Guild Wars 2

There are some really big flaws with the design of WvW and I’ve yet to see any news on these mechanics being fixed or even discussed by development.

There are a lot of servers dieing because guilds are transferring to servers that can contend with better coverage. If transferring is the only way to find a fair match up then that speaks pretty loudly about how flawed WvW is in terms of game design.

There’s a lack of “progress” within WvW in that each day feels the same, you upgrade a keep, go to bed and log on the next day to do the same thing. Over and over again. Every week is the same, you upgrade keeps then lose them overnight or vice versa.

There’s no way to progress up the server ranks without massively campaigning for guilds to come to your server, or offering to pay guilds their transfer fee.

You bust your butt in WvW all week and have nothing to show for it but a title, there are no unique items or armor, you get a tittle that only enemies can see.

Lower levels are actually a hindrance in WvW because they offer the enemy easy chances to rally, so a lot of “hardcore” players ultimately end up shunning them away.

And finally, short of map completion there is very little offered to get people interested in WvW, you either like it or hate it and the game is divided between WvW and PvW.

you cant stop guilds from moving servers, if they want to move, whatever their reason, esepcially if its finding a server thats more into wvw rather than say pve then they are free to do so, it is not wvws fault per seh but simply human nature and the ever changing reality we live in

Just because you haven’t heard word about it, doesn’t mean that nothing is being done.

Look, you bought a game to play. It only cost a few quid and you’ve already had hours of fun playing it.

I’ve had dinners that were more expensive.

If you think you can do better you’re welcome to hire a few programmers and build one yourself. Then you can have it just exactly how you want.

Interesting point about rallying, I wonder if no rallying would improve WvW. I’ve always thought rallying to be a bit of a cheesey aspect to WvW, I’d much rather see healing do some reviving than a rally.

I believe it would give an advantage to smaller zergs and also make rezzing more important. Unfortunately it would also spoil those 1v1 fights where they both go down but one wins and gets back up. Maybe reduce the rally limit on a death?