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Greetings future or present WvWer,

If you have stepped into a WvW match, you have probably been more confused than fired up with the spectacle you were confronted with.  When you read the "team" chat, your confusion deepens.

"GET OVER HERE"  "ZERG INC"  "DUMB COMMANDERS DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING"  "SM GONE, YOU ALL SUCK"  "OUR SERVER IS TERRIBLE"  "ITS ALL [person organizing the team]'s FAULT"  "ITS YOU'RE NOT YOUR"

Here is a one stop shopping to how to enjoy your WvW time.  Its step by step, so no matter your WvW experience you can fill in the holes of your education.

1)  Join a WvW guild if your serious about learning.  Doesn't need to be the #1 guild, any that you see in there rolling together will do.  Don't get pinned down to just one, roll with them for a few days, then try another.  Find one that fits your play style!  This is the step a LOT of people gloss over, and it leads to terrible times in WvW.  You really have NO IDEA what you are missing by not joining with a team that is coordinating portal flanks and counter tactics in a voice chat server!

2)  Ask questions!  This ties into 1 because if you ask it in /t or /m your going to get a million answers, and some insults as well.  Guilds are a great way to get the noob questions out of the way, and get to the good stuff!

3)  NEVER NEVER NEVER play for the score.  Your in furious combat with an enemy team.  They are juking and flanking for position, but your enemy commander makes a great move to win the day.  Battle finishes, bags collected.  Does it really matter if your up 100k or down 100k at that point?  Playing for the score means you will ONLY enjoy WvW if your server is up in points.  You will ONLY enjoy the game when winning, and turn into a giant Dbag while losing.  That and most of what happens in WvW with relation to the score has nothing to do with any 1 person or guild.  Your job is the battle at your feet, let the score sort itself out!

This also goes for when your winning.  Just because your team happens to be up in points, does not mean its time to gloat and rub peoples faces in it.  Respect and sportsmanship attitude goes a LONG way in building a reputation as a great WvWer!

4)  If you go into WvW alone, you lose the right to talk crap on the people who are organizing the team.  Even if they do it wrong, they are doing it.  Support them, and ignore people who want to shut them down.  Other side of the coin is true.  If your getting badmouthed by a commander, don't follow him!  Find a leader you can follow.

5)  Learn how to LOSE.  When you take a loss, you are in an extraordinary learning situation.  Getting angry and deflecting blame to everyone around you causes you to take nothing away from the loss.  Learning from every defeat will make you a force to be reckoned with.  Tied with this, is find a guild that can lose correctly as well.  Again, if your guild is only good when winning, and turns nasty when losing, find another one!

Some food for though here, every matchup is 1v1v1, which means technically there are 2 loser servers, and 1 winner.  Do you really think 2/3 of the population in WvW should be miserable at all times?

You'll notice nothing in this list speaks to what siege equipment to buy, where to place it, what points are important, what guilds are winners, or anything of the sort.  Without the proper attitude you will be miserable in there in any situation other than a complete shut out of the enemy.  If you haven't guessed, success in WvW is VERY complex, and often times the more skilled teams and commanders can take a loss from factors they (and you) have no control over.  If it rains on your football game, do you cuss out your coach?

Follow these steps, and you'll start to see just how AMAZING this game can be!  PVE has only a few weeks at most to offer you, alts can only take you so far, WvW will last for the life of the game.  No match is the same, no map is the same, no battle the same.

From myself and Tsym, we hope you enjoy your time in WvW!

[Tsym] Coron

Part 2 :

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Willing to listen to those desperate to control them? No1 follows flakes.

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Here is a lesson. Their strategy (not tactic) of employing a sizable force beyond your ability match, and the tactic (not strategy) of blitzing all before them with numbers you cannot counter is your failure to understand how WvW works after roughly 10 years.

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Let me wrap my head around this one more time. If PRX was the coach/captain of the team and they got all their players on the field to play for the same single objective 'win' (or score) ... you think that is tantamount to zerging the opposition?

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHA

Thankfully your 'book' is :

'The former JQQ-IoJ play-guide to Failure'.

It's only read by Commanders who want to move from T1 -> T3

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TA's SEA Guilds moved to SBI and helped them beat JQQ to come 1st after only 1 week.

TA's Oceanic Guilds, EU Guild and DtD moved to Beastgate and helped them move from T3 to potential 1st place in T1 in 3 weeks.

TA's PRX moved to SoS to fill their ailing NA coverage and they are steamrolling on their way to T1.

TA's RMA moved to Kaineng and helped them get their 1st ever victory.

We aren't talking about one guild SPECIFICALLY . Success follows in our wake.

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Truely amazing and inspiring !!!

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True, but you said PRX do in your timezone Since that is when you play, that is pretty much a contradition wouldn't you say?

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... and you can't even counter ONE. Refer to the Roman's futher us.

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Money is easier to pass over than trust ... which you so desperately try to attain from them.

Get IoJ back into T1 without relying on T1 servers to disband, and maybe we'll respect your leadership ... let alone acknowledge it.

Arctix, on 01 November 2012 - 04:37 AM, said:

My work here is done.

p.s. Keep zerging the word count.

