Guild Wars 2

Great recruitment once again JQ, enjoy roflstomping whatever poor T2-T3 ends up getting glicko-screwed into your tier next week. Well be back around to face you again soon! Until these ranks get sorted, it’ll be a bizarre set of match-ups. Eventually SoS will get the coveted BLUE portal on T1 slot, and we can keep those great open field fights coming!

LOL i know, that post cracked me up in class.

Literally, JQ could play 0ppt all weekend, and still win first by a wide margin. But hey, what do we know, we have only faced JQ for 11 weeks now, 9 with SBI, then the second and third place servers joined forced, recruited 40 other guilds (aside from SBI), and THEN showed up to the party.

But yea, enjoy that first place. Let me know Friday if you would like to choose from one of the wide selection of excuses on where it all went wrong. We have it all, ranging from Bugs, to Alliances, to a near miss Earth collision by a purple asteroid named Dan.

I can give you a discount on that third one…

In the words of the great Robert Jordan – “I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”

Kelo.4370:

coronbale.3894:

For my small group players

Never in my life have I read something so packed with irony, truly it is a marvel of this world.

Glad to see your still out there helping your server with the all important forums coverage Kelo! Do they provide FIOS to bridges?

Dear SoS,

Maybe we have been too long at #1, judging by all this bawling. TSYM originally came here with the hope of competing (and beating) the best the game has to offer. They are now lined up across the battlefield from us, all in one place, and all with a mind to take us on a prison date.

For my small group players, solo players, and fair weather players. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFRENCE, and guess what, its not on here. The EUs have brought over some VERY interesting play variances that have changed the game in many ways. Small 5-10 man teams have never been so relevant, get on it (message me in game for info on this, would be happy to help).

We are facing the best competition this game can offer, and win or lose, this is going to be on hell of a ride! Literally every guild i have tipped my hat to for their skill and ability with the exception of WM and SFD are now on JQ, giving you the chance to prove you are worthy of the crown. Win or lose, if that doesn’t fire you up, you need to hop on the badwagon.

That, or get off the field and let people who still have the fire get in.

Respectfully,
[TSYM] Coron Bale

WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOR!

See you tomorrow on SoS BL guys. Anyone wanting a crack, well be trying out a few new plays. Leave a customer feedback form in your loot bags to let us know how we can continue to be of service to you!

ComeAndSee.1356:

I was watching pugs lead by competent commanders grinding entire guild group strategies to a halt. The only advantage guilds have over pugs is VOIP.

I literally could not disagree with this more if you had put it in an SS uniform kicking a puppy.

JaredKincade.9761:

coronbale.3894:

Smokee.1754:

Dear TSym – Come out and fight please. We are not going to have fun with you in a supply camp, next to your spawn with 20 ballistas set up. Get roaming, who knows you might end up having some fun. I hear that JQ will have some guilds out here doing the same.

Dear HB – We will never fight you, because you are on a diffrent time zone than us. When you are 100% we had 9 on, when we are 100% you are nowhere to be found (probably sleeping). Suffice it to say, we kept a camp away from you when you outnumbered us 6:1, well take that!

Anytime your team wants to dance NA prime time, come and get it. You use strats similar to WM in open field, and while we workshopped a counter to it, WM left before we could try it out. Eager to see how it fares!

TSYM doesn’t log on at reset? (curios not being a jerk) HB stays up late late on reset night.

Oh not at all, I know tone can be hard to read on a post. We were on for shuffle, had 60 on EB for the shuffle flip, but we were facing KnT there, and shaking JQ like a british nanny.

Well try and give a heads up where we are on next shuffle, got to see your guys field movements with my small ops and really eager to see how the strats we workshopped to counter WM hold up. Good or bad, itll be data we can take back to the drawing board and improve upon!

Smokee.1754:

Dear TSym – Come out and fight please. We are not going to have fun with you in a supply camp, next to your spawn with 20 ballistas set up. Get roaming, who knows you might end up having some fun. I hear that JQ will have some guilds out here doing the same.

