Guild Wars 2

just got the game now and dont really know what server to pick…

was thinking about choosing seafarers rest or desolation…but idk

With the megaserver system, the server you pick only really matters if you are interested in WvW. Here is the leaderboard list for WvW if that helps.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/wvw

As Trogdor pointed out, the Server you choose only matters for WvW.
So if you want to participate in large-scale pvp (what WvW basically is), you want to choose the right server rather now than later, since Transfers are expensive, and will lock you on a Server once you have opened your first character.
Ofc you always have the option to delete all your characters and transfer freely. It’s not even as bad as it sounds for new players, since you will keep your gold / other currencies and all items in your bank, even if all characters are deleted.

Anyways, to choose the right server, I’d recommend to read a few threads about the following keywords:
Roaming.
Zerging.
Blobbing.
GvG’s.
Karma Train.

Top tier Servers (gold-league) usually have a huge playerbase, leading to ques on their actual WvW maps (you still can enter eotm – “Edge of the mist” which is a unranked overflow map, ruled by power-levelers and Karma-Trains, doing nothing but Objective-flipping for loot / karma / badges / wxp and xp). Due to their big playerbase, most Servers on the top tend to blobb up and have lag-heavy large-scale encounters 24/7. Roaming does exist to a certain extend, but usually ends in being steamrolled by a bypassing zerg or blobb.
PvD (player vs door) is the prefered method to take objectives, and the advertised besiegments of giant keeps always never happens. Either they kick in the door and take it, or they fail horribly.

On the lower end (bronze-league) you have mostly desolted maps, bare of any players. Here and there a guild-group can be seen during prime-time (usually from 4pm-1am), but most people simply solo-roam, flip supply-camps and are subject to stomps against slightly larger groups from all the servers above them who “out-blobb” them. Occasionally you will have enjoyable fights, making smart use of siege, but most of the time the maps are simply empty.

In the middle you have Silver-league, which has a strong prime-time, that almost always forms blobbs that barely fill the map-que, and have many roamers and guild-groups in the off-hours to downgrade other Servers’ stuff and defend their own.
Upgrades do matter, and fights for objectives can last from 10min to several hours. The downside is that the servers in Silver-league have usually still a rather small, but more active community, which leads to coverage issues that is heavy exploited by the other servers who tend to be strong to exactly that time.
My server f.e. has a strong prime-time & nightcapping crew, but we lack numbers in the early morning and around noon. Therefore you will often earn nothing but frustration if all your efforts are gone down into the sink the next time you log in, because no one was there to hold it when the other servers grabbed your stuff.

So there you go.
Low tier is a roamer paradise, given that you don’t care if your server looses the week
silver tier offers a bit to everybody.
gold tier is a blobber-paradise, giving you a good chance for much loot or becomming a loot-bag for others.
Then again, eotm already is a loot-fest, accessible for all Servers equally.

Aurora glade!!!!

Best community ever, we even have a mascot, his name is Jadexi and you can always find his Sylvari in the nudes in Lion’s Arch! :P

What Novuake said. Here’s our thread -

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/Aurora-Glade-is-looking-for-you/first#post4558442

Gunnars hold used to be a great server to do WvW on. I hope it still is!!

The only map that has a q these days is EB at primetime on SFR, or one of the other maps if we map jump. rest of the time there is no q.

Doesn’t really matter what EU server you join unless it’s purely for wvw, in which case join Deso. but remember, EoTM is for upscaleds, don’t be another loot bag in real wvw.