CharliePrince, on 01 November 2012 - 11:56 PM, said:

Let's not start this again.

IoJ match is that way. -------------->

ChuckS117, on 31 October 2012 - 06:01 AM, said:

We've already been called Wagongate a few times. Luckily our large PVE population acts as a pretty good buffer to deter people transferring unless they really want to be here.

40 Elonian Wine?

I like how the permanent weapons are basically very hard to get weapons. Casual players recieved so much love  in this holiday event so far lol >.>

randall, on 23 October 2012 - 11:46 PM, said:

Scyn, on 23 October 2012 - 11:49 PM, said:

Yes - this gets to the heart of the matter every time some random has posted on this issue of supposed "stacking" by the TA guilds. Not only do they apparently confuse "TA" with every other guild in the game, not a single one can answer the question "how many players comprised the TA guilds that transferred to Blackgate".

It doesn't matter who it is... Hexenn, Charlie, Randall or anyone else - this question has never been answered,. because they litterally don't know. All they see is a bunch of guild names and make assumptions.

We are down to about 15 players left at this point. Our Australian allies that came with us have been similarly decimated with attrition. Collectively we can't even fill 3/4 of a single map.

But most of all - if we wanted to stack and get no competition in our timezone, why didn't we just transfer to a server where there are already plenty of players in our timezone? - like Jade Quarry... or Stormbluff... or Isle of Janthir... or Sea of Sorrows...

Instead, we went to a server that had virtually no presence in our timezone, that had been asking for help for weeks courtesy of one of the most reasonable guys on this cesspit of a forum in Laylyn.

If you believe we are transferring to avoid competition, you are a retard.

Maelwaedd, on 24 October 2012 - 03:39 AM, said:

Here on Blackgate, we use both gorilla and guerrilla tactics!


~Valkyrja Flame [RQ]

It is a trap, on 20 October 2012 - 01:42 PM, said:

*sighs*

If you are on BG, I am ashamed to have you on the server.... Badmouthing 2 servers because BG got the transfers...

be... ashamed!

worsty, on 20 October 2012 - 02:02 PM, said:

They recruited, to the tune of hundreds of man hours.   Not being mean, but like most servers, your server didn't.

It wasn't a lotto.   It was a paycheck for hard labor.

Your strengthening will come from the ball other servers started rolling with first and put the most effort into.


/salute

Jackiepro, on 17 October 2012 - 05:55 AM, said:

No1 flames constructive criticism Especially when it's coming from a proven performer on the MMO scene

The server was not 'stacked' intentionally. From the moment Titan Alliance decided to disband, i was in discussion with a respected BeastGate representative. I was informed that there was a potential EU Alliance moving to BeastGate, and as that was not confirmed (they were still voting etc) and because we only had Ginnunga, we did no feel this was a conflict of interest to our timezone spread and the goal of helping BeastGate become a permanent T1 contender.

I was personally approached by Freelancer [TL], who hinted towards joining us on BeastGate, and i made it abundantly clear he was not welcome.

I was also approached by RUIN, prior to the above, and i felt it was in the best interest of WvW sustainability that we did not stack a server (they proposed a different one to BeastGate) because we would be only making a new HoD. We had a difference of opinion as to whether the player-base could engineer 4-6 competitive servers by spreading out, and while i could see their point, that band-wagoners will still stack the top server, i don't think there would have been a top server. With the right spread, and the right tactics, Top Spot will swap constantly.

I had no idea a significant component of the former AA were coming to BG. Coincidence? They saw the same potential in BeastGate as we did? Maybe/Maybe not.

Either way we now have a server that should crush JQQ (IMO), view not shared by all the other former TA leaders. Either way that should knock a few people off that Bandwagon.

I definitely feel that should BeastGate become the new HoD, some1 will need to reshuffle again.While free transfers have been a plague to WvW recently, it can also be used as the tool Anet intended to balance.

It just requires the Dedicated WvW Guilds/Players to organise a reshuffle. This absolutely sucks for Server Pride, Loyalty and Making a New Home etc etc, but there isn't much we can do otherwise.

Personally i don't want to leave BG after the amount of work and correspondence that took place behind the scenes to ensure the Core of BG's WvW Guild accepted us for who we were, Former #1 Guilds, and that they didn't feel our 'Elitist' attitudes would translate into drama.

In the short term ... Tier 1 is only ~230 hours away.

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Hello!

Myself, my brother, and a close local friend of ours are looking for a guild to work ourselves into. We are interested in all aspects of the game and really need to find a home that can offer all areas of play in GW2. We are all EST based so the closer to that time zone the better. All of us are pretty active and excited to hopefully contribute. I personally really want to explore the World vs World aspect when I reach and adequate level. In the end we are looking to just have fun, semi-serious is alright as well but nothing too hardcore. A voice server of sorts would be nice as well. If the community around the guild is nice enough I definitely wouldn't mind donating a little bit. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I look forward to any responses!

Beastgate will be back. soon.

Is it only me that finds it ironic that a member of a giant guild that left Fort Aspenwood to hop onto a server which AA was on (twice!) keeps calling people band wagoners?