Guild Wars 2

Jayne.9251:

ilmau.9781:

that s a good point :P

it is been more than 4 weeks already we are Outnumbered most of the time being Full while servers that outnumber us are Very High.

To me it smell like another big move from Anet TP Genius, it has been masked as “more balanced system” but truth is that servers who were loosing by 50k points / week one month ago are now winning of 50k points / week. Yeah, indeed a nice change, way more balanced now, Gz.

Only thing that changed is the fact that they had a huge numbers of players to hop server and i won t even imagine the amount of cash they got selling gems for trasnfers.

Well, balance wise nothing changed, but at last i m happy someone got a nice bonus on his salary.

Oh tinfoil hats. Brilliant!

It’s just an indication that SFR was overflowing with players before — WAY more than any other server — and now that you’re faced with “regular” numbers that the rest of EU has worked with over the years, it feels empty to you.

Time to rally those you have there and train them, instead of relying on just throwing numbers at a fight and winning that way.

Herm, when i say “Outnumbered” i don t mean a personal perception like i think our opponents has more than us, i’m talking about the buff itself :p

that s a good point :P

it is been more than 4 weeks already we are Outnumbered most of the time being Full while servers that outnumber us are Very High.

To me it smell like another big move from Anet TP Genius, it has been masked as “more balanced system” but truth is that servers who were loosing by 50k points / week one month ago are now winning of 50k points / week. Yeah, indeed a nice change, way more balanced now, Gz.

Only thing that changed is the fact that they had a huge numbers of players to hop server and i won t even imagine the amount of cash they got selling gems for trasnfers.

Well, balance wise nothing changed, but at last i m happy someone got a nice bonus on his salary.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuump!!!!
SFR still looking for Commanders, decent queue at any time, lot of fights, and enough activity to get decent rewards/loots!

Still no answer of any kind…

what s the problem with giving such infos around?

Ins.7139:

Firelysm.4967:

READ AND NOTE, IT’S WALL OF TEXT BUT IT’S REALITY AND IT’S A SHAME:
To ALL people that think this helped and ArenaNet, sincirely.
For more then 2 weeks you are testing this theory of limiting numbers on borders.
So far we had every day a HUGE fight in EB since we are T1 server (Gandara) and let me tell you that limiting server numbers did not solve the rubber bending, skill lag and disconnects, nothing really changed it’s only annoying as hell for populated servers to get limited.

Let me tell you what you’ve done ArenaNet. In WvW we have 4 maps, yes i know you know it, BUT, EB is the place where people most queue for, home border is where people mostly AFK and wait for EB queue to pop AND other two borders are mainly for closed raids of guilds.
Now what have you really done? You limited borderlands for 20% and lets say our home-border is GREEN, then blue and red is meant for raids, guilds usually start raiding at evenings around 20:00, what this means for a guild, we have to queue 20 min before raid to a border just to get 15 people guild into same border without being let out, and pray for not getting disconnect, IF we do, we are out in queue for 90 minutes.. which can mean end for your raid for this evening.. On the other hand, if there is attack on home-borderland there is NO WAY to save it, because there is normally 15-30 people AFK @main way-point. They don’t respond on HELP calls in map/team chat, and people that want to help, are stuck in queue, so we are left like with 20 people vs double our numbers..
The worst part of this limitation? Guilds that raid on same border, at the same time, did start to whisper other guilds, to stop raiding, call names, and insult people because they couldn’t get people in the same border. Things went so far, that guilds are insulting each other instead of helping the server. They leave each other to die when there is outnumbered fight, and they could fight together to make it even, but in return they let them fail alone, and they just retreat like nothing happened.

TL;DR, ArenaNet fixed nothing on T1 servers, they caused only to:

• AFK people on home-border
• people in home border cannot defend because there is normally around 20 people afk, and do not respond on help calls, and other people cannot queue in because of those afk ppl.
• people that raid on same border at the same time, they start insulting other guilds that try to raid there
• skill lag, rubber-bending and disconnects did not leave even where there is no huge fights
• ping to google from EU to NA is 35ms, ping to EU server is normally 100, and it’s EU server.. but from 19-0:00 there is always rubber-bends and ping up to 600-1000ms for entire server.