Dear HB – We will never fight you, because you are on a diffrent time zone than us. When you are 100% we had 9 on, when we are 100% you are nowhere to be found (probably sleeping). Suffice it to say, we kept a camp away from you when you outnumbered us 6:1, well take that!

Anytime your team wants to dance NA prime time, come and get it. You use strats similar to WM in open field, and while we workshopped a counter to it, WM left before we could try it out. Eager to see how it fares!

Maybe it paints me in a bad light, guess im just so effin fed up with the river of tears that is the 2v1 talk, the outnumbered talk, and the talk of cheating. There has literally been more complaining on forums this match than the last 3 weeks combined, and were only half way done!

Guess I just miss my SBI…

Ahh, the old 2v1. Yes, we 2v1d you, but what the hell did you expect, you gave no one any choice! You came out of the shoot, aggressive as hell, and rapidly ran from SOS to JQ as fast as your little red is dead legs could carry you hitting them as hard as you can. Half the time we had to keep constant eyes on you to avoid losing a tower to you.

Most of your commanders wrack da disaprin, and act like you should be able to obliterate both of your competitors simultaneously to be #1. If that were the case, we would be in the HoD days of TA. The new facts are this, NO SERVER can attain first place by simultaneously owning second and third severs. Not anymore.

We don’t win week after week because we own the other two servers, we win week after week (well not the week before last, GG again JQ )because we play smarter, we play more coordinated, and we have a plan. If were hitting you, its part of a bigger strategy.

When you hit an enemy, its like some rabid dog biting anything that gets close to it. That’s not strategy, that’s a disease. Anytime you feel like bringing that to the table, well put you down.

Simple as that.

What I’m saying is that YOU did not get the crown, YOU did not get the medal, YOU did not win, WE did. What we do have is the small team guys and the casual WvWers in here talking trash, while the guys who run class workshops, field huge teams, go to meetings, strat out the whole week, and run umpteen hours in WvW are /saluting.

Once again, your HELP does not give you the “treat people like garbage” license, but apparently a forum account does.

Honestly guys, lets simmer down a bit. Here is the skinny:

MOST of the people on here making excuses, belittling, talking trash, and slinging mud didnt have CRAP to do with the wins. I would literally say 90% of the posts PERIOD are by people who go into WvW with a buddy, or a small 5 man group, then come in here like they are up on a podium next to Chewbacca and Han Solo receiving their medal (on a side note, why the crap didn’t Chewey get a kitten medal… Focus…).

Most of the posters in here are the equivilent of fans of a sports game. Just like in sports, one team’s fan will talk trash about another team’s accomplishments or failures, and to the rescue comes the other teams fan to defend them and call them crap.

The main team players know the real deal, and there is more saluting from them than any fan. If the ones really responsible for the win can be civil, how about the fans chill the hell out and take a page from them…

Trust me, your little 5 man team showing up for 3 hours 3 days this week doesn’t give you the right to treat other people like crap.

Protoavis.9107:

Amity.8549:

Lavath.8924:

celeron.3469:

crewthief.8649:

I really think all you need to know about Jedah can be found reading his wall of text regarding his Guilds’ “Holiday Leave Policy”, LMAO. Seriously bro.

Say all you want, MERC is probably one of the biggest guilds left in the game. Just last Friday they had 200 members online at the same time (it might even be nightly idk). That may not have even been the only guild they have considering they are at member cap. Given that, I can almost guarantee your replies are overreaction out of frustration.

What a coincidence! I think Stormbluff had almost 200 online at the same time too! It was amazing =D

Had a good chuckle at this.

As for any and all MERC’s banter, there is no ill intent behind this, just what feels like a satisfying retaliation to last week. If any members of our guild wishes to voice their opinion they can do so, our leadership isn’t going to stand in the way. As for our rivals, I personally have the utmost respect for FOO and DC, their strategy, tactics, coordination and implementation provides us with a challenge each and every night. Countering it requires discipline and innovation. Last night they were trebbing garrison on SoS bl from the rocks west of Dawns. Our counter ended up being continuous suicide portal bombs from spawn which got pretty hilarious in the end. I think if there wasn’t solid opposition like FOO I would probably looking towards another game.

