Guild Wars 2

It seems very much like coverage will be a huge thing in the expansion WvW?

In the Point of Interest, they talk about a number of things that would assume that more coverage equals more win, the idea behind “Dragon Banners” that might knock down, increase damage, and even support banners etc. There are also the flying airships…….

Granted I have not seen the new WvW map, only heard a bit about keeps defending themselves..moving keeps etc. I still can not see how this change would be beneficial for fighting in WvW nor having smaller servers being able to actually compete with servers that are just rolling over them, seems like it is getting to be more and more about objectives, than actual fighting, like when char…vehicles, I get that smaller groups can burn down a gate fast, but wouldn’t a bigger group be able to just melt it ?

https://youtu.be/Mf6mSq2MKAA?t=2552

Please do correct me if I am wrong, because I would honestly not like it if small servers gets a worst experience and fights gets a lot more rare. I get they are trying to make it more fun by making all of these things, but if it really does destroy the essence of WvW which is huge blob fights for me….then I cant see how that will ever be fun?

(Btw, if you can use scribe to stack up the airstrikes, and need to repeat each time consumed…..Wouldn’t it be abused by having as small a wvw guild as you possibly can get by each person and then just almost make infinite of them? Dont think its hard for 1 medium/huge WvW guild to organize enough people to just make enough so they never run out)

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The only thing I seem to get from the new map is that defense will be easier, meaning that you will need a much bigger group to capture an objective. Why I think that it will be easier?

1. Auto upgrade so it will be more likely that you will have everything upgraded if you can keep it
2. Tower blocking path : this reduce possible enemy movements and make it easier for you to scout them
3. Better siege placement : They are redisigning the towers’ gate to give you more places to put arrow carts all around them or even ballista that can hit ram which means that standing on the wall is no longer a death wish.
4. Gigantic keeps with automatic defense
5. Very hard to kill boss in lord room

Put all that together and you have basically create a map that is very easy to defend and very hard to attack. Which makes me think that every server will simply turtle in their respective objectives all day long…

Well……..the airplanes will be able to wipe off opponent behind keep/objective, rather fast, the char……char thing, according to the dev….would be able to burn down gates pretty fast and really good for small groups since they dont need to go back and forth for supply and can just build and roll of……probably a lot better for huge blob? + Dragon banner and support banner which should be better for fights to knock off opponent, and support group, which will make open fights….different?

Yes defending got alot of things but all in all, it just seem like they are improving on not doing that much? stand behind keep/tower and get wiped off or be outside keep/tower and get whipped……and the whole…..Airstrikes might be able to be abused rather easely…..Besides, the fact that bigger WvW servers will now have a massive improvement over smaller wvw servers, since they can do all this forever?

Again, I reaaaaaaaally want to be wrong about this…….And the new maps might be so different that using this kind of tactics actually somehow makes smaller server more suitable for fights and standing behind keep/sieges less attractive?

I’m waiting to see (If I survive that long with everything in flux). What looks good on paper, or sounds good on the drawing board don’t always mean its actually going to work.

Haven’t seen anything that zergs couldn’t do faster than small groups…