Guild Wars 2

Well, you have an option of buying equipment in WvW for karma and badges but the selection is rather limited. NPC’s that sell it are at spawn.

I agree, you can always come to forums and comment on the match – I’m usually too busy fighting to type to my own server, let alone the enemy one…

@sireuhT
About zergs – you usually do things in large numbers but 90% of the time you are trying to overcome us with hugely superior numbers. I recall one attempt to ninja a keep with few people but that is about it. Maybe our experiences are different since I wasn’t much on Eternal this week but focused on defending Gandara Borderlands.

@Gabal : show me the link about an alliance between FR and JS, please, I want to see that on my own eyes. By the way, we did not “wiped” the floor against you. Like I said before, but what you are delibaretly ignoring, is that you got many new reinforcements. Despite that, in prime, except for Monday where it was hard, we own you. Your special operation Wednesday was a fail, we own you every other day of the week, while fighting too the FS guys which are just good to harass.

Funny you mentioned only that thread – I think it was <a href=“https://forum-fr.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Fort-Ranik-Gandara-Mer-De-Jade”>this one> I don’t speak French so I’m not sure is the google translation giving a good impression. However, more then that thread suspicious action in the game I mentioned above are why most people have the impression of two French servers cooperating.

One last thing : Our night team got several lags / game problem last night with the update, and today is an off day for most of your players. In France, it is not.

I think you are mistaken – speaking for my guild we have one guy that I know of that isn’t from Europe and we all work and study on Friday as well. Personally, I work tomorrow as well but that shall be a new match…

@sireuh
You can claim all you want about not cooperating with Jade Sea but we have seen some really strange behavior if you weren’t teaming up:

Attacks on Hill and Bay Keep at our Borderlands which started simultaneously, FR coming to wipe our sieges in front of the JS tower and then leaving even though the doors were at 10%, destroying our camp-capping team and then leaving the camp without conquering it…

And it could be another “coincidence” how you wiped the floor with us when we were in a match-up with FR and another french server and things are much more tense with a “neutral” third server. And let’s not even take into account a thread on official forums where alliance between FR and JS was proposed…

SintLucifer.4206:

Well i do hope that Gandara gets the kitten kicked so we can fight again for another week against you. Not because i don’t like you but you are a worthy and honorable enemy.
FR on the other just keep pressing ALT+F4 when you put them down. Also i didn’t see some tactics on FR side besides the standaard zerg groups and even then they aren’t that good. I think FR is winning against FS because they have more manpower. Because when we face them with 20vs40 we still win.

Also little tip for FR:
- Class canon build won’t do damage when your down. You guy’s seem to have alot of glass canon build that keep shooting my wall of reflection

We are staying in this tier next week as well since we were lowest-ranked server in this match-up so it seems we will fight with Far Shiverpeaks and a different French server next week.

I agree about Fort Ranik, they are really great at zerging but they are predictable. Ok, maybe this is because we are facing them for a fourth time in last two months but when their zerg enters the map you know exactly what objectives they will take and in which order.

Last night they tried a zerg reinforced with 7 golems at garrison – they broke down both doors in less then 2 minutes but our forces rallied at Lord’s Room and after some intense fighting one by one golems went down. I got so many badges it was insane.

We had been double-teamed by two French servers. They would both start charging up their side of the map at the same time every evening. One of them was clearly first and we were fighting for second with the other server so this tactic ensured we stay third in match-up.

I would like to see a different color for dead player’s tags. Especially as a lot of WvW players can be lazy to respawn…

Last night was tense. I think we used their zerg mentality against them with their fierce defense of Dreaming Bay – they committed all they had to holding it so we managed to gain a lot of ground on other borderlands and after a really prolonged siege take the keep. It was really a great team effort – 5 trebs pounding on the wall, smaller guild teams fortifying in supply camps to deny them from the enemy and cut off reinforcements, intense defense of trebs below the Garrison cliffs and finally a back-and-forth inside the keep which eventually culminated in our victory. If only we can mantain the momentum of that victory and what our insomniacs accomplished over night and we can finally be victorious over Fort Ranik!

