If they had put any thought into wvw for the expansion and guild hall upgrades they could have implemented a few different things. War room upgrades should have had their own separate set of materials that dropped from wvw, they kitten well know the war room is for wvw only so why did they force wvw players to grind in pve?
Why put our precious +5 at guild level 37? Why put such a heavy cost on scribing wvw schematics? What a joke, no one is going to use tactivators for years until the cost comes down. It’s like the kitten wvw achievements all over again, and even that took them 3 years to fix. We didn’t buy the expansion to start over on the upgrades we already had kitten .
They could have implemented reward tracks that helped provide those materials, I mean even spvp has a reward track that provides silverwaste shovels. They could have had other materials for purchase for wvw badges giving them another use, they only have one in the hall right now. They could have made the materials drop from sentries and camp npcs, hell even put them on the keep lords, it would promote ktraining, but at least players would be on the new borderlands at this point.
The problem with this game and it’s developers is not everything is implemented fairly across the board. How many years did wvw players have to wait for them to finally make badge gear salvageable? The auto loot feature gets handed out to pve while wvw gets the cold shoulder again.
Spvp got revamped with reward tracks so their players don’t need to step out of pvp, they get tournaments with real cash prizes now. They even get a kitten buff every month that shows up every player everywhere promoting spvp for that time, while also reminding wvw players they’re still standing in the corner looking at the blank wall for being the red haired step child. Really that hard to provide the same buff for wvw once a month and give it the same promotion? seriously?
Squads finally got upgraded, but that’s only because of raids, otherwise it would still be in a useless state.
It’s obvious their focus right now is on raids, and what piece of the pie it can pull from the 5 million players that left WoW in the last year. Their greed in constantly looking for new players and not being fair to their veterans is what’s killing this game mode.
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WOW, Xenesis! Well said and so many very, very important points! Thank you for posting this!
Anet…
…please seriously look at what Xenesis has mentioned about the WvW game-mode, its present issues/concerns, WvW compared to other game-modes, suggestions on improvements, and “why” the red-haired step child feeling sadly applies to WvW.
Has everything you’ve done regarding WvW been a cluster over the last 3 years? Absolutely not! Some of us won’t admit it, but we know you’ve done things to try to keep the game mode alive and part of the GW2 family. (Thank you sincerely for that!) But as you guys have acknowledged – WvW didn’t get what its due regarding the HoT expansion when compared to PvE, sPvP, Fractals, etc; hence, the red-haired step child feelings.
Please take the time to review Xenesis’ post and others like it and work with and communicate with the WvW player base on our next best steps in improving the WvW game mode.
And, btw, you’ve done some great things recently that I’ve personally liked, such as – Sentries showing enemy players (this really helps me “hunt” them
), Squad UI, moving WP’s into the keeps on the BL’s (not 100% functioning as I would have it, but it’s a start), and reducing the effects of the Oasis event on gates.
Let’s take this momentum and build upon it! 
I, like many folks, believe in the WvW game-mode. It has been and continues to be HELLA-end-game-FUN! We just need you to be a little bit more vocal with the WvW community and incorporate some of the community’s ideas on what changes would make it even more fun! 
Thanks for reading!
