Guild Wars 2

When I log in to WvW, that’s what I’m in the mood for. Getting into a Queue that could last a few minutes or a few hours puts me in a weird situation:

1. I can stand around and wait
2. I can stand around and wait using some superstitious technique (I know Queue times are shorter if I’m in Black Citadel, next to a female charr NPC, facing north & dancing.).
3. Work on clearing a map
4. Run a dungeon with my guildies
5. Do some hot-join
6. Anything other than WvW

None of those things are WvW and any that have to do with other humans (dungeons, hot-join) I risk skipping out on as soon as the Travel option shows up.

So what if everyone who was Queued for WvW got thrown into one of the BL maps or into EB, randomly assigned into three teams. You could advance your WvW accomplishments but obviously, the points wouldn’t count for anything as it would be an overflow map of WvW.

That way, when you get the Travel option, you hop onto your selected map for real WvW already in the fighting spirit.

You could make it even better and throw us all into a randomly picked racial city w/ safe areas for all three teams. That’d be funny, fighting it out in Divinity’s reach… or dump us all into LA and let us fight each other.

Give us the option to WvW, even if it’s in Queue, while we wait to WvW. Does the community support the idea?

o m g You are advocating WvW for the sheer fun of the game with no impact on score! You forget something. What happens when no one wants to leave the que? Ok, ok, more constructively. What if the opposing players have no one in a quene and hence no one in the overflow?

Baladir.2736:

o m g You are advocating WvW for the sheer fun of the game with no impact on score! You forget something. What happens when no one wants to leave the que? Ok, ok, more constructively. What if the opposing players have no one in a quene and hence no one in the overflow?

This would be a game wide queue, so you would be pulling from every single player queued for WvW from all servers and randomly throwing them together into three teams. If there are 100 players queued, that’s three teams of 33 and one player get’s cut into thirds… (can’t be imbalanced!).

You would probably want to have the option to queue normally or go duke it out and the system would need to be balancing itself (like it can do in hot-join) to make sure the teams stayed even(ish).

I like that if the idea is taken one step futher. How about numbering the overflow servers much like the sPvP servers are numbered in the Mists? A player or team of players could have an option to pick an overflow server.

The rewards are significant. Individuals and groups from as small as a squad or guild to as large as an alliance could square off for a few hours just for the sheer competitive fun of it all. The player who is waiting for his server’s battleground quene to open up has something to do. A funtionality for an even paring of players, regardless of the time of day, is created. Finally, the system would allow groupings of players from any servers to play Wvw together.