On the individual level I’d probably give it to FA overall (about month ago; maybe it was their pairing, too, idk). Fairly humble server in my experience and provided a lot of very tough skirmishes without an excess of cheese. Granted, I guess it depends on what you mean on by roaming and havoc.
Mag doesn’t have good players for the most part, especially now with the brandwagoning. BG is massively overrated. TC is extremely hit-or-miss depending on time of day and just some individual players (you’ll see random pug groups from TC wipe groups 3x their size, but other pug groups of 5-6 consistently die to solo, no-name players). When against Mag, I’ve never not been ganked by less than 5 people, all running FoTM cheese, when running alone. There are some truly exceptional players there, but I’ve personally never seen them, and that number isn’t indicative of the server’s overall capacity,. Further, it’s relatively identical across the game for every server. There are exceptional players on every server. Some are just more active and/or more vocal than others.
The 15-man spawncamping permastealth squad of PU mesmers, immediately capping confusion on pugs and small groups of 2-4 is kind of what they do and how they do it. Yea, you don’t need to carry their pugs, but their pugs pretty much consist of gank squads that won’t touch a fair fight with a ten foot pole. High KDR, seemingly good performance, but just because they seem to be always around spawn and killing people there doesn’t really indicate the the players are good or the havoc actually productive.
Honestly, I’d just say don’t bother even looking, because the small-scale scene aside from cheese ganking is pretty much entirely dead. HoT killed off most of the esteemed small-scale players/guilds immediately with the guild hall stuff, expensive costs to re-gear with powercreeped new stat options, desert BL being anti-small-group, and broken elite specs. Most of what’s left is just the trolls and gankers who got beat hard before, who need to chest-thump by crushing weaker groups to feel good about themselves. And it’s not a Mag thing or any specific community; it’s pretty applicable to every server that has pride in small-scale and havoc these days; the dregs are getting their chance at fame under the delusion that they’re all exceptional players or somesuch nonsense.
