Guild Wars 2

I think it should be a 3.5 day rotate and they should include Edge of the mists in replacement for eternal battle grounds. and make these maps available instead of edge of the mists while in rotation

What map rotation?!

When the new map was announced they did say it would be added to a rotation.

But now they claim the new map is a replacement for the old map. So WvW finally gets a new map but we’ll still only have one.
They say they may bring the alpine map back in the future, but in WvW the future is up to 3 years!

I really do hope the devs have been working on more than one new map and hopefully they will release a second new map a few months after HOT is released.

Orochimaru.4730:

What map rotation?!

When the new map was announced they did say it would be added to a rotation.

But now they claim the new map is a replacement for the old map. So WvW finally gets a new map but we’ll still only have one.
They say they may bring the alpine map back in the future, but in WvW the future is up to 3 years!

I really do hope the devs have been working on more than one new map and hopefully they will release a second new map a few months after HOT is released.

I think they still like the idea of a rotation (the alpine maps are too much like EB imo, but I like them and so do a lot of people), but they are keeping only the new BL when HoT comes out because an immense majority of players will want to play there, drew by the appeal of novelty. But when everything settles down, I believe we’ll see the alpine BL again. It’s not like Raid on the Capricorn which a lot of pvp players hated.

The reason why they are being quiet about when the old BL will comeback is most likely because they have no idea yet about how the rotation will work. Feel free to post suggestions.

Well, all they really need is to tune up the borderlands. Then we have 3 unique borders – old border, eotm border (just make another version) and hot border. Then go over EB at the end.

I hope thats what it means. It would give us the complete set of 4 unique maps for very little of their effort.

Pretty much agree with what Sorel and Dawdler said.

They stated somewhere that they hadn’t decided on how the rotation would work yet, and that it was one of the things they wanted to look closer at during beta testing. But yes all 3 borderlands will be changed out at release for a bunch of weeks, so everyone can explore the new map.

I would love Dawdler’s idea myself (EBG+Alpine+Hot+EotM), but I really have no idea how EotM would work as a BL, it sounds better as an extra EBG style map. (And as stated plenty of times before, I’m not a fan of the "home" map system, or we could have added EotM as an extra map with no issues).

I am afraid they might have painted themselves into a corner with the concept of the “home” map system which requires 3 copies of an identical map for fairness so each side always has the same point potential in three-way mirror images. I would love to see ANET break themselves out of that habit in some way that maintains the equality but gives us WvW access to all of the maps for more choice.

That might require some overhauls to the existing EotM & EB maps for better color balance and point total potentials. 4 maps, one of each if you add HoT & Alpine sounds like the ideal goal for once they start with the rotation plan at least until they make another map in a few years I guess. Just don’t think the regular WvW populations can take more than 4 maps unless they drastically lower the population caps on them which they might have to do when HoT hits anyways given how laggy every new thing always is.

PariahX.6970:

I am afraid they might have painted themselves into a corner with the concept of the “home” map system which requires 3 copies of an identical map for fairness so each side side always has the same point potential in three-way mirror images. I would love to see ANET break themselves out of that habit in some way that maintains the equality but gives us WvW access to all of the maps for more choice.

That might require some overhauls to the existing EotM & EB maps for better color balance and point total potentials. 4 maps, one of each if you add HoT & Alpine sounds like the ideal goal for once they start with the rotation plan at least until they make another map in a few years I guess. Just don’t think the regular WvW populations can take more than 4 maps unless they drastically lower the population caps on them which they might have to do when HoT hits anyways given how laggy every new thing always is.

+1

I’ve posted before (long post, lots of horrible words and terror) about both the idea of removing the home map idea, as well as having a system that can scale the amount of maps to the amount of players (which could have some interesting effects upon coverage/ppt as well as the feeling of dead maps/tumbleweeds).

But for once I shall word myself in brevity, and avoid repeating all that, so if interested search them back up