Guild Wars 2

I bought GW2 for two things: underwater combat, and WvW. It was an underwater combat video on YouTube that sold this GW1 player.

GG, keep the personal anecdotes coming!

You should have asked what server each person was on so that we can look up whether they’re dominating via coverage.

kynzof.5149:

get the buffs away make it exp orsomething but not stat
NO!!

i like the new look and design, but dat buff is horrible and noone wants to stand in a circle fore hours and then get run over by 9 people over and over.

No, I do not like this update. I think it was a terrible idea, sorry.

Nope, don’t approve the buff is too strong for those who are already on a server with a big lead over the other servers, not fun….

I like the art design and layout though kudos to those guys.

Map Changes – Yes
Points for Stomps Buff – Yes
+50 Stats Buff – No

loved it. best patch yet.

Too early to tell. I will want to give it three weeks or so and see how it favors/unfavors the worlds.

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

i love it. wvw players are too jaded at this point to reallly appreciate the work put into wvw.

Heh.

Mif.3471:

I didn’t see a single person in map chat saying they didn’t like the map changes.

This thread is a perfect demonstration of how the forums only represents a small minority of the playerbase, who will complain about anything.

Why would anyone on your server complain when you’re miles ahead of both servers in PPT AND numbers. Every map you go to now has a load of TC people camping on the ruins. Just another tool for larger population servers to abuse.

my buddy logged on and said “oh look they put a spvp map in the middle of wvw!”

No

they still dont learn of there previous mistakes

Well, let’s put it out this way the guys who are in the T1 servers are going to be the vocal majority that’d agree to this change as for them this is a good patch as it throws another element in wvw for them to concentrate on and it’d be more balanced on their side. but for other servers who are beating the opposition by a huge lead or vice versa not so much.

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

Map Changes – Yes
Points for Stomps Buff – Yes
+50 Stats Buff – No

Pretty much this….we can’t say we didn’t tell them so tho….

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

Map Changes – Yes
Points for Stomps Buff – Yes
+50 Stats Buff – No

kiwituatara.6053:

Just a reminder, if you don’t like the new WvW. Take a break from it. Anet will not change it unless they see a decline in numbers in WvW.

like the map changes, something different, but the buffs are out of control. With that said… My vote is a BIG FAT NOOOOO!

The extra points on stomp buff is ok, remove the + stats.

And bring the mobs back, I can’t get my stacks now

I love it.

I’m having so much fun

To be honest I can’t tell if I like it or not yet, because the lag is so bad I can’t fight properly :-(

Of course I like it (so does my guild). How can you not like this?

Do I like it No …………not really for the reasons listed so far.

The ruins are intresting ..but the lake seemed wide the ruins are crowded clutterered.

It makes WWW seem somehow smaller to me ,the borderlands do not not have the " feeling " of size anymore .

I like the new scenery added to the BL maps. That lake was a waste of space and now it’s being used. Excellent.

I hate the Bloodlust Buff. The icon blinks every five seconds which is really annoying and servers which are more populated are clearly going to face roll those which aren’t. It adds unbalance between sides. I was happier without it.

Also, nice Flame Ram bug. I KNEW that would happen because ArenaNet is so predictable.

So… mark me down as a “NO!”

How do I like it?

Not at all.

No.

Last thing the dominating server, already facerolling, needed was 150 to all stats and points for stomping…

And before anyone kittenes about “uhh, but guys, wvw isnt suppose to be… eurh, you know.. balanced… like.. you know”
WE KNOW. We know it isnt balanced and arenanet doesnt give a crap enough to ever try to balance it. But that doesnt mean they should just go ahead and kitten things up even further!

No.

To expand: New map is awesome, stat buff is not so.

no

I like the ruins but not the stat boost that the objectives give.
Change the stat boost to something completely else or have it that the bloodlust stack dont go to other borderlands so the stronger server is running around with +50 to everything, not +150.

That’s a no.

Absolutely not, the map is nice, the buffs are bad.

No. There is not reason to upgrade anything anymore. Before with 20 of us we AC/cata defended enemy zerg of 50ish. But now with the 50% damage reduction from rams every1 kills the cannons and stacks ranged aoes the top so acs cant b built and stacks around gate healing/with 80% damage reduction easy… Door drops, set up kill zone but 80% damage reduction persists… and they run through.