I would, but I had to leave the guild because members from the guild kept PM’ing me to get to WvW EVERY SINGLE DAY, was fairly annoying and felt like harassment since that is what guild chat is for, not spamming everyone via private message.

Totally get that, but dont you think joining one of the top WvW guilds out there if your casual about WvW is a bit overkill? A little like joining the Lakers because you like to shoot hoops once in a while.

TSYM gets their fair share of casuals, and we quickly move them on their way. There are plenty of casual WvW guilds out there who only WvW occasionally, that is where you belong.

You join the best if you want to take it seriously, this was your mistake not theirs…

GREETINGS T1:

TSYM here, first off congratulating JQ again for their win last week. To all those who want to post an asterisk next to the win, the enemy saw an opportunity, capitalized on that opportunity, and kept stomping on our necks until we didn’t get back up. We assure you, if we saw similar from your server, you would see the same from us, so grats on being brilliant tacticians! Anyone can see opportunities, the great ones seize them!

Funny someone mentioned the stomping JQ gave to Dragonbrand. That match is what made TSYM what we are today, and we remember it like it was yesterday. To say we were obliterated would be a massive understatement, I do believe we lost by like 600k points. We went in there every day trying new stuff out, and you guys were there every time to send us packing, and back to the drawing board. By the end of the matchup we were wiping 4x our number pretty regularly, but was a hard lesson…

Next week will be the loss of a well known server, and the addition of a brand new server. On behalf of all us at T1, best of luck SBI on your next shuffle, and give them hell.

To BG joining us, welcome to the fight! Be assured that negitivity and hostility felt here and on guru come from the forum warriors, and not from the leaders. Most of us are very excited to see what you will bring to the table!

TSYM will be on EB for next shuffle, I do so hope we get to see some serious action from both JQ and BG. GLHF keep classy, and die well! GG and GRATS to whoever takes home the trophy!

Great games with TSYM on SBI BL. Well be there this weekend, hope to see some more EMP! You guys are a blast to play against.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

coronbale.3894:

SoS isnt glitching into towers, no talent dbags are. We didnt label all of JQ as exploiters when DEVS were glitching towers left and right. We report them as soon as we see it.

Show us the same courtesy

The worst part of his accusations is that it doesn’t even seem like the SoS thief did anything. He mapped the keep and then left.

Lol, wonder if he glitched into the tower to get map completion! Risk permaban for a POI?

SoS isnt glitching into towers, no talent dbags are. We didnt label all of JQ as exploiters when DEVS were glitching towers left and right. We report them as soon as we see it.

Show us the same courtesy

Can we request 2 things while you study this?

First and most importantly, PLEASE stop banning people on thursday. You are royally screwing WvW guilds by doing it within 12 hours of shuffle. Maybe Wed or tues?

Secondly, could we possibly submit a ticket to get some sort of exemption from these bans? These things arent a permenant fix, but it will help us deal with the situation as it gets more stable.

So who could win in a fight, the Hulk, or Superman.

Thats about all this thread has been reduced to. Even if EU were to transfer to NA, or NA were to transfer to EU, WE WOULDNT BE FIGHTING EACH OTHER!!!!!!! This is a topic for science fiction!

Come to NA, and youll be fighting the reduced presence we have that covers our overnight cappage, and if we came over there, we would be fighting your overnight presence. You said it yourself, if we come over there, we are fighting not EU, but EUs transfers and the canadians that moved there.

Be honest, you are fishing for coverage. If you can build a night presence, youll be #1. If you were to go to an NA server, you would probably boost them in a similar fashion.

TSYM from SoS (server not guild) here, if I might make a suggestion.

This weekend, with family visits on me, I had a few hours to kick around. In that time I was able to throw together (with zero knoledge on design) a fully made site for my guild.

