Guild Wars 2

So the latest jumping puzzle fest, The Lost Shores, happens over a weekend. Starts on a Friday, totally on, around and through the new server WvW matches. This will take people out of WvW, negatively impacting the participation there.

The last Pumpkin Fest offered nothing towards bettering the “end game” mechanics of WvW.

A persistent 24/7/365 experience, such as WvWvW, should be priortized over a one time a year new jumping puzzle, some new skins and maybe some turkeys flying around…

ANet took the orbs, zergs are super crazy, still seeing candy corn pop up and disappear on WvW maps, rendering bombs, server reboots due to non-WvWvW issues….

My question is “When will WvW get some love?”

Stabio.2815:

A persistent 24/7/365 experience, such as WvWvW, should be priortized over a one time a year new jumping puzzle, some new skins and maybe some turkeys flying around…

I disagree. Completely.

You honestly believe that a persistent, on-going, constant wuvwuv which rewards Winners and Losers with NOTHING should be honestly prioritized over holiday events or more specifically, limited time events??

cannot disagree more and i love wuvwuv

The Lost Shore will have a greater impact on wuvwuv than Mad King because this is a one-off event. Miss it and that’s it. You don’t get weeks to participate.. it’s one of a kind

given the option, what do you think people will do?

wuvwuv or a one time limited event

Its a question of player to player priority.

You cant base everything around the mind of one player. I also doubt that the Lost event will take up too much time. It will probably be something along the lines of MK popping up in LA, then you can do Lost when you want, since it will change the world and probably bring a new zone into the game (without Risen I sure hope).

Expect Tarnished Coast participation in WvW to be way way way down for the duration of the event.

I love Tarnished Coast. Best server community ever!

CharliePrince.2071

“You honestly believe that a persistent, on-going, constant wuvwuv which rewards Winners and Losers with NOTHING should be honestly prioritized over holiday events or more specifically, limited time events??”

I think we are seeing “reward” differently. My reward for WvWvW is the feeling of accomplishment of helping lay down a siege and taking a keep, scouting ahead for a possible sneak attack, running supplies or escorting a dolyak to make sure a keep gets its upgrades. Fighting along side my guildies against overwhelming odds and only sometimes coming out on top, but having a good time while doing that. I get that every night when I log in. So to say it rewards nothing is innaccurate.

What I have seen so far, and I know the game has not been out for long, is these once a year or even once ever more only offer some silver and maybe a couple of exotics, that my class cannot even use btw, that is of less value to me.

TBH – if this is a one time event that opens up some new contnent…I can see the importance of that….but

ANet is doing a rapid fire 3 months in a row PvE content while they do still have alot of work to do on the WvWvW front.

I do not know how resources behind the scenes are being distributed, but WvWvW is currently on the short stick.

Thanks

Stabio.2815:

CharliePrince.2071
ANet is doing a rapid fire 3 months in a row PvE content while they do still have alot of work to do on the WvWvW front.

I do not know how resources behind the scenes are being distributed, but WvWvW is currently on the short stick.

If I were to guess I would guess that ArenaNet put more resources into SPvP than WvW. Since release I suspect they’ve been a little surprised at how popular, overall, WvW was and were a little unprepared for it.

The lack of vision for WvW versus SPvP suggests this to me. They had plans for SPvP since day 1. For WvW they had no plans other than reactive bug fixes.

I am hoping against hope that they have changed their internal resource management to place more resources onto the WvW team. But, I kinda doubt it. We haven’t seen any vision or direction for WvW other than bug fixing and the bug fixing is slow in coming as well.

I would love to see them change up how points are calculated by tying them directly to population ratios. I would love to see progression in terms of equipment skins added to WvW vendors. And I wanna see.. but.. uhh.. right, wrong thread! Sorry

Back to Lost Shore Impact: Yes, there will probably be a drop in WvW participation across board. Some servers will feel it more than others (hello, I’m looking at you Tarnished Coast!) but it’s only for a few days. And, I dunno how long this Shore stuff will take so maybe the impact will be minimal.

SneakyErvin.3056:

Its a question of player to player priority.

You cant base everything around the mind of one player. I also doubt that the Lost event will take up too much time. It will probably be something along the lines of MK popping up in LA, then you can do Lost when you want, since it will change the world and probably bring a new zone into the game (without Risen I sure hope).

The lost event has a couple of one time only things that I imagine will be those cutscene type things, but it also has a one time only couple of hours long event chain on the 18th