Guild Wars 2

In my opinion WvW has only 2 major issues. 1 Skill lag. 2 Server population.

In a nutshell, I’d double the number of maps to 8. Cap the players per map at 30 per world. Decrease the number of servers to 15 each on EU and NA.

The major issue in WvW imo is skill lag, the enemy blob’s main weapon is the lag they inflict. solution: get rid of the blobs. Cap the player limit at 30, let’s get some zerg action going. There will still be skill lag of course but at least it might be manageable.

More maps for people to play on. Same amount of players, just spread out more. Small maps, preferably closer to EB than Desert in design.

Server linking does not work. It should be scrapped ASAP. Originally WvW was 1v2, which is good. Then I think server linking was supposed to make it 2v4 I guess? This week on Desolation we are 1v5… balanced -.- oh and FSP have enough players to server blob all 4 maps at peak times. Anyway I would permanently merge the medium and low population servers to lower the total severs to 15. This at least would give some stability to the servers.

Additional:
1: Get rid of desert borderland; it’s too big.
2: Get rid of reward tracks: they draw in PvE players
3: Make gift of battle easier to get.. The reward track again draws in PvE players.
4. Stop putting in incentives for PvE players…. Seriously, they just want to karma train and I suspect they are not geared properly for WvW.

Anyway that’s what I would do. Would it work? probably not but it would be a step in the right direction I think.

LoL. Kinda defeat the purpose of massive pvp, gw2 will break the lowest maximum player record.

So basically get rid of all the good parts about wvw and make it so new people don’t want to start playing wvw to replenish the natural atrophy rate of any game/game mode.

Remove reward tracks so that WvW players are even more broke because they don’t like to PvE? It’s already been well established that you can easily earn more loot/gold in PvE than WvW.

Also, isn’t it better to get PvE players into WvW, and you know, convert them into dedicated WvW players? If we don’t do that, WvW will die off even faster with no new blood coming in. That’s how I started out…I was PvE only, but got bored at level 80, so I stared WvW and have been having a blast ever since!

For NA, I think server merges would have to be more aggressive than 15…12 servers at most, but with T4 usually seeing 2 server pairs being severely undermanned against the 3rd server dropping down from T3, they could even consolidate to 9 servers and have just 3 tiers.

SkyShroud.2865:

LoL. Kinda defeat the purpose of massive pvp, gw2 will break the lowest maximum player record.

This is what happens when marketing comes before gameplay.

What I’d do?
ill make a new WvW mode in addition to the current but only time based same as eotm

What It’s like?
like a football match where a map is a triangle (three way fight)

How It’s played?
like the octovine southgate Exalted explosives were players push something to the enemy base to score/win

How will it affect WvW score?
adds a raw score for being 1st 2nd and 3rd

etc etc etc

or the old fashion your world vs the other 100 worlds at the same time, no tiers needed
like literally 100 borderlands to choose from

Ballistic.2570:

Additional:
1: Get rid of desert borderland; it’s too big.
2: Get rid of reward tracks: they draw in PvE players
3: Make gift of battle easier to get.. The reward track again draws in PvE players.
4. Stop putting in incentives for PvE players…. Seriously, they just want to karma train and I suspect they are not geared properly for WvW.

Anyway that’s what I would do. Would it work? probably not but it would be a step in the right direction I think.

Wondering where you expect to get new players for wvw if you want to keep pve players out. If you expect players who only wvw to walk off the street and into wvw good luck with that, that obviously didn’t help wvw population in the last 4 years, even before your 1 2 3 4 list. Pve players are the least of wvw problems.

Make a PVE servers and put them all on that server, delete dead pvm servers like SOS etc etc.

What do you call such people? WvW snobs?

Ballistic.2570:

2: Get rid of reward tracks: they draw in PvE players
3: Make gift of battle easier to get.. The reward track again draws in PvE players.
4. Stop putting in incentives for PvE players…. Seriously, they just want to karma train and I suspect they are not geared properly for WvW.

So basically you want WvW to be a 5v5
nty

aristotle.2813:

What do you call such people? WvW snobs?

Elitists.

Wow, I think I disagree with everything the OP said, or at least how he wants to execute things.

While I wouldn’t mind some of them, like smaller maps with lower population limits, I wouldn’t want 8 of them, and replacing the existing maps etc.

Norbe.7630:

What I’d do?
ill make a new WvW mode in addition to the current but only time based same as eotm

What It’s like?
like a football match where a map is a triangle (three way fight)

How It’s played?
like the octovine southgate Exalted explosives were players push something to the enemy base to score/win

How will it affect WvW score?
adds a raw score for being 1st 2nd and 3rd

etc etc etc

or the old fashion your world vs the other 100 worlds at the same time, no tiers needed
like literally 100 borderlands to choose from

add ingame voip chat btw