I think Whirling Winds don’t prevent ballista shots so you always have that as an option. Besides, cooldown is 30s on that spell so it really takes a lot of elementalists to completely counter treb shots. Or simply break down the SM outer wall and destroy it from below…

I don’t think they give up as much as the tiredness takes over and they just droped down from tiredness. I saw some guildies before I went to sleep and when I woke up still capping things early in the morning.

I’m glad we finally saw some FS guys – I always love when you can learn from your enemies and the fight for Hills Keep was pretty intense at the time with some unusual tactics deployed by Far Shiverpeaks.

We have deffinitely dropped the ball a bit judging from that screenshot but as we have managed to gain 20,000 points to Fort Ranik in 24 hours a few days ago we could still take this fight down to the line.

Too bad FS didn’t do well at the beggining of the match-up, we could have had an intense three-way fight…

Sure I do – I’m Gandarian since the launch and in the begging that didn’t mean much to me. However, when I got hooked on WvW did the pride really start to kick in. After all – our victories and defeats are a part of concentrated effort. Sometimes one person can tip the scales and determine the outcome of battle but without other people on map you couldn’t achieve anything. There is a comradeship that emerges from battle and I’m proud to stand besides my fellow Gandarians.

Not to mention we have even named our Dolyak – Bessie must be proud to be Gandarian as we treat her with care.

metallkette.4831:

We really prefer killing FR, they’ve been a big thorn in our side. Have to give it to that thief and mez team around Durios this morning though, you guys were good.

This is our fourth match with them and we have lost first three so you can imagine how we feel. At least they don’t have another french server holding their backs this time so we have a fighting chance.

Last night was epic. After one hour of fearsome defending somebody said in map chat that it is truly amazing how Dreaming Bay hasn’t fallen yet. And we continued to hold it for two more hours after that!

Wave after wave of Fort Ranik forces, golem attacks, zergs getting portaled at our inner gates without pause, almost constant threat from trebuchet fire… I must have contributed in at least a dozen trebs getting busted with one notable suicide-bombing mission inside heavily sieged Bluevale camp. How I got out of that camp alive still puzzles me. In the end, after 3 hours of desperate fighting Dreaming Bay was lost but only after we had to divide our forces and protect our other keep which was under attack from two sides.

And after the fighting was done we realized our strong defense allowed our comrades on other maps to really push forward and reduce Fort Ranik to double digits per tick!

I’m proud of the way Gandarians fought last night – some were already conceding defeat after a weekend but we showed this match is far from over and we can and will fight until the bitter end.

For Bessie!

5-3 (very cheesy) – if you don’t want to play the game why did you purchase it? Reaching level 80 isn’t really a big problem, especially with crafting.

1-2 – I hate it but I look at it this way – if we have a queue maybe a decent player will get his spot while he takes a break waiting to reenter in PvE.

3-1 – I hate it as I dislike mindless zerging but it is very satisfying to see Legendary Defender instant-killing dozens of them when they try to push too hard.

Also, elementalists have a glyph of renewal which instant-revives you on a down if you used it to revive another downed player before.

Well, maybe if they offered a chest for capturing a tower… I’m actually making money in WvW even with armor repairs if I don’t go overboard with paying for upgrades.
But then again I’m using my badges to buy siege since I got every piece of invader gear I plan to and I don’t intend to get a legendary.

There were some nice fights last night but the sheer numbers of Fort Ranik are overwhelming us. We did have some nice fun when Tortun led a revenge operation in Fort Ranik borderlands. We held a keep and two towers for more then an hour with barely a skeleton crew after starting with outmanned buff.

Too bad FS is MIA, we could use somebody to put more pressure on Ranik.

