Guild Wars 2

First, I’m a huge fan of the world merging and reward tracks. Now it feels like there are always people to play with even in the borderlands, and I’ve stepped back into WvW after almost a year. That said, I’ve noticed a few issues:

1. Sentries don’t seem to give WXP on kill, at least in the borderlands. I hope this is just a bug because it doesn’t make sense.

2. The new WvW reward icon on the upper-right corner of the minimap overlaps with the first pop-up chest you get for dailies, reward track progression, etc. And if you accidentally hover over the icon, the reward track info window blocks the chests so you have to move your mouse away and try all over again. Bleh. If the pop-up chests were moved up a bit above the minimap, that would be awesome.

3. Reward track progress being based on the 15 minute PPT timer. Isn’t this basically the exact kind of system that they just removed from the HoT maps?! I understand that time-gated rewards are designed to encourage you to stay in one map while you play, however this discourages you from joining another map that needs help fending off a big attack for instance as it resets your reward track progress, and also encourages AFKing when you’re done playing to milk the last bits of your participation. Not the best design as far as I can see it.

I disagree with this reward implementation, and IMHO it would be best overall to give reward track progress instantaneously when capturing objectives/whatever else grants participation currently instead of filling up a participation bar that grants reward progress over time for the two reasons I just mentioned.

I don’t frequent the forums so I’m not sure how many others share my sentiments. Thoughts?

1. Sentries don’t give WXP on kill, but you get the WXP on cap. That way it’s less easily abused I guess, for the sentry debuff showing where you are on the map. I don’t really get it either.

2. Yeah, bit annoying, but I generally leave my chests alone until the end of a session anyway. Keeps the inventory a little less cluttered and doesn’t fill as quickly.

3. Not really. It’s fine as far as I can tell. It’s not like you get so much rewards from WvW right now that it’s actually worth the afk time. It’s better than PvP now, but still lackluster compared to PvE. I’d rather it give less participation for capturing objectives and more participation for kills. As it is right now, it gives way too much incentive for karma training for participation. Also, the 550 participation limit is a bit unfortunate right now, but any more and it would be overkill with reward track progress.

1. Agree
2. Agree
3. If you change to a different WVW map, your reward level does not change. Exception is going to/from EOTM, which uses a different reward scale.