Guild Wars 2

saiyr.3071:

Dr Acula.3496:

GuardianOMS.8067:

fritanga.1623:

GuardianOMS.8067:

EBay zergin’ the buttlust. Amazing reset so far!

If that was Maguuma BL, that was Mag’s group attacking our two people who were capping. Never see fewer than 10 mags in there at a time. Way to “Breakup the Zerg”

No, it was not Maguuma attacking two people. I have no idea what game you’re playing but there were plenty of small skirmishes that involved less than four maguuma players in buttlust.

And with that, we’re just back to the same ol’ game of people over exaggerating numbers or not knowing how to count :T

Buttlust

You like our name for it, eh?

I use “BloodClot” because it just clogs up stuff that was once open and generally causes or is indicative of a bigger problem

GuardianOMS.8067:

EBay zergin’ the buttlust. Amazing reset so far!

If that was Maguuma BL, that was Mag’s group attacking our two people who were capping. Never see fewer than 10 mags in there at a time. Way to “Breakup the Zerg”

I would have liked to see a cutscene bringing the story aspect of this update out a bit more. Personally, if I had been running this update I would have done the following:

Last week I would have made the laser have less effect on Tequatl and added some flavor commentary on an NPC saying that the laser is not as useful on Tequatl as it used to be. Perhaps Warmaster Narru? Then when the update went live, I would have instead of linking to the map, had a cutscene taking place in Rytlock’s office with Rox and Rytlock present. Narru (or some other Vigil NPC) would be there telling Rytlock that the megalaser isn’t as effective as it used to be and that Tequatl is much stronger than before and that they need more Charr Legionaires to reinforce them. At this point, Rytlock tells Rox to investigate the dragons and find evidence of what they are doing. Cutscene then ends.

At this point, Rox sends you a mail telling the player that they need help finding samples of the dragons (with hints as to where said samples might be located). Then, when we have found all the samples, we can talk to another NPC about ways to improve the weapons effectiveness.

I just feel that the story wasn’t told well enough and left people wondering what, if anything that it had to do with it. Many players who I spoke with considered this just a content update with some minor living story stuff tacked on. If that really is what it is, then that’s cool, but if a story is there to be told, then it needs to be told a little better. If Warmaster Narru is going to play a bigger role in the future, then they should have been a little more than just a minor NPC who says “At least this isn’t southsun” and have a little flavor text when you interact with them. If Rox is involved, then it would have been better to throw some more dialogue her way as well.

Comprissent.3856:

fritanga.1623:

Boonprot.6274:

fritanga.1623:

Boonprot.6274:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Okay, EBay, this is the second reset in a row this had happened. You lane break to get a southern tower from Mag and you end up losing your keep because if it.

Why?

Another equally important question:

Why so many ACs?

because when you are outnumbered, 2 AC’s to fight a group is acceptable in a keep?

Unless you were talking about that fight in Bay where we had 1 that was already built that you left sitting there unharmed.

Ark has been running with 20 all night. EBay has been rolling with at least 30 to a queue, depending on the encounter. Every. Single. Time we push you anywhere on your BL, you drop ACs. It’s sad.

oh ok. We have not had a queue at all on our home BL all night and GH I know has been running less than 20 all night. The only times I saw them run into Ark, there has been no more than 2 arrow carts and they were there long before Ark got to them. I don’t know where all these arrow carts you speak of are. I just did a lap of the map and saw no more than 6 on the entire map with no more than 2 in any single location.

Perhaps you are confusing ranger attacks for arrow carts? I know inexperienced players sometimes make that mistake, so I can understand.

We killed 4 arrow carts with our lone AC at west keep. And then there were 2 more still up that we couldn’t reach

So you killed 4 arrow carts inside a keep and you couldn’t kill two more at inner because we pushed you out and you are complaining. So the only people allowed to defend a keep is Maguuma and everyone else should just abandon their stuff. It is just sounding to me that you are trying to justify wiping countless times to a group smaller than you which was disorganized and then try to blame it on siege. You were inside a keep, there is going to be siege inside a keep unless the server is really bad.

I was standing in the keep you mentioned and still think that you may have stereoscopic rendering on or something. Check your graphics settings.

