Guild Wars 2

Due to the way WvW stat bonuses are handled, it unfairly punishes those who have more time to play more the days following WvW reset. You are significantly tankier after you’ve accrued some WvW bonuses than right after reset. Today FA has a 7% endurance gain boost, 7% more hp, 6% reduced damage from monsters, and 6% healing increase. That all adds up to a much hardier character.

Right after WvW resets, all those bonuses go back to 0%. They reset the same time, every week. This is unfair to those who have more play time directly after WvW reset, as their (and everyone elses) characters are significantly more fragile compared to later, when WvW bonuses have had time to build up.

With raids coming, those who plan to raid around the time after a WvW reset have a major disadvantage compared to those who can before the reset. If raids are as hard as you’ve made them out to be, they might even become activities that are only able to be ran at certain times, and suicidal to even attempt right after reset because of the way WvW bonuses work now.

This not only applies to raids, but also to open world content where survivability is an issue.

How to fix: make WvW bonuses a static bonus that lasts the entire week based on performance of the previous week.

I feel like I’ve made this post before, but with raids coming soon, I felt the need to post it again.

They could remove the WvW bonuses inside the raids if it’s a problem. Make it equal for everyone no matter the server they are on or the time. After all, some servers have higher bonuses than others and those people get the benefit, so not all members of a raid are equal.

How to fix: Make WvW bonuses WvW only. For PvE, a similar static bonus should be applied to all players.

There is absolutely no reason to have different PvE bonuses depending on some arbitrary server choice.

Wow, someone remembered we HAVE those WvW bonuses o_0 (I play lots of WvW, and even I usually forget those...)

While in principle, I like the idea that WvW’ers get their own bonuses, it is probably even worse to have a "semi-competitive" mode with PvP have advantages over each others, especially considering how those bonuses are acquired (them numbers!). That will just make it a few percentages easier for the winning severs to beat up the losing ones.

PvP and bonuses are tricky stuff!

All players on a server have been enjoying those Power of the Mists bonuses since launch whether they played WvW or not yet there was a great outcry to do things like remove WvW maps from map completion. I would rather those bonuses get removed completely because players who do not play in WvW have been benefiting off them without having to put their own time into WvW. It’s been like free money.

never understood why they needed to put in such bonuses… should instead reward people after every week’s reset based on their standings that week

joneirikb.7506:

PvP and bonuses are tricky stuff!

yeah, but wvw isn’t pvp.

btw i agree.

its hard to balance a 300v300v300, and they add ascended equipment, food, oil, infusions, wvw bonus… i think everybody knew it was going to be “never” balanced, but still… i don’t get why have to put some more things which could be different.

Please please don’t remove these.

I love that impact of WvW onto the PvE game. I loved the relics in DAoC, too. It’s what motivates me to go into WvW, make the week better for everyone else.

I think they should boost these bonuses and have it based on your contribution to your server for the week…so pve only gets 0 and wvw/pve gets more boost might bring in some new faces

I forgot the WvW bonuses existed. Yeah, I think it should just be removed. In return, WvWers should get better rewards (which they deserved anyway).

On a similar topic, combat boosters should be removed from the game entirely. Just swap the ones we already have with enchanted reward boosters.

Please just no.

XxsdgxX.8109:

Please just no.

Would you care to explain why?

Do you think it is fair that I get better PvE bonuses just because

(1) I have the money to change to a better server and
(2) I have the time to raid before WvW reset?

Lol why remove guard stacks but leave this there, what’s worse is it creates a snowball effect lol anet logic.

Zackie.8923:

never understood why they needed to put in such bonuses… should instead reward people after every week’s reset based on their standings that week

We already have server stacking, just like the tournaments, they’re won before it’s even begun. Now we’d just see those stacked servers push every week.