Guild Wars 2

Hey,

Ok basically I wanted to target two points here.

1) The fact that WvW has a TINY player base compared to PvE, especially real WvW (which is fights>PPT) – which then results in a lot of patches ignoring that loyal WvW playerbase and giving living world or sPvP rewards/patches. I mean, the last big patch we had was ranks + the lake removal in borderlands resulting in the destruction of the quaggan population residing there!!!
I think you can literally count on two hands the amount of good WvW guilds out there, most, if not all, in the gold/silver league such as TA / Dius / DF / TuP etc.

2) The fact that a lot of people, unless they’re focusing on world completion, don’t actually make the most of what are incredibly designed maps. I mean, stunning views are being missed completely because a LOT of players just want to skip the grind and get to gaming as a level 80. Some people don’t even see a lot of the maps because they can never afford to buy legendary and WvW/sPvP their way up, or even craft.

WHY is PvE and WvW like a world apart, why can they not be more entwined to balance out the player-bases as, lets face it, WvWvW is pretty unique, and was, I thought, Gw2’s trump card. Hell, I only play the game because of WvW.

I’d like to mention edge of the mists was a good idea in my opinion but handled in the wrong way. What I mean by this is that I believe AN should have made Edge of the Mists use the current WvW maps + bring WvW to Krytan, to Divinities Reach, to Burnign steppes etc. how AWESOME would it be not just to have different opponents every week but to have different maps too! Think about all the unused space! Think about Divinities reach being split into 3 sections + being fought over, or 3 abandoned castles in far shiverpeaks suddenly being used and fought over etc.

I just think by introducing more maps (in the form of EoTM) you#’re just making the gap between PvE and WvW/sPvP even bigger.

I also believe, as does most of my guild, that the concept of GvG’s are dying. You brought us the big arena in Obsidian Sanctum which is great but thats it! GvG has existed since the game release and thats all we have so far! If you look at the amount of guilds that wanted to GvG closer to game release and now, there has been a huge decrease, lots of guilds disbanded + interest lost.

Please try and remember the little guys!
Thanks!
Hawkeii – Gandara EU

You made a mistake in your first point already. You are refering GvG as the real WvW, while it’s not. WvW is really hard to descripe as it’s more of a sandbox PvP where there is pretty much only one thing that ties it all together, everyones favorite, PPT. In the game modes eye, nothing else matters than PPT and War points, how you make War points, is up to players.

Now, let’s leave that behind before this thread derails away from the suggestion you made and is a huge pile of flaming hatred.

PvE maps as WvW maps. While it would be cool, it would be really hard to balance them out and remove all glitches etc. There is way more glitches in PvE than in WvW because there they don’t matter that much. People just don’t speak about them that much, because of that previous point. They are more fun than harmful.

Altough ANet did introduce EotM as the place for them to try out new stuff for WvW before they implement them in the WvW, so considering that they could try it out in there. And yeah, would be kinda cool to see WvW action in the streets of Divinity Reach

I don’t mean to imply GvG = WvW, I’m just saying that there is now a very small amount of players, like Wales compared to Russia, that play GvG’s because AN are not feeding them anything, literally NOTHING since game relase except for a big arena.

May I point out, the game name is GUILD WARS. Seriously? No Guild v Guild features at all? Come on AN.

I understand PvE maps as WvW maps would be an enormous update + take a lot of work. I also understand that they’re losing revenue, but thats why it’s even more crucial to developed more big features. Plus they’re hitting Asian Countries which they usually do well on so hire some minions and get something done!