Comprissent.3856:

KStudios.2850:

Comprissent.3856:

To all ebay

please don’t be boring tonight. Thank you

To all Mags,

Then please don’t roll with 15+ on our BL after midnight then complain about us being boring when we’re not even there. You’re welcome.

oh no, we have 15+? GH has had 25+ for 3 straight hours on the map. There were multiple ballistae/AC in every camp and tower we checked.

Also we left several hours before midnight, so idk who your’e talking about

SoS being 100x more fun right now

Well I have been in the TS and GH has not had more than 25 in channel the entire evening since reset. Additionally, they generally have people in multiple places around the map at any given time. Perhaps you have stereoscopic rendering enabled? that does somewhat double up everything you see if you are on a standard monitor.

You are right about the Ballistae. There was 2 Balllistae built inside keeps when the gates fell. I guess you would prefer that we don’t defend keeps or towers? And you think its boring now?

So you don’t actually count groups and throw out arbitrary numbers because your group wipes and then confuse rangers for arrow carts, then in one sentence complain about how boring the matchup is while complaining about servers defending their stuff. If you really don’t want resistance and just want the profits, try PvE. The loot is way better there.

Boonprot.6274:

fritanga.1623:

Boonprot.6274:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Okay, EBay, this is the second reset in a row this had happened. You lane break to get a southern tower from Mag and you end up losing your keep because if it.

Why?

Another equally important question:

Why so many ACs?

because when you are outnumbered, 2 AC’s to fight a group is acceptable in a keep?

Unless you were talking about that fight in Bay where we had 1 that was already built that you left sitting there unharmed.

Ark has been running with 20 all night. EBay has been rolling with at least 30 to a queue, depending on the encounter. Every. Single. Time we push you anywhere on your BL, you drop ACs. It’s sad.

oh ok. We have not had a queue at all on our home BL all night and GH I know has been running less than 20 all night. The only times I saw them run into Ark, there has been no more than 2 arrow carts and they were there long before Ark got to them. I don’t know where all these arrow carts you speak of are. I just did a lap of the map and saw no more than 6 on the entire map with no more than 2 in any single location.

Perhaps you are confusing ranger attacks for arrow carts? I know inexperienced players sometimes make that mistake, so I can understand.

Boonprot.6274:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Okay, EBay, this is the second reset in a row this had happened. You lane break to get a southern tower from Mag and you end up losing your keep because if it.

Why?

Another equally important question:

Why so many ACs?

because when you are outnumbered, 2 AC’s to fight a group is acceptable in a keep?

Unless you were talking about that fight in Bay where we had 1 that was already built that you left sitting there unharmed.

Given recent news, this is the time! It is so sorely needed by this community!

So every day when I read these forums and Reddit, along with the forums for my server, I see that someone is coming up with some crazy theory about this, that, or the other. Ranging from Lore theories/conspiracies to WvW matchup conspiracy theories, sPvP bugs, items in the gem store that boost your character in any way, NCSoft’s influence, Nexon’s influence over NCSoft; you name it, there is a conspiracy theory behind it with every bit of news and update. Because of this, I feel that there needs to be a tin-foil hat in this game.

From the player perspective, I can easily see it being “Gifted” to others as a troll gift. ArenaNet forum mods could give them out as a gag-gift as thanks for posting some of the threads people post. Maybe people just want to keep the inquest out of their heads?

As a prop asset, I can see it having great use on NPC’s who are trying to keep “Them” out of their heads. If made right, they could be re-colored into a multitude of things as well.

I would like to suggest changing the link in the OP to http://gw2stats.net It tends to be more reliable than Mos.Millenium and has many more features that are cleaner and more user friendly.

Just to give an update, I am now running the latest video drivers for my card (326.41) and ran a checkdisk. No Errors found, same result. I can select a character and the computer restarts while loading the map.

I do have software monitoring my temperatures of both processor and GPU. There are no spikes or sudden raises of either.

good point…. here we go!

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Since the latest patch (8/13/13) I sign into the game, get to character select, and then when the map starts to load, my computer spontaneously restarts. I have run -repair, but the same thing occurs. This is true for characters in various locations of the game world as well.

