Guild Wars 2

Hi,
My buddies and I are looking to transfer to a more active server for WvW. I was wondering if anyone has any input on which servers have consistent action. We prefer small group roaming. So we are thinking to stay out of tier one.

Judging by posting history, he’s in NA.

msalakka.4653:

Judging by posting history, he’s in NA.

What?

What is “consistent action”? If you mean constant action, then there is none. Not even the tier 1, EU or NA included (NA = North America, EU = Europe)
24/7 = constant = nowhere

You should say where you are currently, in which timezone you play (even if in every timezones randomly), then someone will answer something vague, because nobody but Anet knows.

My guess is that most likely the higher tiers have more action, though not sure what is “small group”? Two, five, ten… I’ve seen a “roaming” guild with 20+, they were just “ganking” around the map (not taking any objectives, except camps maybe or sentries). Let’s say you mean a group of about 5… Even in tier 1 can happen in certain days & timezones that there’s nothing at comparable size (I guess you won’t hit a group of 20, and against less… I wouldn’t call that “action”). It’s all random.

The short answer: likely a few tiers above, but sometimes that’s not true. Who knows, maybe there is a roaming server.

You can use the servers status tool to find out the amount of action on a server.

Red = Full = most action
Orange = active sometimes, maybe 1-4 sessions of 2 hours of a day for some days
Yellow = active sometimes, maybe one session of 2 hours of a day for some days a week
Green = PVE most of the time.

Markus.6492:

www.gw2-tools.com/worlds.php

Lord of Rings.5371:

You can use the servers status tool to find out the amount of action on a server.

Red = Full = most action
Orange = active sometimes, maybe 1-4 sessions of 2 hours of a day for some days
Yellow = active sometimes, maybe one session of 2 hours of a day for some days a week
Green = PVE most of the time.

Markus.6492:

www.gw2-tools.com/worlds.php

well no from my experience the full server is usually run by the infamous
"Get off my lawn ! guilds " No matter where you go there will be lot of players
Unless they are green or LOW pop
Matchmaking makes sure you are always up against equal pop servers
So best is subjective. Don’t be a bandwagon guy and get involved in the community
so you will have fun no matter where you go.

Not everyone is looking for the same qualities in a server. You mentioned that you were interested in small group roaming. If your group is good enough, take a look at some of the Tier 3 servers. There are actually teams of 3-5 roamers on maps that you can fight. Just keep in mind that some of the more toxic players in the game have found their way to T3 because of the GvG scene, so if you don’t have a thick skin it might not be right for you.

I wouldn’t recommend the other tiers in silver because most of the time players will be running with their respective zergs instead of splitting up. For my small man team in T5, we mostly spend our time killing uplevels and tailing zergs. If this doesn’t phase you, the relatively cheap price of transferring to the T4/T5 isn’t kitten

uming you run 3-5 players, Anvil Rock and Sorrows Furnace could really benefit from you transferring there. Darkhaven and Dragonbrand are growing rapidly, with Darkhaven having pretty strong coverage in all TZs except SEA, and Dragonbrand struggling during EU/OCX. Feel free to PM me in-game if you have any other questions.

Extreme.8350:

Matchmaking makes sure you are always up against equal pop servers

really?

Lord of Rings.5371:

Extreme.8350:

Matchmaking makes sure you are always up against equal pop servers

really?

I have an account on t5 eu and yes its quite balanced most of the time.

expandas.7051:

Not everyone is looking for the same qualities in a server. You mentioned that you were interested in small group roaming. If your group is good enough, take a look at some of the Tier 3 servers. There are actually teams of 3-5 roamers on maps that you can fight.

I wouldn’t recommend the other tiers in silver because most of the time players will be running with their respective zergs instead of splitting up. For my small man team in T5, we mostly spend our time killing uplevels and tailing zergs. Meh.

T4 has a good number of roaming groups/guilds. Will keep an eye out for yours when you finally get back up to T5

Thank you all for your input.

Extreme.8350:

I have an account on t5 eu and yes its quite balanced most of the time.

I am glad T5 is working out well.

What might be the reason for the dominance in scoring for " Far Shiverpeaks" in T4 and “Gunnar’s Hold” in T6?

