Guild Wars 2

Tots.3056:

King Amadaeus.8619:

We had a lot of fun with both guilds last night (DDLG and RegA). Especially there in that Umber/Bravost/Durios area. Props to you guys, we could tell some of your moves (the feints into ogre to try and draw our pugs in), others we couldn’t.

We weren’t quite sure if you guys and RegA were working together or just “two separate heads” trying to confuse us. As far as the zerging meta goes, we usually have a core group and as zergballs tend to do we pick up people along the way.

Some groups/servers/guilds do not like pugs following them, we encourage it on SF as it helps each and every one of us get better, the more we can teach each other the better off we are. Once we get about 90% of our people realizing that we will do everything we can to win, if possible we will try to hold SM, but in the end the scoreboard, SM, etc won’t dictate our gameplay.

Please keep up the open field fights, many of us know DR is famous for them, we look forward to them.

Thanks we are definitely working on our open field, we were two separate heads but I was working around them since they didnt want to form a mega Zerg. If that was you commanding SF, props, very well done. I expected you to be easy because of how your group looked like pugs, but man were we in for a surprise when you were doing counter movement. I was extremely impressed by how everyone attacked when you did, and blobbed up and stayed stacked at all times. Was exactly the large group we were looking for to practice on. Should be fun this week.

This.

I was impressed with SF movements near umber/ogres. Witnessed several well executed pulls and flanks. A wall of red names that suddenly melt into the background, just to be replaced 40 seconds later by a wedge slamming into our side.

Made sure to relate my impressions to comrades that spent reset in the borderlands.

Really looking forward to seeing how this match develops.

Lepew.7890:

Azgarn, I am not the kind of guy who will
Shower you with apologies, nor am I really a subtle subliminal guy. So
Azgarn , here is my sincerest apology of having implied you need to
Shower . Clearly
You are the kind of guy who has impeccable hygiene, and you
Will go far in life with your happy go lucky attitude that will
Make others around you smile with great joy.
Your take on WvW clearly differs from mine, and I should never have brought your
Mother into this discussion as that clearly was in poor taste.
Happy Father’s Day! (Sunday)

Your Pal,

Lepew

Lepew.7890:

Varied Invective

Go away, or I will taunt you a 2nd time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=A8yjNbcKkNY#t=94s

I’m not saying I occasionally type /wrank just to see if it’s been ninja’d in, but …

Personal experience in 48 chests —> 3 rares, one superior ram, 4 alpha golems, and an average silver gain of 13 or so. The other siege has been a nice supplement.

All in all the money covers decent food buffs, repairs and maybe a ram or arrow cart.

HoD human female scout [NOW] and HoD asuran thief soldier [NOW]

I greatly enjoyed our fights at hylek camp.

I swear it feels like being active throughout the day puts you into permanent DR.

Crixus.9247:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orQIZ-YGAo

This is how VP “zerg sentry points and occasional underlevelled ranger” and by zerg I mean about give or take 10 guys + few friends in this latest video. Some epic fights yesterday, thanks BP and HoD for good fights!!! Keep it going DR!!!

Superb fighting and music choice. Also a powerful reminder of why I’ve come to respect VP as part of the DR family.

Asuran HOA mes, I enjoyed our duels in DRBL

Tots.3056:

Gab Superstar.4059:

I mean, people should really stop complaining about numbers. BP will obviously win, and since HoD and DR seem quite balanced BP will decide who takes second too (not intentionally).

Tots.3056:

Yeah haha, I think it surprised all of us how well that worked. xD
There was some speculation by the opposing guild that we had more than 20 people, I’d just like to point out that on the third fight we used 1 portal for that feint, and got everyone through it. You can only portal 20 people per portal so we had to have even numbers. Just thought id point that out.

Technically I count for 5 people though, so I can see where the misunderstandings would arise from.

The amount of guilds your in,
is too. kitten . High.

Server doing poorly? Better do your civic duty and defect….

Or you can keep fighting.

Sororita.3465:

a friend showed me this just now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9aHfg5U0Rw

Absolutely priceless

Wryscher.1432:

I don’t know that you are are always outmanned, for example in that screenie you posted…

But I know what ya mean. Has happened a lot to me. If it is that bad go to other borderland/eb. If it is that bad 2 days in a row just take a week off.

We aren’t always outmanned, it’s just that some newcomers to wvw on Devona only hop on during a particularly rough time frame.

WvW in a nutshell

—> One side gains an advantage in the first few days through coverage or level of play
—> Winning sides numbers are inflated by fairweathers and tourists (who despite not being grizzled vets, still add the weight of numbers)
—> Losing sides hemorrhages players, and those that remain start to see upgrading structures as a waste
—> Winning side has no fear of upgrading structures as they will more likely have coverage to hold what they take

Bottom line, morale will unbalance any matchup once one side maintains an advantage for any meaningful length of time.

Some neat ideas here certainly, and it would add some nuance to forming parties. That said I’m not sure tweaking damage against players would go over so well.