Recently, the guild to which I am a member finally unlocked guild missions. We set a time and date to meet and we would activate the mission. When it was activated, the location we were given was in Southsun Cove on the day of a new content update. This created multiple overflow servers and made getting my group together a significant challenge. In the end, we were unable to do the challenge because of the difficulty in coordinating and grouping.

My suggestion is that when there are overflow servers for the locations that guild events are in, that it excludes that location from the list of possible guild missions. Southsun Cove having many overflows during the events have made Guild Bounties, Guild Rushes, and Guild Missions both extremely difficult/next to impossible.

Eviator.9746:

I’m actually considering quitting the game due to players’ incessant whinning. I’m getting too old for that garbage.

good luck finding a game without that.

Jinks.2057:

I think no one on either server should WvW for the week in protest to Anet and their wonderful kitten up.

oh god! a PuG-off!

Hard work doesn’t pay off for a server in WvW any more. When one finally gets up enough to move up a tier and they face the same people, it just ruins the game for everyone. Its like if someone were stuck at level 79 in PvE and couldn’t progress because they decided to end the mission that gets them to 80. Most would leave because it is an indicator of a broken game with broken mechanics. This is how Ehmry Bay feels right now collectively as well.

12 weeks against BP, 10 weeks against both BP and AR. I guess this makes 13 weeks against BP and an 11th against both. Many people are now considering server transfers and other games because of this. Good job failing.

Dovgan.8605:

Amins.3710:

Kodiack.2783:

Amins.3710:

It’ll be nice once we don’t have to fight AR/BP anymore… simply because you’ve neither learned nor implemented adaptive strategies over the last 6 weeks.

It’s one thing to say “population imbalances” made for crappy gameplay, but even the small roaming groups are just bad.

6 weeks… zero improvement on any front…

I mean, srsly?

Instead, what’s happened is larger tower hugging zergs afraid to come out even when there’s equal numbers.

Tower hugging zergs? you mean like this one?

btw, I chased groups back to that tower all night.. on purpose , just to get lots of screenies.

:)

That looks a whole lot like us taking a tower in an enemy BL and Farming badges… Yep, that sounds about right.

/golfclap

Your legendary forum skillz seem to be waning. Mor SS plz

Really, because it looks like a whole lot of you in a tower you already own, otherwise there would still be combat markers on it.

But then again you would know that if you played WvW more than an hour a week.

Looks more like a huge group holding each other for safety while they wait for the other server to log out so they can cap things without resistance.

“We want good fights … against doors” – average EBay player

To come to Ehmry Bay’s defence, the loot was especially good tonight. AR has become especially horrible in WvW lately and its very hard to resist when things like in this video happen:

In reading through some back matchup threads, I read that Ehmry Bay was complaining about BP doing excessive night-capping. That is mostly how they won that first week with them. Because of this, Ehmry Bay started to adapt a strategy specifically to counteract this. Some got up earlier, some stayed up later, and some from other parts of the world began to step up. The end result is complaints from Borlis Pass that Ehmry Bay night-caps.

This is an example of the server evolution that has happened in Ehmry Bay that is being mentioned by other posters in this thread. The larger guilds are adjusting tactics and strategies and refining their game. The PuGs in the evenings are getting better and better as well. Some are even forming their own guilds and becoming forces to be reckoned with as well.

DevonCarver.5370

If you aren’t happy with those changes, I’ll be more surprised than the Imperial Japanese Army was by Marshal Georgy Zhukov at the battle of Nomonhan. I think that fits the criteria. Sort of.

So we are getting tanks and underwater bridges in WvW O.o

Aeros.2046:

Archer.1658:

Aeros.2046:

Archer.1658:

Aeros.2046:

Alright Ebay, where are those Arrow Carts in our garrison.

Also, could a Admin Moderator take a look at this ongoing fight? Invisible Arrow carts.

Quoted for future reference of stupidity.

So share the screenshot. Where are they, because I crawled all over the inner walls of Garrison and did not see them. I am genuinely curious. And no, they are not on the vistas or on top of the dome, because we were up there too. we had 40 people on Teamspeak and nobody could find the Arrow Carts that were massacring our zerg. So, screenshots please.

Where are they. Surely ebay is not so low as to put AC’s inside bugged walls or in positions where they can zoom hack. if its a legit placement, then share your learnings. If its not, then try and pretend we don’t know whats really going on.

