Guild Wars 2

One of the things that is dragging players away from WvW is the fact that there are so many new materials that you cannot get in WvW by any means. To make the new ascended stuff you have to have a LOT of these new mats. To upgrade guild halls you need a LOT of these new mats.

I have wondered how much this has contributed to the departure of players we’ve seen since HoT dropped.

Would putting some of these new mats on the desert borderlands encourage players to come back to the mode, and populate these new maps?

The three main culprits I’ve noticed are airship oil, auric dust, and ley line sparks, but I know there are many many more, such as coarse sand, flax, etc.

They added the ore, dust, and fragments before after much moaning and groaning. Would they add the new materials as well? I know that if I could get these things through WvW I would much rather do that than spend my time running around in PvE-land.

Its probably one of several reasons players have left WvW. But you should also consider that these materials are available only in specific HoT map, and thse HoT maps require large number of players too to complete the meta, gain xp and drops. Even now, HoT subforum is full of people complaining those maps are empty and they can not do anything. If those materials would be available in WvW, more players would start to avoid HoT maps, making it even more difficult for remaining players there.

There is number of things anet could do to improve current situation:

• make those materials tradeable
• increase drop rate
• reduce stupidly high costs of GH upgrades

I guess it’s part of the problem but not the biggest part by far. Basically you sacrifice 1 or 2 raid days for pve. It’s annoying but shouldn’t make a huge difference in the end.

PS: anet took 3 years to fix wvw achievements. Let’s make bets on Guild hall upgrades…

I think the guild upgrade changes may have turned some people off of the game. HoT seems to have brought a lot of disappointment to an already bored WvWvW playerbase. I know it’s made me look at this company differently as they have had the nerve to take away what players have earned and put them behind a pay wall and then a grind wall and act like its new content. Small guilds are fresh out of luck if they want to run a +5 supply ever again.