Guild Wars 2

So I would love to get into WvW! Ive played barely any of it sadly, and as of right now dont want to, the server im in (Eredon Terrace) has barely any players and with the new megaserver every aspect of the game is great! except WvW. With HoT coming i would love to play the new borderlands map but once again i dont think i will be able to get any enjoyment out of it with no playerbase on my server. I know you can pay to change server but i feel thats sorta stupid :/

It is stupid, but it’s really your only option. You need about 300g to transfer off if you aim for buying gems at 16 to 17g, and thus 1800 gems unless you get lucky and your target realm’s population drops a bit instead of saying “Very High”.

It is possible a influx of players from HoT will help boost the numbers on your server up.

I recently bailed on my server. I feel terrible about, but I was so tired of so few people being around to play with. I rarely get to play at prime time, so I really wanted a server with a heavy morning crew. I think I found it. Ask me again in a few weeks. Hopefully the server doesn’t implode and I didn’t waste that 300g-ish for nothing.

well thanks guys! i might need to buy gems then :c my guild is currently on a different server not sure of the population of it tho :c

They need to merge servers, SWTOR did this and it benefited everyone,

When HoT releases there’s gonna be a surge in population on all servers including ET. I’d wait and see.

xJOHNYAPPLESEED.2685:

So I would love to get into WvW! Ive played barely any of it sadly, and as of right now dont want to, the server im in (Eredon Terrace) has barely any players and with the new megaserver every aspect of the game is great! except WvW. With HoT coming i would love to play the new borderlands map but once again i dont think i will be able to get any enjoyment out of it with no playerbase on my server. I know you can pay to change server but i feel thats sorta stupid :/

I’m very sorry man, really, I spent about a year and a half in that neck of the woods, but if you’re on ET, it will be painful and discourage you from WvW. You will also never get to experience one of the main features, really epic battles. Best you can hope for is medium size group fights and roaming.

You have to transfer, also, depending on your timezone, if you like playing at hours different then just NA prime time, transfer to any of the T1 or T2 servers except Yak’s Bend.

If you transfer to Yak’s Bend expect to spend a LOT of time sitting in towers and keeps on arrowcarts doing nothing but taking puck shots at passers by. And I mean a LOT of time, probably most of your time in WvW.

Also, HoT isn’t gonna save it, at best it will be a bit better at resets and prime time for like 2-3 weeks, then it will die down again as soon as novelty wears off.

Megaservers was just a fancy way of saying “server mergers” but game developers tend to be in denial about that sort of thing. To save face they kept WvW in their original servers instead of just merging those too. Their pride is more important than player happiness.

xJOHNYAPPLESEED.2685:

no playerbase on my server. I know you can pay to change server but i feel thats sorta stupid :/

If you want to WvW with random people thrown together try Edge of The Mists, it’s another option in the WvW menu.

Paying pretend gold to move servers is wonderful, alot of other MMO’s you’re forced to charge up your credit card to move your account. Another way Anet shows love to its customers.

I’d also recommend any T1 – T2 server… except Sea of Sorrows right now. They don’t really have much in the way of commanders or guilds that tag up for their server.

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xJOHNYAPPLESEED.2685:

no playerbase on my server. I know you can pay to change server but i feel thats sorta stupid :/

If you want to WvW with random people thrown together try Edge of The Mists, it’s another option in the WvW menu.

Paying pretend gold to move servers is wonderful, alot of other MMO’s you’re forced to charge up your credit card to move your account. Another way Anet shows love to its customers.

I’d also recommend any kitten server… except Sea of Sorrows right now. They don’t really have much in the way of commanders or guilds that tag up for their server.

He didn’t sound like a newbie, so he’ll know EoTM is not wvw, it’s a karma train map populated mainly by pve’rs.

If he mainly plays wvw, he won’t have the gold to transfer- it’s pve farmers that have the gold to jump servers (and those chest running silverwastes people..yawn).

Even the t1 servers don’t have that many pug commanders any more, preferring to lead their own guild raids and not caring about slowly killing off the game mode.

The new map will see an increase in population for a while.

Cheaper to wait for the next $10 sale and grab a new account than spend money on gems to be able to transfer.

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

displayname.8315:

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

I feel sorry for you.

Buffy.9246:

displayname.8315:

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

I feel sorry for you.

Yeah having to fight against spies and cheaters can be annoying. But having a nice WvW centered community is worth it.

displayname.8315:

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

Do you have ascended arrowcarts and ascended field of view for the extra umph ? Maybe a new ascended commander doing a new “creeping arrowcart” strategy with some ascended twist on it ?

The funny thing is, I’ve seen enough posts and people complaining about an ‘empty’ ET, to create a good size group if all were to get together even once lol.

Tongku.5326:

xJOHNYAPPLESEED.2685:

So I would love to get into WvW! Ive played barely any of it sadly, and as of right now dont want to, the server im in (Eredon Terrace) has barely any players and with the new megaserver every aspect of the game is great! except WvW. With HoT coming i would love to play the new borderlands map but once again i dont think i will be able to get any enjoyment out of it with no playerbase on my server. I know you can pay to change server but i feel thats sorta stupid :/

I’m very sorry man, really, I spent about a year and a half in that neck of the woods, but if you’re on ET, it will be painful and discourage you from WvW. You will also never get to experience one of the main features, really epic battles. Best you can hope for is medium size group fights and roaming.

You have to transfer, also, depending on your timezone, if you like playing at hours different then just NA prime time, transfer to any of the T1 or T2 servers except Yak’s Bend.

