Guild Wars 2

Unratedx.2794:

If you fill out the application and you main any other class but Chrono, your application will be instantly rejected since every other class is closed for recruitment.

Did you go pve pro cuz you kept getting 1 pushed in wvw narc? That’s what cyp says.

Hopeful this scoring will create more match variety. Not too many people still care about scoring and tiers in the 20hours they don’t play. we just want to see what other guilds are out there to fight in our respective raid times.

So far being in t4 isn’t bad as there is rotation of different servers in and out. stagnation and match fixing causes attrition.

alot of the old strats won’t work on guild groups as well, ie: portal bombs. they good gimmick. most of the guilds on CD are pretty casual now. Like we raid, but raid to kill. And really just around the respective raid times. We don’t have any commanders that raid overtime trying to hold coverage wars together. can goto www.crystal-desert.com and look at some. The respective guilds, if they find you’re a good fit I know will help with individual transfers for long term.

[wolf]- NA prime 15+
[pk}- 10-20- NA prime
[zAp]- 5-10 havoc, various time zones
[FoC]- 15-20 NA prime
[OTBH]- 5-10 havoc(?)
[cG]- rebuilding for 15-20- they have an updated post
[PAS]- as Rojay, says fairly new but seen them around
otherwise on DH- There are a few groups that still do work.

As I’ve suggested in a previous thread, the mentality should be more towards a “Looking for guild” vs “Looking for server” now as the links reset every 2months and it’s all about who you enjoy playing with.

lol no worries mate. just focus on building your guild and don’t worry too much about coverage wars. just go out and fight consistently in your normal raid times. game is 4 years old. Once you get 5-10 solid guys, just tag up ebg and raid consistently.

On a side note, Ni In gives Signet Necro training on weekends and portal bomb fridays with Vlad.

My best suggestion is for you to switch from “looking for server” to “looking for guild” or two that wvw in that time zone the way you want to play. Instead of looking for a server, look for a guild that will consistently wvw in the good and the rough patches. With server linkings, and t1 stacking. The shifts will cause aneurysms and more shifting. I think SBI is good spot, you just need to find people to play with. Talk to Djxie, SBI’s one true heir to Bannok. He knows his way through SBI guilds.

Looking for a guild you can possibly get some transfer help to wherever you are going.

T1 roaming is 15+ capping ncamp or stay within 1200 range of main tag.

But regarding CD, it’s true. We have a huge gap in that time span of 12pm EST—9pm EST. there are small groups here and there and we can technically queue a map in that time zone during the weekend and depending on the commander that’s tagged up. Otherwise its just like 20 people in team chat working in groups of 2-5 trying to take on the world.

Would like to see us get points for destroying siege too. PPS (points per siege) + PPK + PPT = balance!

Just the deployable siege though, canons aite.

Dang, thanks for the bump [TL]. As much crap people give your guild, we enjoy that you bring anyone and everyone you got. Don’t listen to those dead guilds that can’t muster more than 10 nerds. We wvw and when we hear TL is on the map, we know there’s a pain train to up our game against you guys, much respect to what TL has been able to build and accomplish.

Latest vid, still need 2 guards in late NA that don’t have 800 ping.

Respective time zone recruitment: Trial by fire in raids, usually 15min sustain inside a t3 keep/smc. No wet noodlers.

PST: 2 guardians

SEA: Guardians, Necros, Revenants

Ziggy.3842:

azizul.8469:

there should be no tier in the first place. even if there is, should not have been made public . match up should be random since the beginning.

but, alas, damage has been done. people flocked to winning servers. wvw is screwed forever.

If tiers were “random” then your server CD would have a chance of facing a current top tier server, that would be incredibly boring for everyone involved. Tiers allow for competitive play, your server will eventually stabilize in its correct tier. “Removing tiers” is not an option xD

Top tier is just coverage not competitive. would love to trash some garbage t1 guilds.

Maybe for HOD. But if you follow certain guild groups its more standardized. This is a video from our recent reset raid in t4. It’s very common, when we do a public raid that we let people know where we are and they bring the respective classes that we desire. They might not all be correctly geared, but the culture is not something that happens over night. 50 in squad, no rangers no thieves. we kindly ask them to form their own parties and help havoc. Regarding t4 guilds, you’d be surprised how many wood league guilds can probably roll against t1/2 groups. Few, but yes there are some. Links are great because it gives us the opportunity to do that.

