Guild Wars 2

Title says it all. As we know, the new “Desert Borderlands” map serves as a replacement for the old WvW map.
I hate to see past content gone to waste. Couldn’t borderlands co-exist? Rotational basis? Available at the same time at all times? Something.
I’m super hyped for HoT, but I can already feel that it’s wrong to just delete a tremendous amount of work already done.

Agreed. The new map looks like it has way too much PvE in it for me to enjoy. Remove all the random eagle griffins and what not from the current map and put it on a weekly rotation.

They will not delete the current borderlands. It willl come back in a rotation with the new one. After the release of HoT we will play a longer period of time on the desert borderland to test it and to observe the consequence of the map design. I assume that the developers will revamp the old borderland top remove several flaws before the map will be enter the rotation cycle.

I’m near certain in one of the earlier interviews or discussion they said they were looking at putting it on rotation or something at some point. I’d find a source but I’m lying in bed reading on my phone about to sleep. I’m sure someone else remembers reading this though.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/essential-elements-of-the-new-borderlands/

“Even though this will initially replace the existing Borderlands, we have plans to bring back the classic alpine Borderlands. More information on that will come in the future.”

I expect the price of catapults to drop significantly when we start playing on the new map.

Yeah no, they aren’t deleting them it well be nice to have change of maps available.

Desert, alpine, mountain, frozen, etc, server bl theme being based on their locations on tyria map, if they had a random rotation to maps……

Nightshade.2570:

Yeah no, they aren’t deleting them it well be nice to have change of maps available.

would be nice if they rework the alpine map, thing is to much rush, cap leave and cap again… that deathmatch map design is what made wvw so stale.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Agreed. The new map looks like it has way too much PvE in it for me to enjoy. Remove all the random eagle griffins and what not from the current map and put it on a weekly rotation.

this so much. i saw it and wanna scream! its soooo complex. all wvw maps need is 3 keeps ,that can be complexer as they are atm and a bunch of towers that are further away from eachother and a lot of areas for big battles.
we dont need traps, i dont want eotm style jumping
we dont need complex paths
we dont need shrines
we dont need pve mobs
we dont need pve events….

do not do this ANET!!!! leave the old maps then! just allow us to keep them i hate hate hate this new map its worse than eotm. its going to be a karma famr with stupid pve 111 spammers that will clogg up the queues and lag out the game. we dont want pve players in wvw. let them go gold farm and spam 111111 on the same boss foran hour or 2 but keep them out of wvw!

Belenwyn.8674:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/essential-elements-of-the-new-borderlands/

“Even though this will initially replace the existing Borderlands, we have plans to bring back the classic alpine Borderlands. More information on that will come in the future.”

That means it’s not coming back. Remember SAB?

is eb gonna stay?please leave eb! at least 1 map real wvw players can escape to ons hot and the new pve map hits wvw… or could we just test the map out first as putting it in as an option like edge of the mists. so true wvw players can test it out first?