Guild Wars 2

BenL.5312:

Hi,

I returned to GW2 after a few years away and am wondering about player activity during the Asian time zones (late OCX to East Asia) are dead. I’m on BG and even that appears quiet.

What are the experiences of players on other servers such as JQ, FA, DB etc? Is there WvW activity in the sense that there is a decent amount of players from both sides as I am considering the possibility of moving to another server just so there are people to play with and against

Hi there,

If you would like to see real time the actual activity of ALL servers during all time zones you can see what days they are more active than others and if you need to move servers you can find that one will be more suited to the time when you can play there is a website you can go to.

Some guilds run tagless because they are not pugmander guilds so prefer to only run with their guilds and run specific builds. Other guilds don’t mind if pugs run with them so that could be a reason you see lack of tags but not necessarily lack of activity. Also some guilds are only weekend guilds or run only a couple days a week but the activity break down of this website will help you out for sure!

Anet has added other things that have been needed in wvw so hopefully one day Anet will officially integrate these stats into the wvw aspect of this game but until then this is a great website and kudos to the people who maintain it!

https://wvwstats.com/na

There are nuances to wvw just like there are ways to get thru PvE dungeons and raid efficiently. Also think of WvW like your army and PvE is the civilians. If you dumped 100 civilians into the frontlines of war and they didn’t listen to the commander, some of them will probably figure out how to live but most won’t and would need some direction to get a sense of what is going on. I’m a commander who can lead with or without TS or just need a core group in TS and we carry everyone else. I also make it a point to take time when I can to type out overall goals or overall general movements so the nonTS ppl do not become bomb fodder. Other commanders use the nonTS ppl as bomb bait.

There are combat manouevers used in WvW that are a lot easier to do if everyone at least puts an ear in TS but it’s been proven you can win both ways. The more skilled people you have the easier it is to do without TS but I understand not everyone wants to hear some of the crazy stuff or ragey stuff.

If a commander wants ppl in TS then they need to make it more inviting and take responsibility when your actions or inactions is what actually kills your group. It’s not always the pugs. However I would suggest you try every commander’s TS at least once. Not every commander is bad in comms so putting a blanket comment on all commanders is just as bad as commanders saying all pugs are bad, which they are not.

Pugs on the other hand need to learn who the less desirable commanders are and follow ones that suit them better or are more open to squad requirements. If you want to follow a tag that is 20 strong with guildies then expect guild requirements like a TS requirement because that’s how that guild chooses to operate. If you can keep up w/o TS then good for you. I personally do a lot of training w/o use of comms following other commanders because I want to keep skills sharper and I’ll do the walk of shame when I mess up but since I do this when I do tag up and lead, I don’t require it 100% to follow me. I’d rather have pugs who aren’t on TS be able to keep up with me than pugs on TS who hear everything and die anyways. Granted some of them might just be new so they need TS to read the field better or understand why you need to bait a bomb because certain enemies have certain patterns just like PvE bosses so once you learn the pattern it’s a bag farm. Servers like NSP or SoS get 80 ppl in TS but servers with an organized guild group and pugs with less ppl in TS can kill their whole map blob because regardless of comms, the skill level is overall lower and the server with less in comms but more skill will carry the day.

Using tomes in wvw is like saying tome should give pve raid shards. The people who chose wvw or pve raids as their game mode will be mad that it’s so easy to get wvw rank or pve raid shards. Wvw rank regardless if you cheesed it or not shows how much you played that game mode. Just because you didn’t choose to play more wvw, please don’t ask for an easy way to get wvw ranks. Play the mode and earn your way. As a wvw player I’d love tomes to be tradeable for pve raid shards or to help with pve map completions because pve map completion is far more tedious than a really quick gift of battle track.

Dedicate your time to wvw like pvers dedicate their time to pve and you would’ve have a rank to get the t3 wvw armor as well as Ultimate Dominator or close to UD by now.

Just know using tomes to cheese ranks is not fair when it’s something that is time gated by actually playing.

Also the tomes are important for siege. Commanders will go thru a full stack of various sieges and that’s not cheap so all those tomes are quite important. Make siege with all those extra books and donate the siege to your commander in wvw instead. That way you are helping your wvw community and helping to get your wvw ranks.

- UW (EU server) player