So far so good
I have been having an absolute blast since the patch, in particular since the server links started Friday.
Friday night was weird, tons of fights everywhere, maps qued, tons of roamers and gank squads. I felt like I did in WVW 2 years ago when I had to keep my eyes on my back the whole time just to go from place to place or be sent back to the respawn. Everything is of course winding down as Sunday night and premiere of next season of Game of Thrones is here, we’ll see how things progress through the week.
So far its been lots of delicious chaos, multi-pronged attacks, doing some huge battles as well as ganking and being ganked everywhere.
Huge map fights everywhere, the stability buff has kicked in very nicely and seems actually balanced, been diving in “balls deep” even vs organized guild groups and unloading quite a lot. Won some, lost some, but overall it felt right on the spot. Some classes still need better stab access, they arent completely useless as they have been in days gone yonder, but so far my guard outshines my druid by far, and its because of the stab changes. There are of course other classes as well in the same boat, but I haven’t had a chance to try out my other toons yet.
Among all this, surprisingly, people were dueling, a LOT. Most of the time we left them alone, unless they happened to be in direct paths, well, then “if its red its a lootbag” rule applies. Well, duelers now have to have their eyes in the back of their heads, just like I do.
Server links are a lot of fun, as people I used to play with in lower tiers now I get to play against, so yea, we pick each other out of the crowd when we can. New communities, not 1 but 2 TS servers to hop onto and play with. New people to run with, just awesome stuff. I hope there are many more links to come.
Overall its a blast and lots of stuff is moving in the right direction. There are still things to tweak and improve, but so far so good.
I read a bunch of other posts on this forum, 2 types in particular that have stood out are:
1. Ques on the overstacker servers
2. “I wanna be on dead maps so don’t want the forced transfers” kinda complaints.
The way I see it, yea, as other people have pointed out, the overstacker servers should have not been linked at all, since they already overstacked. There is just no reason for them to get even more players, as in zip, zero, nada. Actually, they should have just gotten completely locked for both transfers and links.
As for the 2nd group, you guys do not represent your servers. I came from low tiers, been through being stuck T8-T6 NA. The 5 of you or whatever is left per each of those servers have absolutely no right to hold back entire communities and their populations. Do any of you have any idea whatsoever about how many total people have left WVW and this game entirely because of being stuck like that ? To give you just some tiny bit of an idea, my old T8 guild was about 1300 PVX players in its prime, out of that maybe about 350ish consistant WVW players, we could easily que up over a map, fill out TS etc. Almost all these people are gone now and almost all because of the population and especially nightcapping crap.
And this is just 1 guild, on 1 server, there were so many others. So unless the 5 or 10 of you are prepared to personally fork out some hard $$$$$ for all these people that don’t want to be stuck with you or because of you, you got zilch. And I’d rather lose you, then the rest of the playerbase.
In addition, hope you make enough money in gem sales for a-net to actually justify runing seperate servers for you.
Things I would like to see done:
Score adjustments, in particular I think that PPK values are too low in comparison to PPT and of course off-time scoring adjustments, as well as additional “outnumbered” adjustments.
Rewards are great, but we could really use a WVW specific track, and WVW specific skins.
Servers being linked, should have some way of preserving an optional “tag” that at least lets people easier identify who is who on the fly.
And of course, the BL map. Even with the recent changes, the desert BL is just a horrible oververtical map. I have a feeling that a lot of the que issues would solve themselves or improve quite a lot, if we had more, better maps to play on (overstacker servers excluded for the obvious). A lot of people just hate the vertical map.
