Guild Wars 2

Dragonbrand – good for you and your huge oceanic presence. You guys are on your way to the next tier if/when you get a larger NA presence. Your coverage is superb and I have no ill will towards you. If we lose to you, it’s because you won. It’s up to us to find a way to compensate for your oceanic presence! Don’t let these trolls get to you. Keep up the good fight.

Wait wait wait… Yak’s is a nightcapping server? I’ve been blissfully unaware of this. Where’s the evidence that we nightcapped EBay/Mag with abandon in tier 4? Please provide it or be gone with the trash talking, really. Very few are the times I have awoken to a fully colored Yak map; in fact, every time we colored EBG green it was during the prime time of all three servers. I should know, I’ve been commanding it.

Drew.1865:

fivekiller.1432:

Drew.1865:

Oh I also heard you guys hired some guilds to help out and I saw a huge group of HIRE toons. Hmmm I wonder what that name means?

Hopefully next week we’ll get a worthy opponent :-)

HIRE is an amazing guild that pound for pound holds its own as well as any guild i’ve seen in any tier of WvW. I’ve seen many many competent players on Ehmry Bay from many guilds.

Yak’s Bend is fortunate to have such great opponents. And it is only through hard work and a bit of luck that we have the lead in this.

Luck has nothing to do with this. The players on Yak’s take pride in our server and we have some really good players and commanders.

EBay might have some competent players but I didn’t see any tonight unless they are competent in pve.

Anyway when you see groups of 20 toons from a server camping the jp entrance and picking people who enter it off one by one I have no respect for them.

Yes, luck has played a part in it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve held my breath because I just knew that HIRE was going to hit us in a spot I deemed vulnerable, only to see them just miss it. They are great opponents and we should try to learn from them, win or lose, rather than bash them. Also, I think you missed the first part of that sentence, where he mentioned “hard work” and a “bit of luck.” He didn’t say that we are just super lucky, but any victory in a matchup with EBay and Mag involves a bit of luck. They are worthy opponents.

FYI – Matheon is a very influential member of the Yak’s Bend Alliance. You’re fighting your own teammate.

Stand up folks, you are. My respect for Maguuma just went up a few notches. Bravo!

Roughneck.2509:

A little off topic, but did the rawr guild on yaks play on the harbinger server in swtor?

I can’t say for sure. I was in a different guild in SWTOR. It does seem to be a fairly common tag, though. I’ll ask Titan when I see him next and get back with you.

Rhoto.8791:

@ patricide

I re-read your post and I realize it was not written in the tone that I had thought, I’m used to us just constantly being bashed in these threads because no one seems to like bunzy’s posts. I thought it was a “OG is so good they had to 4v1 me” post but i realize now you were just explaining the situation.

As for the “cookie cutter” comments on these forums…….. I came up with all my builds before the whole daphoenix thread, before all the FOTM eles started playing, and I don’t even run bunker,, BUT none of that matters. Everyone is going to pick the best traits they can for their playstyle and surprisingly there are going to be other players that play your playstyle, and they will pick the same traits, and they will make posts about their builds and some of those builds may get popular. WHO CARES!? Me running this build does not make me any better than someone running 0 10 0 30 30 bunker, or any better than a common GC thief set up, or a popular hammer warrior build, or shatter mesmer, con necro, bunker gaurdian, so on and so on.

Sorry for the rant I just hate when people think someone is only good because of their build. Trust me I have run into several “cookie cutter” d/d ele’s that were easy to kill.

I didn’t mean to insult with the cookie cutter comment. I can’t even be sure if it’s you I saw in the videos. There’s nothing wrong with playing whatever build suits your playstyle the best. If you can roflstomp 90% of the time with any build, cookie cutter or not, then go for it.

