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Thank You

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Cheer up, it’s not the last patch guys. Not every nerf is the end of the world.

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WvW Season One Rewards Are Unacceptable

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In my opinion I did not feel like the rewards in anyway matched the effort put forth. Personally I was in a 3rd place server and received 8 greens, 0 rares, 0 exotics, 1 taste of WXP, 0 Jugs of WXP. I cannot see the reason why I would feel like grinding this hard next year. I’m not sure we will see any attention to this matter either. It has felt as though there is less catering to the player lately, but that perception could be incorrect being a possible reflection of my personal frustration in this matter.

Posts like this makes me wish there was no chest at all. WvW should never ever be about grinding for stupid PvE things.

Maybe the chest should just stay the same. Let people know this isn’t Frostgorge.

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Did Leagues actually even out the NA servers?

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There were winners and losers during, and leading upto the Season. BG, SoS, FA, Mag, SBI, YB, and AR were definitely winners. They got transfers from other servers and are on a upswing (don’t know for sure about AR, but they are out of the nosebleed seats).

SoR, DB, IoJ and Kain took a massive hit. Likewise TC is a shadow of it’s former self and is going on momentum and daytime coverage.

So I wouldn’t have called this a success. I would go as far as to say that it’s a mistake to see things as balanced outside of the T2,T3, and T4 zones.

Yes, but it’s a LOT more balanced than matchups determined in leagues.

That is a completely incorrect and nonsensical statement.

To the original post, no. League made things worse. Though leagues aside, things are always getting worse with server population. That’s the way the game pays.

Care to remind me of a week in the recent past where we had more than 4 tiers that were competitive? Or are you just choosing to ignore all of that and focus on your own matchup?

No but I don’t see how random match ups are going to provide more than 4 tiers that are competitive. It’s random.

I’m not ignoring facts and my match up is pretty good!

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Did Leagues actually even out the NA servers?

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There were winners and losers during, and leading upto the Season. BG, SoS, FA, Mag, SBI, YB, and AR were definitely winners. They got transfers from other servers and are on a upswing (don’t know for sure about AR, but they are out of the nosebleed seats).

SoR, DB, IoJ and Kain took a massive hit. Likewise TC is a shadow of it’s former self and is going on momentum and daytime coverage.

So I wouldn’t have called this a success. I would go as far as to say that it’s a mistake to see things as balanced outside of the T2,T3, and T4 zones.

Yes, but it’s a LOT more balanced than matchups determined in leagues.

That is a completely incorrect and nonsensical statement.

To the original post, no. League made things worse. Though leagues aside, things are always getting worse with server population. That’s the way the game pays.

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"Guild only!"

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Of course it’s allowed. Are you going to report everyone every time they aren’t cooperative? Learn to play around it.

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The NA Bronze League Thread

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Leagues are done, y’all. Stop fussing.

No, HoD tanked!

That league is over. If they tank for the next one, we can throw things at them again =)

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How do you think rangers fare in WvW?

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I think what would seem convincing that rangers are good is not stories from people who play them but stories from people who fight them.

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Stop stacking servers

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You could not force me back to GoM with a gun to my head.

That’s a really strong statement for a server you barely knew and had yet to find an identity. The first few months were pretty chaotic, don’t think any of those transfers counted for drama yet, hahaha.

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Conditions in WvW are OP and out of control

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What bugs me about condition builds (well, in general, I’m sure there’s some exceptions) is they’re incredibly strong for small scale fights but incredibly weak in large scale fights.

Like, I understand maybe utilities or even traits being better in some situations than others but entire equipment sets and builds becoming basically obsolete? What sort of balance is that? It’s goofy and not fun and I think that’s related to why people only stick to zergs. If that’s all your build is good for, after all, why do anything else?

You can’t even change out of builds easily or anything to justify this level of specialization, it’s very expensive.

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Gate of Rest/Eredon Madness/Devona's Terrace

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I think GoM’s main problems are that people don’t pay attention and general infighting. I don’t know if there’s any infighting, but both DR and ET seem to be more organized than GoM at times.

We don’t actually have any infighting. We’re a lovable people who loving about their server and we want it to be fun and healthy place for all our fellow server mates.

