Laurencius.9258

So I just spent several hours playing WVW and for Gandara I saw one other player and two bots - this is standard for Sun - Thurs. Opposing us were huge zergs of dozens of players on both sides. This is like playing chess where your opponent starts with all their pieces and you have a couple of pawns. On a whim, I logged in to my old Stormbluff Isle account and there are scores of SI folks running about in WVW. Both servers are 'full,' yet only SI has actual players. Whatever metrics Anet is using to determine WVW player population are broken to the point of uselessness - Gandara is not full - there are no zergs guarding camps, no hoards spamming underpopulated servers - Gandara *is* the underpopulated server. Soon as I can save up enough gems, I'm moving my main account to Stormbluff Isle. Gandara is a WVW dead server and Anet won't let anyone onto it to bring it back to life. If Anet wants an empty server no one can get onto, that's their problem.

@Seductive.5741 If that's true, why don't the numbers change?

@Seductive.5741 I stand corrected and I stand proven correct. Gandara suposedly is full with 291 players, yet Baruch Bay has a whopping 516 players and is only very high - it never locks. It is also interesting the other servers get to have more players than Gandara - Seafarer's Rest gets to have 502, Underworld gets 427 (and isn't even full), Riverside 330, Miller's Sound 336, Piken Square 341, Gunnar's Hold 373 - no wonder Gandara is always outnumbered. This is solid proof Anet has it's thumbs on the scale against Gandara and isn't even troubling themselves to hide it. Very valuable info this - I cannot thank you enough.

@"Zok.4956" You say it wasn't locked prior to 5/18/2020 - source please - I don't remember it being open then. It's been locked for so long it's a running gag among Gandarans that if it ever opened we'd never forget the exact date and time. Gandara is not over-stacked and it is not over-populated. Whenever you go into WVW there are maybe 5 Gandara players vs 50 players on both the other servers. How does 5 people constitute a overpopulated? Please explain Zok, since you have all the answers.

Just checked - still locked. If it was open recently, I've not heard of it.

The Gandara WVW players want to move en masse to a single server, not in ones and twos to random servers - if it's a server that can be locked, some might get locked out before we are all able to transfer, thus sabotaging our effort to stay together. Gandara has been locked for years. Not kidding - years. Which, of course, is a GOOD thing!

Nevermind. It just showed up. No one knows why. *shrug*

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scribing:_Sabotage_Depot says "Acquiring this guild upgrade unlocks the recipe to craft Schematic: Sabotage Depot. Available only to scribes." We have the guild upgrade and I am a scribe with the necessary experience level as a scribe so the recipe should show up, but it's not there. All boxes except the 1st 3 are checked on the scribe station. We've left the instance, logged out, come back in and still that recipe doesn't doesn't show. ???