Guild Wars 2

TC, Fort Aspenwood, good fights all. You defend well – all camps, towers and keeps have players patrolling and you’ve really forced us to up our game. Our guilds have brought more people in, we’re coordinating and communicating so we can do our best!

Kerithlan.1659:

Are elementalists supposed to be able to target inside of enemy towers using Dragon’s Tooth? I’ll assume that’s a no, right?

Dragon’s tooth kinda auto targets, so it can hit things that are not in line of sight. There are several skills like that.

Bones.5762:

It’s nice waking up to even maps, so glad it’s not all one color, looks to be a good fight, keep it clean guys, was kind of upset at how many hackers CD had, i know they aren’t all like that but they had ALOT of them which made it that much worst.

Probably as much as has been reported for Maguuma eh?

The fights look delicious. Go Crystal Dessert! Go Torte Aspenwood! Go Garnished Toast!

Maguuma wants badges. CD wants towers and keeps. Everyone’s happy.

Nilgoow.1037:

It’s amazing how well crystal desert is doing given the extent of server issues they’re having. Half of the people I fight get disconnected before I can even stomp them. I hope you don’t have long queues.

This is becoming a widespread problem across all servers, not just CD.

heres how this game works, 90% of players in wvw are bads. the rest are good at pvp. these 10% will always destroy even numbers, and more often then not, more numbers.

however because CD simply has more people, it means the chances of the 10% from mag meeting the bads on CD is going to happen more often. this is where the claims of the skillless CD comes from.

its not saying everyone from CD is bad, its just a sampling bias.

Good point ^[/quote]

Agree, so if Maguuma had more people, they’d have more newbies for other servers to farm…

katniss.6735:

Guilds: Rich, Koss, SOA are now attempting to use the same exploit. I guess they don’t care about getting banned. We know where to look and screenshot those doing it. I’m keeping you all updated so that you don’t get brought down by the initiator who doesn’t care what happens to their own character, let alone yours.

Thanks for reporting those losers. Most of CD would not exploit what is obviously a bug – we prefer to siege like mad. Like yesterday’s group that built 4 catapults, 1 flame ram, 1 ballista and 1 treb…. just to capture the southeast tower.

Please don’t feed the trolls.

Halo.8976:

Cain.9724:

We caught a CD ranger and his buddy inside the east keep lord room, without any of the gates or walls down.. caught him again on the SE tower trying to kill the lord, anyone recognize him enough to report him to that exploit email address or at least let his guild know what’s going on? I reported him but doubt that will do much..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_gnrXU1iI&feature=youtu.be

Here’s your culprit, he made a video about soloing this tower so I went to see if somebody posted a screenshot or something. http://youtu.be/ueStp11KjiY

The world sure is small, huh.

Caught a Maguuma mesmer doing the same thing last week, in the tower with no gate down. After I killed him, he went back to the same spot and I had to chase him off again.

I’d rather the orbs boost magic find. 10-15% in BL only to draw people into WvW. The previous mechanics were fine. I loved how people chased after the orbs – felt like a football game played across the countryside.

aye, i thought the gear drops you get in WvW are usually around your actual level ? were you at lvl 67 (actual level) when you got it ?

I’m level 80, and I’ve gotten all sorts of ranges to my drops, from 67-80. Does everyone else only get L80 drops?

JaNordy.6149:

Anyone who made it up top to JP while jumping bug was happening should get achievement. Also most people liked the camp fire. I got my first yellow from WvW player, didnt even know they dropped from players.

Yeah, I have gotten a few during the past few weeks of WvW. I was so happy when I got a yellow drop from a Maguuma player. Then cursed them for giving me a L67 yellow. Even in death, they taunt me with low level drops!

I wonder if actual level of the player you kill defines what items actually drop. It should right?

We do give credit to our oceanics. It’s pretty much acknowledged by everyone in our server that our Oceanics/Asians are the ones contributing the most to our victory. Generally, its them that take over the map while our non peak time players try to defend as much as we have since we usually are outnumbered then.

yeah, i know, people in CD generally appreciate the efforts of the whole CD WvW crew. i was actually referring to a trash-talking unappreciative commander….

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We seem to be getting a decent population of NA players too because I got used to waking up to a map full of another colour. These few weeks, it’s nice to see that we’re still holding on to some territory when I wake up in the morning.

As I always play on Oceanic and Asian primetime, I’d like to hear from CD NA players what it’s like during NA primetime.

Raincrow.1840:

MrKnieves.4162:

TheFug.5278:

Zheen, you realize that you are absolutely a terrible commander right?

Absolutely terrible. One of the worst I have ever seen.

Do not come on this forum and act like you are relevant or that you have any idea what is really going on.

LOL!!!

You’re entitled to your opinion, and several people said the contrary so meh. My first priority is to have fun and plenty of people agree with me (and follow me whenever im commanding), the rest is irrelevant.

