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Posted by: Dos.7052

Dos.7052

I know, I know, because American servers are 24/7 full at wvw, so in order to make queuing players happy, ohla, there is eotm.

but let me be frankly, as EU server players, wvw can always enter in most time of the day, ( except 7-8 pm ofc). however, the eotm progress does not count as world experience, wvw points, glory and such ( I understand the balance motive behind it),but as long as you complete all achievement of this map, what’s residue value of it?

someone might say, “hey, you just been trolling around, you like it just play it, you don’t, just go away.”

I am not trolling really, I have been there and I LOVE the design of eotm, it is a waste to see there is no future of the map ( by far I don’t foresee any of it).

So I suggest, why not making a very rewarding and challenging boss/event at eotm, so that 3 colors can rival each other for that huge reward ( mostly gears ofc). since wvw is pvp, main game is pve, so we can make eotm a pvpve environment right?

well, i’ve just been eotm of one day, so I don’t know it too much. apology ahead, if I made any misunderstandings of the design of eotm.

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Posted by: thaooo.5320

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The only NA servers that are constantly queued are Jade Quarry and Black Gate, aka the 2 super stacked band wagon servers.

The rest of the NA servers get maybe 1 queue for an hour at a certain time, and 2 on a really good day, so being made to “give queuers something to do” is pretty irrelevant, since any server aside from JQ/BG can just join one of the other borderlands….

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Posted by: jessiejay.3625

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It was made to do WvW stlye combat while waiting for long ques to get in.

More likely made for top tier or peak time NA servers that have large WvW playerbase.

Some WvWer`s hate PvE. I dont know why and before EotM; they probably just stood in LA staring at the screen.

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Posted by: Dos.7052

Dos.7052

The only NA servers that are constantly queued are Jade Quarry and Black Gate, aka the 2 super stacked band wagon servers.

The rest of the NA servers get maybe 1 queue for an hour at a certain time, and 2 on a really good day, so being made to “give queuers something to do” is pretty irrelevant, since any server aside from JQ/BG can just join one of the other borderlands….

well, the official statement is “wvw overflow”, if my memory serves my well. but how often wvw are overloaded (all 4 maps), I just dont know.

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Posted by: Dos.7052

Dos.7052

It was made to do WvW stlye combat while waiting for long ques to get in.

More likely made for top tier or peak time NA servers that have large WvW playerbase.

Some WvWer`s hate PvE. I dont know why and before EotM; they probably just stood in LA staring at the screen.

so design a pvpve environment would be lovely, don’t you think? eotm made me recall a lot thing of aion (abyss), in which people fighting for fortress and also for some bosses which have amazing loot. there was always huge fight between two sides for getting those bosses.

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Posted by: Shpongle.6025

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fun, it’s really super fun throwing people off a ledge LOL

Are you Shpongled?

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Posted by: Beorn Raukar.4328

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However, the eotm progress does not count as world experience, wvw points, glory and such

Just so you know, the only thing you cannot earn is score towards your server score since all servers of the same color are piled together. You can still get loot, world xp, ranks, badges, etc. Everything else you would earn in your normal maps you can earn in EoTM.

The design of the EoTM is meant to be a testbed for new mechanics for WvW, since the scores are not changed by this they can add new types of gameplay without affecting standing and seeing if the community likes them. Second, it allows players that would otherwise be waiting in LA to do something. Third, it’s design clearly favors roaming groups because of the large amount of choke points (for now we are still seeing a zerg vs zerg because its the new shiny).

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Posted by: Dos.7052

Dos.7052

fun, it’s really super fun throwing people off a ledge LOL

Great fun if you are warrior, guardian and especially mesmer!

i am just a ranger =/=

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Posted by: Dos.7052

Dos.7052

However, the eotm progress does not count as world experience, wvw points, glory and such

Just so you know, the only thing you cannot earn is score towards your server score since all servers of the same color are piled together. You can still get loot, world xp, ranks, badges, etc. Everything else you would earn in your normal maps you can earn in EoTM.

The design of the EoTM is meant to be a testbed for new mechanics for WvW, since the scores are not changed by this they can add new types of gameplay without affecting standing and seeing if the community likes them. Second, it allows players that would otherwise be waiting in LA to do something. Third, it’s design clearly favors roaming groups because of the large amount of choke points (for now we are still seeing a zerg vs zerg because its the new shiny).

exactly, it is just a mini wvw… but i like your explanation, and i do hope anet make it different from wvw and main game pve.

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Posted by: TomoHawkx.8139

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A lot of servers (both EU and NA) will have queues on most maps once WvW season 2 starts, EoTM counters the queues that lasted up to 3 hours and gives people something enjoyable to do instead of being afk.

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

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contrary to what people here are saying, if you look at the evidence EoTM wasn’t designed for NA/EU, but china. The current population caps wouldn’t be able to handle the amount of WvWers in china.

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Posted by: Minos.5168

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contrary to what people here are saying, if you look at the evidence EoTM wasn’t designed for NA/EU, but china. The current population caps wouldn’t be able to handle the amount of WvWers in china.

Or, it could have been initially conceived a year ago.

I mean, even if you assume that the WvW team could design, texture, and code the thing in 6 months… (while the artists and programmers are also hard at work implementing Gem Store content and Living Story releases)

I’m sure they still did some in-house alpha testing before the invite-only beta last October.

If I had to guess, they’d probably been planning it since the end of 2012 at least.

Yes, I’m sure that it’ll help with China… but they may have initially conceived the idea when there were high wait times on most servers. (Back when there were consistently overflows for most zones.)

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

silvermember.8941

contrary to what people here are saying, if you look at the evidence EoTM wasn’t designed for NA/EU, but china. The current population caps wouldn’t be able to handle the amount of WvWers in china.

Or, it could have been initially conceived a year ago.

I mean, even if you assume that the WvW team could design, texture, and code the thing in 6 months… (while the artists and programmers are also hard at work implementing Gem Store content and Living Story releases)

I’m sure they still did some in-house alpha testing before the invite-only beta last October.

If I had to guess, they’d probably been planning it since the end of 2012 at least.

Yes, I’m sure that it’ll help with China… but they may have initially conceived the idea when there were high wait times on most servers. (Back when there were consistently overflows for most zones.)

I hope you do know that guild wars 2 was always intended to go to China.

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Posted by: Darkoray.4570

Darkoray.4570

Why not have it. Its a very odd world we live in. People complain they want more content then complain when we get it. Its fun, it fixes the problem of queue times. What’s the problem with that?

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

It’s a test map for stuff that might work in the main maps. Anet said so. So now they can make changes in the future and introduce to this map without affecting scores. When they find something that works, they can than make similar changes to the main map.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I can’t think of anything much more useful than that.