I’m not limiting myself to 5, per the OP’s request, for the sake of being thorough. And per a post on page two, these are not in order of preference.
@ Gaile, sorry for the tl;dr here. Thank you for popping in, acknowledging us, and keeping an eye on our opinions, comments, wish lists and gripes that have our Pink Moa feathers ruffled!
1. Borderland Map: We wanted new scenery, an Alpine alternative. Please give us something that isn’t a vertically challenging map, or that has statues spewing fire, pop-up rock formations, dust storms, jump pads, etc. Just please provide a simple alternative map that can be rotated with Alpine every month or so and let us have Alpine for now, until one is made, or Desert is fixed.
2. Gliding: NO gliding in WvW. For the love of Dwayna, please and HELL NO. nonononononono
3. Stability: Our big fights are more like standoffs and stare-downs now. Please give us back our stability. Pirate ship blows.
4. Scouts/Defenders: Scouts and defenders were supposed to be better rewarded for their time and energy, or so we were told. But now a lot of our former scouts and defenders are no longer playing. In fact, scouts on the Desert BL are pretty much non-existent now (waypoints contested, distance, speed, small guild nerf, all addressed in some form in other paragraphs). This particular issue is actually a major complication caused by numerous issues that should, hopefully, be addressed.
5. Player rallies on deaths and the perma down (doubled): Please change the rally system back to the way it was. Rally bots were fine. If servers and/or players insist on bringing uplevels and people with crappy armor to a big fight, that’s their problem. No one should expect to be dealing damage in level 70 gear and incomplete trait lines anyway. That should be in EotM where the scores don’t matter.
6. Reset night: Correct me if I’m wrong, but this was supposed to be temporary while another, better time was figured out so as not to interfere with weekend gaming in the event a patch was necessary? Why not do a patch early to mid-day Friday when the matches are pretty much written in stone, and put us back into a Friday reset?
7. Potential reward tracks: Please fix WvW before implementing something new. Pretty please? Yes, I would like gold and exo/ascended drops to be improved, but let’s not add anything “new” new until we get old stuff fixed. Improving existing drops fine, adding stuff right now, please no.
8. Population: We have all heard the rumors that a factions-style WvW is being considered and that everyone will be both systematically and randomly (if not “allied” with other guilds) thrown into different eotm-type maps. A lot of us know who said it and who it was said to. If this is true, this is not the WvW game mode that I love, and it’s already starting to feel unrecognizable, like a rabbit hole we’ll never come out of.
There are several lower tier servers that can be closed. Give them free transfer options to some mid to uppers that are more populated. Why recreate the entire system to accommodate people that simply refuse to move from low pop servers, when tons of us farmed gold, converted to gems and transferred exactly as the game allows us all to do.
And regarding night capping. Good grief, do people expect Anet to handpick people by individual schedules and magically drop them into their servers’ dead time zones or something? We all have some dead times zones, it’s a WvW fact of life.
Transfers exist so the devs don’t have to play server fairies and try to kill themselves making everyone happy. People have an option to get some gems and transfer… or not.
9. Lag/glitches/hackable areas. Doesn’t need much explanation, but a reporting option for hackers would be the shzniz.
10. Guilds and upgrades: This ties into a number of issues in WvW. Small havoc guilds, and scouts/defenders specifically. We’ve lost a lot of these good folk that we were always happy to see, and grew to have confidence in and depend on. The thing is, before HoT, these active and generous folk had all the upgrades that they needed to upgrade objectives, make their own guild siege, etc. This is another one of the “unrecognizable” things I was talking about earlier. The guild landscape has completely changed as far as smallish WvW guilds are concerned. Small (or solo member) former WvW guilds cannot possibly generate enough money from WvW to get their former upgrades up to speed, nor can they get to post-HoT guild status for WvW upgrades. It’s a mess. A real mess.
Now before some smartypants goes and says people need to join large guilds with all the bells and whistles, what if said guilds don’t allow people to access said upgrades, hm? So, with that in mind, we do now have a shortage of people that used to have the upgrades in their small guilds, and have zero access now. RIP a ton of scouts/defenders.
And while we’re on this topic, some of the bigger guilds are starting to literally ask for gold donations to keep up said various bells and whistles, gizmos and gimmicks that we are starting to (and should not have to) become dependent on. So there is definitely a problem here.
11. Contested and emergency waypoints: Did we really need either of these added in? I did prefer the good old days when I could run from Citadel to various points contested, or have a little sliver of time to possibly waypoint into a keep to defend it. Sometimes we had some ridiculously awesome fights at Bay and Hills that way, on the Alpine map. Speaking of being able to run to various points contested, we had WAY more latitude to do this on Alpine than Desert. Alternate routes and less danger of faceplanting into enemy zergs that one can’t avoid in a canyon or ravine.
12. Autoloot: A lot of us rushed through that PvE mastery only to be told that it was “removed” from WvW at the last minute. I also remember reading somewhere that maybe a new WvW track would be added to get it at a later time? I don’t get it. We were told we were going to have it, then not, then maybe later, but we’d have to work for it again. All we want is a little love here. Please get us some autoloot.
13. Proofs of heroics: Do these really need to be soul bound? And maybe some more purchasing options? Or even put them in the wallet instead of the bank? The clutter is real.
14. Shield Generators, banners, tactivators, airships, chilling fog, etc.: Please remove.
15. Skill balancing: It would be nice to have our skill balancing separate from PvE, if possible.
16. Communication: It’s crucial to have some form of it in any buyer/seller relationship. I can probably safely say most of us are super happy that this thread is being watched. We need way more of this in the future, as there has been too much silence as of late. Silence leads to lack of confidence, sadly. At any rate, it would be nice to get some of our WvW peeps back!
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