Guild Wars 2

the article does state that the Karka have impenetrable carapaces and the players need to find a way to kill them right? Ascended armour + Infusion probably is how you kill them, making them better than exotics in the ability to fight the new type of enemy.

Nothing in that article explicitly states that you will get better stats or bonuses against players. It’s likely a buff used to further progress in the dungeon as it does get harder as you get further in, or gives a buff against the Karka. It’s pretty much the same concept as in GW1, you needed Ascended armour to fight he Mursaat. It’s probably going to be the same deal with the Karka.

People need to stop reading too much into Press Releases from PR agencies. They are never 100% accurate and usually written to keep some of the content a surprise.

The achievement is supposed to fill out as you progress through the 4 acts. You cannot progress further in Act 1 alone.

Zonzai.2341:

I must have missed the people saying that the weapon skins were pay to win. One person said that the mad king’s costume was basically a pay to win for the costume brawl. Which after seeing some people dominating costume brawls using them, I totally agree with. That is pay to win.

The raptor tonic is just as powerful and can be recieved at random.

Radene.3194:

tkalamba.2541:

I focus on sPVP, and WVW. My goal isn’t skins but winning…..

Winning….what, exactly?

Something that will reset to square one the moment you walk out of it?

I’m sorry, but for me to see something as a “victory” that I have “won”, it needs to be a bit more permanent than that.

You mean you just can’t have fun?

What’s permanent in a virtual world? You aren’t going to get a trophy shipped to you or your name engraved in stone. Why put so much emphasis on “permanent” in a video game when nothing is permanent. You think you’d gain any notoriety? Not likely. There are people who are competitive because its fun. I don’t do it for any reward, I do it because competition is enjoyable. That is my goal and the goal of many others.

WvW currently does have server rankings, sure they aren’t visible in game but they’re there. Spvp is still being fleshed out and will have leaderboards and the like. If you really want permanent in a videogame, thats the closest you’ll ever get.

Hughs.6549:

No one says that skins give an advantage on others, but they’re the official main goal in gw2, like it or not : )

No they aren’t…..

That’s all dependant on how you play. I focus on sPVP, and WVW. My goal isn’t skins but winning…..

Considering there will be new content for years to come and whatnot, how do you know that the skins will be the only carrot on a stick you need? For alot of people, they want titles, map completion and obtaining legendaries (which tbh are more than a skin as they come with slightly higher stats), completing crafting and learning all the lore.

There are many goals for different people. Skins are the only ones.

“Let me see you use that crafty retort when instead of “Pay2Win” we say “Pay2GetBetterStuff”?”

Better stuff is still a matter of opinion. I got full Exotic armour from karma, and a set of exotic pistols that cost me 3 in game gold…. didnt cost me penny, and I am happy with my “Better Stuff”

Act 2 hasn’t even been unlocked yet, expect another update opening additional halloween content to continue the story.

Karadoth.8370:

To the people saying exotics aren’t meant to be handed to you easily or whatever, kindly compare the time investment with completeing the whole story to that of crafting an exotic.

Because I can easily get the mats for an exotic in the time it takes to do about two missions from the story, and easily hit max crafting level in the time it took to get about 3/4 of the way through the story at most. Its also a non repeatable reward, so would acount for a whole one exotic weapon.

There is literally no reason for it being merely rare and no reason to whine about people expecting it to be an exotic, this isn’t WoW where top stat loot is super hard to come by so stop acting like it, especially acting like its asking for something for nothing, its the reward for FINISHING THE kitten STORY.

It’s not like you didn’t get anything from doing each individual quest… I got plenty of reward from finish it, and in no way felt entitled to an Exotic. You get an individual reward for every single personal story quest you do….. how many rewards could you possibly want? I got rewards from finishing Arah, along with the drops, and get an extra weapon which is a rare? Why would anyone expect any more? I finished the story, got plenty of gear.

“I’ve already got what I wanted, six limited edition halloween item, and I only opened 21 chests. So I’m not saying this because I have the gimme-gimmes, but there really needs to be some guaranteed reward for supporting ANet by buying chests and keys. It doesn’t have to be these rare drop items, but there should be something within the chests as a consolation prize.”

