Guild Wars 2

24 years old player looking for having a good time in WvW, PvP and PvE. Is Desolation a good place for that?

Hiya Revan!

Being on Desolation since a year, I could definitely recommend you to the server. I might obviously be biased, however we do have plenty of guilds taking the ‘militia’ into our raids.

We have a community forum and server-wide TeamSpeak called DesoSpeak. Feel free to check it out on www.desospeak.com (website is work in progress).

We are known troughout the world as a PvE server, but our core WvW experience is competitive. Not to mention that Desolation has one of the best PvP’ers around

Desolation is unofficial English language pve capital of EU. You will find a lot of people doing pve events (overflows are common). We also host many of the best tpvp teams.

Desolation is probably the most militia / PuG friendly international top server in EU. The other top international servers are more guild oriented (big guilds doing their own raids). We got lots of very good veteran players and commanders, we just lack numbers and 24h7 coverage to win the EU ladder.

i thought underworld is the best pve server

I’ve been on four EU servers (including Deso) and they all had mature, friendly communities. The only reason you might not want to join a server like Desolation is due to a greater risk of being stuck in a queue for WvW – unless you intend on WvWing outside of peak times.

Aurora Glade is mature and friendly too

Simonoly.4352:

I’ve been on four EU servers (including Deso) and they all had mature, friendly communities. The only reason you might not want to join a server like Desolation is due to a greater risk of being stuck in a queue for WvW – unless you intend on WvWing outside of peak times.

Uhm. What queue?

In past few weeks Desolation has had queues only at reset (I think almost every server can have queues then) or when 3 guilds run events on same BL map (those events usually last max 2 hours). No queue to EB and today we e.g. had outnumbered buff not only on the enemy borderlands, but also on our own BL (I am pretty sure you Gandara and Riverside both had then more numbers than us). But situations like these are volatile and can change. If WvWvW would suddenly give as good rewards as the invasion farming in pve, I am sure there could be much more people wanting to do WvWvW at Desolation. IF we can activate just 5% of our pve base to WvWvW, things can be very different.

I do NOT claim that Desolation is the only EU server with nice PuG friendly community. I can imagine pve is also good in Underworld and Gandara has some good roaming guild teams.

yes

24? ROFL… is that old? :P

Seafarer’s Rest has a big PvE scene and a strong WvW. Dunno about our PvP, I heard it’s Anvil Rock (NA) and Desolation (EU) who have the top PvP players.