Guild Wars 2

Fun is not really there unless you are part of that overwhelming ARMY that completely takes over the map. Each week I check into WvW and each week there is one server that overwhelms the entire map within 24 hours. WvW is a waste of time for anyone not in the ARMY. There is no joy, just endless grief.

Buff for low population = garbage. What value is it to have a +exp buff, etc., if all that happens is you are ganked by raiding parties that are roaming every corner of the map, looking to complete the same points of interest, etc.?

Why would anyone bother to attempt to take even a resource location if an entire army is waiting to see the crossed swords show up on a map to swarm it?

I am sorry but Guild Wars 2 WvW is perhaps worse than Aion with regards to massive PvP environments. And Aion was horrible in how it was designed to create geometrically progressive inequality of factions simply because one population was higher than the other. There are no equalizers for ARMIES stampeding small populations.

I don’t have a solution. I wish I did. It seems to be a truth for every game that offers massive pvp: there is always one faction/server that become the locusts. They insatiably consume everything, until everyone who could compete against them quits due the the futility of it. The locusts become hungry, get bored, and then lament that nobody wants to play with them anymore. Duh?

Somehow Arenanet, you have to make it worthwhile for small groups, even individuals, to try and do something in WvW when it is facing those hungry locusts that have consumed everything. There is already a ton of apathy for WvW and its only been a month.

Here is to hoping…

Ibbydibby.1238:

Fun is not really there unless you are part of that overwhelming ARMY that completely takes over the map.

Nope it’s boring when you 100% dominate too. However you do get to farm the EB puzzle on your different toons.

Tarnished Coast does not seem bored right now. They own the entire map; they have siege weapons and 20+ peeps that we could see waiting for anyone to leave the keep; and all 20+ of them will pounce on anyone that dares come out. It was fun watching a single ranger pass through our gate at Godsword only to see a sea of red try and engage him.

Thank goodness we had the +33% exp, karma, and magic find for being completely outnumbered. It really leveled the playing field for those of us pinned inside the walls that could not leave.

TC doesn’t realize their mission to overwhelm has not only stopped WvW for this week, but has caused at least Gates of Madness, and perhaps Sea of Sorrows, to have its population abandon ship, leaving you, and everyone else, with no WvW in the future from these servers.

Way to abuse TC, way to abuse it.