Guild Wars 2

deepwinter.9015:

As someone who was greatly looking forward to EotM as “the roamer’s paradise,” I was greatly disappointed. As others here have pointed out, it turned into a karma-champ train akin to the old days of Orr or the current Frostgorge.

For a roamer or small group, its extremely difficult to achieve any meaningful impact on the map. With fully upgraded doors and tower champs with dungeon-like abilities, these small groups cannot reliably take objectives as easily as the zerg can – who just burn down champs in a matter of seconds.

EotM included new ways to kill your opponents, such as throwing them off the edge or collapsing the bridges under their feet. Unfortunately, breaking bridges is frowned upon by your own team because it “slows down the karma farm.”

Ultimately, EotM failed to deliver as an engaging map for folks looking for a fast-paced WvW experience while waiting for queues or otherwise. Unless you’re a roamer who enjoys killing veteran points or a zergling bursting down champions in a rotation, EotM will not satisfy.

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Solo roaming in EOTM is dangerous. The NPC enemies hit like a semi and a havoc group would struggle to take a tower with how strong those champs are. I’ve solo’d towers in EBG and the BL’s lots of times and it’s somewhat difficult but it’s do-able. Soloing a tower in EOTM is next to, if not impossible. It’s hard enough to take a generator quickly with how much health those guys have let alone trying to take on a champ that can one shot you + guards. Not only that anything you manage to capture will be flipped in a matter of minutes by the opposing servers. There’s no point in doing anything besides zerging in EOTM. That or trolling around for 1v1’s.

I love EoTM. It sits somewhere in between PvE and WvW and makes for a fun and low-pressure atmosphere that is pretty all inclusive.