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BEST time to transfer for t2(FA) is right now

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Or we could end up paired with T2 or T3 for the foreseeable future. At least it’s a cheap move. If they move to FA and hate it, they are out more gold

And Mag has some great people on it! I’m sure their enemies hate them, but their allies enjoy 90% of them!

Tell that to the guilds that transferred to ET to be with BG. They all got stuck in the bottom.

Do they hate it? Because I’ve heard that pairing down there is kind of rocking it. You can blob fight anywhere…that’s what fewer tiers has shown us

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BEST time to transfer for t2(FA) is right now

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Or we could end up paired with T2 or T3 for the foreseeable future. At least it’s a cheap move. If they move to FA and hate it, they are out more gold

And Mag has some great people on it! I’m sure their enemies hate them, but their allies enjoy 90% of them!

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BEST time to transfer for t2(FA) is right now

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It’s only about half of that to come to DR and we are in and out of T2 and T3 We have room for everyone and it would only take an afternoon in Auric Basin!

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Guest Servers

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DR was lucky enough to remain with Mag. I can honestly say, the first few months with them, I basically roamed solo or with other DR folks. When we got them again, I started running more with Mag. Figured I should make the best of it and maybe learn a thing or two. At the very least, I’d do some large group fighting that I haven’t had on DR in almost 2 years.

It will be odd if we end up with anyone, but Mag, but I’m sure we could make it work. I’d like another poll tho. One with more options about what will happen with servers. I really like the idea of having a PvE server and then separate WvW servers. That, or just poo or get off the sock. Merge us!

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Since we just finished Shark Week, an analogy came to mind that we can use for Guest Servers, being that of a remora that clings to the side of a shark, where the shark takes on the big prey and the remora feeds off its droppings and smaller parasites that attack the shark, while the shark offers protection from larger predators. There’s no verbal or written communication or agreement between the two, just an implicit understanding of the mutual benefit each receives by having the one tag alongside the other, and also knowing that the partnership is temporary and the remora will eventually move on to another host.

I call us foster kids, you call us a type of leach lol tomatoes tomahtoe

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It seems like the smaller worlds might just get absorbed into the host worlds over the longer term just through transfers. For instance, I know a pretty major BP guild recently transferred back to FA, and some individuals have done this as well.

OP, what will you do if DR isn’t linked to Mag at the end of the next cycle? If your answer is “transfer guild to Mag” (or another host server), then your recruitment problem may just be short term.

I am not so sure this isn’t what Anet wanted all along. Let’s put guest servers in limbo without any real visibility until so many move to hosts, that the remaining WANT the server merge step that may have been too controversial when this all started.

Whether it’s guilds from the guest server transferring to the host server (convenient ANet opened transfers after that first relink in when people from guests were thrown into a new match) or host members transferring to guest servers to be with a new guild, it is definitely some major $$$$$ for ANet no matter what.

I don’t want to transfer. Not even a little. So my problem (unfortunately) isn’t short term. Not to mention, we keep a lot more gold in our pocket if we help a few Mag (or other host server) roamers move to DR than it would be to get our DR folks all over to Mag (cuz fewer people to move and it’s way cheaper to transfer to DR).

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It’s relative to how much work you want to put in to getting those recruits. We were guests to SBI. We were able to recruit a handful of people from SBI over. Part of it will be preparation, can you help them with transfer costs? Can you provide an environment they want to play in? Although I like fighting Mag, not everyone is all about the Magswag.
You’ll have to build your own guild identity more so with server linkings. We see the server linking as an opportunity to recruit across servers without having to transfer. Similar to what alot of the bandwagon guilds do, but we’re too cheap to transfer.
Focus on guild identity first, and server identity second. This is guild wars afterall.

We have a guild identity, no question there. As long as our core is here, that won’t change. Admittedly, server identity is a bit harder to maintain when part of the server rage quit within the first 24 hours of linking (queues) and others within the first week (that Magswag lol). The ones that stuck around are solid, but so easily unseen. That’s what I’m hoping to build on tho.

