Guild Wars 2

While Desert Border Land is not my favorite map it is quite beautiful and I would hate for it to be scrapped. So with some tweaks I think it could function as a second EBG

This would alleviate the Queue problems in heavily populated servers as now we have 3 border land maps, and 2 balanced maps to fight over

Tweaks would need to be made to DBL. Pretty much placing the lower spawns closer to the left and right keeps. Also a Stone mist style castle could be placed in the oasis in the center

What do you guys think?

It’s not going to be scrapped. It’s going to rotate in and out with Alpine. They are not doing away with it.

At least that is the last I read about it.

It is large enough that you could drop a center keep in the Oasis though. It would make a good three sided map. If in doubt on distances then just give whoever is ranked number #1 the farthest run to that central keep.

Kanebrake.6192:

It’s not going to be scrapped. It’s going to rotate in and out with Alpine. They are not doing away with it.

At least that is the last I read about it.

That is what Ive heard too but i dont think it is a good solution to using the map. If the 2 borderlands rotate then people who dislike dbl will only play on alpine weeks and vice versa. Anet would only need to balance so each spawn is equal in distance to the nearby towers and keeps.

sendaf.8375:

Kanebrake.6192:

It’s not going to be scrapped. It’s going to rotate in and out with Alpine. They are not doing away with it.

At least that is the last I read about it.

That is what Ive heard too but i dont think it is a good solution to using the map. If the 2 borderlands rotate then people who dislike dbl will only play on alpine weeks and vice versa. Anet would only need to balance so each spawn is equal in distance to the nearby towers and keeps.

or have 4 unique maps as others have posted. All maps in play all the time then.

I don’t think that people won’t play on DBL weeks, they’ll just go someplace else while waiting out the EB queue.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

I don’t think that people won’t play on DBL weeks, they’ll just go someplace else while waiting out the EB queue.

Hey said it before, you don’t queue for EB on ABL weeks and we won’t queue for EB on DBL weeks and all is good.

or give us 4 distinct maps and we all have fall over options.

well i’m gonna queue EBG on Alpine weeks so here’s already one not playing it :-)

Until the rotation is up then i might reconsider, but i don’t like to play with blockheads.