DeWolfe.2174:

Norbe.7630:

i think im having a deja vu
the clairvoyance is too stronk for the matchup stagnation again…….

static balanced match > rotating blowout match

Beg to differ on that. Rotating blow out matches brought more people back to wvw. static matches of t1 put wvw in the decline it was before links.

Rotating Variety>Static matches

Looking to build that sea crew that enjoys fights like our NA crew. All we do is play king of the hill and battle of the alamo.

micheal.8793:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Blackgate and Jade Quarry both opened because they were below the population cap. Blackgate currently has a smaller population than Jade Quarry and some of the combined linked worlds populations (combined linked worlds population example being Crystal Desert + Darkhaven + Devona’s Rest combined has a higher population than Blackgate). With all that being said, we do keep track of the transfers that happen. Since we have been seeing an increase in transfer behavior with the past 2 world links, we are discussing whether we want to change how we calculate WvW world populations or if we want to lower the WvW population caps.

Thanks for this post based off of actual data from the developers of the game. Ain’t BGs fault Anet opened us up and people wanted to move here ¯\(?)/¯

and then you got some salty ppl sittin here posting about how BG should be punished. This means you’re advocating hurting lots of innocent WvW players who don’t get involved in the stupid server politics/drama, been on BG forever and just like to WvW because of something they had nothing to do with.

Also more facts, these guilds that moved to BG did so of their own accord. We weren’t expecting them at all and did not want this many guilds to move here but we can’t control what guilds do. Everyone knows this.

lulz a BG player that doesn’t want to be involved with server politics. what a cute little puggle you is. Wasn’t BG the bread basket of server politics since inception?

X T D.6458:

henchmen.1856:

X T D.6458:

we have a stable server

Then why you need to actively buy guilds from other servers and destroy other communities?

Compared to other servers, we havent dropped tiers and havent had a massive exodus, mostly due in part to the core community including our dedicated militia. This allows BG to have a stable foundation to build on. The playing environment of tier 1 is also something that appeals to many people, and that requires staying competitive.

And maybe you should ask the guilds/players that move, why they moved. You would also actually be very surprised how many transfers are self funded.

That’s not true. BG/JQ arguably have the largest exodus. most bought guilds, most dead guilds and retired guilds would account for an exodus correct? An exodus off the game, of course. Regarding the tier drop, before the more volatile glicko was added to see where the fixed t1 matches stood. You guys never cried for anet to reopen as much as you did now. Some kitten in your facade? Perhaps not as mighty as you seem. It’s just not how many want to see it spun. but your marketing is top notch. It’s just a matter of perspective, but noone wants to look at the stats in that department =)

jamesdolla.3954:

BG closed.. Damage already done tho.

Should host a party for the newly arrived dead guilds. Can we start a pool on how long they’ll last before they are aborbed into the PPT militia?

We can give you resilience yes, however there was a huge match fixing glicko wall on a false pretense that supposedly T1 had the best fighters. But whenever, a t1 guild downgraded into lower tiers. A lot of them got shrekt because they couldn’t live without coverage. Or when EOTM first came out and precious T1 top tier roamers like Team Riot were in there got destroyed by NSP’s tM.

The only conclusion we can make is that you guys bought up all the crap guilds in lower tiers to continue your coverage wars and your advanced back capping ninja ppt off hour lifestyle.

Anet let the tiers fall apart and the guilds duke it out in their skirmishes. A server is just a city where we could congregate. But there are guilds in t2/3/4 that want to test what they got against the greatest accumulation of crap guilds that thought they were good. A guild might not be able to cover 24hours, but 2-4hour skirmish to prove ourselves is more than enough.

So…what Mckenna is saying…The population threshold is Blackgate? err…shouldn’t the population threshold be somewhere on a middle server so people spread out? LIke SBI/NSP? Or since you have linkings, a previously upper silver like FA/YB?

Anyways, give CD/DH/DR + NSP and match us up with T1 already. We need NSP to man the siege.

Match BG vs CD and JQ vs CD for a week each. would love this matchup variety. We’d be gamed to raid 5 days a week if my schedule is favorable. Make WvW eotm like, swap the map to ebg. we go red/blue/green and let the guilds go ham.

Is this the hipster’s version of a hunger strike? Wouldn’t mind BG vs us in T4. Think I would have fun, just don’t let us get stuck with them for a whole year in the name of tier balance. They got more guilds transferring to them than all of T4 combined rofl.

Sarge.9730:

For those interested in facts as opposed to wild accusations to make themselves feel better. BG has had no queue on any BL today which is a normal occurrence outside of reset night.

