Blessing WvW
Nobody said “Yay, there are toxic offshoots in WvW”. All I heard was “Get this PVE <insert curse here> out of WvW.
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Well, i agree that most of the keeps seem the same. I would vote for any improvement in enviroment asthetics but linking PvE to WvW? NO sir.
WvW is a different way to PvP. You take advantage of PvE enviroment to create larger scale combats and PvP. In mi opinion WvW is a mix between raw PvP balanced&fair combat and PvE enviroment importance (keeps, towers, siege support, importance of tactics within the enviroment…)
For me WvW is an all in one PvP system.
Nobody said “Yay, there are toxic offshoots in WvW”. All I heard was "Get this PVE <insert curse here> out of WvW.
What about a way to positively link PVE and WvW performance?
What if there was a statue to each god in the keeps (and maybe towers) of WvW. If when the temple in PVE was PACT controlled, touching the statue would confer a boon whose intensity or duration was scaled to the influence of the server in the current WvW match? And that same boon was available in the PVE versions of the statues.
But don’t touch them when the temples are not PACT owned, and the statues have a dark brooding presence.
Say what?? You correctly state that just about everyone wants PvE out of WvW, but then you propose a system where PvE and WvW are not only much more tightly and intensely linked, but is also dependent upon players who couldn’t give a rat’s about WvW??? That’s illogical beyond human comprehension. It’s like saying that the number of points the Spurs get for free throws in their game against the Warriors should be dependent upon how many fouls the Clippers have made in their game against the Bulls.
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Nobody said “Yay, there are toxic offshoots in WvW”. All I heard was "Get this PVE <insert curse here> out of WvW.
What about a way to positively link PVE and WvW performance?
What if there was a statue to each god in the keeps (and maybe towers) of WvW. If when the temple in PVE was PACT controlled, touching the statue would confer a boon whose intensity or duration was scaled to the influence of the server in the current WvW match? And that same boon was available in the PVE versions of the statues.
But don’t touch them when the temples are not PACT owned, and the statues have a dark brooding presence.
It sounds like a good idea in theory (let the PvE community contribute towards WvW, as the server enjoys the bonuses WvW grants them); but in practice this is just going to heap more benes onto BG and TC LOL.
Say what?? You correctly state that just about everyone wants PvE out of WvW, but then you propose a system where PvE and WvW are not only much more tightly and intensely linked, but is also dependent upon players who couldn’t give a rat’s about WvW???
Actually what I was trying to say was that nobody welcomed it. It was a negative add, not a positive add.
I doubt that anything would make the hardcore PVP player of WVW care anything about what happens in PVE. What I’d be after is something that might make PVE players aware of WVW. In a positive way.
It’s nice that OP is giving some constructive thoughts to this but, I play WvW to WvW, if I wanted to PvE they have several zones I could do this in.
It sounds like a good idea in theory (let the PvE community contribute towards WvW, as the server enjoys the bonuses WvW grants them); but in practice this is just going to heap more benes onto BG and TC LOL.
Yeah… true. Servers with the population will have the ability to have that blessing unlocked forever.
Forget this random thought as a bad idea.
Maybe it should stay in PVE land… so that PVE players benefit from their server’s WVW status, but WVW does not suffer from PVE player apathy.
Or maybe such blessing could be limited to some aspect that does not impact WVW performance, but is limited to maybe… MF, gold, XP and Karma (not WXP)?
What I’m saying is… bless it, don’t curse it.
Before discussing how we can link PvE and WvW, I’d ask “Why should there be a link between PvE and WvW?”.
Give us as a community some compelling reasons that this is a good idea, something that would add to both styles of play.
edit: typo