As a HoD player
News flash, killing people isn’t fun with no one to kill. What did you think would happen when a server clearly goes above and beyond to collect a 24/7 presence of pure pvpers? Close games are far more fun, I would definitely suggest going through with a transfer, even losing is more fun then winning by default.
I’d suggest transferring to a server like Maguuma or Ehmry Bay. I’m from Maguuma and queues aren’t very long (sometimes they’re nonexistant), we’ve got a decent ranking at the moment, and fights are a blast ‘cause you don’t always win or always lose.
I dunno’ how Ehmry is, but judging by their score, it’s probably very similar. Also, the people on Maguuma are really cool (at least from what I’ve seen in my past two weeks in WvW) and even the non-WvW-guild people have pretty organized tactics.
Northern Shiverpeaks
we can try to fight all we want, but we can’t field full battlefields 24/7 with guilds only… it takes pug forces round the clock to fill in large and small gaps sometimes…. and when your server wakes up to being night capped by an NA server full of EU players….. it discourages the masses from bothering to do any WvW, because all of the hard work of staying even are completely gone…
after that, you’ll be lucky to find 1/10th the amount of unguilded people joining in for WvW.. its just the way it is. and the guild on the servers, even the huge alliances and such, just can’t keep things full up for any amount of time being realistic.
i suggest transferring to any other server, find one that suits you best and go for it..
more people should be like you, because honestly.. who wants to wait 5 hours to play a boring game because its so 1 sided during a time when less people are on?
i can tell that my server apprently doesn’t lol… from 10 pm til 10 am we had outmanned buffs in 3 of 4 zones tonight… new lows because of how staggering the night forces are on hendge
everybody wants a good fight.. (ok well not everybody some people are perfectly content with 6 hour queues and claiming 1st place through door farming).
but some people have to step up, and get to a place where that fight can be had. we all had a huge blast during the weekend when the scores were close and it was a tough fight all around, regardless of all the propaganda…. and its painfully obvious that neither server vs hendge right now, has the forces to compete at night, and it just throws the whole game off.
(edited by Kracin.6078)
I just want to point out. SBI and ET, the two servers complaining about the HoD “night-capping,” have had Heavy and Medium populations, respectively, throughout the night. The problem isn’t that you don’t have people playing; you just don’t have people queuing.
Edit: I understand that other servers do in fact have very low nighttime populations, but then again, you only need 500 people to cap WvW.
yeah i mean the perks of a winning server are great but i mean when there is nothing to cap or you are always winning its really a bit bland. Think im definitely going to transfer
I would definitely transfer. I mean, if you regret it, you can always transfer back….
(Yes, that is a backhanded comment to ArenaNet about keeping transfers open WAY too long on the top tier WvW servers)
I just want to point out. SBI and ET, the two servers complaining about the HoD “night-capping,” have had Heavy and Medium populations, respectively, throughout the night. The problem isn’t that you don’t have people playing; you just don’t have people queuing.
Edit: I understand that other servers do in fact have very low nighttime populations, but then again, you only need 500 people to cap WvW.
of course, every server has a huge number of people…. the full servers are pushing ridiculous numbers of people and only 1k queue at a time for WvW on those servers… we obviously aren’t talking server population, because ET is in the top tier with medium pop. and the only other medium pops are kaineng and devonas rest.
the server pop itself has nothing to do with the fact that no one is queuing, because only a certain portion of people playing the game in general will be queuing for WvW, and likewise for Spvp…. cant say i have ever done Spvp yet except in beta either. so count me out of that population. same can be said for 95% of my guild as well.
it is of course, the number of people participating in WvW on given servers.
ANet released a flawed game mode, but it took a certain alliance to break it. All of us can now eagerly await the rebirth of WvW, assuming that it can be fixed.
happy to see people that actually want to PvP and not PvQueue or PvGate
see you on the field
Come to Kaineng!!! No queues here!!
This is exactly why my guild avoided moving to henge. The queue times are awful and zergs against empty towers get old quick. SBI doesn’t have 24/7 population, but the commanders know what they are doing and the pvp gets really fun during peak hours.
I personally would suggest for you to stay with us. Think about it, other servers ARE getting better. Good enough to beat us? lol no. But soon enough I will admit we will get beat, and we will start having a real challenge with a server. Guilds from other servers will group up and all get with one server and start working together and finally give us a run for our money.
