Guild Wars 2

I was really excited when I read a pre-patch interview with the developers that stated that we’d be able to earn World XP doing all the things we normally do in WuvWuv. I thought that that was fantastic news because it meant that I could just play normally and go up the ranks like anyone else.

But I logged in today, and was excited to do the things I normally do, which is go around repairing doors and walls, or building those burning oils on a freshly captured keep, only to quickly find out that I wouldn’t get any World XP for doing so. And that’s hugely disappointing for me, because my goal in WvW isn’t to be the biggest baddest commander/strategist, I just want to someday be able to play my engineer and have the title of “Ultimate Technician.” (I’m still at 0% on that overall, :P)

And I can’t even honestly claim to understand if you say it’s because you were worried about players exploiting it to gain rewards faster, because it’s not like we can damage our own keeps or destroy our own siege. There are far worse exploitation problems right now, because all the players on my server quickly learned that you got more WXP if you let the enemy server take our keeps and then just take them back after they’re gone.

And I think it’s a shame, because I think this update is brilliant, and it’s something that WvW has needed to help keep players engaged and interested. But it’s hard for me to really enjoy the new content when the only way I can get the WvW upgrades I want is to play in ways I don’t really enjoy.

yeah.. GW2 doesn’t rewards support role much… even in ZvZ fight, you don’t get as much loot as those pure dps get if you play support role….