Guild Wars 2

Let me start off by saying I LOVE Guild Wars 2, from the graphics to the gameplay, PVE, PVP and everything in between…But I haven’t played in months. The sole reason for me not playing anymore is do to my favorite part WvW, missing consequence or meaning.

I love pvp games with risk v reward, meaning battles that reward the winner with the spoils of victory and give the loser a stinging loss that motivates them to get better, improve tactics and extract revenge.

Guild Wars 2 WvW while being the best seige mechanics and most smooth feeling pvp combat I have ever played, lacks these features that I crave. The pvp is FUN, but it does not give any sense of meaning or conseuqnce for constantly taking or defending these keeps. A scoreboard with tiny small bonuses to your home server is NOT the kind of reward I was looking for.

Let me make it clear I DO NOT want to be handed an item that will give me any advantage over the other team from taking a keep. But I do want to feel a sense of accomplishment after an epic battle, more than maybe keeping the keep for 10mins before we lose it again.

I know Guild Wars 2 is not the type of game that can give a stiff consequence to the losers nor a large reward to the winners, since it is catering to many casual players. Also they can not make it so the capturing side gets to have the keep uncontested for long because it would break up the non-stop push/pull action.

But after watching this video, http://www.guildwars2junkies.com/2012/12/18/guildcenter-121712-special-guests-habib-loew-matt-witter-anet-wvw-devs/

The two devs mention that the update in February involves progression & rewards to keep people motivated in WvW. So I’m here to ask what you guys, the current and vocal playerbase for WvW, thinks these might be?

No idea really, theres been the new map/maps rumor, new tier of armor, but its all speculation. I would love to see better rewards, the current drop rate for anything and everything is pathetic, the same 3 maps with only 1 acception was just a bad idea imo.

I actually had a buddy just pick up the game, we played DAoC ALOT since release up until 2 years ago. His comment was “I love the game its pretty awesome, but, I can’t see myself sticking with it like DAoC because theres no point to the PvP/WvW”. I personally think I will play for quite some time because I enjoy it, but he is right, DAoC had realm Ranks and Realm Abilities to act as a carrot on a stick, currently GW2 has … well nothing. I’m not saying “I want realm Ranks/Abilities because DAoC had them” but some kind of reward system that makes it worth while would be a good start.

Wow did that get off topic lol.

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No idea really, theres been the new map/maps rumor, new tier of armor, but its all speculation. I would love to see better rewards, the current drop rate for anything and everything is pathetic, the same 3 maps with only 1 acception was just a bad idea imo.

I actually had a buddy just pick up the game, we played DAoC ALOT since release up until 2 years ago. His comment was “I love the game its pretty awesome, but, I can’t see myself sticking with it like DAoC because theres no point to the PvP/WvW”. I personally think I will play for quite some time because I enjoy it, but he is right, DAoC had realm Ranks and Realm Abilities to act as a carrot on a stick, currently GW2 has … well nothing. I’m not saying “I want realm Ranks/Abilities because DAoC had them” but some kind of reward system that makes it worth while would be a good start.

Wow did that get off topic lol.

I agree with your friend sadly.

They mention in the video around the half way mark that maps aren’t on the slate for the February update and what the update is suppose to address is rewards and progression in WvW, to keep players motivated. I’m wondering what these rewards could be.

Anet is going to give my ranger GOD mode.

Seriously I hope there will be new maps. The current ones are getting boring. To cap this tower, do this, put catapult here, put treb there or down e wall instead of e gate. I think all veterans of wvw already knows what to do n expect when sieges e different towers n keeps in e current maps.

I’m hoping to see some really great change to World vs World!

If they do add progression.. i might just log on since september when i realized this was getting boring fast with no competition.