Have you done the act 1 quest yet? The reward is a back piece, which is insanely easy to get at no cost… each act will have something similar… there’s your guaranteed reward…

The stats aren’t great on its own, but thats why transmutation stones exist.

I personally feel like I’m from the movie “Book of Eli” with it on.

Zoid.2568:

Ryuujin.8236:

Wait… they can transmute multiple items?

I don’t think they can. Would be the best to let them have multiplie uses IMO. There need to be something for all kinds of players..at the moment there only is Halloween weapons for the players that want to spend alot of money on gems and the three weapons you can buy with candy corn is only useable for 4 hours. When i played GW1 the Halloween events were better.

Or you know, you can get the quest items, like the backpiece you get for finding the 6 ghosts for act 1. We haven’t even seen what the rest of the acts offer… which are free may I add.

Blueroseknight.7954:

What / Where is the unique back piece?

Do the Quest where you find the 6 ghosts for act 1, you get a book which is a level 1 back piece. It is visible on you back when equipped like a backpack. I presume you will get similar items for each act.

I transmuted it onto my level 80 back piece I got from doing Personal Story.

I got my Fine transmutation stones for free from doing my monthly or daily, don’t remember which but I didn’t pay for them. Use them, Exotics were never meant to be handed to you on a silver platter. Rares are fine.

I plan on grabbing the pistol as most pistols in game look boring aside from Ruinmaker.

Walram.1945:

Shrapnel.7056:

Might i suggest killing monsters… They drop a ton of trick or treat bags. Needless to say, Candy corn is very easy to come by. Also you have to remember, there are 3 more updates for Halloween. Lots more to come.

Although this is true. I was not able to complete act 1, because I’m not a high level character. Aren’t these things supposed to be fun for everyone?

How am I going to complete the other acts if I can’t even complete act 1? And even if I could complete some of the acts to come, I’d still feel rather bummed out that I couldn’t complete all of the event.

Run with a cluster of people, there’s usually a ton of people who are doing each part of the quest. Ask nicely, and people will escort you. Run with a guild if anything. I was doing this with my guild lastnight, there were 12 of us on, some of them running lower level characters below level 20. Usually, there were more than enough level 80’s around to take care of any mobs in the way.

Exotics aren’t meant to be handed to you on a silver platter. Get the Rare, transmute it to your exotic. There, problem solved. It’s what I plan on doing with mine.

You guys could just wait for the next 3 acts and see what the quest rewards are. These technically are exactly what you are asking for, free skins for people participating.

Who cares about the skins in the BLC, there will be more with every holiday practically, and you don’t want to oversaturate a game with event items like this. No one is entitled to them, and if you don’t want to try and gamble to get them, then don’t.

gadenp.7586:

Hi Anet,
I would like to request for a set of weapon skin that is easier to obtain then the current Black Chest or Craftable Weapons/Skins.

If it would be possible to just sell a weapon skin out right in Gem story or have a lower crafting requirements weapons (that maybe look different then the higher end craftable) that would be great. They can be considered the lower set of rares from the event.

This would allow the majority of players to also come away with something from the event, even if we do not have the super rare version. Maybe make the current versions legendary and then insert a “normal” exotic version, that is hard to get but doable within this halloween event. Maybe this exotic version would need an ingredient from the BLTC that could cost a few bucks.

Please consider this. It gives the normal player a goal that we can work towards for this event, that is not so out of most player’s stratosphere.

Thanks and Regards.
PS: This is not a demand. This is a request that could benefit all involved. The hardcore grinder collectors get their super rare skin. The rest get our exotic skins. And Anet wins all round, via the Gems>gold exchange and BLTC.

We’ve only been given access to one act… which awards a unique back piece that can be transmuted to higher level gear…. let me add that it is visible, and I am currently rocking it on my level 80.

We don’t even know what the quest rewards are for the other 3 acts yet… which are quite obviously designed to reward players who don’t want to gamble for the rare weapon skins….

The quests are exactly what you are requesting, a way to get unique halloween skins that a normal player can do to receive… I don’t understand how this is so easily overlooked.

I love how some people complain about free content…. not like you paid for an expansion.

