Hey!
There are a few things that I particularly miss in GW2, and about which I’d like to write here. I’ve decided, that in my spare time I’ll create a graphic representation of what I mean, that you can find here: http://tinyurl.com/spvpgw2
However, this is not everything that I think should be implemented in near future. I was thinking about other ladders and rankings for WvW and competitive PvP.
When writing about World vs World it would be nice to see similar rankings for each server, best commanders, best WvW players and guilds. Also, it would be nice to see guild names that held a particular keep.
There are also a few other things, that in my opinion could improve the gameplay. Firstly, an ability to play with my whole guild at the same time. My guild has 150 members, and it is virtually impossible for us to play together as a whole on WvW, which in turn ends in zerging with random players, that follow a commander and farm karma points. I miss massive sieges over keeps, that would prevent them from being taken for the next 5 minutes by a different server. At this point, every point that we hold on WvW has virtually no value, can be taken in moments by zerg and rewards players only with silver and karma. People just keep farming, killing other players only as a byproduct. There is no joy in mindless attacking one gate with no reward for a guild that leads the action, even in the form of reputation or simply their name over taken keep. What we have is constant zerg fights and chasing the Orbs of Power. There is no real competition over something, that will lure the players and give them fun for hours. There is no thing that is worth the effort and the time we spend playing.
I have a few concepts that i believe should improve the gameplay. All it takes is to make Castle capturable only once per day, and adding a boss, that will protect that Castle and face a real threat to huge zergs. All that of course doesn’t exclude player defenders. We should have one particular time for a siege to happen, and the boss should have increased drop rates for high-tier items, and the entire siege should reward badges of honor and a little more karma on completion. Guild that took over a castle should be visible to everybody on the map as a form of gratification. On addition to the boss fight there could be other mechanics for sieges, such as coordination for 3 different attack groups. For example, every group leader (mby 3 commanders) in order to seize the castle should at the same time channel a specific crystal located in three different parts of the castle, just after killing the boss, so the players could really cooperate. Such solution would improve the community and allow for a tighter forms of alliances between players and guilds. To make things harder, killed defenders should be transferred to different part of the castle, and unable to leave for a certain period of time until they would be able to continue the defence. Keeps already taken by a certain server would also give a slight buffs for the entire server. That keeps should be a strategic points, that need to be taken before sieging.
I think it would positively buff not only the server community but also the fun from playing itself. Players would need to think of tactics and ways of communication. Servers would gain equal chances and it would eliminate „night capping” that at this point is bad for the gameplay.
Going back to my graphics and ladders, it would be nice to see best guilds in competitive PvP from a certain server and the best guild from each server. Such guilds could compete between themselves in monthly championships, and winning team could gain unique PvP skins for weapons and armor and for example, a shining aura around it’s characters, that would be visible in PvP Lobby and LA. This way, 5 best players in PvP of that month would gain a great deal of respect and recognition among other players.
I see it this way: for the first 3 weeks of every month we would have eliminations period. Best teams from each server, that gained most tournament points in tournaments that are currently in the game, would represent their home server in the championships. Those groups would gain unique „server brand” armors and weapons skins to play the games. Next, those groups would play in the tournament system for the course of the 4th week.
Such system would introduce competition, that is needed for players to have fun and wanted to achieve more. Such system would give more life to the actual gameplay. Of course, everything should be available in a form of ladders and rankings, such as mine.
TL:DR – less pew pew, more coding;
Regards
Xaia
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