We understand the frustration over having to wait to receive your rewards, and we appreciate your patience. The issue was very complex, and we needed to take the appropriate amount of time to sort it all out, and ensure a proper solution. We anticipate being able to provide another update with an ETA for the fix, soon.
Thank you.
Are you going to give an ETA for the Season 1 rewards? Some people still haven’t received theirs….. its been 6 months.
Guys, the last update was on Friday. Today is Monday. Contrary to popular belief, our developers have lives and families that they would like to live and see respectively.
Believe me when I say that we will provide an update as soon as we have an update to provide. Until that time, your continued patience is appreciated.
This doesn’t explain the fact that people still haven’t gotten their Season 1 rewards. It’s been 6 months. I think that’s enough family time.
How does EU servers keep rating closer between tiers than NA?
Interesting question. It really boils down to the fact that EU guilds and players don’t care what rank and tier their server is. They are quite happy to drop down a tier or two. In NA, the majority of servers implode after dropping just one tier.
Other than the upper echelon of the gvg scene, eu guilds don’t take this game very seriously either. You win some. You lose some. kitten happens. Move on. In NA, if you lose a waypoint all hell breaks lose. Refer to the several “incidents” that happened in SoR.
So you don’t see things like stacking happen. No one wants to be the best. In fact there have only ever been three bandwagon servers in eu. Blacktide back in 2012, SFR in early 2013 and most recently Gandara.
And yea, the language specific servers help a lot. No matter how many guilds an international server has, it can’t beat the superior communication and organization of the french/german servers.
Lol at that guy who left FA to bandwagon to HoD. FA gets the last laugh huh.
At the moment the current T2 servers are rightfully there. FA doesn’t have the coverage for T2 and HoD can’t even keep up with FA. You have only three courses of action:
1)Transfer to FA and help push them to T2 strength/numbers
2)Get the ocx/sea from either Mag or DB to leave
3)Wait for a T1 server to implode
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several serious wvw guilds quit/collapsed
I’ve heard/read about what you are talking about and my interpretation of it is that these guilds collapsed because they couldn’t roll over other guilds/pugs with ease anymore and had become inadequate in the gvg scene. There is such a thing as taking the game too seriously and these guilds met their demise because of it.
Well isn’t that what you t2 servers wanted? A gvg tier without the t1 blobs?
Now that you got it you complain lol……..
Here’s your solution though: transfer.
Also, I believe the lack of queues is because the tournament just ended and it’s that time of the year….. your precious queues will be back, don’t worry
Can’t go wrong with SFR, Deso, Gandara or FSP. They all have what you need but since you are also looking to roam I would lean closer towards Gandara or FSP.
It’s not clear if you want to stay on an EU server and I can only comment on NA.
The current tier 1 servers BG/JQ/TC have coverage 24/7 so to speak if your always wanting people to run with. However maybe tier 2 is what your after? DB/Mag/SoS are considered less blobby and focus more on fights than ppt but have more coverage gaps which are possibly in your timezone.
I’ll leave others to comment on NA tier 3 and below as well as EU. But I’m sure similar principles can be applied to EU tiers 1 and 2.
Top EU servers have 24/7 action as well. There are lulls but even NA t1 has lulls.
The truth is that this topic is far behind the times. Good guilds stopped ppting a long time ago. Present day, not only are they bored of ppt, they are bored of the pug farming and blobbing that constitutes 99% of an organized raid.
The only interesting thing to do in this game is GvG. The level of player support for such an unsupported game mode is a testament to how sophisticated the combat system and current meta really is. It’s a shame that neither this nor any other type of guild-centric activity was ever emphasized by Anet.
GvG is as boring as pvd… 9/10 times it comes down to how many warriors and guardians you have in your party.
The only fun thing in wvw is taking a garrison on a borderland that is defended or defending a garrison against an attack. And on ebg then it is taking an enemy keep or defending your keep. Towers, bay, SM, hills, camps… are merely stepping stones to the real battle. A good battle that lasts hours not minutes and involves everyone calling everyone to help and is even better if the third server joins in too… involves siege, guilds, zergs, blobs, solo roamers – everything the game has to offer…. wave after wave and you are absolutely shattered when it is finally all over. Does not matter if you are defending or attacking… it offers by far the best fights.
That is the only fun thing in the entire game and it has always been the number 1 most fun thing in the game… in the past the epic bay and hills battles were also great but they are not so much these days. Even the epic garrison and keep fights tend to only be once or twice a week.
Ascended trinkets and weapons are so pathetically easy to get, its not a grind.
The only thing that’s grindy is ascended armor but anet made the stat increase for ascended armor so incredibly small compared to the weapons/trinkets that it is absolutely pointless to get it.
If you go after ascended armor, you are voluntarily inflicting the grind on yourself. its not required, not for such a miniscule stat increase.
Nice post history. You’re LITERALLY the only one on your server at any time of the day? Funny, I took a few screenshots just recently. First pic was from a few minutes ago (10am server time, not our peak population, just in EB not the other maps). Second picture (if it shows up, forum is glitchy) is from oceanic last night (the least populated time zone for most gw2 players, and look at the minimap, we still had 20+). Sure are a lot of you if you’re the only one!
Check his post history folks, pretty clearly a troll and he’s clearly lying (take a look at the pics yourself lol). A few quotes from his post history (which extends to may the 29th):
I haven’t played GW2 in a while and only returned today. I noticed that everyone on my server has stopped playing WvW. I’m honestly the only one in there at any hour of the day.
