Guild Wars 2

Recently xfered to Yaks to find rl friends and lvl 80. Which are the WvW focused guilds? Not 100% hardcore, but WvW is primarily all i care to do.

morrolan.9608:

Yaks Bend is the server for you. We need players in your time zone, we have several WvW focussed guilds, pugs who are willing to listen and learn, and have a never say die attitude. The queue times are minimal.

I don’t see the drop rate in badges these others posters are seeing. In fact, after as many as 20-30 hours of plan, i have seen none. But I think this is more related to my game play related to the game mechanics mentioned in Sunspots post versus drop rates (#1 and #3). I cannot get my mind around the fact that I have to stop in the middle of a battle to loot. Especially when your class/role is to push through the opponent. So I don’t. And I don’t get badges. Why they put this feature in WvW or couldn’t figure out auto loot for WvW is beyond me. I hope ESO get’s it correct.

Besides, any time you tie gear progression to WvW or RvR play, it really becomes WvE or RvE. So I have taken to just farming supply depots and towers for karma. I figure we will be able to buy the new ascended gear with karma in a few months and need to stockpile.

I have no issue with this change as it relates to PvE/Dungeons. This is not for me, but it works for the majority of MMO’ers if WoW is any indication.

However, I do not believe that gear progression has any place in PvP or WvW. These parts of the game should be tests of organization, strategy, and skills against others. Not a test of how many hours we have available to play or the patience one has to mindlessly kill the same mobs over and over for gear.

Personally, I chose this game for WvW and based on the premise that WvW would be gear neutral. I feel sucker punched now that Anet has deemed to increase the gear deficit between players like myself and those with more time to play.

Also, my past gaming experience indicates that when you make a game which has the foundational premise of WvW, making a change that leads WvW’ers leave the WvW world to go PVE for gear is not a good idea. <— See DAOC TOA for this lesson

In anticipation of those who say leveling is easy, getting gear is easy. Maybe it is for those with more play time. But on 6-10 hours of play a week, it is not. I have only now made level 80 and am still sporting a combination of blue/green/yellowkarma gear. All I want to do now is to start playing WvW in earnest. Not PvE for gear.