Guild Wars 2

Oh, [SUPR] left SFR. Got bought by Blackgate for a large sum of gold.

Lordelel.7105:

Tarnished Coast have guilds representing Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

So does at least 5 other servers. You should check them out! They aren’t full.

Basing my info from January till now.

Seafarer’s Rest:
Departures: [ZDs] -> Gunnar’s Hold. [VG] -> Desolation. OSC quit the game. [SUPR] → Bought by Blackgate aka Buygate
Arrivals: [SLAY] from Gunnar’s Hold. [GG] from Kodash.

Riverside:
Arrivals: [Out] from Elona Reach.

Vizunah Square:
Departures: [LNM] -> Piken Square. WL and MoS quit the game.

Jade Sea:
Arrivals: [DISS] from Elona Reach. [aZm] from Fort Ranik. [SR] from Jade Quarry.

Elona Reach:
Departures: [EJ] -> Abaddon’s Mouth. [DISS] -> Jade Sea. [Out] -> Riverside

Kodash:
Departures: [GG] -> Seafarer’s Rest. Mya quit the game
Arrivals: [PAIN] from Far Shiverpeaks.

Baruch Bay:
Arrivals: [EP] from Sea Of Sorrows. [DsD] resurrected.

Augury Rock:
Arrivals: [Hope] from Fort Ranik
Did PAEP leave? Their tag was spotted on Jade Sea but I haven’t heard anything conclusive.

Desolation:
Arrivals: [VG] from Seafarer’s Rest.

Piken Square:
Departures: [SFRJ] and [XT] -> Far Shiverpeaks.
Arrivals: [FG] resurrected. [LNM] from Vizunah Square. [HT] From Ruins of Surmia.

Gunnar’s Hold:
Departures: [SLAY] -> Seafarer’s Rest. Some guilds have quit though like INC.
Arrivals: [ZDs] from Seafarer’s Rest. [XI] from Dzagonur or maybe AM, they move a lot lol. [KISS], [Re] and [WvW] from Ruins of Surmia. [void] from Miller’s Sound (aka [oO]).

Far Shiverpeaks:
Departures: [RiOT] -> Blacktide. PunK quit the game
Arrivals: [SFRJ] and [XT] from Piken Square. [HoD] from Blacktide.

Gandara:
Arrivals: [DAWN] and [TUP] from Aurora Glade. [Alph] from Fissure of Woe.

Abaddon’s Mouth:
Arrivals: [EJ] from Elona Reach

Aurora Glade:
Departures: [DAWN] and [TUP] -> Gandara. [NR], [DOOM] and [icU] -> Ring of Fire. Don’t know where DoA left to.

Fort Ranik:
Departures: [aZm] -> Jade Sea. [Hope] -> Augury Rock

Ring of Fire:
Arrivals: [NR], [DOOM] and [icU] from Aurora Glade.

Drakkar Lake:
Arrivals: [SWAT] from Dzagonur

Miller’s Sound:
Departures: [void] -> Gunnar’s Hold

Ruins Of Surmia:
Departures: [KISS], [WvW], [Re] -> Gunnar’s Hold. [HT] -> Piken Square. [FRS] -> Blacktide.

Blacktide:
Arrivals: [FRS] from Ruins of Surmia. [RiOT] from Far Shiverpeaks.

Fissure of Woe:
Departures: [Alph] -> Gandara

Great server! Beastly prime time force. Hope you get some more coverage.

Always a pleasure fighting Riverside <3

Once trebs behind gates gets nerfed (supposedly it’s coming), defending will become pointless.

No you won’t. Your ocx/sea/eu is tiny compared to T1.

Someone should start up Project Blacktide again
Ahhhh memories……………..

Shoulda been rank 50……….

Genotix.6804:

Deli.1302:

Losing KoME is probably the best thing that has ever happened to CD. They just got rid of the biggest tumor in their server and gave it to HoD. I wouldn’t want to be on HoD right now lol.

