Is Fannwong the only person that is serious in this whole forum? :P
Regarding banners, we all do it. It’s legit, and Anet has said so. A few months ago JQ/SoR were double teaming us in our garri and we held it for 5+ hours during late EU. We trolled the circle/bannered for 5+ hours! That was one of the most fun defenses I have ever been a part of
holy golden dolyak! seriosuly that reached 5 hours? oh man that must have been glorious!
max ive been apart of is that eb keep when sor and jq came with cata on both sides was like 2-3 hours. eb keep almost has no walls left.
Hi I’m new, why does blackgate people run away from invaders half their numbers? I don’t understand
Because they have other objectives maybe, you pick your fights in WvW. Every server skips fights at some point or another even if they know they can win open field. Having a zerg chase 1-2 even 10 is not productive and serves nothing for ppt.
I didn’t know standing on the bay north hills and waving at people was an objective o_o I should do it next time to contribute to my server :]
Yes you should, and btw its called scouting
50 people scouting seems a bit much, but hey, you’re the veteran!
yes, if there are no scouts available the commander is forced to scout it himself, with a tag up im sure zerg will follow.
Hi I’m new, why does blackgate people run away from invaders half their numbers? I don’t understand
it really depends on the situation, sometimes there are other things that needs the zerg attention like capturing a tower or defending a keep. also if your in a zerg and you chase a few run away you will eventually be ambushed.
like you said they maybe standing on a wall with 50 people but the commander is trying to get info on the defenses such as sieges and defenders, even with half the numbers defending with sieges or with out it is quite a hard task.
You must also know you are in T1 now, and SOR, JQ, BG and TC has very formidable defensive strategies and maneuvers.
JQ is ticking at 515. Still think you need more man power during ocx/sea?
No wai! Man condi all the way! Or woman condi! Men and women, condi-ing together! All the way! Fight the power! With condi?
Scanning through your post history, I don’t think I understand a single post you have made.
Well, it’s like, needing more man power right? But I’m a P/D thief, so that’s condition damage all the way. Power’s ok, especially when I get my shortbow on, or arrows off, either way both ways same time. And gender is irrelevant to dealing damage, in GW2 anyway.
I guess I could have focused on the other parts of that OP. Woo. You go, JQ. All that. No problem with that.
Did you want me to go off about qq they’re recruiting qq. So what? To each their own. They ain’t me. I try to handle my own business and keep my nose out of the biz of others.
And I’m sure that every post I’ve ever made made sense at the time I made it. Even if I can’t figure out what I was thinking either. SO. VERY. SURE.
What people don’t understand is that MERC can now actually run as a proper guild (tagless etc) because they don’t need to send 20 scouts to every towers,keeps on every BLs. BG is too obsessed with ppt which make MERC become a “float team” for BG which is basically a train with bunch of rallybots (pugs) who stay up for wexp (because their guilds can’t take any thing from JQ or SoR).
I can say this because I was a MERC and the reason Amarathy quit commanding was because of BG. One night we ran tagless with MERC only and it was so much fun. After that he got so much complains about not tagging up to lead useless rallybots to farm their wexp. After that they i’ve never seen Amarathy commanded again.
GG – keep the hate flowing.
really? you blame Bg just for a night? and now your saying bg is a train pugs and rally bots, mind you that everyone tries to contribute what they can, you talk like your better than them when in fact you are not.
oh wait your former bg merc and now to FA. i understand.
hi guys, i am pretty new to the class (made a guardian as i hate fighting bunker builds LOL) yeah anyways, i made a guardian, i wanted to have bunker build with good power and healing, so now i have full sentinel’s with dolyak runes, what do i need to get for trinkets? and what traits for hammer, GS and sword and shield?
Score update.
BG still ticking over 400ppt near the end of SEA….
Thank god they’re still recruiting, they really need it.
I hear Waha rage logged earlier?
If he did, it was probably because he couldn’t get his crew into bgbl while [ge] and the enthusiastic pugs were there trying oh so hard to take bay and wouldn’t move off so the man could do his work. I guess because ge thought they could do better or…they were just hard tunnel vision mode.
Whatever the case was, ge sure did us a service! It’s a lot easier to defend against them than Waha with his much more disciplined [ATM] military.
