Guild Wars 2

I was really enjoying wvw before HoT. I am trying to work out what I am not liking about the new setup. I think it is just a series of feelings about it really.

Overall I really think that the GW2 battle setup is superb. Combining skills and positional play is excellent. You can tell that it has been thought about. That someone had really thought the system through. There are bugs in every piece of software so you expect some of that. Well I do. But the new map does not seem to fit the existing eloquence of the GW battle system.

The best way I can describe the new wvw BL desert map is that it feels like unpaid work when playing on it.

I feel like even though I have left PvE behind I am still doing jumping puzzles and PvE bosses even though I am in wvw.

I feel like a rat trapped in a maze undergoing an experiment.

It is just less fun. So when I login that is my basic expectation for the game.

I didn’t expect the changes to the BL map as alpine did not seem broken to begin with. Maybe it was in some way?

So there is no data here. Just feelings probably compared against the fact I was quite happy with the simple layout that went before. It did seem to enable the various enemy groups to find and combat each other. So concentrate on the armies rather than the more complex terrain.

That is the best I can come up with. I can see why people who grind, another pve related term, may like the new map. So having tried a number of times now. I will keep trying I guess.

I am not a good enough player to comment on the other wvw changes. They do not seem too bad now that anet have fixed various NPC bugs and weapons hitting you through walls.