They are invisible of course that’s the only possible explanation. Surely you aren’t accusing ebay of something like this, when BP is known to glitch into towers/keeps?

I’m not saying they are “invisible”, I am saying they are somewhere nobody can see. Either its an ingenious placement, or its an illegal placement. So where is the screenshot? And yes, I am calling you out and accusing somebody on your server, whoever placed those carts, of violating the rules of WvW and the TOS. Ebay may as a server not condoned it, but you are willingly profiting from it. We fought inside the Lords room for almost half an hour and nobody in our zerg, an entire qued Server of us, could find those Arrow Carts. So, please. Show us how awesome you are. Where is this mythical arrow cart placement.

If I am wrong, show us the screen shot. Monsieur le president de Ebay, J’accuse.

1st, you are asking for a screenshot showing arrow carts. Who honestly takes screenshots of every keep they are in? I mean that pretty self-absorbed.

2nd, in reading through this and many other posts in the forums, I distinctly remember many BP players saying that only EB zergs. Are you finally admitting that BP Zergs?

3rd, judging by all the keep flipping and bounties put out on EB mesmers, I would say that you and your teammates are not good at searching keeps for players let alone siege. Its very possible you just didn’t see it.

Please consider all of these things before posting inflammatory posts about how you died to arrow carts.

Evilzara.6378:

fritanga.1623:

I have been away for a few days now… I am confused about what is going on by reading this forum. From what I am reading, BP and AR are teaming up to fight EB. By reading the comments, one would think that either BP or AR is winning, but the score is telling me otherwise. In fact, I only see the score margin between BP and AR opening up more and more while the margin between BP and EB remains basically the same? so who is helping who in this?

I have to say I am most disappointed to see AR fall so far this week. They were doing so well the previous weeks and are now getting stomped by BP. Sad times indeed.

Ebay has been PvDing us.

How is that even a reply? I mean WvW is about capturing towers to get the highest points. Of course they are. PvD is the game. So because EB is PvD you get to use AR as whipping boys for your benefit? I don’t understand your answer, but apparently AR is satisfied with it.

As I said, I used to think much higher of AR until they began to kitten themselves to BP and take the huge sacrifice they are making in Points and Ranking that they are so that BP can come out 2nd place.

I have been away for a few days now… I am confused about what is going on by reading this forum. From what I am reading, BP and AR are teaming up to fight EB. By reading the comments, one would think that either BP or AR is winning, but the score is telling me otherwise. In fact, I only see the score margin between BP and AR opening up more and more while the margin between BP and EB remains basically the same? so who is helping who in this?

I have to say I am most disappointed to see AR fall so far this week. They were doing so well the previous weeks and are now getting stomped by BP. Sad times indeed.

I can confirm that this is still a problem. I just was attacking a Dolyak from the SouthEast Camp all the way to the SouthEast Tower. I put CC skills and things that are supposed to block it and stun it, but the Dolyak was unaffected. Every hit showed as a miss.

I am not sure if this is class/race specific or even if this is affecting others, but since the last patch, there has been a skill activation bug where after jumping activating any skills at all does not work until weapon swap.

Just to throw the details out there, I am playing on an Asura Guardian. The problem persists with the Sword, Staff, Hammer, Scepter, and Greatsword. This bug is really frustrating and takes the player out of combat completely. Many players I have spoken to have just decided not to play until Tuesday in hopes that some of these bugs plaguing WvW get fixed in the patch.

In this very thread, I see people saying “Ehmry Bay got Woes and some CHARR from AR and AR is a better place without them” and now I am reading how “all the transfers from AR are displacing the matchup and ruining the tier”. This rings so loudly of people grasping at ways to point their finger at Ehmry Bay so they could blame them for the mismatch.

The reality is, as someone else said earlier, maybe there is something not right in your own houses if people transfer away from you. Since we have been in this tier, I have seen a lot of communication on these forums and even on the server forums (sorry AR, we still can’t find yours ). As we talk with one another, we see some of the benefits and strengths of the other servers and what they do and we learn. Likewise, we also may end up making friends with those people. BP has used Ehmry Bay players in a video to help raise server awareness of Thief Stealth Skills as one such example.