I was there, participating and witnessing the open field fights, BG got wiped countless times by Ge at that bay siege.
We were still unable to take down Bay until much later. Credits to BG for being incredibly resilient. Those ACs were just too much for us to handle and we did made a couple of mistakes. We will get better at that I promise you. Compared to well-established guilds like MERC, we are still relative inexperienced especially when it comes to the borderlands. Thank you for the hard fights BG.
it is experiences like these that makes your stronger my friend. great fights TC and JQ.
Score update.
BG still ticking over 400ppt near the end of SEA….
Thank god they’re still recruiting, they really need it.
I hear Waha rage logged earlier?
If he did, it was probably because he couldn’t get his crew into bgbl while [ge] and the enthusiastic pugs were there trying oh so hard to take bay and wouldn’t move off so the man could do his work. I guess because ge thought they could do better or…they were just hard tunnel vision mode.
Whatever the case was, ge sure did us a service! It’s a lot easier to defend against them than Waha with his much more disciplined [ATM] military.
Despite what you may think GE’s leader is still inexperienced in fielding borderlands. His role started to shift from EB to borderlands a few weeks ago. He’s testing out various methods and see what BG does. He’s not used to the 15+ superior carts that BG used last night, and I just offered some additional advice to attack bay (I’m also new from EB, started wvwing 1-2 months ago, glad to know BG’s happy in beating down the inexperienced).
When it comes to fair open field battles you guys didn’t win much, did you.
And hi [Coin], I think I saw you guys in TC bay.
oh hi! you must be new here. i am not sure the last part was a chest thump attempt but you must remember that your visa for pvf and chest thump license is still pending approval from JQ main office. thank you for your patience.
why cant we all just be happy that our enemy server has full queue and is stacked? it means more fights, right? lets just all go back to our own laggy BL and 1111111111111111111111111166666666666666666666
yeah it depends on the guild, we have HB, SUPR, RIOT and oPP and some i forgot to mention, usually roaming depends on the guild if your talking about HB and SUPR usually they have 10 to 16 max, but for the rest i only see 5-8.
LOL i do not think that way, the moment we saw you guys move on the battle field these are organized wvw guilds we thought, i only encountered NS, i saw 2 bank tags the other night but they were away from keyboard in SM when we took it over.
[oPP] normally runs groups with only 3-5 players. During NA prime hours we might be able to field about 8 players but then groups get split up and we kinda roam separately.
If maps are really quiet then both groups will probably hang out near the enemy spawns : )
But I wish we’d have that luxury to always run 5-8… hehe
well then, you can message me i will join you, but i hope i wont disappoint you guys.
everytime i see a blob of tw on a map i expect them to run away. i guess everyones expectations are coming true.
Hi NS, fought you guys several times this week, roaming and group, i must say you guys are good. you must meet SUPR ( ex CA ) when you roam, they will provide you with a good fight that you are looking for, also alot of guild roaming RIOT, oPP, but im not sure they can match your numbers usually they are 5-7 man.
nice seeing you guys, welcome to T1 all.
Hi Zeke, we do small man and i’m curious about small manning in tier 1. Just this afternoon SOR has 2 teams of 15 running nodes in JQBL, whats the ideal size of small manning?
oh btw, you might think we’re just normal pugs but we do have our own guild that we rep for the bank when we are not raiding as NS. So far i’m having fun roaming fighting against blackgates roamers, especially those from [mds].
I’m more into pvp personally. If you are keen for some tpvp, message me.
yeah it depends on the guild, we have HB, SUPR, RIOT and oPP and some i forgot to mention, usually roaming depends on the guild if your talking about HB and SUPR usually they have 10 to 16 max, but for the rest i only see 5-8.
LOL i do not think that way, the moment we saw you guys move on the battle field these are organized wvw guilds we thought, i only encountered NS, i saw 2 bank tags the other night but they were away from keyboard in SM when we took it over.
ah you might have caught us on our raid time. If u want a duel with any of us, just wave, we’ll be happy to have some scrimmage with you guys for sure.
ok will keep that in mind, i use point then the guy and bow. see you on the battle field then.
everytime i see a blob of tw on a map i expect them to run away. i guess everyones expectations are coming true.
