Guild Wars 2

And again a cry for help. Anet doesn’t want to listen and doing what they wanna do. I remember the day’s we had some good fights in WvW sadly those day’s are over. U can’t leave a waypoint without getting demolished by a huge zerg just grinding around and farming kills. It makes me just wanna click the X button and go play with some cards. U can’t have it all but this is screwed up for weeks we are matched up with Vabbi ( Poor Poor Vabbi ), Arborstone and FoW and now we get RoS. 95% of the time RoS has 95% of the maps… just because they can afford to have a zerg on every map and probably even have to que up for it… But hey i can write whatever i want, it won’t change a thing i’m even wondering if Anet even reads this to the end… For now WvW is a No Go for me and i realy hope things are changing ( Changing in the good way not like that bloodlust stuff )

A very very sad and disapointed player.

Is from ROS; it’s no fun being on a side controlling everything either and believe me it’s a rarity for our server. In recent times ROS has encountered similar issues as Vabbi & WRS are facing at the moment. Server match ups are out of anyone’s control plus this seems to be a problem for all tiers. ROS has also experienced an influx of players over the last three days (see other threads about this).
Last time we played Vabbi & FOW exactly the same thing happened, ROS had total control of all maps the majority of the week. As stated in other threads in these forums perhaps they need to start merging the small population servers or come up with a way to balance world v world matches out.

The state of WvW is pathetic, and it will only get worse. I can’t wait for ESO to come out, at least they will try.

Are you guys really saying it’s an Incentives problem? …and people are stacking just to farm??

I am on FoW and it seems that this week we have been placed against Arborstone and Dzagonur, a similar situation has happened with us with most of us holed up in a single tower on our own borderlands or staying at the citadel while DE just stomps around.

I do have to say though last week was rather fun, even Vabbi seemed to be doing their thing. Battles felt like battles, but today things are all kinds of messed up.

mako.2431:

The state of WvW is pathetic, and it will only get worse. I can’t wait for ESO to come out, at least they will try.

We don’t know that. It might an awesome game, it might be as zergy and terrible as WvW here.

Open world pvp games have mechanics that usually encourage big zergs where no skill is required.

From all the mmos that have open world pvp and are not ancient, the only game that had mechanics which encouraged solo/small group play as much as raids was the early days of Lotro.

I like small group/solo play very much (and that’s what I’m always doing), but considering what the majority of players want, I can easily say that ESO is going to be a zergfest.

Arborstone & Dz are good match ups for ros; we played abortstone in the last round. some of the battles were fantastic.
Ros end up with zergs as there are a lot of small guilds or individual players from different guilds. During my time on ros only ever witnessed two-three guilds running by themselves (vcy & dex & sometimes riot). Riot & vcy moved elsewhere & dex just transferred back.
Wait until you encounter zergs from high populations servers if ever unlucky enough to be matched against one. So many players they can control every map, place scouts in all locations & attack you anytime you try & capture a supply camp, tower or keep. Not unusual to see 70 + people running around attacking.

Sadly this is what WvW has become. It’s no longer about having epic battles between 3 armies, not knowing who will be victorious in the end. It’s just become a huge farming mode. You either farm them, or get farmed yourself. They can easily fix this and there have been many suggestions on how to fix the population imbalance and horrible matchup system. But Anet likes how things are because it means more money for them because people are hopping servers all the time. They don’t realize that they’re screwing themselves though. It may be making them money now, but when another MMO that has decent and balance realm vs realm combat, they’re going to lose a lot of people and a lot of money when everyone jumps ship for an MMO that can deliver what we’ve been asking them to change.

Coming form a server ranked roughly in the middle this can be very annoying. Every reset its a gamble your either going to steamroll or get steamrolled. If your getting steamrolled the fairweathers go champ farming in Frostgorge Sound and if your steamrolling its no fun because all the “heroes” decide to come out and play dumbing down the whole server for the week. Its a sad state and theres only so much that can be done on our end and on anets end because the server hoppers that just want to be “winners”

Nikkinella.8254:

Sadly this is what WvW has become. It’s no longer about having epic battles between 3 armies, not knowing who will be victorious in the end. It’s just become a huge farming mode. You either farm them, or get farmed yourself. They can easily fix this and there have been many suggestions on how to fix the population imbalance and horrible matchup system. But Anet likes how things are because it means more money for them because people are hopping servers all the time. They don’t realize that they’re screwing themselves though. It may be making them money now, but when another MMO that has decent and balance realm vs realm combat, they’re going to lose a lot of people and a lot of money when everyone jumps ship for an MMO that can deliver what we’ve been asking them to change.

Like ros finally experienced against blacktide & arborstone during the last two days of the match up. Numbers were sufficient to produce a few great large scale battles while trying to capture stuff and also while defending keeps. It was fun, helluva lot of fun, the way most match up’s were a few month’s back.

mako.2431:

The state of WvW is pathetic, and it will only get worse. I can’t wait for ESO to come out, at least they will try.

I’m in the same boat. I honestly don’’t know whether ESO will turn out to be what I’d like it to be, but I’ve been following the interviews with the ZeniMax devs and it is clear that they are trying to do WvW right … and that is FAR more than I can say for ANet. Just about every comment I’ve seen lately from ANet regarding WvW seems to indicate that they plan to keep doing the same things that have so totally undermined the promise that it once had. It’s unfathomable to me that WvW keeps heading 180 degrees from what it was originally purported to be.