No shilling, no fud, just cold reality
HOD is one of the weakest host server, only advantage it has is coverage to keeps up its PPT.
We don't ever queue 4 maps on reset. We don't ever have decent PST coverage. We get owned a lot. Many pugs are still new to WvW. We have many players playing roamer classes but can't win much roaming fight alone. We lack good enough pug commanders that can show pugs the ways to fight, so they ended up learning the ways to run instead. The pugs cannot carry you, most don't have siege disablers to help you delay enemies.
We got many NA left the server over the years, not able to deal with the losing, not able to deal with the blobbing, a lot of fairweathers claiming they are not. Now that the fairweathers have been flushed out, we need fighters for NA, especially PST. HOD's NA is possibly harshest environment among all NAs to fight in!
We need pug commanders that will educate both himself and others on how to fight. I did that more than a year ago, tagging daily for 6-8 hrs from sea to eu, initially a squad with more than half of roaming classes to a almost full squad of zerg classes. It took couple of months while embracing the hates from all the haters, the long hours tagging gotten the pugs whole lot better. Then a few more months later, I got bored because things got too easy and I felt the agony of my wallet. Most importantly, no new commanders will step up if I tag that long everyday.
HOD is not for the weak hearted, you will suffer numerous defeats. You will experience despairs and frustrations. You will laugh and curse at the same time. It is not a place where you can hope to boost your ego.
Join us in HOD for just 1000 gems, a place of suffering and defeats, where phoenix will raise from the ashes in the distant future.
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Not Even Coverage is the Only broken thing in WVW.
https://imgur.com/8QM3IZX
HOD spelled backwards is DOH! This alone is reason enough to join!
BG
You are trying to create an image which really makes me think.
I think you left out the part about chat constantly complaining about spies and being double teamed, and the lack of vuln on gates, otherwise I think captured it fairly accurately. Although, roamers and roaming builds can help a tag if they know what they are doing.
I thought those chats are normal, seen in many servers.
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I support this! Move to HoD or FA!
Guild wars 3 when?
I am an oatmeal cookie irl,
Join HoD!
Anet buff me :-(
Make me good at game!
It may be seen occasionally on some others, but those that I know that left hod have yet to see anywhere near the amount seen on HoD, and it's worse now than when they left. There are dumb people and trolls on every server, but the extent seen on HoD of the dumb is beyond ridiculous. It's rather willful ignorance, as explaining what the opposing groups are actually doing is ignored at best, and generally met with elaborate conspiracies. And in general, it's primarily HoD and not the linked servers doing it...
Of course it's not everyone, but it's far too many that would rather concoct conspiracies rather than make and respond to callouts.
More power to anyone wanting to change that, and perhaps get people to not nearly all die and actually down enemies in small or large fights, so I don't have to expect everyone around me to just drop dead...
Not really, from what Ive been told by players from other servers HOD is nowhere near the level of the mushshroom clouds of toxicity found in a few other servers. And a lot of that drama is linked to wvw coordination.
Its one of the more laidback communities which has its perks but also its disadvantages. The fact that the majority of current HOD guilds have been there for over 2 years is testament to how stable the server is but its not as organised as other servers or as numerous so it floats between tier 4-3
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What I said and was referring to is different than the toxicity seen on some that I'll decline to name. I'll also decline to get into the reasons behind it's tier positions and other things, besides saying that wish many knew how to fight better...
It is definitely not the place it once was, but in general, yes it is among the more laidback, with some outliers that take it too seriously like every other server has.
you referring to the KOTA era? I am curious cuz ive been on HOD for 2 years so one might say I missed the "old HOD"
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lol kota 'era'?
I've been on HoD since it was created as a server, except for a brief time that my guild left in disgust at others when all the drama occurred around a grim, pretty much how it was predicted and many of us warned about, but alas, people don't listen. Quite a bit of money was wasted by quite a few people, which I found funny in a twisted way. Not dark enough to satisfy my humor, but still... Even then, HoD was just a shadow of what it was before that. You could say I was referring to the time from TA (gw2 release), through Tournament Season 2 but really before. season 2 had a lot of transfers in. After many left it was still far better than had been recently. Season 3 was meh. What's left is very much a remnant of a remnant with the bulk of HoD being transfers/new players
In all honesty, was considering leaving until Anet announced this WvW change down the road. The above comments were due to some of that disgust that I pointed out.
Fortunately, it has seemed that the constant chat bs of spies and being doubleteamed hasn't been apparent, and occasionally people around aren't dropping dead in every small or even larger fight.
I imagine most servers have a core that tend to be more passionate and critical than most and we have to take into account all time zones. We're up against HOD often and at least during the few hours around the 6pm pacific stretch HOD's different groups/squads/blobs are varied but they still seem to communicate well. That time slot isn't easy to size everyone up, I've been in fights where we might run right over a group or squad and another fight or two later that same group might totally dismantle our bunch and that might have a lot to do with some of your groups risking a wipe to try new stuff. The regulars in our tier seem to have a nice mix of smaller and larger groups working in and out of each other right now.
Northern Shiverpeaks [EL]
All i know about hod is they are strong at sea eu and my guys clash with you all the time and its hard but fun.
good server.
Not Even Coverage is the Only broken thing in WVW.
Ah the grimaldi days, that kitten been been buried ages ago let it die lol. Meh the tournaments were among the most toxic days I could remember, I imagine anet made a fortune out of gems cuz of all the transferring.
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New WvW video from [AIR] killing bigger groups (NSP, DB, TC), EU timezone guild on HOD

Outnumbered but not outgunned! Join HoD if u looking for challenge. Our EU and OCX is solid, we mainly looking for fresh blood for the early NA, NA prime and main EU timezones. Bring cookies and choya kites plox
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So many hacking players from HOD lately, and guilds that have been taking advantage using mesmer portals created by the hackers to their advantage to flip tier 3 towers, disappointing.
