Why would someone do this, what are the benefits / downsides to this?
(Talking about NA guild recruiting players from EU who are on an EU server)
Having guild members to cover nights in WvW?
Having guild members to cover nights in WvW?
Only works if they switch to an NA server (either pay 1800 gems or delete all characters)
Why would someone do this, what are the benefits / downsides to this?
(Talking about NA guild recruiting players from EU who are on an EU server)
The goal is to get coverage for EU peak periods.
It’s no different from a T1 world recruiting a top guild from say T2. In both cases, the recruiting world sets up a fund to help the candidate guild’s members buy gems to hop worlds. (Obviously, this was recently made more difficult due to the new currency restrictions, although that’s entirely off-topic to the question.)
It takes a lot of negotiating, since even moving just 100 people takes a lot of gold. You want to be sure that the candidate guild is only going to support moving dedicated players who are keen on coming to a new world and getting used to different styles and the existing commanders and guilds. The guild itself needs to be selective about its members, which can be painful sometimes, and as a group, they need to be willing to prove themselves all over again someplace new.
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