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[Rawnoodles]

Tier 1 GvG Highlights!

Seeing as ratings were resetting this week, EMP decided to organize a GvG lobby to those top contending guilds across Tier 1!

Thanks for all the coordination and patience from all guilds, we hope to face many guilds in the near future! Enjoy some of the footage we have uploaded! More to come!

Score:

EMP - 6 TSYM - 3




EMP - 5 HB - 1





EMP - 0 VoTF  5

TBA

Video coming soon!

Edited by Rawnoodles, 02 February 2013 - 04:28 AM.

[Rawnoodles]

EMP - 0 VoTF 5




Photos:

http://www.emperium.us

Edited by Rawnoodles, 06 February 2013 - 02:57 AM.

[Hecksa]

I'm glad to see GvG events popping up on the NA servers, haven't watched all the videos yet but I will do. Also brilliant that TSym are getting involved - glad that you came around to the idea of GvG, even if it was sadly after us RG folk have left Hopefully one day we'll meet each other again.

Hope to see more videos like this in the future. Show Arenanet that, yes, we would like to have organised gvg fights, thankyouverymuch.

[ketorin23]

we won more than 3 lol

<3

it was absolutely instrumental in training our new guys though it was great

had a lot of fun with you guys that night

Edited by ketorin23, 02 February 2013 - 05:10 AM.

[SlevenTen]

Haha yeah if you guys count the open field one we fought first, but that one was loaded with pugs on both sides and noone knew when we were supposed to start LOL! Tons of fun guys, keep up the good work!

[Rawnoodles]

Still trying to upload a few more Vids!

If your interested in GvGing with EMP let me know!

[OGBarron]

Wow, thats fantastic you all were able to organize that! Some awesome videos!

[Naytron]

I missed it but I'd definitely be there next time! Looking forward to more organized GvG out there! Please message Rawnoodles, Nateralus, or Recoiled if you want to arrange one with Empërium.

[Hecksa]

I heard HB fought VoTF too, by the way. Any chance a video of that is gonna come out any time soon?

[fathamburger]

goddamn im pissed I missed out on this. I'm close to leaving the game too from lack of time

[killver]

Hecksa, on 02 February 2013 - 02:33 PM, said:

I heard HB fought VoTF too, by the way. Any chance a video of that is gonna come out any time soon?

No, VoTF didnt fight HB yet.

Was fun yesterday. Let's do it again soon

[Mithrull]

Was pretty fun. 6-3 sounds right. That area behind south camp is pretty much the only place to have them without too much interference. I assume VoTF has tons of experience with this stuff.

Edited by Mithrull, 02 February 2013 - 04:07 PM.

[heatrr]

Oh look, one big kumbaya....

[Rawnoodles]

Hecksa, on 02 February 2013 - 02:33 PM, said:

I heard HB fought VoTF too, by the way. Any chance a video of that is gonna come out any time soon?

Unfortunately VoTF and HB didn't fight eachother.

[Pryda]

Nice one guys, keep it up!

[kidawk]

Have seen these (including the ones from Europe), don't see what the appeal is.

Not impressed with the WvWvW meta game's highest level of competition skill cap.

In DAoC, any of those guilds would be farmed by a solid 8man.

[IDarko]

I thought Tsym didn't want to do GvG? Isn't that what they told RG?

[Jackiepro]

kidawk, on 02 February 2013 - 10:28 PM, said:

In DAoC, any of those guilds would be farmed by a solid 8man.

Hahaha, sure we would.

[Hecksa]

kidawk, on 02 February 2013 - 10:28 PM, said:

Have seen these (including the ones from Europe), don't see what the appeal is.

Not impressed with the WvWvW meta game's highest level of competition skill cap.

In DAoC, any of those guilds would be farmed by a solid 8man.

Have seen these DAoC 8mans (including the ones from Europe), don't see what the appeal is.

Not impressed with the meta game's highest level of competition skill cap.

I'd crush them all at Pong.


Also - disappointed VoTF and HB haven't fought yet. You guys should arrange something when you're next fighting each other.

And get that EMP vs VoTF vid up please

Edited by Hecksa, 03 February 2013 - 02:43 AM.

[Rawnoodles]

kidawk, on 02 February 2013 - 10:28 PM, said:

Have seen these (including the ones from Europe), don't see what the appeal is.

Not impressed with the WvWvW meta game's highest level of competition skill cap.

In DAoC, any of those guilds would be farmed by a solid 8man.

You'd be surprised what some of the guilds can offer on the field. Keep talking, we will just keep looting.

