All I see is people hating on the new things this and new things that. How WvW is dead, and how there are no more fights. Yet except for the first week of release of HoT Teir 4 NA was popping. I know two out of the three servers at the time had the queue on EBG but they also had a large presence in the new maps and there was a balance of PPT and fights. The third server in it’s defense did have a smaller population so they ended up slowly getting pushed around but smaller population can’t do much when it turns into a numbers game.
And then I read the posts here in this forum and reddit and all I see is people complaining about the new maps some saying they didn’t want the change. I know some of ya’ll did and it is true some didn’t but for 3 years playing on the same map? Come on something new would bring a spark back. But the statement of “Too much PvE” what running, knocking down gates, killing lords or repairing? That was all in the game prior to HoT. Farming nodes? That was there. 10 minutes to do a event that if the server whose map is happening on would scramble to get back for fights?
Yeah there is bugs but hey at least the servers are more stable across the board since the expansions release. Hopefully Anet fixes them soon. There are only 2 things I see.
People posting on forums want: Empty map no objectives and only one big brawl.
People not posting on forums: Playing the game mode.
/salt.
Also I would like to thank Anet on making such a different map and not just throwing on some skins on the old borderlands. It did show that they put time a effort into something for WvW. Also the people suggesting going back to the old maps. Why would they do that? They spent the money, paid there workers and implemented the work.
I’m going to +1 and add my take on it. I’m pretty sure that most WvW players don’t take change very well. I am a CO-leader of a major WvW guild that has been running for well over 2 years and have seen many changes in the game that I enjoy to this day. The new maps are awesome in my opinion. So many cool new placed to hide in keep, so many new places for siege, and great terrain to use to your advantage.
All I hear from these people are that “the maps are too big”. Are you kidding me? The amount of shortcuts and objects to move around the map make moving a zerg very simple. You own 3 air shrines and need to jump off a cliff to get to garri quicker. NO PROBLEM! You just jump from 1 mile in the air and take no damage. You need to defend fire keep and get to lords room in a instant? Just use the lava portals and gank the crap out of the Blackgate blob.
The new maps ARE NOT PVE and are fun. No more just running from tower to tower throwing 2 rams and waiting for the gate to go down and then just running to the next monotonous activity.
We have auto upgrades now! No more sitting and waiting for the walls to upgrade for an hour and then sit and wait for enough yaks to come in and build cannons. We are able to have more play time while everything upgrades itself.
The amount of new things to build are awesome. When the enemy breaks into a tower I pull a lever and all of them are chilled and if they are able to take the tower all the 100 supply blows up in their face. In a few months we will have Air ships bombing the enemy zerg in SM and uncontestable waypoint to be placed to make a sneaky attack on the enemy garrison.
People need to reevaluate their ideas on a perfect world vs world and be happy with the new stuff brought to us. If you don’t like it then leave and go play some other game that suits your needs for a mass PVP environment. (You won’t find one).
See you on the battlefield.