Hi there, I just made the mistake of using my free transfer when upgrading expansion as a european home based player to transfer from US Anvil Rock to EU Ring of fire and wish I hadn't bothered. My main motivations were the 'myth' of a better ping/play performance, (I have since found out not any appreciable difference with testing) and also wanted less very late playing times into early hours because of time difference. I was having very active time on AR, plenty of open tags each day but could not compare with EU servers because you can only 'guest play' in your geographical area, this seems stupidly restrictive. Now I have spent my free transfer I find on ROF and guesting on EU servers is like ppl say in this thread 'eletist guilds' and groups that flatly ignore you and are not willing to take new members on, only experienced one open tag in a week of daily play, compared to 2 or 3 on AR I could join in with, and I was once told very rudely to get the ... away from the tag on the EU server. So feel very unwelcome on ROF not in the spirit of Guild Wars at all, other EU servers could be better up the charts, but probably full and it has put me off EU anyhow, there is also no good info on where is good to play. Now I will definately transfer back to a US server as players are much friendlier and more helpful, its just sad I now have to pay for my 'mistake' but like I said not having the 'across the pond' guest option is just unfair IMHO. My question now to the forum is if I don't go back to AR. could anyone say they had a good experience or could recommend a US server to me with open tags and good gameplay, hope my input is of use and thanks for any feedback, all the best folks, and thanks for reading. HOD has been great, lots of pugmanders.