Are there any servers that still care about WvW? Thanks.
Thanks for the quick answers. I really want to get back into this game but its so depressing how I am the only one on WvW (not even exaggerating, I was the only one!).
You sure put a lot of work into humiliating yourself. Why would I troll about something like this?
Those screenshots were taken for another thread, I didn’t have to put any work into clicking the “choose file” button (which already leads to my gw2 ss folder). Reading your post history also wasn’t a lot of work. Indeed, demonstrating that you’re just a troll took almost no work at all, which means you’re pretty bad at it to be completely honest.
I’m willing to bet those screenshots showed your only force across all 4 maps. So if he prefers playing in the borderlands, it was most likely deserted like it is on most T7-8 servers. I see nothing wrong with his post history. Clearly this is an issue that has finally convinced him to make a thread on the forums. That doesn’t mean he’s trolling.
Ho hum – gone are the days when we could expect innovation from this server, I guess.
This implies that BG ever innovated anything of value, which they didn’t.
The only innovation to come out of BG is the practice of buying guilds. An innovation they share with JQ.
I don’t see the relevance of the picture you attached. With such a massively populated server and WvW population, shouldn’t you be depicting yourselves as the Persian army instead? They had the numbers, and in the end, they won because of it.
we have the most dedicated wvw community in EU but the reality of the tournament was that desolation had its pve players making up numbers and coverage… so we were actually outnumbered 90% of the time… I just don’t think desolation realised that. Especially when deso had 3 guilds attacking garrison from different sides and 8 people defended for 4 hours until the ebg players finally left ebg to help us.
People in low tier servers are there for a reason.
If they were that hung up about population and coverage (what coverage is there to even complain about, they all equally lack coverage) they would have transferred up ages ago.
Those that are there choose to be there and are attached to their communities.
Don’t take that away from them.
For TC you will experience queues. They will be ridiculously long on reset (this goes for other T1 servers too) but shouldn’t be more than 30 mins max on other days.
Every server is competitive within their given tier, be more specific. Do you want a ppt focused server, a fights focused server, a militia based server or a guild based server?
3am-6pm gmt is pretty much the entire off hour. It won’t be easy to find a server that can cater to your needs throughout that entire time period, but there are some that come close…
SFR- strongest morning force in eu. strong afternoon force. weak night force.
Deso – strongest night force in eu. strong afternoon force. weak morning force.
FSP – strong night and afternoon force. weak morning force.
Gandara – good morning and afternoon force. not sure about nights.
Please tell me how anet is going to tell the difference between:
-a person dropping useless siege with malicious intent
-a person dropping useless siege because they don’t know better
Why would there be any changes? Tournament was over for most servers weeks ago. Everyone has more or less gone back to their normal routines.
Some guilds may move around but nothing significant is likely to happen. If it would, it would have happened already.
I don’t play on US servers any more… but I find that difficult to believe. The skill level between t1 and t2 is immense on EU servers… a lot of guilds who used to be t1 have gone soft with easy kills. If they were better in t2 then they would not be in t2 for long because the server would rise up the ranks into t1.
I doubt the US is any different
I find it hard to believe you play on an EU server. There is no major skill difference between t1 and t2. The only big difference is coverage.
In EU, the skill level progressively get better going from t1 -> t4-5 before going back the other way from t6 downwards. You can’t possible think that guilds in t1 are better than the guilds on Piken, Gandara, FSP and Gunnar’s…… There are some exceptions like DISS on Riverside but for the most part, they are no where near as skilled. Most of them haven’t even done a single gvg.
In NA, the best guilds skill-wise are in T2. T1 is where the blob guilds and non-gvg guilds are in. T1 NA is 2-3 times the size of T2.
What is so wrong with stacking? The entire game is based on combo fields and skills that affect your allies so you need to be close or you’ll be ignoring a crucial aspect of the game’s combat system. Stacking is no different than standing in a circle holding hands.
We currently have no plans to implement an in-game voice communication client. There are plenty of viable third-party options available, such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble.
Well, what is ‘viable’. They lack coupling with map/team/squad, they lack the coupling of GW authentication (who should and should not be able to be on the channel) and they are cumbersome in use; alt-tab, connect … voip. dot, what was that again, GW2, oh, yeah, alt-tab voip.whatever-ts3.com, … not? GW2 darn, .net, alt-tab, connect voip.whatever-ts3.net, ah, channel? GW2, mhh, alt-tab, guess it’s the one with Tequatl in it, at least no password.
Grasping at straws much? Third-party voips work fine. Easy to use, reliable and hey, we don’t have to deal with anet if anything comes up!
However, frequently it seems that things won’t change even you know your kitten better, you just lost to the sea of red. (overrun or they keep rezzing people have downed) Quite a fun game mode, rally numbers seems the only answer in the battle and the war. It seems to be designed and even encourage to be that.
Knowing the game mechanics, it is your own fault for getting yourself in a situation where this happens. This is totally on you and your inability to grasp how the game works.
There is little or no risk for a big zerg ball now on the field, and I want to give them some disadvantages to compensate the effect of numbers.
I disagree. Go see what happens when these big zergs run into guilds like Red Guard.
I’m not against players with different playstyles, but sometimes, a single zerg would be better off spliting into 2 or 3 groups doing things that needed to be done.
Running as one and having a good network of scouts, havoc squads or temporary break-offs from the zerg is just as effective. Maybe more so because it is much harder for the opposing team to counter.