The queue time can be horrendous, but you know it is worth the wait when you finally get in. We don’t always have everything, there is usually always something to take over, you make your decision but I think leaving you will eventually regret.
Founder of TTS [TTS] gamers
“How do you feel about killing?” …I don’t.
I personally would suggest for you to stay with us. Think about it, other servers ARE getting better. Good enough to beat us? lol no.
HoD got stomped up until the reset zerging and night capping started. PRX and CND were stuck in the same BL getting humiliated for over 48 hours straight.
I just want to point out. SBI and ET, the two servers complaining about the HoD “night-capping,” have had Heavy and Medium populations, respectively, throughout the night. The problem isn’t that you don’t have people playing; you just don’t have people queuing.
Edit: I understand that other servers do in fact have very low nighttime populations, but then again, you only need 500 people to cap WvW.
of course, every server has a huge number of people…. the full servers are pushing ridiculous numbers of people and only 1k queue at a time for WvW on those servers… we obviously aren’t talking server population, because ET is in the top tier with medium pop. and the only other medium pops are kaineng and devonas rest.
the server pop itself has nothing to do with the fact that no one is queuing, because only a certain portion of people playing the game in general will be queuing for WvW, and likewise for Spvp…. cant say i have ever done Spvp yet except in beta either. so count me out of that population. same can be said for 95% of my guild as well.
it is of course, the number of people participating in WvW on given servers.
And my point is:
A server with 20k+ players currently playing on it (correct me if I am wrong, I remember ArenaNet saying they increased server caps to 40K, and just conservatively estimating that “heavy” = 50% of the server online) can’t field 500 players to WvW?
I just want to point out. SBI and ET, the two servers complaining about the HoD “night-capping,” have had Heavy and Medium populations, respectively, throughout the night. The problem isn’t that you don’t have people playing; you just don’t have people queuing.
Edit: I understand that other servers do in fact have very low nighttime populations, but then again, you only need 500 people to cap WvW.
of course, every server has a huge number of people…. the full servers are pushing ridiculous numbers of people and only 1k queue at a time for WvW on those servers… we obviously aren’t talking server population, because ET is in the top tier with medium pop. and the only other medium pops are kaineng and devonas rest.
the server pop itself has nothing to do with the fact that no one is queuing, because only a certain portion of people playing the game in general will be queuing for WvW, and likewise for Spvp…. cant say i have ever done Spvp yet except in beta either. so count me out of that population. same can be said for 95% of my guild as well.
it is of course, the number of people participating in WvW on given servers.
And my point is:
A server with 20k+ players currently playing on it (correct me if I am wrong, I remember ArenaNet saying they increased server caps to 40K, and just conservatively estimating that “heavy” = 50% of the server online) can’t field 500 players to WvW?
/facepalm
a server could still have 100k population and still only get 300 people at a time in WvW….. the difference is that servers like hendge have people who flocked to it specifically for the purpose of WvW after it was on the top bracket and ended up being the popularity vote for server transfers….
come on man, stop being dense
Im seriously considering leaving HoD to join JQ
We have queues too. I was once in line for four hours before it popped.
I’m not PRX or CND so I can’t speak on the behalf of them. But say what you want, we are back in first place… go ahead make the excuse that you guys “didn’t have enough people on, so we just took over places”.
The servers were paired up for a reason, and you guys still lost. GG. Go QQ somewhere else now please, so we can get back to beating you more.
Founder of TTS [TTS] gamers
“How do you feel about killing?” …I don’t.
I just want to point out. SBI and ET, the two servers complaining about the HoD “night-capping,” have had Heavy and Medium populations, respectively, throughout the night. The problem isn’t that you don’t have people playing; you just don’t have people queuing.
Edit: I understand that other servers do in fact have very low nighttime populations, but then again, you only need 500 people to cap WvW.
of course, every server has a huge number of people…. the full servers are pushing ridiculous numbers of people and only 1k queue at a time for WvW on those servers… we obviously aren’t talking server population, because ET is in the top tier with medium pop. and the only other medium pops are kaineng and devonas rest.
the server pop itself has nothing to do with the fact that no one is queuing, because only a certain portion of people playing the game in general will be queuing for WvW, and likewise for Spvp…. cant say i have ever done Spvp yet except in beta either. so count me out of that population. same can be said for 95% of my guild as well.
it is of course, the number of people participating in WvW on given servers.
