Guild Wars 2

I can see some people just love running around in a ZERG. I mean I have when I was just myself and it was rather boring. I mean I follow the big group and we were in stone mist and the centre chamber. the aoe was so daft that no one(in this instance) could move throught the corridor to engage the other group.
I also noticed a lagg spike when they came in and I couldn’t cast. Well I could bore you with my computer spec, but it’s running crysis 3 and arma 3 in ultra with full distances and no lagg, even online. So it’s not my computer being slow. I also couldn’t really enjoy it because the groups avalanched over each other and there was no contest so you run away or die. So the visual effects are all you get. Now you understand my issues with it.
That’s my opinion. You love the zerg good for you, but lests be honest you probably find safety in numbers not a challenge.

Now to the point.
I have a real problem with long queues to get in the zone. Also my guild can field 15 players all full exotic etc. but when we roam looking for a good fight there aren’t many to be had. We run from zergs (very boring) and meet smaller groups (not a good fight). I have tried to defend a keep with 3 groups about my guild size and the zerg stops us fighting from the walls and we can’t even slow them down at chock points. I know you’ll say we’re not good but hey this isn’t my job it’s suppose to be fun right. I think fortifications are supposed to aid the defender right? (these really don’t).

So what I was saying was if you scale it to allow some balence or maybe remove the loot drops and just let us all fight we will see the zerg spread and people can fight each other for fun. Because less face it if you can’t hold anything and can’t fight em and can’t really run from them (It’s harder than you think) then the game will stagnate heck one of the most veteran hardcore rvr/wvw guilds just left the game and many are moving to avoid the issues I’ve mentioned.

I recon that using a scaling mechanic would level the playing field and make the game more fun. If you have a 30+ group attacking a keep (a supposibly hard to attack target). The defenders are 10 strong this would for example mean that the zerg players could be level 20 and the defenders level 80.

This could do the same as zone caps for pve. there is some balance and challenge. so the zerg would not matter and player skill not numbers becomes the point of WvW. I keep stating this because my guild prodominantly play WvW and it’s a fun place when we meet groups of a similar size. but this will slow errod support for the game and stagnate as Warhammer online did if it is not kept fun. Long term game play works because the balence is right not because a new toy is put in for a short time .

Look at EVE online, it has lasting appeal because of constant new building blocks adding to the experience not short term shinies that are of no change to the the issues that put the players off.

Like also the queues to get into WvW I know the server pop can affect that but surely the numbers the server can take should reflect a realistic percentage of server population.

Hi there ppl and devs,

I’m posting to enquire about fixing what I believe is a big issue with WvW.
The issue is the massive player groups (zergs), that dominate WvW zones. I understand that players like to run around in big groups. however most guilds aren’t huge and the combat when groups are 30+ is slow and laggy and my personal skill/ contribution is neglegable.
I’m sure ppl will just say get better gear but it will make no diference to a group 30+ with so many. I have played warhammer online in a group of 20. I found 20 v 20 is fun and not very slow but in this game you are looking to roam and get fights but all you find is an avalanch of players looking for an easy kill.
This is not competative and the ruins do not thin the zerg.
A method that would work to level the playing field would be to make groups loss health like level cap when they out number the opposing group. this scale matching would make the fighting more fun it the server could handle the calculations.

I shall explain further. In warhammer online the largest group you could make was 20 players. Now there could be many of these groups but they were often looking for a fight. so they fought fairly even numbers.
In this game I would think players want a fight that’s fun and challenging but still a fight rather than suicidal ratio or a massive army that wipes everything is it’s path. it just seems many ppl I speak to don’t enjoy that.
If it scaled the fights that we could have fun no matter the numbers you face.