Guild Wars 2

Evilzara.6378:

THE Dentist.5960:

Proud of NSP peeps. We are showing a lot more discipline without the numbers. Keep it up guys! Hoorah!

I think it’s clear that numbers is the biggest factor in victory for this tier. Your numbers just disappear when you’re losing.

Not entirely true, numbers can disappear even when you are winning you can trust s member of anvilrock on that lol, the fluctuation is what makes this matchup interesting (and infuriating at times).

I am getting this problem too, not just in wvw but in sme dungeons too (had an issue in arah and also doing the temple for grenth)

kazi.6438:

If you don’t bring a skill that can remove confusion, you can’t remove confusion. You are crying because you don’t want to change your build to address it’s weaknesses. I don’t get it.

I bring condition removal on every character. Why? Going without it is literally asking to die in WvW.

This.

Unfortunately if that’s your build and you don’t want to change it, confusion is your hard counter. It’s like a glass cannon warrior crying that a glass cannon thief is op, if you don’t want to cover that area you are lacking defensively then that is your choice. if he doesn’t want to pack the shield to block the thief burst in favour of, say a warhorn or some other offhand that’s up to him but he should be weary that his build is susceptible because of those choices.

People need to qq less and build to combat the builds they are most threatened by. Builds are strong in some areas and weak in others. It’s meant to be the way or everyone would just run the one ultimate build (cough d/d ele :P).

Yeah the combo fields one is a biggy. When a water/dark field is down its healing power of the person using the finisher that is taken into account, and things like might stacks and blind are independent of any stats really.

What this effectively means is that as long as a level 80 is finishing in them, your lvl2 necro or ele throwing down his combofields can really help in battle (providing you have the smarts to stay alive of course :P)

Of course in an ideal world we would love to have everyone level 80, there are a number of natural level 80s with a poor understanding of the game mechanics and in scenarios such as the above the lower level classes are more helpful.

If all that fails you have the ability to man siege and carry supply which is what wvw comes down to at the end of the day!

Komolov.5903:

This is dumb, i use the bank and the TP at the borderlands all the time for convenience. The home borderland has a queue most of the time. And besides, how much time on average do people spend on the using the banks? Its definitely not as long as people who do crafting and afk.

I wish my home borderland had a queue all the time!
Join another server if you want reliable bank access lol :P

Take it to the private messages.

Kalkz.5297:

yesterday, ARs blood was so delicious :P

Did that all start when you took out a fully fortified QL with a rather large group? It was being defended by a superior ac, a cata and about 5-6 people? Because if so that was the moment I got off.

AR really needs to learn to defend and read the map. At the moment we are consistently being outplayed because other than the people that dump money into these towers and keeps nobody else on AR seems to give a kitten. I always hope that when we lose everything these types of players will see the errors of their ways but I am just kidding myself really…

AR Pugs join the Zerg, they die, they wait in spawn for half an hour thinking the game was mean to them and switchmaps/log off. In contrast to the seemingly never ending supply of BP willing to throw themselves at a defence. I would be lieing if I said I wasn’t jealous.

It’s kind of a running joke amongst people in my guild that you pay people to sit in towers on mortars and siege all day. There is very rarely a time we pass a tower and not see a defender in it. If they do this off their own backs these guys are definitely a credit to your server.

Make badges of honor a collectible item without a stack limit.

Score update?? (and please tell me NSP has taken back their keeps…)

While I don’t play my ranger anymore I can make a suggestion… Run with a wolf, fear the the thief out the shadow refuge. If you don’t like running a wolf, shadow refuge is a good counter against your build. At the end of the day we all have to make sacrifices to counter the builds that annoy us the most.

Personally I love the wolf as its fear can be used as an extra downstate stomp break.

We arnt too bad pigmy
We have our downtimes like most servers with a similar sized wvw population but we have fun. Came first two weeks ago and second last week in close matchups so all in all I would say anvil rock is having a good time!