And my point is:
A server with 20k+ players currently playing on it (correct me if I am wrong, I remember ArenaNet saying they increased server caps to 40K, and just conservatively estimating that “heavy” = 50% of the server online) can’t field 500 players to WvW?
/facepalm
a server could still have 100k population and still only get 300 people at a time in WvW….. the difference is that servers like hendge have people who flocked to it specifically for the purpose of WvW after it was on the top bracket and ended up being the popularity vote for server transfers….
come on man, stop being dense
I am not being dense and statistically that is close to impossible. I am making a point that there are plenty of people on these servers; the fact that they are not queuing for PvP isn’t HoD’s problem. It is the Server Community’s problem. Overall, people on those servers just do not have the overall pride and desire to fight like HoD does (this is partly due to the high concentration of WvWers on HoD, and also a defeatist mentality of the other servers), so they don’t win. So the people complaining about “the night zerg” of HoD, do in fact have the population to make one of their own, but it will take work to organize and get people involved in WvW.
The other issue, like you state, is the player’s who flocked to HoD. Once again, this is not at any fault of the players on HoD; ArenaNet is at fault for letting free, unmitigated transfers to every server.
If the community on each server can’t band together to mobilize their already existing, playing populations, then what else can be done?
is this a troll thread or something? i have been getting intant quequed from 1am til now on hod, it is not even close to full in wvw
during prime time its like 1~2 hours queques
is this a troll thread or something? i have been getting intant quequed from 1am til now on hod, it is not even close to full in wvw
during prime time its like 1~2 hours queques
so you are one of the night capper
ya, and i am a NA player and dont bang on doors, siege weapons <3
it is actually pretty rare to be in an empty map also, most of us that actually do chose to help out the server overnight know that we always have ppl to fight xx
well for the topic
i started day 1 on Blackgate and im still here. being on the best server doest mean u r the best though.
i dont really care win or lose WvW as long as i dont have to wait longer than 1 hour when i log on , so i can have fun.
i always get instant WvW though. only Eb during peek time i have to wait but longest is just 1 hour.
If HoD was a business it would be broken up as a monopoly. Imagine, hypothetically, if HoD was split between other servers. Can you imagine a SBI v JQ v ET matchup? The one I remember from matchmaking was truly epic. Having one server so far out there, in a league of their own, really makes it less fun for everyone…. including HoD it would seem.
ET and SBI have the players but they lost moral and don’t feel like playing anymore. Sore losers.
I am not being dense and statistically that is close to impossible. I am making a point that there are plenty of people on these servers; the fact that they are not queuing for PvP isn’t HoD’s problem. It is the Server Community’s problem. Overall, people on those servers just do not have the overall pride and desire to fight like HoD does (this is partly due to the high concentration of WvWers on HoD, and also a defeatist mentality of the other servers), so they don’t win. So the people complaining about “the night zerg” of HoD, do in fact have the population to make one of their own, but it will take work to organize and get people involved in WvW.
The other issue, like you state, is the player’s who flocked to HoD. Once again, this is not at any fault of the players on HoD; ArenaNet is at fault for letting free, unmitigated transfers to every server.
If the community on each server can’t band together to mobilize their already existing, playing populations, then what else can be done?
No one is saying that it’s HoD’s fault that other servers can’t field the same numbers. Though, If I’m not mistaken, HoD is the home to the giant Alliance of WvW only Guilds that was created and recruited through every major GW2 information source pre-launch (Titan Alliance)… the intent of which WAS specifically to field more consistent and organized WvW players than every other Server.
So to say that other servers simply need to (to paraphrase) get their stuff* together and that it’s possible for them to provide a challenge because overall server pops are similar is, to put it quite frankly, BS.
It’s foolish to think that anything less but the creation of a mirrored Alliance would be capable of providing a true challenge over a long period of time. Even an alliance between the other two servers couldn’t hope to provide sustained competition throughout the entire period of the match up simply because it would be considerably more difficult to keep things anywhere near as organized as the Titan Alliance on HoD.
A quick google search brings me to their website which boasts of 16 Guilds from all over the world. The site alone shows over 1000 members. While not all 1000 members are online at all times and some Guilds that are members are not 100% WvW all the time, at any given time this Alliance is capable of fielding larger numbers of organized groups than every other server and it shows.
