Guild Wars 2

Well long story short is this, i hate pvp. I hate world vs world. I do pve.

I have zero desire to do any pvp. However this game forces me into wvw for my pve achievement that is World Completion.

Due to season 1 the current battleground that i reside in has not captured the points i need in well over six months.

These points have NOT flipped. im sure if you spend every waking moment on the game they may flip once every half month or so.. but nobody can do that.

So my question is would transferring to another server help my world complete? because like i said i dont want to pvp.. I HATE IT.. i endured it enough to get it to where i only need 2 more points left to be done.. 99% map completed on my pve achivement.. and stupid wvw requires that i cap the enemy bases that NEVER CAP NOW BECAUSE OF SEASON ONE…

so i want to transfer to a low pop server where all the points in eternal battleground are constantly changing. that way i can get this pvp crap finished and move on to what i enjoy.. pve.

my question is are there low pop flipping servers that they are letting you transfer to for free? or do i have to pay more money on top of everything else simply so i can have a chance at finishing my PVE ACHIEVEMENT.

Sweet, I am going to go out on a limb and bet that once people notice how hard getting world complete done is now that seasons are underway. They will start being rather unhappy and anerf will have no choice but to make the points rotational on a month schedule or something. that way you dont run the risk of players going for years and years without even the chance of capping certain points.

Sorry, but no. There are no servers you can switch to for free. The only way to do so is one I doubt you would want to do, which is to delete all your characters.

I’ve never switched but isn’t there a period of time that you can’t WvW after switching? If you do switch, you might be in the same situation once the cooldown period is over. And you certainly don’t want to get a server that always does poorly in WvW.

If it were me, I would consider going to the highest ranked server. At least you would then have a good chance of being in a competitive server. However, as a comment, I’m in the Henge of Denravi server. It’s one of the lowest population servers but it seems to do pretty well in terms of WvW. I don’t WvW either but I got mine done, of course it was before this new system. Maybe you could guest to it and other low population servers and try asking in LA map chat about how well they do and how likely it is that you will be able to get these points.

Ive switched servers a few times theres no period on how long you have to wait before you can join WvW(unless that changed in the last month or 2 ), the only restriction is that you cant swap servers back for like a week or so.
There was an event recently that reduced cost of switching servers but i doubt any of them were free( i think cheapest was like 400 gems) you could wait for another one of those or rally up a mob and take stonemist ( im assuming thats prolly the one u need) and get your stuff that way .

If you’ve been waiting 6 months it’s not because of Season 1. That only started in October.

Depending on the locations you’ve been waiting for you could either try to get a group together on your server to take them so you can finish the map, or you might need to wait until your server changes colour.

Some locations, like the keeps in Eternal Battlegrounds, almost never get taken and you’d have a hard time finding a group to try. But no server stays the same colour forever. I’m still new to WvW but as I understand it they swap at least every few weeks.

Can someone explain to me what Season 1 has to do with how difficult it is to map WvW?

People have been complaining about this since launch, it’s not like until they added Seasons everyone could go wherever they wanted on the map. And it’s also not the case that servers don’t change colour during a season.

I just can’t see how it’s changed anything.

Since the servers do change colors, you should be able to get the whole map in a reasonable amount of time. I don’t know how often you play, or how long your play sessions are, so that adds to the difficulty of completing a WvW map, especially for a PvE player. This site is a live map for WvW: http://mos.millenium.org/na Find your server and click on Live Map. It will show you what each server owns in the match-up. So you can play PVE and watch the map for whatever area you need to complete. Hope it helps!

You can do WvW-maps rather easy, all it takes is TIME.

The biggest mistake people ever make is not realizing that you shouldn’t wait till everything else is done before setting food in WvW. The real trick is to go there everyday . And see what you do. Due to maprotations and change off commanders leading the zerg left or right you can do things almost every day.

Also it helps to check on odd times like the middle off the night. Often then it happens that some servers suddenly can capture stone mist castle by surprise. It actually only takes 10 people if undefended.

