Guild Wars 2

Seriously, other than the title, this is a Constructive Criticism to anet.

1. PvP Ranked- I’ve disconnected 3 times in 3 matches, costing people in my team 1 pip. I don’t see why there couldn’t be a system where my team WILL NOT LOSE PIPS if they lose with one disconnected teammate. Makes me feel like dirt and defeats the purpose of playing for all parties.

2. WvW- Question: WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM WITH ALPINE BORDERLANDS?!
(Anet Employer thinks to himself: Nothing?) EXACTLY!

There was no need to add something new and bigger for the sake of marketing and advertising. “Wow new big map, buy our game now!”
All the problems like night-capping, blobbing, dispropotionate populations still persist despite WvW changes.
You only added new problems: Auto-upgrade- making it difficult to cap keeps and towers EVEN WHEN UNDEFENDED, what’s the point of capturing or doing WvW when there are no other player’s around. WE just spend over and hour capping a fortified keep without a Player in sight. Might as well do a PVE event in ACTUAL PVE!

You need to remove Auto-Upgrades, and make players have to upgrade again, and JUST MAKE IT FREE. That’s all you had to do.

And bring Alpine back, and IMPROVE UPON IT. What you should have done is incrementally over time improve on Alpine borderlands I.E. New keeps(Fire/earth/air), Camp NPC changes, etc WITHIN ALPINE BL.

This would have saved you much more resources managing small changes over a long period of time. Rather than wasting soo much more resource and energy for Desert Bordelands and messing up completely. As Colin said, the scope of WvW when HoT launched was WAY BEYOND the scope of intention, and didn’t work out at all.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/10256/Heart-of-Thorns-One-Week-In-with-Colin-Johanson.html

3. Raiding- Gear Exclusivity. I’ve never been so disgusted being not allowed into a raid just because I don’t have ascended gear. This game is skilled based, this directly conflicts with your philosophy.

Not to mention this is worse than WoW Trinity exclusivity when you can’t play or forced to play Tank/DPS/Healer. I WANT TO PLAY YOUR GAME. I"ve got all ascended trinkets, and crafted my own armor and weapons exotic and bought runes with an optimal build for all bosses in the first wing of the Raid. Yet I get rejected because not ALL MY GEAR IS ASCENDED?!

Propagating this mentally is horrible for the game and again, directly conflicts with your philosophy as a SKILL-BASED game. People should not be excluded for not having 3% less of damage potential, that’s ridiculous.