Guild Wars 2

Wow, a really stylized artwork of Hennessy Road in Hong Kong. Nice!

ITT: 3 stack servers arguing over who is the best at stacking.

Gelato in winter is still awesome because it doesn’t melt. Oh, and no flies.

dario.3605:

What could be achieved by doing this? well for starters it would stop zergs going trough a map , and just moove the zerg to the next map upon completation of the first, but force them to defend if they want to start getting big points. Second, even if not completely preventing it, it could make the burden of night caping less painfull , cause the points gained from the few hours people are sleeping wouldn’t be so radical as they are now.
Also i wouldn’t call it points but influence that a certain camp, tower or keep has on the map.

Any thoughts?
Best regards

Wouldn’t this make the server that night caps win? Since they have the potential to get full points via upgrading without challenge, whereas the time with the most ppl on will see a lot of structures change hands rapidly?

Aurust.8961:

SOR doesnt have coverage gaps.

It’s really funny watching a SOR player talk about coverage when everyone knows they were carried to the top spot by [IRON], an EU guild.

This is an interesting glitch, if it was figured out how to do it you can farm some of the story for good rewards (Sigil of Force, Pirate Rune, Exquisite Ruby Orb)

Dodforer.2470:

FA and TC have dropped 19-23 points, while SoS has gone up almost 48, and they’re getting hammered.

SOS is not getting hammered. We are ahead in ppt during Oceanic time. We just don’t have the coverage to push it to NA.

grasshopper.8539:

Us on Ehmry bay feel kind of ripped off. We worked really hard and earn the right to move back up to tier4 this week, then we got a bad roll and were moved BACK to tier5. Now haff of our wvw community is mad and not showing up. So now we are going to lose a lot of the rank we worked so hard to get and SBI is gaining a ton of ranking.
So what’s going to happen next week? We are going to be back in the T5 bracket and SBI is back in T4.

WVW is a competition, you move up the bracket with hard work and commitment. Anet gambling with mach ups is going to take out the competition

I think you guys will be matched with different servers next week, just enjoy the fights

A lot of fairweather commanders like mez and guildchat complaining about the match up because they’re not used to suddenly losing.

Toroxus.9256:

We’re used to get steamrolled by a server like SoS, we weren’t used to dozens of sieges doing impossible things.

But you fought CD. Surely you must have seen some weird stuff.

SOR – BG – TC
JQ – FA – MAG
DB – KN – SOS
YB – CD – EB
SBI – BP – DH
AR – SF – GoM
IOJ – DR – HOD
NSP – FC – ET

This is what would have happened if 1U1D was implemented this week instead of random matchups. T3 would have been the same whitewash as they are seeing now, since DB’s oceanic presence is incredibly huge.

2, just make it so you can’t drop more than 1 tier down for matchups.

WULD matchup for this week

SOR – BG – TC
JQ – FA – MAG
DB – KN – SOS
YB – CD – EB
SBI – BP – DH
AR – SF – GoM
IOJ – DR – HOD
NSP – FC – ET

Looks a lot more balanced than currently.

JaredKincade.9761:

Look at how low those server’s rating are. They have NO ONE. Someone has to fight the two servers with no wvw presence at all. Its just your turn this week.

you mean, got a bye? That is fun if it is just 1 hour, not 1 week

Amurond.4590:

SBI has been playing against SoS for the last few weeks you know.

We know Oceanic zergs.

SOS here, our Oceanic zerg is half the size of NNK. You guys are in for hell.

How does the glicko work, would pushing CD up cause SBI to lose points due to expected outcome?

Kojiden.8405:

I hope people don’t keep falling for these tricks and stop buying RNG items so that Anet stops making them. You keep hearing stories of people paying an absurd amount of money on them and not getting what they want. Don’t become a victim of gem shop RNG. Don’t buy these when they come out.

Just for you, I’ll buy 50 of them.

Cirus.5748:

What do other people think?

