Guild Wars 2

So, I quit a year or so ago. A friend got me back into the game and we are moderately excited to get some WvW action. Thing is, we can’t find a guild for our home server Maguuma that does any real WvW and neither of us want to dump more money into this game in order to transfer to a bigger WvW server. Quite frankly, I would rather quit again. It doesn’t seem like WvW has changed much, and if I remember correctly it felt like it was on it’s last leg back then. Is it really this dead on the lower ranked servers? I’ve asked in every map several different times each day for the past week for a guild invite and haven’t even so much as gotten a response.

So, what do I do now? The PvE in this game is still dreadful (the new map silverwastes? is a step up but still nothing too special) and the sPvP never appealed to me at either a pub or team level (I think I’ve played somewhere around 900 matches with about 50 team matches). I posted in the Looking For … section on the forum with no response as well. I guess I’m just curious at what happened (I’m starting to think megaservers may have been the killing blow) and if it is possible for my friend and I to get some quality WvW in on a lower population server. Did I mention that half the time on peak hours I can’t even find a commander on maps? I’m not even exaggerating.

last i know that server went in 1 day empty. Either transfer of suck it up and go do pve. Only live in WvW is at gold rest is like VHS repair place.

From your very positive post dear OP, looks like me you are really enjoying the game. We need more people like you..

While I cannot comment on the state of your server, I can say that finding and joining a WvW guild is quite easy on the more populated WvW servers.

As for the state of the game, you’re mostly right, there has been very little development for this part of the game, and PvE seems to be the biggest drain of ArenaNet’s resources.

With that said, organised WvW is still enjoyable, but only as enjoyable as the people you play with. So take that with you when considering if changing server is worth it for you and your friend.

Play EotM. It’s superior game mode. Match actually start soon and need to go kill desolation upscaled players. It’s so much fun kill PvE players.

Junkpile.7439:

Play EotM. It’s superior game mode. Match actually start soon and need to go kill desolation upscaled players. It’s so much fun kill PvE players.

Yeah play EotM, but Junkpile, Maguuma does neither fight Deso nor you

And concerning your quetion: Nothing happened to WvW, to much of nothing for much to long to be precise.

And hey: if you stopped as one of the first, maybe you are only one of the first returning, so maybe in some month it wil be full as on first day?

Hey! What’s wrong with the Deso uplevels?!

… a 39 Desolation Bronze Scout hides behind a 49 Assaulter

Raap.9065:

With that said, organised WvW is still enjoyable, but only as enjoyable as the people you play with. So take that with you when considering if changing server is worth it for you and your friend.

Exactly.

We tried EotM a few times recently and found it basically a PvE karma train. I was amazed at how we could capture things back to back for hours without a single enemy encounter. I’m looking for the large, experienced player fights we once had and EotM seems to be 80% upscale zergs with 5 man level 80 parties roaming around.

Indoles.1467:

Is it really this dead on the lower ranked servers?

Yep. Just a few play WvW there, so the server ranks low. And because the server ranks low, just a few play WvW. Or maybe the other way around^^

The bad massage is, if you want more WvW action, then you may have no other choice than to actually transfer…

Last heard Mag is on the rise again.
When i fought Mag last week I saw a lot WaR, Oath, SFD, XOXO, all do WvW, just go into WvW and look for people with those tags.
This is your server website http://maguuma.org go there if u still need help.

If you enjoy WvW in this game, and want quality action around the clock, transfer to a T1 or even a T2 server already. It’ll be the best money you’ve spent, worth hours upon hours of enjoyment playing with and against lots of people. It’s worth the price, you won’t regret it. Leave lower pop servers to PvE & EoTM. Join a T1 or T2 server for real good action with lots of guilds to choose from.

Mag is currently roflstomping in its matchup. It’s looking to be possibly the second largest blowout of the week in NA, and you can’t find a commander or guild? That seems… odd. I mean, look at the scores:

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/

Somebody is clearly playing a lot of WvW.

The problem is, while megaserver is easily the best change to GW2 since release, it meshes horribly with WvW servers, and makes it hard for casuals to join the WvW players ranks. Really, ANet needs to get rid of servers for WvW entirely. At the very least they should remove the gem cost of transfers and let the player population sort itself out. WvW has a pretty high barrier to participation; step one for WvW is create healthy competition, healthy servers, and make it easy for new people to engage in WvW and have a good experience.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

Mag is currently roflstomping in its matchup. It’s looking to be possibly the second largest blowout of the week in NA, and you can’t find a commander or guild? That seems… odd. I mean, look at the scores:

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/

Somebody is clearly playing a lot of WvW.

I managed to find a guild and it appears there are at least 2 other major WvW guilds now but recruiting doesn’t seem to be on their to-do list. In fact, I’m seeing a lot of guild hostility amongst the few WvW guilds on Maguuma. I hope we can climb the ranks. Our current competition barely manages to pull together a 30 man pug zerg. If we defeat them once they leave the map and we just take everything.

When you can’t WvWvW, then go Edge.