I for one love it, spend 2 hours farming candy corn, did the quest chain and roamed parts of the world I have yet to complete opening those trick or treat doors. The back piece you get, sure has crappy stats, but I just transmuted the skin to my non-visible level 80 backpiece, and I’m now rocking it. They made the reward accessible to all levels so why expect it to be anything spectacularly powerful.

If you actually struggled to figure out what to do, I think you’re playing the wrong genre of game.

ISteveI.9732:

Update:

CD had 58,252 total, 55 income, no orbs,
SoS had 92,415 total, 430 income, 2 orbs,
SoR had 93,491 total, 210 income, 1 orb.

The potential points keep exchanging lol

Good luck SOS / SOR / CD

Wow this is getting close again.. nice work SoS, keep us at SoR on our toes.

“3- Complacency. SoR’s past successes were built on a foundation of “Take and hold” as much as possible. We fought tooth and nail to keep our keeps and towers unless we knew they were doomed from the start.

Now however…with all these new guilds coming in, it’s become “Ah we’ll just retake it”. Filled with expensive siege and costly upgrades? No problem. We’ll just retake it…"

I haven’t really seen this, but I havent been able to get into WvW with queues as much.
This sprung up last week during our fight with Yaks and GoM. I was also saying the same thing, but it wasn’t so much complacency as it was trying to provide people with something to do than just police the map. It was Impossible at that point for anyone to catch up at that point. This week, with the new servers I haven’t seen any of it yet. I could just be missing it however.

Peetee.9406:

FractalChaos.6539:

Oheson.2319:

Hey SoR. It will be interesting to see how you fight when you don’t have 4 to 1 odds. At no time this week did we have even or even down 2 to 1 on every battle.

lol. But..but you guys are uber so you should be able to overcome.

I’m fully expecting SoR to come in 2nd in this matchup; by how many points I’m not sure. Then again, if we win I’m sure that once again- for the 5th week in a row now -the opposition will claim it was due to server transfers. It’s ok, I’m used to it by now.

I think we stand a decent chance at winning this matchup. Crystal Desert has a very small Oceanic presence and Sea of Sorrows has a small North American presence. I think we’ll walk into the matchup on equal footing perhaps us even with a slight advantage from having a bunch of unused siege from last week.

Either case, SoR has a decent Oceanic player base now. Hand plays exclusively in the early AMs as most of our members are Americans working on graveyard shift. When I’ve been on the last few days it hasn’t been too difficult to muster up the forces to retake our camps and towers in the early AM, worst case scenario we just try to hold what we have and we’ll be able to do that.

We also have KIWI from New Zealand that can play during our off hours.

FractalChaos.6539:

Oheson.2319:

Hey SoR. It will be interesting to see how you fight when you don’t have 4 to 1 odds. At no time this week did we have even or even down 2 to 1 on every battle.

lol. But..but you guys are uber so you should be able to overcome.

I’m fully expecting SoR to come in 2nd in this matchup; by how many points I’m not sure. Then again, if we win I’m sure that once again- for the 5th week in a row now -the opposition will claim it was due to server transfers. It’s ok, I’m used to it by now.

I expect it too as I feel many currently feel too confident from spawn camping. I do feel however, those that are getting a kick out of the spawn camping are from some of the bandwagon guilds.

Munki.9452:

I think people will stop suggesting that Transfers played a large part in your victory when you acknowledge that they had a definite role in it.

As far as I we see the situation over here on Yaks; Friday we came out strong and did very well. SoR started fighting back and were starting to make headway. Saturday, TW and a number of other ex-JQQ guilds transferred on to SoR. SoR gains almost full map control, as well as has superior numbers in most of the borderlands at this point. Night falls and the map gets swept up at that point. You ride your morale boost from your fantastic comeback (which no matter what you want to believe, your new guilds helped with!) while we are having to deal with the demoralization that occurs from losing such a large lead coupled with being outnumbered in EVERY map by this point (due to fair weather WvWers no longer queueing in).

Ultimately it doesn’t matter what really happened. SoR was a very strong server. They are now an even stronger server. I know you like to say that this is a familiar song and dance, that every other week you are accused of gaining transfers, etc etc. But the fact is, you got an infusion of T1 quality guilds at the start of this match, during a crucial time. NOTHING you can say is going to make your opponents feel better. If we got an infusion of T1 guilds too maybe we could have felt better about our loss. You absolutely could have won anyway… but we all got our spirit crushed because over the space of one weekend your server turned in to a MUCH better one than we faced last week.

