Guild Wars 2

Jerry CCH.9816:

Xenesis.6389:

JQ has won 0 skirmish, 3 2nd, 9 3rd.
Mag has won every skirmish, but oh yeah they have 0 sea, and nevermind JQ lost sea this week.
Some people need to put the drink down before posting in here.

coz Mag Match with FA last week

btw JQ win TC/SBI Match last week at T2

TC doing overtime when BG/JQ/TC this week match

Oh TC playing overtime is why JQ is losing, good to know BG has nothing to do with it.

JQ has won 0 skirmish, 3 2nd, 9 3rd.
Mag has won every skirmish, but oh yeah they have 0 sea, and nevermind JQ lost sea this week.
Some people need to put the drink down before posting in here.

swellercross.3974:

This week match up is the most balance ever ,every server is balance is where they supposed to stay and the fights is even more balanced less qq from the kids and big guilds ,Thanks ANET for this match up .

Curious on which which side and tier you think is balanced.

BG 35 TC 22 JQ 15
Mag 36 FA 20 YB 16
JQ and Mag switch would be better.

SBI 29 NSP 18 HoD 25
SoS 24 DB 29 CD 19
NSP and DB or SoS switch might be better.

JS 32 AM 22 Deso 42, Deso coming in first mostly.
VS 36 Far 30 Piken 30, ok this one looks good.

GH 30 SR 24 Gan 42, Gan coming in first mostly.
River 38 Koda 27 AG 31, this looks alright.
Elona 35 Baruch 32 Drak 29, this looks good.

It’s only been a day since reset, some servers don’t even perform well during weekends. Most balanced ever, I don’t think so.

Buy Some Apples.6390:

How much longer before EOTM becomes WvW?!!!

It’s all part of the plan from all those years ago when they launched eotm, to wear us down until we get to the point “Alright! enough is enough! I’ve had enough of these enoughing nough nough servers, just enoughing give us the enoughing faction eotm plan already.”

Maybe they had more “population activity” and needed a helping hand.

Seriously why are they adjusting glicko on servers that don’t need it? They did it for a couple extreme cases, fine, but if you’re going to do it every week then dump the stupid glicko system and start doing manual matchups. What a god kitten joke this game has turned into.

P.S If you want to keep BG stacked you might as well drop a tier, merge servers so they have a chance to get their population levels up and compete as one server instead of 3 links.

Swagger.1459:

I bet next summer will we get a huge wvw update called “GW2 Factions”!

Offered via the next expansion.

A lot less content for casual players, a lot less living stories that is also now expansion gated, more grinds, less festivals, less reason to play, if you’re not going to play no reason to pay. Expansion a year old and not all the legendary weapons or armor have been introduced, wvw continues to die, you can’t keep selling wings to keep you going, too much focus on 10 man content rather than 5 mans, new black lion chest screw ups.

Yeah they’re not treading upward because more than likely less players are playing the game from a year ago, and players are getting tired of content droughts, the old content is now 4 years old and probably needs a facelift.

X T D.6458:

People should stop confusing population with activity. BG has an incredibly dedicated militia force that will go overtime day after day, this doesn’t mean they outnumber another server, it just means they are more active.

Dedicated militia, lol. Militia are finicky, they stick around when the server is winning, take a break when it’s not, or guilds are not there to support them. BG militia has been fortunate to play on a server that gets both. I’ m sure they would break like every other server if you were lower than t1 and constantly having guilds bought out from you. BG has coverage plain and simple, as i don’t believe you have players playing 12+ hours to keep your ppt going.

Hexalot.8194:

Yet in the 4+ years we’ve been in tier 1, we’ve fought against servers that have had superior coverage to us in every respect. Yet we’re still here. JQ at one point was the number one server in T1 for well over a year straight. You don’t have to like us but you can’t deny the resilience of BG over all those years.

Having the first tournament win and teq revamp kill solidified labeling BG as a winning server. There’s no doubt BG has a tight community even if half of it may have been from buying guilds or bandwagon players years ago (BG didn’t start on top afterall). Even through it’s own set of troubles they still managed to weather those storms and stay in t1, JQ has had multiple storms that they haven’t been able to weather very well, their NA has been suffering for a while, why TW had to go help them.

Every single server has a core of players that stuck to the server through thick and thin, many have had to weather situations worse than BG ever did, like how many have had to lose guilds going up to t1 all these years. You guys are the last super t1 server, you basically won, you outlasted your counterparts. The current era of the game is different, you don’t have to be number one every week because no one cares anymore, people want balanced and fun matchups.