#stacked

You gotto get dem boys out of retirement. if you’re pop is that dead then perhaps its better you tank like the rest of us. your recruiting pool can’t be as bad as Devona’s Rest, and anet trolled them with a Mag relink lolz.

Should’ve just let BG/JQ tank to t3 then give them a link. create some fluctuations for match variety. now the nerds are gonna congregate and chest thump before they retire. Why does every terd in t1 thinks “stabilizing” a tier is good for wvw?

Can we move OP and his guild to Anvil Rock? Would like to see how great his guild is and not that he’s being hard carried by pop. Please and Thank you.

can’t wait for every scrub server to only have 3 guilds that can field 15+ running a day to enter wood league. and see how great these communities are when they actually have to work for it. we’ll be waiting for you down here and embrace you with our open arms in the field. may you be able to freely map queue ninja ppt again to your heart’s content.

BG/JQ most skilled guilds best community, not because best coverage. also best guild graveyard. please open so more guilds can transfer to die. ty anet for capping servers and spreading out fairweather population. one day t4 will be the new t1.

October Raid mashup by Boe. mix of our late na, sea, and various other cd commanders. Shoutout to SF & Ar peeps that hung around with us. The south americans & co [Caos][War][BANA], etc.

Remember- Donde esta la chicas?
And the infamous Tobee- “DAIIIYUUUUMMMM” after each engagement jackie chan style.

Jesuki and Amber are great peeps for getting broken into gw2. not too serious, just out to have fun. great community relations with their events. Although I can’t make many of them, i hear good things that takes from the lull of gw2.

Most of the SF guilds were cool to run with, we learned a bit they learned a bit. We loved the south americans, i miss them very much. Was fun learning spanish/portuguese over team chat.

However, CD’s greatest achievement was making “Kota Stack” a gw2 international sensation.

To my SF comrades- remember to ask team chat before you raid this question. That is where you need to be, not empty doors.
“Dondes estan las chicas?”

Regarding the Server names and server pride. Remove the server name of the server from both host and links and replace it with the Guild name or Tag only. It is guild wars, and we would rather have our guild represent us on the battle field. You solve the problem of servers feeling they’ve lost their identity. But in the grander scheme of things, your identity should be your guild.

Linkings are fine, get a good chuckle every relink. There are enough DH hungry to get into the thick of the fight. HOD definitely has the largest On-Call PVD crew. Always outmanned turtling with siege when there are fights to be had. Soon as enemy commanders log off, the bat signal comes up and HOD comes out with full map queue to ktrain. It’ just a clash of cultures. Linked servers with HOD have had terrible experiences even though they win the PPT game in t4. While links with CD most of them have had good experiences with us. The exception maybe SF, but most of them were good lads.

Beatbox, I believe the recruits are there across all servers. it’s just a matter of taking time out to train them and sync them up with what you’re doing. There’s alot of growing pains for new recruits. the gap between vets and newbs are as big as the gap of the rich vs poor in a 3rd world country.

In all seriousness, we may look like one of the more organized guilds out there. But we are far from our prime a couple years ago. IE: our builds are more guidelines now than mandatory. But if you can’t keep up and do your role with whatever bright idea of a build you came up with usually leads to a lot of trolling of said player.

Are you still NA prime beatbox? There are a couple guilds and commanders that we’ve picked up through links that are building up their guilds. If it doesn’t work out for you on TC, just hit me up. I’ll send the guilds your info. Most of the CD guilds have built internal warchests to help with transfers of quality players.

Thanks for the bump guys. ah that’s where you went beatbox. TC? is that where the docgotgame 2k17 revival is?

Team Asia Revival 2017. Potato says you no carry, why die?

[VII] Team Asia growing pains.

Recruiting:
-Guardians (4)
-Revenants (3)
-Necros (4)
-Elementalists (2)

Looking for Sea players that enjoy fighting against any and all odds. Including but not limited to map queues and ajams.

It’s been a pleasure working with this guy during the CD/Sf/AR link. Very good starter guild and potential for growth. Giving him a bump for the AR rally.

The lot that are moving to EU are a small portion. The amount of new bear bow rangers coming into wvw are significantly higher than the prima donnas moving to EU cuz they thought they were good but got rolled because they came into wvw looking for fights, but realistcally they were just looking for fights they can win.

the population imbalance won’t be solved by anet. they can’t fix fairweathers. every tier and server can queue a map in na prime/late na. even in t4. even CD. we can queue 1 map in every 1 timezone on weekends, it’s relative to who’s tagged up and if he/she is getting rolled.

server links revived wvw. the change ups every 2 months provides for some fluctuation instead of stagnation. It’s like a free transfer every 2months. Mind you, we are on the bottom of the barrel but the fluctuation up and down the past 3 links has been awesome. Being able to fight t2-t4 servers as they rise and fall. It just reinforces the concept that the higher tiers are just carried by population and coverage and the false sense of security that they’re actually good cuz they are in a higher tier.

