Greetings.
This is regarding the Badges of Honor in WvW and the Vizunah Square.
The Badges of Honor drop rate is so low that I don’t even see the point of doing WvW at all. I can play for several hours without getting even 1 single drop. It all seems to be totally random. The ratio between how much the gear costs, and how much drops is so far out. It can take ages to even get 1 single gear piece. This is an issue spoken daily in WvW, and it needs to be changed fast, because people will get tired of it one day. I can’t really see why we are doing WvW other than getting certain buffs (which doesn’t do much for us who are doing WvW all the time), and the Badges of Honor gear. So you really need to speed up the Badges of Honor drop rate before people are starting to get tired.
The other issue which is also very serious and alarming, is the Vizunah Square, they have a huge advantage compared to everyone else. They are always doing much better because at daytime the French are playing, and at night the Canadians are playing, Canada isn’t Europe, why in the world do they play with us, they have a totally different time period, they are in average 5-6 hours behind us, which means they can get everything they want during the night, because we sleep, and they are up. So when we wake up, everything is Vizunah Square, and we can’t do anything untill School and work time is over here in Europe.
These are really serious issues which are spoken daily in WvW, and people are starting to get really angry about it, some have even stopped playing WvW because of this.
Please escalate this and do something about it before you start losing players. Do not postpone this, take action.
This is what Arenanet posted on the forums:
“Greetings everyone!
We’ve received lots of feedback regarding night capping. Many want to know how Arenanet views this. Our answer is that WvW was developed as a never ending continuous battle.
We feel that everyone should have the ability to contribute no matter what time of the day it is. How we’ve came to this conclusion is that no player’s time is more valuable than another. Everyone has different off peak hours for whatever reason. Players should not be punished or unable to experience and view the same content as everyone else because they play at a different time. They too are paying customers.
This is not saying that we are against any adjustment to scoring, or against developing another mechanic to improve the capping system. This is simply saying that we will not be changing WvW based on some players’ idea of off time hours.
Please use this thread as the main discussion for this topic.”
Okey, so they mean that “Our answer is that WvW was developed as a never ending continuous battle.” that’s fine, that’s okey. BUT it doesn’t mean that the Canadians should have the opportunity to night cap with a massive army and get everything because they are up when we are sleeping. This does not sound fair.
Arenanet, of course it’s supposed to be a continous battle, and that you can play WvW whenever you want, but then you have to find a different server match-up, because this is clearly not working.