At the end of the day, coverage will always win you this game.
BG Skirmish this week 45 1st, 11 2nd, 0 3rd.

XTR.9604:

I love this. They have less population than a T4 server link, yet still number 1 by a long shot and absolutely destroys their competition. It goes to show that they’re the server that has WvW figured out.

Not exactly rocket science… coverage. It was figured out in beta.

They probably could just take out the easy dailies to do, like ruins cap or kill a veteran.
They can leave the harder ones like a keep capture in.

Jerus.4350:

Well they could base their ‘population’ counts more on activity rather than just a head count. If serverA has 1000 people but most of them log in to do their dailies then log out. Then serverB has 700 players but most spend 2-3hours a night in WvW capturing and killing, then there’s no doubt that serverB would likely be more successful than serverA.

Perhaps calculating active population based on worldXP or participation points given out would be better than just having an ‘do they wvw sometimes’ headcount?

That is the way they count wvw population, by activity, there’s no other way to do a head count because both pve and wvw players reside on the same servers. With BG having less population than JQ or CD plus 2 links, it either means their players are less active these days or players transferred off.

It’s not like they’ve had something to make them implode recently, so one would think it’s the population not being active in wvw, it’s not like that hasn’t happened with their server before. Anet as usual just looks at numbers and doesn’t actually know what’s going on with their game.

Maybe they check by wvw levels gained too as they do that for the in game poll notification, but who knows.

Don’t bother, just leave all servers open.

The number one server population is now below three combined servers, I guess it was time to push the red panic button.

Even though BG is still clubbering the 2nd+1 and 5th+1 servers, while CD the 11th+2 is getting clubber by DB 12th+2.

So did a lot of people transfer out of BG or maybe their population is hibernating again, which do you guys think it is?

Jerus.4350:

Xenesis.6389:

People are not really going to boycott their playing time, unless they’re getting overwhelmed pretty badly by BG. So you can call for a boycott but doubt it’ll happen, same as hardcore double teams ALMOST never happen.

But if you can’t beat’em, join’em.

fixed, we all know the one time that did happen, it was pretty glorious.

Well yeah that one time lol.
Too bad it doesn’t happen more often.

People are not really going to boycott their playing time, unless they’re getting overwhelmed pretty badly by BG. So you can call for a boycott but doubt it’ll happen, same as hardcore double teams never happen.

But if you can’t beat’em, join’em.

Reh.5986:

We should take the smallest NA server, break down the time zones and then get guild commits for each. We could build it right from the ground up…including coverage and tag rotations.

By the time Anet set it to full it would make BG look like a toy. Transfers would be dirt cheap too.

Get the Titan Alliance back for the 4 year reunion tour, they conquered wvw in the first 2 weeks with a record of 30-0! But can they repeat it and push Henge of Denravi back to 1st in todays gw2 environment.

Bring back the Titan Alliance, make gw2 wvw great again!
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Titan-Alliance

Princess.7584:

CommonSense.4697:

So a day after BG is open, look at T1 currently. BG ticking 162, FA ticking 74, Mag ticking 16. So opening bg has made t1 toxic again.

They taking balancing the servers seriously.
The extra funds from gems is paying for the Xmas party. BG war council sponsored.

Wonder if they’re going to get another round of cupcakes from gw2 reddit, they wouldn’t have to worry about food for the party.

Reh.5986:

Loving this actually. I was getting bored. Let’s break everything and see what happens.

That’s what I be thinking too.
Too bad they took out cannons.

Sarge.9730:

The level of salt over Anet taking an artificial “closed” cap on joining BG and JQ that NO other server was held to is hilarious. If BG is already at what they considered the population cap they would have lowered it as opposed to lifting the lock.

With no hard facts to go off of (they don’t exist outside of maybe Anet) the forum warriors flood in here and make claims that BG is so stacked the game will never be the same again.

This will be my last post in here but please continue, I enjoy a little light reading before bed and my Vial of Salt could use some replenishment.

You’ll be happy to know there’s lots of salt left from the months of tears from BG and JQ crying about opening their servers.

There’s a thing called balance that most players would like to achieve, it isn’t absolutely achievable but it would be nice to keep working on getting closer to it, I know, a wild concept you apparently don’t give two twinkies about.

For the most part we assume BG has been closed due to it being over the population cap, whether it opened this week due to finally getting under that cap or a manual opening, who knows other than anet. Fact of the matter is it’s still the biggest server that has the best chance to win day in and day out, and people will flock to it for the easy win.

