Guild Wars 2

I was led to believe that after seasons, the pop limit on the top servers would be increased. I have not been able to join my guild on T1 for months now. It’s a joke. I’ve paid A LOT of money into this game and I am not able to go where the actual fights are. Top 6 servers are just as full as they were during seasons. I went through ALL MEANS NECESSARY to get into T1. No dice. I am going to quit the game because I can’t fight against similarly skilled players. Honestly, I’ve gone back to Diablo 3 because it’s presented more of a challenge than facing the servers I’ve been up against. ANET, this is all I want. Accept that the competitive PVP players have consolidated on T1. We are an asset to the game and help drive the metas. Please. Just let me. Transfer. For the love of god. your pop limits are asinine when everything below t3 is effectively empty. Please lift these ASAP.

Why would they increase population caps when there are servers with 1/3 or 1/2 the size of the top tiers? Also, the top tiers asked for being over field whenever they do their “blackouts” purposely pushing themselves over “full” status. There’s no way T3 is “effectively” empty. You just don’t want to be there so you don’t make an effort. Stop whining.

Because nothing that makes wvw better happens below t3. I’ve played on kitten. It’s not fun to log in and not have a commander or anyone else playing wvw with you. WVW is easily the best game mode in the game, and it is constantly neglected and forgotten. I’m convinced that anet makes WVW the intern project. Surely, nobody who has a full time career in game development works in WVW. If they do, they should absolutely be fired lol.

I have made every effort possible to get out of my tier. But when the entire population trying to transfer has to resort to autoclicking to transfer, it becomes an RNG game of beating out the other 500 people trying to transfer with you. I don’t mind queues, I do mind not being able to get on the same server as my guild no matter what lengths I go to to get there.

Anet never said anything about increasing the server caps but we all know they’ll do it eventually anyway so venting is pointless. You can still play with your guild in EotM!

I actually think the opposite needs to happen ASAP. Transfers to gold league servers should be locked until a better balance is reached, and free transfers should be offered for guilds wanting to move to silver and bronze from those servers – until they come up with a better solution for the population imbalance problem (and there are alot of good suggestions in another thread related to that topic).

That way your guild can join you on your server and work toward making WvW more competitive (again, until a real solution is implemented) – rather than just a competition to see who has the most people and after hours coverage.

GVG is on T1 and I am unable to join it. I’m over people moaning about server loyalty when it’s just 20-30 people who log on every day on the same t6 server afraid to transfer. Competitive PVP will bring a new spark to the game. That’s not going to happen by allowing free transfer down to empty servers. I was the one who started the “violating your game mode” back on IOJ in our GVGs where the SBI admin freaked out. Please let me violate it again on T1. I’m so sick of being on a server that doesn’t care about competitive pvp and just mass builds ACs and laughs as 10 acs take out a guild group…

Why in the heck did you go there? Ran over you today BTW, nice seeing you.
Seriously, your old home server would have been glad to see you and there is more fighting in T4 than T3 from what I hear.

Blaeys.3102:

I actually think the opposite needs to happen ASAP. Transfers to gold league servers should be locked until a better balance is reached, and free transfers should be offered for guilds wanting to move to silver and bronze from those servers – until they come up with a better solution for the population imbalance problem (and there are alot of good suggestions in another thread related to that topic).

That way your guild can join you on your server and work toward making WvW more competitive (again, until a real solution is implemented) – rather than just a competition to see who has the most people and after hours coverage.

+1 lock T1 server and SoS so we can’t receive any more transfers. Transfers from Top 4 servers to lower servers should be discounted or free to spread the pop!

This thread makes me laugh sooo much.
After you and your guild members aggressively opposed an idea by members of SoS’s OCX community to push for t1, saying you will transfer away of we hit t1, your guild has since left for t1, while the members of ocx with nothing to do are still stuck on sos

Visirale.6097:

GVG is on T1 .

This is WvW not GvG, go somewhere else!

Oh wait :P

There is GvG in other tiers, go join a guild there, you aint getting to the bandwagon servers any time soon.

But that’s the problem, GvGers are taking up WvW spots for their games, ruining WvW for people who are playing, and throwing others into queues.

I have a friend that used auto click to join a t1 server and had to try for over 7 weeks before he could get in.

Visirale.6097:

I have made every effort possible to get out of my tier. But when the entire population trying to transfer has to resort to autoclicking to transfer, it becomes an RNG game of beating out the other 500 people trying to transfer with you. I don’t mind queues, I do mind not being able to get on the same server as my guild no matter what lengths I go to to get there.

Not including the effort the raise your server’s Glicko rating, I assume.

GvG needs to happen. It needs to be implemented now. It’s 2 years over due.