VoTF vs EMP vid will be up ASAP, We have been busy since reset so we haven't had the chance to compile it.

[kidawk]

Rawnoodles, on 03 February 2013 - 03:21 AM, said:

You'd be surprised what some of the guilds can offer on the field. Keep talking, we will just keep looting.

VoTF vs EMP vid will be up ASAP, We have been busy since reset so we haven't had the chance to compile it.

I joined a SoS guild (no longer in it, quit because of lack of fun content) that is a bit rinky dink and we rolled you (about a week ago) and your giant siege zerg guild several times.

I have seen what they (the guilds mentioned in this thread) have to offer. You can substitute 8man DAoC group with elite WoW RBG team, etc etc.

The skill cap isn't high.

[fathamburger]

kidawk, on 03 February 2013 - 03:44 AM, said:

I joined a SoS guild (no longer in it, quit because of lack of fun content) that is a bit rinky dink and we rolled you (about a week ago) and your giant siege zerg guild several times.

I have seen what they (the guilds mentioned in this thread) have to offer. You can substitute 8man DAoC group with elite WoW RBG team, etc etc.

The skill cap isn't high.

Skill cap isn't terribly high at all on these zerg vs zerg fights, the game design doesn't really allow it on top of lag + culling so get off your high horse. They need to design maps that split people up into more smaller groups. 10 v 10 would be a better showcase of skill imo.

[MrZero]

kidawk, on 02 February 2013 - 10:28 PM, said:

Have seen these (including the ones from Europe), don't see what the appeal is.

Not impressed with the WvWvW meta game's highest level of competition skill cap.

In DAoC, any of those guilds would be farmed by a solid 8man.

I heard that Babe Ruth got his ass kicked at figure skating.


What? It's a solid comparison.

[Rawnoodles]

People can complain about "zerging" but when you match down fights by even numbers, you would be surprised how much easier/harder it is to combat groups, even the slightest routing mistake could cost the entire team.

[Heru]

kidawk, on 03 February 2013 - 03:44 AM, said:

I joined a SoS guild (no longer in it, quit because of lack of fun content) that is a bit rinky dink and we rolled you (about a week ago) and your giant siege zerg guild several times.

I have seen what they (the guilds mentioned in this thread) have to offer. You can substitute 8man DAoC group with elite WoW RBG team, etc etc.

The skill cap isn't high.

Even though you're obviously out here to troll, I do kind of agree with you. The problem IMO is that Anet seems to have no interest in supporting anything but their sPvP E-sport ambitions (which are doing splendid atm, lol) and WvW is supposed to be a casual PuG zergfest.
Atm you have to spend about 90% of the time looking for opposition. This means that for every 4 hours spent in WvW you get around 24 minutes of actual "practice". That's my experience from T1, in the lower tiers it's even worse. There you can just spend entire nights rolling over PuGs. Actual competition and the ability to practice against people of your level on somewhat equal playing fields is what improves your performance as an individual and evolves the "meta-game".
This is what we are trying to achieve with these "GvG"s. Not that you'd care though, since you are only looking for Nerdrage posts.

[kidawk]

Rawnoodles, on 03 February 2013 - 08:35 AM, said:

People can complain about "zerging" but when you match down fights by even numbers, you would be surprised how much easier/harder it is to combat groups, even the slightest routing mistake could cost the entire team.

'slightest routing mistake'

Stacking on the commander or group target is hard from what I hear. If you are even 150 units away, all the benefits of stacking can go right out the window!

In most any other MMORPG, stacking like that would get your team killed.

Edited by Kattar, 14 February 2013 - 02:58 PM.
Don't.

[Kraken]

Now that the above troll has gone back to his really skilled game, id like to say that it is awesome to see some GvG going on, and I really hope Anet implements some organised way of doing this soon.

[Smokee]

Thanks for the fight guys. It was fun indeed, and I hope we get to do this sometime in the near future. The way HB runs, we are not build or set up for this, so we tried out some new stuff, and got some valuable data that we now can analyze, and hopefully come back better prepared next time. To bad the JQ and SoS pugs couldnt leave us alone

Once again, thanks for making this happen EMP.

Edited by Smokee, 04 February 2013 - 09:31 AM.

[Pryda]

IDarko, on 02 February 2013 - 10:47 PM, said:

I thought Tsym didn't want to do GvG? Isn't that what they told RG?

They play for realm!

[Mithrull]

IDarko, on 02 February 2013 - 10:47 PM, said:

I thought Tsym didn't want to do GvG? Isn't that what they told RG?

There was one GvG battle vs RG. This took place in the middle of a still very precarious match. The above video is from an already decided match.