Let’s hope this points reset doesn’t ruin all this and stick us with SoS and SoR next week because that won’t be much fun at all.

What I find interesting is that if SF shoots up to T1 they will have 8 weeks of not getting any pois and vistas lol…

:(
I hope that doesn’t happen…

Haha, I hope something happens to keep next week even, I fear that even the lead BP has on us now could be enough to put them above the REAL tier 1 servers and would then see them freefall through the devastating one sided battles that ensue.

I would rather things stay as rather they are than servers be shifted into tiers that they don’t belong in. It’s onLy going to end badly for everyone IMHO.

jkctmc.8754:

jkctmc.8754:

would hate to lose this awesome matchup between AR, BP, and NSP.

The matchup doesn’t feel all that awesome from our side of the table.

I have no idea what has happened to your numbers, which guilds did you lose? Maybe it’s the curse of the fair weather… We seem to have a noticeable drop at certain points of the day we used to be fairly strong in. Idk…

The deadline is upon us!! Do or die people

Woo Anvil Rock!

Shandoeluna.3258:

Woot Anvil Rock!

Wow you are even in the forums!! I love you cheerleader.
Please join ALS

How about explosives.
Extremely heavy, 10% movement speed if one person carrys, gaining additional 10% movement speed for every addition player that helps up to a maximum of 40%. (helping will just attach players to the explosive devices with no control so that no conflict of direction is seen)

Heavy damage, 45% health damage to wooden walls scaled from this damage amout to other types.

For balance, explosives can’t use portals, can only be purchased from supply camps (with the siege plans spawning directly on the floor not entering a players inventory, and have the same health as an arrowcart.

FDP from CD apparently, according to the forums. Not being on NSP I cant confirm that to be truth.

jkctmc.8754:

Just noticed at least three guilds have transfered to NSP. This will make next week interesting.

I can’t remember the last time a decent guild with a sizeable wvw force transferred to us. Where’s the AR love community!

Well you guys certainly haven’t had these kinda numbers all week. Or does the score lie?

Flame ram that comes complete with worshiping acolytes and golden embellishments.

Nice work!
Wouldn’t have happened if the other server didn’t just Zerg through their conquest not giving 2 kittens about the tower and for that reason they deserved to lose it like this.

Oh no you don’t, you sneaky little buggers! Keep your current numbers so we can continue to have these epic matchups!

BP, NSP, and AR are full sorry!!

Anvil Pants.3426:

bradderzh.2378:

GG. We take back 2 towers through breakouts and are met by this.

We cant defend that.

Dovgan.8605:

@bradderzh there are ways to defend on that, and in all honesty that is a poor use of prints and supply on the attackers part. At work though, will work out a few new tower layouts after I get back in the game now that I see the strategies they are using.

In that screenshot, I can see two locations on the wall where I would deploy arrow carts to nuke those catapults. One superior arrow cart may have been sufficient to end that attempt, though that isn’t to say that Kaineng wouldn’t have eventually owned that tower.

Did you read the chat and see on the far right an arrow cart build site?

GG. We take back 2 towers through breakouts and are met by this.

We cant defend that.

DivineBeing.2086:

Skyblue.9358:

Current Score:

Come on! I wanna see that 695 ppt Kaineng!

I don’t think, that’s going to happen.
If there was such a server as Northern Shiver rocks, or Anvil Peaks, our combined coverage would be awesome!

I used to break even in wvw the majority or the time (Including the purchase of a few upgrades and siege)

Since becoming a commander that’s not the case any more, but for people that just want to go around and drop a reinforce wall or doors upgrade here and there it is entirely possible to enjoy yourself and not lose money to wvw.

Tip: Read chat, listen to your commander. Stay with the group and you won’t get picked off (eliminating bills). Ignore any thieves or d/d eles trying to break up the team just set an objective and stick to it, or follow the commanders if an objective has already been set. Remember wvw is not about kills, it’s about map control and you can get all the kills in the world and still lose a matchup if you don’t control the objectives.