Also, I did say that you play quite well

Phatal One.8069:

Nice golem rush tonight Yak’s. I must say that was very highly coordinated. I spotted you at the very south entrance of the pass between Hills. It seemed like only a minute or two for you to get your golems from there to SE gate of our garrison. Sadly we lost, but you certainly deserve props for that attack.

Thanks! That was a collaboration of the Alliance. We had Rawr, WAR, and scRn running the golems with RUM running the feint. We owe it all to our awesome mesmers. Unfortunately, we were unable to seize any momentum from that, as your servers response time was too much. You also deserve props for that immediate response.

I’m off to bed. G’night!

zastari.1730:

Won my first 1v5. Thanks for the badges

http://i.imgur.com/cAKpw.jpg

Pesky Mesmers!

Looks like fun.

Rhoto.8791:

patricide.1062:

So… finally came across some OG. I was running by myself to catch up to my group after porting to garrison to sell stuff in my full bag and stopped to check my map when BOOM! I got hit. I turned off my map and proceeded to reduce two of them to about 25% health and a third to about 70% when a fourth showed up. At the point where it was 4v1 I was overmatched and fell… Especially because I’m spec’d for supporting large groups with practically no utilities for 1vX. It was a fun time! Maybe I’ll run into you guys once I have my DPS build finished and I’ve had some time to practice.

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When I’m out solo and get rolled up on by a group of 5 yaks, they kill me too, takes them about 3-5 minutes but ya they kill me. Should a group of OG not kill one Yak?

For everyone that says “go play Spvp” 3 of our core members used to only play spvp, but we got tired and bored of conquest, it just isn’t fun. We have stated many times as soon as they implement a “deathmatch” type mode, we will be there. Until then we will be roaming WvW for our pvp.

Not sure why you’re getting so upset. I just explained the situation and in the spirit of this thread (discussing battles/fun times) I posted a screenshot. Are you insulted that I nearly killed 2 OG until the fourth showed up? It’s not that big of a deal, honest. I’m not trying to talk smack, but you sure have taken it that way.

Bottom line: chill out.

EDIT: Ya, I’d expect that it would take a long time to kill a cookie cutter D/D Ele. That’s the nature of that build. I think I’ve seen you in the OG videos and it looks like you play that build pretty well.

So… finally came across some OG. I was running by myself to catch up to my group after porting to garrison to sell stuff in my full bag and stopped to check my map when BOOM! I got hit. I turned off my map and proceeded to reduce two of them to about 25% health and a third to about 70% when a fourth showed up. At the point where it was 4v1 I was overmatched and fell… Especially because I’m spec’d for supporting large groups with practically no utilities for 1vX. It was a fun time! Maybe I’ll run into you guys once I have my DPS build finished and I’ve had some time to practice.

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What Besetment said is totally true. In fact, Yak’s Bend used to be known for it’s tenacious defense. Somewhere along the way we have lost it, but we have been making concerted efforts in the Alliance to correct this issue.

Soon, you will be running headlong into grim-faced, peeved off Yak defenders. I just hope we get our defensive mojo back before we get knocked down a tier!

I must have typed (and deleted) five replies to this thread so far. Look, you guys can troll all you want, but that doesn’t change the scoreboard or the fact that Mag is moving down a tier. You have people like Rebel Daughter who are NOTHING but class acts, and you should follow their lead. I know, I know, every server has trolls. However, you have a shining example of what to do in Rebel.

Dragonbrand is coming! That means EBay AND Yaks need have our A game next week (and the subsequent weeks) to avoid getting knocked down. Instead of dying and laying down, I’m gonna meet them head on and knock them in their doggone nose.

Let’s get back to the fierce fighting ON THE FIELD.

