Guild Wars 2

The yesterday’s stalemate in RoF hills was hilarious :P Drakkars broke north inner wall, FR west inner gate – noone wanted to push in first and we couldn’t really push out for any of the groups without second sneaking into our backs

Special thanks to aZm for all fun (and tough) fights we had

Enis.4057:

Yesterday, next to longview, we were 14 aZm, trying to pull you, [TaG], for an openfield figh near the cata spot. Result ? All of your map were following you, forming 2 different big groups.

We were runnign without commander tag, as usually. If we are thinking about the same situation, I wanted to clear your rams, dump supplies into gate and then go out to fight you. But by the time, quite a lot of our PUGs must have spotted tower being contested and came there, it was not our intention. I think we managed to have 1 fight without addons yesterday (inside Briar), which you won, props for that, you are strong opponent.

And yes, we were staying nearby our PUG zerg at times, which I hated with passion, but it was hard to engage a FR guild without another one rushing (I am speaking about yesterday, Saturday/Sunday was way more fun for us).

Enis.4057:

So please, stop complain about zerg.

I agree that there was a bit too much whining from my guildees, and already said that

Alystene.2418:

all you’re screenshots are about tower or keep fights… a little bit pathetic so…

Most of the time, we barely (or not at all) had even time to resupply before we had to go and defend another structure from FR attack, that’s why most of our screens are from tower/keep fights. And of course we will use choke points if facing superior numbers. I agree that there was a bit too much QQ from our side, but most of these screenshots were posted in response to some FR people claiming that their guilds are not blobbing

Aside from that all, I’m really enjoying that matchup way more fun than last week – I’m going to miss that intensity when we will get locked in bronze league :/

Thank you dear EO for a visit in our bay. I hope, that you enjoyed the stay. Please keep in midd, that at 4am there will be no crew to satisfy your needs, so please, don’t come then.

PS. Some of our people didn’t want to close gates, so that you could come again.

ich.7086:

RDT was running at about TaG number

Thing is, they had ~15 pugs on them as well. I really don’t mind fighting bigger zergs (and I’m sure, you’ve seen us charging against odds), as long as they are pug zergs, I really don’t like when a guild, that has enough numbers to run on their own, tags up and gathers pugs to just overrun enemies with numbers.

Anyways, thanks for a alot of fun fights

Well, as expected, all RoF fairweathers went back to PvE when things become tough. Last week, we had queue for EB most of the time, now we have this

I am afraid, that you are right, now that Sheepie moved to AG. We have only Cuddles left to represent us in that matter :P

EB advanced tactics belong to TaG. Our new weapon of destruction totally caught Arborstone off guard

This is not zoomhack. Most gates have a gap above them, so if you place AC outside, you can see stuff directly behind gate.

L Step.8659:

HiddenRage.7408:

soulsugger.5726:

Very well done [PWNY]

I hope u burned all keep supplies for those :P
The same going on after i left some months ago, man what i enjoy my new server.

Gl though lol.

I’d say you are missed but no one can lie that well.

I miss Soul. In fact, I can think of over 50 wvwers and 5 differennt guilds I’d trade for him back. #RangePressure

Aye, we had a lot of good times together and none of the drama/hate that happened can change that Also, Soul’s input into TaG, helped us to get, where we are now.

PS. I would rather say #RrrrangedPrrrressure

L Step.8659:

Ow PVE’s

I think that more accurate description would be “Ow stands in LA and recruits”

Darkstorn.5423:

Barabjagal i was the commander that found your golem rush ( i was also the one who called reinforcements to defend bay from arbor golem rush) you just couldnt have had worse luck there

Yeah, Arborstone decided to bring quite a fair bit of numbers so the alarm bells rang. I wasn’t waiting long when Darkstorn called that outnumbered popped in our BL and brought TaG raid there asap :P

I didn’t use a single golem this week ^^ When TaG took your t3 bay (on Saturday or Sunday, can’t recall) these were oldschool superior rams. Yuor problem was that first scout popped up when inner gate was already at 25%.

I dislike golem rushes in general, so you will see me doing it rarely – can’t tell that about everyone on RoF tho ^.^

PS. 40 man imo still qualifies for zerg blob is 60+ lag monster, most likely all people from map clogged at one spot.

Noss.4105:

I see RoF has finally, after all those tears, got themselves a matchup they like. I’m happy for you! This could be good confidence boost.

We needed a bit of change of pace, but steamrolling instead of being steramrolled isn’t better for our WvW regulars.

I enjoy roaming in this matchup, but no offense, guild raids were more fun against higher tiered servers. Only challenges to find in this matchup are main zergs of Arbor and RoS – we liked fighting them on reset. The main problem is finding them – Angry Zerg is usually busy in EB, which is queued for us due to all the fairweathers (yes, these guys are enjoying steamrolling you, which makees me sad for my server), and Arborstone zerg started to run from us after 2 wipes, and left map after 3rd we just wanted to have some more fights…

RoF is in bad place atm, with only 2 servers (Dzagonur and DL), maybe possibly 3rd (Blacktide) close to our strength.