What on earth would GvG do to help in your situation? It would put a competitive PvP edge on your guild where it belongs. It would take a LOT of pressure off WvW being the only method for you to participate with your guild in a competitive environment (though you can do this now by tPvPing with your guild).

GvG would not be server restrictive.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Visirale.6097:

GVG is on T1 .

This is WvW not GvG, go somewhere else!

Oh wait :P

There is GvG in other tiers, go join a guild there, you aint getting to the bandwagon servers any time soon.

But that’s the problem, GvGers are taking up WvW spots for their games, ruining WvW for people who are playing, and throwing others into queues.

Not really. There’s very very few queues these days, even in T1. Guilds use OS for their gvg, so they aren’t taking up map space, or causing queues anyway.

Luvpie.8350:

Blaeys.3102:

I actually think the opposite needs to happen ASAP. Transfers to gold league servers should be locked until a better balance is reached, and free transfers should be offered for guilds wanting to move to silver and bronze from those servers – until they come up with a better solution for the population imbalance problem (and there are alot of good suggestions in another thread related to that topic).

That way your guild can join you on your server and work toward making WvW more competitive (again, until a real solution is implemented) – rather than just a competition to see who has the most people and after hours coverage.

+1 lock T1 server and SoS so we can’t receive any more transfers. Transfers from Top 4 servers to lower servers should be discounted or free to spread the pop!

Yeah and a whole lot of other stuff needs to happen at the same time to make the desired de-stack happen organically but ANET hasn’t been able to figure out how to do that yet so I am not gonna hold my breath. JQ and TC are probably going to go into recruitment mode again with BG being so dominate in S3 but really what we need is a change in attitude about how many players are enough across all worlds. Maybe it is ok not to have full maps ever anymore.

I am sure ANET has all the metrics they need to find a better way to cap world populations for WvW now that PvE has gone into megaserver mode. but they’ve shown no desire to so which is really too bad. I would think the GvG crowd would prefer to be anywhere but tier 1 with all the casual noobs but I guess things have changed with a lower active WvW population.

Come to FA. Lol.

I don’t know what gvg players expected trying to stack into T1. There’s a reason T2 was gvg tier…

I dont see how you manage a GvG. Do you guys make rules like how many people can be in your fight. Because every time i hear GvG i see this 15 man guild getting steam rolled by 100 man guild in my head. If its GvG then it should be your whole guild versus the other guild,, no other rules.

This is a WvW game take your guild and defend your servers stuff,,

Welcome back to FA! LOL!

caljay.8720:

This thread makes me laugh sooo much.
After you and your guild members aggressively opposed an idea by members of SoS’s OCX community to push for t1, saying you will transfer away of we hit t1, your guild has since left for t1, while the members of ocx with nothing to do are still stuck on sos

We didn’t want to be on T1. But when all the formidable competition transfers there, you don’t really have a choice. You don’t get better fighting inferior competition. I enjoyed my time on T2 and still think it’s the best environment for gvg to thrive on. T1 mentality will never allow gvg guilds to do what they want to do and how they do it. I enjoyed when south bl was full of gvg guilds with lots of good fights to be had.

Xanderis.2369:

I dont see how you manage a GvG. Do you guys make rules like how many people can be in your fight. Because every time i hear GvG i see this 15 man guild getting steam rolled by 100 man guild in my head. If its GvG then it should be your whole guild versus the other guild,, no other rules.

This is a WvW game take your guild and defend your servers stuff,,

The idea is to take on great numbers because you do more damage/support than the average group not on coms. At the extreme disparities there’s not much you can do. Lots of groups try to mimic what the top few did, but there is definitely a skill cap involved to playing the builds you need to play in order to win against the big blobs.

But, at the end of the day it’s about numbers not skill. We had fun trying though:

Edit: This is an obvious parody of t1 tactics of blobbing. He clicked his skills to prove a point that you don’t have to be a skilled player to win when you have 60 people behind you.

I still don’t understand why guilds/single ppl join those most stacked servers claiming they want to fight there. Why not join a server that actually fights versus those servers, you will then have enemies all the time anywhere you go.

Also – no, the caps should actually be lowered imo. Already too many bandwagoners who want easy wins and hiding in the blobs spamming 111 only. How can this even be called competetive… I hope the next step before any future tournament is a BIG effort to fix population imbalances.

Deli.1302:

Anet never said anything about increasing the server caps but we all know they’ll do it eventually anyway so venting is pointless. You can still play with your guild in EotM!

80 is the limit per server atm if im not in mistake.

Aeolus.3615:

Deli.1302:

Anet never said anything about increasing the server caps but we all know they’ll do it eventually anyway so venting is pointless. You can still play with your guild in EotM!

80 is the limit per server atm if im not in mistake.

He meant whole server capacity = all players that reside on it, not just WvW map cap