Rene.3268:

Well, other than a brief trip into the WvW for my monthly, Yesterday was my first extended time in EB.. and I had a blast. I have not done much PvP in other games because of the pettiness and name calling that seems to go hand in hand with it, but I enjoyed the co-operative play from my YB teammates and some pretty good direction from the Commanders. Probably 10 hours almost straight through and it made me realize I need to learn a lot about other classes at 80. I did not see any teaming up with another server (we were trying to kick everyones behind), or anything I would say was a hack, although some players seem to be able to move very fast. Getting booted and some awful lag was really the only downside and I got from @70 kills up to 500ish (not great, but not awful for a new pvper I guess).. so I think I found something fun to do other than craft on alts. So thanks for the good time and looking forward to seeing more of you all on the battlefield, and learning to recognize you by Armor since I cannot see names and I know at least 1 Thief and 1 Mesmer I owe considerable payback to.

Make sure you join your fellow Yaks on www.yaksbend.com !

Gasoline.2570:

I like all the doubling mag and yak are doing to eb. Keep up the good teamwork you two.

That’s the nature of a three-way matchup like this. Sometimes two servers will, for whatever reasons, gang up on another. Tomorrow it could be Mag and EBay ganging up on Yaks, and Sunday it could be EBay and Yaks ganging up on Mag. Sometimes there is an opportunity to strike and it is foolish to not do it. Trust me, we respect Mag a lot (’cept for a few l33t roamers) but we desire no partnership with them or with EBay.

Now get out there and let’s fight!

Dragonbrand… you guys better get back to us!

Already had a TON of good fights. Keep it up!

The Goat.1940:

Munkee.3542:

Tynan.6279:

Nice… the video that shows the under the map glitch that DB is exploiting just got removed!

Isn’t it lovely?

I am slowly losing respect for Yaks Bend server. A majority of their posts are QQ propaganda. Posting exploits is bad practice I hope that guy has been banned. what a shame I thought you guys over at Yaks were stand up guys, you have proven me wrong. GL with that guys.

Meanwhile, Alliance commanders (myself included) have been commending you guys for being tenacious opponents. You’ve conveniently left that out. I guess you only see what you want.

Holy kitten, people in EVERY MMO complain about “NO END GAME WAAAAAAAHH” a whopping FOUR months after launch. I see this on EVERY MMO forum. My response is this:

1) No subscription!! WOW! You can just, I dunno, leave the game for a few weeks/months/years and come back whenever you feel like it. Stop making these huge histrionic displays on the forums and just stop logging in. Seriously, spare us the drama.

2) Every time someone complains about no end game they always say they are going back to WOW because it has oodles of content. Did any of you “gamers” actually play WOW or any other popular game at launch? Do you remember how little end game content was there? Remember how buggy the dang thing was? Point is, stick with the game for a bit (or, you know, DON’T since there is no sub fee), support it if you like it and give the devs time to work out the kinks and develop more content. Especially WvW content! They can’t just whip together a map and release it, not with an RvR type system like this. If you can’t understand why, then you shouldn’t be posting on this thread.

I watched WAR die because of bandwagon, instant-gratification gamers jumping ship barely 5 months post-launch. For Pete’s sake, let ANet try a few things and work this out. After a year if it’s still not up to your standards then just uninstall!

I know I’m going to be called a fanboy, and I AM. I’m a fanboy of freakin’ gaming. So go ahead, I could give a kitten less.

P.S. I play a support guardian who does very little damage and I roflstomp most thieves I come across. Maybe learn the different classes, how they work, and how to counter them. Don’t get all pissy with people who know their class mechanics well.

We especially need Oceanic/EU/Asian players/guilds. Our NA primetime can go toe-to-toe with anyone and we DO have a killer night crew BUT they could use more!

Whoa, awesome job, TC! I hope you guys continue to be competitive. It really was a blast to compete against you guys!

Have you checked out yaksbend.com? Server unity, organization, good recognition (YB is known for it’s sportsmanship and tenacity), we have it all. Be a part of the change and help YB scrap it’s way to the top, Ethersin.

Pretty good fights there, DB! I was the commander that led a token force against Mendon’s at reset, and I was impressed. It was mostly to give you guys a little poke to see what you’re made of. I’m happy we have another quality opponent.