Looks like Borlis Pass has taken the axe as well. Reuniting with Ebay and AR!

I’m most upset about Aurora Glade though =( Was one of the most stable and consistent servers for a very, very long time. Why couldn’t it have been Gunnar’s Hold…. >.>

Oh and SoR lost a pve guild to Yak’s Bend. lol

What have Gunnars ever done to you so that you wish us to loose some guilds mate?

Hey man, no hard feelings. I just like every other international server in silver league better.

Do you want biased opinions that won’t necessarily be true once you go there?

Dark Lord Killer.9473:

It’s not that bad Shino :p We have plenty of non-WvW-guild players on AG and there’s still [VII], [VcY], [HoB], [III], [SW]

DoA is leaving?

Losing KoME is probably the best thing that has ever happened to CD. They just got rid of the biggest tumor in their server and gave it to HoD. I wouldn’t want to be on HoD right now lol.

Looks like Borlis Pass has taken the axe as well. Reuniting with Ebay and AR!

I’m most upset about Aurora Glade though =( Was one of the most stable and consistent servers for a very, very long time. Why couldn’t it have been Gunnar’s Hold…. >.>

Oh and SoR lost a pve guild to Yak’s Bend. lol

Devona’s Rest and Anvil Rock have one ocx guild each but both are small/havoc sized.
The rest have no ocx. CD and HoD have SEA though.

God yes

Everything in this game is crafted. So nothing is rare.

It’s true though. The devs in charge of balance are pretty much all warriors.
If you see a dev with a lvl80 non-warrior, they aren’t part of the balance team.

I thought WM went inactive months ago lol

Desolation, Gandara, Seafarer’s Rest, Aurora Glade

Take your pick

Vyrance.1723:

And Archilese, your post is ridiculous. T1 and T2 do not move servers for balance reasons. They’re trying to win the coverage game. And we’ve had enough of guilds from lower tiers jumping to higher ones. How about guilds go from higher tiers to lower ones to actually balance things out for more servers?

Then they get no fights outside of a 3 hour window during prime time. No one wants that.

I wonder if Anet is smart enough to consider locking JQ, TC, BG, SoS, FA and Mag into gold league now rather than wait and let DB get into a league they shouldn’t be in just because of SoR feeding it free rating.

Avenge.1478:

Its a broken mechanic, get the hell over it.

More broken than pvdoor?

styx.7294:

Fuzzion.2504:

styx.7294:

Fuzzion.2504:

According to polls at gw2wvw.net there will be very little shift in populations as money is not a real great Input into decision making.

Theres also the 24/7 action and instant action in WvW in the upper Tiers which is very elusive to the casual gamer and hadcore players, both alike. Offcourse some prefer different sorts of action, and for those, i think they might take advantage of the free transfers.

Remember, free transfers to lower tiers was a request by the community. See, Anet listens

If money is not an input into decision making about transfers why does your server and others pay other people’s transfer fees?

Edit: Looked at the poll. 20% of the people who voted are transferring? That seems like a pretty big shift to me.

I dont think the top 6 servers wave money at guilds to come over. Yes BG bought Anet, but thats a different story.

I think guilds that want to come over, do come over.

The process is simple. A Scout or two from a server is sent , anonymously to see what the server offers. The big guilds send scouts to other servers as well. The info is feed backed to the GMs of the guild and a decision is made. A guild rep contacts the Top 5 guilds from the particular server and then makes arrangements to assist in any non-pecuniary means for the transfer. Once the transfer is 3/4 complete, announcements are usually made.

No, this is how it works.

If you’re a big guild in the low tier, big servers send people to you and offer you gold to transfer over. If things are going bad on your server and your big guild has bad morale, they start thinking that for the price of free or next to free they’ll try the change of scenery ’cause hey, they got nothing to lose and maybe a change of scenery will fix their internal drama.

They then go out and recruit people from other guilds, from LA, from anywhere on their low tier server telling everyone about how amazing high tier servers are and how free it is it to get there, you just need to join their guild.