I’ve never even seen you before. … but comming here to trash talk your own server in more than one thread, kinda tells me all I need to know.

I was on pretty much all the time over the past two days and I didn’t see him either. Maybe he’s talking about the new game, Forum Wars.

Hectoncheir.4210:

Oh, Ehmry Bay had a keep in Eternal Battlegrounds? I didn’t notice.
Fear my awesome MS Paint skills.

I LOLed. Give Badge

KamikazKid.4872:

CrassBippy.4619:

http://postimage.org/image/640opqsu3/

1 AM AZ time. this is just to take a tower. The zerg was bad too. it was sad fighting them

That golem army was just used to take your keep. Keep tripping about how we’re zerg, you just lost a keep to 4 alpha golems.

Only 4? Titan usually builds 8 or 18 of those for fun.

Dolores.5471:

Gubrz.7283:

Laq.1594:

Gubrz.7283:

OMG whoever that hag of a d/d ele is on cd… i love you!
lol!
shed run into a HUGE mob of us, kill 3, and manage to escape while 4 others are about 1 hit away from death as well(this is every 30 secs or so!)… tho someone DID kill you at LEAST once, since i got a loot bag on ya

do i need to work on my dd ele?!

ponders

If Asuran, it’s probably me. I’m in there often and enjoy throwing myself at people. :P

I’ve changed my look a few times.

well the light coloring sparks a memory.. but i could swear it was a female human with white hair or something tho… im not sure. i was busy porting around and trying to blend in with clones while she zoomed around slaughtering things… lol! it mighta been you !

I believe that was me….

So, time for things to progress further?

Just to clarify, there hasn’t been any unanimous decision to put EBay into 3rd place. CD is made up of a loose collection of guilds. Our play times are so different, we may not even know we exist on the same server.

So you see different styles at each time of day. We do however, scout out different BLs to see how well defended things are.

Hey, it’s the weekend and everyone has time to play. No PVDooring either since it’s full population everywhere.

Score update!
CD: 12,622 +395
EBay: 7,962 +155

Love playing with EBay because their reaction times are really fast.

Gorefiend.9675:

ryan.3915:

Please share the wonderful skill and strategy that makes the other two servers stand out. Always willing to learn.

Not trying to build a Siege Golem in front of the enemys door within range of their arrow carts for one.

That’s a good point for the newbies. Sometimes they get all excited about trying out new toys.

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

Hekatombaion.4320:

I wonder if halfway into the week we’re going to get more “you wouldn’t be winning if not for your 50 man Asian zerg” even though we’ve pushed everyone else out of CD border before 9pm server time.

Or maybe the other servers just aren’t trying since they realized the hard core turtle is a big part of why we’re in the same match up for this many weeks in a row?

You are a zerg server. You aren’t rolling Ebay and Maguuma because of tactics. Neither of these servers can handle another server that has the members you guys do. Not sure why CD is so ashamed of this.

Please share the wonderful skill and strategy that makes the other two servers stand out. Always willing to learn.

This thread is getting derailed. We’re all tier 4. Whichever server thinks they are more skilled, isn’t more skilled by much. Can we talk about strategy now?

Diplomacy.
Don’t piss off other servers. I have seen stronger servers whom others hate with such a vengeance that they receive focus fire, allowing weaker servers to win.

• Don’t camp spawns. i.e. wait with the zerg in front of the spawn point with sieges etc. If another server camps your spawn point, always remember that there are many more exits. Camping also doesn’t achieve anything when you could be capping other points in other BL. Camping jumping puzzle is debatable.
• Don’t do anything with corpses. e.g. sitting on them, jumping on them. A salute for a well-fought fight would be appropriate. You already won and got the badge, no need to desecrate their corpse further.
• Don’t alt-f4 in downed state. You lost, take it like a man. Alt-F4 also takes much longer for you to return to the battlefield.
• Don’t post inflammatory posts on the forum. e.g. ‘We are all so elite, your server can only win with zergs.’

I think the current situation is great. No queues on any borderland, good fights, and we’re doing well enough to get good bonuses.

T1/T2, you can’t turn the corner without running into a 50-man zerg.

Score update:
Crystal Desert: 179k, +400
Ehmry: 122k, +170
Maguuma is third.

Deathdom.8250:

I guess someone thought the Mags might be able to break into our garrison in CDBL and possibly take it. A quick glance and I see xx arrows carts , xx ballistas and x catapults all situated in the inner keep. In comparison, I only see x arrow carts and x ballistas protecting smc lord.

You spoilt our surprise.

Usually people have to plant spies to reveal how much or how little certain keeps are sieged. That uncertainty puts people on their toes and might turn the tide of the battle. Please avoid telling people which keeps are or are not fortified. Thanks.

Time for score update:
Crystal Desert – 127,016 +140
Ehmry Bay – 75,161 +345
Maguuma is in 3rd place.

Only took a small force to retake the Maguuma BL, when the Maguuma zerg disappeared immediately after capping.

