Guild Wars 2

I would like you know how do the players of small servers feel about EOTM map? (Edge of the Mists)

Do you think that it will be your long awaited salvation in face of a real option to play wvw finally with more people and not restricted by your server population and coverage ?

Or do you think that it will be the last nail at the coffin of your small pop server luring even the last wvw players left to the new map where there always will be many people playing since it overflow map for over-populated servers ?

Personally i think EOTM could be a double edged knife and it will act as a PUG magnet (yes those players who are not part of big wvw oriented guilds but still do wvw and get blamed for everything when things goes wrong).
And server who rely heavily on pugs will hurt when Season 2 starts probably but can’t say for sure – just a theory.

What do you think ?

Long waited salvation for the most populated servers, but not for the Bronze League. Even during the first few weeks of S1, we didn’t have that big of an issue with the queues. Yes, you would’ve waited a bit, but it’s wasn’t a very long wait. Bigger problem was actually being outnumbered by blobs, coverage etc.
So I’m concerned that EotM will take the players away from the real WvW maps – maps that count. It will be brand new and shiny next week, everyone will rush there and borderlands won’t have enough manpower.

One of the reasons for EotM was also to include PvE population into WvW, give them a reason to join. But I’m sceptical as to how successful that will be. Season 1 was one such attempt. Achievements were poorly conceived, PvEers caused queues etc, but even so, WvW population wasn’t very welcoming to the influx of players, or as they were being called “walking lootbags”. I don’t think EotM will address this. Experienced roamers will pray on the achievement hunters most likely. And as result, full-zerk PvEers will either go back to PvE where their builds work well.

tl;dr – double-edged sword indeed. Saves servers with long queues, but distracts much needed population from smaller servers. WvW community needs to be more welcoming to pugs / new players to make them WvWers. A new map with LS achievements will not help there.

I’m not too concerned about the population issue. The server I play on is a fair-weather server and we only get a lot of players into WvW when we’re winning. I can see us, during those weeks where we’re winning, we’ll still be playing for PPT.

When it’s hopeless, we’ll be in EoTM looking for some shorter term fun.

It just means the blow outs either way will be bigger.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

It just means the blow outs either way will be bigger.

Most likely. The map seemed a bit out of scale though, and not a lot of small capture things, mostly blobs, but we’ll see what it gives. Blow-out is very frequent in low tiers, so if we want quality fights, we’ll probs go EotM. Coverage wars is a joke.

EOTM is really not for small groups like 10-15 people. Mostly blobs will be there.

Well it can’t be worse than normal www. At least maps are full and blobs can’t jump map to map and cap empty objectives.

Junkpile.7439:

Well it can’t be worse than normal www. At least maps are full and blobs can’t jump map to map and cap empty objectives.

Oh it certainly can be. If you look at the map you’ll realize that it is a great big funnel. So not only will roamers run directly into zergs, there will be no avoiding them. At least on normal maps you can see the zergs coming and get out of the way. Also, I don’t know how much zerg fighting you’ve done but enclosed spaces are going to be less than fun with a full zerg vs zerg battle, AOE’s will rule supreme and I don’t even want to think about the melee trains; it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

I’m fairly optimistic that EoTM will be good fun every here and there but not have a long term draw that WvW provides (server competition). Thus, it’ll be there for people who want fun, but won’t affect the overall performance of servers too much save for when it first releases.

That said, I’m still worried. Darkhaven is trying to rise up atm and the potential for it adversely affecting our pop is a scary thought.