For repairing field siege, while I’ve always thought it would be a neat addition to the game, it would likely unbalance matters further in favor of zergs. In the same way that always having 5 men to spare for every revive, having soldiers to repair siege would make it very difficult to remove siege by attrition. Of course, this might encourage more use of ballistae/cata/treb in an anti siege role rather than the current meta of “when in doubt, arrow cart.”

These roles might also lead to further angst with randoms, as even the current model means that players without siege ranks are chastised for utilizing siege they aren’t spec’d for. It’s always painful to see a position lost when your extended range could have made a difference.

I have mixed feeling about all of this, asymmetry adds some new strategy in group composition but it further discourages the drop in/out nature of pick up groups. Not saying getting people to be more organized isn’t desirable, but I feel Anet wouldn’t like the idea of needing to grind before you can experience all the different roles you can fulfill in wvw. Although, to be fair, the wxp system as a whole is flirting with it.

Orun.8453:

I must be missing something. IoJ here and everyone seems really nice in WvW. You can’t really blame us for playing at the times we do. I also have no idea why anyone would try and say that x server is bad because no one solo roams. That is just stupid. Heck I was solo roaming the last time I was on and got a few player kills, flipped some guard points (or w/e you call them, still kinda new), and killed some dolyaks. Obviously the zergs will stand out, but it doesn’t mean that is all the exists :/

I feel this post contributes nothing to jingoistic chest thumping or forum QQ, please edit accordingly.

[serious]Each server has their veterans that acquit themselves well in small man, and there will always be a time when you feel overwhelmed by your opponent’s numbers.[/serious]

Lord Kuru.3685:

Funny… I’m on NSP as well and our population problem is really demoralizing because we really are good when people are actually on. I really hate to say it, but we probably belong in T8.

I was hoping the new rank chests would encourage more PvE’ers to try out WvW… however, looking at the loot I get from these chests, that’s not going to happen.

Anyway, all this matchup business that Anet is doing doesn’t address the basic problem of population imbalance — even if it puts us all in the tier we’re supposed to be in, how will that address the lack of variety in matchups?

Our matchup was extremely close when it started. Did you folks lose some guilds or is it just human nature kicking in?

I recall very clearly my first encounter with you guys in the new grouping. Zos did terrible, terrible damage to our front ranks after cc’ing our pants off. You guys were a force to be reckoned with.

At any rate, I feel that even tiers with similar population servers will eventually become lopsided if one server wins a couple times in a row. The new system has the possibility to create horrendous mismatches but servers will tend to field the most players when they are matched up against new foes.

Not one tear shed for the smashing of thousands of Skritt shinies?

If you had killed a dolyak in the area you probably only missed a supply drop.

Olvendred.3027:

To those comparing to world event daily chests, you don’t get a guaranteed 20s from those. So weigh it up: a guaranteed rare + less than a silver; vs a chance at a rare + 20s (which is the cost of a rare) + some badges + a siege blueprint (worth from 6s to 1g). We’re getting a a hell of a lot more from these chests than from world events.

Not a guaranteed 20s. In ten chests it’s ranged from 9-20 for me.

To the asuran AoS thief that I dueled near ruins in DRBL, I enjoyed our duel until it was interrupted.

To those defending durios from DR just now, I’d like you to address your thank you letters to all the voices on our server instructing our troops to storm the chokepoints without removing the ac first.

Must’ve been up to your ears in bags ^_^

To be fair, I was warned not to look.

Can you recall where this character was located at the time?

It’s possible he was at the edge of a spawn protection zone. If so he would have the ‘determined’ boon and would be quite impervious to your attacks.

If I ever get decent drops, they are all within the frame of a few hours. It’s then a barren wasteland of blues/greens for days.

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

This sounds exciting… i really hope it is a one up, one down system that replaces the current system… fingers crossed (GH, Dzag – you might be able to kill me now 1v1)

What is with all these people who have stacks of badges… do you not spend them on siege? Sounds like a lot of selfish players out there expecting the guilds and commanders to provide all the siege.

I’ve just always spent gold instead, hoping that one day there would be use for badges beyond purchasing siege or getting gear for alts.

Clearly ANet knew my birthday was on the 29th and released this the day before as they just couldn’t contain their excitement.

Bump for great justice, and/or carrion ascended. Double points for adding a means of acquiring ascended gear in WvW.

Colt.9051:

Been slaving over fractals trying to get an ascended back piece so I could transmute my flower backpack with the correct stats and look even more like a fairy >.> Took a late night stroll in DR’s BLs and got some great roaming done. Had some great 1v2 fights with the Glob warrior and Rain ranger (Had to jet when 2 more ppl showed up, but i almost had a nice 1v1 with the warrior when i got chased to spawn) and later on the DDLG ranger and same Rain ranger, which lasted like a whole hour it seemed… Great fights which I needed since I missed the fight club… (Apologies to the xQcx (I Think) thief I was dueling that got rolled by the two rangers, we had a good fight going as well >.<)

The Glob warrior would have been Theoden Warstar. Good guy and one of the cherished few wvw’ers that Glob fields.

