Guild Wars 2

covenn.7165:

Mikitten058:

Many guilds have actually been taking the time to look and see what servers have what gaps in coverage prior to leaving their home server. Which is something many didnt do prior to the announcement for the 28th.

Yeah. that is good for self balancing ourselves too.

I would love to have nearly every tier competitive week to week.

This is why SF chose JQ over anyone else. They went for a competitive server with the need for NA guilds vs going to an NA heavy server.

I’m a little worries about the next few weeks. With so much movement between servers, I foresee alot of turbulence across the board in WvW. It’ll be a bit until we see things balance out, but I expect alot of servers to move around in rankings.

It’s going to be an interesting couple of weeks.

Burl.9567:

Iohanna.4863:

I have a wonder: if Sanctum of Rall enters T1, we would have 4 Tier 1 capable servers.

Does that mean us in T2 will always have a benched T1 server dominating us?

I hope not….this happened back when the game first launched with HoD, JQ, SBI, and ET(?). It was terrible for the tier 2 servers and the odd tier 1 server left to drop to tier 2. There was no fun in any of that. I’d rather have 6 tier one servers all capable of winning each and every week.

There are still alot of capable servers making their way up the ladder.

Kaineng looks like it may actually be a contender sooner than later. There’s been a lot of movement, and not just in the top two tiers.

Fort Aspenwood looks like it gained quite a few guilds

AVTR, uA, SHED, WvW/CREW, DPS, FIST, Daze, UM, FUNZ all moved to FA

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/16rdd6/lets_talk_world_transfers_na_edition/c7z25ec

There are also alot of guilds still deciding where to go.

Welcome to the club Synapse, glad to see some new faces to help keep what we gain during the NA prime time.

Sins Vorkag.5218:

Wut we be havin’ be a particular set o’ skills. Skills o’ RPin’ tha have been collected o’er a lifetime o’ MMO’s. Ye can find us in Queensdale ‘n ye can find us in WvW. If’n ye do find us we shall be talkin’ funny. We shall be talkin’ ‘n emotes. Some even be talkin’ ‘n peerat speek. We be havin’ RPers but we shall also be fightin’ ye mudderless dogs wit ar last breath. Fer tha Toast!

Arrrrr!

I kinda read this like it was from Taken

Lavath.8924:

Wait.. TC is an RP server? This game has those? o.O

Haha yes it is, kinda shocking no? They RP, and can WvW.

You’ll probably find lots of zerging across the board. But most of the T1/T2 also employ small team tactics. Small havoc squads of 3-5 players causing mayhem while the main force does it’s thing. I would suggest possible Storm Bluff Isle, or Tarnished Coast, and would suggest not joining servers currently winning their matchups.

Do not discount TC as only a RP server. I’ve been facing them for a couple of weeks now, and they put up a solid fight in WvW. They’re competitive, and capable as a server, and it has truly been fun facing them.

Consider them, even if RP isn’t your thing.

Lauren.3061:

Sergo.2867:

I have to agree with Lauren. (Hi, Nora!) Our commanders generally bring a great sense of direction to a bunch of do-your-own-thing free spirited roleplayers!

Hey Kiera! =) They really do, and I just hope they’re not all taking a bunch of undue criticism when a huge majority of them are working insanely hard.

EasymodeX.4062:

Hate spam to commanders is completely kittening kitten unless the commander is 120% pure terribad and auto-losing the map.

I want to punch people that don’t respect the burden comms shoulder when they actually put forth an effort.

Yeah I completely agree, and this was totally not the case. Just a rough patch when we went from peacefully escorting yaks around our 100% red map and checking upgrades and siege to fending off attacks from both sides sweeping our holdings with frightening speed. Sometimes these shifts happen and given the coverage we have (this was during EU prime time, roughly 2PM or so EST) there’s not much that can be done.

