Guild Wars 2

I have to say the server mergers have been a good thing for PvE. You can find more people when you want to do something. Unfortunately, there have been unexpected consequences for WvW. The combined map chat channel is a challenge for guild and individuals who want to recruit members to their WvW dedicated guild or just requests for people to discreetly zone into WvW to respond to attacks. An open call for people to come help defend our garrison would have the opposite effect since you would be potentially talking to two enemy servers and only one friendly one. Projecting weakness is counterproductive. For this reason, commanders and competitive WvW players don’t use PvE map chat. This has stifled efforts to get PvE and PvP players to cross over into WvW. PvE map chat is actually a nuisance for most players even those looking for WvW guilds, since the chance is negligible to speak to someone on our own server. Attrition will continue in WvW until we get a secure means to speak to players on our server. In this case, silence is deadly.

What would be nice is a multi-channel filter, where we could broadcast only to our server in map chat. A dedicated WvW channel that is toggled off by default would not work in my honest opinion. Only currently active WvW players would turn it on. If the channel was on by default, all it would take is some trollage and PvE players would turn it off and never look back. You guys created some great content in WvW. I just want to remove this unintentional barrier to bringing new players into it.

Agreed. It would be nice to have a /wvw or /server channel in every map, where you knew you were only talking to people in your wvw server. Perhaps this is what /team could be used for, since right now /team and /map are redundant?

+1

I am tired of seeing recruitment messages when they arent even for my server!

BrickFurious.7169:

Agreed…/server channel

+1. It would be nice to have a server channel that crossed maps. So if you need reinforcements you can put a tell in a server only channel

Agreed. Also like BrickFurious idea of using /team for this.

I heard through the rumor mill that 18 Dragonbrand guilds will be moving to Henge of Denravi, which is on our tier. I suppose that’s part of the game. I don’t mind that kind of strategy and coordination. It’s actually encouraging. I also don’t mind that North Shiver Pines and Henge of Denravi are working together against Darkhaven. We humiliated both last week and now we’re getting our commupins. I think both servers attacking the same objective alongside one another is kinda tacky though.

What does bother me, is that I feel I have no means to rally my server into WvW. That is discouraging. When you can’t even call for help, it makes us feel absolutely powerless. This has caused some players I’ve been playing with move their toons to another server, other quit the game entirely. Only the large guilds that have established mediums outside the game seem to be able to overcome this. With communication barriers to speak to the masses, large guilds are favored, since collaboration amongst server mates is impeded.