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

I’m on Tarnished Coast with is T2 atm and was T1 for a long time

people in this thread are claiming that thats where the most action is, they are wrong . . its where the most zergs are.

I prefer to roam and just fight on the map, T1 and T2 are super boring for roamers, you either find a zerg, a guy who just runs away or occasionally a fight(very rare)

I’m guessing small group to you OP is 3-10 people, if you find a good server let me know lol, but i do not recommend the higher tiers for anything than zergfests.

Zev.3407:

I’m on Tarnished Coast with is T2 atm and was T1 for a long time
..
I prefer to roam and just fight on the map, T1 and T2 are super boring for roamers, …
..
but i do not recommend the higher tiers for anything than zergfests.

Time to move on? It might be fun.

Fysem.9631:

msalakka.4653:

Judging by posting history, he’s in NA.

What?

I was simply pointing out that you are likely seeking info re: North American servers. Your post didn’t mention your region. Unless you are interested in Euro servers as well.

I have to say, t4-t6 would be the most stable and equal numbered servers.. take a pick from them
t1 – t3 would be blobs zergs

((edit: why does t1 – t3 without spaces in the middle, says Kitten? so weird))

Lord of Rings.5371:

Extreme.8350:

I have an account on t5 eu and yes its quite balanced most of the time.

I am glad T5 is working out well.

What might be the reason for the dominance in scoring for " Far Shiverpeaks" in T4 and “Gunnar’s Hold” in T6?

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

FSP is a t1/2 server so this is an example of extreme random roll, it happens rather rarely. T6 is a problem, because we pretty much have a big population gap between #16 and #17, so whoever gets RNGd into t6 will dominate matchup.

pejot.4806:

Lord of Rings.5371:

Extreme.8350:

I have an account on t5 eu and yes its quite balanced most of the time.

I am glad T5 is working out well.

What might be the reason for the dominance in scoring for " Far Shiverpeaks" in T4 and “Gunnar’s Hold” in T6?

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

FSP is a t1/2 server so this is an example of extreme random roll, it happens rather rarely. T6 is a problem, because we pretty much have a big population gap between #16 and #17, so whoever gets RNGd into t6 will dominate matchup.

0.1% matchup chance.

Ie the current FSP matchup is the eqvivalent of pulling a precursor out of the mystic toilet. The only thing less likely would have been Seafarers Rest going up against Underworld and Blacktide.

T1 – very blob-oriented, but a lot more pugmanders as well
T2 – severely imbalanced with a T1 server rotating down every week. FA and SoS lost guilds due to the imbalance and are trying to hold on. I would stay away from here until it rebalances out
T3 – This is where the majority of fight-oriented guilds have congregated. Notoriously toxic from what I hear, but a good place to find action if you are into Guild on Guild open field battles. With all the guild groups, I am uncertain how well roaming works there
T4 – Relatively balanced between guild groups, pug groups, roaming, and havoc. Some coverage gaps on some servers (NSP – OCX, Ebay/HOD – EU), but that is common on servers that aren’t anchored by a high off-hours population (SoS, CD, etc). I am from NSP, and we have people in WvW at all times I am awake…just not so much when I sleep, lol.
T5 – DB seems to be getting some ground in NA, and they always had SEA. From what I hear, its very pug oriented now, and T5 may provide some good roaming opportunities. Not sure.
T6/7/8 – Mostly inactive outside of very specific time periods on each server. Any server can dominate a matchup with just 10 people in WvW at the right time, due to severe coverage gaps.

xivor.8754:

T1 – very blob-oriented, but a lot more pugmanders as well

This is not entirely true about Desolation (current EU rank #1 server).

Desolation has always had a lot of players who like to skirmish and not to stay on the tag. Every pugmander/PuG Commander on Deso knows this and this had lead to a lot of frustration from the commander’s point of view. In worst case there are zero players on tag and after some time the commander just turns off the tag.

Right now we probably have just one commander, Ins, who can gather up to 70 players on a borderland map and even Ins needs several hours and border hops to achieve that. Most Desolation commanders are happy to have 3-12 players on tag and this is true even for the busiest prime time hours.

