Guild Wars 2

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Olba.5376:

BurrTheKing.8571:

The minor traits in the tactics line should all be revamped to deal specifically with reducing condition duration.

5. Reduce duration of Bleeding by 33%
15. Reduced duration of poison by 33%
25. Immune to one blind on a 10 second cooldown.

Combine this with a bug fixed Quick Breathing perk so that if you have cripple and bleed it removes both correctly even investing just 5 points would make conditions much less of a instant loss. I came up with the blind immunity because while that effects every class negatively, warriors tend to get hit the hardest. I feel this would still keep condition builds effective against warriors, they just wouldn’t roll over them.

That will never happen, simply because then a Warrior could pop Superior Runes of Melandru and Lemongrass Poultry Soup and have -98% bleed and poison duration, effectively making them immune to those conditions.

I tried that build with dogged march, melandru set and Soup of the Day this weekend in wvw and its great, maybe even OP right now because condition builds need some time to adapt and find an effective counter.

With food, it actually is op, no doubt about it. I found myself more than once being chased by a group of 5-10 people who couldnt catch me. I got range-hit constantly but I had enough T/V/Healing to keep my hp up, their snares were ineffective and their other conditions lasted only 35% our their usual up time. I also didnt loose much dps or survivability re-speccing for it.

But I dont think that i will have the foodbuff on all the time because it will cost too much.

On-Topic: If I switch to my war horn, its just for the extra swiftness, not condition removal, i never seemed to have an issue with condition removal, so I dont think, it needs a buff.

To avoid that problem, i used a build that is viable in Wvw and PvE. This weekend I wanted to check out a different build in wvw and opted to get a new set of Armour.
I got the exotic Karma gear fromm the Orr Temples, which cost 241k Karma.
This might sound a bit much but I have so much Karma that this is the cheapest solution for me compared to grind out dungeon tokens or money. I just needed to buy the runes and have 6 spaces less in my bank.

Why do you want to unbalance all other tiers to fix your mess?

Ring of Fire stopped at 90% as well.

pejot.4806:

It’s not like RoF are taking a week off or something, we don’t want to tier up, but we’re doing our best. Arborstone can pull surprisingly big numbers (they won the reset with 40-50 man zerg on EACH borderland). If they put a bit more organization into these numbes and convinced people to bring more fully levelled/geared characters, they could actually win this matchup. If you take a look at pie chart at MOS, Arbor are ticking +285 atm and RoF morning crew was giving us a lot of points in GH-Dzagonur-RoF matchups

Anya is right, I was also quite surprised at the numbers Arborstone was fielding on all maps, especially during the weekend. I think they got some transfers in, maybe just due to the free trial weekend. The Frenchies are unsurprisingly not very active in the english matchup thread and we didnt play them for some weeks so I am not really in a position to compare. But we are not holding back for the sake of not wanting to get back to T7.
You also have to take into consideration that we are green for the first time again after nearly two months. That means that plenty of non regulars are in wvw for map completion now. That becomes painfully obvious on our own Borderlands.
Many times our BL was getting picked apart and I couldnt waypoint over there because it was full. While trying to take back our stuff, I could see, there werent as much people there as last week following the commanders because they were working on map completion rather than contributing.
Our Borderlands looked better in our match up against you guys than now in T8 and we didnt have a major shift in population, both times we had a queue in our Borderlands. So there is only 2 conclusions why we arent dominating in T7 as much as everybody (including myself):
-AS+WSR are actually not that much worse than GH+ROS
-RoF arent as good as last week

And I think its the latter. Our wvw population might even got a little bump this week from our Pve´s but that doesnt give our overall performance much of a boost.
During prime time, we always have a queue on EB but we cant really achieve much. We have SM propably 80-90% of the time, our keep and our 4 upgraded towers. Those get flipped very rarely during prime time. But also WSR and AS can hold their corners most of the time, even though their camps and towers get flipped more frequently.
Yesterday, some time between about 6-9pm, their was a stretch of over 2 hours where only camps flipped colors on whole EB, no towers or keeps and it wasnt for the lack of trying from all 3 servers. We had a queue and AS must have as well, WSR seems to fall a bit off, population wise.
I was very proud of us, how we performed as a server in T7 against you guys, even though we got a beating most of the weeks.
Now we are the server in the lead and after 2 months of being the underdog that just takes some adjustment on our side. We are just not used to defend SM effectively or take advantage of its position for our attacks.