What I would say is we don’t have any organized WvW dedicated guild that fields more than 10 people. Most of our population is bring whatever build you want and follow the commander. No matter how far you go back this year, even when we had a lot of people, big guilds that know what they’re doing like Os could always flip our borderland while we’ve always struggled to do the same to other servers. On top of that much of our population is the PvE guilds that only showed up with the leagues and WvW for them isn’t a priority (and that’s still cool, I’m not looking to change anyone).

From people who have come from other places, I’ve heard that our pugs are exceptionally stubborn though so that’s also part of our charm, hehe. Too often I see people tunnel vision and they get flanked and wiped, baited and then rolled over, AoE’ed on walls, suicide rushing when they shouldn’t. We’ll start a defence against 20 people with 15 people and by the time the gate is down, there will only be 5 inside. We have too few commanders and many of the new ones are inexperienced but I’d say that commanding on this server is pretty tough too!

I love the server and the people on it and I think that means being frank sometimes. If you want to hear that we easily wipe 2-3 times our numbers and that everyone we fight has no skill, you can look for other posts.

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How do you explain the WvW reward?

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guys, look at teh bright side. Now all the PvE’ers know that WvW sucks for gold and rewards and we now get less PuGs and less queue time….

Imagine the queue time for season 2 if the rewards for season 1 was something like, an asceded armor chest? That would have ended WvW….

While I don’t think an ascended piece is warranted, I have to ask; How is a influx of people supposed to be the end of WvW? Are you on a T1 server perhaps?

Cause most servers need more people.

I’m not on a T1 but I can say that I completely agree here. We got a huge influx of people for leagues and it totally screwed with the overall feeling of world for me and making me hate any added type of achievements for it. Not to mention how much it disrupted our wvw community.

To comm: can we do x? I need it for the achieve. Pass a sentry more than half your group stopping to cap only to get wiped standing there by inc zerg just so they could get the tic for their achieve. Then yelling at the comm for not coming back to bail them out. Really there is a reason you don’t stop for sentries and that is one of them. PVE can keep their rewards, I don’t want them.

S2 anyone? No thanks.

How did your transfers from half a dozen different lower tier servers disrupt their WvW communities? The influx of people is important to those servers and that’s more important.

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Why is Renewed Focus not a meditate skill?

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I can’t believe this is a topic.

Every time a guardian stops to think on something, it doesn’t need to trigger monk’s focus.

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Forget WvW reward and move on...

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If you don’t make a stand for what you want you will never get it

Spoken like a true pve er. These rewards where for pve players more then wvw players. If your so censure with reward you realty should rethink playing wvw or any type of pvp game these type of games are more about build in reward of wining a week or beating a group or a person.

Spoken like someone that has plays only one character and doesn’t put down much siege in the guild.

There, now we’re all making weird assumptions about each other.

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Forget WvW reward and move on...

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I am rewarded enough every day from stomping zergs and making nerds rage quit. If that is not reward enough for you then maybe wvw isn’t for you. We all saw what the rewards were from the wvw rank up chest did you really expect anything different. I truly hope the people complaining about the rewards are not real wvw players and are the achievement hunters that came to wvw to make sure they got the rewards.

Considerin I have to pay for repairs, ascended gear, siege, upgrades, and consumables that are indexed to the incomes of PvE farmers I’d say ArenaNet is forcing this issue on us.

Nevermind trying to save up some gold to buy somethin nice.

Sure, it’s more than we ever got before for 7 weeks of WvW (that is we actually got some achievement points and a handful of chests) but I don’t think we’re gonna blow past any semblance of reason by askin “Maybe this could be better?”.

Though I would like to keep in mind that we got loot for doin WvW all this time as well. It’s not like this is the only thing we got.

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Reward Chest -> 7 greens?

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shrug More than we ever got before.

Ancient Karka was a 3 (?) hour PVE event and gave a lot more.

I meant in WvW.

Edit: Though now that you mention it, would have been nice to get more than the karka event.

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a stack of season 1 finishers

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I expected the finisher to stay until next season. Isn’t that how gold capes worked? You had to keep winning it?

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Reward Chest -> 7 greens?

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shrug More than we ever got before.

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The NA Bronze League Thread

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Taking our bets guys, taking our bets!

I’m going to be a selfish kitten though. Good luck everyone! I’m very excited for this week. Prove me wrong that we won’t win

1)HoD
2)FC
3)SF
4)DH
4)ET
5)Kain
6)GoM
7)DR
8)AR

Also, thanks for putting this together. Pretty Accurate imo.

