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Live Forum Q&A Devon Carver - Guild Wars 2 (WvW)
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1) The goal of the bloodlust buff is to impact the gameplay in WvW, not to simply provide additional rewards to players that have it. That being said the intial version of the buff is overly strong and we will be addressing that next Tuesday. The best version of the buff is one that incentivizes small groups to get the buff so they can come back if they are behind in the matchup, rather than one that only provides rewards incidental to WvW.
2) Part of the goal of seasons is to provide matchups that are more varied than could be accomplished in a 3 team league. That being said, we'll see how this first season progress before we make any commitments to how future seasons will work. Nothing is off the table and our goal is to provide the best experience to as many people as possible.
1) We agree completely with the issues relating to score and population. We have some ideas for how to address this, but nothing is ready to be discussed yet as we haven't moved beyond the idea phase. In my opinion its the single largest issue that still faces WvW and one that we intend to make major strides to address as soon as we can. The league itself doesn't do much to address it, beyond the achievements which should provide some incentive to play winning or losing. We are approaching this exact problem with the mindset that is behind your question though, and that is that even if you are losing we want there to be a reason for you to keep playing. That's a high level goal for us in WvW.
2) We are going to reduce the power of the buff specifically the stats and long term we want to find ways to change the buff, or where it applies, or how it applies, to provide more benefit to losing sides than to winning ones. That's a long term goal.
3) We want to make WvW more alt friendly, especially the rank system. However, WvW will never be balanced entirely as that is not feasible. We value the time players put into the game and we prefer to reward you with some abilities, items, etc. that reflect that. A skilled player can still take down a less skilled player with more ranks, and that is how we like it.
There will be more info about this released soon.1) We want their to be value to the time you spend playing the game and the way we do that is by rewarding you for that time. We think the WXP system needs to be more alt friendly, no doubt, but we also want you to be progressing your characters while you play the game. We think that the attachment you build with individual characters is important and that is part of the reasoning behind the current version of the system.
1) Bloodlust will be getting a major reduction in the stat bonuses for the time being. We have some additional ideas for ways to improve the buff to incentivize its use as a comeback mechanic that we haven't finalized yet.
2) We don't have any firm plans at the moment, but we do feel that the maps are made to feel smaller by the existence of the waypoints and when we have a plan for changing that we will talk more about it.
Hi Devon, firstly I want to say WvW is awesome! This game mode is amazing. For real.
Now for the bad bits haha. I am of the opinion that the borderlands maps should have a reduced player cap size. I think it would really address some of the key issues that are wrong with the game mode from a players perspective right now. To name a few:
1. Lag can be a real issue at times and less players connected to a single map putting a server under less stress could mean less lag.
2. Competitive players are flocking to Tier 1 servers in order to be competitive, because in all honesty queues are not an issue and actually having a queue outside of reset day isn't common. With players hitting queues during their primetime it would certainly make players reconsider stacking servers and hopefully make them consider spreading the population out.
3. During certain timezones the game becomes a little too zergy and no matter how well you play, the 80 man zerg is going to beat down your doors. Given, say a 60 man however might be easier to deal with.
So, my question is, have you considered reducing the map cap? It seems like a solution to so many problems in WvW right now, but am I wrong to think that?
Devon:
Q#1) Over many times the topic of "limited AOE" has come up, with you and the rest of the A.Net staff citing the engine and "lag" as a reason that it cannot increase. However, we have Arrow carts that have no limit to their AOE, why is that? Why is it that AOE per player can be capped, but per arrow cart cannot?
Q#2) On the subject of AoE, notable the Meteor Shower spell is 5 targets per meteor hit. This spell could, depending on the number of meteors, hit far more than 5 people as an AoE? AoE cap doesn't effect this why if the engine doesn't support the numbers hit?
Q#3) Because of the popularity of Eternal Battlegrounds, there's almost always a queue. And because of that, even with the "separation" of the Jumping Puzzle, yet still requiring to go into EB to get to it, the thing is still next to impossible to get into within a reasonable amount of time. Any solutions to those that want to just participate in this PvP jumping puzzle down the line?
Q#4) Why has there not been any communicated fix or attempt to fix the #4 ability on Ballista Mastery, making it arch like other ballista shots?
Q#5) Something anti-zerg ? Anything? Please tell me there's something in the works that doesn't promote the "Follow commander"/"On Pin" partially braindead tactics that currently fills up WvW maps?
1) We will continue to make bug fixes during the season, but we feel it is just better to leave the game to sit for awhile rather than chasing every little change. This allows us to work on larger scale issues as well.
2) I do and the issues you discuss here are more about underlying problems with WvW that we'd like to address, than problems with the system in general. Primary among those is the fact that defending is not properly rewarded. Something we hope to address soon.
3) Hopefully yes, but nothing is determined right now. When we have more to say, we will do so. We would like to be a bit more aggressive about this, but need to make technical changes to be able to do so.
We will be posting more in advance about what we are working on as well as why. It is important to remember the other things that Chris said, namely that just because we don't do all the things that people want us to do doesn't mean we are ignoring them. We have to work with the systems as we can and sometimes that means things will take longer than it might seem and sometimes it means we can't do them at all. We value the give and take with the community and we always look to what the community is saying and doing when we make our decisions. We will, at the end of the day, do what we think is best for WvW each and every time.
Thanks everyone who came, I have to run. I hope you all continue to show the passion you have for WvW and keep fighting the good fight!
Devon