Is piken alive? If not, what EU server?

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Posted by: METAShift.2913

METAShift.2913

Due to my schedule, I want to transfer to an EU server, and I have friends on piken square. I was wondering, is piken wvw alive? I’m mostly interested in small groups and I don’t care about ppt as much as long as it’s fun to play.

If not, what other EU server would be good to transfer to, one without too much of a queue but which is active? I’m currently on maguuma and it suits me very well(no queues, but still people to play with) but my schedule and latency make me want to switch.

Thanks

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

Dawdler.8521

Why dont you ask your friends?

There are still lots of small scale on Piken borders with very good players allround. EB is of course a zergfest as usual but what are you going to do. Borders are for roaming and small scale… Its not really a lack of players thats the issue, seems to be more about of lack of commanders to get the ball rolling. The activity on other servers seem to have declined as well so it pretty much evens out.

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Posted by: Deniara Devious.3948

Deniara Devious.3948

I do not think queues are a problem on any EU server at the moment, except maybe Gandara on prime time. Here on Desolation, EU rank 2, we have no queues, besides a 1-40 man queue to EB on prime time.

It was already predicted in advance that summer would be silent time in this game, because of many reasons: vacations, tired after the excessively long league, tired of still having the same boring meta, tired of no real WvWvW updates since the EotM failure (I count it as not real WvWvW content) and borderlands changes (I also count it as afailure, trying to force a spvp map in the middle of the borderland with unneeded power creep bonuses and points from stomping). Not to mention that Arenanet has completely forgotten WvWvW. Notice how there are no developer comments in this section anymore, besides the odd comment 1-2 times per month. The communication between the core WvWvW player base and the developers has always been bad and this major problem hasn’t been fixed.

The activity levels will be back up if these problems are solved. The summer vacation thing fixes by itself, but the rest requires action from Arenanet.

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Posted by: Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054

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If you want small groups, then I doubt any silver league server is for you. Bronze would be better.

Piken runs mainly as a zerg, as you can see their current rank is 14th, but they are currently on top against the 10th and 11th ranked servers by 20k points!

It gonn abe hard to tell, as players and guild are probably transferring around again right now, or going back to their real home server now that they have received their “well deserved” rewards from bandwagoning on gold tier servers.

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Posted by: Saint Scarlet.2906

Saint Scarlet.2906

Piken Square has always and will always play for the fun, unlike most servers we aren’t PPT focused. We have had zero queues since season 1 so there is always plenty of room, we make up for the lack of people with much better gameplay. We are one of only a couple of servers that plays in groups rather than the blob servers like every other EU international server. There are always loads of friendly people to play with as we are a mature server with zero trolls/idiots unlike most other servers.

Feel free to PM me or anyone on Piken or visit our forums to find out more http://pikensquare.info/

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

Dawdler.8521

If you want small groups, then I doubt any silver league server is for you. Bronze would be better.

Piken runs mainly as a zerg, as you can see their current rank is 14th, but they are currently on top against the 10th and 11th ranked servers by 20k points!

Lol that’s not because Piken zerg. We hardly have a queue on EB and I havent seen any queue whatsoever on the borders the last week (not even reset night). That Piken got so much points is because the opposing servers have gone down so much in activity. I barely even see any Vizunah and their server has always been gigantic with lots of coverage in comparison. When Piken was fighting in T1 we could win every battle in the field yet always lost the war without any hope of overtaking their points.

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Posted by: Wanze.8410

Wanze.8410

Here is a list of active wvw servers atm:

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Posted by: ilmau.9781

ilmau.9781

come SFR u won t regret

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Posted by: Dahir.4158

Dahir.4158

come SFR u won t regret

It’s a trap. He’s lying to you.

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Posted by: CrimsonNeonite.1048

CrimsonNeonite.1048

I imagine most servers no matter the Tier apart from those currently in Tier 1 is either taking a vacation from the game for RL, sunshine and WC stuff, waiting for the new LW content or they’re waiting for Anet to show that they are listening to the WvW community. (ha)

Vizunah is simply just falling down the Tiers and BB’s population doesn’t really play much during the Summer especially after the Tournament. Personally I think you can find Small scale in most tiers, but not always a fair fight!

the main mindset of many WWW guilds is GVG only, they run around the map doing nothing, except boasting in map chat, passing keeps and towers for chasing enemy zerg and then crash on it, regroup after wipe and then talk about it in the teamspeak for 30 minutes standing in the fort, blaming “rallybots” on their failure… while the enemy take bay and garrison.

I’ve heard about Piken’s past so you have to be aware of the current Philosophy of their community and whether you fit in or not.

