Guild Wars 2

I sense a upcoming problem that many servers will have.

the new map is Borderland. What this mean, is that many of the smaller population servers that have a hard time fulling up EB will have a harder time getting people into Borderland especially when its split up into 3 maps already.

I suggest that the Developers merge all three Borderlands into a single map.

To go deeper into this, I say Merge Servers.

Note: this is for smaller servers, you can leave the Top Servers as they currently are.

What i really hope is one, gigantic and massive map, like ESO… make that in the new Borderland style (vertical, with traps, real choke points to control, etc) and we’ll have the best WvW in the world.

My understanding is that the new borderland will rotate with the current borderlands. This means there will be a mirror image of 3 borderlands (new OR old maps) and the amount of playable maps in WvW will remain the same.

There will likely come a day where a new borderland will be introduced after this one and each server borderland will have its own unique map.

I also think it would be fun to merge onto one massive map, but restrictions and lag say otherwise.

Merging all 3 borders would mean we’re one map short, ie disaster for high pop servers filling all the borders.

Personally I think that this new map should just replace the border of the server with the lowest glicko in the matchup. Call it a free handicap. The lowest server should never have to defend a home border.

As Dhemize said, I was under the impression that the new borderlands will rotate in with the current ones so there will still be only 4 maps available at any one time.

That said, I do feel they need to make WvW viable for huge population differences, though I’m not sure merging servers is the answer. Some people actually like the smaller scale battles that the lower tiers provide.

Didn’t Anet say they were working on some big change to the WvW server system anyways and they wanted feedback as to what to do?

Knighthonor.4061:

I sense a upcoming problem that many servers will have.

the new map is Borderland. What this mean, is that many of the smaller population servers that have a hard time fulling up EB will have a harder time getting people into Borderland especially when its split up into 3 maps already.

I suggest that the Developers merge all three Borderlands into a single map.

To go deeper into this, I say Merge Servers.

Note: this is for smaller servers, you can leave the Top Servers as they currently are.

I know that it would please some people that they merge server, but actually, the whole issue is elsewhere. I’m talking from an EU server perspective so it may be different in NA but, right now and since almost 1 year the real issue is that there is 1 overpopulated server, some very populated servers and underpopulated servers.

Just to say it, in EU, there is so many people on 1 server that it affect directly EotM. Whatever the color of this server, EotM will be owned by this color for the whole week. (Note that I choose not to say what server it is, but most EU people will recognize it).

People want to be on the winning side, sadly merging underpopulated server won’t do any good. Forcefully move player won’t either. The fact is that it affect only wvw. We could imagine Anet asking for player QQing about queue for WvW to move but they won’t because they just wanna win.

The real issue is not a lack of people wanting to play wvw, it’s a lack of people ready to risk themselves on a bottomline server. (well afterall it’s so easy to grab the first place prize while not even able to enter a borderline due to queue and being stuck in EotM).

Gaaroth.2567:

What i really hope is one, gigantic and massive map, like ESO… make that in the new Borderland style (vertical, with traps, real choke points to control, etc) and we’ll have the best WvW in the world.

This.