Maguuma: It’s always a pleasure to scrap with you guys. I must have flipped Danelon 4 times last night and each time it was a helluva fight.

Looking forward to more!

Jayne.9251:

I love Yak’s Bend players. Just sayin’

Such a classy bunch of players.

We miss you guys, too! Don’t worry, we will eventually catch up to you! By the way, AWESOME job you guys are pulling in T2. I don’t think BG or SoR saw you guys coming!

Bunzy.8674:

patricide.1062:

Bunzy.8674:

I really wish Ehmry Bay and Maguuma joined as one so we could show the world what true skill is.

So, I’ve been looking over your Rift posts people have linked. This. Is. Hilarious. Please oh please tell me it’s satire.

I am glad I made you laugh
Have a great day and a merry xmas!

Merry Christmas and happy New Years to you too.

Bunzy.8674:

I really wish Ehmry Bay and Maguuma joined as one so we could show the world what true skill is.

So, I’ve been looking over your Rift posts people have linked. This. Is. Hilarious. Please oh please tell me it’s satire.

Well, we’ve had TC and Foo members coming onto these boards defending YB against these accusations of being unskilled. To me, there is no higher compliment than from your competition. These stupid assertions hold no ground in reality, especially given that our competition from previous matchups are coming onto this board to defend us.

Sorry to burst your bubble, Bunny. Or whatever it is you’re called.

Bunzy.8674:

Nut.4713:

Jinks.2057:

Can we fight some yakkies that use skill instead of zerg?

Good lord its like ya’ll turning into CD.

Sure, but you have to leave your zerg to find our roamers.

Yaks doesn’t have any roamers that are worthy of the title, you won’t find skilled yakkies because they don’t exist.

OK. Fine I admit it. You And your guild are The only People in The history of MMOs that have ever enjoyed success with cookie cutter builds. You are very original And we all bow to your superior cookie cutting skills, O Great One.

Happy?

Earlier this evening, Yaks were trying to take back SH in YBBL after being BLITZED by EB. That was an impressive offensive! We were beginning to wonder if we were going to get pushed off the map…

Anyways, I was one of the commanders leading the assault on SH. I gotta say, that sandwich outside the lords room you guys pulled off that first push was picture perfect. Hats off!

We were only able to push in because we have a really good bunch of mesmers in the Alliance and we got a perfect bomb in the lords room.

Give me more fights like this!!!!

I’m really enjoying this matchup so far! Guys who are hating on the rivalries… just stop. The rivalries between opposing guilds is just one of the little things that makes this so much fun. Anytime the Badgers see PRO they start foaming at the mouth and charge in. It’s great fun to watch.

Arcadio.6875:

Just got done playing for about 3 hours in EB. Didn’t see ET at all unfortunately, but I guess they are really only in their BL. I miss them from the reset. We engaged Yaks several times, but for the most part we were up against doors. The back and forth this time around was towers and supply camps changing hands every few minutes.

wombat.6123:

Cogbyrn.7283:

I hope people don’t assume that FA is represented by a vocal/whining minority.

Overall I’ve been enjoying this match. Although I’m not sure why Yak’s players think FA are complaining about zergs.

I’ve just read this entire thread and not seen one FA person even mention zergs or complain about being losing because of being outnumbered.

Unless you buy into the Yaks narrative that they are winning because of superior tactics, they seem to just accuse you of whining and complaining. I should be fair though. Not all Yaks in this thread have been doing that and I thank those who are able to look at the situation more objectively. Yaks have really put out some good strategies just as TC did weeks ago. It just isn’t why they are winning. I really wish WvW was about that, but it’s up to Anet to create a system that focuses on that. They intended WvW to be something between PvE and sPvP. People will jump on and have great fights and then jump off.

