Guild Wars 2

As a long time small group/solo roamer (really the only game mode I played), I quit due to the WvW changes made in HoT. The biggest factor that caused me to quit was completely getting rid of the Alpine BLs (and the heavy condi meta which was/is just…..sigh). I tried the desert BLs, gave them a fighting chance, but they just don’t cut it for me. Feels like a mix between EoTM and skyhammer. Many friends of mine either quit for the same reason or solely play sPvP now.

The Stab changes didn’t affect me as much as i rarely ran with a group larger than 5, but I can definitely see how that just ruined guilds who liked to bust huge zergs.

My last complaint is this auto-upgrade system. I know many….MANY people who played WvW because they loved upgrading tower, keeps, etc. and defending them because they put time and effort into upgrading them. Shoot, I would even fork out gold during off hours to upgrade towers and defend them. There is no effort involved in this new upgrade system and now it’s “so what if we lose the keep, we can get it back and fully upgrade it for free.”

Personally, I want to make a return to GW2 I REALLY do, and if they revert back to the Alpine BLs, I probably will. I will even compromise and be cool with a weekly rotation of Desert BLs and Alpine BLs (although I’m more in favor of a full reversion back to the Alpine BLs).

To the people who say “why are you complaining about the new BL when EVERYONE wanted a new one in the first place.” Yes, we wanted a new borderland but NOT this vertical, confusing, big AF map. We wanted something similar to Alpine but…..new.

Cuppcakez

Halo.8976:

DoomKnightMax.6592:

It could change and upset the whole GW2 market and in return also disappoint many players.

Poor, sad 1%

Did you Occupy Wall Street? Lolol

BAITness.1083:

Andrew Clear.1750:

Everyone thinks it is so simple to create and balance a game. People have put forth ideas, in these forums, that some of the player base would like and others wouldn’t.

Anet built the game mode the way they wanted to, based off of what was already on the market. Even ESO based their pvp off of GW2 and DAoC, and it has the same scoring mechanic everyone complains about here (PPT). It has zergs, etc, etc.

Look, it would be nice to get something new, but it isn’t easy to mess with a competitive game mode like WvW. People are already fanatical about it, just think about the fact that the majority of people who play WvW, are not in these forums complaining, and generally enjoy the game mode. Why would Anet want to kitten off the non-vocal majority, for the few vocal minority?

I am not so certain there is a non vocal majority here. About 90% of the people I knew that really enjoyed WvW quit the game for various reasons. I actually feel like there is far better retention among players that step in once in awhile, or do it on the side.

Edit: 90% may be a bit high, but I am talking about the people I knew that played GW2 only for WvW. Most of the ones I knew stopped playing, including all my old theorycrafting buddies, every one of my old favorite commanders, and most of my old guildies.

While I really hope the non vocal minority wants changes, your friends are not a very large sample set. Unless you have 1000+ friends that voiced their opinions to you. So it is a little hard to compare what “everyone” wants. I do agree that a little feedback from the devs would be nice…..what was I thinking, I only get feedback on wvw in my dreams.

When I see the outnumbered “buff”, I tend to yolo pretty hard. I gotta get my 20% magic find boosted bags, duh!

+1 to this! Great idea!