You fixed null, nothing, zero.. So please reverse changes, imagine PvE limitation on 50 people Teq, people would be sick of it a lot sooner then 14 days… People would tear you apart if this would happen in PvE and you know it.. so sincerely reverse the fix and start working on fix harder. People who play GW2 only for WvW like me, don’t deserve this kind of punishment. Thank you for reading.

+1 just admit you failed anet and go back to the initial map caps.

++1

Malediktus.9250:

Nice, judging from the daily achievement popping up its a fairly recent screenshot, too.

Screen has been taken after TT / SLAY moved from SFR to PS so it is no more than 4-5 months ago (i don t remember exactly).

Btw, we did another test yesterday, and still can t get more than 70 on tag.

Hello there, me and my community (SFR Server) would like an official clarification about how the map slot works in WvW. We are sure there was something already posted around but we can not find it anymore, this forum is really huge ^^"

So, to sum it up, if we got it right map cap as potential amount of slot for each map can be filled with either players (ofc) and then, minion? sieges? golems? minis?

Have a lot of sieges actually reduces the amount of players who can get in the map?
The same is true for minions (rangers pets for example) or minipets?

We really would like to understand EXACTLY how this works.

Thanks in advance, the SFR Community

found it! it was 88 not 89 soz xD

Malediktus.9250:

I think the caps got changed (lowered) several times sind release. Its hard to tell what the real numbers are
How old is the 89 people on tag screenshot? A few weeks ago Evil Liou said ebg cap is 70 max which seems realistic to me.

yep! now it seems to be capped at 70 -.-’’ that s why i m here to argue, since they said it was put back to “normal” but it is not. It has been lowered of about 20% or more.

The screen with 89 ppl (i ll find him and post there asap) gas been taken on FSP about 2 months ago, beafore the skill lag issue and the map cap reduction

Malediktus.9250:

ilmau.9781:

More than two weeks has been passed since the map cap reduction…

so, we have to assume this is this going to be a permanent change?

The borderlands are back to normal for some time again already, only EBG still has the lower cap.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Lag-March-2015/page/8#post4955872

ok, i m sure not a lot time ago i saw a screenshoot of a commander getting 89 players on tag on borderland, we are going to try it again and i will let you know if the maps are back to “normal” (if there is a numbers to really be considered normal in this case) or if the cap is still lowered.

More than two weeks has been passed since the map cap reduction…

so, we have to assume this is this going to be a permanent change?

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

The map caps are about 10% lower than when I started looking into this. I’m not comfortable raising them higher right now. Sorry!

Hey, any news about that? time pass quickly and queues are annoying.

Since it’s been already more than 14 days since the map cap has been reduced, we have to assume this is this going to be a permanent change?

Tseikk.9032:

Oh whoops, i forgot. Transfers are the only way anet makes money through wvw.

Yep. if servers will ever get balanced somehow Anet will find the way to destabilize them, beacouse as said, no transfers no earnings.

Bump!

SFR still looking for players who operate outside the EU prime time!

Actually would be nice to have some more commander for night/morning, no queue at that time, lot of fights, and enough activity to get decent rewards/loots

Monthly Bump

WHAT IS SEAFARER’S REST?

SFR is a server that is very proud of its accomplishments. We have fought against the very best and we have always stood united. We had our ups and downs, but we are still here and we will always be.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

- WvW Guilds
- WvW Players
- WvW Commanders

everyone willing to cooperate with our Community is really welcome.

WHAT CAN WE OFFER?

To name a few:
• A TeamSpeak server
• Excellent communication
• Friendly people
• Recruitment opportunities
• Builds, tactics, all of our kitten nal.

But the most important thing would be: we offer you a tried and tested (serious) community.

How to Contact us:
Contact me in-game (ilmau.9781), or Register to our Website!

Seafarer’s Rest Community @ www.pevepe.net

SFR is full, from NOW on whoever join us WILL NOT RECEIVE any support from our community, no TS no Forum, no Server Bank Access, NOTHING.