I’m not saying that we have super leet tactics, nor am I denying that we have solid coverage. All I’m saying is we are not simply one giant, rolling zerg machine. With that, I’m done with this thread. I don’t know why I do this to myself. It only serves to rile me up.

Good luck out there.

Yeah, we are waiting inside garrison. We are trying to let you take Crag.

Scorpio Shirica.1286:

I like to visit FA threads just to see them complain about fighting TC’s “overwhelming night presence.” I hope we at TC get to fight Yak’s, they don’t seem to complain as much even when losing. I think YB, TC, CD would be a fun fight.

SILENCE! The first rule of the Super Secret Zerg Club is do not talk about the Super Secret Zerg Club!!!!1

Seriously, though. I would like to see that match up as well. I think in the end our server may be overwhelmed, but that doesn’t mean who won’t fight like hell. Just be warned, if you come across a keep owned by the Badger Spirits (an alliance guild), just run away. They fight like…. well, like pissed off badgers.

Mada.5319:

Just found a bunch of bots from Yak’s Bend in the water at FA BL. Some of them were part of the guild Elite[ELT], Cupcakes And Butterflies[cute] and Awesome Squad[AS]. If anyone from these guilds would like to know who these guys are to deal with them, I can send you the names. Wouldn’t want these kinds of people in your guild!

I don’t recognize any of those guild names. I HATE bots. The only downside to losing badly is the gold farmers don’t hit up your server and fill your queue with freakin’ bots.

wombat.6123:

Vendris.4201:

We (Yak’s) have easily 50 people in the camp – and there is no other opposition except this single individual, who is invisible 99% of the time and unkillable when visable.

A video has already been posted showing this person’s gameplay (clearly no hacking involved). There’s a difference between hacking and someone using class mechanics well.

It’s very poor form to call “hacker” just because one person is playing well and you don’t know how their class mechanics work.

Cygni.2790:

Yes please take screen shots. Get as much evidence as possible and report them. I can only speak as a members of the Yaks alliance but we would love to have every cheater/bot removed from our server.

I took some screenshots of YB players from two guilds hacking their way onto a normally unreachable area to attack our trebs outside Dreaming Bay (I clicked on them so their guild names are clearly visible). I wouldn’t normally post it as I don’t like getting into discussions about hackers, but since you are asking as a way of removing cheaters from your server I’ll put it up tonight when I get home.

Please, post it. We are very anal about sportsmanship in our alliance. If it is an alliance guild, we will deal with it. Also, are you sure it isn’t someone jumping into a hard to reach spot? I’ve seen those things happen. Calling it a hack may be a bit much. Probably better to call that exploitation of game mechanics, IMO.

All of this QQing about Yaks being a zergy server is getting old. I wish I had FRAPS on when we did this, but let me tell you all about a nice little thing called tactics and his big brother strategy we utilized just today in EB.

We were trebbing WC from SM and instead of giving you guys a chance to defend it, we decided to hit the FA keep (the name escapes me) to force you guys to defend it while our treb was knocking down WC. Obviously, the keep is FAR more valuable so FA rightly decided to defend it. When the WC wall finally came down, we sent a small strike team over to cap it really fast. This gave us another fortified position to assault the keep from. We set up another treb there and we were knocking down the siege on the outer at the FA keep. In order to push across the bridge we sent a whopping 5 man zerg around the back to flank the FA guys that were doing a great job of holding the choke from a full frontal assault. However, when that huge 5 man zerg hit the bridge team they were wiped within 30 seconds. We pushed and pushed, and the door got as low as 5% health. We were eventually pushed out, and our team had to leave to defend our BL. I don’t believe we ever ended up taking that keep, but that’s an example of how we are working.

When the call for reinforcements came from the YBBL, we came running and put down the FA force that was pressing it.

By the way, that was a freaking awesome fight there at the EB keep. We had about even numbers the whole time and that fight was eventually won by FA. It was a good time!