Hi NS, fought you guys several times this week, roaming and group, i must say you guys are good. you must meet SUPR ( ex CA ) when you roam, they will provide you with a good fight that you are looking for, also alot of guild roaming RIOT, oPP, but im not sure they can match your numbers usually they are 5-7 man.
nice seeing you guys, welcome to T1 all.
Hi Zeke, we do small man and i’m curious about small manning in tier 1. Just this afternoon SOR has 2 teams of 15 running nodes in JQBL, whats the ideal size of small manning?
oh btw, you might think we’re just normal pugs but we do have our own guild that we rep for the bank when we are not raiding as NS. So far i’m having fun roaming fighting against blackgates roamers, especially those from [mds].
I’m more into pvp personally. If you are keen for some tpvp, message me.
yeah it depends on the guild, we have HB, SUPR, RIOT and oPP and some i forgot to mention, usually roaming depends on the guild if your talking about HB and SUPR usually they have 10 to 16 max, but for the rest i only see 5-8.
LOL i do not think that way, the moment we saw you guys move on the battle field these are organized wvw guilds we thought, i only encountered NS, i saw 2 bank tags the other night but they were away from keyboard in SM when we took it over.
And so the super stacking begins. This surpasses a new level of stacking.
First of all, I think JQ needed recruiting, but now that they have NS, AGG, GD, all they need is a medium sized oceanic guild – that’s it.
For BG, if you really did recruit RB and some other guilds, all I have to say is lol. You’re in first place, you don’t need anymore guilds.
As for SoR, I think we are in a good position. We don’t need anymore recruits but of course guilds will mindlessly flock here for the leagues.
I think it may be time to move to a lower tier if things get out of hand
Lets think in this way, JQ recruit because ATM wants #1 of the league. So they will just recruit till they have enough wvw players (note I mean players not guilds) to crash one particular timezone and be able to defend in less potential timezones. The intention can be observed here, timezone coverage balancing is not what they want when they start recruiting for SEA timezone. They want to dominate that timezone and have ppt on a par in NA/EU/OCX.
But personally I would be okay with that now if they are saying they recruit SEA because their NA/EU/TKG can’t get any potential points from SOR and BG.
oic, when did TKG become a time zone?
You are a timezone in JQ. If i put OCX I can imagine the response I would get, imagine this from ATM “what are you blind or sth? we dont have ocx, u wanna say we have ocx we say you have full maps queued.”
everytime i see a blob of tw on a map i expect them to run away. i guess everyones expectations are coming true.
Hi NS, fought you guys several times this week, roaming and group, i must say you guys are good. you must meet SUPR ( ex CA ) when you roam, they will provide you with a good fight that you are looking for, also alot of guild roaming RIOT, oPP, but im not sure they can match your numbers usually they are 5-7 man.
Some of you posters remind me of those crazed sports fans that beat up people and put them in comas because they wore another teams jersey. I mean, I’ve heard of server pride, but this is ridiculous.
yeah what your talking about are the hooligans, mostly football fans.
here is an example of them having a friendly GVG LOL. i think this is SOR BL.
Our other new guilds are called Ghost, Unic0rn, Boogieman, Easter Rabbit and Universal Health Care. They’re part of an alliance based on myths and paranoia.
I lol’ed, too funny.
Fun times tonight on JQBL trying to take on Agg and HzH!
LOL! what time zone do these guilds play, i wanna PUG along with universal health care guild they seem to be a organized guild.
> Last Tuesday<—
4 guild joined SOR,
6 guild joined BG.
over stacking? pay to win? be honest to yourself
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Are you sure it was 6 guilds that joined BG or 28 cause I heard 6827 people joined BG just today
is that so, maybe those 6827 are in Sparkfly waiting for Tequatl.
> Last Tuesday<—
4 guild joined SOR,
6 guild joined BG.
over stacking? pay to win? be honest to yourself
wait, hold on there cowboy. 6 guilds joined BG? might i ask what are those guilds? because i only see 1, and 80% of their members if not are still in the old server, most of their members are recruited on BG and most came out of kessex champ runs.