Having said all that, the joy of wvw has been dead to me for some time, so whether or not your server gets super stacked again doesn’t bother me, anet proposes smaller worlds and then decides to open all servers, so really at this point who should care about balance anymore?, anet certainly doesn’t.

I already had a sleeping alt on BG for a rainy day. I hope everyone who wants to play on BG jumps, you wanted it open, you wanted more recruitment, I hope you take advantage of it right now, and don’t come back and complain in a months time.

Sarge.9730:

For those interested in facts as opposed to wild accusations to make themselves feel better. BG has had no queue on any BL today which is a normal occurrence outside of reset night.

#stacked

Imagine what the rest of the servers must be like.

Hexalot.8194:

Xenesis.6389:

P.S Don’t join JQ, they don’t like NA players.

Seriously though… what is it with JQ and their constant lack of NA guilds for like the last 3 years or so ?

If they could only attract (and hold) people who play in this time slot, JQ would be a fearsome server to behold.

Seems to be a thing for those servers that have heavy off hours, SoS and DB also.

I have had an account on BG since the last time they opened up in the beginning of summer, it isn’t tears of salt my friend, it’s tears of joy!

It’s a limited time for BG to be open, don’t try and pick and choose who you want, I mean come on man the server finally opens and you want roamers? seriously? Guilds are looking for players, borderlands are looking for defenders, smc lord is looking for masons to build walls, and cannon operators to keep the keeps secured.

Recruit everyone before the server is closed another 6 months, EVERYONE IS WELCOME to join, become a Legend of Tomorrow, become part of the Legend of Beastgate. Leave your mark in wvw before you leave, play and retire on the legendary number one server. When the next tournament hits we will be prepared this time and no double team will stop us! The more players around the more time we can relax and go back to playing alternate weeks.

Recruit all your friends, your friends family, your friends friends, your friends friends family, your friend friends friends and their grandmas, players of all ages and time zones are welcomed, book your transfers today, no taxes on this great deal!, no hidden fees!

P.S Don’t join JQ, they don’t like NA players.

Tyyphoon.5301:

Yes, Blackgate is open. Looking for quality players, especially quality roamers to transfer. =)

Pfft don’t listen to this guy, BG has been waiting forever to be open again, taking everyone interested and not interested in the best NA server, EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Tell your brothers, your sisters, your guild, your guild friends, your guild alliances, your gurlfriend, your brofriend, tell uncle ben, aunt jemima, cousin it, batman, looking for scouts, havoc, zergers, lemmings, fighters, cannon operators, ac builders, smc treb caretakers, homebl motherinlaws. If you can follow a Commander tag you’re perfect!

Take advantage of this limited time offer, an exclusive offer for you, offer expires anytime in the next 7 days, enjoy this special offer at your new location on BG, book your flight today, come to the best server now and forever, it will be the last transfer you will ever need, last chance to get on the best server before wvw dies, limited space, don’t miss out on this phenomenal exclusive special deal!

Everyone please transfer to BG and JQ they’ve been suffering with recruitment and need more, you never know when they will open up again! Don’t forget make free accounts there too!

Jerry CCH.9816:

ur 2016 best joke

Thank you, glad you saw it as a joke XD

Recruit from your pve population.

Main: DB 1 month → SoS 2.5 years → EB 1 year → DB rotting away.
Alt1: SoS → SoR
Alt2: JQ → EB → BG
Free account: TC

Swagger.1459:

You want to run tournaments based off of teams that have nothing to do with each other besides a forced scoring system? Do you know how silly that sounds?

Think about this.
The average core NA prime players doesn’t play, doesn’t talk, or even care that there’s core OCX/Sea/EU prime players on their server, they practically have nothing to do with each other than you share the same maps and score. The only difference with the idea is that the EU players are on different maps on the other side of the world.

Aeolus.3615:

scores messing wich other would be like european soccer scores apearing in USA national tournaments … well just the score stacked in some other team..
it does not even make sense… move along guys…dont ruin gw2 lol…

Except soccer is a team sports game played with even players, on an equal playing field, and equal time. That isn’t the case for wvw.

When I was thinking of the format I was thinking something like the Ryder cup. Golf is a single person sport but you can play it as a team, individual scores from 1v1 matches are added for a total.

But whatever.

Swagger.1459:

But there is zero purpose of doing that. US is US, EU is EU. The devs are not going to do unnecessary stuff like that.