Time will tell how well this goes. I’d still prefer stability, but I’m not holding my breath on that one.

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Seeing how Crystal Desert and Sorrow’s Furnace, who were guests became hosts, it is possible that a guest server that gets larger than a host server swap places (Or it the top servers become too large that they won’t need linking, such as Blackgate and Tarnished Coast). Of course, this is a longshot considering that Darkhaven, a host server, is smaller than their guest server Ehmry Bay.

So far all servers listed were at least a tier above us, but I appreciate the thought I know DR has gained guilds that wanted to fight with Mag initially (and could have moved there now that their transfers opened up), but if they are still here, I can only wonder if they’d stay if we got moved (heaven forbid we be a host dependant on them in our population lol

Guest or host, I’d just prefer to have something stable. Even if it’s not “Devona’s Rest”, it’d be nice to have somewhere consistent to build.

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I’m on MAG…I don’t speak for everyone but…poach away, if someone wants to join your guild/server, I don’t see how that would be anyone else’s business? Play with mag pugs, recruit em, and have em x-fer over to DR when you get un-linked. Rinse and repeat on your next host server. Job done. FYI – When/if I ever throw up a recruit message, I have not and won’t add the line “must be on mag”. Hope that helps.

Yeah, I know you are on Mag. I know it’s tough for Mag guilds to know which guilds are DR, but DR was small enough that we recognize a lot of your guild tags I will put it out there that we are a DR guild, but yeah…I’ll make sure everyone knows that “all are welcome”. I don’t think Mag has much to worry about if DR ends up with a few of its pugs (I’m pretty sure some Mag guilds have picked up some DR folks), but I won’t go trying to poach all of KRTA or anything

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Fair point, but there is also something tempting about being on a “floating” server. I think roamers (and smaller kick*** guilds like t-rex o/) for instance would be more attracted to a floating server than to a host server. Not only that…but if the worlds weren’t linked…would the outcome have been any different? I doubt it. Also, if a guild is on a floating server…there is potential for more growth through linking, as you will have access to multiple host servers and their pugs (theoretically). Be open and friendly on said host servers, recruit for your guild, and pay for transfers if needed.

I don’t think Mag wants DR pulling people from their ranks Especially groups like tRex! They do work on even much larger groups! I will work on a recruitment message and see what kinda “sales pitch” stuff I can throw out there for people I have people in GIT that would love to build a zerg busting group and we have a good tag for it. Just have to find people to join without bringing on too much drama of recruiting people potentially off of our host. Thanks for the feedback!

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we had this vote to continue linking or not. some saw this as a form of immediate gratification, but with no real long term benefits. we lost that vote (and I am on a host btw)….

Yes, I saw the vote. I think the “yes or no” was a bit too black and white for a very gray situation. I’d rather see a full on permanent merge. DR and Mag had some rough times starting out and some still get bent in one direction or the other, but most people that I know would just like some consistency so they can grow somewhere. Get to know the community for real. Not be foster kids wondering when they will be shuffled to the next house and whether the next house will be ok or not.

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As a DR server leader and as a guild leader, I am seeing a major issue with the ability to grow as a server and as a guild. It was made even more clear recently when a guild was trying to decide whether to join DR or Mag (strange, but true). They ultimately chose Mag because they knew they could grow there. Their guildies knew they would be with the same majority of people for the foreseeable future there. How can we effectively recruit people to a server that has no clue where they will be in 2 months and to a server that has no real investment in winning/losing (we just play for kittens and giggles) because their glicko is frozen? In the same sentiment, how does a guild effectively recruit new players when they are in WvW maps with people that are 70% not on our server and that same 70% that may or may not be linked with us in 2 months?

The nature of this game is for people to take breaks and/or leave the game entirely for one reason or another. Our guild has always had that, but never been worried about dying because we always had more people in than out. That’s not the case right now and it’s rough!

