Guild Wars 2

As topic says. due to the Queues to WvW its pretty much impossible to organise any sort of Guild event in WvW. You will have most of your people stuck in hours upon hours of Queues. WvW battlegrounds are filled to capacity with randoms alone.

This is the number one issue right now. WvW is the endgame in Guild wars 2 and right now its impossible to have any organised Guild Wars in Guild wars 2.

Ruins of Surmia has shown to have 2 to 4 hour queues to Eternal during prime-time and its still a medium populated server. Due to all opposition in the borderlands being wiped out quickly by organised guilds as that’s the only places a guild can arrange an event that isnt ruined by half of the people sitting for hours in a queue. It goes so quick as the higher populated servers we face have their borderlands filled with non-organized random PuGs due to this very problem. And right now only a fraction of the population are doing WvW waiting for the 2 Week normal rotation until the rest commits and its still enough to fill the battlezones. So the problem will get a lot worse in a short amount of time.

Eternal on the other hand is usually full with randoms in one gigantic PuG from the start even on RoS, a PuG that thus dosnt have voice chat and cant organize as well which means Eternal is the only zone that has something left to capture as a non organized PuG isn’t that effective. And this is the fact for all borderlands as well on higher populated servers.

So what happens? When borderlands are wiped everyone tried to get into Eternal cus thats the only place the enemy is still putting up a fight and its impossible due to hours upon hours of queue.

The problem gets exponentially worse on higher pop servers and will get out of hand when more people reach 80 or the 2 week rotation starts.

The number one issue they need to fix in this game is the Queue.

100% agree

This is the primary source of frustration in our guild with GW2 atm. Many in our guild are playing GW2 for engaging WvW with guild mates and friends and it’s next to impossible right now.

The simple fix would be to make que’s linear instead of the “autobalance” system they use now where people are getting in faster than other people.

I agree, I would love to play in WvW with my guild, in “Guild” Wars 2.

Our guild doesn’t mind the ques, as long as we can all get “pops” around the same time and get together. If we have to wait 2 hours, at least we know we can run together as a guild. Our attempts to “mass que” as a guild so far in Guild Wars 2 were comical…. I think out of 30-40 all queing at once we managed to get 7 people in the same zone at the same time.

Que system needs to work!

Another suggestion I have seen is the ability to form a squad beforehand (requires commander book) that then is queued as a whole with clear indicators to the commander what he can expect in queue times.

Right now queue times are in the amounts that if you want to get an organised group in, you better be sure to recruit people who have no job and no life and thus an abundant amount of time to queue up early and stay in queue for extended amounts of time.

Whichever path they choose, capacity of the zones has to increase even if that means putting the zone nodes on dedicated hardware. If It isn’t even close to enough right now, how will it manage to contain the demand for WvW of the near future?

Just letting groups of 5 queue up at one time would be a move in the right direction. Right now, this single queuing and waiting for guildmates to finally get in is killing WvW for my guild.

I figure this will mostly resolve itself as the transients head back to whatever game they were playing and the wvw community matures.