The Guild Wars 2 blog has been updated with a post by Mike Ferguson that lays out how the world vs world PvP will look in Guild Wars 2 and should get people REALLY excited! Think siege engines, capture points, resource control, castle keeps and persistent two week events and you start to see an emerging picture of how this innovative system will work.

The WvW system will pit three worlds of hundreds of players each against one another on maps of massive scale. The idea is that no one team will be so dominant that the other side is obliterated. It affords the opportunity for the other two teams to band together to take down a more powerful foe.

Seems like the dev's have been listening to what players have been asking for and their prepared to deliver.

I for one can't wait to play this game - it sounds awesome! 

Oh.....my....!

Awesome, I cant wait !

YES!!!! YES!!!! YES!!! 

Holy crap I see some giant dragon in the other pics at blog =O.

so if the supply caravans can be escorted, can they be attacked? if supply lines can be cut, i will be so happy.

EDIT: "Hopefully you have someone who can help protect the caravans delivering supply to your keep, or you may not be able to hold off determined attackers for long!" YES!!!!!

Damn you Arenanet! Now I have no choice but to level up a character entirely in the Mysts. :p

Now that the blog post regarding it is out, I really hope we see some footage on the 20th. :D

Originally posted by smh_alot
Most of it isn't new news, I've already read about it last year, but always nice to have it refreshed again plus with some added examples. The 'up to 100 players' is wrong though, iirc in former articles there was talk about hundreds, even over 500 players per side.

 

Unless that had to be scaled down due to performance issues or such, but I doubt that, there were videos last year of 100+ players standing and moving in a very small area with no visible lag.

He didn't say up to 100 players, he said over 100 players from each server.

Interesting.

Ugh, looks like i'm going to need a good divorce attorney. 

:D

I just had a wargasm.

This looks even more amazing than I anticipated. People worry about endgame in GW2? Hell, good luck finishing the game... I'll probably spend too much time in the Mists.

Originally posted by Crackbone

Ugh, looks like i'm going to need a good divorce attorney. 

:D

What's worse for me, is the wife is playing this too. No one will eat in my house for weeks. Thank god the kids are old enough to feed themselves.

Originally posted by ShakyMo
You wait 11 years for this kind of pvp then 4 come along at once (gw2, tsw, dominus, planetside2)

but that's ok, so 5 years from now we can say how MMO's are so playground oriented and we need something different :)

Originally posted by ShakyMo
You wait 11 years for this kind of pvp then 4 come along at once (gw2, tsw, dominus, planetside2)

as far as I know TSW and Prime dont have keep siege.

Nothing about degrading gear or anything.  kind of makes me feel crafting in relationship to pvp will be little more then a side gimic like siege weapons.

This also makes me wonder about maps. Do i capture the center and then move in and capture the enemy borderlands?  or are these 4 separate maps which are not connected to each other in the slightest.

Originally posted by atticusbc

so if the supply caravans can be escorted, can they be attacked? if supply lines can be cut, i will be so happy.

EDIT: "Hopefully you have someone who can help protect the caravans delivering supply to your keep, or you may not be able to hold off determined attackers for long!" YES!!!!!

This is exactly the kind of attention to detail that will evelate this game.

Honestly, the ambition and imagination ANet is putting into this title is inspiring.

Originally posted by cinos

Originally posted by smh_alot
Most of it isn't new news, I've already read about it last year, but always nice to have it refreshed again plus with some added examples. The 'up to 100 players' is wrong though, iirc in former articles there was talk about hundreds, even over 500 players per side.

 

Unless that had to be scaled down due to performance issues or such, but I doubt that, there were videos last year of 100+ players standing and moving in a very small area with no visible lag.

He didn't say up to 100 players, he said over 100 players from each server.