Is there a reason WvW maps haven't been increased?

With the warclaw, it should have been obvious that more people would be playing. So, why aren't there more server/maps to let us actually play? For three days now, there hasn't been a minute where you could actually get in.

Did you even consider reading the wiki to see how WvW worlds and links actually work?

Of course. Why do you think I'm asking the question? The smaller servers are bigger now, and some could stand on their own (for a week or two). They should have performed a reset on Tuesday and probably again the next day.

Wait a week.

That will work, but by then it will be idling back down. So, we'll have the opposite problem.

The problem is the week-long lag. They needed to accommodate it.

And, I can't wait a week. Today, there are only two realistic dailies that I can do in PvE, so I need to get into WvW.

There is EotM.

Adding a new tier would require unlinking the 3 biggest guest worlds. Next relink time is 1.5 months away. By then the WvW booster and Warclaw novelty have worn off and the popularity plummets.

Adding a second EB map per matchup is a complicated task. ANet would have to change many UI elements and the warscore calculation. This is way above PvE developers' skillset and there is only one WvW developer left. Who, I hope, is putting in some hours on the alliances feature.

@"Daddicus.6128" said:That will work, but by then it will be idling back down. So, we'll have the opposite problem.No, we'll have a return to the status quo, along with whatever issues WvW had last month.

The problem is the week-long lag. They needed to accommodate it.They really don't. It's temporary and anyone who really wants in... is getting int.

And, I can't wait a week.Why not?

Today, there are only two realistic dailies that I can do in PvE, so I need to get into WvW.Then queue for WvW while you do the "two realistic dailies."

Are you really saying that you can't possibly visit Dry Top to complete 4 events? That map has events popping up often, with a convenient minute-by-minute guide of which ones pop up where.Frozen Maw also occurs every other hour. Are you insisting that you can't do that either?

And if that's the case, what's the harm in skipping a day of dailies?

If no one can get in, how did all those Warclaws get acquired?Nary a wait for EotM, and only one thing needed in the regular WvW maps: taking a camp; that shouldn't be too difficult once the population recedes.

Good luck.

That's weird, I've managed to get in without issue every day and I play during prime time, an hour after reset. When are you trying to get in that you have no capacity to do so?

All night long. Starting about 4 PM US central, through to 2 AM. No gaps (until today; there's one right now).

Are you queing? How many people in the queue? My server has had queues, but the wait has only been less than half an hour for the longest que (which was about 40 people).Again, you can play in EotM whilst you wait and work on the Warclaw (if that's what you are after).

Less than half an hour? You lose all your accumulated points that way, in half that time.

So queue earlier in the day.

Can't? Busy?

Do it later. It's not going anywhere. Or sit in queue.

Hell, right now, there's a BL without a queue on TC (last I checked it was high/full so), and everything else is under 10.

From the patch notes:Participation will no longer decay outside of WvW. As a result, rewards based on participation (pips and reward tracks) will be delayed until the next full tick when entering WvW from outside other WvW maps.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2018-11-13#World_vs._World

Also, if you weren't in WvW anyway, why would you have 'accumulated points'?

That's a good point, Inculpatus. I was mistaken, sort of. I was waiting in the Obsidium place, which counts for decay times. I just didn't think of it that way. Thanks for the correction!

I dont think extra maps would have been the right answer, esp as they have EOTM to be used as overflow. What i think they should have done, is changed the reqs to camp or shrine and had the npc there too. Plus make EOTM warclaw and double wxp event enabled.

I enjoyed my EB runs and ill prob do more wvw because of it, but id have likely have blocked others less if eotm was more viable.

I want to say that I LOVE the change that your points do not decay out of WvW. Doing certain Reward Tracks for some nice rewards in WvW and EotM just got a lot more interesting for this PvE-oriented player. Good move.

Queue times dropped really fast. There were 104 people in queue the first day, 56 the following day, and just 24 yesterday, at the same hour (at least on my server). Players who are only interested in the mount should stop playing WvW as soon as they buy it, so I don't feel asking ANet extra big work just for 1 week of long queue (although it would have been probably better to introduce the mount with the WvW restructuring, but not a big deal).Also I'm grateful that ArenaNet left 1 map without the warclaw. I never played much in HotM, and I think I'm going to switch from now on.

@Randulf.7614 said:Plus make EOTM warclaw and double wxp event enabled.

Agreed. I mainly play WvW in GW2 and have my warclaw unlocked. With such high queues on Gandara over all maps I can't even play and don't to waste time in EotM without the buff. It's a shame really.

@Daddicus.6128 said:With the warclaw, it should have been obvious that more people would be playing. So, why aren't there more server/maps to let us actually play? For three days now, there hasn't been a minute where you could actually get in.

I think that'll settle once everyone got the Warclaw (not all new players who came in to get it will stick around and continue to play WvW). However, if I am wrong with my presumption, ANet will indeed have to do something about the queues. I got in fine these past couple of days (after waiting my turn), but it is literally impossible at the moment for a whole squad to jump from one map onto another.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:Wait a week.

Pretty much this. I hate that it is this way now but it will die down and go back to normal I suppose.

A much more interesting question is what they're going to do about the WvW exploits with the Warclaw mount. You can actually jump into some Towers and such bypassing the walls entirely. A good example is Quentin Lake in Eternal Battlegrounds. It has two open sides because it's higher up but on the south side you can actually jump into the location with a Warclaw completely bypassing the walls. A guy that was practicing it told me there were at least 9 locations where you could either bypass parts of a location or get right into it. I find that much more concerning for the long term.

@Gehenna.3625 said:A much more interesting question is what they're going to do about the WvW exploits with the Warclaw mount. You can actually jump into some Towers and such bypassing the walls entirely.Is that why they shortened the leap distance with last night's patch? I'd expect them to release fixes to that pretty soon. If you find such a spot, it can't hurt to send in a bug or exploit report though.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:

@"Daddicus.6128" said:That will work, but by then it will be idling back down. So, we'll have the opposite problem.No, we'll have a return to the status quo, along with whatever issues WvW had last month.

The problem is the week-long lag. They needed to accommodate it.They really don't. It's temporary and anyone who really wants in... is getting int.

And, I can't wait a week.Why not?

Today, there are only two realistic dailies that I can do in PvE, so I need to get into WvW.Then queue for WvW while you do the "two realistic dailies."

2 Mystic Coins and 2 Gold!!!

My server is in T1, and an hour after server reset we only had a queue in EBG, compared to Tuesday/Wednesday when we had queues on all maps off/on all day long.

In other words, it's getting back to normal.

@Rasimir.6239 said:

@Gehenna.3625 said:A much more interesting question is what they're going to do about the WvW exploits with the Warclaw mount. You can actually jump into some Towers and such bypassing the walls entirely.Is that why they shortened the leap distance with last night's patch? I'd expect them to release fixes to that pretty soon. If you find such a spot, it can't hurt to send in a bug or exploit report though.I believe it was discussed quite a bit on twitter already but yeah I would suspect that if they shortened the leap distance, that would be why.