No to bloodlust and No to Ram mastery. both are idiotic and promote more zerging and favor the server with the higher pop.

i did WvW from launch, the orb buffs proved themselves to be a terrible idea.

they proved themselves to be such a terrible idea that Anet had to remove them in a frankly sloppy manner.

this change is nothing more then bringing a bad idea back as a different flavor.

so to answer the question. NO. not happy. not at all.

Yes
Because its funny and it make me laugh

“irony off”

So far I haven’t seen anything that would qualify as “new content”.

At the start orbs got removed. – No new content.

Then we got some boring and grindy ranks and boring wvw abilities. – No new content. And most casual players won’t get high in ranks and won’t see much of those abilities.

Now the bloodlust buff… – No new content. Buffs are no real content. Map change is nothing huge.

New content: Make a new maps or stuff like that. New sieges and real new mechanics. Not only that small alibi stuff.

1 release of living story pve is more content than WvW got since release.

Map Changes – No. Lake was cool for cover etc….now it is ALL CLUTTERED making the BL maps even seem smaller…..

Points for Stomps Buff – Yes

+50 Stats Buff – No

I like the changes to the maps. The new lake area provides for interesting environmental tactics.

The bloodlust deal though…….no…….It was pretty obvious how it would effect the match-ups.

No! Bloodlust should be removed and all outmanned zones should get the stat bonus. I prefer to ruins over the water but the stats buff is a joke. The WvW dev’s are out of touch with the WvW community in my opinion. I would love to see Anets keyturning, clicking devs out there on a server that is poorly matched and then have them make decisions after actually playing….

Yes, because i love reading players whining about they can’t play wvw in a modality that wasn’t tought for

They made 5x mini Spvp maps on all borderlines. Guild raids are going to die.
What did anet think, that +150 stats is going to help a 10-15 man team when a map zerg comes and hits the gates.

+1 NO -.-"

Worst update in Gw2 history. I’m done with WvW.

+1 No -.-

it only gives advantage to the server that is allready superior… so it will only give a bigger advatage to the more populated servers rather than making it more skill based.

kitten NO

…15 characters and whatnot

Stat buff: no
Pve Mobs and kitten around the capture points? wtf.. why?
rest? yes.

I can’t belive that they did this. Why do they keep giving advantages to the server with the most people?

WvW is ruined for me. I’m fighting on the losing side and don’t have enough people to have a chance to win, and yet they give us more to struggle with.

Too early. Really need to see how this effects a match up from reset night all the way through.

WvW : war has always been about taking strategic position so these buff are welcome to give this dimension. So yes to all. War is based on strategy organisation only fair fights is all about sport not war spirit. Just people need to make their mind clear about what is really a war is about and stop complaining about its design or go spvp. XD

Other than thieves running hack programs and the buffs, it’s not all that bad.

I like the terrain better than the lake…

Honestly this patch was the best thing to happen to us roamers. Now roamers have a better and more defined purpose in WvW. To those who dislike following massive zergs and riding karma trains, WvW finally became fun. Stop moaning about the OPness and change, it’s not hard to take these capture points. If a zerg sits in the middle, it only gives an opening for enemy zergs to capture towers on the map. This middle was created for small group fighting. Don’t take that away from us.

Yes, I absolutely love the map changes.

The bloodlust? I don’t see the snowballing effect. The buff changes hands too frequently to give anyone an advantage for more than a couple minutes at a time.

This isn’t the orbs, where the strongest side can hole it up in a heavily fortified keep and hold onto it for the entire match. The moment that 40 man zerg steps away from a point, the 3 guys watching from up in the scaffolding swoop down and decap it. Woops, looks like they didn’t hold it for 2 minutes. Guess they’ll have to try again.

All the while you’ve got 10 guys catting down the walls of Hills. The zerg can try to dominate the bloodlust points and hold their tower/keeps. But they’ll end up losing one or the other.

I like the new terrain but i hate the stats bloodlust gives. And even worst, the iron hide buff from rams…

Day 1 and theres immortal eles mixing protection, frost armor and iron hide to make themselves immortal