Guild Wars 2

DanyK.3842:

That, coming from an XxX member is truly an accomplishment. I am proud for every poster in this thread! Thanks for making this happen.

You shall receive your price winning cake later today! Dont share it with mister pink fluffy though, watched a video few days ago and looks like he gained some weight =x

Achievment unlocked!

I think I should congratz you all on exceeding us in the game of Forum Wars!

* Grabs more popcorn*

multivira.7925:

I’ve gotten 2 precursors in 38,717 kills, if that helps you any. Lost track of all the exotics and rares though.

Todo list:

- Delete Twirl from friendlist….

Stupid Banana….

pejot.4806:

Nemesys.7251:

if someone have laughed is not from us i can assure that,we was simply waiting your rush i knew u will come to try.

Okay, it’s nice to hear that I respect XxX and it was a surprise for me to see these emotes, I guess it must have been some ppl following you into bay, sorry for misjudging.

I believe we had many encounters that evening.
If you mean the encounter at South Inner bay were we dropped a Golem and you came out, there was indeed another as well. But a reason why people might have laughed is that once we finished that Golem and Nem entered it, it got bugged underneath the map and we had to portal it out =D

Which made us in TS laugh and the people around is in map chat have a laugh as well. We have a curse when it comes down to Siege, and that might be why there was an laugh emotion =p

I respect you TaG cause you have the balls to come out where indeed most stay in and build AC’s. And I am looking forward to meet you again this week!

Tyialo.6532:

Nice sandwich against abbadon from xxx and Mya

Whoop whoop!

drazzar.3042:

Nice Fight yesterday on Miller BL and a big thx goes out to yak, adac, ce and xxx!
It’s just a pitty that we couldn’t finish xxx off in the ruins before yak rolled us kittening hard
Oh and nice def in the Hill from abba!

Oioioi finish us off? =p

I think you finished off the stalking rallypoint lootbags that chased/stalked us that night, but most of us were alive when the slapping yaks came steamrolling in.

Anyway cheers and see ya tonight!

Sirana Dark.4681:

yeah now i ve seen the skill of gandara 10 against 1 u are great guys

You must have been very dangerous…

No really no reason to really complain, we all get chased by big groups now and than, like I had yesterday. Each server has them shamefully enough.

Just to make you feel good, it could have been worse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7a0GdKG1X9Q#t=185s

And the border crashed again…..

How about, you take Blobbadon and we take RoF back?

Many thanks for this week.
It makes me happy to see so many roaming guilds, whether it was from the underdog RoF or the best german server MS.

Though mostly we chose the wrong border to roam, the fights we did encounter were good. And there is nothing more that cheers me up than a good fight whether we win or lose.

Here a short video of the past 2 weeks, I chose some sucky music cause I dont know much music =D

Depens on what you want to reach in this game.

For me personally the game is getting worse and worse.
Its more about who has the biggest number/ blob,
And most play it this way:
Camp→Sentry→Tower→Camp→Sentry→Keep and again
Lame…

I dont only want GvG, but also something like GvGvGvG….
A map were guilds are all enemy of eachother, and you find people who want to fight as a guild, not versus keeps and doors.

Could be so simple, a map similar to wvw without capture points. Groups/guilds can make a rooster to get in before they start, the system sorts them into a map with similar guild group sizes. And finally we can have real action. Fighting, teamplay and real excitment, not the “excitement” of placing siege =.=

Krosan.2890:

We’re trying to have a guild event with a 15 man group and all we run into are 40+ man zergs on every possible map.

We ran 14/16 yesterday, but indeed it was horror. Outside of our own blob only MS had a huge blob on RoF border. And at 11 MS border was pretty dead as well.

I hope the pve’ers go back to pve soon, cause this was a rather kitten evening outside the large queues…

Dear Army+ big army blob on RoF border, you really did not want to play the lootbag game with the 13 XxX in having a party in your Hills? Mweh, I am sure we were 13 precursors.

MiLkZz.4789:

Gandara must have something personal against quaggans, not a single one of you respect those harmless creatures and just jumps in to kill them.

I have no respect for you guys, I am sorry but you lost all honour in my eyes. è.é

Quaggans have feelings too!

