Guild Wars 2

While in a group, if I have alot of healing power and I give regen to my group, and someone else in the group that has no healing power also gives regen, it stacks in duration but how much does it heal for? Will it automatically heal for the one that ticks the most? Also if I put down a healing field and someone blasts it, is the amount the blast heals for based on my healing power or the healing power of the person who blasts it?

Yes population is an issue and changes need to be made to better balance the servers, but there still needs to be a reason to try to win.

Very few guilds care about ppt these days. Why should they? There is no reward for winning. There is no incentive to defend structures. Most guilds gave up on ppt a long time ago and just play for the fights, and if you play for fights then the new map is more trouble than its worth. Might as well just go to EBG where its easy to find a fight, which is exactly whats happening. New maps are a ghost town and EBG has a 25 man queue.

The most fun that WvW has ever been is when all 3 servers really want to win. Servers start working together to plan, and work out a strategy. Commanders communicate and work together with other commanders to make strategic attacks. Scouts spend hours defending and building siege and escorting yaks, all because they really want to win for their server. Problem is wanting to win for server pride isn’t enough incentive to keep people fighting like that week after week after week. It gets old when there is no reward that you are trying to earn.

There needs to be something awesome that can only be obtained from winning WvW. Now what exactly that awesome thing is doesn’t really matter as long as it’s something that people really want. One idea is a really amazing looking armor set or weapon skin that costs “x” number of some kind of token. Have an achievement to complete to show you participated and if you complete the achievement and your server wins you get “x” number of tokens. Could even give 2nd and 3rd place some tokens so they get something for trying, it will just take longer to get “awesome thing”. Some other examples of possible awesome things to spend your tokens on, 30 slot bag, trade them for “x” number of gems to spend at the store, WvW specific glider skin, a two person magic carpet so a friend can hitch a ride with you, those are just some random ideas but it doesn’t matter what stuff you get as long as its something that gives people a reason to want to win. I don’t really think the new map would seem so bad once people learned it, but learning it takes time and practice and if all you want to do is fight then EBG makes more sense.