Guild Wars 2

I don’t understand why WvW is necessary for map completion. To be honest, I think it’s really stupid and here’s why:

• WvW is PvP with some PvE. Seems ridiculous to need to do PvP for a PvE accomplishment, especially when another player can kill me when trying to get a vista, POI, or skill point.

• It’s bad for PvE-ers because most players who mostly play PvE content don’t want to have to do something in WvW. If a PvE player wanted to do WvW, they’ll do it casually on their own time.

• It’s bad for WvW players because it’s taking up queue times and spaces for servers who actually need players to help attack/defend places.

• It’s horrible that there’s vistas and POIs INSIDE keeps and such that are likely owned by your enemies. This is horrible. Sure, it encourages you to try to take that keep, but neither taking a keep by yourself or managing to get people to help you take a keep are realistic solutions.

• Since my server is ranked #1 (Blackgate), we’ve been green for a few weeks now. This means that many of the red/blue keeps and such are pre-owned by those servers and will remain that way for a majority of the time. On the off-chance that we do own these keeps, I’m usually not online. So this means I will have to wait several weeks (maybe even months) to get into these necessary keeps.

The only thing that I see positive about this is Anet’s attempt to encourage PvE-ers to play WvW, which I honestly don’t even think that works well because if they’re just there for the map completion, that’s all they’ll be trying to do. Please consider removing these waypoints, POIs, vistas, and skill challenges from the required map completion.

• Map completion for WvW yields WvW items.

• World completion yields two items for your legendary. The legendaries require 500 of another item which can be obtained only in WvW.

Unless you have all of the components for your legendary waiting, what’s the rush?

Having just accomplished 100%, I can say I don’t have problems with integrating WvW into the mix. I am primarily a PvE player. For one, WvW is supposed to be a PvE/PvP area. Yes, you will run into other people (gasp)…that wanna melt your face (gasp), but the premise is subjectively PvE. Plus, WvW is a large part of the game whether you like it or not. The only problem that I did have with it was that you literally have to wait to get some spots of the WvW map, sometimes for weeks being as they’re closed off from contest.

Hi everyone,

Devon Carver stated that they are looking into making the W3 colors change not only based on your score, so servers could have different starting positions. This would, in turn, help with the W3 completion problems.

So far we have no further news about this idea, but it is being looked into. As soon as we have something to forward to you we will. Please, have a little patience. Keep an eye on the W3 forums.

Thanks for your understanding.
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