None of this is against any ToS. It’s not breaking any rules or anything of the sort. It IS completely on the opposing servers to try to counter Titan Alliance’s strength and organization. However, this is nowhere near an easy task to accomplish so you shouldn’t act as if it is.
if low pop servers were consistently matched up with high full pop servers i’d understand the imbalance
but thats simply not the case, most of the top wvw servers all have high / full pop around the clock, maybe other than ET for being one of the newly released servers as well (which is never low pop either, mid to high throughout the day and growing fast)
Also there is no shame at all to being a lowers pop server yet put in the high pop bracket, it means you have skills to get there, that in itself is something to be proud of.
@Clever, this is not true. We just don’t have the population to be able to field a full force 24/7. This allows HoD to come in and take points with little to no resistance.
When everyone from ET/SBI gets on after they wake up/get off of work, they have a lot of work to do to take back their points.
I was on the ET borderlands last night, and we started out with not even a supply camp. By the end of the night, we had captured Godslore, Arah’s Hope, Astralhome, Longview, Cliffside, and (temporarily) had Etheron Hills. We also attacked Garrison twice, draining it of all the supply.
We’re not sore losers. It’s just frustrating to log on to a map that was, essentially, 50% yours last night and is now 0%.
Guild: Team Legacy [TL]
Server: Northern Shiverpeaks
Did I say it was easy? No, in fact I said it would take work to do, but it is something the players actually have some control and ownership in doing, rather than spinning their wheels trying to figure out ways for ArenaNet to fix it. ArenaNet has their own data that they are using to formulate solutions (if ArenaNet even thinks this is a problem).
All my post was saying is that the server has players on it 24/7, vastily more than the cap in WvW. If they want a better WvW experience, they need to get their large "off-peak population interested and engaged in WvW.
I personally would suggest for you to stay with us. Think about it, other servers ARE getting better. Good enough to beat us? lol no.
LoL this is a joke right? HoD got smacked around so hard for 3 days straight when the server rematched happened in the weekend. TA is crap… I see guilds like PRX, RMA , Armata, TRG… getting steam rolled by puggers smaller than what they run out in the field. You might be organized as a whole alliance etc or server… but to kid yourself that all the Asian/Oceanic or whoever is doing your nightcapping is saving your sorrykitten from falling of your high horses. So until TA can prove they can win without all them nightcappers over the weekdays yeah you guys are nothing but a big joke with just a lot of people.
Lets face the facts that your prime-time is mediocre at best. I find it kinda funny a lot of the HoD prime-time people take all the credit away from the very people that are making you guys the number one server…which is the absurd amount of asian/oceanic players you have in WvW when majority of the players are asleep. Infact the guilds that aren’t even in TA are probably the most organized out of all HoD.
Anyways you should change what you said to “Think about it, other servers ARE getting better. Do they have enough Asian/Oceanic players to beat us? lol no.”
All my post was saying is that the server has players on it 24/7, vastily more than the cap in WvW. If they want a better WvW experience, they need to get their large "off-peak population interested and engaged in WvW.
You’d have an easier time squeezing water from a Rock. Every server is a random mix of PvE, PvP, and PvX players. The percentages of each will vary, sometimes vastly. One thing that IS certain is that Henge’s percentage of PvP players is easily much higher than most due to the Titan Alliance and taking into account the Server Rankings + Open Transfers, HoD has attracted even more. Trying to convince pure PvE players to PvP is hard enough as it is. Trying to do that with the odds completely against them due to the enemy having superior organization is neigh impossible.
I said mirror Alliance and I meant it. The only feasible way Henge gets defeated in a 1 week or 2 week match up is if a large and reputable PvP Guild forms an alliance of equal numbers on a rival server. That or if Titan itself falls apart from within either due to drama or thinning numbers over time.
This is the reason that real Country’s have Drafts or Mandatory Military service. Simply telling people to join the fight does not field enough people to combat an enemy whose primary existence is military domination (with all other things being even).
Plainly said, your proposed solution isn’t a solution. It’s unrealistic. Barring some very unlikely scenarios or the passing of a good bit of time, Henge will continue to dominate and people will continue to be discouraged by it.