[eA] Sakura | Kaineng
but yes to fun wvw. hod has always been good competition. we had to use def sieges to hold them at bay and sonetimes that aint enough
Not Even Coverage is the Only broken thing in WVW.
Screenshots or it didnt happen. Also provide accountnames (block the scumbag to see the accountname). HOD does not condone hacking we need the name to check him and then we all mass report him.
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I feel like I died, reborn, had kids, watched them grow up and graduated university before them having kids, and then back in the faintest of my other-worldly consciousness on my bed on a sleepless night do I remember something to do with a grimaldi and a HoD.
You should see the one from NSP now - I heard a few people saying that one of the guys hacking on DB transferred there. The funniest thing is they ported into Ogre earlier today and all of them got wiped by an ac near our oil. They just stood in lords.
Edit: this might also mean that the people following the hacker were probably also newbies and didn't know any better. It was also probably one of the hackers that had a tag.
I've seen a server on T1 'fall' down from the top floor into the wall. Actually ported some more in.... built an AC in there.
Less Hack, and more likely an exploit. Either way, shouldn't be done.
if its possible to "glitch" inside a smc wall then that guy wasnt hacking he mustve intentionally glitched it to finish building the ac. still deserves a ban imo
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Definitely agreed - there is way too much of this hacking/exploiting going around.
In other news, been having good fights with you guys and NSP when there are no hackers around from all sides.
doesn't sound like a real server to me
I fart when I sneeze. Join HoD.
oh I bleed when I sneeze, that normal?
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Saw this occur a couple of times last week and I'm on nsp. Remember the same thing happening back when playing in ruins of surmia.
If you see this again, get an id on the guy and pass it on. We don't want hackers screwing with the game.
Ehh... Server vendering fail can be a thing as well, where walls on keeps would just disappear due to not properly loading on that client (would make it seem like a hack) but it isnt, nor is it intentional. And yes you'd be able to walk through them
AFAIK, they still haven't fixed SMC to keep people from glitching into the walls. No hack required for that one.
REDUCE NA TO 3 TIERS
Some wvw fights from EU timezone on HOD
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I was a SBI but i moved to HoD after thier link break. HoD is the best server i have to say. I still have other alt account on other server that i do wvw daily most of the time, those servers are nowhere as friendly and helpful as HoD is.
Hail HoD, Hail STRM
Cross
Greetings fellow Hodorian, Ive seen [STRM] win fights outnumbered 2 to 1 its fun running with u guys
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Hi Blane,
It is my honor to fight with you as well, proud Hodorian. May the force be with you.
Cross
New EU footage from [AIR] guild, Ugandan knuckles style
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/396597041536565248/425746756605575171/tsk_tsk_tsk.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/396597041536565248/425749831529660426/gw009.jpg
i believe the character name was Heroine or something.
Late SEA/early NA timezone btw
also he was changing tags from tagless to other guild tags
thats why im thinking if ftp accounts would be limited on EoTM on the upcomming WvW alliance, to reduce WvW hacks and match manipulations as well as the so called spies by others
Why So Serious?
Hmm so your fastcar as if you could do that dbl team always makes YB look good you need another server to carry you. Dreams are free keep dreaming
By the way reported no Matchup comments allowed
Then we should have "Full" pop and not just "High" pop. Please avoid spreading fuds, is very unhealthy for the game. Matchup comments not allowed.
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Henge of Denravi Server
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You mean YB teaming up with TC to farm HoD? Yes it was a great job on YB’s part.
I have met multi times YB player help def TC camp without capture it, waiting for TC players to come and flee. I also saw solo YB player tag along with TC blob, took our T3 tower, stay with them the whole time without getting hit by TC.
Cross
Why come onto a pseudo recruitment thread and kitten talk making it a matchup thread?
Take the measuring elsewhere
Don't move to HoD, move to whoever HoD is paired with at the time. Guilds on HoD are utter garbage and consistently get rolled by smaller groups. HoD is kept in t4 (ironically) by the effort of their t7 partners.
My guild recently left SoR because we got paired with HoD again last reset. Had to escape the fight dodgers.
There's a 95% chance I'll be warned for this post, regardless of what it says.
Just ignore Fastcar. Most of YB does. I blocked him way back in 2012.
As for HoD, they're my favorite Host server for my EBay account. I think we've had them twice (maybe three times?). Always hoping we roll them again at the link reset.
Can't you guys just be honest about when your server is weak or strong? Like seriously, this thread shouldn't even be allowed on this forum, just tell people the truth about your server.
I am very sure the first post is clear and I think you don't ever read the post.
HOD is weakened over the years. HOD had better days in previous year than recently. However, you too like the many just want easy wins, isn't it? HOD has to continuously deal with stacking and destacking effects (when one server is stacked, the other destacked). If one keep repeating this cycle, eventually you will get "experienced" stacked servers while having "inexperienced" destacked servers. Ironically, you are part of the people that created this kind of cycle and situation, this is also one of the things that accelerate the decline of WvW. It gets rather weary to having to deal with this cycle over years and guilds start to get really laid back and thus casual on WvW. Lastly, most guilds on HOD don't really shill and spread fuds, so it doesn't really help counter the amazing shilling from "good" guilds to stack servers.
Founder & Leader of Equinox Solstice [TIME], a Singapore-Based International PvX Guild
Henge of Denravi Server
www.gw2time.com
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We don't even PPT, we just got tired of HoD not contributing and running from fights.
There's a 95% chance I'll be warned for this post, regardless of what it says.
You....can read, right?
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Henge of Denravi Server
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As the op suggested. Can you even read. This was his original statement in opening the thread.