Guild Wars 2

Get the impression there are a lot of oceanic players based on NA servers – what about EU? how many have guilds or are part of guilds on EU servers & which server might be the best choice if players were looking to link up with other oceanic players? This is for PvX.

SFR has the strongest morning crew in EU. Morning in Europe = oceanic prime time. Bare in mind that these players aren’t actually from oceanic countries, just early bird euros.
Desolation will be good for pve related things. They have some actual oceanic players. Don’t expect much during wvw, though they do have an Australian commander.

Australian players get lower latency on NA servers. That’s why you’ll see more of us there than on the EU servers. This is an extremely important factor in WvW.

Im an Australian/Oceanic. I moved to EU’s SFR right after leagues finished last year from NA. As far as I can tell, there are no Oceanic guilds on EU servers. The East Coast prime time (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne) is a real dead zone. On SFR it seems like on an average day there might be one float team with 30-40 covering 4 maps. There are no where near as many fights in Oceanic prime in EU as there are in NA. Often it ends up being a capping war to keep the highest PPT (which stems from other problems with the way EU play the game). And the bulk of these players are EU players, not Oceanic based players. The latency on EU servers is significantly worse than NA servers, which as you can imagine can be pretty bad when the game mode itself is already had its fair share of lag issues.

Honestly, I would not recommend moving to EU at all. I went to EU for the WvW experience. To see what they do differently from NA. For the learning experience. I will probably move back to NA. Things are much better there.

This goes the same if you are only partly interested in WvW and you have a focus on PvE. Just have to look at CoF. If you want to do the dungeon on EU during Oceanic prime your probably going to have to do the pre event yourself and host a party because all EU servers are usually contested during OCX prime.

If your going anyways, Id suggest to go SFR though.

nirvana.8245:

Im an Australian/Oceanic. I moved to EU’s SFR right after leagues finished last year from NA. As far as I can tell, there are no Oceanic guilds on EU servers. The East Coast prime time (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne) is a real dead zone. On SFR it seems like on an average day there might be one float team with 30-40 covering 4 maps. There are no where near as many fights in Oceanic prime in EU as there are in NA. Often it ends up being a capping war to keep the highest PPT (which stems from other problems with the way EU play the game). And the bulk of these players are EU players, not Oceanic based players. The latency on EU servers is significantly worse than NA servers, which as you can imagine can be pretty bad when the game mode itself is already had its fair share of lag issues.

Honestly, I would not recommend moving to EU at all. I went to EU for the WvW experience. To see what they do differently from NA. For the learning experience. I will probably move back to NA. Things are much better there.

This goes the same if you are only partly interested in WvW and you have a focus on PvE. Just have to look at CoF. If you want to do the dungeon on EU during Oceanic prime your probably going to have to do the pre event yourself and host a party because all EU servers are usually contested during OCX prime.

If your going anyways, Id suggest to go SFR though.

I am based on an EU server. Prime time for me is dead now (even PvE). Was not quite so bad in the past. Decision to be made whether to stay EU or move to NA. In fact it could well be the difference between continuing to play GW2 & stopping altogether.
If I had known about the latency difference & ocx player base when buying the game 16 months ago my choice of worlds would different.
Another game purchased recently had the choice between EU & NA; however this game automatically recommended NA servers based on my location.

Aren’t both EU and NA servers based in Texas? Why a latency difference?

I briefly experimented with an EU server before moving to Tarnished Coast. I didn’t find the latency between the two to be especially noticeable. The main reason I swapped to NA was because it was more populated during OCE night times; the NA east coasters are getting up, and there are still some night owl west coasters around. Whereas on an EU server, my night times are smack in the middle of the EU day, when most people are either at work or school, resulting in nearly empty maps.

We had a member transfer to EU for a while to check out the WvW scene, and take his WvW experience to the next level.

He agreed with all the above statements, latency wasn’t as clean as on the NA servers, and the oceanic time zone was fairly dead.

For OCX players your best bet for PVX is probably on an NA server. I play on SoS and we have a stellar WvW OCX core as well as a pretty populated PVE population. The Very High Population servers on NA are probably your best bet for a PVX guild.

SoS is the only Server in T2 that is going to be open and stable (meaning we are locked for Gold in T2). Mag/FA/DB are all fighting for the Final spots for T2 (not to mention we have plenty of Room on server for transfers). Just my suggestion. But if I were you I would go TeamSpeak hopping to find out more about other servers.

Trying NSP for a week; it’s worse than my EU server. Nearly 1am NZ time (insomniac) with hardly a soul to be seen. EU would have picked up about an 1.5 hours ago.
Choosing might be tough. Going to be between Gunners hold, SoS, Mag,/FA & DB.

Come to T1/JQ. A good number of ozie players are here.

>Guy asks about EU servers

>People try to recruit him to NA servers

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Fuzzion.2504:

Come to T1/JQ. A good number of ozie players are here.

Come to SoS… We actually understand geography and know the difference between Aussie and NZ.

I am from NZ too btw:)

Doesn’t sounds like you’re playing oceanic prime time, so I’d look for a server that is active when you are.

If you are playing late Oceanic you want to look for a strong EU coverage. For that i’d suggest IoJ, Mag, SoS, FA (Wild card, They may implode time will show us). DragonWagon has the weaker EU.

FA is not imploding.

akanibbles.6237:

Doesn’t sounds like you’re playing oceanic prime time, so I’d look for a server that is active when you are.

Gave up playing prime time due to the lack of players on my EU server. NSP is slightly better, not by much though (prime time right now).

The top 4-5 NA servers were full. As I cannot transfer anywhere else until Sunday night – a decision will be made then.

I noticed a small drop on oceanic prime time this week on NSP, assume some are taking time out ahead of season 2. That said, it was busy enough last night, with some new guild arrivals from IoJ.

Banzie.5248:

If you are playing late Oceanic you want to look for a strong EU coverage. For that i’d suggest IoJ, Mag, SoS, FA (Wild card, They may implode time will show us). DragonWagon has the weaker EU.

EU starts at 8-10am oceanic, so nope. Better to find a server with good PST or SEA coverage

I agree… late oceanic is SEA.

Still recommend SoS. We have Great OCX/SEA/EU coverage and would love for you to join our tightknit community! The gem price may be high but it’ll be well worth your money to join a competitive off hour wvw server

Reverence.6915:

Banzie.5248:

If you are playing late Oceanic you want to look for a strong EU coverage. For that i’d suggest IoJ, Mag, SoS, FA (Wild card, They may implode time will show us). DragonWagon has the weaker EU.

EU starts at 8-10am oceanic, so nope. Better to find a server with good PST or SEA coverage

Even earlier. As early as 6am. I have been able to play mornings so it has not been a bother in that regard. This will change at some stage.

NSP was a lot busier last night (Thursday) & tonight. Enjoyed my week with NSP so far. Going to be a choice between NSP, GH or perhaps SoS; although I don’t like my chances of getting on the SoS server.