Guild Wars 2

Here are some idea that could help WvW. Give players in their homeland an advantage over the enemy. This will allow smaller servers to actually have a fighting chance against the juggernauts and give them some hope that they can actually do something. Here they are:

You can’t upgrade supply camps, towers, and keeps in enemy lands. It should be more difficult to hold those objectives. You can still place siege weapons there. You just aren’t going to have escort for supplies, cannons, or waypoints. You also won’t have those 4 veteran guards that roam around slaughtering everything in their path.

Another thing, have fog of war. Your map is not updated with cross swords in enemy lands. You never know where the enemy is unless someone says it in chat. Objectives will not change color on your map unless you go there and see who owns it. This would allow smaller forces to actually plan some guerrilla type attacks. Right now what is happening when the map is totally controlled by one side, a small forces takes an objective. Everyone on the larger side sees it immediately on their map and goes there. The small force either stays there and tries to defend (if they do they are overwhelmed) or they go to another objective. They never really accomplish anything. There is really no defending going on just reacting and retaking. Contrary to what most people think, it is super fast to get around in WvW with waypoints and 100% swiftness.

If this small force was actually able to take a camp then take an out of the way tower or even a keep without the enemy knowing because they are all camping spawn points, it might help these smaller servers. It would force the larger servers to spread out also. All we have now is one side takes something, everyone zergs there to retake, repeat.

Finally, orb bonus is a kick in the face to a struggling server. They can’t beat you with even odds, now you have better health and damage. It is almost impossible for me to lose against someone when I have it and I suck. The orb bonus should be, they can take yours away and keep theirs, but that is it.