Well, my predictions didn’t go as planned.. Honestly, a few surprises though. Kudos to AR and GoM. Both servers really well this season! I hope the momentum continues for you guys.

As for FC and ET.. I had more hopes for yah..

See some of you in the off season!

A lot of servers surprised me too! =)

Pretty happy with how the league turned out, honestly. I think we had the best league NA!

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The NA Bronze League Thread

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Compared to you four, there was hardly a whimper out of DR and even less out of Kain who just finished a rocket-sled ride from mid-silver to 7th in bronze. It amazes me that you guys pule in the forums every day for 7 weeks straight instead of using that energy to improve your servers. You get out what you put in I guess.

League is 7 weeks straight.

Gate of Madness, like any other server, works pretty hard at improving yourself and foo on you for putting that to the question. You’re free to list to all the things you’ve put in to make Henge of Denravi a success. Maybe you will be the amazing person who will teach us to make our servers the success yours is!

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The NA Bronze League Thread

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So what we learned from S1: be Silver league material, and intentionally get your WvW guilds to stop playing before season begins, allow your server to slip to Bronze even when you don’t belong there. When surprise!!! your coverage and numbers give you an easy win, make sure to beat your chest at your superior “skill”.

XD

I laughed. Ahaha, this is still going on.

Would be saying the same thing if NSP was here, or IoJ I presume.

League is still going on.

We wouldn’t say the same thing because IoJ and NSP didn’t tank.

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Frustrations and thoughts of a new player

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First rant, then advice.

Rant:

Only took two replies for someone from tier 1 to come in and tell him to transfer.

Two.

7 hour queues later, every topic is still a tier 1 recruitment topic but we still can’t tell people from tier 1 to get the kitten of their stacked servers.

Useful advice:

To defend against a handful of golems, cannons were the best call. Arrow carts and ballistas aren’t going to do it anything, nor is attacking from a wall, cannons will hit them pretty hard though. You might need to use the inner cannons after the outer ones go down.

Trebs behind doors would have countered the alphas but not the omegas because they hit for a ton of damage that can outrace the golems.

If they get in, you can use the NPCs to provide a lot of pressure. Unless they’re organized and well built, 5v1 isn’t impossible and having the lord and all the NPCs really help in that sort of fight.

Get to know people on your server or in your timezone! Roam a bunch, make friends. Two people on your friendlist would have made all the difference. It helps you become more effective, would help your server cover a gap, and it’s a lot more fun!

On that point, get in touch with your WvW community. Is there a TS that you could have asked help from? Was there anyone in EB that would have switched over if they knew?

Lastly my advice is don’t get married to keep upgrades. The keeps are designed to be flipped, not to sit at tier 3 impenetrable fortresses. Upgrades will help them defend better but, again, won’t make them invincible.

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Changing Guardian Renewed Focus?

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This is absolutely working as intended. The game wide rule (minus a bug or two that we are working on) is that once a skill has given you any of the benefits, canceling or interrupting that skill puts it on full cooldown. The alternative, in this case especially, is to be able to make yourself invulnerable for 2 seconds, cancel and then recast 4 seconds later which would be very broken.

Jon

Then wouldn’t it be more beneficial to players to just get the virtues at the start of Renewed Focus instead and ride out the invulnerability duration.

It might, however that is not the only consideration when creating a skill. In this particular instance the idea of refreshing virtues is powerful and we want you as a player to commit to this instead of casting and canceling right away. It is also flavorful in that you meditate for a few seconds to renew your focus not he other way around.

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Virtue recharge aside (for what that’s worth when you’re not traited in virtues), this elite is by far absolutely worse than regular utilities that do the same thing (make people invulnerable) on a number of levels (no stun breaker, shorter duration, longer cooldown, severely punished for doing a dodge roll).

I would consider it flavourful if it an elite skill wasn’t subpar to the utilities of just about every class.

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Do not let up HoD! Turn everything green before reset so they do not have the excuse to accuse us of tanking!

Spilled milk =(

I also liked the recap =)

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Remember to give thanks to everything that you have today, because there are many more people around the world out there that don’t have half the things you do.

Personally, I love me some honey baked ham but the best part about today, is I get to feast on the tears of my enemies. That’s right, its a delicacy so generously provided by both GoM and FC.

