Guild Wars 2

Start in lions arch, hit M for map, and see the 3 red X’s – one of those is the festive lionguard

you are taken to the MOST GORGEOUS pvp map ive ever seen.

You get to choose one of the classes from the snowman – support, heavy combat, or scout. All are amazing concepts with neat toys, and really make this map fun to fight on.

Unfortunately, there are achievements to this map.

I prefer scout for a few reasons -

- super powerful sniper shot if you hold down 4 button long enough!!!
– stealth
– you can SNIPE from stealth
– you can carry the Gift with stealth!!

So, gifts – at the center of the map is a gift that spawns. carry it back to your camp for 100 of 500 points needed to ‘win’. i put quotes around ‘win’ for reasons ill get to now:

So what did arena net do with this amazing map and amazing classes?

1) Wins count for absolutely nothing at all
2) Kills count for absolutely nothing at all

Yeah

So the achievements:

- you need 5 gift captures. Grab a swiftness potion thats right outside spawn, grab gift, stealth, score. this one took about 30 minutes to get all 5.

- you need 5 kills of the enemy flag carrier

This one is preposterous. You have to land the killing blow, which introduces a lot of issues

- You want your team to lose. capping gifts just prevents you from killing the enemy
– You want to let anyone on your team who has flag die asap. never help your teammates
– You want to pick up the gift, and run to the wrong base, and hand it to an enemy. then you kill them, especially if youre a scout who dropped it 2 feet from a guy, stealthed, and sniped him as he grabbed it
– If you do 99 pct damage, then some else gets the last shot, no credit
– *If you get the guy down to 1 pct health and he hits tilde to drop package, you get no credit* ( i am reporting people for this as preventing another player from accomplishing an achieve is bannable, not to mention they just patched this same issue in wvw on friday. i heard the excuse ’ i dropped it to fight back’. You were at 5 percent health, there were 4 of us attacking you, I disbelieve and rolled a 17 on d20)

just super, thanks anet. a pvp map designed specifically to encourage LOSING. Again, its not even a contest – WINS AND KILLS GIVE NO REWARDS.

also, when you down a player, NEVER finish them off, contrary to all common sense. it just helps them respawn a ton faster, right at the gift drop off, probably screwing over your teammates who are camping it to get this achievement

This concludes the premiere installment of Screng’s Angry Guides.

Screng[WAR]
www.yaksbend.com

I wholeheartedly agree. This game is so incredibly fun but it gives absolutely no rewards if you play for the team and for the win. Quick example: a team mate is running to our base, 15m away from dropping the gift and he is low on hp. An enemy is running right behind him and is about to kill him. I am next to them and have 2 choices:

A) I make the enemy slip with the 3rd skill of the supporter class and help my buddy and my team and get NOTHING for it.
B) I wait for the enemy to knock down my team mate, then slip him and try to bring the gift alone, hoping that the enemy guy wont stop me somehow because I have no skills while carrying the gift (and hoping that one of my team mates will do option A for me…).

I always go for A. I rarely lose games but have nothing to show for it.
Otherwise, brilliant game.