No defense is going to be able to really change the perception other servers have of the matchup. It’s nice that you can be the winning server and preach on about how we shouldn’t have given up, etc etc. Despite you having good intentions in your advice, all it does is come off as preachy and pretentious.

No matter what you want to say, the ‘evidence’ is there to paint your win as something that came due to transfers, regardless of if it’s the truth or not. Unfortunately, Perception is a lot more powerful than truths that can’t be proven. In the end, this is just a roadbump in your servers rise to glory and I applaud the JQQ guilds for actually dispersing to other servers. I’m just sad my server was a casualty in this dispersion.

Many of us have acknowledged the transfers have contributed, but we also say its not the only reason. Alot of the bandwagon guilds that joined are hurting us more than helping as well. Sure TW helped, but its unfair to claim like many have they are the only reason for our success.

There are people wasting Siege golems to spawn camp? Oheson, can you tell us which guilds are seen doing it? I’m curious as to which groups are wasting the time and resources for this kind of stuff.

The entirety of the server is not responsible for this. In fact, some of us were actively trying to get people to abandon towers and let both servers gain some ground in the EB so that we could encourage more participation from all servers vs. just spawn camping.

It sort of worked for a bit for Yaks, they took a few towers to the north, but then some people got angry at the suggestion of letting Yaks gain some ground, and zerged back. (they felt that because people spent coin on upgrades, we should defend everything to the last man instead of trying to promote some fun in WvW). I actually angered a few people suggesting we hold back a bit.

SoR as a whole isn’t responsible for camping and the like. Many of us spent the time doing map completion and jumping puzzles. There are a select few who felt the need to inflate their egos a bit but we can’t control individual players on our server. I was even told I was growing overconfident when I suggested we let GoM and Yaks take their respective corners of the EB when we had a 250k point lead that technically wouldnt have been overcome in the amount of time left in the week.

You guys could have easily left your spawn using the other 2 exits, but a vast majority of players felt the need to run straight out to the awaiting campers. We can’t be blamed for players who couldn’t learn to, you know, use a different exit and not die like a lemming. I’m not defending the campers at all, just pointing out that theres 3 exits to the spawn, use them.

I give my respect to those guys from [OTG] on Yaks, they put up a good fight, and I saw them regularly for the short time I’ve actually spent in WvW. They were likely the most strategic of the bunch I saw.

tarnin.1690:

Jubelum.3472:

All this QQ about server transfers, zergs, spawn camping is really neither here nor there. SoR is winning this match for the simple reason that Yak’s and GoM gave up. That’s it, period. You could have mobilized and kept pushing even at a point disadvantage during the week, setting up a huge push towards the end which may have evened the score, but you chose not to. At the very beginning of the match Yak’s pulled a huge lead which SoR had to fight to win back, you could have fought us back, but you chose not to.

From what I’ve seen this whole week, SoR’s main WvW guilds and their leaders have taken a nice vacation, the queues for getting into borderlands has been pretty non-existent, there’s been nothing to do out there and no one to fight. SoR has been weak in the field, mostly full of PvE’rs looking to get their map completions, armchair generals pretending to be commanders while fighting the grub in EB. Even though we held the map I would categorize our WvW presence as merely a police force since we pulled ahead. With a little server leadership and some dignity there was ample opportunity for Yak’s and GoM to rise up and retake everything against a complacent opponent, you simply chose not to.

Why would we bother being farmed by your band wagon transfers when we can wait out the week and have a much better match up? Too bad you didnt have people to farm with your 4x sized zerg, im sure you will do much better this coming week.

Caps exist, and prevent this outnumbered stuff. The only reason our zerg is 4x larger is because of a total lack of you guys bothering to enter WvW. If you guys actually showed up, the numbers would end up even.

Munki.9452:

I wish SoR the best in T3… I truly hope you don’t start to run in to the same problems that many of the upper tiers run in to.

The only thing about this thread that irritates me is some of the attitudes some people have on display. People on SoR seem to get defensive and think that the other 2 servers think they only won due to the xfers… I don’t think many think that. What most of us DO think is that the magnitude and severity of your win WAS affected by the transfers.