I love trebbing and after so many weeks as red, I know all the right spots for treb-placement in Overlook but I didnt get much chance to gain the same experience in Stonemist. Yesterday I was building a treb on the upper eastern balcony to hit Durios only to discover that if you build it too close to the edge, it can be ranged from players hugging the outside wall of SM.

OK, this starts to become a reinforced wall of text, so before someone trebs it down, i gonna stop here.

Lootbags to all,

Yes, it is. Now go play.

We saw the bots on Saturday morning and wiped them a couple of times.
How daft can you be to send your bots into enemy territory?
Unfortunately these bots are good for us, as they provide us with easy lootbags, dont cap objectives and fill up WSR queue.
We should report them, though.

Pinka.4385:

Please “fix” the EU T1.. its pointless to play since we apparently decided to give up and drop T2.. all hail the superior french, i quess you won the first guild wars world war!!
borderlands is mostly emty for ally players and EB is just a mess with commanders fooling around trying to annoy and have fun but its useless, like our tactics ^.-

So after 3 weeks of unbalanced match ups in T1 you demand that Anet “fixes” the mess you got yourself into?

They should screw over all tiers below you because you just decided to give up?
I play on Ring of Fire, T7 for the last 2 months or so and we just went down to T8 this reset.
In T7, matchups were pretty even at the weekend and during prime time at weekdays but in the end, night- and morningtime coverage and wvw population differences between all 3 servers usually resulted in us getting 80k-150k points less than the winner.
In T8, even though the weekend is a little bit more tighter, i guess we will win this match up by 80k-150k. But we will get those points in off-peak hours and because we will have SM for the most part of the week.
How come that I am having fun, week in week out, even though I am getting pummeled point-wise?
Did you ever wonder, how Vabbi must feel about their population imbalance in their Tier?
If you decide to give up and go down to T2, what is there to fix for Anet? Why open a new thread for a topic that already exists without having to contribute anything constructive?

Close this thread please.

Ilesyt.7084:

Dear Wanze, we will be sure to crush your attempt if you decide to go RoS bl ^^

Hey Ilesyt, I will most definately come to RoS BL, not sure yet, if it will be me and 5 warriors from my guild or 50 from our whole server.

You are more than welcome to participate and rally all Warriors of RoS under your banner to stand against us.
Its common knowledge that RoF Warriors drop the best loot in all WvW.

I suggested a three-way warrior battle royale for the island in the lake in the other thread.

Roo Stercogburn.9671:

itsmee.7536:

Just a suggestion, organize such events in your server community forum. All your enemies know about it now

Its ok, reset night is a big night. Not exactly a shock

Hey look there’s lots of RoF. Thats… ‘new’.

Hey look, there’s lots of us too. Yay.

Fight fight fight fight fight. Happy times.

I might be around for reset this week. Might be in the pub.

I don’t speak for Bosko… er, Gunnars Hold but assuming we’re still in the same matchup, we’re happy to come to you’re event. No need to worry about us finding our way to you, I’m sure we’ll manage

I havent seen Forums on here dedicated to each server (they should really make some), so I posted it in the WvW Forum and linked it in the current match up thread.
If you mean community created forums dedicated to our server on another website, ummmm, I think we have one somewhere but I am not sure how frequently they are visited by the big guilds and other players. I think I visited the Ring of Fire Alliance Website once and I am more active here than there.
And I dont mind that our enemies know about it. Without you guys, wvw would be no fun. I am also interested in feedback to my idea from other players, maybe something like this was already done on other servers. Also after the event, I would like to know, what RoS and GH thought of it.
Those events are also planned before reset because after reset I, like anybody else, play wvw very competitively. So it will be definately you guys that will either drop our lootbags or make us all reroll a Thief.
If either RoS or GH want to join this event by rallying as much warriors as possible to stand against us, you are more than welcome. I will make sure to post here, which BL we gonna hit at which time.
Or we could combine it with the duel club that seems to usually go down on friday nights as well.
Maybe a three-way battle of warrior zergs for the island in the lake (Temple of Storms?)?
Let me know, if either server is interested.