Regardless, thank you again to my wonderful TC commanders. <3

And to briefly say – I don’t think it’s fair to blame SoR for recruiting guilds looking to move from struggling servers. If I were in such a position, I’d want to be on a server with successful WvW guilds too. Though I am wincing imagining the pain this is going to cause for next matchup… something tells me the trench coat is going to take a serious beating… =)

I’ve seen some rumblings of players moving over to you guys from EU> Nothing huge, but people view you as the official RP server, and good at WvW so some people want in the fun.

This does come from observations more than anything, so it may not lead anywhere, but I’d be willing to bet you should see some movement into TC aswell.

Hills.6894:

covenn.7165:

Hills.6894:

covenn.7165:

The big fail in Hill’s logic heh.

Also 5th place isn’t winning. 1st is.

Do you understand the rating system?

Yes completely do you? Anyways, I wasn’t referring to the rating system with the second part of my comment.

Also, I was referring to the silliness and general inaccuracy of your whine/rant post in the first.

Enough clarification for you, or do I need to get elementary?

Please do get elementary. I have some time. Enlighten me.

I’d rather we drop the whole thing, this thread will get closed otherwise, and I’d rather keep constructive conversations going vs. bicker back and forth.

rchu.8945:

Sunspots.9861:

Welcome to T2 [Hel], or I guess the new T2 since you were previously here i guess? I hope you are ready for lots of zombie attacks ;P I expect all tiers to be crazy until the 28th, then a couple weeks as the system rights itself, but the one good thing about an opponent with a huge lead is there is more time for Yak parades, dueling, and other hyjinx. If you can’t be gracious during defeat, you will never truly savor victory! And anyways, its still a pretty close matchup for second!

I agree, I dont think SoR will be the only server in tier 2 to be affected by the paid transfer announcement. Hopefully all 3 servers will get some transfers for even tighter competition after each reset.

SoS just got Never Die from IoJ recently. There is movement, and plenty of it will happen the closer to the 28th we get.

vapor.3916:

I have to tell you all, we came from IOJ, a server thats taking its last breath. We had offers to go to kaening, BG and others. We have a rep from being formally Totn. sanc etc.

We selected SoR because of the community on this server. They approached us to come over, we didnt approach them. They made a great pitch, we sat here on the server for a day with 2nd accounts watching the communication, the TS servers etc.

We put the vote to our guild, with all the offers we had and the guild vote was 100% to come here. It had nothing to do with placement or score. It was the best choice and best offer to us.

Bandwagon fans per say are those who just make a leap because someone or a team is winning, there is no thought behind it. We made a decision after emails and long talks with SoR.

We have made the best decision for us, sadly not so much for the rest of you

Be warned Hel is coming.
~Isaak
Hel(Helioz)
Commander

Welcome to the club

covenn.7165:

tkalamba.2541:

Aieo.2815:

What? When we fought SoR, we both have queues on all 4 maps during NA prime. Don’t tell me SoR lost players when BG dropped.

We lost players during the fight with BG as it went on for 9 weeks. People got tired.

We’ve had a resurgence with the new match up.

Oh, I didnt see your post. Thats what he was responding to.

I was responding to him, just much less detail than you lmao

Aieo.2815:

What? When we fought SoR, we both have queues on all 4 maps during NA prime. Don’t tell me SoR lost players when BG dropped.

We lost players during the fight with BG as it went on for 9 weeks. People got tired.

We’ve had a resurgence with the new match up.

Sergo.2867:

I have to agree with Lauren. (Hi, Nora!) Our commanders generally bring a great sense of direction to a bunch of do-your-own-thing free spirited roleplayers!

I’d imagine you guys get some headbutting in that case.

Caelib.2497:

Tyaen.5148:

In honor of our position change next week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbCI68eSNsA

Ugh … I don’t want to be green! That’s going to throw off everything for me! We’ve been blue for so long!

SIDE NOTE: holy quadruple-queue time lastnight! I gave up after an hour and a half … haven’t seen queue times like this on a weeknight in a long, long time. Did SoR get a bunch of bandwagoners?

