Guild Wars 2

Whats the deal with ring of fire…Do most people just PvE or what? RoF are apparently a high population server but more often than not we have the outmaned buff in WvW when fighting against medium population servers…..

I read that server population doesn’t take into account accounts that aren’t played and just totals the accounts that have ever played on the server. If that is correct its sucks….seeing high population will probably deter people from joining the server in order to avoid queues and overflows.

it’s true… i don’t know why, maybe becouse we have lost some wvw guilds some months ago!

As far as I can say it accounts for the amount of people that are online because sometimes during off-peak hours some server would be rated on a lower pop scale.

But yeah , RoF is probably more PvE focused.

We could survive just fine in T7 if the other 2 servers were also T7 sized. As things stand on the EU server ladder there are several competitive servers in T5/6 and every week one of them get tossed down the stairs to T7.

For 3 weeks now we’ve been getting treated like red headed step children, and it’s all just the way the Glicko system works. Some weeks we can pick up server points against better servers (because of a large difference in scores) and some weeks we can’t.

This week we haven’t been able to do that but the problem comes from real life. It’s the Easter/Spring Break in Germany and we’re up against 2 German servers. Playing today hasn’t been much fun.

Then dont play for points mainly in those weeks:) ….Play for fun….more to kill now right

/Salute

Ilesyt.7084:

But yeah , RoF is probably more PvE focused.

No Ilesyt, we aren’t any more PvE focused than any other server. We can run large groups on more than one map during prime time, but we lack 24/7 coverage. You’ll see it for yourself again next week because you’ll be in the same position when you face Gunnar’s and your old friends the Dzags.

I’m sure we’ll be hearing from you again about how unfair it is that the Dzags always double team you.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Ilesyt.7084:

But yeah , RoF is probably more PvE focused.

No Ilesyt, we aren’t any more PvE focused than any other server. We can run large groups on more than one map during prime time, but we lack 24/7 coverage. You’ll see it for yourself again next week because you’ll be in the same position when you face Gunnar’s and your old friends the Dzags.

I’m sure we’ll be hearing from you again about how unfair it is that the Dzags always double team you.

You’re the second lowest Very high server. If you’re not more PvE focused than some other servers then you guys must be bad. RoS has been lacking 24/7 coverage since day one, nothing new there.

Germans from all three german servers are maybe worst GW2 players.
They need zerg for retake one camp,they need zerg for haunt and kill one player,they need zerg for kill one dolyak but they are almost 100% failing in duels or 1vs1 group fights.I won min.9/10 duels against them and im not thief.

Are we really very high population though that is the question here….as I said we constantly have the outmaned buff in WvW so if we are a very high population server it’s basically a server of pve grinders. I’ll also add the last time I did Grenth I think less than 20 were doing it and this was a weekend…..

The high population thing is based on overall server population, not WvW participation. Thing is, I’m sometimes wondering as well, where our high population is hiding ^.^
They’re definitely not in WvW, our orr temples are contested most of the time as well… only thing that seems to draw them seems to be lame dragon events :P

Jimmy.1476:

Germans from all three german servers are maybe worst GW2 players.
They need zerg for retake one camp,they need zerg for haunt and kill one player,they need zerg for kill one dolyak but they are almost 100% failing in duels or 1vs1 group fights.I won min.9/10 duels against them and im not thief.

I have also had some great 1v1 action and small team fights against these. These german servers a great at zerging but in a 1v1/small fight they are terrible. Zerging promotes bad play and low skill.

pejot.4806:

…only thing that seems to draw them seems to be lame dragon events :P

I wonder if our Guesting problem is contributing to the “very high” rating. We constantly get overflow maps at our dragons and other major bosses.

kingcragus.6810:

Jimmy.1476:

Germans from all three german servers are maybe worst GW2 players.
They need zerg for retake one camp,they need zerg for haunt and kill one player,they need zerg for kill one dolyak but they are almost 100% failing in duels or 1vs1 group fights.I won min.9/10 duels against them and im not thief.

I have also had some great 1v1 action and small team fights against these. These german servers a great at zerging but in a 1v1/small fight they are terrible. Zerging promotes bad play and low skill.

just because you see a zerg often take a camp it doesn’t mean that they need zerging to take a camp. Often you need the zerg to have supply so that’s why they’re all running to it. Sometimes you don’t want that the group to get scattered so you don’t go sending 5-person-groups to take camps. But sometimes you do that because it’s faster to take camps this way. Just until you meet enemies.

You’re saying that you’re winning all duels is more anecdotal. If you’re so skilled than why are you not playing sPvP? And besides from wasting one enemy player’s time and possibly drawing him/her away from joining a group you’re not really doing anything good for your team this way…

(I’m saying that as an fresh unskilled player who avoids fighting enemies when roaming alone even though I’m Ele) I go to WvW for tactics not for skilled 1v1 or 2v2 fights.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

pejot.4806:

…only thing that seems to draw them seems to be lame dragon events :P

I wonder if our Guesting problem is contributing to the “very high” rating. We constantly get overflow maps at our dragons and other major bosses.