Because it’s a 24/7 game, but the majority of it is heavily played in a couple time zones for each area. Most of the NA player participation comes from NA and OCX/Sea time, while most of EU player participation comes from EU time zones, if you combined them you could get a much more complete total score.

The reason why we don’t have any tournaments is because of how lopsided scores, population, coverage is. They have skirmish to help with runaway scores, you can get more balanced populations with the introduction of a new base of servers instead of just adding servers and waiting for blackgate to ever destack, then you fix a piece of the coverage puzzle by adding EU scores to NA scores to help offset the off hours scoring for each, you would be in a better place to run tournaments.

Seriously though it really wouldn’t take much effort to add NA1 and EU1 total scores together, everything is already in place and working right now. That’s like the least time consuming part of the proposal.

Jeknar.6184:

Oh, interesting. But it means EU would have to need to have the same ammount of tiers as NA.

Yeah it’s an extra tier to knock off, I don’t know what the total population is like for EU compared to NA, and if that would cause a lot more queues or not. Only anet would know. Or maybe they could just stretch NA back to 5 tiers.

Swagger.1459:

Anet is not linking US and EU.

You wouldn’t physically link the servers, just the scores, everything would still be separate as it is now. All you would need to do is combine the scores to make it a global score.
As a quick example:

1. Dwayna – Blackgate/Jade Sea = 118k, skirmish = 53
2. Balthazar – Ft Aspenwood/Abaddon’s Mouth = 103k, skirmish = 40
3. Melandru – Maguuma/Vizunah Square = 101k, skirmish = 39

Someone mentioned before about using another layer of servers and I think it’s worth a look at if they’re going to introduce more servers, I even think it could go further and be a structure for a global tournament.

Instead of adding servers to try and spread the current population for links, create a new layer of servers to be the base population for wvw. Basically it would function something like eotm where you usually automatically filter all green servers into one pool of players, but in this case you would have green1 green2 green3 etc and have players sign up for whichever one for a month. So instead of trying to find players to move to new servers you will push all players to choose new servers to play for.

It’s really the only way to shake up players for more even balance, because players are stubborn and don’t want to move if they don’t have to.

• All wvw players would have one week before relinks to sign up for whatever new server they want to play on.
• Any active but unsigned players will be auto placed into worlds that needs more players at the end of that signup week.
• The duration the server alliance would be active is one month.
• All servers would have lower population caps of course.
• All old servers would still exist as the home for players and transfers.
• The only reason for signups and not automatic placement is to allow guilds and their alliances options to pick a world together.
• You could have it so that whatever world a guildleader signs up for, the entire guilds will be reserved for that server. (But what about alliances abusing this and joining 1 guild!) It’s fine with the lower population caps, plus random server pairing and rankings.

But Xen you mention relinks?
Here’s the second part.

• Optional: allow euro servers to follow the same rules, let the players choose unofficially what server they want for their language. If the euro players disagree with that, then just have language servers as it is now, no sweat just an option.
• Now since servers should be closer in populations, you can randomly match them up, and then link their scores.
• Create Alliances for a random pair of NA and EU worlds.
• Randomly place these alliance from rank 1-12.
• Scores generated for both would still be the same as the current process, you would just total them up for the alliance for a global score.
• You can implement 1 up 1 down format.
• This can even be used as a tournament format.

Now here’s an example.

ALLIANCE – NA – EU
1. Dwayna – NA1 – EU2
2. Balthazar – NA2 – EU7
3. Melandru – NA3 – EU10

4. Lyssa – NA12 – EU1
5. Grenth – NA8 – EU11
6. Kormir – NA6 – EU3

7. Primordus – NA7 – EU8
8. Jormag – NA5 – EU6
9. Zhaitan – NA9 – EU12

10. Kralkatorrik – NA10 – EU9
11. Mordremoth – NA11 – EU4
12. Selbbub – NA4 – EU5

So the Dwayna alliance of NA1 and EU2 would be together for 1 month. 4 weeks is enough time for an alliance to move from rank 10-12 up to rank 1 and be the top alliance. Because the NA/EU server pairing and rank placements are random to begin with, there is no guarantee for guilds bandwagoning to a specific server will be on top.

But all that would probably require a lot of work to create the additional layers, which wvw currently doesn’t have time for.

tldr version, just skip to the next post.

Only way players will fill up new worlds is if it’s led by an popular guild or commander that pug commands, or there’s bonuses to lure them there. Otherwise not much point leaving your currently established server and community. The proposal does make sense with it comes to making better population links, not so much for coverage, but I just don’t think enough players are willing to go along with it without heavy incentives.

