Guild Wars 2

Mysteriax.6049:

The forefront and selling point of your MMO.

This is because, quite simply, WvW provides a unique experience that other games simply haven’t matched yet.

Black Desert Online, Archage and even World of Warcraft are examples of games whose PvE environments compete with Guild Wars 2.

League of Legends, DOTA 2 and Overwatch are Esports games that compete with GW2 in the competitive PvP market.

Yet none of these games provide the kind of RvR experience that WvW has offered us. For now at least, ArenaNet, you have sole control over this very lucrative market.

But not for long.

The success of Dark Age of Camelot shows that large-scale PvP is in high demand, and that when fostered correctly, a RvR format (like WvW) can grow and prosper alongside a loyal playerbase.

ANet, in a time when GW2 is steadily aging and other developing titles seek to compete in the valuable RvR market, think not of short-term profit, but using your collective talent and abilities to foster long-term growth.

Address the tough issues of scoring, population and profession balance. Take a stand and show your playerbase that you’re ready to accept WvW not for what it is, but what it can become.

Thank you for reading.

I think its too late for that in this game. Perhaps in GW3, or a whole other side game in addition to their next MMORPG.

The reasons I think its too late are multiple, just of the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Outadated hardware / network infrastructure – skill lag during mass battles
2. Outdated security – too many hacks / cheats / exploits
3. Timezone discrepancies in populations
4. Lack of any sort of a system to make longterm and vastly outnumbered players wanting to continue playing. They leave their servers or the game entirely, and for good reasons.
5. Lack of structured mid scale and large scale arenas with spectator mode and ladders records.
6. Outdated game engine.
7. Wrong devs in charge of WVW projects (at least initially, not anymore it seems) catered to T1 whining and gave us EOTM, gave us DBL with jump pads, jumping puzzle elements everywhere, failed laser event, killed off MANY small guilds and killed nearly all personal 1 man guilds, etc.

A-Net would have to address all of that. But just look at the sheer amount of whining when they tried to limit bandwagoning, thats just for starters. Whereas in a brand new game rulesets and mechanics will be set beforehand so that each and every player will know what they are getting themselves into.

So they would be better off continuing to make small adjustments here and milking this cow for all its worth, and concentrating their efforts on the next product, rather then continue to pour resources into this.

Maybe with next expansion, but only IF they were to concentrate everything on WVW as primary focus and complete re-marketing campaign, but can you imagine how many PVE and SPVP players would leave then and what kind of publicity they would generate for this game and the company while doing so ? Therefore I just don’t think it’d be a good idea for them to do so.

A.Net has killed WvW and many of the good players will be leaving shortly. It doesn’t even take any skill to play any more. Just blob and win. This is what A.Net thinks will work, well, they killed this game mode hard.

Durzlla.6295:

Sorry to pop your bubble of delusions, but we have totally been buffed since that patch, and most of those patches have been us primarily being buffed. Now why do they keep buffing warrior NOW? I have no idea, when necros got buffed with Dhuum fire is when warrior was out too high and needed some toning down (not a lot).

That being said I’m still waiting on these kittening signet and shout changes they’ve promised us….

I guess I should have been more detailed with my reply but I was at work and took to much time finding the post. My main beef with them is that it’s been over a year that they knew about pets being screwed up and they still haven’t fixed it. Thus the reason I mentioned for them to fix the pets. I am sure that if they can get the pets to hit 90% a moving target 90% of the time instead of 5% of the time, this will help with our lack of DPS. But for over a year they have known as that post proves, that the pet has issues hitting moving targets and just recently they said they refuse to touch pets because it could screw up the AI on other mobs.

Also, in response to your post, the buffs we have received are small in comparison to the amount of nerf’s we have received. For instance, I have dropped the short bow from my LB/SB build because of the range nerf, not to mention the damage nerf which was supposedly an “animation fix”. The nerf’s has hurt us more then the buffs have helped. I now run LB/GS but to be honest, those two weapons don’t compliment each other very well. In order to make LB effective you need to run full glass cannon, but when going into melee, you need some toughness and when you switch weapons, you can’t switch armor. Our trait’s either let us go for damage in a LB build 30/30/10 or go GS with a 30/10/30 (I think it is..right? can’t log in at work to check) At least on my warrior I can run glass cannon on rifle, switch to GS and still take a beating without dieing.

Noone care how good you are at play with your char if you are ranger. We can discuss alot about how you must use your skills and etc, but with time more and more often I got kick from party in lfg just because I am ranger, even before I loaded in dangeon. Almost all bosses just can be pulled to the los and just zerged in melee and warriors can do this very fast, we have no such ability like Shadow cloak to help skip mobs, we have no portals we just have no role that is very important in party. I like this prof very much and I will play it as long as I could, but I understand that if Anet will not do somthing with our mechanic, Rangers will stay only like fan class in PVE for those who likes. And I do not belive that ANet even coulde do somthing to improve situation, rangers prof got to bad reputation and lesser improvments will not help. Sorry for my English.
PS. I do not talk about skill I just talk about prof reputation and mechanic.