Guild Wars 2

During season 1 our Tier 1 server had commanders on all the time, and the commanders were organized with time assignments… I believe. I’m not a commander but you hear hints on organization in TeamSpeak. And, yes Tier 1 servers are going to have better off hour population.

And in your collective T1 opinions, which server had more fun fights?

Hello Andy,

IMHO all 3 T1 servers have fun fights. AFAIK, all 3 T1 have healthy communities and commanders. BG is currently dominating about 25-35.34% of the time. Wintersday changed it slightly. It really depends on the timezone you are playing in. Check the MOS, best for checking your timezone coverage. Anything more than 270+ PPT =coverage issues for one of the servers at that timezone.

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/33/

That said TC and FA are really great fighters except for some off NA Prime coverage.

FW

andytango.2950:

And in your collective T1 opinions, which server had more fun fights?

In JQ, we’ve been outnumbered in EB recently and have gone for almost an hour without a commander just in the past week.

Our numbers definitely dropped off after the season ended and with the holidays and school finals, our population has been up and down. Our prime is still going very strong though and you can have about a 10 minute queue at most for any map except maybe EB where it could be more like 30 minutes.

You should stick with TC. You guys have been getting stronger and its nice to have competition that isn’t BG or SoR, even if its only at certain times of the day.

It takes time to build a server up so that it has 24/7 coverage. TC lost some people before the season so they are rebuilding, just as SoS and FA are rebuilding as well.

I encourage anyone to take the time to build a community vs transferring over just because = winning.

Transferring should be reserved for a true mismatch with your server on some level. Either you or your guild are not getting quality play. It sounds like you are happy with your timezone’s action. You can’t worry about overall scores and times when you are not on so much. Especially since TC tends to have advantages in that regard compared to most of their opponents.

Blackgate was in the position that TC is in now for over 5 months. They took the lumps in order to be where they are now.

Last food for thought, if it gets to the point where WvW is only on a handful of servers; why should ANet put any resources into improving it?

There isn’t really ‘downtime’ in T1. There’s more or less “periods when one server can dominate” — which in most cases is EU or late NA/OCX. That said, you’ll still find fights at any hour of the day. The holidays are taking a toll on all servers, even T1 — this is to be expected, and will bounce back once January hits. There’s also a touch of post-league burnout… people wanna sit around with their guild and run smaller groups instead of chasing dat ptt and blobbing.

As for JQ, we have our main coverage in SEA and NA. Our NA has shrunk since the start of leagues, and we can and do go outnumbered / no queue on 2/3 BLs. Tonight, we did not even have much of an EB queue! This could change once Jan hits, like I said, but for the most part, we do not have many queues to speak of outside reset on most maps and the weekends. I would suspect the same is true for SoR, with their coverage shifting around a bit differently than ours, and them having a much stronger NA.

My advice would be SoR or JQ if you like fights and don’t mind being outnumbered here and there.

Here was one of our fights from the weekend — JQ vs SoR vs BG in the ruins: http://www.twitch.tv/risenfall/c/3364396 made of a 80% militia group all using TS, heh.