Guild Wars 2

I was originally thinking this was going to be the new GvG area until I learned it’s going to be the lychpin of this LS installment.
Are people big into WvW going to be doing it (outside of reset night queues) or is it going to be a casual wonderland?

hopefully its a casual wonderland

I am hoping it’s a nice alternative for solo roaming when the BL zergs get too big

Most likely will turn into a gankers paradise.

I think the first couple weeks will be a farm fest, lotta people will be there to check out the new Champ Train, LS, and just new map in general. Once they realize the risk of running a champ train in a WvW scenario many will move back to their previous Champ Trains.

Of course I could be completely wrong and there will be mass warfare everywhere.

Hopefully fights are like in start when everybody didn’t use same TS. Real messy old school brawling.

Will not have a large hardcore following due to lack of guild/group queue.

pve ppl will be there with fancy gear. walking lootbags gg.

Farm some PvE bags for 2 weeks. Then back to the BLs.

Aeonblade.8709:

Will not have a large hardcore following due to lack of guild/group queue.

Because EB and the BLs do?

Junkpile.7439:

Hopefully fights are like in start when everybody didn’t use same TS. Real messy old school brawling.

Not sure about you but I’m showing up with a 2×4 with a nail in the end of it !

Whatever happens, I am wearing my seatbelt and helmet.
Nothing can hurt me when my body is ready.

Ugh, let’s not stop talking about who is “hardcore” and who is not. What is wrong with MMO people?

People will go ‘cause it’s new. They’ll stay if it’s more fun, they’ll not stay if it’s less fun.

How about we don’t speculate, and then actually go and see for ourselves tomorrow?

I’m asking because the projected teams have SoR, Mag, and FA all on the same color; all servers that are “about the fights” and don’t care overly much about PPT. If they come out in force, it’s going to be a one-sided bloodbath and will be the most hated patch in the history of MMOs.

Your forgetting about the BG, JQ, SoS, SBI, TC, … ect ect ect overflows. They wont be the only servers there, many will be there to try out the new map, avoid Queue’s and try and get some good fights.

Half dead servers ~cough~ may see this as a way to have some fun even if their home can’t put up a fight alone. It may actually produce complete no-shows on the standard maps.

Sometimes you might opt to fight alongside strangers rather than fight alone on a borderland.

Can people solo the champions? if not it will be blob vs blob.

A new map after over a year, yeah everyone is gonna be there!

As said PvEers beware, if you go around flashing your legendary, WvWers will stomp you with their exotics

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

A new map after over a year, yeah everyone is gonna be there!

As said PvEers beware, if you go around flashing your legendary, WvWers will stomp you with their exotics

But I always flash my legendary in wvw by shoving it down my opponents’ throats!

No matter how bad it is I think there will be a lot of wvwers while the living world stuff is going on.

After that I suspect it will be a ghost map, but maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.

Rawr.5930:

Most likely will turn into a gankers paradise.

Cactus.2710:

Aeonblade.8709:

Will not have a large hardcore following due to lack of guild/group queue.

Because EB and the BLs do?

How I understood it is that you queue for “blue”, “red” or “green” (depending on your current color in wvw) EotM which means if high demand you might get in a different EotM instance then your guild.

Chris.3290:

I’m asking because the projected teams have SoR, Mag, and FA all on the same color; all servers that are “about the fights” and don’t care overly much about PPT. If they come out in force, it’s going to be a one-sided bloodbath and will be the most hated patch in the history of MMOs.

My body is ready.

Chris.3290:

I’m asking because the projected teams have SoR, Mag, and FA all on the same color; all servers that are “about the fights” and don’t care overly much about PPT. If they come out in force, it’s going to be a one-sided bloodbath and will be the most hated patch in the history of MMOs.

this could be fun.

I’m really hoping for the same confusion that was in the beginning of WvW where nobody knew exactly what to do. Probably a long shot but it was fun.

stoat.4257:

After that I suspect it will be a ghost map, but maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.

I would rate this very unlikely, all server together will likely fill at least 1-2 maps. And if your server is in a very uneven WvW-match, why get stomped in WvW, when you can play a series of balanced matches in EotM?

So I guess several imbalanced WvW-matches will be even more imbalanced with EotM, as the weaker sides now got an alternative to play and will stay away from WvW for the rest of the match after it become obvious that it is lost.

Will be checking it out, but already wary of the consequences it’s going to have on the main maps.

Not that I care about PPT of course, just figure the maps are going to be dead or even more karmatrainy (Aside from Stack Gate and Stacked Quarry)

Yep, a whole lot of pv door on the main maps…..

rhapsody.3615:

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

A new map after over a year, yeah everyone is gonna be there!

