Guild Wars 2

Since we will soon have to pay to make a server transfer, It would be very much appreciated If someone could provide some more info about the differences between playing on your home server and guesting on another server.

More specifically, is there any reason why we shouldn’t pick one server (the home server) for WvW and another (guest server) for everything else?

I’m very happy with my guild and server in all ways except WvW, so it would be nice to be able to play in a more populated WvW server and guest on my guild’s server for PvE. I’d essentially be still playing on the same server but “guesting” to a different server for whenever I fancy some WvW.

You just set it up opposite, you home for WvW and guest to play with your guild. Of course the problem with that is then you never generate influence for your guild. With the way they’ve set it up you only create influence for your home server, not for the guesting server.

I thought you gain influence for your guild, regardless of server?!?

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I thought you gain influence for your guild, regardless of server?!?

You do but it is server specific. So you will not get the benefits of the guild that it has on 1 server if you are alone on another. You would still get to see gchat, dungeons, ect but the only influence and perks you get are the ones on the server you are located on.

jazzllanna.1278:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I thought you gain influence for your guild, regardless of server?!?

You do but it is server specific. So you will not get the benefits of the guild that it has on 1 server if you are alone on another. You would still get to see gchat, dungeons, ect but the only influence and perks you get are the ones on the server you are located on.

So basically if you’re home is just for WvW and guest is for guild you’ll just miss out on the guild bonuses when you’re in WvW.

I’ve realised that by having “two home servers” you’re reducing your flexibility to guest on other servers since you can only have 2 guest servers at any one time. Can’t decide yet whether that’s worth sacrificing to have a better WvW experience.

In any case I’m hoping the new WvW updates will encourage a lot more people to play WvW on all servers.

Flax.4980:

jazzllanna.1278:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I thought you gain influence for your guild, regardless of server?!?

You do but it is server specific. So you will not get the benefits of the guild that it has on 1 server if you are alone on another. You would still get to see gchat, dungeons, ect but the only influence and perks you get are the ones on the server you are located on.

So basically if you’re home is just for WvW and guest is for guild you’ll just miss out on the guild bonuses when you’re in WvW.

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No, your home server is where you’ll accrue guild influence for, as well as play WvWvW on. Guilds exist across all servers, and players accrue influence for their guild on their home server.

You will miss out on your guest-server’s guild bonuses 100% of the time.

With the arrival of guesting, you’re playing on another server but your home is still what it was before and you will earn the guild influence on your home server regardless of where you’re guesting to.

So while you’ll be able to chat with your guildmates on the guest server, and play with them, you won’t ever get any of the guild bonuses from the guest server, nor will you be able to earn any influence on the guest server as I understand their explanation of how it all works.