I have been added to many parties with AR and BP players alike and we talk about the server environment and how things are different about different things. Inevitably people may wish to change servers because of these things. While not everyone moves for the right reasons, some have found a home in Ehmry Bay and seem to be pretty content. Instead of pointing at Ehmry Bay and declaring those who left as traitors, perhaps it would be more appropriate to talk to those people and discuss why they left.

I am pretty sure they said the mesmer was still alive and didn’t die…

I have an idea how to calm your kittens. Next time you sweep a keep, record it and post it in this thread. Then when your keep is back-capped, we can all see the thourough job you are doing sweeping and provide criticisms.

Its a win-win really. If you are doing a very thourough sweep, then you have evidence of an exploit. If you don’t do a complete-enough sweep, then we all have something to laugh at!

Its almost 4am EDT. This means we are still a couple hours shy of when Kalkz will finally start the golem rush on EB BL (unless like last week those begin on Monday mornings when everyone is at school/work).

Also, look at that! we are almost a full 12 hours on this thread without it being deleted! we are improving! or is that slipping?

I am confused about the PvDoor argument people are making in this thread. Isn’t the point of WvW to take as many keeps and camps as possible so that your score is higher than the other two server’s scores?

CrowndClown.1702:

Kalkz.5297:

I was enjoying the fight against FTF and PK, 1 – 2 Hours of 40+ zergs in bp bl, ended up winning it and it was enjoyable, until PK did it again, Wait in spawn for 10 mins and wait for the enemy zerg to leave then go and cap a keep, no offence to you guys but i cannot think of any other cheap way for a guild to cap a thing, i want to leave this tier

In the video that your wonderful guild GOAT posted, the chatlog clearly says to sit and wait at spawn to make it seems like bp left the map. Dtz saying some things that could be taken the wrong way as well. You might want to hide chat next time. Good video though, it was interesting to see us from your guys’ point of view.

And idk how most of SBZY does it, but it seems like they have a waypoint keybinded to avoid that nasty repair bill they have. No backbone at all….

The video above was from BURN, not GOAT unless you are referencing another video?

It was really cool to see some of the fights from the other side. I remember many of those fights and remember many instances where we were wondering what was going through their minds.

This video also is that smoking gun in the strategy debate that has been going on in this thread thanks to Kalkz. It appears that a valid and commonly used strategy employed by BP is to just port to spawn and wait it out rather than defend and fight. I guess people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Anyways, some good fights this week so far. Aside from the regular forum warfare, things have been pretty entertaining in the two days we have been going at it!

testpig.5018:

Anvil Rock… IF you start hitting Ebay, you increase your odds of pulling out of last place.

We don’t want to be in your BL… we just want to be in Ebays BL, but we can’t do that if you keep trying to hit us while we are hitting green.

So the new masterful BP strategy is to beg the other server for help? wow. That’s pretty pathetic.

“Also DH, watch your borderlands on thursday night from about 12-3 in the morning eastern time, BP likes to have reset night 2.0 around that time.

Kalkz.5297:
Oh no!, You told them our plan, now we lose."

Cheap way of capping, indeed.

jkctmc.8754:

Seriously, the party is in ARBL.. Who gave the permits to hold a party in EBBL?

Nobody granted permits for such a party. That’s why local authorities were called to sort out the issue and clean up the mess. Things are back to normal now. Thanks for your concern.

I saw at least 4 instances of Flame Rams being used on walls in my journies through WvW tonight. The first one I saw I admit I laughed. The second I chuckled. The third one I saw made me wonder. After the fourth, I almost began to pity Borlis Pass.

It reminded me of that one guy trebbing from inside SM after it had been taken, only dumber.

ocelep.1563:

To all of the Ehmry Bay that were in Eternal Battleground for the last few hours, amazing fights. I can’t remember the last time I had a fun long fight like that. First time commanding in eternal, couldn’t ask for a better time! Oh and to the Devona’s Rest in there, the times you showed up, even though you were outnumbered, were fun fights as well. Finally ran into ADBStyNoQQ, you guys know what you are doing and i give you props for running into our zerg and trying to take us out. Looking forward to more fun fights out of you all!