Yes TA guild members are weak and get killed by pubs in face that SBI has the 3 orb buff and the other two servers are basically spawn/keep camping on Eternal Battlegrounds during the first two days.
Sounds Legit.
Member of Henge of Denravi
Sbi took the orbs during TA’s primetime when TA people were on… HoD took the orbs back when noone was around really to defend them.. yeah that sounds legit too i guess? Like i said TA ain’t worth jack without the absurd amount of Asian/Oceanic players you have covering your sorrykitten so quit taking all the credit like it’s TA making a difference in HoD it isn’t you guys are just a zerg nothing more.
Close games are far more fun, I would definitely suggest going through with a transfer, even losing is more fun then winning by default.
Agreed. That’s why a ET vs SBI vs JQ match seems so attractive. As it stands now HoD is in a league of their own due to their population.
From the last ranking update, between ET, SBI and JQ there was only a 44 point difference in ranking. 44 points between #2 and #4. By the same rankings there is a 108 point difference between HoD and SBI, almost 2.5x the discrepancy.
more people should be like you, because honestly.. who wants to wait 5 hours to play a boring game because its so 1 sided during a time when less people are on?
Seriously. I’m on SBI and i’ve considered transfering off because good games are still to be had further down the bracket with little to no queue times.
ET and SBI have the players but they lost moral and don’t feel like playing anymore. Sore losers.
Did you ever stop to think why morale was lost? Why morale was lost over night while we were still winning?
I know, it’s gotta be hard for you to think, but do us all a favor and try.
HoD/SBI/JQ was the fun matchup. This week JQ is where ET was. And it’s just a population thing as has been noted with charts and practicality. I find now there’s no one on to kill here late night. Good thing because I get to sleep on time. But I did enjoy those late nights fighting players who had decent forces out and about every hour of the day, even if at the time we had no presence.
Well none of the other servers have taken metagameing to your length you guys pulled in guilds out of the region just to nighcap other servers or your all on welfare. Either way we have to work and when we get home we spend our time retaking what you have taken when we were not online. It has nothing to do with giving up lol its we are asleep and at work thats 16 hours of down time or more. Like you said most of the time you guys are not fighting anyone … try going back to your region. AA has a few out of region guilds but i think there largest guild has has like 25 players at there peak hours hardly game breaking.
Masters in Geek Mythology
YOU ARE NOT THE INVENTOR OF WORDS!!! lol
It will all start to balance out in the coming weeks. I am guessing they will give us some warning about impending closure of free server transfers and that will have a big impact on the decisions guilds make regarding their permanent home worlds.
Theres really no fame in winning a game that has no competition. It would be akin to NBA All Star team against a Junior High Girls Basketball team.
NBA all-stars have skill here is a better one. Its like my 13 year old cousing telling me how he beat the new halo not by fighting but running through the game as fast as he could.
Masters in Geek Mythology
YOU ARE NOT THE INVENTOR OF WORDS!!! lol
As an ET player curious about just how substantial we were out manned at night I decided to get on at 3 AM this morning and head out to a BL. One small problem, I hit a queue…not sure how that happened, considering our night crew was supposed to be non-existent.
The queues on HoD have gotten shorter over time (they were 6 hours at one point), while the queues got longer on SBI and ET. You basically can’t avoid the queues. Now look at the strengths of HoD. When we were getting pounded relentlessly and being humbled this weekend, we still played and we played hard. But it seems SBI and ET are putting forward less effort when they fall behind this week. I want a server with that sense of fight and eagerness to learn from the enemy, so I’m sticking with HoD.
And ArenaNet will obviously be doing something, so why not wait to see what they do before making any big decisions?
Sbi took the orbs during TA’s primetime when TA people were on… HoD took the orbs back when noone was around really to defend them.. yeah that sounds legit too i guess? Like i said TA ain’t worth jack without the absurd amount of Asian/Oceanic players you have covering your sorrykitten so quit taking all the credit like it’s TA making a difference in HoD it isn’t you guys are just a zerg nothing more.
I’m from the Asian area and yes we are grateful for what the prime time people are doing. We sometimes cross our time zones to help each other out and we know how skilled and coordinated they are when we are forced on our back foot.
You must not have seen or heard about the first orb that we took which involved the following:
1 shiny orb
2 legs running
3 consecutive mesmer portals
4 ET’s ballistas safeguarding the alter
5…. sorry It’s hard to carry on, I did my best.