If guilds or players are willing to make the jump to the new servers, what are you willing to give them for making that leap? a unique backpack skin, or unique finisher or weapon or armor skin, extra loot or stat bonuses? Gonna have to come up with a good lure to hook the fish.

PariahX.6970:

Cecilia.5179:

Desert bl is the product of not taking any feedback. Beta testers stated concerns, and they did nothing.

morrolan.9608:

I’ve recently found out that it wasn’t just beta testers, core testers also expressed the same concerns. At no point did they listen to user feedback at all.

All of the Desert Borderland design ideas came from suggestions on this forum and a lot of different factions of players. Now you can easily argue that once ANET sets down a path they are very slow or unable to adjust course based on real-time feedback but you can’t really say they don’t take ideas from the community. Even the mostly bad stuff like more siege has a vocal segment of the population that supports it.

They do implement a lot of our suggestions, usually just 6 months to a year too late after the idea would actually be useful or the players who asked for it are still around. Just look back over the development cycle & forums of the last 4 years and see those weirdly off set alignments.

Meh they took the suggestion of trying to break up zergs and went overboard with it by designing an entire map for doing that. Then they decided to first barely listen to the initial feedback, and then were slow to make changes. They tried to build the map like they would a pve map and went overboard with the clutter and gimmicks, the same thing they did with the eotm map, rather than stick to the concepts that made the original wvw maps successful.

We provide suggestions of things we would like sure, but they should stick to concepts that work and learn and improve from that, not throw it out the window and tried to shove a pve map into a pvp environment.

I’m waiting on the double barrel superior cannons, double the pewpew.

I can’t tell if it’s sarcasm from you, this is like the 3rd or 4th time you’ve come in here talking about the wvw overhaul and orbs, it’s a bad joke at this point.

Because it’s a priority poll.. they’ll probably implement both, they just asking us which to work on first.

Mylerian.9176:

XTR.9604:

No more siege please. Make skill damage of people hit gates harder and able to attack walls, go from there. If people want to defend, they need to get off the wall and fight or attack from above with their own skills.

I know it will never happen, but it would be a really awesome event.

I’m mostly disgusted with the mobile cannons that were implemented. Still tired of arrow carts as well, but they really outdid themselves with these cannons…

One of the dumbest ideas ever!

Necros and their pets would be op again!

Xillllix.3485:

They’ve been working on a huge WvW overhaul for well over a year. That’s what they said when HoT came out and it’s been a while.

It was delayed a bit but I think they should release it soon.
I just wished they could give us more information about everything that will be included.

I’m quite certain it will have GvG and skirmishes integrated in new WvW maps and new types of combo fields for group fights. Perhaps they’ll have mutators to make the maps more dynamics, the orbs should come back but redesigned. It’s going to be so good it will feel like a completely new game. No word yet on community mod support.

Where the hell did you get this craziness?

The “wvw overhaul” was the alliance/battlegroups and the skirmish/scoring changes. Pretty sure they haven’t been working on it since they decided to strip parts and release what they could, skirmish, and went with another populations solution, links.

Dunno where you got the other craziness of gvg and skirmishes integrated in new wvw maps and new combo fields, wtf. And drop the orbs already, they gave us ruins and bloodlust as it’s replacements because of fly hacking.

So what happens if Anet blows it all up?
Probably still lose players, there are other problems that won’t be addressed by a blow up.

Chinchilla.1785:

Xenesis.6389:

Chinchilla.1785:

but didn’t really hinder roamers.

Why do you need to hinder roamers? the last time they tried to do something like that we got barricades which everyone hated.

EBG doesn’t need a redesign, but it could use a face lift, or even mirror maps in different themes/seasons.

It was an observation. I said blobs get “choked up” while roamers can pass by easily.

Oh sorry, you made it sound like you wanted more drastic measures to hinder roamers.

Also even if ebg has as many chokes as desert they all were well placed and used by players, and surrounded by open areas which gives groups incentive to push through those chokes while not worrying about kicking into a tree stump every 5 meters.

Chinchilla.1785:

but didn’t really hinder roamers.

Why do you need to hinder roamers? the last time they tried to do something like that we got barricades which everyone hated.

EBG doesn’t need a redesign, but it could use a face lift, or even mirror maps in different themes/seasons.

They already reduced the impact of night capping with skirmish mode, they can still go a step further with the extra points per action levels if they wanted, but I think night capping has been fairly addressed. It’s never going to be truly fixed in the current setup, there’s going to be some servers with better coverage.

