Guild Wars 2

Out of curiousity. If anyone has played on botg EU and US servers would you care to shed some light on the differences between the two? I’ve heard US prefers to butt hug towers(generally personal experience) where as EU is more about the open combat and GvG

Dr Acula.3496:

Out of curiousity. If anyone has played on botg EU and US servers would you care to shed some light on the differences between the two? I’ve heard US prefers to butt hug towers(generally personal experience) where as EU is more about the open combat and GvG

What exactly do you mean by “butt hug”?

NA servers vary greatly guild to guild. Some guilds live for open field combat, some guilds are there to defend, some guilds butt hug quaggans.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Also this thread is a troll post.

I’ve played both tier 1 . Seafarer Rest and Sea of sorrows, when they were NR1 EU and US
I can tell you that EU players play more organized and tactic. On the other side US are fearless … they don’t care about deads or repair costs, they play more for fun, while EU play to win.

D W.5179:

NA servers vary greatly guild to guild. Some guilds live for open field combat, some guilds are there to defend, some guilds butt hug quaggans.

^ that was hilarious. I’d second that about NA gameplay – each guild has thier own methods to play especially in lower tiers where it stops being a zerg fest and requires more original and group based tactics.

With that said – Euros may utilize more team chat than those on the NA server – I know several WvW guilds such as EMP / WM / TSYM / BP which DO use voice chat (WM voice chat is pretty amazing from what I hear) but our militia (non-guild) players don’t always come on TS / Mumble / Vent to listen and talk. I think team chat is integral to better organized offenses and defenses.

VoxShatterfall.5470:

D W.5179:

NA servers vary greatly guild to guild. Some guilds live for open field combat, some guilds are there to defend, some guilds butt hug quaggans.

^ that was hilarious. I’d second that about NA gameplay – each guild has thier own methods to play especially in lower tiers where it stops being a zerg fest and requires more original and group based tactics.

With that said – Euros may utilize more team chat than those on the NA server – I know several WvW guilds such as EMP / WM / TSYM / BP which DO use voice chat (WM voice chat is pretty amazing from what I hear) but our militia (non-guild) players don’t always come on TS / Mumble / Vent to listen and talk. I think team chat is integral to better organized offenses and defenses.

Having Morgan freeman on TS would be awesome

I have to say European guilds have a lot more quality in their fights! Ive been looking at some american GvG and skirmishes and it just doesnt compare! Sorry guys, honest opinion, although i havent actually fought on an american server!

Dr Acula.3496:

No this isnt a “troll post” you kittening moron. This was genuine curiousity. I wanyed to know the diff between the two as i am well aware that there are play style differences. And when i say butt hug towers i mean people are too kittening scared to fight far from one because they dont want to die and get that repair bill.

You sound angry. Chill, this is just a video game.

US servers would win via PvD, that’s for sure.

I’ve played on both US and EU servers and the style of play is very, very different.

In US, the PPT meta rules and it’s what most of the top servers care about (thank god my server loves open field combat and PvP instead of PvDoor!). Capping camps before the tick, havok squads, scouts babysitting structures and exploiting your opponents coverage gaps are fundamental aspects of the meta in US. It’s kinda sad when an enemy zerg with equal or greater numbers run away from fights because they “contribute nothing to the score”. In US you get all the metagaming stuff like spying and sabotage as well. You can find fights going on in all corners of the map.

In EU, it’s all about the fights and the zergs. Almost to the point that you lose fully upgraded keeps because no one scouted it and you’re outmanned in your home map but have a queue for another map. The fights are awesome though. In Seafarer’s Rest, the militia are almost as coordinated as the guilds and even militia zergs play like Red Guard. Heck, every single guild in SFR (and most of our opponents) plays like Red Guard. The zerg fights are really fun when both sides are skilled and organized. Most EU servers prefer running one huge zerg per map with perma swiftness to cover all ground instead of multiple smaller zergs like in NA.

The above is just a generalization based on my experience. It’s not to say that NA players don’t like the fights (there are some…) and that EU guys don’t scout or run in multiple coordinated zergs (I have seen them do it during peak prime time and on reset). Some select NA servers can field gigantic zergs that put the EU ones to shame.

WvW in a US server is like fighting in a war.
WvW in a EU server is like fighting in a battle.

Defiantely holly-go-lightly two-steppers. Also any halfway decent wvw vid ive come across is usually from EU servers.

Mada.5319:

I’ve played on both US and EU servers and the style of play is very, very different.

In US, the PPT meta rules and it’s what most of the top servers care about (thank god my server loves open field combat and PvP instead of PvDoor!). Capping camps before the tick, havok squads, scouts babysitting structures and exploiting your opponents coverage gaps are fundamental aspects of the meta in US. It’s kinda sad when an enemy zerg with equal or greater numbers run away from fights because they “contribute nothing to the score”. In US you get all the metagaming stuff like spying and sabotage as well. You can find fights going on in all corners of the map.

In EU, it’s all about the fights and the zergs. Almost to the point that you lose fully upgraded keeps because no one scouted it and you’re outmanned in your home map but have a queue for another map. The fights are awesome though. In Seafarer’s Rest, the militia are almost as coordinated as the guilds and even militia zergs play like Red Guard. Heck, every single guild in SFR (and most of our opponents) plays like Red Guard. The zerg fights are really fun when both sides are skilled and organized. Most EU servers prefer running one huge zerg per map with perma swiftness to cover all ground instead of multiple smaller zergs like in NA.

The above is just a generalization based on my experience. It’s not to say that NA players don’t like the fights (there are some…) and that EU guys don’t scout or run in multiple coordinated zergs (I have seen them do it during peak prime time and on reset). Some select NA servers can field gigantic zergs that put the EU ones to shame.

WvW in a US server is like fighting in a war.
WvW in a EU server is like fighting in a battle.

See that was the kimd of constructive input i was really looking for! Thank you for that

Mada – that is a very interesting observation.

I’ll confirm from my side that the NA servers has alot of the spread out ops and PPT capture before tick to then give up a resource after tick as it has no strategic value.

Heck I’ve held bay before just to tick and told the guys to warp out and hit something else (bay is not easily defensible once they break into the outer and you have no supply and no siege, and no backup army to wipe them).

But I’d mention while NA servers have NA population, we do also have SEA / Oceanics / RUS / some EU. A formalized old fashioned battle is not something alot of players will do in their time slot unless the servers are matched up in the same time slot. I think that alot of the romance of open battle field engagements are removed in the NA servers as zergs arn’t meant to usually fight another zerg head on, but to capture objectives and wipe another zerg.

Its when both sides have the same romantic notion of war that they intentionally go to the field to fight a war – both zergs objective is to destroy one another.

I’ll also go as far to say that some of the NA population would rather mess around hampering their opponents than to face them dead on – troll tactics – where as an objective is capped so the enemy zerg has no supplies for 4 mins. This is guerrilla / trolling warfare. I tend to think that some people in the NA population enjoy seeing the anguish of others rather than facing an opponent on a fair footing and dukking it out.

But enough of what I think.