Guild Wars 2

I’ve just recently got into the game and I’m looking for a server to play on that is fun, and is always active and dominant in WvW/EotM. I currently play on Ehmry Bay, but they’re not quite what I’m looking for. I’ve heard Yak is good, but then there’s Fort Aspenwood and lastly Sea of Sorrows.

So, I have to choose between those three. NOW, I don’t want arguments about which is better. I want pros and cons if possible, with these parameters in mind:

- I want it to be a server that will likely stay active through thick and thin. Usually, this means able to keep their current tier or move up.

- EotM is what I’m mostly focusing on.

- I want to be actively controlling or fighting for control in close battles in EotM. Meaning, I’m not into bunkering up or just getting ran over by a superior army.

So with all that in mind, please let me know what I should decide, but please don’t argue like "so and so sucks because they do _ and _. That honestly won’t help me decide.

So basically you are saying you want a server that steamrolls everything else…….

How about the number one server then?… That wasnt very hard..

That isn’t what I want. I want a server that is good, but doesn’t get smashed. Also because the number one server is full.

I’m fine with fighting for points and struggling and stuff, just right now on Ehmry there’s basically zero WvW power. Lucky to even have a person tagged up.

Age of War.2647:

I’ve just recently got into the game and I’m looking for a server to play on that is fun, and is always active and dominant in WvW/EotM. I currently play on Ehmry Bay, but they’re not quite what I’m looking for. I’ve heard Yak is good, but then there’s Fort Aspenwood and lastly Sea of Sorrows.

Ah, another that wants to steamroll over others.

So, I have to choose between those three. NOW, I don’t want arguments about which is better. I want pros and cons if possible, with these parameters in mind:

- I want it to be a server that will likely stay active through thick and thin. Usually, this means able to keep their current tier or move up.

No it means that majority of the sever’s playerbase keeps playing when things don’t go best (hint: not for you).

- EotM is what I’m mostly focusing on.

- I want to be actively controlling or fighting for control in close battles in EotM. Meaning, I’m not into bunkering up or just getting ran over by a superior army.

So with all that in mind, please let me know what I should decide, but please don’t argue like "so and so sucks because they do _ and _. That honestly won’t help me decide.

Just pick the one that’s green most of the weeks.

Easy on the aggression. What I meant is the server staying active because I want to commit to it. So, if I say join YB and they become tier 3, I’d like to hope they’d stay active, but chances are they won’t. As a result, I have to choose a group that wins a lot.

Plus, you make it sound as if what I’m doing is WRONG, when in reality, all I want to do is join a server that is very active in WvW and isn’t just always getting crushed all of the time. You make it sound like that’s a sin. Is it wrong to enjoy WvW and want a server that is active and good at it?

The reason I listed those three is because those are the servers everyone talks about when it comes to WvW.

If I could stay on my server and have a decent time in WvW I would, believe me, but there’s literally no-one that does WvW if not on green side. On green they poke their heads out and do well, but on any other side literally no one plays.

Committed players do have to account for the fair weather problem. I feel you OP.

I don’t have a suggestion I am afraid as I play on T1 NA but the system in place really does encourage us the players to stack servers. You aren’t being unreasonable at all just realistic.

If it were me I would probably look in a really low tier and see who wins in that tier a lot?

The current bandwagon is HoD. You should go there, you will fit in just fine.

I would propose SFR in EU, there is a bunch of unbeatable advantages:

• you win every WvW match
• you win every EOTM match
• assuming you play NA-prime, ou will always have a lot friends online and only a handful eneniems (just enough to give you something to flip , but never enough to bring you in danger)
• you will not face queue in NA-prime

Dayra.7405:

I would propose SFR in EU, there is a bunch of unbeatable advantages:

• you win every WvW match
• you win every EOTM match
• assuming you play NA-prime, ou will always have a lot friends online and only a handful eneniems (just enough to give you something to flip , but never enough to bring you in danger)
• you will not face queue in NA-prime

The negative being you have to play with so many bandwagon PvE/PPT scrubs that you will lose a lot of fights.

In EOTM you will often have nothing to do, because it will be all green with no one else to flip it to anything.

You will die of boredom unless you are actually lobotomised and enjoy PvPing against doors.

If you primarily care about eotm – you want green. So server 1-4-7-10-13-16-19-22. They will be green most often, but get lumped together anyway in EOTM……

Note fa(4) might be trying to move up to 3 so they won’t be green……
Either way, eotm is often nothing more than pvdoor karma train used for leveling toons. No server choice is going to change that…….

zinkz.7045:

Dayra.7405:

I would propose SFR in EU, there is a bunch of unbeatable advantages:

• you win every WvW match
• you win every EOTM match
• assuming you play NA-prime, ou will always have a lot friends online and only a handful eneniems (just enough to give you something to flip , but never enough to bring you in danger)
• you will not face queue in NA-prime

The negative being you have to play with so many bandwagon PvE/PPT scrubs that you will lose a lot of fights.

Maybe in EU-prime, but never ever in NA-primetime

zinkz.7045:

In EOTM you will often have nothing to do, because it will be all green with no one else to flip it to anything.

