and thus unimpressive.

Dam son, first 1v2, then 1v3, now 1v8 against CD. At this rate you guys will be able to 1v20 us by the end of the week.

loneknight.8425:

I missed dolyak parades. I can haz dolyak parade this week?

The guild that did those transferred to TC, but you can have your own personal dolyak parade and help get some yaks to our towers if you want.

Pretty simple fix, just make a winner moves up rule for Tier 8. The other tiers seem fine.

Esprit Dumort.3109:

The rest of those at 1% in six months and 2% in a year, would equal 50 years! That is literally a lifetime achievement.

Haha, I would guess most of us will be dead before we get any of those achievements.

Steven Yang.4637:

That sucks then, most people play MMO for PvP. Can you at least PvP people in solo world?

Try reading the first line of the post above you again.

That’s funny because I Pked people in HC D2 all the time back when I played it.

Insignia.6345:

Pinko.2076:

Insignia.6345:

GuardianOMS.8067:

This can happen anywhere. It’s player vs player whether it’s 1v1 or 130v1. Get a friend, come back at a different time, or equip all escape skills/traits and find one of the invisibilty fountains.

There is more than 1?! If that’s the case i’ve been playing since beta and never noticed. O_o

There’s 3 invisibility fountains.

Not sure if trying to lure me into the JP to farm my badges…

You are clearly not an EB JP enthusiast if you don’t even know how many fountains there are.

Maguuma, can you tell your arrow carts to stop hacking please. K thx.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Cactus.2710:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

But they are reacting exactly the way anet intended them to. Anet put in this system to reward players to stick to one alt, so what do you expect?

That doesn’t mean that players aren’t being stupid. It just means that ANet is stupid also for having put something in WvW that undermines WvW. Lots of people here saw this coming … ANet apparently didn’t.

But wait…if I recall, aren’t the ranks shared across EVERY CHARACTER ON YOUR ACCOUNT? If so, then how the hell is it killing the use of alts, if every kill you get regardless of character you’re playing helps fill the exact same bar?

Are you drunk?

This is the correct method to capture a castle from SBI.

I’ve got an even better idea, let’s just put a dot where the name would normally appear. The dot is colored according to the team color and gets larger in accordance with rank. Would make counting enemies incredibly easy, and also very easy to tell who the higher ranked players are.

That’s a pretty sad story, I still level all my alts in WvW, sorry you guys are so concerned about missing out on an extra 1% siege damage.

Pinko.2076:

I can’t stand these mags and their fun having. I just want to sit behind a keep wall!

Apparently you do, we even started building a flame ram on your wall, but you still wouldn’t come out to play

Jayne.9251:

So it appears the removal of culling melted my graphics card. It just spontaneously combusted last night after several massive zerg fights.

For the record, it was a decent card on a decent system*, was only a year old, and when I went into WvW I turned my settings low and got rid of shadows. But apparently the new changes were too much for it, alas.

Anyone else in mourning?

*system: quad, 8gigs ram, 6970 card, liquid cool

That’s what happens when you use AMD cards.

Maladon.5760:

Truearrow.3527:

Sovereign.1093:

I’m free to think as I do because I do feel that Yaks bend is stronger than Maguuma.

You may be correct since we dont seem to be able to get out of T4, I can say this, they need to have come a long way, I hope and believe that Mag and Yaks will be an even matchup with NNK/dragonbrand giving us good fights as always at night but Yaks needs to have come a long way since we last met them..

Of course YB is better than Mag, they’re beating the team that Mag can’t catch in the ratings. Maguuma has failed to close the gap on SoS for weeks now despite playing against smaller population servers that they should dominate. Meanwhile YB has widened the gap between themselves and Mag while playing tougher (higher population) servers. I’m not even sure how this is up for debate.

The ratings system in this game is flawed which will cause two servers to have very different ratings if they are in different tiers even if they would be a relatively even match. You can look at when EBay fell to Tier 5 a few weeks ago and instantly lost 100 rating points, they didn’t all of the sudden get bad, they just accumulated a bunch of rating points that were stuck in Tier 4 by surviving for a couple weeks and then transferred them all to Tier 5. Same thing will happen when SoS falls to Tier 4.