If you fail to see that a group of top quality WvW guilds transferring in while you were down helped you immensely, I don’t know what to tell you. Could you have overcome the deficit you had without the transfers? Absolutely, you are a good server and it was totally within your power. Could Yaks have potentially made it a competitive game? Absolutely. We just won’t know. The simple fact is, from Friday to Sunday, you turned in to a T4 or 5 server in to a T3 or 2 server. I have nothing against the JQ refugees that transfered to SoR, you left your server for good reasons… I only hope you are as dedicated to your new server as you were to your old one before it became a mess.

It’s a huge letdown to me that we didn’t have another good match like last week, but unfortunately that’s just how the cookie crumbles. Overall, the JQ transfers are doing exactly what needs to be done. The problem is that as SoR becomes more dominant (or SoS, or Blackgate) the whole process will repeat again, until ANet does something about it.

The only thing that truly has me irritated is that I worry about the state of Yaks WvW force after this beating. Between fair weather guilds transferring off due tot he massive loss, to the potential of some of our commanders may have left, I hope we still have a decent group.

Long Story short; Good Job on your win SoR. Good luck in the upper tiers. I truly hope the state of WvW in the upper tiers doesn’t make you another HoD. /salute

Many of us acknowledge that transfers did help, especially with guys like TW. But we also stress they aren’t the sole reason as to why we are winning. Not all the guilds that came have been helpful and we sometimes feel the transfers are waaaay overstated. I think that’s why we’ve been getting defensive. There are individuals who imply that transfers are the only reason.

I hope you guys aren’t too down with this week and you see a resurgence in WvW activity. I wan’t to face you guys again on an equal footing in the future. You guys are worthy opponents and its a shame that things went the way they did. I’m sure, with the free transfers, you guys may have your chance with a population surge. The problem is, now we have all the Euro servers actively campaigning for guilds to jump with them. I think its time alot of the NA servers do the same in an attempt to balance populations across the board.

If we end up as red, which it looks like we will, I think there is a Champion Oakheart that spawns near one of the camps. I can’t remember since I haven’t seen it since Beta. I don’t remember it spawning as frequently as the grub.

vvp.8512:

just wish more SoR would kill the grub after the transition from army to cop became clear earlier in the week. need to stock up on siege for next week.

It’s funny, we have more guys on the grub when we’re behind, or trying to hold a close lead and we really could use the man power, than when have a significant lead and we can afford to waste time one a champion mob.

Thundar.3910:

tkalamba.2541:

Thundar.3910:

tkalamba.2541:

Kanji Maki.1695:

TW video above shows good tactics, to break aggro to heal is one everyone can learn from, your not doing your team much good in downed state. Some good tactical books for study: the Bible, U.S. army ranger hand book, Combat Techniques is the modern spec ops basic hand book. My favorite is “How to win on the battlefield” it shows 25 key tactics from history why and how they worked so well.

Out of curiosity how does the Bible help with tactics? I don’t recall ever seeing it referenced for tactics. Just asking for clarification.

I think the only book about 80% of the people I’ve seen on your server have read is “How to Zerg by Zergy McZergienstien”

They only zerg as there is absolutely nothing left for them to do, its either run around as a mass pack killing champion mobs, or spawn camping really. Normally we’re semi-organized, but this week hasn’t really allowed for much to go on. If the enemy only holds a handful of points (usually 1 or 2) what do you expect them to do? trickle in one by one?

I would expect them to understand satire.

lol I understood, but still felt the need to try and clarify all the zerging for anyone else reading these forums.

If there was a book on zerging, most of our players at this point probably have read it.

Kanji Maki.1695:

Sound tactics can be used anywhere even the principals can be applied to non combat situations. More literally though the old testament has lots of wars in it with very good details of most battles.

HC! I remember you guys, we did a 7 man keep take with you guys, though I think you did most of it and USA came to help finish.

Haha, we do what we can with a small group.

Thundar.3910:

tkalamba.2541:

Kanji Maki.1695:

TW video above shows good tactics, to break aggro to heal is one everyone can learn from, your not doing your team much good in downed state. Some good tactical books for study: the Bible, U.S. army ranger hand book, Combat Techniques is the modern spec ops basic hand book. My favorite is “How to win on the battlefield” it shows 25 key tactics from history why and how they worked so well.

