Guild Wars 2

I am primarly a WvW player in this game. My home server is Gate of Madness. Personally, I preferred the old pre-server linking system for the following reasons:

- There are only currently 4 tiers. Your server has very little room to move up and down if things are going too well or too bad. If you get stuck in a linkage that is either too dominant or too weak you are stuck that way for 2 months. With the old model of several tiers you could move up and down until you found a sweet spot for competition.
- I preferred smaller poulation match-ups, because it was more fun for roamers and small groups. You could feel like you contributed more. Nowadays with the high populations of server linkings I feel as thought ever objective I go to is either already be taking by allies or defending by an enemy zerg. I find it hard to do anything, but join the blob and blob along with them. Some people don’t enjoy mindless blobbing.
- The server linkings and the suggestions put forth here destroy a sense of server community. One of things I loved when I first started playing WvW was that sense of community pride you had from being a particular server and the hatred you developed for your rival servers. All of this has been stripped away and I feel these changes will make it even worse.

Things I do like:
- I really like the skirmish scoring which reduces the impact of off timezone guilds/players max-ticking throughout the night making the primetime hours pointless to play.
- I like having a permanent desert borderlands. I think it would be amazing if we ever got a third unique borderlands or if we could update EOTM to playable/balanced enough to be in the rotation for EB.

Suggestions:
- At this point I think we would be better off just straight up merging populations than continuning with this odd server linking. Open up free transfers and make servers go “full” extremely quickly to keep the balance as guilds/players move around. Force everyone to re-pick their server. Don’t count players with extremely low WvW ranks as part of the population. You can elminate some servers if you wish, but definitely have more match-ups than the current 4.
- Afterwards bring back tournaments. This created immense server pride in the past.

My concern coming from a lower level server is I’ve rarely had to sit in a queue. I’m worried that I will now have to sit in queues. Especially at reset.

VERY IMPORTANT

If you reduce the cost of catas, but not rams then why would you ever ram again? If catas cost as much supply as rams why not always go for an undefended wall as opposed to a gate with extra guards, cannons, burning oil, and that can have defensive siege shoot through the gate.

I’m all for reducing the supply cost of catas, but I think something should be done with rams then to make them a more enticing option. Maybe increase their damage to gates, so they can drop a gate noticeably faster than a cata can drop a wall?

I’m an experienced WvW player looking to get more into PvP. Looking for a serious PvP team on NA and/or EU (I have two accounts). In PvP so far I’ve primarily played Necormancer, but I’m willing to learn any class.

Guilds I’ve played on in WvW:

Gate of Madness:
Opposing All Odds We [RISE]
We Tactically Bomb [NUKE]
Rummey’s Rump Rangers [RRR]

Piken Square:
Such Rallybot [Wauw]

Everyone will probably hate this idea, but I think it would keep it fresh if there is a week where Edge of The Mists is the primary WvW map that counts towards your score and make Eternal Battlegrounds the overflow map.

I don’t think “there wouldn’t be enough overflows for all the GvGs” is a legitimate concern at the moment given how few GvGs take place. It isn’t like every guild is going to be GvGing at the exact same time.

As cool as a large scale solution for GvGs would be there is something Anet can do today that would be easy to implement. That is to make the Obsidian Sanctum work just like Edge of The Mists. OS doesn’t contribute towards the score of the match up, so why must it be match up dependent? Allow multiple overflow versions and allow people from any server to join in. Guilds could taxi to a certain overflow and GvG guilds from any server.