Insignia.6345:

First person to win a 2v1 DURP or no DURP (censoring) as a longbow ranger and records it gets my vote for King of Maguuma. Opponents must not be downleveled.

And while all these 2v1’s 1v1’s 3v1’s are great and are fun to watch. Did any of you stop to think maybe you just had more raw skill than your opponents? If anyone wants all this fair stuff, blah blah blah go to sPvP.

The complaining about unfair fights always makes me laugh. Nothing about WvW is supposed to be fair, the “teams” have different numbers of players, not all players are the same level, not all players have the best gear, not all players are using the best food or sometimes any food at all. Not to mention the classes are balanced around 5-player teams competing on small maps to capture and hold three different nodes, not for large open area combat, and certainly not for 1v1 duels. If someone kites you near guards then good for them, they are using the environment to their advantage and if you go to try kill them anyway and end up getting killed because of the guards, then maybe you shouldn’t do that next time. I don’t find any of the videos posted so far to be interesting or show particularly skilled play. If someone wants to post a video I’ll find fun to watch, start at your spawn and record an uncut video of you playing, then speed up the portions that you think are boring to watch.

Krash.9486:

Burgerz.3865:

Why does Mag and SBI insist on teaming up to take down those of us on CD? Are we just THAT good that you have to form a pact with each other to take us down?

This Guumba and CD double teamed me then skipped off holding hands…..why!!?? =/

Didn’t you post this exact same picture with the same question about a week ago?

Zephyrus.9680:

So to answer the other question, no I haven’t been trying AT ALL.

Well giddyup cowboy, you only have one and a half more days to pass up SoS, or you’re stuck in this tier for another week.

Why would you not want to be double teamed? I need more WXP so I can get that sweet sweet ballista range upgrade, and it’s faster when you have two servers to farm.

I was gonna say… 0.5% increased cannon damage… c’mon

Zephyrus.9680:

Heinel.6548:

santi.7516:

saiyr.3071:

There’s a post from a day ago from a TSym person about fighting, so I think news of SoS’ death has been greatly exaggerated, for now. Once/if TSym and AFS leave, SoS will probably fall a lot faster.

The problem is that SoS feeds at night like hungry dogs and we can’t stop them, also EBG turns into a 1 v 1 between DB and SoS, CD numbers at night are barely a half of the numbers SoS can put on the field after “the fall” of SoS, and DB’s WvW population has increased considerably since 2 weeks ago, things have changed, DB’s actual coverage is 24/7 and consistent even at NA primetime.

All this talks about them dropping multiple tiers probably had some of them fired up too. Like, EH-veryone, including people who didn’t even know who they are, are wishing them to DIAF just so we can have the possibility of more balanced tiers. And SoS is just refusing this involuntary martyrdom.

Well they’re definitely losing momentum fast from last week where it seemed (from points) they were solid T3. Now they’re clearly dropping but it looks like we might have to wait another week for it to happen.

Projected scores atm are:
1 724.697 Mag
1 728.853 SoS

If I’m allowed to suggest it, maybe CD and SBI try a little less hard this week for the sake of more even matches next week?

I thought Mag stopped trying?

RyuDragnier.9476:

I apologize to you CD…I never thought it would happen, but I have transferred to EB. It’s nothing personal to anybody here, but since my boyfriend transferred, and I like playing with him in just about everything, I transferred as well. Which means next time you fight EB I will be on their side. I’ll see you all when we fight.

Ebay won’t be in a match with CD for a looooong time.

zastari.1730:

Maladon.5760:

thel.5423:

I personally enjoy these fight clubs quite a bit and have missed the last few that were held. Shall we schedule one before Mag moves back up a tier? Tonight would work best for me (server time.)

You’ve got plenty of time. Mag isn’t moving up anytime soon. Not sure if they’re even trying to actually.

We tried for a little while, realized we weren’t going to close the gap, then quit being tryhards.

Nooo, earlier this week you were 5 glicko points ahead of SoS, keep trying! I berieve in you Magermaderp!

saiyr.3071:

Waffler.1257:

stinkypants.8419:

Krash.9486:

We sent forces to MAG BL to pressure them there and were successful in taking Bay and some towers …but MAGs numbers seemed to drop dramatically all of a sudden. Was there a server event or did y’all go to CD BL or EB? Because normally we are met with the angry zerg when we touch your stuff…there were some just not as many as usual from my prospective.

