Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed a problem with WvW and guilds. When players were restricted to stay on their home servers and were only allowed to visit other servers guilds consisted mainly of players from the same server. But now that players can join any guild on any server team work on WvW among guild members have become a problem as many guilds have members from several different servers.

I haven’t done any WvW yet, because I do not want to do it without friends/guild members, I’m pretty sure I will find it boring alone. I do not want to use LFG either, because I want to play with friends and I want to avoid the ‘kitten’ factor, meaning teaming up with players that go bonkers on me when I don’t do as they want.

Back to the issue at hand…
With WvW being set up as it is now and guilds having players from all servers I have run into a problem with getting to play WvW the way I like. From what I can tell there are no other players that does WvW that are from the same server as me in the guild I am a part of. And so I am still forced to use LFG if I want to team up with anyone in WvW. And so WvW wont happen for me.

I have a suggestion that can solve this issue, but it requires going away from the World vs. World concept. Instead of it being server vs server as it is now it can be changed more along the lines of PvP games like Battlefield. But instead of it being one team vs an other you keep the three team concept.
Instead of it being server restricted, open it up so that a player from any server can join any of the three teams and instead of it being called World vs World you just call it Mist Wars.
The different teams can either just be simple Red, Blue and Green team, or you can go deeper into it and have several different maps with different factions, like a fight between Blood Legion, Flame Legion and Separatists.
A change like this will likely help on queue times and it enables players from the same guild to do it together regardless of what server they belong to.

As for WvW itself… Maybe heed to the name of the game and make a game mode that replace World vs. World with Guild Wars, a game mode where XX numbers of players from one guild fight against the same amount of players from 1-2 other guilds for map domination. I think this can become quite popular among the guilds as it allows them to test out their skills against other guilds in a far more tactical battle than Mist Wars will offer.

Wouldn’t it honestly just be easier to join a dedicated WvW guild from your server, or transfer to a server that has them if yours don’t? That way you have a solid group to fight with, all on the same world.

If you have some specific friends you want to play with, you could also reach an agreement and transfer together to a specific server, or you could transfer to theirs / they to yours. That’s what everyone does when they want to WvW together.

Really? Change an entire game mode that you never bothered to try out just to make you happy? Have you ever considered the possibility of actually giving it a chance, you could always make friends in WvW and get to know the player community like many others have.

Anet please dont take advice from these ppl.

Okay.. Sure, maybe that was a bit over the top, but as for changing server, no, too expensive. As for joining a WvW focused guild of players from my own server, no thanks, I like the people in my guild very much. But…
There’s another way of fixing the issue, one that wouldn’t ruin the game mode.

A change to what world you fight for depending on how you enter WvW.
If you enter alone or in a party of players from the same server, then you fight for your server. But if you enter WvW in a party made up of guild members from the same guild that come from different servers, then you fight for the guild’s set server and not your own.

Ever heard of server stacking? Your alternative suggestion would cause this and every wvw’er knows server stacking sucks.

The problem is not WvW. The source of the problem is the PvE megaservers. Pity WvW never had a game designer able to defend the game mode from such designs.

Since your guild is a PvE guild I assume only a handful of guild members are attracted to WvW, and, I assume, you are all swimming in gold, it would be a trivial effort to collectively pay for the transfers of those few members. Target a low population server and it won’t even sting.

I’ll give you a tissue if you want?