Guild Wars 2

Hello,
I just recently started playing gw2 Again after being away for over 1.5 years.
before I left I used to play in NA [even tho i’m closer to EU region] because i had friends playing on those servers. It seems since i left [after mega servers were introduced] that I have much higher ping causing lag and its getting annoying playing like that [especially PVP], and now also you are not able to play with people from EU servers… which I also have friends on. and a totally different issue is the timezone.. so different hard to find guilds for my time zone.

So ye… I need to find myself a new server in EU, now since it costs so much ¹⁸⁰⁰
I want to make the right call with choosing a Server to play on… but how do I do that ?XD

Thanks

well, the only difference a server now makes is who you fight for in WvW. chose by how the server is doing or if you are not interested in WvW use your prefered search engine to find community sites for servers and see what they do. many servers have people that organise events etc. find a guild you like and move to the server they are based on – but again, that is likely a WvW thing.
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups

if you chose by WvW rankings then be aware that “tier 1” servers tend to be stacked and will likely have queues at peak times. and under populated servers will be put up against servers with a higher population and have very unbalanced matchups. the current matchups between Dragonbrand, Ehmry Bay, Anvil Rock are a good example of this. one server is winning by a large margin so likely very little to do for the people there a lot of the time and the servers that are losing have little chance of doing much as they are so out numbered.

but that is only if your server choice takes into account that you want to take part in WvW.

and Searching by guild? how do i do that?
is there some site for a guild data base?
p.s at the moment the servers I have in mind are:
Desolation[cause that is where iv’e been b4 moving to eu]
Gandara[i have a few friends on there]
or Seafarer’s Rest[also have a few friends on there..]

there is a guild posting sub-forum on ANets forums https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor

there are also server forums.

desolation – http://www.desospeak.com

gandara – http://thisisgandara.com

seafarers rest – http://pevepe.net/gw2

use whatever search engine you prefer and try “gw2 guild recruitment” there are quite a lot out there.

ye thanks, trying to make the right decision b4 i spend 1800 gems O_o