Guild Wars 2

looks like they’re done their jobs, all the noteworthy guilds on jq seem to be gone and all that you still see playing are the xfers and trash zerg guilds.

that engineer video is godawful lol

event rewards need to be scaled based on how many attacks vs defenders there are. karma trains wouldn’t happen if the reward for taking a completely undefended camp with 50 people was like 15 karma and 7 copper.

Scyntrus.2458:

Only give a reward for defending dolyaks if you kill something along the way. That way, yaks that need defending will be defended and botters can’t bot.

i’m not sure what world you live in where people can’t make bots that will attack mobs

SBI doesn’t have the organization or leadership during the afternoon hours usually. I logged on to watch a bunch of non-80s throw themselves 1 by 1 into an enemy tower and die to the bored jq zerg just sitting there. It’s like a conveyor belt of failure.

I hope they break the EB one too

if you don’t want people to go away, don’t bring 3x their numbers to every fight.

oh wait that’s all that happens with your server now.

have fun finishing those empty towers off while waiting on the 890 person queue for the one map that isn’t completely green

you should probably assign some underwater utility skills

let’s think about this for a second here, the team who owns the base has a little magical portal they can go in.

so why does the tower need a gate. nobody even uses it. IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. even dolyaks know to use teleporters.

what in the crap does this thread have to do with cursed shore you server bandwagon hopping chublobster

Hey Vaius, I can’t help but notice you took that screenshot from Orr.

That is where I have been all week too!

Come to think of it, the majority of SBI’s WvW players have been just doing pve this week. Wonder why. Must be some new craze.

Hey guys, new JQ transfer here. I just brought my 50 man wvw guild to help us own and keep #1. None of these other servers stand a chance. JQ best server. The rest of you can keep feeding me karma when we 90 man rush the one tower you manage to get.

i’d recommend better guards.

I tried to listen to you but your words were drowned out by the marching of about 830 jade quarry players, which by my math is about a 15th or so of their server population.

I’m not going to really push the subject but your hard drive now has a picture of a mostly naked man

Sorry random zerg guy who made this thread. Too much to bother reading here but congratulations on successfully having hundreds more players than everyone else. Feel proud of your #1 rank. I’m sure your guild(out of the 300 there) is great and highly respected by someone. Perhaps if you keep up you will be highly recognized and respected, but probably not since you’re usually just part of a massive sea of random red things. I’ve developed my metalworking skills though so if you’d like I can make you a shiny tin badge.

i’ll take a non #1 position over queues any day

must suck for those guilds on jq who wanted to be noticed as some kind of good coordinated guild just to end up as bunch of nobodies in yet another zerg of the red bandwagon bonanza.

Henge apparently just doesn’t have players anymore. The match is almost just SBI vs JQ, which is rather imbalanced in JQ’s favor due to now having the much higher server population thanks to the bandwagoners shifting wagons.

Given that HoD is almost nonexistant, it seems like this match is more or less going to be a 1v1 between SBI and JQ. And with SBI’s very losing track record against JQ, I don’t think it’ll be pretty.

Ele and ranger aoe can hit almost any siege you’re going to place.

Mesmer phantasms CAN hit ANY siege you place.

Siege won’t kill anyone in a zerg. They’ll revive right through it if anyone actually does get downed. It’s more of a deterrent than anything.

I’ve had ONE “good” week in the t1 matchups. Every other was just lopsided as all hell. I had more fun last week in t2. On the weekend primetime anyway, when BG and IoJ were still logging in with large forces.

Zerg ressing makes it next to impossible to hold off a much larger force. The moment anyone gets downed, 3 people get them back up. Even if you manage to actually finish a downed enemy, they still just lie there waiting for a rez and eventually get up since the revive progress is never lost.

Defeated players shouldn’t be revivable if you’re in combat. The revive bar should also un-fill if they’re not actively being revived.

Downed players probably need restrictions too. Honestly one person reviving heals a downed player faster than most non-glass cannon specs can even damage them. If you’re not in a position to finish instantly(and you never are in seriously outnumbered situations), it’s pretty much impossible to actually kill a target so long as your opponents have any brain or ability to hit their F key.

jq teamed up with hod on the forums

Bahaness on Stormbluff Isle.

He knows probably 15 words in English and communicates better and gets more things done than any other.

scatter mines is better anyway, who needs underwater grenades when you one shot everything with a 4 second harpoon gun skill

every warrior will assure you that kill shot is fine and you just need to avoid the obvious setup appearance that you should easily be able to pick out of 40 players.

should check your corners a lil better for them sneaky mesmers, just hate it when they stash away and steal your keep like that. might want to look into getting a flashlight for those dark areas.

ioj – thanks for helping me and nokaru get whirlpool nerfed. lol.

