Guild Wars 2

What are we supposed to do? I made the apparently unfortunate decision to start my GW2 career on borlis pass, but I’ve seen pretty much every guild transfer far away from this server to join the zerg on the high pop servers. Now it’s just repeated domination that we share with poor Ferguson’s Crossing. Ehmry Bay controls all 3 power orbs with their superior numbers which makes them even more powerful. I don’t blame them; It’s not their fault that it’s too easy to simply abandon ship and join the winning side.

But now I have a dilemma. I feel like the right thing is to stay with my underpopulated server and fight the good fight, but where is the incentive? The outmanned buff is all but useless for being outmanned. People are in chat saying adios to the server and then you get to see them on the other side as the tidal wave of players is sweeping over our towers and supply camps like so many locusts. I want to enjoy the game, but it’s clear that staying with my server and trying to defend it actually works against that very goal.

So what’s going to be done about this? Stemming off free, instant transfers wouldn’t do much at this point since the imbalance is already in place. Should I just move my guild to the winning team like everybody else or should I stay and slam my head against the wall some more?

Have you ever been apart of a rebuilding situation? If not it’s going to be painful but the rewards are well worth it. Also does Borlis Pass have their own server forums?

Those of us who remained behind pretty much accepted the fact that we’ll be in the bottom of the barrel. Had to learn how to play and win.

I seriously have no idea why people are bailing at the first sign of trouble. Leaving to join a high pop server just to sit on the sidelines? That’s like saying “I’d rather see better players in the WvW and I’m not good enough”. Really you’re better off without those people. Had similar people here bail the moment Ascension Alliance left our server. They wanted to be carried by AA but, when AA’s back started to hurt, they found a new one in HoD, JQ, Sea of Sorrows etc.

Having said all of this, if you feel like you’re the one doing all the work with little to no support, well I don’t blame you one bit. At least you tried to salvage.

Also if you know you’re going to lose, you may as well buckle in a fort and build a crap ton of weapons. When a zerg from another server comes storming in, destroy them and be amazed with all the badges you’ll have. It was probably our lowest point in Northern Shiverpeaks. Badge farming and turtling with alot of weapons built.

Buy a Commander title. People will flock to you like you are the greatest general of all time. Attack where you want to attack and the zerg will follow. You don’t even need to type orders.

free transfer should be only to go to low pop servers if it says full should not let you enter, and apparently this is not happening.

I wish I could afford that commander book. Endless repair costs on the losing side keep me from making any profit though =/

I’m on Borlis Pass also. I feel your pain.
1) Free server transfers have sent two peeps i know elsewhere for more competitive WvW.
2) Outmanned buff does nothing to help.

Having said that, I find dominating WvW to be boring and i transferred here two weeks back from a server where the queue time was over an hour sometimes.

I would like a close game in WvW with tension and map level strategy. I’m not sure what Anet are going to do to help servers like ours

Fed.8594:

I’m on Borlis Pass also. I feel your pain.
1) Free server transfers have sent two peeps i know elsewhere for more competitive WvW.
2) Outmanned buff does nothing to help.

Having said that, I find dominating WvW to be boring and i transferred here two weeks back from a server where the queue time was over an hour sometimes.

I would like a close game in WvW with tension and map level strategy. I’m not sure what Anet are going to do to help servers like ours

I agree with you on not wanting it to be total domination either. However, the system seems to always support feast or famine. You’re either crushing or being totally crushed.

Fed.8594:

I’m on Borlis Pass also. I feel your pain.
1) Free server transfers have sent two peeps i know elsewhere for more competitive

I found this absolutely hilarious because when people transfer to servers like HoD, ET, etc, they aren’t doing it to be competitive they’re doing it to win. You don’t join epic zerg servers with dozens of guilds and expect any competition, you do it to take advantage of the fact that you won’t GET any competition. This is not how it should be.

Just my two cents:

Hang in there. All these large guilds that are transferring to the high pop servers so they can say their #1 are gonna be stuck with 1 of 2 situations.

1)Being able to brag about how they’re number 1, even though chances are “they” never had a thing to do with it as they spend all their time in que.

2)Paying for a server transfer to a lower pop server which is great for us as it balances things out, however will cost them money.

So I say, stay where your at, enjoy that you can WvW whenever you want without ques, and maybe focus on getting a good server community going.

Besides let’s be honest here. Winning a battle in this game is much more fun then winning the war when your out popped. If my server gets its behind whooped because we can’t keep up with the opposing zerg, but my guild can hold a keep and have an amazingly epic battle while at it… I’m good.

And the best part is, I’m not sitting in que killing boars while listening to my guildmates have all the fun in TS.

JemL.3501:

free transfer should be only to go to low pop servers if it says full should not let you enter, and apparently this is not happening.

Free server transfers don’t take population into effect at all. They’re simply a consolation for the guesting system not being available, so we can play with friends on other servers.

It’s even less fun from the perspective of Ehmry. Once we’ve taken the whole map, I just log off because spawn camping is unrewarding and uninteresting.

Ehmry is kind of odd because I think we do well during prime time. We’re ranked low because most servers crush us in the night. I log off and we’re #1; I log in the next day and we have nothing. In this case we finally found two servers that we can also beat at night. :-p

Incidentally, while it sucks to have nothing, it sucks more to have everything. When you own everything there are no real options and there’s nothing to do. When you own nothing, at least you have a chance to coordinate with other guilds, pick 1 map and all rush something to take it over and camp in there and farm some defense XP.

That will work better when they fix the problem with retaliation killing arrow carts. Right now 20 people can’t defend against 50. Once arrow carts stop taking retaliation, that’ll change.

Aka, limit caps on the Battegrounds per server = balanced fights. More skilled players will turn the tide not outnumbering somebody 20 to 1.