Guild Wars 2

Anet is showing some interest in making WvW a better game mode and the pips/leggy armor/backpiece and all that jazz is sure a step in the right direction as well as the separation of skills between gamemodes. (im not gonna talk about the recent balance patch)

However before you make any more changes to WvW fix the lag.
Honestly i love wvw but the lag is something that needs to get sorted especially in 3 way fights in eb. skills dont work lag is an issue.

If your servers cant handle it dial the numbers back down on each borderland and give us another wvw map like ebg (5 maps in total)

The lag makes me give up on the gamemode more than anything else

if the staff is gonna stay at 300 range the damage should have at least been buffed to match other auto attacks and plus what about the compensation from all the dps that is gonna be lost due to the range drop anet?

The change on empower and orb is good tbh but the angle on which staff 1 hits does not compensate for the range drop and from 600 straight to 300 not even 450 is just silly especially for the people who main guard

how about we fix the skillag first?

1. Stability & skill balance. you could potentially increase the stab from 5 to 8 stacks in the guardian shout or make skills like dragon hunter LB 5 less effective. The idea of having WvW specific skills is better cause it introduces a more competitive environment and shows commitment to make it work. Currently conditions are imo too strong since there is a limited amount of condition cleanse you have but the sources of conditions are way too much with the reduced cds for boon corruptions.

2. Fix or revert DBL. DBL needs some rework to be more approachable. Its way too big and takes a huge amount of time to traverse it and get to an objective or to the enemy you end up running in circles from one point to the other. Alpine was better however it also needed some rework for example the middle space was never used and the areas there were not favourable to fight on (please no more pve events in maps and ty for removing oasis event)

3. Rewards
Definitely requires some rework since the badges are useless since everyone uses the heroic currency to get the siege they want. The rank up chests are just greens and blues and I think rewards could be better if structured as seasons and some sort of currency (like the previous season currency) when you do achievements during the season to redeem for something. Currently PvP for example plays a major role to getting a legendary back piece. Pve has the fractal one. There could be a potential WvW one or better yet make ascended easier to actually get if the player is only playing WvW.

4. Population balance
One of the major issues in wvw is that there is a lot of servers and people are spread all over however imo you will get a boost when you put back on alpine maps it will start to decline a couple of weeks after and then we will need something more permanent. An alliance system would work but with it you would potentially lose a lot of competitiveness cause right now there is some sort of rivalry between servers and some kind of passion regarding your server. Best approach to this is probably kill off the last 5-6 Servers and give the people enough gems to transfer again in the lower tiers so we don’t overpopulate the top tier.

5. Scoring
The night capping is a major major cause of the leader boards something needs to be done about the late hours we currently have people from outside of EU in the servers for example and they just go around flipping everything because there is simply no opposition. Either make the tick worth less during like 02:00am-08:00am GMT or increase the tick from like 15 mins to 30. I understand that people like to win the match-ups and they want to PPT for it but doing it while everyone else is sleeping is frowned upon. PPK is good it gives people better incentive to fight but at the end of the day it really doesn’t affect the end score too much most of the scoring occurs outside of Prime Time (19:00-22:00 GMT)

NOTE Please make wvw abilities account bound