I doubt much has changed in regards to Guilds keeping among themselves – although I expect they PPT when they can win a MU like the last week of the Tourny.
Golden Horde and others moved on afaik, perhaps due to their requirements from a WvW Community changing like recruitment drive.

@chrono Two sides to every story, one side you choose to hear or you could listen to both stories. I’m sure many servers have more tales of their own than that..

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Posted by: Lalangamena.3694

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lots of good guilds left the server and Piken went from 4th place last year to 14th this year…

the main mindset of many WWW guilds is GVG only, they run around the map doing nothing, except boasting in map chat, passing keeps and towers for chasing enemy zerg and then crash on it, regroup after wipe and then talk about it in the teamspeak for 30 minutes standing in the fort, blaming “rallybots” on their failure… while the enemy take bay and garrison.

the fun WWW on Piken is dead.

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Posted by: chronometria.3708

chronometria.3708

Piken is like a mighty tiger. It spends long periods just laying in the shade, watching as other, more active servers skip around on the plains. Every so often, however, it is roused into fierce action, taking down beasts twice its size through a combination of tenacious nature and savage skill.

Similarly to the tiger, other servers will gang up on piken, knowing that this powerful predator can sometimes be repelled if assailed from all sides. Despite this, piken will not always retreat – instead bitterly lashing out at foes, dealing them terrible wounds despite their numbers and forcing them to win their victory at great cost.

On rare occasions, piken has an off-month and advertises cornflakes or is a man in a tiger costume, entertaining children at the amusement park. During these dark periods, the server enters a low mood and is pushed about by tourist servers who come and take pictures of Piken in its sad state, wondering if the rumours of its savage strength were true.

Still, always, the server bounces back, because even through the dark times, it has a core of older, grim veteran players who, while slow to anger, will come out of their torpid state to resurrect the true soul of the piken wildcat that it may fight again.

We also like it when you stroke us behind the ears.

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

Dawdler.8521

lots of good guilds left the server and Piken went from 4th place last year to 14th this year…

2nd place, not 4th. Held 3rd place for quite a while, but could never match the coverage of other servers.

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Posted by: Dyno.9467

Dyno.9467

Go to SFR, everyone else seems to be moving there, the other 26 EU servers will be empty soon cause everyones moved to sfr.

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Posted by: FrouFrou.4958

FrouFrou.4958

If you want small groups, then I doubt any silver league server is for you. Bronze would be better.

Piken runs mainly as a zerg, as you can see their current rank is 14th, but they are currently on top against the 10th and 11th ranked servers by 20k points!

It gonn abe hard to tell, as players and guild are probably transferring around again right now, or going back to their real home server now that they have received their “well deserved” rewards from bandwagoning on gold tier servers.

I believe Piken is dominating in this match up because BB only plays during the night as always and most of the Vizu’s troops hopped over to Jade Sea (or the French Canadians got tired of that no one believed they existed, so they went back home to shovel some snow). In the state those 2 servers are atm, I’m pretty sure Underworld could beat them without any problems too.

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Posted by: Deli.1302

Deli.1302

You have friends on Piken yet you make a thread here instead of asking your friends.

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Posted by: METAShift.2913

METAShift.2913

Thanks for the replies guys. I did ask my friends, but a few said that the server is dead and not worth moving to, a few said the opposite, I just wanted to hear more opinions from people who are more heavily invested in wvw.

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Posted by: Azrael.4960

Azrael.4960

Gandara is reasonably active, but largely on EBG where the queues are. The borderlands have some action but obviously nowhere near the activity of the tournament season. The last few weeks, the only activity has been from the serious hard core of WvWers who pretty much only doing the same thing as before. Capping and baiting zergs to fight.

Otherwise, it’s pretty much a graveyard.

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Posted by: CrimsonNeonite.1048

CrimsonNeonite.1048

Yeah I imagine Gandara is a good place to go to post tournament among the Gold League Servers, there was a pretty nice community already before the free transfers, I would like to think the true band-wagoners moved on to other servers or PVE now.

Gold League Tiers aren’t that bad really besides the blobs/large scale groups where you find almost everywhere else anyway, you can always find pockets of roamers to chase or chase you about , and there are even guys looking for duels in the OS or around EB.

No monologue there, just passing my experience and no hippie quaggan promotion video

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Posted by: Vayle.7964

Vayle.7964

to answer this topic directly: piken is alive and well (as can be seen in our current WvW score)

the only question there would be is what timezone you play, because there are certain time zones piken doesn’t have alot of players…

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