Hi Ring of Fire Warriors!
I want to organize a little Server Event on friday nights. Please check it out.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Warriors-of-Ring-of-Fire-Unite/first#post1887863

If you need 12-15 players to wipe 8 people in your Lord Room, you deserve to loose the keep.

Hail all Warriors of Ring of Fire!

This is a call to arms because there is some knife-work that need doing and I want to have some fun.

I think for the past 2 months we were involved in some great match ups and even though most of the time we didnt end up as the winner, we got better on a weekly basis.

My guild attendance in wvw get better as well and we have small scale guild runs with 5-10 people on a regular basis now. I also tagged along on many runs, trainings and events of other guilds and had a blast.

But one thing we are still lacking, is a server wide event. A more or less coordinated one I mean, you could argue that the zerg of headless chickens that we field during some time during the day to follow a blue dorito is a server wide event as well.

So I would like to create a weekly event that draws a high participation from all guilds and other players and this what I came up with:

Every friday night I would like meet up with as many warriors from our server as possible, form a zerker-zerg and spread havoc in our enemies Borderlands.
I would like to know what our class is capable of in a big group and what counter tactics our enemies will come up with to stop us killing their dolyaks and curse their mothers.

How do you stop 50 Warriors with zerker builds killing your quaggans under water?
How much Hammer/Maces warriors do you need to play golf with the enemy zerg?
How many Leg-Specialists do you need to completely shut down all 6 entries to your Borderlands with arrow carts?
Can you take a fully upgraded SM with 10 Siege Warriors, 5 Banner Warriors, 5 DPS Warriors, 5 Ranged Warriors, 5 Condition Warriors, 5 CC Warriors, 5 Tank Warriors, 5 Buff Warriors and 5 Healie Warriors?
Whats the world record time for killing the grub?
Whats the world record time for killing the grub naked?
Can you build a Flame Ram Flipper Machine in front of the spawn point?

Lets find out, every friday night.
And somebody please call Guinness, I have no phone.

Why friday nights? If this becomes a successful event, some people might call us out for abusing certain mechanics to gain an advantage. And they might be right as we might be spamming certain tactics on them that they dont know how to counter.
On friday nights you have the match ups already decided most of the time, people are doing fight club, guild events or prepare for reset.
So whatever we do, doesnt have too much impact on the outcome of the match and we dont take the fun out of the game for enemies on a daily basis.
I would propably stop playing, if I had to face a zerg of 30 thieves every day for a couple of hours during prime time.

Depending on feedback, I would like to do 2 events this friday night, one 5 hours before reset (7pm CET) and one 2 hours before reset. I know some guilds also do their guild events on friday nights, so this might give them the chance to join one event or the other.
During each event we will attack one Borderland and see how far we get.

Hope you are all with me and thanks for any feedback.

But is the price of the transmutation stone worth the salvaged rune?

Axes.5108:

FYI The Big Red dots are Red Maple Leafs not acorn leafs ROFL the SV Concordia was based out of Lunenburg Nova Scotia, Canada used as a sail training ship for West Island College. The Red Maple Leaf is a symbol of the Canadian Flag. All the same good catch on noticing it.

You´re right, its maple leaves, of course. Probably the only reference to a national flag/symbol in the game.

Neural.1824:

http://i.imgur.com/Pe7imz3.jpg

Dunno.. when comparing a photo found on google with the Frostgorge image, I don’t see any similarities at all cough

Thanks for placing both images together, no doubt that shi kitten V Concordia.
Thanks to everybody else as well for the helpful feedback on practices of using googled images in game design and copyright issues.

I dont mean to bring anybody in trouble for copyright infringement but I would still like to know if the artist used the image because s/he simply googled pictures of “sailing ship” or put in that image in it for a sentimental value.

There is a pretty good chance that one of the former students that were sailing on Concordia is working at Anet now.

I recognized the resemblance of both images months ago but never bothered to do the research. One of the reasons why I realized it is because i think the exact same image hangs as a painting on a wall in my mothers house. I think i received it in either 07 or 08 with the yearbooks or in 2010 after she capsized.