Out of curiosity how does the Bible help with tactics? I don’t recall ever seeing it referenced for tactics. Just asking for clarification.

I think the only book about 80% of the people I’ve seen on your server have read is “How to Zerg by Zergy McZergienstien”

They only zerg as there is absolutely nothing left for them to do, its either run around as a mass pack killing champion mobs, or spawn camping really. Normally we’re semi-organized, but this week hasn’t really allowed for much to go on. If the enemy only holds a handful of points (usually 1 or 2) what do you expect them to do? trickle in one by one?

SmokeyNYY.7841:

SoS is going to stomp us to be honest unless SoR somehow got a huge Oceanic crew. If we don’t have the new matchup will be no fun.

Probably, but should make for an interesting week.

Kanji Maki.1695:

TW video above shows good tactics, to break aggro to heal is one everyone can learn from, your not doing your team much good in downed state. Some good tactical books for study: the Bible, U.S. army ranger hand book, Combat Techniques is the modern spec ops basic hand book. My favorite is “How to win on the battlefield” it shows 25 key tactics from history why and how they worked so well.

Out of curiosity how does the Bible help with tactics? I don’t recall ever seeing it referenced for tactics. Just asking for clarification.

etsmith.9025:

TSoR won the match with a stacked deck. Anyone who tries deny that fact is being delusional. The pure arrogance thinking your win revolves around the servers determination and “skill” shows just how unprepared your server is to for the higher teirs. The ques will jump just as JQ did and once again those “pro” guilds that can’t get their zerg groups into games will jump to another server and start the process over again. It is a vicious circle.

Whether you would have won or lost this game prior to the other guilds joining is a moot point. Time will be the deciding factor how long they stay.

We don’t think this win revolved anything close to skill.

Our other wins did. We won all those without transfers. The only real reason we’re even skipping a tier is because we have been pretty uncontested. When the opposing servers don’t show up, we have a constant point gain which throws our score out of balance.

FractalChaos.6539:

“…Alot of the bandwagon guilds aren’t really contributing to our WvW efforts. The reality is they are still a somewhat small drop in the bucket when compared to our larger, more active original guilds. There are a few exceptions, but the bandwagoners serve more to tie up queue times than anything else. I mean this strictly in terms of actual contribution, and not just populating a zerg…”

Never mind, Lord Lefteris. No matter what you say, people will simply not accept that they lost because they were outplayed. No, it was the fact that SoR had 900 people in every borderland to their 20 (even if WvW server cap mechanics make that completely impossible).

I posted in the other matchup thread asking if people honestly thought that SoR had won our last 3 matchups each time because of server transfers which came along and reversed the tide of battle; the popular opinion seemed to be yes, we’d won our last 3 matchups due to server transfers. Well I’m personally tired of apologizing for being good.

“You have more people than us” isn’t the same as “Less of us are logging in than you”. Even if our server had 75,000 players and yours had 2000, Yaks, you could still outnumber us if more of you logged in to WvW. It’s as simple as that.

Server population doesn’t matter; server participation does. Work on it.

That’s a point I’ve been pushing aswell but gave up on it. People refuse to accept it.

tarnin.1690:

Paljas.2581:

Next week shouldn’t be a problem for SoR. Our players are amongst the most skilled pvpers out there so I’m looking forward to dominate again coming week.

Until they transfer again because of “high queue times” Enjoy the bandwagon while you have it, you will be back down here with us Yaks soon enough.

Alot of the bandwagon guilds aren’t really contributing to our WvW efforts. The reality is they are still a somewhat small drop in the bucket when compared to our larger, more active original guilds. There are a few exceptions, but the bandwagoners serve more to tie up queue times than anything else. I mean this strictly in terms of actual contribution, and not just populating a zerg.

Corpus.5347:

I agree that the spawn camping is lame. Spawn camping with siege is even worse. WvWvW is my main reason for playing this game. being locked out of it sucks. I havent even been in it this week, pretty kitten anxious for this reset to happen as well. I hope everyone has a better matchup.