“I paid to stack my server with PVE gold only to watch them get shot down by SOR/JQ arrow cart.” Didn’t expect much from a BG player.

Thrashbarg.9820:

I have 4 “mains” which I switch between for WvW and I primarily roam, escort yaks and defend, so I don’t level fast. With the boosts to WXP gain, I got one level in 3 hours of play tonight, which is about my average time in WvW. This is just another thing that’s a good bonus for the most hardcore players (one main character, 8+ hours a day WvW, etc) but seems almost insulting to anyone who doesn’t zerg surf, or have a single main, or play all day every day.

You\re right, wvw chests is a bad idea, let’s petition ANet to remove them because they make PVE-ers play WvW for rewards instead of WvW.

To be fair, running to Orr requires more than just discovering waypoints, for most WvW players they don’t have the luxury of having any PVE map unlocked, so it’s still a lot of running to get to Grenth temple.

morrolan.9608:

I agee its virtually impossible without a guide yet the devs have stated that they were designed to be completed without such aids

hint hint the guide was put together by multiple guilds doing it on their first time. The mission had to be completed before they would post a guide on it.

It’s just a matter of crowd sourcing the experiences instead of figuring it out by yourself.

Clark Skinner.4902:

It is my impression that Guild Missions, particulary Bounty and Puzzle, and to a degree Trek, were designed to be done with the aid of a resource like Dulfy.

That’s like saying raids in WoW are meant to be done without Tankspot. Game designers have to take into account guides and online resources, and make the content challenging even when players are told what to do and what not to do.

Why do people keep on talking about blowout when they have seen guilds server hop. It’s as if nobody will transfer servers.

To all those jumpers, please pick a proper time to jump, don’t do it when two guilds are fighting and rage about it on map chat, thanks.

They could easily introduce a dungeon like this that drops Ascended gear, forcing PVE-ers to play it to get their leet Armor, which would be hilarious watching the QQ on the forums.

How much of a stat gain do you actually nett after upgrading your backpiece from Exo to Asc? I can’t justify the gains enough to warrant forking the money out for an Ascended backpiece.

This is the transfer from ET right?

Oil Mastery
1- Put a Sticky Oil debuff on the ground. For 2 minutes, Siege cannot be placed or built on Sticky Oil!

That would be pretty fun.

Evalice.2861:

So if we find a hacker from SoS, does that mean the whole SoS server hacks? or if they capitalize on the hacker’s distraction, does that make them a bad server? … not really. Best you could do is just report it.

Don’t generalize and pick out one person/guild for their actions because every server has their own hacker/glitcher/oppurtunist/etc.

If you have to report one every week or so, it shows poor cohesion on your server for not blocking the abusers out from your system.

SOR has always had strong NA, it’s how they stayed in T1.

XII.9401:

All about numbers and no skill/gameplay results in a boring wvw. Pressing the same button over and over again on Siege can only entertain you for so long.

I have friends who are still playing CS and SC2. Pressing or clicking the same button over and over again.

why cannot reuse old thread

Is there an MMO out there with horizontal progression and a lot of persistent content? Can someone give a few examples? Notice I said horizontal progression. WOW has vertical progression, sure the raids still exist but there’s not much to do as a guild if you’re following progression beyond raiding the top tier raid.

Vayne.8563:

but I moved to Tasmania, Australia from NYC

Go fishing. Seriously, everyone fishes in Tazzy.

DoomMagick.5963:

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

Get more players to cover your time zone, otherwise no thanks.

My timezone(NA) has plenty of player;s it’s the non-NA players where the problem is.. all the oceanics can still PvD to their hearts content- they just wont get thousands of points ahead by doing it.

If we had 2 Oceanic servers and an NA, there would be a lot of complaints about the NA getting penalized for nightcapping.

Fuzzion.2504:

For Football fans

JQ = Manchester United
SoR = Manchester City
BG = Liverpool

I would liken JQ to Milan, BG to Interkittenonale and SOR to Juventus. T2 would be the triumvirate of Lazio Roma and Napoli.

alemfi.5107:

Thought i’d note that sbi has a major bot problem in ebg. Looks to be a bunch of charr rangers with guild tag… [PREP] I think, can’t really remember.

