Guild Wars 2

Hi!

I’m looking to move to an active EU server. Pref international.

Since my current server (Gunnar’s Hold) is rather dead most of the time I’ve started to look for greener grass elsewhere.
I’m looking for tips on what server would be a good choice.

As a player I enjoy evrything aslong as theres alot of players/activity and doesn’t feel like a single player game.

I’ve been trying to get some info about Far Shiverpeaks and deso, how a normal day is on those servers.
Maybe there are other servers that are good too? IDK

Any tips are welcome!

Deso is active 24/7. I recommend that you go there.

Desolation has probably the best 24h7 coverage of all EU servers. But the fact is our prime time is weak. We often have outnumbered “buff” on us on 3/4 maps (usually the borderland maps) in prime time. We have several guilds raiding, but our 5-15 player guild teams cannot match the size of 20-30 man enemy teams. Almost all the gvg guilds left our server.

On the positive side you don’t have to worry about queues, besides the usual 1-15 player queue to EBG in the peak of prime time. Even during reset there is no more queues. 3 out of 4 maps is always without a queue. There is always action in Eternal Battlegrounds from earliest morning till noon, afternoon, till crazy night hours. Almost always PuG commanders to follow. The typical size of Desolation “zerg” in early morning till early afternoon is about 20 players plus few roamers around the same map. Most players are not from UK, but can understand/speak some English.

Deso is in its own ‘league’, but its not like pugs can expect to be carried in fights, things are only regularly active at night really, when there’s little to fight.

Sadly they have little choice of guilds to choose from, if they decide PPT is boring, or roaming is too difficult. Then again, I don’t think many end up joining guild on here anyway, trying to recruit here is difficult.

I rarely play at night, because I have a full-time daily job, but last I had trouble falling asleep. I was in EBG all the time, since the borders were all more or less green (Desolation color). There was reasonable amount of action at night. At first we had just 5 guys around the commander when enemy had 20. It was actually nice time for solo roaming and trying to defend things vs bigger enemy groups.

Then Art from Deso Nightcrew [ROCK] tagged on and our group grew to 25+. We took everything on the maps, despite the enemy defense. I think enemy gave up, after Desolation started to tick well above +500. Our tick went to +690.

In other words if you want to enjoy almost no opposition from late night (4 am) to early morning (9 am), then Desolation is the server for you. I wish there would be more opposition. On the other hand Desolation prime time would really need 1-2 big fight/gvg oriented guild to challenge the opposition. Then we could perhaps have more interesting fights and gvgs on the borderland maps, instead of PuG blob clashes in EBG. I am more into the latter though, Hap commanding yesterday evening prime time in EBG was so much fun. His laughter is priceless.