Spawn camping, while it is lame, can be countered/avoided. There’s a reason why every starting area has 3 exits, it gets difficult to camp all 3. The people being spawn camped need to learn to use the alternative exits. I see it on Rall all the time, all the side exits are always ignored. Rarely are they used. Everyone’s inclination is to run straight out the front gate, hence why camping has become so effective. While I do see occasionally someone uses the side exits, it is very very uncommon.

Haroshia.9358:

Alright SoR, be ready to rock and roll tonight. This next week is our week to show that our dominance wasn’t unearned. We will be competing in a higher tier, and will have to step our games up to show it.

Let’s kick some butt.

I think It’ll end up being a tougher fight than many will have anticipated. I do hope we can prove we’re as tough as the competition.

On the plus side, we’ll finally not be blue, and will likely end up fighting as red. A new starting area in the EB would be pretty refreshing.

I’d be interested to see how we’d hold against a higher tier server. I wouldn’t mind a loss really if we could learn a thing or two.

Yaks Bend could use some help, try to go for servers not winning this week. You’d want to balance the population.

Gates of Madness is also a good choice

We’re facing both these servers, and they are underrepresented at WvW. Look at any of the server match ups, most of them are the same, go to servers that need numbers, not the winning guys.

I believe Krapuul is correct. There aren’t imbalances based on server caps. Everyone can field the same number of combatants. The problem is in the number of willing players who will actually enter, and cooperate.

All those AFK-ers and whatnot are eating valuable space and ruining your servers chance at winning for instance.

When an event ends, you have about 30 seconds to port in before the waypoint becomes contested again. What he is saying is, when the timer hits 1:30, run to a camp to grab supply, and port back as soon as that event expires. You have a small window, so the idea is to time it properly.

FractalChaos.6539:

tkalamba.2541:

I just wish my guys at [HC] High Council had more representation, We’ve been on Rall for quite some time, but don’t have the numbers of alot of other guys.

we dont get noticed lol

Maybe not as a guild, but I certainly pay heed whenever Lord Lefteris has anything tol say in chat.

I need a shiny commander icon lol

Pooka.3420:

Greetings Enemy and Friend,

Team Pooka will be playing today. Please sharpen your axes and swords. Supplies will be flowing and we shall gain points for Yaks Bend.

<3

Greetings, and best of luck to you guys. I mean it, I want to see guys like you fighting, not because we’re bored, but because I strongly think it will serve Yaks better having a guild out there who’s not willing to give up. Best of luck to you and see you on the battlefield my foes.

BTW, theres a guild over on reddit looking to possibly move 30 members to another server, http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/11mjw7/we_need_a_home_us/

Not sure where they are coming from, but it would be a good chance to try and attract people and balance out the population issues. I’d rather them not join Rall, just because we already have too many guys who jumped to us.

I just wish my guys at [HC] High Council had more representation, We’ve been on Rall for quite some time, but don’t have the numbers of alot of other guys.

we dont get noticed lol

titanlectro.5029:

Everyone keeps saying that GoM has no motivation to play, but I had more fun last night than I have all week.

Four guildies and I ran around the SoR BL, capping supply points, road guards, and killing dolyaks. Of course, the overwhelming SoR zerg came by to recap everything, but they never caught us. We we got a ton of XP/Karma/Gold, and also a surprising amount of badges from overconfident players who thought they would win just because they owned the map. We certainly didn’t turn the tide of the battle, in fact we probably did SoR a favor by giving them something to do. But we definitely had a LOT of fun, and got rewarded for it.

Thanks for the great time SoR, I hope we made it a little more interesting for you.

Glad to hear your still enjoying things. If more people ran around like you and your buddies, things may not be the same. Unfortunately, it may be too late to flip the scores, but you guys could technically still close the gap a bit and take 2nd.

FuzzyStarburst.3071:

Let’s get a few things straight with a bit of a history of the past few weeks.

Sanctum of Rall was fighting Darkhaven and Sorrow’s Furnace. The match was semi-close by around Sunday, but Darkhaven had a sizeable lead. There were a few hacks on Darkhaven’s side, including two orb hacks. I’m not blaming the server, who I am GREATLY anticipating a rematch with, but the individuals who did so. However, at the time, we did blame the server and we were FURIOUS. EPIC proceeded to focus all their attention on Darkhaven’s Borderland. During the night, they would withdraw into their keep there, Etheron Hills, and keep that foothold for the day fighters to come into. Meanwhile, several guilds such as HF, focused on the homefront. It was our orb that was hacked first. In that week, we learned more about WvW and working together as a community than I thought we ever would.