I’m seriously offering this as something for Anet to consider (we need something permanent!) and also welcoming suggestions on how to make the best of the hand we are being dealt.

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Maguuma

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OPEN YOUR EYES BARRICKA OUR SEVER HAVE WAY MORE LESS PEOPLE AFTER GOT PAIRED WITH MAAGUMA

large DR guilds activity since world-link pairings
(500 members) Athenian Knights [kYrO] guild inactive/waiting
(400 members ) Venturers Of The Mists [EotM] guild left/transfered
(200 members) True Empire [TE] guild left/transfered

DJ, my eyes are wide open. I’ve been out there the whole time with Mag. I took the time to get to know everyone (not just the trolls in map chat) and it’s been a lot of fun.

And to clarify, TE doesn’t have 200 members and left well before the link happened and for DR reasons, not Mag reasons. And EotM had maybe 20 people on DR (the rest were Megaserver EotM people). I know I don’t need to tell you that kYrO has 500 members, but generally runs about 30-40 on a good night (and I’m not sure how active all 500 are or if they are all on DR).

Regardless, no individual guild can make or break a server now and 3 DR sized guild groups can’t kill Mag. I encourage you to get out and play though. As you can see above, it’s Mag and DR that are enjoying this match. We work well together. As should be expected, this is DR we are talking about

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Some of us like to enjoy the “multi player” part of MMOs Its a game so it’s all fun and if people can make me laugh and have fun, bloodlust doesn’t get to me or dictate whether I miss them :P to each their own.

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World Linking 6/24/2016

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hahaha Anet loves the Mag/DR relationship Lucky for some of us, so do we Did ANYONE else stay the same?

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Maguuma

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I believe some people on Mag are paying for DR transfers to Mag server… Ask around, [COPS] guild is one of them.

Best of luck

No need, Anet likes us together lol

That and I miss my mom sometimes too, but that doesn’t make me want to live with her forever I like my freedom haha

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Maguuma

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Welp…not this time

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Maguuma

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SO SWEET THE FEELS. Can’t wait to farm ya :P

We are all taking +10 from your garri right now…so we can quickly build siege to break your things

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so NA linking?

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It will likely be in this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/World-Linking-6-24-2016/page/2#post6218545

and they give us no notice, most likely so people won’t say “oh, X server will be linked with Y server…lets all transfer to Y server” cuz that would jack up their whole “link based on server population/activity” thing.

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Maguuma

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Mags has its fair share of trolls. I’m glad you could see that not everyone on Mags is a troll. Been fun getting to know some new people. Good luck in where ever you may go.

Your trolls might hate to hear this, but I laughed at their trolling more than anything else

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Maguuma

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I know it was a rocky start, but if we don’t end up with you guys after the re-evaluation, just know that a lot of people on DR will miss you guys. I have enjoyed getting to know some of you and work with some of you over the last couple of months. I wish I could have known more of you, but I don’t think either side got too connected because we knew we might get split up soon, so why get too attached (it’s a foster system lol), but I had fun and laughed with and at you guys a lot! Good luck to you all and any server you may link with next, Im sure we will see you around. #rednamedeadname #thanksDR

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Additional World Linking Information

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Regarding not linking T1/T2 and linking the bottom 6 tiers…I think this could work. I know I read above that someone said that T8 wouldn’t be happy linked with anyone, but I don’t think that’s true. I think T8 got culture shocked beyond belief getting put with T1 and T2. I think if they were linked with servers that were more of a gradual incline, they would have been better with it.

I’m also of the mind that merging > linking. I personally like the stability of knowing where I will be long term. I know many guilds in WvW move around a lot, but some people like to have a place to call home. If people want to transfer around or have fresh faces and new experiences on a new server once or twice a quarter, they are free to transfer around (and they will anyway). For the rest of us, it’s nice to be able to get to know other people that you are playing with. It’s an MMO, we make friends, we find people we like to hassle on the regular, whatever. Consistency is nice for some!

