Guild Wars 2

Where are you currently,
What time of day.

I wouldn’t go fa if you want competition.

Dh is effectively a dead server in wvw.

Didn’t see you mention hod or nsp,
Hod is weak during na afternoons,
Nsp is weak during nights.
Cd seems to struggle with identity stemming from their linked servers being a higher ratio in strength compared to other links.

It’s hard to gauge the secondary servers.

The only servers that are closed right now is BG, JQ and YB. With out more information, no one can direct you to a server.

Lorden.8026:

I’m on EU server, GM said “The only thing about these transfers is I cannot put you into any full or highly populated server.” I am east coast time zone but It doesn’t matter because I’ll play at 3-5am sometimes.

FA = bad for competition because it outnumbers other servers?

For this week yeah, we got an awful roll into t4 again. Next week will be better though.

No one so far have explained to you server links with the partial glicko resets and how the rank 6-rank 11 servers basically all are within glicko range of rolling T2-T4?

I don’t understand the GM comment about High population server. HoD and CD are the only medium population servers that are “host”. The others right now end up getting linked to another server to bring average population levels up.

World population is now determined by WvW activity, not by number of accounts logged into the shard.

It makes no sense that they wouldn’t be able to transfer you to a very high server. Only full servers are locked. Otherwise, you could move to any open server na and then transfer around as you like.

I never heard of it that you can’t transfer between EU and NA with gems. I’ve done that twice. Odd.

Glicko rating is used for match-making.

It used to be in NA that tiers had a strong separation between them by rating so the probability of a rank 5 server rolling a T4 match was extremely low. But now the rating between servers has been getting closer so the probability of such a thing is much higher.

One of the reasons for this is the new server link system where ArenaNet tries to form teams with relatively even populations.

Anyway, you probably can’t go wrong with any of the rank 5 – rank 11 servers if you enjoy variations in matches. You’d have to look up which servers are linked to those host servers if you wanted to go that route, just be aware that in another month and a half servers get re-linked so you might end up with a different host server.

Ermm…..

From your descriptions, I guess your guild is a PvE guild thus is just transferring you to any medium populated server to allow you to PvE with them. Any higher pop server, I assume, would be considered as excessive spending of golds.

So, among all the medium server, you have to pick one. However, since you focus on winning and challenge seems to be just secondary since winning and challenge doesn’t really go hand in hand. Challenge means there are wins and losses, not simply win. I would advise you to go to maybe server like GOM, BP or AR. If I’m not mistaken, these 3 servers tend to be linked with higher populated server so far.