I think this idea seems a lot better than how it currently is. I am primarily a solo roamer, although I sometimes tag up and lead around 4 - 5 people on a borderland. I see quite a bit of complaining from solo or small party players who don't seem to know how they are going to get to play with their friends. Well that's simple join the same guild and claim your guild as a WvW guild. Did I miss the part that a WvW guild can't do other things? Also in their little picture it even shows Guilds in the battle that aren't part of the alliance. So you get your friends to join a guild, and you all get put on the same battle or your guild joins an alliance and fights with the rest of the server. To me, as someone who primarily goes in solo and maybe forms a group while in the battle this doesn't seem like it would affect me at all. I can still join the battle, still go in and still have fun. I think it was mentioned somewhere that Borderlands and stuff aren't going to be there. I honestly hope it just isn't one huge map, because that will pretty much make it impossible for solo players (like me) to be able to do anything without/against a zerg. It should have 3 maps. Two "borderlands" one for each Guild/Alliance and then middle battlefield. Now this does seem to turn WvW in to more of a GvG mode. As it seems the battles will be centered around the larger Guilds or Alliances and they will be the ones going at each other. So honestly I don't know why they aren't just renaming it cause it honestly isn't WvW anymore. Its GvG (or AvA). Either way I am looking forward to it. But a part of me wishes they would have just made the GvG mode separate from WvW and we could have both.