Guild Wars 2

Jack of all Trades, Master of None … that’s the Guardian So yes it’s versatile :p

Rieselle.5079:

I think the main reason why zergs are popular is because of the incentives. Taking keeps quickly is more fun, easy, and gives you more money/xp/karma than doing anything else.

In fact, if we talk about personal rewards, then the optimal way of playing WvW is for the 3 servers to coordinate their zergs, start at opposite sides of the map, and then run around in a circle constantly capturing points rapidly!

ANet needs to realign personal incentives in WvW to something closer to what actually helps the server.

eg. - Every points cycle, the game tracks whether a player has contributed to his server “in some risky way”. This could be running supplies during a siege, killing the enemy, repairing stuff that’s being attacked, etc.
(it has to to be “risky” or else you’ll get bots and other freeloaders.)

- If you’ve contributed during the points cycle, then you’ll get XP/money/karma proportional to how many points your server gained for that points cycle.

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This means that, if you run around in a zerg capturing keeps that quickly get taken back, then you wont get much rewards at all. The optimal way to play is to keep busy contributing to your server whilst holding as many objectives as possible.

Diminishing returns in RvR aren’t a real solution i’m afraid.
I would go the other way around upping rewards from defending objectives.

That said it has little to spare with incentives for 5vs5 / small encounters

1) Battle Markers should appear only when 10 + ppl per side are involved in a fight, merely cause there’s 0 incentive atm for playing the stealth/scouting wars that we had back in Daoc.
2) Remove mobs from Wv3 already, they don’t belong to that area and they just add confusion to a game where CC got so limited use, thanks.
3) Prolly a slightly larger map with more room between objectives would help also.

How comes it’s always drama when GH is involved in a thread?

Less moaning, more Wv3.

As for all the leavers, for whatever reason they left, have fun wherever you decided to land!