A Quaggan gave me my Holographic Wings, now I want moar!
All Quaggans must dieee!

climbatize.8729:

In my deffense i didnt even know we were close to you xD
Nps , on the wiritng part , i normaly do chat as we roam =)

Can confirm that =D
Was even trying to make a suicide attempt lighthing riding down the cliff xD Failed the suicide attempt, which was afterwards a good thing since we had a nice battle =)

DevonCarver.5370:

We would like to have a system that rewards servers at the end of a matchup based on their performance and are working out all we’ll need to do to make that happen. Ideally it will give extra rewards for winning while still rewarding everyone for participating. All that being said, it’s hard to know what form the final version will take. Hopefully we’ll have something to get everyone excited to fight for victory.

Why do I fear this will only lead to more blobbing and PVE’ers in WvW =\

If this was true, which I think it is not. This would be the stupiest thing Anet could ever do:

“Torment: Added a new Condition called Torment. This does damage every second (75% of a bleed), and double damage to foes that are moving(150% of a bleed). Stacks intensity”

This will only punish the small organized groups in WvW because they relay on movement, were blobs can simply stand still.

Lets just pray this thing will never come out.

Wtf is happening on EB? Perma quickness?

egalon.1702:

Can´t watch the video because of the music… I love German YouTube^^

Not sure if I want you to see it =X Pony is in it haha xD

But this might do the trick: http://www.hidemyass.com/youtube-proxy/

multivira.7925:

jaimy better post up that video soon or ill regret paying that 100g

I’m a sucker :P Oh and cheers to all the enemy dudes we had fun with tonight whoever you may be!

Specially for you and TDA, its the first fight of the video:

Here is your bill:
http://i.imgur.com/Q97HJRI.jpg

Thanks to all for the sweet figths yesterday =D

An new video of last matchup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A2OLtVZ0SyI

pejot.4806:

MMMh Gandara BL was really frustrating today, I couldn’t find any of these 15 man guilds… Cheers to XxX and YARR, who were running on their own, (and XxX mauled us badly) rest was 40-50+, both Gandara nad MS :/

I think you should thanks TDA for tonight, we dont run outself on saterday cause people go out and get drunk.
So the 2-5 of us ran with TDA tonight =D

Tomorrow we will run again.

Really respect to you TaG that despite the matchup you keep running as a guild!
I am sure youll find a lot of nice fights of your size, loads of guilds with the size of 10-20 on Gandara, I hope youll meet them and get loads of good fights =)

@ Riot, when TDA putted Catas at Hills, really awsome battle and cheers you came out as a guild to have a fight. Loved it!

Sorry for RoF @ Gandara @ Foghaven, we didnt see you all in Elemental from until we were in the middle xD

We actually wanted to change to pet form outselves but to late

• The point I want to go to, the other users

Dear Anet,

I am not saying to change WvW, because it is a joy for many other players the way it is.

But I feel you, Anet, fail to see the cry and need of the different users you have in this game.

I don’t know if you simply choose to focus on that single target group described above to fit your goals of WvW, and choose to ignore the other users/players of WvW. Or you are simply too blind to see the others users/players.

Looking at the WvW discussion sub-topic there are weekly topics such as:

- Single massive zergs is the game
- Well will WvW get more content?
- GvG – Let them eat cake!
- Can we have more incentive to not Zerg?
- WvW Skill Requirements?
- GvG idea
- Less Siege, Not More!

There is a very large community in this game who look for the different face of WvW. This different side relays on skill, not numbers.

For instance, there have been so many treads about the wish for GvG. A wonderful initiative was taken by your user to support this need by creating http://gw2gvg.com. This site shows the amount of guilds who enjoy the challenge of fighting as a guild versus other guilds.

But why does this initiative have to come from your user? Why can’t you see the different playstyles besides sieging and zerging?

There is a large community who enjoy this game for the skill, tactic and battles. For me and many others I personally I think there is nothing more exciting than the thrill of the battle versus other organized group, relaying on tactics, terrain use, personal skill and teamplay.
And this sort of play only gets discouraged by the encouragement of blobbing and WPX.