It turns out the high tier server is laggier, has queues, and isn’t the sort of WvW they liked maybe. Less than a month after being on the new server, the guild dies. People feel an obligation to stay though because people paid for them to be there. They join the guilds that paid for them or just right out quit.

Edit: Maybe this isn’t every transfer story but this is the story of most transfers that I’ve seen leave Gate of Madness from their own mouths. I suppose it’s not the story that they tell to the server they arrived on or maybe not the story that servers with many guilds take notice of. But here we have few guilds and I try to remember each of their stories.

I’m surprised how accurate this is. However, this process is not restricted to high tier servers. Even low tier servers contact guilds from other low tier servers. And most of the time the guild ends up dying because they assumed that they were gods at wvw for wiping pugs/uplevels in their old server and that they’d do good against the far more organized and experienced guilds from the high tiers. They get wrecked and quit due to their inadequacy.

Dr Zoidberg.2046:

We’re recruiting so we don’t have people tagged up 17 hours+ every day.

As if other servers don’t have to do that.

Fannwong.3059:

Hello Deli,

I hear you. I’ve been looking at lull times and have noticed TC has the most lull times, JQ next and BG doesn’t have any. BG is likely ready for Season 2. T1 will have great fights in Season 2 for sure, regardless of winner.

FW

Deli.1302:

Fannwong.3059:

There are also lull times with low wvw pop sometimes in EU timezone, especially with TC server.

FW

I don’t think a 50+ man float team constitutes as a “lull”

I have too and no, there are no lull times if you have that many people online and in WvW. I suggest you re-educate yourself on the definition of “lull”.

Fannwong.3059:

There are also lull times with low wvw pop sometimes in EU timezone, especially with TC server.

FW

I don’t think a 50+ man float team constitutes as a “lull”

Arrow Carts don’t require line of sight so can shoot through the gap above the door. Build the trebs in better spots.

WTB source please. Treb change would be horrible.

Invalid.8765:

We have been on Maguuma server since beta and have remained here since.

Stormbluff Isle

Everyone is just going to say their server is the friendliest. If you want to know which one truly is, you’re going to have to go there and find out first hand.

We know the balance update (skills, sigil/rune rework, crit damage changes etc) will come with the feature patch. Other than that, we have some hints about what else might be included.

We know there are new elite skills on the way.
We know Anet has been working on a new pvp game mode since last year.
We know account bound wxp is on the way.
Anet may have done the commander tag changes they said they would do.

Play more then. Last week and the week before, SFR capped red side of EB many, many times.

How to become a celebrity commander:

1)Be reliable. Don’t just turn on your tag whenever you feel like then go several days without doing so. You need to get a routine set up so that others who follow you will know when you will be leading. Consistency is the key!

2)Get kitten done. No one is gonna follow a commander who keeps getting them killed. You need to know what you can and can’t do with the people you have and don’t overextend. You need to know how to cap a keep with defenders. You need to know how to command an open field fight (that means saying more than just “stack” and “bomb”).

3)Have a goal. As stated previously, you need to have a goal that you hope to achieve while commanding. This will greatly help in retaining the militia that are following you.

4)If morale is dropping, do a short karma train. That instantly brings everyone back. Don’t just do karma trains though.

5)No yelling or rudeness. Don’t give anyone a reason to hate you. If you want to be a celebrity commander and more importantly, if you want to stay a celebrity commander, you need to treat everyone with respect.

6)Get thick skin. People are going to rage at you sometimes. If you get emotionally affected by that, you’re not cut out for commanding.

ykyk.2740:

DB needs to get boosted into T2 through transfers or something. Their SEA presence is T1-level numbers-wise, and if they keep playing like they do and relying on that they’ll never have a good matchup EVER. Your players HAVE to know what the matchups will be like if DB stays in Silver for 9 weeks.

