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What is your earliest WvW memory?


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My first memory of WvW was as an upleveled warrior, zoning into EB on the red side. We were basically being spawn camped, and with no appreciation of tactics, I tried to recreate my PVE styles of running into the mass of players, popping Endure Pain, hitting 100 Blades and waiting for everyone to die... they didn't.

Some more fun nostalgia, one particular fight I remember on Alpine border in the lords room going on for hours and hours, with myself and another warrior doing banner rezzes over and over. This happened a lot back in the day, but when the fight was quite finely poised, and defenders slowly make progress, those clutch banner rezzes bought a bit more time. In the current meta it's far easier to whittle down an enemy...

Last but not least, I can't really say I did much in this one, but following a raid into enemy's garrison, taking the orb, and escoring someone running it back to Bay trying to fend off enemies targeting him, that was absolutely epic. I know it got abused and hacked horribly, but that mechanic felt super fun. There are probably way too many changes in the code to make it viable, but having a week where orbs were brought back (similar to no downstate) would be super cool IMO.

Anyway, thanks for the thread and the replies, made me smile :)

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My earliest memories are from... TODAY!! I just played WvW for the first time after starting playing 2 weeks ago.

I haven't even got full exotics yet, just bought the cheapest exotic weapons speced for power, haven't bought expansions yet so I went in as D/P core with no mount. Damn if I didn't have fun though.

Some highlights:

  • Being surprised when I started 2-0 for kills when I literally had no idea what I was doing (ended up on like 4-15), some dude wondered into the tail end of the zerg for the first one and was low enough to backstab, and the second one I jumped in on a low health guy at the edge of the fight- my hand was literally shaking from adrenaline.
  • Running around with the zerg and being largely useless on my power roaming build, using my bow of all things as I waited for vulnerable targets and mostly running away (when not dying).
  • Trying to kill a guy 1v1 while wondering why he was running away from me (doesn't he know I'm a nub?) and switching to bow to try to stagger him because that's how my brain works right now.
  • Leading the charge for the zerg on a guy running away using my thief mobility, and then immediately dying when he turned around because I didn't realise everyone else had given up.
  • Dying with the same teammate who I think was a fellow nub a few times over that I kept running into and developing an unspoken affection for him/her for our shared experience.

I rate the experience 10/10 - will definitely come back and be useless again

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About 6mos after launch I had to do map completion. I was on EBG and needed that f'd viewpoint on green keep and anz Poi. I think I must have been red. I was being stubborn, no one would come help me with anz so I set up a ram on my own, running back and forth from the camp. I very slowly and pathetically thumped away at the door while meanwhile an entire enemy zerg broke down the opposite wall, flipped it and murdered me. For whatever the reason (was it shame?) this woke a fire in me for wvw and I have played -just a tiny bit- of wvw over the last eight years.

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Never was a WvW main, never will be, but ...

Trying to get map completion after being done with the PvE map part. Maps did not rotate that much and it took weeks, perhaps several months to get certain keeps and towers of some colours. Not being able to do that alone (contrary to all the PvE stuff) I eventually had to join commanders and learned tactics and strategies. after about 5-6 months after the game was released I did WvW regularly as a scout & roamer and that play style hasn't changed a lot up until now.

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My earliest memory was buying gw2 a few months after it was released because I was super interested in WvW. I thought that I would change the tide of battle with my lvl 16 ranger wearing a mish-mash of fine and masterwork gear. I joined EBG, followed the commanding tag into battle, only to get 1-shotted by some cleaving autoattack of an enemy.

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Running around with a group of 5 or so friends on my first 80, sometime late '12 or early '13, cleric vanilla book-guard, yo B) .

Then having to level up another class because we had too many (almost only) Guards, almost immidiately.Then having to level up another class that we basically had none of.Then deciding to level up another class to be nice and help out because a friend felt jailed on his main, only to be jailed in that role myself.

That sums up vanilla, heh.

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The first time I went into WvW was because all the other dailies looked annoying. I was on EBG, red corner, and not quite lvl 80. For the first half hour or so I just ran back and forth between Speldan and Overlook, escorting Yaks and repairing walls. Then I fought my way through the Dredge (which was not easy), dodged a few enemy groups and, by pure chance, ran into a friendly zerg.

It was led by a massive Norn in glowing armor named Virtus Vis Maximus or something like that. He was easily the largest, most impressive figure I'd ever seen and he helmed the first group of allies I'd seen. I followed along for a while being more or less useless and somehow wound up joining his guild. He drilled us in all manner of zerg tactics and even had us go into EotM (my first and only time there) to test our tactics on enemy zergs. I stayed past when HoT dropped, oversaw the construction and material gathering for our guild hall and then...they all went to Dragonbrand and I declined to go with them.

Somewhere in there I discovered the borderlands. There was a strong network of scouts on my server who had strong relationships with each commander. When not being schooled in how to zerg/command, I hung out with the scouts, upgraded buildings when I had gold, conspired with roamers to boot enemies back to spawn and cleaned up the aftermath of assaults by running supply from camps to walls. I remember one warrior (but not her name...) who I could call on to consistently 1v3 enemies. I fell in love with the map control aspect of WvW: I wanted to know where every enemy was, what they were up to, what impact it would have and so on.