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Poll just hit 75%, please go vote!

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Just curious, what world do you play for? I’m looking at the current breakdown of votes by world right now, and nearly every world has voted in favor of World Linking. There are a few that are 50/50, and one that is against it.

I had trouble deciding where to put my vote. I don’t hate the linking, but I don’t really love the way it was done. Shoot, I’d take a full out merge just to know where I’ll be in a week or a month. I can’t speak for other linked servers, but I’m pretty sure DR players would integrate with Mag more if they thought this was their home now. SOME of us use their TS SOMETIMES. A few of us joined their website (and they ours). It’s just so weird though…would be nice to have us all in one place all of the time. Unfortunately, they are just our foster family though, so it’s tough to get too invested with the unknown looming around the corner.

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Server Combos - NA

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T3 is losing guilds to BG/T1 as well. Funny how the stacking hasn’t stopped even as people are still crying for population balance. Servers being able to roll up/down a tier and being able to be competitive in those tiers when they get there are completely different things. There is still a population difference between the different tiers that caused those glicko walls to begin with. No one wanted to roll up/down a tier and either be rolled by superior numbers all week or run over the competition for the entire week. Only way for these match-up changes to be anywhere near fun enough to encourage those walls to not get rebuilt is to actually truly achieve some sort of population balance. Currently we do not have that and T1 is stacking just like old times.

The top tier servers are “stacking”, but they aren’t stacking themselves. They are stacking their lower tier counter part. Guilds go to the lower ranked server to play with the higher tier server (b/c they can’t go to the higher tier server). This in and of itself could balance populations from top to bottom “IF” ANet somehow locks down transfers (though I don’t see this happening since transfers = $$$). I know many guilds would be pretty upset if they got locked into a lower tier server and then had to play on a lower tier match up (that, say, maybe didn’t get as well stacked on other servers).

I’m interested to see what comes of this after beta. I’ve been enjoying Mag (who said that? looks around) and have been working to become an active part of their server play, but it would be cool to get linked with someone indefinitely so I could put down my roots proper though.

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Where are the female commanders at?

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Basically the stupid lack the self awareness and intelligence to recognise their own stupidity, and therefore assume they’re intelligent.

Guess Chaba has Ogre pegged.

Qualified for Triple 9 Society(158 Stanford-Binet). Can beat you guys down in game, in real life (6’4 220) and while comparing mental acuity to a genius like me you are a group of troglodytes. A woman does not have near the amount of MLG points, reflexes, intelligence, nor reaction time to take me on at a video game. How many MLG events have you placed in? I have been top 10 in several Halo:CE events and have signed contracts as a semi-professional video game player. Playing against a girl wouldn’t even be worth my time

I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target.

I have a masters in psychology, a job that doesn’t use that degree, student loans that won’t go away anytime soon, and I bet I can’t beat most people in a duel in GW2. I’m sure all of that matters to no one though

Funny how a thread about female commanders turned into a male contest of strengths there lol

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You know you're a scout when ...

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Not mine, but a classic I enjoy very much

https://youtu.be/dlfUTwQ5sdg

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Where are the female commanders at?

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I’m female and I’m both a guild leader and a commander. I don’t tag up and lead server groups since joining Mag a few weeks ago, but much like it is for most people going from T7 to T2 and T3…it’s a confidence thing. A server group on T7 was a group of 20ish people that I interacted with every day. There was an easy confidence there and we didn’t see the magnitude of fights that we do with Mag and the enemy servers.

There’s no doubt in my mind that if we were to fully merge with Mag and I could build up my knowledge and confidence with these size of groups, I’d be right in there though. I know Mag has female commanders that I have followed and they do well.