Yeah, it was tough holding SM and all our supply camps through the upgrade with no “Blue Dorritos” on the map. Luckily we had some great communication and superawesome PuG power on our side this afternoon.

well, I signed onto the forums to report this bug since I now have a character stuck on this quest. I tried to find the right thread to post the bug on and discovered many people talking very irrationally about the bug. Honestly, I can understand the frustration because we enjoy playing the game and this one bug is holding us up from progressing in the story line. What really frustrates me more is that when logical explanations are given for when a fix is expected and why it wasn’t out when it was projected to be out, the community of people who are stuck have a ragefit. Please remember that you are talking to human beings here and that they are trying to correct the issues. We all love this game but sometimes forget that people are working to fix it.

Quite frankly, I am very pleased to hear that there is a fix ankittenhankful knowing that it is coming soon. I understand how those who have been waiting for that fix for a while though want the fix pushed since it is a high priority for them since their characters are at a standstill. Just remember that we are talking to people and be a bit more respectful.

I just wish that the clock tower would either be able to be done solo or seperated by race. I can’t see my character ever in this puzzle and end up falling off things repeatedly when a giant norn runs in front of me.

vjek.4270:

… when your average customer runs into such roadblocks, they simply stop playing.

I am sorry, but this hardly sounds like the case of the “Average customer”. I have seen many Asuran Engineers and other classes running around in higher level zones and am pretty sure that they have completed this mission.

My Asura Guardian had this mission as well and was able to pass it without the use of any specialty armors or weapons in the process. I think that the problem is that you are focused too much on your equipment and not enough on your tactics. Equipment in this game, while important, does not determine if you are going to succeed or fail a mission. As others have mentioned, the mission is doable with the use of dodging. With an engineer, there are many skill alternatives to turrets you can run as well that can assist you in this process.

Elixers, for example can give you a boost that might make it easier to escape the harpy momentarily. Likewise, I would advise against using the healing turret in this particular instance since while being another target to distract, can be one-hitted by the Harpy, thus depriving you of that heal for a short time.

Anyhow, I can understand how being stuck on one mission might be frustrating, but so far there have always been different alternatives to be considered in just about every mission. Should this continue to be a problem, bring along a friend!

Today I ran this mission and had no problem running it. I do have a bit of a complaint about it though. When you reach the top of the hill to find the researchers and the waves begin coming… If you die and click to retry from a checkpoint, that checkpoint is right in the middle of the clearing that the mobs are rushing to. This means that as soon as you respawn, you are in the middle of the fight again. I tried to pull the enemies away from that point in case I died again but they kept defaulting back to that point. While I was able to try a different strategy and pull it off, several deaths had occurred and my armor all was a happy shade of yellow on the damage indicator. I feel that moving the respawn point just out of agro range would be a little more benefitial in this fight. Perhaps on the roof of the building next to the clearing? or even up that hill to the north?

I tried this the other day on my Human Engineer. I had the same problem. I left the instance and started it over again with no problem though.

I was talking with a friend of mine who chose the Durmund Priory as his order, but then realized that he really liked the Order of Whispers gear. When the two of us got together, we could not find a way to make the gear availible to him for his main character.

What I suggest is that perhaps after “Forging the Pact” or perhaps even after Zhaitan’s defeat, we get the ability to join the other orders. I can see it being done in several ways… one way would be “oh hey, you just commanded troops of all three orders, granting you membership is the least we can do” or even a series of initiation missions added to the personal story where you can rise in rank through the other orders? Those are really the only ways I can think of gaining access to the gear for the other orders short of an old-school-style faction-farming bar (like the sunspears and lightbringer titles in GW1 were).

I have to say that I agree that Engineers should use hammers (or maces at least). The class lacks a certain melee aspect and it would be a cool mechanic if you could do a burst heal of all your turrets or nearby summoned creatures with it. I could see a mace as an option too since there is a mace skin that looks like a giant wrench.

I don’t agree, with the trade company for being a viable option. In larger guilds, you may not know other members of the guild to help you with your crafting and are forced to rely on potential strangers to craft something for you. With a trading option, you have the ability to at least varify the receipt of goods prior to money being disbursed. Additionally, lately the BLTC has been down. At least with a trade window there might be another alternative.