Eventually, the scouts slowly died out. I don't know why most left, but I personally went on hiatus due to the futility of defending on Alpine. If the enemy zerg was bigger, they steamrolled everything. It felt like nothing we did mattered in the face of a blob and blobs were becoming more and more common. After exhausting every method, I finally realized that I had to play flawlessly just for a small chance of creating a slight delay. In the worst of times, I'd switch to building solo catas on enemy fortifications and alerting commanders when I'd knocked a wall down.

I came back when DBL released, and while the map was not without issues, it did give me greater ability to delay enemies if I played my cards right. While my zerg/comm training went mostly to waste, I was able to stage such effective defenses as to get a healthy amount of salt whispers. I had one commander (who tried to siege as if I didn't exist) threaten to quit the game with his whole guild if I didn't stop. The obscured paths made it more challenging to track multiple enemy groups by sight, but sentries and flipping shrines balanced it out. It seemed like the start of a great time aside from WvW being emptied out while people were forced into PvE to build guild halls. Kind of...all went downhill from there...

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Yeah,

Seen Nebzie some month ago while roaming UW :). Nice memories.

@Frenjo.9587 said:My earliest memory is sometime within the year after release while I was on Underworld (EU), running around in EBG outside of the green keep as a greatsword/staff Mesmer. Brilliant commander called Nebsie or something along those lines gave me a full set of 18 slot bags since I kept having to derail the zerg to empty my inventory. Took a little break and by the time I came back UW had collapsed, so a friend paid for my transfer and I moved to Eredon Terrace - been there ever since.Always miss Nebs, I wonder if he still plays?

EDIT: Forgot to answer - I first realised I was a WvW main when it was the only gamemode that really got my attention, and it's sort of... All I've ever done, really. Nothing else has really ever captured my enjoyment. The sheer hilarity back in the first years of us all running around like headless chickens with no idea what was really going on will live in my mind forever.

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Can't remember much other than trying to do map completion on my core ranger way back then and finding someone from Crystal Desert who didn't directly engage me, I didn't even realize you couldn't talk to other players, we ended up waving at each other once he realized I was a noob, and then killed me for my wake-up call. Glorious. Months later I remember taking a 1v1 with another warrior at a camp after he beat someone else, it was a very fun fight, one I put up, but eventually lost as well. All I remember was getting repeatedly Leg Specialist'd, and that after the fight he bowed. All in all, both deaths were very memorable. Good ol' days.

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Trying to get verified on ts while running across home bl towards hills to catch up with the commander. I was SOOO nervous because I really hated talking to strangers back in the day. Then the ts supporter asked me to port back to citadel or something (in confusing WvW terms) to confirm that I'm on the server but a kitten pve mob got me infight... I think in the end I just had to write something in map chat. Somehow I survived without having a heart attack.

My next memory is scouting Anza for the very first time (our commander used to have us do 15min scout shifts back in the day) and calling out every single enemy that walked by. WvW seemed so huge and confusing back then.

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my earliest memory is waiting for an hour for the queue to pop, all BL's full, and some great Commanders with hammer trains running through a zerg, lot of power builds which has sadly been nerfed to the point that everything now is about Condi fields. I enjoyed the old style of brute force and karma trains, and the banter from the players. When eotm was introduced, it seemed a good place to join big groups and if you got into the right instance was amazing. my first recollection of eotm, was being attacked by a zerg that had placed rams on the gate, and they were all standing on the bridge of our keep, and I then used mortar 4 and all I saw was bodies flying off to eternity, great play great fun, but sadly, the changes imo have not been positive, as every class I played (and I play them all) has been nerfed to the point that the fun factor is removed in favor of pew pew rangers with 1500 range that sit on top of walls, and necros and scourges putting down aoe so you cant get close. I dont consider these good players, just average making the best of a bad situation. Make WvW great again!

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First experience of WvW for me was I think 2016 when a couple of people in my then guild talked me into messing around on Desert BL. None of them really WvWed (they sPvPed more than anything), and I was a complete PvE only noob who'd only been playing about a year. We messed around for about an hour defending a single tower and got friendly with a couple of enemy players who were also new to the mode. Not long after this, I discovered EotM and fell in love with following a tag and slaying in a group and it became my new home. I found k-training boring so I started looking around for a WvW guild so I could learn more than just the basics of staying on tag and running through Guardian symbols for swiftness. I had an offer to join RESO which I declined because I felt I was too scrub and didn't want to let people down, ended up joining a DB PvX guild after seeing a recruitment message saying they did WvW, but the guy who led WvW for the guild back then was a bit of a douche. He decided he was too good to run with us any more and left, then we had a new driver join the guild who I've followed ever since (gone from rank 300 to 3800), including to another server when DB became intolerable for us. It's now been about 4 years of the mode being basically my life in game lol.

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I was playing during the night and an enemy zerg decided to ram Veloka Tower. I was on a staff ele and I remember just nuking everyone including the rams by casting meteor then using tornado to scale up the damage by God knows how much lol. So many of them died and they had to leave, I felt like some powerful fairytale wizard using magic to defend the tower :) circa 2013/14

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That dated from the very first months after the release. I was pulling enemy commanders with the magnet. They were all so predictable being warriors or guardians. People rarely expected the opposing commander to be an engineer back then.

I also was roaming on a niche gadget based condition build with a net turret with a good amount of success. Back then pressuring with mere bleeds was a thing...

Hm... How about riddling the waterfall landing part of the borderlands jumping puzzle with turrets?

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