I think when it comes down to it…male or female…it’s a confidence thing. If someone wants to command, get a group together that will follow you. For me it’s my guildies. They respect my leadership as a guild leader and support me when I command. If they didn’t, why would anyone else take to following me? Winning builds confidence too, but ultimately, having people that will follow you even when you fail is more important in the learning process.

I know some have made statements about women being more “emotional”, but I see male commanders rage quit after losing a fight and scream at people to “build” or “stay on tag”. I’m pretty sure rage and anger are emotions :P The female commanders I follow (especially on Mag) have been very level headed and stick with it.

If you haven’t been lucky enough to follow a female commander and see how she does things (that are likely different than your own style a lot of the time), you’re missing out Go find your local area female commander(s) and take notes! We bring things to the battlefield that many could stand to pick up on

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The State of Roaming

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I’ve noticed especially in T2, where pretty much any single player is bait for a nearby gank squad. Doesn’t help when EB has a 50 person queue and the other BL’s are empty.

Yes to this! I have to remind my guildies constantly “if you see one dude, there’s likely 30 nearby”. If I go into a map alone, I usually don’t get much past NN before I’m looking for a tag to join or the safety of a keep or objective.

Not sure if Alpine will make that better or worse, but I’m looking forward to finding out.

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"FORCED transfer of worlds" rip 10 servers

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I wish they would just have the guts to come out and call them merges. Linking was a dumb term, when in fact (confirmed by a DEV quoting me when I said this) it was meant to mean “dynamic merge”.

This! 100 times THIS!

Being one that isn’t too stuck on what my server is called, I’d just like to know what server I’m on. DR is effectively dead. Our glicko is locked in. We get no credit whether our host wins or loses. We cannot move up and therefore will never be high enough to “host”. The name is gone with this system.

However, I wish they’d just say “this is a merge” so we can settle in somewhere (or transfer if that’s what people decide), get to know the new community, learn what everyone is about, without wondering if we’ll be somewhere else starting all over with someone else in a week or a month. THAT is the part of the community that is ignored with the way it is.

Cuz let’s be real…Maguuma loves me and will be devastated if I get taken away from them!

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Cloaking waters in SMC needs to go

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I’m not sure why cloaking waters was added, but MASS INVIS to an entire zerg is extremely destructive to the enemy.

Imagine an entire enemy zerg standing right on top of your zerg and bombing you to shreds before you can react.

I’m from TC and we control SMC with cloaking waters for large periods. We get almost zero fights because enemy zergs do not even want to fight us when our entire zerg is cloaked.

Yeah, I really hate fighting people I can’t see :P Luckily you guys pop out of it as soon s you attack. We used it a few times on you all last night when you cheesed up our SM Swiss style.

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Idea for DBL: put WPs in Oasis

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I mentioned this a while back but a few players on here hated the idea of being so close.

Why? Because there are already PvP arenas and because there’s a fancy schmancy arena in OS? Or because the maps aren’t entirely for fights and you need to be able to effectively PPT to win matches? (and the DBL is already a chore to get around). I can only imagine

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People have been complaining about server population for litterally years and now something is done and ppl are complaining about how they liked their small communities. We cant have it both ways. You cant enjoy small communities and wish wvw wasnt dead.

Basically extinction of small server communities was inevitable. The writing has been on the wall for years. Why keep servers going if their communities dont care enough to populate wvw?

My only advice to small population servers is learn to command large groups, go stake your claim in a bl, carve out your corner of the world and call for help if needed. There are small scale fights, tasks, and wven roaming will re emerge. I would just ask we give this sometime to get better but as far as small server identities we just have to accept their demise…or I mean down sizing…

I’d be good with losing our server name if Anet would poop or get off the pot about killing it off rather than leaving us in a purgatory of server locations. DR is dead (no way around it…our Glicko is dead and they won’t go back to 24 servers). So let us choose where we want to move so we can settle into a community without wondering where we will be next week (see Anets foster system NA).

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then that is how it should be, and you should be moving your guilds to the bottom of the board.

