Guild Wars 2

I played it for a bit, and I feel the biggest flaw with it is that everyone picks air. However I’m not calling for the nerf of air. I would like to instead see the mini game restructured to encourage players to get the other aspects (sun, wind).

Here’s the core of how I should it should be done. I think that you should only be able to put a crystal in the one that relates to your current aspect. So for instance if you had air you could only put the crystal in the air thing at the base. And when you have all 3 stations charged it should either give your whole team a temporary buff, or hurt your opponents in some way, or both. It needs to be something good enough to encourage players to get it, but not so good that your team can just keep doing it over and over because it’s so detrimental to your opponents that they can’t recover.

Now for balance suggestions with the above in effect. I feel that you should not be able to pick up what aspect you want. The reason is that you could just switch your aspect at the base to score. So I think that players should be forced to pick one before they go onto the battlefield. There is one problem with this however, and that’s people might kill themselves just to switch their aspect. So In conjunction with that I think that if someone gets a crystal in the station that at that moment that have the opportunity to switch their aspect for something like 5 seconds. This gives players the option to change their aspect without having to die and without being able to change it right before capturing a crystal.

Now for a balance suggestion with the above in effect. The problem now becomes how do you capture a crystal if you’re air and say an air team mate already captured one? You wouldn’t be able to capture a crystal and would have to kill yourself. So my suggestion to this is to allow multiple captures on the same node. So if one person captures on air you still can capture on air. However, the super effect will still only happen if all 3 stations are charged. Capturing the same element would do nothing but give your team points and allow you to change your element.

I feel that a setup similar to the above would encourage people to use more than just air while keeping air intact.