Guild Wars 2

With the update to end culling issues coming up at the end of the month, my guild and I have been talking a lot about WvW and what could be better about it, make it more fun, and not be a roflstomp against the server with more people. I’m sure some of these have been discussed but here they are.

Points for kills
This makes a persons individual contribution to the war more important, and can be another number in the equation for determining a servers rank. While sometimes it will still give the larger server an advantage, in my current match up I have noticed that against the much larger server, we are capable of killing at least 10 of theirs per 1 of ours. They have more, but the skill level is much lower. Just because they have more bodies to knock down tower walls should not give them the win. Implementing a kill count would give the team short on players, but higher concentrated skill, a chance.

Go back to 3 day games
Every week on the WvW reset all servers are packed full of people trying to get a lead at the start of the week, only for that enthusiasm to drop as the days go by and the larger server gains their 100k point lead on the other 2. At that point, people pop in to do some dailies but that’s it. Its discouraging to see such a huge lead. A 3 day game allows for play long enough for one team to become dominant before the reset without leaving the losing teams bored or incredibly out-manned for the majority of the week.

Opt-in name showing
There are obvious reasons for why some might not want their name seen. Harassment, getting targeted because of your reputation(good or bad), and the idea that this is a big war, you don’t know your enemies by name. On the other hand, some of us are big boys and don’t care about some 12 year old kitten talking. I would love to be able to build up my reputation in other servers, for them to fear me when they see my name because they know their lives are about to be taken. We could PM congrats on a good 1v1 fight or setup another when it gets interrupted. I think a good way to do this would be by only allowing those who opt-in themselves to see other opt-iners names. There’s always a block feature if there gets to be too much harassment and you can always opt back out.

I’m interested in some other ideas as well. I would just like to see more personal achievement and recognition. It is a big chaotic war between worlds, yes, but I’m still playing a game, and a game that wants to build a big eSport around its PvP. The ideas above are a start.