In WVW, it’s pretty difficult to get the map completed whenever the enemy spots you and decides to ruin your day by killing you. So I came up with an idea: what if when you entered the borderlands, you were given two options of play; combat mode and map completion mode. When the player enters combat mode, it’s the normal mode you enter in as now where you can attack and be attacked. But when they chose map completion, they can’t be attacked and they can’t attack in return. So that way, if you’re just there for map completion, you can do so without being knocked around by the enemy. It would make a lot of people’s days a little bit easier and more enjoyable whenever they have to go in for map completion.
Now to avoid a quick problem, the only way to change the mode you’re in is to leave the borderlands and reload back in where it’ll ask you which mode you’d like to be in. This way, if an enemy team is losing, they can’t just swap modes and become untouchable.
I’m thinking for those in map completion mode, they could be granted stealth the entire time they’re there, so they don’t really interfere with the gameplay at all.
Just a few ideas to make it a bit easier.
Ok. So, here’s what’s going to happen.
I enter “map completion” mode — this puts me in permastealth, I’m unkillable, and I can walk through the walls and gates of enemy structures, note every piece of siege placement, every fortification, even the numbers of defenders.
I change back to “combat”. I relay everything I’ve learned to our server and we attack the structures that have the least defenders nearby and where the siege is weakest.
Nope. Not gonna happen.
What you want is to be able to enter an empty map that is an exact copy of the WvW maps without actually being WvW. The point of WvW map completion has always been two-fold:
a) Attempt to draw people from PvE into the game mode and perhaps they stay (as I did)
b) Take people out of their comfort zones so they experience something they would otherwise not try.
If I want the Glorious PvP armor? I have to play PvP. I want the cool rank finishers? Gotta play PvP. I want the Fractal Capacitor backpiece? I need to run Fractals.
I want to make a Legendary weapon? I have to finish the map. That includes both PvE and WvW. What if I’m just a WvW player? What if I never stepped foot outside the game mode except to go to LA every once in a while? I might find it inconvenient. It’s a fairly big map, after all.
There may be things in the game that you want which will require you to leave your comfort zone to obtain them. People thought it was “unfair” that they had to run 5 daily Fractals to be able to complete Mawdrey. I saw it as a way to let people experience a part of the game they don’t normally play. You can’t get everything you want in any way you want all the time. Otherwise, why don’t we just get rid of requirement-specific content altogether? Let’s dump drops. Forget gold. Forget the entire ingame reward system.
Let’s just have everything be in the gem store. It’s convenient, right?
Be smart. Think on your toes. Use tools like wvwintel.com to watch various maps for when your side takes a structure. Ask for escorts. These are all things that I initially did to finish my first Legendary. I followed a commander around one day, and since we were zerging up a storm particularly fierce that day, I asked if we could take a specific tower. It was the last thing I needed for map completion. He was nice enough to point the zerg at the tower and I got my map completion.
Of course, by that time I’d already realized that I liked WvW, and once I stepped in, I never really left. That’s not everyone’s story, or everyone’s cup of tea. There are, however, many tools and strategies at your disposal to achieve map completion — use them.
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