I’ve noticed an influx of newer players being upleveled to 80.

Probably has alot to do with it. The Holidays weren’t too long ago, so alot of people got the game, but avoided WvW due to how intimidating it can be to new players. Especially when we fought BG for 9 weeks, and couldn’t win.

There are a crap ton new small guilds around, but all of them seem to be the same as above. Just new players who’ve gotten together. I’ve even had to explain WvW concepts to people again, something that hasn’t had to be done for a while now.

Hey,

check out this thread for all the guilds on SoR

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Sanctum-of-Rall-needs-you/page/2#post1221721

Hoots.9564:

The Great wall of Rall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCmM9zkittenM

25 rams stopping sbi from there tower

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Minoru.1237:

tkalamba.2541:

Lanthrudar.1437:

tkalamba.2541:

Phoenixfudge.5290:

I see…

Those guilds made the right choice xD. One upside of this is having the luxury of SM waypoint. Seems like I hadn’t been able to use that in ages.

One of the guilds actually came down a tier too.

Did they come from BG?

JQ actually lol

What guild transferred from JQ? Didn’t JQ already lose tw to sor?

Can’t remember the name, I think Syndicate

covenn.7165:

..and an additional one for full effect

LOL what? this is awesome

Lanthrudar.1437:

tkalamba.2541:

Phoenixfudge.5290:

I see…

Those guilds made the right choice xD. One upside of this is having the luxury of SM waypoint. Seems like I hadn’t been able to use that in ages.

One of the guilds actually came down a tier too.

Did they come from BG?

JQ actually lol

Phoenixfudge.5290:

I see…

Those guilds made the right choice xD. One upside of this is having the luxury of SM waypoint. Seems like I hadn’t been able to use that in ages.

One of the guilds actually came down a tier too.

Phoenixfudge.5290:

I am actually kinda disappointed that we are wrecking and in 1st place now because we have bigger queues at all times.

wtf happened? There’s usually never a queue at 3am pst. If we had this much coverage before, it would have been SoR going to T1 instead of BG. Did we have a sudden bandwagon come our way?

Not really bandwagon. We’ve been in talks with some guilds for a while. Some have finally switched. We’ve had two new comers who have helped fill the gap in late night coverage.

I should add that free transfers end on the 28th, so some guilds have started making their moves already.

Look at the names, You will see Sanctum of Rall invader or Storm Bluff Isle Invader.

We all come up with red names, but there are 2 other servers out there.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guesting-is-coming/

It’s official. Guesting is coming on the 28th, with paid transfers kicking in at that time.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guesting-is-coming/

It’s official. Guesting is coming on the 28th, with paid transfers kicking in at that time.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guesting-is-coming/

It’s official. Guesting is coming on the 28th, with paid transfers kicking in at that time.

Judas.5432:

tkalamba.2541:

We take alot of pride in it. We even /shout Choo Choo! when charging into battle

Now if you were all naked war-painted Norns…..

This just gave me a pretty bizarre image in my mind. Basically a mix of Braveheart and Thomas the Tank Engine….. Not sure how that even works.

split.3659:

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SBI seems to be aiming to close the point gap. They may soon overtake TC.

Ubi.4136:

My post was mostly with regards to people flock to who is first in a tier. No mention of the new SoR guilds, as I read what had been said, they were already planning on joining, so good timing for them, and hopefully it helps round out SoR’s great play and improves their coverage.

What I was really wondering, which is why I posted what I did, is how long it will take certain BG guilds to jump to another server, who is first in their tier, whether it is T1, 2, 3, etc.

There are a few guilds, that used to be on TC, FA and CD that I’ve seen on BG before the upward move, that bandwagoned (imo) so I posted wondering how long it would be before they moved on.