My site used http://www.enjin.com/

SoS (again, the server) has a server site, complete with forums. We use it for all sorts of things, including getting through grievances between guilds. My recommendation is to fire one of these up, invite your powerhouse of a guild lineup to join, and start handling little things like this internally.

If you do it on the main forums, you will get EVERYONES input, including mine

Best of luck!
TSYM

100% agree. Until ANET lines up a cross continental competition we are all talking out our collective butts. My dad can beat up your dad only holds water if we can actually get the gloves on.

What we do know something about, is spamming. You know, that thing gold sellers, telemarketers, and vendors along main street in Tijuana do? How about we agree that no matter what our region server has to offer, spamming isn’t required to get the word out.

salluks.6017:

Ranc.7192:

Lets have NA vs EU..

Top 3 t1 servers vs Top 3 EU servers!

I would put my money on NA

NA would win, na plays for points and win.. Eu plays for fights and fun.
NA will win but eu would wipe NA zergs 10 times over. Different styles of play really.
Choice is simple actually.
If u want to win at any cost, go to NA, if u want aggressive fights then go to Eu.

Lol, just stick with the “we have beer and boobs”. Could your post be more biased?

Just for the record, the guilds on NA SoS are constantly building on our open field technique. TSYM has wiped hundreds of zergs over 4x our number, and since moving to SoS have gotten even better at it working with the communities here.

Sounds like the difference here is EU pew pew pews, while NA wipes the enemy while maintaining strategic locations, defending points, and scouting terrain.

I totally get where you guys are coming for, but why have us come there? You guys can move over to NA servers just as easily, and then we will have the best of both worlds.

You have things wrong, just like we have things wrong. You make a strong case to join the EU circuit, but NAs have a strong following, and many reasons to stay! That now being settled, lets just try and keep the spam down a bit. No matter how strong a case you think you can make to bring NAs over to your EU servers, it doesnt justify dropping dozens of spam posts on forums.

I truly do hope I get a chance to meet your armies on the field, sounds like you guys would give us a run. I wont however, transfer over. If some time in the future ANET gets some cross continent action, ill be the first one cheering!

So lets just try and tone down the spam.

Been out of touch a bit, are they really getting that hammered? Nice.

Listen, all im asking is that we tone down some of the recruitment spamming. I have an EU recruitment post on every match post, a new one going up daily, and even on WvW strategy guides we get things like “want to learn something, come to EU”. Its like telemarketing getting into my MMOs…

How about 1 post, keep it in the threads with bumps, and leave the rest of the posts alone

Sure did, and from the PRX players I know and respect that moved, they havent been to thrilled by the connection, or the PVDoor experience. They spend most of their time chasing the few decent teams that are out there. Thats probably ok for some, and any who find that a good time, you are welcome to those people!

Now a question for you, why all of a sudden are every NA forum we have cluttered with EU recruitments, posts in our match forums, on EVERY tier, and server sites being spammed by your recruitment messages?

Honestly the stories ive heard are stories of MASSIVE gaps in coverage in the top 6 servers. It is to this end that EU has done massive PR pushes to get people to join them, because basically anything at your night time will propel your servers to #1

Lets put this another way, how many recruitment posts have you seen begging for EUs to come to our NA servers because we desperatly need people? You wanna know why you all jumped on this thread, this joke thread? Because your servers are so desperatly in need of people, that you need to jump anyones crap that even thinks about poaching your players.

- Your players are more skilled
- The competition is better
- No queue times
- Best lookin chicks
- Your quaggans have free coke parties on the center island

If its so amazing there, why are you begging? Were good with our communities, were good with our coverage, and you can keep your players. How about you?

Well there is an easy way to settle this, come on over to an NA server and prove it!

Or maybe EU should recruit from EU servers, and NA should recruit from NA servers.

Fierce competition, great matches, friendly opponents! We want you!

Shoo poacher, how about you come join JQ or SBI, and then you can speak like you know what your talking about. If its so much better on EU, why have we not gotten any guilds coming over and dominating everything on NA? Because its comparable, you just aren’t having luck recruiting on your servers so your coming over to ours.

