Guild Wars 2

Two weeks after release our guild decided to move away from desolation because of the huge queue times and the fact that we were struggling very much to get all our members on the same map. We are considering moving back to the server whilst the transfers are free providing that it has improved from release.

So desolation,

How at the current queue times at primetime?

Is there currently an alliance in place n the server for organized WvW action?

Also are other any other PURE significant PvP guilds?

Thanks for your time and looking forward to the responses.

Last week(winning): long queue times on eb during weekend. Average queue times on bls. Queue times sharply diminishing with the week as the advantage snowballed.

This week(losing): long queue time on eb on saturday. Average queue times on bls.
Queue times went down on sunday already, and are now essentially non existent on all maps.

IRON is the stongest wvw guild on desolation at the moment. They can single handedly hold a bl in a decent state (“our” 33% of the map or more) approx. 18 hours out of 24.

Also, as to the general situation: if we win, we nightcap the enemy servers and win due to this. If we lose, we get nightcapped and lose due to this. Most of the time, in a losing situation, we hold our own most of the time in eb and whichever bl IRON is on, and we fail hard in the other 2 bls.

Not very long queue’s. Problem is, that when we start winning again against a more normal opponent, people from the two losing servers will transfer to Desolation for free wins, the same way we got players transfering away from Desolation when we lose.

In short, as much as I would like to see more organised guilds on Desolation, I fear it will never be possible because the free transfers do not allow for organised play to happen without sitting in a queue for hours. All the slackers take up player slots when honestly, I’d rather see them stuck on the french servers they so easily transfer to. Spineless cowards and useless when they actually play for Desolation since they are the same types that never care to read chat.

The best time to do any kind of transfering is when they finally announce they will be shutting down free transfers, or have heavier penalties for transfering, such as a 7 day lockout from WvW post-transfer, not transfering to servers you face in the current matchup, ect.

As far as playing goes with the numbers we still have on Desolation, MagnusLL said almost everything there is to say. We hold parts of maps during normal hours, we lose every single holding at night. We can have good fights, as long as you avoid the maps that have no leadership in them. Playing in train wrecks is slightly more annoying than eating your own fingers, and there is no leading the mindless ones unless you got the shiny commander icon, and even then, the mindless ones will NOT read chat.

But all that said, the number of organised WvW guilds is growing, and in some maps they have formed alliances. It is however not enough to cover all maps, yet.

Queue times as of this evening (landslide loss : Arborstone 187K, Augury Rock 79K, Desolation 73k):

Arborstone bl: 0 mins (20:20 instant enter, outmanned debuff, disappeared after a while)
Desolation bl: 17 mins (20:20 – 20:37)
Augury Rock bl: 7 mins (20:37 – 20:44)
EB: 0 mins (20:44 entered instantly)
Arborstone bl: still 0 mins (20:45 reentered instantly)

We are against server that is far more geographically diverse that we are this week (Arborstone) so we are getting stomped at night and people just aren’t bothering. Last week we were against servers that were mostly EU based and it was a hell of a lot more fun, but the queues were a bit longer than they are now. So its kind of hard to get an accurate measure of what things will be like in the long run.

“We are against server that is far more geographically diverse that we are this week (Arborstone)”

Please stop with this nonsense. You have absolutely no clue about that. 99 % of AS population is french, living in France which has one and only one timezone. Learn to live with that and stop creating false statements.

“We are against server that is far more geographically diverse that we are this week (Arborstone)”

Lol, especially when it comes from a global eu server.