Guild Wars 2

ANet Developers,

Please provide shrines in Alpine Borderland Map.

1) Place them away from supply camps, towers, and keeps.
2) Reduce the number of NPC guards at the shrine.
3) Continue to leave them as un-contested when attacked.
4) Scatter a lot of shrines to provide many opportunities for attack.

Shrines help provide a soft target that allow players to jab at each other before they really start throwing hard punches.

Edit – Only want the shrine itself. Do NOT want the surrounding shrine mechanics.

Diku

p.s.
Please add your support & +1 if you like this idea.

Lolwat? You are describing camps, not shrines. Alpine got bloodlust caps, that’s good enough.

You do realize that Anet wouldnt settle for only shrines, they’d have to bring over all that other crap. We know they would kitten this up if you start demanding shrines. Spikes and fog around Alpine garri making fps go from 100 to 20. kittening lovely. Because we all kittening love that kitten.

So my answer isnt +1, is -100000000000000000000.

@Dawdler

Some aspects from the Desert BL do work for WvW. Some do not…Shrines in this case…I believe works better.

I found shrine captures to be better “jabs” at your enemy than bloodlust captures. Just my opinion…

More players in my opinion did shrine captures over bloodlust captures based on my observation.

I’m a havoc pug commander…and I tend to prefer capturing shrines before taking on camps, tower, and eventually keeps.

Capping shrines allows me to test to see if the enemy is active on the map.

Diku

p.s.
I’m only asking for Shrines in this post. So please don’t introduce other aspects that I’d rather not discuss or offer an opinion on atm.

I think they did say the shrines were not going to the ABL. How they’re going to handle the Daily and Bloodlust was never discussed but they were made aware of the possible conflict in advance.

PS: WB Diku!!!

@Dawdler

You can disagree with this idea & I can respect why you feel that way. We’ve been burned many…many…many…many…many…many…many…many…many…many…times.

Let’s agree to disagree then…Peace.

@Loosmaster

ANet’s decision to bring back Alpine was excellent, but there are some aspects of the Desert BL that I believe can be re-used.

Some things like the Laser event…shudders…let’s not bring that horror show back.

It’s frustrating, but ANet does read our posts & takes suggestions to heart.

We need to be careful with what we ask for as Dawdler is saying.

Anyway…thanks for the greeting.

Diku

p.s.
Only asking for shrines.

Diku.2546:

@Dawdler

You can disagree with this idea & I can respect why you feel that way. We’ve been burned many…many…many…many…many…many…many…many…many…many…times.

Let’s agree to disagree then…Peace.

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@Loosmaster

ANet’s decision to bring back Alpine was excellent, but there are some aspects of the Desert BL that I believe can be re-used.

Some things like the Laser event…shudders…let’s not bring that horror show back.

It’s frustrating, but ANet does read our posts & takes suggestions to heart.

We need to be careful with what we ask for as Dawdler is saying.

Anyway…thanks for the greeting.

Diku

p.s.
Only asking for shrines.

We don’t want the shrine mechanics on Alpine. Stealth areas, popping walls and perma cripple, no fall damage traits and lava portals can stay on desert.

@Aezyr

So what would you offer to provide a soft target bigger than a sentry, but not as important as a camp?

Shrines fit this role perfectly.

It provided a soft target that was un-contested when attacked.

In boxing…fighters jab at each other…

More jabs…then eventually leading up to hard punches.

Shrines perfectly fit this jab role that encourages the WvW fight progression.

Without jabs…we’re going to be stuck with camping behavior that basically kills the fight progression when you’re outnumbered.

p.s.
Clarifying…Only want the shrine itself…not the other mechanics around it.

Aezyr…Really good point you made earlier. Don’t want the surrounding shrine mechanics in Alpine.

Dawdler…maybe this is what you were trying to say…if so…my bad.