Well, I will keep hoping for even matchup next friday again, and probably I will be disappointed like it used to be for last 2 months…

Noss.4105:

…maybe back to PvE? I hear that’s a good excuse for poor performance.

Sorry to disappoint you, but last week, against FR, TaG were in WvW 6 out of 7 evenings

But yes, if we get tough match again, I have no doubts that a lot of poeple will go back to their PvE holes, I think that our average population this week is double the amount we had last week. If we had all this last week, end score might have not been such a blowout

PS. I hope for nice fights this evening

Yes, it is sad We have noone from RoS/Arborstone to fight with on forum, so we just fight each other

Also, sorry for that veil in bay yesterday :P I didn’t even call for it, but our mesmers followed the usual schema anyway ^^

I heard that DSV and BAN (?) left and LC were going to do it (or already did) as well. But yeah, leagues are effectively killing servers in lower 1/3 of ranking

I think he meant that they have 10 players that live outside EU timezone, and the rest that zerg around are just EU people that pull all-nighters.

Hule.8794:

Drakkars and Dzagonurs.

this

I think, also Blacktide thrown in instead of one of these could work (not sure tho, it’s been a while since we faced them). But yeah, the matchup with servers with similar strength would be a nice change after 6 weeks of having 5+ ranks higher one.

Yes I Cap.5389:

oh and don’t forget to mention we have no queues on any borderlands including EB! :P

I… I think… I broke it yesterday.

On serious note, thanks everyone that came to my little WvW training

Dinamin.7083:

wurm called GÛNTER

He is called Henry

KOK.2650:

My solution is actually quite simple:
1)You can’t que for your server, only WvW, meaning you will join red,green or blue team.
2)After joining, everyone is relocated so that the team number is equal
3)To be fair,everyone in the same group can be together

And what about guilds that want to play together? Playing with people I chose to play with, is what makes WvW fun for me (and not only WvW).

If you ask me, it would not stop blobbing, but make it harder for organised groups to take on bigger numbers, making it worse.

Kurushimi.9724:

It was a little boring but fun last night on cdf

I hope it was more interesting today Loads of fun fights for us, cheers from TaG.

Too bad that in the end I had to put the blue hat on and gather PUGs to counter dova/EO blob… seriously, has anyone seen them running without each other?

I am not talking about everyone, but the general trend (statistics saying that RoF focused DL 59% time and DL focused RoF 67% time) My guild has been fighting Ranik all the time as well, with the exception being DL that ventured to our BL ^^

Shadowresli.3782:

and it’s much more fun to wipe raniks, there are always more coming. More loot ;-)

100% agreed

That is pain not only for your server… Anet should finally start determining transfer costs based on ranking position, not PvE population…

I am not blaming anyone just noticing that matchup could be more fun and less one-sided if both servers didn’t backstab each other that much, but tried to push FR a bit more

Maybe it would be more interesting if you didn’t bring 4 guilds against our 25-man group

Still better then dova/EO nonsense tho

Also, funny fact, if you take a look at http://gw2wvw.org/ data for our matchup. RoF and DL seem to be focusing each other way more than FR, which is silly as we are both heavily outnumbered…

Devs rarely show up in EU bracket, but when they do, the hunt begins

I wanted to thank FR guilds that were on RoF BL yesterday evening, for running in split groups and not forming a lag monster RCT, RDT, GDR (and some others that I can’t recall now, sorry) – it was fun to fight you this way, good to know that not all Ranik guilds like to form EOdova-like blob.

The reason might be the fact that prime time in US servers is stretched over time, due to timezone differences, while in EU it is more packed.

fab.3298:

Yeah, it wasn’t intentional. We roamed alone like always but the NE tower was the final point on the map so everyone in the zone ended up there. As a result it got zerged badly. We actually ended our raid after that since there wasn’t much to do and 3:1 fights in your favour aren’t much fun.

No hard feelings, I realize that it was last place on the map. It was hard for us to doa nything when you had more people in your guild groups (total) then we had PUGs ^^ so I had to jump EB to keep morale on reasonable level. Well, all that is to blame is stupid RNG that keeps throwing us on servers 5+ ranks higher (afair last even matchup that RoF had was 5 or 6 weeks ago, vs Dzagonur and Arborstone – and even taht one was even vs Dzag, Arbor got destroyed…)

Well, we were leading PUG zerg today as well (we were low on numbers too and some GH guilds were blobbing in ROF bl where we started), it’s been a while since I had the dorito on. We got killed more than couple times as to be expected, I hope RoF PUGs learnt something in process tho :P And I admit that I killed us sometimes trying to move with PUGs like I would do with guild :P

ThomasKreshant.6572:

The whole match up system for WvW really needs a massive rethink especially for servers such as RoF that never seem to pull a fun fair week/fight.

