Guild Wars 2

Players on Shiverpeaks! Can you tell me what it’s like over there in terms of population, player willingness to assist in dungeons, quests, etc., guilds, general sociability, etc.

I’ve been thinking of switching but the 7-day waiting period can be quite bothersome…

This is coming from a former NS player. The population when I was there was fairly high even in off peak hours. There were quite a lot of friendly people most of the time but mainly a friendly environment. Reasons for moving I was playing off peak hours, moved back to an EU server as it suited my time frame and take lead on a newly formed guild.

Guilds I’m not that too sure about. There are still a few moderate to large guilds but due to the stupid Ascension Alliance FUBAR, NS was still recovering and still is from what I hear.

Lots of folks to do dungeons normally with a friendly communicative bunch. General sociability was fairly good fairly easy to talk to others but you do run into one or too that aren’t too friendly.

It’s okay but the stupid alliance FUBAR means the NS community is recovering but doing well with what they have.

Former or not, it’s still helpful. What’s FUBAR though?

Ermm. Bad words, term used by some USMC soldiers I know. Guess I got the habit from them.

Stands for F’d Up Beyond All Recognition. The NS community from my experiences were great before the ‘pro teams’ and Ascension Alliance messed up such a good community. Basically the story was The Alliance (full of allegedly pro teams blah blah blah, moved there. After a crushing defeat from some rivals they all picked up and left causing all sorts havoc and messing with the NS community after lying about ideals that their interest was trying to form a better community my butt.)

So the NS folks were left for dead. There has been a great restart and I hope that NS continues to thrive. It is doing fairly well now but there is still a lot if resentment about the whole debacle.

Have no fear about it being messed around again. If you do decide to move you’ll be met with good sociable folks. There’s a fair amount of people even on offpeak hours.

Good luck gervan,

Glitch

Wow. The “pro” players really seem to mess up the experience for everyone don’t they? Well do you have a server that you’d recommend?

I like to walk up to people and start random conversations about nothing in particular. And no one breathing down my neck to go into WvW or about our current WvW status.

I still do recommend NS if you want to randomly start a conversation with pretty much anyone. There’s still many beautiful people there.

As usual I recommend Sanctum of Rall, Tarnished Coast are also good places for community. (TC is getting a bit harder to get into but well worth it if you do)

Sorry I have a lot of negativity about the NS incident as they messed up a really amazing server.

I still do recommend NS if you want to randomly start a conversation with pretty much anyone. There’s still many beautiful people there.

As usual I recommend Sanctum of Rall, Tarnished Coast are also good places for community. (TC is getting a bit harder to get into but well worth it if you do)

Sorry I have a lot of negativity about the NS incident as they messed up a really amazing server.

I’m currently on Northern Shiverpeaks and I’m pretty amazed about the community. I guess I never noticed the crazy alliance business so I can’t comment on that. I can say that being a relatively dumb mmo player, most questions I have are answered pretty quickly on map chat and if I’m downed people come to my aid pretty quickly.

I guess I come from a pretty jaded/selfish mmo but I can’t believe the how cool the people here are. There’s fun conversations going on in the map chats and people just have a good time. The only place where I’ve encountered rude people hanging around is Lion’s Arch. Seems like not a good neighborhood.

It does seem to have a pretty high population. Even when running early zones there are people around. The only exception I’ve seen is when playing early in the morning Eastern time. It’s fairly dead in the plains of ashford but I do see oh maybe about 3 to four people doing events then.