Greetings Strategist!

If your like me, you are always trying to come up with better ways to play, better ways to lead, and more efficient ways to command. To assist you with this, I have created a training game called MAPPING. Here is how it is done.

Solo, or with a small group of commanders and strategists, go into a WvW map with a lot going on. Look for something with all 3 colors, and constant flux is always a plus. Now, enter this, join a group with your fellow strategists, and open your map. From here, you can draw, ping, and see all you need to see on your new map.

Now, while watching the map, pay attention to the battles, the crossed swords (both orange and white), and dolyaks, and road markers. Also watch where your ally commanders are going, as this definitly helps.

Now, try and predict what is actually happening on the map. If you see crossed swords on a camp, try and predict who is hitting it. Now here are a few tips.

Dolyaks and sentry markers are AMAZING tells to what is happening in the region. When you see a sentry vanish that is yours, then a dolyak further down the road vanish, odds are you can guess where they are going with those 2 pieces of info. Also, camps are almost ALWAYS the precursor to an attack, at least it indicates a force is in the area. Once you have gotten very good at this, you will be able to tell the approximate size of a force hitting a camp from 2 indicators. One, how long has the camp been the color being attacked. If it has been less than a few minutes, then the supervisor has the buff. Two, how quickly does it turn over. If you know a camp was recently flipped, and it goes from crossed swords to cap in less than a min, your looking at a MAJOR force in the area. If white swords are there for 2 – 5 min, its probably a small team operating in the area.

Now, do this until you start to get pretty decent at telling who is fighting at crossed swords on a map, how to track an enemy force using dolyak deaths and sentry/camp flips as a notification. One you feel your getting pretty good at predicting your enemies, here comes the advanced class. Start attackin players, joining with teams, or simply PVEing around the spawn. Get into a habit of remembering how the map was 30 seconds ago when you last did a quick spot check, and try and use that mental image to guess where the next move is.

Once you have this down, commanding becomes a LOT easier! Its like playing chess, you dont need to look at the board intently at every single move available every time you look away from the game. You look at key points, key areas, and if your already proficient at strategy, the play you believe the enemy is doing. If you think an enemy force is heading to a supply camp, then you kill for 1 min and look back, seeing the supply camp flipped and crossed swords at a sentry point nearby, odds are you are tracking the same team!

Just some more commander advice, hope it helps, and stay classy!

Churros.7196:

Engels.8537:

I know most of my dedicated fellows in JQ won’t agree, but I would really like going to T2 for a change. Most of the people who came to JQ to get their map completition, free karma and level their alts already left, many important guilds lost a lot of people that quit playing.
Free server tranfers support people/guilds that only care about winning, even if that means transfering to a server to take towers with 40-people zergs, while there are only a couple defenders inside or none at all.

So honestly, I couldn’t be less worried about leaving T1.
I had my fun with HoD and SBI, and ET and IoJ, and many others. I was lucky to be there when caping was something you did fighting, not just walking through an empty tower, when money you spent in upgrades was worth it, when T1 was a WvWvW, not one-colour-borderlands. So really, I can’t complain. But now I’m looking forward for more even and entertaining matches.

Thing is that we actually have the ability to do well in T1. Just a couple weeks ago we were only a few thousand points on reset. The problem is that we don’t have multiple big guilds like SB or SOS does(not saying JQ doesn’t have any but overall) and as a result we become less organized when less experienced commanders are online(not bashing our commanders, but this is the truth) and have random participation rates every week. In one word, JQ is like a PUG server; everyone does their own thing.

I do enjoy being in JQ where many smaller guilds participate in WvW and JQ has a great atmosphere, but I understand it does get frustrating at times when you call for defense at a tower, but only 2 people in the zerg wp back to defend it.

Well if you guys are this highly ranked at your current setup, I shudder to think what JQ could do if someone were to unite the tribes and march en force on the field.

