Feel free to add your thoughts about your favorite Aspect of the game and why, it may help convince someone to try something new.
I decided to make a little post about WvW since it’s my favorite aspect of the game although it’s the most frustrating. I really feel it’s way to easy to snowball and once you lose all your points there is no point in continuing unless you like spending gold on repairing your gear since the base spawn area doesn’t have any supply set up, nor does it allow siege weapons to be set up on the walls so that we can return fire without getting zerged with say, 3 Trebs, multiple catapults, and ballistas/arrowcarts galore.
The low factor of making it possible to at least put up an interesting counter attack isn’t even very viable if you run out of money.
It was extremely demoralizing having to run to other borderlands to try to ninja out supplies and running head into 30v1 odds just to get supplies to try to build a catapult on Eternal only to find out I have no where to put it because it gets destroyed before it can be fully built due to the zoning issue.
There also isn’t an incentive to stay in the base and defend because of the imaginary boundary around it. The greater cost of this sort of thing happening is people just leaving and go back to leveling since they don’t have to worry about losing access to that battle ground anymore. Which gives us less numbers and makes it even LESS likely to be able to pull off a counter attack and take back anything.
A depressing cycle considering that it’s my favorite mode to play.
Please note, I don’t mind losing, I don’t mind repairing my gear, but I do dislike having any real fighting chance of turning things around to make people want to stick it out. It shouldn’t just turn into a giant dance battle with both teams staring at each other waiting for the server to reset.
Someone told me after I mentioned it to them that WvW will be set up for being month long sessions at a later point in time? While that is great, I really hope the mode moves away from throw gold at it and you win with numbers and become more strategy based.
It’s already engaging and entertaining. Heck, the other day defending the castle for about an hour was one of the most fun I’ve had in the whole game period in a long time.
WvW is great because it makes players feel like they have something at stake, which isn’t really present for me in the Arena. Plus working with other people whom I’ve never met towards the same goal is emboldening and bolsters my pride in my server even if we aren’t first. As long as we do our best and have fun trying to win I’m happy.
I had always thought I was a pve person except when it came to League, but GW2 really surprised me by making me want to go and kill people. I usually don’t speak to people I don’t know in a game, and the random explosions of emotions are a new change of pace. So WvW makes me really conflicted but I hope things balance out to give us non WvW, PvP servers a chance to at least enjoy losing. Being on the easy win side doesn’t mean you’re having the most fun, and visa versa.
We should all have fun in the blood bath.
P.S. I’m only level 37 (I think) And I know I’ve gotten about 7-8 of my levels just from WvW. But I don’t know if I feel this way just because I’m still so low in level or not. But I also don’t really bump into people significantly higher level than me in pvp on my side anyway, either. So I have no idea how higher levels feel about WvW, but would be eager to hear.