Now I would suggest if you really want to get to know your player, and continue developing this game for all the different users, lose the blinders. Listen to need of GvG, which I don’t understand why it is taking you so long to implement ( this is Guild Wars I thought). If you do visit servers, do this without your fancy red tag, join the guild group or the solo roamer on their adventure so you get an real idea of the different users and gameplays.

• A suggestion

Now I don’t want to go into the subject, implement GvG. You know very well what that is and there are many treads already about this.

This is an idea I personally would love to see.
Now, I am not a game designer, this is just an idea.

GvGvGv…

As the topics show there is a need from a large group of players to play as a guild for the excitement of the fights. To play as a guild versus other guilds, were you depend on tactics, skill and teamplay.

Why not create a system/game similar to PvP, but for guilds?

1. A large map similar to the current WvW map, without objectives as towers or keeps.
2. Only your guild members are you ally, all other guilds are enemy of each other.
3. As guild you can create a rooster of who will join in that raid, the system sees how many people you as a guild run, and sorts you into a map with guilds of * similar numbers* .
4. Not server dependent, you can face any guild on EU ( or US).

Now I hope I have written down everything on my mind. Anet please, you have a wonderful game with dynamic gameplay. But I feel you fail to get its full potential and listen to all your users.

Part 2

Warning, for all those who chose to only read half the text and then start moaning. I am not suggestion to change WvW, only suggestion a different gameplay next to WvW.

• Intro

I never understood when WvW friends and players moaned about the quitting the game, and looking forward to other games to be released. And shamefully enough I have seen many leave this game already.

Now I came to the conclusion I am myself getting bored with the status of WvW and the lack of attention of Anet to WvW and the different type of users.

I had a small spark of hope when Devon Carver and the Anet team visited multiple EU servers that they might finally listen to their players and view the different faces and gameplays that WvW can bring. But my fear got confirmed that this was simply nothing else then an “publicity stunt” to “show” they care about their users. Friends from the AG server told me their special visitors for a night simply zerg/blobbers themselves who love to siege and cap towers.
Therefore I have decided to poor out my heart and my pov.

• What kind of player am I, so you understand my pov

I have no intention of promoting myself or whatever, I write what kind of gameplay I enjoy so you better understand my point of view.

Before I did not dare to set a step into WvW due to the PvP aspect, until I needed it for the Montly. I concluded that WvW was actually a lot of fun. I joined a wonderful guild who was dedicated to winning the match together with their server. They sieged, worked hard for the points and on getting victory.

But quickly I grew bored of sieging, and decided to focus on the fighting aspect that WvW brings. So I left my friends and joined a guild that simply roams to find fights.

Now there are many guilds in this game who prefer to avoid sieging, and play this game for the thrill of the fight. For me and many others there is nothing more exciting than to face different organized groups and rely on skill and teamplay. Winning or losing, the thrill of the battle is what brings the best part of this game for us.

When I read sentences like this, I don’t know whether I should laugh at it or cry:

“Holding a tower against all odds with some smart siege placement and a bit of luck may be one of the most fun things I’ve ever done in a video game.”

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• Looking at WvW

In the early ages of WvW there was loads of small scale action. Zergs existed of group of 20 players which was massive back then. But the face of WvW has changed during the time.

World vs. World (WvW) is PvP combat that involves hundreds of players. Three huge teams —each representing a server, or world—battle for control over objectives on four massive maps in week-long matches.

Each map – one for each server and a huge “neutral” center map – is loaded with objectives that are worth points for the team that claims them. Players can band together to lay siege to castles, raid enemy supply caravans, clash with other players in truly massive battles, wreak havoc behind enemy lines, or build mighty weapons of war like trebuchets and siege golems.

While players are in WvW, they gain experience and loot just as they normally do while exploring Tyria. Plus, when their home world is doing well or wins a match in WvW, all players on that world receive special bonuses and perks.

World vs. World—it’s PvP combat on an epic scale!

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Anet has achieved their goal wonderfully looking at their perspective of WvW.

- It is available for each and every player, whether hardcore, pve’er or low level.
- Epic scale battles with so many players, players can’t even use their skill anymore.
- The use of siege to gain advantages.
- Being focused on points and large siege battles to cap objectives on the map.