Yeah, I noticed this too. I wasn’t sure if it was our SEA population starting to roll in or Mag disappearing (or both???), but it was eerie. One moment we’re scrambling all over the place, the next… all aboard the karma train.

Maybe the grub spawned and they had to go kill it.

Can’t tell if mocking or truly understands Maguuma.

I work in mysterious ways.

stinkypants.8419:

Krash.9486:

We sent forces to MAG BL to pressure them there and were successful in taking Bay and some towers …but MAGs numbers seemed to drop dramatically all of a sudden. Was there a server event or did y’all go to CD BL or EB? Because normally we are met with the angry zerg when we touch your stuff…there were some just not as many as usual from my prospective.

Yeah, I noticed this too. I wasn’t sure if it was our SEA population starting to roll in or Mag disappearing (or both???), but it was eerie. One moment we’re scrambling all over the place, the next… all aboard the karma train.

Maybe the grub spawned and they had to go kill it.

The armor is pretty terrible, why would anyone pay 135 badges to look like this…

If they have a news link on the front page of their website listing those servers as the ones that will get free transfers…. then obviously those are the ones that will get free transfers.

In an interview somewhere they said they plan to add ascended gear for badges, but that it didn’t make it into this build. So… we play the waiting game, meanwhile my inventory keeps getting smaller and smaller.

What would be really cool is if you could see how much supply someone is carrying.

It’s… beautiful.

Not bad, but I think my Anet kill pic is a bit more epic.

JaironKalach.4938:

Sovereign.1093:

Having fought both yaks and mag, I feel yaks is a bit stronger overall. So, if you guys plan to duke it out, better prepare more.

^.^

I didn’t get a chance to chime in here yesterday, because we were a bit busy proving our point on CD’s body, most of yesterday. I’m just curious if you still feel the same way, now that you’ve experienced Maguuma when they’re actually trying, instead of the messing around we’ve been doing since we dropped down to T4.

Non-Graphical score update:
Mag 144,855 (340)
CD 85,724 (70)
SBI 74,764 (285)

It’s good to see that we still have most of our CD holdings, with Commander Bony in a strong garrison struggle agains the usual [Awe] suspects. I imagine he’s greatful to Tsarazi for providing him with a change of scenery.

Na, I have to agree with Sov, I still think YB is better than you guys overall. I mean sure, you guys just handed our kitten to us, but YB… they REALLY handed our kitten to us complete with smashing our face into the dirt and a few kicks to the groin.

zastari.1730:

great, we decide to tryhard wvw a borderland today and we cap the entire thing and have all of it except the 2 north towers on full structural upgrades. zzzzz tier 3 please.

What did you expect? You were already winning the matches by a large margin when you weren’t tryhard capping.

Legendary achievement unlocked!

The unsung heroes of WvW are those overachieving individuals who take the time to type /laugh, /sit, or just plain spend a few seconds corpse jumping after every kill. They may be called childish and immature on the forums, but those are the words of people too naive to comprehend their true end. These brave souls understand that the true war in WvW isn’t digital, but psychological. The damage these seemingly simple emotes have caused can be seen all across the WvW forums, and it is these little psychological jabs that can over time eat away at your opponent and skew their judgment. Sure SMC is under attack, but how you can let server x’s zerg run away unscathed after they spent so much time laughing at your corpse the last time they wiped you? You cannot, revenge will always trump duty, and it is through exploiting this flaw in human behavior that will let the less populated, less skilled, or even less motivated server gradually catch up and overcome their opponent.

Jackums.3496:

1. Elementalist
2. Guardian
3. Mesmer
4. Thief
5. Necro
6. Warrior
7. Engineer/Ranger

Mark Necros in siege situations are extremely useful. I’d rather defend against and/or attack a zerg with a lot of Warriors than I would one with a lot of Necros spamming AoE conditions all over the place. Perhaps I’m biased because I main a Mesmer with zero cleansing skills, but even a well-placed fear can mess up a zerg.

Yep, I just made a necro for farming zergs in WvW and they can absolutely destroy eles/guardians/engineers with corrupt boon, and then destroy the rest of their party members with epidemic.

