Guild Wars 2

I feel that for the health of WvW it would be a good idea to remove the home borderlands maps, and just have three (3) maps generally: 1) Eternal Battlegrounds; 2) Desert Borderland; and 3) Alpine Borderlands. Some things might need to be worked on like the player cap for each map, but in general I feel that it would add variety and give players a choice of playing the map they like the best. In addition, by removing one map, you concentrate whatever population is left unto 3 maps, making it more populated. Bloodlust can be fought on Alpine borderland map giving roamers good alternative, and old WvW players a better option to get fights. Having 3 similar maps is unnecessary, it makes players stick to their home borderlands and creates boring competition. I hope that a Dev reads this and it is possibility (developing wise).

Pillo

+1 been advocating the same.

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They will have to rework the bl maps but it would be a definite improvement on what we have now.

I love having a homeland to fight over. Something that, when we can’t possibly hold our own, gives us a line in the sand to fight for.

The border maps are all designed to favor a single team which means they’d have to rework 2 entire maps to realize this.
And that’s definitely not happening within the next 3 years.

But I still like the idea.

Then whom ever gets what side would be at a greater advantages over the other 2 sides. That the ideal behind having the same bl 3 times so at least one map you hold an advantages.

Borderland bloodlust was a horrible idea to begin with. Stat bonuses distort the balance between fights. Such dynamic server wide boosts add a lot to the lag and nobody likes lag. I am glad borderland bloostlust was removed and I don’t want it back.

Like enterkommando typed above, each map is designed to give the home side a clear advantage, thus we cannot have just 2 borderlands, we need 3 of them.

We can pray and hope Arenanet will bring the Alpine borderland back. For example maybe we would finally have WvWvW Tournament 2015, lasting at 4 weeks from early Dec till New Year. Alpine border would be the borderland map, during the season, instead of the Desert borderlands.

Jski.6180:

Then whom ever gets what side would be at a greater advantages over the other 2 sides. That the ideal behind having the same bl 3 times so at least one map you hold an advantages.

But that is the beauty of this idea, there are no home Borderlands, just straight fighting for map dominance. I think having one map for bloodlust will be good, specially if for example stomping the enemy gives the server 2 points instead of one. That will create intense battles at the points. What I propose is straight out WvW at all times, which right now only really happens all the time at EB. But is just an idea.

Pillo.3490:

Jski.6180:

Then whom ever gets what side would be at a greater advantages over the other 2 sides. That the ideal behind having the same bl 3 times so at least one map you hold an advantages.

But that is the beauty of this idea, there are no home Borderlands, just straight fighting for map dominance. I think having one map for bloodlust will be good, specially if for example stomping the enemy gives the server 2 points instead of one. That will create intense battles at the points. What I propose is straight out WvW at all times, which right now only really happens all the time at EB. But is just an idea.

So where would ppl start? I guess you could put every one start in the center and have a 3 ways spawn of invaluably or where ppl cant get into the other players spawn but ppl would camp each other spawn all the time.

With the current pops, 3 maps is already too big. Deserted Borderlands is already big enough to hold (together with EB) the remaining skeleton WvW crews of most every server.
I think they should rotate all three maps every week or so. One week EB and DB, next DB and AB, then AB and EB.

seem like a good idea, i always hated the idea of having 3 different borderlands, 1 for each server. The maps were huge and now even more with the new one, 3 seem to be a little to much. I played WvW today again finally and honestly is in a bad state, all i did in those new maps were run around, empty, its just feel wrong.

With reference to DAoC, which had something akin to this, everybody congregated on one map and the others were a waste of space.