T4 has good activity. Don’t mind NSP stomping VP wise in t4. Plenty of action, more than these high tier fairweathers. Whoever you drop down, just make sure we got action. You can drop BG down to t4 for giggles and the 5 or so CD guilds would probably add a couple extra raid nights. Culture is different in each server, anet can’t fix fairweathers.

Keep the rotation anet. Stale matches kill servers faster than blow out matches.

We are looking to build a Sea component to our guild. WvW primary focus. Raiding 20-25 man zerg busting, bag farming, s*** and giggles trolling for our team asia. Currently have about 5-10 regulars from 2 weeks of work. Transfer costs can be discussed for exceptional players to form their core. Of course, you’re always welcome to raid with the Late NA crew.

Objectives:
-Fight map queues
-Fight 2v1 or 3v1 a jams
-Dominate your skirmish
-Basically go out and fight and don’t cry

Requirements
-Gear up to standard
-learn our tempo/tactics
-git gud and have fun
-play at least 2 classes very well
-Will accept new players that are willing to learn and get better

Classes:
-Guardians (6)
-Revenants (3)
-Necromancers(6)
-Elementalists (4)
-Scrapper (1-2)
-Druids (1-2)
-Warrior (1-2)

Contact:
notpotato.3210
coldc.4093

You had 8 guilds to lose? Welcome to wood league! System is not broken. It just broke your dreams that you were actually skilled on your server.

Loving it and this coming from a server that’s at the bottom of T4 atm. Even with the 5guilds on CD we love it. We just want to worry about our skirmish and win it.

Suggestions:
-3hrs on 1 hour off. Or 4 hours on and 2 hours off. Further mitigates Free PPT in dead zone. Don’t reset structures of course. When I mean dead, I mean like there’s only 5 people on the map.
-More metrics related to skirmishes and linked to guilds some how. End of skirmish, let us know how many people we killed, things we capped, etc. A nice recap, give us a trophy to craft in the GH or even a scoreboard.

FA is not blowing out T3. even though they have like double to triple the guilds of any of the T3/T4 links. They’re just afraid they will get pinned in if a T4 server with actual NA presence moves up like NSP will lock them into t3. Which would cause alot of their shiny new guilds they bought to jump ship. Then we’ll all be in the same boat with <5 guilds in wood league!

Dang and here I thought, T1 had rock solid communities. Just sounds like a bunch of insecure little kids now that you gotto work for your title to be a t1 server. Instead of stacking and destroying the lower communities.

It won’t solve the whole population issue but is a step in the right direction. To fix the population issues would be something more dramatic and generated over tweaking statistical data and variables. They would have to come up with a subjective algorithm with objective data. The easiest “tweak”, would be creating a few off hour(s) in between matches to mitigate free ppt in dead zones with little to no activity.

Server WvW population per week= active wvw population + x*(home server fairweather potential) +y*(inactive accounts)

Where “X” is a subjective multiplier on how much they think fairweathers will come out of the wood works when winning and “Y” is a multiplier for inactives (perhaps inactive <3months, anything >3months are excluded) that may come back to potential changes or fairweather. Where X and Y would range from 0-1.

Once they have this data, it’s gonna be a painful realization for t1/t2. When they have to choose an indiscriminate average of all the servers total population. Say 2000 WvW activity, and T1 has like 3000, while 6 servers from t8 might have 300. They would cap it and T1/T2 would have to shed 1000 players/points so it’s an even 4 tiers. that indiscriminate number of total population would represent that you only get 2000 said wvw population spread throughout your whole 24 hour cycle. how it’s spread in that 24 hours is up to your server stacking respective time zones or not.

The total WvW activity pop would probably be used to determine the links to hit a certain number. They just need to add in a few variables like fairweathers, potential transfers, and inactive accounts.

The ocx/sea (aussie, kiwis, asians) were the chill ones on a server. Dunno why peeps hated on them but needed them for the carry. It’s the NA kids that forget to take their meds that cause all the drama. Wish we had more asians tbh.

3 hours on and 1 hour off time slices to promote a healthy lifestyle and commanders time to go poop. Most guild raids are 3-4 hours also with a few exceptions on each server. The 1 hour off times will take away some PPT during prime time hours but will have a greater effect on free ppt on off hours.

