Guild Wars 2

The current requirements to get what I call the “Golden Cookie” for map completion are a little ridiculous. Having WvW as part of map completion was a dumb idea from the start; however, there are several ways it can be fixed. Simply removing WvW from map complete entirely, allowing players to guest to another server and remain neutral, or moving the stuff to neutral areas of the map are all viable options that Anet should consider. Bottom line, WvW is not meant to be an extension of PVE, and that is what having map completion on it is doing. I guess my overall question is, do you guys think Anet will be changing this or is it something they probably don’t care about? Feel free to post any other ideas that you think would fix this.

Wvw is meant to be an extension of pve.

What a bad kid, that can’t even get Map completion in the easiest PvE environment: WvW. I mean, there are only hundreds of people fighting to take control of other areas constantly, so I do not see the big deal.

Given that since release they’ve added an additional WvW requirement to legendary crafting (namely, rank to buy a Gift of Battle), I doubt they’re going to change this.

I just finished my world completion the other day, with EB being the final map I needed. Now, I’m just about as big of a care bear as you can find in GW2 when it comes to playing against other players. I have a high frustration threshold, I don’t like attacking players, and avoided WvW for ages because it seemed like it was mean. I dreaded doing world completion, and I was especially dismayed when I found out that Season Two was happening, and was going to take two months.

What helped me was diving into WvW. At first, I went with the intent of popping into non-queued maps, running around on the margins, getting whatever was up, and generally trying to stay out of everyone’s way. Then…well, there were sentries around, and I could solo them, so I did that when I found one. Ditto dolyaks. I mean, it’s not that different than PvE.

Camps were similar. I couldn’t really reliably solo them, but if I was running with my boyfriend, we could take it, easy. And, hey, then I could get the objective, and I got some shiny crystals! Not so bad at all. Sometimes we’d run into our zerg…and we’d follow. Because zergs take places that two people can’t. We took keeps, and towers, and…it was fun. Around this time, I started going after single players if I saw them, or pairs if I was with my friend.

By the time the season started, I had two maps completed. I also had a general idea of what WvW was supposed to be like—the strategy, the maps, the tactics. It was around this time that I revamped my mesmer for WvW (I’d been playing ranger) and started playing in EOTM…and sometimes in the borderlands…

Now I’m hooked on WvW. It’s gone from being a chore to being fun. I think that’s part of the reason this map completion stuff is required. I would’ve never set foot in WvW if I didn’t have to to finish my legendary; now I’m willing to do it on my own. The requirement is therefore a good thing, at least in my estimation.

What ArenaNet could do in order to make it a bit less annoying is to rotate colors more. Being in a position where you’re never, ever green, or where you’re always green, is really pretty annoying. The former especially; you can’t necessarily take the objectives that you need, and it could be months before, say, you have the proper Garrison. I know that on TC, it’s been ages since we’ve been green.

Tornadoaustin.1496:

The current requirements to get what I call the “Golden Cookie” for map completion are a little ridiculous. Having WvW as part of map completion was a dumb idea from the start; however, there are several ways it can be fixed. Simply removing WvW from map complete entirely, allowing players to guest to another server and remain neutral, or moving the stuff to neutral areas of the map are all viable options that Anet should consider. Bottom line, WvW is not meant to be an extension of PVE, and that is what having map completion on it is doing. I guess my overall question is, do you guys think Anet will be changing this or is it something they probably don’t care about? Feel free to post any other ideas that you think would fix this.

How many PVE maps (compared to 4) does a WvWer have to go and complete for his Map completion?

Getting world completion isn’t supposed to be all easy… That’s why the reward is worth the trouble (Kids these days)… -.- This challenge is only meant to be accomplished by OG players.
If they would’ve made it like you or your kind would’ve wanted it, the value of all items would drop even further…
Legendary ’cause of reasons
[2 Gifts of Exploration]

Zero sympathy for PvE whiners

It’s called a gift of exploration, go explore. WvWers have to do 60 thousand different PvE crap to get legendaries, you guys just need to get some POIs and get ported to the top of jumping puzzles.

Tornadoaustin.1496:

Having WvW as part of map completion was a dumb idea from the start.

I think it was a boring idea to include PvE maps into map-completion. I mean I’ve WvW-Maps complete on all my chars, but only 2 have total map-completion, all these boring PvE maps to complete, bah!

ykyk.2740:

It’s called a gift of exploration, go explore.

This. Making a legendary is not only a PvE farm thing. I don’t know from where people took the idea that making a legendary is just a PvE thing. You’re supposed to do legendary deeds in the entire game. And going to WvW is one of them.