Guild Wars 2

Howdy everybody.

After a few bumps, I finally managed to get my hands on GW2, awaited the painfully long download to install it, but was quite surprised to find myself not being able to decide which server I should be starting out at.

Ok, so I’m stuck at the server selection. Why? I don’t want to lock myself into a national-biased server, as I prefer English as a main form of communication. Though since I do live in Germany, EU – I’m too worried about real-time latency and possibly bad timezone placement for logging to the NA servers. And I still prefer English over German as the main language.

Normally this would not be an issue if I wasn’t completely locked to a server right from the get-go, so this definitely seens something to be improved on (maybe a grace period during which a fresh account can freely switch servers to pick one to his liking, without having the feeling to be completely disappointed by ending by a badly mismatched unofficial community on the server.

And last not but least, I don’t want to end up in a crowded server where I end up more times playing on an overflow shard, than on the actual server itself. A nice international primarily English-focused community with a European server is what I’m looking for. Based on some websites, Piken’s Square might fit that description, but I’d like to get some feedback to see whether I’m on the right track here, or whether I should rather consider another server.

Thanks a lot everybody, and eagerly awaiting your responses!
norc

I’m on Piken Square, and there’s generally a good community. It is the unofficial Roleplaying Server as well, so you will also encounter IC conversations in the world at times, particularly in Divinity’s Reach. (Though of course not everyone is a RPer, and no one is going to mind if you don’t want to join in!)

In terms of population, things have settled down a lot now, and I tend to only see overflows in major cities at peak times such as Saturday nights. I also seldom have to queue for WvW, and when I do, it isn’t so long a wait.

Unofficial RP server as well! You made my decision for me. Thank for your positive feedback. :-)

There are plenty of EU English servers to choose from.
I play on Gunnar’s Hold and all the chat I have seen is in English, and it seems to be a friendly place to play.