Next time I visit mum, I will check it out.

And to the artist, who put Concordia into that loading screen:

That boat has been my home for a year and took me on an incredible journey half-way around the world. You show me an image of a place that doesnt exist anymore and means alot to me everytime I log into Frostgorge sound.
You make my day. Everyday.
I hope I never find my pre cursor and you got my vote for Employee of the Month.

Great week and match up again, thanks to everybody involved.
Just like the week before, the weekend has been awesome.

On sunday night, I wouldnt have wanted to predict a winner.
But I toss my MF-Helmet to GH for winning once again. And if you check the ratings, they blew DZ and RoF out of the park compared to the match up before leading with 83.000-85.000 points compared to last weeks lead of 53.000 to 55.000.

DZ and us have been incredibly close for 2 weeks now and it was great fighting them for the 5th week in a row. Even though it would be nice to finish a match up in front of you once in a while, i cant say its undeserved.

Its also great to see the rating system actually starting to work and tiers settling down after all these free transfers.
Some might say its boring to fight the same servers over and over again but i disagree.
These 2 weeks have been the best I have had in wvw. And i dont care, who I fight, as long as I have as much fun when i log into wvw as I do have now.

As I already stated before, during the weekend and during prime time its always a close fight even though each side went under 100 points and over 400 points per tick during those times more than once.

If night time coverage was the same, this would be an ideal match up.
I usually dont play after midnight so i can only imagine what is going on. After all that I have heard, this match up could be so much more balanced, if [Krew] didnt transfer to GH. But I dont want to blame them either, thats much too easy. I dont know much why they transfered and how they like this match up so far.
Maybe they got already tiered of PvDooring all the time and wouldnt mind some good fights. Maybe they transfered to do just that because its the fastest way to gain WXP.
And that is just an assumption, I wouldnt know because since WXP got introduced, I faced 2 servers that fought toe and nail for mostly every objective that i wanted to take. And if that was so, I wouldnt blame you for it either.

It would be nice to hear from [Krew] how they like it so far. Maybe you wouldnt mind to face some equal competition and DZ and us should try to recruit a night guild about your size as well.

I already fought some of you for 1-2 hours before I logged off so you are also around when there is still some epic battles going on so you know how much fun that is as well.

Concerning WXP and its fastest aquisition:
From all the styles and locations of play that i have done since WXP got introduced, i made the observation that i got it fastest defending our overlook keep in EB against enemy zergs.
I am not sure which guild claimed it but i cant remember that we lost it and i dont think that it ever was without a waypoint when i was online. And we had plenty of zergs coming by, all wiped. I never gained faster wxp than with a well placed arrow cart in Overlook. That was one proper sieged up keep, if i ever saw one.
I also dont remember to see either one of GH´s or DZ´s keeps on EB flip when i was online, so i guess that observation goes three ways.

Any commander out there that claimed an enemy keep on EB this week?

Cheers on the battlefield!

Bloin

Sarevok.2638:

1. WvW server and it’s given a free ticket to just about anyone wanting carried to t1.

Free ticket to t1? I thought free transfers to medium populated servers where only available until April 1st?
Did that change?

I agree with the OP in general, though. They should have excluded top tier servers from that.

The attachment didnt go into the original post, so here again the picture of SV Concordia:

On the loading screen of Frostgorge Sound you can see a Tall Ship with red dots on its square sails on the right side of the picture.
Whenever I go to FS to check out, if Jormag eventually put my pre cursor in his Claw´s lunch box, it reminds me of a Tall Ship that I have been sailing on in 2007.
I was wondering, if the artist who designed that loading screen put that vessel into it as a homage to SV Concordia, which unfortunately sank 3 years ago off the coast of Brazil.
The red dots on the square sails are quite distinctive for a sailing vessel and the SV Concordia had big red acorn leaves on hers.

I also found a picture of SV Concordia that looks just like on the loading screen:

Substance E.4852:

Arkham Creed.7358:

Katzyn.9703:

The refugees from the Flame and Frost events are going to move there, I’m sure they’ll be doing something more with the area.

This is based on what?