To be honest, I’m wondering the same. We at SoR were a victim of this with ND jumping to BG. I’m wondering if they’ll try to jump back at some point. I predict that if BG can’t gain ground over a few weeks we may see some movement from T1 to other tiers before the paid transfers kick in. This may not be limited to BG, SOS and JQ will be just as likely to bleed a few players who want a bit of a challenge.

style.6173:

oltouch.2913:

ughh, so Sor just got a guild in it with 9 commanders. Why dont you guys transfer over to 2nd or 3rd place servers -_-

Wait, there are guilds in SoR besides Choo? jk. I do give Choo props for having the best guild name I’ve seen.

We take alot of pride in it. We even /shout Choo Choo! when charging into battle

oltouch.2913:

edited to clarify… Meant shouldn’t have transferred to, what it looks like, strongest server in this tier.

Don’t worry I know what you meant, was just bugging you. I tend to do that sometimes.

oltouch.2913:

ughh, so Sor just got a guild in it with 9 commanders. Why dont you guys transfer over to 2nd or 3rd place servers -_-

Because SoR is currently 5th? :p

We just got two new guilds to join us at SoR who are helping fill our Oceanic coverage. Come join them, you wont have to worry about being alone

the “Guild” in Guildwars has nothing to do with ingame guilds….

The Guild wars were a series of wars being fought in Tyria’s past.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Guild_Wars

The wars only ended due to the Char hostilities on Ascalon.

I think you may need to understand WvW a bit more.

I’ll try and help you with some of your points, and will likely miss some points, but you should understand that this is not the same as in other games.

- Mounts: There are none, will not be any, atleast not in the near future and I’m pretty sure Anet is against them. What there is though, are movement skills which will give increase movement speed, and waypoints. Waypoints need to be purchases as upgrades at keeps, so they need to be worked towards as a server.

-Keep Defence: There’s defensive siege for a reason, and in your case, switching to a ranged weapon like the rifle is likely a must for both Keep Defence and Offense. There’s a reason as to why weapon swapping exists. You shouldn’t expect to run to a wall with a sword and expect to survive, and you should not expect to do so alone.

- Lvl 80: you get uplevelled to 80 in WvW. Everyone does by default. This eliminates the need for tiered system, and allows for a maximum amount of players for WvW as it does rely on large server populations. You will get the stats of a level 80 character, just not the skills. I’ve leveled my alt exclusively in WvW (with some assistance from crafting) so you shouldn’t be having issues with your Warrior (which may I add is incredibly useful in WVW and easy to play) Don’t worry about being a burden, the experienced players will help you learn usually, and if you don’t know what to do, learn by assisting a commander.

-Repairs: yes, they exist, so do rewards. Capping keeps, killing, taking sentries, escorting Yaks or killing them. All these reward players with coin, loot, karma and experience. They offset the repairs, which are fairly cheap. By playing, you should technically be able to offset your costs, and still walk away with a profit. Just take objectives with a group, and you’re good to go. You don’t even need to party up, you can just follow a commander, or a group of strangers, and still benefit. Don’t expect it to be removed, and it really shouldnt. I’ve made 7 gold on my alt from WvW (I play a Necro, and I only repair once my first piece of armour hits red, other wise I don’t bother). You won’t need to Farm. Best bet is to follow the Commanders (blue arrow Icon) and you should be fine.

-Siege: There are different types of siege, and yes they take some getting used to. I believe you can practice with them in the heart of the mists (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) but they each serve a purpose. They just require some practice. Just use the Balista which is target based, and the arrow cart which is ground targeted and you should be fine.

- Maps: They are intended to be balanced. You should not be able to defend everything indefinitely. Objectives should be able to be taken back and forth between opposing servers, and the challenge is to defend them effectively aswell as sieging them. They are generally balanced to give the home server a slight advantage based on the borderland location. In the case of EB, the leading server (green) is supposed to have a disadvantage and the 3rd place server (red) has the easiest defense (Highground)

Really, you just need to learn the mechanics of WvW. Much of what you learned in PVE doesn’t always apply to WvW. Get used to the game mode before discounting it’s merits.