As said PvEers beware, if you go around flashing your legendary, WvWers will stomp you with their exotics

But I always flash my legendary in wvw by shoving it down my opponents’ throats!

Mmmm, yeah, shove that Moot down my throat!

Empyre.2531:

Cactus.2710:

Aeonblade.8709:

Will not have a large hardcore following due to lack of guild/group queue.

Because EB and the BLs do?

How I understood it is that you queue for “blue”, “red” or “green” (depending on your current color in wvw) EotM which means if high demand you might get in a different EotM instance then your guild.

I’d imagine that it will be like overflow maps that you can right click a party member and join their instance in less it’s hard capped.

I plan to roam it for a few days for sure. as is with everything we won’t know till we tried it.

‘Hardcore’ wvwers will still hop onto the main maps especially for Reset, eventually the novelty will wear off anyway.

I don’t see how this will bring about much difference to the gameplay you see in everyday wvw apart from the Map layout, having to play alongside Servers who are the same colour (which’ll bring about language barriers but everyone knows how to blob right?), PVE objectives, LS while it lasts and without the PPT to worry about; not that many even cares (or has to care) about that anyway.

There will be Roamers, Gankers and Guild Groups, but those tied to their Community are still obligated to support their own Server Community on the main maps. As mentioned it’ll be a place for people to hop into wvw if there’s imbalanced Match-Ups, but we’ll just to wait and see how it affects the Match-Ups.
I predict that most Guilds will prefer the flow and layout of the Borderland Maps, and every other zergling will stick to EB as usual.

Anyway, the time for Speculation is almost over!

will be full of d/p thieves and pu mesmers

I encourage everyone to spend some time in the new zone and find the lynch pin areas that the pve players will need to go and camp them. kill the pve players so many times that living story wont return to wvw.

We won’t be playing EotM seriously. The terrain is garbage and there’s too much siege for that to happen. Instead, the plan is to camp and kill any PvE objectives/players we can find. Hopefully we get another Reddit QQ thread like when the Aetherblade Cache was at the top of the EB JP.

Rawr.5930:

Most likely will turn into a gankers paradise.

Yep…and then peeps will start zerging to stop it.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

‘Hardcore’ wvwers will still hop onto the main maps especially for Reset, eventually the novelty will wear off anyway.

I don’t see how this will bring about much difference to the gameplay you see in everyday wvw apart from the Map layout, having to play alongside Servers who are the same colour (which’ll bring about language barriers but everyone knows how to blob right?), PVE objectives, LS while it lasts and without the PPT to worry about; not that many even cares (or has to care) about that anyway.

There will be Roamers, Gankers and Guild Groups, but those tied to their Community are still obligated to support their own Server Community on the main maps. As mentioned it’ll be a place for people to hop into wvw if there’s imbalanced Match-Ups, but we’ll just to wait and see how it affects the Match-Ups.
I predict that most Guilds will prefer the layout of the Borderland Maps and every other zergling will stick to EB as usual.

Anyway, the time for Speculation is almost over!

I am hoping they scrap WvW in favor of EoTM honestly.

People wanted a fix for WvW coverage problems? This is your fix.

Hardcore players will go where the fights are. If EOTM has other guild groups, expect ones from your server to be there. On the other hand, some of the hardcore guilds care more about winning or PPT than the fights themselves and will stay in the maps where world score matters.

I’m actually interested in fighting T1 roamers again. I left blackgate about 5 months ago, and now I want to see how the roamers are doing

I was hoping it would turn out to be a good place to roam, wrong. Zergs, zergs everywhere.

Seems like people are only willing to stick to zergs, no matter what environment theyre thrown into. This game design, the one that promotes zerging, and player base,those that only promote zerging, are some of the most terrible in mmo industry.

-Buns

Yer going to the new map is either 5 man thief squads or strait up zergs of PvE people with all ascended gear, as a roamer think I’ll be sticking to the BL or EB depending on time zone.

Oh and the lag is horrids right now too :/

Bios.1398:

will be full of d/p thieves and pu mesmers

And “fear Me” warriors with a terrormancer friend

So many walking lootbags in EoTM right now. Honestly, I’m seeing nothing but uplevels and zerkers. People are already qqing in map chat about people killing them.

New shinie. Get it while it’s fresh and hot

The configuration of the map is not good at all for roaming because of how choked up most of the routes are. Obviously the the bridge and cliff heavy design will make it great for players that enjoy trolling with heavy cc, but that is hardly a game format.

Intelligent players that participated in the beta warned us that it was too conductive to map blobbing, and that appears to already be exactly what it is. I guess that could be a good thing if it becomes the go to map for k-trains, but if it drains more players out of regular wvw, it could be the end of it on low tiers. Guess we’ll find out what, if any effects it will have on higher tiers.