I promise if you make it your routine to check daily what you can do, you can do it with almost no effort or getting to do pvp-elements there.

Danikat.8537:

Can someone explain to me what Season 1 has to do with how difficult it is to map WvW?

People have been complaining about this since launch, it’s not like until they added Seasons everyone could go wherever they wanted on the map. And it’s also not the case that servers don’t change colour during a season.

I just can’t see how it’s changed anything.

The season has caused some servers(possibly all servers) to stay the same color for multiple weeks.

For example Desolation is blue, blue, blue, green, green, green, blue. That is not really an issue for Desolation but then you look at Vabbi and it is red, red, red, red, green, red, red. Some other servers are green for almost the whole season. There is less rotation during the season than normal.

It has also increased the number of people playing which means longer queues. That can be especially problematic if the amount of time you have to play is limited and/or restricted to certain times of the day.

Ask the WvW guilds when they do raids. Often times one or all the guilds do raids every night, find out when they do them and what BL they will be on, most of these raids get a good number of people and often flip lots of stuff on the map and are WvW noob friendly as it’s a large zerg and not hard to stay alive in.

Also while not related to the season there is a big overlap with the update that adds the Toxic Alliance stuff into WvW. That makes several of the SP harder to do.

The OP reads more like hes raging, most likely ganked while doing map completion, so now we hear about all the ‘problems’.

The map allocation rotates so it’s easy enough to get the majority of the spots, he’s not clear about what hes missing, so I can only recommend patience.

Go to the WvW thread and you’ll see threads complaining that WvW players HAVE to go to PvE to get materials for ascended gear to make them more competitive etc. ANet want you to experience different parts of the game, don’t like it, don’t play or stop with map completion.

SoPP.7034:

The OP reads more like hes raging, most likely ganked while doing map completion, so now we hear about all the ‘problems’.

The map allocation rotates so it’s easy enough to get the majority of the spots, he’s not clear about what hes missing, so I can only recommend patience.

Go to the WvW thread and you’ll see threads complaining that WvW players HAVE to go to PvE to get materials for ascended gear to make them more competitive etc. ANet want you to experience different parts of the game, don’t like it, don’t play or stop with map completion.

Not only that, but most WvW could care less about PvE maps, and to get map completion, we have to spend a whole lot more time to clear allot more maps and PvE content to get it.

Wait around until your server gets matched up against weaker servers. Your server will undoubtedly dominate the map giving you free range to get your map completion.

Unless you’re on the lowest of low servers. Sorry, bro.

Khisanth.2948:

Danikat.8537:

Can someone explain to me what Season 1 has to do with how difficult it is to map WvW?

People have been complaining about this since launch, it’s not like until they added Seasons everyone could go wherever they wanted on the map. And it’s also not the case that servers don’t change colour during a season.

I just can’t see how it’s changed anything.

The season has caused some servers(possibly all servers) to stay the same color for multiple weeks.

For example Desolation is blue, blue, blue, green, green, green, blue. That is not really an issue for Desolation but then you look at Vabbi and it is red, red, red, red, green, red, red. Some other servers are green for almost the whole season. There is less rotation during the season than normal.

It has also increased the number of people playing which means longer queues. That can be especially problematic if the amount of time you have to play is limited and/or restricted to certain times of the day.

Is that really caused by the season though? I remember seeing a lot of topics complaining about the exact same problem before that ever started. And the OP said they’d been trying to finish it for 6 months now, which is long before it was even announced.

This problem was not caused by the Seasons achievements. It has been around since launch.

The ‘color’ of your server does rotate quite often now. Just wait around until a week where your server has the color you need and grab the points you need.

The color rotation hasn’t been that great during Season 1 of WvW, but if you are patient your server will eventually be red, blue, and green.

This was a bigger problem early in the game when the servers didn’t rotate colors. Color was based on your performance. If you were on a low population server that didn’t do well, you were always stuck in the same color.