There’s already PVE in WvW. What imagine we could see is some events that work similar to the Breakout event which in essence is still like a PVE Dynamic Event.

You could trigger NPC raids on towers to harass for instance. Or more mercenary groups like the Ogres or Dredge. Stuff that will still provide a tactical advantage rather than a distraction could very well be viable.

It could also provide a way for supply in keeps to be used after max upgrades. Use you supply pool to fund a NPC attack on the next objective (trigger a Char tank to attack Bay from Garrison as an example, because I saw someone asking for the Char tank in another thread, and I think this would be the best implementation of it.)

It could turn WvW into a more MOBA style of game and potentially bring more PVE players into the fold.

Hey Greg,

check out this post.

We’re looking to expand our WvW numbers in SoR

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Sanctum-of-Rall-needs-you/page/2#post1211737

Just a heads up, apparently server capacity has been increased across the board. If you are going to transfer to SoR… Now’s the time.

Sanctum of Rall is still looking to fill our coverage gaps. We’re doing well in T2, and would love to do better.

Jeknar.6184:

scootshoot.6583:

ykyk.2740:

covenn.7165:

Anyone been following the T1 scores? I find them quite interesting

It’s almost impossible to be doing that badly during oceanic prime time with the numbers and skill that BG have shown themselves capable of. Either the other 2 servers are absolute monstrosities with 4 full map queues and godlike players or BG gave up. I find that quite a disappointment as I was rooting for them to make a showing after beating T2 so badly =/

BG=Skill? don’t make me laugh. BG Server is full of bandwagon jumpers. I guarantee if their present score situation continues at T1 many will jump ship by the end of the week.

Most likely… And BG will sink down like HoD, since all the guys who came to BG, came because of all the “Probably one of the best server in tier2 and the most potential server to move up to tier1” and i’m sure they don’t want to stick in a 3rd place server…

Give them some time before we declare them dead. Historically, they usually ended the weekend behind us and then gained the lead pretty quickly throughout the rest of the week. (This was the case with many weeks before TC showed up).

They still haven’t had the chance to adjust to T1. Their loss in the first week is to be expected. Give them a few weeks and they’ll likely be fighting a bit more fiercely.

muekung.2518:

tkalamba.2541:

Anyone with an update while I’m at work?

1:26 AM GMT+7

Thank you good sir.

Anyone with an update while I’m at work?

Hi,

check out this thread for the various SoR guilds you can check out, including Revan’s guild above.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Sanctum-of-Rall-needs-you/page/2#post1197847

Hey Karirus,

you should check out this thread.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Sanctum-of-Rall-needs-you/page/2#post1197847

There are several guilds recruiting in here for Sanctum of Rall.

Hey Seph, best bet is to check out each of the threads In my above post. Each is a guild looking to recruit. You should be able to apply for a guild from there.

If there are any other guilds out there that wish to be added to this list, please feel free to go ahead and add your thread.

Setch.2398:

spartanx.1364:

Claimer at TC Gar has been bugged this entire time. Hes locked outside by the water gate…. Please give him a key to the door so we can kill him. Thanks,

I have seen enemy rangers exploit to make this happen. Anywho, you can kill him outside, no?

You can, but we came in from another gate… so it makes it difficult lol

Lets see how T2 fares this time around.

Jeknar.6184:

MiasmicMist.1420:

Well, weeks almost over. Congratulations on Tier 1 Blackgate! May your second appearance be memorable and may you make your name known there!

/salute

HB, KnT, ICoa, REV
You’ll always have a spot in CDS’s heart the tip of our blades!
:-P

All seriousness though, thanks for the great fights and I hope to cross blades with you all once more! Good luck!

Just stomp SBI/TC and bring yer kitten up to T1 so we can fight again…

We’re working on it… We’ll have those coverage gaps filled an no time and be following you guys up to T1.