Guild Wars 2

I had a bit of an epiphany the other night when thinking about all the new gimmicks, banners, airships, tactivators etc. And it occurred to me that these are not game changers for those of who WvW regularly.

Bear with me please.

We who play the game will simply overcome them like we do every dumb thing that gets thrown at us like siege disablers, stealth removal traps etc.

Banners just mean the rise of dedicated “Pick” squads again, airships just mean send a group in to fear them into activating it, Chilling Fog is hardly an annoyance. The list goes on, but, as always, we will figure it out and negate it.

What occurred to me is the barrier to entry for new players. The more garbage gimmicks that are thrown at us, the more a new player has to learn in order to play. I feel that it may reach a level where new players will just not bother.

WvW has always been pretty exclusive, I mean nobody is going to do a full guide on how to spec your toon, then find a commander, know what to do about a Turtle banner etc etc

Just my opinion.

I’m still trying to figure who they were trying to impress with all this kitten. …and just, …why?

Fellfoot.8156:

I’m still trying to figure who they were trying to impress with all this kitten. …and just, …why?

This is what you get when you let a pve dev team create new stuff for pvp modes. It’s like asking your local baker to fix your car.

Fellfoot.8156:

I’m still trying to figure who they were trying to impress with all this kitten. …and just, …why?

all the players that are using them..

It’s the whole overkill aspect of it all that has me sidelined for the time being.
Dev 1: “Hey this is kinda cool.”
Dev 2: “Oh heck yeah it is, and I bet this would be cool too.”
Dev1: “Yeah! If a little is good a whole lot will be better.”
Dev 2: “Hey let’s give them a ton of new stuff to mess with for awhile, and that’ll keep them playing. Sure they’ll need to PvE for a bit, but they shouldn’t care, they love PvE.”
Dev1: “I’m a little worried some of these things might be OP.”
Dev2: “No, they all loved Golem Week.”
Dev1: “You’re right. Let’s do eet.”

Player: “What the kitten is all this Bullkitten? All I wanna do is WvW!”

Trajan.4953:

We who play the game will simply overcome them like we do every dumb thing that gets thrown at us like siege disablers, stealth removal traps etc.

But the map sucks too. And many other aspects of the game have changed. A wee bit of PvE BS can be worked around sure, but kitten they changed the kitten game mode on us. Not for the first time but, yet again, for the worse. It’s way to much for me to swallow all in one go but if you can handle it, good luck & have fun

Trajan.4953:

I feel that it may reach a level where new players will just not bother.

I bet some players, especially the new ones, are more like “wooooooooooooow”, you might not but some people do like gimmicks.

WvW was never friendly to new players and if they don’t bother now, they woudn’t bother anyway pre-HoT.

bring back alpine bl!!!!! they would be okay even with these weird addons……just too much with new maps that are the size of eotm