A couple NPC’s in the refugee camp in LA talk about how they are getting a fresh start in SSC thanks to the Consortium. Obviously some kind of shenanigans are at work but we will just have to wait and see how far Anet decides to go with it.

The refugees from F&F already DID move there.

Check the camps in SC and you will see some npc tourists.

Racial jokes.
Lame.

Neandramathal.9536:

We enter your BL quite frequently and find it’s empty, we take a keep and start laying siege weapons… then suddenly outmanned appears, 40 guys arrive and either nuke gate with no siege or build a ton of cata’s and swirling winds it, then leave. It just gets… very tiresome, to know that there is nothing you are gonna do to keep them out.

Just hate the all or nothing No smaller attacks or defenses, there’s no one or there’s everyone. It’s certainly effective, just.. find it a tad boring as literally can’t defend against it without similar numbers.

I have to disagree here, even though i can see where your frustration is coming from.

After you take a keep on enemy borderlands, you know that they will be knocking on your door soon. You even get a warning, once the outmanned buff is active.
If they use only 2 tactics and zerg flip you anyways, you cant blame their boring tactics but only your own lack of skill.
You can easily destroy catas before they do any serious damage with your counter treb, that you set up before their zerg arrived.
Maybe you set up the wrong siege weapons in the wrong places.
If they are enough to melt your wooden doors down, dont try to stop them there.
If you are only 5-10 people defending and setting/manning siege, start at the lord room, not on the outer walls.

Each player on your side, that is defending the keep will be able to build at least 1 siege weapon before the 40 dzags come knocking.
You wont be able to stop them at the outer gates, even though you have placed all your siege at the gate/wall that they are attacking. They will just go to another gate, where you cant build more siege because youre out of supply, so you will only slow them down. You wont get much kills either because they can just back out off range, move along or aoe it down.

The Lord Room is the only place they HAVE to go, so why not wait there. Build some siege to concentrate on the choke points.
Believe me, after they dps/ram outer and inner gates down uncontested, they will be rushing into it as soon as the gate is down, popping swiftness to be the first to tag the keep lord. Well, most of the zerg anyways, some people already learned their lessons. But this way you will propably wipe 50-75% of the zerg, the rest will back and has to wait for a regroup and start working on some tactics on how to get into the lord room.
If you have some spare people without siege set up, you can send them to dzags other keep and garrison to contest it the moment they break the inner gate. That way, all the people that you just wiped off your lord room can only waypoint to their spawn and have to worry about that another keep might be under attack. That will split up their forces and they might abandon to take your keep or, if you are lucky, die trying over and over again.

Its natural that everybody goes the path of least resistance. And if Dzag can flip your keep efficiently the way they do, they will keep on doing it until you stop them.
See this as an opportunity to get better. If they use a certain tactic all the time, find a sucessful counter tactic and abuse it until they think of something else.
After you faced the same servers for a longer time you are bound to find some patterns in their communal gameplay.
Please dont see this as boredom but a sign of you gaining more knowledge about your enemies.
The more you know about when and where they will try to flip an objective, the easier it will be for you to prepare for the siege.
And you will also learn to evaluate, if it makes sense to put some effort and gold into defending something.
If you take an enemy objective, most of the time you will lose it at some point again.
That is always frustrating, especially if you spent alot of time and money upgrading and defending it.
Set yourself personal goals, for example note down the period of time that you were able to hold it or the amount of WXP you got while doing it.
And the next time, try to do better.

I see you on the battlefield.

I also think it has been a great match up and even though GH is gonna win with more than 50.000 points it has always been a close battle.

I dont think anybody can argue that their lead didnt come from night capping and by no means I want to belittle their achievements. In the end a day has 24 hours and capping an objective is worth as much at 8 pm as at 8am. The only difference is that you propably only need 5 more players than your opponents on the map at 8 am to improve your points per tick by 100 while at 8 pm you need 50 more players than your opponents.

But as I already stated, the battlefield was very even during prime time when I usually play with each server sometimes leading in points per tick.

And this made this week a whole lot of fun because I always had the feeling that I can do whatever I wanted to do.

