Guild Wars 2

To make that clear from the beginning: I really like Eotm.
I’ve always tried to get in real WvW but most of the time our server is severly underpopulated so you can’t win any zerg figths and sadly I don’t have any friends in GW that I could roam with.

So I decided to try Eotm when it released and I really really like it. It has that WvW feeling but without that one-sidedness I always exeprience in WvW on my server. I like the new concepts and I like that it really feels like you are contributing to the victory when you, for example solo take a reactor. But what I don’t like is that there is no reward whatsoever for the winning team. I understand that you get a lot of WvW-Exp and also some gold and loot just from participating but it feels pointless to actually push for the win. I makes more sense to just zerg at some point and loose bases so that you can recapture them, because holding the bases doesn’t really do anything exept giving you points – which are completely meaningless.

I know that the map was primarily designed for WvW-testing, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t be expanded to some really awesome – and the first step would be to make winning meaningfull by adding some kind of proper reward for the winning fraction.

And to abuse exploiting you just get the reward based on the number of WvW-exp you recieved in that specific match, simple.

The winning Team gets an extra supply drop in their Borderlands Keep I believe.

It would be a bad move to give it it’s own great reward. The purpose of the map is to help alleviate que’s and que time waiting for the main WvW maps. If they give a really good reward for the 3 hours of EoTM map play, it then has a huge chance to really mess up WvW.

Why go to a BL WVW map to help your server with PPT and stay within the same basic match ups when you can go to EOTM and get some nifty rewards instead.

I, personally, see that as a chance to hurt WvW and could see why ANET would steer clear of that.