So have spent the last few days playing on Gandara.
I randomly picked this server as a middle of the table in regards to ranking, and at the time was marked as a medium populated server.
Queue times are slightly faster than FS, but not a night and day difference. I tried queuing up for all the borderlands and EB, EB still the longest out of the 4.
Some of the fights were not 3 way so helped with frame rate but generally was still zergy like our server is.
Unless you are going to pick one of the bottom quieter servers I think it is just how it is going to be and I personally have no real interest in running around maps looking for people to kill.
My main issue is going to be the queue times, as long as are around 30 minutes during the week days I can live with it. Sure it really does suck with invisible zergs but going to get that on any server with how it is optimised.
Would be nice if you could queue up on an alt and it pops up, gives you time to change characters to zone in., also if you could have a 5-10 minute window if you crash.
I popped home from work this morning to transfer back to FS as didn't want to attempt it tonight and not being able to with it being on full.
I still think with a co ordinated effort can achieve in WvW as long as queues aren't mega long, can do skirmish runs, cut off supplies, put crosses on the map to draw the zergs out, so many things you can do.
Sure it really does suck running into invisible players but even with just running around in a small group was able to have some fun and enjoy it.
Something of note though, coming from Igraine Hibernia in DAOC, on Albion there was a guy called Team Wizzy, he controlled a group himself made primarily of wizards obviously :p along with druid/bard. Anyway he would wreak havoc by positioning himself in keeps/towers and could wipe out alot of people if you were dumb enough to run into him.
So Mike and I were attacking a keep with the zerg on Gandara, there was an Underworld guild there, that just brought TW back to us.
I have no idea what the guild was doing, though it appeared to be about 10-20 of them all stood in a small area. Must have been running along of healing/defensive boons or whatever but was IMPOSSIBLE to take them down even assisting, Mike can explain it better than I but it was really fascinating to see.
So anyways, my feeling is at present after looking at another server that staying on FS is a good idea in the near future.
Along with the work Mark has put into the alliance of course.
And from an English point of view it is always nice to kill French players who try to
build a Maginot line at the central keep
I haven't done any other testings on swapping to different servers but just my feedback to this topic.
Claire
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