I just wanted to thank you GoM and FC for your selfless whining, without it we may have not had the opportunity to wash down our thanks giving feast with your oh so delicious liquid lamentations.

So remember everyone, when you sit down for thanksgiving today and you pour you a glass of Fergusons Madness tears, remember to give thanks. Many people had to cry on the forums for an extremely long time to provide a delicious beverage for you this day.

cough Not from the US cough

Was thankful last month! =)

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Ha! Hey FC, me thinks GoM struck a nerve. MU is focusing us. LOL. Hope you can make some use out of that fact. It great to see them angry. They make the best loot bags! XD

but seriously though, MU sucks and I hope your family dies in a fire.

What the kitten, Lime?!

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Oh noes, friction and sarcastic body movements. Put up or shut up. GvG us.

Your guild fields 20+, mine fielded 6 last reset night, including some people we recruited with less than 1k achievement points. You want to GvG us because of something said on the forum?

I think I will just shut up.

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Some of you from GoM should come on HoD for a week. Not only will we teach you how to WvW, we’ll teach you how to troll properly on the forums.

Despite how often I end up talking to trolls, I’m not looking to troll anyone. I do try to make sure this game is fun for everyone.

MU doesn’t have anything to teach.

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Look the infamous HoD zerg.. err wait that’s GoM…

<3 the emotes too, the best part was when they all ported and went back to Bay, we clearly outnumbered them.

You’re looking at pretty much the entirety of GoM’s WvW population compacted onto one map, and yet you STILL don’t have the outmanned buff.

Consider the following…
If you gather your servers entire WvW population into a single force, you may want to do something more useful than flip control points that do not directly earn points for the server and are capped as quickly with 1 person as they are with 5000 people.

Thanks for the tip. Here’s one for you: If you don’t hike up your skirt and bend yourself over a table to avoid a higher league, you might actually fight servers with large enough populations to give you fun and challenging matchups instead of going up against servers who keep themselves entertained by zerging empty bloodlust points and portal-bombing dolyaks.

Already discussed….

I want to address the comments that HoD doesn’t belong in bronze.

The first point I want to make is that the very concept of “belonging” to a league is artificial. ANet divided the servers up into arbitrary groups of 6/9/9 based on rank. Somebody is going to be number one in each league but who that is doesn’t mean anything since if they had done 12/12, 9/9/6, 9/6/9, or 6/6/6/6 then things would be radically different.

The second point I want to make is that the bottom silver server is Northern Silver Peaks. The last time HoD faced NSP was in week 31 and HoD was roflstomped. In fact, for the most part every bronze server that went up against NSP has been roflstomped for some time. If HoD had somehow snuck past NSP into silver then the same complaints about a server not “belonging” in bronze would still be made, they would just be aimed at NSP.

My third point is that the during league week 5, Sorrows Furnace lost to HoD by only 50k points. If HoD doesn’t belong in bronze then neither does SF because we’re pretty closely matched. (In league week 6 SF got crushed by over 140k but that’s not representative of the strength of the two servers because SF decided to take it easy that week).

Finally, in non-league weeks 35 through 41 HoD was ranked 18 and that was after slowly clawing its way up from rank 21. In the week immediately prior to the season HoD went up in rank to 17. Given the way Glicko ranking works it’s unlikely HoD could have done anything to jump higher than that.

I know WvW has serious population and coverage imbalances. Outside of this league stuff every server that isn’t Blackgate or Vizunah experiences it. There’s nothing anybody can do about that. All you can do is have good fights and keep improving yourself, your guild, and your server.

Here’s a big “/salute” to every FC and GoM that comes out and does their best in this tough fight. I’ll see you on the field.

And in what way does anything you’ve said have anything whatsoever to do with the point that it is foolish to have 30ish people capping a single ruin?

No, you should just stop to think about your question and learn why it’s bad on your own.

This makes no sense what so ever?

Spelled out for you…

Grouping up and helping your servermates finish up their WvW achievements during a blowout matchup isn’t foolish. It’s a common courtesy. A good majority of that blob in the photo are not experienced WvW players and it’s very difficult for them to hit the goals on their own while the Silver League Dodgers are stampeding around every map.

People cant stand on a cap point w/o you holding their hand?

I take it back. You never would have figured it out. You just wanna kitten with your guild.

