WvW needs to regain it’s lost soul: COMPETITION. This extremely boring, braindead, zerg vs. empty building capture, must go now.
Main problems to be solved:
1. Population imbalance:
server linking and so on. We know that is still far from being “balanced”, and I don’t mean equal forces, but at least giving every side a “chance” to last long enough. Not to win, but at least be able to fight back.
2. Reason for improvement:
there is none at moment. One can just press buttons mindlessly for years and be carried by others. WvW want to be “inclusive” and that sounds great, but should never encourage complacency and parasitic behavior. This is the main reason why we are losing good players and it’s unacceptable: we should lose bad players, those who don’t care about learning, don’t care about their teams need — in a “team game”.
3. Meta, balanced for WvW – not made for PvE and in the best case – slightly tweaked. Though asking for skills designed around WvW would be too much, so slightly more tweaks would be still a huge step forward.
How to solve 1 & 2:
I don’t care if you came up with any other ideea, just NEEDS to be solved.
My ideea would be, based on current state – to create NEW worlds, NEW system, though just the way of picking players and “balance” these teams will be NEW, at least at start. WvW would look like this:
Tier 1 – Top Competitive Scene: Best Guilds (treat guilds as a whole, with a single rating), with non-guild “Best Players” filling empty spots
Tier 2 – Advanced Tier: those who couldn’t fit into the top, and advanced enough to not be in newbie tier
Tier 3 – Newbie Tier: you should get it…
You need a rating system, but for the start use anything. Players & Guilds can drop to lower tier, based on their performance. Or advance. Give far better rewards at top, so everyone is encouraged to improve.
Or just do anything else, but make reward effort and performance only, not parasitic “participation”.
A wandering ronin, employed by [ENMA]