Sneak peek preview of new WvW Borderlands map

[Karizee]

This trailer was shown on the World Tournament Series livestream today, Dulfy captured it for us

[Val the Moofia Boss]

More scrolling through glimpses of the map than actually showing it to us.

[Karizee]

Yeah, this is just a sneak peek. Hopefully it indicates the deep dive into WvW this coming week

[zito]

More verticle stuff I see. I wonder if this will be a long side the current borderlands map or will it be on rotation with it.

I really wish they would revert obsidian sanctum to how it was before, it use to be so much fun there. Now it's dead.

[Karizee]

More verticle stuff I see. I wonder if this will be a long side the current borderlands map or will it be on rotation with it.

I really wish they would revert obsidian sanctum to how it was before, it use to be so much fun there. Now it's dead.

They did state already that it would be on rotation with the current borderland maps. Which is interesting because last year when they were talking about new maps for WvW they said they couldn't due to the architecture. So they made some new tech I guess

As far as reverting OS, what they would have to do is make blueprints soulbound again and change the way badges of honor are acquired. Yeah, that would go over like a lead balloon haha. Remember when they use to call the Gift of Battle - The Gift of Jumping Puzzles?

[Karizee]

In depth reveal on the EGX stream today: http://www.twitch.tv/egx/b/636785081?t=22m30s
Youtube mirror of the stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQ_71ClFqo


Map presentation trailer was shown (excuse the quality, was taken from the stream which was shown in an auditorium setting)




Full notes on the stream from Dulfy: http://dulfy.net/2015/03/14/gw2-egx-...ds-map-reveal/

[zito]

The Desert Borderlands Map will be replacing the old Borderlands map (Alpine Borderlands) when the expansion releases and we might reintroduce the old map in a rotation or tournament.

Anet what the fuck ARE YOU DOING. Just make it a weekly rotation not maybe coming back. Like wtf why would you remove content.

It's just what the hell. You spend how much development time making this stupid map and you're just removing it?

[Karizee]

Colin clarified on reddit:

As Tyler said when the expansion ships we will initially replace the existing borderland map entirely with the new one, later there will be a rotation of schedule/format TBD between borderland maps.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c..._notes/cpephus

Which makes total sense since everyone and their mother will want to play nothing but the new maps, learn the new mechanics and formulate and explore new strategies for them. It will take months, if not years to do this given how long it's taken on the current borderlands maps.

[Deleted]

In depth reveal on the EGX stream today: http://www.twitch.tv/egx/b/636785081?t=22m30s
Youtube mirror of the stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQ_71ClFqo


Map presentation trailer was shown (excuse the quality, was taken from the stream which was shown in an auditorium setting)




Full notes on the stream from Dulfy: http://dulfy.net/2015/03/14/gw2-egx-...ds-map-reveal/

at 1:30

did that treb just fling a cow

[Karizee]

at 1:30

did that treb just fling a cow

You can fling cows now silly. It's the 2nd trait in the Trebuchet mastery line, steals supply when it hits enemy players. Somewhat similar to a Supply Removal Trap, you see a cloud of green poisonous air and hear the "crunch crunch crunch" of your supply being drained off.

[carnifex2005]

Slow-mo of Guardian using Longbow from that link...

http://zippy.gfycat.com/ImmaterialWhichEgret.webm

[Deleted]

You can fling cows now silly. It's the 2nd trait in the Trebuchet mastery line, steals supply when it hits enemy players. Somewhat similar to a Supply Removal Trap, you see a cloud of green poisonous air and hear the "crunch crunch crunch" of your supply being drained off.

ah. this shows how often i can be found in wvw

[zed zebes]

Not optimistic about this so far. People don't enjoy Arrow Cart fights and some of the stuff they talked about feels like siege n turtle wars that drive people away.

Final judgement will be when I play it.


And, yes, you could always throw cows with trebs. It is done more often now after they added supply drain trait to Trebuchet Mastery and WXP. You can also earn the ability to drop large water fields with the trebuchet as well.

[Deleted]

Could you atleast put GW2 in the title or delete Borderlands from the title? It might have people misinformed, me included. Thanks!

[barackopala]

ah. this shows how often i can be found in wvw

Cow ammo is so good, it can break supply from enemies that stand on the poison cloud when traited =D!

Could you atleast put GW2 in the title or delete Borderlands from the title? It might have people misinformed, me included. Thanks!

This is the gw2 forum, why would he put gw2 on the title if you know borderlands is the WvW map and the topic explicitly states that it's WvW, it's like going to the rift forum seeing a topic about PvP and asking for people making topics there to state that they're talking about rift because I play WoW-GW2 PvP @-@