The reason a lot of us moved off of the lower tiered servers is because those servers made it very clear to any and all guilds/players that were wvw focused that we had no place there as part of the larger “community”. Especially if we had a desire to be competitive and win the matchups. Servers like BG, JQ, TC, YB, etc are the servers that welcomed the people who wanted to win and play on a more competitive level.

So unless those lower tier servers have a change of heart and want to be competitive and want to climb the ladders or stay in the top tiers why would we want to move back down and deal with all that frustration? Why would we want to hear how our “elitist” attitudes (aka competitive attitudes) aren’t welcome?

I’m sure you and your playstyle wouldn’t want to be forced to join a lower tier community (as you described) just as many of us from lower tiers don’t like being forced into the higher tiers (where we are losing our playstyle). Most of us are working to play with the higher tiered servers (Maguuma has been great on the BLs so far), but we enjoyed our 5v5 and 10v10 fights over the 50+ vs 50+. Playstyles differ, that’s not a bad thing, but it still sucks to deny us the choice.

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There are reasons the high tier servers have very large amounts of organization and queues are one of them. They often plan, comunicate and coordinate with others days ahead of time so that they distribute themselves as evenly as posible and get to play as a group on the times they can.

Indeed, which make the pairing difficult. Honestly, an actual merger would have been better than this as the bigger communities could absorb the smaller one.

It only took about 30 minutes for the low pop partner to start insulting our commanders, throwing zergers and various unmentionable words around. Was actually the first time in a very long time that we reported a player. If thats how its gonna be… lets just say guilds on respective server are gonna have so much “fun” being drama queens.

Its gonna take many weeks for this to settle, sigh.

Don’t make it about the “lower tiers”. There are jerks everywhere and egos are HUGE in this game. I’m on a very low key/laid back low tier server…we worry about encountering the same things from other servers, no matter what tier they were in.

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Linked “host” worlds have their Glicko data updated in the usual way. Linked “guest” world Glicko data isn’t affected. It’s not yet determined what approach we’ll use for Glicko data for guest worlds when world links are changed, in the case that a guest either becomes a host or goes solo.

Dang, was hoping you all would have had that figured out beforehand. Cuz to me, kinda sounds like we will have to merge/delete servers if the lower tier ranking will never change regardless of how well their players do in linked matches.

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World Linking Beta

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I suppose that World populations are affected by WvW-Linking system. I can clearly see that some servers are full now in the “World Select” screen. They are Desolation, Far Shiverpeaks, Gandara, Drakkar Lake, Augury Rock and Aurora Glade. I believe that they were not full before this system.

I do not know, it is planned or a bug.

This has been planned. They put a lower population cap on servers to avoid the mass amounts of transferring that would have surely happened. If people want to rage because they don’t like their matchup, they’ll have to rage quit instead of rage transfer

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When will server pairings be announced?

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They posted the EU match ups in the WvW Linking post also in this WvW forum.

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World Linking Beta

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Due to the increased deviation and volatility combined with fewer total worlds, there shouldn’t be a “Glicko hell” again for a little while.

This has been a question for some of us in the lower tiers. If we end up paired with a higher ranked tier, how would that impact our Glicko? The “linking” seemed to allude to the idea that servers wouldn’t lose their identity (yet), but you say “fewer total worlds” as though the linked servers will just become part of a different world? How will that work?

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Concerns about World Linking & Reward Tracks

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What the heck does TS matter to this?

To some that just use in game chat, it doesn’t matter, but many of us enjoy the luxury of being able to both say and type “build” when we have 200 supply in squad and can’t build a balli. There are also plenty of trolls in this game and as a TS admin myself, I know what kind of work goes into ensuring our community had a working TS with low troll populations. There are also those that would go to a server TS just to bother their opponents. If the matchups change frequently and the admins have to keep up with permissions to ensure their players are safe from idiots, it would be a whole new level of “game becomes a job”.

