Guild Wars 2

Hi, I am a NA player returning from an absence of about 6 months.
I primarily play SPVP and WVW, but after returning and playing for a week WVW seems really dead. I will admit I do play at really odd times like early mornings to mid-afternoon though.

I am currently on the Darkhaven server, which I picked at random when i first started. Darkhaven is in a fairly low tier and am considering transferring off to a higher tier server for more action and fun but I have no idea where I would want to go or even if it is worth moving at all.

So my question is this how are the other tiers, not servers really, but just how are things different in each tier?
How are the state of the fights? Do people defend? How is the population? Is it just mindless zergs all of the time or do people fight coordinately for objectives? Is it just PvD trains or GvG field battles? Long queue times?

I really just want to know how things are so I can make a more informed decision on if I should transfer and where. Any information is appreciated.

Go to T1 is my advice. Every other tier is relatively empty by comparison. Even if they aren’t today they will be soon enough.

Well we lost at least half of our server/guilds to HOD last tournament, so…

skullmount.1758:

Well we lost at least half of our server/guilds to HOD last tournament, so…

And they all transferred off to Tier 2 servers after HoD decided they didn’t want to fight Tier 2.

Now they are known as Henge of Irony.

Chris.3290:

skullmount.1758:

Well we lost at least half of our server/guilds to HOD last tournament, so…

And they all transferred off to Tier 2 servers after HoD decided they didn’t want to fight Tier 2.

Now they are known as Henge of Irony.

Actually I think one group of people are still there.

I’m on YB, we go from T3 to T4. When we faced Mag for one week it was so blobby. Also couldn’t roam (i solo and duo roam) because there were constant 10 man “roaming” parties. Currently in T3/T4 there are about 6 servers that have pretty decently matched pops (there are some exceptions here and there) so the match ups are actually pretty solid. I don’t know anything about T1, but if it’s anything like T2 it will be blobby as well. The thing I like about T3/T4 is it’s got zerg fights, it’s got roaming groups, it’s got solo roamers. Little to no queues all around a pretty solid place. There are off hours though where it will be pretty light (last night for example was light, mainly cause it was thursday) and you will run into the same roamers over and over. T2 is the “GvG” servers, and also the home to the “best” pvper’s in the game (sarcasm) so i’m sure you’ll hear from them in here in due time. Anyways that’s from my perspective, been playing since April of last year.

Tier 1
JQ – Has a couple of guild groups, pretty blobby for the most part. Their karma train is the biggest in T1. So fun to hit.
BG – Has big guild groups (30-40 strong), and a couple of smaller ones as well. Constantly coordinate for objectives. Definitely the biggest threat for defenders.
TC – Has quite a few guild groups, a couple big ones but mostly smaller ones (10-20 strong). Militia groups get blob size sometimes, most of the time its smaller then BGs and always smaller then JQs.

UrMom.4205:

I’m on YB, we go from T3 to T4. When we faced Mag for one week it was so blobby. Also couldn’t roam (i solo and duo roam) because there were constant 10 man “roaming” parties.

That is not a valid measurement of Mag or T2. Mag didn’t want to be in T3 so the entire servers active population nearly doubled that week to generate PPT and bounce back into T2. Mag actively punished T3 that week. Catch Mag during a typical week and we don’t generate anything close to those numbers.