Guild Wars 2

Hi All. This is Taleel Oknarn of Crystal Desert for those of you who don’t recognize my account name. I have read a few comments under this topic and I can attest to the fact that I saw many hardcore WVW players in the stress test. I myself have spent 99% of my time in WVW, with only 1 percent in PVE and that is only when I HAVE to for guild missions and such. K, on to my map impressions.

The new map is beautiful and well thought out. Love the diversity of the keeps and towers and the many hiding places for a Mesmer to hang. But it is way too large. I was only able to explore about 75% of it in the 4 hours allotted to the test. And there is so much packed into it. It feels like WVW in a PVE map. Of all the towers and keeps I saw I think the NW tower was my favorite. Probably because it felt most like a tower in the fact that I new where it began and ended. I think I will need to spend at least a week in each keep to figure out where the keep starts and the outside begins. I feel it will make defending difficult or at the least, challenging to find where the attackers are trying to get in. I am happy to see that the keep lords are much harder to bring down especially since it will take a considerable amount of time to get any sort of force to respond to a call halfway across map. I think the tower lords need just a bit more toughening up due to the same reason. As far as the camps are concerned, they are still solo able as long as they haven’t upgraded and you are smart about it. Nice to have faster Dolyaks too.

All in all, I’m looking forward to playing this map and figuring out all the nuances it will bring to WVW. My only misgivings about it really is the sheer size of everything.

Taleel