You will die of boredom unless you are actually lobotomised and enjoy PvPing against doors.

I know we said the same, but hey don’t express it so negatively
And the OP asked for a winning EotM server, and there is only one world-wide that is always winning, mostly as green, but also easily when he rolls blue or red by chance!

If such a served existed we would have all transferred there long ago. It is sentiments like this that will prevent one from ever existing.

You are bringing bottle caps to Shangra La.

1. get multiple accounts
2. choose multiple servers in multiple tiers.
3. Play on the server that’s green in EotM

Oh, and you wouldn’t fit in with FA. FA spent years finishing second and third in T2.

Would be nice to have more players in WvW interested in parity.

Want more battles and less stale and close match ups? Need to have WvW pop to spread out.

Btw, I play on a relatively low pop server and every time I log into wvw I know that we have this group doing this, or that group doing that.. activity is not hard to find. Or, I’ll tag up and start a pug group myself.

Go FA. They are probably the best choice for being green for a longer time if JQ isn’t open.

Of the three servers in the OP, Fort Aspenwood. It will be dominant in both WvW and EotM.

But as has been stated, EotM is just a karma train. Most people actively avoid fights (and are up-levels who can’t fight anyways) to the point of entire blobs of enemy players running within inches of you and completely ignoring you. While Blue and Red will overall have fewer players, most of the time they are still able to karma train just fine.

Most “true” WvW players do not even consider EotM to be WvW. If you are looking for actual competetive gameplay then you will want to ignore EotM and focus on regular WvW.

If you are mostly looking for EOTM population, you are going to want a server that is primarily green each week, which means a server that wins frequently. Your wants may conflict with the wants of others in EOTM:

" I want to be actively controlling or fighting for control in close battles in EotM. Meaning, I’m not into bunkering up or just getting ran over by a superior army." (sorry I’m too lazy to go back and quote).

-This isn’t going to happen. Most players go to EOTM to karma train. That means not defending (allowing your side to be taken so you can go back later and flip it back).

From your three choices, I would recommend FA. You can use http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups to keep track of current matches and watch for which servers tend to be green. Some guilds are transferring around atm… FA, BG, TC and JQ should stay stable, but if Maguuma and HoD keep moving up, it could cause things to vary a bit more.

Transfer to Jade Quarry and join [HK] Hammer Kult. They’re always looking for more tryhards to to join their organized guild that farms PUGs and wipes to one arrow cart.

But seriously they basically live in Edge and bring a whole guild of 80’s often dominating the map. If you want faceroll they’re your best bet.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Transfer to Jade Quarry and join [HK] Hammer Kult…. and wipe to one arrow cart.

Best line ever.

http://www.pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewthread/19852833-sfr-united-or-biggest-zombieguild
to bad it’s EU XD

Hey OP, I think you’ve gotten enough grief for your lazy approach to “WvW”, so I won’t add any more. But I do think you need to leave Ehmry Bay as soon as you can. It’s a terrible fit for your play style and your personality. Wishing you luck at finding your dream server.

Every week people move up tiers as WvW slowly dies out.

Best bet is to pick something T3 and higher.

OP, you get so many negative responses due your approach to wvw. Players like you are the cause why servers fall fast when things don’t go right.

If everyone would transfer to dominating server to ensure easy wins, other servers would be empty, and this is in fact what we’ve seen many times because unfortunally many players have this mentality.

Wanting to be on an active server isn’t wrong. Wanting a dominating server is wrong for the reason listed above. It is very apparent in eotm (or in regular wvw match ups when servers move tiers) where during certain times, the green side is so strong, they have nothing to do, map is all green, nothing to flip for karma, nobody to kill for loot bags. Where is the logic to hop on a dominating side if all you got to do is stare on an empty map.

On a dominating server, while you will have lots of fun winning over enemies without putting much effort in it, the other side certainly doesn’t have fun being steamrolled 24/7.

Players like OP create servers like SFR in EU. The server was 1# for so long that all the bandwagoning players looking for an easy win joined there, now they have superior coverage when compared to the other t1 or t2 servers which are really balanced. Also one of the side effects is that the overall quality in the server is not that great in terms of fighting.

I moved to FA recently (Feb I think it was) for the WvW but also play in eotm during queues. So as a veteran freshly (somewhat) transferred to FA here is my experience and opinions.

Fort Aspen has a great WvW community and welcomed me with open arms. Many guilds are very open and are happy to have you run with them during open ops (and once they know you sometimes closed ops)
They have been steady in T2 without fault and I honestly can’t remember the last time they lost a match up.
As they’re often the victor of the weekly match up that means they are primarily Green (Overgrowth) in EotM and we all know how much OG kicks kitten in nearly all match ups.
There are guilds that do have a strong hand in EotM while doing some roaming in WvW.
They have a communal TS where you can join your guild or just join the wvw channels that are full of roamers, scouts, and the pug zerg.

The only downfall I have been able to find in FA is the queue times for wvw maps during NA time. Each map is often full with an approx 30min-1hour wait. And during reset if you don’t get in early you can forget it for at least 4 hours.

