The MMO world has been rocked with Arena.Net's latest blog post detailing the Guild Wars 2 World vs. World mechanic. We've got some thoughts to share about this epic system and what it means to the game and to the genre as a whole. Read on and then offer your thoughts!

So… wow. After all this time, we finally have some solid concrete details on just what World vs. World (WvW) will entail in Guild Wars 2. We’ve digested the info that Mike Ferguson gave us in his blog post, ruminated on it a bit, and are ready to share with your our initial thoughts on just what awaits us in the Mists when GW2 launches later this year. With servers being matched up in battle every two weeks, and the warfront constantly raging day and night during the battle, it’s safe to say that PVP-ers will have a lot to do in GW2. In short, if you don’t fancy reading: Dark Age of Camelot fans are going to love this system.

Read more of Bill Murphy's Guild Wars 2: World vs. World – A Dream Come True?

Did you ever have a moment when no comment seemed to quite summarize things well enough?

Yeah, this is one of those moments. Wow.

At the end of each battle, every team is given a new ranking. Once a battle ends and team rankings are updated, servers are matched up based on their new ranking and a new battle commences. Downtime between these epic battles lasts only a few minutes—just long enough for us to tally the final scores, update the server rankings, and create new matches—so there’s almost always a battle for the Mists going on.

Does ANet not understand what they have doen here? They have just recreated the 100 years war. And I'm going to be stuck in it :)

Originally posted by sinjin

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lol Sin :)

Very excited for this myself...

Originally posted by Vesavius

Originally posted by sinjin

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lol Sin :)

Very excited for this myself...

;)

I was sitting on the fence...

When a rock in the form of this forum post smacked me and launched me on over...

At least someone is finally bringing back 3-sided PvP.

Had no real interest in PvP since I stopped playing DAoC but this looks very interesting. Almost hard to believe how much we're going to be getting for a single one-time purchase.

wow, it looks so fun :) i can imagine me and my friends, and guilds just using this as some constant compeititve ground, it looks amazing. i like the idea as well that you can side up with another server to beat the bigger better server at that time :) im excited...that is all :P

Looks awesome, I am excited.... this needs to release fast! I have nothing to play until this comes out. :P

It almost seems too good to be true...then again this is Arenanet.

Originally posted by sgel

It almost seems too good to be true...then again this is Arenanet.

my thought exactly. It just can't be THIS good. Can't...right? right?

I AM A BATTLE SUIT

*stomp stomp*

To me, that concept looks good enough to be launched as a game of its own.

GW2 badly needs marriage system like Rift.

Originally posted by solarine

To me, that concept looks good enough to be launched as a game of its own.

its almost a mini version of planetside inside another game.

If they can get this to "work as intended" with hundreds of player participating and an acceptable amount of lag (there will be some lag), then no modern MMORPG will be able to touch GW2, when it comes to PvP. Can't wait to see the gameplay next week, from Total Biscuit, Curse Network and many others.

This looks pretty damn fun, bring it on!!

That looks amazing. Actually a lot of elements of WvW were "testes" in Guild Wars factions. In places like Jade Quarry and Fort Aspenwood (which was very fun for me) so I can;t wait to see this on a much bigger scale.