I could find a place to solo roam, kill some yaks and try out some new builds in order to faster solo-flip camps.
If I ran in a small group, we could always find enemy towers with upgrades that would suit our size.
There would also always be a decent sized zerg that i could follow, when I felt like i needed some quick WXP without too much thinking. Sometimes, thats just what I was capable of after an exhausting day at work.
And most of the time, there were also a couple of commanders online. And good ones too!

I learned alot this week as well, defense for example. That mini-game that nobody wants to play because they think the mindless zerg yields better loot and faster WXP.
For those that are still complaining that you cant stop mindless zerging and Anet doesnt do anything about it:
They already gave you the opportunity to do so: Siege weapons!

Nothing stops a zerg better than some well placed siege weapons and some able bodies behind it. Fire an arrow cart into an 80 man zerg that will be wiped within 2 minutes and you will know what i mean. Lootbags all around and a blue cloud of WXP in the middle of your screen. There is nothing better than defending a lord room with some siege in it for a couple of hours against waves of invaders pouring in. You better put on your MF gear.

Dont get me wrong, I dont mean to say that either GH or DZ are mindless zerglings and I am the best siegemaster around. I died quite often as well this week because i didnt pay attention, if that zerg was still behind me. And I ran into the lord room plenty of times and got killed by the same guy on a ballista over and over again during one of those epic 2 hour sieges of bay.

Personally I dont care much what tier I am playing in and what rank I am as long it is as much fun as this.

Cheers to round 2!

Do Experience Boosters work with WXP?
And if not, will WXP Boosters be introduced at some point?

i wonder how dynamically the server population gets updated.
Could it be that when xaoc decides on a server and they all start moving there, after half the guild done so, suddenly the server gets graded as a highly populated server and the other half of the guild has to pay for the transfer.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Ilesyt.7084:

But yeah , RoF is probably more PvE focused.

No Ilesyt, we aren’t any more PvE focused than any other server. We can run large groups on more than one map during prime time, but we lack 24/7 coverage. You’ll see it for yourself again next week because you’ll be in the same position when you face Gunnar’s and your old friends the Dzags.

I’m sure we’ll be hearing from you again about how unfair it is that the Dzags always double team you.

Scuttlebutt is that Xaoc might be knocking on Dzag´s and Gunnar´s hatches during night watch, flying RoS-colors, coming next week.

Free transfers until April 1st to medium populated, low tiered servers means Xaoc is looking for a new home server once again.

REAL.7483:

Seafarer’s Rest is rank1 EU and medium server aswell, come here to stomp (and to stop) some Vizunah Square invader morning golem rushes!
I don´t speak for our community, this is just my input, but if you don´t come here for any reason i would like to see you on Desolation (but not medium :<) so we could have a better T1.

Top Tier Servers are excluded from free transfers, even if they have low population.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/free-transfers-to-medium-populations-worlds/

I also think the buffs are broken. A couple of days ago i checked how much karma i get for flipping a camp with the outmanned buff and it was the same as without the buff.

The color of your server is related to the position it is in your tier/match-up.
The top-rated server is green, the one in second place is blue and the one in last place is red. you can check the current standings and projected matchups for next week here:
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups

IT looks like you have been blue or green for the last 6 weeks and will be blue again next week, if ratings stay like still until friday. But the Red BL will be home to Drakkar Lake, which will jump from tier 7 to tier 5 and might have a hard time against UW and FSP.

I have been playing since pre-release and hit lvl 80 within 2 weeks. I think of myself as a decent player that most of the time knows what he is doing. Well, sometimes, I dont:

While working on map completion in Nov/Dec I finished all PvE Maps first, during that time, I wasnt very keen on WvW. After I was done with it, I focussed on the WvW maps. Of course, a couple of POI´s and Vistas took a long time to get but when i finally finished the lasst WvW map, i was still stuck at 99% world completion. So I waypointed into every map to check, if I missed something. I didnt realize that if you hover over the map name for each region on the world map, it states, what still is missing in terms of POI´s, Vista´s, hearts and skill points. So I wasted nearly 2G on waypoint-fees porting through all zones. But as all zones that i visited were complete, I thought that it must be a bug. It took me an additional week to realize that I havent been to the City of Rata Sum at all, which had all the stuff that i was missing.