I am tempted to get my guild to make a bunch of Charr ranger alts with bears … and then unleash them on unsuspecting foes!

When Desu drops to T2, do you think Kodash might overtake to T1? They might gain a bit too much from Desu and SfR point bleed.

daedalus.9814:

Sea of Sorrows also has more medals then SoR and BG, yet there a dead server plummeting through the tiers. The medals system on millenium.org is useless so dont take pride in it.

SOS has plateaued at tier 4 and will be back in tier 3 in a few weeks at our current rate. Just because a server is not tier one hardly means there dead.

More like a few months. Point gap is too much.

So what happens when two small groups suddenly collide?

“You stupid fools, stick to your assigned part of the map.”
“ kitten you, why aren’t you guys on TS?”

Would be hilarious if a guild suddenly showed up on a map, guild run capping suddenly caused a whole server riot because they interrupted 2-3 small group coordination.

boak.6258:

Sorry, I should have been more clear. These two players were abusing the invulnerability spot in the rear of vale. You can see the “Determined” buff on the necro from [HOPE]. I didn’t catch a screenshot of the ele from [CaLM] doing it too. But I suspect that the ele was just mindlessly helping the necro in any case. It was really the necro that repeatedly kept going back there every time he got low health.

Not a big deal, but I think SBI cares about their reputation as much as CD and frowns upon any use of exploits.

Everyone does that. I still have kitten of a Kiwi player doing that in their BL.

I just think the saddest part of this whole mess is how BG gets an influx just as FOO breaks up. I would really have loved to see two big servers collide.

CRO.7658:

Also please list the 10 major guilds who went to BG from SOS

merc, foe, agg, vi, work, atac, the rest of aoi, nd

Snoozy.6701:

What he did to us is to build SM with rams entirely and cause SM to max of seige. And we cant build anything after that

There was a period of time when we actually decided to lose the entire EB so that the 20+ ACs in Lowlands would be destroyed. Just a friendly suggestion

Snoozy.6701:

Sorry but i just come in to ask help from SoS, i don’t know if any of you guys know somebody named “Colder Than You”? he is a commander just transfer from SoS few weeks ago. Now he keep trolling our chats and bring new wvw players to their deaths running to SoS zerg. also giving out our location to SoS players. i’m not trolling but, he’s making SoS name bad right now.

Hmmm, nope, never heard of him. We had a guy like that named Finale Reaper but he seems to have been banned.

ryan.3915:

Fort Aspenwood – Fort Arrowwood
Blackgate – BlackCart

Stackgate should be renamed to Stackcart , it makes sense.

Skritt.

Racial mechanic – Skritt health pool and attributes scale depending on the number of Skritt companions you have summoned.

All Skritt abilities summon 1-3 Skritt that have a specific function (ie. spawning turrets, dropping bombs) . So you would use skills 1-5 to attack, and 6-0 to summon Skritt to do certain things.

how is SOR oceanic representation

Sinaya.4201:

4) The losing servers stop trying, forcing Sea of Sorrows to move up. (Even if Yak’s Bend drops down a tier, at least it we would be losing to some new faces)

The 4th option is the only one I feel any personal control over. While one person not playing is unlikely to have any sort of impact, entire guilds leaving the battlefield could potentially make some change, right?

We all saw what happened to Tier 8. The short answer is that like it or not, us moving up a tier is beyond our control right now, and CD giving up is not going to make us move up any faster. Besides, completely giving up is rather weak.

Sinaya.4201:

Don’t care. Intent vs impact here. It seems like a compliment to you, but I’d rather that the server just move on and quit being the big fish in the little pond.

This is Kaineng’s fault for dropping 1 tier and hemorrhaging their points to push T3 bar up. I don’t think any of our servers can do anything but wait a month or two.