I just hope too many players would not transfer to us, because we are still not full, but eSFR and Kodash are full. So please if you love blobbing go to any other server, like Jade Sea, FSP, Vizunah, Gandara, Riverside or Piken. But don’t complain if Deso wins with coverage (yes, we do a lot of capping at night, early morning and day time, in other words we play a lot also on non-regular EU times).

Yeah tier 5 at the moment is more akin to tier 4 than it is to tier 6. It may even be bigger than tier 4, with Dh and Db both being around t4 in size and SF being respectably large (we have less NA than Db and we queue multiple maps on reset + a map queue with guild groups to spare on normal NA days). Until Db RNGs out of tier 5, it’s not a great place to be in terms of matchup variety but still better than t1-4 in that regard.

Overall the tier would be incredibly solid. Db needs to move up, but even in spite of that it’s a very balanced tier. On my part I’ll definitely recommend tier 4-5, as below is too dead and above is too blob for consistent roaming IMO. Even in tier 5 the blobs are quite strong with near daily NA queues in EB and guild groups on bls.

If you’re looking for a good Roaming server i’d say Anvil Rock would be be a good place to start. We have a number of Roaming groups on the server (who are awesome!) numbering around 3-5 typically.

Our match ups are floating around a bit at the moment. We don’t have the numbers to fight Db and Dh since they both gained a few guilds and tend to be rather blobby.

After this week we’ll probably drop down and be fighting against kaineng and Borlis Pass. Against these guy’s we’re relatively evenly matched and they both a have a lot of roamers to fight against. They also have a good few Duelers if your into that scene.

Our community is very friendly and supportive especially as we’re usually “outnumbered” during most fights.

In the end if you like being the underdog and don’t want a server that’s blob central we’re a good place to transfer to. if you have any questions feel free to message me.

xivor.8754:

T2 – I would stay away from here until it rebalances out

How does that work if everyone takes your suggestion?

The imbalance in T2 right now is nothing like T3 last year when the T2 server was blowing out the other servers by over 300,000 points each week.

Deniara Devious.3948:

xivor.8754:

T1 – very blob-oriented, but a lot more pugmanders as well

This is not entirely true about Desolation (current EU rank #1 server)

Desolation has always had a lot of players who like to skirmish and not to stay on the tag. Every pugmander/PuG Commander on Deso knows this and this had lead to a lot of frustration from the commander’s point of view. In worst case there are zero players on tag and after some time the commander just turns off the tag.

Right now we probably have just one commander, Ins, who can gather up to 70 players on a borderland map and even Ins needs several hours and border hops to achieve that. Most Desolation commanders are happy to have 3-12 players on tag and this is true even for the busiest prime time hours.

I just hope too many players would not transfer to us, because we are still not full, but eSFR and Kodash are full. So please if you love blobbing go to any other server, like Jade Sea, FSP, Vizunah, Gandara, Riverside or Piken. But don’t complain if Deso wins with coverage (yes, we do a lot of capping at night, early morning and day time, in other words we play a lot also on non-regular EU times).

you must not be playing much then, I have followed several good commanders from other guilds like AIM, IRON, SoX etc and they get alot more then the numbers you say
they have.

simple answer
Ehmry Bay
good fun, great community (do what you want with no judgement)
roam, zerg, havoc….all is viable and useful here

The only good WvW server is really typically a PvE server.

*Out of the mouth of Mike.

Honestly I would say DH…

It’s nice to have allies who fight with you.

GoM-FA-CD-IOJ-DB-DH are the servers I’ve been on.

GoM: Has a nice community, crazy at times though.
IoJ: Had a nice community, constantly getting thrashed forced an exodus to SBI and various servers
FA- Got thrashed by YB and another exodus
CD – was there for a week, not a friendly community, lots of trolls and abuse.
DB – VERY FRIENDLY server, but if you roam, it’s horrible to have 4 allies building AC’s in a tower while they watch you 1v3, you will get no help in terms of roaming fights.
DH – friendly server, lots of roamers both solo and small parties, still yet to see someone hide in a tower that’s not me. Only downside is that it has DB, so open field fights are rare, you will most likely see what happens in the pics below.

(of course these are just my observations from the time periods I was on server)