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Look the infamous HoD zerg.. err wait that’s GoM…

<3 the emotes too, the best part was when they all ported and went back to Bay, we clearly outnumbered them.

You’re looking at pretty much the entirety of GoM’s WvW population compacted onto one map, and yet you STILL don’t have the outmanned buff.

Consider the following…
If you gather your servers entire WvW population into a single force, you may want to do something more useful than flip control points that do not directly earn points for the server and are capped as quickly with 1 person as they are with 5000 people.

Thanks for the tip. Here’s one for you: If you don’t hike up your skirt and bend yourself over a table to avoid a higher league, you might actually fight servers with large enough populations to give you fun and challenging matchups instead of going up against servers who keep themselves entertained by zerging empty bloodlust points and portal-bombing dolyaks.

Already discussed….

I want to address the comments that HoD doesn’t belong in bronze.

The first point I want to make is that the very concept of “belonging” to a league is artificial. ANet divided the servers up into arbitrary groups of 6/9/9 based on rank. Somebody is going to be number one in each league but who that is doesn’t mean anything since if they had done 12/12, 9/9/6, 9/6/9, or 6/6/6/6 then things would be radically different.

The second point I want to make is that the bottom silver server is Northern Silver Peaks. The last time HoD faced NSP was in week 31 and HoD was roflstomped. In fact, for the most part every bronze server that went up against NSP has been roflstomped for some time. If HoD had somehow snuck past NSP into silver then the same complaints about a server not “belonging” in bronze would still be made, they would just be aimed at NSP.

My third point is that the during league week 5, Sorrows Furnace lost to HoD by only 50k points. If HoD doesn’t belong in bronze then neither does SF because we’re pretty closely matched. (In league week 6 SF got crushed by over 140k but that’s not representative of the strength of the two servers because SF decided to take it easy that week).

Finally, in non-league weeks 35 through 41 HoD was ranked 18 and that was after slowly clawing its way up from rank 21. In the week immediately prior to the season HoD went up in rank to 17. Given the way Glicko ranking works it’s unlikely HoD could have done anything to jump higher than that.

I know WvW has serious population and coverage imbalances. Outside of this league stuff every server that isn’t Blackgate or Vizunah experiences it. There’s nothing anybody can do about that. All you can do is have good fights and keep improving yourself, your guild, and your server.

Here’s a big “/salute” to every FC and GoM that comes out and does their best in this tough fight. I’ll see you on the field.

And in what way does anything you’ve said have anything whatsoever to do with the point that it is foolish to have 30ish people capping a single ruin?

No, you should just stop to think about your question and learn why it’s bad on your own.

This makes no sense what so ever?

Spelled out for you…

Grouping up and helping your servermates finish up their WvW achievements during a blowout matchup isn’t foolish. It’s a common courtesy. A good majority of that blob in the photo are not experienced WvW players and it’s very difficult for them to hit the goals on their own while the Silver League Dodgers are stampeding around every map.

Makes sense to me.

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Injustice in Season 1

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“The best rewards should go to the bottom teams, to boost them!”

This sounds like my nephews Tee ball games where they don’t keep score because everyone is a winner… rofl

“2. Give the server the prize pool, and give each player with a key a share of the pool, So for example. BG: 1000G, split among 10k players, Mag, 850g, split among 300 players. (Totally made up numbers)”’

What is with “reward the bottom servers?”

In the tee ball league, can all the kids just sign up with the team that won last week and then show up to an empty field, wait 2 hours, then collect their prize?

No? Then I don’t think you appreciate how kittened up this situation is.

Right now the game rewards people for switching to winning teams. Giving incentives for people being on a bottom team helps spread the population around and only fixes the unbalance.

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World vs World (Anvil Rock [D])

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Here’s my guess at it:

WvW isn’t hosted on the same servers as that you’re playing. So Seafarer’s Rest borderland isn’t hosted on Seafarer’s Rest. There’s just a select bunch of servers (and less of them than the full server list) that also will host WvW matches and that’s what you see. Apparently whatever computer hosts Anvil Rock also hosts Seafarer’s Rest borderland matches.

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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its silly we have to beat GoM both times we play them just to end up tied with them for 4th. GoM has 4 easy weeks while FC has 1.

then if DH beats SF then they are 1-1 to each other, yet DH gets 2nd place because they only played HoD once instead of twice like SF.

the schedule is soooo lame. looking forward this season being over.