Syeria.4812:

NSP’s biggest problem lately (aside from a lower population) is that we seem to take at least 1 day off per week and dig ourselves a huge hole we never recover from.

Yeah I noticed this… Can’t remember which day it was.

DH where are you guys? Don’t give up!

Hey nsp. Did you see how much siege we had in Valley? 5 AR defenders had 15 arrowcarts, 10 catas, 8 balistae.

GG lol…

benen.1052:

It’s cool how nsp and dh need to conspire against the mighty AR!

There’s no conspiracy. If you own SM you should expect to get hit by both teams. That’s the nature of a three way. Everyone wants it.

DH what is your tactic??? We lose SM in a 3 way, and NSP cap it.

You want SM as bad as we all do, yet pool a large force to try take our bay effectively removing both of us from EB allowing NSP time to build up and fortify.

I just don’t understand the logic?

Oh and ANET, WTF? Its hard enough to snip yaks as it is without the lag being so bad that I cant cast spells and even when I do they are desync’d halfway down the road so nothing hits. Jesus…

Hey kain, can you skip our tier please. I want to have fun in wvw :P

Hey I took my ‘zerg’ (about 10 lowbies) to the jumping puzzle to show them how to get free siege after some of the guys gave up soloing camps as far as I was aware they seemed to enjoy it! Now I’m going to bed.

Haha so you was that engi!! I was the norn Mesmer commander leading the defence.

I wanted those camps upgraded so I kept an eye on them. Only problem was, as you could tell, you wasn’t the only one after our camps haha. Meant we had a fair bit of running around to do. But good job though, every time you came back the camp had upgraded that bit more yet you still carried on fighting.

NSP… You better make sure you have these numbers next week or we are both going to get slaughtered.

Its already been asked for in suggestions but, Just have a system where you can contribute any amount to an upgrade.

Eg. Fortified walls could now show ‘Enter contribution’ instead of buy. That way anyone can stick a few silver in and still feel good about themselves for being a part of the war effort.

It’s like a witch hunt. Unless you see something happening and want to let us know so we can stop it, stop dragging our name through the dirt. Go ask your wall men for screen shots of people coming out after the flip.

If you cant provide anything leave our server rep alone and report it to Anet.

Hackers get banned. I think Anets number of banned accounts speaks for itself. And in fairness I welcome it. If all these hackers we apparently have get removed (hundreds by the way other servers make out) it will free up room for some good guilds to get in.

Can I just add my bit about this talk of us double teaming NSP, at my time of the day this is simply not possible.

We at anvil rock seem to have a great love for ARBL. I know Most of us don’t look into attacks until we own our own BL and own section of EB. I for one don’t feel we have a strong enough presence to attack NsP when I am playing because our lands are under threat from DR too often.

There have been a number of times in EB where DR have been attacking overlook all over with orange swords on the map, and NSP sneak round the back taking pangloss and hitting Veloka… But I guess that’s just how it goes.

Yup. While the action of getting ones character stuck in an advantageous position may not be cheating and may be entirely accidental, if the person then uses that for gain then it is exploiting the situation. An exploit. Sploitz

Regardless it meant nothing. After trying desperately to Sheppard yaks to the tower DR show up with more guys than I had seen on our server the whole time I was in command, and preceded to destroy/zerg through everything we had spent a good few hours trying to build up.

But that’s WvW for ya. C’est la vie…

Morningstar.6208:

bradderzh.2378:

DR can you please tell the mesmer you have glitched into the tower of anz tower in EB to wp back and stop attacking the guild claimer. He is actually killing it. While I know this is not something that can be done easy (I find myself stuck by accident quite often), for the sake of fair play can you get him to leave.
(after all its not like you need to use exploits to win)

Thank you,

Anvil Rock

To update, this guy is apparently in GASM guild. I cant actually see him, but someone pulled him enough to show his tag through the wall while I was typing this.

