Hello WvW community,
Many of you know me as the guy that guy that has been promoting Kaineng (currently the last ranked server in NA) as the place to be for the few weeks.
I made these posts because Kaineng was truly a fun server to play on, and over the months I’ve heard from dozens of guilds and individuals that have transfered to try out Kaineng due to my posts. Some have stayed, many have moved on, but I appreciate them all giving us a try.
The truth is, life has changed on Kaineng over the last couple of weeks. We’ve lost a lot of guilds who were tired of losing by 500K points every where week and realized that having the outnumbered buff in all 4 zones at any given time was just never going to amount to a balanced fight.
But something unexpected has also happened during all of this. Kaineng has started to grow. Our 2 man WvW efforts grew to 5 men, then 10, then 20, and now I often see what appears to be about 40+ people running around in WvW.
However, with this growth, and with the high turnover, we’ve experienced more than our share of growing pains as lots of unfamiliar faces show up all at once and try to adjust to the situation.
Allow me to take off my PR hat and be candid for a moment.
Kaineng, for me personally, has gone from being an extremely fun band of rebels working together to pull off some really cool battles against what is effectively a titan in our tier, to being a collection of strangers fighting each other more than the enemy. We’re going backwards. Our tactics have gotten sloppy, and we’re trying to play like a large server when we’re not one. We’re being crushed in almost all of our efforts because of it.
I really hope we can turn this around as I’ve talked to multiple veteran guilds in the last couple of days that are ready to transfer.
Today I’m promoting a change in the way we as a server communicate. It’s time to put aside egos and stop pointing fingers, and start trying to come up with solutions that work.
Let me be clear, with our numbers we’re NEVER going to win our server pairing. We simply don’t have the numbers to be in more than one zone at a time effectively.
However, we can, with very little effort, get back on track to working together as a team and putting up the kind of fights that the larger servers used to respect us for.
Guild leaders and WvW reps, please read the following, reply to the post and add your contacts to in a reply. I’ll follow up with everyone shortly with the next step.
http://kaineng.tumblr.com/post/32804437805/kaineng-guilds-lets-get-it-together
Please help spread the word.
Returns PR hat to its original position
See you on the battlefield!
Fubuki
