Guild Wars 2

Ok, so the general breakdown is this.. I saw someone spamming in Lion’s Arch looking for someone for a dungeon and decided to kill some time running that with them. We ran the dungeon until we no longer had a full group and decided to run the Eternal Battleground Jumping Puzzle as a group. I was the only one who had seen it so we agreed to meet at the Garrison and I would escort them through the puzzle.

We all queue up and when it finishes we realize two of us are from Yak’s Bend and the thrid person is from Ehmry’s Bay! Now the parts that stand out:

1) How did we end up grouped with people from another server without the use of the contacts list? We were all able to be in the same zone together in “normal space” but in WvW we were obviously flagged as members of our server.

2) How did our group continue to remain intact and allow us to chat while operating as opponents in WvW? How did Ally buffs continue to work? I would throw down elixirs and the enemy player was positively impacted by them!

3) If this is working as intended, what is the purpose of having the “Home” servers at all if we are in fact on a server that includes players from other “servers”? Why not simply call them realms, shards, what have you and make it known to players that the “Home” server selection does not change who they will be playing with but only who they are “teamed” with for WvW?

i only know the answer for 1). u must be in the lions arch overflow server, which includes players from all the other home servers(if full). i was in ioj server but i did the mad king dungeon with bunch of blackgate people because we all were in the overflow server. if u wait a while and queue into your non-overflow lions arch, u will only team up with people in ur home server.

as the second question, must be some overwrite, prioritizing teams rather than server. seen it in other mmo too, should be fixed soon, cuz there is no way its working as intended.

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You were probably in an overflow when you grouped up. Grouping with people from other servers is possible, even in wvw. I suspect the buffs still work when you’re grouped, but I haven’t tested that to be honest.

I don’t think WvW has overflow.. when a zone if full, you queue up. No overflow.

Jeremy Winston.2165:

I don’t think WvW has overflow.. when a zone if full, you queue up. No overflow.

of course wvw has no overflow. the overflow we were talking about is the lions arch overflow where OP was grouped.

It is possible to group with the other teams in WvW.

Ok, here’s the thing, every server has a single instance of every map. When an instance for a map reaches it’s capacity, let’s say 150/150 players, all extra players who want to join that map on said server are sent to a different instance of the map known as the “overflow”. Overflows are cross server, and thus you can party with people from different servers. This is most common in Lion Arch obviously but it can happen on different maps especially during events.

WvW does not have overflows for obvious reasons. Only the PvE content, and that is why you shouldn’t have made your post here. It’s a complete coincidence that you were matched with players on the servers facing you in your current WvW match up

And yes having servers is pointless for anything other than WvW since you can always join overflows to find parties for dungeons. I do think the whole system needs a redesign to be honest.

Jeremy Winston.2165:

I don’t think WvW has overflow.. when a zone if full, you queue up. No overflow.

coanunn.2347:

Ok, so the general breakdown is this.. I saw someone spamming in Lion’s Arch looking for someone for a dungeon and decided to kill some time running that with them. We ran the dungeon until we no longer had a full group and decided to run the Eternal Battleground Jumping Puzzle as a group.

They were in LA when they teamed up.

Let me ask you, was his name green ? And were you able to see his full name ?
If so, then it was just an ordinary bugg.

Ilesyt.7084:

Let me ask you, was his name green ? And were you able to see his full name ?
If so, then it was just an ordinary bugg.

His name appeared in dark blue as does any other party members name. And while we could see his name over his head and in chat in the party frame it appeared as “Ehmry Bay Invader”

Ah , did they tell you they were from other server?
It seems that when I party up with my buddy , his portrait always show that he is from kaineng instead of ET .
I assume that you are "marked " with that “server tag” depending on which server you join the very 1st time you log in the game.

Right now, I’m in WvW and partied with a guy from DR. All our tags show ‘Jade Quarry.’ I’m on Kain. So, I guess JQ is the physical machine we’re all fighting on.

You were in overflow when you grouped up with people from different server,and you can do everything except WvW together…WvW is server based so you have to play for your HOME server,you can still be in a party with enemy,you just won’t be able to play together…and the JQ tags seem to happen often,not sure why