Guild Wars 2

Ok, so whats the difference between Mist was and Edge of the Mists besides that EotM is smaller?
It seems easier to do EotM for EXP purposes because i’m in Mist War right now and cant find anyone.
What one is better for leveling?

Edge of the Mists is seperate from actual WvW
-It is color based not server based
-the matches last 3 hours
-there is just one map, with overflow instances
-its a popular farming area for karma/champs/exp because there are a lot of people there constantly capturing objectives in a train.
-most people prefer to avoid fights and purposely lose objectives so they can be recaptured for the karma/loot/exp so there is no reason to upgrade or defend

WvW- For actual fights and objective defense
-There are 4maps, 3 borderlands based on color, one of them is your home borderland, the 4th map is called eternal battlegrounds
-The populations per servers varies during the time of day, map, and server

By mist war you mean WvW? You probably want to be doing WvW after you hit 80 and not for leveling. You’re looking for EotM.. though the matchups in eotm have not been great recently and sometimes people don’t tag up there because of it.

You can also chek these lists for the ranking of your server:

EU: http://mos.millenium.org/eu/matchups/
NA: http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/

Generally servers have the most activity between 8-10pm but that’s not the case for all servers.

Keegan.4172:

Ok, so whats the difference between Mist was and Edge of the Mists besides that EotM is smaller?
It seems easier to do EotM for EXP purposes because i’m in Mist War right now and cant find anyone.
What one is better for leveling?

Edge of the Mists is basically a karma/experience/champ bag farm. The teams are Red, Blue, Green – and the color you are each week is based on your server’s actual WvW color for the week. The matches only last 3 hours, and the only benefit to winning is that your home server gets a supply drop in its home borderland citadel. This map is better for leveling.

Mist War (simply called WvW) is a week long 24/7 matchup between three servers. Only members of these three servers will participate on the maps. The goal is to take and hold points (keeps, towers, camps), and scoring is based on PPT (points per tick). Every 15 minutes the PPT is totaled, and the points awarded to each server based on what they are holding at the end of that 15 minutes. Again, no huge benefit to winning, but people who play this game mode play it to win and for the fun that happens in between. This map is not good for leveling unless your server decides to take a huge zerg on a karma train. While you are upleveled to 80, you will not be on par with true level 80 characters.