Guild Wars 2

I’ve my hand on the throbbing vein of the WvW community and I feel it is my responsibility, neigh, my duty to propose that we cycle in the EOTM map for EBG.

Interesting. Do you have a newsletter?

Why you trying to torture me Towelie?!!! You know I never want to step foot on that awful EotM map!! LOL I hate that thing and want to burn it with fire but all the stinking snow on it keeps putting the torches out. It has everything I hate all on one map lets see.. I hate PvE NPC gimmicky crap .. yup it has that. I hate linear chokepointed lacking strategy maps yup it has that.. And omg the SNOW enivro factor causing this already slow as hell game to play even slowweeer. This game needs hyper speed all the time, not snow to slow you down haha. I want a map where you can fight from all directions using numerous strategies and methods. being able to hit any target on a map at any time is a must have.

You know thinking about it, in the beginning when they were planning on an overflow map for queues, they should have just reused ebg as the eotm map, and used that year on developing a second borderland map instead. We could of had 3 borderland maps by now.

Which would have probably led to mass qq about that map considering the designs they used in there, but maybe the desert borderland map would have been better because of lessons learned from that fiasco.

Oh well.

There are many routes in EoTM. That wasn’t fun. I can’t camping at thier spawn points. (I love killing PvE people.) And We can’t duel with other worlds

EotM is good for what it is for k-trainers but unless they add a castle in the middle of the map it does not serve close to the same purpose as EBG does. And honestly haven’t they introduced enough k-train, PvE garbage to WvW in the past with such things as golem week? I like my WvW to be much more serious, and as such I will mostly likely never get many of the EotM achievements.

A different map in the rotation would be cool. Not sure if EoTM fits the bill. Since I never go there, not qualified to say.

Anet is drooling at the thought I’m sure.

To put a serious note in here (not sure why that is expressly necessary in this case): the EOTM map could have been successful for many reasons. The intention of having this be utilized for a overflow map has never really worked. Pretty certain that there are a number of flaws with this map that have been detailed by the community more than once.

Additionally, the community turned it into a k-train map and at this point attempting to shift the perception back to something else would be incredibly difficult.

EOTM is a long way from EBG quality.
-awful central objective
-fewer towers that are too isolated to do anything
-annoying objective buffs that make movement terrible
-no dolyaks or upgrades
-objective bosses are essentially PvE bosses

Just go play EOTM if you want to play EOTM lol…

I like EBG, why cycle EOTM into the most popular WvW map?

I like this idea. I’ve always preferred playing on the enemy BLs so switching out EB would be fun for me at no personal cost. The rest of you can go suck eggs. :P

Xenesis.6389:

You know thinking about it, in the beginning when they were planning on an overflow map for queues, they should have just reused ebg as the eotm map, and used that year on developing a second borderland map instead. We could of had 3 borderland maps by now.

Which would have probably led to mass qq about that map considering the designs they used in there, but maybe the desert borderland map would have been better because of lessons learned from that fiasco.

Oh well.

LOL, so true. They can just modify the EBG a little and there, boom.

As someone who can hardly play EB due to lag issues, I wholeheartedly support this incentive to drive every WvW player onto the borders.

Maps to big and by design, it’s just not very good for real WvW. It would be a week of Karma Training/Power Leveling. The other maps would be pretty active though.

Maybe if it was introduced as part of the weekly campaign,and would be available under certain conditions,and for a limited duration of time,with set objectives,kinda like the city sieges in WAR,it could be interesting.
For example,the map opens,the leading server of the match up has to defend their lord,and the other two servers push and compete for who will kill the lord first.
Killing/Saving the lord could give point boosts,and/or buffs,and/or extra loot.
This would add a bit of variety to the current campaign which is somewhat linear and can get boring at times.
It would take a redesign of the EotM map objectives and the weekly campaign though.

Comparing EoTM to any part of WvW really is just funny… ya ok you use siege and cap things… with big groups of pve people that take ignorant shots at each other constantly.. multiple tags saying that the other tag sucks.. and so on and so on.. It’s NOT a training ground for WvW… and if it was ever intended as some sort of entertainment for true WvW people while they were waiting for a queue it fell far short. The only real fun I ever had in EoTM was when we took 15 people in there and wiped enemy zergs.. nothing like a little organized fighting… then again it wasn’t really even sport. Kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.

I strayed from the topic though… using EoTM as part of WvW? Definitely not without real major changes to it.. which would simply mean they would basically build a whole new borderland.. oh wait they did… enter DBL… very soon once again, yay!