Tyaen.5148:

This has been covered in half a dozen threads I know of, but I’ll restate what IMO is the major problem. In WvW a thief can chain stealth and prevent a point from flipping, with no way for you to break it. Including spamming AOE throughout the entire circle.

not fully true. best method against this is knowing what they do. they must melee attack a player with cloak and dagger for a lot of the stealth. have everyone capturing point stack up together and just aoe the hell out of the floor where they stand. if he comes to cloak and dagger he meets a lot of damage.

i’m on the boat with giving stealth more counters though. just have some of the less used utilities show stealthed players as if they were never stealthed. maybe someone will use them then.

Same problem here. People just aren’t loading for some reason. I can tab target them or see icons, but a lot of models are completely invisible.

nerf underwater combat elites, me and my groupmate won a fight 2v10

I hope JQ wins because Mixed Martial Arts and Crafts is my favorite guild name ever

Right now it’s..

IoJ 5095
Blackgate 4955
Stormbluff 4803

I know there’s some supply routes where the dolyak just kind of teleports before it actually reaches the keep. Might have been one of those.

Vexus.5423:

As the leader of a Jade Quarry small group of Ascendancy [RISE] members, I want to announce th

sorry i’m gonna let you finish but SBI is the best server OF ALL TIME

Samfisher.7942:

Thanks for all the battles guys, especially WM, THAI (you never give up attacking Golanta, EVER do you? :P) and RUIN for never giving up Has been good.

If you think green has it bad with Golanta, blue is worse with red coming after umberglade all the time. And it’s a trap, any time blue recaptures umber, it’s STRAIGHT TO THE OGRES!

I hope you guys can spread out and help a number of the medium ranked realms to help even out WvW overall. I would look forward to seeing more competitive realms and less “tiers”.

I tried it out of curiosity but was dead when I logged back in. Must be doing it wrong

Trebuchets should just not placable inside of keeps and castles. Let them be a field siege unit that is intended to be protected by players, not two gates of the most fortified structures on the map.

As it stands, anyone who can make a simple macro can just set one up and just auto fire from Stonemist/EB keeps/Garrison/etc and kill your wall while watching Donnie Darko in the other room while knowing they’re pretty much completely safe from any simple retaliation. Find me anything else that is so easy to operate and so effective.

That’s one hell of a story. I’ve been on both sides of these kind of dominating forces in various games. I know it’s fun to win, but after so much it’s even more fun to actually lose. If nothing changes however it just gets stale and people just end up quitting.

Interesting as the story is though, my perspective comes mainly from how things seem to have settled. I didn’t come into GW2 knowing anything about any of the servers or alliances. I only know what I’ve experienced so far(and I’ve played quite a bit) and TA quite obviously outperforms any of the other alliances. I care very very little for SBI’s performance overall, as I did not pick this server myself. I just shoot things. I’d feel the same way if I played on the sixth to last place server.

It’s not just TA though. It’s all these pre-formed alliances that rolled together and stuck together that cause so much disparity among servers. In a perfect world, none of these matches should be so imbalanced. Imagine if say, TA was never formed, and 4 groups of 4 guilds were on some of the currently mid-ranked servers. You’d have a lot more top competitors, and servers would rotate a lot more. People wouldn’t have a “the server” to flock to if they wanted to win. You’d face different opponents every week and the best guilds would have some serious competition.

Obviously it’ll probably never work out so pretty though. It’s too far down the road and suddenly breaking up a community into chunks isn’t something to do on a whim or because someone else thinks it’s “unfair”.

MasterofKhaos.8903:

I typically hold my tongue when it comes to things regarding TA, and the right people know why. But coming from someone who was once a part of TA, and one of the founding guilds I can tell you TA is a very strong part of the reason HoD is successful.

TA has the most organization and communication at an alliance level that I’ve ever seen. I’ve been in the inner workings there, take my word their coordination is superior to everyone else.

As they’ve stated they do’t necessarily have the numbers to claim a server as their own. There are multiple guilds in the alliance that number less than 100, but all they do is WvW. They aren’t simply a zerg alliance, they know the mechanics of the game, and their WvW leaders understand strategies and tactics.

