Please Anet, stop taking away the NPCs in WvW

#1 - May 6, 2013, 3:23 p.m.
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Well, you can take away the stupid worms, grubs and stuff. But please leave the useful NPCs in the game. First you took away the banks from the Borderlands (except the crafting stations in your own BL) and nobody remembers that today.
But now the red border doesnt even have a normal outfitter left. Plase give us our good NPCs back!

Shouldnt be too hard. And I cant imagine a way how they can get lost anyways….

#6 - May 6, 2013, 9:32 p.m.
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Outfitter? You mean the NPCs selling PVP weapons/armor? If so, did you check just south of the home-point spawn location on Red BL – they were the last time I saw them (this was on Sanctum of Rall’s borderlands a few weeks ago).

I do wish banks were more accessible in WvW, but those are one of the few useful perks from upgrading personnel at a Keep. That said, IIRC, the banks were removed because people were queuing up for WvW just to access their bank, causing longer queue times.

That’s also what was the impetus for removing the crafting stations. The more time people spend in the maps not playing WvW, the longer the queues are.

#30 - May 7, 2013, 7:54 a.m.
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That’s also what was the impetus for removing the crafting stations. The more time people spend in the maps not playing WvW, the longer the queues are.

I take it this means you will be removing Jumping Puzzles from WvW aswell… you know, people jumping around not doing WvW… Just to “earn” badges without actually having to fight or contribute. Taking up slots.

Now that would have a far greater impact of removing deadweigth players from WvW than removing crafting stations, while being a far smaller bother to your actual WvW community.

I wonder if we can even do that… :P The EB JP is coming out for the May 14th release.

#32 - May 7, 2013, 8:07 a.m.
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That’s also what was the impetus for removing the crafting stations. The more time people spend in the maps not playing WvW, the longer the queues are.

I take it this means you will be removing Jumping Puzzles from WvW aswell… you know, people jumping around not doing WvW… Just to “earn” badges without actually having to fight or contribute. Taking up slots.

Now that would have a far greater impact of removing deadweigth players from WvW than removing crafting stations, while being a far smaller bother to your actual WvW community.

I wonder if we can even do that… :P The EB JP is coming out for the May 14th release.

Okay, well… thats good news! Why didn’t you mention this part before? :P

I didn’t want to ruin the surprise of the release. But now that we are talking about what is coming out, I’m happy to bring it up.