But…

Anet prioritizes PvE above already. Updates they do add to WvW are singly focused on their goals for WvW such as more siege, more encouragement of blobbing by adding player rewards as WPX, Karma and fancy chests that might drop a precursor.

All with all more motivation for the casual (pve) player to go into WvW, and claim their precursor. The simplest way of doing this is of course do this in the form of a long blobby train of a huge amount of players. Because WvW is for a part about numbers, those with the most numbers will most likely win, and it’s an easy way to steamroll trough maps getting your quick WPX. The smaller more tactical groups with skill simply can get overrun by the large blob who presses 1111.

But hey, it is ok, this is what Anet has as their vision for WvW. And I think personally it is the players who are currently changing the face of WvW, though the things you add do encourage it.

Part 1.

Jex.4738:

I think we met your combined forces once (unfortunately a very short encounter :P)
Hope we can give you some more trouble on our next meeting (perhaps on even terms).

Hey Bots sorry we ran over you, we combined forces with an specific goal. Cause some enemy guilds felt the need to run/backstab into fights of for instance TDA vs guild, instead of letting them finish it.

Keep running as a guild Bots and youll find a lot of nice action vs smaller Gandara guilds. Same for Riot yesterday

Gl to RoS this week. Though it might sound kitten, enough small scale action as well this week if you look for fights I think.

Could be worse, I think vs Vabbi and FoW is worse then this haha

fab.3298:

KinkyWarrior.1879:

Jimmy JimBob.2801:

Fizzlefry.1734:

Server: Gandara [EU]

TDA are awesome… but the quoted bit still hurts. Come home!

Stay off my Bananas or I’ll break your legs >=[

Hopefully we get matched at reset so we can fight you dor them.

Fab, you’ll never get our Banana’s! Never!

wombatpanda.8165:

greetz to XxX aswell we are looking forward to do a GvG against you guys next time we meet just tell us when you are open for some GvG action

Hi back!

Thank you for showing interest in a GvG with us,

But we have never done and GvG and currently have no future intensions on starting GvG’s either.
We enjoy the hunt en suprises the open battlefield can bring us =)

But next time you have one Ill be there to cheer you on like yesterday!

Special thanks to Mya for this awsome evening we had tonight!
It was hard, and we really gotten rusty.

I have enjoyed each and every figth we had!

Krato.4729:

jaimy.4108:

…. But…… I already bought cake and a dress to be bridesmaid…

Well you’ll certainly have enough veils…

Confused What does cake and dresses have todo with veils? =D

…. But…… I already bought cake and a dress to be bridesmaid…

Thanks for getting one for EU! Very curious =)

Wamgor.9347:

Gandara took you long enough to revert to your old mud slinging ways

As for wanting Far shiverpeaks over Aurora Glade, remind me what guilds FSP have? I’ve fought them a few times and never remember them like a Dius or Yak Attack

1: Who started mud slinging? If I remember it right the AG forum warrior... Guardian? ( Not Amelia)

2: FSP WvW active guilds:
FSV, GoT, DW, Punk, Kale, AoA, TNN, Blos

kribre.9683:

Looooooooove Triplios
Helluuuuuu TDA, XxX, DAWN, RL, QQ, Mya, KISS, NP etc

Hiii Trip! Want some popcorn? Happily share some =)

Your matchup still boring? =(

Dark Lord Killer + Forum + Popcorn = Good entertainment

I have to say I am enjoying the matchup vs. MS, you guys have many great guilds such as Mya, QQ, Pony and Riot. You are a great example on how the game should be played and I wish other germans severs would be like you.

AG on the other hand has been somewhat dissapointing, weekend was nice but after is fell quickly. Some guilds which I expected something good from were hidden in a tower.

One more evening togo and I hope it will be good, before we probely get sorted against something like Blobbadon or Riverside.

Personally I hope on another week with MS and for instance FSP. I think that would be a nice matchup for us all =)

Enjoying MS actually this week, would be nice in combo with lovely FSP. Also never fought UW, would like to see them.

Who are we?

XxX is an international WvW guild with an Italian core, consisting out of a limited amount of players who enjoy playing together in a close team. We offer a competitive but friendly environment with a challenging experience mostly greatly outnumbered as a skillfull core of players working together to achieve victory in the harsher conditions. We aim to roam together as a guild and prefer to avoid sieging. We are mainly an evening/weekend guild were most of our members work during the day.