This is 5th match in a row, when we get a server 5+ ranks higher ^^

Don’t get me wrong, I love leading my guild against stronger servers (dat FR lootbags ), there is no other way to get better (for example, FURY shows us that we need a lot of work, again and again ).
Thing is, PUG-wise RoF gets hurt this way (and we are mostly PUG based server). I am only afraid that being in bronze league will give us boring matchups, as after RoS, Arborstone and WSR collapsed, there aren’t many servers with strength similar to ours…

I really like new area and the fact, that to keep or cap it, you are better off splitting into smaller groups. Stat buff is bullkitten tho, rewards already winning server. Change the buff into something else (like it was suggested countless times on this forum) and it will be really nice content.

Grevender.9235:

all the ten of you!

Well, I was talking about 50ish MM+pugs that took Klovan from us, I never told that you do it all the time, it’s just the impression that you made…

skwas.9873:

Too bad your server didn’t do the same. We actually killed quite a few of your group (or pugs around, red is red) and to us it seemed we were on the upperhand, but the group never got any smaller as nearing the end more and more RoF joined the fight, which is when we gave RAGE the clear to support us as it got too much for us.

Well, there is no way we can control pugs that were drawn there by crossed swords that we generated… Also, not sure if you noticed, but we actually did the same later on during your fight with our pugzerg between Sunny and north camp, we only entered when lion joined you there

Thank you RAGE, TEO and lion for a lot of fun fights in RoF BL this evening, and MM blob and FURY later on in EB. Thumbs up to RAGE for not interfering into our fight with TEO next to bay until it was clear who won, much appreciated We had a lot of fun, hope for more evenings like that in the week.

Also, who won GvG that was going on in RoF BL? :P

Thank you PunK for fun fights in EB yesterday. It was refreshing to fight similar numbers in this matchup :P

kingcragus.6810:

There should be immunity to CC after the effect has wore off. The problem is not fighting against say 1 hammer. It is the fact that multiple hammers can keep someone stunned/ knocked down indefinitely long after someone has used all available stun breakers.

There is already such immunity. It is called stability, read the post above you again

Neandramathal.9536:

Been away for a while, semi-active again since friday.

Hey there Freyn, it’s been a while

RoF’s matchup thread is pretty much dead as well, I miss last week’s GH-UW-RoF forum wars

dova, EO and others, pls stop blobbing. Literally, I have not seen you not holding hands and without PUGs in this matchup, and during our last matchup with FR.

We have shown yesterday, that we can do it too, and it didn’t end good for you. Thing is, we simply DO NOT WANT TO. The fight in hills had a lot of skilllag and not a lot of FPS. This is not fun. And blobbing all the time is not good for your skills too, it’s been a while since I farmed so many kills in one evening and won so many fights vs 1,5-2 times our numbers.

Props to RCT, running on their own on reset night – it was fun fighting you, as we had more or less even numbers.

PunK – I was really impressed by your performance, when we met in EB on Saturday, really good positioning and fast reaction for flanking attack as well, you totally deserved to beat us.

Royce Melborn.3276:

The DL people in this thread have been polite and respectful, even nice (despite being bored as kitten) which can’t be said about all our match-ups in the past weeks…. Remember RoF?

:O
Not all of us have been impolite

Los Re.4607:

Dude you’re 3-4 days late. We are loving each other atm, why you destroy the good mood?

Too bad that you didn’t quote that post Now it is gone and it looks like I am the moodbreaker

Judging on the amount of posts generated, right now a lot of ppl sit in work and wait for the weekend to kick in xD

Paavotar.3971:

For me this Forumwar was most enjoyable, its fun to read them while in work

Exactly my feelings :P

Paavotar.3971:

Where-was-the-golems?

In RoF BL

One thing is sure, our topic won EU bracket of forumwars this week

gagi.4012:

No i’m not expecting RoF to hit UW border cos its imposible, unfortunatly RoF is atm too weak for GH and UW. True WvW is when there is 3 servers present on every map in some kind of force and thats not the case on 2/4 maps at all times, and it makes less fun match for all, it should had been Fort Ranik or Drakkar that 3rd server.

Only RoF guys we saw was TaG (much respect) as best 5 fights my guild (core/crew) had with u was best fun in WvW in weeks. Two fights at crag 2 nights ago on Gh bl was epic.

Well, the leauges will start soon, so it will take some time until we meet again ^^
Thanks everyone for the fights in the course of the matchup and good luck with RNG god in the evening

Well, you can’t expect RoF to push UW BL, when GH are pushing ours, we simply don’t have enough manpower and guilds to do it.

No, it is not! Where are AC hacks?

Thank you FURY for not adding to our fight against WBC west of SM – much appreciated, especially, that we were already outnumbered. Yesteerday evening, uhhh, it was a tough experience :P I hope you got some good loot of us.

Rendering maps/terrain does not affect network transfer/server lag – it is client side thing.