Guild Wars 2

munkiman.3068:

Jareth.9065:

I have no desire to play in top tier servers either. For me it’s fine to play in mid tier. I cant stand that in plenty of cases all day on the map have 5 – 8 ppl from my server…. and that’s not a joke.

Tell me what is your vision of the problem.

The low numbers in WvW means the mode is stale, unrewarding and encourages certain tactics to be the most effective (i.e. blobbing round robin style). Until they address those issues, the mode will continue to lose players. You have lower participation in the top tiers too.

They should create some way to deal with hacking/cheating.
They should make defense equally as rewarding as offense.
They should remove PPT, in place of capture, defense and player deaths points.
They should cripple the downed state (lower health significantly).
They should make AoE siege scale, along with NPC’s during defense events against outnumbered. (determined buff)
They should force neutral states to objectives if not refreshed.

If they address those, you’d see tactics change, you’d have more interesting battles, more even match-ups, people would spread around more and not blob v blob all day long. You’d see servers winning not based mostly on participation, but on skill and strategy.

^^This. Every one of those things needs addressing. A major one would is making WvW more rewarding. Especially for someone scouting a keep, or defending your corner in EB for example. Things I do because it’s needed, but don’t get kittene for compared to running with a group. And also, as stated by someone in another thread, change the uplevel system for WvW. Like if you’re an uplevel, you use your pvp set. Or something along those lines. Making it so if you see an uplevel in your group, you don’t look at them as a detriment to the team. Which they are. That’s not good for WvW or anyone except the other team

Merging servers isn’t a good idea, and all the reasons have been stated, so I won’t repeat. I could see a battle-group in some form working.

I feel the pain of all you in servers where maybe 10-15 will be on all day across all 4 maps(and maybe 3 of them on TS), and at night for maybe 3-4 hrs there will be a nice showing, depending on the day of the week. We kick kitten during those 3-4 hours, but then we’re back to under 100 ppt till the next night.

How about posting in map-chat that you’re dueling, where u are, and plz dont interfere, and say when you’re done? It would be quick and easy to do. Like for eg. /M dueling N of SE Camp, plz don’t help. Quicker than re-setting or trying to find that player again. I know, once in a while you both might get trolled, but not much I’d wager. And just a quick “all done” or whatever when you finish. I like to duel, and i gotta say, it happens in all places in the maps, so I think moving of to a diff spot isn’t gonna work naturally. And if you’re in TS, which you other WvW players should be, just say something in there. I might do that from now on. I think my server mates will respect that. If you wan’t to not get someone to jump in, take the 3 seconds to /m a half sentence. You shouldn’t be mad cause someone is taking WvW serious, and sees red and goes for the kill. Different if you /s something and they still do it. It’s all relative to each situation.

I don’t think either side of this coin is “right” IMO. People have different views of WvW(Like the playing uplevels arguments). I’m actually a little empathetic to each view. But this seems very fixable on us the players end. Next time I duel, I’m gonna try doing what I suggested.

^^exactly. I can see myself using D/P more now though.