Also, WM, THANK YOU. Was the most fun WvWing ive had in a long time. We do things called class workshops, where our guild seperates into class channels and we brainstorm diffrent ideas for what we do in the field. Today after our butt whoopin, the energy was practically tangible! Nothing like a kick to the teeth to wake you up and have you thinking about new ideas!

We have some new tricks in the works, looking forward to testing them out against your team!

And once again, to all the people who pitched in their support when I was banned, thanks so much. I was so lost, I started doing dishes and running errands… I do NOT recommend it…

I for one give a pre-emptive GG to whoever wins next week. Ill be out of town for most of it, but war waits for no holiday! GL to all 3, and see yall when i get back!

zortek.9607:

We are a global community with exceptionally rich diversity. The cultural imperialism of your message is obnoxious disrespectful.

Happy Holidays

Nope, no Imperials here. That? That, that is a moon, just a moon. Nothing to see here gents.

Twisted, you forget one very blaring piece of data. When in first place, first is almost always focused on second. Second however only has one target, first. Third however, has 2 targets, first AND second. Any points third takes away from EITHER first or second are DOUBLE POINTS (Double points in this case means you gain the PPT, while simultaneously depriving your direct competition for placement of points).

What your asking for here, really, is for whoever is in third place to help the second place server win. If the third place server focuses on first at the same time as second, they will be shooting for third, or at best second.

The fact that we have these debates shows the depth of the diplomacy in WvW. It is not simple, it is not easy, it is crazy, complex, and strategically intense!

Cirus.5748:

Tarin Twisted.4183:

Fighting is fun…close games are fun as well.
I am not going to use server names in this message…just positions.

Logically, if the objective of the game is to attain more points than the other two teams you are playing against you can consider these points…

1. The team in first focuses mainly on the team in second
2. The team in second focuses mainly on the team in first
3. The team in third focuses mainly on the team in first

Now in a three way battle there needs to be some silent agreements between second and third that include…

1. Do not invade the other teams lands
2. Agree on an equal distribution of enemy #1’s lands
3. The team in last place receives control of neutral properties until the scores are close to even at which time the properties are split

This is assuming that all teams are playing to win.

Having fun is important and it is why we play these games, however, what stops us from playing to win? Is it not just as much fun to engage the team in first place as it is to go after the team in third place?

I would argue that the more challenging choice is to try and win and not just try and take over lands that are the weakest.

This is T1…if second and third place decided to just focus on the first place team they would drop…not sure how far…but it would at the very least be closer than what it is right now.

A brilliant plan if I may say so.

But what happens when number 2 becomes number 1? Does the server in number 3 let the new number 1 win? Or do they attack them to try and win it for themselves thus allowing the new number 2 more power to become number 1 again?

The real question is this. Who does number 2 work for?

hoschi.8693:

@Lavath:

Well, then why don’t you start working on the defensive ? You – as others – rather point the finger instead of DOING it.

I even drop you the siege blueprints, but I don’t have time nor fun running the supplies for all it. I have done it for hours and days on end, it bores the living daylights out of me. I rather enjoy havoc, zerg busting or hammer pain train on pink armor night…

And to call out all commanders for not acting strategically/tactically… well… it’s a slap in the face of those who do, just because you either don’t know about their coordination or can’t see it… that’s IMHO ofc…

If you’re a defensive-minded player, then I’d suggest to get in touch with the commanders “running wild” and aligning your efforts with theirs. Keep scouts out to get a heads-up when the enemy comes and call in the troops. I know we’ve fallen back to help out whenever it’s possible for us.

If you don’t want to do that, that’s fine, too. Just don’t complain about others behaving exactly the same way you do.

TSYM has an alliance with this bad kitten undersung guild called DoP. They are the BEST defensive and siege minded players I have ever seen, and they complete our team by fortifying and defending positions we take. Think big man, if your great at defense, there are teams out there great at offense.

Your the Peanut butter, they the chocolate. Together? REESES!!!!

Agreed, the balance has actually been pretty satisfying!

How dare you doubt the minds that brought you the game in the first place!

