PVP maps: The Borderland Ruins and Astralagos

[KingArthur13]

So it’s been *checks watch* almost 2 years since the borderland ruins was disabled in pvp and since it was disabled there’s been no news on its return.

So may I ask,

Why?

Why are there not one but 2 DEAD QUEUES in the PVP duty finder menu if there’s no news of when they will actually be added back to the game?
Rival Wings has been stuck with 1 map of play for over 5 YEARS when the original issue with Astralagos was the one side of the map had more of an advantage, but if they can rework maps like The Fields of Glory into what it is now (and I’m not saying I loved the shatter rework but they made each side of the map identical now) then how is it not possible in HALF A DECADE and one full rework of PVP have they not updated this map?

At the very least they shouldn’t leave inactive queues in the game making people think there’s a chance this will return, but since it is most definitely possible to rework maps in PVP they should add BOTH maps back to the game in one single patch. And I’m not saying this because I think the devs are being lazy, I know the development team is always busy and doing their best but these two maps being just plain unavailable like this hasn’t been helping to encourage people to play more pvp as it simply limits the modes that are available.

[Aneshda]

Yoshi P. said in one of the latest Live Letters, I think the one before DT Release that we will get new PvP Maps with DT and since then he never mentioned it again.
I truly hate the new Shatter Map, it has nothing to do with PvP, it's just a stupid Crystal grinding and if one team has 200 Points more as the other 2 teams,
there is no way in Hell that the other 2 teams can make up for it and win the Match.

[Remarus]

They need to create a third Rival Wings map and a Rival Wings Duty Roulette. I don't even care if they fix the 'imbalance' of Astrologos, it should have been done years ago at this point, and it was never really that bad to begin with.

[KingArthur13]

Rival wings and CC deserve a daily roulette so true
I don’t get why GUILDHESTS of all things still has a roulette but CC doesn’t.

[Mawlzy]

I wish the FL maps would rotate every 6 hours rather than daily, so that those of us who detest Shatter can actually play every day instead of 2/3rds the time. Or just replace Shatter with Borderland Ruins which, we were told, was being "temporarily removed for rebalance."

[Gunz_Zbestest]

I will not lie. It was an honor to watch me and my 20 fellow airmen being launched off the heliodrome pad as we flew through the sky mnk knockback or a salted earth. Ahh yes, those were fond memories. They should have just taken it from the roulette and let people queue up to it to earn the rewards from it.

[AnnRam]

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[Luluna]

I miss the old maps in FL I do not play in there as much as I used to due to boredom and people just running round not bothering to even try and win. I know it is only FL but it used to be so much better they have ruined Shatter I hate it and now you have dancers who do not even bother making a partner I mean anyone will do lol just use the skill. I wish they made it so we can have some meaning and work together it just seems to have changed so much. I like to win in there but now I hardly play.

[Mistress_Irika]

Casual CC pops 24/7 in my data data center. Why do we exactly need an exp roulette for the mode?

I'm responding to the wrong thing though.

Astragalos was locked, because the devs wanted folks to try Hidden Gorge which was much more balance than Astragalos. It just never got unlocked.
Secure was already having issues after a few rule changes. That got locked, because people got sick of being punted to their deaths. If either of those modes ever come back I'm expecting for the map height to be significantly reduced to where you're not getting kills primarily for fall damage, just like they did with Shatter.

Be happy that the modes are still there despite being inactive. They could of gotten the ax like the feast did.

[Zofian]

They are still trying to figure out how to bring back borderlands but without letting you go up the central tower, which cannot be removed or changed because it's part of the MSQ (and lore) and a couple of side quests. But donutting the map and central fight would break the map. All they actually had to do is remove all the knockback/pull abilities, but instead they chose to make their work harder for themselves by lying and pretending there was a balance issue. Shatter was a random area all on it's own so they were able to magically just make a new lower ice map with no cliffs, total coincidence, not trying to stop people from knocking/pulling people off edges for insta kills or anything... Makes you wonder what else they lie about.