Hm, I didn’t think about that but that is a fair point. If you beat us twice, how come we finish tied? Doesn’t really make much sense.

Either way, unless the rewards are drastically different, you probably don’t lose out on anything. You guys will have shown you can beat us and whatever lame ranking ArenaNet has at the end isn’t gonna change that (like the Glicko rating never gave an accurate list of where the servers stand).

Since the league was kind of a breath of fresh air gettin our PvE and WvW players to integrate more, I am glad for it still (of course the downside was all the guilds that transferred due to the league but we were pretty much out of WvW guilds to transfer off).

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Look the infamous HoD zerg.. err wait that’s GoM…

<3 the emotes too, the best part was when they all ported and went back to Bay, we clearly outnumbered them.

You’re looking at pretty much the entirety of GoM’s WvW population compacted onto one map, and yet you STILL don’t have the outmanned buff.

Consider the following…
If you gather your servers entire WvW population into a single force, you may want to do something more useful than flip control points that do not directly earn points for the server and are capped as quickly with 1 person as they are with 5000 people.

Thanks for the tip. Here’s one for you: If you don’t hike up your skirt and bend yourself over a table to avoid a higher league, you might actually fight servers with large enough populations to give you fun and challenging matchups instead of going up against servers who keep themselves entertained by zerging empty bloodlust points and portal-bombing dolyaks.

Already discussed….

I want to address the comments that HoD doesn’t belong in bronze.

The first point I want to make is that the very concept of “belonging” to a league is artificial. ANet divided the servers up into arbitrary groups of 6/9/9 based on rank. Somebody is going to be number one in each league but who that is doesn’t mean anything since if they had done 12/12, 9/9/6, 9/6/9, or 6/6/6/6 then things would be radically different.

The second point I want to make is that the bottom silver server is Northern Silver Peaks. The last time HoD faced NSP was in week 31 and HoD was roflstomped. In fact, for the most part every bronze server that went up against NSP has been roflstomped for some time. If HoD had somehow snuck past NSP into silver then the same complaints about a server not “belonging” in bronze would still be made, they would just be aimed at NSP.

My third point is that the during league week 5, Sorrows Furnace lost to HoD by only 50k points. If HoD doesn’t belong in bronze then neither does SF because we’re pretty closely matched. (In league week 6 SF got crushed by over 140k but that’s not representative of the strength of the two servers because SF decided to take it easy that week).

Finally, in non-league weeks 35 through 41 HoD was ranked 18 and that was after slowly clawing its way up from rank 21. In the week immediately prior to the season HoD went up in rank to 17. Given the way Glicko ranking works it’s unlikely HoD could have done anything to jump higher than that.

I know WvW has serious population and coverage imbalances. Outside of this league stuff every server that isn’t Blackgate or Vizunah experiences it. There’s nothing anybody can do about that. All you can do is have good fights and keep improving yourself, your guild, and your server.

Here’s a big “/salute” to every FC and GoM that comes out and does their best in this tough fight. I’ll see you on the field.

And in what way does anything you’ve said have anything whatsoever to do with the point that it is foolish to have 30ish people capping a single ruin?

No, you should just stop to think about your question and learn why it’s bad on your own.

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Cancell week 7 please.

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I really believe week 7 will have too much of a negative impact on the losing servers. Not because they lost, but because they were completely facerolled.

Endure and in enduring grow strong.

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Sugestion for next season achievements

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I just posted I hope there isn’t another season. But, if there were I’m hoping achievements aren’t included at all.

Why not another season?

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Last time it was Wednesday morning when Ferguson’s Crossing over took us. Both were patch weeks too.

Righteous is just easily stirred up. =)

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Your “Oh snap!” in response to an event that is totally happenin like it totally happened last time =)

I’m saying that its surprising to see GoM and FC so near each other in score. I wonder who will be able to keep their forces out of fractals in into keeps and towers. The "Oh snap was like…

http://media0.giphy.com/media/1UO7QMDBhWgdW/200.gif

Stop being surprised by things that are happening like they happened last time!

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Additional reward for season 1

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I’m all for changing Blackgate’s name. We can let the whole of the WvW community decide what it is =)

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Last time it was Wednesday morning when Ferguson’s Crossing over took us. Both were patch weeks too.