I hope you enjoy whichever server you choose.

To the original poster.

Edge of the Mists (EotM) does not and never will equal World vs World (WvW). It draws from all servers of the same color. So you’ll want green. Ehmry Bay in the last 10 weeks has been Blue: 6, Red: 2, Green:2.

Ehmry Bay has a very strong WvW community with guilds that raid nearly daily in Woes and CoT. We have guilds that do home defense and roamers on at all hours of the day. If you play during EU timezone then I see your plight as I am currently away working on a graduate school project that is required for me to graduate and while I didn’t tag up everyday and we do have others that run tags during EU timezone we are thin.

If you really are referencing WvW and not EotM you’ve jumped into Ehmry at a very poor time (although I don’t think you are). We just won our match-up last week against SoR and Anvil Rock handedly with many on hiatus including myself. Yes we are coming off of a bunch of 2cd and 3rd places because we have been fighting Crystal Desert which has gotten a huge EU and SEA presence since the streamer DocGotGame started there and can run 40 deep during EU timezones so we are behind in PPT like crazy from the start due to coverage (although it looks like he’s doing more Archeage now so we’ll see if CD comes back to earth a bit). His guild can also queue a borderland during NA prime-time by themselves if he chooses to stream at night and they have queued borderlands solo the last 4 resets. And now we are matched up against Darkhaven who has a monstrous glicko lead over us.

If you are talking about Edge of the Mists then I would suggest doing what everyone suggests and pick a server that is always going to be green. If you mean WvW and play during NA prime-time I don’t think you’ll see much difference between Ehmry a T5 server and T4 servers so you’ll have to go up to at least T3. If you mean true WvW and you play during EU or SEA you’ll have to choose CD (EU) or DB or HoD (SEA) or just re-roll to T1 and become another part of the problem.

Don’t want stagnant match-ups. Spread the population. Don’t want queues spread the population.

In short. What do you mean WvW or EotM? They are not the same. What timezones do you play on?

Synosius.9876:

You are bringing bottle caps to Shangra La.

Made my day to read this!

One of my characters names in both GW1 and GW2 is Terry Fermy.

If you want EotM just join the [EotM] guild and run the Karma train with them. They avoid each other in EotM and just Ktrain the whole map between each server. Regular WvW maps have nothing to do with [EotM], want to be green all the time? Transfer the #1 server and roll everyone over to your hearts content!

The OP must be meaning WvW, and not EotM. Why would anyone in their right mind want to spend the majority of their time in eotm? I mean, it is great for leveling a lowbie and karma…….but serious wvw?

Smartcat.2130:

I moved to FA recently (Feb I think it was) for the WvW but also play in eotm during queues. So as a veteran freshly (somewhat) transferred to FA here is my experience and opinions.

Fort Aspen has a great WvW community and welcomed me with open arms. Many guilds are very open and are happy to have you run with them during open ops (and once they know you sometimes closed ops)
They have been steady in T2 without fault and I honestly can’t remember the last time they lost a match up.
As they’re often the victor of the weekly match up that means they are primarily Green (Overgrowth) in EotM and we all know how much OG kicks kitten in nearly all match ups.
There are guilds that do have a strong hand in EotM while doing some roaming in WvW.
They have a communal TS where you can join your guild or just join the wvw channels that are full of roamers, scouts, and the pug zerg.

The only downfall I have been able to find in FA is the queue times for wvw maps during NA time. Each map is often full with an approx 30min-1hour wait. And during reset if you don’t get in early you can forget it for at least 4 hours.

I hope you enjoy whichever server you choose.

I would agree with this. I transferred to FA for a little while a few months back, and your description is very accurate.

Worst thing about FA is ques. Lots and lots of ques……

Dream In A Dream.7213:

Go FA. They are probably the best choice for being green for a longer time if JQ isn’t open.

If you want to be on a server where many don’t and can’t speak your language, yep, go to FA.

atheria.2837:

Dream In A Dream.7213:

Go FA. They are probably the best choice for being green for a longer time if JQ isn’t open.

If you want to be on a server where many don’t and can’t speak your language, yep, go to FA.

I didn’t find that while I was there.

wow op, you’re missing out on the true meaning or experience of wvw…

FA here; from my time spent in this server I can state that I’ve been green more often than not but that DOES NOT mean being in a server that’s often OG ‘steamrolls’ everything.

There are a handful of familiar CMDs I see pop up in EOTM and it depends on various factors (Zerg size, CMDs’ decisions, zerg’s willingness to listen attentively and cooperate ect) that determines your chances of ‘surviving’ aka; steamrolling others.

There are literally guild groups out there focused on EOTM-relayed gameplay and from what I have frequently seen is either [EoTM] (generally 3-way ktrain-friendly) or [HK] (mega try hard lvl 80s that ‘almost always’ obliterate and collect all the salty orphan tears aka bag farm in EOTM. I believe they are on the JQ server) so you may want to find a guild that does stuff in there.

That or, as others have blatantly stated; join the top dog #1 server.. Which is near impossible due to the server status of ‘full’. Sigh.