Guild Wars 2

The first thing everyone realises when they reach Orr is that travel is a nightmare because most of the WPs are always contested. Almost without exception, these WPs are left that way, sometimes for hours on end and people make their way around the map on foot, often with a train of Risen behind them. Some of these events aren’t done simply because they are too hard, or take too long, to solo and there’s rarely a group around to help out. Clearly, travel is not incentive enough.

There needs to be a real incentive for players to fight for these WPs, and some of the events should be adjusted, not just in their frequency, but also to reflect the fact that they really aren’t “Events” but “Group Events”.

I’m not talking about loot (although more loot is always welcomed, especially if it gets people to venture away from the Temples and Pen/Shelt now and then). What I am talking about is maybe something more akin to the buffs we get from WvW, perhaps a MF/Gold Find buff for each open WP with an added bonus for having all WPs clear that is applied to everybody on the map (or everybody in Orr).

This could really make Orr “come alive” if done properly and turn a ho-hum region into a place that we’re actively fighting a war. We’re supposed to be invading the place, right? Well why are we just running around?

Each map in Orr could include one huge Meta Event that consists of capturing every WP, giving everyone a bonus to MF, and then the Temple events unlock. Once both Temples and all WPs are secure, and after a certain period of time, the map is attacked by a World Event boss which acts as a diversion as the Risen move in and re-take all the camps (each WP taken by the Risen reduce the MF buff until it resets at 0).

That’s the gist of it. Make Orr more interesting by giving us a reason to do the events that block WP travel. I’m sure this could be improved upon.

That means every WP would be contested all the time because everyone is in Blazeridge Steppes, Queensdale, Frostgorge Sound or Sparkfly Fen.

The game is doomed.

Hi, I love the buff idea! The less “Influence” Zhaitans minions have on the city, the more buffs, us, Tyrians would get. However, I believe you could be mistaken on the WP issue or you play a extremly low populated server. If you didnt know, when your in LA Overflow, the server has no way to tell your home server, thus any WP that is possible to be contested, will appear contested until you move to a map on your home server.