6 guilds huh? but i do enjoy the current match up it is real close. but kitten that JQ zerg was a sight to see.
it would be nice, if you can store those things you have stolen, like when you steal, your f2 will be enabled placed the item there up to f3. f1 remains steal. at leas you can use it in good situations other than emptying it.
for sure i will alwatys get invi and buff from mesmers.
Glad to have this matchup back all the others are soooo boring. Just sucks that SoR and JQ have to resort to 2v1.
Oh please BG and JQ always 2v1 SoR
Everyone 2 v 1 everyone. Just letting out the secret
Fact: JQ never gets 2v1’d
There are very good reasons for that, and JQ thrives off the animosity between BG/SoR every time
JQ is here for easy wins. It is either super stacked or double teaming to at least secure a 2nd place.
JQ won’t stand a chance 1v1 with either SoR or BG in a matchup.
i will not say " has a chance" but rather JQ can win if the majority of their population shows up for wvw, remember when they returned from T2, the amount of players JQ has on either time zones was insane, normal JQer needs motivation or something i guess they tend to lose interest after a while.
D/P is so much better than D/D. Death Blossom is a total waste on your bar compared to Shadow strike which is a free blind+ gap closer which can be used to Backstab someone running away very easily. Not to mention Pistol 4 can be used to interrupt heals and enemy rezs. Blind field also allows you to keep up with heavy melee classes in close combat.
D/P blows D/D completely out of the water in every aspect if you are running a power based build. Don’t let D/D fanboys convince you it’s anywhere near as good as D/P.
looks like someone got rolled hard by a D/D thief.
it all depends on how you use your thief, the skill per se wether is is DP or DD, which play style you are comfortable at.
Lol. It’s extremely easy to beat a D/D thief over and over again on a D/P due to the fact that they usually miss their CnD because of the blinds from D/P #3,5 and the fact that D/P an extra gap closer that is going to hit anywhere from 3-4K on another glass thief. You don’t see good thieves playing D/D. You see noobs hoping the set will work for them because they like the look of double daggers. Also, even if they do land a CnD you can just stand in Black Powder and they will usually miss their backstab over and over.
D/P= better mobility, utility, dps, and has more stealth on demand. If you can actually come up with an argument instead of just shouting that I must have been ‘rolled hard’, I’d like to hear it.
i agree with you having a lot of D/P has a lot of utility and survivability but it doesn’t mean that set is superior, like i said it all comes down to the skill of the player using it.
No. Two equally skilled players, one playing D/D, one playing D/P… D/P will win 90% of the time. And the 10% loss will only come from very lucky CnDs. I dont think you understand: two of D/Ds skills are near useless in a power build and all 5 of D/Ps are very useful. It’s like trying to say a build which voluntarily doesn’t take two utilities can be better than the same build with 3 utilities.
There is a reason no good thieves run D/D. It’s a broken weapon set. Same with P/P. You can like it, you can play with it, just don’t presume to think it’s anywhere near as good as D/P. Both P/P and D/D are incredibly weak weapon sets. Quite possibly nearly the weakest in the game.
you really think a skilled DD player will just use CnD without timing it, yeah 2 utilities are quite useless on DD but it doesn’kittens broken.
i wont discuss with a close minded guy, like i said you need to roam more.
D/P provide an safe newbie play style , since you are not punished when you make mistakes, and that make it an better set for 1 vs 1 (thief vs thief or thief vs warrior)
D/D got 2 nearly useless skills 3 and 4 , however CnD is an cheap initiative alternative to stealth, against some classes (necromancer /rangers /mesmers -as an special mention since they got clones /pets that won’t dodge /avoid your cnd )
if you are going to play D/D against D/P you might have an hard time , however if you are familiar with D/P, you can counter and avoid his burst ( keep in mind that BP + hs will spend more then half of his initiative pool, and he can take damage in his BP by DB and ranged skills ( bow / pp -as an secondary set).
For small groups fights , D/D is better ( easy acces to stealth , light initiative cost, also DB works great with signet of malice)
yes i agree with all you said. it all boils down to the skills of the user.