We trebbed Anz and people inside was there and then Anzalias walls upgraded to reinforced and renewed there is no glitch in this matter. As Devona we are really strict about exploiters. Please make sure there is an exploit involved before you blame people. Thank you.

Unfortunately you fail to understand the issue. He was trapped under the claimer tower. A common glitch that happens when a mesmer uses phase retreat or the downed decoy move.

I chased him down as he ran into the tower (because I am a mesmer and know of portal bombs), and downed him myself for him to disappear. I thought he had alt-f4. A few minutes later I hear calls of the mesmer aiming up from underneath the claimer.

Again, I said that although its not an exploit in itself. Using a glitch to your advantage is. Which is why I asked for the guild to tell him to wp.

Unfortunately with replies like yours, it seems you condone cheaters.

DR can you please tell the mesmer you have glitched into the tower of anz tower in EB to wp back and stop attacking the guild claimer. He is actually killing it. While I know this is not something that can be done easy (I find myself stuck by accident quite often), for the sake of fair play can you get him to leave.
(after all its not like you need to use exploits to win)

Thank you,

Anvil Rock

To update, this guy is apparently in GASM guild. I cant actually see him, but someone pulled him enough to show his tag through the wall while I was typing this.

Tried today. Failed. Was a horrible waste of time…

Just drop down her stealthed health regen rate if you dont have the time/manpower to fix the sparks. The sparks need a larger area to be locked into as 9 times out of 10 the group had pulled them close enough in a quick enough time, it was just that they wouldn’t go in. Losing precious seconds to her insane regen means a lot of heart ache for a group that is only failing due to pathing issues.

^
We have a lot of heart. And while it can be challenging at times in our matchups we have a number of very loyal members that stick by us when the scores are against us.
It would be lovely to build on our loyal WvW player base with welcome additions of players new to the game or vets.

As Dova mentioned our community is mainly PvE orientated currently and I may be speaking for myself but I would love to see a better balance in wvw to PvE attendance.

Come along and give it a shot. And if you are already with us but seldom venture onto the battlefields of WvW, I encourage you to give it another go. It can be surprisingly intense when the matches are not one-sided or clear cut

Not sure if I agree that oil and cannons are useless… At the very least they are targets that usually need to be taken out prior to rams going down which stall for time allowing defenders to get to the tower to defend.

As this was recently referenced I took the time to read through it. I agree with the OP and think that the points it makes are still relevant today.

Lol someone from borlis pass complaining about jumping puzzle camping haha

I think your post about thieves is placed in the wrong forum and should be sent to sPvP or something (idk??)

Chasing down the enemy is not an objective of WvW. Holding a supply camp, escorting dolyaks, taking keeps and towers are all objectives of WvW.

Too many times have I seen strategic gameplay fail because half the Zerg wants to go chase down the thief that his attacking them. People with bloodlust (not the Sigil) need to play a different game type.

(ps. Notice from my sig that I do not own a thief)

Being a commander is a service to your server. 100g or otherwise, a commander has paid (or has had very kind people help him/her pay) to stand as a beacon in this 3 way war that others just used for selfish gains like legendary weapons, or other expensive weapons and/or armor..

Commanders are constantly dropping gold on siege and upgrades because a large number of the Zerg is there solely to level and get gold, karma and exp which goes against their reason for being there. Also the amount of time it takes drop your own siege, and to ask around ‘does anyone have a ballista for these 3 rams breaking down our gate’ is sometimes the difference between keeping a structure or losing it.

On topic, I was the commander yesterday that had DR’s hillS for a number of hours getting it upgraded and making a slow creep up to your garrison. Unfortately for us, you guys are very smart with your siege placement and was able to create a very effective kill zone in the wall opening. All in all I am really loving the strategy taking place in this match up.

Or maybe I am the only one who cares about this kinda thing?