Guild Wars 2

So, just finished my personal story and explored 90%+ of the entire world. I was wondering, how am I able to to explore WvW maps when 3 out of 4 maps are totally controlled by another servers?

By the way story was great and ARAH was EPIC!

You gotta hang in there and help out your server in wvw. It is a difficult task to get the wvw maps done but you gotta be patent. I really dislike the idea of making players do this since a bandwagon server shuts the chance of the other 2 servers players to get 100%. Which in other words forces you to transfer to a server where they control everythin in WvW to get your 100% done.

Gratz on Arah! I still have to do mine, but helped a guildmate do this during the holidays. Yup, very epic …

For 100% world, best to do the borderland maps just after the servers reset on Friday nights / Saturday mornings, depending on your timezone. Try to get as many poi’s, vistas, etc. as you can, then wait for a week and hope your server does better and shifts to another map

To finish mine, I had to transfer to another server for the last map. Now, this will cost you gems since guesting won’t let you into wvw ..

Your WvW home-map changes based upon the “color” of your team. You dont’ realize the home-map changes because it looks like everybody else’s home-map.

Essentially each time your team color changes, you’re on a new home-map and can explore some of the points “safely”.

If you are lucky your server will rotate through the red, blue, and green maps in the span of three weeks. You still need to visit all three maps each week, including the eternal battlegrounds.

Your best bet is to try to get on quickly after the servers change what map you own for WvW before they get captured. But it is still pretty hard. :/ Just gotta stick with it and check back often or participate quite a bit.

Biggest issue I had with participating, was when I needed like 2 little spots left in the corners, no fights or anything ever even gravitated towards those areas. :S Was kinda annoying.

Eventually I just broke bad and beelined towards the areas I last needed and said screw helping. I’m not sure if this mentality is what ANet wanted or not, but it sure seems to bring it, with exploration and jumping puzzles.

Start getting vistas and pois now, as fast as you can, today ratings will reset, so now’s your best shot in getting all four maps in the span of a month or so.

Actually, Green = 1st, blue = 2nd, red = 3rd at the start of the match. So either you can try and help your team go to the next level (I’m assuming you’re in red or blue level) so you’ll be switched to a different map. For EB, that’s a diff case >.>

Hopefully, your server gets partnered with servers that are of the same level as you are, so you can get an even match. If all else fails, grab a team of 5, and ninja-flip the places you need.

WvW should never have been a part of map completion. It doesn’t fit with Anet’s play it your way philosophy and I don’t understand how it found its way into the game. It should simply be open world PvE.

penatbater.4710:

Actually, Green = 1st, blue = 2nd, red = 3rd at the start of the match. So either you can try and help your team go to the next level (I’m assuming you’re in red or blue level) so you’ll be switched to a different map. For EB, that’s a diff case >.>

Hopefully, your server gets partnered with servers that are of the same level as you are, so you can get an even match. If all else fails, grab a team of 5, and ninja-flip the places you need.

haha, so that explains the “rotation”. I have to say it’s a bad system due to the map exploration goals in WvW. How do you “help” your server come in 3rd so you can be red next week?

It should be more of a true rotation — granted it can’t always be red-green-blue because you have three teams rotating through matchs, but it could be close.

juno.1840:

penatbater.4710:

Actually, Green = 1st, blue = 2nd, red = 3rd at the start of the match. So either you can try and help your team go to the next level (I’m assuming you’re in red or blue level) so you’ll be switched to a different map. For EB, that’s a diff case >.>

Hopefully, your server gets partnered with servers that are of the same level as you are, so you can get an even match. If all else fails, grab a team of 5, and ninja-flip the places you need.

haha, so that explains the “rotation”. I have to say it’s a bad system due to the map exploration goals in WvW. How do you “help” your server come in 3rd so you can be red next week?

It should be more of a true rotation — granted it can’t always be red-green-blue because you have three teams rotating through matchs, but it could be close.

Honestly, I wish they’d make the colors random to give a chance for other people who just want their 100% completions done. Like, if this week you guys are green, regardless of standing, next week you’ll be blue or something.

I have said this in another thread and agree with others here…. please rotate the colors randomly.
Some servers rarely, if ever, change colors. I have seen one color change since Beta. Now that world transfers are very costly, people won’t have that option. I thought it was cheesy to transfer just to finish World Completion so I didn’t do it.
Now I wish I had. It’s all I have left to finish out the acheivement and I’ve gotten about 50% of WvW maps done. The rest…. well …. I don’t know if it will get done without a forced color change.
You guys think one of those ruminent potions will work long enough to get a poi? I mean who would suspect an innocent deer walking up to the poi right?