Guild Wars 2

Now I’m not much of WvW player, though I might be in the future, but reading about the orb/bloodlust buffs and imbalances I definately understand why it’s looked at as a bad idea, just because it snowballs one side way too hard, better alternatives would be indirectly buffs a side tactically through siege or extra guards or w/e, but straight up buffing player stats is definately a bad idea, especially with stat power creep existing in WvW as it is.

That said however, I just wanted to show my views on the idea of swapping the luxury buffs of being “Outnumbered” with the “Bloodlust” buffs, not that the losing side should get these flat stats either, but I think giving a luxury buff to the winning side is a very good idea for one reason.

Incentive

This is actually in support of playing WvW to win, the way Anet actually wants WvW to work, so there should be no reason for Anet to be against this. What exactly is the current incentive to win in WvW? To have server pride, to passionately want to beat the other servers? Right now, all I can think of is some minor luxury bonuses in the WvW window that affects PvE as well.

I think this Incentive is what Anet should focus on if they actually want to focus on WvW being played the way they envisioned it, not making people overpowered with inflated stats that’s fun for no one.

Besides Server Pride related things, the most basic should really just be a very fat luxury bonus for being on the winning side, such as the Outnumbered buff, having massive boosts (in borderlands) to magic find, gold drops, xp, and such that don’t imbalance the game would be a great way to start.

TLDR; Bloodlust buffs are actually the wrong way to encourage people to play WvW the way Anet actually wants it to be played. So you should rethink things Anet.

if they give too much advantage to winning a wvw matchup, people would just mass flood that winning server. it’s already happening, and there’s not much incentive to win other than prestige.