The real question is can you trade the gear you buy with badges, because if you can I’m going to have a lot of money coming in.

MrKnieves.4162:

Insignia.6345:

Honestly i can never grasp this perma stealth thing for theives, can anyone tell me what im doing wrong or link a guide or give me some advice? im assuming it revolves around cloak and dagger? or that pistol dagger leap finisher? or both? any help would be appreciated. It’s been bugging me lol.

There is no such thing. As was explained above, culling might give a thief an extra 2 second “stealth” (depending on the computer), but from the thief perspective that is not happening. What people might be calling “perma stealth” is a crafty thief that can escape and uses the environment to his/her advantage.

Perma-stealth is when a thief is in stealth 100% of the time, no culling involved. You can see how it’s done here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbw8Cpy-3s. Very useful for ressing dead mesmers in a keep since you are near impossible to kill. And yes, dead mesmers can stay dead forever, if you swap out armor while dead it will reset the inactivity timer.

kerona.3465:

Its ok we used to being blamed for everything.

It’s all Maguuma’s fault that this March 26 WvW patch sucks. More progression? That’s the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard for an “expansion’s worth” of content.

Wanderer.3248:

In T8 there are no queues. You can use WvW as a shortcut to Lions arch and avoid the WP cost.

Or you could just use heart of the mists like everyone else.

I think some cross server romance is exactly what needs to happen to spice this match up a bit. Third week of the same match is exiting the honeymoon stage.

I’m pretty sure the laurel system was Anet’s way of making ascended gear available to WvW players, I doubt they will be available for purchase through badges.

Halo.8976:

TigerDragon.4037:

Someone from Maguuma tried to party with me…

He probably just mashed all the buttons and pressed “P” by an accident. Must be an ele. Pay no attention.

I get Mag people trying to party me all the time, they are a very social group of people. One Mag was running away from me to his castle and ended up running into my line of warding instead right before I killed him. He tried to party me 5 times before finally releasing.

wondo.2870:

Vena.8436:

Rank 27 is a measly scout.

I look forward to being Rank 0: Killed by Flame Ram.

lololol

some more:
Rank 1: Killed by a cliff(nerf cliffs!)
Rank 2: Killed by Quaggans

Rank 3: Killed by Trained Shark

JaironKalach.4938:

styx.7294:

Viking.3158:

no offense taken. this is the first time i am actually even looked at transfer.

i have never transfered to anyother server. i am not like those who definatly want win but i am sick of it. we never found tier, still imbalanced by a lot. after playing for 2 months and getting nothing, now i am even looking at a transfer. NEVER before i have transfered out cause i was losing.

You’re still not too bad in tier 4. I don’t really know if it’s as bad as you’re makin it sound. At a quick glance, your tier seems it is middle of the pack for how balanced it is.

The problem is that CD has a very, very narrow band of coverage, at this point, which is holding them in the tier. Making it painful for players like this one who are not in that band of coverage.

Yep, playing during the NA time zone on CD is pretty barren with no commander most of the time. We struggle to maintain 100 ppt and most keep defenses involve about 5-6 of us defending against 20+ groups from Mag or SBI. I can see why a lot of CD people who play during NA want to transfer. If you really want to be sure you are on a winning server for the long haul, I would also wait to see what impact the release of TESO has on WvW population since it has a similar realm vs realm system that appears to be better designed than this one.

GvG ranking would be awesome. I just went over to the GW1 website and took the attached picture of their “Competitive” section, and it still baffles me to this day how Guild Wars evolved into the game we have now.

I find it amusing that he can drop 100 gold to get a blue chip above his head, but suddenly finds himself unable to afford a 2 silver repair bill.

This is adorable.

GuardianOMS.8067:

“it makes sense to attack the easier target” but how is that fun? I don’t get why everyone just loves this PvDoor game to the extent that they will actively avoid fights. Jeez, is Maguuma the only server that just goes out and does what it wants instead of always worrying about “abloo abloo if we leave then they’re gonna attack us!”?

If you are playing to get the most points possible, then attacking the easiest target is the best course of action. If you assume that people are playing for fun only, then it doesn’t really matter what the kitten you do as long as you are having fun doing it. So why did you suggest CD and SBI team up on Mag? Was it because it would get us more points, or did you just think it would be more fun for us?