Guild Wars 2

Anyone know any good non farming servers? It seems that’s all most people do. I work 5:30am to 7:30p so I don’t get much time to play. Usually I only get to do 1 run (if any at all) but I’ve never come close to successfully completing it. I always find myself alone trying to close portals. I’ve tried focusing on portals near waypoints so I can keep running back but just takes wayyy to long

Or… would anyone be interested in hosting an event on a less populated server so we can get our achievements??

It’s all most people do because most people have already completed the achievements associated with them.

Good luck all the same.

Let me know too, SoS has really gone down the drain community wise. Maybe another free server transfer week would help people who enjoy the game to get away from the farmer-orientated servers.

Hate to break it to you snowflakes, but there’s more farmers than not.

TC seems good. we win about 50% of the time.

Actually I have been lucky. At least 3 out of 4 invasions have succeeded. Server? Overflow.

Any of the servers with large PVE communities (TC, JQ, BG, especially) should win more often than not. The problem is that it’s difficult to actually enter the server map unless you’re very fast.

Yak’s Bend so far has won every time I’ve managed to get into the main map, most times still with over 5 minutes left when scarlet dies (from a guildie I know of at least one time main map failed, though). That said, I think I’ve been lucky so far with overflows (which are cross server), I’d estimate that about 60 or 70% of the overflows I’ve been in have succeed in killing scarlet as well.

I have done 11 maps plus some repeats, and I have failed only once in Seafarer’s Rest, EU. It was late in the night when it failed (around 3 to 6 am depending on the country), the other times it was always successful even in overflows. With remaining time to spare.

ALl of them succeed on CD but Frostgorge is 100% failrate.

Yup, guest to CD, we have our fair share of farmers (i’m one of them) because as time goes on more and more people finish the achievements and either A. Farm or B. don’t do the invasions anymore. But with all that being said, we have full maps and everyone just devours the mobs so we usually always succeed, unless it’s frostgorge.

what’s wrong with frostgorge?

Before blaming farmers perhaps you should look at the server you are playing at. More than likely it is a low population server.

The best I’ve seen is 12 minutes left – and we were on an overflow. I’ve seen it beat on overflow more often. So going to an overflow intentionally could be a viable strategy.
If you really want to beat the event (even in an overflow) organize a few people and go off the beaten path with your group. Do the events away from the commanders. We did that with a group of about 10 and it seemed we were wrecking the minion phase time-wise.

Excalibur.9748:

what’s wrong with frostgorge?

Its a high level area so people really just want to farm when this map comes up. Hence why he said near 100% failure rate.

HoboLyra.4908:

TC seems good. we win about 50% of the time.

No more players are needed in TC.

Onshidesigns.1069:

HoboLyra.4908:

TC seems good. we win about 50% of the time.

No more players are needed in TC.

Failure rate in TC is actually high because you always get into an overflow instead.

Excalibur.9748:

Failure rate in TC is actually high because you always get into an overflow instead.

Yet other’s here report a higher rate of success in Overflows and from what I have experience (granted, I’m not running more than 2 invasions a day) on Yak’s Bend, that is true. Without actual statistics from ANet, all this is an educated speculation on both our parts.

Excalibur.9748:

Onshidesigns.1069:

HoboLyra.4908:

TC seems good. we win about 50% of the time.

No more players are needed in TC.

Failure rate in TC is actually high because you always get into an overflow instead.

I think it depends a lot on time of day; on Ferguson’s Crossing, my home server, I haven’t seen one finished since the first night they came out, but I rarely get to play evenings, it is normally morning before work EST in the US, which is fairly dead. At that time on TC I’ve never needed to go to overflow, and I’ve seen about 20% failure rate even on TC for lack of people.

I feel compelled to mention that you don’t need to succeed to get the achievements. As long as you’ve beat scarlet once, you can get every single achievement. There are bugs where the achievement progress is stalled, but it has nothing to do with failing/succeeding