I would like to put few thoughts about new guild wars (I write in my name and few other members of my guild who doesn’t show on forum):
we would like to see guild results like in any other event (who made how many points) and even better in old guild war style (who won or who lost and how many)
defender team feedback - like in old guild wars it was nice to know how good (or bad) our defender team works, for example 2 won and 5 lost battles written as simple 2/5
Generally I’m very pleased that Guild Wars are back:
“Looks like guild wars back on the menu boys!”
I have high hopes for it. I like defend your own keep and take enemy vibe. Thank you for detailed explanation how it works and how exactly points are earned (especially thanks for clear answer how we earn bonus points).
the fighting is better - the different constraints on different battles help avoid 5 fights of the same annoying meta, so much more enjoyable to play, I don’t mind this event
missing the in-guild competition aspect - I enjoyed the challenge of trying to perform near the top in the guild, I miss seeing the individual results for the guild
would be nice to see how many people in guild have played - can kind of guess from number of fights done on the first gate, but would be nice to see X battles left for the day
bugs - the daily war said we were fighting guild X, and then after midnight the notice said “congrats, you won against guild Y”, was that just me?
I’d like there to be more, I don’t know, fanfare at the end of the event? As it is, after the final victory/defeat popup, Guild Wars pretty much disappears – we can’t even see the leaderboard to see how our ranking changed. It felt like a rather anticlimactic end to 4 days of battles.
So, in addition to the existing “stats during the event” request, I’d like “stats available after the event”. Let us see, after the GW event has ended, and until the next GW event starts, how we – both individually, and guild – did in the previous event:
for individuals: attack and defense battles won/lost
for the guild: daily score and win/loss, including enemy guild name + rank + rating; total event win/loss; old and new guild rank + rating
Players worked hard for the guild during the event and then it went poof into thin air when it ended; give 'em a chance to bask in their accomplishments for a while.
I think a pop-up at first login after the daily restart after a GW ends would be cool.
“Your guild fought x, y, z guilds. Here’s your scores vs. theirs for each day. Here’s your guild’s total score. Here’s how you many places you moved up/down on the leaderboard. Check your mail to receive your rewards!”
I like it except it doesnt show defence results, doesnt show guildmate results and their scores. People who do not know how to play properly will attack the same areas. Would be nice to see what defences guild has set up as gm so they can correct things
Low level players can play at the Gate and don’t lose out on getting rewards because they are only at level 300 or such.
Individual rewards are really nice
Players don’t have to progress to increasingly harder battles if they don’t want to (or are unable to)
Morale bonus: a very nice touch to promote coordination
Set conquest bonus: another nice co-op reward
Overall very chill and fun! We all had a great time!
Things that would be nice for future updates:
Promote riskier battles by giving the individual rewards for participating in the battle vs winning the battle. This way a player might decide to venture forth to a more challenging battle and would get their individual reward even if they lose. Then it is really up to them to decide if they want to get less points for a ‘safe battle’ vs potentially lose the next battle worth more points.
Restrict Opt In/Out and GW Admin to Rank 1 and Rank 2 only.
There are too many cooks in the kitchen with giving admin access to Rank 3 upwards.
Make the Paid Pass more enticing. I’d like to see:
way more Burning Marks or perhaps Epic Burning Marks if that is an option, Deed books, etc. (compared to the Paid PvP pass, it’s not really worth it as it is)
remove Icons and remove the Major Orb of Chaos and possibly even the Shiny Keys (not much use for them so far)
Previously mentioned things: ability to see each other defense teams and their performance, ability to DM guildmate (please check chat, please change defense location, etc.)
Individual scores per location.
Now that we have set bonuses, it’s not as important to me how much the total score is because that player could have decided to increase the set by picking up a location that was lost by another guildmate instead of going for the palace. I would be much more interested in the scores on each location so I can ask them to share their attack team with the rest of the guild.
Improved matching with other guilds. Ideally within 5 ranks.
Fighting a one person guild seems really mean. I mean all they want is to play on their own and they don’t need to get pulverized by a 30 member guild.
I’d also like to see the GW Rank updated on the Guild profile page. For example, it shows Sons of Anarchy being rank 34 in GW and Marshal being Rank 190 in their Guild profile. When we know they were rank 1 and 2 at the time of seeding.
Overall, I feel there was a lot more thought that went into this update and I really appreciated the detailed previews, patch notes and guide on how Guild Wars works. I could tell the tremendous amount of effort that went into creating the notes and pictures. This was really helpful for explaining it to the guild and understanding it myself. Thank you very much.
p.s. Also a special thank you to all the beta testers involved. I know you get blamed here in the forums for things and that’s really sad. However, I know you are doing all those volunteer hours for the community and to help the game improve by catching as many bugs as possible and providing as much feedback as possible. So thank you for all your efforts!
I feel like beta sometimes gets the sharp end of the WAS THIS EVEN TESTED stick here because only its failures are visible: the bugs that made it through to release, because they couldn’t be fixed in time or because they needed the bigger scale of the live game to reveal and reliably reproduce. Its successes are silent: we don’t get to see the bugs that were found and fixed before the release.
Id rather Gm rank be the one to control opt in or opt out. Whoever else plays or decides not to can be dealt with. Too many low levels cry for promotions then mess around with the shield, goal, tasks, ranks as it is. They should be gm only.
That kind of feels like one of the many band-aids this game is built on, once in it will never be touched again by development due to “working fine”. A better approach would be to allow the GM to set permissions in regards to what each rank can do.
I like the format and the idea of getting sets better than the old GW’S but it’s definitely not creative when it comes to making attack teams very limited and defenses that are just 3 takaska’s and ruby macaque
A combination of the old and new GW’S would be better in opinion
Make the restrictions for attack colored and you pick the color your guilds palace sure most will pick brown since its the hardest though it might be better to have it set where they need to get sets to prevent them from getting bonus points for sets
The old scoring system was better in my opinion, defense shouldn’t be able to set multiple’s and able to see defense results and bring paragon back
Let them use there wand and Stellarix on defense much easier to beat than a book
so long without gw we went without, and you give us this crap, only thing i like was the map to palace but really the old gw was better and how do we get rewards from last day of gw we won but only a few get the rewards. really this gw is a joke and why if you going to come out with a floral dragons why not put dragonite as a reward, i am very unhappy with these gw that took 16-17 mths to come out. you cant even make me believe that you the devs have been working on these gw as long as you have been saying you have b/c if you did all the t and i’s would of been crossed and dotted. tbh i dont even think you work on it for 1 mth. i dont even believe you have even tested or played the game ever, to you its only a money drop.
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