Guild Wars 2

Not losing and not condoning BS.

P.S.

If i get banned for mediocre, or marginally better, than by any standard of fair and balanced “best” and “better” get banned as well. Agreed??

Seriously. people can say that a mediocre Commander is best and that’s okay. Makes every other second best or worse.

But if you disagree you get reported.

For what.

Expressing an opinion.

Get a life.

typo edit

My initial reply seems to have evaporated into the ether.

No more out of my way than those who refuse to acknowledge dangerous incompetence.

Most reasonable, non-Zerg players haven’t. Or not for long.

Recruit Mara!!!!!!!

EB started off with 2 pretty evenly matched guilds with 2 different strategies. One worked. One didn’t. And we survived a new build.

Hind sight is such a wonderful pacifier.

We want Commanders who inspire by actions, not words.

Some Commanders belong a few tiers down.

I’ve been on SoR since day one. I have been or BLs with and without badluck mara.

Last week was good in that was never on a server she was giving bad strat on.

Was with the group that took EB last night. No mara. Good times.

As long as we have bad luck Mara on SOR, pretty much any guild or commander is welcome

I find in interesting. Each week the people who lead our guild (in SoR, guild name NOYB) pretty much talk about how we are doing and what we need to do to improve. (Isn’t that our each personal goal.) They also talk about the basics, i.e. siege in the Lord room, and like that.

Too often they say “Good Job”, when we screw up, but that’s their function.

But it’s what they don’t do that’s important.

They don’t pass the buck. (Not that the rest of us don’t.)

We hear, “My bad!” or words to that effect when we fail. But I suspect we fail less than other guilds.

As I’m about to get long winded. We are in guilds, and ideally committed. A strong guild in whatever serve on a week by week roll ever should have as its goal to get better. Period. Do good enough times, hey, who knows what will happen.

My suspicion is, and assuming we’re thinking in terms of weeks, if not months, but ceratinly not days, that a handful of stable guilds (factor in time zones as you will) that can live with their successes and failures, at a minimum for a couple of weeks, and that rely on basics and a core of effective commanders WILL RULE.

Please factor out the alcohol consumption.

Or not.

(Edit of bad spelling.)

I.E. LEADER Mara

If the core holds true
As indeed it must
Then the guilds that bail
Will dust-to-dust.

No. The poster was saying they are arrogant and probably take credit for wins and blame others for losses.

I have a tale of woe to tell to you
It’s a sad, sad fact but unfortunately true
Some guilds and guild leaders I sadly find
Are legends merely in their own mind
While others quietly achieve
The things in which we all believe
I know who I would gladly follow
While others words ring sadly hollow

Not sure who is holding SM at the moment, but if it isn’t SoS, be aware that big oceanic zerg guild is a bit of a one trick pony – mage ports. But they do use them effectively, at least for now.

As best I can figure, effectively includes last night when they got SM back from us, SoR, after we held it for almost a day. (Was fortunate to be their when we took it, believe me we earned it the hard way. Was there last night when we lost it.)

What seemed to happen was they made a big push then pulled back. When we tried to sweep for mages, the ramp to the top floor was a death trap of siege. Some of them apparently got up there, including some mages, and they held it while the mages ported up the zerg. As they swarmed out, a lot like zombie kittenroaches in a really bad movie, I didn’t last long. But the number that came down compared to the number that went up was truly mind boggling.

But we’ll get it back, if we haven’t already. The hard way. Cause we got a lot of tricks up our sleeve.

When we do, we need to figure out how they work that trick. And how to counter it. We also need to figure out how they get out onto some of the ledges we found them on.

Whatever. Word is that this is the only place the zerg guild plays, hopefully, by the end of the week it won’t be so much fun for them anymore. And we’ll be able to pass on everything we learn about them to whoever faces them next. Unless it’s us, then we’ll take it from not much fun to (please supply your own modifier).

Oh yeah!

To my fellow SORinators,

We have done well so far.

However, in our push to be the top ranked server – likely with a few setbacks, as to expect otherwise would be extremely arrogant – we need to keep these two thoughts in mind.

Discipline i.e. no running off when there is a mission at hand in order to chase after a couple of badges that we’ll get sooner or later anyway; always carry siege; don’t take supply from towers; and like that. We all know the litany.

And…

Discretion i.e. the right and responsibility to follow only those Commanders (other than those our guild has appointed or anointed) that merit following, merit being the operative word, and to ignore the others.

Why?

The reality is that in our rise through the tiers some of our Commanders will already have risen to, will rise to or even exceed their level of incompetence. It’s basic human nature. We will also have Commanders transfer in and Commanders rise through the ranks that must be evaluated. So discretion becomes the better part of, not so much valour, but of victory. Incompetent Commanders will lead us to disaster after disaster (don’t you hate being farmed) rather than to the victories we all desire – on defence as well as offence. Too many such disasters will result in, for lack of a better term, mediocrity, which I doubt anyone on our server aspires to. (At least I would hope this is the case.)

If a Commander – current, newly risen or immigrant – can’t cut it, we need to privately, in any manner appropriate, and publicly, as diplomatically as is reasonable, make our fellow players aware that this or that Commander should for the most part be ignored – his or her guildies being the obvious exception (and doubtless that part of the zerg that lacks both discipline and discretion –doobs for lack of a better term).

We need to do this at the guild level, Commander level and as individual players.

In a nutshell, going forward, we will have less and less room for error. Period. Full stop. Let’s not compound the problem by doing those things we know are best not done, or by blindly following any leader that cannot live up to our expectations and whose incompetence will in the end only lower our self-esteem.

To do otherwise would be complete and utter folly.

I suspect that as we (SoR) rise higher in the tiers, some of our Commanders (home grown and transfers) will have risen to, or exceeded, their level of incompetence. No, I more than suspect. It’s the way of human organizations, or organized humans. Consequently, we (as do all servers) not only need transfers in of people, for whatever reason, who have “been there done that” successfully and at an elite level, but we need to be looking within our ranks for fresh, new Commanders whose strategies are more likely to lead us to success than to disaster after disaster. Or conversely, we need to make it clear we will ignore leaders (it should be quickly clear who they are) whose strategies lead to disaster after disaster. To do otherwise would be folly. The higher we rise, the smaller the margin for error, and the more disciplined we must be in all aspects of the game. Disciplined as leaders and disciplined as followers.

Having cussed out Yaks, and rightly so, when the hack occurred, to all but the guilty, my apologies. To the guilty, may you get the punishment you deserve and may others think twice about following in your ill-fated footsteps. I shudder to think how behave in RL.

But he repeats himself a lot.

SOR and GOM have 2 choices.

A. fight it out for second place.

B. A temporary truce. Each stays out of the others home BG. The 3rd place team at noon server gets EB the other Yaks. Last night we did more damage to each other than we did collectively to Yaks. the results of this folly speak for themselves. The only way to offset the gross disparity of numbers is to split Yaks in half and make them earn their points the old fashioned way.

Why is a.net trying to bring back the 50’s?

LOL. You mean a vanity name like say LoreChief.

Lighten up!!! That would make a great corporate motto.

Excuses. Excuses.

I’m having trouble getting my head around the fact that I played under the name (or a variation) of Olde Phartte in GW1 (and a few other games) but it has suddenly and inexplicably been banned in GW2. Especially in view of the grandfathering of names commitment. How do I get my name back. It’s age appropriate -i am closer to 70 than 60 – and was a comfort my old age, which is important as I have so few years left

Seriously, this is just a little bit over zealous and really uncalled for.