What can you expect from us:

- 6/7 raids a week, from 9pm +1 gmt till 12/1
- A dedicated team of players working on improving ourselves
- We aim to grow to 20/25 during raids
- Guild bountys to get ascended gear
- Directions are given in English
- You will learn Italian cursing the first week

What do we expect from you:

- Dedication, experience in your class and willingness to improve and run teambuilds
- To be present a minimum of 4 evenings a week
- If you are only during raid times, your present is expected in WvW
- Representing, we ask members to represent 24/7, we understand you have friends other were but to play together does not require the same guildtag.
- Presence on teamspeak during raids

We are currently looking for all classes except rangers. New members will take part in a two week trial before being fully excepted. Before applying please contact me.
We aim on creating a competitive and friendly environment with a team that enjoys working together on achieving good gameplay. Do you think this fits you and are you interested?

For more information: XxX website
Youtube: XxX youtube

Contact for more information and an interview before applying: jaimy.4108

Ponytales.7264:

Big shoutout to Dius, TDA, YaK, XxX and the rest of the people for the fights this evening on Miller’s server. This have been our best and most fun WvW night for ages!

Big thumbs up!

Though I am normally no fan of the open-mic events of Aurora Glade, yesterday it brought a lot of tense battles. The beginning of the evening we had the hilarious spontanious iniative to have our own “open-mic” event in response to yours. Afterwhich we split our ways.

We came across you and your event at Cragtop or however it is called on that map, with the mindset it was a lost battle. Turned out very intense and a hell of a fight!

Gahn.8150:

I missed ze fun!!!! Loved both the intro and the music dude

Q______Q I am a girl…
Ask Sake, he made the same mistake xD

But thanks! Choosing is hardest part btw, suggestions are welcome =p

Had a lot of fun yesterday with the Banana’s (TDA)! Normally we dont run on saterdays cause people prefer to go out and get drunk, but we decided lets have some fun together.

Warning, noob ele pov, small video of my pov

Thanks to TDA and cheers to everyone on the maps yesterday

Whoohooo skill lag battles on AG border due to what I believe to be tons fighting out on GG xD

Jimmy JimBob.2801:

What’s your coverage like? When morale is high on Gunnars we can fill our bl and eb and still have a decent force on an enemy borderland during primetime. But our lack of day/night players ruins any chance we have of competing with the bigger servers like MS.
RoS while generally having slightly less primetime players than us have shown this week they can match MS in offpeak times.

While you would most certainly end up thumping us I reckon we’d get a good primetime contest in terms of the fights, especially if we could improve our offpeak performance

Once the PVE’ers notice they wont get much resistance as vs Arborstone/FSP last week, they are all over the place in insane sad blobs and long queus.
Once they get killed by 100 AM’s this week, they are no were to be seen, and we have no queues =D

Jimmy JimBob.2801:

I still have nightmares from the last time we were matched with AM. It was the week they fixed culling. Have never seen so much red in one place… absolutely terrifying.

Wouldn’t mind facing Gandara tbh. Loved fighting you guys in XxX when you were on ROS and would love to fight TDA who are ex GH

I think if we didnt have so many pugs, we would fit excellent in this matchup. Many guilds to figths and outside IC and Yak most guilds have less then 15/20 people when in having their raid such as the Banana’s (TDA).

That week vs. GH was one of the best weeks I’ve had in ages and currently no match has since has surpassed that.

Oi!

We want AG, but I have a great offer for you in exchange:
Abaddon’s Mouth

You know you want them!
Most exciting matchup evah with them in the group ( Please note the sarcasm)

Sandra Martino.3870:

Thanks XXX for supporting Punk and FSP in taking durios from a 70 blob and 6 AC’s…. Those charges into our catapults really helped.

Red is dead.
Dont rage at our members for some kind of secret alliance and that we should not attack you. Thats just bullkitten…

Cheers to DW in EB, only real fight we got this very dull and boring evening. Thanks for leaving the blob.

Nearly all maps deserted… 1/2 blobs on Gandara border.

Feels like nearly all FSP resorted to Pve…. And more getting demotivated