We are WvW guild based on Crystal Desert for the past few years. We already have a strong core of ~20 that raid a few times a week. [VII] also has a handful of back up commanders that might take up on my off days. What we are looking for is to develop our guild internally as a structured wvw guild. The pieces we are looking for aren’t individuals, but a set of players to anchor our needs.

The structure that we are trying to develop:

1) Recon Team- We are looking for a 5-10 man recon team that will defend home bl or rotate to enemy maps that we’ve got a foot hold. They serve mainly as a scout team and havoc. Call us when there’s something they can’t handle. We expect the 5 man team to be able to defend a T3 structure against 15. They must know siege defense and how to buy time for reinforcements. They will be the first response to call outs from other scouts and kitten if the main group is needed. In open field fights, they will function alongside the main group if needed.

2) Cavalry—> We are selectively recruiting for this group. Our core players like to hunt. We hunt map queues, enemy guilds, no matter the numbers. We map hop, we are quick reaction force to reasonable call outs. We just enjoy the fight. You tell us there’s 25+ that can quench our thirst, we’ll come asap. Our expectations for players in this group: no whining about outnumbered, siege, or whatever rolled you over. Most importantly, don’t die.

We will develop this Recon-Cavalry pairing in 1 time zone first. Then expand it to another time zone depending on assets we have.

Currently: Late NA- 20:00-01:00 PST raid times.

Some recent videos from our media team:

Contacts:

Shiri..4257
Jbee.8592
coldc.4093

It definitely would be geared to mid to large guilds I presume. but they can have it capped out at lower numbers for achieveys. while the score just keeps ticking for the larger guilds to see who’s on top. by larger, I’d say guilds that raid around 15-20. It shouldn’t be a 2hr thing to achieve all the metrics, should be a few days of WvW.

Not to mention wvw is a matter of large scale combat. even with a 5man roaming, i don’t think 100 kills is not achievable over a week, 25 camp captures, 10 tower captures. I’d say that’s on the low end.

I’m not a programmer, so I’m not sure how feasible this might be. But a lot of those individual WvW achievements can they be broken down statistically per guild? Then have then link to stuff in Gh like increased Aetherium production, better node harvests, or decrase item costs? Or even, instead of drinking a jug from the bartender of the GH, the more WvW completion the higher the % on bonuses from drinking like the map bonus, node farming bonus, xp bonus from the bartender etc.

Instead of like WvW daily/missions turn them into a weekly matchup thing for guilds to reach and acquire? Then have the stats post on some leaderboard ticking in GH/map spawns.

Some stats to consider:

1) Kills-PPK (isn’t this why we wvw?)
2) Deaths-negative effect (to deter manipulating kills by getting friend guilds to kill over and over)
3) Tower captures
4) Camp captures
5) yak slapping
6) Tower holds and claims—holding the claim for like 15mins or whatever gets a reward. Claim needs to be refreshed hourly or else another guild can claim.
7) Keep holds and claims- similar to towers
8) Camp claims- similar above
9) SMC- the motherload claim- same as above
10) Insert other ideas here.

Overall, we’d probably want around like 10-15 metrics only for a “guild to achieve.” There would be cons to consider such as size of guilds and exploits. say X player switching guild tags so they don’t lose deaths. perhaps set it where you have to have that tag for 1hr in wvw.

We’d have to set what Anet believes an ideal guild size should be to achieve some of these metrics. 5, 10, 15, 25, 50? There are many things to consider, but I believe alot of WvW guilds prowess is to measure their performance in the field and other guilds, not the server’s performance. We want to know how many things we took, held, people we killed. The current PPK, we can only gauge how we move it up and down, but to have a guild hall scoreboard for these metrics would be great. At the end of the week you can post like the top 3-5 guilds somewhere that achieved A, B, C metric.

The server system can still be maintained as it is and linking, just needs more volatility to move up and down as we can now see the top guilds achieving such things. I’d figure many guilds would want a shot at dethroning those rankings.

All the metrics should have a baseline easy mode to attain for the pvx guilds. But after a certain threshold there should be a substantial increase. Example: PPK: 100 kills, 250 kills, 500 kills, 1000 kills, 2000 kills. Deaths shouldn’t be a negative effect as 1:1 with kills. Let’s be honest, most guilds probably won’t be able to hold a 1.0 kdr, let’s say -0.1 per death. If you die 10 times for every kill, that should encourage someone to figure out how to git gud.

[KGA] on CD runs about 15. with your help, you can be the 16th person to man an ac vs SOS.