The first decent sized guild to transfer in was CDS, for our battle against Northern Shiverpeaks and Yak’s Bend. They came from SI, if I recall. They were a great team, and helped us tremendously in SoR Borderlands. I can’t say that we would have won that match without them, but I think we may have managed. They are an amazing guild, but only one guild, and one guild that only fields at best 20 people at a time. Enough to change a map.

Going into this week, CDS and LUN were the only transfers we had so far. Friday night, things were incredibly close. I believe, and I could be wrong, that some people on Yak’s coordinated to get the orbs and hold them at all costs. They accomplished this goal. From last week, I noticed a few guilds on Yak’s that were among the best, and I saw all of them in Ascension Bay Friday night. It seems obvious, though possibly coincidental, that Yak’s decided we were the stronger opponent, and decided to shut us down in our borderland. And they did. Remember guys, Yak’s had everything in WvW Saturday morning. I checked WvW before I went to work, 19 hours after WvW started, and Yak’s still held the advantage.

Now, here’s the thing. Last match came down to the wire. It came to SoR’s best guilds coordinating in shifts, essentially, to defend through the night so we could take and hold the lead. None of these guilds were new on that day. People were NOT the change, but determination. We coordinated defenses together and worked in shifts. We played morale games to reduce our enemies’ presence. And these strategies worked.

Now, back to this week’s match. Those same people were exhausted Friday night. [HF], my own guild, had a showing of less than 10 people. The coordination amongst those who were actually online was a bunch of sleepy voices and confusion, because GOD were we tired. We had a new face at this time, and I believe it was the guild VIG.
So we rested Friday, and we came back Saturday. The last bastion of Yak’s power Saturday night was Ascension Bay, in the Sanctum of Rall borderlands. The best guilds I know of on Yak’s were there defending it, and MAN were they good. I have never seen anyone defend AB so well. Most SoR commanders and guild leaders, myself included, consider it a second rate target due to how hard it is to defend. But Saturday night, their focus was there, and we took everything else from them. But they defended on. And then Yak’s morale broke. Who cares that they were holding AB against the absolute best SoR had to offer? SoR was so frustrated trying to take that keep, failing every strategy we could think of. But Yak’s zerg didn’t consider that. They saw Yak’s down, and so they left, and then, without new reinforcements, the numbers dwindled. At around 2 or so in the morning, AB broke, and we took it from a paltry defense of 20.

TL;DR? Yak’s morale broke. Not the morale of its guilds, but of its zerg. They proved great skill and numbers Friday, but without the help of the two new JQ guilds(welcome to the server guys!), we were able to break AB due to nothing but pure, indeniable, unstoppable determination. Stop blaming transfers and numbers, the numbers are the problem NOW. Blame morale. SoR’s power is in its determination and coordination between guilds, not numbers, and not some all powerful guild.

To prove a small part of this story, here is a score history starting from 12PM EU time(not sure which exact time zone) on Sunday. It shows our climb up from the point at which we passed Yak’s, showing that we passed Yak’s Saturday night, about 5-10 hours before this graph shows, and not Saturday morning.

I think VIG has been around for a couple weeks to tell you the truth

vvp.8512:

Thanks for the info on the bots. If any SOR player is bored please consider murdering them as well. (Mara, use your Commander Icon to murder bots all day, for instance)

This is exactly how it happened lastnight,

a commander saw the orange swords and decided to see what was happening, when we arrived, we saw a massive train of bots running around killing skritt. We stood in their path and spammed AOE on them.

Mikitten058:

For all servers:

GoM/SoR
Check the skritt, in YB BL, however beware, there’s a specific guild from YB who has 1-2members who are not afk and will watch the 10-20 player bot train. (Still easy kills, ect…)

This here is partially why Yaks is suffering. I’ve seen these, and they easily outnumber any bots we have on SoR. They are eating up slots and reducing the overall size of your fighting force.