Lessen the gap between winning scores and losing scores so losing teams can still recover.

The catch up mechanic is still possible but I don’t think a lot of players supported it.

Adjust objective score relative to upgrade level.

Thought they were still working on this.

I no longer agree with the 1 up 1 down system as there are half the servers now in matchups, it would have been better when there were 24 servers around, with more of them closer to each other in populations. Unless they plan on making all servers closer in population as much as possible. Although some have stated the tiers are closer these days. /shrugs

It does solve one problem with servers after new links, it makes it faster for boosted servers to move up and those that lost population to move down quickly, YB DB being the recent examples.

Meh make it from this point on,
Every existing account that never transferred, gets a free transfer.
Accounts that upgraded from free accounts already get a free transfer when they upgrade.
Every account that has transferred at least once, has their next transfer cost 1000 gems.
Every transfer on the account after that goes up in increments of 500 gems, to a cap of 5000 gems.

If eventually you get to the 5000 gems cap you might as well just buy a new account and restart the transfer cost.

The increment cost has been mentioned before I’m sure, just putting it out there again.

blitzkrieg.2451:

1. Adding a GvG environment that really supports that sort of play ALONE will bring back a lot of guilds and players to WvW.

2. Get rid of Desert BL , do you need a poll to really see that this was a horrible idea? Statistics alone from the time it was implemented should be enough to tell you it was a disaster.

3. Bonuses for roaming parties to encourage roaming again and small scale fights

1. Isn’t going to bring gvg back because combat is messed up since the expansion as well. A lot of them left from the stability change that turned the game into pirate ship meta. A lot of gvg players hate cheesy condition fights, that’s why whatever last remaining organized groups enjoyed the boon share meta so much, even if it was boring as f.

2. Did you miss the last 6 months and the fight with desert map polls? Bringing back alpine gave wvw a short boost sure, but it came back around when links and a some other changes like stability fix were made, so it’s real impact is unknown. Having all 3 maps as desert did have a negative impact for sure, but that issue has been settled, notice how many complain about desert these days? Changing 1 map out now isn’t going to bring back people, sorry, there are bigger issues in wvw than 1 map.

3. What kind of bonuses? stat bonuses are kinda out of the window, it’s been discussed and the impact it could have. Offer more reward bonuses? don’t know how motivating that would be, yay I get more rewards for playing by myself? There are other problems with roaming, namely if you’re going to roam you’ll most likely do it on a class built to do well in it, thief, mesmer, warrior, druid for the most part, that’s a class balance issue, plus the fact that a lot players these days like to do it in groups. As for small groups, like havoc groups, their effectiveness was taken away with changes with the expansion. If there’s constant complaints about how messed up spvp balance is, imagine how much worse it is for wvw.

Character model options have the biggest impact for me. I usually set character model limit anywhere from med and up depending on server and time I’m on, the lower you go the more players will seem missing, but you will still see their names.

I set character model quality down to low which shows full models close around you, or lowest which gives everyone the generic model look, but saves a lot on performance. Also my shadows are low or off.

Would be nice if they had separate auto settings for wvw and pve areas.

X T D.6458:

Sometimes…people just want to get off the roller coaster….

But it’s a fun roller coaster, I even sneak my hands up into the air mid ride, waving like I just don’t care.

BG and JQ are still playing the arms race game when there’s no point to it anymore.

BG wants to maintain it’s t1 status when it already has for over 4 years, and still has the biggest population and best coverage in the game still, well whenever their fairweathers feel like showing up. They’ve been without a link for months now and still stay in t1 matchups for the most part. They want fresh recruits, but guilds have left the server to find new population pools to recruit and yet BG STILL has more population than all other servers, that should be telling.

JQ’s problem is they think they’re being held prisoner by anet that won’t let them stock up on their NA, when their off hours population is probably the real culprit on why they won’t open.

Servers need to just stop buying guilds, let people transfer wherever they want on their own, pay their own way. All t1 is these days is a revolving door of other servers that go up with a link, lose the link, then crash back a tier or two or three in DB’s case. Being “WvW number 1 server” is meaningless these days, stop with the arms race.

SrebX.6498:

Hi,
I’m a returning player, I haven’t been playing since beginning of 2016 and I’m excited to get back to the game

I understood there were some significant changes during this year, I’d be extremely thankful if anyone could just generally explain the major changes and where things are right now.

Eternal Battlegrounds
North Keep: One of the village residents will now flee if their home is destroyed.

Enjoy.