ANet didn’t build enough arrow carts to protect their servers.

Had this happen to me as well. Forums and support page went down briefly and are up only part of the time now.

Sororita.3465:

insert text about farming larger group here.

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Rob.7624:

Divrocks.5718:

Rob.7624:

Divrocks.5718:

It was probably a one time thing that wasn’t even planned. I don’t see why you needed to post on the forums about it. We get hit by GoM and NSP both at the same time too sometimes.

Sorry explain to me what GoM commander was doing then. And how DR and GoM showed up within the minute of each other. See mini map time.
You seem overly defensive of the obvious.

And also point to me once, where NSP spawn camps DR while GoM takes their map.

Did you miss the part where I said it was a one time thing? I wasn’t there but when I did show up we were inside of your keep. GoM could’ve backcapped us at anytime and I’m going to assume they were going to. I’m only defensive because you mentioned my guild member Prizzmo and my friend from DRev.

I didn’t name any DRev’s members names. But I do know who you’re talking about. Since I found out who was commanding at the time.
But please see the attached picture of who. The leader of DRev nonetheless.

And realize that I did not miss your one part thing.
And that I’m sure DR will buddy up with anyone to double team. I am glad I did mention your guild as your guild seems to be apart of it.
DR Guild leaders coming together to Doubleteam.

How sad.

LaBlue is new to the server. Can’t say he’s developed much clout yet but people will follow if there is only one sigil on map.

I <3 this matchup

Made my day, keep em coming

Divinorium.8952:

I play since the beta for GoM but i never felt so ashamed before.
Not even when ppl called us of hackers, when some kitten actually did it, neither when we fell to the last tier.

But HoD’s players that transfered to GoM Achieved something i’ve never seen before.

They went in the keep and builded 21 Alpha golems, yes you didn’t read wrong it was 21. (will wait for someone who got the SS to post here, i’m sure someone did)
AND 2 Omega golems.
That’s 31 gold JUST in the golems bluesprint.

They left the Keep and attacked: Wild Creek Post.

And was about that. they managed to lose 16 golems IN ONE kittenING TOWER, WHEN SM had Outter walls down and normal gates.

That’s such a high level of inability, that i’m pretty sure they deserve a prize for that.

And one of these “highly skilled” commander asked why no one, after this ****, was following his order.

A real big salute to the players of “Zombie Land” that for a random reason have “WvW” tag but pls transfer back for HoD.

If i could i would trade all of you guys for 3 NPCs guards for our keep.

Not even funny.

I was there when this wall called out by our players. Wildcreek melted to the golems but luckily Aldon’s was well sieged/manned. Caused quite a stir.

Isn’t the lord of SM a norn?

Gab Superstar.4059:

DH working hard for these 10 points

Can’t remember the last time I had that much fun on an arrow cart.

I finally have bonuses. Up to 10% extra HP is not to be scoffed at.

Bonuses, for the first time. I’m quite pleased the fix has finally come through.

NealCaffrey.6450:

Ender.3508:

Apparently we can’t take and hold anything in EB because we always have Morningstar screwing up every important hold by running his kittening zerg into deathtraps.

When ferg was taking SM, that was not our goal. It was Morningstars goal. We wanted to hold the keep and danelon and upgrade, but alas that brilliant fellah has a blue shiney icon above his head and 12 golems conveniently placed to wipe on SM.

When Kain keep needed help, he was busy wiping his zerg. When outer was breached, he was still wiping on SM. When kain was back in their Lords room, he was still wiping, for a total of 3 wipes on SM. More than enough time for Kain to rampage through their keep, through Bravost, through Quentin, through Danelon.

And then he has the audacity to claim it was “strategy”, that it was all done to strip the upgrades on SM, as if he did something to help ferg take it. I have more resentment for that one commander(sic) than I’ve ever had for ferg and kain combined.

lol what guild is Morningstar in?

AoD – and yes, he does have something of a love affair with SM sometimes, that or a white whale complex.

moirweyn.9872:

arKRazor.8654:

It’s been mentioned that there will be ways to attain ascended gear through WvW as well eventually.

Is that anything like Soon™?

When it comes to WvW, that’s the standard.

It’s been mentioned that there will be ways to attain ascended gear through WvW as well eventually.

Woke up to find EB had been conquered and reinforced by Kain.

Devona now has sporadic queues for eternal, I don’t know what the world has come to.

Third time I’ve encountered a queue in the two months I’ve been playing.

LARP crew at langor/danelon just now. You guys are wrecking face.

You could pull people off walls already if you went up and hugged the wall. Now you can do so more reliably, having a little breathing room.

I’ve had some good chats this way =[

I support the idea of a mechanism to pool money for upgrades. If a big group takes an objective the cumulative payout pays for several upgrades easily.

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