DLing game now, What server to pick?!
It would probably help to mention what timezone you are from. Otherwise you could end up with people suggesting NA servers when you could be in EU.
West Coast, but I usualy stay up till about 2 so a good night life server would be cool, but not THAT importnat really.
I don’t know about american servers (NA), but if you’re from EU, the few servers I can suggest are Elona if you’re german or german speaking, Vizunah if you’re french or just, again, french speaking, mine, Saefarers Rest if you’re into WvW, but you’ll find a very fair amount of players within PvE contect, BUT if you’re a lot more PvE player, rather than WvW one, join Desolation, it holds some records, along with Blackgate from NA with completing a lot of PvE stuff.
Hope it helped. Welcome to the comunity
BTW: If you’re joining EU and Saefarers Rest, contact me and I’d be glad to help you around the game ^^ Either here or in game (Character name is Oda Alrikkin).
EDIT: Oh, you updated that you’re from NA. Then the only thing I can suggest is Blackgate, but don’t take my word for it. It’s only something I heard of.
EDIT2: Here is a list of the best ranked WvW NA servers out there. It might help you pick a server.
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw
(edited by MasterKitty.8205)
Two things you want to consider are WvW and general server population. If you are super competitive you might want to pick a server in the top 6 or so in the WvW leaderboards. If not, it’s probably a good idea to pick one of them anyway, since they’re the more populated servers. I’m on JQ and we have a lot of great guilds here.
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Tarnished Coast for extra fun
Check MasterKitty’s leaderboard link.
Honestly, if I had a choice, I’d have chosen a higher (active) pop server. I’m on Maguuma, which has a good WvW scene, but PvE I’ve had a lot more fun guesting on Jade Quarry or Tarnished Coast. Since you can guest, you can use that every day as needed to be on whatever server you like (as long as you don’t mind the extra step at login). Trick is, you can’t guest WvW, so if you’re making a long term decision, that would be what I base my choice on. I normally need at least one guest choice for CoF runs since Mag doesn’t seem to like to do it often.
They had to SPAWN MORE OVERFLOWS!
Not CD if you like doing PVE :\
First off all.
population isn’t a real issue in gw2.
You don’t need to tag foes to get the loot, gathering nodes are for everyone (not first will get it) and you won’t miss rewards if you are on a very crowded server.
So, the question is what you want to do.
PVE: low populated servers offer more personal challenges, cause you need to solo content more often. High end content might be impossible, but you can guest to other servers for that.
WvW (world versus world, a PvE-PvP hybrid form thats huge and very interesting): You should use the leaderboards for that. High scoring servers on the leaderboard will have queue’s to enter WvW and PvE will be almost deserted. Due to a very intelligent matching system, being on a mid range world on the leaderboard, will mean you have interesting matches, (personally I find the matching in the top and bottom on the leaderboards boring, the top always win, the bottom always loose, the real challenge and interesting fights are in the mid sectrion).
PvP: pure pvp matches are actually very nice on all servers, higher populated servers might help you a bit, but its not a lot of difference.
Arise, opressed of Tyria!
http://www.sanctumofrall.com/great-tyrian-adventure.html
“Sanctum of Rall” has a good and friendly community and is a good place to start in GW2 with server wide events such as:
1. Daily Guild activities open to everyone who wasn’t able to do it with their own guilds or who don’t have guilds at the moment (rewards are good!):
…..a. Guild Bounties
…..b. Guild Challenges
…..c. Guild Puzzles
…..d. Guild Rush
2. Scheduled Hunts of World Bosses such as but not limited to:
…..a. Shatterer
…..b. Jormag
…..c. Tequatl.
3. Bi-weekly Map completion runs open to everyone
4. Introductory activities for PvP and WvW for Rallians
5. Free Raffles with Prizes including:
…..a. Legendaries
…..b. ANET freebies such as T-shirts
…..c. Gem codes
…..d. Gem shop items such as extra character slots
…..e. Precursors and other minor prizes
and more types of activities to come courtesy of local guilds such as the Gaisioch social gaming & athletics guild of which Roger “Oldroar” Rall the gamer for whom the server is named after was a member of.
SoR is currently in tier 2 of WvW which is the sweet spot if you’re into organized group fights, SoR currently has a high rating after its 1 year stint on tier 1 but it is currently on the mend and will have to restore itself quickly over the next month to keep itself in tier 2, then again with the new WvW League format to be instituted by ANET in the next few months only time will tell.
there are only 3 correct answers.
1) Blackgate
2) Jade Quarry
3) Tarnished Coast
Make your choice based on WvW. PvE can always be guested while WvW can not.
FYI Tier 1 WvW tends to be a blob fest due to the BG and JQ focusing all resources on stacking their Qs silly for the win. TC could be a match although its gonna be an uphill fight once the blobs get rolling.
For tier 2 WvW I highly recommend SoS, FA and Mag which offer significantly less blobby play (if you want a blob war you could always go to EOTM any time anyways).
Also, please remember that you can jump from one server to another for free IF you delete all characters (I think you can still keep your stuff in storage when you make new characters) thus you can sample any community you wish and have the option to switch (once per week).
Lastly, grinding for levels is not a good idea. GW2 is all about enjoying the game! the fastest way to level is to go with people doing events (which give far more exp than grinding or WvW in the shortest amount of time), it is in this I must once more recommend SoR wherein more community activities means more fun, faster levels, and more opportunities to make friends.
WvW empires come and go, but at the end of the day your experiences you will keep for a lifetime.
check the leaderboards window in this website…. and pick one of the top teir servers you are going to really need it for the living story and wvw stuff….. there is no reason to be in a low populated server in this game.. unless you have extremly bad pc.. and conection .. then a low lvl pop server would probably be better