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I’m not entirely sure how this will help balance populations long term either. Will they limit transfers? Will the merges cause the server populations to be “full” so no transfers can happen? Who is to say a T8 server won’t hate T1 and want to move back to the lowest tier possible? I know it’s crossed my mind (never been higher than T4 personally).

I suppose that’s why it’s beta, huh? I just hope they get the matches figured out and posted at least a day or two before reset so we can admin our stuff as needed.

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You seem to hold some contempt toward TC so your intent may have been more rude. I don’t fault TC for believing it or trying to be prepared, I’m just annoyed that we have nothing to go off of other than a theory.

I’d say your suggestion for generic channels may work tho. DR has generic WvW channels (green BL, blue BL, red BL, EB, and Float) that may be a way for TC to go (along with an upgraded type of guest permission) so no matter who you get, they have a way to be integrated without you all having to do too much without knowing for sure.

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Does spawn camping help or hurt the game ?

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I personally discourage it. I think it’s classless. My guild got into a spawn camping situation on our BL last night and I made sure we were well back from spawn and even took the camp nearby. Did the SF group keep pushing out to us? Yes. We were not, however, keeping them from leaving their spawn to maybe go a different direction and do something else successfully.

(currently T6)

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Concerns about World Linking & Reward Tracks

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I have a concern that’s pretty immediate when it comes to linking servers…as an admin, I have had TC admins contact me about setting up channels for our guilds etc. I’m more than slightly annoyed that ANet isn’t giving us our matched servers ahead of time. They did not confirm or deny the meeting notes that got linked last week. Are they really going to leave us hanging until reset?

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Earning Guild Commendations

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Bump!

Geez this got pushed down fast! But I’d like some help. Or is this forum for picking apart HoT and not as much information? Haha

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Earning Guild Commendations

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You don’t need commendations to build your guild hall. I know you will get favor every mission you complete though. So go capture and hold a wvw camp (it takes about 3 minutes of stand there), and get into a PvP match (make sure you create a team in your guild’s team tab on the guild screen or it won’t count) and easy trek’s are doable with 1 person if you have dulfy! You will get there

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Earning Guild Commendations

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We are struggling to understand how guild missions will work in terms of commendations. Will we get commendations for every mission that we do? Will we only get commendations for one each of the level missions (easy, medium, hard)? I only received one Commendation from a WvW easy mission this past weekend and that was the only one I did, but a guildie did pvp mission and wvw mission and didn’t get commendations for wvw mission.

If this is posted somewhere else, please share! It makes me crazy that this info is so new that I can’t find it lol

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Updated List of Community Websites

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Hey there!

Please note, for Devona’s Rest, @DevonasScandals is no longer active. Now we have @DevonasRest

Thanks!

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Looking for 100% Rep PvX guild (any server)

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No pressure Before GIT I did some guild dating and I know it can be just as mind boggling (and dramatic at times) as trying to find “the one” irl You know where to find us! Good luck!

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Looking for 100% Rep PvX guild (any server)

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It was great meeting you and Kaleb tonight, Shan You guys have spirit and we enjoy that! I hope to hear from you again soon!

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Looking for 100% Rep PvX guild (any server)

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Hey, get a hold of me! You sound like you’d be a good fit for our group.

We do scheduled WvW raids 3 nights a week and have impromptu groups a couple of other nights a week. We do weekly guild missions with another DR guild every week. We have people in PvE or PvP when not doing WvW (we enjoy a fractal quite often!). Our guild is fairly established. We were created when the majority of DR’s guilds left for greener pastures about a year ago. We’ve grown to about 200 members with 90% of the guild being DR members. I’m a pretty great leader imho even if only a guild leader for the last year, I’ve grown the guild and I may or may not be older than you with some life experience under my belt as well lol

If you’d like to know more, add me and then shoot me a line in game (sorry I don’t camp the forums as well as I probably should :P)

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