Danikat.8537:

Khisanth.2948:

Danikat.8537:

Can someone explain to me what Season 1 has to do with how difficult it is to map WvW?

People have been complaining about this since launch, it’s not like until they added Seasons everyone could go wherever they wanted on the map. And it’s also not the case that servers don’t change colour during a season.

I just can’t see how it’s changed anything.

The season has caused some servers(possibly all servers) to stay the same color for multiple weeks.

For example Desolation is blue, blue, blue, green, green, green, blue. That is not really an issue for Desolation but then you look at Vabbi and it is red, red, red, red, green, red, red. Some other servers are green for almost the whole season. There is less rotation during the season than normal.

It has also increased the number of people playing which means longer queues. That can be especially problematic if the amount of time you have to play is limited and/or restricted to certain times of the day.

Is that really caused by the season though? I remember seeing a lot of topics complaining about the exact same problem before that ever started. And the OP said they’d been trying to finish it for 6 months now, which is long before it was even announced.

That was also an issue before they introduced the color rotation and slight randomness in matchups. It also had very stupid situations like you can lose the match and still increase your ranking and the colors were based on the relative rank at the start of the match.

Oh and just in case anyone isn’t aware and and still not obvious from my previous post, all the colors were already determined before the season even started. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-Season-1-Schedule

I did not respond sooner because i wanted a chance to try all the suggestions. As it stands from the time of my first post it has been around three days.

I have put to use some of the suggestions made and have gotten zero out of it.

I see the Same cap points that i have been seeing for months (colors did not rotate sorry if you think they did)

I am going to keep waiting and keep watching. And months from now when i come back with proof that the points on my map are NOT rotation. Then maybe i can get some actual help.

Kootz.3479:

I did not respond sooner because i wanted a chance to try all the suggestions. As it stands from the time of my first post it has been around three days.

I have put to use some of the suggestions made and have gotten zero out of it.

I see the Same cap points that i have been seeing for months (colors did not rotate sorry if you think they did)

I am going to keep waiting and keep watching. And months from now when i come back with proof that the points on my map are NOT rotation. Then maybe i can get some actual help.

Colors do rotate sorry if you think they don’t. Your best bet is to go to your servers website and watch for guild raids. Another thing to remember if you are just there to cap points is to have speed buffs/smoke fields so you can avoid enemy players.

Kootz.3479:

I did not respond sooner because i wanted a chance to try all the suggestions. As it stands from the time of my first post it has been around three days.

I have put to use some of the suggestions made and have gotten zero out of it.

I see the Same cap points that i have been seeing for months (colors did not rotate sorry if you think they did)

I am going to keep waiting and keep watching. And months from now when i come back with proof that the points on my map are NOT rotation. Then maybe i can get some actual help.

The colors will only change once a week (every Friday on reset). Check the link provided and see what color you will be next week. I have also been waiting for colors to change. We got red this week and I was able to grab what I needed and according to the chart, we will be green next week allowing me to finish world completion.

Hang in there and have a little more patience. Best time to log in, check the map and try to grab the points is during the Friday night reset.

The colors change every week, so you can get different borderlands/keeps. Your starting positions on EBH also change every week.

With patience, the ONLY point you have problems with if your world absolutely sucks at WvWvW is Stonemist Castle, because you can’t quite get that point by default as any world. For that one, try to work together with a guild/assemble a strike force in Lion’s Arch if possible for this purpose. Larger worlds won’t care; for worlds that normally have problems getting SMC, you won’t be the only player stuck out of world completion because of this, so you should be able to get a few. You should have enough resources to win it at least once, whereby you send all your characters into SMC after its taken, one by one, until someone else recaps it from you. That once is all you’ll need.

Hint: It helps to have 4 alpha siege golems. Keeps only need 2, but SMC is special.

My 4-man WvW guild has taken Keeps before… and we routinely take down Towers with no difficulty. And this is against worlds like Fort Aspenwood. If I were to guess, the minimum number of people required to take down SMC if you know what you’re doing is 10.