Guild Wars 2

We’ve had Golem week, and portable cannons. It’s time for a new experiment and I nominate….

Night capping week!

Seriously – why doesn’t WvW have night time? The rest of Tyria has it.
So I propose a week or two of beta test before making this a permanent WvW game feature. Let’s have a 2 hour day-night cycle.

Day is the same as we have now.

Night has visibility reduced to melee range (so you can follow someone if close enough), unless you are carrying a light source such as a torch, then visibility could be further. All NPC guards would carry a torch, and all structures would be torch lit (perhaps with Superior torches with a brighter light and longer reach). Torches etc already exist in game so it’s just a matter of turning down the brightness. I would maintain a low level of “star” lighting for the basic visibility so it’s not pitch black.

Imagine:

• Hills with torches all along the walls…
• Watching Sunset over Garrison…
• Greeting Sunrise from the top of Stonemist…

Before you QQ about it, yes I know a whole zerg could put away their torches and creep through the darkness to suddenly “appear” outside a keep. So what? Mass invisibility or a lack of scouts has the same effect. Look on the bright side – we could all really night cap once every two hours and things could be a lot more exciting!

There’s night in wvw, just hard to tell because “night” is dumbed down to "slightly more shady time. "

“Slightly more shady”? SLIGHTLY shady?!

Really?!!!

Where’s the fun in “slightly shady”?

I like this idea, still have fun with the blackout area in Obsidian Sanctum, wouldn’t want it quite THAT dark, but more obvious than it is now would be nice, I honestly didn’t even know we had night time in WvW, since I don’t notice a difference -_-’

Better watch your wallet even more, all those sneaky teefs in the nights.

I do like this idea though, unless you want it really pitch black.

Can we make this a thing only after I get nightfury? =P

I would seriously like this by the way.
Added satisfaction for me if for every 5 people within a short radius the game generated 1 communal torch effect and 2 communal pitchforks.

DeeSystm.1256:

Yuffi.2430:

“Slightly more shady”? SLIGHTLY shady?!

Really?!!!

Where’s the fun in “slightly shady”?

There’s no fun it it but if you end up in a forum of a survival game you’ll see how hard people cry about any amount of having to deal with vision restricted by darkness, add to that everyone’s hate for culling, which you’d be asking to essentially reintroduce for about 50% of play time. Then add into that the roaming scene which is just conDi tank or ooc run and burst builds, the vast majority of casuals would just camp towers or not even play. That’s how I see people reaction anyways.

you can use AC weapons to know when it night time i use to run force + night sigil for 15% dmg mod on my thief easily 1 shot people with out even trying lol

I do like this plan. Full shade. All slight.

Of course, as I see this in my head, now I want the Darkness field for Necromancers to actually make clouds of shadow, in order for an entire zerg to look like pure evil creeping across the field of battle.

Turn down your gamma you’ll get night time instead of slightly shady XD