This is my take on the current state of WvW with the latest patches and nerfs and my suggestions on ideas to improve the quality of the experience for players all around.
1) Arrow Carts – Some people like the buff, some people hate it. I think it went somewhat too far. Did arrow carts need a buff? Yes. Did they need 80% increase + new trait line? Not so much. Cut the increase damage back to a 50% increase instead of the 80%, but only for damage to Players/mobs. Reduce the damage carts do to all siege to a 20% increase of what it was prior to patch. Arrow carts should hurt when they hit you, after all an arrow in real life hurts. Also arrows will damage something made of wood, but it tends to take a while before that damage amounts to enough to destroy something.
2) New WvW map – One of the top complaints on T1 and T2 are queue times. I propose a new 5th map that would basically be an overflow with a focus on Guild vs Guild. This map you would party up with Guildies or Pugs and enter a map with other groups of your size and then enter. This map would not be solely against your current matchups, it would be overflow, a mix and match of whatever players/guilds joined from all servers. There would of course be several of these maps, one for say soloers to 3 man squads then 3 to 5 man and then 5 to 10 and so on.
There would be the complication of larger groups trying to dominate a map designated for smaller groups. This I think could be nullified by revamping the party management allowing for larger parties and requiring a party while in the map. Outside of your party all other players would be considered enemies, this would prevent several squads from 1 server ganging up on everyone else and allow some Guild vs Guild fights on the same server. Scoring on the map would be based solely on PvP kills, no objectives to cap or hold, there could be Towers/keeps, but they would not be worth points just for use as defensive positions. Player kills would add to the World’s overall Point score, while deaths would subtract an equal number of points from the overall score, this would prevent Guilds from the same server farming each other to artificially increase their worlds overall score.
3) Confusion – Stop punishing good players because of bad players. Most have said this, and it holds a certain truth, but not the entire story. The nerf to confusion was too great. Instead of a damage nerf it should have been a max stacks nerf. Now condition Mesmers are pretty worthless.
4) Stealth – Change stealth to revealed no matter how the player leaves stealth.