Maguuma/SoS pushed for gold knowing full well they would take the bottom 2 spots last season, and the servers are thriving now. Setting up 9 full weeks of pvdoor is an incredibly stupid way to build server strength. You just attract karma trainers.

Their SEA is not T1 level at all. It’s only NNK and TFV with the occasional GA. All three guilds don’t show up to wvw when they are losing. See the score when they fought Maguuma a few weeks ago.

Server colour is assigned randomly. SFR will be on red side eventually. Just wait.

Please welcome [SE] Side Effect, a large NA guild, to Tarnished Coast!

shiri.4257:

Deli.1302:

Grav.3568:

Aitadis.8269:

CD has lost guilds but you know what? We are in the same exact position we were in months ago right at the start of season 1 even after losing over half a dozen guilds.

Yes, but if your competitors are also bleeding guilds to T1/T2 – and I’m fairly sure that applies to pretty much everyone south of Dragonbrand these days – then that’s not really saying much.

Both of you are wrong. The reason CD has stayed in the same position since Season 1 was because all 4 mass exoduses happened before it.

No, we lost 2 major guilds that were good people [KA] and [Tofu] post seasons. We lost a couple havoc groups that were kinda there sometimes and kinda not. that was post season for CD. The gap between t3 and t4 is huge, t4/t5 probably not as bad. These were home grown guilds which stung a bit.

The guilds we lost pre season weren’t really home grown, they came in taught us some new tricks and gave us an umph.

Losing 2 guilds several weeks apart is not an implosion. Losing multiple within 1-2 weeks is an implosion.

Grav.3568:

Aitadis.8269:

CD has lost guilds but you know what? We are in the same exact position we were in months ago right at the start of season 1 even after losing over half a dozen guilds.

Yes, but if your competitors are also bleeding guilds to T1/T2 – and I’m fairly sure that applies to pretty much everyone south of Dragonbrand these days – then that’s not really saying much.

Both of you are wrong. The reason CD has stayed in the same position since Season 1 was because all 4 mass exoduses happened before it.

I think someone doesn’t wanna get stomped by Dragonbrand :P

ykyk.2740:

SonofNoob.3102:

Fuzzion.2504:

LightningBlaze.4913:

Don’t underestimate the best NA server #Hibergate!

Changed and corrected

Your posts are the worst on this forum.

How dare you, he’s Prime Minister or something

No, he’s the Princess of JQ.

azizul.8469:

alright everyone, transfer to CD, for free, and we’ll be silver league champion !

Isn’t CD the server that has imploded a whopping four times?

It’s his money so he can do whatever he wants with his accounts.

Paavotar.3971:

I hope they change the full servers into “So full you should not even look at this way”.

Last season we had quite many people shouting the forums that they couldn’t do the meta achievments because they could never fit into WvW.

What I hope is that they change the costs so that its once again free to move to servers that are almost empty and keep it that way till few weeks into the Season. Maybe people start to move around when they notice they won’t be getting the meta achievements in Full servers.

Just because its free doesn’t mean people will transfer to it.

BlackBeard.2873:

The idea that BG is tanking to get transfers is funny, as the server is “Full” and nobody can transfer either there or JQ.

Perhaps they are just taking a break before pushing hard during season 2?

Anet is most likely going to increase the server caps before the next tournament. Last minute impulse transfers are a huge part of anet’s profits.

Sad Tas.2509:

official server for buying guilds: mag

Is this true or are you just mad?

blackgatewvw.com

This is a discussion to be had on your own server forum.

Chris.3290:

I dislike that we can’t even talk about a server or guild community without having the thread get closed.

That’s because it’s always done in an attempt to antagonize so the thread gets closed for logical reasons.

So who voted multiple times?

We already have dueling in this game. Holy kitten keep up.

Anvil Rock and Devona’s Rest were both in your position and they got out of it. See what they did and try to do that with Kaineng as well.

daydream.2938:

Sometimes I get tempted to xfer down, just to help out, they really should make t7,8 free to xfer to.

Then all the people in T8 servers will transfer to T7.