I do a lot of WvW (I have 2129 world ability points) and I personally don’t think we need any more maps. If anything, it would be nice to see the normal WvW maps get a lick of paint (I.E. improve the looks of Eternal Battlegrounds and the 3 borderlands) and give them a few improvements – such as adding in features from EOTM (wurm tunnels/reactors etc.). I think if we add more maps, the normal WvW maps will become even more empty than they already are.
I remember Anet saying EOTM was just supposed to be something to do while waiting to enter WvW, but look at how much more popular it is – it’s also taken a large portion of players away from the WvW borderlands (as you would expect by adding more maps), and there’s good reason for why EOTM is more popular:
Better rewards (more badges, more karma, more events, more players, more loot bags)
Better scenery and opportunities (I mean c’mon, the place looks epic and there’s plenty of opportunities to fear people off the edge, pull people off the edge, blow up bridges, blast an entire zerg off a bridge with the super cannon etc. – this is FUN and to be fair, we don’t see a lot of this in the normal borderlands).
Scorpions blowing up walls – everyone loves portable siege, but this takes it to another level. And sure, we have golems, but they don’t have a teleport skill OR a stealth skill. Could scorps be improved on? Certainly.
It would also be nice to see a lot more variety of world abilities in EOTM – Turret Defence, Scorp Mastery (the first rank being a speed improvement – because they’re so slow, people don’t usually bother with them any more), Super cannon defence, for example.
We also need something to use our badges of honor on. I have 45k badges right now (and a few months back I spent another 45k badges), and I can’t get rid of them fast enough (though to be fair, EOTM and the Living Story is basically all I do in GW2).
There’s hardly anything good to spend them on, like armor skins (and I’m sorry but the ones we have for WvW don’t count because they are pretty cruddy, and cost next to nothing – there’s a good reason no one wears them) or weapon skins (mists weapons don’t count also because it’s only temporary content and the amount of tickets you receive to buy them with are based on which server you just happened to be aligned with at the time – never mind how hard you played during the tournament or how much effort you put in).
^^^ note here when I say ‘temporary content’, I mean that if you want one of the mists weapon skins, you have to be on a very good server at the time of participating in the tournament – and if you don’t have enough tickets to buy a skin? You have to wait until the next tournament, whenever that may be – that isn’t cool. It would be like taking away all the dungeon reward vendors (for all you dungeoneers out there) or the sPvP reward track (for all you sPvP’ers), and then bringing it back every few months. Though at least you could earn dungeon tokens and whatnot despite the lack of a reward vendor. We have to WAIT to participate in the tournament, and then when it does arrive, HOPE our server does well enough to get us 1 skin (if that). This is what I mean by temporary
tl;dr
What I’d like to see is:
WvW borderlands, Eternal Battlegrounds, and EOTM incorporating aspects of each other to make things more fun (wurm tunnels for wvw borderlands and eternal battlegrounds, for example)
Better Rewards for our badges of honor – like unique skins (look at the branded humans and charr – their armor would be AMAZING as WvW/EOTM skin rewards – I shall include a few pics below). And things like ascended armor and weapon chests – these could cost 40 gold + 40,000 badges + 10 laurels each. That way it doesn’t ruin crafting (cause you’re still having to pay gold, laurels, and badges = time and effort), rather, it would give more ways people can obtain ascended gear.
A continuous reward track for our efforts (like the ones sPvP have)
If those were to be implemented, I would be a happy camper
Forever a supporter of more male skimpy armor