Seriously ? you’re getting overflows at your dragon maps but you don’t think you have a higher PvE player concentration ? Even if you get people guesting, that just means you got more PvE’rs…

Ilesyt.7084:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

pejot.4806:

…only thing that seems to draw them seems to be lame dragon events :P

I wonder if our Guesting problem is contributing to the “very high” rating. We constantly get overflow maps at our dragons and other major bosses.

Seriously ? you’re getting overflows at your dragon maps but you don’t think you have a higher PvE player concentration ? Even if you get people guesting, that just means you got more PvE’rs…

You never did like listening to reality. We run just fine in the Prime Time, but we don’t have enough for 24/7 which is why we can’t hold out in T7. You’ll get your chance next and I can’t wait to meet Surmia again.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Ilesyt.7084:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

pejot.4806:

…only thing that seems to draw them seems to be lame dragon events :P

I wonder if our Guesting problem is contributing to the “very high” rating. We constantly get overflow maps at our dragons and other major bosses.

Seriously ? you’re getting overflows at your dragon maps but you don’t think you have a higher PvE player concentration ? Even if you get people guesting, that just means you got more PvE’rs…

You never did like listening to reality. We run just fine in the Prime Time, but we don’t have enough for 24/7 which is why we can’t hold out in T7. You’ll get your chance next and I can’t wait to meet Surmia again.

You’re the one not looking at reality here…

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Ilesyt.7084:

But yeah , RoF is probably more PvE focused.

No Ilesyt, we aren’t any more PvE focused than any other server. We can run large groups on more than one map during prime time, but we lack 24/7 coverage. You’ll see it for yourself again next week because you’ll be in the same position when you face Gunnar’s and your old friends the Dzags.

I’m sure we’ll be hearing from you again about how unfair it is that the Dzags always double team you.

Scuttlebutt is that Xaoc might be knocking on Dzag´s and Gunnar´s hatches during night watch, flying RoS-colors, coming next week.

Free transfers until April 1st to medium populated, low tiered servers means Xaoc is looking for a new home server once again.

Well as far as I can tell about the high population on the server it does come to my attention that every guild i know has the same problem as in having to deal with mayor clean ups because some people stopped playing Guild Wars all together for not finding it fun any more. Which makes it look like we got a lot of persons registered in our server. As for the remaining people who still are playing the game the mayority isn’t in wvw.

As for the overflow when dragons come on Ilesyt it is because of guesting not because of the high population, just like Herr der Friedhoefe said.

xilius.7890:

Well as far as I can tell about the high population on the server it does come to my attention that every guild i know has the same problem as in having to deal with mayor clean ups because some people stopped playing Guild Wars all together for not finding it fun any more. Which makes it look like we got a lot of persons registered in our server. As for the remaining people who still are playing the game the mayority isn’t in wvw.

As for the overflow when dragons come on Ilesyt it is because of guesting not because of the high population, just like Herr der Friedhoefe said.

Then a medium server like mine would have overflows on dragons too, which we don’t, EVER.

Considering that we actually did really well during prime-time today (ticked inn at +410 at some point), I’d say we actually do have a high population, but one that rarely show interest in WvW. Today was obviously an exception :p

This is our chance to gain a higher WvW population, let’s welcome our PvE friends with open arms and give them a big welcome~

Jikap.6547:

Considering that we actually did really well during prime-time today (ticked inn at +410 at some point), I’d say we actually do have a high population, but one that rarely show interest in WvW. Today was obviously an exception :p

This is our chance to gain a higher WvW population, let’s welcome our PvE friends with open arms and give them a big welcome~

win

And just when the matchup list was sort of balancing itself out they throw out another week of free transfers and we straight away see Xaoc looking to leave for a new server which they will falsely inflate to a high tier and displace a constant high WvW population server to drop to tiers they don’t belong in and make everyone’s (including their own servers) week of WvW boring, a shame really.

RoF do have a high PvE population but one that also kind of fairweather fights in WvW. When we are stomping you’ll see big numbers but when things are tough it breaks back down to the hardcore WvW’ers. That and we lose a huge amount of points from about 2am-11am. At present the only truly constant early morning commander we have is Darcyll, a couple more and we could make some nice points from 7am-11am when most others log on.

Indeed last.night primetime was a big win for us, but like Jikap said the chances of being it a exception is real because of the new stuff in wvw that hopefully may attrqct our pve part into wvw.

And Ilesyt as far as overflows during dragons, it’s not when it doesnt happen on your server that it doesnt happen at al.