Guild Wars 2

I have strong negative opinions about this patch, based on how the patch was implemented and how this patche impacts on the WvW game mode

firstly, lets talk about the one of the two reason of this patch. to insensitive people to come to WvW for new items. they took ideas from PvP and placed them into WvW. the idea of it im actually kind of a fan of on paper. The Major problem is people are only going into WvW for those items. So when people finally get those items, it doesn’t guarantee their stay on WvW. which make this patch nothing more than a temporary fix in that apsect.

Secondly, its to insensitive server loyalty, with more items? this is also a bad idea. because its the guilds willingness to win that dictate server dominance, the rewards and new items does not mean much to them at all. because they get rewards for free anyways. which mean bandwagoning to another server is still gonna be an issue for months to come.

clumped with server parings and 50-100 queues on each map. its blocking off content from other people. which wouldn’t be an issue on pvp because huge queues in casual games of pvp is not an issue. which makes me think the devs stictly looked at wvw game mode from a Pvp perspective.

Maybe its too soon to jump to this conclusion, since the patch is still fresh and time maybe is what tells us if this is a good patch. but my assumption which is nothing more than an assumption. is that the exact same thing will happen with PvP, people will play it for the rewards, and bugger off. which ends up bringing us back to the same state that wvw was before this patch

The only way for this patch to be truly good. and is probably the original intention. is for Guilds on WvW to start recruiting hard.

also be cool anet, put crafting stations in a super hostile environment in obsidian sanctum

They can always add more rewards at any time. Any reward structure that they add will of course reach a point where players have everything unless Anet adds more. The new WvW rewards are not any different.

The timegates are there to keep players coming back and to maintain the WvW population which was low. Players have been asking Anet for years to add new dungeons. If there weren’t timegates, players would grind through to get all of the rewards in a week and then abandon those dungeons. Timegates are a necessity.

The difference between first, second, and last is a pip between each. It’s not that detrimental to be last. You miss out on two pips compared to those that are first. You’re still making progress for the week.

I think it is way too early to pass judgement on this patch. Give it a week or so, and see what adjustments are made, if any.

I agree with the first two replies, let’s give it a week or two and see. For the first time in years I’ve seen big queues of hundreds of people in WvW, I dare say most players haven’t seen this kind of overwhelming interest in WvW since the penultimate tournament or just first night of the last tournament.

apharma.3741:

I agree with the first two replies, let’s give it a week or two and see. For the first time in years I’ve seen big queues of hundreds of people in WvW, I dare say most players haven’t seen this kind of overwhelming interest in WvW since the penultimate tournament or just first night of the last tournament.

thats kinda my gripe. the core WvW gameplay is exactly the same. which is the reason why people stopped playing WvW in the first place. Forcing the intensive to rewards doesn’t change the flaws of the WvW game mode

I do believe blackgamma meant incentivize instead of insensitive. :P

Skielsthear.6913:

I do believe blackgamma meant incentivize instead of insensitive. :P

yeah my bad lol. i’ll leave it there