Hello! I am Aneya, the GM of Wannabe and I have been managing the guild ever since it was formed. At first, I played on and off but after the guild was created, I started playing regularly with my guildies. I am grateful that throughout my journey in BDO, I could meet a lot of great people and establish friendships that have continued to today. I would describe our guild as Jovial, Unyielding and Ambitious.

 

We've been around since Nov. 2019 but didn't really start to war until the spring of 2021. And even then, we weren't really competitive until around fall/winter 2021.

Nerds has been pretty much exclusively T1 and I plan to keep us that way. Potentially if there were to be gear caps on T2, we'll hop back and forth. Otherwise, we're staying T1. A large portion of our members are players who've done uncapped & siege and are just looking to hang around on T1s for a while.

Wannabe started as community guild focused on having fun and creating a comfortable environment for all members to enjoy the game. At first, we were just growing the guild and learning the game. Then, in 2021, we faced our biggest challenges such as completely embracing the PvP mentality and evolving into a full-on node war guild. We had to restructure the whole guild and set up new goals for the future.

We also faced many difficult battles and often had to learn from our mistakes. After we felt satisfied with our position as one of the top guilds in the tier 1 scene, we decided it was time to set our goals higher. We transferred from tier 1 node wars to tier 2 node wars, with a lack of expertise and recognition in the tier 2 scene. We had to face and learn the node wars system as a new tier 2 guild, which created another challenge for our guild.

We have come far since then, but we never stop learning. We believe that dedication and joined growth is the way to go. One of the most difficult moments, for me personally, was letting people who were close to the community go because they did not share the same goals or were not up to the challenge at the time.

Listen to your shot callers and follow the calls. Don't worry about kills and deaths. Be a team player.  
 
Reach out to experienced players. Ask them how you can improve. Ask why so and so is happening during your wars. There are plenty of players that will run you through a node war. Video reviewing is extremely useful to assess areas that need improvement and critique playstyles. All it takes is reaching out.  
 
Each class performs differently in node war. Finding that right fit for your playstyle and incorporating it in with the rest of your node war guild will help make node warring more fun. (Do note that BDO does have a meta. Some classes perform better in node wars compared to others).

1. We need T2s (maybe even T3s) to have gear caps to incentivize gear gains and give T1 guilds, as a whole, an avenue to move up to higher tiers. 

 
T1s being the only GS cap does not encourage gear score gains. Nor does it encourage staying in a T1 guild because T1 is essentially narcillian gear while entry lvl to T2 is 650. But even with an entry lvl of 650 to do T2s, that same 650 that joins is then thrown into 700+ gear score farm zones. 

 

What I am trying to say is we need a progression path in the war aspect to feel that it is worth progressing upward. Silver and items are not what we want. We want our gear to matter and we want to see results using it. That is why Havoc does siege. It provides a progressive path into higher tiers. 

 

2. Nodes switching tiers monthly/quarterly. 

Alot of people have mentioned that they would like to see T1-4 nodes switching around. Most guilds lock into T1, T2, T3, or T4 so we all see the same scenery over and over again. It would be nice to see Kamasylvia have a T2 node and Valencia have a T1 node. So, in short, we would like to change locations monthly/quarterly.

1. A huge change that I think a lot of us would like to see is the reconfiguration of nodes, specifically merging some nodes to create large areas to fight and undoing the risk-style system in favor of the old per-day system.  
 
After the reworks hit in Oct. 2021 and especially after the 150 man alliances, the social fall-out over the next several months pushed a lot of guilds to retire or ally. Even though the number of nodes were cut in half, there was still not enough guilds to give the nodes a healthy population spread. The community has been struggling to set up fights because we have to worry about people dropping on surrounding nodes that are owned by the fight's participants.

We also have a lot of trouble doing team fights because the nodes are just not big enough anymore to comfortably hold the number of guilds that want to compete together. The huge amount of time that goes into figuring out how to squish even 6-8 of us onto some of these nodes takes away from playtime and frustrates a lot of guilds out of node wars. Reverting to the larger nodes and a free-drop system would be great for gameplay and for the community aspect. It would give guilds the option to partake in community events or just free drop. As it stands, Balenos really seems to be the only region with consistent free dropping. Everywhere else has too many nodes and not enough guilds. 

 

2. Something that'd be really nice to see changed is disabling boat combat during node war/conquest war. Instead of attempting to improve at node wars, some guilds have taken to using boats as a crutch and advantage that seems like it was unintended by the devs. Carrack stats don't scale with T1 and with the hp degradation, can inhibit the type of gameplay node wars are meant to create. It takes away from the content with the time span necessary to craft a carrack and with it not being scaled in any way. Plus, there is no counter except swimming out and axing.

Besides being just a general issue for veteran players, new players to the game coming into T1s can't compete. Some kind of special sea warfare content would be great for ocean-focused players, but node wars shouldn't be the place for that. A possible fix to keep boats in would be adding a wharf annex to cap out the number of summonable ships by war participants and scaling gear.