And here is another cracker:
After at least 1000+ hours in game I just realized this weekend that you can use Utility- and Elite Skills under water. So for half a year, I have been fighting under water with only my weapon- and healing skill slotted.
When I told my guildies in Teamspeak, there was laughter for minutes. The good thing about it is, I wasnt doing too bad in under water combat but now, I am OP.

If World Completion is the last thing you need to craft your legendary, maybe think of a server transfer. If its the first Gift you´re working on to craft your legendary, dont bother with it for now. You will have months in front of you to grind out all the gold, pre-cursor and ingredients. In that time, check back once a week into wvw to see, if your color changed. Or actually take active part in wvw, if you like it and capture those objectives.

As far as I am concerned, Jerry is a mouse, not a rat.
No easter egg.
Close this threat.

Lower tiers are aot more fun due to the arguments already mentioned:
Better for solo or small group play, less culling, no queues, etc.
I am very happy at the lower tiers, even though i havent played in middle or higher tiers yet. One thing you can expect though, is that you propably spend more money on siege weapons and upgrades in lower tiers than higher tiers due to the lack of accounts actively playing and contributing with coin.

I run a GS/Rifle set up most of the times more focussed on crits/damage/bleeds, so i am a little glassy. Usually i end up doing most of my damage at range with my rifle and i use my GS for mobility reasons. With signet o rage/rush/whirl there arent many classes that can outrun me. HB comes in handy when fighting npcs but i dont use it much in zerg fights because its easily avoidable and leaves you vulnerable.

Will try to poke my head/voice into mumble tonight.

Thanks for all the positive feedback and I will make sure to be on GH Borderlands at 8 pm GMT. I am pretty sure GH will be ready to defend their turf and I hope RoF and WsR can field enough invaders to put their defenses to a test.

After 3 weeks its nearly certain that our servers gonna split into different tiers.

And I have to say that it has been 3 awesome weeks. Even though this week is a little boring on all three servers, i guess we all can agree to that.

To make it a little bit more interesting for all sides and to say goodbye to this excellent match-up with a bang, I have the following proposal:

A final battle on friday night on Gunnar´s Hold Borderlands, where you have to defend your homelands against the gritty invaders of Whiteside Ridge and Ring of Fire.

I think I read somewhere that each borderland can have 200 players on it from each server. I am pretty sure that on a friday night, for a last Hurrah, each of servers can mobilize 200 people for a battle royal.

For the GH Guilds this might be also a great way to put your training to the test. If you guys spend some time in wvw these days, you are propably bored, guarding spiritholme on our borderlands.

For the rest of the week, you will be able to upgrade your whole borderlands (you propably have anyways) and plan your defences, place siegeweapons, assign guilds to defend certain objects etc.

And on friday night at 8 GMT 200 each WSR and RoF will be knocking on your door.

How long can you hold out in an upgraded borderland against twice your numbers? Will we even have enough supplies to assault your Borderlands? Who knows?
Lets find out!

Would be nice to get some feedback from Guild Leaders from all 3 servers on it.

Kudos to WSR from me (RoF) as well. The last 2 weeks you fought bravely even though you had the smallest numbers. This week is gonna be hard for both of us, I wont spend much time or money in wvw this week though. Hopefully you can hold RoS down a tier for another week, so we can have a decent match-up again before RoS eventually tiers up.
If I will put my head into wvw this week, I will do so only to look for some xaoc tags to earn some batches.

It would be interesting to see, if you can kill the Breakout Commander (Siegerazor) and if he can be rezzed or just respawns. How long is the respawn time? Because that could actually influence the flow of play, if you kill the enemy commander before he starts the breakout event and takes a couple of min to respawn.

I had some great fights with GH the last weeks and i didnt mind losing against them as well because their victories were well earned. I didnt even mind losing the weekly matchups against them. You always had some great weekend coverage and we had some slight advantage during the week. For that fact, it was a great learning match-up because most of the time, you could look at the maps and choose, if you would like to defend somewhere or join an attacking force. Most of the time, battles where that close, that you could already make a difference with a group of 5. It was a great enviroment to bring new wvw players in there.
I also had great respect for GH, how they improved their wvw community until now.
I wouldnt have thought that GH would take a guild like that with open arms like you have done. I am aware that you cant prevent them from joining their server but the statement you released here made me lose alot of respect for you guys. You have done such a tremendous job getting better at wvw I wonder why you choose hte easy route now.
I hope you learn alot, waking up to 4 green maps for the rest of the week. Usually I would have wished you good luck when you eventually tiered up but now I hope you struggle.