If you transfer to Yak’s Bend expect to spend a LOT of time sitting in towers and keeps on arrowcarts doing nothing but taking puck shots at passers by. And I mean a LOT of time, probably most of your time in WvW.

Also, HoT isn’t gonna save it, at best it will be a bit better at resets and prime time for like 2-3 weeks, then it will die down again as soon as novelty wears off.

Tongku.5326 That was a trolly thing to say about Yaks Bend. I am from that server and I do not, I repeat, do not spend time in towers and keeps on arrow carts taking pot shots at players passing by. If a Blob of Red happens to attack our keeps then I will get on an arrow cart and rain thunder on them.

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Buffy.9246:

displayname.8315:

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

I feel sorry for you.

Yeah having to fight against spies and cheaters can be annoying. But having a nice WvW centered community is worth it.

Every server has spies and cheats.

Chaba.5410:

displayname.8315:

Buffy.9246:

displayname.8315:

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

I feel sorry for you.

Yeah having to fight against spies and cheaters can be annoying. But having a nice WvW centered community is worth it.

Every server has spies and cheats.

Not how yb thinks. They think they are all perfect angels that do no wrong…it’s bull. Yb is the most toxic server beside cd/db.

Buffy.9246:

Chaba.5410:

displayname.8315:

Buffy.9246:

displayname.8315:

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

I feel sorry for you.

Yeah having to fight against spies and cheaters can be annoying. But having a nice WvW centered community is worth it.

Every server has spies and cheats.

Not how yb thinks. They think they are all perfect angels that do no wrong…it’s bull. Yb is the most toxic server beside cd/db.

Don’t even need to ask what server your on with that run of the mill trolling.

If YB commanders use alt accounts and informants they sure do a good job of hiding it. They don’t admit to it like some other commanders have. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a yb zerg respond to something thats not scouted and called out in advance.

It’s also easy to tell where yb go. They hit the same stuff each and every time.

HoT won’t help ET one bit, its at a high player base already, it is just a PvE mostly server now. So you won’t see a lot of new people, even if you did the other servers will get just as many so it will wash out anyway.

Last reset we had at maximum time 27 people all stacked all in one borderland. That was it, all we could muster. You will be outnumbered 95% of the time by Sf and even devona’s pitiful numbers is a horde to us these days.

Get off of ET any way you can if you want to enjoy WvW as it was supposedly designed. However, there is still fun to be had in the 1 time out of 30 you aren’t run over by a herd week after week day after day.

About 4-5 of us still go out at times other than reset. Your best bet is to WvW the night the SQD guild does its weekly night in the moors. They will run over easily 2-3 times their number of SF people regularly. Expect 8-14 of them out on that night although I can’t quite remember what night it is. They are very well skilled and demolish the unskilled mass hordes of the other server.

Feel free anytime you go to WvW on ET to send me a whisper, we can get ramrodded together…. hey misery loves company!

Gilkin

Ahhh commander Gilkin, one of the great commanders of ET’s " good " days. I remember when there were actually people to lead, now you’d be lucky to group with 4 people that weren’t guild mates or friends. WvW in ET is a disgrace, the least Anet could do is acknowledge there’s an issue. I’m just another guy trapped in a dying server with no way out except to donate more money to Anet…

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Don’t think I’ve ever seen a yb zerg respond to something thats not scouted and called out in advance.

Predicting enemy movement is a good skill for commanders to develop. There’s no magic to it and IMHO commanders who feel the need to use spies are being lazy at learning the skill. See, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5AIbFFqMio

Learning rotations in sPvP also help with that. Not going to be right all the time, but it is very much like thinking several steps ahead like in chess.

Ty Chaba. It’s just like yaks bend doesn’t grasp that people can predict them so they use the excuse of spies for their faults and come on here to complain when nothing was even done.

Buffy.9246:

Ty Chaba. It’s just like yaks bend doesn’t grasp that people can predict them so they use the excuse of spies for their faults and come on here to complain when nothing was even done.

To be fair I have seen “suspicious activity”, but I’ve also seen it by all sides. It’s extremely naive to say “you guys do this and my side doesn’t”. I’m just saying spies are not necessary if the commander develops their ability to predict enemy movement. There’s only so many objectives on a map and so many ways to attack/defend them.

Chaba.5410:

Buffy.9246:

Ty Chaba. It’s just like yaks bend doesn’t grasp that people can predict them so they use the excuse of spies for their faults and come on here to complain when nothing was even done.

To be fair I have seen “suspicious activity”, but I’ve also seen it by all sides. It’s extremely naive to say “you guys do this and my side doesn’t”. I’m just saying spies are not necessary if the commander develops their ability to predict enemy movement. There’s only so many objectives on a map and so many ways to attack/defend them.

I know every server spies. Even fa. I’m just tired of yb coming on forums and complaining about zoom hacks, spies etc and deny they do it also.

I have been on many servers, and some twice. Every server hacks and uses spies, generally it is only a certain guild, certain commander, or just a random person. People are people and that is just part of life, they don’t want a challenge they want to win.

xJOHNYAPPLESEED.2685:

So I would love to get into WvW! Ive played barely any of it sadly, and as of right now dont want to, the server im in (Eredon Terrace) has barely any players and with the new megaserver every aspect of the game is great! except WvW. With HoT coming i would love to play the new borderlands map but once again i dont think i will be able to get any enjoyment out of it with no playerbase on my server. I know you can pay to change server but i feel thats sorta stupid :/

YES!! I just posted a thread on this… check it out and tell me what you think… https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/My-recomendation-on-WvW-server-revamp