Don’t think we hate you, it’s just more efficient and easy. Why would we go after well-defended positions of Ehmry, while you guys leave your towers and keeps undefended with no siege?

Hey Ehmry Bay, good playing tonight. I have been on most of the night, and see that your forces are actually quite small, but you guys really held on and capped a few objectives!

It was really fun too when the 30+ man Maguuma zerg tried to take over dreaming bay, and we only had 3 ppl! It was a rush as we tried to build the arrow carts and held off the invaders. Luckily a few people responded to our call and we managed to kill off most of the zerg. After that though, Dreaming Bay just became everyone’s kitten as it flipped and flopped sides.

katniss.6735:

I don’t know why we’re fighting cd again when they beat us by 110k points because they have way more players than us. This match-making system is terrible.

Where can we see server population sizes? I don’t see the outmanned buff on Maguuma often, even when playing in our supposed primetime. Sometimes, I get the outmanned buff instead, depending on the BL.

Anyway, you guys have a mesmer that’s very good at playing hide and seek. Learnt so many new places to hide from him/her! We danced around a bit and didn’t get anywhere – we just couldn’t kill each other. Was fun!

Had fun with Maguuma and Darkhaven for this match up. Don’t feel too bad about the scores.

If you had trouble with CD, which only appears during the limited Asian primetime, you would not be able to deal with the upper tier servers where it’s primetime all the time.

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I missed most of this week but personally I would enjoy fighting CD again. Such massive zergs that keep coming and coming even to stop a supply camp cap or to break a gate down with their bare fists. Guess I always had a thing for zombies though :P[/quote]

Zombies! Never thought of that!

When I see a group just bashing a gate with their bare fists, without deploying siege, I know it’s time to do my own stuff…

Score update:
Crystal Desert: 226k, +420
Maguuma: 145k, +90
Darkhaven: 123k, +185

It’s been a good match so far. I enjoyed playing against Maguuma’s mischevious antics. Quite memorable, the mesmer that’s particularly good at finding places to hide then dragging people off cliffs at garrison. And you guys really bother to climb up to areas that other players never knew were possible to traverse.

Also commend your server for changing tactics quickly when you realise something isn’t working. Met too many people who enjoy banging their heads on reinforced walls.

Really enjoyed seeing Crystal Desert work together in battles, working simultaneously to cap supply, getting the quaggans and launching attacks on keeps. Also learnt new places to place trebs.

For some reason, for some time last night on WvW, Crystal Desert was not able to buy siege blueprints at the Maguuma Borderlands Vendor.

The prob is fixed now though. Don’t know what happened.

Went to bed and woke up 8 hours later, glad that CD is still holding about 60% of the territory. Go CD!

Score update
Crystal Desert – 118k, +290
Maguuma – 74k, +145
Darkhaven – 65k, +260

I’m impressed by how selfless Maguumas were last night. Every time we set up any seige, a group of Mags ran up kamikaze style to do as much damage as they could. If the first wave died, they just sent another.

Blaine – Crystal Desert

Went to sleep this morning at 5.30am, after 6 continuous hours of WvW. Ended the morning facing a Taiwanese guild from SoS, whom I was very impressed with.

Great job – you tested all our defenses and had 3-4 teams hitting different spots at the same time that kept our people dancing all over the map trying to keep 80% of our BL map.

Don’t you guys sleep during normal work days? Singapore’s only awake because of a public holiday, and for a change, we have enough people to populate one borderland. In the rest of the maps, we were outmanned as usual.

CD worked together very well this morning too. Fast response times, more communication, people spent silver on upgrades and siege weapons (esp. Titan’s golem army!), which helped us get the orb and the Hills and Bay keeps.

I know we’re severely outnumbered. I know that the odds (and trebs) are stacked against us. I know that the point lead is too big to recover from.

Yet, every night, I log on to WvW and see CDers think of new ways to overcome the population imbalance. I’m happy to see that.

What I’m not happy with is that I’m very broke spending all cash on seige machines and upgrades. ><

I’m on CD and I have to say that the strategies so far has been really fun from both sides.

While they had numbers on their side, IoJ has been very disciplined with upgrading towers that they have captured and setting up defenses. They also man those to look for likely invaders. Their defenses (catapults, arrow carts) hold back the invaders while the main zerg army comes to save the day. They also built trebuchets very frequently. One tower had 3, so it was easy for the tower to break into nearby keeps.

CD also had lots of fun stuff, like an army of golems. We initially thought we wanted 1 billion, but we settled for 12. Luvpie is a good commander with interesting ideas. He managed to invade the keeps and towers with relative ease. Unfortunately, no one seemed interested in setting up defenses or manning it while zergs were going on. So it was easy for LoJ to take back whatever we had gotten.

However, I didn’t know what to say when we were being overtaken, and there were people asking about jumping puzzles or if they could get help getting to a point of interest.

Tyrlilium