Now, if you talk about exploiting the game mechanics, I will present to you screenshot of some FA folks setting up siege in the invulnerable zone. This treb was so far inside the citadel, we couldn’t even see the thing. I normally wouldn’t even bother with this, but I decided to screenshot it to show that exploitation of game mechanics happens on every server. Not a whole lot we can do about it.

Chris.5024:

Besetment.9187:

But is this what WvW is now? Advertising and networking? The best thing anyone can do for their server is promotion. Literally attract large guilds to come to your server (preferably with off peak presence) and make it impossible for anyone else to beat you, even if they have superior tactics and execution.

This is it in my opinion. Population = win really. I’ve never gotten so many badges than I have the past 2 days. I’m impressed by the level of YB participation, even if they are all lowbies that get rolled over and over again.

There must be quite a few over night players on Yaks since the forum posts double overnight in this thread. That or you have a small group of the fiercest forum warriors I’ve seen since we fought blackgate and the forums were backlogged by hundreds idiots posting BEASTGATE IS KING after transferring to blackgate so fast they didn’t even have time to take out the name of their old server from their forum signature.

It’s really, really annoying when people like you make these kinds of posts. First of all, you are on here bragging about how you roll Yak’s Bend players over and over again, then you try to insult us Yak’s Bend players here on these forums (who are having civil conversations, by the way. Cygni even offered advice on Garrison defense!!) by calling us forum warriors.

Hello pot.
Meet kettle.

Now, as I have said time and time again, we have a strong alliance that works very closely together. THAT is what is making us strong. You may think we have tons of zerglings, but the honest truth is we have great response time and we are able to pool our manpower between maps to assist in any hot spots. This doesn’t get us tons of points in the first few hours, but it definitely works in the long run.

Notice that there are two guilds on these golems, though it was mostly WAR piloting them. By the end of this rush, four guilds were working together. Whether piloting the golems, protecting them, portaling them, whatever. Again, this is what is making Yak’s Bend strong.

Fallout.1798:

If you guys have sooooooo much gold, then i can think of better uses of it, like making Legendary weapons. And that many golems…we have no chance to defend against that. I spent alot of my money to upgrade the garrison (and the garrison from last night), and in the end it did NOTHING. Reinforced gates? So many golems rip through them like paper. Any other attack and that upgrades money would have been actually useful. All my money (at least 4 gold worth) down the drain in a matter of seconds.

First, let me explain that Yak’s Bend has a very strong interguild alliance with a unified VOIP. We are very communicative and very supportive. We pool our resources and have vastly decreased our response times. Our alliance has really grown, in terms of numbers, morale, coordination, etc. The alliance is what is making Yak’s Bend strong.

Secondly, 28 golems is just how FOO does business. I’m actually surprised they didn’t have more. They are a massive, massive guild that pools resources and they have very strong leadership.

Lastly… Yeah, a total of 34 golems across two maps capping all at once is very overwhelming. Maybe you missed the point where this is a war and overwhelming the enemy is a pretty sound strategy. Especially when said enemy owns half the map.

28g isn’t as much as you think. Hell, my guild is pretty small and we have 30-40g in our bank at any given time.

Wreckdum.8367:

The long and the short… Everyone is getting sick of WvW two months after release. The concept is good. Execution is terrible.

I know everyone says if you have a better idea, let’s hear it! I don’t. I’m not on ANet payroll. And it doesn’t look like anything will change in the short term.

For the next few months all you’ll get are threads on the forums about 3 servers and a bunch of poor sportsmanship and trash talk.

2 servers will stop participating as soon as the work week begins.

All 3 servers will be bored out of their minds the rest of the week and argue with each other instead of pointing the finger at ANet for designing such a weak WvW system.

Make WvW worth doing. Make it so it is more player vs player oriented instead of ground targeted AOE zerg vs ground targeted AOE zerg. The zerg that wins is the zerg that brings more focused AOE. That is terrible design. You lose that sense of battling a person and all you see is a red, blue or green blob.