Anyway, it also involved
40 identifiable ETs homing in from the whole map
and another 40 War Machine members missing the orb holder by about 10 seconds due to our mesmer portals transporting the orb holder to safety at Bay.
Member of Henge of Denravi
I personally would suggest for you to stay with us. Think about it, other servers ARE getting better. Good enough to beat us? lol no.
LoL this is a joke right? HoD got smacked around so hard for 3 days straight when the server rematched happened in the weekend. TA is crap… I see guilds like PRX, RMA , Armata, TRG… getting steam rolled by puggers smaller than what they run out in the field. You might be organized as a whole alliance etc or server… but to kid yourself that all the Asian/Oceanic or whoever is doing your nightcapping is saving your sorrykitten from falling of your high horses. So until TA can prove they can win without all them nightcappers over the weekdays yeah you guys are nothing but a big joke with just a lot of people.
Lets face the facts that your prime-time is mediocre at best. I find it kinda funny a lot of the HoD prime-time people take all the credit away from the very people that are making you guys the number one server…which is the absurd amount of asian/oceanic players you have in WvW when majority of the players are asleep. Infact the guilds that aren’t even in TA are probably the most organized out of all HoD.
Anyways you should change what you said to “Think about it, other servers ARE getting better. Do they have enough Asian/Oceanic players to beat us? lol no.”
people who make posts like yours are just looking to start hate and agression towards other servers. Its basic sportmanship that you dont call your opponents crap, yet you have done just that. Generalizing an entire server because they are on top. Seriously calm down with your overzealous gamer rage/ complaints
As an HoD player. I have not experience any of these things.
There’s this thing called Real Life that’s kept me off this game for about 2 weeks now… -_-
The server imbalance could be easily fixed with incentives for players to jump ship to lower ranked servers. More karma/tokens buff for moving to the under dog server? There’s a lot of options ANET has not taken to resolve the server PvP pop balance.
The server imbalance could be easily fixed with incentives for players to jump ship to lower ranked servers. More karma/tokens buff for moving to the under dog server? There’s a lot of options ANET has not taken to resolve the server PvP pop balance.
THis, this this. Why Anet is not doing anything I do not know? Some of these like incentives to transfer to lower pop realms are logic, not something that need data.
@Phaedren…you full of it. I got no Q last night at 7est. let alone 3am. We had a 10 minute Q around 10est and by 11est many started to log for the night due to work.
Sbi took the orbs during TA’s primetime when TA people were on… HoD took the orbs back when noone was around really to defend them.. yeah that sounds legit too i guess? Like i said TA ain’t worth jack without the absurd amount of Asian/Oceanic players you have covering your sorry kitten so quit taking all the credit like it’s TA making a difference in HoD it isn’t you guys are just a zerg nothing more.
If you completely ignore the fact we tried to take the orb back from SBI, only we couldn’t actually move the Orb after taking the keep, then yes.. I suppose what you’re saying is true
grin
Then again, so far from what I’ve read of your posts, it amounts to “Yes you’re winning, but only because of -insert excuse-, If it wasn’t for -insert excuse-…you’d be in last place!”
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^ There’s no excuses, only reasons. The reason for your victory in face of getting owned in prime time and over the weekend is that you have more players overnight. The reasons behind the outcome don’t speak to how good you are or how bad we are. Nothing to brag about, nothing to cry about.
Yes TA guild members are weak and get killed by pubs in face that SBI has the 3 orb buff and the other two servers are basically spawn/keep camping on Eternal Battlegrounds during the first two days.
Sounds Legit.
We took your (HoD map) garrison last night during prime time, and the orb you had in it. You lost your home map fully upgraded keep with an orb in it. Is there better definition of “getting owned” that I’m missing?
I just love that all the people we stomped in that keep were saying to each other “W-w-w-well, they won’t be able to hold it for long because when they stop playing this video game we’ll be able to take it back, r-r-r-right guys? Guys?”
I believe Derek is one of the guys from Titan Alliance trying to convince randoms to move to other servers
I don’t have that issue as a HoD player. I love playing with my guild and sometimes the queues are long but that’s what you get for a top tier server. Queue for a different battleground because I can get in in about 30 mins it seems now.