Guild Wars 2

I really want to buy the Riding Broom but the wiki says it isn’t available for WvW, does anyone know why that is?

I’m still probably going to buy it. I’m just curious as to why Anet would do this.

Long ago, players were having fun by using temporary items in GW2. You know, things you buy from NPCs, like golem in a box, spike fruits, etc.

Despite these items being useful, Anet decided WvW should be “competitive” and removed them. Then players would find another temporary items with an interesting wvw use, then they’d have to nerf that, and so on.

After a while Anet just went with the nuclear option and disabled all inventory-clicky items from WvW because their player base was whiny.

PopeUrban.2578:

Long ago, players were having fun by using temporary items in GW2. You know, things you buy from NPCs, like golem in a box, spike fruits, etc.

Despite these items being useful, Anet decided WvW should be “competitive” and removed them. Then players would find another temporary items with an interesting wvw use, then they’d have to nerf that, and so on.

After a while Anet just went with the nuclear option and disabled all inventory-clicky items from WvW because their player base was whiny.

Oh that’s a shame :/ I don’t see how the broom would be that bad but whatever.

People were using the gemstore items to gain an advantage in WvW. If I’m remembering right, it was stuff like the tunneling tool to go underground behind a rock to hide from enemy players (the nameplates were close to the ground and hidden by the rock). There is also a gem store toy that allows you to travel quickly. They were using that too on the WvW maps. Many of the PvE items used to stun could be spammed repeatedly. For these reasons all gizmos were blocked from WvW use.

The bloody prince staff allowed any class to stealth in WvW.

The executionors axe was/is the fastest way of traveling in game.

*edit

The broom is the same type of item as the two above. It was easier to disable all toys than to just allow certain ones to be used.