Righteous is just easily stirred up. =)

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Your “Oh snap!” in response to an event that is totally happenin like it totally happened last time =)

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Last time it was Wednesday morning when Ferguson’s Crossing over took us. Both were patch weeks too.

Righteous is just easily stirred up. =)

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Qeue the death of GoM , i now realize that GoM suffers from PvE issues, I salute you brave warriors still fighting in GoM , I just took a look in your bl and in EB an dmy heart was broken :’/

We’re not dead. This is just who we are, hahaha. I give this match to Living Story.

reads patch notes Fractal progress account bound. gives evil eye to ArenaNet

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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I’ll just leave this here.

A lil’ harsh on Bllades, don’t ya think? He’s your server mate and all!

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Guardian Build: DEDICATED Support

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Not all WvW is Zerg vs Zerg.

With time you might end to this conclusion as well.

Without being an expert on big zerg fights, hard to imagine there isn’t a place for healing guardians there either.

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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Seriously HoD, you tanked on purpose to stay in Bronze league. You had to know you would take some flack for it. Just take your dolyak finisher and move on.

This.

How am I supposed to applaud 30 Henge of Denravi holding north camp against a server that they can reduce to +0 PPT if they didn’t even show any courage against the idea of being in silver league?

No one cares what league you’re in. We just want you to have fightin spirit and I am definitely gonna be on your case if you don’t (for 2 more weeks).

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Guardian Build: DEDICATED Support

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Boon duration is indeed capped at 100% (which makes the II trait in virtues really, really sad).

Healing power builds are great but I agree with Foofad, no need to take giver equips.

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[IoM] Erredon Terrace Transfering

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Sad to see this.

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Kill Someone get all their Gear?

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All these threads are like “I’m so incredibly awesome and want to take someone’s legendary with my incredibly awesome PvP skills”.

Well, I’m not awesome and apparently unlike anyone posting here, I die a lot. So I just want to say that I don’t play PvP so that I have to go out and PvE for equipment every time I die.

‘Cause that’s what worryin about drops is. Fiddlin with inventories, counting coins, dreamin about how you can +1 all your stats, it’s not killin or testin.

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The NA Bronze League Thread

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If current trends continue this looks like it will be Season One Bronze League at wrap up. Congratulations to all the winners, I think.

1st Henge of Denravi
2nd Sorrow’s Furnace
3nd Darkhaven
4th Gate of Madness
5th Ferguson’s Crossing
6th Anvil Rock
7th Kaineng
8th Devona’s Rest
9th Eredon Terrace

Second place will be decided next week (11/29 – 12/6) with Darkhaven facing off against Sorrows Furnace while Eredon Terrace gets a front row seat. It will be a lot of fun to watch it unfold. Last time these two servers faced off (Season 1, Week 1) SF won by only 40k points ( http://mos.millenium.org/na/wvw_seasons/index/115 ). Who has learned more this season? How does each server prepare to best the other? I, for one, wish [MU] was going to get in on that action next week.

I am so excited. Darkhaven has been preparing and organizing. Darkhaven is currently the underdog as everyone realizes, but don’t count us out yet! I also don’t think we’ve faced ET since the beginning of the season, so it will be good to see them again.

SF will certainly come out swinging with Cosa being the biggest punch. I look forward to seeing how DH brawls against the punches when the bragging rights of second place are on the line.

CoSA imploded.

Thank God we played SF before this since I never want to win because my opponent is not at 100%. And I believe SF gave us their all in week 4.

Who knows what this means for the week 7 match, probably not much. DH should not underestimate SF, i could see SF getting stronger as they played us for 2 weeks. Nonetheless I hope this is an even better nailbiter then DH’s earlier match. DH is the underdog, but that dosent matter if you want it bad enough.

That is probably best in my opinion for SF. A server is way better off with 5 organized guilds of 20 instead of one mega guild of 100.

People who join the former aren’t usually the ones that join the latter.

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HoD/FC/GoM : 11/22/2013 : Bronze Week 6

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RIP in pieces GoM.


We’re next, aren’t we HoD? ;_;

Hahaha, whatever, I only worry about fights I’m at =)

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The NA Bronze League Thread

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Season one was a boring failure

I get the impressions that leagues are better when you’re the middle of the pact. Gate of Madness has been lucky in that sense.

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Poll: Is Season 1 a disappointment?

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I feel like I’m going to miss it.

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