Guild Wars 2

Hello! Just finished downloading, and am very excited.
Been doing my share of digging around the web, and the question is still up in the air.

Where to go? Which World?

1- Quiet, PvE/RP? vs. Crowded WvW-Tier 1?
2- America? Europe? (Player Culture, not Player number question)

3- OR use Crowded WvW Tier 1 (NA? EU?) as base and go as ‘guesting’ as you say it here, on any other server for PvE?

4- Trading post is one for all realms, so I do not need to worry about gold vs. population, am I right?

What I want: Explore. Grab Gear if necessary. Battle from time to time, but chiefly explore and quest: PvE.

World choices are final, I understand. I do not want to regret this choice later during my endgame.

Do I follow the numbers, and go to the top US WvW server for future end game benefits?

Or do I follow my heart, and choose a beautifully-named server, come what may?

Appreciate any advice given.

Using Mac Beta

With much thanks.

To boil it down to Server names:
1- Tarnished Coast
2- Seafarer’s Rest/EU
3- Jade Quarry
4- Eredon Terrace
6- Darkhaven
7- Aurora Glade

Deep within my brain, a voice says, “Roll a 1d8”

Numbers win!
Guesting possible. So I can PvE on a low-pop server till I am ready for the big Kahuna on the WvW. And if that WvW server is low-pop by then, so be it. Will stick to it.

Seafarer’s Rest it is! Arr!

Hahaha you sound very eager! Great!

First: World Choices are not final! You can transfer for gems! Prices vary; crowded servers tend to be more expensive to transfer to! Some servers are free to transfer to

Second: No guesting needed! That has been made obsolete (at first glance) with the Megaserver technology! Read up on that!

Third: Have fun!

See you around!

Thank you! My STARS this thing is BEAUTIFUL.

So, since you’re using the Mac beta, I am going to assume you will be lacking the processing power or graphics to run the T1 WvW. Your world choice is not permanent. You can swap worlds if you like although some may cost you more gold than others.

The TP is constant across the game so your world will not affect this. For general PvE gameplay, it isn’t too relevant which world you are in since you can still play with your friends and guildies through the Megaserver.

There isn’t really an “endgame reward” as you say. The benefits of a top tier WvW world are minimal unless you’re absolutely passionate about WvW and want to be a commander in one of these servers.

If you’re new, take time to learn the game and experience different aspects of the game. The first play-through is quite nice and magical. Play around with different classes and really learn them. Then a few months down the line you can re-consider which server is best for you once you know what you’re interested in.

The absolute only thing that your server represents is your world vs world map. If you think you’ll be playing a lot of that, you want to ask yourself what kind of wvw experience you’re looking for. PvE does not require guesting; all servers have been combined and you’ll end up in PvE maps with people from every server (NA & EU are separate).

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This has been quite informative. This world is vast. So far, my WvW experience has consisted of ‘running with the herd’ by finding a ‘zerg’ on mere instinct, the first of which I had found by seeing the winged signet of a commander moving on the map, and deciding to stop chopping firewood to find out what that was.

I kind of understand the thrill horses must get from running together. Or ancient armies.

The other experience was being killed by the solitary warrior from other servers, roaming like seasoned predators across the landscape. Neither enemy nor ally leave time for sightseeing.