Guild Wars 2

New Improved World XP
We’re improving the way we award World XP to World vs. World players! Now you’ll gain rewards for a much wider range of activities in the Mists – everything from destroying siege weapons, repairing walls, escort missions, and more.

Greater Variety and More Rewards in WvW
We’re adding new WvW daily achievements to the list you can choose from so you can earn World XP for playing the way you want. And every time you gain a new World rank, you’ll earn a bonus chest packed with useful WvW loot!

Dangerous New WvW Abilities
Become even deadlier in The Mists with new World vs. World abilities like Burning Oil Mastery or new ranks in Defense Against Guards!

Introducing Infusions and Ascended Gear in WvW
Now you can purchase Ascended rings and amulets and upgrade your WvW abilities with six new Infusions that give your character special WvW bonuses! Just speak to the new Laurel and Badge Merchants on each map

WvW Matchup Changes!
World vs. World matches are about to get an injection of variety! With these changes you can look forward to facing new opponents in new matchups and testing your world’s skill against more foes!

EDIT: Big Changes Coming to WvW Matchups
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/

Thank you Arena.Net,

Discuss.

EDIT: source https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/may-28-2013/

My prayers have been answered

WvW Matchup Changes!
World vs. World matches are about to get an injection of variety! With these changes you can look forward to facing new opponents in new matchups and testing your world’s skill against more foes!

Someone had better explain this.

Thank you : )

i really want to see what they did for WvW matchup change. Im also pumped for WvW exp. my lower level alts will level faster : )

Thank you anet.

Gimme some source pls.

Finally some additions to DAG. I have maxed it and the damage one already. Was eagerly awaiting more changes.

Thanks Arena Net!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/may-28-2013/

here is the source vanensang

I wonder how many badges an ascended item will cost? And now I regret just blowing a bunch of badges on re-skinning…….

Bah, after my 3 day weekend O well looking forward to some of the changes.

WvW Matchup Changes!
World vs. World matches are about to get an injection of variety! With these changes you can look forward to facing new opponents in new matchups and testing your world’s skill against more foes!

Considering we are one of the least populated servers, what does this mean?

Also saw a mention of in the future a “one off” reset option for your placed WXP points.
Why this isn`t a permanent option seems silly…

Hickeroar.9734:

WvW Matchup Changes!
World vs. World matches are about to get an injection of variety! With these changes you can look forward to facing new opponents in new matchups and testing your world’s skill against more foes!

Someone had better explain this.

Yeah, can’t wait for the actual way it works. But as long as a you’re not matched up with servers too far away from you in ranking I’ll be happy.

Awesome! If it’s true.

Troop.1369:

Introducing Infusions and Ascended Gear in WvW
Now you can purchase Ascended rings and amulets and upgrade your WvW abilities with six new Infusions that give your character special WvW bonuses! Just speak to the new Laurel and Badge Merchants on each map

Bolded the part that really caught my attention. Infusions have been a gripe of mine for awhile. This sounds VERY interesting. Lets hope there’s some meat to it.

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Question: Will these reward chests for ranks be given for people who already have Ranks? For example will a Rank 60 player receive 60 chests?

Ascii.9726:

Question: Will these reward chests for ranks be given for people who already have Ranks? For example will a Rank 60 player receive 60 chests?

Answer: When has anything been retroactive?

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Hehe. I’m guessing they priced them as close as possible to the time investment required in obtaining Ascended items via other means. That said, I’m betting each piece is going to be priced somewhere between 500 and 1,000 badges.

Too bad I recently spent a bunch of badges gearing my Necro and re-gearing my Engi to condi damage. Ah well, I can always farm more, not to mention the 100 laurels I’m sitting on.

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Don’t worry. I’m sure they threw a pointless laurel requirement as well.

EDIT: And if they didn’t, I’ll send Devon a box a Girl Scout cookies.

Aww I spent all my laurels on the amulet and rings… looks like I should’ve bought the accessories. And so my endless pile of badges continues to grow.

is it…chrismas already? or is this an early gift?

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

I think I have 30 left after buying siege for my guild. Run out of gold pretty fast so have to turn to badges.

Devon, you have my gratitude.

Keep it up!

Liquid.9672:

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Hehe. I’m guessing they priced them as close as possible to the time investment required in obtaining Ascended items via other means. That said, I’m betting each piece is going to be priced somewhere between 500 and 1,000 badges.

Too bad I recently spent a bunch of badges gearing my Necro and re-gearing my Engi to condi damage. Ah well, I can always farm more, not to mention the 100 laurels I’m sitting on.

500 to 1000? Dang, that is going to take some time for a dipthong like me…

Naffy.1493:

Liquid.9672:

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Hehe. I’m guessing they priced them as close as possible to the time investment required in obtaining Ascended items via other means. That said, I’m betting each piece is going to be priced somewhere between 500 and 1,000 badges.

Too bad I recently spent a bunch of badges gearing my Necro and re-gearing my Engi to condi damage. Ah well, I can always farm more, not to mention the 100 laurels I’m sitting on.

500 to 1000? Dang, that is going to take some time for a dipthong like me…

It IS BiS gear, so yeah.. it should take time. Sitting on almost 2 rows of badges in my bank, really hoping to get rid of some of these.

Srsly though, guys. Even if all changes aren’t well received, it’s really great to see WvW getting some love lately. Keep up the great work.

Hickeroar.9734:

Srsly though, guys. Even if all changes aren’t well received, it’s really great to see WvW getting some love lately. Keep up the great work.

It was pretty much ignored for 10 months… in which a very high % of hardcore pvpers left the game… hopefully this is not a case of too little too late.

