Guild Wars 2

I hate this idea, I was thinking it would be more along the lines of the DAOC herald…which would be pretty cool. But nevermind that, the reason I hate this idea is simply because of how easy it is to find your way around in WvW in this game. I doubt many commanders would even bother using it, and the ones that did would probably stop using it once they start presuming that spies are probably using the info more than atual newbs. People don’t even use the LFG system and basically it’s the same as what you are saying with the exception being it can actually be slightly harder to find a group than it is to find where you are needed in WvW.

Population balance isn’t the end all. Look at Dragonbrand, they have the most coverage at every primetime over any other server and they can’t even win T2 let alone T1. If we went off numbers alone Dragonbrand would slaughter T1 without much challenge.
It’s really just a matter of stale competition… yea you get your butt kicked oh well fight again next time right? Nope you are most likely gonna be in the same matchup for over a month.

The new system should solve this for a little while but it’s just a short term fix I believe.

Celly.5912:

There’s a lot more to it than the size of the zerg, you (or your commander) just doesn’t appear to use any. Try flanking with a group, build siege in the middle of the field to help you out, portal bomb, veil bomb when flanking, turtle with the zerg.
In towers place your siege tactically, use the gates to flank at the right time, sneak behind them with a few people and build siege there.

There are plenty of tactics, just open your eyes to them

Yep there are lots of tactics to be used in WvW, it’s just hard to pull off these things when the average pug finds it difficult to not drain keep supply, not overextend, shoot the cannons and oil instead of the door… and some even find it hard to follow the commander. There’s a reason why those guild teams with half as many as your pug zerg are slaughtering you almost flawlessly. Put some more effort into your play and learning the game and you might find WvW much more enjoyable.

AV was horrid, please don’t make this game like that. But the TC’s ideas were all good on point and usually that doesn’t happen (there’s usually some major problem with peoples ideas on here but not this time)… DAOC, Lotro, Warhammer etc all had much better WVW ranking systems even if the first 2 determined the strength of the player at some point. To add to the changing map rotations… how about more than just 3 borderlands… maybe something more like 9 and put on rotation… or 3 if all server have to have the same borderlands for balance reasons. So week in week out we actually see a difference… since the ranking system doesn’t quite provide those results most of the time… I am seeing the same match up and the same winners every week on the same maps…. boring! Also I am all for a new currency if that means we can get ascended tier gear from WvW. I can understand why they would not release Ascended Gear with badges as most of us already have many spare badges saved up.

Limited content is awesome it’s just a shame they don’t add much new permanent content as well. But just talking purely limited content, it makes for great memories and bragging about collectables etc. Take Molten Core for example… people talk about it like it was the most awesome thing ever but everyone hated it at the time… if it was still current content in WoW then no one would have these amazing memories about MC that they have.

TC was a bright wizard in Warhammer I guess. This could actually be fun if zergs didn’t run straight into AOEs, but they do and they will so the majority of people in the game would quit even though the guild groups would enjoy the game more.

RoRo.8270:

Pretty much never I highly doubt Gw2’s pvp viewership will come anywhere close to sc2 or league. This is subjective but GW2 pvp is not enjoyable to watch also the rate updates come for pvp is way too slow. Esport was just a marketing gimmick

League is like the most boring thing ever to watch, may as well tune in to the last 10 minutes of the games because the laning phase is incredibly is so incredibly easy in that game the only time anything happens before that is off jungle ganks. The difference is Riot put in as much effort into getting the E-sport scene going as they could, A-net hasn’t done much at all. I mean look how far the fighting game scene has got and it’s probably the most exciting to watch out of all the E-sports but none of the companies have put any effort in, it has its own relatively small hardcore community only because the players themselves run the show… hopefully GW2 players will realize that and do the same.

D/D Ele. + There is fun to have with other weaps for ele too. I think that’s one of the more fun builds in the game even though I don’t play it much myself.

Stone of Jordan’s are also “Unique”. I didn’t make this mistake luckily but I can see how people would make the mistake. Hopefully Anet will refund it for you.

Unfortunately, zerg vs zerg is what most WvW players are doing at any given time and this change would make it impossible to be viable as anything other than a ranged AoE class if AoE had no cap as it would just be a quick AoE nukefest even worse than Warhammer was.