Redmezz.2065

You're not alone in those thoughts. The consensus that I've received about "where did people go?", even outside this forum post, has been lack of active development in WvW. An active development cycle would have added so much more to this game mode over 10 years. Strikes, new zones/stories, raids, etc. have taken their dev time and WvW has always lingered. This is why competition is important. Maybe other games will look into RvR and force ANets hand.

Superspeed is how melee squads operate in open field. Melee groups are already punished heavily if they make errors so I dislike this idea. Conc/Exp are not game-changing boons in group play - I see this more of a roamer change so I won't comment. Downed state health reduction - playing around downstates is part of group play and when a squad focuses a downed member they die in seconds as is. Reducing that leaves revive skills much harder to execute. I don't think this is needed. I do see this as annoying from a roamer's perspective. Quickness/Vigor/Alac reduction - I don't understand why this would be needed so I can't really comment. Gliding disabled in combat - not a bad proposition as mounts are disabled as well. Fighting on home turf has to have its advantages so I see both sides of the coin. I'm an oldschool WvWer so I wouldn't mind this being disabled as you suggested. I think your problem stems from cele builds operating at a high level in roaming environments. I think a more "proper balance" would be to nerf cele stats so they receive these boon reductions and pure condi/power builds stay strong.

I also have ques on all maps during prime time, but the servers are now combined whereas they used to never need that so that is kind of why I was wondering. Also seems like NA prime is the only active time to play WvW unless you enjoy roaming. Additionally, I had a very active FL of 30-40 WvW'ers and only 2-3 are active anymore. I do agree that numbers seems to be the main advantage. Quality of fight guilds is extremely low than what I remember. I played when "Zerg busting" was the common recruitment slogan; I don't see that very often anymore.

Title. I haven't played since HoT when ANet tried to replace alpine BL with desert BLs. Was also upset with no official GvG scene/ladder/etc., but that's another topic. I've returned and I'm having fun, but the playerbase in NA seems much lower, and GvG seems like a term nobody even knows anymore. What happened to the big guilds (like OnS) and legendary commanders? What would ANet have to do to bring them back or spawn a new generation of fighting guilds?