Guild wars 2 update

Sorry about not posting for a month been busy since college is starting and stuff.

Alright so whats been going on in gw2 is my guild Ruinous has been going up against some of the best servers up there in world vs world and holding their own because that's how we roll. Anyways our first server Northern Shiverpeaks became full before we knew it and became saturated with large guilds and a shitload of non guild members. This meant we were not able to get our officers in to direct the regulars because of the long queues just to get into the battlegrounds. Unfortunately if you don't have some authoritative leader inside the "PuGs"(players not in guild/alliance) will swarm wherever the enemy is aka all of the dueling symbols on the map. This is not a bad strategy but it sure as hell is not the best especially when the goal is to own as many keeps, towers and supply camps as possible for points. In light of this realization that we could not direct our reinforcements we decided to use the free transfer to Eredon Terrace one night and once there we took the other two servers by surprise and owned all of eternal battlegrounds and farmed the other teams in their spawn. It was an amazing few hours because it was the first time we were able to switch between the maps freely without having to wait in a one hour plus queue.

News of this of course got out within hours and we were soon followed by a few guilds and a few players for mostly World vs World purposes and the fact that the bonuses for having the most points are so great. our entry into the server was not too bad the queues were still short after a few days often being less than 10 minutes for the borderlands and up to 30 for eternal battlegrounds. during the first few weeks arena net decided to have day long skirmishes with 2 random servers to determine rankings early on so it is not an totally unfair match when they switch to the 1 week format and later the 2 week format. The servers changed every now and then but most of the time there were the same 2 servers and we fought like usual with us on top of close second.

However one server already has a reputation for cheating and we exposed them with a video and a reddit post here.The server was Henge of Denravi and the exploit was they could attack our keep lord in stonemist castle, the largest point value keep, by using AoE spells on the first floor to hit him on the second floor. This of course lead them to taking the keep as we did fortify the lord's room with siege weapons and a few officers to report to the guild on team speak. The exploit was one of the few ways for them to get pass our exceptional defense. After we reported what happened the comments of the reddit post contained all of what they did to other servers and it made me chuckle at how everyone had a bad time against them and had proof of other exploits. Since they took the keep by exploit there was no way we could keep it even if we took it back so we just made them have a rough time outside the keep by disrupting supply lines and taking their fully upgraded towers which took about 1 gold to upgrade. Long story short we lost that skirmish.


After all of that we went up against some other servers and well had no support from the other players on the server so we went from having a lead with most towers/keeps, fully upgraded which took about 10 gold or so which is a pretty nice bit of change, to being in 3rd in the morning because no one defended. Seeing this our guild leader Archaos said fuck it and gave up on the match since it was a money sink. So for the rest of the day we did nothing organized and just fought where the PuGs were because we refused to take and upgrade keeps for them to be left undefended. Needless to say the server learned that our presence is needed in order for them to have a chance at winning any world vs world matches.

Fast forward to today and we are currently going up against the servers Isle of Janthir and Sea of Sorrows for the first week long battle. During the beta we had fun going up against them but now they kinda gave up and we are up by almost 200,000 points already and there is no hope of recovery from that. I just hope they get servers they can deal with next time because its depressing knowing there is a server in first you cant touch and is owning most of your stuff.