Guild Wars 2

To me the megaserver is a double edged sword. I’m sure most people from high-pop servers don’t like it because they already had a high population to begin with so there’s no reason they would even want a megaserver.

Speaking from someone who comes from a low-pop server I do prefer the change to megaserver for most maps. Now I can finally do bosses like kitten, Jormag, Taidha, Megadestroyer and etc. I do wish temples and other world bosses like Fire Shaman, Dredge Commissar, Eye of Zhaitan, and Foulbear Chieftain were included in the boss timer because now I never know when temples start or who is doing them and I used to do them daily. My server did have a temple run/meta train but I really didn’t like that because I didn’t like the fact that you had to wait until the temple run happened before anyone ever bothered doing temples. And if you couldn’t be on during the temple run then forget it you’re just going to have to guest to a high-pop server to find a group doing that temple/boss.

The part of the megaserver I dislike is that fact that if you did want to organize guild events or do missions you can’t because even if it claims to put you in the same map it really doesn’t work half the time. There needs to be an easier way to port to a guild member’s map instead of having to party them. I also feel they really should’ve put in the guild system where it’s the same for every server. I know it’s coming soon but they should’ve put it in at the same time the megaserver went live because now you’re getting guild members from every server but they can’t see the guild missions/upgrades and use the guild bank and stuff.

I think another problem is the amount of people at certain events. We really do not need tons of people at smaller events like Maw or Ulgoth but it’s dividing people at events were you really need them like Teq and Tri-Wurm. Today I was trying to do Teq but we didn’t have enough people and my other party members were ported to a map which also didn’t have enough players. They stayed there to see how it turned out but needless to say both maps failed Teq.

To me overall more people in maps is better. Maybe some people don’t like a lot of people but I think the general consensus is it’s better to have populated maps. Therefore the megaserver is a good idea but the game cannot properly manage where to put people. Even if they fix it so “most of the time” you get into the map with your peers it still won’t be all the time and what about the ones who want to be in less populated maps? So I think obvious answer is to just let people choose where to go like the district system in GW1 or at least make some sort of option where you can choose where you want the game to put you.

Also quite disappointed at the rates. I mean I understand it’s only a chance and that’s fine but to be this small of a chance is a bit disheartening. Opened 26 and got nothing.