LilMcGinley.3890:

Naffy.1493:

Liquid.9672:

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Hehe. I’m guessing they priced them as close as possible to the time investment required in obtaining Ascended items via other means. That said, I’m betting each piece is going to be priced somewhere between 500 and 1,000 badges.

Too bad I recently spent a bunch of badges gearing my Necro and re-gearing my Engi to condi damage. Ah well, I can always farm more, not to mention the 100 laurels I’m sitting on.

500 to 1000? Dang, that is going to take some time for a dipthong like me…

It IS BiS gear, so yeah.. it should take time. Sitting on almost 2 rows of badges in my bank, really hoping to get rid of some of these.

BiS? Does not compute.

Naffy.1493:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Naffy.1493:

Liquid.9672:

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Hehe. I’m guessing they priced them as close as possible to the time investment required in obtaining Ascended items via other means. That said, I’m betting each piece is going to be priced somewhere between 500 and 1,000 badges.

Too bad I recently spent a bunch of badges gearing my Necro and re-gearing my Engi to condi damage. Ah well, I can always farm more, not to mention the 100 laurels I’m sitting on.

500 to 1000? Dang, that is going to take some time for a dipthong like me…

It IS BiS gear, so yeah.. it should take time. Sitting on almost 2 rows of badges in my bank, really hoping to get rid of some of these.

BiS? Does not compute.

Best in Slot

Thank you Devon,

these changes definitely have me excited for WvW again. Especially the backlog of the chests

and I also like bacon!

I am excited! Finally some great new improvements.

1. Wvw daily? Yes please
2. More dynamic matchups? Yes please
3. Ascended gear? Yes please
4. Chests for ranks? Yes please

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

Srsly though, guys. Even if all changes aren’t well received, it’s really great to see WvW getting some love lately. Keep up the great work.

It was pretty much ignored for 10 months… in which a very high % of hardcore pvpers left the game… hopefully this is not a case of too little too late.

The game has only been out for 8 months. They’ve actively been making changes to it for two months now, which means they’ve been working on those changes for a lot longer than that.

Liquid.9672:

Naffy.1493:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Naffy.1493:

Liquid.9672:

Naffy.1493:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Just remember when pricing the items out, not all of us are stuffed with senseless badges…..

Hehe. I’m guessing they priced them as close as possible to the time investment required in obtaining Ascended items via other means. That said, I’m betting each piece is going to be priced somewhere between 500 and 1,000 badges.

Too bad I recently spent a bunch of badges gearing my Necro and re-gearing my Engi to condi damage. Ah well, I can always farm more, not to mention the 100 laurels I’m sitting on.

500 to 1000? Dang, that is going to take some time for a dipthong like me…

It IS BiS gear, so yeah.. it should take time. Sitting on almost 2 rows of badges in my bank, really hoping to get rid of some of these.

BiS? Does not compute.

Best in Slot

Sorry about that… thanks for the assist Liq.

It should be difficult to get. I do hope they add Valk and other missing Ascended items in this patch.

Any word on that Devon?

@ hickeroar – we are both wrong lol. almost 9 months, aug 28 so when these hit it will be the exact 9 month mark. This is stuff that should have been added with its PvE counter-part.. not 4-5 months later.

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

Srsly though, guys. Even if all changes aren’t well received, it’s really great to see WvW getting some love lately. Keep up the great work.

It was pretty much ignored for 10 months… in which a very high % of hardcore pvpers left the game… hopefully this is not a case of too little too late.

No such thing with B2P games. Well, certainly not as much as with P2P games.

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Just fulfilling my obligations here. Costs and more info will be out with the patch notes. Enjoy!

Owned :O

I Deschain I.4623:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_B3dvFMyDE

LMAO

I like the idea of having one of the new WvW Infusions to be +25% Arrow Cart damage.

Become even deadlier in The Mists with new World vs. World abilities like Burning Oil Mastery or new ranks in Defense Against Guards!

CANT WAIT !

Hickeroar.9734:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

Srsly though, guys. Even if all changes aren’t well received, it’s really great to see WvW getting some love lately. Keep up the great work.

It was pretty much ignored for 10 months… in which a very high % of hardcore pvpers left the game… hopefully this is not a case of too little too late.

The game has only been out for 8 months. They’ve actively been making changes to it for two months now, which means they’ve been working on those changes for a lot longer than that.

A high percentage of hardcore pvpers change games every few months anyway. Look at prx as an example. Pretty sure they never play a game for more than 6-8 months.

So im guessing the server ranking system will be reset like it was planned to be a few weeks ago?

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

Srsly though, guys. Even if all changes aren’t well received, it’s really great to see WvW getting some love lately. Keep up the great work.

It was pretty much ignored for 10 months… in which a very high % of hardcore pvpers left the game… hopefully this is not a case of too little too late.

I hope so too, the PvP aspect of the game needs some loving. There’s still many things to do, but I believe that with time people will come back after some fixes

I just hope the wvw infusions work on the other ascended items we already farmed for

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I like the idea of having one of the new WvW Infusions to be +25% Arrow Cart damage.

Ugh. We need less ACs in keeps and towers right now not more. I think we counted 13 enemy ACs in Quentin Lake early this morning. The current meta is to bait zergs towards a tower and rain down a mini zerg of ACs on them. It sucks to be honest. Arrow Cart Wars 2.

ColinJohanson.2394:

They use infusion slots from normal ascended gear, you’re good!

Also they will cost a combination of both laurels and badges (at a discounted laurel cost) but we’re also adding more WvW achievements to the achievement categories to make it easier for WvW players to earn their laurels doing nothing but WvW.

Is the combination cost for both items and infusions or just infusions?

Nice job Colin…finally
Now if u just ad some nice skins end some extra weapon skills u will hit the G spt