World V World

[Avisto™]

Legit question, last time I played WvW (Edge of the mists) it was super populated, but the last few days I've been checking it out every few hours and there's pretty much nobody. Is WvW dead?

[Mr RocknRoll]

What he said. WvW will always have something going on. There are big big guilds that dedicate themselves to this solely. If this interests you then I would start there. Also correct me if I'm wrong(more knowledgeable players than I) but I do believe the server resets every thursday. So that may be another reason seems empty.

[Avisto™]

Thanks for the reply. Any idea what servers they'd be on? I love PvP so that's kinda a bummer I'm leveling on a server that clearly has no PvP lmao

[Avisto™]

Originally posted by Val the Moofia Boss:

Originally posted by Avisto™:

Any idea what servers they'd be on?

I know Tarnished Coast has half a dozen active WvW guilds on it with varying quality. The main problem is that years ago, all of the WvWers wanted to be on Tarnished Coast, so the server filled up and you can rarely create new characters there, so if you want to go to TC you have to pay $22 to server transfer to it. Transferring to less crowded servers costs a lot less. (Know that your server only matters for WvW as it dictates which side you play on. If you want to play PvE or PvP with guys from another server you can do that without server transferring).

You can browse the GW2 guild recruitment subforum, but you might be better off joining the GW2 discord and and then looking through its lists of associated discords (like WvW discords) and joining them, then asking around and looking through its guild recruitment channels.

Appreciate it, I'll probably just play casually for now since it's sort of locked. Pretty big bummer that it flat-lined like that. I really thought the WvW would be still alive and kicking, especially because of the steam launch. Guess not XD

[Atomitor]

it's worth noting that a lot of commanders will run a private tag and will only add people on discord so it may look dead. I'm on gunners hold and there's always some thing going on.

[Atomitor]

Originally posted by Mr RocknRoll:

What he said. WvW will always have something going on. There are big big guilds that dedicate themselves to this solely. If this interests you then I would start there. Also correct me if I'm wrong(more knowledgeable players than I) but I do believe the server resets every thursday. So that may be another reason seems empty.

it's friday around 7pm in the uk. that's usually the busiest time.

[Assume I have 400 Ping]

Sometimes WvW is dead.
Sometimes it's not.

I don't have a guild or try to organise it, I just hop on and see what's going on.

I had an absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane day of WvW a few days ago where we were about 30 deep defending a fort against both the opposing teams who were running about 60 deep. So these guys were mostly fighting each other in these giant zerg balls of death and we'd be just up on the walls sniping stragglers and trying to stop them.

We lost in the end, naturally. Put up a good fight though. 30+ minutes.
Fun as ♥♥♥♥. Been doing WvW a lot recently for dailies since PvE dailies are mostly impossible now due to my level. (In areas i've not explored yet)

[Kikka21]

Originally posted by Assume I have 400 Ping:

Sometimes WvW is dead.
Sometimes it's not.

This

WvW pop is very volatile, it can also depend on your server, i'm on Gate of Maddness and we are always outnumbered.

There's leaderdboards showing what servers are doing the best in the Mist War, better servers tend to have a bigger pop, and thusly more action, Maguuma is ranked 1 in NA right now, and having fought them a few weeks back, I can tell you they got bodies to spare lol.

[Tiberius]

They removed rewards from eotm, and thus eotm became a desert

[Avisto™]

Thanks for the replies dudes. I just did a bit of research and hopped servers to one that *seems* to be kinda active. Sanctum of Rall.

[Icecold Heart]

The only ones keeping WvW alive are guilds looking to blob solo targets to fuel their trash ego and some randos that enjoy getting blobbed by these guilds. Those greedy devs are too incompetent to balance ♥♥♥♥ because they are too busy running their vacuum cleaners on your wallet. Those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ couldn't even balance anything if someone held a gun on their worthless heads.

[Icecold Heart]

And to all these undereducated ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. No i'll not infest my library with this heresy of a game.

[PewPew NoHeal]

Edge of the mist is dead from very long time ago.
WvW main maps are also very dead, no so much as the mists but also there. Maybe you get population in one map and that's it.

In any case wvw has not rewards and you have to play one of the 3 builds allowed in squads, otherwise you will be playing alone.