Guild Wars 2

I appreciate the desire to add something new to WvW, but masteries simply aren’t the solution. I honestly don’t care about any of them. Sure, some add nice quality of life improvements, but WvW as a whole is in dire need of much more than gimmicky supply bonuses and larger skill radius for siege.

Please stop devoting so much time to balancing mastery lines, dreaming up new lines, and touting each new mastery as exciting new content. It just isn’t exciting.

I am not thinking to myself “WOW! new treb mastery, I can’t wait to log in to WvW now!” I doubt many players are.

The new nodes introduced in today’s dev stream are a step in the right direction. In my opinion though, adding sPvP capture nodes to existing borderlands is basically just a band-aid when the patient (WvW) is bleeding to death.

WvW needs the same kind of exciting new features that sPvP and PVE have been graced with for months. Anything else falls short. Masteries fall way short.

Masteries have accounted for the vast majority of WvW updates over the life of the game while failing to address the real problems with WvW. Masteries are not new content, they are skill tweaks, nothing more.