Guild Wars 2

It’s nice to have the Alpine BL back, and it gives time to the development team to come up with additional tuning of the Desert BLs, but can we know when they are supposed to come back? I know I should trust Anet, but since Courtyard never reappeared in pvp, I want to make sure that these new maps are not just forgotten on a server somewhere. Overall, I think having a clear rotation schedule between the BLs would be nice.

Alpine BL – Forever.
Deserted BL – Never.

Please and thank you, Anet.

Josh XT.6053:

Alpine BL – Forever.
Deserted BL – Never.

Please and thank you, Anet.

Thank you for voicing your opinion. Now, I’ve been playing for a while, and if I remember correctly, people were asking for new maps before HoT, and now that we got one, I don’t think it’s such a good idea to get rid of it completely. A rotation seems to be a fair trade between conservatives like yourself and people wanting more diversity.

Sorel.4870:

Josh XT.6053:

Alpine BL – Forever.
Deserted BL – Never.

Please and thank you, Anet.

Thank you for voicing your opinion. Now, I’ve been playing for a while, and if I remember correctly, people were asking for new maps before HoT, and now that we got one, I don’t think it’s such a good idea to get rid of it completely. A rotation seems to be a fair trade between conservatives like yourself and people wanting more diversity.

You’re correct. People were asking for new maps, I was one of many who wanted them to leave it alone lol. I still don’t really understand why people wanted new maps personally. Alpine was is very well designed for WvW in my opinion.

What they should really do is make it to where instead of having 4 total maps, they should bump it up to 6 or 7 maps. Not making it “Blackgate Borderlands, Tarnished Coast Borderlands, Dragonbrand Borderlands, etc.” – it should just be colored maps. Red borderland, Blue borderland, Green borderland, Purple borderland, Yellow, etc – you get the idea.

Have 3 maps be alpine, 3 desert, 1 EBG. Tada – problem solved, people get both maps, we have less fighting to get in to maps due to queues, all is well.

Josh XT.6053:

Have 3 maps be alpine, 3 desert, 1 EBG. Tada – problem solved, people get both maps, we have less fighting to get in to maps due to queues, all is well.

This is a solution I would very much like. However, I doubt we have the population to do that (unless we merge more servers, at the detriment of organisation). I still dream of a solution including EBG and three different BLs though.

Maybe, instead of having a BL rotation, we could play with 2 alpine and 1 desert BL each week, randomly attributed? Only for as long as the beta lasts. Then, if it is noted that having the desert home BL gives a significant advantage (respectively disadvantage), it would be attributed each week to the highest (respectively lowest) MMR server alliance.

I think that the problem with playing 2 alpine 1 desert is that people who don’t actually want to play desert are still going to be stuck with it since it’ll have to lowest queues or none at all.

With the server linking, the higher tier servers (t1 and t2) experience a lot of high queues in prime time due to there not being enough maps but plenty of players. Throwing in a few more maps for people might solve that issue.

Josh XT.6053:

I think that the problem with playing 2 alpine 1 desert is that people who don’t actually want to play desert are still going to be stuck with it since it’ll have to lowest queues or none at all.

With the server linking, the higher tier servers (t1 and t2) experience a lot of high queues in prime time due to there not being enough maps but plenty of players. Throwing in a few more maps for people might solve that issue.

I feel like the queues we are experiencing now are merely temporary. The old BLs are back, the server alliances are still new, and, most importantly, there is nothing to do in spvp at the moment, and it drives people to WvW. I could be wrong, but the number of maps we have now might turn out to be enough in the long run.

These are very similar to the queues we had in tier 1 and tier 2 pre-HoT release. I don’t suspect that the queues will die down, but I imagine ANet probably will be the judge of that in the next month or so.

I doubt they’ll give any kind of rotation schedule any time soon or even rotate any time soon since they had to deal with a major uproar of the majority of their players hating DBL and leaving the game because of it lol.

From the recent AMA:
“•For now we plan to rotate the borderlands once each quarter.”
Source

Turamarth.3248:

From the recent AMA:
“•For now we plan to rotate the borderlands once each quarter.”
Source

Thank you very much! I wish they would have a way to do these AMA sessions in the official forums.

Josh XT.6053:

Have 3 maps be alpine, 3 desert, 1 EBG. Tada – problem solved, people get both maps, we have less fighting to get in to maps due to queues, all is well.

See compromise. Many are against sadly because they feel its their way or the highway. If they could allow both maps at the same time then a lot of people could be happy. Why lose players on either side.

Turamarth.3248:

From the recent AMA:
“•For now we plan to rotate the borderlands once each quarter.”
Source

Which means pretty much a dead WvW for the summer time in the States. Maybe some might return for the fall, idk.

For now <- operative statement.

Hopefully they’ll poll the WvW players once more like they just did about the scoring changes instead of putting DBL back in place without asking us or caring about what we want like they did last time.

My hope is that they learned from that mistake.