We would suggest to everyone looking for a new home to contact any other Gold League server

We are promoting that in order to TRY to balance the actual status of the EU T1 since it is becoming worst and worst everyday with an insane population gab between our server SFR and the other ones

that result in a loss of fun and morale that is ruining the whole WvW EU scenario

Thanks for understanding

SFR Community

@ John Corpening

the idea is really good, but please make sure to explain the more accurate possible each aspect of the new system and keep us updated step by step, and even MORE IMPORTANT to give time at each community to organize properly beafore make any change.

I want to remember You the issue of the “free week transfer to medium population server”, that was a way to sudden and never gave time to communities to organize properly. Seafarer’s Rest was Rank 1 in ladder at that time and with medium population so we got massive transfers that almost killed our community. It was really an hell of a job to rebuild everything.

To prevent this kind of issues please please PLEASE move slowly and explain step by step each change, i do not want to seem paranoid but i am sure that everyone involved into WvW Communties tremble everytime hear such big changes in the air, since this kind of actions usually turns to HUGE works.

To explain better my point of view i would like to invite You or any Dev avaible to take a look at our Community, Community that was organized during the Alfa, was consolidated during the Beta and went up and running starting from the Headstart Access, and still last.

Thanks a lot for reading, have a nice day

Kresh, Seafaer’s Rest Alliance leader

Buuuuuuuuump!

Gj Funny!

I rarely join EOTM but when i does there are always players talking about you, seems you are really the Queen of that place

/gratz

c u in game! if u have left some energy to play again!!!

Main thread has been updated with more relevant infos about our community and what we are looking for!

Bump it up!

SFR is actually in need to balance his coverage focusing on times night/late night/early morning, since specially during last week we noticed and increased number of opponents during this period.

We actually are in real need of stabilize our current crew to match our opponents numbers and fight properly.

This is a call for guilds/commanders/players that are willing to cooperate with out community and join a very organized and working team!

sorry for the OT but sometimes i just can’t shut up

Atoss.1056:

ilmau.9781:

specially from 04.00 to 10.00 cet, that s when we actually most lack players!

Yep, definately.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssss

You took a screen of a lucky night and posted it! Usually we are far outnumbered during this period, for example, tonight Deso had the usual World War Z karma-army around with 60+ players at 6am and we even had tally +0. So definetly, YES we need more player during the night

McWolfy.5924:

you dont have 30 men q on every border, so you need more? what if u guys learn to play? :P

Well, it is hard to tell to learn to play at a community that took a server from rank 19 in ladder, to the top and hold first spot for 43 weeks, but maybe u was to busy server hopping around to WSR?Piken?Deso?Piken?FSP?Deso to notice that. But no worries, we will let you notice in the next weeks.

Have a nice day! thanks for reading!

Still looking for players/guilds/commanders who operate outside EU prime time, off-peak hours players are always welcome

Bump!

Heya there! had been quite busy last weeks and never had time to come here and refresh the threads! ^^"

Well, actually SFR prime time is full again! Thanks at all the new guilds who joined us! we look forward for great cooperation together, and lot of fun!

So, what we are looking for now?

We are always looking for players/commander willing to cooperate with our community that play in offpeak hours, specially from 04.00 to 10.00 cet, that s when we actually most lack players!

Once again, Thanks for reading!

Have a nice day

Hello there, high tier WvW servers are all close to 24/7 coverage, there will be up and down due to the summertime, vacations and everything, but indeed if WvW is what you like on this game transfer to a tier one server is something worth your money, at last to try it

I would suggest you an international server like Deso or Gandara but personally if i was you i would join SFR for sure!

you should consider also SFR, we are a well oiled machine, and have a stable WvW community since the sept 2012

come SFR u won t regret

/BuMpItUp

Seafaerer’s Rest is always looking for WvW lovers to integrate in our Community!

We are a well oiled machine, if you join us won’t regret for sure

I take chance with the bump of this week to invite you to check the latest videos in our youtube channel, hope you will enjoy the show

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUVYNDEK82tSYrfrfJ9-SQ

Here the link of our new Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUVYNDEK82tSYrfrfJ9-SQ

There is a huge stock of videos we collected in the past two years, so we decided to share 5 new videos every day, to give at everyone the time to check them!