D/P is so much better than D/D. Death Blossom is a total waste on your bar compared to Shadow strike which is a free blind+ gap closer which can be used to Backstab someone running away very easily. Not to mention Pistol 4 can be used to interrupt heals and enemy rezs. Blind field also allows you to keep up with heavy melee classes in close combat.
D/P blows D/D completely out of the water in every aspect if you are running a power based build. Don’t let D/D fanboys convince you it’s anywhere near as good as D/P.
looks like someone got rolled hard by a D/D thief.
it all depends on how you use your thief, the skill per se wether is is DP or DD, which play style you are comfortable at.
Lol. It’s extremely easy to beat a D/D thief over and over again on a D/P due to the fact that they usually miss their CnD because of the blinds from D/P #3,5 and the fact that D/P an extra gap closer that is going to hit anywhere from 3-4K on another glass thief. You don’t see good thieves playing D/D. You see noobs hoping the set will work for them because they like the look of double daggers. Also, even if they do land a CnD you can just stand in Black Powder and they will usually miss their backstab over and over.
D/P= better mobility, utility, dps, and has more stealth on demand. If you can actually come up with an argument instead of just shouting that I must have been ‘rolled hard’, I’d like to hear it.
i do agree with you having a lot of D/P has a lot of utility and survivability but it doesn’t mean that set is superior, like i said it all comes down to the skill of the player using it.
seems you have been fighting a lot of lost pugs as of late, you should roam more, you might find some worthy adversary.
D/P is so much better than D/D. Death Blossom is a total waste on your bar compared to Shadow strike which is a free blind+ gap closer which can be used to Backstab someone running away very easily. Not to mention Pistol 4 can be used to interrupt heals and enemy rezs. Blind field also allows you to keep up with heavy melee classes in close combat.
D/P blows D/D completely out of the water in every aspect if you are running a power based build. Don’t let D/D fanboys convince you it’s anywhere near as good as D/P.
looks like someone got rolled hard by a D/D thief.
it all depends on how you use your thief, the skill per se wether is is DP or DD, which play style you are comfortable at.
Four random BG, no voip, no comp, versus eight FA (Six APS, two pugs), possible voip, most likely no comp. You may notice I put a numbers over two Knights because one is a mesmer and the other is a necro. I was the only BG that got downed in that fight due to a JQ on a cannon in bay.
Kudos. APS is a legit guild. I’m honored you took my comments so personal. You guys are like the ivory-billed woodpecker of BG. A very endangered North American species that is so rare that many believed it to be already extinct. Hopefully this rare footage will inspire other BGers to help preserve this extremely rare server treasure. With the help of other photographers like yourself someday just maybe you’ll raise enough awareness to this species that BG itself will stop its genocide through blobination. A powerful nerve disease that afflicts a staggering 80% of BGs population. Rendering them only able to press 1 and F while having torrets like outbursts about PPT.
looks like someone got rolled hard by a passing BG zerg. i noticed you are the only one trying to troll.
hello SOR, you guys seem to be having a blast. JQ and us BG miss you guys already. we miss the fights, the forums wars. t1 is not t1 with out you guys. come back already.
i have encountered this several times, i think this is skill lag or normal lag even sometimes steal i dont see any damage done when even it is traited. but still there are alot of possibilities.
personally i tested and ran both in quite a while, i suggest go with scholar that 10% extra damage is really big boost + sigil of force 5% and night 10% + 25 stacks of bloodlust, food and nourishment = SICK BS
I would take 35 more power, 30 to all other stats, 2% less crit dmg, 15% more boon uptime (makes Hidden Assassin 18.75 seconds long each time I enter stealth), and 25% movement speed over what scholar offers anytime.
I see your point. Im a D/D secondary D/P thief tho, and I pick my targets carefully (WvW only, I dont do tPvP anymore). my fights usually dont last more than 5 seconds if I can avoid it , so the extra 10% damage for the opener is a godsent that I wouldnt trade for anything.
If you don’t drop your target in the first 5 seconds, do you have to run or can you continue the fight?
necro, warrior, guardian run.
the rest, keep on hammering till they r dead
i beg to differ, i run a backstab build, with scholar+night runes at night or with ruby orbs, the people that you will be having a hard time with are bunker builds. but with the rest its just how you hit the enemy.
when this post hits 10 pages I will tell