Indirectly, they are also the reason why the Militia is so great. Most of these folks transferred when they heard TA was on the server, or when they saw how much HoD was winning. In the beginning, it was TA carrying HoD before the queues spiked to extremes. This population increase is a result of TA being on HoD.

I was there for BWE3 when TA beat AA, GoM vs CD. TA had just picked GoM, but AA had all the badwagoners on CD. And we (as [TBH] was apart of TA then) beat CD and AA.

Instead of asking TA to break up, try to get your communities to organize to be on their level. They are at the top of the ladder for a reason, and they’ve proved it time and time again. Give credit where credit is due.

Props to you guys Sky, Marstar and the rest of TA for sticking to your server and dealing with 4 hour queues (which makes it so they typically can’t field half their forces at any given time.)

Sincerely,

MasterofKhaos
WvW/Co-Leader of The Brotherhood
Proud member of NSP

Nobody is questioning coordination, they obviously have it. The question is how much is really necessary? How big of an alliance was it necessary to make? No other server has nearly as many organized guilds that I’ve seen.

Asking other servers to try to match it is just asinine. On Stormbluff, I don’t see guilds the size of the average HoD guild except for WM. No other group here has the numbers and the organization that they do, not even close. I’ll see maybe 10-15 people from any other guild together in WvW at a time.

Where are the people supposed to come from then? Should I ask the PvE centered people standing outside the Citadel of Flame? That’s like asking the Wal-Mart checkout lady to manage a nuclear reactor. Should we go to other servers and try to steal their guilds? That just ruins other servers that are already having their own problems.

I hear nonstop that they are looking for “the best opponents” and to “challenge themselves” which is one hell of a joke when you consider what they’ve done is nothing but the equivalent of team stacking in a public FPS server.

Geez, I spend like days insulting Namu and then I open this thread and it’s like he’s the only one who understands.

Looks like that’s the vale supply camp. That’s where their spawn leads to. They’re invulnerable up there.

You can’t really tell people that formed up to play together that they can’t do it anymore.

Granted, it’d probably be better for the game overall if they, say, split into 3 or 4 groups and improved a number of medium population servers. It’d promote much more healthy competition overall. It’s a bit silly that servers have to be ranked in “tiers” and that there is such a disparity between #1 and the bottom.

Making a huge alliance like that is more or less the equivalent of taking your clan in some FPS game(TF2, CS, you pick) and stacking onto one team and just stomping a pug server all day. Sure, you may run into some talented players who can oppose you, but you’re also probably just rampaging through some guy who just installed the game an hour ago and auto-joined a random server.

After going against HoD for several weeks straight, it can be a lot of fun when WM’s around since there’s a good deal of organization, but outside of that it’s usually just a mess. I’ll be incredibly happy if SBI is facing new opponents next week just to see something new.

Workers do not repair things or build cannons etc for you if that’s what you’re thinking. Workers only complete structural upgrades.

Daish.6139:

WvW is extreamly unenjoyable now

all Daish is doing is trying to help the other low population server and turn it into a 2v1 vs the stronger server but we still lose

pretty much.

outmanned buff in all 4 maps lols.

Zaowi.7098:

I understand the rare armor set looking abit shabby but the exotic set for badges too ? As we all know badges don’t drop off trees, why did they make this armor set look so bad ?

blatant lie, i get badges from sylvari all the time

Navaris.5087:

Borderlands is important when EB turns into a stalemate to counteract whoever holds SM point wise. No idea why anyone would deem it any less important than EB, it’s just a glorified zerging-ground.

There’s points in time where EB isn’t a boring stalemate? It’s just the map where the worst of the worst always queue because it’s completely mindless.

boobzooka.3521:

ironic, but in gw2 the problem is always with guilds…
Guilds cannot queue enough of their people in to make a real force, so they form these halfa$$ zergs (sometime with another guild) and disrupt overall strategy and tactics. They run their own objectives, without communicating with rest of the players for battlefield information, and without giving information to rest of the population so they could obtain support.

This morning in HoD-SBI-JQ game EB, without presence of any guild, we (HoD) were making 10k karma/hour, till (Yes I am going to name these kitten PRX and SYN got maybe 20 people into the game, and decided to attack overlook (JQ keep) without consulting with anyone. 3 wipes and rest of the population went down to 2k/hr.

Seriously, people that don’t understand the timer, and cap everything few seconds after round completion should just delete their chars and stop playing this game, let alone trying to lead…

That’s what you get for playing on the zerg server where the organized guilds are actually full of players that are worse than the randoms.

If you’re losing money doing wvw, you’re really doing something wrong.