What wvw really needs
I like it, though I think the backpack should be a fair amount of work.
I think we’ve had enough backpacks and wings. How about the legendary weapons they sold but didn’t release?
WvW definitely needs its own legendary backpiece I agree. And the concept of a neutra-ish mob group that seemingly randomly comes in and decaps your sentries/camps is fun (but I think it would get old really quick tbh). But neither one of these will “save” WvW.
What it needs is balance, in all forms. Scoring improvements to help balance the chances of lower population servers, changes that increase the drive for players to try out different “ways” to fight in WvW (no more 99% of all players are in 1 or 2 blobs with maybe 1 or 2 roamers capping camps). Balance conditions and boons. No group should really be able to have all of the most important boons up 100% of the time. Likewise no group should have to have all of those boons up all the time to survive condi or CC bursts from overpowered elite specs. Balance siege in general, AC spam is the worst. Balance balance balance.
I think we’ve had enough backpacks and wings. How about the legendary weapons they sold but didn’t release?
I think it just more fits with the status quo. Weapons are a gamewide scavenger hunt of sorts, the Armor as of now is just raids (I’d imagine that’ll change), and the backpacks are sort of a status symbol for the areas of play.
Even if I got the backpiece chances are I’d find it gaudy like I do 90% of GW2 styles, but I’m ok with that, point is it’d give a tangible desirable reward for devoting a good amount of playtime to WvW. And, potentially entice some people to give WvW a real try.
<—- rocking exotic karma back 4 life … well that and I’m just not rich enough to get an ascended, and wont even look at a fractal legendary. Would absolutely love a WvW option though.
We need our old guilds back in all honesty. The hardcore players and legendary roamers.
What anet forgets is that guilds, roamers, and pugs make wvw awesome. We’ve basically lost the first two and pugs are becoming smaller and smaller in population.
I just don’t know how you attract players back at this point because most x-wvwers are just done with anet with little to zero interest in wvw.
Like the back piece idea, but it’s not going to change much.