Guild Wars 2

So the WvW Borderland preview trailer ran through during the ESL Championship at PAX East.

Edit: http://youtu.be/FmHF_YbUKKA (at least until A.Net does a better quality one)

What is everyone’s thoughts on this new addition to WvW?

Mine are that it is interesting to say the least. They for sure expanded on their “verticality” push that they’ve done with PvE (and lesser extent, the revamped Borderland lakes currently in the game).

The map mechanics that they’ve added into the game seem interesting, but might become annoying or trivial with constant participation. I’m referring to the part showing the bridge that players are trying to cross as dragon statues blow breath and knock them over the edge (wonder if it’s triggered similar to the EB jumping puzzle’s dragon statues that burn players while breathing fire?)

There is a large tower with several levels sitting on top of a huge bluff with long paths of zig-zag stairways up to it. A choke point to say the least that will become a true nightmare filled with arrowcarts along the way.

The map itself looks HUGE. Like 1.5-2x the the size of a regular Borderland. The dry canyon, the lush oasis, the burning ghost area (?), it all seems so massive!

So the classes I see at dominating this with specific mechanics:

-Necromancers (fear)

-Elementalists (blowbacks, push backs, twister, summoned hammer, etc).

-Mesmers (mass AOE pull off cliff?)

-Engineer (Big bomb, magnet, etc)

-Guardian (bubble push off a cliff)

I think this map will also bring resurgence of the “Portal zerg” that Mesmers were once constantly utilized for. Fear the solo Mesmer that runs headfirst towards you up the stairs, as once the portal opens up there will be a swarm of 50 or so people rushing through.

Siphaed.9235:

The map itself looks HUGE. Like 1.5-2x the the size of a regular Borderland. The dry canyon, the lush oasis, the burning ghost area (?), it all seems so massive

Its probably going to be the exact same size. The reason it looks “huge” is the same reason why EoTM looks huge compared to a border – far better design. Current borderlands are incredibly simplistic, consisting of only 2 flat terrain levels. Wouldnt surprise me the slightest if this new border is actually smaller in size than current maps.

Too many cuts in the scenes. Was trying to see all the images but it kept fading to black so many times >_< why can’t the video just be 100% image and not fade-to-black-screen-for-dramatic-effect? It makes me unable to enjoy watching all the new stuff.

When they were showing snippets of the New WvW borderland in the original HoT trailer, they didn’t fade to black, thus I was able to enjoy seeing said new content.

My thoughts: annoying to watch with all the fading-to-black-screen bits.

Edit: Just counted them all. 10 fade-to-blacks and 1 fade-to-white. No wonder I couldn’t enjoy watching it.

Trailer wasnt very well done, looks incredibly rushed. Map looks some what interesting but we didn’t get to see the cool features like lava pools and such.

Honestly, some of the siege looked ‘fake’ which makes me wonder if this is just going to end up being another EotM style overflow type map. If it is, and it waters down the active WvW population further, I’m going to be quite disappointed.

Hopefully they’ll release more information over the coming weeks.