Well, maybe you don’t enjoy it, but there are tons of us (especially the old DAoC and WAR crowd) that really, really like it. If you are just zerging mindlessly into each other, there’s no wonder you’re not doing so hot.

fivekiller.1432:

patricide.1062:

Stonemist Castle at full upgrades speed capped courtesy of the Yak’s Bend Alliance. Took us seriously <7 minutes.

when i first walked in and saw you guys had taken stone mist and nothing else i thought it was a crazy idea.

when i saw it work out and how Yaks owned 50% of EB within a few minutes i realized it was a crazy awesome idea.

Thanks! It almost worked out :P

Unfortunately, DH decided that now would be a good time to ninja our garrison and our orb. We had to go back and handle them, and now CD owns all of EB again

Stonemist Castle at full upgrades speed capped courtesy of the Yak’s Bend Alliance. Took us seriously <7 minutes.

Would just like to point out that the [VIPx] guild mentioned above has been doing very… exploity things lately. For example, porting multiple times during a fight to exploit the render glitch, standing in invulnerable areas in the back of camps, things like that. I know that DH isn’t dishonorable server or anything, but that guild sure seems to be.

Silicate.4061:

So.. took Dawns eye for like 5 minutes. Then a 10:1 ratio of Yaks shows up and destroys it. Good job. Skillful and whatnot.

So.. took Dawns eye for like 5 minutes. Then a 10:1 ratio of Yaks shows up and destroys it. Good job. Skillful and whatnot.GoM btw.

I was there. It was maybe 3:1 at most, not 10:1. Stop embellishing.

I think that after a certain point the orbs and/or the map should reset. This is coming from a Yakker.

Chewie.1249:

Hmmm. And this is why there is no fights actually going on. [IMG]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/mrmoof/gw066_zps240f5d68.jpg[/IMG]

Thank you for the screenshot! This actually helps. I will forward this to the alliance leaders and see if we can’t get these guilds in line.

melodyca.8921:

Hey Yaks!

Its not like you have a low score. Why must you spawn camp? Talk about tactless and classless.

Yeah, it’s terrible. Trust me when I say that our commanders have something like “Guys, don’t spawn camp. It’s poor sportsmanship,” on macro or copy/paste.

I apologize on behalf of all Yakkers.

I wish I had a better rig to capture these “endless Yak zerglings.” At one point, GoM was laying siege to Greenbriar really, really hard. They seriously had like 30+ out there with at least 4 catapults. We had maybe 10 defenders. We decided to send out 5 in a full frontal suicide to take out the siege and wow, not only did we take out the siege, but we killed maybe 5-6 GoM on the way and the ENTIRE GoM zerg turned tail and ran. This wasn’t due to Yak’s superior numbers (which we didn’t even have), it was due to no solid commander/guild being present to keep discipline amongst the zerg. They by all rights should have wiped us before we got anywhere close to the siege.

This has been happening a lot on this match up. We see a larger force, shrug, and charge in. The vast majority of the time the enemy zerg turns tail and runs.

It’s worth noting that this is only on SFB. I can’t speak for the other maps.

What you didn’t see was what happened before the camera was rolling. We were at a stalemate with SF, and we needed to break it in a bad way. I won’t give away our exact strategy, but it involved multiple feints and diversions. We were pretty evenly matched numbers wise.

Yes, that Cliffside battle on Saturday was insane. It took two commanders and at least three alliance guilds to finally take it down. Also, a clever trebuchet positioning at Garrison sure didn’t hurt :P

I know people say that Yak’s has just been outzerging, but the truth is that we have been working hard on a server wide alliance. We have good communication and are able to pool our resources.

Maybe some of the other Yak commanders will get mad at me for posting this, but this is an example of inter-guild communication and resource pooling that allowed us to finally cap SFB after a long, tough night.