Putting the War in Guild Wars 2 - Saturday Night PVP/WVW Fights

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EDIT: It's Saturday night (October 6) and we're in a great match this week. We're in second place behind Yak's Bend but only by about 1,000 points. That's neck and neck by WVW standards.

I'll also be organizing a Monday night run this week - hopefully the score won't be a blowout one way or another.

A number of people in the GWJ guild thread liked my suggestion of setting up a PVP/WVW thread where we can organize our pwnage of noobs. This thread is meant to help us organize and set up war raids.

Thursday or Wednesday nights work for me.

I'm on basically every night of the week (just hit 100 hours played!) so am definitely up for this. Sun - Thursday nights are better as weekends are tough to say I'll definitely be online.

I'd love to, Thursday night would be the only night I could make it consistently... so my vote is Thursday!

I'm also on on a regular basis, usually 10 or 11pm through 1am or so. WvW nights sound good, I would be willing to try sPvP with an understanding group (since I can't talk on Vent, just listen).

Right now my main is a Necro which I think is supposed to be pretty effective in sPvP?

I'm willing to try but I'll warn you, I suck at pvp. I at least like the design of WvW!

Thursday night sounds like the best suggestion so far.

Thursday nights are good for me, starting NEXT week. I'm on most nights, however, and pop into WvW all the time.

Thursdays are not good for me as that is DDO night. Mondays or Wednesdays are my best free night.

I'd be up for Wednesday nights.

I'm on most nights, so day/date doesn't matter much. Just say when and I'll show up.

It looks like Thursday night being the official PVP night is winning by a slight margin, though I'd be happy to join people for Wed night too. I'm therefore going to schedule our first PVP night for next Thursday the 27.

I also need to talk to our guild leaders who have been coordinating with other Northern Shiverpeaks guilds. I'm hoping we can get at least 10-12 people together for WVW raids.

What time do you think we should look at to start meeting up? Also, I assume this will utilize the GWJ vent server?

Farscry wrote:

What time do you think we should look at to start meeting up? Also, I assume this will utilize the GWJ vent server?

Vent would be best but we can also probablly set up a team chat for those without Vent. Also, while I'm setting the official first day as next week so people can get a chance to prep, I'll be on tonight so hit me up if you want to do PVP.

Otherwise, I'm thinking 8 pm EST to start?

jdzappa wrote:
Farscry wrote:

What time do you think we should look at to start meeting up? Also, I assume this will utilize the GWJ vent server?

Vent would be best but we can also probablly set up a team chat for those without Vent. Also, while I'm setting the official first day as next week so people can get a chance to prep, I'll be on tonight so hit me up if you want to do PVP.

Otherwise, I'm thinking 8 pm EST to start?

Team chat for WvW goes to everyone from NSP on the server, party chat is limited to 6 people. If we were to split into teams, we'd still need to use vent to coordinate with our other teams (requiring at least one person per group be on vent). The only other option would be to have someone become a commander and set up a squad (which should be a goal anyway, but it costs 100 gold, so it's more of a long-term goal). This is still somewhat problematic, as I don't think anyone but the commander can talk in the squad channel. It'd be a great way to direct people not on vent, but I think it'd work better with vent than as a substitution for it. Team chat is probably the best non-voice way to direct things, just keep in mind that it wouldn't be a goodjers-only channel.

Best way to do it would be to have as many people as possible in GWJ vent. Split into groups in game, make sure at least one person from every group is in vent. Coordinate that way and send groups off to do stuff.

Next Thursday. 8pm est. I will be there.

I won't be able to make Thursdays, but encourage you guys to have a ton of fun while staying as organized as possible.

I plan on doing some spontaneous WvW sessions a few nights a week. Will try for tonight and maybe Sunday night. I would like to see GWJ have a greater presence in WvW.

I think the WvW reset where we get matched against new servers happens Fridays at 7pm EST. I'll double check that but it would be nice if we get in there and claim something right away.

Edit: Confirmed new match up is tonight at 7EST, 4PST

I am on most nights, to one extent or another. Good to go for some group pvp.

You guys realize how rare it is to see threads like this here on gwj? Kinda cool.

How so? Because it's pvp, or something else?

Just honestly curious.

[edit]Also, on a side note, this is partly due to ArenaNet's smart decision to make everyone able to scale to 80 for pvp. If I had to actually hit 80 to pvp, who knows WHEN I'd be able to get around to wvw.

In fact, since wvw is a significant part of the game's draw for me, if it weren't for all the awesome level scaling (both up for pvp and down for adventuring), I probably wouldn't have been as tempted to dive into the game so soon.

And for what it's worth, WvW actually DOES give very decent xp and monetary rewards for playing -- I usually gain a level or two and a good amount of silver over the course of 2 hours of fighting.

2am on a weeknight isn't good for me it's awesome that we do have a drive for WvW though. If I'm on over the weekend I'm available for WvW.

I suspect that the new match-up is going to be tougher.

I'm in, see you Thursday!

If we need to stake a claim, then I'm in for tonight.

Farscry wrote:

How so? Because it's pvp, or something else?

Just honestly curious.

[edit]Also, on a side note, this is partly due to ArenaNet's smart decision to make everyone able to scale to 80 for pvp. If I had to actually hit 80 to pvp, who knows WHEN I'd be able to get around to wvw.

In fact, since wvw is a significant part of the game's draw for me, if it weren't for all the awesome level scaling (both up for pvp and down for adventuring), I probably wouldn't have been as tempted to dive into the game so soon.

because the desire/will to partake in pvp of any type even ones where you were boosted has been looked down on by the majority of the gwj mmo crowd in pretty much every game till now. Like i said before pretty cool in my book.

Gotcha. And yeah I am right there with you; I'm excited for some GWJ wvw action. Maybe I'll even become passably good at it.

FYI - the new week hasn't kicked in yet on NSP (as of 7:10PM ET on Friday).

I can do Thursday. But, since I roll East Coast style I can probably only play from 8 until 11 or so.

Next Thursday sounds good! Looking forward to some WvW lovin!

For what it's worth, the WvW matchups reset on Fridays... and if this week goes as well as last week goes, then WvW may be very worn out and lopsided on Thursday. Might be worth moving this to Friday nights, and enjoy the frenetic activity that happens right after the reset.

Yeah, looks like this week is a blowout again.

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