It would be great if you could put supply you are carrying in the tower supply depot. As of how are you fighting it – educate people. Tell to everybody you see doing it why it is important not to take supply from towers, we were all noobs once and didn’t know better…

I see you learned a thing or two from that 41 golem fail-army

I think it is 5 people attacking the same target.

Before elementalists got a downed state buff there was literally no way to prevent being stomped when downed. It is balanced by being so kitten squishy and for the fact you get an increase of downed penalty every time you use it. Also – as mentioned before – immobilization works on mist form.

I think my server will do well this week on EB for one reason and one reason only – we don’t have Grub in our part of the map.

I’m making a pot of coffee as we speak – reset party is coming!

I made more horrible cakes to share with Porn Star team again.

Oh God, that was hilarious. Be sure to watch in HD so you can read chat.

“Use skill 3 to shield!

JESUS CHRIST, NOT ALL AT ONCE!"

Well, we on Gandara have learned our lessons and we are climbing back up. What really hurt us was lack of off-peak coverage, especially during the night but thanks to some insomniacs we are making progress. The core of WvW players join every night and fight no matter what the score is and this week we have had a great influx of new players – I hope they will stick around in next matches as well. Last time we faced Fort Ranik we finished last but I think we have improved from that week and this time we will fight until the bitter end.

It will be so strange being the red team, we haven’t been red in over a month…

Whoever does it is really lame since if you are being an active and good player in WvW you should even with repair bills actually earn money. Besides, we have had queues at almost all borderlands for last few days at Gandara so they just gave themself a nice 5-15 minute waiting period when they log back in.
We learn from every enemy and regrettably some of us learn such tricks as well…

The thing is – we have a core of players who will log on and fight the French hordes whatever are the odds no matter if we have out maned buff or if we own the whole map. However, we have a lot of people who join only when we are doing good so our WvW populations vary. I feel sorry for them – most fun and sense of achievement in WvW was when we were losing or facing vastly superior enemy in term of numbers. And I just LOVE the fact that when we are clearly defeated we don’t quit and we decide to have fun. Take last night for example when we got drunk at our spawn point and then decided to take supply camps. It took ten of us 5 minutes to kill a skritt we ran across accidentally due to everybody missing, falling over or puking all over the place due to drunkness. And then we ran into an enemy zerg which we charged nevertheless thinking that we can intimidate them so they won’t notice we are drunk.

My stomach was hurting afterwards from laughing too hard…

I never intend to switch servers, we are at the moment where we deserve to be. There is a room for improvement and I love how we never lose our fighting spirit or the ability to have fun in WvW no matter what the score board says.

Actually, red team has biggest advantage vs. Stonemist castle as they can hit it with a treb set up in their keep.

I’m pretty annoyed when people decide to spend 30 minutes to kill grub. However, on one occasion for some reason grub was in front of Bravost and he helped to drive back invaders who attempted to capture the tower.

You already have to load a completely separate zone to join EB jumping puzzle, make it a separate instance from Eternal Battlegrounds… Or don’t count people in jumping puzzle towards the cap of players who can join the map.

The one thing I hate with jumping puzzles in WvW is that people in it are counting towards the maximum number of invaders that can be present at the map. This weekend we were bleeding all over, defending on 3 towers at same time, losing heavily and somebody would then complain in the chat how everybody should come to jumping puzzle because it is camped. That person isn’t contributing anything to its server and JP should be in it’s own instance at lest in Eternal Battlegrounds where puzzle is completely separated from the rest of the map.
In the mean time people who want to fight are stuck in queue…

Well, we successfully captured and held Jade Sea Garrison today for a few hours so it isn’t impossible…
And I’m in the same boat as you here – I miss red keep on Eternal Battlegrounds for map completion.

I really wish you could see the name of the guild that claimed the Keep. I don’t know many of the guild’s emblems and I would like to know who is the guild which claimed the tower…

Russia decided not to move clocks anymore last year.

This means midnight for restart time and not 1 am – I like it