Guild Wars 2

Being relatively new to the WvW scene, had never fought against FA. Was flying a bit above ground given the #3 spot last week and expecting to cruise through this week. Thanks for the reality check FA, but don’t relax – we’re still gonna push till the very last tick!!

Also, feels really good to see some fresh people who fight the good fight after these seven weeks. The obvious trolls and Chest-thumpers aside, glad to be fighting you guys.

Good luck, you’re gonna need it.

More choke points to major objectives in the Map should effectively help smaller teams in culling the zerg. Other obvious thing would be AOE to affect a target area instead of limited at 5 people.

And of-course the sledgehammer option – Give only the first 5(Camp), 15(tower), 25 (Garri/Keep) and 40 (SMC) people to enter the structure WXP and rewards: Watch the groups get smaller as the incentive to blob goes down..

Edited for addition:

Set a total XP for structure say ‘X’ to be divided between say 40 people for SMC. If 25 people do it, divide ‘X’ between these 25, rewarding them for a smaller group. Not sure how it would work with Items though – Increased drop chance?

Anyone with doubts about Server Pride should Just hop two sections down to the Matchup threads… Look beyond the trolling and you will see the passion of the people who post there… Read about Commanders staying tagged for 6 hours and more, despite being outmanned, owning nothing on the map.. Read about sentries who patrol Keeps and towers without any reward… And also the respect gained and given for great fights to both comrades and opponents.

And this is not Just T1, every server will have a community which will not transfer and turn up day after day no matter the odds.

Guild loyalty would also be a subset of Server loyalty IMO.. There’s no guild who stays on a server they don’t want to fight for.. Transfers happen, for whatever reason, but would someone go to a place where they did not want to stay? Not considering all those claims of guilds being bought.. maybe some guild gets help with transfer costs but all those numbers flying around are hilarious.. 500G from the BG war chest should become a Meme soon if this keeps up!

Also, there is no way there would be SO much drama there if people were not passionate about their Server :P And for every person who Gloats/QQ’s on the forums for his server, don’t forget there will be 5 others who just show up in the mists and contribute to the effort.

Yes there are fairweathers, bandwagoners and lots of other -er’s out there, but there are more than enough people out there who DO CARE about their server.

Server pride exists, and I would say it definitely goes above and beyond Balance, Skill, Win-Loss and Tiers. Else there would be just two or three matchup threads there where all the “Hardcore WvW’ers” go and fight 24×7.

Just my 2 cents.

For the Toast!!