Guild Wars 2

I’m a PvP / WvWvW only player, is it 100% must to buy expansion? Will I be at a disadvantage against those who have elite specializations? Or let me rephrase that, what advantages do people with elite specializations get?

Lol if you can find someone in WvW to fight you might be at a disadvantage. If your on a lower server don’t try the border lands you will only get bored to death from the sounds of your footsteps.

Besides the new siege you can’t use there won’t be a huge difference in wvw.
And you can also still easily play the old things in pvp even though some elite specs might be quite hard to fight.

I’m from Ehmry Bay… which is a medium server and I had a good share of fights with Dark Haven and SoF.

The new map is too big for the small population, true. But I can’t deny I like this new map. I miss the old map as well, but this new wvw map isn’t too bad. A very interesting twist and a new challenge in my eyes. I am enjoying it. Quit gw2 6 months ago and recently got back. I enjoy this new wvw. If population increase, you’ll see this new map rise sky high. It will be fun and I can only cross my fingers and wait.

Lastly, though population was low on HoT release… I must say from what I’m seeing… it has been increasing. See you in the World.

Play sPvP seriously? Buy it. You’ll need HoT to compete.

For WvW, its a little different due to higher variety of gear, player skill and roles. If you raid seriously, you probably want HoT to compete, but regular classes will probably be needed too. If you roll with zergs or duo/small group roam… Meh it’ll do fine. Only if you want to min/max solo roaming will you need it.

If u main warrior dont bother…its elite is very under powered, basic warrior is better

Two words: Horribly imbalanced.

Every single match up in EU tier 1-9 (all 9 tiers) is having a blow out result. One server scoring much less than the other two. The number of players is very low as the WvWvW offers so weak rewards related to other game modes. Improve the rewards significantly to fix this problem.

The new borderland looks cool, but it is way too big, it takes forever to travel from A to B even inside a keep. It is full of annoying gimmicks, most deaths are not because of enemy players, but because of some environment thing e.g. falling down. There is way too little player-vs-player and way too much pve. New borderland is EotM 2.0, not a real WvWvW map. Cool visuals and varied NPCs and tons of extra game mechanics don’t make a good map. The new map is also much less beginner friendly and complex. More complex game design is rarely a good idea. Simpler is better. Bring back the old Alpine border as soon as possible or this game mode is indeed dying!

Some spvp specs are clearly more powerful than others, but this is the wrong forum to discuss that topic!

Warrior, Guardian, Elementalist, necro are still relatively equal if you don’t have hot. Engi depends on the balance.
Mesmer is definitely better with, but I guess he will also get some more balancing.
And I doubt you play thief or Ranger.

Our server is now completly dead, i regret buying the expansion