Guild Wars 2

Draymos.5489:

Game is tailored to all aspects of the game. You need world completion for legendary. I totally thing world completion should incluse wvw because its essential aspect of the game (plus its part pve and pvp). Wvw may be a pain for world completion, as long they don’t add more poi, wp or vistas for new wvw maps in updates I be happy. No more wvw areas counting for world map completion.
Right now pve is keep getting new wp and poi for map completion. If someone joins a couple years from now in game, they may never get world completion at that pace.
No adding no more stuff in wvw that’s for sure.

WvW IS PvP, period. Just because there happen to ALSO be NPC’s doesn’t make it any less so. WvW is a cool feature in its own right to be certain (I can’t speak to the above mentioned matching system as I don’t play in it) but the OP is right in that it absolutely should not count towards world completion. That should include all areas accessible in the main world, including Southsun Cove which for some reason doesn’t count. A great deal of players, myself included, find PvP to be not fun at all but DO like exploration and being rewarded for it. I should be able to get an exploration title without having to be gang banged by a dozen guys who can obviously tell I’m not fighting back in the slightest.

However, I can sort of see an argument for needing those areas mapped anyway so my suggestion would simply be give players the option to explore an area without being able to damage or be damaged to other players. This of course would be abused by children so I suppose you’d have to limit what they see somehow. I have no idea if that’s possible but there you go.