Hehe, honestly though, I think some people really think ANET slipped and made a great game, but they really have no idea what they are doing. The whole reason your STILL playing this game is because they concepted, coded, tested, and produced it. Have a little faith, I guarantee there is a white board at ANET headquarters with ideas that would blow your mind hole.

Give them the benifit of the doubt that they know what they are doing, and strap in!

Greetings ANET,

The other day, I’m sitting in a strategy planning meeting with my class masters, letting them know my game plan for shuffle, informing them of my crazy tactic for the WvW reset.

My game plan, rush Garrison with everything we have, build 5 golems (supply planned out), then hit SE gate. JQ, expecting us at hills, will see the blitz at garrison, and come running back to thwart our surprise move. The real surprise, is as soon as the gate goes down a Mesmer will portal the golems to watergate, starting the real siege. The main force will be charging towards the N inner gate making lots of noise, causing lots of crossed swords, and looking very disorganized. When the golems are on the inner water gate, a Mesmer would jump off from the cliff, and port the main force strait to the inner water gate (that should be down). To the enemy, it simply looks like we are retreating from a failed garrison blitz. Now we are in the keep lord room , and the only response path for the enemy is to come through a nice little choke to the north of keep lord room (which we will be AOEing)

After my meeting, my class masters set off to train people to make my break out strategy come to life when I realized just how much GW2 has completed my free time. It was then that I decided to write this to you, the creators.

Let me introduce myself, I am Coron, GM of a WvW guild TSym. The idea of WvW when waiting anxiously for this game to release was always a fun idea, but wasn’t super high on my radar. The combat combined with your combo system always had me at the edge of my seat! When I finally was able to play, I was not disappointed, and filled my pre-cleared schedule with lots and lots of GW2.

It was shortly after turning level 33 when I went into WvW for the first time. After a fairly rocky start, I found a group of people who were listening to my orders, and we decided to set up a siege on a tower (can’t remember which). Sometime between building siege equipment and standing in front of 3 catapults as rocks flew over my head crashing into the gate, and I was absolutely obsessed. I mean really, open field combat, huge maps, and STRATEGY! What else could a gamer want!

So I just wanted to thank those who have added so much to a genre that I truly believe is the future of gaming. On behalf of TSym, thanks so much for tirelessly working on this great project, and for giving so much to the gaming community. I truly believe we are still scratching the surface of what is possible in WvW, and we learn something new ever day!

/salute, happy holidays, and I do hope you get some much needed time off! BTW, here is a recording of that shuffle, for your viewing entertainment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TIzyGDVEeXI

13k up in T1, TSYM running EB like a boss!

Anyones game, and SoS/TSYM WANTS YOU!

Getting really competitive in T1, who will stand up and face the challenge SoS and TSYM face?

Greetings all on behalf of TSYM!

First, let me just say VERY WELL DONE to all opponents, especially those on EB BL. We were all raring for a good competitive week, and you guys did not disappoint. Amazing response time especially when your keeps were in danger, was hoping we could get in there and reset, and both JQ and SBI denied us! Keep up the great work all competitors.

Good luck to PRX on the EU circuit, if you ever decide to come back to NA, we look forward to competing against you!

TSYM will be recruiting hard, working on our training, and trying out some new tactical plays in EB BL. If you are itching for a challenge, we would love to try our tactical plays against some good commanders! NOPE and SF proved a few of our ideas flawed, so well be working on improving them throughout the week. GL to all sides, and see you on the battlefield!

SoS in first place by quite the margin this week! Lets see if we can hold it in the face of such great competitors.

SoS going into the next WvW match fired up and ready to go!!!!!!!!

SoS going into the next WvW match fired up and ready to go!!!!!!!!

SoS going into the next WvW match fired up and ready to go!!!!!!!!

Message was updated to reflect todays current WvW times

Honestly, you might as well embrace it. You built yourself a reputation, Im sure there are other like minded people willing to do the same thing you are planning, might as well get you all in one place! EXPLOITERS UNITE