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I have been disconnected alot today. My game has not crashed in a long time. But today it has crashed over a dozen times. Any known issues or bugs?
•Describe a typical hour for you in the Alpine Borderlands in the past. For example, What size of group were you running in? What kind of tasks did you run? What activities did you do?
I would normally run with a guild group around 20 people. Sometimes solo roam. With guild group look to take towers and find fights. Mainly look for other groups to fight with. When solo roaming just flipping camps and fights.
•Compare your experience described above with a typical hour spent in Eternal Battlegrounds, if you went there at all. Does your style of play change between the 2 maps?
My play style was about the same for the BL’s to EB. Guild groups looking to find fights. Maybe focus a little more on flipping keeps and towers. Solo roaming style was the same. Camps and fights.
•Compare your experiences described above with an hour spent in the new borderlands.
I have spent only a couple hours in the new BL’s because they are to big to roam by myself and its not often a big guild group will go on the new maps. When I have gone on the maps we try to do the same thing but with much less success. We look to flip some towers and keeps and don’t find many groups to fight. And when we did it was a siege war not an open field battle.
•Describe the nature of combat in the borderlands in the past. How have the new borderlands impacted this paradigm for you? What style or build changes might it cause? For example, knocking people off cliffs or into lava might play a more important role.
In the past I wanted open field battles or fights within a keep. Not battle standing out of a keep looking at the defenders. I don’t mind taking time to get a keep or tower. But I would like a nice fight once I got in the keep. Now you either cant get in the keep or tower or no one is there to defend. In the few open field fights I have been a part of I feel I need to go to HOT to grind out my elites and get the specializations completed before I can be competitive. I don’t like to worry about falling off a cliff when I am trying to get to an objective that’s why I don’t go to EOTM. If I wanted to run around cliffs and use transformations or have the environment effect how my character runs around I would go to EOTM not the BL’s. But now its all included into the new BL’s.
•In your experience, compare the time it takes take a structure or objective here, then it did in the past.
Now it is EOTM style taking an objective. Drop as much siege as possible just to get the gate or wall down at the same rate it only took a couple of the same type of siege it did before. Comparing to dropping the same amount of siege as before then it would take about double the amount of time in the BL’s
•How is the loot and wxp for you compared to in the past? Will it be able to sustain whatever you are doing? Did it take a hit, or was it improved? If you are planning to unlock an elite specialization, do you think you were helped or hurt in these regards? Do you think you could pursue any other in-game goals just by playing WvW?
The wxp seems to come quicker then it would before. However that is only if you are able to take objectives. I could see the new BL’s being a great way to wxp train, but that is not what WVW players such as myself want to do. I only want to go and have epic battles and this has not helped it any. It has hindered it. I have to go to the new PVE maps to grind out my elites. And as a player that would switch classes to enjoy all the play styles that will take a while. Just playing WVW is not going to help me purse any in-game goals.
•How will the map change impact the long sessions (multiple hours) you spend in WvW?
It has impacted it that I don’t spend multiple hours in WVW anymore. I will play it for an hour maybe and then I get frustrated at how little people are on or how we are unable to complete any tasks. I have found myself grinding more in PVE then I want.
•In 100 words or less, describe how the new BLs could be improved.
Compact the map.
•In 100 words or less, describe how the borderlands work to a new WvW player.
Frustrating, hard to learn, unable to take objectives, waste of time.
•In 100 words or less, describe how the borderlands work to a veteran WvW player that is new to the maps.
Frustrating, hard to learn, unable to take objectives, waste of time.
•Which map am I most likely to find you currently, if you’re on Gw2?
EB or grinding in the new HOT PVE maps.