We hope you will enjoy the show, and ofc, do not forget to subscribe

Linked at the Youtube Channel, as must, there is also the G+ page,
where you will find all the new threads that are usually shared on our website, in the Gw2 public main page.

Uaon.6103:

Oh I bet you want more American players to do your night shifts in WvW alright….

That would be indeed nice

………..bump!

We are still looking guys! Don’t be shy, we do not bite

Have a nice day!

Here we go with the weekly Bump! so let’s repeat that SFR is always looking for players WvW focused interested in join a very organized and cooperative community!

Plus, we are still loooking for Commanders (PuG leading) with eng speaking and working TS to lead during morning/afternoon/night, and as previusly said we have NO QUEUE in any map (but ebg) in our prime time, so there is spot for 2-3 more guilds with raid of 20/30 (even daily).

Here something to watch:

[INT] Tagless Open Raid 04/06/14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfCGdgnWsxw

For anyone interested here you can see the updated list of the Guilds actually recruiting on SFR
http://www.pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewforum/3338469
link can be seen by anyone even without being registered to our website!

I take the chance to remember that at the moment SFR is looking for Commanders (PuG leading) with eng speaking and working TS to lead during morning/afternoon/night.

We also has NO QUEUE in any map (but ebg) in our prime time, so there is spot for 2-3 more guilds with raid of 20/30 (even daily).

thanks for reading, have a nice day

The League is over and normal WvW activity will soon start again

Yes, beacouse WvW is every day, and we, as WvW community know that.
The League is an unconvetional event where the ppt competition goes over everything else and all the players who took part of it and played WvW just for the achivements will leave soon, and once again WvW will be left for WvW players.

As we are.

Here a Video of our Pugs during the League
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLj29GX1rE

Seafarer’s Rest WINS the 2014 Spring Tournament with two matches of advatange on any opponent! That was an amazing job.

This thread is to thanks all the players on SFR that took part at the League and made this possible, this is dedicated to the old SFR veterans and the newcomers, big and small Guilds, commanders (all), scouts, roamers, EVERYONE!

I thank YOU!

For the effort and for the hard work and the incredibile devotion shown
it was a pleasure to play by YOUR side, and always will be

Ofc i want to thanks also all our opponents, Baruch Bay, Desolation, Riverside, Vizunah Square, Elona Reach, Jade Sea, Kodash, Augury Rock, for the great fun and the intense fights provided, was really epic to clash with opponents totally determined to win.

We are sorry for the last two weeks when we were not able to grant the usual SFR status, but indeed since we already won a lot of players just went in slack mode.
But no worries! the normal WvW activity will soon start again.

Yes, beacouse WvW is every day, and we, as WvW community know that.
The League is an unconvetional event where the ppt competition goes over everything else and all the players who took part of it and played WvW just for the achivements will leave soon, and once again WvW will be left for WvW players.

As we are.

See you on the battlefield!

ofc is viable, the limit i consider for condi damage builds is 10vs10… for larger fights direct damage is simply the best choice, even in a 15vs15 ppl will just die beafore you are able to do any relevant damage at them, we may eventually discuss about the Necro Terror Build that can deal 1,2k damage/second.. but then you will rely only on a few skills/traits and with large cooldown…

We won the League Season 2 and we are now looking forward to fix all the lacks that were highlighted during these intense weeks of fights. Our opponents showed us where we were weak, striking hard.

Now it is a perfect time to join us since we are middle way to fix our holes, there is no better time than now to apply and integrate with our community

A part of our project involve to find a guild that can provide raids during our nights. NA/Canadians/Mexican guild with raid of 20-25 or open raids would be perfect.

thanks for reading!

omphin.1752:

The Tide is turning on the pirates! Come plunder their loot with us

Yeah, why not! Enjoy it as long as it last
…after winning the league with TWO weeks of advatange on any opponent we were a little exhausted and most of the community voted to take a well deserved rest for some days! We will be back all together playing as usual for the next matchup!

Rather than this, there are a couple of things i would like to discuss with Deso community can u guys please give me an in-game name to contact? Thank you

Update/Bump

We are looking for Guilds/Players willing to cooperate with our Community.

