Guild Wars 2

Heylo.4938:

Ehmry Bay: 341k
Ferguson’s Crossing: 41k
Borlis Pass: 40k

I’m on Ehmry Bay and I don’t know what brought us together to get this high of a score. For the last few weeks the server has been floundering in WvW. I know plenty of guilds transferred out because they couldn’t handle waiting it out or trying to put together some form of communication.
I logged on yesterday morning and Eternal Battlegrounds was incredi-boring. We had almost captured everything. I went into the Borlis Borderland and there were skirmishes all over. It was fun, they were pushing forward and we’d push back. Then I went back to Eternal Battlegrounds later and everyone was basically stuck to their spawn.
I think we, as a server, have been pushing for communication and we have set up guild alliances that allow people to plan out the tactics. I think we’re also just getting smarter. I doubt we’ll do this good next week, but it all about communication and experience.
Maybe some of the losing servers don’t communicate well with other players or maybe they just haven’t played much WvW.

I’m on Borlis and have been on the receiving end of this. I think you guys have gotten a bit of night presence, because after everyone went to bed on the first night, you guys just swept through and took everything. It was the same during the back half of the 24 hour matches. To be honest, if you had the same night power as us and Ferguson’s, you wouldn’t be doing nearly as well; we’d pushed pretty hard the first night, and had the lead when people started heading off for the night.

For those of you who are on the receiving end of a beating very often, you’ll acknowledge that Outmanned is worthless. While it does give incentive for people to do WvW, the lack of captured points (Which is typically WHY servers get the outmanned buff in the first place) makes itkittennear impossible to do anything.

Incentive should be in place to have people want to participate in WvW when they are stuck in a corner. Personally, I think that the idea should be changed in two parts.

1
Add a buff called “Overwhelmed” that is activated when a world has less than 10% of potential points (70). Give it the stats of Outmanned, with a single addition: When you are involved in a capture event (Excluding sentries), you receive a loot bag. Simple enough. It allows for people to actually use that buff that they’re given, and it becomes relevant.

2
Outmanned, on the other hand, should be changed to something a bit more helpful. All stats should be increased by 75, to give a world a fighting chance. It wouldn’t be as bad as Tenacity, but it would still give applicable worlds that needed boost.

3
Not a buff, but a needed change. Observant players will notice that all guards in the Borderlands Citadels are completely useless. They’re in a position that no enemy can reach. So, why not move them out to the portal “doors” out of the Citadel? At that point, you would have less spawn camping. The addition of player controllable arrow carts is also a possibility, as it would allow for the players to deal with spawn campers, and profit from it.