Guild Wars 2

I’m sure people will flame me for this but its an opinion I had ever since I started doing map completion to 100% so I can one day work on my legendary/ies. WvW really shouldnt be a part of the 100% needed for the completion, the achievement, the title, and other rewards that come with it.

As a 99.9% PvE player being forced to go into WvW daily to see if certain places are available it kind of destroys the desire to complete maps. In PvE if theres a place contested its not going to take the next cycle of WvW lineups to possibly clear. If your trying to get to certain places in enemy territory people arent going to just “give up” the chase halfway through like PvE mobs. Those WvW’ers are going to hunt you down and they will kill you.

Now I do see some pros to it and I will list both pros and cons to the WvW in map completion:

Pros:
-Will draw players into WvW that may not choose to normally.
-Forces companionship (to those who want it) to get to hard to reach areas with help.
-Makes people spread out in WvW.

Cons:
-Can scare casual players like myself away from the achievement.
-Forces companionship (those who DON’T want it) to get to hard to reach areas with help.
-In enemy territory its going to be harder than the 80 zones to get max completion.
-It’s literally doing the same hearts, skill points, POI’s and Vistas, 3x in a row. This is because the three borderlands are the same exact style. (This is a whole other issue but one i feel needs crediting in the cons. Make the three zones DIFFERENT ANET!)

tl:dr: Make WvW not a part of the World COmpletion!

I agree with you, and I’ve stated this myself many times. My personal opinion is that they should have different map completions. The large center completion being Tyrian Map Completion, and as they add new territories there would be smaller badges added off to the side for completion of new content. One of these could be Mists map completion, this could mean WvW, PvP, and Fractals any Waypoints or PoI’s would be rolled into that 1 completion. This way players who are not into PvP or, like me, couldn’t do WvW because of their computer’s limited abilities can still get map completion, but at the same time they do not need to completely remove the stuff they already have set in place.

Make PvE not part of World Completion. I don’t want to have to complete the PvE maps for it. I would like to just get my completion in WvW without having to set foot into PvE.

It’s meant to be a challenge – that’s why half of the completion is in WvW – it wouldn’t be a legendary weapon if there wasn’t a challenge & I’m sure if map completion wasn’t half based in WvW – everyone would have the map completion title, which heaven forbid that happen

I want to point out that every legendary weapon requires 500 WvW badges. I wanted to also share what I did to clear the WvW maps.

When I had WvW left I checked every day if the areas I needed are open to visit, or I got some friends with me to attack that place so I could get the Vista or Point of Interest. When I couldn’t reach those places that day I did something else I enjoyed like a dungeon, jumping puzzle or lvling an alt, and hoped that tomorrow it might be free.

The sense of excitement when some place was free, and me rushing there to get it was fun. I enjoyed that. The day when I finally cleared all WvW I felt a great sense of personal achievement. Me and my friends did a jumping puzzle to celebrate.

It is at times annoying to complete the WvW maps, I’ve been there, but I think they shouldn’t change anything about getting the World Map Completion.

WvW shouldn’t be part of world completion, because it’s in the Mists, and therefore not part of the WORLD. PoIs in dungeons, on the other hand…
Seriously, I don’t get why any serious WvWer would argue in favour of encouraging PvEers to fill up the maps.

Since Legendaries need WvW badges anyhow, there is no use in removing the completion part.

Not only that, but what is the actual issue with it? It takes a few weeks to get all, but given the scope of a Legendary that’s tiny.

I have 3 characters with 100% world completion, and yes, getting WvW was a bit of a hassle. But in general it requires nothing more than a bit of patience. I got one of my 100% completion when world transfer was still free, so that one doesn’t really count. For the other two I just collected the points that I could get to at that very moment and checked every week if my world had switched sides in the WvW setup. Now with the new match-up it’s even easier, since your world will most likely switch colors more often.

I have EIGHT characters with world completion, and I WvW every day. It wasn’t difficult to map the areas, and it was only slightly annoying. My issue is that there’s no reason for it to be there and I would like to see pointless aspects of PvE removed from what ought to be a primarily PvP area.

It’s annoying. I despise that I need 500 badges and need WvW maps for my legendary. I agree that it shouldn’t be apart of it. I find it much more fun grinding for t6 mats than getting WvW maps complete.