Guild Wars 2

Warning: Wall of text below. Just click the link if you don’t wanna read it here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Map-completion-separation-PvE-WvW/first

This thread is in the Suggestions forum, but since it does invlve WvW, I thought I’d bring attention to it here as well.

I had the idea of giving WvW map its own completion bar separate from the map of Tyria(PvE), and having completion of each giving you a Gift of Exploration, so you could get one from completing the WvW map, and/or one from completing Tyria’s map.

I think it would help both sides. PvE players who want a legendary weapon could do so without having to clog up WvW, and WvW players could get one from completing that map, thus saving them the long trouble of filling Tyria’s map if they don’t care about that. And those who just want to fill up one or the other don’t have to see an incomplete bar for that map, constantly taunting them, just like that empty chest thing on the login screen used to do.

So…thoughts? Feedback? I’d really like some. You should probably post it in the thread linked at the top there, or they’ll just merge it and it’ll be messy!

Sorry about the text wall. :/

:o a sandbox continent!

So… You want a gift of exploration for completing four maps, while everyone else completes (vague calculation) 25 much larger maps? WvW is the easiest, you can just wait until your server is the color you need, then run in and complete the map. This would not be fair in the slightest.

rhapsody.3615:

So… You want a gift of exploration for completing four maps, while everyone else completes (vague calculation) 25 much larger maps?

I don’t. Others might.

WvW is the easiest, you can just wait until your server is the color you need, then run in and complete the map. This would not be fair in the slightest.

That only works, provided..

1: The random rotation give you each of the three different colors and doesn’t stick your server on one color for weeks on end, or excludes one color from them. That still happens for some, even now.

2: The other servers don’t just swarm your server’s borderland/Eternal Battlegrounds territory and take them before you can get the POIs/vistas and/or if they’re nice enough to let you get those map points (which almost never happens).

Between those factors, it can take about as long, maybe even longer to get the whole WvW map, compared to PvE which is longer due to more maps but can be mostly done at your own pace (except for some spot around certain god statues in Orr).

And it’s not like this would make legendary weapons that much easier to get, and the gift of exploration only has one thing it’s used for (besides selling to a vendor for 12.8 silver…)

It would help both PvEers and WvWers. What’s so bad?

It’s been suggested since day 1. And yes, it is actually a win-win. But I guess this is one of the ways the devs “entice” players into WVW.