Guild Wars 2

Hello,
About 1.5 months ago I came back to gw2 after a long break (about 6-7 months).
I ve been on Gandara since launch and I m currently considering a change. This is due to the fact that appart from EB I very rarely see any action in the other borderlands, whether that means zerg fights or small roaming groups.
I dont know if the 3 world-specific borderlands are pretty much empty for all servers due to the desert maps that many people (including me) dont seem to like or if it is because there arent enough WvW players in Gandara to play there.

So I would like the community’s opinion on how are things at other servers.

Here is what I seek:

• I ’d prefer to stay in a EU server.
• I like a friendly community. Fighting is fun, winning even more so, but having people calling names in TS takes away all the fun even if the insults are directed to people i ve never seen in game before. To be honest the community is what kept me in Gandara.
• I d like to be able to see fights in all borderlands and not just run around in empty maps until the EB queue pops up
• I like both zerg fights and solo or small group roaming depending on the mood. I dont mind going around solo and getting stomped by a huge zerg (since that is part of WvW too) as long as there are also smaller fights going on.
• I dont want to be in a server that is focused solely on PPT and turns away from a fight just because that will take time away from capping a tower/keep. I join WvW to fight and earn the tower/keep capture, otherwise I ’d go to EotM to join the WXP/karma train that seems to be going on most of the time.

I searched a lot for similar posts but I havent found anything recent and I d like input from players who have been in a server recently (lets say in the last 2-2.5 months) since the state of WvW has probably changed a lot after the HoT release.

Thank you all for your help

My advise is don’t move, stay put. There’s going to be a major update and overhaul of WvW in the not too distant future which depending on what is going to happen might mean switching would be a waste of gold/gems.

You’re in bottom gold, there’s only really 6 servers you could move to that may not be completely empty on the BLs and even then the friends I see on deso and FSP are usually in EB.

You like the community on Gandara so stick with it, that’s what matters most of the time, not the rest of the stuff.

Don’t bother moving. The situation is the same everywhere in EU- only map with any q is EB. Wvw population is declining everywhere and soon to be followed by their ‘big changes’ at the end of this year (maybe, if they can spare any dev time from important matters like changing the colour on a left toe nail on a NPC somewhere in H0T), which will probably bring in mega servers and spell the death of wvw as we knew it.

What you want no longer exists. I recommend putting money into Crowfall or Camelot unchained which will hopefully create what you want within a year or so.

WvW is not what it was 2 years ago.

Argos Helios.4965:

What you want no longer exists.

That is sadly true. The player base has been dwindling in all EU top servers. Surely there are sometimes blobs, but at best only on 1 map at same time and the blobs are often smaller than they used to be. Here at Deso we can at best fill 1 map and have outnumbered buff on all those other 3 maps. Having outnumbered buff on all 4 maps is not unusual.

All top servers, no matter what they claim, are mainly into Points per Ticks (PpT). No matter even if they claim to be a best fighting server EU or whatever, they rather choose to fight the gates than face enemy, who has more than 5 players in one location. And if you solo roam, be prepared to have a ganking squad tail you very soon.

The damage is already done and some players left GW2 for good, but Arenanet could still alleviate the pain a bit, by:
- reinstalling the Alpine borderlands as quickly as possible
- removing unbalanced additions/gimmicks, such as the banners or aerial strike
- significantly increasing rewards e.g. copy and pasting spvp reward tracks to WvWvW and giving us more WvWvW specific skins and items to buy with badges + proofs of heroics
- combine several servers together (e.g. merge the lowest population servers with some “high” population servers to make more “very high” population servers)

Thank you all for your input, I really appreciate it.

It seems I ‘ll stay where I am and adapt to the new situation. After all if you can’t adapt to a situation you can never be content.

I expected someone to say go to X game, but I currently don’t have the time nor the patience to start a new game. All games eventually die and servers close but I feel its not time for me to quit yet. I think I can still have fun in this game

I hope you all will find something to do and have fun in your free time