Hello everyone,
Let me tell you the history of Far Shiverpeaks, its current situation, its plans for the future and why you should join us before Arenanet start charging real money to switch servers.
In the Guild Wars 2 Beta events, when the WvWvW clock was reset every 24 hours, Far Shiverpeaks was very successful, and attracted many Scandinavian, North European and Russian-based guilds and alliances, so much so, at release, Far Shiverpeaks was one of the first to achieve “Full” status. As a result, we became victims of our own success, and faced 2-5 hour queues to get into WvWvW, which some guilds found frustrating. The queues also meant we could not organise an effective defence against Vizunah Square, who were clearly better organised, especially with their night capping strategy that took many on Far Shiverpeaks by surprise.
Despite these initial problems Far Shiverpeaks held the number 2 position behind Vizunah Square, and we became rightly proud of our ability to win a fight when we were outnumbered.
Far Shiverpeaks has always had a strong PVE population, and many guilds split their time between PVE and WvWvW. This caused a rift between the guilds that were very focused on WvWvW ( mostly Russian), and the guilds who were less focussed on WvW. Things came to a head at the Halloween event when the WvWvW guilds asked the others to send reinforcements to the battle grounds and they were told that they were too busy fighting Mad King Thorn! This was the final straw, and one of the major Alliances, Disorder League left the server.
This caused a snowball effect, and many other guilds and alliances left, and consequently Far Shiverpeaks fell from Tier 1 to Tier 4. Ironically it was in that week in Tier 4 that we finally got our night fighting team organised to the point that we achieved 100% map ownership and we got back into Tier 3, but unfortunately several other guilds had decided to leave so we fell straight back to Tier 4, and most likely will drop to Tier 5 this week.
At the moment we have a well-organised night – early morning crew, but at peak times we can still get queues for Eternal Battlegrounds and Far Shiverpeaks borderland, but not the other borderlands. Many PVE players have responded to our call to arms, and we are doing our best to train these raw recruits and turn them into battle-hardened veterans, but this will take time.
In many ways the history of Far Shiverpeaks server mirrors the history of Far Shiverpeaks in the original Guild Wars story, as it is the region where the Ascolonian refugees nearly lost it all – it is where Prince Rurik lost his life to help save his people – yet it is also where hope was born, an alliance made with the dwarves, and the escape into Kryta where the people could rebuild.
Well the current Far Shiverpeaks WvWvW players are those refugees. We are a small band of tough, determined fighters with leaders who can fight and win against overwhelming odds. We have a newly reformatted website: www.farshiverpeaks.com, and large public TS3 server. The server maintains a high PVE population so any guilds who have a large PVE membership will be able to ensure that their members will get plenty of PVE action when not having fun in the battlegrounds.
We are looking for tough and determined fighters individually and in guilds who will not quit when the going gets tough. We may not get back to Tier 1 in the near future, but Far Shiverpeaks will come back and make WvWvW history. If you want to be part of GW2 history and not a short-term glory hunter, we will welcome you with open arms.
TL; DR
Far Shiverpeaks is an EU server that has experienced the best and worst of times in WvWvW. But in the words of the song “I get knocked down, I get back up again, You ain’t ever going to keep me down”.
If you share the sentiments of the song come and join us in Far Shiverpeaks.
Thank you Big Anorak!