Cheers, anyways…

My wish came true.

I hope they join my Tier. But not on my server please.

Also, the color of your home borderland changes in relation to the place your server occupies in the tier. So there is a chance each week, that you have another colored homeland each week.

Rune of Vampirism grants mist form when under 10%health and rune of infiltration grants stealth.
I am currently running a warrior with infiltration set and have to say, it saved my live many a time.

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The fights have been generally well matched, often three way and also very hard fought. I have seen little of the enormous map-stomping zergs that we have had to fight the last few months, but instead seen lots of three way fights where the outcome has always been in doubt. There has also been hardly and sign of any form of cheating or hacking – unlike a few other matches that I won’t mention.

This match has been very important in the re-building of Gunnars Hold. We have re-organised, worked on our communications, worked on our tactics, and this is finally starting to have an effect.

Not only do we have some great WvW guilds – but our small guilds and more and more of our individual players are getting on the community Mumble voice comms and getting organised into groups and being given group objectives. – We had around 60+ people on the community mumble last night (not huge numbers by higher tier standards I know) as well as the bigger guilds also using their own TS/Vent etc.

I agree. This match-up is very entertaining and a great opportunity for new players to learn about wvw. I also noticed here on RoF alot of new players coming in just for their monthly or working on world completion and sticking around because it is so much more fun than just zerging around. The RoF Commanders also got better in the last couple of weeks even though we dont have one on every map all the time. But we are getting better organized every week. Our Guild, [TTA] has about 350 members but we are mostly a casual PvE guild. But more and more members are getting interested in wvw, we got our first commander batch and we will try to start wvw guild events to get more people interested.

As someone already mentioned earlier, why would you like to get world completion, if you dont wvw?

The Star next to your name or the Title? Seems not much reward to me, for all the playing time you have to put into that.
Most likely, you would like to have the 2 Gifts of Exploration to craft your Legendaries.
But for that you also need 500 batches of honor which are only obtained in wvw. I am pretty sure it takes less time to get map completion in wvw than earning 500 batches.
I was also not amused when I realized that wvw maps are needed for it because i never done pvp in other mmo´s. But I had to go there anyways for my monthly and i spend more time there than I would have usually done. Now I like it very much and I am grateful that Anet forced me into it.

I was just sweeping over WSR BL with RoF. I dont think we had any golems with us but after the outer wall at Bay way down we had alot of reinforcements. I dont think i have ever seen so high RoF Numbers in enemy borderlands ever.
Kudos to GH and WSR, its been a great week so far. The tier doesnt matter when you have close match ups like this. I noticed that i learn more during weeks like these compared to weeks when one side completely dominates.

Have a great week!

I think people forget that not the stats on the legendaries (which are the same as exotics right now) make them better but the journey to obtaining it does.

Of course there is still the possibility to buy one with alot of money but that doesnt make you a better player because right now they are more or less cosmetic items with the same stats as exotics.

For me, obtaining a Legendary is a long term goal that i started pursuing after hitting lvl 80.
In order to get all the ingredients, you have to master alot of different aspects of the game.
I had to get world completion first, which made me visit all maps of Tyria. I wouldnt have done that otherwise, as my character was already lvl 80.
Then i started to lvl my crafting professions, because i didnt craft before. After maxing my first 2 professions, i got very good in lvling the other ones with investing minimum ingredients and money, which, in my opinion makes me a legendary crafter.
Before Guild Wars 2 I also didnt like PvP/WvW very much, i was usually focussed on PvE. But I had to get into WvW to get world completion as well as my 500 batches.
Now I really like WvW and even though I am propably not the best at it, I am way better at it than before.
I also got way better at farming all the other resources and I learned how to use the trading post more efficiently.

So for me, trying to get a legendary is a long term goal and all the ingredients that i need make me playing/mastering many different aspects of the game. So once I finally have my first Legendary, it wont make me better because of high stats but my personal skills of playing the game will have improved alot along way.