We are looking for WvW Commanders, with English speaking and good use of Teamspeak.

And more, are you willing to join a WvW guild?
We have multiethnic WvW guilds English Speaking and National WvW guilds from every nation, so we can integrate players from any Nationality!

14) Seafarer’s Rest 353

loooool comon!!! i m in 5 guilds and 3 of them exist ONLY for claiming/upgrades !!!

If you open a thread like this make sure you have some serious datas

So, if you want to know we have actually 46 guilds following our WvW community, all actives, mostly WvW oriented (some PvX) all of decent/small scale numbers, we don t have 60+ blob guilds.

Have a nice day

SFR is still looking for Commanders who can lead PUG raid during night/ealy morning @ Central Europe Time

Refer to the first topic to learn how to get in contact with us!

omphin.1752:

Davy Jones and his Seafarers have washed ashore with an army that neither sleeps nor eats. They can be heard singing “yo ho ho and a bottle of rum” while taking a supply camp near you.

rofles!!!!!!! this made my day HAAHAHAHAHAH xD

just add this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14L7piSUGk

Btw, SFR look forward to have more fun and interesting matchups with you guys
Gl with the recruitments!

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

Many accused them of having Canadians playing off-peak, but I believe them when they said they had none – which gave birth to the ‘Viz Zombies’ meme.

Well, what i can tell you is that you are half wrong there. I m sure VZ had Canadians, i know that beacouse some of them are now playing on SFR. They didn t had a Canadian army ofc but like 30-40 players who were more than enought to grant a boost in off peak hours…

Xenesis.6389:

T I’m stuck playing my highest ranked character, and wasted time on the others.

u got my point mate ^^

I saw a lot of threads around but most of them was to dispel frustration and whine in general… based on my experience those threads are being ingored most of the times. Rather if we give Anet some serious reasons maybe they will reconsider their priorities.

So, if you think that WxP should be a priority write here WHY!!

Let me explain my pov, WxP has a problem, and it is that you are almost “forced” to play with the same character due to the fact that WxP grant you a huge boost in performance, you can really notice the difference when playing with all or almost all the traits maxed. So why should i have an average game experience with my lvl 100 Warrior when i can have a complete one with my level 1k Necro? This ofc results in playing 99% of the times with the same toon.

Now consider that Gw2 is already one and half years old, and basically had no substantial changes in WvW playstyle… so the main problem here is to keep the fun up! I truly belive that “force” ppl to play always with the same character may result in a loss of fun and general interest in the game.

In conclusion, since no substantial changes was made nor to the WvW playstyle nor to the objectives to pursue, read it, WvW is always the same, makes some changes that promote variety should be a priority imho.

Meglobob.8620:

So no account bound wxp ranks before June?

Sad…

as someone already said, it can t be sold in TP so it is not a priority.

do not be frustrated! you have the amazing new Achies for the the Season 2!!!

Are you not happy that finally a huge amount of ppl who usually do not even think to log into wvw maps will be around farming lonely their achievements?? -_-""""

Nahh, i m sure we all love the idea.

SkylightMoon.1980:

The fact that you are upset is your own fault. Anet never said wxp accountbound was coming this patch. So don’t whine on the forums about it please. This is so silly.

The only silly thing here is the lack of infos… i can understand there should be problems but really, let us know something!!!

Keep say “it’s ready when it’s ready” is like say nothing.

i agree with this thread main title, i m sure that if Anet do not release it yet there should be a reason, but please dear ANET let us know something!!!!!

is not really hard to understand that ppl feel frustrated if they feel ingored.

Hule.8794:

So the next great thing is starting. Spring tournament.
And what do we have in patch notes?

WvW achivements.
tPvP reward polish
more LS

Now all those important things for WvW, well its Spring Tournament time so lets focus on WvW:
account bound XP – NOOO
commander system upgrade – NOOOO
defending rewards – NOO
more achivements for PvE palyers – yes

GJ Anet

all as been said there, nothing to add. Gj Anet. >_<

SFR is looking for Commanders who can lead PUG raid during night/ealy morning @ Central Europe Time

Refer to the first topic to learn how to get in contact with us!